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Happening Now •Eighth Grade: Orientation visit 8 a.m.-noon in commons and auditorium—eighth grade parade 9:30 a.m. •Staff: Retirement recognition lunch 11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m. in faculty dining room •Girls Basketball: Open gym 5-6 p.m. in main gym
Lunch Time at WHS •Today’s lunch: Chicken nuggets, potatoes with gravy, dinner roll, green beans •À la carte lines: Pepperoni pizza, cheese enchilada with chips, chef salad, sandwiches
Group Meetings •AP Information Night: 5:30 p.m. May 24 in the commons.
Other Reminders •Siouxland Public Library: Representatives will visit WHS during lunch today in the commons. Get a free library card, have fines forgiven and more by visiting them today.
Beach Bash 2017 Dress up, dude! •Today: Jersey Day •Thursday: Multiplicity Day NOW Wednesday Staff Co-Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jack Talley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . and Devyn Kennedy Assistant Editor . . . . . . . . . . . Lauren Olson Staff: Rheannan Bills, Deion Larsen, Justin Strutz, Joe Simko, Maddie Risch, Thomas Vissers Co-Editors-in-Chief . . . . . . . . Maham Shah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .and Carson Herbert Adviser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jason Lueth The News of Washington is a publication of the Orange & Black Staff Washington High School–Sioux Falls, S.D.
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Over 500 eighth graders pay visit to WHS today Event includes special parade through building
By Lauren Olson and Thomas Vissers ver 500 future Warriors currently in eighth grade will be welcomed to WHS today as the Freshman Academy holds an Eighth Grade orientation. The event will also include an eighth grade parade at 9:30 a.m. this morning through the halls of the A Wing as current Warriors welcome their future classmates, including 310 eighth graders from Whittier, 157 from Patrick Henry, 31 from McGovern and nine from Edison Middle School. WHS teachers and staff may choose whether or not they would like their class to participate in the 10-minute parade event. Current Warriors in the hallway need to be positive and welcoming to the eighth graders, and need to keep one foot against the wall in order to keep the hallway open for the parade. After the parade, the eighth graders will be attending an assembly introducing them to Freshman Academy coordinator Todd Novak and principal Dan Conrad. Following the short assembly and a few games, the future students will be ushered to the commons to talk to current students and
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ask any questions they have about the transition to high school. The class of 2021 will also learn about the lunch process, passing periods and a number of other things to help them get through their first weeks as Warriors in the fall. Novak said he is looking forward to the event. “This opportunity communicates the big picture ideas about high school, courage and the power of choice,” Novak said. “This will hopefully give the new Warriors a positive experience in the building.” One hundred and eighty-three Link Crew members that are current WHS students will be helping out with the process and will talk to the middle schoolers about their overall experience here at WHS. They will also show the eighth graders where to exit and enter the building in the mornings and afternoons, answer questions about freshman orientation and the Summer Connections program. Senior Skylar Moen, a Link Crew member, is excited. “I am looking forward to introducing the eighth graders to their future home for the next four years today,” Moen said.
Girls golf team hosts large invitational By Grace Isaacson and Emelia Skogstad The Warrior girls golf team hosted the 11-team Warrior Invitational Monday at Willow Run, finishing eighth, shooting a 380. O’Gorman won overall, shooting a 331. Junior Madison Hollingshead paced the Warriors, shooting an 88 to tie for 15th overall. Senior Calli Bordeaux, who finished 43rd overall with a 104, said she was pleased with how the day went. “We did well as a team and
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played one of our lowest scores and we are looking forward to improving,” Bordeaux said. Coach Craig Nelson was also pleased with his team. “We shot our best team score of the year, and we had three of our four scorers under 100,” Nelson said. “Now we need to get a couple more girls under the triple digit mark. They are working hard and starting to play better golf.” On Thursday the golf team will be traveling to Brookings to compete at an Invitational. The JV team finished 10th out of 11 teams at the Warrior
Invitational. Senior Payton Buche lead the JV team with a score of 110. Two rounds of the JV City Meet were also played this week, Monday at the Country Club of Sioux Falls and Tuesday at Elmwood. On Monday, WHS shot a 206 for third. On Tuesday, they shot a 237 for fourth. WHS is currently in third overall with a 1,068 in the six-team event that includes Brandon Valley and Harrisburg. Brandon Valley currently leads with a 926.
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Track teams compete in final regular season meet By Rheannan Bills Track and field team members competed at the Last Chance Qualifying Meet Tuesday in Harrisburg. While no additional team members qualified for the upcoming state meet May 26-27 in Brandon and Sioux Falls at the event, the team did perform well, coach Everett Gebhart said.
“No one qualified that hadn’t already,” Gebhart said. “We got a few better times and distances, however.” Senior Ethan McKinney ran a :22.39 in the 200 meter dash and junior Shiloh Flanagan lept 6’ 3” in the high jump and 21’ 0.5” in the long jump. Senior Isabel Kinzer ran the 100 hurdles in :16.45.
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Warrior baseball squad goes 2-1 with Yankton By Jack Talley The Warrior varsity baseball team took two of three games from Yankton to wrap-up the regular season as they played the Bucks Monday in Yankton and Tuesday at Harmodon Park. Monday WHS won the first game 5-3, and fell in the second 2-1 in Yankton. Tuesday the Warriors
defeated the Bucks 5-3 at Harmodon. Senior Austin Kubik was happy to end the regular season with a win. “It was a great way to end the season,” he said. “We are ready to play in Harrisburg.” WHS ended the regular season at 15-12 and will enter regional play Saturday at Harrisburg.
Cats or dogs? They are both lovable! The world is full of conflict, and the biggest just might be the feud between cat people and dog people. Personally, I think cats are the most majestic and adorable animal on this planet. However, many do not have the same views as me, and they feel the need to prove that I am wrong. I have heard Hear me. . . every argum e n t — “c a t s can’t play fetch,” “dogs are always Devyn Kennedy happy” and my personal favorite, “cats are mean.” I know this is false, because I have two cats myself and they are the most loving pets in the world. When I pick them up they give me hugs, are always at the foot of my bed to wake me up in the morning and no matter how hard I try to get rid of them, always find a way
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back to my lap. However, I am not the kind of person to not give both parties a chance. I did have a dog for 16 years, but we had to put her down right before Christmas. I can’t lie—having a dog is fun and missing it is one of the hardest things I have ever had to do. With a dog, you always have a walking partner, when you throw a ball your furry friend will always retrieve it and there is always a happy face to see when you open the front door. However, there are some things that nether animals are good at—like being dressed up in animal Halloween costumes you bought at Walmart or sitting still when you’re trying to take a picture of them. So the next time you are in an argument over which is better, I suggest stopping the fight and taking a trip to your local animal shelter to experience the love of both. Sophomore Devyn Kennedy would rather be holding a cat.
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Plastic piling up in Arctic Ocean By Sean Greene Los Angeles Times (TNS) Plastic trash is now so ubiquitous that researchers have found hundreds of tons of it floating in the Arctic Ocean. It may not sound like much, but it’s a surprising amount given the area’s sparse population. The researchers who measured the plastic debris in the waters near the North Pole described it as “widespread and abundant,” according to a study last month in the journal Science Advances.
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“We already knew that the marine plastic pollution was high at tropical and temperate latitudes,” said study leader Andres Cozar, an ecologist at the University of Cadiz in Spain. “Now, we also know that the plastic waste is extending up to the poles.” Cózar and his colleagues estimated that 63% of the ice-free Arctic Ocean is “slightly polluted” with various types of plastic debris, including fishing line, microbeads and fragments of plastic products. Of the plastic trash that makes it to the Arctic, 95% of the plastic “dead ends” in either the Greenland Sea or the Barents Sea, north of Scandinavia. Although the world’s other ocean “garbage patches” are significantly larger than the plastic accumulation in the Arctic, the average concentrations of plastic found there were comparable to those found in the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian oceans. In a 2014 study, Cózar and his team estimated those oceans contain 10,000 to 35,000 tons of plastic pollution. Their latest findings suggest 3% of that global total is floating in the Arctic.
