FLYER500 High StreetOnaga, KansasVolume XX Issue 2October2014-2015

THE 2-3 News & more4-5 Editorials6-7 Features8-9 Sports10 Academics/Organizations11 Senior Spotlight12 Interactive

Ebola outbreak

The Ebola virus is quickly spreading

The Ebola virus is a high-ly fatal disease to humans. The virus is transmitted to humans from wild animals. Ebola is then spread from human to human through contact with body fluids. The virus can be transmit-ted through contact with fe-ces, urine, saliva, sweat and blood. Symptoms of the vi-rus include fever, diarrhea, and vomiting. The 2014 outbreak of the Ebola virus first started in western Africa. This out-break has been the largest Ebola outbreak since the virus was first discovered in 1976. The current outbreak of Ebola has more recorded cases and deaths than all other outbreaks combined. Researchers have traced the first case of Ebola to a toddler who died in late 2013 in a small village in Guinea. The beginning of

the outbreak, however, was not reported until March of 2014. As of October 14 of this year, about 4,555 people have died from the dis-ease, and over 9,216 cases have been reported. The deaths were reported in the following countries: Libe-ria, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, and the United States. The World Health Organization admits these figures are underestimated and warns there could be as many as 20,000 cases by November if the efforts to tackle the outbreak are not stepped up. The outbreak in Nigeria has been reported as “con-tained.” It has also been re-ported that the situation in Guinea has appeared to be stabilizing. However, there appears to be no indication of a reversal of the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone and Liberia. Five of Sierra

Leone’s fifteen districts are on lock down with more than a third of the popula-tion of 6,000,000 no longer

able to move freely. Scien-tists have begun to analyze the blood of dead victims in hope of finding a cure.

Liz CasperFlyer Editor

MAPPING IT OUT The current Ebola virus has taken control over the lives of one-third of Sierra Leone’s population. Five of the fifteen districts in the country have been put on lock down, and the citizens are no longer able to move freely.

-Photo courtesy of bbc.com

CALENDAR OF UPCOMING EVENTS

November 1: VB State Tourn. @ Emporia; State CC Meet @ Wamego; Na-tional Author’s Day; All Saints Day November 2: Daylight Sav-ings Time EndsNovember 3: 6:30pm Kan-sas Honors Program/Dinner @ Four Points by Sheraton

ManhattanNovember 4: Election DayNovember 5: 9am FFA Horse Judging @ McClouthNovember 7: Football Re-gionalsNovember 8: 9:30am OHS Chess @ Lawrence WestNovember 10: 7pm BOE MeetingNovember 11: Veterans Day

November 12: 9am FFA Leadership School @ Hol-tonNovember 14: Football SectionalsNovember 15: 9:30am OHS Chess @ ConcordiaNovember10-16: KSHAA Fall Athletic Buffer WeekNovember 17: OHS Winter Sports Practice BeginsNovember 19: Abraham Lincoln Delivered Gettys-burg Address in 1863

November 20: 6:30pm Fall Sports BanquetNovember 21: Football Sub-StateNovember 24: 4pm OHS Scholar’s Bowl @ HomeNovember 26-28: No School Thanksgiving BreakNovember 27: Thanksgiv-ingNovember 29: Football State Championships

Mitchell DuerFlyer Staff

PAGE 2 NATIONAL NEWS SEPTEMBER

Royals finishing strong

Royals make deep run into playoffs

The Royals sweep play-off games up to the World Series. The Kansas City Royals finished the regular season 89-73 to win a spot in the playoffs as the number one wild card team, one game ahead of Oakland Athletics. The Royals struggled

in the months of May and July, but turned things around in August and Sep-tember to clinch a playoff spot. The team ranked last in home runs with 95 and also ranked last in walks with 380. They ranked last in strikeouts with 985 and ranked first in stolen bases with 153 swipes. The Royals were in the

wildcard game against the Oakland Athletics to play for the American League Divisional Series (ALDS) against the Angels. The Athletics jumped out to an early two run lead in the first inning, but the Royals answered back with three runs in the first and third in-ning. The Athletics went on a hitting spree in the top of the sixth to take a 7-3 lead. The Royals’ defense then put a stop to any more runs and the offense scored 4 runs in the 8th and 9th to tie the game. Royals fans were scared in the 12th when

Oakland scored one to take the lead. The Royals came back in the bottom half to take the win 9-8. The Royals then pro-ceeded to the ALDS to play the Los Angeles Angels. Kansas City swept the An-gels in three games. All three games were rather close, two going into ex-tra innings, but the Royals ended up on top. Winning the ALDS, the Royals advanced to the American League Cham-pionship Series (ALCS) to play against the Baltimore Orioles. The Royals also

swept the Orioles, im-proving their post season record to 8-0. This was a new MLB record. The Royals then found themselves in the World Series playing the San Francisco Giants. The Royals lost the first game 1-7 but bounced back to win the second game 7-2. The third game of the World Series will be on October 25 in San Fran-cisco.

Mitchell DuerFlyer Staff

CELEBRATING THE WIN Alcides Escobar (shortstop) throws an ice bath from a water jug on to Salvador Perez (catcher).-Photo by Denny Medley-USA

Today Sports

PAGE 3LOCAL NEWS & MORESEPTEMBER

At what age should children stop trick-or-treating?

I believe that after age ten children should stop trick-or-treating. When they reach Middle School they need to allow the younger kids the thrill of candy! Also, by that age, they want to experience tricking instead of treating.

-Mrs. MartenThere is no age when children should stop Trick - or - Treating because it is always fun to get free candy!

-freshman Tanner Marten

Erika Kufahl

There should be no age restrictions. FREE candy is FREE candy!-junior Reilly Stumpff

Most popular Halloween candyKatelynn Kolterman

Flyer Staff

Last year, more than $12.6 billion was spent on chocolate in the United States, 3.8% more than the year before. The top five most popular chocolate products and how much Ameri-cans have spent on them in the past year are shown below.

1. Reese’s$509.85 million

2. M&M’s$500.82 million

4. Hershey’s$324.63 million

3. Snickers$456.91 million 5. Kit Kat

$306.51 million

New hospitalOnaga Community Hospital starts construction

Last year Onaga Com-munity Hospital announced that they were planning on adding and remodel-ing parts of the hospital. The new construction plan got an 80 percent approval rating, and they broke new ground on May 10, 2014. The new plan for the hos-pital will be 45,896 square feet of space. It will consist of private rooms, enlarged Emergency Department, and new surgical diagnos-tic and treatment rooms. They are also renovating the clinic and relocating and updating utilities and technology. After the proj-ect is complete in the fall of 2015, the campus will

be approximately 112,577 square feet, of which 85, 439 square feet has been added or renovated. The company building the new parts of the hospi-tal is The Murray Company. The Community Health Care realized they needed more than just a general contractor. They needed a Health Care construction expert who understands the hospital’s challenges and desired outcomes, as well as the cost. Many Health Care businesses have trust-ed The Murray Company with their rebuilding and renovating projects. The Murray Company has been planning and pro-gramming with the Com-

munity Health Care System for several years. The Com-munity Health Care System chose to have The Murray Company lead the designs and construction of the re-building and renovating or the hospital. The architect, Hoe-fer Wysocki Agriculture (HWA), is planning and de-signing the interior of the hospital. HWA is responsi-ble for delivery and design-ing rooms that embrace the human element, modern technology, and creating comforting environment for the patient. HWA is able to improve the health and healing processes for ev-eryone at the hospital. The reason for building and renovating the Onaga Community Hospital is so the hospital can meet new fire safety standards or they

will risk the loss of their li-cense. The hospital is also lacking in new modern technology and utilities that are needed to keep the hospital update and keep patients healthy. The construction regu-larly starts at 5:00 a.m. and ends at 7:00 p.m. from Monday to Friday. The last stages of the project, clinic renovation and administra-tion offices are planned to be done by the fall of 2015. Not everyone was in fa-vor of the hospital construc-tion. Some people believed that the construction was pointless and just a waste of time and money while other people thought the construction was necessary and the hospital needed to be updated in its technol-ogy and utilities. Either way construction has begun.

Bethany EisenbarthFlyer Staff

PAGE 4 EDITORIALS SEPTEMBER

High school food freedomUnited States changes school food regulations

All students around the country are suffering from the new food restriction rules. The new regulations are supposed to be making the United States healthier, but they aren’t. For many grade school students, the lunch that is served at school is the only meal they get during the day. Such little food is served that there is no way that even for a little kid it is enough to make them stay full. We are no longer al-lowed to have too many fats, but without those fats some children may not grow as much as they should. When a student enters high school they are told that they have more respon-

sibilities, but yet they are not allowed to choose what they want to eat. High school clubs are not allowed to sell snacks to the high school student body because of the new health regulations. If the student is paying for the food then they are mak-ing a conscious choice to buy that food. Vending ma-chines are also not allowed in high schools because the high school students are not trusted. High school students should be allowed to eat whatever they want to. Ever since grade school, students are taught to eat heathy and how to eat healthy, but when we are supposed to be con-sidered young adults we aren’t able to show what we have learned.

Snacks are not allowed in class rooms because they can be considered a distrac-tion. If nothing is going on in the class room, like a lec-ture or a test, then the high school students should be able to have a small snack in the class room. High school students should have more leeway because they are supposed to be learning about how to take care of themselves. If they are always told what they can and can’t eat, they

will not be able to take care of themselves in the real world. If high school students are given more responsibility, then maybe they will rise to the occa-sion and show that they can make right choices for themselves.

Annie MartenFlyer Staff

NOT ENOUGH FOOD Stu-dents are shown eating just salad and fruits. Students should also be getting grains and meat.

-Photo courtesy of Google

Stricter schoolsSchools add more rules every year

Are school rules get-ting too strict? Has it been noticed that there are new rules every year? How are new rules made every year? Students all over are getting fed up with mod-ern school rules. Personal devices, phones, are not al-lowed in class rooms even when nothing is going on in the class. On days when stu-dents are doing their own work and it is their choice to do the things or not to do them you are not allowed to check phones, even if it is dealing with a family matter. What if a students’ mom texts them and needs a response before class is

out? Even in things like that phones are banned. If they cause a disruption in class and the student is just tex-ting and not taking notes, then yes that is wrong. If the students are given some type of trust then they will more than likely repay you with their listening ears. A little bit of trust goes a long way. In multiple schools, even in this area, the dress codes are changing. A lot of them are limiting girls on the clothing they are wear-ing. In some situations it is understandable to limit the dress-wear a bit. Some schools are not allowing athletic shorts that are of-ten worn for running shorts. A lot of girls have started

wearing them all over and schools this year are saying they are not allowed. Other banned clothing items are leggings or yoga pants. Both of these are comfort-able for the girls. Leggings can be used for dress up days for a sport. They look fine with nicer clothes. The reason for banning them is because they are distract-ing the guys from their school work. That excuse is used too much from teach-ers and principals. Hall passes are another thing that disrupts the flow of the day. Instead of go-ing to go get a book out of a locker, the students must ask. If going to the locker takes about two minutes, the students

are still required to have a pass. You are not allowed to get a drink without one ei-ther. A generation ago none of these rules were there. Phones were not as popular as they are now. If the things are not disrupting from the purpose of school, to learn, then why are they banned? Why are the rules so strict?

Morgan ManuelFlyer Staff

NO PHONES IN SCHOOL Students are not allowed to use their personal phones in school. Student is seen here turning their phone into a “cell phone basket”.-Photo courtesy of Google

PAGE 5EDITORIALSSEPTEMBER

You Said...

Trick-

or-treating has become a well-known

tradition in the United States to celebrate Hallow-een. Many children have grown up with the tradi-tion and have dressed up in costumes every year for the occasion. But at what age does this annual tradi-tion become too juvenile for a person to participate in? Maybe when someone is finished with high school and college and has a job in the real world or maybe kids of their own, then they may be too old for trick-or-treating. High school and college students are defi-nitely not too old to dress up in costumes and go

d o o r -t o - d o o r

asking strangers for candy. You may think trick-or-treating is for kids, but childhood is all about your state of mind. Halloween actually be-comes more fun as you get older. When you’re a kid, your parents may be trick-or-treating with you, force you to wear a coat even though it covers up your costume, and bring you home at eight only to have you stand while they take pictures of you in your costume. When a person is older, they may get dirty looks from people that think they’re too old for trick-or-treating, but a per-son can never be too old to do something they enjoy. When a person is older, they can start appreciating many

High school students are not too old for trick-or-treating

Katelynn KoltermanFlyer Staff

more parts of

Halloween. Cos-tumes can become more creative and more complex, a route can be mapped out to maximize the amount of candy that is received throughout the night, and a lot of fun can be had being immature and re-living your childhood with friends. High school and college students have a lot of stress in their everyday lives; one night of stress-free, imma-ture fun can do them a lot of good. Growing up can be exciting yet somewhat de-pressing at the same time; this is why people should not let go of their child-hood too soon just because they’re in a hurry to grow up. Once a person’s child-hood is over, they can’t get it back. They should enjoy it

a s much as

they can for as long as they possibly can.

Although a high school student may be walking along children several feet shorter than them, they shouldn’t let that stop them from having a fun night of trick-or-treating. If a high school student still feels insecure about trick-or-treating, even if they really want to go, they could take a younger family member with them to trick-or-treat. Young adults should not let the judgemental views of society get in the way of something really want to do. Traditions are special; they should not be over-looked or given up easily. High schoolers should be proud of the holidays in our country and not be afraid to celebrate them.

I Said...High school students are too old to trick-or-treat

Martina MillerFlyer Staff

Every year on October 31st, high school students participate in a variety of Halloween events. Some students go trick-or-treat-ing in groups while others may be scaring younger kids or other high school students who are out trick-or-treating. This can some-times be an issue and is unappreciated by many parents. High school students may just want to get them-selves some free candy from the community while others may want to just take it from the trick-or-treaters. Parents tend to think that these kind of actions are irresponsible and childish. Halloween is supposed to be for the children’s enjoy-ment, not for the ones who should be responsible and mature.

During the years of high school, many students have a busy schedule. They of-ten complain of stress from their academic workload, or say they have difficulty managing their time. High school is the time to plan for the future and to make an imprint on others. High school students would add to the number of trick-or-treaters, leav-ing some kids with less or even no candy. Residents of the community are forced to buy more candy if high school students were to trick-or-treat each year. Halloween costumes cost a lot of money. The average American spends nearly $80 on all Halloween supplies. A single costume can cost 20 to 40 dol-lars and it may only be

worn once. High school students should be saving their money for their future, not wasting it on Halloween costumes to get a couple candy bars or scare a few kids. Once teens enter high school, it’s time for them to take off the costume and call it a night. Students are no longer at the age at which going door-to-door is acceptable. The only time that it would be okay to handle the candy is when there’s a younger sib-ling involved or if they are passing it out to the young trick-or-treaters. Some cities have instat-ed laws that prevent teens from trick-or-treating. The age limit for trick-or-treat-ers is 13 in those cities. That may seem young, but that’s

when it’s about time to start growing up and maturing. Plenty of other activities that high school students could participate in. Teens can go to haunted houses, costume parties, hayrides or maybe even stay at home and watch scary movies. Students should take the opportunity to get out and do something. For high school stu-dents, Halloween may be prime time to scare chil-dren. It’s time for teens to start maturing and act-ing appropriately. This doesn’t mean that students shouldn’t have fun on Hal-loween, it just means that it’s time to do other things than trick-or-treat.

PAGE 6 FEATURES SEPTEMBER

Modern day heroesTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reunite

Mikayla FiehtnerFlyer Staff

Ninja Turtles Leo, Don-ny, Mikey, and Rafael all reunite in the new Teen-age Mutant Ninja Turtle movie and push their way back into society by sav-ing lives. In the new action packed film the turtles save New York City from Shred-ders evil plan. The TMNT’s recent movie just came out this year, 2014. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fantasy movie first became famous in 1990. Just recently they came out with a new version. In both films, the city needs heroes, the future of the city and the peoples safety is grim, until, four mutant brothers arise from the sewers discover-ing themselves as Mutant Turtles. The Turtles must work with fearless reporter April O’Neil and her wise-crack-ing cameraman Vern Fen-wick, to save the city and

unravel Shredder’s diaboli-cal plan. In the new TMNT movie Megan Fox plays April O’Neil and Will Arnett plays the Vern Fenwick. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Characters Created by Peter Laird and Kevin Eastman with a Screenplay was written by Josh Appelbaum & Andre Nemec and Evan Daughtry, The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was produced by Michael Bay. Andrew Form, Brad Fuller, Galen Walk-er, Scott Mednick and Ian Bryce, and was directed by Jonathan Liebesman. There was a concern about Michael Bay’s com-ment of how the upcom-ing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles remake was going to change-up the title char-acters’ backstory by mak-ing them aliens. The very idea prompted a negative response from the Turtles-adoring fans, so the idea was discarded.

NINJA TURTLES RETURN Leonardo , Rafael, Michelangelo and Donatello return in the new Ninja Turtle movie. The movie is based in New York and is about the turtles fighting to finish Shredder once and for all. -Photo courtesy of Google

Creating a tradition of excellence

New superintendent has big plans for Onaga

The school’s new super-intendent, Mr. McDaniel, has big plans for Onaga’s small town school. He has said that Onaga is in need of increased technology; updated curriculum, con-tent, schedules and a wider variety of electives. The goal of the super-intendent is to “build upon things that we do well, but change the culture of things we struggle with.” His plan is to make things better than just okay and to de-velop a sense of passion, desire and determination throughout the school. Mr. McDaniel said that students, teachers, parents and possibly the commu-nity will be affected by the changes. The reasons for the changes that will be occurring throughout the school are happening be-cause public education has changed and updated, and the school has been bud-geting the funds. In hopes that the stu-dents and staff will strive, Mr. McDaniel has asked that he is given time and flexibility to allow room for these changes that will make the school and com-munity better. In his opin-ion, the school is the center of the community and by improving the school, the community will also ben-efit. The changes that will be happening may frus-trate some, and excite oth-ers. Big changes can be frustrating to people who were used to the old tradi-tions. These changes could excite people who weren’t

used to the older traditions and may get to see the long term turn out of these im-provements. The superintendent would like to have some new technology installed by the end of the semester and other changes to hap-pen throughout the course of the year. In the following years to come, he hopes that students and faculty have settled into the changes and enjoy the outcome they have provided to the school. Mr. McDaniel is looking into getting the school iPads or tablets that will be used in the classroom. Onaga is in critical need of newer technology. Many laptops and computers don’t work like they should. The need for new comput-ers and other devices is im-portant. Teachers and other faculty use computers and other forms of technology to keep in contact with one another, so it’s important to have things in good condi-tion. Public education has made changes and that means that Onaga needs to change along with it. More funding has been provided to the school, which allows for the changes that are expected to be occurring. Class schedules are to be updated to prevent the pos-sibility of small sized class-es of five students or less. Mr. McDaniel would like there to be more of an elec-tive choice for the students. In the years to come; stu-dents, faculty, parents and people of the community expect to see improvement through out the school.

Martina MillerFlyer Staff

PAGE 7FEATURESSEPTEMBER

Brain drainStudents fight to get good grades in hard classes

In school every-one has a difficult class even if they are a genius. Some people struggle with reading, some with math, science, writing or a different language. The class someone finds easy can be hard for someone else. The hardest thing for kindergartners to learn is writing. Since some schools don’t have their kindergartners learn to read until first grade, writing is the hard-est thing for them to do. Moving up to the first and second graders, most students struggle with math and reading students have not yet learned to add and sub-tract at these ages yet. Kids are getting smarter now because parents are buying them toys that have counting, adding or subtracting. These toys are jump starting chil-dren’s education. For third graders, it is hard for students to learn how to multiply and divide. Their brains have to try to get around that they are not adding and subtracting anymore. In fourth and fifth grade, students have trouble with history. They learn a little in the lower grades, but fourth and fifth grade is when students actually have history as part of their class sched-ule instead of something they do every now and then. In sixth through eighth grade, students

have trouble with science and math. These subjects get easier for students because they can connect things they have learned from past years to help with the new things they are learning. In high school and college, students struggle with history, math, science, reading and grammar. In these years students don’t struggle too much because it is mostly just a review from the things they have learned in their past years. Even though it is a review students won’t know all of the things they go over in high school, but they will know some of it. Lots of adults and students also struggle with these classes be-cause they take their as-signments home over the weekend and they save it for last minute. Forgetting what they had done in school so they just strug-gle with trying to remem-ber what they learned. Adults struggle with try-ing to help their children with their homework, but they also don’t know what is going on. It helps stu-dents if they have notes for that class. If a student has notes for the class they are struggling with then the student can look back on their question and hopefully figure it out. Lots of students don’t want to have to do their homework since it is the weekend. They want to go have fun with their friends or go to parties, so some get bad grades for doing their homework last min-ute.

Rebecca GilchristFlyer Staff

Pogo stick princeThe quality of the economy isn’t the only thing that jumps up and down

Note: The following story is a Publications class journal. The people are real, but their actions are completely made up.

Levitation is not only done by wizards. Ap-parently, witnesses saw Prince George levitating on a pogo stick in Colora-do. The incident happened on a sunny summer after-noon in the mountains of Colorado Springs. Prince George said, “It was too windy outside to play badminton, so instead, I jumped on my pogo stick! Pogo sticks are a lot of fun.”

Witnesses say that Prince George was not very good at the pogo stick. This could be be-cause it was so windy out-side. This reporter is re-ally too tired to speculate on an explanation right now.

To drag this story out, I will report on what Prince George was wearing. Purple pants adorned his legs and a terrible Hawaiian shirt com-pleted the outfit. Needless to say, the Prince looked very ridiculous during his pogo stick session and not at all regal.

The Prince com-mented to this re-porter that he learned his levita-tion skills from his time in prison. When there really is noth-

ing much else to do, you have time to exercise your mind and connect your thought waves to your body better. Therefore, a connection can be made through mind and body through excessive medi-tation, and levitation can be achieved.

This reporter definitely would not have the time or patience it takes to medi-tate and figure out how to levitate. She doesn’t really have time for anything, as it turns out.

Anyway, Prince George was seen on a pogo stick one afternoon in Colora-do and apparently that’s news.

Kat KoltermanFlyer Staff

YOU’RE A WIZARD, GEORGE Prince George is moving on to another toy as he has just fin-ished playing with his pogo stick. The young prince is re-portedly not very good at the pogo stick, but he continues to practice his skills.

-Photo courtesy of Google

PAGE 8 SPORTS SEPTEMBER

VolleyballLady Buffs struggle to improve record

Ending the month of September, the Lady Buffs hit a losing streak for the du-ration of the last six games. The team went to Ha-nover to play the Hanover Wildcats and the Clifton-Clyde Eagles. The ladies seemed to be lacking com-munication and effort and lost both games. The scores to the Hanover game were 22-25 and 20-25, and the scores to the Clifton-Clyde game were 17-25 and 14-25. The following week, the team was on the road again toward Washington. The Lady Buffs played Doniph-an West for the second time of the season and failed to

hold their reign over the Mustangs losing 23-25 and 21-25. Next, the team played Washington County and pulled themselves togeth-er to play two hard-fought matches. However, the team lost 16-25 and 20-25. The Lady Buffs played away once again, this time at Troy. Here, the Buffs took on the Trojans and failed to overtake them losing 15-25 and 21-25. After this game, the ladies took on Doniphan West for the third time and lost again, 12-25 and 19-25. The following Saturday, the Lady Buffs held a tour-nament including Blue Val-ley, Mission Valley, Wabaun-see, Wetmore and Frankfort. The first game of the day

was against Blue Valley. The Lady Buffs started the day off well, winning two of three matches. The scores were 25-15, 20-25 and 25-18. The Lady Buffs then lost the next three games of the day. They played Mission Valley, losing 19-25 and 18-25. After Mission Valley, the team lost to Wabaunsee in a well played game with scores of 14-25 and 17-25. The next game was against Wetmore, and the ladies lost 18-25 an 19-25. For the last game of the day, the Lady Buffalos played the Frankfort Wild-cats. The team was out for revenge after losing to the Wildcats twice already. The game was tough, but the La-dies came out on top after three intense matches. The scores were 25-20, 14-25 and 28-26.

The Tuesday following the Invitational Tournament, the Lady Buffs had another home night where they played Centralia, Axtell and Valley Heights. The begin-ning of the night started off slowly for the ladies when they went down to Centralia 11-25 and 13-25. The Axtell game was more intense, when the Buffs lost 9-25 and then came back and won 25-22 in the second match. The team ended up losing the third match 13-25. The final game of the night was by far the most intense for the Lady Buffs when they led the Valley Heights Mustangs for the duration of the game. How-ever, the ladies lost the two matches 24-26 and 22-25. The team now has a league record of 2-10 and a season record of 9-18.

Rebekah GlessnerFlyer Staff

FootballTeam in position to win districts

Brandon MerrimanFlyer Staff

The Onaga football team started its district play out with a bang by winning their first three games. The football team start-ed out by beating Wabaun-see 34-8 on Friday October 3. The Buffalos started the first half out strong by scor-ing 21 points, and didn’t let up in the second half by scoring an additional 13 points. Michael Bliss led the way in the rushing attack with 88 yards on 22 carries and two touchdowns. Wyatt Cordell had 58 yards on six carries. Passing wise Wyatt Cordell was five for six with two touchdowns, and Jace Fischer one for one with a touchdown. Fischer caught a touchdown for 13 yards,

and Jarod Gronewoller caught four passes for two touchdowns and 71 yards. Michael Bliss led the way with 16 tackles, and Tanner Marten followed closely behind with 11 tackles. The Buffalos traveled to Valley Heights the next week for their second dis-trict game. The Buffalos started off well by scoring on their first offensive possession on a quarterback keeper. Valley Heights scored later on in the first half, but didn’t get the two point conver-sion and trailed by one. The rest of the game was played back and forth. In the fourth quarter, Valley Heights scored but once again missed the conver-sion. With under three min-

utes left and Onaga down by five the buffalos began to drive down the field and they scored to take the lead with just under a minute left in the game. Valley Heights got one first down, but had a pass intercepted by Jar-od Gronewoller to put the game away for the Buffalos. Wyatt Cordell led the rush-ing attack with 115 yards on 18 carries. Michael Bliss had 104 yards on 25 car-ries. Eli Zidek led the team in tackles with 12, and Mi-chael Bliss followed be-hind with six tackles. The Buffalos next game was at home against Jack-son Heights, and a win against the Cobra’s would lock Onaga in for the play-offs. The Buffalos started out by scoring in the first quar-ter, then Jackson Heights scored in the 2nd to take the lead by one. Onaga

then drove back down the field for another touchdown to put the game back in the favor of the Buffalo’s. Jack-son Heights fought back and took the lead by three points before halftime. Onaga came back in the third and scored to take the lead, but Jackson Heights answered right back. The Buffalos came back in the fourth quarter to win the game 28-24. Wyatt Cordell led the rushing attack with 170 yards on 11 carries for two touchdowns, and Mi-chael Bliss followed close-ly behind with 94 yards on 20 carries with a touchdown. On the defensive side of the ball, Michael Bliss led the team with 18 tackles for the night, and Garret Ames followed behind with 12 tackles.

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Cross CountryThe finishing meets of the season.

The Cross Country team traveled to Centralia for a Saturday meet on October 4. The boys team placed fifth with individual medal-ists being junior Michael Eisenbarth sixth with a time of 18:17 and sopho-more Luke Marten, eighth, with 18:28. The girls didn’t place as a team but sopho-mores Maggie Revell and Alexis VanDonge both placed individually. Mag-gie Revell brought home a seventh place medal with a time of 18:19 and Alexis VanDonge placed 11th by pulling in a time of 19:27. The team had a break of no meets the following, week but they practiced hard

for the Twin Valley League (TVL) meet at Troy on Oc-tober 16, 2014. When TVL came around, the team was prepared and had a good day with four runners who placed in the top 12. Sopho-more Maggie Revell was the first girl from Onaga to finish the race at 18:48 and got 3rd place and Alexis VanDonge followed her up with 19:07 and received a 7th place medal. Rebecca Gilchrist was only other girl runner. The boys had Michael Eisenbarth led them with third place at a time of 18:35 and Luke Marten bringing home seventh place medal at 19:35 time. The boys placed second as a team with the help of James Johnson,

Jackson Glessner, Wade Minihan, Jonathan Fair-banks, Adam Kopp, Kylar Schmitt, Austin Kreitzer, and Jaiden Kolterman. Before Regionals, On-aga’s Cross Country team traveled to Jackson Heights for a meet on Tuesday Oc-tober 21st. Maggie Rev-ell led the girls with 18:29 and placed third while Alexis VanDonge followed her at 19:14 and an eighth place medal. The boys had their lead runner, Michael Eisenbarth, finish the race third and with a time of 18:22. Luke Marten came in close behind with a time of 19:26 and 14th place. The next meet on the schedule is Regionals at Washington County. For those who qual-ify for State Cross Country they will travel to Wamego on the following Saturday, November 1.

Belinda AmesFlyer Staff

Striding Out Senior Jona-than Fairbanks runs across one of the bridges at Jackson Heights course.

- photo by Rebecca Gilchrist

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Amber Kopp is the daughter of Mark and Deborah Kopp. Am-ber was born on November 11, 1996, in Topeka, Kansas. Af-ter high school Amber plans to attend Washburn University to major in physical therapy. From high school, Amber has learned to be herself and get involved as much as possible. Amber will miss her friends, teachers and of course cake Wednesday after high school. Amber’s favorite high school memory is when she was an-nounced 2014 Homecom-ing Queen. Amber’s favor-ite teacher is Mrs. Kocher; favorite class Biology with Mrs. Espland; favorite T.V. show is Pretty Little Liars; fa-vorite sport is volleyball and her favorite food is Italian foods and popcorn. Amber’s favorite quote is: “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile be-cause it happened.” -Dr. Seuss.In her free time, Amber enjoys the movies, family vacations, reading and hanging with her friends. Something most peo-ple don’t know about Amber is that she used to be afraid of flies. Garrett Beecher was her first crush and Bekah and Katelynn were her first best friends. Amber’s most em-barrassing moment was last year at the Throwback Thurs-day basketball game when she had to tape up her bas-ketball shorts with duck tape because they were too big.

SENIOR SPOTLIGHT

Jacob Boren, son of Mary and Michael Boren, was born March 6th, 1996, in Fort Riley, Kansas. After high school Jacob plans to attend Washburn Tech. During his high school years, Jacob has learned that being the stron-gest person in the room is no one if they don’t ask if your okay. He will miss seeing all his friends and teachers the most after he leaves for high school. Jacob’s favor-ite class is psychology, fa-vorite teacher is Mr. Baxter, favorite T.V. show is Family Guy, favorite sport is foot-ball, favorite food is a bacon cheeseburger and his favor-ite quote is “You can have anything you want if you are willing to give up the belief that you can’t have it.” Ja-cob enjoys hunting, fishing, sitting around a fire on a tail-gate with friends and watch-ing the stars in his free time. Something most people don’t know about Jacob is that he is not like what most people say. Jacob’s first crush was Taylor Kufahl and first best friend was Jeffery Chestnut. His most embar-rassing moment was when he fell asleep in Mr. Behrens class while a movie was playing, and he was snoring.

Sara Werren is the daugh-ter of Linda and Fred Werren. Sara was born on August 13, 1997 in Over-land Park, Kansas. After high school, Sara plans to attend Washburn Uni-versity to major in nurs-ing. Sara has learned not to sweat the little things from high school. After high school is over the thing Sara will miss most is seeing Ms. Labbe. Her favorite T.V. show is CSI: Miami, her favorite food is Chipotle, and her fa-vorite quote: “Mac and cheese-- enough said.” During Sara’s free time she enjoys sleeping, hanging out with friends and working. Something most people don’t know about Sara is that she is a very shy person. Sara’s first best friend was Misty Looper. Sara’s most em-barrassing moment was in Spanish 2 when the class was playing a house game and it was Sara’s turn to go to the board and her shoe fell off and she slipped and fell.

Kyle Ames, son of Angela and Dale Ames, was born on March 5, 1996, in Man-hattan, Kansas. After high school Kyle plans to help out on their farm. During high school Kyle has learned to show up on time and get things done. Kyle will miss goofing around in classes and making all his teach-ers mad after high school is over. Kyle’s favorite mem-ory is making it to state in wrestling, his favorite class is Ag class and his favorite T.V. show is Gilligan’s Is-land. Kyle’s favorite sport is wrestling, favorite food is apple pie and chicken fajitas and his favorite quote is the following: “A mans gotta do what a mans gotta do.”- The Duke. During his free time, Kyle enjoys building in the paint ball fort and playing in it. Something most people don’t know about Kyle is that he likes to build things with legos. His first crush was Makala Uhl and his first best friend was Colten Merriman. Kyle’s most embarrass-ing moment was when his mom was giving his a hair-cut and had to take a phone call, then Kyle shaved his hair into a reverse Mohawk.

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FLYER STAFFLiz CasperErika KufahlTaylor KufahlRebekah Glessner

Morgan ManuelKatelynn KoltermanMitchell DuerBrandon Merriman

Belinda AmesBethany EisenbarthMartina MillerPHOTOGRAPHERS

Annie MartenMikayla FiehtnerRebecca Gilchrist