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Happening NOW •Boys Golf: Mitchell Invitational 10:30 a.m. today at Lake View Golf Course •Homecoming: Variety show rehearsal 3:30 p.m. today in auditorium •Volleyball: JV and varsity vs. Rapid City Stevens and Central 4 p.m. today at Central High School; freshmen at invitational 9 a.m. Saturday in Luverne, Minn. •Football: Varsity vs. Mitchell 7 p.m. tonight at Joe Quintal Filed in Mitchell; freshmen vs. Brookings 10 a.m. Saturday at WHS •Cross Country: 9 a.m. Saturday at Broadland Creek Golf Course in Huron •Cheer and Dance: Competition 11 a.m. Saturday at the Swiftel Center in Brookings •Soccer: At Watertown—girls varsity and boys JV 4 p.m., girls JV and boys varsity 6 p.m. •Marching Band: At Rosemont Festival 5 p.m. Saturday in Rosemont, Minn. WHS performs 7:30 p.m. •OLD: Homecoming kick-off Ice Cream Social 1 p.m. Sunday in commons
Lunch Time at WHS •Today’s lunch: Popcorn chicken, dinner roll, corn •À la carte lines: Cheese pizza, bean and cheese burrito, chef salad, sandwiches
Group Meetings •Renaissance Committee: Members will meet at 7:30 a.m. Tuesday in E-112.
Other Reminders •Sophomores-Seniors: Homecoming voting problems have been resolved. Check your school e-mail to vote today. •2017 Yearbooks: may be picked up before or after school or during lunch in A-133. NOW Friday Staff
Co-Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kinsey Strom and Lauren Olson Assistant Editor: . . . . . . . . . . . . Justin Strutz Staff: Payton Jahnke, Carter Munce Editors-in-chief . . . . . . . . . . . Madi Forseth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . and Libby Nachtigal Adviser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jason Lueth The News of Washington is a publication of the Orange & Black Staff Washington High School–Sioux Falls, S.D. WHSNOW.COM Some material courtesy of American Society of Newspaper Editors/ TNS Campus High School Newspaper Service
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WHS celebrates 95th Orange Letter Days Homecoming Booster Club Ice Cream Social kicks-off events Sunday By Carter Munce arriors will celebrate their 95th Annual Orange Letter Days (OLD) Homecoming week next week at WHS. Events will begin at 1 p.m. on Sunday, with the Booster Club Ice Cream Social in the commons. Dress-up days will take place all week, including “Businessmen vs. Slobs” on Monday, “Villains vs. Superheroes” on Tuesday, “Athletes vs. Mathletes” on Wednesday, “Denim vs. Leather” on Thursday and “Warrior Pride” school colors on Friday. Monday will also feature the homecoming variety show featuring some of WHS’s most talented individuals, including senior Chloe Legel in her third and last homecoming performance. “I’m super excited to perform,” Legel said. She reminded students to have a lot of fun, but to remain polite in the audience. Junior Nate Freese was also pumped for the variety show. “I’m excited to go to the variety show because it always makes me laugh,” Freese said. Following the variety show, the coronation of the 95th Homecoming King and Queen will take place. Friday is the climax of this year’s homecom-
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Photo courtesy Warrior Yearbook SPIRIT—Student council members senior Logan Uttecht (left) and Carson Buell model “Athletes vs. Mathletes” at Thursday’s assembly. ing featuring the pizza feed and homecoming carnival as well as encore presentations of the variety show in the afternoon and a pep rally to end the school day. The football game vs. Rapid City Stevens will take place at 5 p.m. at Howard Wood Field and the Homecoming Dance at WHS from 8-11 p.m. to end the week Friday.
Marching band travels to Rosemont, Minn. By Kinsey Strom Over 120 marching band members will be competing at their first competition of the season at the 28th Annual Rosemount Marching Band Festival Satrday in Rosemount, Minn. Events begin at 5 p.m. in Rosemont with WHS performing at 7:30 p.m. A clinic with judges will also take place before the competition, weather permitting. The marching band has been preparing for their 2017
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show, “Rags to Riches,” since June. They have had camps all summer long including one that lasted two and a half weeks from 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday. They also practice every Tuesday and Thursday from 5-9 p.m. after school. The band publicly debuted their show at the President’s Bowl last week and have made changes to improve the show since. Senior Sam King, a member of the marching band, is excitWarrior Nation Events
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ed for the upcoming season. “I feel pretty good about our first competition,” King said. “We are constantly changing aspects of our show to improve it and to hopefully get better scores. This is going to be the hardest one of the whole season, but we are going to take our critiques and just hope for the best.” Following this, the band will preform at the homecoming game on Sept. 22, then compete at the Waseca, Minn., Marching Classic on Sept. 23. All WHS News
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Girls tennis team falls to Brandon Valley Lynx 6-3 By Justin Strutz and Payton Jahnke The Warrior girls tennis team fell to the Brandon Valley Lynx 6-3 Thursday afternoon in Brandon. Wins came from freshman Katelyn Nesheim at No. 2, freshman Taylor Olson at No. 4 and senior Kennie Brandt at No. 5 in singles. The Warrior girls all lost in doubles action. Next on the schedule the team will travel to
Rapid City for the East/ West Invitational Monday and Tuesday. Senior Sydney Dixen is excited for the upcoming matches. “I think we can pull out wins,” Dixen said. “As a team we need to be strong and play our game.” Senior Syndey Jaureque is ready to travel. “I am excited to bond with the other teams on the way out there because it is a long ride,” Jaureque said.
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Football team takes on undefeated Mitchell tonight By Payton Jahnke The No. 1 rated Class AAA Warrior football team will take on the No. 2 rated AA Mitchell Kernels tonight at 7 p.m. at Joe Quintal Field, 920 N. Capital Street in Mitchell. Right now, WHS is the only undefeated team remaining in Class AAA, and Mitchell the only undefeated team in AA football. Both teams are 3-0. The team has had a
great few days of practice preparing for Mitchell and believe that the key to winning this game is getting physical and coming out with a lot of energy, senior Trevor Burkhart said. “I think a lot of people have stepped-up this week and that we will not be taking Mitchell lightly,” Burkhart said. He said he is excited for all of the fans to be at the game to cheer on the Warriors.
Your life can be like a movie if you try Warriors, did you know each one of you is the hero of a great epic? Because you are! Freshman, sophomore, junior, senior it does not matter, the only thing that matters is mindset. Think about it—you attend a football game, it could be the foundation of the rest of your life. Fair maidens and strapping lads pack those stands, Hear me. . . full of vigor and life, and you can either ask out that pretty gal Carter Munce that lives down the block or you can go home and play video games. That’s your choice, but whatever you do, do it with confidence, and boom! Your life just became either romantic comedy, or a high octane
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action thriller! Your AP classes that push you to the edge, they are a “Rocky” montage in the making, studying hour after hour, day after day, and then test day comes, and you walk out, knowing you just got a 3 or better. For me, my high school career is a different kind of movie each year. Freshman year was one big skit comedy act, from performing the school song ala screamo in front of my whole freshman class to getting called down to the office for an inappropriate reference in my accelerated geometry class. Sophomore year was moreso, a comedydrama struggle. Junior year was my own action movie, where I always managed to keep my head just above water. I don’t know what this year will bring. Will it be romance, in which I find a fair maiden just before graduation, or will it be a sci-fi featuring the new iPhone X? Senior Carter Munce encourages Warriors to make their move.
Clarification: A passage in Thursday’s NOW story “Chorus fundraiser offers “Circle of Courage” painting requires clarification. The passage “Each choir member is required to raise a certain amount of money, depending on the ensemble groups that they are a part of, and the money that they raise goes towards their traveling, costumes and music copyright fees for all of their performances,” was
unclear and misleading. According to chorus director Jeff Spencer, “South Dakota is a ‘no pay to play’ state and we do not require students to raise money. We do have fund raising targets that we ask students to try to attain in order to provide more and better experiences than funds provided by the district will allow.” The NOW apologizes for any misunderstandings.
Softball team splits with Roosevelt 41st & Kiwanis, Sioux Falls
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The Warrior softball team split with Roosevelt, falling to the Riders 13-4 in the first game, and prevail-
ing after three innings on the 10-run rule 12-0 in the second Thursday. The JV lost 10-4 and 11-5.
Cassini takes its final bow
By Lisa Grossman Science News Today (TNS) The Cassini spacecraft’s 20 years in space has been a marathon performance. It’s orbited Saturn more than 200 times. Along the way, it’s taken hundreds of thousands of images of the giant planet, its splashy rings and its many moons. Today, though, Cassini will use its last burst of fuel to plunge into the sixth planet from the sun. With
Science Friday awe and nostalgia, scientists and space enthusiasts the world over will watch it disappear. “It’s hard not to anthropomorphize the spacecraft,” says Matthew Tiscareno. He works at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif. And this astronomer has been working on Cassini since it entered Saturn’s orbit in 2004. “We’ve been riding on its back for these 13 years. And it’s done everything we’ve asked,” he says. “I think it’s the most spectacularly successful mission that NASA has ever run.” Cassini was designed to train its 12 scientific instruments on the Saturn system for just four years. NASA, however, extended the mission twice. Even with the extra time, Cassini’s 13-year run is less than half of one year on Saturn. There, a year lasts 29 Earth years. After all this time, we’ve witnessed only the transitions to Saturnian spring and summer. That’s the equivalent of January to June on Earth’s Northern Hemisphere. And yet we’ve seen so much. Cassini has revealed massive churning storms that rage for decades. It’s allowed the study of rings that may be the best laboratory for learning how planets form. And it’s unveiled details of some of Saturn’s more than 60 moons. Two of those natural satellites—Titan and Enceladus—surprised Cassini scientists by having many of the right ingredients for life. The craft has revamped our picture of Saturn and its celestial family.
