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International fair celebrates diversityHarrisonburg High School • 1001 Garbers Church Road • Harrisonburg, VA 22801 • 540.433.2651 • Volume XIC • Issue 3• October 26, 2012

Students explore options for futureat JMU college fair

See COLLEGE FAIR on page A2

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See DIVERSITY on page A2

B10: Apple picking funA10: Spirit week festivites

Coming Up Updated sports scores for all seasonal sports an intramurals

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Advertising forms and information Breaking news from school community Video footage of sports Variety of reviews and blogs Poll of the week Picture of the day

Fall sports postseason coverage American education week occurs Election season reviewed. What do our students think?

Musical auditions kick off. What are our student actors doing to prepare?

Debate team trying to defend state championship.

Winter sports previews: indoor track, swimming, basketball, and more.

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Students participate in first club days The number and variety of clubs is higher than ever at HHS. Learn more about them here. B1

Campaign VolunteeringAs election season nears, students participate in canvassing and calling to support their candidates of choice A3

See ONE ACT on page A2

HONORING OUR HERITAGE. Senior Sophie Jeon folds origami birds in a demonstration at the International Festival in Hil-lendale Park. The HHS Key Club volunteered at the event, which celebrated the diversity of the Harrisonburg community.

Mia KarrManaging editor

Marching band raises money through performance at SVMI

One act, “Elephant’s Graveyard” prepares for competitions

It’s no secret that high school students don’t have much extra time. Key Club mem-bers who volunteered at Harrisonburg’s 15th Annual International Festival on Saturday, Sept 29, sacrificed their few precious free hours in order to give back to the community. According to Key Club sponsor, Maurizio An-tonnicola, this is not the first time the club has helped with the event.

“They asked for our help. [Helping is] what we do,” Antonnicola said. The forty-plus HHS students who participated volunteered in shifts during the festival, which lasted from noon to 6 p.m. They helped vendors open up stalls, assisted attendees, and directed traffic at the entrance to Hillandale park, where the event was held. The Key Club joined other service groups in the community.

Key Club co-president, senior Premal Pa

Every year in October, JMU hosts col-lege night in their convocation center. Colleges from 14 different states come to present their school to the masses of peo-ple who crowd the room. Community col-lege and university booths are set up right beside military and trade school tables.

This year, it was on Oct. 4, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., and JMU housed represen-tatives from 100 colleges. Juniors and se-niors from all over the district came with their parents to get brochures and ask questions to the stationed representatives.

Some students, like senior Mariah Johnson, came with characteristics for their ideal college already in mind.

“I want to go to a college that has a lot of diversity, is close but not too close, and has good athletic teams,” Johnson said.

College representatives had the same idea as Johnson, already having a particu-lar student body type in mind.

“We want competitive students who have taken college prep work, are active in their school and community, and have good SAT scores,” George Mason Universi-ty representative Veronica Wainman said.

Many students came to college night with their sights already set on certain schools, but others entered blindly and

The circus is coming to town. For the one act play’s district competi-

tion on Oct. 20, the cast will be perform-ing Elephant’s Graveyard, a play based on a true story. The story is centered around inhabitants of Erwin, a tiny town in Ten-nessee, and the events which occur when a traveling circus arrives in 1916. After the death of a townsperson, which involves the circus elephant, the townspeople ulti-mately decide to hang the elephant from an industrial crane.

The play is a narrative, with the actors taking turns telling the story. Characters include a ringmaster, played by senior Paul Hairston, a railroad engineer, played by senior Sam St. Ours, and a strongman, played by junior Luke Gibson.

Senior Samantha Heitsch plays the role of elephant trainer.

“The elephant is actually the focal charHOLD ME BACK. One act play cast members Paul Hairston, Luke Gibson and Samantha Heitsch perform during a dress rehearsal for the district competition.

PHOTO BY SUKRITI ADHIKARI

4 year schools: 39%2 year schools: 35%

Military: 2%Workforce: 20%

Other: 4%

Mark DudaEditor-in-chief

B7: Cross country teams and other fall sports look to excel in postseason competition.

The prospect of home field advantage, where the home team tends to play bet-ter, is common in sports. But what about in marching band? On Saturday, Sept. 29, the Marching Blue Streaks co-hosted the Shenandoah Valley Marching Invitational, along with Broadway High School.

The invitational, commonly known as SVMI, drew schools from around the re-gion and state. It served as a fundraiser of sorts as well, with the money from en-trance fees, tickets, and concessions going to the host bands.

The band’s performance this year is based around the Japanese drum, or “taiko”. Although the performance isn’t completely refined yet, the band members

AT ATTENTION. Band members, led by senior drum major Alex Hunter-Nickels, per-form at the Millbrook Showcase on Sept. 22. They finished third out of eight bands.

PHOTO BY GINA MUAN

See SVMI on page A2

SAT PREP CLASS TO BE TAUGHTSAT prep will be given Sept 17- Oct 22 or Sept 19- Oct 24 through Blue Ridge Community College. Students will need “The Official SAT Study Guide”, notebooks and pencils. Both prep sessions cost $150 each. Regis-ter now by calling 540-453-2215.

GOV SCHOOL OPEN HOUSE TO BE HELDOn Nov 15, from 6-7 p.m., the Mas-sanutten Regional Governor’s School will be hosting a fall open house for any students who are thinking about attending in the future. For more in-formation, visit the Counseling Cen-ter.

RED SEA GEAR AVAILABLERed Sea T-shirts and sweatshirts are available in room 444. T-shirts are $10 and sweatshirts are $20. New this year is the embroidered Red Sea hoodie. Hoodies are $10.

CLASS WARS GOING STRONGClass Wars have begun. Students will receive tokens for attending different events. Drop off your tokens in your class jar located in room 444.

END OF FIRST NINE WEEKSThe end of the first grading period is Oct. 26. Make sure all assignments are completed and turned in today.

TEACHER WORK DAYSchools will be closed on Oct 29 for teacher work day. At the end of each 9-weeks, there will be a teacher work day.

VTA THEATER COMPETITIONThe HHS One Act will be competit-ing at the Reston Competition Oct 26 through Oct 28. Go out and support your Stage Streaks.

YEARBOOK RECEIVES AWARDThe HHS yearbook received the Col. Savedge award. The award is given to a school that has maintained a gold medalist rating for 6 out of 7 consec-utive years.

FINAL MARCHING BAND COMPETITIONThe Marching Blue Streak Band will be competiting at the VBODA state assessment Oct 27. They will be per-forming to maintain the previous year’s rating of superior.

THANKSGIVING BREAKThanksgiving is almost here. Thanks-giving break will be Nov 21- 23. There will not be an early release the day be-fore break begins.

PARENT/STUDENT PORTALThe new grade portal is now up and running. Parents should have re-ceived the registration code in the mail. Contact Guidance if you have any questions. Students can access their grades using their lunch number as their username and their regular MAC username as their password.

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Brenna CowardinStyle editor

Garbers Church checkpoints in full force

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International Festival thriving One Act gears up for performances

Practically since the beginning of school, students have seen a police car sitting next to the speed limit sign right before the school zone while coming to school. Officer Sinclair, the in-school re-source officer, was concerned by students speeding coming to and from school.

“The first couple days of school, I just noticed kids speeding while coming to school and speeding out of the parking lot at the end of the day,” Sinclair said.

“We saw a need for more police pres-ence on Garbers Church Road at those cer-tain times of the day,” Sinclair said.

The consequences for carrying extra passengers, speeding or texting while driv-ing have remained the same, but the extra police in the vicinity should discourage students from disobeying common traffic laws. Because Garbers Church Road is adja-cent to the school, Officer Sinclair is espe-cially wary of young drivers carrying more passengers than allowed by law.

“We don’t want juveniles disobeying the law, especially for having passengers in the car,” Sinclair said.

“It’s not like it’s a target area, but it is an area of concern,” Sinclair said.

Despite recent rumors, the check-point on Sept. 20 had nothing to do with the added police presence in front of the school. This type of examination happens periodically throughout the year, all over Harrisonburg. Police officers performed a

check to make sure drivers have their li-censes, valid registrations and up-to-date state inspections.

“Police officers don’t pull people over at random,” Sinclair said.

When these checkpoints occur, driv-ers are not directed off the road by police officers in irregular intervals. Everyone driving past that certain place on the road is required to stop. Cones are set up and signs warn drivers that there is a check-point ahead. On Sept. 20, the police had the checkpoint set up right in front of the baseball and softball fields on Garbers Church Road.

“Everybody comes through, and as ev-ery car comes through we just make sure that they have their drivers’ licenses and their registrations are up-to-date,” Sinclair said.

Senior, Giovanna Raso, went through the check on Sept. 20 on the way home from school. Raso was not particularly vexed by the checkpoint or the way it was conducted, despite the fact the it slowed down traffic.

“It was a little annoying that [the po-lice] were pulling everyone over, but I was okay with it,” Raso said.

The police department’s professional-ism really stood out. Despite the fact teen-age drivers tend to be less responsible on the road, officers were pulling over parents and students alike and treating them the same way.

“The police handled the checkpoint well; there are certain things they have to do.” Raso said.

Q & A withGiovanna Raso

Q: How was the checkpoint conduct-ed?A:“They asked for my license and reg-istration after they pulled me over.”Q:Are there any parts of the check-point that could’ve been handled dif-ferently?A:“No, because the police have certain things that they have to do at check-points.”Q: Who was being stopped? Was it random?A:“Everyone that drove through was being stopped, so it was kind of ran-dom.”Q: What time of day/when was this?A:“After school at around 2:30 p.m.”Q: Did police officers act more sus-picious because you were a teenage driver?A:“Not really, because they were pull-ing parents over too.”Q: What was your reaction?A:“It was a little annoying that they were pulling everyone over, but I was okay with it.”

The Key Club is planning for a year full of fundraisers and activities. Key club ad-visor Maurizio Antonnicola and the esti-mated 125 members of the club are already in the process of planning this year’s main fundraiser, the “Eliminate Project”.

“[The Eliminate Project] will help to save 60,000 children in impoverished countries who are dying from Tetanus,” Antonnicola said.

Tetanus, also known as Lockjaw, is an infection to the nervous system that is caused by a deadly bacteria. Tetanus is usually contracted through wounds or open cuts on the body. This is why we are told to not touch rusty nails or anything of the sort when we have a cut on our hand or finger.

The Key Club’s goal is to raise around $10,000. Their hope is that every student and/or teacher will donate at least $3, which can save one life from a disease that we already are protected from with our an-nual tetanus shots and boosters.

Another feature activity of the year will be the “Happy Bottoms Collection Drive.” The Key Club will be asking for the dona-tion of diapers. The diaper drive will help benefit the city health center and the HHS nursery.

The Key Club will be organizing and participating in many more activities and fundraisers this year including The Sherry Anderson 5K Race, Salvation Army Bell Ringing, the Lego Competition in Decem-ber, and the Jeremiah Bishop Gran Fondo bike race.

Mary McMahanNews editor

Key club gears up for big year


AHHHH! Aztec dancers, a dog show, and this traditional dragon dance were among the activities for festival-goers to enjoy at this year’s International Festival held at Hillendale park. Multiple HHS students participated in demonstrations such as Kurdish dancing or volunteered to help with the organization of the event.

tel, was eager to help out a good cause.“You get to see a variety of people who

live in your community. You get a little taste of different cultures,” Patel said, of the festival, which is a program of the Civic Engagement branch of the Fairfield Cen-ter, a nonprofit organization.

Key Club co-president, senior Giancarlo Antonnicola, volunteered at the festival the entire day, from 9:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.- before, during, and after it took place.

“I felt like I should stay all day,” Giancar-lo Antonnicola said, about his responsibili-ties as co-president. The event came with some challenges.

“[There were] idiot drivers. People just kept going,” Giancarlo Antonnicola said. However, when he took a break to experi-ence the event from a visitor’s perspective a few times during his shift, he liked what he saw.

“I thought it was really well put togeth-er,” Giancarlo Antonnicola said. “It brings everybody together for one day.”

There were a variety of things to do and see at the festival, in accordance with its motto “Educate, Entertain, Eat.”

Visitors could sample a variety of eth-nic foods, everything from Puerto Rican to Ethiopian. They could visit booths sell-ing handcrafted jewelry from around the world and trinkets not typically found on the shelves of an average American store. Over 35 vendors participated. There were also over ten performances of different va-rieties, ranging from Aztec dancers to an international dog breed show.

While junior Chris Hyser didn’t find volunteering at the festival very exciting, he still had good time.

“It shows that different cultures can live together. We don’t have to be at war with each other,” Hyser said. Although, accord-ing to Hyser, more volunteers were need-ed, the students that did dedicate their Saturday to the festival contributed to its success.

“It’s...[a] community event and Key Club is out there to help anyone in need,” Patel said.

acter, but the audience never sees it,” Heitsch said.

Last year’s mystical comedy, ‘Heubner the Reluctant’, placed in nearly every com-petition, including the state competition, where HHS came in second to only Turner Ashby. Heitsch believes the ‘more serious’ mood of this year’s play will garner excel-lent reception with judges.

“Last year’s performance set the bar, and this year we’re aiming for first,” Heitsch said.

Junior Deborah Halpern plays a ‘Muddy Townsperson.’

“I have high hopes. I think it’s a fan-tastic show, and I know Swartz is doing a great job,” Halpern said.

“The whole show is kind of an accumula-tion of odd characters,” Heitsch said of the personas actors will have to portray.

No more than a couple chairs and box-es along with a circus backdrop comprise the set; materials need to be few enough to travel with the actors and crew during their stays in hotels.

were introduced to schools that they didn’t know were possibilities.

“When I came to college night, there were a lot of different schools that I didn’t know about. Now I’m interested in George Mason University, Old Dominion Univer-sity, and Virginia Commonwealth Univer-sity,” Johnson said.

Along with telling students what quali-ties they wanted in students, representa-tives also informed them about the advan-tages of going to their college.

“The advantages of going to GMU in-clude our location, just 20 minutes out of D.C. and we have one of the most diverse campuses in the country. We also have over 300 clubs and 80 academic programs,” Wainman said.

Junior Ryan Hurst attended college night for the first time. He plans on go-ing to Blue Ridge Community College after

graduation. “I am looking for a college that is well

structured, has good academics, and has a lot of degrees to choose from,” Hurst said. “Blue Ridge has the things I want in a school, but because of college night, I’m now also interested in the University of Mary Washington.”

Blue Ridge Community College repre-sentative Jenny Harvey agrees that the col-lege is great for students who aren’t sure of what they want to do in life, or what kind of degree that they want.

“We want students who are interested in an assortment of degrees and are aca-demically ready for college, if not we pro-vide assistance to those students,” Harvey said. “The advantages of going to BRCC is the cost is lower and the wide variety of majors. Students can also go into a dedi-cated technical program or transfer when they are ready.”

section leader, says that the invitational is one of his favorites of the season. “Since we host the meet we get to perform, and we get a grading, but we don’t get a rank-ing,” Cockburn said.

The bands that host the event provide volunteers to host the event. Senior Lind-say Halling was one of these volunteers.

“The competition is a little different since we’re hosting the event. So, for in-stance, I got to guide a band, which means

I took them to warm ups, and changing, to the field to perform, and back to the bus. It’s actually a lot of fun,” Halling said.

Other band members sold tickets, worked concessions, and “floated”, like Cockburn.

“Floating basically means I do whatever odd jobs are needed. If someone needs help guiding, I would go help guide. If someone needed help getting water, I’d go help them get water.

Battlefield High School won first place.

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SVMI raises money for marching bands

ENCORE! One act cast members perform a dress rehearsal on Oct. 15. They began com-petitions on Oct. 20 with the Valley District event held at HHS.

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AP Gov students volunteer at local campaign headquarters

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Brenna CowardinStyle Editor

Art tours country with Sketchbook project

PHOTO BY MARY STRICKLERCHAMPIONS. Members of the Newsstreak, Imprint, SBC and TAJ staffs traveled to the VHSL Fall Championship workshop in Fredericksburg, VA on Oct.1. The TAJ (yearbook) received the Charles Savedge Award for sustained excellence because they have earned the top ranking (trophy class) for five of the past seven years. This is the third time TAJ has received the Savedge Award.

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Kris Vass, the AP Government teacher, provides a slightly more interesting option for receiving credit on projects. He offers his students the opportunity to volunteer at a local political campaign office. Some choose to work at presidential campaign offices, while some choose those of senato-rial candidates or voter registration.

Vass says that over the years, they have come to enjoy the experience, and pay clos-er attention to the election since they have a personal tie.

“I don’t align myself with any party,” se-

nior AP Gov student Kirsten Ferguson said, “But I’m most closely involved with [one] party, so I feel like I’m helping the greater good.”

One may think that students would automatically choose the same political party as their parents, but Vass makes sure they’re educated about it. Representatives from both parties and locations come in at the beginning of the year to talk to the stu-dents and help them decide which would best fit their interest.

Senior Margaret King really enjoys the experience.

“[I’ve learned] to actually talk to the people that call you, and their beliefs,” King

said. She volunteers with offices she both does and doesn’t support, and says that they’re really different.

Some of the benefits to the experience would most definitely start with helping on the exam. Students can also meet new peo-ple and gain contacts in the field, should they choose to pursue it later on. It also causes students to see that many people working in the field aren’t much older than they are, which puts the career in reach.

Senior Robby Ross says he has learned a lot.

“Both the campaigns are at times dis-honest, and they’ll do anything it takes to get you to vote,” Ross said. He volunteers

at both the political offices. “It’s definitely informed me to be a bet-

ter voter, and has solidified my political opinion”, Ross said. “[My favorite part is] canvassing, going door-to-door and having conversations with people. Once, work-ing at Obama’s campaign, I called a house and got yelled at for five minutes for being a communist. I guess I called the wrong house.”

Vass also thinks that they learn some-thing he could never teach in his class-room. It causes them to be interested in something and to follow it.

“One of the best ways to learn is to do, and they’re doing,” Vass said.

Most high school art students don’t ex-pect to find an audience for their artwork that branches out any further than their teachers, friends, family and especially grandparents. It doesn’t seem fair, to have a concentration of talented youth des-tined to have their artwork remain within the boundaries of a classroom, until they graduate from college.

Luckily, opportunities such as the Sketchbook Project exist. Described by art teacher Jauan Brooks as “a rock concert for sketchbooks”, The Sketchbook Project is a collaboration of individual art students, from more than 130 countries. The objec-tive is to make a collection of notebooks taken on tour around the country and a few locations around the world. Last year, Art 2, Art 3 and Art 4 classes produced five sketchbooks, one from each class, with a page for each student.

Their theme was ‘Travel with Me’, which sparked bright and imaginative pieces pre-senting modified road maps, emotive for-eign text and dreamy landscapes, all wor-thy of their place on tour.

“I just stumbled upon it and thought it would be a great idea. The aim is to get students’ artwork on tour. They’re also ar-chived digitally, so anybody can go to the website and access any of the pages from the sketchbook. The artwork will forever be in a library in Brooklyn, so anyone can

visit and check out the book from HHS,” Brooks said. Brooks was the primary rea-son students had this opportunity.

“It’s a neat concept knowing your own artwork is going to be displayed in librar-ies around the country,” senior Sara Rose said.

The project and tour is organized by Art House, an independent Brooklyn-based company that organizes global, col-laborative art projects. They also operate the Brooklyn Art Library, their storefront exhibition space in the heart of Williams-burg, NY, as a home for their projects, all of which are open to everyone.

Though Brooks went to see the nearest exhibition in Philadelphia, she was con-cerned about how aware students were that the tour was actually taking place.

“[The tour]’s been a success in my mind, however there are many students that don’t know how to access [the sketch-books online]. I don’t know how many stu-dents have gone to see it on the internet yet. We’ve learned a lot of things from last year’s project that we’ll consider when we do it again next time,” Brooks said.

Yes, HHS will be taking part again in 2013, but in the meantime interested per-sons can access all of the artwork from the 2012 tour at www.arthousecoop.com/library and searching for ‘Harrisonburg’.

By the end of October, the tour will have been completed, with London as its final stop before being permanently put on display in the Brooklyn Art Library.

Being a journalist is more than writing an article or taking the occasional picture. Being a journalist means you have the cour-age to ask the uncomfortable questions, catch the moments and the readers’ atten-tion with good headlines and design. Stu-dents in the journalism program learned that in Fredericksburg on Oct. 1.

Bobby Hawthorne, author of The Radical Write, whose works have taken him all over the world, was one of the workshop lead-ers. He gave students tips on how to create quality written work. Hawthorne worked all over the world, teaching students how to create great journalism and write articles for many different newspapers and maga-zines, but never had anyone single him out to tell him that journalism could take him places.

“Honestly, I just did [journalism] be-cause I enjoy doing it,” Hawthorne said. “I didn’t need some person to tell me you should do this or you should do that.”

Hawthorne has been doing what he calls

“dog and pony shows” for 40 years. He be-gan teaching workshops because as in most cases of employment, someone offered him money. In Fredericksburg, his workshops focused on creating interesting headlines and leads that bring the reader into the story.

“I started early on, not really knowing what I was doing [in the workshops], and just sort of hoping nobody noticed I was clueless,” Hawthorne said. “But the more you do something, the better you get.”

While Hawthorne’s workshops were more focused on the writing aspect of jour-nalism, other workshops centered around design, or even creative writing.

John Dalke spoke of the inspiration that could be found in everyday life, from the font of your favorite store’s name or the logo on your favorite type of soda. The de-tails of creative writing and literary maga-zines, online journalism, broadcasting and yearbook were also explored by interested students.

However, the day wasn’t just a work-shop for young, aspiring journalists, it was a celebration of last year’s hard work. The

Newsstreak and the TAJ (yearbook) both won trophy class, the highest award a high school journalistic endeavor can receive, and the Imprint won multiple individual awards on a state level in the AA division.

Valerie Kibler, the Newsstreak adviser, is very pleased with her students’ efforts over the past year.

“They really did a strong job with the newspaper [last year], and they’ve gotten pretty much top marks in just about ev-erything,” Kibler said. “[The Newsstreak] is strong in Virginia High School League, trophy class.”

However, according to Kibler there is always room for improvement. This year, the newspaper’s focus is on more precise editing, and creative pages, stories and de-signs. To create award-winning journalism, Kibler encourages students to look at other schools’ publications and professional pub-lications to gain inspiration.

“I want them to see what other students are doing around the country, and try to top that,” Kibler said. Seventeen of her students from last year received individual awards at the awards luncheon.

VHSL Writing/Photography/Design Awards

AA NEWSPAPER DIVISION AWARDS

News: Straight News/News Feature Vanessa Ehrenpreis, SMES Perfects Dual Long Immer-sion, Second PlaceNews: Sports NewsBen DiNapoli, Blair’s Thirst for Adventure, Second PlaceAriel Vogel & Christy Stearn, Cheerleaders Participate, Honorable MentionFeature: Human Interest/Personality (including Sports)Jake Durden, Whitelow Juggles Fatherhood, First PlaceFeature: In-Depth/Informative (including Sports)Ben DiNapoli, Conner Bell Biking, Third PlaceEditorialsJake Durden, Paterno Abuse Scandal, Second PlaceBylined Personal Opinion/ColumnAma Ansah, Stuff AP Students Like, Honorable MentionPhoto: SportsBen DiNapoli, Gymnastics, First PlaceFront Page LayoutChristy Stearn, Carmaggedon, Second PlaceVanessa Ehrenpreis, Diversity, First PlaceInside Page Layout/SpreadVanessa Ehrenpreis, Spirit Week, Second PlaceChristy Stearn, Horsing Around, Honorable MentionAdvertisingCelia Ehrenpreis, Dance & Company, Third PlaceInfographics/Secondary PackagingVanessa Ehrenpreis, Diversity, Third PlaceVanessa Ehrenpreis, The Background on Fighting, Second PlaceEditorial CartooningNishat Jamil, Valentine’s Day, Second PlaceNishat Jamil, Happiness, Third Place

AA LITERARY MAGAZINE DIVISION AWARDS

CoverEllie Pruett-Fiederlien & Bryan Chicas, Second PlaceTable of Contents Ellie Pruett-Fiederlien, Second PlacePhotograph Lizz Phillips, Another Night with the Boys, Third Place Sydney Wells, All Grown Up, Honorable Mention3-D Art Jessamyn Tobin, Gustav Klimt Perspectives, First PlaceComputer Art Gentry Dove, The Human Hand, Honorable MentionArt Gallery Spread Paula Ledezma-Garcia, pp. 33-34, First PlacePaula Ledezma-Garcia, pp. 17-18, Honorable MentionPoetry SpreadChloe Richard, Bryan Chicas & Raven Sheets, Remember, Honorable Mention

AA YEARBOOK DIVISION AWARDS

Academics Spread Bryan Chicas, Art, Second PlaceFeature PhotoMorgan Wise, Drum, Third Place

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As the world moves ever closer to going green, senior Alex Hunter-Nickels imple-mented a composting pile here in our own backyard. While prepping our lunches, cafeteria workers take out all compostable items and put them into the correct bin to be dispersed in our compost piles.

There are three main stages to compost-ing. Step one includes putting all compost in bin one and putting dead grass on top of it. The grass helps with decomposition and keeps away noxious smells and numerous crawling critters.

After the bin is filled to the brim, the

mixture is moved to bin number two, and flipped for the compost to gain additional oxygen, thus aiding in the decomposi-tion process. The horticulture class uses a pitchfork to turn the compost regularly.

The bins that the compost is in are made from recycled wooden pallets that were found in dumpsters. They are approx-imately 4 x 4 and are located across from the loading docks.

“I don’t actually take part in the com-posting, because I am a senior. When I graduate, I want the composting to contin-ue without me, or at least that’s the idea,” Hunter-Nickels said.

This is not a quick process, each stage takes one to two months. The compost ma-terial is then placed on gardens at HHS.

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School spirit still high for homecomingOp/Ed - A5NewsstreakTheOctober 26, 2012

Hurtful words can have harmful effects

Our pets can teach us many life lessons

Negative ads get on viewers’ nerves

Mary McMahanNews editor

I would like to start off by say-ing that all of these events are true and are not made up.

Abby, my three-year-old yel-

low lab, never fails to entertain me. Imagine a crazy pet that you might have...my dog is crazier. I wouldn’t classify her as dumb; she’s unique.

The Vacuum... Abby’s downfall was recently discovered when we were doing a quick cleaning of our house. I thought she would chase the vacuum around as it sweeps across the floor, but instead she quickly flees. That instance brought me to the conclusion that my dog is not as tough as she seems. Everyone who comes to my house is on guard when they hear her ferocious bark coming from the other side of the door. However, they do not realize that she is just as scared as they are. Abby at first views people as that treacherous vacuum, but she

eventually warms up to them...eventually.

Flashback to about two years ago. Abby was a tiny puppy; she weighed around 20 pounds. She used to have this strange fascina-tion with the “toilet cap”. The cap was this little white plastic cap that covered one of the screws at the base of the toilet. I don’t know how she found it or why she was so obsessed with it. My family would be sitting in our family room wondering where in the world the little demon was until we saw a little furry ball run straight out of the bathroom, heading toward the other side of the house. Since the little cap was considered a choking hazard, we ended up chasing her around the house until we could pry it out of

her puppy jaws. Even though she was small, she had so much ener-gy in her... sometimes it took 15 minutes to capture her.

Oddly enough, she grew out of this habit. I swear she’s just like a little kids sometimes. Abby is easily compared to a toddler that hasn’t grown out of the teething stage... she must chew anything and everything that she finds.

My dog will never stop amaz-ing me.

People change over time, so embrace the change and go with the flow. Someone may start out being timid and shy or scared and afraid, but they will eventually adapt to their surroundings... it sounds cliche, but never judge a book by its cover.

WHAT IS THE STAFF EDITORIAL?The unsigned staff editorial appears in each issue and reflects the majority opinion of the Newsstreak Staff Editorial Board. The Editorial Board is comprised of all editors-in-chief, page editors, advertising managers, photographers and selected freshman journalism students. In no way does our opinion re-flect that of the school system or the administration.

THE ACTUAL VOTEAfter a spirited conversation about the implementation of the class competition and the changes in homecoming activities this year, the board voted that we applaud the efforts of our student leaders who are working to make this school year one with high energy.

NEWSSTREAK STAFF EDITORIAL

THE MIA PERSPECTIVE

IF YOU GIVE A FALK A COLUMN...

Mia KarrFeature editor

As election season comes to a boil, I find myself writhing like a lobster in all the activity associ-ated with the campaigns. Every day I return home to an answer-ing machine choking on political advertisements.

Even worse is when I am pars-ing youtube, having every video interrupted by a political adver-tisement. I think I have seen the clip where Romney makes the 47% comment at least 50 times.

The only solace I can take from this otherwise obnoxious barrage is my own amusement at their at-tempts at attacks on each other.

All the negativity of the ads may bother some, but honestly, the ads have been worse in the past. Let’s recall the the election of 1800. Does the name Sally Hemmings ring a bell? Thomas Jefferson was accused of father-ing a child with a slave named Sally Hemmings. In the election of 1964, Johnson insinuated if you vote for Goldwater your chil-dren will die. The list goes on.

And what crazy accusations and attacks do we have now? Obama is a socialist, Romney be-lieves 47% of Americans are lazy.

None of the attacks are partic-ularly vitriolic. This election sea-son we have no Sally Hemmings, we have no Daisy video.

Instead what we have are somewhat weak attempts to dis-suade voters from an opposing party. And these ads play, and they play, and they play.

If I am subject to these com-mercials, at least make them interesting. Herman Cain was heading in the right direction, favoring spicy ads rather than the tapioca ones favored by other candidates.

His ad featuring his campaign adviser smoking was definitely a change from the old cookie cut-ter attack ad. But where Cain re-

ally shines is his avant garde com-mercial where a lone girl kills a dying goldfish. I am told the fish symbolically represented the U.S. economy, but I don’t care. That commercial was awesome.

I say Obama or Romney need to fire their advertising staff, and hire Herman Cain before the other candidate does. Cain is a master at relating to the youth. After all, he admitted to quot-ing a Pokemon song one of his speeches.

With Cain at the helm, either Obama or Romney could get those final votes to clinch their victory.

But alas, we live in a world where the cookie cutter ads rule the day. Where every 10 min-utes, we are treated to the ho-hum drudgery of another ad say-ing “Romney hates Big Bird!” or “Obama literally strangled our economy!”.

It is enough to make me miss Cain, and it takes a lot to make me miss Cain.

Mary’s World

“That shirt makes you look pregnant,” she said. My little sixth grade self was taken by sur-prise. I had walked into school feeling all confident and awesome because I was wearing my favor-ite seafoam green top, and now

this girl who I thought genuinely liked me, was telling me it made me look pregnant? Not in a mean way, not in a I’m-telling-you-this-for-your-own-good-way, just in the way of insensitive sixth graders that don’t listen to what comes out of their mouths too of-ten. I was kind of offended, but I did not stop wearing the shirt- I still think it was cool, for a sixth grader, and it looked great with my eyes.

However, that’s not the point. The point is that I somehow re-member this one little, inconse-quential incident that had little impact on my life, because some-one said something to me that I did not like. You should never underestimate the power that your words can have to people-

especially if you are talking to someone who overanalyzes ev-erything. (ahem.)

We all know how much it can hurt to have someone say some-thing nasty to you (And no, I’m not talking about your classmate saying your shirt makes you look pregnant), so I do not really want to focus on that. Instead, I want to focus on the positive. Saying genuine, nice things to people can make them feel better about themselves, turn their day around, or just make them smile.

I have a box in my room of letters people have written me, birthday cards, nice notes, and those silly Valentines your friends could buy for you in middle school. If I could take one thing with me out of the house in

a fire, it would be that box. It is al-ways nice to remember the sweet things my friends have said about me, and that there are people out there who think I’m really cool.

I think it can be hard to ex-press things like this to people. It may seem weird or uncomfort-able to tell people things you like about them. Or, you may think that if someone is really good at something they must know it already, but compliments never hurt.

I’m not saying you should kiss up to people or lie, but if you think they did a really good job on that project, tell them. Never forget that what you say to peo-ple does have an impact, and it’s up to you whether that impact is good or bad.

Art by Nishat Jamil

“Negative campaigning has been a part of American Politics forever. For example, the election of 1800, the “whispering” campaign suggesting that Thomas Jefferson raped his slaves and was an atheist. It got to the point where people were hiding their Bibles in wells in fear he’d (Thomas Jefferson) take away God. I think negative campaigning is effective with certain ele-ments, but really is just political theatre. It’s background noise, and should be ignored by conscientious voters.”- Jay Blair, AP U.S. history teacher

If there was ever a year that HHS need-ed a boost of school spirit, it is this one. The Blue Streaks football team fell to 3-4 after a three game losing streak, and has mathematically eliminated itself from dis-trict title contention, a rare spot for the team just two years removed from a state title appearance.

Where the Streaks have fallen on the football field, however, they have risen in the halls. The level of excitement around this year’s homecoming week dwarfs that of the past few years. Streamers and post-ers designed by the different classes adorn the cafeteria. Students eagerly await each successive spirit day to display their bold-est clothing, in pursuit of the ultimate goal: winning the class wars competition.

The lunch competitions are a new twist on the revived class wars. Renaissance’s frozen t-shirt-wearing, Find the bubble gum-in-the-cream-pie blowing, and sal-tine-eating competitions have all electri-fied lunchtime in the gym commons. The corn hole tournament sponsored by DECA has brought out our competitive nature.

Students are participating in the dress-up spirit days like never before and our hats go off to the multiple faculty/staff members who are leading the way in these competitions.

The junior girls have corralled more people to play on their powder puff foot-ball team than the gridiron contest has ever seen and the senior girls are putting in practice hours learning plays like no other.

The freshman hit the high school halls running, taking the wall decorating con-test in its year of rejuvenation.

And the Red Sea is thriving under new leadership, too. The crowds of students wearing red (or camouflage as the case may be) get all kinds of riled up during the pre-game tailgates and carry their enthusiasm over to game time.

Perhaps the competitive nudge given by class wars catalyzed the proliferation of school spirit this year.

Perhaps the unexpected losses by the football team manifested themselves in some sort of bizarre boost in pride.

Perhaps we all have mercury poisoning and the brain damage has turned us into maniacal school spirit zealots. Regardless, when the school needed it most, our stu-dent body came through.

Whatever the case may be, we’re happy to see the results. It’s a great time to be a Blue Streak.

Hopefully it translates into success on the football field.

OP/ED A6NewsstreakTheOctober 26, 2012

Good News in the World Bad News in the World

Nobel Prizes Awarded: Many people from around the world received commendations for their contributions to humanity.

Syrian Conflict Moves Toward Turkish Border: Artil-lery shells from Syria landed in Turkish territory, prompt-ing a military retaliation from Turkey.

U.S. Jobs Report: The U.S. jobs report in October showed a drop of 0.3% in unemployment since Septem-ber. This brings the U.S. unemployment rate to 7.8%, the lowest it has been since Jan. 2009.

North Korean Threats: North Korea threatens U.S., say-ing North Korean missiles have the capability of reaching the U.S. mainland.

Pakistani Teen Activist Shot: Malala Yousafzai, a young Pakistani activist, was shot by Taliban gunmen. She sur-vived the encounter, but the Taliban have said she will re-main a target.

Egyptian Political Prisoners Freed: Newly elected Egyptian president, Mohamed Morsi, freed political prisoners who were detained from the revolution that removed the previous Egyptian ruler, Hosni Mubarak.

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4531

Barack Obama

Undecided

Mitt Romney

Neither

Other

602 total students were polled on Oct 10 by Salar Haji and Kendall Bailey during Block 1.

Presidential Straw Poll

Yes

28No

105 total students were polled by Faith Runnels.

Do Your Parent’s Influence

Your Political Views?

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Rodney EagleBio: Eagle has lived in Harri-sonburg all his life. He served in the Marines and founded Eagle Carpeting. Policy: Eagle wants to ensure quality education by evaluat-ing and updating the educa-tion facilities, emphasize al-ternative means of transport, and require high discipline from public safety personnel.

Bio: Johnson has a degree in bi-ology from JMU, and has lived in Harrisonburg since 1990. She cur-rently works on the board of direc-tors for JMU and the Harrisonburg Education Foundation.

Policy: One of Johnson’s focuses is on developing an active citizenry who participate in the communi-ty. In addition, she wants to make Harrisonburg a business-friendly environment.

Christine JohnsonBio: Baugh has lived in Har-risonburg since 1985. He has a Juris doctorate from UVA. He currently works as an at-torney.

Policy: Maintain Harrison-burg’s bond rating, support the small, urban, feel of the downtown, focus on infra-structure like roads and pe-destrian walking areas, and a focus on quality of life.

Richard Baugh

Debra FitzgeraldBio: She has lived in Harrison-burg since 1985. She has an MBA from EMU. Fitzgerald is an associate professor at BRCC.

Policy: Maintain Harrison-burg’s small, urban feel by maintaining public land, ex-pand educational opportuni-ties, and support the Down-town Renaissance Movement.

Kai DegnerBio: Degner has been living in Harrisonburg since 1999. He has an MBA from JMU. Degner works as a realtor.

Policy: Degner wants to create a business-friendly environment, increase pe-destrian infrastructure, and manage costs from unfund-ed mandates.

Abe ShearerBio: Lived in Harrisonburg most of his life. He teaches at Skyline Middle School. He has a degree in econom-ics from JMU.

Policy: One of Shearer’s goals is to make Harrison-burg a safer community by supporting community pro-grams. Shearer also wants to focus on education.

Anthony BaileyBio: Bailey serves as the Se-nior Assistant Common-wealth’s Attorney for Har-risonburg and Rockingham county.

Policy: Bailey’s goals include maintaining the current tax rate, advocating the growth and development of busi-ness, and maintaining aca-demic excellence

Meet the Local Candidates For City Council

HOTGangnam Style

This unbelievably popular song has topped the iTunes chart and many people have created vid-eos dancing to this tune.

NOT

23 Mile High Jump

Daredevil, Felix Baumgartner, fell from 23 miles above the Earth, breaking the sound barrier.

Modern Family won best com-edy TV show at the Emmy’s. This is their third victory in a row.

Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift has come out with four new singles. One of the sin-gles “I Knew You Were Trouble” is currently the most popular song on iTunes.

Argo

The third movie Ben Affleck has directed, based off the Iran hos-tage crisis, currently holds a 94% on Rotten Tomatoes.

JMU Football

The game against William and Mary went into double overtime.It was a close game with some questionable calls, but JMU won.

Moonrise Kingdom on DVD

If you have not seen this movie, slap yourself. Then go buy the DVD. Then slap yourself again.

Rob+Kristen together?

Recent pictures show Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart to-gether again. The two split after Kristen admitted to infidelity.

People who scream at campaigners.

We understand the call can be annoying but is it truly appropri-ate to scream at campiagn vol-unteers?

Lance Armstrong Accusations

The seven time Tour de France winner has been stripped of his titles after the “overwhelming evidence” that he took steroids.

Mad Men

Mad Men lost to Homeland for Best TV Drama at the Emmy’s. This would have been Mad Men’s fifth year winning the award.

Replacement Refs

Nothing is more agonizing than watching your team lose be-cause of an incorrect call by a replacement referee.

Hurt Quarterbacks

Starting quarterback Ryan Nixon broke his leg in a game against Broadway, and HHS’s 2nd and 3rd string QBS are also injured.

Voter Registration Probe

Harrisonburg has come under the national spotlight after an unknown person was seen dis-posing of registration forms.

Modern Family

*For more complete profiles, go online to www.newsstreak.com

Policy:Baker wants to decrease taxes.

Bio: Baker was a staff seargent in the Air Force and served as a shift supervisor for VEPCO. Baker received a master’s from Murray University.

Roger Baker

Policy: Baker wants to main-tain the current tax rate, if not lower it. He also empha-sized the need to begin looking for an area suitable for a new school in order to combat over-crowding.

School funding, over crowd-ing and test scores are all is-sues facing the school board and city council, but they will affect students the most.

The Newsstreak hosted an open forum for the lo-cal council candidates. Four were in attendance, Cris-tina Johnson(R), who is a lo-cal business owner. Rodney Eagle(R), a former mayor and local business owner. Roger Baker(I), a former city man-ager, and Mayor Richard Baugh(D), an attorney.

There was a general consen-sus that we need to address the overcrowding issue. All said

that a new school would have to be built. Baugh said that the issue is probably already being looked at by the school board.

Johnson said that another problem is the culture barrier created by linguistic differenc-es in the school. Baker brought up taxes as his main issue.

“There aren’t a lot of chang-es needed. The city is well run. Why raise the taxes when we have a surplus of $26.6 mil-lion. I also do understand the system probably better than anybody else,” Baker said.

Baugh said his main goal is maintaining a small, urban city.

For the school budget, all of them pointed out that they know how to manage finances. Eagle, Baugh and Baker have

all worked with the city bud-get. Johnson, however has worked a special kind of bud-get. She maintains the budget for her family of 10.

As business owners, Eagle and Johnson made it clear they want Harrisonburg to be small-business friendly.

Overall the event was a success. They all understood the issues affecting schools and the city as a whole. They all have ideas to fix the prob-lems, and they all gave credit to the school board for mak-ing the decisions. They recog-nized that the council funds the school board and works in cooperation with it, but they don’t have control over the school board

Candidates share views with students

HHS’s Newsstreak hosted an open forum for local candidates where we asked them various questions regarding education and Harrisonburg as a whole.

Other: 5%

Neither: 7%

Mitt Romney: 12%

Undecided: 14%

Barack Obama: 61%

Straw Poll Breakdown

Joshua ByrdStyle editor

STYLE A7NewsstreakTheOctober 26, 2012

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Many high school students have hob-bies like hanging out with friends and going shopping. There’s seldom any that have a hobby of gardening, but senior Andrea Wood loves it.

“I like knowing that I’m growing and nurturing something that I can eat. It’s really cool,” Wood said.

Wood got started with this hobby about four and a half years ago when she was in middle school and approached her parents with the idea for putting a garden back into their yard. She said that her parents had one when she was younger, but she wanted one of her own.

“I have a big garden in my backyard and then some smaller ones in the front yard, and I mostly grow vegetables and strawberries,” Wood said.

Wood said thather favorite part of gardening is picking the fruit off the plant.

“I’m literally eating the fruit of my la-bors,” Wood said.

She might not have the most popu-lar and well-known hobby, but Wood said that she really enjoys what she’s doing and would definitely recommend gardening to anyone because it’s really cheap to buy the plants, or seeds, and it’s a lot of fun to plant everything and watch it grow into a healthy plant.

When grabbing a hot tray of what-ever’s being served that day, most stu-dents wouldn’t give much thought to where their meal is coming from, but behind the scenes of the cafeteria, the staff members are always working to pro-vide kids with food from local suppliers.

While munching on an eggroll, kids wouldn’t expect that the pork used was actually from a company in a place as close as Mt. Jackson, or that the apple on their tray was grown over in Charlot-tesville, a surprisingly short distance when considering the bigger picture.

Trisha Newcomb is the school caf-eteria manager. “We always want to use local produce in order to keep the money in the community. It makes for a better product,” Newcomb said.

Though the constant objective of the cafeteria is to provide food from the area, it’s not always possible to source within the state. It isn’t the availabil-ity of meat that’s affected by the sea-son, but rather the fruit and vegetables.

Shortly after the beginning of 2013, apples will have to be brought in from as far as Washington to fulfill the demand of fruit being (willingly) consumed by many hungry students. It’s a difficult task of se-lecting the right suppliers, too. The main

concern, along with price, is if a supplier is able to keep up with the enormous quantity required by the school and district. For this reason, buying local isn’t always possible.

The next part of bringing the meal from farm to tray is the preparation process. For each food item, the preparation required varies. Some is entirely from scratch, while items such as pizza come pre-made, only re-quiring a blast of the oven to be ready to eat.

“There’s also some fruit and vegetables that come sliced. We simply can’t do it all,” Newcomb said. Surprisingly, there’s no trace of a fryer to be found in the cook-ing area, everything is just baked and steamed. In fact, the school hasn’t served french fries for lunch in two years, and no one seems to be making a huge complaint.

It’s clear that the main objective of the cafeteria is provide kids with a balanced and edible lunch, but striving to use local produce in addition to that is an impres-sive feat. When told that 10% of Har-risonburg City Schools’ budget last year was put into purchasing local produce, one might think of this as a small figure, but that number alone lacks context.

The city had a budget of $1.2 million last year, meaning that the otherwise small 10% actually adds up to being $120,000. It may sometimes go unnoticed, but the effort is there, starting at the ‘Buy fresh, buy local’ Shenandoah Valley produce poster that hangs in the cafeteria office.

Sukriti AdhikariStaff Reporter

Luke GibsonStaff Reporter

Local food served regularly in school cafeteria

Kendall BaileySports Editor

ALL PHOTOS COURTESY OF ANDREA WOOD


While some students love a delicious steak dinner, others abhor the idea of any kind of meat. Those students can be defined as vegetarians, as their a diet ex-cludes all red meat, poultry and sometimes fish and dairy products.

Some become vegetarian to eat healthy. Others follow the vegetarian diet because they are inspired by many vegan books that show how animals are brutally treated during production.

“I read a book on the meat production process and the condition of animals, so it helped me make my decision of not eating meat,” senior Caroline Proctor said.

While some stick with being a vegetar-ian, some revert back to their old ways.

“I missed eating meat after a year, so I started to eat meat again and since I was only a vegetarian for a short amount of time, it wasn’t awkward,” Proctor said.

Senior Sarah Morris has also been a vegetarian for the past three years.

“I gradually become a vegetarian, I didn’t eat [meat] much to begin with. I don’t like eating things that were alive,” Morris said. “People try to change my mind all the time by saying ‘meat so good, you should eat it’.”

Ve g e t a r i a n -ism can be differ-ent for everyone. For some, it may just be not eating meat in general whereas for oth-ers they do not eat anything that came from an ani-mal. But there are also peskitarians who eat fish but

no ‘land animals’.Junior Maddy Newbanks is a peskitar-

ian. She gave up on eating chicken and red meat, after her counselor in her camp, Highroad Christian adventures, encour-aged her to try being a vegetarian two years ago.

“During summer camp, my camp coun-selor encouraged me to try eating vegetar-ian meals and I did. I really liked [the veg-etarian diet] so I tried to stick with it and find food that were like those,” Banks said. Although Banks doesn’t eat red meat and chicken, she still eats fish and dairy prod-ucts.

“I can’t live without milk and cheese. Everytime I eat meat now it is disgusting. It tastes bland and flavorless,” Banks said.

Morris, Banks and Proctor all agree that being a vegetarian does make people more energetic.

“I am really happy and I feel more en-ergized now that I don’t eat meat. I am used to [being a vegetarian] by now and most restaurants have a side menu for the vegetarians, so it also helps when I go out to eat with my friends,” Banks said. Being a vegetarian may sound questionable to some students, so it is not for everyone.

“I don’t recommend it to anyone, unless you stick with it,” Banks added.

Walmart, Martin’s, Target. These are only a few of the most popular gro-cery chains. While most of the students in the school shop at these, there are a few students who prefer to purchase food that was grown closer to home.

Junior Dylan Bontrager has been a fre-quent customer of the Harrisonburg Farm-er’s Market for as long as he could remember.

“We go there because locally grown food and products are better for the en-vironment and economy,” Bontrager said.

Food products grown closer to home are fresher since they don’t have to spend days being shipped across the country, or even from other parts of the world.

Also, shopping at a farmer’s market helps the growers in the community, allow-

ing the local economy to prosper by becom-ing less dependent on trans-continental and foreign trade. Shopping closer to home lets the farmer’s get acquainted with their customers, rather than each person being a mere face in a crowd to a big business.

The Harrisonburg and Dayton Farm-er’s Markets sell a variety of products. They carry almost every type of fruit and vegetable in bulk stock, including homemade treats made from local farm-ers. Corn, berries, tomatoes, cheeses, honey, and cookies decorate the stands of the farmer’s market, providing cus-tomers a wide variety to choose from.

Junior Tabatha LaFreniere is a strong supporter of shopping locally, believing it helps buyers and sellers grow closer.

“[The Dayton Farmer’s Market] has a really good sense of community, it’s nice to know who you’re buying from,

and getting to know the farmer lets you know that their food isn’t pasteur-ized or processed,” LaFreniere said.

The Farmer’s Markets offers a lot more than just food. LaFreniere was able to get a job with one of the suppli-ers for several months when she was a freshman. She learned how to make pas-tries and assisted the owner in selling her products at several places, includ-ing the Unitarian Universalist Church.

“The best part about working with one of the farmer’s was that after a few weeks, I recognized all of the customers, and I was even able to become friends with some of them,” LaFreniere said.

These two frequent shoppers highly encourage other students and their fami-lies to check out the Farmer’s Market’s if they are interested in a change of atmo-sphere and grocery products.

DELECTABLE VEGGIES. Food at the Farmer’s Market is local and always fresh.

Vegetarianism offers alternative


“BUY FRESH, BUY LOCAL .” Janet Smith is a retired lunch lady, who substitutes when the regular staff can’t make it in to work. She prepares meatball subs for hungry stu-dents to eat later on for lunch. The meatballs are made from scratch, on-site, adding to their delectable flavor. The recipe for the meatballs calls for beef and pork, both of which are bought locally in Mount Jackson. D and M Meats provides the cafeteria staff with the beef, and Baker Incoporated provides the pork.

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CHEW! Students and faculty compete in the saltine challenge during all three lunch shifts.

Homecoming 2012

In order to gear up for HHS’s Homecoming game against Spotswood High School on Oct.19, the whole week prior was completely devoted to Streaks showing their school spirit. Faculty and students alike roamed the decorated halls in crazy hats, groovy 70’s gear, and their fin-est spirit wear. Lunch shifts could have been mistaken for game shows as class representatives battled it out in pie-eating and frozen t-shirt contests. The tables were turned when senior girls took on the junior girls in a game of Powderpuff football on Oct. 17, trumping them 21-0.

ALL PHOTOS BY SUKRITI ADHIKARISO HIP! Students donned clothing from different decades on Tues-day Oct. 16.

RUN! Junior Sara Shenk Moreno runs off the field during the Powder-puff football game HOMECOMING 2012.The school gets decked out for week ahead, with poster, banners and more!

CANDID. Library secretary Bradley Walton had one of the most unusual hats on Monday’s Crazy Hat Day.

GO! GO! GO! Viki Hurtdao-Cardoso carries the ball for the juniors in the Powderpuff football game.

COVERED IN PIE. Junior Zeki Salehi gets covered in whipped cream while participating in one of the lunch challenges.

GROOVY, DUDE. Juniors Zani Azim and Ra-chel Hottinger participate in Decades Day.

SO SALTY. The saltine challenge proves to be difficult for those who took part at lunch on Wednesday.

CATCH THAT! Seniors Taylor Grogg, Kerri Hofacker, and Akia Morris complete a play during Wednesday’s Powderpuff game.

WAIT FOR IT... Juniors and seniors wait while a player is subbed onto the field during the Powderpuff football game. The seniors won 21-0.

WATCH OUT! Students have fun pieing each other during the lunch challenges.

NICE EARS! Staff members participate in spirit days too! Mary Strickler, Diana Flick, and Richard Morrell wear Mickey Mouse ears.

FEATURE- B1NewsstreakTheOctober 26, 2012

Club Name Where it meets?

The sponsor?

Who’s the president?

What does the club do? Why should a person join? How many members?

What’s the fee?

Student Opinions

Acadmic Team

101 Jere Borg, Verity

Caron, Rob Edmunds

Premal Patel Prepare for competitions that include trivia from various topics

It’s fun and looks good on a resume. 15 No fee “It’s a really entertaining activ-ity. It challenges your knowledge

from pervious years of high school as well as from outside of school,”

senior Premal Patel said.

Art 173 Kelly Shradley-

Horst

Presidents to be decided

Art activities and work with the National Art Honors Socierty

Open to anyone 10 No fee “I joined because I like art and they do soup night... and I thought it would be fun to give back in an

artistic way,” sophomore Victoria Giron said.

Biking 418. MikeFornecker


Organizes bike rides, runs fundraisers, watches movies about bikers

This club is for people who are interested in biking, and you get to meet new bikers that share your interest. You get to bike

mountains and roads.

6 No fee “I want to influence the biking world, and I want to get people

active, and to look forward to hav-ing fundraisers,” sophomore Austin

Bell said.

ECMC The library and

conference room

Rachel Lin-den, David

Hoover, Lauren

Kershner

No president Activities that help students get into college

ECMC club isn’t open for everybody. Students have to meet certain criteria in

order to become part of the club.

28 No fee “It inspired me to do better in school,” junior Jeymi Barrios said.

Ecology 128 Adam Goble

Morgan Neary

Configure hikes, outdoor activities, and every Thursday collect recycling and

get out to help the environment.

Participants get a better experience out-side the classroom. Hands on and helping the environment beats staying at home.

20 No fee “I think the reason that people should join is because it’s getting out there. Not just in the commu-nity, but in the environment,” said

junior Morgan Neary.

FCCLA 275 Bridgett Smith

None Participation in the club takes place during cooking classes

To learn life skills while having fun cooking Students enrolled in

classes

No fee “The club ties in with class, so it’s like a two-in-one, we get to be in

a club and class at the same time,” sophomore Hope Carr said.

Forensics Library Mr. and Mrs.

Walton

Tyler Edwards and Daelynn

McCleve

Competitive public speaking, competes in VHSL

Very good for perfecting audition skills and to improve speaking skills. Strongly recommended to students interested in

teaching, law, and drama.

16 $5 “It’s awesome [and] you get to meet new people ,” juniot Daelynn

McCleve said.

French 411 Sally Young

Erin Goodstein

French games, French snacks, Movie nights, annual French club picnic in

spring, annual French Christmas party, French speaking guests

More relaxed environment to enjoy French culture : speaking, foods, movies, etc.

15 $8 “[I wanted to] enhance my knowlege of the French language,”

sophomore Evan Dotas said.

Habitat for Humanity

521. Patricia Kelley

Alex Hunter-Nickels

Build in the community and work with Central Valley for Habitat Houses and

Rockingham County

Gives opportunities to contribute to the community and to get the feeling that

you’re part of a team

20 $10 “You are investing your time and energy into an almost magical cause of helping provide a fun-

damental human need, which is shelter,” senior Alex Hunter-Nickels

said.

International 501 or 401. Laura F-M

Sophie Jeon Share other cultures and their activities

Members will learn a lot about new cultures.

15 $5 “It you want to learn about dif-ferent cultures you can come and hang out and have fun... I’ts for

everyone,” senior Sophie Jeon said.

Knitting 132 Cassandra Harvey

No president Knitting, small projects, big quilts, try-ing to sell small gloves that are made

This a very relaxing and fun room, and you can be very creative in this club.

8 No fee “I this club because we get to make quilts, and get to donate the ma-terials we made to a good cause,” sophomore Merril Harmison said.

Kurdish Cafeteria commons

Muhamed Kareem

Zhyar Abdul Talk about the news in the Middle East, activities, field trips

Learn more about the Kurdish culture and hang out with other Kurds

24 No fee “It’s really fun to hang around with other people that share the same

backround as me,” said sophomore Pishdar Abdul.

Mu Alpha Theta

434 Bill Turner and Geoff

Estses

Premal Patel Helps promote math to students and competes in math competitions.

If you enjoy math and have good grades in your precious math courses

26 15 “I enjoy solving complex math problems and I am also taking a Calculus 2 class.,” senior Amin

Kraimeche said.

Russian Not sure Valentina Sokulyuk


Socialize and interact with the others in the club, meet up with movie nights

It’s awesome 15 No fee “It’s.. like socializing with others and getting together and getting to know eachother,” sophomore

Tamara Chepelyuk said.

Ski/Snow-board

503 Jay Blair and Mark

Healy

Not deter-mined

Weekly trips that give opportunities to go to the mountains.

Take advantange to the nearby skiing and snowing opportunities

25 None, but trips

cost money

“It’s a cool idea, becuase we’re close to the resort,” junior Aubtin Heydari

said.

Spanish Auditorium and the

gym commons

Patricia Rojas and

Phillip Yutzy

Bianca Solis 1. Encourages Spanish 2. Helps students learn Latino culture 3. Prepares students for life outside

of high school

For those three reasons. 50 $5 “It’s a good way to know your cul-ture,” sophomore Melisa Diaz said.

TSA 174 JoshBotteicher


Trying to build leadership and preparation for the future;

preferably technical occupations

It’s a lot of hands on activities and it builds teamwork and leadership.

15 $10-20 “[I joined because] it seems fun. I have an intersest in technology,” freshman Lauren McKenzie said.

Tri-M Music Honor Society

In the music area (band,

choir or auditorium)

JR Snow Margaret King

The club is a National Honor Society that engages in musical activities and offers musical activities for the school

community.

If students want to be engaged in more musical activities and are currently an

outstanding musician, they should apply.

18 Probably $10-15

“I do a lot of music-based things and I wanted to increase the ligiti-

macy of my college application,” junior Garrett Thompson said.

Vida Joven 409 Ben Kurtz, JMU

students.

JMU students serve as

“captains”

Place to hangout and learn about Jesus Christ

You should join because it is fun! 50+ No fee “We don’t just do activities, we also talk about our problems and they help us get through them, “ junior

Maendy Reyes-Hernandez said.

Youth in Government

502 Mark Teuting

No president We go to Model General Assembly in Richmond which is like the VIrginia

General Assembly.

If they have an interest in government and it is hands on with government.

6 No fee “I decided to join Youth in Gover-ment because everything with Teuting is fun and I thought it would be a good experience,”

Morgan Heckman said.Infographic by Kendall Bailey, Brenna Cowardin, John Earle, Luke Gibson, Salar Haji, Kerri Hofacker, Ana Hunter-Nickels, Mia Karr, Karim Rawls, Austin Swift, Joshua Storella, and Lybeth Vega.

NICE NEEDLES. Sophomore Anna Dick participates in knitting club.

PHOTOS BY ANA HUNTER-NICKELSGIVING SOME POINTERS. Mr. Kareem explains the ins and outs of Kurdish Club during the year’s first activity period.

SPOTLIGHT ON CLUBS

FEATURE - B2NewsstreakTheOctober 26, 2012

Keith’s Auto Sales

West

800 West Market St.Harrisonburg, VA 22801

540-434-2817

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James McHone Jewelry

We buy, sell, and trade fine antique and estate jewelry.

Monday - Friday 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Saturdays 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Phone number (540) 433-1833

75 Court Square, Harrisonburg VA (look for us next to the Bank of America)

FEATURE- B3NewsstreakTheOctober 26, 2012

A fun heart-racing, jump-out-of- your socks attraction this fall is Fear Forest. Also, a new attrac-tion to the forest is Fear Crops,

an interactive zombie hunt. Riding on a wagon through a field of corn, zombies jump out at visitors.

Visitor’s pulses will never stop racing at this new attraction. Fear Forest is sim-ilar to what it has been in years past, but students should also try out Fear Crops when they go.

A general agreement from students is that Fear Forest is still good, but that Fear Crops still needs some work.

“I didn’t think Fear Crops was execut-ed the right way,” freshman Jake Bishop

said, “It took too long to get through.” What made Bishop’s visit better was

Fear Forest’s scare factor. “It got really scary when you are go-

ing through the building because you feel like you are in a throat. I don’t rec-ommend fear forest for claustrophobic people,” Bishop said, “But in general I definitely recommend it to other stu-dents.”

Fear Forest is located at 6340 Oak Shade Road Harrisonburg, VA 22801 and their phone number is (540)-289-3449.

It is open every Friday and Saturday of October. It will also be open Thursday the 25th, and the Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday leading up to Halloween. It costs $17 to go through Fear Forest and Fear Crops, and only costs $10 to go to one of the attractions.

Fear Crops not quite as terrifying as Fear Forest

Halloween creates Excitement around the ‘Burg

Halloween only comes around once a year. It’s a time for people to dress up

in crazy costumes and eat as much candy as they want. But where do halloween fanatics get these elabo-rate disguises?

Places to buy Halloween costumes in Harrisonburg are Walmart, Target, K-mart, and oth-er big name stores.

Another popular place is Glen’s Fair Price Store downtown. It’s one of the less expensive and local plac-es to shop.

For some, they look at Hallow-een as an adventure, and head on down to nearby cities or towns, such as Staunton, Winchester, Charlottesville, or Roanoke.

For boys, popular costumes are character’s from favorite movies,

books, shows, or just the same cos-tume as a best friend.

Superheroes are always a crowd pleaser, the more commonly seen ones being Spiderman, Superman, and Batman.

For young boys pirate or Star Wars costumes are popular be-cause they come with a sword or light saber.

Girls tend to go more with the princesses and witches.

Children these days have so many choices. A Halloween cos-tume is typically only used for one night, and then shoved into the closet, not to be used again until a younger sister or brother grows into it.

Some may say it’s just a waste of money, to spend $40+ on some absurd costume that will only be worn for 5 hours at most. Others see it as an experience that all chil-dren should take part in.

Old Town gets decked out for harvest season

Bryndal FulginitiStaff reporter

Halloween costumes can be lasting investment

GHOSTS. Old town residents get into the Halloween spirit, by decking out their front lawns.

When it comes to Halloween, there’s a lot that can be assumed about a household just by observ-

ing what they dole out to trick-or-treaters. Whether it’s king-sized candy bars, caramel apples, or some other kind of exotic treat, it’s usually pretty obvious that the person giving them out is a big fan of Halloween in general considering they went a little far-ther than just picking out the cheapest bag of candy at Walmart.

“I remember one house in my neighbor-hood that gave out homemade rice crispy treats every year,” junior Deb Halpern said. Since it was consistent each year, Halpern always looked forward to trick-or-treating at that specific house.

“They were always my favorite,” Halpern said. “If God had a favorite food, it would be rice crispy treats.”

Sometimes, however, certain houses are

trademarked with a treat that is really dis-liked.

“I always hated when people would pass out things like fruit or pretzels,” junior Madison Ward said. Ward explained how frustrating it was when “one year someone actually passed out toothbrushes.”

It’s not just households that take pride in going above and beyond Halloween stan-dards.

Some businesses also take part in this Halloween hoopla as well. For instance, Starbucks adds the pumpkin spice latte to their menu with the beginning of each fall season. Kline’s also goes along with that au-tumn, Halloween theme by serving pump-kin flavored ice cream one week as their featured flavor.

“I always look forward to the unique flavors of fall,” junior Madeline Leach said. This year, Leach has found a new fall favor-ite, chocolate pumpkin cheesecake. “It will definitely be the one food I look forward to next fall,” Leach said.

Anna WyattStaff reporter

Kids look forward to favorite treats

Ghosts flying around the air, cobwebs hang-ing everywhere,

haunted forests and corn mazes, zombies, witches, and mummies, Halloween is in the air.

Everyone may not cel-ebrate Halloween, but the ones who do either get re-ally into it or are just laid back about it.

Most people that live over in Old Town, Harri-sonburg get into the Hal-loween spirit by decorating their homes. When you go over to Old Town around Halloween, it’s like you’re entering an actual Hal-loween town. It’s a whole different atmosphere filled with a spookiness that will give you the chills as you pass by.

Junior Larkin O’Hara and her family, who live in Old Town, get into the spir-it by decorating their house with as many decorations as possible.

“Every year we put up this huge cobweb over our front door, and hang up lights and fake pumpkins all around,” O’Hara said.

For some people, deco-

rating their house is a fam-ily tradition. It’s a time when they are able to get together with their fam-ily. Where they can laugh, joke around, have fun, and spend quality time with one another. Nowadays, that’s hard to get.

“All the memories I have, of decorating my house is that I get to do it with my family. Every year we have a pumpkin carving party, and that’s my favorite part because it is something we do together,” O’Hara said.

Everyone has some-thing different that they enjoy about decorating their house. For junior Ja-cob Byrd, his favorite part about decorating his house is probably a little different than others .

“I love getting to walk on the roof above my front porch to help with decora-tions. It is really fun and it’s one of my favorite memo-ries,” Byrd said.

It’s always unique to be in a town where people decorate their homes, but some people may not un-derstand how much time and dedication it takes.

“My favorite thing about halloween decora-tions is knowing and see-ing kids appreciate them,” Byrd said.

WITCHES. Lawn ornaments sit in front of a Old Town house, greeting visitors. Photo by Bryndal Fulginiti

HALLOWEEN CANDY BY THE NUMBERS

50 people were surveyed for this poll. Infographic by Julexus Cappell

Reeses

Skittles

Snickers

Kit Kat

TwixCandy Corn

Other

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8

10

4

5

7

7

Josh ByrdStyle Editor

John EarleStaff reporter

PHOTO BY BRYNDAL FULGINITI

PHOTO BY BRYNDAL FULGINITI

“Candy. Just about any-thing. But no Butterfingers and no raisins,” librarian Billy Martin

“3 Musketeers,” librarian Debbie Witman

“I am extremely partial to Reese’s peanut butter cups,” library secretary Bradley Wal-ton

“Believe it or not... candy corn pumpkins,” junior Ra-chael Kerley

“Candy corn,” senior Marik Chepelyuk

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PHOTO BY CELIA EHRENPIREISTHE LIVING DEAD. Gravestones with funny sayings and skel-etons sprout up from a yard in Old Town.

TRICK OR TREAT. A freshly carved pumpkin greets visitors on a front stoop of a local home. Many Harrisonburg residents have made the trek to local pumpkin patches to pick out the perfect Jack-o-lantern to great trick or treaters on Halloween.

HARVEST TIME. Fall arrangements featuring pumpkins, gourds, and seasonal mums decorate homes and businesses alike. These items can be purchased at local stores and nurseries.

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RISING TO THE TOP!

GO BIG BLUE! The HHS Cheer team celebrates as they announce the winner of the cheer competition debut at HHS. HHS placed first over all district opponents.

Cheer team places 1st in opener

Cheer team rolling through competitionsHIGH FLYING! THE HHS Cheer team performs a Lib sequence during their home competition.

JUMP! The HHS cheer team performs a jump sequence during their first invitational of the year at East Rockingham. HHS placed first at the invitational and is looking to build off the hot start throughout the season.

ALL PHOTOS BY CHRIS DICKERSON

TO THE TOP! The HHS Cheer team structures a pyramid during their first-place routine.

At the home opening district cheer competition, the Blue Streaks took a first place victory to start off the season with a bang.

The Streaks competi-tion squad impressed fans from all schools with their display of tumbling and flips. Harrisonburg is the only school in the district that has a squad that can all backflip and tumble. That is a big difference between HHS and rival Broadway High School.

Last season there was controversy as to who won the district title, and who won the the district tournament. But that doesn’t matter this year as the Streaks beat second place Broadway by over 31 points.

Harrisonburg fans were startled when coach Bridg-et Smith talked to her girls and the looks on their faces gave the impression that the Streaks might not even place.

That changed, once Lee

was called for third and Broadway was called for second, the startled, dis-appointed look went away, and when the announcer stated that the Streaks had won first place, the crowd erupted in joy as did the cheerleaders.

Harrisonburg’s routine looks to be that of a state champion, and they hope to blow out any team that they face in the upcoming competitions.

Competition cheer is a much bigger deal than people make it out to be. Other than football, Har-risonburg’s strongest fan base has to be for compe-tition cheerleading. The amount of support that the cheerleaders have got-ten in the past two years is crazy.

Not only is the fan base at home huge, but the Streaks cheerleading com-petition fans travel all over the area as well. Fans have been showing up to com-petitions in Buffalo Gap, East Rockingham, and Spotswood in large num-bers.

After a rough start to their second competition on Oct 8, the Lady Streaks fin-ished seven points ahead of Broadway, and seven and a half points ahead of Robert E. Lee.

The ladies had some mi-nor technical difficulties with their music at the start of their routine, but that was their only deduction, according to senior Rachel Defriece.

“We got 10 points taken off because our routine went over the time limit by six seconds, but we’re still ahead of the whole district by 48 points,” Defriece said.

The Streaks performed stunts like liberties, heel stretches, and scorpion twists. With a routine this difficult, senior Sarah Bell had a hard time picking out the hardest part of the night.

“We had just gotten As-pen [Hoak] back after not having her compete with us for two competitions, so we had to adjust to having her back,” Bell said.

The team arrived to school at 6 a.m. the morn-ing of the competition to get some extra practice in before that evening’s event.

“We practiced that morn-ing to get more comfortable with our routine, and we all feel like it really helped

because we went into the [competition] with more confidence,” Defriece said.

Another difficult aspect of being able to perform in these competitions is the tumbling and the jumps. Bell described some of the tumbling that’s required of the girls who make the team.

“We have to be able to do a standing back handspring, a toe touch and a round-off back handspring,” Bell said.

With the help of the crowd, the Streaks pushed to the lead and came out ahead of the rest of the dis-trict.

The next competition will be on Oct 27 at Spotswood and Regionals will be Nov 3.

Max JohnsonStaff reporter

VICTORY! The HHS Cheer team celebrates their victory at East Rockingham.

SPORTS - B7NewsstreakTheOctober 26, 2012

Cross country runners take on farmGina MuanNews Editor

LINING UP. Grounds maintenance crew member Amos Simmons lines the football field for an upcoming game. Simmons has been on staff at HHS for 17 years.


HHS runners endured simmering heat waves as they powered over steep hills and through clouds of gnats at the Burter Clas-sic meet on Oct. 3.

“People finished with bugs all over them,” senior Caitlin Kelly said. Kelly was unable to participate in the race because of an injury, but as a result was able to watch her fellow teammates as she recorded their times.

“We did really well,” Kelly said, “I was bummed that I didn’t get to run, but from what I saw, it was a great race.”

The girls placed third among the Valley District teams and sixth overall.

“Our scores improved from the first meet we ran there this year,” senior Jonas Zimmerman said. “[We’re] all familiar with the course, and Districts are [at Burtner] too, so we have a shot to make it to Region-als.”

“Our legs were tired from the workout

Monday so we could have done better, but for this point in the season, I think we did pretty well,” senior Andrea Wood said.

Runners have constant workouts to strengthen various aspects of their race. They alternate between days focused on sprints and core exercises. An intense workout session for the girls two days pri-or to the race may have resulted in weary legs as the runners took off. However, exhaustion proved to have little effect on several competitors.

Senior Jordan Leaman received first place in Rockingham County and sixth place overall for the varsity team. Leaman achieved a PR for the course.

For the girls varsity, senior Erin Good-stein placed first for HHS, and 21st over-all. Out of the 18 other schools, the HHS girls JV team came out on top, with senior Jenny Kniss coming in first for HHS.

Dr. Burtner, owner of the ‘farm’, allows schools to use the land for competitions. The 5-kilometer course is rife with inclines. At the sound of the gun, runners took off,

speeding up and down the grassy slopes and through a forested section.

“It’s really hilly,” junior Ashley Riley said. “There’s this one hill we call ‘The Wall,’ because it’s so steep.”

Many Lady Streaks enjoy the course at Burtner farm because of its familiarity. Although HHS does have an actual home cross-country course, it hasn’t been used this year and the girls consider Burtner to be their ‘second home.’

“I love Burtner,” sophomore Laurie Serrell said. “We know how to run the course. Coach takes us there and tells us where to speed up. Bugg lives there and likes to help coach us.”

‘Bugg’ used to be the XC coach for HHS. He lives on Burtner Farm, assists with team training, and is also the teams’ bus driver.

XC runners are to compete once again at Burtner for Regionals on Oct. 30. Fully acclimated to workouts and at the peak of their season, they plan to place well.

Schedule of events:COMPETITION CHEERLEADING

Oct 27 H District MiniNov 3 A TBD (Regionals)Nov 10 A TBD (States)

VARSITY VOLLEYBALLOct 23 H R.E. LeeOct 25 A WaynesboroOct 30 A TBD (Districts)

FOOTBALLOct 26 H LibertyNov 2 H Waynesboro

CROSS COUNTRYOct 26 H Liberty

WINTER SPORTS TRYOUTSIn order to participate in tryouts, all athletes must have a VHSL physical on file with the school. Stop by the

athletic department office in the gym commons area to pick one up. All

winter athletes who did not partici-pate in a fall sport must attend the

athletic safety meeting.

For more information about try-outs, talk to the head coach of each team:

Girls Basketball - Bill BayerBoys Basketball - Scott Joyner

Wrestling - Mike DickersonIndoor Track - David Loughran

Gymnastics - Michael KingSwimming - Richard Morrell

Cheerleading - Bridget Smith

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Sports require a lot of energy and strength from athletes. Getting injured in a sport is actually pretty common, and the effects of an injury on a student ath-lete are tremendous. Junior Chris Hyser is currently in his fall season sport, cross country. Unfortunately, he dislocated his right knee at the beginning of his varsity year. This injury has affected him in many ways, but mostly he will not be allowed to race with his cross country team until the end of the season.

“[If this didn’t happen], I’d be on the varsity team this year. Now the team is one short and they haven’t had a seventh seed pretty much all season,” Hyser said.

Hyser’s knee was dislocated in the be-ginning of this fall when he was running. He took a bad step and tripped. Now his recovery is going to take about 10 weeks.

“Ten weeks is basically the end of the season for me. I lost a whole season,” Hy-ser said.

Hyser goes to therapy every day to help his knee. In therapy, he does stretches and exercises for his knee that are designed to aid his recovery. Even after Hyser is done with his therapy, he will probably have to wear a knee band and be more careful about getting injured again.

“Therapy isn’t fun, but I guess it helps me,” Hyser said.

As much as Hyser would like to race this season, his injury is going to prevent him from any running. Hyser still supports his varsity cross country team and cheers them on at every meet. Getting back into shape and recovering from his injury will take some time, but Hyser is hopeful that next year, he’ll be back out there with his team, getting record times.

Faith RunnellsStaff Reporter

After working as the head custodian in the athletic department for the last 17 years, Amos Simmons, commonly known as Amos, is still doing his job with the same enthusiasm he had in the beginning. As the head athletic custodian, he is re-quired to look after all the physical plant operations of the field and complete game day setups.

Eddie Hart has also been working as an athletic custodian alongside Simmons for the last five years. Hart said that he chose this job because it was ‘easy’. Although, working the fields may be easy, it’s cer-tainly a struggle to mow and fix the fields when the temperature drops to the freez-ing point

“We always go home 1-2 hours after all the students and spectators,” Hart said.

During the football season, mowing and painting the field are the normal pro-cedures that occur before football games. Only these three activities take at least three days for Simmons, Hart and Bobby, a part time helper, to complete. Once the game is over, they have to clean the field which tends to take at least an hour or two.

“After the football games we have to clean everything. I sometimes don’t get home until midnight,” Simmons said.

Although, the work is tiring, Simmons is supportive of the Streaks in every game they play even if they are not doing so great.

“Sometimes the plays are upsetting but you just gotta bite your tongue and deal with it,” Simmons said.

While describing his job, Simmons says “I’m happy 99% of the time but some-times we [all] have an occasional bad day at work.”

Simmons doesn’t have a favorite sports season that he likes to work, but spring poses new problems.

“Spring sports are the hardest because when it rains things get delayed. We’ll pre-pare the baseball and softball fields right

before the game, but then there’s a rain-storm. Now, there goes two to three hours of work right in the drain,” Simmons said.

Athletic Director, Darrell Wilson, and Hart described Simmons as a ‘fun’ guy to be around with.

“ He does more than he is required to. Even when he is home on his day off and they need someone to fix the field he just comes and does it,” Hart said.

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One play, one wrong step can sideline an athlete for a few games or possibly an entire season. As terrible and unfortunate as they are, injuries are a part of sports and athletes take the risk of getting in-jured every time they step on the court or field. For junior Skyler Johnson, this risk became a reality during the season opener against Eastern Mennonite.

“We all really wanted to beat [EMHS]. We hate losing to them,” Johnson said.

The Streaks ended up beating EMHS, but Johnson had to leave early in the sec-ond set.

“I went up for a spike and heard some-thing in my leg pop. I sat out for a little bit, but I couldn’t go back into the game. I went to the doctor three days later and found out that I had a stress fracture in my lower leg,” Johnson said.

She was put in a boot and was unable to practice, or play, for three weeks.

“I hated to have to sit out while my team played without me. I really wanted to be out there playing, but I knew I couldn’t and that was terrible,” Johnson said.

Johnson plays an enormous role in the team’s success. She returned to action on Sept 25 against the Broadway Gobblers and helped the Streaks surge to a 3-0 win.

“Having to walk around in that stupid boot for three weeks really sucked,” John-son said about the worst part of being in-jured.

SPORTS - B8NewsstreakTheOctober 26, 2012

STREAKS SWEEP GOBBLERSThe varsity volleyball team defeated Broadway 3-0 on Sept 25 at home. That gave the ladies their first district win. Taylor Grogg led the team with 21 digs, and Sarah Rose added 9 kills for the victory.

STREAKS LOSE KEY PLAYERThe varsiy football team suffered a key loss against Robert E.Lee High School when junior quarterback, Ryan Nixon, went down with an an-kle injury. The boys ended up losing 14-19 at Lee.

STREAKS LOSE TO LITTLE GIANTSThe varsity volleyball team lost 1-3, to Waynesboro High School on Oct 2. After going down two sets early, the ladies rallied back to make it 1-2. The team was led by Taylor Grogg who had 25 digs, and Skyler Johnson add-ed 24 assists.

LADIES STRUGGLE AGAINST SPOTSWOODThe varsity volleyball team lost to Spotswood on Oct 9, 0-3. Taylor Grogg led the team with 21 digs, while Kaelen Adams added 5 kills for the Streaks.

FOOTBALL LOSES TO INDIANSThe varsity football team traveled to Fort Defiance High School on Oct 12. The Streaks lost to the Indians 13-25.

FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTSThe Streaks take on the Minutemen of Liberty High School on Oct 26. The game kicks off at 7 p.m. The Red Sea will be tailgating in the parking lot before the start of the game.

RED SEA ATTIRE STILL FOR SALEJoin the best student pep section in the Valley! Red Sea t-shirts are avail-able now in room 444 for $10 each. The SCA has requested that students pack the Red Sea section with as many people as we can possibly get. Start your Friday night fun with Red Sea tailgating prior to the game in the student parking lot. Bring $1 for food.

STREAKS KNOCKOUT KNIGHTSThe junior varsity volleyball team beat cross-town rivals, Turner Ashby, in a volleyball match on Oct 16. The ladies won 2-1.

Sports BriefsStarting setter sidelined in first game

Kendall BaileySports editor

A new physical education class was added to the curriculum this fall. Dual En-rollment Kinesiology, also known as DE Personal Wellness, caught the interest of several students who are either planning to pursue a path in the physical education field or have a strong love for sports and exercise.

Senior Jonas Zimmerman instantly signed up for the class as soon as he heard it was being offered.

“I’m interested in athletic training, and I enjoy lifting, running, and doing sports, so the class seemed like a perfect combina-tion of the two,” Zimmerman said.

When the idea of expanding the PE pro-gram first surfaced last year, there was a lot of questioning from the student body on how the Kinesiology class would work,

and how the curriculum would differ from a regular PE or weight training class.

Junior Maendy Hernandez explained how the class differed from freshman and sophomore PE classes.

“[The kinesiology] class gives you col-lege credit, and is a lot cheaper than if you waited until college to take it,” Hernandez said.

“We get a book, and watch power points that we take notes on, and then we have two lab days, where we practice the exer-cises we’ve learned. Then on the fourth day of each unit we take a test,” Zimmerman said.

The new Kinesiology class also focuses on the muscles and how they work.

“The whole point of the class is explain-ing the purposes for different exercises, and what muscles are used in each one,” Zimmerman said.

“We get to learn about the differences

between boys’ and girls’ limits when it comes to weight lifting,” Hernandez said.

The class seems to be beneficial when it comes to the muscular system, but the course holds a lot of favorite topics for its students as well.

“I love all the different types of activi-ties we get to do, and we always measure our heart rate with our watches after every weight training session,” Hernandez said.

“I like getting to learn and understand the purpose for why I’m stretching and ef-fect they have on my running,” Zimmer-man said.

The addition of the Kinesiology class has benefited the students with interests in a Physical Education and Sports Medi-cine degree. Even though the option has just been added to the curriculum, the teachers have received positive feedback from its students and is hopes to gain par-ticipates in the upcoming years.

Dual enrollment Kinesiology added to class list

REACH! Junior starting setter Skyler Johnson goes up for a block against T.A. in their home match on Oct. 16. A serious leg injury sidelined Johnson for the first half of the volleyball season.

Sam ImesonStaff reporter



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Pick apples for perfect fall weekend outing

APPLES FOR SALE. Showalter’s Orchard not has an apple orchard, but also a pumpkin patch.

SO SCENIC. The view from the orchard overlooks the town of Timber-ville, about 45 minutes away from Harrisonburg.

TODAY’S PICKS. Showalter’s displays the suggested apple varieties for their interested customers.

APPLES UPON APPLES. A large barrel of apples sits in Showalter’s check out area.

CRATES OF APPLES. Apples wait to be shipped out for sale in different stores all over Virginia.

RED TRUCK. A truck sits outside of Showalter’s Greenhouse, which sells everything from vegetables to spring bed plants.

LOW HANGING FRUIT. Apples at Showal-ter’s Orchard wait to be picked.

The smell of fermented apples greets my nose as I walk along the rows and rows of apple trees. I look down to see the ground

completely covered with round red fruit. Apple picking, in my opinion, seems to be an underrated fall activity. The Saturday afternoon I spent at Showalter’s Orchard was seasonally enjoyable, and helped me get into the fall spirit.

The Orchard is perched atop a tall mountain, overlooking the small but scenic town of Timberville. The apple or-chard sells a wide range of apple related products, which includes everything from warm cider to apple butter. The homemade apple doughnuts are worth

the 45-minute drive alone. Rows and rows of apples line the expansive orchard. Each fruit looks ripe for picking, and with over twenty different varieties, it’s not hard to get started.

The apple picking process starts by choosing one of the many different sized bags. There are five options, if young chil-dren want to carry their own bag, a half peck is suggested, costing $4. For the more experienced apple pickers, there are sizes ranging all the way up to a bush-el, with four pecks equaling a bushel. I grabbed the two peck bag and headed outside.

One of the ladies in charge advised me to start with the Fuji apples. She deems them the best variety to eat, since their flesh is sweet instead of tart. Custom-ers are given free range of the property,

meaning any apple they see is game to be picked. Late on a Saturday afternoon, around 30 pickers roam the property se-lecting their goods. The Fuji section of the orchard is filled with the majority of the pickers, from elderly couples to new parents.

The best apples tend to hide at the top of the trees, so it is not unusual to see ladders propped against tree trunks, their occupants trying to reach the most delectable fruit.

Other apple varieties offered by Show-alter’s include; Granny Smith, Golden Delicious, Pink Lady, Stayman, and many more. Once my bag is filled with a wide array of apples, I make my way to the checkout. A long line greets customers, a 10-minute wait is pretty much guar-anteed. Antsy children munch on apples

while waiting to be checked out.Showalter’s not only has top notch

apple picking, but also quite a few fun fall options. An adorable pumpkin patch greets visitors on their drive up to the orchard. The Showalter’s greenhouse is directly beside the orchard, carrying everything from spring bed plants to vegetables. Greenhouse classes are also offered in the spring for all interested gardeners. The wide range includes ev-erything from “How to Grow and Use Culinary Herbs” to “Patio Paradise Using Tropical Plants in Containers”.

The orchard opens at 8 a.m. every morning, except Sunday, and closes at 6 p.m. on weekdays, but 5 p.m. on Saturday. Showalter’s Orchard is a great day trip for anyone looking to get into the fall spirit.

SIT DOWN AND RELAX. A beautiful mural at Showalter’s Orchard. ALL PHOTOS BY CELIA EHRENPREIS

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