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8th Grader Kishan Zelmanski is the state-wide champion of Knights of Columbus Spelling Bee for students in grades 7, 8, and 9. Congratulations, Kishan! This is the 2nd year in a row that a St. Paul Catholic School student was the state-wide winner! Go Lakers!

Congratulations to Emily Murphy and Isabella Morra, who won the Fr Gabriel Richard Guild Art Contest for their age groups. Students from around the Detroit area created artwork that depicted Fr. Gabriel Richard and his life. Emily and Isabella each won $1,000 for themselves and $1,000 for St. Paul School. St. Paul students earned more awards than any other school, including an Honorable Mention for Elliot Murphy.

From the Detroit Catholic, November 22, 2023:

“For the last couple of weeks, we have been collecting cans of soup, and any canned goods, to donate to those in need,” Connor Curtis, junior high religion teacher at St. Paul on the Lake School, told Detroit Catholic. “At the end, we set up a race course and remote-control cars raced by our principal, assistant principal and one of our priest raced through the cans, having a little bit of fun with evangelical charity.”

The food drive was a friendly competition among the different grades at St. Paul, with the winners getting a pizza party. But Deo Gratias Ministries, Nativity of Our Lord Parish, and the St. Leo’s Soup Kitchen in Detroit were the real winners, as the school collected 5,313 cans and boxes of food for the nonprofits.

“Evangelical charity is how we are supposed to live, and it’s the best way to help others,” said Matteo Marciano, a St. Paul seventh-grader. “All of the classes were driven to win; we’re all very competitive, raising more cans means a better chance for our class to win. But what I’ll remember the most is helping others.”

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From the Detroit Catholic:
Students lined the hallways and waited in the gym at St. Paul on the Lake Catholic School on Tuesday, May 16, to cheer on a giant domino chain made up of cereal boxes that ran the length of the school and ended in the center of the school gym.

The cereal box domino chain started upstairs, went down steps, around corners and ended with a spiral formation in the gym, all centered around Fr. Jim Bilot, who waved a pom-pom and furiously shook a cowbell.

The domino chain was more than just a cerealsly cool engineering marvel designed by student members of the junior high leadership team. The boxes were collected as part of a drive for several local food pantries, and, after the 2,015 boxes fell, student leaders gathered them up to deliver to each location.

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