BK Alive
Weekly News and Information for BK Families
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Next Week at a Glance - corrected dates |
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Monday, April 26
A Day
8:15 AM Start
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Tuesday, April 27
B Day
9:15 AM Start
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Wednesday, April 28
A Day
8:15 AM Start
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Thursday, April 29
B Day
9:15 AM Start
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Friday, April 30
A Day
8:15 AM Start
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Upcoming
Saturday, April 24 - Junior Senior Prom
April 25 - 27 - Senior Retreat
April 26 - May 1 - Academic Excellence Week
Thursday, April 29 - Senior Scholars Ceremony
Monday, May 3 - Parents, please remind your senior to wear their college gear on Monday! The yearbook staff will be filming the senior video that features your student and where he/she plans to go after high school.
May 3 - 14 - AP Testing
Wednesday, May 19th - All School Mass Honoring the Class of 2021. LIVE for Seniors and Senior Parents (with masks and physical distancing in place) on the BK YouTube Channel for everyone else.
Thursday, May 27th - Baccalaureate Mass for the Class of 2021
Friday, May 28th - Commencement Ceremonies for the Class of 2021
PROM UPDATE - Due to rain in the forecast for Saturday evening, we have a contingency plan to move Prom into the Carley Center. Students will still be required to wear masks and will be grouped in pods of 20 students or less. Central District Health is aware, and has given their approval to move Prom inside if necessary.
We will send a Remind text tomorrow at 5:00 with our final decision.
Please tell your students that if we move into the Carley, black soled shoes and high heels will have to be removed before they can walk on the gym floor.
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A Message from Rich and Mike |
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Dear Bishop Kelly Parents,
Five weeks from tonight we will be celebrating the Bishop Kelly Class of 2021 on Nick Ysursa Field! What a year it has been! Thank you for your support and partnership with us!
Since we sent out a Just in Time on Wednesday, we will be brief in this Friday’s BK Alive letter. You will read below final reminders to take our BK Annual Parent Survey and to sign up your child for the upcoming COVID-19 vaccine clinic at BK, some details about next week’s Academic Excellence Week, news about the start of construction for the new Ysursa Field Guest Services Building and Lachiondo Family Plaza project, and an update on COVID-19 numbers here at BK.
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Bishop Kelly Annual Parent Survey |
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This is our final request to please take the Bishop Kelly Annual Parent Survey The survey will close on Monday, 4/26. We are up to 168 parents who have completed the survey and would like to get at least 400 of our parents completing the survey to get a broad representation of our community. It should take you around 10-15 minutes to complete. You will be asked questions around the learning environment at BK, how we are doing in meeting your and your students’ needs, your level of satisfaction with your BK experience, and your view on BK priorities for the coming school year.
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COVID-19 Vaccine Clinic at BK |
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This is also a final call for signing up your students for the Saint Alphonsus vaccine clinic at Bishop Kelly as it is just a week away. At this clinic any BK student 16 years or older can conveniently receive their COVID-19 vaccine. We still have some open slots. The deadline is next Wednesday, April 28th, to sign up so that Saint Alphonsus knows how much vaccine to bring to Bishop Kelly.
We need two things from those interested in having their son or daughter vaccinated with the Pfizer vaccine on April 30th:
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Please reserve a slot by filling out this Google form by April 28th with basic student information
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Complete this medical release form and either have your student bring it to school the morning of April 30th, send it via email to our school nurse, MaryLou Cunningham (mcunningham@bk.org), or have your child drop it off in the front office to give to Mrs. Cunningham.
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Here is our update for this week on the COVID-19 numbers for Bishop Kelly. We once again had zero positive cases this week among our students and faculty/staff and only have one student in quarantine. For the month of April we have had only two cases and none since April 6th. Thanks for all your efforts in helping us achieve these results. Thank you for your support in achieving these results.
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Have a wonderful weekend and let’s finish the school year strong, healthy and helping our students achieve personal excellence in the classroom!
God bless,
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Mike Caldwell
Principal
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Reflections from Father Vance |
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A second-semester Senior is a VERY unique creature. Ask anyone who has been involved with secondary education for any length of time. Better yet, ask any parent who happens to have one of these unique creatures living with them! A second-semester Senior is reputed not to care anymore. They are thought to be “too cool for school,” since most of them already know where they are going next year, and some of them may even have completed most of their credits required for graduation. This unique creature is reputed to be hard to control, impossible to motivate, and challenging to inspire. On top of the natural weariness that always begins to set in around this time of the school year, add the craziness and uncertainty of the last year we have all lived through, and is it any wonder the second-semester Senior just wants to move on and be done with high school?
I caricature and stereotype this unique creature that is the second-semester Senior today because beginning tomorrow, and extending through the weekend into early next week, BK will work hard to give these unique creatures a “beginning of the end” to their high school careers that is worthy of their hard work, their faith, and our wonderful community. Starting with Prom on Saturday evening, and extending into the Senior Retreat Sunday through Tuesday morning, we will celebrate this class with as much normalcy as we can muster. We will certainly respect the challenging times we still live in, but we will strive to give this year’s Seniors a few of the central experiences that the pandemic took from last year’s graduates.
Sometimes I wonder if my perspective as a priest, chaplain and teacher is similar to that of a loving, but nervous parent. I am so very proud of the growth, accomplishment and maturity that I get to see happen in the students, and yet I don’t want them to grow up too fast. I don’t want them to stop asking questions or to give up on seeking for the answers to life’s deepest mysteries. I don’t want them to grow as cynical or jaded as I sometimes feel my own adulthood has (at times) become, but I deeply desire that they maintain a childlike perspective that seeks more for the good around them than for the bad. To borrow from the beautiful stories of C.S. Lewis, I want them to be able to get back to Narnia! Our world so desperately needs faith, optimism, hope and trust in the essential goodness of humanity right now, with all of the conflict and division we see around us. At BK, we need to do everything in our power to nurture these higher virtues.
Will you help with this lofty goal? Will you assist in whatever way you can, be it prayer, direct intervention, joining (in person if possible, and virtually if not) in the various celebrations that will begin to dominate the end of the year for the Senior class? Will you remind them of how far they’ve come, but how far they still have to go, on the winding road of wisdom? Will you help transform the unique creature that is the second-semester Senior from “too cool for school” into a young woman or man deeply grateful for the gifts of faith and knowledge that he or she has been given here at BK, and will you help them thank God for these precious years? I know that we will do these things here at school, and I believe that this is the call for our entire community. May God bless the second-semester Seniors, and may their final weeks of high school be literally filled with happiness, celebration and gratitude!
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Each week Bishop Kelly faculty and staff nominate students, and students nominate faculty and staff, who have demonstrated the BK Way attributes of Faith, Safe and Caring Place, Academic Excellence, Activities, Honor, Generosity, Community, and Partnership.
Congratulations to this week's Knights of the Week!
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Ryan Buckner
Academic Excellence
This freshman really impresses me with his work ethic. In class he is attentive and cooperative, and the quality of his writing is top notch. I never sense that Ryan is just completing the bare minimum to get by; he is sincerely interested in exploring each subject.
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Katherine Komma
Community
Rin is a catalyst in the BK community. Her effervescent personality opens up others to a sense of belonging, joy and fellowship. Her love of BK is contagious as she leads others to love BK as well.
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Rob Cilek
Community
Rob is very reliable and handles himself in a professional manner while assisting as an Office Aide. Rob is always willing to help everyone. Thanks Rob :-)
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BK Staff of the Week
Mr. Larry Crump
Safe and Caring Place, Generosity
- Mr. Crump isa very relatable teacher and keeps it real.
- I am nominating Mr. Crump because he always makes it a safe and caring place.
- Mr. Crump's class is always a blast. Mr. Crump keeps it real.
- Mr Crump is the best teacher ever. He ALWAYS FOLLOWS THE RULES!
- Mr. Crump always makes history so much fun. He always makes us all laugh and can tell he loves his job.
- Mr. Crump’s class is my favorite.
- Mr. Crump is the best teacher.
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Academic Excellence Week
April 26th - 30th
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In the fall we have Homecoming and celebrate sports, emphasizing the body part of our mission. In the winter, we celebrate Catholic Schools Week and the spirit part of our mission. And in the spring we have Academic Excellence Week where we honor the mind part of our mission.
The theme for the week is “The Office '' and we will have lots of fun activities for students such as dress up days, a fun run, scavenger hunt, paper airplane contest, trivia contest and a basketball game. But the real focus for this week is our BK Way value of academics - “all students in every classroom are supported and challenged to do their very best and achieve personal excellence”. We will honor and celebrate many students throughout the week with our teacher choice awards for their personal excellence and doing their very best. On Thursday we honor senior scholars at a breakfast with their parents. And the week wraps up with the AP Art Show.
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MONDAY, April 26 - College Day
- Freshman teacher choice awards
- Play clips from The Office during lunch in the library
TUESDAY, APRIL 27 -Michael Scott's Dunder Mifflin Scranton Meredith Palmer Memorial Celebrity Rabies Awareness Pro-Am Fun Run Race for the Cure
- Sophomore teacher choice awards
- Fun Run outside (Lunch Activity)..The first 30 that finish will get a T-shirt!
WEDNESDAY, April 28 - Operation Threat Level Midnight (dress like a spy)
- Junior teacher choice awards
- BK Scavenger Hunt Begins (Pictures due Friday at Lunch)
- Paper Airplane Contest (tournament-style) during lunch in the science hallway (bring your best plane labeled with your name)
THURSDAY, April 29th - The Warehouse vs The Office Employees
- Senior teacher choice awards
- Morning Senior Scholar Awards
- Trivia In The Library: Do You Know The Quote? (First student to identify who said the quote will win a prize!)
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ALL SCHOOL AWARDS ASSEMBLY, The Dundies - 10:40 AM on the BK YouTube Channel
- Foundation Luncheon
FRIDAY, April 30th-- Schrute Farms --Beet Farmer Day
- Basketball game in the Reg/Carley
- BK Photo Scavenger Hunt Due at Lunch in the Library (winner announced at the end of the day during closure)
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Save a Life! Donate Blood! |
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The BK Red Cross Club is hosting a blood drive on Tuesday, April 27 from 9:00 AM-2:00 PM.
Parents are welcomed and encouraged to give blood. Students must be 16 years old and students who are 16 must have a parent consent form signed. We have many spots to fill! If you are interested in donating blood please email odsouza@my.bk.org to sign up or if you have any questions.
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BK Sports Physicals Clinic - May 16th |
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Parents - It's time to make an appointment for your student's mandatory annual sports physical.
The BK Athletics Department is offering an opportunity for your student athlete to receive their sports physical for a great value (only $25!) Additionally, that $25 is a fundraiser for the BK Sports Medicine program, which helps us purchase supplies and equipment for BK athletes.
The BK Sports Physicals Clinic is taking place on Sunday, May 16th from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM in the Father Wilson Science and Technology Wing here on BK's campus. Athletes must bring their physical form filled out and signed by a parent, and the athlete and the $25 fee (cash or checks only, made out to BKHS).
STEP 1: Register for an Appointment
STEP 2: Complete the BK Physical Form
You can find this BK Physical Form on www.bkathletics.org in the "Athletic Forms" section. The Health History and signatures on the first page must be completed before the appointment. The second page is completed by our doctors and nurses. MAKE SURE YOU BRING THIS FORM WITH YOU TO YOUR APPOINTMENT.
The online appointment times are on a first come first served basis. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact BK Athletic trainer, Nate Sturlin ( nsturlin@bk.org) |
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International Student Host Family |
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Good news, we were able to secure a host family for our International Student! Now we need another host family for a different student for the 2021 - 2022 school year.
This student will be a junior. This will be his third year at BK. The stipend for hosting a student is $700 a month, or possibly more upon discussion. For more information or to ask qu estions, please contact Ying Donegan @(208) 853-8542 or ying@7eie.com.
Thank you BK Families for generously opening your homes to our International Knights!
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Senior Parents - we need your student's scholarship info for the Graduation Program! |
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Please deliver or email ALL scholarship offers ASAP to: Kelly Shockey in the Front Office or kshockey@bk.org.
This includes offers from schools you are not attending.
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Educational Travel Opportunities for BK Students |
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Battlefields of Europe, Peru, and Japan are all Spring Break Trips for BK students that are happening in 2022! For more information check out THIS POST on the Just In Time Blog, and follow up with the teachers who are leading the trips.
Battlefields of Europe - Mr. Crump
Peru - Senor Perea
Japan - Mr. Harris
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Ysursa Field/Lachiondo Plaza Project Begins!
We are very pleased to inform you that the new Ysursa Field Guest Services Building and Lachiondo Family Plaza project has begun! This exciting project will bring three things to our community:
- A new Guest Services Building that replaces our 56 year old restrooms and concession stand and adds a new ticket office and dedicated BK Spirit Store space
- A new, multi-purpose outdoor gathering space for pregame/postgame festivities, alumni BBQ/Reunions, parent tailgates, graduation, donor receptions, and student events. We are honoring the Dave and Patti Lachiondo Family with the naming of plaza.
- Improvements in the safety and access for students, parents, and fans with updated utilities (sewer, power, gas, water, etc) and buried power lines.
This $1.7 million project is 95% funded and we would appreciate those who have not given to consider doing so. To donate please click on this donate now button or contact BK Director of Development, Tommy Steiner, at (208)947-1325 or at tsteiner@bk.org.
The blessing and dedication of this beautiful new space is planned for our first home football game against Eagle High School on August 27, 2021.
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Speech and Debate
The BK Speech and Debate Team is hosting our Awards Night, Wednesday evening , April 28, from 7-9 pm for parents, grandparents and team in the BK Cafeteria. Drinks and dessert will be offered.
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Bishop Kelly Cheerleading Tryouts for the 2021 - 2022 School Year
May 10th from 4PM - 6PM
Parent meeting to follow at 6PM
May 11th from 4PM - 6PM
May 12th from 4PM - 6PM
Upstairs in the Carley Athletic Center (Located behind the main building.)
You do not have to have experience cheerleading to try out!
What to wear: Hair in a ponytail, shorts, and work out shoes. Please wear a shirt in the color that corresponds with your grade level for 2021 - 2022.
Freshmen - White
Sophomores - Black
Juniors - Yellow
Seniors - Pink
Questions? Contact Coach Carlee at cozuna@bk.org
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Volunteer Opportunity for an Interested Parent
Looking for an interested parent who will have students at BK for several years to come to take over the Trophy Digital Archive ongoing project. All teams and their trophies have been photographed and preserved in a google slide presentation. This person will work closely with the Activities Director to facilitate engraving trophies, organizing the display cases, photographing engraved trophies and maintaining the digital archive. If interested, please contact either the Activities Director or Kate Aravich at (208) 871-2018.
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BK Horticulture Department Plant Sale
May 6th - 8th
We are excited to offer the annual BK plant sale sponsored by the horticulture department!
May 6th, 3:30 pm to 5 pm
May 7th, 2:45 pm to 5 pm
May 8th, 8 am to 1 pm
The greenhouse is full of perennial and annual flowers, herbs, vegetables, house plants and beautiful hanging baskets. We only accept cash or checks.
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The University of Idaho Engineering and Design Expo is a free, virtual, experience for 5th - 12th grade and community college students.
Turn creative ideas into reality through hands-on activities, explore interactive projects that push the boundaries of science and technology, and learn more about student life at the University of Idaho.
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Parents in Prayer Virtual Rosary Invitation
You are invited to join the Bishop Kelly Community (alumnae, parents, alum parents, grandparents and others) to the Virtual Rosary on May 7th beginning at 9 am (MST). Special intentions can be shared. Rosary will last between 30-40 minutes. Please register at the link above so that we can send you a Zoom link.
Thank you for your interest in wanting to connect in prayer as a community. For more information please contact BK Parent Julia Grant or BK Campus Minister Lorissa Horn.
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College and Career Center |
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Virtual College Visits at BK
Coming Soon!
College and Career Fairs
NCACA Virtual College Fairs
Here's your chance to hear firsthand from those-in-the-know at hundreds of colleges and universities nearby, across the country, and around the world.
More than 500 colleges and universities will be online to talk with high school juniors and seniors on each of these days. Each virtual fair is a free, one-day event. Attend as many as you'd like. Families invited, too.
Sunday, May 2: 1-7 p.m. ET
Scholarship Opportunities
The Bridget Berkey-Teater & John Reilly McDevitt Memorial Scholarships
Each year since 2000, the Peter Berkey Foundation sponsors two $2,500 memorial college scholarships for one male and one female Bishop Kelly senior student who is planning to attend an Idaho college (public or private) in honor of Bridget Berkey-Teater and John Reilly McDevitt. To apply fill out THIS APPLICATION FORM and return by May 3rd.
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NEW Job Openings at Bishop Kelly |
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Full-Time Library Assistant
Full Time English Teacher
Full-time Counselor
Full-time Theology Teacher
Part-time French Teacher
Development Coordinator
Technology Support Technician
Campus Minister/Theology Teacher
Bus Route Driver
Activities Bus Driver
Substitute Teachers
Substitute Kitchen Assistant
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Online Ordering from the BK Spirit Store! |
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In order to maintain safe distancing AND be available for all your Spirit Wear needs, the Bishop Kelly Spirit Store will be offering online ordering for Fall Semester. A selection of items will be available each month, and you can order via email!
Please note, the actual BK Spirit Store will NOT be open during the lunch hour for additional items, and the Front Office staff will not have access to the store.
We're all getting really good at shopping online, right?
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#146
Ladies Short Sleeved BK Strong T-Shirt
$15.00
#147
Mens Short Sleeved BK Strong T-Shirt
$15.00
(Not pictured, Same Design)
(Size Small SOLD OUT)
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#256
BK Unisex Hooded Sweatshirt Drk. Gray
$36.00
(M, L, XL and 2 XL SOLD OUT)
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#255
BK Unisex Hooded Sweatshirt Lt. Gray
$45.00
(M, L, XL, and 2XL SOLD OUT)
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#141
Unisex Long Sleeved T-Shirt
$20
Size Small SOLD OUT)
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#822
BK Cap, Velcro Back
One Size Fits All
$22.00
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#253
Black Crewneck Sweatshirt (No hoodie)
Small and Large
$30.00
(M and XL - SOLD OUT)
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How to Order
*Order deadline: EVERY MONDAY
*Order Pickup: EVERY FOLLOWING THURSDAY for PREPAID Orders only.
You will be emailed a confirmation.
- Your Name
- Contact Phone Number
- Item # listed above
- Size of Item (S, M, L, XL, 2XL)
- Price
Method of Payment Before Pickup: Venmo @BK-ParentsAssociation, or Credit Card. These are the only payment options at this time.
NOTE: If you are paying by Credit Card, you will be contacted via the "Contact Phone Number" listed in your email at confirmation between 1:00 - 3:00 PM on Tuesday.
ONLY PREPAID ORDERS via the email process listed above will be accepted at this time. The Front Office Staff does NOT have order information.
THANK YOU for your cooperation as BK Spirit Store volunteers try to keep BK Spirit Store items available for our community.
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Our website at www.bk.org is a wealth of information for parents and students alike!
Check out some of the cool tools that are just a few clicks away:
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- Front Office: 375-6010
- Fax: 375-3626
- Business Office Manager: 947-1209
- BK Development Office: 947-1325
- BK Foundation Office: 323-4789
To add, remove, or change your email address, or to remove your name from our regular mailing lists, please contact Chrissy at cbeckner@bk.org.
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Bishop Kelly High School | (208) 375-6010 | www.bk.org |
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