Sounds of the Season Warm
the Hearts of Elderly Residents
GSHS Select Ensemble performed for local residents
All-Star
Choir Members
GSMS Students
Caroled at
Redstone Highlands
M
aking spirits bright was the goal
of Greensburg Salem’s middle and
high school students who visited
local senior communities to sing and bring
good cheer to residents.
Mr. Darryl Audia and Mrs. Melanie Callas
accompanied National Junior Honor
Society members and the middle school’s
Select Ensemble group to Redstone
Highlands to carol. Their performance
was recorded and live fed into all of the
residents’ rooms so those who were
bedridden could enjoy the event. The
students handed out 80 handmade cards
along with candy canes.
“The residents couldn’t believe the
students were only in middle school,” said
Mrs. Callas. “The experience truly meant a
lot to them, the students, and to Mr. Audia
and I.”
Mrs. Kim Palmiscno, GSHS’s Chorus
Director, also kept her students, as well
as the local community, in the holiday
spirit in December. Members of Select
Ensemble performed for the seniors at St.
Anne Home and the congregation of First
United Methodist Church in Greensburg.
Additionally, students Madison Wood,
Kora Malie, Jacob Gruss, Nicholas Weimer,
and Kevin Burkhardt were selected to
participate in the Westmoreland County
All-Star Choir with the Westmoreland
Symphony Orchestra “Home for the
Holidays” concert.
Our students certainly know how to
keep the fa-la-la-la-la’s joyful during the
holiday season!
Greensburg Salem
❘
spring 2019
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F
irst grade Metzgar Elementary
students were assigned a very
important job in November…they
were tasked with disguising turkeys so they
wouldn’t get eaten for Thanksgiving dinner!
Students could work with their families
to camouflage their turkeys with any
supplies and decorations they wished to
use. Turkeys were then displayed in the
hallway where all students were invited to
donate a quarter to vote for their favorite
disguise.
The turkeys with the top votes belonged
to Colton Boggs, Makayla Tuttle, Max
Hutchinson, and Grace Friedline. The
Annual First Grade Disguise-A-Turkey
project raised $200.00, which was donated
to the Westmoreland County Food Bank.
Disguise a Turkey
Project Spreads
Kindness