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Students from across the Cedar Val-ley have been hard at work this past year on the Teen Trust Board of Directors.

Teen Trust is a group of 26 high school students who work together in allocating $10,000 in grant money to non-profits in Black Hawk County. The Trustees begin the year learning about the grantmaking process and endow-ments. They then write and release a grant application that organizations can apply to on the Community Founda-tion’s website.

This year, 15 organizations applied. After much debating and compromis-ing, the board came to the unanimous decision to give seven of these non-profits a portion of the $10,000 they had to grant out.

Jenna Manders, a student at Wart-burg College, is the Teen Trust student director. Her role is to facilitate the ac-tions to the Trustees and do behind the scenes work so the board gets the most effective use of their time.

“The most positive thing about Teen Trust is the underlying goal. While we do have $10,000 to grant out each year, the teens have learned valuable skills that go far beyond this. The board brought together a group of 26 diverse teens that in the beginning cliqued off into their respective groups, whereas in the end they all got along to form a collective decision. The Trustees honed in on skills they will need for a lifetime, including decision making, teamwork, a greater knowledge of non-profits and the needs of a community,” Manders said.

Trustees on the board have gotten an inside look on how the grant process works. Through writing the applica-

tion and deliberating where to allocate the money, Teen Trust members have learned incredibly valuable skills.

“I think the members of Teen Trust have been greatly impacted by their involvement on the board. They have gained new friends and connections that could benefit them in the future. Their knowledge base has increased not only of non-profits and community needs, but some of the ins and outs of the grantmaking process and endow-ments. They have also gained skills in decision making, compromising, com-munication and teamwork,” Manders said.

Hanno Fenech, a senior, was a part of the 2012-2013 board.

“Teen Trust has provided all of us board members an opportunity to have on-the-ground, impactful experiences directly aiding our community and to learn more about philanthropy,” Fenech

said. Involvement on the board has also

allowed Trustees to learn just how many non-profit agencies are in the area.

“It’s opened my eyes to all of the non-profit charities that are present in the Cedar Valley. It’s been really cool to contribute to the well-being of the less fortunate in our community. Being involved directly with these non-profits has made me appreciate what I have,” senior Trustee Spencer Gray said.

The 2012-2013 board just wrapped up their last duties by conducting in-terviews for next year’s board this past week. Manders will continue to occupy her role as student director next year and hopes to make a few subtle changes in order to make better use of meeting times. Board members for 2013-2014 year will be announced soon.

2013 Grant Recipients

North East Iowa Food Bank$1,500

North Star Community Services$2,000

ASPIRE Therapeutic Riding Program$1,500

Operation Threshold$1,000

Allen Memorial Hospital (Young Parents Together)$1,000

Cedar Valley Preschool and Child Care Center$1,000

The Job Foundation$2,000

Junior Hannah Ackerman has competed in the National History Day District Competi-tion for six years in a row and re-cently was once again selected to go to the state competition in Des Moines. “It’s an amaz-ing opportunity to be selected. I’ve been going for six years, so I’m not as excited as I was the first time, but it’s definitely an honor,” Ackerman said.

Ackerman has participated and enjoyed history for a long time. “I think elementary school was when she first got into the National History Day competi-

tions, but she’s always really been into history from when I can first remember. She has a real interest in historical figures and events. She still does,” Hannah Ackerman’s mother, Margaret Ackerman said.

These historical competi-tions are a great way not only to teach history but to learn it. “I love putting on perfor-mances, but I also love watch-ing others. People get a better understanding of something when it’s presented to them rather than taught in a book or a classroom,” Ackerman said.

To be in a historical com-petition requires a lot of work. “You need to begin by re-searching a topic and creating a script for yourself. After this, you’ll have to find props, and then you need to practice your script and memorize it,” Acker-man said.

There are many different ways to enter these contests. “Hannah joined through school, but you can also enter outside of school, which is something she’s had to do too,” Margaret Ackerman said.

These performances not Junior Hannah Ackerman

Members of Teen Trust help by delivering a grant of $2,000 to North Star Community Services.

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only help entrants learn history and teach history, but they also bring remembrance to people who lived through the history. “Sometimes Hannah performs for veteran events. It’s really touching to see her do her per-formances for them and see their reactions to these perfor-mances. It’s just really nice of her to bring remembrance and appreciation for these veter-ans,” Margaret Ackerman said.

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Last Friday, May 10, the annual blood drive collected 79 units of blood from the 109 donors that registered from the 128 that prescheduled.

Although the numbers are down from last year’s 94 units and the year before’s 111, the blood donated at this year’s drive will still help or even save 237 hospital patients. “It went great, the students and staff are awesome to work with each and every year. We ap-preciate this ‘partnership in saving lives together’ every May to help with our summer blood supply,” Pam Wolter, Territory Representative for Lifeserve Blood, said.

This year saw both an abundance of first time donors and students who have long been involved with the blood drive. “I wanted to be involved because I’ve taken an active role since sopho-more year with student senate and I feel all students should want to save lives, which is what we’re doing here,” senior Hanno Fenech said.

There will always be people that need blood and blood drives are a good way to collect donations and save a lot of people. “They’re always in need of blood. You never know when you’ll need blood or your loved ones will need blood. One pint of blood saves three lives. If we have at least 100 students, it would save 300 lives,” counselor Erin Gardner said.

“Blood donation is a wonderful act

Summertime brings heat, green scenery, sleeping in and for some CFHS world language stu-dents, a trip to France.

“I’m very excited to go to a different country and get the full cultural experience. It’ll be nice to use the language I’ve practiced for so long and use it in real life situations. It’ll be a good time with friends, and I’ll be able to meet new people,” sophomore Ben Dagit said.

This trip also includes staying at a host family’s home for most of the time.

“Interacting with the host fam-ily will be a huge learning experi-ence, because basically, you’ll be talking to people you’ve never met in a language you’ve only had around two years to learn,” Dagit said.

Along with meeting people from different cultural back-grounds, there are many other learning experiences when it comes to France.

“A large part of the French cul-ture is the food. You’ll be able to experience dining and eating at restaurants where different food than American food is served. It’ll be interesting to compare France to America,” Dagit said.

However, there are also some challenges to this trip.

“We have to travel to three different cities in three different nights, staying in three different hotels with huge bags and suit-cases. With a decent group of Americans, we’ll definitely stick out as tourists. Along with this, fitting everybody on the Metro will be hard to do. There’s also a language barrier,” French teacher Brittan Lawrence said.

But the positives far outweigh the negatives.

“On the last night in Paris, we’re all going to go on a boat ride and have dinner at a fondue restaurant. It’ll be fun to reconnect after the host families and see how far we’ve come with learn-ing about the culture,” Lawrence said.

As Lawrence said, learning about different cultures is a great experience.

“I would recommend this trip to everyone. Everyone needs to encounter these experiences in life and realize that there’s a world out there besides our own with di-versity, culture and good people,” Dagit said.

A new exhibit entitled The White Rose at the Grout Museum in Waterloo focuses on leadership, determination and above all, human morals.

In the 1940s during World War II, Adolf Hitler reigned over Germany. He installed fear throughout every German citizen and corrupt power throughout every German law. It was in Munich, Germany, at Munich University that a group of German students gathered to-gether and called themselves the White Rose. This group of students, not much older than CFHS students, began to distribute flyers that criticized Hitler and his ideals, a very dangerous thing to do back then. Eventually they were caught and beheaded, but the morals of this group still remain. What they did was something that not many could ever do, and for this bravery, they shaped history, as this fascinating exhibit shows.

“The saddening thing about this was that these were young people were not much older than a lot of students at CFHS when they were executed. What happened during Hitler is still happen-ing today in all parts of the world. If someone speaks against the govern-ment, they’re killed. I think that many people need to realize that we are ex-tremely privileged to be in a free society where we can speak our own opinion.

of giving. Blood cannot be manufac-tured and can only be provided by a volunteer willing to save lives with us in this way. One out of every seven hospital patients entering a hospital need blood

to live. Nationally, every two seconds someone needs blood,” Wolter said.

People today still die from doing so,” German teacher Gunda Brost said.

Beyond the social importance, the dramatic story is compelling as well.

“A few weeks ago, we watched the movie, ‘The White Rose’ in German class, and it was really touching and in-triguing. I felt like the exhibit gave me the same emotions as the movie did. The exhibit introduces the members of the White Rose and makes you realize that these were real people that really stood up to their dictator and really got executed for it. You hear about these things in the news and in fictional mov-ies, but to see what these people were

like and what they went through was pretty shock-ing,” sopho-more Drew S t e n s l a n d said.

The White Rose is also very impor-tant to Ger-man culture

and history.“This ex-

hibit is very im-portant to Ger-

man culture because it makes people realize that ordinary Germans were not Nazis. In fact, a lot of German citizens opposed but were too scared to do anything about it,” Brost said.

Along with all of these things, there is also another additional plus to visiting this exhibit.

“If you’re taking German at the high school and you visit this exhibit, it not only will shock you and bring you a lot of realization, but you also get extra credit,” Stensland said.

French students prepare for trip

Grout Museum features teen heroes

Blood drive yields 79 units

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Junior Noah Miller was one of the 109 CFHS donors who turned out for the blood drive on Friday, May 10 in the choir room. Though numbers were down a bit from last year’s totals, 79 units came in.

The Grout Museum is currently hosting an exhibit fea-turing the heroic efforts of German teens who resisted Adolf Hitler in the 1940s.

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The Tiger Hi-Line is a weekly publication of the journalism classes at Cedar Falls High School, 1015 Division Street, Cedar Falls, Iowa 50613. Our website is www.hiline.cfschools.org. The Hi-Line is distributed to CFHS students on Tuesdays to read during their RCTs fourth period.

Columns and letters do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Hi-Line staff or Cedar Falls Schools. The Hi-Line editorial is presented weekly in the editorial labeled Our View, and it is the view of the major-ity of the editors listed below.

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Iowa residents and the environment are receiving a well-needed boost thanks to the federal tax credit for wind energy. MidAmerican Energy, one of the nation’s largest producers of renewable energy, recently announced a $1.9 billion project that will increase total wind capacity to 3,300 megawatts, up from 1,050 now. The growth is made possible solely by the tax credit.

Passed in January, the tax credit provides almost 6,000 jobs for Iowans constructing and maintaining wind turbines. Wind energy has been hailed by many as a renewable source of energy that is more environmentally friendly than other sources such as coal or natural gas.

Iowa currently has 14 wind farms and over 1,200 turbines spread across the state. Most turbines tend to be built in the western part of Iowa due to the region’s windy tenden-cies. The tax credit was highly opposed by 2012 presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who argued that it would create an unfair advantage for wind farms over the oil industry. Obama supported the tax credit along with Sen. Chuck Grassley, Sen. Tom Harkin and Gov. Terry Branstad, citing job creation.

Iowa’s growth will be helped by this credit, along with be-coming a more energy sustainable state. The tax credit will support many Iowa families and the environment we live in.

Last year at this time, the renewal of the federal tax credit for wind energy was in doubt as voters weighed presidential candidates. Many of the wind turbine companies had fro-zen or even cut back on production as they waited to see what the outcome of the election would be. Iowans who had graduated from community colleges with degrees in working with wind energy technology also sat waiting to see whether their investments in training for jobs in helping Iowa lead the nation in clean energy would move forward or be placed on hold. At least for this $1.9 million MidAmerican investment, they now know, thanks to the one-year tax credit extension.

But more Iowa graduates are waiting to see just how seri-ous this state is about a long term investment in wind energy. They are waiting to see whether lawmakers can make the same long term commitments to clean energy as they have to other energies such as petroleum, even though those companies are the richest companies in the history of the world. As the class of 2013 walks across the stage in a couple weeks, let’s ensure them that Iowa is committed to making green jobs available to them in the future by renewing the federal tax credit for the long term.

Let’s invest in green jobs for graduates of 2013

Families around the world are starving, and the United States is very generous, spend-ing about $1.4 billion a year to help countries fighting pov-erty and starvation. Farmers grow crops in America and ship them to countries in need. Obama is taking a hard stance on the issue, proposing to end the way in which we give food aid, but continuing to contrib-ute in more beneficial ways. The president’s proposal would reach 17 million more people each year with food and sup-port their economies by pro-moting and buying from local farmers.

According to supporters of the current food aid opera-tions, the system is streamlined and beneficial to recipients. Advocate groups in the United States have argued that the current system creates U.S. jobs and helps the economy. How-ever, the process seems like it would be more costly and less favorable for recipients in the long run. The focus should be on promoting self-sustainability to farmers in aided countries, not solely promoting the U.S. economy. Farmers should be taught how to raise their own food and feed their families,

stimulat-ing their o w n e c o n o -mies and lifting the veil of poverty. Focusing on Amer-ican agri-c u l t u r e is selfish when discussing the needs of countries with widespread deaths due to starvation.

Shipping costs are an added factor as well as a dependency on America’s agricultural busi-nesses. Oxfam International, a worldwide organization dedi-cated to eradicating poverty, has said that food aid reform is necessary. According to the group, a large percentage of aid is spent on shipping costs, wiping out a large chunk of money that could be used in other ways to help hungry fam-ilies. Gawain Kripke, director of policy and research for Oxfam, was quoted in the New York Times, saying, “The current food aid program is not mission driven or about poor people. It’s about moving product.” The process of shipping goods

overseas often taking several months, pre-vents families from getting fresh, healthy foods when they need them.

Agriculture lobby groups prevented sim-ilar measures

to Obama’s from taking place in previous administrations. President Bush tried to set con-gruous plans in motion but was heavily opposed by agribusi-ness and shipping groups, pre-venting many hungry families from getting food.

The current food aid system is inadequate and needs to be reformed. Taxpayer money would be better spent, along with promoting economic freedom and perseverance in hungry countries. Obama’s plan will bring many families the necessary nutrients to sur-vive and leave them with liveli-hoods that are likely to survive for many generations with the proper resources. It isn’t a mat-ter of business; it’s a matter of human lives.

I wholeheartedly agree with the inspiring statement: “Life moves pretty fast, if you don’t look around once in awhile, you could miss it.” After all, what high school student doesn’t beam at the very reference to that line from the timeless high school ‘80s movie about three best friends playing hooky at the end of their senior year?

It’s no secret that Cedar Falls High School seniors set aside one special day every year to designate as “Senior Skip Day.”

Believe me, I get it. There are so many reasons to cele-brate this classic event: it’s the last hurrah, “Sophomore Skip Day” doesn’t have the same ring to it and, of course, it’s tradition.

Now, fellow seniors, by the time this prints, this day will have already happened and I sincerely hope you all had a great time. However, I would like to address the senior skip-pers of the future so that they can make an informed decision about the pros and cons of se-nior skip day.

I will start with the pro’s; that way you can skip the end if you think you’ll want to throw tomatoes at me. For start-ers, we only have a matter of days left as seniors, and other than some possible de-tention time, you really don’t have that much to lose. Classes are coming to a close, and you won’t really have that much to make up, right? Besides who wouldn’t want to go to the beach and just hang with friends and have one last three-day weekend of high school? If you’re lucky, you could even get a tan. As an added bonus, the rest of us have better park-ing in the morning.

The whole thing is pretty harmless, but there are a few down sides to everyone skip-ping all at once. For one thing, the teachers all know what’s up. In the middle of May, it’s pretty

o b v i o u s that the B u b o n i c p l a g u e didn’t hit half the s e n i o r class. In the past, s o m e t e a c h e r s even of-fer extra

credit or let students in on ex-tra information who are pres-ent for class on skip day. Not to mention, depending on your reputation with some of your teachers, you could earn brownie points for actually be-ing at school and going against the crowd.

Which brings me to my last point, you don’t have to do senior skip day. The amount of seniors who actually skip are in the minority. Even if they were the majority, it’s OK to break free from the majority if you aren’t into the skipping festivi-ties ... or if you have an AP test. It’s your call. How do you want to be remembered?

HALL By Online Editor Martha

Food assistance reform needed

Skipping ruins reputation

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After a year of waiting, business teacher Mike Hansel welcomed a new baby boy into his and his wife’s home. They named the little one-year-old boy Levi, and he was adopted from China.

The desire to adopt all started when the Hansels had troubles having children. “We initially decided to adopt after losing two boys. They were born premature 17 and 19 weeks. We decided to adopt internationally because of the U.S. adoption laws. In the U.S. a mother has up to three days to change her mind. We have known some couples that were at the hospital, spent time with the baby and named it, only to have the mother change her mind at the last minute of the last day. We did not want to potentially go through that,” Hansel said.

After the year of wait-ing, Levi was theirs to bring home. “We started the adop-tion process over a year ago. We contacted Holt Adoption Agency and began the initial paperwork to start the adop-tion process. The process moves slowly to ensure the potential parents are ready

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to adopt a child from another country. In addition, the paper work must be approved by our government and in our case, the Chinese government, and this takes a lot of time,” Han-sel said.

The Hansels are no strang-ers to adoption as they have adopted a daughter in the past. “Our daughter Faith is from Guatemala, but that coun-try has been closed because it is not Hague compliant. This is an international adoption treaty. Since that country was closed, we selected China.

We had previously t h o u g h t about Chi-na the first time and decided it best fit our situation,” H a n s e l said.

H a n -sel and his wife are a part of a p r o g r a m for chil-dren with health is-

sues. That is how they are matched up with a child. “As a result, Levi was diagnosed with a heart murmur, which could close on its own and not require any surgery. Levi was matched with us based on the information we provided Holt. We completed a checklist of health issues we were com-fortable with and indicated we would take either a boy or a girl. Levi was abandoned at a bus stop and found on April 3. It is estimated that he was born on March 30. He spent two to three weeks at the hos-

pital and then was transferred to the orphanage.”

The family just returned from China with their new son. Levi is quickly adjusting to his new family and home. “Levi is adapting great. He had his check-up when we got back, and they did not hear any is-sues with his heart. He is eating well, but not sleeping the best at night yet. We are 13 hours behind China, and I think he is still getting his clock set right. Because he was in an orphan-age, he is behind on his motor skill development. He is one but is not crawling or walking yet and does not feed himself. However, he has made leaps and bounds in this area, and we suspect he will catch up quickly. He is a happy baby boy, and Faith loves being a big sister,” Hansel said.

“The whole experience has been very rewarding, edu-cational and exhausting. We spent three weeks in China. The culture was very different, but the people were very kind and helpful to us at all times,” Hansel said.

For her whole life, senior Nicole Jeffrey, has known she was adopted. She always felt the desire to know who her biological family was. Finally, this year, she was able to find her biological family through Facebook. Jeffrey has already started to grow close to her new found family.

Jeffrey was told she was adopted at a very young age. Even though she isn’t related by blood, she feels especially close with her adoptive fam-ily. “It's never made me feel disconnected with my adop-tive family or any less loved by them. I've just always been cu-rious of my biological family,” Jeffrey said.

Using a few different re-sources, Jeffrey was able to find her biological family. She searched their names on Fa-cebook and there they were. “I went through my adoption

papers and found the names of my biological relatives and cities they lived in. I searched their names and locations and found my older biological brother first who wasn't put up for adoption. Through him I found my biological mom, dad

and several aunts and uncles. I found my y o u n g e r b i o l o g i -cal sister t h r o u g h the adop-tion agen-cy since she was also put up for adop-tion,” Jef-frey said.

F i n d -ing her biological

family has impacted Jeffrey deeply. “It was a life changing moment for me to find my bio-logical family and see pictures of them. For the first time in my life I found out who I look like in my biological family,” Jeffrey said.

When Jeffrey found her younger sister, she was shocked by the resemblance between them. “ I've never had that sense of similarity in my adoptive family since I look nothing like them, and it was incredible to see how similar I am to my biological siblings and especially my little sister,” Jeffrey said.

Reunited with her new family, Jeffrey can’t wait for the things to come. “I'm so happy I finally found them be-cause I've always wondered about who they were as indi-viduals and what they looked like. I feel as if I've opened a door into a life I never really knew I had. This summer I get to meet them in person and I cannot wait,” Jeffrey said.

Adopted senior finds her biological family

Hansel adopts new child from China

Business teacher Mike Hansel, his wife and daughter Faith recently returned from China with their adopted son, Levi.

Senior Nicole Jeffrey is with her adoptive parents Diane and Jim Jeffrey. She plans to meet her biological sister, Morgan, this summer.

I feel as if I’ve opened a door into a life I never really knew I had.

The whole expe-rience has been very rewarding, educational and exhausting.

—Mike HanselBusiness Teacher

—Nicole JeffreyCFHS Senior

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Gardeners’ plants and curiousity grow

HALL By Online Editor Martha

After 14 years of teaching and 24 years of nursing, special education teacher Susan Croatt will retire after this year. Although this is the only year she has taught at CFHS, she will leave a positive mark on the school. “She made a huge impact in a very short amount of time,” Student Services Coordinator Dr. Tracy Johns said.

Croatt plans to use her retirement to spend time taking care of her young granddaughter. “I’m going to be a granny nanny. I’m going to stay home and care for my six-month-old grand-daughter,” Croatt said.

“I greatly appreciate her contribu-tion and know that she’ll enjoy her time with her new grandchild,” Principal Dr. Rich Powers said.

Although she will no longer teach at a school, Croatt plans to redirect her educational skills to further her grand-daughter’s development. “Just because you retire doesn’t mean you stop teach-ing because I plan to read a lot of books with my granddaughter, work on physi-cal activities, travel around the commu-nity and just enjoy her,” Croatt said. “I have really enjoyed my time here. The students are great and the staff and ad-ministration have been very supportive and friendly,” Croatt said.

Before this year, Croatt taught for one year at Price Lab and 12 years at New Hampton High School. “I was a special education teacher at the high school in New Hampton and then at Price Lab I was a middle school special education teacher,” Croatt said.

She believes her interest in teach-ing special education stemmed from her nursing career. “I was working as a nurse in a facility that served people with disabilities and the entire staff had to do programming and I really enjoyed that aspect of the work,” Croatt said.

“We were working on things like counting money, personal care, feeding themselves and some of the residents

Resource teacher Susan Croatt

with more severe disabilities had pro-grams that involved making eye con-tact, putting their heads up and other skills like that,” Croatt said.

Croatt finds getting to know the students is an important part of teach-ing. “I think it’s important that teachers get to know their students and develop relationships with their students. If the student is comfortable with you, you can get them to do about anything,” Croatt said.

“We will greatly miss her kindness and thoughtful approach with stu-dents,” Powers said.

“The thing I’m going to miss the most is working with the students. I’m going to miss their humor and their per-spective on life,” Croatt said. “This has been a great teaching experience for me. I know I’m going to miss the staff and students,” Croatt said.

Although no one could truly replace Croatt, someone else does need to fill the job. “We’re looking for Sue Croatt. No, we’re looking for someone who has a passion with working with kids, we’re looking for someone who has expertise and someone who is excited to join the team at Cedar Falls High School,” Johns said. They hope to find a replace-ment in the next two to three weeks.

Spending retirement with grandchild,Croatt promises to continuing teaching

True teacher life 14 years of teaching•

24 years of nursing•

taught at Cedar Falls •High School

for one year

taught at Malcolm •Price Lab for one year

taught at New Hamp-•ton High School for 12 years

new career plan: •becoming a “granny nanny”

Walking into the green-house on a Tuesday afternoon, students can be seen inspect-ing delicate buds emerging. This isn’t just a biology project, however. Planting seeds and gardening can seem like a part time job, but for members of the gardening club, the payoff is worth it.

Located in the greenhouse inside the science offices, the warm, sunny space houses many plants, providing the per-fect place to germinate. Fresh scents and green stems make it a welcoming environment for all.

The gardening club has un-officially been a part of the high school for about three years, but last year was the first time it attracted large scale student involvement, according to biol-ogy teacher Scott Bohlmann. Over twice as many plants have been grown this year compared to years in the past.

During a typical meeting, students check in on their

plants’ growth. If the plants have germinated, they are moved to larger containers to sell in the future. Students work to water and replant the plants if necessary. Clean up is also a big part, since soil is a welcomed factor in the green-house. The greenhouse is open throughout the day and stu-dents often come in to check on their plants during their free periods.

Flowering plants have been started, but the majority of the plants are vegetables like to-matoes, peas, lettuce, peppers and beans. The club’s advisers — teachers Susan Considine, Ethan Weichmann and Bohl-mann hope to sell remaining plants at the end of the year. Plants that are not sold will most likely be cared for over the summer by the teachers.

Anyone interested in gar-dening and cultivating plants is welcome to join the club. Pri-mary meetings are on Tuesdays after school, but it could take

some time to see results. “It is important to realize that the process requires some commitment as the plants don’t mature overnight,” Bohlmann said.

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The greenhouse, located inthescienceoffices,isgrowing space for many different kinds of plants.

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Most CF students spend their lunch shifts in the cafeteria or enjoying lunch releases. Certain weeks of the year, however, Gayle Bruene’s fourth hour food service students get to take their class … and sometimes eat too. Stu-dents taking the class get the hands on, real-world experience of running a fourth hour restaurant and delivering the food to some students and staff who eat C shift lunch.

Before the restaurants take place, weeks of preparation occur. Senior and food enthusiast Cassie McCurdy spent quality time with her group planning a restaurant on their scheduled week. “We’ve been planning for it a week or two. We send this week out tomorrow,” McCurdy said, “On Friday before we hand it out we give order sheets out to some people and we hand it out by

Monday.”Along with the real world experi-

ence and careful planning, mistakes do happen, and students get the chance to learn how to recover from mishaps. “If we don’t order what we need or if the person who types the recipe doesn’t type it right, we have to accommodate for that, so we don’t make that mistake the next time,” senior Nique Tredwell said.

McCurdy agreed that unexpected mistakes happen on occasion. “It’s things you can’t expect, like things go wrong that you can’t help. Sometimes your preparedness isn’t at the level that you thought it was,” McCurdy said.

Bruene is fond of the hands on experience the restaurants give the students. “It gives them real life expe-rience; they’re running their own mini-

restaurant,” Bruene said. The profits from the restaurants go

toward ingredients for the next res-taurant cycle. “It gets paid for out of our profits, but if you are in Foods I or Foods II, then we’re allotted so much per student, and that’s what we’re given to live within our budget, and it usually works out pretty good. We’re not hav-ing steak and lobster dinner. We have to be frugal,” Bruene said.

Students often get creative with the recipes that they are given. “For all our recipes, anything we’ve gotten, I’ve changed. I add spices or add some cheese,” McCurdy said.

For McCurdy, cooking has been a lifelong passion. “I’ve been interest-ed forever. Ever since I was little I’ve made cookies with my grandma, cake at home, stuff like that,” McCurdy said.

Doing the restaurant labs gives students like McCurdy the chance to see what it’s like to use their passions in a career situation. “It’s really fun. It’s an exciting thing. It’s a good experience. You don’t always get the experience of being in charge and stuff, so it’s different,” Mc-Curdy said. The perks of the experience are, of course, as equally rewarding as the leftovers. “The restaurant is going to be tomorrow, and then Friday we’ll have extra food and we’ll eat it. All the extra food that we didn’t use to make the recipes we can make whatever we want. Sometimes we’ll make macaroni. Sometimes we make sandwiches,” Mc-Curdy said.

Foods students will be doing a final restaurant the week of May 13.

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Restaurant Creation Students cook up their own step-by-step recipes

Photos by Martha Hall

HARWOOD By Staff Writer Amanda

Seniors Nique Tredwell and Cassie McCurdy are busy gathering ingredi-ents, combining them, cooking their masterpieces and cleaning up in order to pull off a successful restaurant in their foods class.

Tuesday, May 14, 2013HI-LINETiger

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CAPTURED7Statement Pieces Students from the art

department showcase their greatest pieces at the Hearst Center for the Arts. The exhibit is free to the public.

(From left, traveling clockwise) senior Aus-tin Stiers has his ce-ramic bowl and mugs displayed. Next is junior Jenna McRae’s painting piece of the face. Junior Laurel Smeins has a picture from photography on display. Junior Lara Hetherton’s paintings are from the “series of threes” assignment. Senior Dallas Deery supports the peace sign. Junior Lauren Weinert made the displayed bracelet in jewelery class.

Anna Love Photos

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SPORTS8Athlete

Weekofthe

How did you keep calm on your way to shooting the recent 77?

At the turn, I didn’t look at the scores. I didn’t want to know where everyone else was at. I was focused on my game.

How does this year’s team compare to last years playoff team?

We all have improved from last season; however, we don’t have as much depth this year. Since we’re all se-niors, we know this is our last shot, and we want to finish with a win.

What are your plans for golf after CF?

I am attending the Uni-versity of Northern Iowa and haven’t decided if I will be golfing.

TigersActionin

Women’s GolfNext up: Regionals on May

20 at TBD at TBDWomen’s Track & FieldNext up: State on May 16

at TBAMen’s Track & Field

Next up: State on May 16 at TBA

Women’s TennisNext up: Cedar Rapids Prairie

on May 16 at Prairie at 9 a.m. Women’s Soccer

Next up: Cedar Rapids Kennedy on May 16 at home at

6:45 p.m.Men’s Soccer

Next up: Cedar Rapids Ken-nedy on May 16 at Kennedy at

7 p.m.Baseball

Next up: TBD on May 20 at Riverfront at 5:30 p.m.

SoftballNext up: Waterloo East on

May 21 at home at 5:30 p.m.

HyltonSports Editor Jared

Megan Brewer Womens Golf

Soccer Shoot OutThe men’s soccer team triumphed over Dubuque Senior on May 3 at home, 4-1. At top is senior Luke Heindl. At right are senior Jackson Nichols and sophomore Blake Love celebrating a late goal. At far right is junior Ahmad Shehata. Below left is senior Blayne Kramer, and below right is senior Raud Kashef.

Anna Love Photos