Volume 8, issue 2

October. 2017

Special points of interest:

Homecoming Week

Mystery Student

Student Birthdays

7th and 8th grade interviews

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Inside this issue:

8th Grade Interview 1

7th Grade Interview 1

Homecoming Week 1

Staff Interview 2

Basketball 2

Autumn On Parade 3

Movie Review 3

Survey 3

Fall Choir Concert 4

Autumn On Parade

Candy Survey

Teacher Interview

Boys Basketball

Student Interview – 8th Grade By: Taylar Rufer and Allison Sheely This month we decided to interview Ali Schelling. We asked her what sports she plays and she responded that she plays volleyball. She is a one sport person. We also asked if she has siblings, and if so how many. She said “she has one sister named Gabby, she is in 4th grade and has Cerebral Palsy.” She also said that she has been to 15

states. Next, we asked her what her favorite subject is and she replied English. We asked why and she replied, “it’s not as bad as the other subjects.” Her fa-vorite movie is Mean Girls- “It’s a good movie.” Her favorite place that she’s visited is Myrtle Beach in South Carolina. We also asked her what her

favorite part of this year so far has been, and she said probably that she hasn’t failed a class yet. Some other random favorites of Ali’s are: her favorite shoe brand is Crocs, favorite app/social media is snapchat, her favorite inspirational quote is “You don’t know how strong you are until strong is the only choice you have.” And her favorite movie quote is, “On Wednesday’s we wear pink,” from her favorite movie Mean Girls.

7th Grade Interview: Calvyn Dawson By: Maya Key and Natalie Rosslein For this month’s 7th grade interview we decided to talk to Calvyn Dawson. We asked him 6 questions, and we started with asking if he is enjoying DLR, and what’s his favorite part about mid-dle school. He said, “Good and gym!” His favorite thing to do in gym, so far, is soccer, and his favorite subject was science because he gets to do fun activities. One of Calvyn’s hob-bies is swimming, and he enjoys diving the most. His favorite movie is Toy Story, and his favorite character is Buzz. When we asked what his favorite color is he responded with, “Red because it makes me happy!” We decided to ask about the rumor Issac Reber was starting, that him and Calvyn are best friends. According to Calvyn they are! His favorite thing about Issac is his sense of humor. Everyone deserves a Calvyn Dawson in their life!

Homecoming Week/GameBy: Jokiah Sewell and Kristeean

Zavala As you may know, DLR had

dress up days for homecoming. It was great, and we had some amazing outfits. Pajama day was Monday which was the first day. On Tuesday It was camo day. Next, on Wednesday it was favorite sports day. Then it was twin day on Thursday. Finally, it was Crazy Red and White day. The winning homeroom was Mrs. Holm for 8th grade and Mrs. Klink for 7th grade. Congratulations! On Fri-day Night it was time for some football. Our Oregon Hawks went against Bryon Tigers. The final score was 7-62, which was a tough loss for the Hawks, but it was another great home-coming. week. We are looking forward to next year.

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November Birthdays 8th Grade: 5th– Ethan George 13– Miranda Mer-ritt Kadyn Reber 19-Cody Bailey 21– Mia Trampel Lena Trampel 22-Paige Beauchem 23-Dylan Alcala 27-Tori Marchetti 28-Eden Neilson

7th Grade 7-Kaedance Calla-way 10-Daniel Dietrich 11-Jacob Vegliando 22-Karina Ocampo Gracie Prose 24-Brooke Florin 24-Madison Priller 27-Ryan Fox 29-Katrina O’Con-nell 30-Sebastian Car-denas

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Teacher Interview by Faith Marquardt and Abbi Virgil This month for the teacher interview we interviewed Mr. Albrecht. Mr. Albrecht is the 7th grade science teacher and the coach for the high school boys’ basketball team. Our first question was “What is your favorite thing about school so far this year?” He replied, “The temperature was nice.” The second ques-tion was, “Do you prefer the 8th or 7th grade class?” He said, “8th because they got a more mature attitude over the summer.” Anoth-er question we asked was, “What was your favorite thing about the 7th graders?” He replied with, “They are fun and they ask a lot of questions.” The next question was, “Least favorite thing about the 7th grad-ers?” He replied, “They talk too much.” The next one was, “What is your favorite thing about the 8th grade?” He said, “We are a smaller grade.” “What's your least favorite thing about 8th grade?” he said “Nothing.” He went on to say that, his favorite hour this year is his planning period and favorite hour last year was 4th. We were actually in that hour. We then asked, “What is your favorite thing to teach in sci-ence?” He replied, “Physical Science.” If he could teach any other subject other than science, he said “Math, because it is challenging.” Our final question was “Do you have any advice for both the 7th and 8th graders for the school year?” He said, “Continue to get better habits and continue to work hard.”

2017 Eagles Boys Basketball

By: Avery Clark and Tori Marchetti

In this edition we will be talking about boys’ basketball. The season is just taking off; the seventh graders first game was a loss with a final score of 18-21. Although the seventh grad-ers did not walk away with the W, they still put up a good fight. On the other hand, the 8th grade Eagles were victorious in their game against Amboy with a final score of 40-22. We decided to interview Issac Reber, Evan James, and Mr. Cann, 3 active members in our school's basket-ball program.

Seventh grader, Evan James is #54 and he is a point guard. He plays because it runs in the family, therefore his inspiration is his dad. Since the eagles have only played one game, they don't have any known competition to be threatened by. Evans favorite part of the sport is playing defense, because it's a rush stealing the ball.

Eighth grader, Issac Reber is a center and his number is 35. Issac says basketball is a

great sport and he loves, “putting in that work.” He also enjoys traveling and making memo-ries with his fellow Eagles. Issac’s in-spiration is Russell Westbrook, his rea-soning behind this is since Russell is a good player. As we concluded the in-terview, Issac add-ed, “Let’s kill it Ea-gles!”

Mr. Cann is the 7th grade coach for both girls’ and boys’ basketball, and he also teaches 7th grade ELA. This is Mr. Cann’s third year coaching boys’ basketball, as well as his first coaching girls’ basketball. In Junior High Mr. Cann actually played in the same gym as our current teams! Coach Cann says he hopes to see a limited amount of turnovers going to the other team throughout the season. He claims that if the boys do limit their turnovers our close com-petitors will no longer be close. Mr. Cann states, “We don't have many games this year, so get out and support your eagles!”

Mystery Person

By: Jenae Bothe

This month’s mystery person is a female. She has brown eyes and brown hair. She’s around 5’ and ½’’ tall. In school, she is involved in stu-dent council. Some of her hobbies are reading books and sketching. While she had no favorite food, her favorite color is mint green. The subject that she enjoys the most in school is literature. The mystery person’s favorite teacher so far has been Ms. Leamanczyk. If you know who this per-son is, please come and tell Jenae.

Liam Dickson-Harriet scrambles around his oppo-nent.

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Our Staff:

Editor-in Chief:

Ms. Leamanczyk

“Predator”:

Predator”:

Emily Milan

Staff:

Jenae Bothe

Avery Clark

Wesley Immel

Gracie Kelchner

Maya Key

Tori Marchetti

Faith Marquardt

Abi Miller

Natalie Roesslein

Taylar Rufer

Jokiah Sewell

Allison Sheely

Jesse Suter

Megan Thomp-son

Lindsie Van Dyck

Miguel Vazquez

Abigail Virgil

Kristeean Zavala

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Autumn on Parade Gracie Kelchner and Megan Thompson On the morning of October 6th, a well-known, annual event occurred in our small town of Oregon. Its known as the Autumn on Parade, a three-day long celebration to cele-brate the arrival of Autumn. The first day consists of many organizations setting up their booths to share their creations. But in the afternoon is when the action starts, then you can set off to explore the many booths people have come to set up. On the 7th, while the booths continue to grasp the attention of many, silently all start to pre-pare breath taking parade that takes place the following day. Bright and early Octo-ber 8th is when the magic hap-pens. All of the floats start ap-pearing on the sides of the streets, awaiting for their time to shine. Then, when the times comes, the parade begins. It was a beautiful Sunday: sun shining through the trees, cloudy skies, and the aroma of pizza fills the air. At 1 o’clock in the after-noon is when the magic happened. Float by float, they begin rolling along the parade route, seeking their gratefully earned attention. Our OHS cheerleaders, OHS band, 6th grade band, and the marvelous DLR band performed. We cannot forget the Jesse White Tumbling Team, South Shore Drill Team, Tebala Shrine Klowns, impersonators, and many family-owned businesses. All in all, it was a great way to spend the weekend. Whether you were in the parade, or just there to take in the view. It was a breathtaking experience, and a great way to connect with friends and family members. If you couldn’t make it this year, make sure you catch it next year, because it is definitely worth the watch!

Please note that our next issue will be a combined November/December issue and

will be published just before Holiday break in December!

IT Movie Review Comparison By: Lindsie Van Dyck and Miguel Vazquez

The 1990 Version TV series adap-tation of Stephen King’s “It”. Directed by Tommy Lee Wallace. Runtime is 193 minutes. Separated into episodes, which in-cludes the “Loser’s Club” as adults and children. The 2017 Version Rebooted version of the TV series. Di-rected by Andy Muschietti. Runtime is 135 minutes. Separated into two movies, also known as “chapters”. The first chapter is the “Loser’s Club” as children, while chapter two is them as adults. Differences and Similarities Both movies had mainly followed the plot. They kept all the same characters, and con-flicts (while the new one added more). We don’t know about the rest of the story for the reboot, since it is not out yet. I n the older one, it wasn’t “action packed”. It was boring and bland. While in the new one, they actually were able to make things actually creepy. Take Pennywise, for example. In the old one, it was just a clown. It just did unsettling things, but made them look weird because of its appearance. In the new one, it was actually scary. Its appearance put you on edge, and sometimes be unpredictable. The older version didn’t go much detail about the kids, except that they all were “losers”. The newer version shows, and tells, a lot about the kids. They have backstories, fears, motivations, etc. You don’t see a lot of that in the older one. The characters, also, felt more “alive”. We thought the new version of “IT” was better. It kept us on edge, and made sense. While the older one almost made us doze off. Neither of us had read the original story, but we got a better under-standing of it in the newer one.

The South Shore Drill team is always sure to please.

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DLR Choir Holds a Fall Concert Wesley Immel and Abi Miller On October 10th, 2017 the DLR Choir had performed their Annual Fall concert. The concert had featured three songs. One of the songs was Kuimba, this is a Swahili song which means to sing. The choir also sang Wade in the Water, Jubilate, and Alleluia. Several students were acknowledged and congratulated for trying out for ILMEA, which is a music competition. The ILMEA concert will be November 18th, 2017 in DeKalb IL. Overall the choir portion of the concert was very nice, and we are looking forward to what they have prepared for the future.

Fall Student Survey By Abby Duke and Jesse Suter

This month’s Student Survey was on your favorite fall food since this is a season of lots of food and holi-days! Your choices were pie, apple cider donuts, apple cider, sugar roasted almonds, and caramel apples. It looks like pie is the favorite in the school with 51 votes! Runner up, apple cider donuts, was close behind with 42 votes! Followed by caramel apples, apple cider, and last but not least sugar roasted almonds. Thank you for everyone who participated in this month’s Student Survey!