The Apache Magazine - December 2014

The Apache Magazine November 2014The Apache Magazine

December 2014

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CHAZ WRIGHTMagazine Editor and Staff Writer

SHANIAH BENALLIENewspaper Editor and Staff Writer

DESHAWN JAMESSection editor and Staff Writer

MAELYN KITCHEYANSection editor and Staff Writer

JON-NISHA LOPEZSection editor and Staff Writer

ANALICIA COSEN Section Editor and Staff Writer

JAMES DUANE Section Editor and Staff Writer

TEESHA ROGERStaff Writer

TEHYA WILSONStaff Writer

SAVANNAH TALGOStaff Writer

AYANNA MOSESStaff Writter

TATIANNA MITCHELLStaff Writer

COVERThe Medicine Song statue in the courtyard.

THE APACHE MAGAZINEP.O Box 28Fort Thomas, Araizona 85536(928)-485-2427 ext. [email protected]

Check out our website at http://fthsnews.weebly.com

CONTENTS

CULTURE 16-19

BEYOND THE FORT 10-15

STUDENT LIFE 20-23

SPORTS 4-9

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SPORTSSPORTS

The Sports section is dedicated to bring you the most accurate information about games including Fort Thomas’s students. They are derived from foot-

ball, volleyball, and into Junior High sports.

Junior VarsityWe have the Junior Varisty, pictured to the left, for the 2014 fall season.

(Left to right) Lacey Wesley, Eva Duncan, Keitlynn Hinton, Teesha Rogers, James Duane, Kristen Patten, Mariah Stanley, Kiara Goseyun, Alyssa Smith, Cassandra Boyd.

Varsity We have the Varsity team pictured to the right for their 2014 fall season. Sadly for some, it will be there last.

(Left to right) Kaitlynn Hinton, Jemila Fiame, Nicole Ganilla, Blessing Duncan, Robyn Olivar, Angel Patten, Eva Duncan, James Duane, Kiara Goseyun, Kaynani Preston, Alyssa Smith, Lacey Wesley, Tracey Robert-son, Alexis Benallie, Mariah Stanley.

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GO TEAM!The High School Football team photo for 2014’s football season.

Written by CHAZ WRIGHTPhoto by SHANIAH BENALLIE

The Fort Thomas Apache’s football sea-son has came to an end of the football season, To complete the image of future memories, Shaniah Benallie took photographs of the foorball team. She took

both self potraits and group photos, which individuals can order in the office.

To remember ev-erything the Junior Varsity and Varsi-ty football team has acommplished this sea-

son, here is the recap.

The season concluded of 8 games for varsity, 4 of them being home games

Overall the Varisty sea-son went well for the players at Fort Thomas High School.


This season started off great despite the game losses.

Two of the most improved players were called out. Ta-gipo Fiame and Malachi Rogers. Along with one of the girls on the team (Layla Nelson). Tagipo is currently an 8th grader at Fort Thom-

as High School. His favor-ite game of the season was against Solomon. He stated that the team may have lost a whole bunch of games but that’s okay. They have won 2 games. Mr. Mattice also believes that Tyrone Wilson, Ramont Talgo, Kendall Stan-ley and Malachi Rogers made a very great impact on the team by all of their hard work

and dedication.

The second most improved player was Malachi Rogers. Malachi’s favorite memory of the season was when he made a touchdown on their last game of the season. His favorite field position was being quarterback. The most successful play that included Malachi was called “ends fly”.

Written by AYANNA MOSSES

Junior High Football Group Photo

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SPORTSTheir biggest comeback as a team was against pima. The thing he felt that he learned this season was a play called “f1”.

Also there were 2 girls on the Junior High football team. Layla Nelson was asked 5 simple questions. Layla says that it feels awe-some being a girl on the team and that she feels different. She says that she doesn’t play a lot but when she does it’s a decent amount. Her field positions are running back and line men. She says that the team supports her and its way better than being on an all girls team, and next year she hopes to play another great season.

Pictures, articles, interviews and watching all home games were a success. Even though the junior high foot-ball team didn’t get enough wins they still played a great season and hopefully a more successful season next year.

Photo by AYANNA MOSES Mr. HInton coaches the Junior High Volleyball team.

Photo by AYANNA MOSESThe Junior High practice their plays for upcoming games.


The Junior High vol-leyball team had a total 13 game in the season, plus two tournaments. The tournaments was held in Thatcher September 6, 2014 and the EAJHA tournament October 14, 16 , 2014.

Now that the volleyball season is over we inter-viewed a few of the volley-ball players from both 7th and 8th grade.

We also interviewed some 8th grade volleyball play-ers, and they said the 8th grade volleyball season was awesome, it was ok, and a lots of fun and excit-ing. There are a total of 14 volleyball players, on the 8th grade team. As a team they would like to improve their serving, but say they will get better as they play in high school. What they

Written by SAVANNAH TALGO

liked best about volleyball season was they all came together, and played out the games with their team work. They all expect high school volleyball to be harder, but they wouldn’t mind as long as they keep learning things new every-day. Also that they hope the 8th grade girl will stick with it as they get into high school.

3-10 was the 7th grade girls record for their first junior high volleyball season, defeating the Pima Roughriders, Morenci

Wildcats, and the Duncan Wildkats as well. Their was about 12 volleyball play-ers, this 7th grade season. The Thatcher Eagles had to be one of their tough-est opponents. Overall to summarize their entire season the girls enjoyed being together and hav-ing a good time together, whether they were playing at home or traveling and look forwards to another season next year.

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Just a reminder, students who played sport can order individu-als, pair, or team photos. Forms are in the office to place a order.

Package A = $10Includes 1 8”x10” print

Package B = $10 Includes 2 5”x7” prints

Package C = $10 Includes 8 2”x3” prints (wallet size)

Complete Sports Package = $30Includes 1 8”x10” of sport’s team, 1 8’x10” of the individual player, 2 5”x7” of the individual player, and 8 2”x3” pictures of the individual player.

8”x10” picture of the sport’s team.

Portrait of a close up shot, availavailable for

order

Portrait of a long shot, avaiable for order

Portrait of two pairs, available for order


BEYOND THE FORT

Do you believe in ghosts? Me personally, I am more of a “see it to believe it” type of person. In the small town of Fort Thomas, Arizona there is a school that is haunted and I attend one of them. It is more of the entire school district because the elementary, high school, and the district offices are considered haunted. I have heard a lot of stories about these places being haunt-ed, so I decided to write a article about these stories. Well, I interviewed the staff and the alumni here at The Fort to see what they have to say and what they have personally expe-

rienced. Some have asked to be put down as anony-mous. Here are some of the re-sponses I got back from the Elementary school: The fifth and sixth grade classrooms are in the back of the elementary school, in the corner of the school next to the district office. A couple of years ago a former sixth grade teacher who worked at the elemen-tary school was apparently haunted by a little girl in her own classroom. During class when she was giving a lesson she was using a headset. After she was done using with her lesson she put her headset down on the

counter and went back to her desk, which was on the other side of the classroom. The speakers went off and a little girl’s voice could be heard saying, “Come find me.” (This really happened!) The teach-er knew it was the ghost of the little girl who bothered her, but she didn’t want to scare her class so she turned off the speaker. The teacher’s husband worked down at the high school, as the High School’s science teacher, and their daughter was a student at the high school. After this incident the teacher decid-ed to move back to Globe, where she originally came from the year before.

Another teacher had an encounter late one evening. While staying late with another teacher working on their lessons for the next day, around 9 p.m. they both heard children laughing in the hallway. They both thought to themselves why would there be kids here this late? So they checked in the hallway and.... no one

Written by DESHAWN JAMES

Beyond The Fort is dedicated to bring you things from around your community and give you an idea

what is going on.

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BEYOND THE FORTwas there. After that they thought it was maybe one of the janitors playing a trick on them so they went back to work. After going back to work they heard boxes being scooted down the hallway. They checked again, and what do you know, no one again. They got scared and left the building because they too have heard the sto-ries of elementary school.

A teacher’s aid also had an encounter as she was walking by the library. The elementary school is kind of shaped like a capitol L. On the corner, is where the library is. This teacher aid said she heard someone, or something, walking towards her from around the corner, but when she got around the corner there was no one there. Some skeptics can say it was the echoes from her own foot steps or someone else who happened to walk into a classroom before the teacher aid got to the other person. Maybe. Maybe not. You decide.

Ms. Donna Bowman, the

high school secretary, has worked here at the Fort Thomas Unified School District for many years. She has worked up at the elementary school before and here is what she has encountered. She was work-ing in the office with her co-worker. She sitting there minding her own business, working, when she heard someone whispering her name. Thinking it was her co-worker she turns to her and tells her to stop calling her because it was scaring her. Her co-worker turned to her and said, “It’s not me, I didn’t even hear anything.” So they both got quiet, listening for the whisper, they both heard it. Other co-workers heard the whis-pering, whispering only Ms. Bowman’s name. (Creeping right?) Later on after that, other co-workers started hearing their own names being called in the office.

Many custodians have ex-perienced more than the teachers here, for they work very late at night cleaning and what not. Some have

experienced more unusu-al ghostly encounters than others. One custodian says he had to clean the outside girl’s restroom at the elementary school. These restrooms are in the center of the court-yard outside where the play-ground is. Two girls came to use the restroom, so he and the other girl waited outside while the other went in. The janitor heard the little girl that went inside screaming, thinking it was something like a snake, scorpion, spi-der, or something else he went in to see what hap-pened. The girl that was in the restroom ran pass him and out the restroom to the other side of the play-ground screaming. He ran over to her and asked what happened. She told him there was a another girl in there who was standing there all evil looking at her. This incident has happened more than once. A teacher says the girl that is in the restroom is described by students as a “little white girl dressed in old fashion cloth-ing with curly hair.” This


restroom is still open and still being used by the kids.

One of the custodians here with a lot of experiences is Carlos Gosyun. He said he was working in one of those sixth grade class rooms. It was during the summer, and it was late in the evening. As he opened the door he heard a lit-tle kid’s voice say, “Hello there.” Which is weird be-cause it’s summer time and what little kid would just say “Hello there.” He said he tripped out and quickly turned on the lights and checked to see if there was anyone in there, but there was no one there. Weird because he had to unlock the door with a key and it was summer. Summer! The district offices is in a historic three story build-ing behind the Elementary school. The district build-ing was built in 1917. The next collection of stories are from the staff in the District office:

A secretary who worked here for more than twenty four years. (Yup you read that right. 24+ years here at the Fort!) The secre-tary said heard someone coughing downstairs in the basement. This happened a couple of years ago, some-time around 4:30 in the afternoon. School is over at 3:05 p.m. and the staff usually leave thirty minutes after that, so she was the last one in the district of-fice, or building. Carlos, that custodian I mentioned earlier, says he was cleaning down in the basement in that same building. He says heard footsteps walking down the stairs, thinking it was someone looking for him he calls out “I’m down here if anyone is looking for anything!” He gets quiet waiting for a response, but the footsteps stop and after a couple of minutes later the footsteps start running, stomping on every step, back up the stairs. He didn’t think anything so he went

back to work. If that was me I’d freak out and head home.

Ronald Baylish, another custodian who has expe-rienced a lot of things out of the ordinary, is who is retired now, says somebody would watch or look out the windows at the district office when no one was there. He use to drive the buses and he would see that “person looking out when-ever he drives by in the bus. The most stories I collected from this school district are from the high school. The main high school build-ing was built a long, long, long time ago. The most stories I hear are from the oldest parts of school, like the entire Junior High and Auto Shop. Here is what I collected: Mrs. Eliza Wilson, a long time employee who works in the high school office as a secretary, has encoun-tered something ghostly while working late one

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BEYOND THE FORTnight. She was working alone in the office one night she heard foot steps in the hallway. She saw someone walked by the door. The office doors has a little win-dow. So she goes to check who was walking by and what do you no one was there. After that she just got her things and left after that because she too have heard the stories about the school. The next day she looked through he cameras but all the cameras showed was her walking out in the hall checking for someone and her leaving. She says after 3:30 she’s the first one out the door and that this was the last time she stayed late again.

Mrs. LaFrance, the high school Art teacher, didn’t believe in ghosts and was joking around about the ghost stories when I asked her. She was a skeptic until half way through my re-search she comes up to me with her eyes all big and she had a smile on her face, she told me she had a story

she wanted to tell me that happened the night before. She says was working out in the weight room the night before around 8:30 at night. This was the first time she took her dog along. She said her dog started bark-ing, making it’s fur stand, and growling towards the high school gym, she says her dog has never done this before. Her husband, Mark, works as a custodi-an here, so she thought it was her husband messing with her but when she went to go check there was no one there. You know dogs are believed to sense super natural stuff. So maybe the dog was seeing something there in the weight room or in the gym.

There was a custodian who has seen a ghost in the Auto Shop, Mr. Bowman’s classroom to be exact. He says he was cleaning with someone else and he went into the classroom with his co-worker following behind. He had a flash-light to look into the class-

room with the lights off. He opened the door and across the room there was a little boy dressed in old fashioned clothes standing against the wall. He turned to run but was stopped by his co-worker and turned on the lights. When his co-worker turned on the lights the little boy wasn’t there anymore. The custo-dian says other people have seen the boy around in the shop.(I think I believe this story because when the custodian was telling me he was literally shaking and still scared to talk about what he saw in the class-room.

Mr.Eddie Bowman, who works in the Auto Shop, has worked here for many years and says there are a few ghosts, he calls them spirits, hanging out in his shop. He says these ghosts from the cars he works on. Some have died in the cars that come on and some of them decide to stay in the shop. Mostly the class-room and attic are haunt-


ed, that is where people have seen children or people wondering around the most. In all the four years I’ve been here I haven’t seen anything in that shop, well guess only certain people can witness these things I guess. Five years ago Mr. Todd Thomas, another custodian, was working down in the basement of the jr. high gym. (Yes the Junior High Gym has a basement, two.) He was working down in the basement on the girl’s side putting up shelves (supposedly the girl’s side is more active). He came out to get some-thing and on his way back down he says he saw a mist, a silhouette, move

across the doorway from one side to the other.

Carlos Goseyun, yes this guy again, had an experience while driving a bus, yes a bus. He drove the bus to-wards Bylas to pick up kids for sum-mer school. As he passed the Lions Club Memorial, out of his peripher-al vision, he saw in the mirror a lit-

tle kid peeked their head out over the seat. He thought, “Mans there’s a little kid on the bus.” So he stopped the bus to check, but there was no one on the bus with him. He just drove off and kept an eye on the mirror to see if it will come out again but nothing. I know what you’re think-ing why would still pick up the kids with that same bus. Carlos told me not to worry because they sold that bus a few years ago. Jok-ingly he tells me, “Maybe they sold it to Thatcher.”

Years ago, before the new high school side was added on, they had a district meeting and an architect was run-ning late. When

Photo By CHAZ WRIGHT

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BEYOND THE FORThe got to the meeting he asked who was on top of the school march-ing around. Everybody looked around the room wondering what he was talking about. He finally told them that the person marching around was dressed up like a military personnel keeping watch. If you didn’t know the school was once an army fort, hence the name Fort Thomas. So every once and while people driving by the school will see the same military person still marching around on the roof of the school. When I was doing this article, people around school were telling me to go ask my grandpa Al-len Goseyun. He used to work here as a custodian for many years, serious-ly a lot of years. Sadly he passed away. He had a lot of stories about what he saw and heard here at night working as a custo-dian. He told me a couple

of stories about what he saw here:

A long time ago there were lockers by the main office and junior high gym. He said he was get-ting his cart out of the closet down there, and he heard someone calling his name. He looked around but there was no one there. These lockers had big pad locks on them and he said right after that thing was calling his name he heard footsteps running down the hall towards him. All the pad-locks started moving up and down, it all started from one end of the hall pass him and to the other end of the hall. He said he got scared and just put the cart back into the closet and left. He said he was to scared to work that night. He told me there was this one old Mexican who worked up at the Elemen-tary school, he said he’s

probably retired now, but said when that Mexican guy was working up there going room from room he said there was an old lady who followed him around at school. He said it must’ve been an old teacher who liked him so much. That Mexican guy said that that old lady started following him home so he quit being a janitor at Fort Thomas af-ter that. He said that lady that followed him around use to flirt with him and would always moved his stuff around.

I like to thanked all the people who have contrib-uted to this article, and hope that was your last time seeing things around school.


CULTUREWhat is Cyberbul-lying you ask? Cy-berbullying is when you are or other are being put down by using any social network.

Every day people are being bullied by other and it does not only include kids but adults too. Yes adults too, sad to say. The adults should be the grown ups in the situation and stop with hurtful emails, texts, phones calls.

It’s easy to cyberbully

because they are behind the screen and don’t feel the need to not care.

People cyberbully for millions of reasons they are bored, they are jealous, they want to be like their friends, and because they think its going to make them feel better. They don’t realize that the person who they are bullying might be having a bad day and you are only making it worst. What I am trying to say don’t bully or cyberbully.

Written by JAMES DUANE

Every day some one gets put down because they are being bullied.

Their was one story that caught my eyes, was about a girl name Amanda Todd. Amanda Todd was a girl who was being cy-berbullying and com-mitted suicide. She was only 15 years old, she posted a video before this happen and went world wide. The video was about her saying, who bullied her and why.

This girl could have been a police women, a teacher, maybe in the army. But kids made

The Culture section bring you the news happening outside of our school. It includes events, movies, and important messages that our staff believes you

should read.

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Students gossip about the 411 on social media

her take her life and that’s not cool. We have people to talk to now a days and getting more serious. People stop with the cyberbullying, you don’t know what it

means to other. To you it may seem funny but to others its not.


Through out the year almost every month on the calendar would rep-resent different types of cancer awareness. For example... January- Cervical Cancer Awareness

February- National Cancer Prevention Month

March- Colorectal Cancer Awareness Kidney Cancer Aware-ness Multiple Myeloma Awareness April- Testicular Cancer Awareness Esophageal Cancer Awareness May- Melanoma and Skin Cancer Awareness Brain Cancer Awareness

June- National Cancer Survivor Month

July- Sarcoma Awareness Bladder Cancer Awareness

September- Childhood Cancer Gynecological Cancer Leukemia/Lymphoma Prostate Cancer October- Breast Cancer Awareness Liver Cancer Aware-ness

November- Pancreatic Cancer Lung Cancer Stomach Cancer

The whole month of Oc-tober in known as Breast Cancer Awareness Month, a campaign to increase awareness of this dis-ease. Donations can then be given to help provide mammograms to those women who are in need. But millions of women are strong enough to survive the disease part to early detection and the im-provements in treatment.

In the month of October, the color Pink worn by those who have Breast Cancer or had it, and by those who are supporting/

Written by JON-NISHA LOPEZ

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remember others whose lives have been taken by this disease. Most people wear the color to encour-age the ones that have been diagnosed with the disease to fight it and win! For example a few years agO

the NFL partnered up with the American Cancer Society (ACS) and league corporate partners to run A Crucial Catch, the league’s month-long breast cancer awareness cam-paign. Larry Fitzgerald, the Arizona Cardinals’ star receiver, was wearing a light pink polo shirt but-

toned to the top and some hot pink-hued wristbands with the NFL logo and saying he is proud to wear pink. The reason for why he was dresses up in pink was to shoot a spot for the American Cancer Society.

“Since then the NFL has been partnered with the ACS for five years. “If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, give up, or fight like hell.” -Lance Armstrong

Beyond The Lights a 2014 romantic drama film, released Novem-ber 14, 2014. The running time of the movie is 116 min-utes. The movie had been in the making since August 21,

Written by Tehya Wilson

2013 in Los Anglos. The film had the premier in Toronto International Film Festival which was held on Septem-ber 7. Noni Jean (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) a new artist who has just won a billboard award. The pressure of success made her want to end her life because of all the stress that came with it. Starting out as a new artist she feels invisible as unloved and unrecognized . Before she is about to end her life a young police officer Kaz Nicols (Nate Parker) saves her life! They both fall hard and fast for each other because of the connection they feel. Kaz’s love gives Noni the courage to sing and become who she really wants to be.


STUDENT LIFEThe first day of school started on August 6th of 2014 where students came back to make 2014 a school year to remember. The first two weeks went as sched-uled and students were getting the hang of their new classes and some new students. Overall, the first quarter went well and came with many surprises and accomplishments.

During the second week of school, students who passed their AIMS were given iPad Mini's, iPads, and Macbooks. This helps students accom-plish more with empowering them with the use of technol-ogy and encouraging others to do better and possibly receive one the following year to come.

The first pep assembly was held for the Fort Thomas varsity football team and vol-leyball players. The Apaches showed their spirit for their first home game and the vol-leyball girls, who were going to try their hardest this sea-son.

Football season went by in a blur, but left its marks. The Apaches, who played the sport, enjoyed the season and gave it their all. With all the conversions, plays, touch-downs, and tackles we still didn't place #1 in state, but still ranked 16th in state and 816th in nationals.

Volleyball season went as planned, even though we didn't make #1 in state our volleyball girls had fun travel-ing and working as a team to overcome their opponent.Homecoming week was

September 30th to October 3rd where the Fort Thom-as Apaches celebrated their fellow teammates last home game against Morenci Wild-cats. That week the cheer-leaders planned out a bunch of events for the students to play like ring toss, archery, or even had the alternative to dress up. We held a parade for the class's floats and a lip sync where students battle each other off with music. Every-thing was held to pump up the football players for their last game, while getting everyone involved. Red Ribbon Week also oc-curred during this time frame and we celebrated it to combat the use of drugs and alcohol, while raising awareness about how abusive these substances are, even if they are legal. The school planned out a day to have regular scheduled classes exchanged for a health fair.

Written by CHAZ WRIGHT and TEHYA WILSON

Student Life is dedicated to bring you the most efficent way to share Fort Thomas’s life, filled with students.

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We see that the students pack the bleachers to listen to tribal members give speeches and watch students recive their gifts for passing AIMS

The first pep assembly that Fort Thomas Apaches did to support their fall althletes. We see that students, cheerleaders, and even teachers particapated!

The Fort Thomas Apaches played numerous games and did an amazing job at it.

Volleyball Season went into action against Fort Thom-as’s main competitors and the High School girls did the best workk they could to make a

memorable season.


Red Ribbon Week is mainly about people who don’t do drugs and they represent how people fought real hard to stay away from drugs and take care of there life and be healthy. Some people try to stay away be-cause they don’t want to have problems or get a real bad dis-ease. If you know somebody who does drugs, tell them to stop. It will be bad for their health, also they would lose their lives. Many people get to addicted to the drugs, because they would start from their friends, or lived with it their whole life, they saw their par-ents do it also. I understand how people feel about their family members doing drugs they can’t stop.

For our school we do many things. We show how we sup-port the Red Ribbon in doing an essay contest, questions about drugs, the Teen Health Fair. (The main part about the Essay is when we have to write this long or short essay about why you don’t do drugs. about

how it will effect your life or any kind of topic that has to do with drugs and what you can do to stop it from happen-ing again). Your essay will be judged and they will have first, second and third places given for your essay. Its for all grades from 7th to 12th grade. That’s what we do for the essay of Red Ribbon Week. Then is the health fair also. They will ask you a lot of question like; do you want to go to college and will you be married in 5 years or so? Will you have a job or be a full time mother raising a child? Mainly it’s just helping all the teens make a better decision through out life and don’t take the wrong path., but this whole health fair will teach you many things and will help take you in a good path and

keeping you away from drugs.

Mainly their will be present-ers who will tell you their side of the story when they went through depression and what they did in their past that were wrong. Also they talk about using birth control and how to be safe when you are having sex. Also showing pictures about child abuse and what some parents do to children, just because they didn’t want to take care of them anymore. Lastly getting a job and having to go to school for the career job you want to do and stay in school and support your community.

But this is what our School does for showing how we represent Red Ribbon Week.

Written by ANALICIA COSEN and TATIANNA MITCHELLE

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STUDENT LIFEStudents who play any sports, are auto-matically put into the athletic club. Pictured to right the students who particapate go to a mandotory meeting and discuss whats on their agenda

Ayanna Moses at-tends a FFA Meeting (Future Farmers of America) Kelliher overviews the types of activites they are going to attend for participating in the meeting.

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