Homecoming
week includes numerous activities and events for students. One
being the bon fire.
Every year each class has two competitions that take
place at the bon fire. The first one is the dummy toss.
Each class creates a flammable dummy resembling the opposing team for
homecoming. This year it was the bobcats. Some classes make
cats and others make football players. The first place was
embroidered and everything! The juniors was just a block of wood! It is
so unfair that they won!”
The other composition was the class yell
s.
Classes had to make up a cheer about their class. Some classes
who didn't come up with a cheer the cheerleaders mad one for
them. the most creative cheer won and that was the seniors
yell. Second lace was the freshmen.
Two new activities presented at the bon fire was the
car smash and the live music. For the car smash students paid one
dollar for three hits on an old car donated from Mast Brothers three
times. It seemed that three hits turned into eight for most of
the participating students. The fundraiser collected 131 dollars
for ASB.
Skyler Squglio, Cole Browning, Jason Sallas, and
Scott Gardner played about ten different rock songs for the
crowd. “It was very fun to have a live band at the bon fire
because it gave the evening more spunk. Plus I love Skyler!”
Brianna Eklund said as she laughed. It seemed most of the crowd
was pleased of the cobras performance. Many students “rocked out”
along with Matt Longworth, dressed as the mascot, and the cheerleaders.
While experiencing all the activities students
gorged on hot-dogs, hamburgers, and Pepsi prepared by ASB.
With all these new ideas who knows what ASB will
come up with next year.
Dancing the Night
Away
by Esperanza Castillo
An
amazingly well played
Homecoming game on Saturday, October 7th, led to the incredibly
enthusiastic Homecoming dance the following night. There
was sense of unity and a series of unex
pected events that kept
the party going. The New York themed dance lasted for three
hours, starting at 8pm and ending at an all too soon, eleven.
Common jitters and nervousness started Homecoming
off slow.
Nobody wanted to be seen dancing first and couples scurried quickly to
find a table and sit down. Always the eager braves, Beth Moss and
Mike Grindstaff boldly set out to the dance floor. Their attempt
to “get the party started” seemed a failure until Sara Moss recruited
friends Esperanza Castillo, Areli Osorio, and boyfriend Garret
Spangle. Seeing that it was acceptable to dance now, the rest of
the crowd slowly, but surely rised to the occasion.
“It felt exhilarating. The music was pumping
and I just couldn’t
stop moving my feet,” said Sara Moss .
Dances are usually just for students but new
principal, Mr. Gross
decided to change things up a bit as he hit the dance floor with his
wife. Strange as that was, the surprises didn’t stop there.
Later Mrs. Boe was coaxed by Armando Herrera to shake her groove thing
as well. Students were also heard hooting and hollering when
recent RHS graduate Jeremy Camphouse ( AKA Spud) and junior Matt
Longworth embraced eachother in a slow dance. Mid- dance the
Homecoming court was called up front for their slow dance.
Momentarily after queen Katie Dickson and king Armando Herrera along
with the rest of the court- paired off, the entirety of the Homecoming
congregation searched for their special someone to share that dance
with.
Homecoming ended with, “When Septemeber Ends,” by
Greenday. An
awesome game led to a stupendous dance. Props to the sophomore class
for setting up a prosperous Homecoming event.
Dress Up for
Homecoming
by Heather Parker
Class
color day, pajama day, civil war day, snow day, super fan day, bulletin
board, dummy, and floats make up just a few of the contests for
homeco
ming week.
Plenty of colors were worn monday but juniors
snagged it away from everyone else with the color white. As students
come to school with their pajamas still on freshmen wore
the most taking a win for pajama day. On civil war day, duck and
beavers, juniors ruled by
wearing the most of either color and took the win on civil war day.
Where is the snow? Not many students came to school wearing snow attire
but for those who did seniors was majority and took the win on snow
day. To finish off the week which class has the most school
spirit the records show that freshmen wore more red, black, and white
and took super fan day with them.
For the bulletin boards though all the seniors
out did everybody artistically and won. The float contest was
taken by
the juniors said by the judges to have the best float though seniors
came in second. Last but not least the dummy contest. The
class with the most creative dummy was the juniors taking a win
for that contest also.
The juniors leading with four wins with the contests
and right behind them were the seniors and freshmen both having won two
contest and sophomores coming in last with no wins well better luck
next
year.
Those are the results for this years homecoming
weak. Hopefully next year we will have new contests and more
participation.
What to Make of Advisory
by Vivian Barksdale
A new
school year. A new school year also comes with
new surprises, new activities and new classes; for example our new
advisory class.
Advisory class is required for all students in the
junior high as well as the high school. The point of this new class is
to
help students with homework, discuss matters that effect our school and
create new ideas from the students to make the school more fitting to
them.
"I think our advisory class is a good thing because
students get to
talk about stuff around the school," states Bebete Solorzano. Though
some students believe that advisory is good others are not as happy
about it. "I have heard many students complaining about the advisory
since it cut lunch time down." Mandy Foote commented.
Students usually have a 50 minute lunch schedule but
since advisory it cut it down to 30 minutes. Both teachers and
students complained about the shorter lunch time and because of that
Mr. Gross increased the lunch time back to 50 minutes. Everyone
seems to be a lot happier about the change.
So advisory will remain how it is though there are
still complaints and complements about the changes that have accrued
with in the walls of Reedsport's high school.
