Chippewa Herald 10-31-09

Manistee High School http://mhs.honoredstudents.org/ Manistee, MI

Volume 1 Issue 5 October 29, 2009

By: Andrea Paine

As Halloween approaches Manistee, so does the H1N1 virus. School districts surrounding Manistee are closing schools to stop the spread of the virus. Many wonder if it's safe to still participate in the typical Halloween activities.

“You're more likely to get the virus from contact from shaking someone's hand or hugging them than handing them a Snickers bar,”said Dr. Michael Muszynski, the infectious disease specialist at Florida State University. Parents are still concerned about letting their kids go trick-or-treating even though doctors say Continued On Page 2

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Student Life Pages 3-4

Sports Pages 5

World News/Entertainment Page 8-10

Index

H1N1 and Halloween

Setting The Record Straight By: Michael Bond

Like germs, rumors have flown around the school about schools closing and the Chippewa Herald wanted to clarify a few points.

There has to be 75% of kids attending school in order for it to count. If the State doesn’t count it, then it’s better finan-cially to cancel. While our district percentage did drop to about 84%, it wasn’t enough.

According to recent reports, our numbers are increasing. “The high school is really doing well. The little precautions of hand washing, covering mouths, etc. seems to be paying off. I definitely see kids taking this seriously, and I’m glad to see it. Keep it up!” said Mr. Huber.

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that outdoor contact is less intense than indoors. But if school are closed in places like Traverse City, many par-ents won't take the chance their kids catching H1N1 by letting them go trick or treating. If worried about H1N1, but still willing to participate in Halloween festivites, there are steps you can take to avoid catching it. Don't eat unwrapped candy and only eat foods that are prepackaged. If you're passing out candy this Halloween, pass it out instead of having the kids dip their hands in. Avoid sharing costumes, and especially avoid wearing masks, which can serve as a breeding ground to the virus. Also, if you are showing any symptoms of the flu, just stay home. “The most important thing to do is to wash your hands or use hand sanitizer before you eat candy,” said Gary Raskob, Dean of the University of Oklahoma College of Public Health. “Children will pick up germs on candy, on doorknobs and from friends while trick or treating.” Although the H1N1 is taking over the country, don't let it take over your Halloween. Still continue to have fun, but do your best to avoid catching the virus.

World News

H1N1 and Halloween...cont’

Word On The Street

Ethan Miller-Morehouse: When I was little, I dressed up as a bunch of grapes with

purple balloons and leaves on top of my head.

Courtney Stefainski: I was a tube of toothpaste

Lane Garncez- Oh man, my best costume is going to be this year. I think I'm going to

be Michael Bond

Mr. Bennett- I was a for-mer Lion's quarterback,

Eric Hippel, two years in a row.

Halloween Hum Dinger Con-cert

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7:30 PM 7:30 PM 7:30 PM 7:30 PM ---- 9:00 PM9:00 PM9:00 PM9:00 PM

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Creature triple feature

WhatWhatWhatWhat: 3 haunting films at MHS

WhereWhereWhereWhere: Manistee High School Commons area

WhenWhenWhenWhen: starting at 7pm Friday, Oct. 30

Concessions will be available.

By: Andrea Paine

On Wednesday night, fourteen new members were inducted in the Chippewa Chapter of the National Honor Society. These fourteen members were first selected for having a grade point average about 3.6. They then filled out an application and were hand-picked by a panel of teacher and administrators.

During the induction cere-mony Wednesday night the members recited the NHS pledge and signed their name into the NHS record book to become officially inducted.

The night started out with a welcome from NHS president Kari Paine, who then intro-duced the NHS officers and welcomed the new inductees. Gus Kapolka, advisor of the Manistee NHS, then intro-duced the guest speaker, Biology teacher and part-time coun-selor, Kate Thompson. Thompson gave a moving speech to the new inductees about the importance of having strong char-acter. She talked about fulfilling the duties and expectations of NHS and living to their full potential. Thompson congratulated the inductees on their excellence so far and urged them to maintain that throughout their life.

After Kate Thompson's speech, the NHS officers went over the

rules and code of NHS. They covered the four main points on the emblem of NHS which included character, leadership, scholarship, and service. Each officer lit a candle in representa-tion of each letter on the emblem.

Then Gus Kapolka took the stage and announced each inductee. He began with the three senior inductees, Julia Maksym, Kevin Kott, and Jon-haton Nesburg. He then announced the four juniors, Hannah Sartor, Michael Madden, Taylor Roberts, and Carl Jaskiw. Kapolka intro-duced the sophomores, Jesse Kel-ley, Bonnie Greene, Andrea Paine, Jenna Vincent, McKenna Bramble, Nathalie Kenny, and Allie Mallison.

“Our NHS is overjoyed to have so many new faces in the group.” said NHS president Kari Paine, “With the new people, we've doubled the size of our NHS.”

The inductees are just as overjoyed to be part of NHS.

“It's an honor to be part of NHS. I'm excited to serve the com-munity.” said sophomore NHS member, Nathalie Kenny.

The new inductees participated in their first event this week-end which was working the Ghost Ship. They also are responsi-ble for selling apple pies to benefit the NHS. If interested in pur-chasing an apple pie, contact any NHS member.

Student Life

By: Joe Frederick

The American Petroleum Institute (API) has been running a series of television ads knocking the American Clean Energy and Security Act. Other ads paid for by the API propose that oil and natural gas are still viable energy options with plenty of domestic product to go around. In my opinion any energy option that puts millions in the pockets of big business without fixing the problem is not an option at all.

These commercials depict an average looking American saying something about how the American Clean Energy and Security Act raises taxes, and how in these tough times new taxes are too much. The Clean Energy and Security Act does indeed raise the price of fossil fuels, but the price hike is only in order break our addiction to oil and find other resources. Furthermore according to the EPA, the American Clean Energy and Security Act costs the average family about as much as a postage stamp per day. I understand that for some families, especially those in Manistee County, those thirty-five cents a day can add up over time, but think of it as an investment. This investment would ensure that by 2020 there would be a 17-percent emissions reduction from the emissions levels of 2005.

If anything, the oil companies should be the ones getting taxed like crazy. According to the 2009 Fortune 500 the top two most profitable companies were Exxon Mobil and Chevron. During the 2008 fiscal year Exxon Mobil had $45.2 billion

in profits!! This means that according to howstuffworks.com every dollar you spend at the pump seventy-three cents of it goes to oil suppliers.

With Congress putting this new tax on oil in hopes of steering people away from fossil fuels, the oil companies are scared that they will lose business. I hate to break it to the oil companies, but when the thing you’re selling has a limited supply, you’ll eventually go out of business. And why should they profit millions when we’re pinchin’ pennies. It’s about clean air, not dirty busi-ness.

Opinion Column: Oil Profiteering

14 New Members Inducted Into NHS

By: Joe Frederick

I’m sure most everyone has heard about the $165 per student budget cut made by the State a few weeks ago. Just yesterday the state cut another $127 per student, bringing the per student total to $292. This means that Manistee Area Pubic Schools will lose approximately $500,000, a number that can be hard to come up with especially in these times of economic hardship. “We have to pinch pennies to save dollars,” said Mr. Olsen when asked about the issue. “When making cuts we always try to do our best to not cut from education” Olsen added. Some things that have been discussed have been shutting off a refrig-erator or coffee maker in a teacher’s room, turning off lights when enough natural light is available, and revamping bus routes to more efficiently transport students. Olsen said “There are things the tech department can do as well, like switching to ghost servers instead of in house servers.” MAPS has other options on the table, and are always up for suggestions from anyone on where money could be saved. I will be doing a bi weekly update on what the Mr. Olsen and district will be doing to save money, and how it will affect the students. If anyone has any suggestions please e-mail me at [email protected] and I will communicate them to Mr. Olsen when we meet.

By: Michael Bond

Strive is a program for students in Manistee and Mason County that pairs students with a com-munity member as a mentor. It was made so students can increase their grade point average and receive a diploma at graduation. “My goal is to see every student that participates in Strive to walk the [graduation] walkway and receive a diploma.” said chairman Dan Duchon.

Strive has a number of scholarships that are available to the students that participate. The Rotary Club gives thousands of dollars of scholarship for these kids every year.

“We absolutely could not do this pro-gram without the fabulous mentors we have. They are the reason that all of the kids improve their grades high enough to graduate.” said Dan Duchon. Duchon also said, “This is the first time that we had more mentors than students. These people are so great with the kids, and we become really close.”

Tuesday, Strive took a trip to the weir and spoke with the ma-rine biologists who work there. “It's a really great hands on ex-perience kind of place. The kids are interested in hands on

types of jobs.” said Duchon. “We work with kids from Kennedy Elementary Schools, Manistee Middle School, Trinity School, Manistee Catholic Central, Manistee ISD, and Manistee High School.”

Students in Strive have also taken trips to Morton Salt, and Mas Tech. Mas Tech is the new wind turbine facility that has do-nated a wind turbine to Manistee High School through the Rotary Club.“We also had some fun, going out to eat and talk-ing.”said Duchon, “but I promise you, the best Chicken Cordon I've ever had was made by the Manistee High School cafete-ria.”

Students and mentors in Strive have also gone to the Bungalow and Manistee Na-tional.

“We just want to find a profession that students are good at and really love. We just want to find their 'niche' in the economy we have here. Students cannot pursue their

dreams without a high school diploma,” said Duchon.

Budget Cuts and You Can Help

STRIVE: One Student at a Time

Student Life

“We absolutely could not do this program without the fabulous

mentors we have. They are the reason that all

of the kids improve their grades high

enough to graduate.”

-Dan Duchon

Izzy was first known as “Medusa” while she was owned by 4th grade teacher, Ms. Chambers. Ms. Chambers was inter-ested in giving her away, and why not to a Biology teacher?

This past fall, Izzy was introduced to room 114 for a trial period. Ms. Thom-son decided to rename her Izzy be-cause of her daughter's book, “My pet Izzy.”

Izzy is a three foot long six year old green iguana, and she is very strong. Iguanas are native to Central and South America. Izzy mostly eats leafy green vegetables like kale, cabbage. Collard greens, and parsley, but Ms. Thomson was surprised to find that Izzy also ate solid vegetables like green beans, snow peas, bell peppers, squash, and fruits like mangos, grapes, pears, and berries. “I was a little shocked to see how voraciously she ate solid foods.” said Ms. Thomson, “If you have any of these veggies or fruits around your house that aren't getting eaten, feel free to bring them into Izzy!”

By: Michael Bond

App 4:Bounce on, the ipod version of Mario. Bounce on is an app that was released on May 10th, 2009 by Teamphobic. It hasn't be-come popular since last summer. Controls are really basic, and consist of tilting the ipod/iphone to roll the ball and tapping the screen to make the ball jump.

There are three worlds and anywhere from 7-12 levels on each world. “It's not tough. All you have to do is collect power ups and avoid getting squashed by your enemies.” said GearShine.com

“With bright colorful graphics and impres-sive graphic along with sweet music and sound effects, Bounce On is surely to hit the top app list within a few days.” said iphone-application-developer.blogspot.com.

This app is available in the app store for $3.99. For those of you who don't want to jump in and spend four dollars, download the lite version.

Student Life

Meet Izzy: Ms. Thompson’s Newest Student

App of the Week: Bounce

By: Andrea Paine

The Manistee Swimming and Diving Team finishes their dual meet season with a loss to Ludington.

The Chippewas fell to the Orioles 115-71, but they were still satisfied with four wins. The team improved from their last loss against Ludington with three more wins and twenty more points.

Coach Van Fleet was very impressed with the result against Ludington.

“I think we did wonderfully well. Individual times are coming down and we're a little bit more competitive every week.” Van Fleet said.

The Ludington swimmers were in awe over the pool when they qualified for states in four event. Due the way the pool is built, it produces better times.

The Chippewas captured four first places, five seconds places, and seven third place finishes.

Senior Julia Maksym took two of the four first place finishes, both in long dis-tance events. Maksym captured the top spot in the 200 yard freestyle and the 500 yard freestyle. Maksym was over-joyed not only because of her win, but also because she managed to take 5 seconds off of her 500 yard freestyle time.

Sophomores Kayla Linke and Andrea Paine also managed to pull off a win for the Chippewas. Linke took a win in the 200 yard individual medley, and Paine fin-ished first in the 100 yard breast-stroke, her second breaststroke win against Ludington.

Diver Logan Randall got sec-ond place in the diving portion with a score of 167.35. Randall ended her diving season with a stellar performance and dove with no score lower than a 5.

Taking second place individually was Nathalie Kenny in the 100 yard freestyle, Kayla Linke in the 500 yard freestyle, Morgan Ott in the 100 yard butterfly.

Also the 400 yard freestyle relay with Ott, Kenny, Maksym, and

Linke took second for the Chippewas.

After finishing their dual meet season, the Chippewas are ready to head to Spring Lake next Friday for their Confer-ence Finals.

Schubert Sets New Course Record

Sports

By: Joe Frederick

Manistee High School Cross Country hosted their annual invitational Tues-day at MHS. Despite the soggy course and sicknesses MHS faired well with the girls taking fourth overall among nine schools and the boys taking sixth.

On the girls side sophomore Kelly Schubert set a new course record of a 20:17 and took first place. “She’s a real asset to the team this year” said Coach Eric Thuemmel to the News Advocate; “I just ran well” said Schubert when asked about her record.

On the boy’s side freshman Jarret Deisch took seventh running a 17:37 and holding his own against the older top runners from other schools. He also set a new freshmen record, beating Aaron Simoneau’s record by about one minute.

“He’s not running like a freshmen” said Thuemmel. Which is a good thing for the MHS Cross Country team.

The MHS Cross Country’s next competition is their Regional at Benzie October 30th. For more information on Cross Country check out mhs.honoredstudents.org or their blog at runmanistee.blogspot.com.

Swim Team Gets 4 First Place Finishes

By: Katie Dooley

Is the Dog man real? A lot of people in Manis-tee believe so. The legend of Dog man started as an April fool’s joke by Jack O’Malley, a radio personality. He was trying to play a joke on his listeners. He said that the Dog man would appear every seven years, and he simply picked seven because the year happened to be 1987.

Then the rhythm of the poem took shape about Dog man Jack O’Malley was writing took shape, and soon it was being played on the radio. That’s when the reports of sightings of Dog man started to come in. One man called into the radio station saying he had gotten chills from the song because he had actually seen something similar to what was being described in the song; a Dog man.

One report came from a cabin in Luther, Michigan. Sheriffs were called to the place, where there were teeth marks and cuts around the outside of the doors and windows, screens were ruined because they were in shreds, and they found large prints that they suspected came from a large dog.

By this time, the Dog man song had pretty much died on the radio; no one requested it anymore. But after news broke of this sudden sighting, people from all over the world were requesting to hear it, from countries as far as Japan and Germany, as well as all 50 states. The original cassette copy of the tape had been destroyed, so Steve Cook took it up and re-recorded the song. He sent it to Ron Rose Studios in Southfield, and ordered mass copies of the cassette. In the first week the 500 copies arrived, they sold out in 12 days.

Copies were then being sold everywhere, and they were selling out fast. Then, in Elkhorn, Wisconsin, a woman named Linda Godfrey, who was a reporter, had been hearing about stories from reliable sources about a half man half dog looking creature lurking around on a country lane named Bray Road, just outside of town. She was skeptical, but soon she had many reports coming in from anonymous sources. She then wrote her articles with a more serious tone to them.

Godfrey mad national news with her dubbed ‘Bray Road Beast.’ In spite of everything going on, someone sent Steve Cook a clipping of an Elkhorn newspaper and he contacted Godfrey. She said that that was the Bray Road Beast.

Truth, or just made up stories? I guess no one will ever find out the truth about the Dog man, or the Bray Road Beast in this case, but it’s Hallow-een, and you never know when something creepy may be lurking right in front of you.

Entertainment

Legend Of Dogman

Real vs. Fake By: Michael Bond

Over the years, starting in third grade, there has been speculation on the legend of the dog man. Every year, I see someone who is genuinely scared of the dog man. This is ridiculous.

The dog man was started by an April Fools Day poem set to music, but then was discovered to have strange parallels to an ancient Indian legend. French fur traders in 1794 told a story of a “loup garou.” Recently, there has been video documen-tation through footage, photos, and audio evi-dence. This is ridiculous. These things were defi-nitely faked. The technology today is so advanced that there is no problem with putting a digital dog man into the frame. That is what they do in movies like Saw, Halloween, and the countless other Halloween based movies that make it into the theaters for some reason.

One report of the dog man was when the sheriff of Luther, Michigan. He had bite marks on his door, and his screen was ripped to shreds. He topped the story off with a large print. This is ridicu-lous. It is really easy to make a print like that. He could easily make his dog do the dog marks and the print is also obviously faked.

Another story from Wisconsin where a reporter heard many stories about a strange creature that lurked around a county road. It was a fake. Defi-nitely fake. The stupidity of the entire dog man story kind of makes me laugh.

I just can't wait until the dog man movie comes out. When they finally make a mediocre film that involves a tragic story about a man and his love of dogs. I will go see it just to laugh at it. That seems like a movie that I would compare to the movie “The Orphan.” I went to see that movie with a few friends, and let me tell you this. It was funny. People are running out of ideas for gruesome movies where blood spurts everywhere, and they take such stupid measures as to make a thirty year old woman look like a nine year old girl. That is what Amer-ica has come to. Fully grown adults who are scared of a mythical dog man.

The dog man is supposedly a man sized half man, half dog. What an idiot idea. That is even more stupid than the Abominable Snowman or Sasquatch. Books have been published about the dog man.

It is stupid, there is no dog man. What are we in, third grade? All I can do is laugh when some little first grader comes up to me and says that he is afraid of the dog man, and then a sophomore in high school tells me precisely the same thing.

In my opinion, it's really funny to see the people talking and getting scared over a half man, half dog.

Vs.

By: Andrea Paine

I'm not the type to watch scary mov-ies. So when I got convinced to watch Paranormal Activity with my friends, I was pretty freaked out after. I couldn't sleep and ended up crawling in bed with my big sister.

Although Paranormal Activity was a low $15,000 budget movie, it has brought in over $63 million so far. It was shot in a seven day period by a video game designer in his own home. It originally was shown in 13 col-lege towns throughout the US to see its popu-larity. After much de-mand it was then added to theaters throughout the country. Paramount did a great job with not hyping PA up too much.

Paranormal Activity follows the haunt-ings of young San Diego couple Katie Featherston and Micah Sloat. Katie has been continually haunted by a polter-geist type creature throughout her life ever since she was eight years old. Desperate for answers to Katie's myste-rious follower, boyfriend Micah sets up a

camera to try and get footage.

The couple gets insane footage of these unworldly occurrences. The crea-ture doesn't move too much at the begin-ning of the movie, but as the movie pro-gresses so do the occurrences. Paranor-

mal Activity seems to drag on at the beg-ging, especially during the daytime scenes when no action takes place. Al-though these daytime scenes are quite boring, they do give you a sense of real-ism for the couple. These day scenes have you dying to see the real action that occurs when the couple goes to sleep.

For those who are looking for an action

packed movie beginning to end or aren't very patient, Paranormal Activity may not be your cup of tea. Although it does start to pick up toward the end when the occur-rences become completely insane. Be-cause of the time-coded surveillance, it

makes the story seem believable. It builds up suspense as you wait for something to happen during the night.The film has had comparison to the Blair Witch Project, and is said to have the same “found footage to give a patina of realism to the fanciful events” said Time magazine.

Paranormal Activity really had me fooled. I was convinced after watching it and was actu-ally shaking. I was scared by the movie, but others didn't seem as

convinced. Some reviews say that “much of Paranormal Activity is as exciting as the outtakes from a particularly dull episode of Big Brother.” Although these reviews aren't too impressed with PA, I sure was shaken by the movie. I liked the simplicity of the movie, and I think that's why it came off so scary. It's so different from all of today's loud thriller movies. The movie's silence makes it linger on for days.

Paranormal Activity

Entertainment

World Record Zombie Walk In GR By: Yoav Placencia

On Friday October 30th, Grand Rapids will attempt to take back the world record for world’s biggest zombie walk. Last year, GR attained such re-cord by having about 4,000 people walk the streets dressed up as zom-bies (destroying the previous record of 1,098). Though in July this year, Seattle decided to fight back and successively take the record with 4,227 zombies. After last year’s result, Grand Rapids is confident that they will regain the world record. This will be event manager’s last event of the year, Rob Bliss, and will try to get as many people together as possible, by going as far as to even sending thousands of invites all over the inter-net, such as Facebook. Bliss is also managing an enormous free outdoors electronic music fest right after thanks to the great positive feedback from last year’s fest. The event will begin at the Rosa Parks Circle in downtown Grand Rapids, around 8:00 p.m. and will then proceed to move on as a giant zombie horde throughout downtown Grand Rapids. In order to be counted as a zombie, one doesn’t really have to go all out. As said on Bliss’ event invite “white t-shirts with some ketchup = perfect.” Though plenty of people take advantage of the event and come close to zombie-movie material (imagine something like “28 Weeks Later”). The invite provides this link for those who wish to go all out, but not sure on where to start.

By: Nicole Noble

It was a dark gloomy night. People in the town were getting ready for the upcoming Halloween night and I was getting ready for some friends. I was planning on having a party, and it had to be a scary one. I got the best of the best decorations and had the per-fect costume. I had everything ready except for the food. I didn't want to have to keep food fresh for a long time so I wanted to get it the night before. I was on my way to Meijer and had a pocket full of cash, something I rarely had. A man pulled out in front of me suddenly and I slammed on the brakes to avoid hitting him and his black Mercedes. I knew who this man was, in fact the whole town knows who this man is. He is Dr. J. Smith. He is an anes-thesiologist at our hospital and makes about as much as I do in a year. Him and his snobby wife prance around town in their fancy cars and nice clothes. They own the largest house in town, which has been there for at least one hundred years. I've never actually been inside of it, but I hear it's as haunted as a graveyard. They don't seem to think so though, because they are still living there.

I arrived at Meijer just before eight o'clock and ran in through the now drizzly night. The store was packed with moms and dads that were late on costumes and getting candy to hand out. The check-out lines went on through at least half the store. I walked swiftly to the food section and grabbed what I needed. I went to the shortest line and waited not so patiently while the trainer cashier checked-out person after person.

After about fifteen minutes I was out the door and in my car. I sat for a moment and watched as rain poured down just outside my door. My old Chevy truck was cold and my heat was not working. I decided to leave and get home to my warm house and finish setting up. On my way home I noticed that people had started to got to bed and be ready for the exciting Halloween day. As I pulled into my driveway I noticed a sleek black car sitting in front of my garage. I knew who it was in an instance, the car was unmistakable. I got out of my car and walked over to the man sitting inside. The radio was very loud, but turned down as I came closer to the car.

“Hello Ms. Granger. How was your day to-day? Mine was good, except for almost getting rear-ended by an old Chevy truck,” said Mr. Smith.

“Excuse me, but if I recall, you pulled out in front of me. If you had waited one more min-ute you wouldn't be so troubled,” I said in defense.

“Well, I am very sorry for my mistake. I guess I did not realize I was wrong. Will you come over for some tea? I would like to repay you for my troubling mood.”

“Well, I should work on my party plans, but I guess a cup wouldn't hurt.” I said this in the most polite tone that I could. There was no way that I could turn down a chance to be able to enter their home and see for my self whether or not it is haunted.

“All right, I will meet you at my place then,” he said solemnly.

I walked back to my truck and started the engine. He managed to pull out around me and start off down the road. I followed behind and thought about what might be behind the doors of the Smith house.

I pulled in behind him and jumped out of my car excitedly. Mrs. Smith waited in the door-way and greeted me as I walked up the front porch stairs. She never said a word, but you could tell she wasn't very happy with her hus-band's choice to invite me over.

“You can put your coat in that closet just down the hall,” said Mr. Smith.

As I walked down the hall I kept my out for any ghosts or unusual things. Unfortunately I found nothing. I hung up my coat and went into the dining area to where the Smiths sat sipping tea. I took my seat silently and started sipping on my cup. No one seemed to want to say anything and so we sat in a peaceful si-lence.

All of a sudden there was aloud creak and a loud screech. I jumped out of my seat and looked at the silent couple. They looked at me with a puzzled look.

“Didn't you hear that? The loud screech and crash,” I asked frightened.

“What screech? We didn't hear a sound,” Mr. Smith said.

At first I thought that it was just my imagina-tion, but then I heard it again. I jumped out of my seat and as I was about to hit the floor Mrs. Smith grabbed me by the under arms and dragged me ferociously into the coat closet. She then looked at me with a confused look and hurried out. Instead of opening the door though she went right through it. It made no sense at all, until you put the pieces to-gether. The whole ghost story should not have been about the house, but about the people living in the house. As I looked around for a way out I realized that she had tied me up without me even knowing. There was a small door on the side of the small closet and I

pushed with my head to open it. I could not see into it, but I decided to take my chances. Instead of crawling into the dark space though I fell and started to scream myself. I did not know why or how I got into this mess, but it wasn't good.

I suddenly hit what felt like a cold cement floor. I was determined to get out of this house and get back to my safe warm home. As I struggled to crawl farther and farther into the darkness I no-ticed glowing lights around me. Disoriented from the hard landing, I realized that they were not lights, but eyes. I screamed a blood curdling scream and crawled faster than ever. Things started to rub up against me and moan as if in pain. I kept screaming until my voice could no longer produce a sound. As I kept crawling I noticed a small light up ahead. I thought that I must be in some type of dungeon. They must keep all of their visitors here. That gave me the creeps and I shivered violently.

The light grew nearer and I heard voices. As I was close enough to hear the conversation something stopped me in my tracks.

“Wait,don't go any further. They will hurt you if they find out you made it out of the closet,” said an unseen someone.

I decided to take my chances- which hadn't help so far- and find out who was speaking. I crawled ten more feet and peeked through the opening. There was a large man and a small woman. I could not see there faces, but it looked like the old woman was wearing some kind of hat. I felt as if I was in some kind of crazy scary movie, with the witches and huge zombies. I entered through the opening and tried to silently make my way around the room and to the open door. As I made my way by a crate the old witch woman looked my way and screamed something at the zombie man. She cam at me with a large knife looking thing and brought it down on me with a whoosh....

I woke up sweating and couldn't get that last picture out of my head. It sat there before my eyes as if I couldn't see my actual surroundings. I turned on my bedside light and looked out my window to try and concentrate on the present. As my eyes focused on the dark night outside the old witch woman came running up to my window and scratched at it with her long nasty nails until it seemed as it would fall apart. This was not a nightmare.

Entertainment

Nightmare Scare

10. Eraserhead – It doesn’t really have a point, but it’s like being stuck in a nightmare, with dinners that walk off the plate and deafen-ing silences.

9. The Exorcist – About a parent trying to save their child who is pos-sessed.

8. Halloween – About the killer Michael Myers; the movie follows him from when he was a kid and murders his sister to when he goes on killing.

7. Don’t Look Now – Two people go to Venice to try and forget the tragic accidental death of their child.

6. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre – Teens make a wrong turn to a sick family of killers.

5. Nightmare on Elm Street – Freddy Krueger returns with a venge-ance, killing the children of the parents who murdered him.

4. Suspiria – An American ballet student goes to Europe and gets terrorized by witches.

3. Night of the Living Dead – A group of kids are trapped in a farm house with flesh eating zombies.

2. Repulsion – About a woman’s decline into madness. She lives alone in an apartment.

1. Psycho – The main character is killed in the middle, and the movie is unsettling because it suggests that greatest evils can live in the nicest places.

Top Ten Scariest Movies

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By: Katie Dooley

The Chippewa Herald Team: Advisor: Mr. Joseph

Editor: Jenna Vincent

Writers:

-Andrea Paine

-Joe Frederick

-Katie Dooley

-Yoav Placencia

-Michael Bond

-Nicole Noble

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This 10 minute news program gives you a sense of what is going on it the world. Mr. Bennett is now showing CNN Student News in his World Studies classes in hopes of giving his students insight on world news. CNN Student News is available online at http://www.cnn.com/studentnews/ or it can be

downloaded as a Podcast for your iPod.

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Fast paced specialty coffee shop. Must be good with people, able to learn new skills, multi-tasking, enthusiastic & able to antici-pate the needs of guests, Flexible hours, based around your class schedule. Applica-tions at Goody’s Juice & Java, 343 River Street, Manistee. No phone calls please.

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Chippewa Herald 10-31-09

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