Index

Page 2—Senior of the Month and Kufro’s Closet

Page 3—Novel Review and “Meet the Robot”

Page 4—Intermediate SongFest and Hospital visit

Page 5—TEAMS Competition and Middle School Math Counts

Page 6—Teachers’ Pets

Page 7—Word Find

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ISSUE #5 February 2018

Welcome to the fifth issue of the “Weatherly Ga-

zette” for the 2017-2018

school year.

Thank you again for all who con-tinue to contrib-

ute to the school paper, issue after is-

sue. It is really great to hear all

of the great things going on in our district

and in the com-munity.

For the past few months Miss Kufro’s HS Family Consumer Science class has been deco-rating a bulletin board to promote positive values. For the month of February, the students that decorated the bulletin board were Abigail Milore, Corra Chincola, Alyssa Murphy, and Skyler Provizzi. They decided on a Valentine’s Day theme. Their values for their board were creativity, responsibility, confidence, and accountability.

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Kufro’s Closet

Senior of the Month—Khadijah Zuberi

Khadijah Zuberi, daughter of Ramazan Zuberi and Sylvia Riben, White Haven, has been named Sen-ior of the Month for January at Weatherly Area High School. Khadijah is a member of the WAHS chapter of the National Honor Society, the Interact Club, SGA, Student Forum, and the Drama Club. Khadijah also plays on the high school soccer and softball teams.

In the community, Khadijah volunteers her time with the Tweedle Park cleanup effort, and vari-ous NHS projects. Khadijah is employed by White-water Challengers.

Sponsor for the month of January is Dr. Sharon P. Lachette and the White Haven Veterinary Hospital in White Haven.

Kufro’s closet began in the beginning of December. The closet was started to help students get newer clothes and accessories. It accepts offers of scarves, pants, purses, shirts, dresses, and now starting to collect shoes. Kids from the high school have said nothing but amazing things about the closet. Kaitlyn Lindemuth is a very frequent senior who goes to the closet and she said “It is a way for less fortunate students who can’t go shopping often to get a chance for new clothes and a new wardrobe.”

The closet takes in new and slightly used clothes from teachers, students, friends and family of teachers and students, anyone who has something to donate!

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Novel Review

This month, I have reviewed Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon. This is a story about how a girl, Maddy, is allergic to the world. She can not go outside at all. Yet, a new neighbor moves in next door and eve-rything changes. Maddy risks her life to spend time with her new friend. Things take an unfortunate turn when Maddy and Olly run off to Hawaii. Her condition gets the best of her, or so that is what she’s told. What is the real truth? Everything, Everything was a fantastic story and I defi-nitely recommend it. -Antonia Prete

“Meet the Robot”

On Monday, February 12th, a group of Weatherly Area Middle School and High School students attended a "Meet the Robot" event at the Lehigh Valley Hospital in Hazleton. The students had the opportunity to maneuver and control the "DaVinci Surgical Robot" and speak to the surgeons who use the robot for a variety of medical procedures. Pictured, from left to right, are: Rhianne Markovchick, Gianna Lowman, Jessica Moser, Timothy Magushak, Mason Stewart, Johathan Mil-ler, Jash Khatiwala, Lucas Cirimpei, Mrs. Koons, Noah Borella-Guzman.

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Intermediate SongFest

Eighth graders Jacqueline

Bartel, Abigail Hinkle, Jash Khatiwa-

la and Jessica Moser represented

our school at the PMEA District 10

Intermediate Songfest held on Fri-

day, February 16th at Bangor High

School. Along with approximately

116 other students from Berks, Car-

bon, Lehigh, Monroe, Pike and

Schuylkill counties, they performed

six pieces in an evening concert for

the public. Jeffrey Smith, assistant

conductor of the Philly Pops, con-

ducted the ensemble.

Hospital Visit

High school stu-

dents in the health ca-

reers club explored vari-

ous units in Lehighton

Hospital on February

22nd. They were able to

shadow health care pro-

fessionals in 3 of their fa-

vorite hospital depart-

ments.

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Middle School Math Counts

TEAMS Competition

Our High School Math and

Engineering Senior team won two

3rd Place awards this week! Con-

gratulations to team members Joel

Hinkle, Sami Knepper, Jessica

McKee, Deanna Stolple, AJ Knepper,

Marie Gunderman, Jesse Gehman

and Khadijah Zuberi for winning 3rd

place at the Tests of Engineering Ap-

titude Mathematics and Science

(TEAMS) Competition at Bucknell

University. The next day, Jesse Geh-

man, Marie Gunderman, Joel Hinkle,

and Sami Knepper won 3rd Place at

the PA Governor's STEM Regional

Competition at CLIU#21!

Students at Weatherly Area Middle School recently competed at the 2018 Anthracite Chap-ter of MATHCOUNTS Competition. The com-petition was held at the Penn State Schuylkill Campus. Approximately 80 individuals and 9 teams participated in the competition.

The school placed 3rd in the team competi-tion. The students who represented Weatherly were Michael Berger, Owen Broskoskie, Gavin Bradley, Jash Khatiwala, Rhianne Mar-kovchick, Ian McLaurin, Jack Nemshick, Ash-ley Pleban, Jayce Shupe, and Mason Stewart. Peggy McAndrew, 8th grade math teacher, coached the team.

Two members of the Weatherly team placed

in the top ten: Jack Nemshick was 6th and Mi-

chael Berger placed 9th.

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“This is Emma Trojan. Named Emma by her sis-ters and Trojan by her Dad for the USC Trojans.

Emma's Favorites: Stuffed Animals, Swimming in the Lake, Her Sisters, Her Mom & Dad with Ice Cream, Opening Presents, Going for Walks, Sleeping, Snow, & The Crossed Paw Pose!

Mr. & Mrs. Van Horn's Best Friend.”

Teachers’ Pets

“Meet Eleanor Rigby. We just call her

"Rigby." She is a lab/shiba inu mix that we

rescued from the Hillside SPCA in May of

2017. Rigby is about 9 months old! She is a

sweet, lovable, and very energetic pup! Rigby

can sit, shake and stand on her back legs and

twirl for a treat! Her favorite toys are soft and

squeak, but she does love when we fill her

"kong" with peanut butter! She is a ton of fun

and very smart. Rigby even rings a bell that

hangs on the doorknob when she wants to go

outside! But watch out! She loves to steal

socks from the laundry! We also have a cat

"Luna." She loves to snuggle! Sometimes

she likes to catch things outside to leave as a

gift for us. But you know cats; she pretty

much keeps to herself. The Koons' are

thrilled to have Rigby and Luna as part of our

family!”

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Student of the Month Word Find

This month, we decided to feature the last names of all of the ES/MS students of the month in our word find!

S Q P J I C G K J V D Z M L M K T S

R R T A Z I D H F Z P R U O E V I A

N N W W W M M V U L L B K C S Z I U

T B A H K V E T S U Y E K T D E R I

U R F D H E R B N N Q S N D U Q R J

G O G V A B N T V O Z T P U U C P C

F E N C H Z F N A S W G M E S D A J

V T J V I G H Z E D F U K Y S H Y V

A T N M G M D I S L K S W P C N N O

D T S F E O N P H A L M R S J M A M

S T Z E G C O S Y N K Y I V A S M M

F L E S X K N I G O T R G I T Y L Y

G W D W G X F E J D F S E T Y N O N

G I E R L I C H P N T L R Y T L H K

J K T N E C O S O S L F H N Y P C K

K E Q L H U G V R O R S A P L O A T

I Q J G S J X T W Z B M R K N M O T

I R E I F L A K R O P P D K L O L H

ALFIERI BEST DONALDSON GERHARD GIERLICH HOLMAN KECK KENNELLY

KNOCK KROPP MAIELLO MOSER SPENCE TOM VONFRISCH