Water is On at Wawasee High School

The water is back on at Wawasee High School. Service was shut off last week due to a construction project. Water is running again after passing tests for purity.

Water Line Installation

Water service to the Wawasee High School campus will be shut off from December 20-24 for installation of a new water line. There will be no working, drinking, toilet, or shower facilities at the high school, Academy, CTE, or central office facilities. Practices will be scheduled through the athletic director. Any staff member working in the building during those days may use restrooms in the transportation/maintenance facility on Kern Road. It is anticipated that water service will resume, with appropriate water testing conducted, before Monday, December 27. Thank you for your cooperation.

Snow Make-up Day

Wawasee Community Schools will be in session on Friday, January 21, 2011. That date is a snow make-up day for December 13.

We are Closed Today Issues

The www.weareclosedtoday.com site didn't work reliably with last week's school delays. It didn't work well today either! The problem isn't with Wawasee. We've asked www.weareclosedtoday.com to fix things at their end so that you receive texts and e-mails in a timely manner.

Syracuse Elementary Music Program Rescheduled

The Syracuse Elementary School music program set for Monday evening has been rescheduled for Tuesday evening.

Monday, December 13,2010 - School Closing

Wawasee Community Schools will close on Monday, December 13, due to drifting snow.

School Delay - Monday, December 13, 2010

Wawasee Community Schools will delay the start of school 2-hours on Monday, December 13, due to drifting snow.

2-hour School Delay - Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Wawasee Community Schools will delay the start of school 2 hours on Tuesday, December 7, due to snow on roads.

2 Hour Delay

Tuesday, December 7: Wawasee Community Schools will be delayed two hours with alternate kindergarten schedule due to the weather and road conditions.

Receiving Delay & Cancellation Emails/Texts

This is a reminder that Wawasee Community School Corporation is using weareclosedtoday.com for reporting school closings and delays. This is a service designed by the Northern Indiana Educational Services Center that "provides a state of the art way to notify local news media and community members" when we need to close, delay, or dismiss early. In addition to local news media being notified, anyone may go to http://www.weareclosedtoday.com/, enter his or her zip code, choose a radius, and see all the delays or closings within that area.

Community members can also sign up to receive emails and/or text messages when WCSC closes, delays, or dismisses early. We have found that those emails and text messages are received within a very short time frame from when WCSC contacts the service. Click on Community Members and then Register Free to sign up.

Once you have created an account, you can click on Account Info and then Notification Methods from the navigation menu. Once this screen has been displayed, you will be allowed to enter up to three different email addresses to which you would like to receive notifications. Your SMS/text messaging email address, if you wish to receive a text message on your cell phone, is your cell phone number (without hyphens or spaces) and your cell phone provider's SMS/text messaging email address. The most common providers' addresses follow:

• US Cellular: Your cell phone number@email.uscc.net
• AT&T Wireless: Your cell phone number@txt.att.net
• Alltel: Your cell phone number@message.alltel.com
• Verizon Wireless: Your cell phone number@vtext.com
• Centennial Wireless: Your cell phone number@myblue.com
• Sprint: Your cell phone number@messaging.sprintpcs.com
  

After you have selected your notification methods, you can click on Account Info and then Select Organizations from the navigation menu. Then click on School Districts. Once this screen has been displayed, you will be allowed to drag an organization from the left hand box to the right hand box. Any organization listed in this right hand box will be the only ones for which you will receive future notifications.

We will continue to post delays and cancellations on our website and here on The Wawascene.

Cancelations for Monday, December 6

The Milford/WMS Boy's basketball game for Monday, December 6th, has been canceled due to inclement weather.

North Webster's music program for Monday, December 6th, has been postponed. Due to uncertain weather conditions, we are listing two possible scenarios for rescheduling the program.

1. If school is in session on Tuesday, December 7, we will have the program at 7:00 p.m. in the gym. If school is not in session on Tuesday, we will not have the program that evening.
2. The program will be on Wednesday, December 8 at 7:00 p.m. in the case of a Tuesday cancelation.

2 Hour Delay

All Wawasee Community Schools are under a 2-hour delay today. Following the delay, all schools will be in session.

2-hour School Delay - Monday, December 6, 2010

Wawasee Community Schools will be delayed for 2 hours on Monday, December 6, due to poor road conditions.