made a lot of great points, such as dancing expresses who you are, hold-ing grudges can hold you back and of course coming to an agreement can be beneficial to you in many ways. You can ask anyone that was in this production that opening night was nerve racking but full of fun, said Kylie

Vandel, a Bomont High school stu-dent. The shows were on Febru-ary 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th. “The most difficult part of this show was definitely

the costume changes” said a Bomont High School student. Running upstairs to a dressing room and being back in five minutes in a completely different costume is really difficult. “The show had me on the edge of my seat the whole time” said soph-omore Wesley Hewitt. “The show was amazing, one of the best I have ever watched” said sophomore Natacha French. It’s pretty safe to say that this year’s production was off the wall great!

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February/March 2015- Issue 6Grizzly Gazette

After months of dancing, singing and of course line memorization,

Hoquiam High School was pleased to present Footloose, written by Dean Pitchford and Walter Bobbie. Director, Mrs. Sundstrom, thought this produc-tion was a huge success! Although it really took a lot of work it was definite-ly a lot of fun. Cast members spent most of their days dancing and singing just so they get it right for opening night. Trin-ity Olson, the lead footloose dancer, spent hours dancing outside of re-hearsal just so she could get the dances down. Out of 45 cast members and 20 builders and helpers, this production has gone from wrong pitches, mixed up choreography and of course stuttering through lines, to an amazing show put together wonderfully. From the acting on stage and the helping hands back stage everybody came together not as just friends, but as a family. The produc-tion

FootlooseKatie Mudd

In this Issue: • Career Fair- Page 2• Grizzly Prevention

Squad- Page 3• Science Fair- Page 3• Mystery Students-

Page 10• FBLA- Page 11• CTE Student of the

Month- Page 16

Upcoming Events:March 9, 2015:6 Week GradesMarch 12, 2015:CMEA Choir FestivalMarch 13, 2015:CMEA Choir FestivalMarch 17, 2015:8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Win-ter Concert - Band and ChoirMarch 20, 2015:Possible 1st Snow Make-up DayMarch 25, 2015:CMEA Band Festival8:00 AM - 1:00 PMCMEA Band FestivalMarch 28, 2015:CMEA Instrumental Solo and Ensemble Fes-tivalMarch 31- April 3, 2015:Parent/Student Confer-encesApril 6-10, 2015:Spring Break

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Tolo AnnouncementSarah Davy

Come out and spend the night dancing and spend-ing time with friends at our high school’s Tolo

dance. The dance will be held on Saturday night, March 14th. Hoquiam High School’s Honor Soci-ety is arranging and setting up for this dance, so let’s come make it worth it for them! The doors will open at 9 o’clock and the dance will end at midnight. “Lights Down, Music Up” is the theme of the night, so what could be more fun? Come enjoy live music from the band ‘Ready or Not’ in the school cafeteria and dance until your shoes fall off. Tolo this year is not a formal dance, so feel free to show up in your casual wear or more formal attire. Just be comfort-able! Jeans and t-shirts are most recommended, they are good dancing clothes to dance to some awesome music! Balloons will help decorate and it will be a night worth remembering. You and your date can get in for just 20 dollars! If you want to come solo, that’s cool too; your entry fee is only 15 dollars. Come enjoy the night and be ready to sing and dance for hours.

Career FairJeff Capoeman

Hoquiam High School held a career fair day just before winter break on December 17th. Career

Fair was held for the junior class only. Having only one class definitely makes the time at Career Fair more pro-ductive. There was two parts to this career fair day held on a Team Wednesday schedule. First, the employers separated into five common groups. The students of the junior class would go to two different groups de-pending on which group they were interested in. Each seminar, if you may call it, was about an hour long. After they listened to the employees and em-ployers talk, they would proceed onto their next “seminar”. The second half of the day was held after lunch and it was called “Mad Money”.

The goal of this activity was to teach the students how to spend money wisely based on real world situations. This was held in the library which proved to be too small for over 100 students to go from 10 different tables within a certain given time. It was very hectic. The career seminars seemed to appeal to most of the junior class. Brisel Acuna and Mikayla Evans both agree that career fair was indeed helpful to them. Brisel found it very insightful and it confirmed her previous opinion of going into the medical field. Mad Money did not appeal to as many people’s taste. Mi-kayla Evans says that next year they should not do Mad Money and just add more seminars to the schedule. Career Fair was an exciting day with a pos-sible look into one’s future with career options. It is not to say that the career they have in mind is for sure their future. They can always change their mind and find things not as enjoyable as they had once thought. But it is yet exciting to peek into the possible future and have guidance into what would appeal to your liking. Juniors can now prepare for their future con-tinuing into their senior year. Sophomores, prepare yourselves for a sudden change in your high school career in which you look forward beyond high school, and freshmen... Don’t worry, your time will come.

The students listen to the key note speaker, which started out the career fair.

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Mr. Chavez and a few students started this year trying to get a drug and alcohol prevention club

together. The club gets about 10-20 members at each meeting, and it’s not hard to join. All you have to do is go to one of their meetings which is every Tuesday during core/flex and pop in and sign their pledge. Their pledge is basically just promising not to do drugs, or drink alcohol. The mission of the club is; “To provide students with the best prevention tools possible to deal with the issues of underage drinking, other drug use, risky driving, and other destructive decisions.” Currently they’re working on different cam-paigning methods; also Miss Washington will be coming to one of the meetings to help with cam-paigning. She’ll teach the students how to give pre-sentations to people about anti-drug use. Eventu-ally Mr. Chavez would like to take the club down to the Hoquiam Middle School and give the mid-dle schoolers a presentation on drug prevention. Julie Kim is a member of GPS; she decided to join because she believes there are a lot of people who do drugs and drink alcohol who need to be aware. Ju-lie believes it will help the school; she thinks that the word is being spread around and people are becoming more aware. Riley Jackson is another member of GPS; he decided to join because he’s heard that at the school there are a large handful of students who need aware-ness. Riley thinks that having the club will make a dif-ference and that they have their point out and if they continue spreading the word it will help out the school. Right now the Grizzly Prevention Squad needs more members willing to commit to not doing drugs or drinking alcohol. Meetings are every Tuesday during core/flex and during the meetings they play ice breaker games, talk about upcoming events to get the word out, and how to get more people to join. You should pop in for meeting, you might actually like it.

Grizzly Prevention SquadAnna Totten

“To provide students with the best pre-vention tools possible to deal with the issues of underage drinking, other drug use, risky driving, and other destructive decisions.” -GPS

Science FairAnna Totten

This year’s science fair took place on January 16, students had been preparing since November.

Out of all the students who entered, only a select few were chosen to present their project to The Lion’s Club. The winners of this year’s science fair are Josiah Lowder, Ashly Montgomery, Juve Torres, Alex Padil-la, Sophie Moore, Isabel Hernandez, Brittoni Wright, English Hyde, Kamimi Papp, and Leif Anderson. Those ten people get to go to the Lion’s Club. A few of these students got interviewed on what they did. Sophie Moore did a project called Yeast VS Light. She took three different types of light which were moonlight, fluorescent light, and blue reptile light. She put the yeast under the light for twenty-four hours to see how fast it reacted under different lights. Ashly Montgomery did a project called What’s up Doc. She used aspirin water to water carrots to see if it would help its growth. The aspirin water made the carrots grow slower than the regular watered carrots. Isabel Hernandez and Brittoni Wright did a project called A Window to a Spider. The two of them took six dead spiders, and put them each in a clear cup. They poured in each a cup a differ-ent solution, they used: vinegar, nail polish remov-er, lemon juice, ammonium, alcohol, and bleach. They wanted to see which solution would disin-tegrate the spider the most. After a few hours they checked the spiders and the cup that was filled

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with alcohol had disintegrated the spider the most. The winner out of those six students was Josiah Lowder and he won a $1,000 scholarship for his project, “Is Store Bought Ammo the Best Bang for Your Buck”. For his experiment he took store bought ammo and homemade ammo, and used those both to see which one worked better. After experimenting, his homemade ammo worked slightly better than store bought.

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Solo and Ensemble is an opportunity to sing or play in front of a judge so you can better your

abilities if needed. This opportunity was offered to all high school students participating in Band and/or Choir. Students took a trip up to Timberline High School in Olympia to perform the piece of music that they selected to fit their quality and technique skills. On January 31st the Hoquiam High School Band had 29 students go to Solo and Ensemble. “I feel that I did really well, even though I was a little shaky due to nerves”, said Karen Mudd, a senior clar-inetist. “I enjoy working with the students of course, and being able to watch them be happy with some-thing they wanted to do,” said Choir and Band direc-tor, Ms. Peters. “My students are talented and I am glad that they were able to experience this, especially the kids who were able to do this for the first time.” On February 7th the Hoquiam High School Choir had three choir members go to Solo and En-semble. Sadly only one of the three students was able to perform, due to timing issues. “I was shocked by one of the kids we watched perform, he was amaz-ing and you can tell he spent a lot of time work-ing on it,” said band and choir director Ms. Peters. Overall this was a helpful, fun experi-ence for all the students that attended. Hopeful-ly next year there will be more students to attend!

Solo and EnsembleKatie Mudd

HHS students at the Science Fair.

Ivy Young (11), Kalynn Reeves (11), and Mrs. Peters

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Mr. Skolrood is a teacher that most students at Hoquiam High School know. If you don’t yet,

you probably will by the time you graduate. Wheth-er it’s because you have taken one of his classes (art or photography), or you see him around the school. Mr. Skolrood has been teaching for a sol-id 29 years! Even though teaching isn’t always what he wanted do, he has found a lot of joy in doing it. When Mr. Skolrood was younger he wanted to be an electrician, just like his dad. But like most, he changed his career choice. When going to high school here at Hoquiam High, he was very involved with sports. In fact, he tried just about all of them, which included golf, wrestling, baseball, cross country, and football! After high school, he went to college and wrestled. While wrestling, he realized he wanted to be a coach and figured the best way to become one was to be a teacher so he could coach students attending the school at which he taught. He decided to become an art teacher because he loved how in art everyone can succeed. Even if they’re not the best at math, en-glish or science, they could still excel in his class as long as they put in the effort. He attended Grays Har-bor College and received his AA, then went to west-ern and got his Bachelor’s degree, and finally went on and got his Masters from Grand Canyon University. Besides coming to school every day and help-ing his students, Mr. Skolrood does have a life outside of school. He likes golfing, working on his house and yard, and when he gets the chance he also enjoys paint-ing and drawing. Mr. Skolrood also has a wife, Kathryn, who he’s been married to “for 161 wonderful years”, he also has two kids. Katelynn attends Saint Martin’s University, is 19 years old, and Kolby is 11 and cur-rently goes to Central Elementary School in Hoquiam. Many students throughout the high school find Mr. Skolrood a very helpful teacher, and someone they respect and look up to as well. So, if you ever get the chance, head over to his lovely art room and say “hi!” or maybe even get into one of his classes!

Teacher SpotlightMikayla Evans

Mr. Skolrood

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Artist SpotlightNick Jones

This month’s artist spotlight is on Sevina Rigo-ni, a senior at Hoquiam High School. Sevina

was chosen by the art teacher Mr.Skolrood himself. Sevina likes to create realistic style art the most. She likes to draw famous people, movie scenes, music video scenes, and nature scenes. She likes to create art with watercolors, ink, acrylic paint, pencil sketch/shad-ing, sharpies, and colored pencils. She doesn’t have an original character, however sometimes she likes to draw a little diamond shape on her schoolwork and artwork. Her favorite artists are Van Goh and Georgia O’ Keefe. Sevina creates art because she likes to capture the beauty and importance of scenes in movies, music videos, and television. She loves art, and plans on going to college in order to study interior design and interior decorating. Overall, Sevina is a great artist, and deserves recog-nition. Her only advice for other artists out there is, “Don’t let anyone’s criticism effect the way you view your art. Everyone interprets art differently, that’s the beauty of it!”

An example of Sevina’s artwork.

Student on the JobKatie Mudd

In this edition of Student on the Job, Kylie Vandel was interviewed; she is a junior who works at the

Hoquiam McDonalds. Kylie’s motives for working are to earn money. Who doesn’t like money? Also, because it gives her a taste of being an adult. Kylie likes working at McDonalds, and she even rates her job a nine on a one to ten scale. She gets along with all of her employees. She also finds it a very easy environment to work in. Kylie works as an order taker, drive through or-der taker and the table cleaner. Being on all these differ-ent positions she has to do many duties, such as clean-ing tables, taking orders from the customers and then handling money. Not everyone likes their job but Kylie’s favorite part about hers is the communication with the employees. She dislikes that there are rude customers. Even though Kylie has been working at McDonalds for almost a full year, she hopes to eventually find herself working in a different field making more money. This is completely under-standable, given to the fact that students working in the fast food industries make minimum wage. As many of you know that isn’t very much income. Kylie Vandel working the register.

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The students under the spotlight for this month were the two main roles in the drama club’s play “Footloose”. Sadie Carl, a 10th grader at HHS

played Ariel Moore. Andrew Carley, a senior played Ren MacCormack. The drama club performed the play on the 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th of February. The two both per-formed incredibly well and the shows were successful. Sadie and Andrew both had to practice every-day to be in complete preparation for the play. As the leads they had to practice daily for about three hours while others only for about two. Sadie is very interested in becoming an actress for a career and being the lead in a play is a great way for her to chase her dreams. She has performed at the 7th Street Theatre throughout her childhood, so the stage and the crowd was not a new thing to her. When asked how she handles being in front of large amount of people, she says that it was very frightening at first but it is something she has learned to cope with very well. She states she loves the musical theatre industry and hopes to be part of it one day. She enjoys the people she meets and the fun she has along the way. Sadie says that her favorite part of the play was the entire thing, she had a blast. When asked what the hardest part of learning everything she said that the choreography was the most difficult to remember. Andrew loves the feeling of being on stage as well, as he has performed in three different high school plays and two church dramas. While grow-ing up he also acted in the 7th Street Theatre. Al-though he loves acting, his current plans for his future include something in the music industry. He states “I would love to make drama my career but music is just my passion even more so.” An-drew loves to perform and he plans to continue performing in musicals and plays throughout his college years. When asked what his favorite part of the play was, he said the scene in which “Heav-en Helps the Man” is performed was by far his most favorite because “of the intensity of the song and the rebellious feeling from the scene itself.”

Student SpotlightSarah Davy

Sadie Carl and Andrew Carley

He also stated that the hardest part of the play was the “Heaven Helps the Man” scene because of the choreography he had to do while sing-ing. It was hard for him to remember what his lines were and what moves he was supposed to do simultaneously. The last question Andrew an-swered was what does he do to make his nerves go down before stepping on stage in front of such large crowds, he replied with “amping my-self up and remembering who walked in the door and paid to come see this play expecting an excellent performance that we will deliver.”

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Point:Jeff Capoeman

For the average American, the word ‘holiday’ holds a specific connotation. When the word holiday is

used, you think of time with family and a break from school or work. In fact, the exact definition of the word ‘holiday’ is: “a day fixed by law or custom on which ordinary business is suspended in commemoration of some event or in honor of some person” (dictionary.reference.com). This means that for something to be considered a federal holiday, there must be a day off of duties such as school or work. The day must also be celebrating a specific event or person. Americans cel-ebrate Valentine’s Day in a unique way; this unique-ness being an over-glorification of relationships, con-sumerist ideals, and manipulation by large companies. The story of Valentine’s Day is one that holds much controversy. Nobody can seem to agree on what is being commemorated, or if St. Valentine was even involved in the story. This directly contra-dicts the ideals of a holiday. Therefore, Valentine’s Day should never be considered a Federal Holiday. If the definition of ‘holiday’ is taken literally, Val-entine’s Day wouldn’t be a holiday in the first place.

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Counter Point:Lindsey Sheridan

Should Valentine’s Day be Considered a Federal Holiday?

Holiday: A special day of celebration: A day when most people do not have to work.

By definition Valentine’s Day isn’t a holi-day because everyone still works and goes to school right? Why isn’t it a federal holiday? Everyone cele-brates it! Well every couple that is and those who are “in love”, so to say. Just like Christmas there are Grinches for Valentine’s Day too! What is it that people find about this holiday that makes them put it at the bottom of the importance list? Valentine’s Day stretches back many years in history. The origin of Valentine’s Day is unknown and there are three different possibilities behind it. All three stories include a St. Valentine in the Roman Empire. The feast of Valentine’s Day was not directly associated with love until the 14th century. The first man known to associate Valentine’s Day with love was a man named Chaucer, who composed a poem at the wedding of England’s Richard II and Anne of Bohemia. There is significant history behind Valen-tine’s Day. All the folk tale and legends came along with its many years of existence. With all its known presence and its history why isn’t it celebrated as a federal holiday? Well here’s the answer: how many businesses actually care about emotional affairs? Val-entine’s Day is not taken seriously because it is an emotional event that takes place in one’s own per-sonal life. Of course businesses aren’t going to stop production for somebody because they're in love. Just like some people don’t have Christ-mas break and some people don’t get off on a lot of holidays. Businesses can’t afford to stop produc-tion. Valentine’s Day is looked down upon because of emotion, but that doesn’t mean that it still isn’t a holiday. Emotion plays a big part in everyone’s lives and love is one of the many great emotions that hu-mans have. Valentine’s Day is a day to celebrate that emotion and celebrate it with the people you love.

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(Cont. from pg. 8) Of course, Valentine’s Day is in commemo-ration of someone or something, but that is no longer what is celebrated. Valentine’s Day has become a warped version of what it originally was. It is no longer about St. Valentine (or whoever else was involved), but about a shallow interpretation of romance and consumerism. Many argue that Valentine’s Day is not a “Hallmark” holiday because it has real roots in histo-ry, but we no longer celebrate the history behind it. How can Valentine’s Day even be considered a holiday when the historical evidence is no longer imperative? When a holiday loses its meaning, it should lose its holiday title along with it. Corporations take advan-tage of the fact that Americans are not educated on Valentine’s Day history, and sell seemingly arbitrary items that have become the standard: flowers, choco-late, jewelry, etc. The tragic point is that many dream of receiving these things and the romance that goes along with it. Many also stress over the perfect Val-entine gift or activity. Why do we need a day to re-mind us to show love to our loved ones? Shouldn’t we do that every day? This holiday creates insecuri-ty and stress. It also, unfortunately, has a large effect on our love lives. A holiday with little to no historical significance should not be made a Federal Holiday.

Valentine’s CouplesAnna Totten

Take a look into a few high school couples, how they got together, what they see in each

other and what they did for Valentine’s Day. The first couple that was interviewed was Katie Mudd and Riley Francis; they’ve been to-gether since April 18, 2014. They started off as just friends in fifth period Algebra, and it slowly devel-oped into a relationship. Riley thought that Katie was smart, funny, and cute. Katie loved that Riley could always make her laugh. On April 18, Riley gave Katie a note, although it was a sweet, it was a third grader move to ask her out like that. For Val-entine’s Day they went out to dinner, and watched a movie, and Riley made Katie carry a teddy bear that she named Rupert around school the day before. The second couple that was interviewed was Natacha French and Freddie Lomboy; they’ve been together since July 4, 2013. They had known each other since sixth grade; little did they know that just a few years later they’d be in a relationship. Freddie asked Natacha over text; how cliche, but the way he did it makes up for it. He started it with; “What can I call you?” She said; “Anything as long as it’s not mean.” So of course he saw the opportunity and took it, he sent back; “Can I call you mine?” When in-terviewed, Freddie had not asked Natacha to be his Valentine, so they don’t have any plans at the time. The third couple that was interviewed was Kalynn Reeves and Tyler Galligan; they’ve been to-gether since December 21, 2014. The two of them started talking because of a friend. Kalynn thought that Tyler was adorable so she took a shot and asked her out through Snapchat. Kalynn loves Tyler’s crazy hair, and Tyler loves Kaylnn’s orneriness. For Valentine’s they went to go watch a movie and Tyler got Kalynn a giant teddy bear to carry around school all day. Now maybe reading this gave you a wonderful idea on how to ask the girl or guy of your dreams out. Good luck!

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Mystery StudentsNick Jones

This month’s mystery staff member is a male teacher. He is married and has five kids. He went to school at

Hoquiam High School, and Pacific Lutheran University. He enjoys teaching because it reminds him what it was like to be young. His favorite part about teaching is be-ing able to interact with and teach students. In his free time he enjoys playing and listening to music, playing video games, and sometimes going to live concerts. His favorite advice to give to students is, “Always work hard for what you want, and always with integrity,” and “Re-member to appreciate the good things in life, especially with family and friends.” He would like to leave off with a quote from Dennis Deyoung, from his album “The Grand Illusion. “And if you think your life is confusin’ – ‘cause your neighbors got it made, just remember that, it’s a ‘grand illusion’ – and deep inside we’re all the same.”

This month’s male mystery student is a sophomore. He has been going to Hoquiam all his life. His fa-

vorite class is art, because he thinks art is fun and that “Mr. Skolrood is awesome.” He has two brothers, as well as two dogs. In his free time he likes to play video games, watch movies and TV shows. His favorite movie is “Pacific Rim,” and his favorite song is “Go Nuts!” by Simantyx. He participates in football. When he grows up he wants to be a video game designer, or a video game tester. He would like to sign off with his humorous line, “I like donuts.” Can you guess who this mystery student is?

This month’s female mystery student is a junior. She has been going to Hoquiam schools all her life.

She has two siblings. Her favorite class is AP English, because she enjoys writing. In her free time she likes to sing, write stories, and draw. Her favorite TV show is “Once Upon A Time,” and her favorite song is “Out of Goodbyes” by Marroon 5. She does not participate in any extracurricular activities. When she grows up she wants to go to a culinary school to learn to be a head chef. Can you guess who this mystery student is?

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Skateboarding was first started in the 1950’s, by California’s surfers that had an idea of trying to

surf the streets. No one is really sure who the first one to create the skateboard was, but instead it seems that several people came up with the idea at the same time. A few skaters were asked about their techniques for doing tricks, and here is what they had to say. Richard Pierce, and Aaron Wogoman were asked what tricks they were currently working on. One said he has been working on a viral flip, he said the only problem he has with doing the trick is he can’t get both feet on the board and instead only gets one foot. He also said that he just started skat-ing about three months ago, and already he can do a pop shove it, a Casper flip, and the basic Ollie. The other skater I asked is a little more expe-rienced when it comes to skating. He’s been skating since he was nine years old and still practicing his technique every day. He said he has been working on a big spin, and a 180 degree nollie onto a curb. He said that he isn’t able to make the big spin “be-cause I can’t make the board land on its wheels in-stead, the board lands on the deck of the board”. He also said he can’t make the 180 degree nollie onto a curb because when he lands onto the curb he doesn’t keep both feet down and the tail of the board ris-es which causes him to come to a complete stop. Altogether, skating is basically just phys-ics, and good foot coordination. For some it’s hard, but for others it’s a fun challenge. Doing a trick can also be hard, but with practice comes dedication and then dedication to achieving the tricks you dream of. Practicing and failing ev-ery time can also be irritating but once you actu-ally make the trick perfectly, then you’ll feel joy.

Skaters of HHSEdmond Ferry III

FBLAJeff Capoeman

This year, Hoquiam High School’s FBLA team had eleven students participate in the win-

ter competition. Eight out of the eleven students qualified for state. That’s a 73% state rate! Pret-ty impressive for a small school. State this year will be held in Spokane, WA on April 15th-17th. What is FBLA you might ask? FBLA stands for Future Business Leaders of America. FBLA is a business club that is nonprofit and helps the stu-dents learn about business. Every now and then the club members get to go to a conference to com-pete in different categories. At the winter confer-ence, Hoquiam students placed in Business Proce-dures, Help Desk, Job Interview, Digital Design & Promotion, FBLA Principles & Procedures, Health-care Administration, and Hospitality Management. Sierra Brunstead is the president of the FBLA club in Hoquiam and she says the last conference went really well. Everyone enjoyed themselves at the con-ference, especially all the new members and the fresh-men. With eight out of eleven students qualifying for state, they didn’t just do well, they did great! Sierra was very modest with her expectations at state. She thinks everyone will do ok and Nationals are a far reach but not impossible. They still have an amazing feat to feel proud of with qualifying for state! The state confer-ences are much different than the normal ones. It is much bigger and in between competitions students can explore and go on college tours! Seems very exciting. February 2nd-20th, FBLA fundraised by selling Yankee candles. Sierra was in charge of the funding because she is the president of the club. So make sure you support your Hoquiam FBLA club and keep your ear out for how well they will do in state!

FBLA is a really fun experi-ence and I’m glad that I got

involved.-Sierra Brunstad, (11)

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Monty OumNick Jones

On February 1, 2015 the world lost a great an-imator, husband, friend, and role model. His

name was Monty Oum. Monty worked for a pop-ular production studio known as “Rooster Teeth.” He is known for animating the popular series “Red Vs. Blue” and for his work in creating and animating the popular animated show “RWBY.” Unfortunately, Monty Oum suffered an allergic reaction after a simple medical procedure. He was hos-pitalized and kept in good care until February 1st, where he took a turn for the worst. He was only 33 years old. The head of Rooster Teeth Productions, Matt Hullum said that, “Although he fought bravely, his body was not able to recover. Monty is survived by his wife Shee-na, his father Monty, his brothers Woody, Sey, Chivy and Neat, and his sisters Thea and Theary, as well as a countless number of fans and friends. We were so proud to be a part of his life and we will miss him greatly.” Monty was not only a great animator, but he was a friend, a husband, a brother, and an inspiration to many animators out there. He deserves recogni-tion for everything he has done in his life, and for the many people whose lives he touched. Monty Oum’s wife, Sheena Petra, stated to everyone through face-book, “All I hope for 2015 is for everyone to spend more time on the things and people they love and less on everything else that makes them unhappy! LIFE IS SHORT, make every moment count. I am trying, too.”

"Guys... Life... it's pretty awe-some. Just keep at it. And I’ll keep going too.” –Monty Oum June 22, 1981 - February 1, 2015

Movie ReviewJeff Capoeman

The controversial and most exciting movie so far of the year, debuted Jan 16th. This mov-

ie was about a good ole’ fashion patriotic Amer-ican, Chris Kyle, that wanted to join the Army af-ter terrorist attacks in the late 90’s and early 2000’s, especially after 9/11. The movie follows his tours and success in Iraq, and his struggles of coming back home. This movie is also based on a true story. In Iraq he was known as a legend. He was a sniper, a very good one indeed, and he is now con-sidered the deadliest sniper in U.S. history. In Iraq he obtained up to 160 kills. As a sniper he had saved many lives, and he had earned great respect from the other American soldiers in Iraq. During his tours he became a wanted man in Iraq with a bounty of 100,000 Iraqi Dinar (Iraq Currency). Although a success at war, he had troubles coming back from the war as many soldiers have. The war had changed him and this had made things tough at home with his wife and two kids. Chris Kyle had clear symptoms of PTSD.

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(Cont. from pg. 10)PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) is a big post war effect that many soldiers face when coming home. PTSD is caused from surviving a traumatic event such as an injury or a near death experience, and it leaves you in a terrible anxiety afterwards. This movie shows the struggles of a soldier on and off the battlefield. There have been many comments and cri-tique about this movie. The reason it is so contro-versial is because it exploits the patriotism of Amer-ica and serves as a sort of propaganda. The critique of this movie is mainly anti-war comments that degrade the traditional patriotic American. The comments being made have set up a debating war zone. So there are two ways to look at this story. Chris Kyle, the psychopath who enjoyed killing and served in an unjust war. Then there is Chris Kyle, the American hero who served his country and came home to struggle with his family. This is for you to decide so make sure to watch this amazing movie!

Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment is the first book in the series of Maximum Ride novels.

The setting of the book is placed in the future, and fo-cuses on a family of kids known as the “flock”. The six members of the flock are human-avian hybrids, which is a case in which a person is 98% human and 2% bird. The family is on the run from the scientists who

Book ReviewSarah Davy

created them, and trying to avoid a place they call the “school”. Maximum Ride, who they call Max, is the nar-rator of the story and the oldest sister and the leader of the flock. Fang, Iggy, The Gasman (Gazzy), Angel, and Nudge are the other siblings that were created by the scientists. Awful predator hybrids that the scien-tists at the school created, known as erasers, are always on the lookout for the flock. Erasers are similar to wolf like creatures that can morph into vicious animals very fast. In this novel, the erasers get ahold of the flock and kidnap Angel. The erasers take Angel back to the school to experiment on her. Maximum and the gang are determined to get Angel back and they attempt to break into the school and steal her back. Their plan is a success and they are reunited again with the young-est member of the flock. While battling the erasers con-tinuously everywhere the flock goes, they are on their way to New York in a discovery of their original homes and families. With the flock doing what they can to fight off erasers and break into computer systems to gather information, they remain victorious and fly away from the scene with the information they were looking for. This book is only the first in this incred-ible series written by James Patterson. The Max-imum Ride series are a set of teen novels that Patter-son wrote for his younger readers. The book is about 10 years old, and although plans have been made for movies about the books, none have been success-ful. Patterson stays hopeful about films and so do his fans. The books are interesting the keep you on edge.

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No Bake CookiesMikayla Evans

Have you ever wanted a tasty homemade treat at your fingertips but didn’t want to hunt down

all the ingredients at a grocery store or pay a fortune at a bakery? Well, here is my solution to you, make the ultimate no bake cookies, which take almost no time at all, use only basic ingredients, and taste delicious.

INGREDIENTS:2 cups granulated sugar8 tablespoons, (1 stick) margarine or butter1/2 cup Low-Fat Milk1/3 cup baking cocoa3 cups Quaker® Oats (quick or old fashioned, un-cooked)

PREPARATION: In large saucepan, combine sugar, marga-rine, milk and cocoa. Bring to boil over medium heat, stirring frequently. Continue boiling three

minutes, stirring frequently. Remove from heat. Stir in oats.* Drop by tablespoonful’s onto waxed paper. Let stand until firm. Store tightly covered.

Serving Tips: *If using old fashioned oats, cool mix-ture in saucepan five minutes.

This recipe courtesy of Quakeroats.com

Grizzly Gazette StaffAdvisor:

Mrs. KingEditor:

Lindsey SheridanWriters:

Jeffrey Capoeman, Mikayla Evans, Edmond Ferry, Nick Jones, Katie Mudd, Anna Totten

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Name Date(Key # 1 - 113200)

Silly School ScrabbleFind each of the following words.

GAZETTECALCULUSGOLFENGLISHVOLLEYBALL

PSYCHOLOGYCHEMISTRYHISTORYGYMBASKETBALL

FOOTBALLSOFTBALLSPANISHTRACKCHEERLEADING

ARTBASEBALLYEARBOOKALGEBRABAND

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CTE Student of the Month

Sierra Brunstad is this month’s CTE Student of the Month, nominated by Mrs. King. Si-

erra is an outstanding business student. She is currently the President of Future Business Lead-ers of America (FBLA), and keeps the club run-ning smoothly. She also helps with yearbook on a regular basis, helping with pages and staying after class when needed. Sierra multi-tasks on a daily basis, keeping up with all HHS activ-ities while attending the Grays Harbor Col-lege Running Start Program. Good Job Sierra!

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