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may 1, 2009 300 richardson place wilmington, ohio 45177volume xvi issue viii
indexnews......................2opinions................4features.................6the eye..................8sports....................10entertainment.....14
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Is Enrichment Is Enrichment really enriching?really enriching?
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WHS participates in annual blood driveStudent Council will be hosting a blood
drive sponsored by the Community Blood Center in the high school library on May 5. The event will be lasting from 8:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
In the past, the Student Council has worked with the Community Blood Center in organizing similar events. There were two blood drives held in 2007.
“Student Council was active in organizing…,” John Wil-liams, Student Council ad-viser said. “We are going to help kids come in and get to the chairs and then give them cook-ies and stuff like that, and putting up posters around the school.”
I n a n e m a i l interview Mary Mink, the Clinton County coordinator for the Community Blood Center ex-plained the process of a blood drive while also refl ecting on past drives.
“On Wed. April 4, 2007 we collected 53 pints of blood from Wilmington High School,” Mink
said. “On Oct 24, 2007 we collected 57 pints of blood. There were no blood drives in 2008.”
After the blood had been col-lected it goes through a strict testing process.
“We collect blood from donors from fifteen dif-
ferent counties and serve twenty five hospitals
for their blood needs including Clinton
Memorial Hos-p i t a l , ” M i n k
said. “After a collection, the
blood is tak-en to the Communi-ty Blood C e n t e r in Day-ton, OH where it is tested for blood type, and
19 differ-ent viruses,
including HIV and West Nile
Virus. The blood is then separated into
three components (red cells,
Chris Clevengersenior writer
platelets, and plasma). Then it is dis-tributed to twenty five hospitals for transfusion.”
According to Mink, one person tak-ing the time to donate blood can make a noticeable difference.
“One pint of blood can potentially save three lives,” Mink said. “Plasma, a watery fl uid, transports cells and as-sists in clotting and maintaining blood pressure. Platelets help the blood clot and are used in transplants, leukemia, and other cancer patients. Cancer patients use more platelets than any other group. Red cells carry oxygen to compensate for blood loss. They are used to treat anemia and blood loss from surgery and/or trauma.”
Williams also stressed the impor-tance of the American Red Cross and their blood donation projects.
“The American Red Cross is an absolutely wonderful organization that has helped literally millions of people over the years,” Williams said.
“My hope is for a successful blood drive at Wilmington High School as far as the number of donations, but also as a way for the students to give back to their community,” Mink said. “I also hope the students’ participation in the blood drive will carry on throughout their adult life as donors at community blood drives.”
Every other year on the day before prom, Wilmington High school puts on a program called Mock Crash which shows the effects of drinking and driving.
“Mock Crash is basically a dramatization of a drunk driving accident,” SADD adviser Karla Bisig said.
Mock Crash is put on by a club called SADD, which stands for Students Against Destructive Decisions.
“It’s mainly a group here at school that stands up against destructive decisions and peer pressure like drinking, drugs, sex and all that stuff you normally hear about,” SADD offi cer Brittany Reed said.
According to www.sadd.org , Mock Crash should not be used as a “scare” tactic because that has limited impact and the objective is to educate and prevent.
Students from Wilmington High School participate in the demonstration and only juniors and seniors are permitted to attend.
“If you see people in the crash that you are friends with or you’ve grown up with, then it really has a deeper impact on you instead of seeing some random person,” Reed said.
People from all over the community help with Mock Crash every year it’s put on. Even professionals participate to give the crash a more realistic feeling.
“Police, fi re truck, ambulance all come and go through the process of things like sobriety testing, pronouncing a student dead, and arresting one student,” Bisig said.
In previous Mock Crash, such as the one in 2004, demonstrations even involved a student being taken to the hospital by Care Flight in a helicopter.
“In past years the helicopter has landed in the fi eld by the side of the school,” said Reed. “Now the tennis courts are there so we really don’t know if we’ll be able to have that anymore.”
After the staged crash is over, a speaker that has been involved in a similar situa-tion talks to the students about their ex-perience.
“This year Lee Reynolds, a former student here at Wilmington High School that graduated a few years ago, is going to come and talk about an accident he was
in,” Bisig said.Schools all around the U.S. put on
Mock Crashes to make sure that students can see a firsthand example of what drunk driving can result in.
“I think we do it to raise awareness of how destructive drinking and driving can be and that hopefully it will prevent students from participating in it in the future,” Reed said.
Karla Bisig said for some students they need to “see the chaos that goes on” and that some people are just “visual learners.”
People have their own opinions, so when students watch Mock Crash they have different reactions.
“Some students honestly don’t care at all and are just kind of bored by the whole program,” said Bisig. “But other students get very upset and sometimes there are people that even cry.”
This years’ Mock Crash will take place on Friday, May 8, 2009.
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After the blood had been col-lected it goes through a strict testing process.
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for their blood needsincluding Clinton
Memorial Hos-p i t a l , ” M i n k
said. “After a collection, the
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District part of Ohio Improvement Process
The Ohio Department of Educa-tion is currently working on a policy that will improve school districts across the state. This policy would implement a state wide system to support the schools directly, focusing on the academic improvement of students.
For the last two years the Ohio Depart-ment of Educa-tion has been working on an education plan called the Ohio Improvement Process (OIP). The plan is said to eventually institute a state-wide policy that will better the education pro-cess in schools across the state.
The high school, along with the other four schools in the district, have all been active in the process. WHS Principal Jeff Fryman is spearheading the event for the building.
“I have been the main person from the high school involved in the Ohio Improvement Process,” Fryman said. “We’ve had some teachers, depend-ing on what topics, either English or Math, were being discussed. That’s what the process mainly focuses on… there’s a math goal, actually several math goals, and several language arts or English Goals.”
According to the OIP web site, “The Ohio Improvement Process (OIP) is Ohio’s strategy for ensuring a systematic and coherent approach for building the capacity of all districts and schools in meaningful and real
ways that allow districts to improve in-structional practice on a district-wide basis, and make and sustain signifi cant improvement in student performance against grade-level benchmarks aligned with academic content stan-
dards for all students across the district.”
The OIP project was started two years ago. Wilming-ton C i ty S c h o o l s was con-tacted by the Ohio D e p a r t -m e n t o f E d u c a -tion to be i nvo lved in the pro-
cess.“Wilmington was asked in the
fall to be a part of this process as the second cohort of districts to go through this process in Ohio,” district Director of Curriculum Nicole Qual-len said. “Because this is only the second year the Ohio Improvement Process has been in place, the Ohio Department of Education offered the district funding to support the cost of sub teachers in order to allow meeting time for the team, both locally and through training in Columbus with other districts.”
Teachers, administrators and other staff members throughout the district will be working to collect data in as-sisting the OIP with its studies in the various educational areas.
“It [the process] allows us to kind of look at what we’ve done so far,
and what we need to do to improve,” Fryman said. “With No Child Left Be-hind, by twenty-fourteen, one hundred percent of our students are supposed to be profi cient … and we’re setting goals that will help us reach that mark in the next fi ve years.”
Administration and staff has been taking time to examine data collected since the start of the project in efforts to improve student profi ciency.
“The time that the team has been given to look at data through the
Chris Clevengerstaff writer
“With No Child Left Behind,
by twenty-fourteen, one hun-
dred percent of our students are
supposed to be proficient... and
we’re setting goals that will help
us reach that mark in the next
five years.”Jeff Fryman
WHS Principal
Decision Framework lens has been invaluable,” Quallen said. “After we looked at the true picture of our district and had honest and open con-versations, we had the opportunity to craft a plan that will span over three years of implementation to improve student achievement.”
The Ohio Education Process is hoped to eventually lead to more unifi ed educational styles of study, while also implementing new school climate policies.
Wilmington City School District takes part in the Ohio Improvement Process, a K-12 schools profi ciency project
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Career Day planned for WHS Students
Students will be given the op-portunity to explore their potential careers at a recently announced Career Day event, taking place on May 13.
The Career Day, being organized by Guidance Counsel-or Laura Bowersox, is said to be special, as well as different from the typical Career Day events held in other schools.
“This Career Day is special because students are signing up for the three careers that they really want to see, and they will have 30 minutes to spend with each of those three speakers,” Bower-sox said. “This should allow the students time to have a lot of their questions answered, and to ask any questions they may still have. In many schools, all Career Day presenters are stationed in the gymnasium and students go from booth to booth checking out 50 or 60 different careers.”
This Career Day is giving students the opportunity to discuss their potential careers with profes-sionals, as well as members of the Wilmington community.
“I always like to have commu-
nity people as well so they can see what we’re doing,” Principal Jeff Fryman said. “It gives us a chance for teachers then to also speak with
these business people to kind of make sure, ‘ok, are we getting our students prepared for the career they choose to endeavor in.’”
Planning the Career Day event has taken a considerable amount of time Bowersox says.
She has been work-ing to track down
speakers for each of
the careers to be offered while offering advice on the presentations and content the students will be experiencing.
“I have spent months lining up speakers to commit to Career Day,” Bowersox said. “It’s taken several
Students at the high school are being given the chance to spend a day in sessions with professionals from their prospective career fi elds.
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weeks to plan out every little detail for the day. I’ve encouraged all of the speakers to be creative in plan-ning their presentations and to be interactive and have fun with the students.”
There is currently a large variety of career presentations for students to choose from, each with a speaker who has worked specifi cally in the fi eld being present- ed on.
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are separated. These categories include
Agriculture and Envi-ronmental Systems, Arts
and Communication, Media, Busi-ness and Administrative Services, Transportation, Hospitality/Tourism, Education, Construction, Medical, Computer, Social Services, Legal, Protective Services, Science and
Military. Those participating are being rec-
ommended to come prepared to each of the sessions they have signed up for.
“Students should plan to see three different speakers, be prompt and on-time to their sessions, and be respectful and attentive to the presenters”, Bowersox said. “The speakers are very excited to be participating in this event, and many have planned special, interactive demonstrations for the students.”
The planned activities are said to give older students the opportunity to explore the careers they have al-ready chosen to pursue, while giving younger students the chance to fi nd a profession that interests them.
“Juniors are looking to college, seniors have probably already picked college, looking for what [they] want to do after college,” Fry-man said. “Sophomores, it kind of gives them an opportunity now, and freshman as well, to plan ok here’s my next three years of high school, what am I going to do to get myself ready for a career?”
Students will be receiving their career day schedules the morning of the event. Any student who did not fi ll out a request form (passed out during Enrichment) for Career Day should contact Mrs. Bowersox in the guidance offi ce.
Family and friends remember Jessica PageMadison Laweditor-in-chief
Jessica Lynn Page, 18, of Mar-tinsville died Friday, April 17, 2009 as a result of a car crash on Easter Sunday.
Jessica was born on April 6, 1991 to Robert and Carol Goble Page.
Jessica is survived by her fa-ther, Robert, her mother, Carole Gross, and siblings, Dylan Page, Julia Page, Hailey Page, Robert Ian Page, Skyler Page , Owen Everhart, Cheryl Rucker, Ricky Gross and Angel Hoskins.
She was a senior at Wilmington High School, and was a compas-sionate and creative individual, who enjoyed life to its fullest, family and friends said.
“Jessica, she was really funny and if she liked you, she absolutely
loved you,” Junior Becca Connolly said about her friend.
Jessica’s father, Robert Page said
she loved being creative.“She liked art and music,” Page
said.Connolly also recalled how Jessica
enjoyed drawing in her spare time.
“Jessica, she was really
funny and if she liked you,
she absolutely loved you.”Becca Connolly
Junior
The funeral services were held at 4 p.m. on April 22 at Turner & Son Funeral Home in Hillsboro, with a burial following at New Vi-enna Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF) Cemetery.
“She was a lways there for me when I had a problem,” Connolly said. “She was just a re-ally good friend. She was amazing.”
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Is Enrichment really enriching?Enrichment provides learning opportunities
that are not offered in scheduled classesStudents in club meetings fi nd nothing but
more stress in Enrichment
Like sports? There’s an Enrichment for that. Like acting? There’s an Enrich-ment for that. Like dancing? There’s an Enrichment for that. Like sitting in a classroom either doing nothing or homework? Well, guess wha t t he re is an Enrich-ment for that.
Since the t h o u g h t o f Enrichment ever grazed the minds of students here at the high school, it was appealing. Ev-ery Wednes-day, forty-fi ve minu tes o f pure freedom. The only people who have one justifi able reason for dislik-ing Enrichment are the teachers. When was the last time a student was upset over one less poem to analyze or one less trigonometry problem to think over?
Sure those of us who delve into every ac-tivity imagin-able might not ever get to take that n a t u r e h ike or p lay a round of ap-p les t o a p p l e s , but i t i s by choice that students participate in these clubs. Although their reasons may vary from avoiding ever being at home, fl uffi ng up college resumes, or just enjoying being a part of something new students everyone chose to be a part of these activities. Therefore the only one to blame for not getting to participate in Enrichment is the individual.
Besides getting out of class, En-richment offers students the abil-ity to attend an activity that was not
previously available. Swing danc-ing, for example, is not something normally taught at the school or in our community but can be found through Enrichment. What about all
the new clubs that have emerged through Enrich-ment? There is now a KIVA group found at the school, an organiza-tion that works hard to loan money for under-privileged entrepreneurs in other countries. Or there is JCWA, the Junior Council on World Af-fairs where students can participate in the Model United Nations.
Besides offering excit-ing new activities, lots of the Enrichment activities
have offered self help courses. To helping people pass the ACT or even making new friends, Enrichments provides outlets for those looking to both better themselves and enjoy themselves.
So, when the question is asked if Enrichment should continue into the
next year, the answer is yes! From the perspective of the student,
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shouldn’t like it. There is an activity for each and every person and if you’ve never been the ‘activity’ type you can always just do nothing. And clubs? If you want to complain about not being able to participate in an Enrichment, then maybe next year join fewer clubs.
Enrichment was a unique idea-It is 40 minutes of time for students to experience something out of the norm, and maybe learn something new, it is also a time for clubs to meet. The idea is only good if students can take full advantage of it, this hasn’t been the case for many students. Enrichment time has been wasted for some, and busy with club meetings for others.
Options for Enr ichment dwindled as the year went on. T h e first
f e w m o n t h s , students had endless different activities to choose f rom, whereas now, it seems they are left with eight choices.
It seems more logi-cal and convenient for club meetings to be held during this
time, so there is no longer an issue with the differ-
ent Interventions and missing class
for meetings. This makes it diffi cult, or
sometimes impossi-ble to participate in an Enrichment activity.
Students in school clubs shouldn’t com-plain to administration or club advisers, but they do have the right to say that Enrichment was unsuccessful for them. In specifi c terms, students who are involved in lots of clubs have the responsibility to go to meetings during Enrichment, but what happens when meetings of all three clubs they are involved in are on the same Wednesday? They have to
prioritize, which is diffi cult if this stu-dent is an officer for one
or more clubs, or if the c l u b s h a v e upcom-ing ac-tivities. Students are not able to t a k e
a d v a n -tage of this
unique t ime set aside to have
fun and learn new things because of
previous obligations.They are obligated to go
to these meetings whether it be SADD, Interact, Varsity
W, or National Honor Society. Recently, many juniors and se-
niors had to be in two-three places at once. It is crazy and creates an overwhelming feeling.
Then there is the group of students who do not even try to take advan-tage of this opportunity. These are students who sit in their homerooms and do homework, or talk with other
students. Is this a social hour, or study hall? No, and not that these are bad things, but do they fulfi ll the original intent of Enrichment? Once again-no. Why should stu-dents get to relax and waste time in homerooms? There could have been a policy for having them par-ticipate in some-
way.It is unfortunate that such a won-
derful idea was not fully taken ad-vantage of. Enrichment should be a time students look forward to, but when students have to stress over the many different places they have to be at the same time, it is quite a stressful 40 minutes.
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“Is Enrichment worth the time?”the hurricane asks...
Everyone remembers the first time they witnessed a form of public indecency. Whether it is watching a mother breastfeed her new born baby, or watching that overly affectionate couple “sucking face” in the lunch line, some people just are not prepared for these scenes.
While the majority of Public Dis-plays of Affection (PDA) are toler-able, some often fi nd a way to take it too far. There is nothing wrong with showing a little affection toward a signifi cant other in public, but there is a limit. This limit is often pushed by numerous couples in public places who just don’t know how to stop.
Stopping your publicly advertised make-out session is indeed possible and quite simple actually. Just stop. It may seem like it, but the world is not going to end if you and your lover can’t kiss in front of the masses of people at the baseball game.
Kissing, while it may muster up discomfort amongst some, isn’t the
worst of these lusty activities. Some couples decide that it would be fun to start “rounding the bases” with every one watching. Well, maybe for them, but not for the numerous on-lookers. Have they thought of what they are exposing to younger kids that are eye-witnesses to all of this? Have they thought of the uncomfortable conversation the parents will have on the car ride home by telling their small child about the “birds and the bees” so prematurely?
Even though PDA isn’t the most appropriate of activities, it doesn’t al-ways involve being exposed in public such as the act of breastfeeding does. While breastfeeding has been proven to promote the health of the infant, is it really acceptable to do in public?
According to www.womenshealth.gov, infants can benefi t from being breastfed because of the different anti-bodies and nutrients the milk contains. This being true, it doesn’t necessarily mean that the baby needs those nutri-
ents when the mother and father go out to eat at a crowded restaurant.
Don’t get me wrong, a woman should have the right to “self-feed” her child, but in certain circumstances it shouldn’t be done in public. Babies need to be nourished and cared for by their mothers whenever hunger strikes, but bottles were made for a reason- to feed an infant while on the go, or out in a public place. Even though babies can be adorable, please ladies, don’t feed them in front of everyone. If it absolutely can’t wait, please just take it outside, or give them a pre-made bottle of baby formula.
With this said, what can be labeled as acceptable in a public place? Is kiss-ing okay? In most circumstances, yes. What about breastfeeding? At home the answer is yes, but out in public, not so much. So next time when out in public and thinking about acting a little sketchy, keep in mind that private moments aren’t so private anymore.
photo/Ashleigh Achor
Public displays of affection grow more public and more affectionate, especially where teenagers are concerned
Zach McCuneeditor-in-chief
PDA: hands to yourself please
Natha Giacobbi
Grade: 12
“No, because many of the teachers fail to offer activities worth attending. It seems
to be more of a study hall.”
Nick Guerrero
Grade: 10
“Yes, for those that want to learn something new, but no for people who
choose to sit and waste time.”
Dylon Lyon
Grade: 9
“Enrichment is worth going to because it can teach you something new or show you a
new hobby.”
Dalton Morrel
Grade: 11
“Yes, because it is nice going to other classes to try other things. Whether it is school
related or not, it is still a good time.”
Stephanie Manso
Foreign Launguage Teacher
“It provides students with the opportunity to learn new things. In addition, students are
able to mingle with other students.”
Heather Shanks
Grade: 10
“Yes, because it gives us a chance to get out and do different things and expand our
imaginations.”
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Like mother like daughterTaylor and Leslie Massie celebrate their close
relationship among the fl owers of Mother’s Day
It’s the annual celebra-tion for the women in ev-eryone’s lives. Celebrat-ed among the fl owers of spring, Mother’s Day has been a long-lasting tradi-tion for over 150 years in America. This year, on Sunday May 10, many families will celebrate their mother’s with gifts and flowers of the sea-son.
J u n i o r Ta y l o r Massie has a close relationship with her mother, Leslie, often doing things together, and Mother’s Day is a special time for them.
“We are really close. We talk everyday about just random stuff, and what’s going on,” Taylor said. “I usually tell her everything…she’s a really good person to talk to.”
Intervention Specialist Leslie Massie feels she is really close with her daughter and enjoys just spending t ime wi th her and doing
small th ings , like shop-p i n g a n d reading the same book or even learning how to knit.
“We like to shop. And we like to go out to eat,” Massie said. “We like to watch TV together, like American Idol, and clown on people. Anything like that and just being to-gether.”
They have had this re-
lationship for as long as Taylor can re-member.
“We’ve pretty much always had a close relationship. I usually told her everything and we got along really well,” Taylor said. “We’re a close family.”
Massie adores her daughter and fi rmly believes that a close relationship between a mother and her children is a learned thing.
“We’re probably as close as a mother and daughter can get,”
Massie said. “I was close to my
mom and still am. We talk every day, she lives
here in Wilmington and I hope that Taylor and I have the relationship I have with my mom. You learn how to be a mom and relate to your kids.”
B o t h Massie’s feel that close mother / daughter relationships are becoming rare nowadays.
“Some girls, them and their mothers they never talk, they don’t have conver-sations, their moms are strict or don’t let them do things and they’re like, ‘I can’t stand my mom,’” Taylor said. “But it’s really not like that.”
Massie agrees. “I don’t understand that. People think
it’s weird that we want to be together. You can be j e a l o u s
of that. I want to be with h e r , ” Massie s a i d . “ W e really g e t along well, and I
m e a n nothing’s perfect, but at
the end of the day I still tuck her in at night.”
The Massie family has a simple tradi-tion for Mother’s Day.
“I usually get up and say, ‘nobody bother me today,’” Massie said laughing. “I’m not doing the dishes, I’m not cooking and they kind of have to fend for them-selves. No certain traditions, I just like to take the day off.”
Taylor feels that Mother’s Day is very important. “She’s just always taking care of us and running this place and that place, and I don’t think mothers get enough ap-
preciation. On Mother’s Day, it’s all about her,” Taylor said.
Taylor also goes to her mother for advice, help and inspiration. “Moth-er’s do know best, they really do,” Taylor said. “They have your best interests at heart and they really want what’s best for you. She helps me in every way you could think, she helps me with my homework issues that are going on, college right now, she’s the one I’m going through all that with.”
Massie strongly be-lieves that honesty and trust are two major build-ing blocks in any rela-tionship, and theirs is no exception.
“The big thing is trust, and being honest,” Massie said. “She tells me prob-ably more that what most daughters tell mothers and I’m almost shocked sometimes at her blunt-ness and her honesty. But that makes me feel good that she’s confiding in me. I try to just listen and give her the best advice I can to keep her safe.”
Taylor’s advice to girls who want to have a closer relationship with their mother is simply to be open with her.
“I think girls just need to open up to their mom let her know how you feel how you want to be closer with her,” Taylor said. “I’m sure she feels the same way she just doesn’t know how to tell you. She doesn’t want to be overbearing. My mom inspires me because she has four kids of her own, she works, she takes care of us she can do it all,” Taylor said. “She’s awe-some.”
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“It made me stronger,
more compassionate and
it is a lesson not to ever
hate.” Conrad Weinerholocaust speaker
“I want to emphasize, any adversity and hardship will make you stronger,” Conrad Weiner said.
71 year old Conrad Weiner was forced to live in Budy a Nazi con-centration camp ,for almost four years. In 1941 Weiner and his family were forced to pack up what-ever they could carry and report to the local train station the next day. Eighty to a hundred people were hoarded into cattle cars the next day. For two days and one night Weiner and his family went without food and water. That by no means was that the
biggest hardship Weiner would face. If it were not for Weiner’s mother
,he said he never would have survived. Weiner says his mother did everything
she could to keep him alive.
“I do not take credit for surviving; it was a heroic endeavor by my mother,” Weiner said.
Unfortunately oth-ers were not so lucky and grateful, over 6 million people includ-ing Jews, homosexu-
als, Slavs and Jehovah’s Witnesses were killed in the years of 1933 to 1945.
For the victims of the Holocaust many countries have created remem-
brance days, our country is one of them, and has set a Day of Remem-brance for all of the victims who have suffered through all the of the hard-ships and adversity.
“The United States Congress estab-lished the Days of Remembrance as our nation’s annual commemoration of the victims of the Holocaust and created the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum as a permanent liv-ing memorial to those victims,” the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum website said.
Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom Hashoah) is held every year on April 21 but in the minds of the victims who were perpetrated, every day is remem-brance day.
When Weiner was asked what he could remember from the concentra-tion camps he had a lot of different memories,
“I remember being hungry and cold. I remember explosions at the end of
the war and playing in deep snow with my cousin. I remember bodies being carried out of our stables, he said”
“I feel it is very im-portant to learn about the Holocaust because it is the greatest crime perpetrated on hu-manity.” .
The Holocaust is something every-one should learn about and there are very valuable lessons behind the mass murders,Weiner said.
“It made me stronger, more compas-sionate and it is a lesson not to ever hate.”
“I want to emphasize,
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Lacrosse breaks losing streak
The Wilmington Lacrosse team has broke its losing streak, now being 2-6 this season.
The team consists of 25 players from all grades. Most of the players on the team are freshman and sophomores which means they are newcomers to high school lacrosse.
“The team has much better attitudes this year, although we had problems with players getting kicked off, we still play hard and I wish for the best.” Junior Ryan Pica, a third year starter for the lacrosse team said.
With the team getting a new coach this year, Jeremy Andrews, the players are starting to learn the coaches and are starting to understand the game
Megan Phillipssports editor
Tennis team back in swingThe tennis team has lost several
matches recently with a record of 7-7. With fi ve games left in the season head Coach Steven Reed still believes in the potential of his team.
“We’ve had our ups and down but our major problem is lots of incon-stancy,” he said.
“The record has a tendency to not show how close many of the games were played,” Reed said.
Recently, numerous matches have been cancelled due to poor weather conditions. Even with the recent can-celations, Reed hopes for the best.
“We don’t like to use weather as an excuse,” Reed said
In league play, the tennis team is 2-1 (which includes teams like Wal-
nut Hills, Kings and Turpin).On April 18 they lost 4-1, but
before that they beat Little Miami, Talawanda and Wayne. They were victorious over Little Miami on March 31, with the score5-0. More victories were claimed by the Cane when they beat Talawanda 3-2 on April 1 and Wayne on April 17 with the fi nal result at 4-1.
Most consistencies gave been on fi rst single, with Tyler Johnston and seconded singles with freshmen Marc Sodini who has won fi ve out of his eight games and all have been seniors.
“We lost to Kings but can still win the title if we beat Turpin,” Reed said.
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more, Pica said.“The Lacrosse team is made of a
some veterans, alongside many players relatively new to the game. They have been working very hard. We began our season against some excellent competi-tion, and we are now beginning to see the benefi ts of doing so,” said Coach Jeremey Andrews said.
“Coach Andrews has had a lot of obstacles to come through this year; he’s doing a very good job and pushes everyone to their max. As for the younger players they are working extremely hard and are always excited to play.” Junior Chad Plas, also a third year player said.
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The WHS boys and girls track team have had a running start to their season. Their fi rst meet took place at Clinton Massie for the CMHS invitational.
The boys fi nal team standings had the Hurricane with 79 points followed by the Falcons with 56 and the Panthers with 42 (ohiolockerroom).
“I think that we did extremely well, we had some injuries but did really well. We just had some fi rst meet jit-ters,” said Coach Tim Williams.
The Lady Hurricane scored 93 points while runner-up Miami Trace had 48 and Clinton-Massie scored 34 (ohio-lockerroom).
“The girls did a really nice job. They worked hard and stepped up when they needed to. We had several people injured and sick but we fi nished third and had a good start to the season. It was good to see the whole team together working together and cheer-ing each other on,” said Coach Bryan Siebenaller.
The girls’ record is 22-7, and the boys’ record is 24-9.
The girls and boys next meet is today at home for the Wilmington Invitational.
“We should do very well. Things are falling into place and the girls are work-ing very hard. We had a good showing at the Blanchester Invite and I think our invitational, the fi rst one at Wilmington
Athletes sign it, and are expected to live by it
When a student becomes involved in an extracurricular activity there is a standard they must uphold. Stu-dents must sign and agree to the terms and condi-tions of the Wilm-ington City School Athletic Code of Conduct.
“To participate in athletics in the athletic world here, it is a privilege to play therefore I think the school board has accepted the position that t hey wan t ou r kids to uphold our school in a rightful manner,” Athletic Director Mike Wallace said.
The code is an agreement that states training rules and some of the con-sequences of behavior, school atten-dance and suspension from school.
According to the code of conduct, the use of alcohol and drugs will not
be permitted.“A student us-
ing or possessing illegal drugs or alcoholic bev-erages will be suspended for the remainder of the season,” the code of conduct states.
The code of conduct states that if one has possession or is using any illegal drugs or alco-holic beverages they must then,
after being suspended from the team, complete a drug/alcohol program ap-proved by the school. After they have proof that they have completed the course they must meet with their par-ent/guardian, the principal, athletic
director and coach/adviser.When Wallace was asked if he
thought the code was effective he said he wasn’t sure.
“I can only answer the fact that the things that cross my desk in my offi ce, we address immediately and try to do it fairly and properly with the way the code is written.” Now do I think someone got away with breaking the rules sometimes, I can’t answer that, I don’t know, I would like to think our students are above and beyond that and they understand the purpose of the code and try to follow it. I suppose someone could fi nd a way to break the rules if they wanted to badly enough and I hope that doesn’t happen.”
Over the past fi ve years that Wallace has been an Athletic Director at WHS he said that he has only come across four or fi ve times that the code has been broken, maybe once a year.
“To be honest when you do things like that it comes out, Wilmington student did this, Wilmington student did that, and it comes out in the wrong
College should go very well. I am ex-cited,” said Coach Siebenaller.
“If we don’t win this then it will be a disappointment. But i think we will have a great chance at winning this meet,” said Coach Williams.
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light to start with,” Wallace said. “Not to mention the health factor
students are putting themselves in. They are always putting themselves at risk when they do these things and we don’t want to promote that. We feel like the best thing for us is to uphold the code of conduct,” Wallace said.
When students are caught breaking the code they tend to be honest and straight forward without excuses for their actions, Wallace said.
“Nobody has an excuse, everybody pretty much knows that their not fol-lowing the rules,” Wallace said. “They [students] will own up to their mistakes and hopefully we can learn by it and move forward and hopefully they will be better people and we will live by the experience and learn by it.
The extracirricular form that athletes sign, is a contract that binds each to a ‘code of conduct,’ to act towards
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For a second year in a row, the var-sity softball team has brought home a victory at the Clinton County Tourna-ment. In the tournament which took place April 18, they beat Blanchester and East Clinton.
Against Blanchester, Stephanie Byrne pitched a good game. She struck out 17 players, winning the game 7-0. They won against East Clinton with a score of 10-5.
After their undefeated streak in the beginning of the season, they now hold a 7-4 record and are still going strong. Taylor Massie, returning varsity player and senior, said their defense on the fi eld is good.
“We could work on hitting because if we hit well then we will dominate,” Massie said.
The team has played Clermont Northeastern, Little Miami, Amelia, Walnut Hills, Edgewood, and their biggest competition so far, Kings.
The JV team is coming along, al-though without the undefeated record of varsity. They won their fi rst game on April 8 against Amelia, with a score of 11-7.
“Both teams are still getting a feel for the season,” head coach, Willie McClure said. “We just try to get better from game to game.”
The next game for both teams will be home at 11 against Turpin.
“We want to play for a while,” Massie said.
After losing four in a row, the base-ball team won two straight games to become the Clinton County Tourna-ment champions on Saturday, April 18 for the second consecutive year.
In the fi rst round of the tournament, Wilmington defeated Blanchester 7-1. Advancing to the second round, the baseball team found themselves down by two after a Clinton Massie two run homerun in the bottom of the fi rst, only to come away with a 14-2 victory after tying the game up in the third inning.
“We were strong in every aspect of the game as far as playing our posi-tions. Our defense, offense and pitch-ing has only gotten better throughout the past four games,” assistant coach Dave Allen said.
As for the earlier parts of the season, a numerous amount of games have been postponed due to weather.
“With all the games being rained out it has made it hard to start heading in the right direction but we should be able to turn things around and have a successful season,” junior shortstop Brandon Arehart said.
Head Coach Jeff Craycraft said that so far the pitching and hitting have been solid throughout the past couple of games and that will need to continue to keep in the same direction following the tournament.
“I’ve been impressed with our pitch-ing. Casey Spriggs, Daniel Kruger and Tyler Boldman have really stepped up their game and batting wise Brady Camp and Joey Shulte have been our leading hitters,” he said.
With a record of 3-7, Dave Allen knows for the team to end with a successful season, they will have to overcome past losses and progressively get better.
Baseball and softball county championsRJ Houghtonstaff writer
Alexis Thatcherstaff writer
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able to turn things around
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County native competes in turkey callingIt’s the spring season and baseball
mitts are catching, tennis rackets are swinging, and the turkeys are being called. Turkeys are being called? The start of spring also kicks off another popular sport- Ohio’s turkey season. However, to some, such as Kindel Keeton, the hobby is more than just a sport but an ambition.
Clinton Massie graduate Kindel Keeton is a state and national com-petitor in turkey calling and at the young age of 25 has been successful in the activity.
“This [calling] will always be im-portant to me, it’s like sports are to most people,” Keeton said. “People will play sports and then follow them for the rest of their lives, this will be something that I always participate in and follow for the rest of my life. “
Besides Keeton involving himself in the annual turkey season, Keeton participates in interest that is not often as well-known. Keeton has competi-tively participated in turkey calling contests since a very young age and continues to do so today. The inter-est was fi rst sparked as Keeton used to hunt alongside his father and was quickly captivated by the connection with nature and the uniqueness of
both hunting and calling.“The fun, the adrenaline rush,
the excitement, it’s something that I can’t even really explain,” Keeton said. “just being out in the woods, seeing all the animals and hearing all the animals at the crack of dawn, the birds chirping, the owls hooting, and turkeys gobbling, it’s just an experi-ence like no other.”
According to Keeton, turkey call-ing is a lot harder than most would think. Rather than simply one call for every type of turkey or hunting situation there is, there are several dif-ferent types of calls, for example the push-pull call, the tube turkey call, or wingbone turkey calls.
“It’s definitely a challenge and that’s a part of it that makes it so much
fun…Being out there seeing nature fi rst hand and being around all the animals and the wildlife it’s an expe-rience that you will never be able to comprehend until you experience it, it’s just amazing,”
Keeton has been able to associate himself with each type of turkey call and been successful at several com-petitions winning at least 25 contests. One of the most prominent competi-tions he has won is the Ohio-wide competition for turkey calling. Most recently, Keeton was one of the 12 fi nalists out 48 guys competing at the Grand National Turkey Calling Contest, which according to Keeton is the ‘Super Bowl’ of turkey calling contests. After making it to the fi nal round of competition each person was judged individually on several different calls.
“A panel of fi ve to seven judges sit behind a curtain and that way they can’t see who’s on stage,” said Keeton. “And they will call you up by numbers, because you draw numbers before each contest. Then you get up on stage where the judges can’t see you but the people on stage can. Then you make certain calls or mimic the call and they score you on a scale of
20 based on how realistic you sound to a real hen turkey. “
After being judged individually Keeton placed ninth in the group but this isn’t the last time that Keeton hopes to be found at the Grand National Turkey Calling Contest.
“I would love to win the Grand Nationals…that’s the goal I’ve set myself for the next year. “I would like to win the Ohio State Championship again. Those are my two big goals for next year; I placed third at Ohio State this year, but I’m going for fi rst again this year.
Although Keeton has worked hard over the years to become the caller he is today, he is confi dent that anyone who is interested in turkey calling can become a part of it. Just recently, Keeton attended a Youth Turkey held in southern Ohio where adults serve as ‘mentors’ and are paired with younger children who have an interest in hunt-ing/calling.
“I will do anything to get the youth involved, that’s the future of the sport,” Keeton said. “Study all you can to learn the language of the turkey.”
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even really explain.”Kindel KeetonTurkey Caller
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Madison LawEditor -In- Cheif
When I heard that Nich-olas Cage was set to star in Alex Proyas’ new science
fi ction thriller, I thought for sure it would evolve into yet another cook-ie-cutter ‘run-against-time-to-stop-the-Apocalypse,’ movie. However, Knowing pleasantly surprised me with a complex and intense, multi-layered plot, and countless themes, while still managing to be entertaining.
The movie starts with a fl ashback to 1959 where an elementary class is asked to draw a picture of what the future will look like to put in the school’s time capsule. While other students draw pictures of spaceships, and fl ying cars, one little girl named Lucinda Embry scribbles down a page full of seemingly random numbers with a feverish obsession.
Next thing you know, the movie jumps back to 2009 where a young boy named Caleb Koestler receives Lucinda’s envelope with the mysteri-ous numbers. His father John Koestler (Cage) is an astrophysics teacher at MIT, and begins to notice an unusual pattern in the numbers. Suddenly, they appear to not be so random at all. The movie takes off from there on a wild ride as Koestler realizes that the numbers actually correlate to major disasters, telling the date, the number
of people who died, and the latitude and longitudes of the accidents and tries to stop them from occurring.
Meanwhile, his son is being fol-lowed by mysterious pale men who send him strange and horrifi c images of the future, much like the ones Lu-cinda had. Teaming up with Lucinda’s daughter and her child, Koestler and company rush to both stop and escape each disaster as it happens, until they realize a shocking truth about the num-bers and where they lead. With only three disasters left on the paper, the group begins to wonder what exactly happens when the numbers run out.
Knowing is action-packed and full of intense and violent scenes with amazing, apocalyptic special effects. Certain scenes depict realistic car-nage and violence that has the audi-ence bite their tongues in fear, but it heightens the sense of fear when the viewer knows that something is go-ing to happen, but they don’t know exactly when, or what it is. It would probably be wise to keep true to the PG-13 rating and keep those children out of the theatre, in that respect.
However, the storylines don’t always seem to mesh together as per-fectly as they could, and it often feels like the viewer is running a full-out marathon when the scenes fl it back and forth between the storylines so quickly.
Apart from being almost too complex at times, Knowing is horrifically and chillingly bleak, but amazingly woven. It is a great movie which, although complex, can al-ways be enjoyed by scores of dif-ferent people, and defi nitely d e s e r v i n g of a solid grade “A.”
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While stepping into the recently opened Cassanos imagine a typi-cal pizza restaurant that also fea-tures a classic small town feel.
Cassanos, which was opened in March, is the perfect place for teens to gather and for fami-lies to enjoy a nice evening out.
The roomy and youthful atmo-sphere makes it feel real. While eating at Cassanos i t fel t re-laxed but social at the same time.
When entering the restaurant one must make their way to the coun-ter to order from a wide variety of choices. After ordering our food including mozzarella sticks and pep-
peroni and cheese pizza, we took our seats with the number given.
After waiting a long thirty minutes the pizza was fi nally brought to the table. The pizza was very similar to a doughy homemade recipe that can be found at any local grocery store. It was good but didn’t taste original. In other words the pizza itself tasted like a mix of Generations, and Pizza Hut. After tasting the mozzarella sticks though, many will realize that Cassanos deliv-ers a unique quality to Wilmington. The mozzarella sticks were extremely good and after eating them it lightened the greasy taste of the pizza. After considering all the food Cassanos did seem to feature some excellent food.
In all Cassanos is a great place to en-joy good food with family and friends. Even though the service was slow at times overall one needs to realize that Cassanos is still a new business that has plenty of time to improve.
So when having an evening out and planning to go to Cassanos consider that you may very well have to wait for up to an hour for your food, but if you love pizza and the world’s best mozzarella sticks then it makes it all worth the wait.
If interested in contacting Cassa-nos call the number (937) 382-2855.
Cassano’s adds some flavorNeil VanceContent Editor
As a small family is learn-
ing to adapt to their new life in Connecticut, strange events start to occur in their family home. The Haunting in
Connecticut is said to be based on the true story of a family that moves into a new home in the state of Con-necticut with hope for their future, only to discover a secret make-shift mortuary in their basement.
Although the fi lm was entertain-ing, various scenes lacked an overall theme and the plot was lackluster in some areas, containing holes and forgetting to tie up loose ends.
The mother of the family, Sara (Virginia Madsen), commutes back and forth for her son Matt (Kyle Gallner) as he endures experimental treatment for the cancer he is under-going. They purchase an ageing home in which
the family will settle down in. They rest of the family moves up shortly after to join Sara and Matt in their new home.
As time progresses, odd occur-rences start to unfold. From spiritual apparitions, to frightening visions, Matt begins to recognize these events as unusual but doubts if they are a part of reality, or just a side effect of his medication. Matt continues to have these eerie experiences and seeks answers and guidance. At one of his treat-ment sessions he encounters Rever-end Popescu (Elias Koteas) who has some knowledge of the situation.
The mysteries of the house are uncovered when Matt has visions of séances that were conducted through a teen-age “medium” named Jonah, whose spirit sti l l wreaks havoc on the house and the family that lives there.
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his presence through Matt, causing the atmosphere in the house as well as the tone of the fi lm, to be unset-tling. While these events are taking place, memories of past horror fi lms come to mind and before long, the plot seems almost reminiscent of The Exorcist. So this fi lm has a priest, demonic possessions, spirits and
The Haunting terrorizes more than CTthe looming concept of death, could it possibly get any more typical?
Overall The Haunting in Con-necticut wasn’t the most impressive of fi lms, but still managed to keep me entertained through its entire one hour and thirty-two minutes, earning the fi lm no higher than a “B-”on my scale.
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The Wilmington High School (WHS)bands, choirs, art students and thespi-ans have been hard at work preparing for the Fine Arts Fair, on May 14-15.
The Middle School Jazz Band, High School Jazz Band, Symphonic Band, and Wind Ensemble will all be performing on Thursday night. The jazz bands will perform at 6 then symphonic and wind ensemble at 8.
The WHS bands have performed at the fine arts fair since it’s inception.
“Not sure on the number of years, but I do know the bands [have] per-formed every year,” Spradlin said.
The High School band di rec-tor, Matt Spradlin, feels the Fine Arts Festival allows the students of the district to show off their work.
“The Fine Arts Fair is a great way to showcase the talents of our Fine Arts to the commu- nity as well a s a way for our
students to share with each other,” Spradlin said. “I know
I always enjoy seeing students’ works that I would not get to see otherwise.”
The WHS Theatre Dept. will be p resen t ing fou r one ac t p l ays .
The four contenders are “Words, Words, Words” and “Variations of Trotsky”, di-rected by Bryan Wallingford, and “The Philadelphia” and “Sure Thing”, put to-gether by student director Lauren Showen.
“Words Words Words” features three talking chimpanzees, struggling to write “Hamlet”, in accordance with the theory that chimps could even-tual ly compose “Hamlet”, given they have an eternity to attempt it.
“The plot for ‘Words Words Words’…if monkeys were left alone for a long enough period of time, eventually, they would evolve to the point where they could type Hamlet,” Wallingford said.
“Variations of Trotsky” depicts sev-
en comical variations of the death of Trotsky, the legendary revolutionist.
“Sure Thing” entertains the notion that, if in a conversation you make a social faux pas, you can rewind to correct yourself and your audience need not be the wiser.
“The Philadelphia” illustrates life in a Philadelphia, a pocket in everyday life where you can’t get what you ask for.
“The Philadelphia is funny because ev-eryone can relate to it in a way,” Showen said. “Everyone has an off day, where they can’t get what they want .”
The Fine Arts Fair has been a part of WHS art education for at least fi ve years, and according to the High School choir director David Beck, the high school choirs have performed in the Fine Arts Festival since its institution.
“The choirs will have somewhat of a “Rock and Roll” theme run-ning through their pieces,” Beck said.
The Varsity Choir will be singing “Girls Rock!” which is a medley of fe-male rock songs plucked from 2001 and 2002 and “Rock N’ Roll Hall of Fame,” a medley of early rock songs span-ning the years between 1959 and 1963.
The Choraliers will be singing a “med-ley of rock songs produced on the Mo-town recording label from 1964-1967,” deemed “Forever Motown,” and “Swingin’ with the Saints,” which, according to Beck is “not in the rock n’ roll theme.”
The Wilmingtones will be sing-ing, and dancing to, a medley of songs by Abba, called “Dancing Queen.”
All of the choirs will be singing “It’s Still Rock N’ Roll to Me,” original-ly performed by Billy Joel in 1980.
The choirs will be performing their respective numbers on Friday night at 7 p.m., the fi nal day of the Fine Arts Fair.
Though not a new addition, the WHS Au-dio Visual (AV) Club is not as well known as the other arts involved in the Fine Arts Fair.
“We just really appreciate the Art Department embracing video as a part of the Fine Arts Festival. It is a great event,” AV Club adviser Steve Reed said.
The winners from the WHS Film Fest will be shown on Friday night from 9 until 10 p.m.
“The winners will come from our Film Fest and they are still in production. They are being created by WHS students who entered the Film Fest which was open to all students,” Reed said.
According to Reed. In the five or six years the Fine Arts Festival has been put on at WHS, the AV club has been involved the past four years.
Brainchild of art teachers Michele Carr and Linda Stan-forth, the Fine Arts Festival is returning with a few changes. Instead of running the customary three days, all perfor-mances and venues will fi t into two days.
“We agreed as a staff that if we could condense everything down to the two days, then we could maximize our efforts and also hopefully have a bigger audience to see the things that we have to offer,” Carr said. “I think we were feeling like we were stretching out way too long. This is a fi rst effort of looking at it a little differently.”
Carr feels that the Fine Arts Festival ben-efi ts the community as well as the students.
“It’s educational for the commu-nity to see what we’re doing but also for students to understand. Part of what art is about is expression, and sharing it with the world, whether it’s art or it’s music, it’s not just visual art. It’s some-thing to put out there, and show some-body’s ideas and feelings,” Carr said.
May 15
May 14
4 pm Opening of art display GYM
4:30 Music Theory students perform original works GYM
5:30 Denver 5th grade recorders & 2nd grade singers GYM
6:00 ROBMS & HS Jazz Band STAGE
7:00 Holmes singing club GYM
8:00 HS Symphonic Band and Wind Ensemble STAGE
4:30 HS One Act Plays STAGE6:00 ROBMS Choir concert STAGE7:00 HS Choral Concert and Variety Show STAGE9:00 HS Film Festival LIBRARY
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