Teachers were given a bag and could fill it with food prepared by Pattonville High School’s Intro to Culinary Arts and Culinary Arts 1.

To finish off their bag, teachers and staff could choose from a variety of chips, from Cheetos and Fritos to Doritos and Lays.

At the salad station, Meredith Stroud offers teachers their choices of Italian or southwest salad. Teachers could also choose sandwiches, chips, and dessert as part of the meal.

On Thursday, November 18, Pattonville High School hosted the American Education Week Grab-N-Go Staff Appreciation Lunch sponsored by Culinary Arts and STUCO.

Intro to Culinary made chocolate chip cookies for staff and joined Culinary Arts 1 to make the harvest salads and pirate pantry beef chili. Culinary Arts 1 made the pirate pantry veggie chili.

There was plenty of food available for staff, including a Teacher Harvest Salad with brown sugar cider vinaigrette, either beef or veggie education chili, Scotti’s Deli Sandwiches compliments of Student Council, chips, chocolate chip cookies, and a beverage.

Scotti’s Deli Sandwiches were available for teachers and staff members to pick up, provided by Pattonville High School’s Student Council.

One of the food items teachers could choose from was a Harvest Salad with Brown Sugar Cider Vinaigrette prepared by Intro to Culinary Arts and Culinary Arts 1.

One of the most popular events of the night is by far the silent auction. There was a total of 46 baskets. Staff member Ms. Fleig was in charge of assembling all the donations into baskets to bid on; she said the longest part of putting them together. “Probably the most timing consuming thing was laying out all the baskets and decorating was a whole another thing.” Acoording to Fleig “The highest bid by far was the ‘Cardinals Day at the Beach’ basket. It went for $150.” All funds went towards the St. Louis Rolling Rams.

In addition to teachers playing against the Rolling Rams we also had Pattonville fire fighters play.

Coach Thames explained his thoughts on how he thinks the Jr. Rolling Rams did: “I’m impressed by how coordinated they are when rolling and bouncing and the speed compared to how slow we (the teachers) are. I really admire how well they play together.” It may look easy to play basketball in a wheelchair but that may not be the case, “The hardest part is you gotta use your upper body strength so it gets really tiring trying to move and shoot the ball,” Thames explains.

Coach Booth is also a boys’ basketball coach at PHS. He tried to get past his opponent, but to no avail.

Assistant Principal Dr. Fitzgerald pushes to get the ball. The Jr. Rolling Rams were too tough of a match for the Pattonville team, however. Pattonville lost 44-18.

Former professional basketball player and coach at Pattonville, Mr. Thames explains the difference between playing professional and in a wheelchair: “When you play professionally we use our legs but when you’re in a wheelchair we are limited to what we can do.” Although he is currently the varisty basketball coach at PHS, there was a time where he played professionally. “I traveled to different countries and played something I love and I got to experience different cultures,” Coach Thames said.

Math teacher Ms. Cross was one of nine faculty members that played in the game on November 11.

Alison Skelton bids for a basket in the silent auction.

Varsity Drill team performs at halftime. The team did their Hip Hop Five routine to the “I’m Different Mix.”

PHS Cheerleaders performed at halftime including stunting.

Pattonville’s mascot is Pirate Pete. He showed some school spirit by giving out high fives.

Members from Educators Rising passed out tickets to spectators to get into the game.

One of the many baskets was a Pattonville themed basket called ‘Why I’m Late for School.’ It included $15 Panera Gift card, $15 Starbucks Gift Card, $5 QT gift card, Ice Scraper, Phone Charger, 4 Pirate koozies, and 2 Pirate License Plate Covers.

Wheelchair basketball is played by people with different level of physical disabilities that prevents running, jumping and pivoting. Riding on a wheelchair, a game of basketball is played among two teams of five players each.

On Thursday, November 11, Pattonville High School hosted a Veteran’s Day Breakfast for all of the Veterans in the community.

Former District Photographer Bob Burns is greeted by students to welcome him for the Veteran’s Day festivities at the high school.

When the Veterans walked through the commons door, they were greeted by flag-waving students from STUCO and Rho Kappa and were handed a program for the day’s events.

Symphonic Orchestra, under the direction of Mr. Rueschhoff, performed multiple pieces throughout the morning in the cafeteria for the Veterans, including Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, God Bless America, Final Countdown, and more.

“I’m really glad I participated in the Veteran’s Day Breakfast because it was really cool seeing all of the Veterans there and being able to gift them something in return for their sacrifice,” Talisa Prabhu, cellist who performed Thursday, said.

Students enrolled in the Culinary Arts class taught by Ms. Favazza, provided breakfast for the Veterans, including veggie frittatas, parfaits, seasoned potatoes, pumpkin bread, banana bread, and sausage patties.

After Veterans finished their breakfast provided by Pattonville High School’s Culinary Arts students, they were treated to a vanilla and chocolate sheet cake.

Pattonville Fire Chief Jim Usry enters through the PHS Common Doors to attend the Veterans Day celebration.