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Friday, April 7, 2017
Vol. 22 • No. 129
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AP Environmental Science students tour ethanol plant
Happening NOW •Baseball: Freshman/sophomore doubleheader vs. Brandon Valley 5 p.m. today in Valley Springs; varsity vs. Fargo North 5 p.m. and Fargo Shanley 7:30 p.m. today and vs. West Fargo noon and Fargo North 2 p.m. Saturday at Harmodon Park •ACT: Test 8 a.m. Saturday at WHS •Track and Filed: Varsity at Brandon Valley Invitational 10:30 a.m. Saturday in Brandon •Show Choir: State Tournament 11 a.m. Saturday at Johnson Fine Arts Center at Northern State University in Aberdeen—WHS performs at 3:30 p.m. •Special Olympics: Track and field practice 2 p.m. Sunday at WHS •Student Council: State Convention 4 p.m. Sunday-Tuesday at Rushmore Plaza Civic Center in Rapid City
Lunch Time at WHS •Today’s lunch: Grilled cheese sandwich, tomato soup, peas •À la carte lines: Cheese pizza, bean and cheese burrito, baked potato bar, chef salad, sandwiches
Group Meetings •SMASH Book Club: Members will meet during lunch periods today in the library. Bring taco fixings—see librarian Kerri Smith for details. •Young Republicans: Will meet at 3:10 p.m. today for the Children’s Inn drive and again Wednesday. NOW Friday Staff
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Attendees learn how landfill figures in equation By Sydney Stallinga P Environmental Science (APES) students took a tour of the methane recovery project at the Municipal Landfill which is just west of Sioux Falls and visited the POET Ethanol Plant in Chancellor March 31. POET’s mission is to be good stewards of the earth by converting renewable resources to energy and other valuable goods as effectively as humanly possible. APES student senior Morgan Small said she enjoyed the trip a lot. “It was really cool to see the process behind making ethanol and how many people it takes to do something like that,” Small said. “It was also nice to learn how to participate in helping our environment even as teenagers just by using a small percentage of ethanol in the gas we put in our cars.” The students went on the field trip to learn more about
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Photo courtesy Ross Blank-Libra APES—AP Environmental Science students who attended the field trip included (row 1, L-R) junior Lexi Gjoraas; seniors Carter Klatt, Mariah Thompson, Jakob Larson and Jonah Nelson; chaperone Layne Nelson; senior Morgan Small, junior Jordyn Gonzales; senior Sydney Rodman; (row 2) POET employee; seniors Skyler Jacobs, Sarah Bell, Max Larsen, Justin Clevenger, Spencer DeLange, Jeff McKee, Devin Gilbertson and Noah Brown; POET Employee; (row 3) seniors Komboor Gatnoor, Nolan Behr, Ryan Koch, Calvin Poderzay, Josh Olson, Chase Flickema, Jacob Kringen and Landon Carda and teacher Ross Blank-Libra. how each of the facilities operate. APES teacher Ross BlankLibra said it was an educational experience for his students, “We explored the agreement
that the two facilities have with each other,” Blank-Libra said. “The landfill supplies biomass fuel and methane gas to the plant for energy usage.”
JV track teams compete at Metro Meet By Erika Lehan The Warrior JV track team competed in the JV Metro Conference Early-Bird Track Meet Thursday afternoon at Roosevelt High School. No team points were kept at the meet, but WHS had good individual results, including freshman Jamie Thomas who took first place in two events—the boys 100 and 200 meter dash. In the 200 he got a time of :24.3 with 55 other competitors. In the 100 he finished with a time of :11.8 out of a group of 50. For the girls pole vault, freshman Jaycee Johannsen took the number one spot with a final mark of 9’6”.
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Freshman Merci Bita also finished first in his performance in the boys 1,600 meter run. His final time was 5:02.8. The varsity track teams will next be in action Saturday as they participate in the Brandon Valley Invitational beginning at 10:30 a.m. in Brandon. Senior Thuro Reisdorfer is looking forward to competing in the season’s first large outdoor invitational. “I am excited to see how well my team and I can compete in this competition not far from home,” Reisdorfer said. “We had a good week of practice and are ready to show it.”
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Classic Connection competes in SDHSAA State Tournament By Kylee Haub Classic Connection Show Choir members will compete in the annual South Dakota High School Activities Association State Tournament Saturday at the Johnson Fine Arts Center on the campus of Northern State University in Aberdeen. WHS will compete in the Class AA division beginning at 2:30 p.m. Saturday. Classic connection is scheduled to com-
pete at 3:30 p.m. Senior Katie Vroman is ready. “It will be a very tough competition, but I am confident that we will be able to perform our very best,” Vroman said. The show choir will also hold a “Last of Show” event Monday at WHS. Both show choirs will perform at 6 p.m. followed by a catered taco bar from Pancheros at 7 p.m. Tickets are $10 in advance.
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Student council heads west to state convention in R.C. By Kelsi Kearney The South Dakota Student Council Association will sponsor their annual state convention Sunday-Tuesday at the Rushmore Plaza Civic Center in Rapid City. This year’s convention is themed “Lead Us West” and will bring student councils from across the state together to learn from and inspire each other. The mayor of Rapid City, Steve Allender, will
welcome representatives. All members will take part in Project Warm-Up following their arrival, followed by break-out sessions, workshops and general sessions, as well as run for state offices. All workshops will be influenced by a western theme as they learn about new ideas to incorporate into their own school. The event will include a dance Monday and end Tuesday in Rapid City.
Get ready for open houses, warmer weather With warmer weather approaching, contrary to the general public’s belief, it is not time to start preparing for swimsuit season. Rather, it’s time to get ready for graduation open house season! For underclassmen that do not know, open houses are celebrations for the graduates of Hear me. . . the class of 2017, starting as early as the last weekend in April. Maddie VanderFeen To get ready, it is imperative to be eating larger portion sizes now. If not, open house season will hit you like a ton of bricks. It is impressive to still be eating platefuls by the third or fourth open house of the day. If you begin to hit a wall, keep going, because
you do not want to show the people around you that you are weak. Warn your parents they do not need to cook on the weekends. Now, food is not the most important part of “open housing.” We need to remember the true meaning of these celebrations is to congratulate and celebrate the graduation of seniors. To show your appreciation, it all starts with a really big hug. Even if you aren’t that close to the graduate and are along for the ride, do not skip this very important step and go straight to the food. It is also important to have your open house etiquette on point. Do not forget your please and thank yous, greet everyone with a smile and be respectful of everyone’s decorations—even if they are hand-me-down decorations from their older sibling’s open house. So enjoy the second best season of the year, right next to fall. Senior Maddie VanderFeen is ready to hit the open house circuit.
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Sub-varsity baseball earns wins, varsity takes on N.D. teams
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By Taylor Anderson Warrior sub-varsity baseball teams were in action Thursday in two locations as the Warriors won three games and tied another. The JV played their games vs. Brandon Valley at Valley Springs and came out on top 14-2 in the first game with sophomore Nate Rietz as winning pitcher and 5-3 in the second with junior Nick Marnin on the mound to improve to 6-2 on the season. The freshman/sophomore team took on Lincoln Thursday at Harmodon Park, tieing 6-6 in the first
game and prevailing in the second game 9-3 with freshman Jacob Glovich the winning pitcher. The freshman/sophomore team’s record is now 3-0-1. The Warrior varsity will now play in the Border Battle with North Dakota teams today and Saturday. WHS will play Fargo North at 5 p.m. and Fargo Shanley at 7 p.m. today and West Fargo at noon and Fargo North for a second time at 2 p.m. Saturday at Harmodon Park. The event will also feature Roosevelt, Lincoln, Brookings and Brandon Valley.
Elephants need little sleep
By Susan Milius Science News Today (TNS) Wild African elephants may break sleep records for mammals. New data show that they seem to get by just fine on about two hours of shut-eye a night. Much of that snoozing took place while they were standing up. The animals lie down to sleep only once every three to four nights.
Science Friday Trying to figure out how much wild elephants sleep just by watching them 24 hours a day is tricky, especially in the dark. Much of what scientists had known about sleeping elephants came from animals living in captivity, notes Paul Manger. He is a neuroscientist, or brain researcher, at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. In zoos and enclosures, elephants have been recorded snoozing from about three hours to nearly seven during a 24-hour period. Using electronic monitors on African elephants in the wild, however, has turned up more extreme behavior. That two-hour average snooze is the least sleep recorded for any mammal species. Game rangers familiar with wild African elephants had claimed these animals almost never slept. The new data seem to now confirm they were right. Manger and his team shared their findings March 1 in PLOS ONE. Electronic devices tracked the animals over about a month. During that time, the elephants averaged just two hours of sleep a day. What’s more, the elephants were able to skip a night’s sleep without needing extra naps the next day. Until now, horses were the record-holders for needing the least sleep. They can get by with just 2 hours, 53 minutes of sleep, Manger says. At 3 hours, 20 minutes, donkeys weren’t far behind.
