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Happening Now •Girls Tennis: East/West Invitational continues in Rapid City—WHS vs. R.C. Central 8 a.m., Stevens 11 a.m. •Boys Golf: Varsity City Meet final round 1 p.m. at Willow Run •Soccer: vs. Tea Area at Howard Wood Field— JV 4 p.m., varsity girls 5:45 p.m., varsity boys 7:30 p.m. •Volleyball: At O’Gorman High School—JV and freshmen 4:30 p.m., sophomores 5:30 p.m., varsity 7 p.m. •College Night: 5:30-7 p.m. in commons •Cheer and Dance: Huron Invitational 5:30 p.m. at Huron Civic Arena
Lunch Time at WHS •Today’s lunch: Barbecue pork sandwich, steamed broccoli •À la carte lines: Pasta, soft taco, chef salad, sandwiches
Group Meetings •Girls: Interested in powerlifting should attend a meeting at 3:15 p.m. Wednesday in A-126. •Art Club: Will meet at 7:45 a.m. Thursday in E-106. All invited.
Other Reminders •2017 Yearbooks: may be picked up before or after school or during lunch in A-133.
Orange Letter Days •Today: Superhero vs. Villain Day •Wednesday: Mathlete vs. Athlete Day •Tickets: For Friday’s Pizza Feed and Dance will be sold during lunch in the commons today—$5 each. NOW Tuesday Staff Co-Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sidney Kennedy and Seth Benson Assistant Editor . . . . . . . . . . . Taylar Erickson Staff: Daniel Slaven, Madelyn Moravec 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. Some material courtesy of American Society of Newspaper Editors/ TNS Campus High School Newspaper Service
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Nearly 70 institutions to visit WHS tonight
College night 5:30-7 p.m. in commons Pre-register for college fair on-line today Students are invited to make tonight’s college fair much more efficient by registering in advance on-line. Students who do will get a barcode they can print or show on their smartphone. Bring the code to tonight’s event and put an end to filling out info cards at every table. Instead, spend your time talking with the schools and finding out what you want to know. For more information on how this all works, visit www. gotocollegefairs.com today to sign-up.
By Taylar Erickson arrior students will have the opportunity to prepare for their future as the WHS Counseling Department presents a college and post high school planning night from 5:30-7 p.m. tonight in the commons. Students can bring their parents and have the opportunity to visit with representatives from over 70 colleges and technical schools from the five-state region, including all major South Dakota schools, both private and public. There will also be financial institutions and representatives from branches of the military service present. Senior Madelyn
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Moravec is planning on attending and hopes to learn some facts. “It’s a good opportunity to speak with people from different schools in the area,” Moravec said. Senior Noah Richard is also is planning on attending. “Go to the college fair so that the colleges can see who they want to recruit if you’re doing sports or just to find a school that works for you,” Richard said. Counselor Patti LakeTorbert said she encourages all Warriors and their parents to attend the event tonight. “Come prepared, register online, bring some questions and bring your parents,” Lake-Torbert said. “It will be a fun night and go by quickly.”
Soccer teams host Tea on senior night By Sidney Kennedy The WHS soccer teams will host Tea Area High School in a series of games as they celebrate Senior Night at Howard Wood Field tonight. Action will begin at 4 p.m. with both boys and girls JV teams at Howard Wood. The varsity girls will take the main field at 5:45 p.m. and the varsity boys at 7:30 p.m.
The boys are currently 5-3-2 on the season and the girls are 7-1-2. The boys soccer team will be recognizing 10 seniors tonight and the girls nine. Senior Megan Etrheim is excited. “I am excited for the game, and hoping we can improve from the game against Watertown last week,” Ertheim said.
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Football team remains No. 1 in new poll After defeating Mitchell 45-7 Friday to become the only undefeated 11AAA or 11AA football team, the Warriors remain No. 1 in 11AAA.
11AAA Football Poll
School (First Place Votes) Record, Last Week’s Ranking
1. WHS (35) 4-0 1 2. O’Gorman 3-1 2 3. Roosevelt 3-1 3 4. Brandon Valley 3-1 4 5. R.C. Stevens 3-1 5
Others receiving votes: Watertown
11AA Football Poll
School (First Place Votes) Record, Last Week’s Ranking
1. Mitchell (17) 3-1 2 2. Pierre (16) 3-0 3 3. Harrisburg (2) 1-2 1 4. Brookings 2-2 4 5. Douglas 2-2 NR
Others receiving votes: Huron, Yankton
AA Volleyball Poll
School (First Place Votes) Record, Last Week’s Ranking
1. Harrisburg (15) 8-0 1 2. Mitchell (3) 11-0 2 3. R.C. Stevens 13-3 5 4. Huron 6-4 3 5. Aberdeen Central 6-3 4 Others receiving votes: O’Gorman
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Marching band takes fifth in Minnesota Warriors next head to Waseca Saturday
By Seth Benson arrior Marching Band members took fifth in Class AA at the Rosemount Marching Band Festival in Rosemount, Minn., Saturday. Director Kiley Coyne said the band performed well in it’s first competition of the season. “It’s still early, and Rosemount is the hardest competition we do all season,” Coyne said. Senior James Slattery said it wasn’t the results he wanted. “We learned that we need to keep pushing in practice to get to the level that we want to be at to compete with
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other bands,” Slattery said. “That way we can improve not only as a band, but as individuals.” Brandon Valley took first in the class. Hastings, Minn., won class A and Eden Prairie, Minn., Class AAA. The band will present their 2017 show “Rags to Riches” at the homecoming football game Friday, then travel back to Minnesota Saturday for the Waseca Marching Classic. “I am extremely excited to perform in Waseca,” Coyne said. “Waseca is probably my favorite competition all season long. The venue is excellent, and there is a huge fireworks show after awards.”
JV football remains perfect with win By Daniel Slaven Junior Varsity football team members kept their winning streak rolling as they defeated the Tigers 26-14 Monday afternoon in Harrisburg. The Warriors had a very strong first quarter, as juniors Malik Paulson had a 1-yard touch-
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down run and Jacob Smith a 31-yard touchdown reception from Robert Dougherty and Chase Randall a 22-yard touchdown run making the score 20-0 at the end of the first quarter. Paulson rounded out the scoring in the fourth quarter with a 22-yard touchdown run.
Offensively, the Warriors had a very strong running game. The offensive line of sophomores Ben Bartling, Jared DeBoer, Trevor Sagness and Mason Vandermaten and junior Cody Jennings paved the way for 189 rushing yards in the win.
Nev. used as nuke test site History.com (MCT) On Sept. 19, 1957, the United States detonated a 1.7 kiloton nuclear weapon in an underground tunnel at the Nevada Test Site (NTS), a 1,375 square mile research center located 65 miles north of Las Vegas.
Our History The test, known as Rainier, was the first fully contained underground detonation and produced no radioactive fallout. A modified W-25 warhead weighing 218 pounds and measuring 25.7 inches in diameter and 17.4 inches in length was used for the test. Rainier was part of a series of 29 nuclear weapons and nuclear weapons safety tests known as Operation Plumbbob that were conducted at the NTS between May 28, and Oct. 7, 1957. In December 1941, the U.S. government committed to building the world’s first nuclear weapon when President Franklin Roosevelt authorized $2 billion in funding for what came to be known as the Manhattan Project. The first nuclear weapon test took place on July 16, 1945, at the Trinity site near Alamogordo, N.M. A few weeks later, on Aug. 6, 1945, with the U.S. at war against Japan, President Harry Truman authorized the dropping of an atomic bomb named Little Boy over Hiroshima, Japan. Three days later, on Aug. 9, a nuclear bomb called Fat Man was dropped over Nagasaki. Two hundred thousand people, according to some estimates, were killed in the attacks on the two cities and on Aug. 15, 1945, Japan surrendered to the Allied Powers. 1957’s Operation Plumbbob took place at a time when the U.S. was engaged in a Cold War and nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union. A total of 928 tests took place at the NTS between 1951 and 1992.
