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Happening Now •Orchestra: Yankton String Festival all day at Yankton High School— concert 7 p.m. •Sideline Cheer: Auditions for basketball continue 3:15 p.m. in gymnastics room •Debate: After school competition 3:30 p.m. at O’Gorman High School •Winter Sports: Athlete/parent meeting for basketball and wrestling 6 p.m. in main gym •Chorus: Fall Concert 7 p.m. in auditorium

Lunch Time at WHS •Today’s lunch: Chili dog, steamed broccoli •À la carte lines: Pasta, soft taco, baked potato bar, chef salad, sandwiches

Group Meetings •Rubik’s Cube: Club will meet at 3:10 p.m. today in A-204. •German Club: Will meet at 7:45 a.m. Wednesday in A-153. •Okichiyapi Club: Members will meet at 3:10 p.m. Wednesday in A-123 to travel to Whittier Middle School.

Other Reminders •Student Council: Candidates must attend a session opposite their lunch Wednesday in the consoling conference room and Thursday in the administration conference room. 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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Chorus presents Fall Concert tonight Middle school students join in concert tonight

By Seth Benson horus students at WHS will present their Fall Concert at 7 p.m. tonight in the WHS auditorium. Groups performing include the Concert Choir, Warrior Chorus and Freshman Chorus. Joining them for some selections will be middle school students who are potential members of the chorus next year. Senior Carter Munce, a member of Concert Choir, said he is extremely excited to perform tonight. “I am looking forward to the variety of the Concert Choir pieces,” Munce said. “I hope to enthrall and terrify the

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audience tonight.” Senior Hollie Leggett is also excited for the Fall Concert tonight. “It will be exciting to put all the groups together because we practice separately, and this will be only the second time singing the same song together,” Leggett said. She said it will be fun to perform for an audience. “This is the first concert of the year, and it will be fun to see how far the groups have come since the beginning, of the year,” Leggett said. Admission for tonight’s concert is $5 for adults, $3 for students and $1 for senior citizen Gold Card members.

Photo by Seth Benson SING OUT—Sophomores Kim Ueng (left) and Isai Rivera (right) rehearse with the Warrior Chorus this morning in the auditorium.

Winter sports meeting tonight By Madelyn Moravec Winter athletes in basketball and wrestling will meet, along with a parent, at 6 p.m. tonight in the main gym. This mandatory meeting for athletes and parents for those planning to participate in boys

basketball, girls basketball and wrestling will go over training rules and other expectations before the season begins. Senior Sidney Kennedy, who plans to play girls basketball this winter, is looking forward to it.

“I am excited for the fall sports to wrap up and the winter sports to begin,” Kennedy said.   All physical forms and medical consent forms for studentathletes must be updated in the office prior to the first day of practice in each sport.

Freshman B volleyball team takes second in city tournament By Taylar Erickson The freshman B volleyball team took second at the city tournament Monday at WHS, defeating Roosevelt 25-21, 25-16, then falling to O’Gorman in the championship 25-19, 25-15.

Freshman Jordan Videen was proud. “We played well, but during the championship I think we all got a little tired and didn’t push our hardest, but overall it was a good tournament,” Videen said.   Roosevelt took

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The sophomore team finished fourth at Lincoln, losing to Roosevelt 25-15, 25-22 in the first round and then falling to Lincoln 25-20, 26-24. O’Gorman took first, defeating Roosevelt in the final. Lincoln took third. All WHS News

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Four Warrior athletes named to cheer, dance All-State teams Group part of first All-State teams for competition spirt squads

By Sidney Kennedy and Madelyn Moravec When you hear the term All-State Athlete, you might think of burly football players dominating the gridiron or basketball players dunking, but four WHS athletes are breaking that mold by being named AllState Competition Cheer and Dance Team members. The first-ever South Dakota Competition Cheer and Dance All-State Teams were recently named following the State AA Competition in Rapid City in which the WHS Competition Dance Team repeated as State AA Champions and the Competition Cheer Team took fourth. Four girls from the Warrior cheer and dance team were selected to be a part of the All-State team. Each cheer and dance coach nominated athletes from their team to represent the state. Seven area dancers were then named to the team, Feature including three Warriors. WHS had more girls selected than any other school. Seniors Alyse Dockter, Kinsey Strom and Sierra Nelson were selected as the dance All-State athletes. They helped their team place first at state for the third year in a row. “It is such an honor to have been chosen for All-State and I am glad I get to represent WHS,” Nelson said. Senior Emily Stegenga was also honorable mention All-State. Dance coach Angela Neiman said the selection of the All-State dancers is a great representation of WHS. “We have many seniors who led by example of hard work, attention to details and outstanding technique,”

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History.com (MCT) On Nov. 7, 1940, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapsed due to high winds. Fortunately, only a dog was killed. The Tacoma Narrows Bridge was built in Washington during the 1930s and opened to traffic on July 1, 1940. It spanned the Puget Sound from Gig Harbor to Tacoma, which is 40 miles south of Seattle. The channel is about a mile wide where the bridge crossed the sound. Sleek and slender, it was the third longest suspension bridge in the world at the time, covering 5,959 feet.

Our History Photo courtesy WHS competition dance team ALL-STATE—Competition spirit squad members seniors Kinsey Strom and Alyse Dockter, junior Sarah Snelling and senior Sierra Nelson at the state contest. Nieman said. “These three truly are the best in the state.” Junior Sarah Snelling was named cheer All-State. Snelling helped the Warriors take fourth-place at state. “I feel very blessed to have gotten picked to be a part of this, and it was a great surprise that I will never forget,” Snelling said. Nelson, Strom, Dockter, Stegenga and senior Casey Peterson were also named Academic All-State.

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Leon Moisseiff designed the bridge to be the most flexible ever constructed. Engineers of the time believed that the design, even though it exceeded ratios of length, depth and width that had previously been standard, was completely safe. Following the collapse, it was revealed that the engineers had not properly considered the aerodynamic forces that were in play at the location during a period of strong winds. On Nov. 7, high winds buffeted the area and the bridge swayed considerably. The first failure came at about 11 a.m., when concrete dropped from the road surface. Just minutes later, a 600-foot section of the bridge broke free. By this time, the bridge was being tossed back and forth wildly. At one time, the elevation of the sidewalk on one side of the bridge was 28 feet above that of the sidewalk on the other side. Even though the bridge towers were made of strong structural carbon steel, the bridge proved no match for the violent movement, and collapsed. Subsequent investigations and testing revealed that the bridge was vulnerable to vibrations generated by wind. When the bridge experienced strong winds from a certain direction, the frequency oscillations built up to such an extent that collapse was inevitable.