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North Toole County High School Sunburst, MT 59482 April 2012 Volume 50 Issue 8

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Senior Trip Takes Two

Tries

Students Don Their Best for Promenade

By Becky Flesch On Saturday April 14, 53 NTCHS students and 12 out-of-district dates cel-ebrated the ending of the school year by attending the Sunburst Prom. The Junior class was helped by Jacque Coolidge for decorations and were ex-cused from school on Friday to prepare for the casino-themed event. Grand March started at

By Kelsey Burley On Wednesday April 11 the senior class got the opportunity to take a “Se-nior Sneak Day” to the West Edmonton Mall in Edmonton, AB, Canada. All 16 classmates, ev-eryone but Kress Lamey and Amanda Tharp, three chaperones, and two bus drivers took off from the high school around 2 a.m.. After crossing the border, it was then a seven hour ride to the West Edmonton Mall. When the class of 2012 arrived at the mall, they were let loose to ad-venture all day. Around 5 p.m., the class met up at a variety of restaurants and had a choice of dining at either Tony Roma’s or Hooters. When the class finished their meal, they made their way to the IMAX Theater to watch a movie. A variety of mov-ies were chosen, such as

Above: Prom King and Queen Hunter Leichliter and Titia Bloch share the first dance of the night. Bottom, left: Juniors Stephanie Gliko and Brett Simons pose for couples photos.Bottom, right: Sophomore Chimane Hastings and Caitlin Hutton and fresh-man Emily Griffin strike a pose.

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9:30 p.m., the gym full of people, and the dance started shortly after that. Senior royalty candidates were Jesse Tomsheck, Kelsey Burley, Titia Bloch, Becky Flesch, Hunter Leichliter, Andrew Stevens, and Joshua Fri-esen. Bloch and Leichli-ter were elected king and queen by the students who attended the Prom. King

Junior Haley Denison and senior Titia Bloch finish putting on all their snow gear before snowboarding Friday March 16.

Seniors Alex Watterud, Kelsey Burley, Becky Flesch and Titia Bloch scream as they drop on the Galaxy Land roller coaster during the senior trip to Edmonton April 11.

NORTH TOOLE COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL THE REFINER April 2012

Staff Profiles

Tim Tharp

1. Chocolate2. Back to when my parents were alive to tell them all the amazing changes in the world and what all their family is doing3. No~English is good enough for me! 4. Bonanza Stores, Mis-soula5. From Ann Landers--”It’s not what you do for your children that is important. It is what you teach them to do for themselves that makes a difference.”

Val McAlpine

Staff Questions1. If you were a flavor, what would you be?

2. If you could travel in time, where would you visit?3. Do you speak a foreign language? If not, what would you

like to learn?4. What was your first job?

5. What is your favorite quote?

WillieWilson


1. Neopolitan2. Today3. A little Spanish4. Mowing lawns and delivering papers5. Doing what’s right isn’t always easy, but its always right.

Jim Stevens

Jeanne Fairhurst

Lori Postma

1. Vanilla2. The future to my funer-al to see if I did anything good for a person.3. No, but I would like to speak German so I can understand Erika and my husband.4. I worked at the Laun-dry Mat pressing sheets.5.”We come by love not by finding the perfect per-son but seeing the imper-fect person perfectly.”

1. Habanera Peppers (without the seeds).2. When: The 70’s Where: Believe it or not, here.3. I don’t; French.4. Service Station Atten-dant5. Just Jim Dandy!

1. Cherry2. Past- 1700’s when the U.S. was being formed. Future- 2200’s when space travel becomes commonplace.3. No, Spanish.4. Paying job- soda jerk in an ice cream parlor.5. You are only as good as you want to be.

2012 NTCHS StaffSuperintendant Tim Tharp

District Clerk Jeanne FairhurstSecretary Val McAlpineCustodian Willie WilsonCustodian Jim Stevens

High School Concessions Director Lori PostmaHead Cook Wendy McAlpine

Cook Lori HartzellCook Leisha Fleisher

Transportation Supervisor Vince BurleyBus Driver Teri Iverson

Bus Driver Roberta KlingerBus Driver Lynn KimmetBus Driver Nancy Wallace

1. Cherry2. 1800’s3. No, Norweigen4. Baby sitting5. Poor planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.


Faculty Profiles

Vince Burley

1. Colombian Coffee2. About 1840 in the days of the old west3. Spanish4. Golf Course Ball Re-triever5. “Pain is temporary, quitting lasts forever.” -Lance Armstrong

Lynn Kimmet

Wendy McAlpine


LeishaFleisher

Staff Questions1. If you were a flavor, what would you be?

2. If you could travel in time, where would you visit?3. Do you speak a foreign language? If not, what would you like to learn?

4. What was your first job?5. What is your favorite quote?

1. Chocolate2. The future3. No, no4. Baby sitting5. No preference

Lori Hartzell

1. Mint2. The old west 3. No. Spanish4. Pumping gas at my par-ent’s service station5. Yes! I am the Mom....the “Mean Old Monster”!!

Nancy Wallace

RobertaKlingler

1. Lemonade -- slightly sweet and slightly sour2. I don’t want to go back to when there was no plumbing or running water, and I’m afraid of the future, so I’d just live in the now.3. Grandma-ese, but I’d like to learn Spanish4. Swimming pool basket girl.5. Live. Laugh. Love.

TeriIverson

1. Chocolate2. I like where I am!3. Yes, Piglatin and short-hand4. Working at the A&W in Dillon5. It’s better to lose one minute of your life than to lose your life in one minute.

1. Chocolate2. New Zealand3. None4. Sales clerk at a Duty Free Store5. None

1. Cinnamon2. Ireland3. No I don’t but I would like to learn to speak Spanish so I could un-derstand my two year old granddaughter that I am learning from4. Charlie’s Pizza5. Life is not measured by the number of breaths that we take, but by the moments in life that take our breath away!

1. Chocolate2. London3. Spanish4. Loading hay bales5. “Better late than never.”


Features

Power of Choice Workshop Advocates Safe Driving

Refiners Take to the Slopes of ShowdownBy Satyn Tomsheck On Friday March 16, at 5:20 a.m., 32 students boarded buses for the an-nual Showdown ski trip. On the mountain, fresh-man Blake Morgan was hit in the head with the seat of the ski lift chair. Ski resort officials were concerned he may have a concussion. Morgan was transported to a Great Falls hospital where he was later released to his parents. Ms. Amanda Becker went with, leav-ing Mrs. Mylynn Felt, and Mr. Mike and Mrs. Susan Ehlers to chaperone with Mrs. Nancy Wallace as the bus driver. “I think they over-react-ed,” Morgan said; “it was really just a minor concus-sion.” Students were required

By Jake Woodward On Thursday March 15 the students of NTCHS traveled to Shelby to meet with the students and staff of Shelby High School for a special presentation called “The Power of Choice.” Teachers and Students from NTCHS departed for Shelby after morning announcements. The conference began at 9:00 a.m. and continued until 2:00 p.m. Groups were formed that consisted of both Shelby and NTC students. Each group was shown a series of presentations, on a rotating schedule that allowed all students to see each section. The presentations all focused on safety and decision making for high school students. Many of the presentations were about safe driving. Videos were

shown that conveyed the danger involved in not wearing a seatbelt, as well as becoming distracted while driving. Part of these presentations was a car that had been in a crash and rolled seven times. Because the


Junior Austin Luckenbill sits in a car involved in a highway crash, which caused it to roll a total of seven times during the “Power of Choice” workshop Thursday March 15.

passenger was not wearing a seat belt he was ejected from the car and killed. Other displays involved a roll simulator using dummies and a rotating cab, as well as a drunken d r i v i n g s i m u l a t o r and sobriety tests wearing “ d r u n k goggles.” Other presentations

showed students the harmful ingredients found in tobacco products. A 17-year-old guest speaker from Great Falls who shared his destructive experiences with drugs and alcohol was also present.

A $50 gift certificate was awarded to a Shelby student from a raffle that all students were allowed to participate in. Students received many small prizes throughout the day for participation and input on the presentations.

to complete a ski or snow-boarding lesson in the morning and then allowed to explore the resort in the afternoon. Participants were grouped into classes by ability and sorted into color groups. The newest skiers or boarders were as-signed to red groups then green, blue, black, and fi-

Photo by Jake Woodward

nally white. The majority of students chose to take lessons in the green and blue groups with no ski-ers in the black or white. More students chose to ski than to snowboard. After the lesson, students’ lift passes were marked showing which lifts they would be permitted to

ride on their own in the afternoon. This prevented novice skiers and boarders from facing a run beyond their skill level. The event cost $20 for skiers and $30 for snow boarders. This price in-cluded equipment rental, lift passes and the group lesson. Prices were re-duced for participants who brought their own equipment. In addition to NTCHS, several other groups of students were part of the lessons that day, though most were part of a home school program and not other high schools in the region. Sophomore Chimane Hastings said, “I had a great time on the trip, and even though it was rain-ing and getting slushy on Sophomores Finley Jarvis and Cameron Richmond ski down King’s Ridge during

the blue group ski lesson Friday March 16.See SKI TRIP 10


Community

By Cole Brown State Science Fair was held on Sunday March 18 through Tuesday 20 in Missoula. There were several Re-finers participating in this including, freshman Sam Miller and Ethan Paul-son; juniors Brett Simons, Cole Brown, Jake Wood-ward, Kamron Ratzburg, Brooke Lindskog, Ra-chel Ehlers and Stephanie Gliko; and seniors Josh Friesen, Hunter Leichli-ter, Cash Ehlers, Kress Lamey, Amanda Tharp, Alex Watterud and Scotty Bye. There were a total of 10 projects entered into the fair. Four gold rib-bons were acquired by Ratzburg, Hali Miller, and teams Friesen and Tharp and Sam Miller and Paul-

Refiners “Take Action” with State FCCLA in Billings

By Brett Simons Students participat-ing in FCCLA recently attended the state confer-ence in Billings, March 25 to the 27. Ninteen students attended this event to show off their family, career and com-munity leadership skills. Students heard from key-note speakers, attended meetings and showed off their projects which they had been working on for many months. Those who attended could receive medals in either the cer-tificate of participation, bronze, silver or gold. Fourteen medals and one certificate of participation were awarded. Out of the 19 students, seniors Justin Hauschulz, Cash Ehlers, and junior Kylie Pattison placed in the top of their divisions and qualified to attend Nationals in Orlan-do in June.


Students Aggressively Compete in State Science Fair

During the competitions, students who attended the Leadership Confer-ence in Nov. got together with their advisors and talked about how they had helped their community. Sophomores Mason Ke-arns, Luke Becker, Matt Becker and junior Brett Simons all attended this meeting and were able to report about Sunburst ac-tivities over the past year. The keynote speaker for the general session was named Carlos Arce. Most of the information he talked about dealt with a person’s comfort zone, nonverbal as well as ver-bal communication skills and personal image. Sophomore Luke Becker stated, “If you put a lot of work into you it, you will get good results.” Sophomore Mason Ke-arns also said,” It was fun and I am glad I went.

son. Special awards were also given away to team Sam Miller and Paul-son and Hali Miller. The school won second place overall and first place for small schools. This year the awarding was different from past competitions according to Miss Becker. In a normal State Science Fair year the top two individual projects and the first team project go to state. This year they gave out golds to the top four teams, but they did not judge them for grand awards. Instead of judg-ing them as in past years, they gave the top three in-dividuals the chance to go to International Science Fair. Miss Becker said, “I think the students did a wonderful job, but I was

By Aurora Hurlburt The Great Falls Band and Orchestra came to play music for the Sunburst schools on Wednesday March 21. The symphonic orchestra performed first. There were solos during some of the performances, with violins and other in-struments. The performance band also had a few solos with different instruments.

Great Falls Music “It was a pleasure hav-ing such a practiced group play music for the school,” said junior Brett Simons. “They sounded awe-some,” said senior Kress Lamey Junior Vanessa Legler said, “At first I didn’t think it was going to be very interesting but when they stared playing it was pretty much amazing.”

Photo By Cole Brown Hali Miller accepts the prize for 1st small school award.

FCCLA members pose for a group picture during State Conference in Billings March 25-27.

Juniors Stephanie Gliko and Brooke Lindskog display their awards dur-ing the state FCCLA competition in Billings March 25-27.

See SCIENCE FAIR 10

Photo By Nancy Linnell

Photo By Nancy Linnell



Community

By Whitney Aschim Cabaret came back with the luck of the Irish this year, occurring March 17, St. Patrick’s Day. Hundreds of locals filled the high school while prizes filled children’s bags and pockets. As always, games and crafts were in action for the kids and teens of the community. Bingo and the raffle drawing drew in the adults. Concessions were run by the junior class, who sold pop, Gatorade, water, hot dogs, chips and any donated baked goods. FCCLA helped out with the bingo. Some members helped hand out bingo cards, while others took on the job of being bingo callers. National Honor Society also was a part of helping with the Cabaret, being the Admission and ticket sellers. Parents from all the classes took time to

help set up the games and to work them. Also while bingo was going on, the silent auc-tion and raffle tickets were taking place. Items up for grabs in the silent auction ranged from slippers up to a rocking horse, while the raffle gave off car repair kits, several blankets by Jonette Johannsen, cou-

pons and more. The raffle brought in a whopping $1,243, while the silent auction and ticket sales brought the total funds

Cabaret Gets Lucky for St. Patrick’s Day

Our Earth Goes Green for Earth Day

By Vanessa Legler Sunday April 22 in Earth Day. NTCHS will honor the holiday with events during the week of April 23-27. On Monday there will be an air pollution demonstration. Tuesday all nonessential power will be eliminated for one period. Wednesday the 30 students who purchased 39 Earth day shirts will wear them. Some might even wear shirts from pre-vious years. On Thursday students will complete a survey. On Friday stu-dents will participate in a town clean-up. April the 22, 1970 marked the first celebra-tion of Earth Day. The

word “environment” was a very common word then because of the risks that were going on that were hurting the earth. Things such as air pollution were big concerns to people and how much gas and fuel were being put into the air; people had to try something. Environmentalists knew that they couldn’t stop using fuel because cars were a big deal and no one would give them up, so they set up a day to advo-cate reduced pollution and promote energy savings. Since 1970, Earth Day got extremely popular says history.com. Earth Day is aimed to

Student Teacher

Brings New Methods

By Vanessa Legler Student teacher Jordan Lankford teaches history in Shannon Dunks class-room for many class pe-riods. Lankford went to the University of Mon-tana and majors in Politi-cal Science, History, and Native American Stud-ies. She is also earning a teaching certificate in po-litical science/ history and a minor in English. Lankford said what she has learned from student teaching is that she is hap-py with what she has cho-sen to do and knows she will really like teaching. She said she would like to teach at a small school like this one so she can give more help to students who need or want it. Lankford said she came from a very big school and all around she saw kids needing help and wants to help them. Lankford said she ad-mires teachers willing to decade their time to work with others inside and out-side of school. Outside of school if she isn’t work on her student teaching, she swims com-petitively and has been since she was eight years old. She loves music, tak-ing pictures and going to rodeos.

raised above $2,000. As the night came, a dance took place. Young adults huddled up ready to take on any dance put over the stereo. The young ones ran around, just hav-ing fun, glow sticks and all. Money raised will be donated towards scholar-ships for seniors and mili-

tary bonds. Any money left over will be put to-wards a fund for academic purposes.

make an environmental movement to create a bet-ter environment for peo-ple and animals. Factories have pumped pollutants into the water, killing fish and causing other problems too. “Our Earth holds us, pro-tects us... why shouldn’t we do the same for the earth?” said eight-grader Tiffany Legler.

Freshman Braydon Dunk helps a gradeschooler Blake Smylie to line up a golf ball with the hole as one of the carnival events during Cabaret Saturday March 17.

See LANKFORD 10


Feature

Moon Influences SeasonsBy Cole Brown Easter, Mardi Gras, Lent, and Passover are all deter-mined by a certain phase of the moon, and are not held on a specific date, like Christmas or Inde-pendence Day. According to assa.org Easter is the first Sun-day after the first spring full moon, the fourth full moon of the New Year, also called the Paschal Full Moon. This name translated from Greek into English means Passover. The Jewish holiday of Passover is held the en-tire week after each Pas-chal. Easter is a Christian Holiday in origin and is celebrated by most in the secular world. Easter is a holiday in which the res-urrection of Jesus Christ is celebrated every year at

the time it is thought that he was raised from the grave. According to chabad.org Passover is a Jewish holiday that celebrates the “passing over” of God’s wrath on the first born children of all Jewish people. This was the on the 15th day of Nissan in the year 2248 B.C. when Pharaoh was ruling the people of Israel. The 15th day of Nissan refers to the

Jewish calendar which is based on the moons, so for them it is always on the same day which is the first full spring moon, and the fourth full moon of the new year. The story of Passover is when Pharaoh Ramses II wouldn’t let the Jewish people free, God sent 10 plagues on the Egyptians to make them free the Israelites. The last of these plagues was the killing of everyone’s first born son, which didn’t af-fect the Israelites because God “passed over” their houses. Passover is cel-ebrated as a fully fledged holiday and most Jewish people get time off work to celebrate it. During Passover, no food with yeast is consumed. There is also a highly symbolic ceremonial meal.


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Fans Starve for Hunger GamesBy Whitney Aschim Book readers and mov-ie goers piled into lines on Friday March 23 waiting for the premiere showing of the long-awaited movie The Hunger Games, as adapted from the book by Suzanne Collins. As a massive total of $155 million was brought in, it became the third highest grossing of all-time week sales. The di-rector of the movie, Gary Ross, did a decent job por-traying the book. Set into the future, the book and movie show the Earth in desolate and rigid society. It’s made up of 12 districts, with the ever-ruling “Capitol”. A male and female from each district between the ages of 12 and 18 are chosen to compete in the Games from a lottery, each with a certain amount of bal-lots in the draw. They are

known as tributes. Katniss Everdeen, played by the newly-blooming actress Jennifer Lawrence, is the 16 year-old protagonist of movie, who steps in for her 12 year-old sister, Prim, at the hearing of The Hunger Games. Her fellow tribute from Dis-trict 12 is Peeta Mallerk, played by Josh Hutcher-son. As the Games proceed, 24 tributes are at the start, all fighting to survive, but

A full moon image from Nasa shows how the moon looks closer up.

several are wiped out from the very start in the cornu-copia as they all fight for weapons and supplies. In the end there can only be one winner. It is now time to fight against friends and foes to the death, it must be done. The trick to sur-viving longest is to gain allies and sponsors to help along the journey and bat-tle. As mentioned earlier, the movie itself shows the desolation and wounds of

No Joke Facts about April Fool’s Day

By Vanessa Legler April Fools! Accord-ing to www.april-fools.us/history-april-fools.htm, this was a day celebrated on the first of April since 1582. Other sources make reference to the day as early as 1300. The holiday originated in France, to be the beginning of a new year until Pope Charles IX introduced the Gregorian calendar, changing the start of a new year back to Jan. 1 though many had been celebrating the new year with the start of spring in April. The event was first celebrated by having a big party and just having fun until someone decided to do a practical joke on someone and yell-ing “April First!” after it had been done. Year after year people celebrated April Fools as a harmless joke day. This tradition spread over the countries and soon every-one was celebrating this holiday. Still the origin of this tradition is not certain. The ‘Kick Me’ sign originated from Scotland. Another name for this day in European countries was April Fish which would be when someone would stick a paper fish to some-one without being noticed by them. The tricks played on this go from as simple as “Your shoes untied...” to setting a roommates alarm clock back half an hour. Many people get in-volved with this holiday, even news reporters. Once in Britain the news did a short film on ‘Spaghetti Farmers’ and how they harvested their crops from spaghetti trees. Today it is celebrated as a day of fun pranks.

See HUNGER GAMES 10

See MOON 10

Character Effie Trinkett introduces Katniss Everdeen, played by Jennifer Lawrence, as the District 12 female tribute in the popular movie Hunger Games which premiered Friday March 23.


Opinion


Why Was Trayvon Martin Murdered?By Aurora Hurlburt Feb. 26 in Sanford, Flor. 17-year-old Trayvon Mar-tin was killed by George Zimmerman in what he called a case of self-de-fense. Trayvon Martin did not deserve to die. It is scary to think that just because you are wearing a hoody you may be considered a criminal. To me that could have happened to anyone of the students at NTCHS. That is re-ally nerve racking. Most of the students here wear hoodies. Does that mean that we all look suspi-cious and are in a gang? I think not! It irritates me that America’s young people keep dying for no reason other than the fact that peo-ple are suspicious of them. It is also very agitating that the criminal who killed Trayvon was only recently prosecuted by federal officials and only after public

outcry of a hate crime and prejudicial treatment. Trayvon did not do any-thing wrong the day he died. He simply went to the grocery store to, af-ter being sent home from school, to buy a bag a skittles and an ice tea. He started walking to his dad’s girlfriend’s house. This is when George Zim-merman started to follow him. Zimmerman called

the police and told them that he was following a suspicious person. The operator told him not to pursue him. If Zimmerman would have listened to the opera-tor Trayvon would still be with us today. It is unfor-tunate that people in this world are so arrogant. I do not think that race actually played a huge issue in this case. It was a psychotic

First Senior Trip Weather Cancellation Frustrated Many

By Kelsey Burley On March 22 the senior class of NTCHS planned a fun day to the West Ed-monton Mall, but little did they know that the weath-er had something else in store for them. The morning started off great. The class of 2012 boarded the cruiser at 2 a.m. and was off. The bus load of kids cleared the border around 3 a.m.. If you sat at the front of the bus, you probably would have thought that there was no one else on board. All the seniors slept and

were woken up in Leth-bridge, AB to a surprise. One of the class sponsors informed everyone that the weather had caused the bus to turn around and that everyone was ex-pected to return to school that day in hopes that we would have another chance at attempting the journey to Edmonton. Denny’s was where we decided to stop for break-fast and to discuss what would happen. We were told that it was too much of a hassle to pay for subs, bus drivers and gas money

to attempt the trip a sec-ond time. We were also told that there would be no chance that we would have another trip if no one returned to school. This made no one happy. It was quite nerve-racking being told that the senior trip had been cancelled and that it was possible that we wouldn’t be given another chance to go have our promised “Senior Sneak Day.” No one was happy. A trip to a Denny’s in Lethbridge to eat breakfast was no one’s desired senior trip. A class

meeting that was held as soon as we got back was full of conversation about what we would do. It was decided that a second pro-posal for a trip would be written up and presented. We wrote in that our class would gladly fork out the money to pay for subs. Our proposal was ac-cepted to attempt the trip again on April 11. This news made for a happy senior class. When we heard there would not be another trip I was angry, but it all worked out.

man following a teen. Martin became frightened and fought for what he may have thought was his life, since it was, in fact, just that. Martin did not know if Zimmerman was following him to try to kidnap him or kill him. So Martin fought back. Martin was right in his actions and Zimmerman overreacted; to me that’s the end of the story.

Another View: Political Cartoon by Jake Woodward


Sports

Track Season BeginsBy Brett Simons This year in Sunburst the track team features a group of veterans and the addition of some new members. Participants in-clude seniors Cash Ehlers, Justin Hauschulz, Hunter Leichliter, Alex Watterud and Josh Friesen. Juniors include Kamron Ratz-burg, Brett Simons and Noemi Shaerer. Sopho-mores are Mason Ke-arn’s, Matt Becker, Luke Becker, Jacob Alborano and Connor Overcast; freshman Tyler Tharp, Nicole Friesen and Jenni-fer Samsal. The track team is coached by Nate Aschim and assistant coached by Russell Biniek. This year the group traveled to Havre for a track meet and to Cutbank. The track

team was to go to Great Falls for a meet on April 12 but bad weather pre-vented them from attend-ing. Events that students are participating in are the 3200 meter, 1600 meter, 400, 800, 200 hurtles, 100, javelin, discus, shot put, high jump, triple jump, long jump a 4X1 relay team and a 4X4 re-lay team. Alone the long distance team has six members so everyone participates in events. C. Ehlers recently took first at Cutbank in the 100 with a time of 11.39 sec-onds, the 200 a time of 23.76, the 400 in 51.39 and the high jump a height of 5’10”. This earned him the title of “Athlete of the Week” from KSEN.

By Satyn Tomsheck The 2012 golf season has started. There are new additions to the team this year, Refiner girls. Be-cause of there being no

Golf Welcomes Girls

sof tbal l team the girls are allowed to be on the golf team. The golf team has had four meets so far. Their n e x t m e e t is on F r i d a y


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and queen then danced to half of a song to celebrate after they were crowned by Junior class presi-dent Brooke Lindskog. Lana Ahrens took pictures of the classes and couples during the photo sessions. Wendy and Korey Fau-que were the disc jockeys for the evening, playing a wide variety of music for different tastes. Senior Jayleen McAlp-ine said, “It was great to see Jesse in her dress and finally meet her boyfriend, Jacob. Also, one of my favorite things of the night was seeing everyone dressed up be-cause we usu-ally don’t dress up for school.” Many people made reserva-

tions at restaurants in surrounding towns, but some also had dinner parties at their houses. Right -- Senior Becky Flesch leaps into the arms of her date, junior Austin Luckenbill.Right, bottom -- Seniors and prom royal court nominees Jesse Tomsheck, Kelsey Burley, Becky Flesch, Josh Friesen and Andrew Stevens pose behind Prom Queen Titia Bloch and Prom King Hunter Leichliter.Below -- Senior Hali Miller twirls for her date sophomore Cameron Rich-mond during the Promenade Saturday April 14.

State Qualifiers

Andy Ryan 91Scott Bye 96

Braydon Dunk 100

Courtney Lindskog 117

(Men must score 100 or less, women 120 or less)

April 20 in Shelby; there will be at least two more after that in Fort Benton and a JV meet in Cutbank before the State tourna-ment. The participants

include for boys: senior Scott Bye; sophomores Cameron Richmond and Henry Zell; and freshmen Andy Ryan, Tyler Tharp and Braydon Dunk.

The girl p a r t i c i -pants are s e n i o r s A m a n d a Tharp and Alex Wat-terud; ju-niors Kylie P a t t i s o n , B r o o k e L indskog and Rachel Ehlers; and f r e s hmen H a n n a h

Hauschulz, and Courtney Lindskog. These golfers are being taught by their coach, Jay Johannsen. Good luck, golfers.


School


quite frustrated with the changes in awards.” Ac-cording to Miss Becker Superintendent Tharp has sent in a letter of concern about the fair. It has yet to be responded to. The science team stayed at the Holiday Inn for two nights while in Missoula. While The group had a team dinner after judging on Monday. Tuesday they went to the awards cer-emony, ate a quick lunch and headed home. According to Miss Becker Sunburst has sent at least one team to inter-national science fair for a consecutive 16 years now. According to A. Tharp “I think the science fair went extremely well and we represented the school well. I believe we made NTCHS proud.”

SCIENCEFAIR

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LANKFORDFrom 6

According to holidays.net Mardi Gras is a Roman holiday that was adapted by the Christian church as a way to convert pagans to Christianity. It is celebrat-ed by nearly all the Euro-pean nations and America. Mardi Gras was celebrat-ed right before Lent as a way for Christians to let go of themselves and in-dulge before fasting for 40 days. It was France who brought the tradition to America, specifically

MOONNew Orleans, which is widely known for its huge Mardi Gras celebrations. In England the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday (the start of Lent) is called pancake Tuesday and is celebrated by having pan-cake eating competitions and other pancake related activities. In western culture Lent refers to the 40 days be-fore Easter that are cel-ebrated by sacrificing something desirable for

those 40 days. Accord-ing to newadvent.org the 40 days represents the 40 days and 40 nights that Jesus fasted before go-ing into ministry. Accord-ing to Socrates, originally Lent was a fast that was debated by many. This is because many believed it to be only a few days of fast or a certain kind of fast. An example of these different interpretations of fasts includes not eating meat, only drinking liq-

the world in the uniden-tifiable future. It’s a fic-tional dystopia which at some points seems all too real. Some scenes may be upsetting, but that’s a good thing, as said by Dan Lybarger from KC Active. The intensity and suspense in The Hunger Games leaves many hun-gry for more as well. Af-fection, although very scarce in this movie, soft-ens the suspenseful mood, as with the relationship between Katniss and Rue, the youngest tribute in the Games, played by Aman-dla Stenburg. All in all, whether a book worm or a movie-goer, The Hunger Games is not one to miss out on. As Ef-

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the road on the way up, we had fresh snow on the slopes. It was a per-fect spring ski day. It was grand.” Sophomore Mason Ke-arns said, “It was really fun, and everyone had a good time.” Sophomore Connor Overcast said, “It was fun skiing through the bliz-zards.”

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American Reunion, 21 Jump Street, The Hunger Games and Mirror Mir-ror. When all the students had finished watching their movies, everyone re-boarded the bus and prepared for the long trip back home. The West Edmonton Mall had many attrac-tions for the senior class to entertain themselves with. Some of these in-cluded Galaxyland, an indoor amusement park, the World Waterpark, a marine life exhibit, an ice skating rink, a high rope adventure, and much more. The mall also had around 850 stores and five or six food courts. Senior Alex Watterud said “I was almost the first person to pee my pants on the Mindbender roller coaster!” Senior Hunter Leichliter also had a good review of the amusement park, “The roller coaster was exhilarating and it hauled! First car right in the front was the best.” Senior Jayleen McAlpine also noted that “21 Jump Street was so funny! My abs hurt from laughing so hard.”

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From 7uids, or only eating one meal per day. Catholics commonly only eat fish as meat on Fridays during Lent. It currently is cel-ebrated in various ways, mainly by people of the Christian faith. Each one of these holi-days relies on the fourth moon of the New Year and its timing. These hol-idays are celebrated by many different cultures and people, but the moon and time bring them to-gether.

fie Trinket always says, “Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.”

Freshman Andy Ryan, sophomores Mason Kearns, Cameron Richmond, junior Brooke Lindskog and freshman Tyler Tharp line up at the top of the lift near the upper ski lodge, awaiting their ski instructor Friday March 16.

“I think she is cool she even did our makeup at Joni’s for free,” sopho-more Erika Postma said. Senior Hali Miller said “She always makes class exciting; she doesn’t just read from the book. She interacts with us very well by being so excited about teaching which makes us want to learn.”

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