The St Valentine School PTG is proud to announce that Miranda Koenig is the SVS Student of the Month for October 2008.  Congratulations to Miranda and her family.  A  $25 Giant Eagle gift certificate has been presented to the 8th Grade in Miranda's  name.

Other students nominated were:

• Emily Nedzesky, 8th Grade

• Julia Rodaitis, 8th Grade

• Sarah Wray, 8th Grade

• Jessica Hirsh, 7th Grade.

Here is an excerpt from one of Hayley's nominations:

On October 11, Miranda received a medal for 20th place out of
243 Varsity Girl Runners. She has medaled 3 times in the Diocesan Championship in the 5 years she has been running.The very next day, from 8:30 until 2 PM (not just one shift, but ALL combined shifts) she helped wash cars and sell baked goods for the St Val Student Council. Just tonight, she enlisted help from Julia Rodaitis and Natalie Piagessi to stay after school for Forensics, then decorate Mr. Pericht's room, and brought them to our house to bake him a "car" cake for his 60th birthday tomorrow. He was very helpful with the car wash. (Last month she had 3 Student Council members over to our house to bake and decorate 120 cupcakes for the entire re school to celebrate the Blessed Mother Mary's birthday.) She serves as an Altar server and just served a funeral Mass yesterday while in school, which is sad and hard to come back into school without carrying some of that sadness with you. She also turned down a babysitting job Sunday night because she was scheduled to serve Mass at 6:30, Oct 19. Because
there were so many different reasons (won medal, car wash, decorated room, baked cake,served funeral, served Mass instead of babysitting) this month to nominate her, I felt that she was deserving of the award for the month of October.