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December,2012,newspaper
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Many people don't think of snow as
dangerous, but rather as a winter
wonderland for a white Christmas. In
reality, snow and the cold tempera-
tures of winter are deceptive killers,
meaning that many deaths
are indirectly caused by the
storm. Here are a few ex-
amples of the dangers of
winter:
Snow and Ice- Snow and ice
can cause roads to be-
come slippery, which will
cause tires to lose traction and the
driver to lose control of their vehi-
cle. To stay in control, drivers can
purchase snow chains for their
tires and reduce their speed. Snow
can also cause the roofs of houses
to collapse due to the immense
weight. Always make sure to re-
move snow from your roof to
avoid collapse. Be careful of black
ice on roads, which can cause driv-
ers to lose control and go off the
road into a ditch, pole, tree or into
oncoming traffic. Never walk on
ponds or lakes with ice on them
even if the ice looks thick enough.
Ice can be thin in some areas and
crack under your weight, causing
you to fall through.
Temperature- Prolonged exposure to
cold temperatures can cause hypo-
thermia or frostbite, especially in
infants and in the elderly. Always
wear a coat during the winter even
if you don't think you'll be
outside. Here is a list of
items you should always
keep in your car during the
winter months: blankets,
flares, a wind up radio, a
first aid kit, extra winter
clothes, jumper cables, an
ice scraper, dried food, emergency
tire sealant, flashlight (with extra
batteries), a collapsible shovel, and
a small tool kit. You never know if
you'll need them in an emergency.
Wind- Wind can cause blizzard-like
conditions such as drifts, wind
chills, and blindingly heavy snow.
Wind can also push vehicles off
the road and bury them in drifts
of snow if the driver falls uncon-
scious.
So remember friends, no matter how
excited you are for Christmas, always
drive carefully and be wary of road
conditions. If the news calls for poor
driving weather, stay home and don't
chance it. Your family would rather
you be safe rather than sorry this
Christmas.
The Dangers of Winter By Kaitlin Howard
Dragons Roar Christmas Corner Allie Flower
Dalton Morton
Joey Hutchinson
Alyssa Smith
Kara Koz
Megan Bean
Sam Flower
Vi Nguyen
Argos Jr. Sr. High School December 2012
Page 1
Dangers of
Winter
Page 2
Sunshine Dance
Page 3
Kayla’s Senior
Project
Page 4
Christmas Meals
Page 5
Service Learning
Pages 6 & 7
Minorities and
How They
Celebrate
Pages 8 & 9
Variety Show
2 3
This year for our dance, known as Sunshine, it was held on December 1st instead of in Febru-ary. We had a very enthusiastic deejay who got involved with the crowd. Half way through the dance, he blew one of the speakers because he had the bass up too loud. So until he got it fixed, we had a dance off in the middle of the dance floor. The people who were in the dance off were Erik Rodriguez, Ricky Rice, Chase Brown, and Kurt Zechiel. The winners of the dance off were Erik and Chase. Towards the end of the dance, we announced our Sun-shine princess, Alexis Hicks. She looked so beautiful in her dress and she had a great time as she was crowned. I gave two questionnaires out to two people who are in Sunshine.
Together, they both said it was overall a good dance. One of the girls said that they liked the dee-jay while the other one didn’t be-cause there were many problems. I asked them if there was a goal to how much money they wanted to reach, they both said there wasn’t one.
By: Jina Ewing
We had a special dance for Kayla Hendricks’ senior project in November. Her project was to help the Riley Chil-dren’s Hospital get toys for their toy room. In order to raise money and get toys, she held a dance. To get into the dance, you had to either pay $10.00 or donate a toy from the Riley’s toy room wish list. The reason why she had this dance was to collect toys for the patients who are at Riley. Riley’s policy is to never turn away a patient. “Riley has a severe lack of funding, especially for the toy room. I just wanted to make a difference in some of the kid’s lives who are going through such a rough time.” Kayla says. She held the dance on November 16th from 7-11 P.M. in gym 2. Kayla got this idea when she attended Riley Dance Marathons at Bremen High School. She recently had a family friend whose son was a patient there. “I plan to at-tend IPFW next fall for pediatric nursing, so I wanted to do something to benefit young kids,” Kayla says. Kayla collected about $450.00 that she took and went shopping for more toys. She collected a grand total of 587 toys. Her mom and she are scheduled to deliver the toys on December 15th. She said she is very excited
and hopes that she can interact with some of the patients. Her project exceeded way more than what she expected. Kayla’s goal was to get 400 toys but she got way more than that. “I want to thank all of the parents, teachers, students, and businesses that helped support my project. I couldn’t have done it without you all, so thank you so much!” Kayla says.
By: Jina Ewing
Alexis, our Sunshine Princess.
Having fun dancing the night away!
403 toys donated!!
Dancing for Riley’s!!!
5 4
Service learning activities are consid-
ered crucial parts of a student’s education
and connecting with people in the commu-
nity. Often, children who participate in ser-
vice learning activities will get more in-
volved with the community and usually
grow into active adults.
The objective of service learning is to
help children learn about social issues, de-
velop life skill, complete service projects
that benefit the community, and to celebrate
the accomplishments of the project. Service
learning is a type of teaching method which
combines academic instruction, meaningful
service, and critical thinking to solve a
problem.
The difference between a service
learning activity and a community service
activity is: service activities are integrated
into the curriculum and students engage in
structured reflection that will guide them
later in life.
The types of service activities in-
clude:
Direct Service- Requires personal
contact with the person in need,
usually the most rewarding due to
immediate positive feedback. Ex-
amples include working with a
senior citizens or small children.
Indirect Experience- Commonly
used in schools because they are
easily organized, centered in chan-
neling resources to the problem ra-
ther than working directly with
those in need. Examples include
food or toy drives and fundraisers.
Advocacy- Requires students to lend
their voices and talents to try and
eliminate problems of a certain
cause. Examples include presenta-
tions and distributing fliers.
Community-Based Research- Part-
nerships between, students, faculty
and members of the community to
get
involved in a community problem or
to create a social change.
Use winter break to get involved in a
service activity or start your own activities.
Go to a nursing home and spend time with
the elderly or go to a Boys’ and Girls’ Club
and get involved with the children there. It
would look great on a resume and would be
a great learning experience for you.
By Kaitlin Howard
Service Learning Activities
Christmas time is a very special time of year,
from spending time with your friends and family
to just eating that very special Christmas dinner.
Christmas has a different meaning to all of us. I
took the time to survey several individuals to see
what their favorite Christmas meal is and what
they like most about Christmas.
Joey Hutchinson
Joey said his favorite meal was lasagna. He said
he really liked it because his family doesn’t have
it that often. He also said that it is absolutely
amazing. His favorite thing about the Christmas
season is not being in school. He also likes being
around his family.
Henry Harrell
Henry said his favorite part of the Christmas
meal was rolls. He said he absolutely loves bread
and the rolls are just the bomb. He also said the
peanut butter chocolate chip cookies are in a
close second. He said his favorite time of the
Christmas season is just being around his family.
Kaitlin Howard
Kaitlin said her favorite thing to eat at dinner is
corn casserole. She said the reason it is her favor-
ite is because they have it twice a year, once is
for Thanksgiving and the second is Christmas.
Kaitlin’s favorite thing about Christmas is being
around her family. She says her family is not
normal so that’s why she likes being around
them.
Kainen Morgan
Kainen said his favorite part of his Christmas
meal is the honey glazed ham. He says he really
likes is just because it tastes good. He said he
likes just about everything else on the table. He
said his favorite thing about this time of the year
is stuffing himself and not feeling bad. He also
like being around my family.
Ms. Bloom
Ms. Bloom says her favorite holiday food is pe-
can pie. She enjoys spending time with family
and friend and celebrating the true meaning of
Christmas.
Abby Cohagan
Abby says her favorite part of the Christmas meal
is eating her brother’s homegrown turkey. She
says she likes it because her brother takes pride
in raising his turkeys. She says she also does not
have turkey all that often at home. She says she
likes being around her family. She also likes eat-
ing all the good food for a few weeks to come.
Favorite Christmas Meals By Abby Cohagan
6 7
Jewish
Jewish people celebrate Hanuk-kah, which is also known as the festival of lights. Like Christmas Hanukkah celebrates and com-memorates events that hap-pened in Jerusalem. Like Christ-mas, Hanukkah also has a story.
Around 200 BC, Jews in the land of Israel were under the rule of the Syrian king, but were still al-lowed to follow their own reli-gious beliefs. However, a new king named Antiochus IV came to power. Antiochus forbade the Jews from practicing their reli-gion, killed many of them, and desecrated the Temple in Jerusa-lem by placing an altar to the Greek god Zeus inside it. Matta-thias, a Jewish priest, objected to the cruel edicts of Antiochus, and along with his five sons Jochan-an, Simeon, Eleazar, Jonathan, and Judah, he decided to fight back. Led by Judah (known as “The Hammer”), they led the Jewish people in a revolt, using clever strategy and guerrilla-style warfare to defeat Antiochus’ much larger army. Flush with vic-
tory, the Jews returned to find their Temple dirty and desecrated, with pots of consecrated olive oil bro-ken everywhere. Working together, they cleaned and rededicated the Temple (“Hanukkah” means “dedication” in Hebrew). They lit the holy fire in the Temple meno-rah (a many-branched candela-brum and symbol of Judaism). However, although the flame was supposed to burn continuously, they were dismayed to find that
there was only enough oil to fuel the flame for one day! Miraculous-ly, the oil lasted for eight full days, and gave the Jews time to proper-ly prepare more oil. This is often referred to as the miracle of Ha-nukkah. Since then, Jews the world over have celebrated this occasion by lighting the Hanukkah candles in a menorah over the course of eight days. Starting with one candle on the first night, and ending with eight on the eighth, the ceremony involves the saying or singing of a blessing while the candles are lit by the helper can-dle, or “Shamash.” Traditionally, the illuminated menorah is placed
in windows so that passerby may be reminded of the Hanukkah story.
Hindu Hindu people celebrate Diwali, al-so referred to as festival of lights, and it is also called Deepavali. There is also a festival called Pan-chen Ganapati, which is a five –faced elephant God; this entails five days of gift-giving and festivi-ties within the home, especially for the children. This home festival lasts from December 21 through December 25 and can include out-ings, picnics, feasts, exchange of cards and gifts with relatives, friends and business associates. Each day has a different color. De-cember 21st is yellow, the 22nd is blue, the 23rd is red, the 24th is green and the 25th is orange.
Minorities and Islam Muslims celebrate Eid al-Fitr. Eid-al-fitr is the first day of the Islamic month of Shawwal; it marks the end of Ramadan which is a month of fasting and prayer. Eid-al-fitr means the “Festival of Breaking the Fast”. People dress in their finest clothes, adorn their homes with lights and decoration, give treats to children and enjoy visits with friends and family. A sense of generosity and gratitude color these festivities although charity and good deeds are always important in Islam. As the month draws to a close Muslims are obligated to share their blessings by feeding the poor and making contri-butions to mosques.
African-Americans
Candles in a Kinara are lit for each day of the cel-
ebration. A black candle is lit on the first day; it
symbolizes the people. To the left of the black
candle are three red candles representing their
struggles. To the right of the black candles are the
green candles which represent hope and the fu-
ture. The candles are lit from left to right for each
day of the celebration.
How They Celebrate
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Variety Show this
year was held on
November 2nd and
November 3rd both
starting at 7:30.
When asked about
how Variety Show
went in the end,
Mrs. Burroughs
said, “It went very
well. All acts were
prepared and we
had a great variety
of acts this year.
The tech theater
class did an excel-
lent job of running
lights, sound, and
being the back stage
crew.”
When asked about
the turnout and her
own favorite part
about Variety Show
Mrs. Burroughs
commented, “Based
on the gate receipts,
Variety Show had
about 750 people
who came to watch
the show and see
all the acts.” On the
question of her fa-
vorite part of the
show she stated,
“My favorite part
was seeing lots of
students who had
never been involved
in a special act
participate This
year. The growth
they experience
from the time they
audition to the ac-
tual show is very
valuable in their
development at mu-
sicians.”
This year’s Variety
Show judges were
Josh Overmyer, an
Argos graduate,
and Mr. Clayton
Quantz, and Mr.
Bryan Albright.
On the next page
are some pictures
from Variety Show
acts.
Variety Show By Gabrielle Bennett