Inter-Lakes High School Wednesday December 13, 2017 FBLA will be hosting a pet food drive from December 10th to December 20th. The hurricanes this past fall have caused an increase in the number of homeless or abandoned pets. NH shelters have been helping out by receiving some of the former pets. Please bring your donation to the area outside of room 110, Mrs. Sweeney's room up until December 20th. Mrs. Carney and Mrs. Glover will be hosting Coding Club during Office Hours on Thursday December 14th. If you loved last week's Hour of Code, come back to try more and connect with others doing the same thing. Sign up in Enriching Students with Carney. No Band rehearsal today during OH today. Outing Club meets tomorrow in room 215 at 3:15. Any senior applying to college with a January 2nd to January 9th deadline, please see your Guidance Counselor no later than Friday, December 15th in order to put your application packet together in plenty of time before the holiday break. Lakes Region Community College will be in Guidance TODAY during OH and D Block to help seniors apply to LRCC and to talk to any interested students about the unique and affordable programs at LRCC such as; Fire Science, Media Arts, Pastry Arts, Marine Technology, Graphic Design and many, many more. Check it out at lrcc.edu. Celebrate the coming holidays with our first Open Mic of the year on Thursday, Dec. 21 during Office Hours. Please sign up with Mrs. Eynon if you would like to perform. Please sign up with Mrs. Harbrook if you would like to attend. This is a little different than in previous years. You may sign up to attend by selecting the Office Hours Elective in Enriching Students or by signing up in the library. JV/V Girls Basketball at Franklin, JV at 5:30, V at 7:00.
***Today in History*** December 13, 1642, Dutch navigator Abel Tasman becomes the first European explorer to sight the South Pacific island group now known as New Zealand. In his sole attempt to land, several of Tasman’s crew were killed by warriors from a South Island tribe, who interpreted the Europeans’ exchange of trumpet signals as a prelude to battle. A few weeks earlier, Tasman had discovered Tasmania, off the southeast coast of Australia. Tasman had named the island Van Diemen’s Land, but, like the Tasman Sea between New Zealand and Australia, it was later renamed Tasmania in the explorer’s honor. New Zealand, named after the Dutch province of Zeeland, did not attract much additional European attention until the late 18th century, when English explorer Captain James Cook traveled through the area and wrote detailed accounts of the islands. Whalers, missionaries, and traders followed, and in 1840 Britain formally annexed the islands and established New Zealand’s first permanent European settlement at Wellington.
