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WANDO HIGH SCHOOL

volume 38, issue 5 MT PLEASANT, SC

dec. 13, 2012

CHANGINGT H E

WORLD

faculty and students give back to the community

see special sectionpages 15-19

merry christmas bitches!!!

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5 cliff hanger!e "scal cli# is looming, but what does that mean? Sta# writer Grace Barry helps you understand the most pertinent economical and political issue in the country on page 5.

13 legg calve perthesA rare disease has struck twice in the same family. For freshman McLain Fowler, living life with this awful disease has been a struggle. Read about her journey on page 13.

18 singing for a cureStudents joined together Dec. 2 for an a$ernoon of music to raise money for awareness of pancreatic cancer. Read more about why on page 18.

27 powderpuffWith the annual Powerpu# game, girls gathered for an evening of fun and football. Check out the photos on page 27.

14 holiday treats!e best way to spread Christmas cheer is baking food for all to share. Sta# writer Anna Ewing shares some delicious recipes for Christmas treats on page 14.

24 fencing Junior Roman Shtompil has a unique passion -- fenc-ing. He started the sport two years ago when he "rst moved to Mount Pleasant. To see how he grew to love the sport, see page 24.

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stats }}& christmasCheck out the Tribal

Tribune website.Using your smart phone, scan the QR code below.

total polled // 55 www.wandotribaltribune.com

statisticsThe PNC Christmas Price Index calculates the true cost of Christ-mas: $25,431.18. Want to know more? See www.pncchristmaspri-ceindex.com.

parents boy/girlfriendgrandparents

friendssiblingsother

we asked wando: who do you

buy gifts for?do you enjoy giving or receiving gifts more?

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getting to know »

the razor’s edgeRazor’s Edge is my favorite book. My older brother recomended it to me about a year ago, and I’ve loved it ever since. It is so well writ-ten, and the journeys the charac-ters go through are so inspiring.

headphonesMy headphones are special be-cause I love listening to music and how comfy they are and the mint green color.

nutellaI love Nutella, and I eat it straight from the jar and on top of ice cream and fried everything – that’s probably the best way.

lychee jellyI loved Lychee Jellies since I was little and my mom bought them for me. Lychee Jellies are these magi-cal little Asian nuggets of yummy.

quiltThe quilt is special to me be-cause my mom and grandma hand stiched it when I was born, and its like my blankie. I’ve always been super careful with it. There are some parts that I’ve even sewed back together myself.

pillowThe pillow is the first thing I ever sewed. I embroidered the little ros-es on it when I was four.

future plansI want to go to a good liberal arts col-lege like Brown or Middlebury or Wil-liams and maybe become a cultural

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biscoff spreadBiscoff is this delicious cookie spread that I always eat with my friend.

things I can’t live withoutfreshman bhavani srinivas

anthropolgist. I might want to be a pro-fessor or open up a small shop and sell stuff I make and teach people.

dec. 13, 2012 »04 tribal news

jonathan rice

reedy questions if high school league power should be reconsidered

co-editor-in-chief

ruling on field stands

You realize you have broken the law.You drive yourself to the police station

and turn yourself in, hoping the punish-ment will be reduced.

!e o"cer promptly arrests you, and your consequences are the same as if you had never turned yourself in.

What incentive do you have to own up to your mistakes in the future?

For Goose Creek’s nationally-ranked football team and its Coach Chuck Reedy, an unintentional violation, self-reported within two hours of discovery, led to for-feiting a season worth of victories and a chance to repeat as state Division II-AAAA champions.

Reedy said the violation was uninten-tional, and it occurred when Goose Creek allowed a #$h year player to play because of a mix-up in his records.

When the young man #led for eligibil-ity for football, the transcript showed that he was eligible. However, when he #led for eligibility for basketball, a new transcript was available that made this his #$h year in high school.

“Based on this information, we self-reported in less than an hour and a half. We felt like that was the right thing to do and we felt like we would be treated fairly by doing that. !ere was no intent to break a rule, and there was no competitive ad-vantage gained in any way,” Reedy said in a telephone interview Dec. 5.

Despite Reedy’s action, the SCHSL made Goose Creek forfeit all of its games from this season – the same punishment given to a school that is caught playing an ineligible player. Self-reporting the viola-tion did not so$en the blow.

SCHSL Director Jerome Singleton was unavailable for comment.

“!is tells everyone that self reporting a violation, whether it be a minor violation or a major violation, serves no purpose. It doesn’t bene#t you in any way, shape or form,” Reedy said. “!erefore, I think a lot

of people will be very reluctant self report-ing anything knowing that the High School League will take what you reported and use it against you.”

!e controversy has brought the SCHSL under direct scrutiny. Every public South Carolina high school that partici-pates in athletics is a member of SCHSL, which is an independent organization.

Wando football coach Jimmy Noonan praised Reedy’s decision to self-report, say-ing it was a positive re%ection of the Goose Creek program.

“!e only way to make any wrong right is self admission,” Noonan said, “and I applaud Coach Reedy for doing that.”

Because Goose Creek was forced to forfeit all of its games -- including in the playo&s, where the Gators had already won their #rst two playo& games -- the Gators were eliminated from the postseason.

“If they would have turned themselves in a$er two games, then we would have never heard about it, because they would have forfeited those two games and still been eligible for the playo&s,” Athletic Direc-tor Bob Hayes. “It just so hap-pened that it was discovered a$er a playo& game.”

Hayes ap-plauds Reedy’s action and he said the incident proves the need for attention to detail.

“I know coach Reedy, and he is an honorable guy and a truthful guy, and if he made a mistake he is going to admit to it,” Hayes said. “As an athletic director it re-minds me how important it is to make sure that we are crossing our T’s and dotting our I’s because we are talking about young people’s eligibility, and we are also talking about a lot of other kids. None of us in this profession want to go in there and tell our team that because of something that hap-pened o& of the #eld they aren’t able to compete for a championship.”

Reedy views the punishment dealt by the SCHSL as unfair and unjusti#ed.

“If we had been an average football team it would have been bad enough, but these guys had won 26 straight games, and their whole goal was to repeat as state

champions, and we were two games away from doing that,” he said. “Not one per-son on the team did a single thing wrong, not even the young man in question. By the league’s constitution the young man was eligible.”

Although Reedy cannot do anything to change the ruling of the SCHSL, he said he is working to prevent this from happening to other schools.

“I am strongly going to encour-age the legislature to take a look at the High School League to determine if they should even have a charter,” Reedy said. “We have an entity who answers to no one and basically does what they want to do…everything they do is to penalize people and I don’t think that is what the organi-zation should stand for.”

Reedy said he and other local ath-letic directors are working to amend the High School League and its constitu-tion. Currently there is not a punishment that matches up with every crime. While certain punishments do exist for some

violations, he said, not every violation is ad-dressed.

“We are going to pro-posing to put some levels of penalties and levels of vio-lations in the

constitution because right now there are no guidelines of how to enforce the rules,” Reedy said. “I am going to do everything that I can to bring some common sense because right now they are out of control.”

While Reedy and other coaches try to change the High School League, the league is determining the #nal verdict.

“Based on the fact that Goose Creek may have to forfeit a game to us -- our re-cord would change and then everything changes. Everyone is waiting on noti#ca-tion of that,” Hayes said.

!is opens the door to the possibil-ity that Wando could become the Region 7-AAAA champions for the 2012 season.

“No one wants to backdoor their way into any award or win by default,” Noon-an said. “I look forward to the day that we can say that we won one outright with no controversy.”--complied by shannon doyle

SCHSL

By 1920, a new constitution was adopted, and this transferred control of the organization from the University of South Carolina to the high school officials. In 1921, the name of the Inter-High School Athletic and Oratori-cal Association of South Carolina was changed to the “South Carolina High School League.” Since the League was increasing in membership, they had to rewrite the Constitution in 1933, then again in 1948. Also in 1948, the League became a member of the Na-tional Federation of State High School Athletic Associations. In 1954, the League gained 100 percent represen-tation of the public high schools of SC. The membership of 2011-12 num-bered 206 high schools and 208 junior high and middle schools.

The SCHSL commissioner Jerome Singleton ruled the Goose Creek Gators as using an ineligible player. They had to forfeit all games from the season, including a playoff win.

The Gators took their case to court and were allowed to play their game against Bluffton that night. Circuit Judge Rodger Young presided and granted the order to allow the Gators to play. Also, Young ruled that the executive commitee had to meet on Nov. 19.

Goose Creek officials held a press conference about the case to discuss options.

There is an open session to reconsider eligibility requirements based on rules. The committee again ruled against Goose Creek, ending their appearance in the playoffs.

Tuesday, Nov. 13

Friday, Nov. 16

Tuesday, Nov. 20

The executive commitee upheld Singleton’s decision during a closed session, a violation of the Freedom of Information Act.

Wednesday, Nov. 14

Monday, Nov. 19

What is the High School

League?

“This tells everyone that self reporting a violation, whether it be a minor violation or a major violation, serves no purpose.” gator coach chuck reedy

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approaching a deadline the proposed plans

the fiscal cliff

The United States fiscal cliff will begin at the start of 2013, if nothing changes. A term used to describe an over-50 percent reduction of the United States budget deficit due to the culmination of multiple laws -- including the end of the Bush tax cuts and the spending cuts mandated by the Budget Control Act of 2011. This dramatic reduction in def-icit is expected to cause a small re-cession, from which the U.S. is expected to recover from late in 2013, if it hap-pens at all.

Republicans, led by Speak-er of the House John Boehner, offered a plan that would increase revenue by $0.8 trillion, but does not include a tax on the wealth-iest Americans. Rather, the plan would cut $0.6 trillion in health programs, moving the age to acquire Medi-care from 65 to 67, and re-ducing benefits for more a fluently elderly citizens. The Republicans have reached out by suggesting to close loopholes on the taxes in question.

Democrats, led by Presi-dent Barack Obama, have proposed a plan that would increase taxes by $1.6 tril-lion over the next 10 years. These taxes would be im-plemented on individuals earning over $200,000 a year and households earn-ing over $250,000 a year. These taxes would return the country to the Clinton-era tax levels.

The most likely outcome is a delay through a series of stop-gap measures that would push the decision until mid-2013 or later. The change, even if the U.S. hits the cliff, is not as disastrous as the term implies. The changes will be gradual and will not be felt until later in 2013. The changes when enacted will greatly affect the 1,000 government pro-grams whose spending will be cut.

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cal cliff, if no agreement is reached,

will come about as a result of the compromises that were reached

during the 2012 Budget Crisis. However, the fiscal cliff will, according to the Congressional Bud-

get Office, have positive long-term effects on both defi-cit and debt, which may be more beneficial than the short-term

negative effects. In the end, the fiscal cliff ultimately presents an ages-old economic conundrum: Should we sacrifice in the short term or in the long term?

The Bowles-Simpson Plan assumes that the Bush-era tax cuts given to the wealthy will ex-pire. After this assumption adds around $0.8 trillion to their baseline, they start tax reform. This includes phasing out employer health care exclusion by 2038, tax municipal bonds, cap tax-preferred retirement contributions and eliminating all other tax expenditures.

Obama’s plan actually raises $1.6 trillion in new revenue, but when added to a $0.2 tril-lion proposed stimulus, the result would be a net sum of $1.4 trillion. This amount would come exclusively from wealthy Americans. He would achieve this by letting the Bush tax cuts expire and limit the size of deductions they can take.

Republicans want to increase revenues by $0.8 trillion and cut rates. They want $0.6 tril-lion in health care cuts, but their plan is not fully formulated as of the moment.

bowles-simpson plan, $4 trillion

obama plan, $2 trillion

republican plan, $2.2 trillion

These are the plans proposed how to fix the the fiscal cliff and lower the deficit.

the republicans the democratsif there is a delay

the federal government has three options:1. Let the current policy set for 2013 go into effect. This includes a series of tax increases and spending cuts that are suspected to drive the economy back into a recession, but the deficit would be expected to be cut in half.

2. The government can cancel some or all of the spending cuts and tax increases, which in turn would add to the deficit and pos-sibly force the United States into a similar situation as Europe.

3. They could find a middle ground that would include spending cuts and tax increases, but more to a limited extent. This, how-ever, would mean a more modest impact on growth.

health careDemocrats would like to cut $350 billion over the next 10 years from federal health care programs Medi-care and Medicaid. The house Republicans would like to cut a total of $600 billion in 10 years from the same health care provid-ers, raise the eligible age for Medicare and increase Medicare costs for higher-income Americans. Source http://www.theatlantic.com/business/ar-

chive/2012/12/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-!scal-cli"-plans-in-charts/265901/--compiled by grace barry and madison ivey designed by wesley maszk

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newsbriefs

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1Fifty-seven chorus students were selected

for All-State Chorus, the highest number of stu-dents to qualify in Charleston County and the second highest number in the whole state.

Students will travel to Winthrop University in Rock Hill between March 7-9 to participate. There, they will work with world-class choir con-ductors and perform a concert.

“All-state is a great experience for the students because they’re reading at such a high level and working with such outstand-ing clinicians,” choir director Mary Elizabeth Goodson said. “They all come back really in-spired.”

Chorus members presented their annual Holiday Concert Dec. 4 (1A).

-- georgia barfield

holiday concert

3Nancy Doyle’s exceptional educational

class teamed up with ROTC and the horticul-ture class to build a walkway from the teacher parking lot to the school Nov. 9-15.

The exceptional education program won a $5000 Lowe’s Toolbox for Education grant—a sum enabling students to both convenience teachers on their way into school but also ap-ply geometry and algebra in the real world. “The experience has been incredibly benefi-cial for all groups involved,” Doyle said. “It was an awesome experience.”

(3A) Doyle and freshman Zachary Ben-nett work on the sidewalk together, while (3B) ROTC members work together.

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‘Wando life’ could be seen in the annual Mt. Pleasant Light Parade Dec. 9. The float’s cre-ation was due to the efforts of the Wando Student Council and spearheaded by junior Taylor Ireland.

Wando’s addition to Sunday’s parade was envisioned as something “that would repre-sent Wando and all the different clubs and organizations,” Student Body President Ash-ley Norman said. “It’s a tradition we hope to continue.” -- andrew taylor

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notable achievements

AP Government and Economics teacher Misty LeClerc was awarded December Teacher of the Month. “I felt honored that my colleagues felt so highly of me,” LeClerc said.

Senior Suzie Vallez was selected as the Co-op Star Employee for the month of December. “I felt re-ally happy and sur-prised when I won,” Vallez said. “Only four people win in a semester and I was really honored when I found out.”

Senior Abby Wed-lake was awarded the Young People’s Art Award from the Exchange Club. “It feels really good to win because it will look good on my college resume,” said Wedlake. “And hopefully it will get me some scholar-ships for college.”

Bookkeeper Sarah White was awarded December Staff Member of the month. “I just feel awesome about it,” she said. “I’ve been here eight years, and this is my first time to win.”

Junior Annalise Bowen, who works at Page’s Okra Grill, was selected as the Intern-ship Star Employee for the month of Decem-ber. “ I was a little su-prised,” Bowen said. “It was really cool because I was given a $25 gas card.”

Junior Joseph Land-ing was a finalist in the science fiction category in the 2012 USA Book Awards. “I was pretty happy because I have been submitting to a lot of competitions and it feels good to fi-nally get something,” Landing said.

First place winner of

the business finance series

senior Eric Wagenlander

sits with a judge and

presents his finance plan

Dec. 5. “It was a greart experience. I also have to

thank Mr. [Kirk]Beilke, Mr.

[Ray] McGrath and Mrs. [Sha-ron] Ansley for preparing the competition,” Wagenlander

said.

JADE YOUNG // staff

DECA competition kicks offFive DECA students won !rst place when the DECA

team participated in the Individual Series Events against 11 di"erent coastal high schools Dec. 5.

#is competition consisted of the team choosing role play events out of 13 speci!c categories of business, from accounting to food marketing, before arriving at Wando.

“#ey have eight minutes to prep a particular

speci!c category in business . . . they are then put in their sections of their categories and they have 10 min-utes to read a business scenario which they go over with a judge,” DECA advisor Kirk Beilke said.

Wando had 69 registered participants. Six students won second place and seven won third place.

--anna ewing

#e quiz bowl team participated in an annual aca-demic quiz bowl challenge at the University of South Carolina on Saturday, Dec. 1. Overall, 21 di"erent schools competed against each other, and Wando won third place.

“I feel like we did really well,” senior quiz bowl team member Kelsey Vories said. “I thought we could have done much better in the semi-!nals and actually might have gone on to win it but getting third place, I mean, I’m proud of us.”

#e quiz bowl coach, Daniel Cieslikowski, agreed, but said the only thing they could have improved was their speed on simple questions.

“#ey did very well,” Cieslikowski said. “[I am] pleased with their epic knowledge.” According to Vories, though, the team is planning on doing even better in the next season which starts Jan. 24th.

“I think we have a lot of new people who are really good. Jack Meagher and I are both seniors and we’ve been on the team for four years,” she said. “I think with all of us together we’re going to do really well.” --sarah yergin

quiz bowl quick notes#e Cyber Warriors team competed in their !rst

competition Nov. 17 at Charleston defense contractor company SPARC. #e team received a total of seven out of 10 points in the CyberPatriot competition. #eir goal was to clean up a pre-infected operating system as quickly as possible with a !ve hour limit.

“We learn the basics of cyber security, the ins and outs of computers and systems, and we utilize that knowl-edge to go into the CyberPatriot competition run by the air force,” team member Peyton Jones said. --sarah heywood

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Buy a Team Kutcher/Team Joe T-shirt, available in room B232 for $12 to help !ght against Pancreatic

cancer.

Drama 1 and 2 are holding class presentations on Dec. 13 at 6:30 p.m. in the Black Box. #ey will be perform-

ing four shows and admission is free. --madison ivey

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09« dec. 13, 2012 tribal features

top 9 things to keep in your carlost in the woods

Her predicament was made worse by the elements. Cold air pierced through her thin yoga pants and Patagonia, making the notion of sleep an impossibility. Inces-sant thirst and aching hunger – resulting from a busy workday with no lunch. And, plunging further into the unknown, an unforgiving black sky veiled her sight.

Senior Kylie Hutchins woke up early Dec 1, to take the SAT. Hutchins went through her day as usual, making deci-sions that would lead to one outcome. Lost, wrecked and desolate.

Hutchins got out of work at Chick-!l-A at 10:40 p.m. With 20 percent phone battery and a quarter tank of gas, she thought she would be able to make it to junior Haley Sedgwick’s house in Huger.

Turning out of the parking lot, Hutchins contemplated her choice of di-rection. Turn right to Wal-Mart and buy a phone charger? Or take a le" and go on to Huger?

She went le". To avoid taking back roads, Hutchins opted for a di#erent route than usual. She guided herself using her phone’s GPS.

Around 11:30 p.m., Hutchins is lost. She calls her friend for help, and Sedgwick suggests meeting at the BP gas station, about 20 minutes from Hutchins’ current location.

“A couple minutes later, I’m driving and I get into a pot hole. I spin out into a ditch and I hit a tree,” Hutchins said.

Shaken and unsettled, trying to keep calm, Hutchins !rst calls Sedgwick.

“She was freaking out. She told me she was going to call the cops,” Sedgwick said. “And I was like ‘Okay, you said you’re in Huger, I’m going to be there soon, tell me what road you’re on.’”

Unsure of her location, Hutchins tells Sedgwick she’s stranded in a ditch on Farewell Center. Because of the unspeci-!ed instruction, Sedgwick and her mom begin the search on Farewell Center road

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instead of lane, where she’s currently stuck -- one mile away.

“$en I call 911, and before I was able to say anything, my phone went dead,” Hutchins said.

A"er driving for two hours, Sedgwick and her mom were out of answers, still looking for a lost girl.

“So it !nally started to settle in, what if we don’t !nd Kylie? What if she’s gone?” Sedgwick said.

A hysterical Sedgwick continued send-ing frantic text messages, with the faint hope that Hutchins was able to read them.

“I failed to ask her if she was okay when she called me and said she had got-ten into an accident,” Sedgwick said. “I just assumed, since she was calling me, that she was okay. And so I thought, maybe, what if she had gotten a concussion? And she was lying outside, and she was practically dy-ing?”

Sitting in her small Suzuki Vatara, Hutchins begins to wonder when she will be found.

“It was in dense Huger -- I’m in the middle of Marion National Forest at this point,” Hutchins said. “You couldn’t see my %ashers. I was on a one way dirt road. Just trees, high grass. It was pitch black. I hadn’t seen anything for 20 minutes.”

At around 1:45 a.m., still trapped and directionless, Hutchins realizes she must take action.

“I get on my hands and knees, dig-ging the roots out from my car. I’m break-ing up the trees so I can get out. $e side’s all scratched up and bent in on a couple of

parts. My mirror’s o#,” she said. “I end up digging myself out, but I still don’t have cell phone service and I don’t know how far I should go since they were looking for me.”

Finally free from the clutches of the dirt road, Hutchins arrives at a four-way intersection.

“I had gone straight, I would’ve been on Farewell Center Road and I probably would’ve run into them,” Hutchins said. “But instead, I went right.”

A"er driving for about a mile, Hutchins drove into an area of the road that seemed secure, but abruptly dropped o# into another ditch – getting lodged in the mud again.

A"er a sleepless night, Hutchins de-cides that at around 7:00 am, when the sun begins to rise, she would walk to an address she remembered passing.

But at 6:45, Hutchins saw headlights for the !rst time since she le" highway 17 that night. It was one of the 20 state troopers that had been looking for Hutchins, joined in pursuit by the Berkeley and Charleston Country police department and a helicop-ter search.

‘You’re a sight for sore eyes’ was the !rst thing the state trooper said before giving her his jacket – the !rst thing the shivering Hutchins heard a"er eight hours. A couple of minutes later, another trooper pulled up with food and water. But Hutchins’ car was still !rmly lodged in the ditch.

In the end, Hutchins was surrounded by 12 state troopers. It took six of them to push her car out, four escorting her back to Highway 41 and two escorting her home.

2. flashlight/flares In case the battery fails and the haz-ard lights cannot be turned on, you need to provide some signal that you are there and alert on-coming cars.

5. duct tape You never know when you are going to need to do a quick fix, and duct tape will at least supply a binding material in a pinch.

6. various toolsVarious Tools: Tools may be the last thing on peoples mind after they get in an accident, but it could save you from having to be towed. I would bring a lug wrench, a few screw driv-ers, a jack, a fire extinguisher and an aerosol can of inflator/sealer for a quick fix of a flat tire.

8. white ragWhite Rag: A white rag hanging from the driver’s side door is the universal symbol for broken down. Always keep a rag or a towel in your car in case of a breakdown on a road to flag down other drivers.9. $10$10: Keep $10 in the glove box at all times, you never know when you’ll get stuck in a bind in a parking garage, or your cell phone is dead and will need to use a payphone. -- ian hurlock

1. first aid kit You never know when you are going to get in an accident or when you are going to slip on your friend’s stairs

and scrape up your leg. The kit should contain bandages, wraps and a soothing cream for burns

because airbags may cause burns.

3. high visibility vestA vest will come in handy for acci-dents at night. On-coming cars can see you, and it may even be used to flag down help.

4. jumper cables You never know when your battery is going to fail and the car won’t start. Any car can help you jump your car, but not everyone carries one of these. It’s better to be safe and spend $30 to save yourself the money from calling a tow truck.

Glad that her car is still functioning and she was not injuried, senior Kylie Hutchins shows off the dried mud on the side of her car, the only sign the accident ever happened.

dec. 13, 2012 »10 tribal features

not so different after all

!e robot is relatively small compared to the washing machine-sized FRC one he’d be working on later in the week. It’s roughly the length and width of a textbook, with plastic tank treads and an arm for scooping up beanbags. His mom Jennifer* leans over it, looking curious.

In just a few minutes, they’ll be head-ing home to have dinner. Many of their days end late like this one.

“!ere’s the robotics, and the girls have their extracurricular things. We’re either running to piano lessons or robot meet-ings and practices or plays that they’re in or other special things they’re doing. We’re running all the time,” Jennifer said.

But despite being so busy, they always have the time to share a meal together be-fore the day ends.

What makes junior Sam* stand out from his peers is not his busy schedule, which many of his close friends share, but his family.

Sam was conceived using donated sperm and an egg from Jennifer, who birthed him. His sisters, who are in the sev-enth grade, were born from Jennifer’s part-ner of 27 years, Emily*.

“My twin sisters are half sisters. !ey’re from the same donor,” Sam said. And al-though Emily is not biologically related to Sam, he has always considered her to be an-other mom to him, his second parent.

“Two moms, two twin sisters and two dogs that are both female!” Sam said.

Yet Sam does not see having two moms as being even vaguely remarkable.

“We’re just a normal family, just like anybody else,” he said. “!ere really isn’t any di"erence between us and any other family.”

Jennifer and Emily agree, as they see no di"erence in the way they raise Sam and his sisters compared with that of hetero-sexual couples.

“Parenting is parenting,” Jennifer said. “We are as engaged and involved in our children’s lives as any parent. And we are as

concerned and as loving and as grateful for our children as any parent.”

Yet some of the challenges faced by Sam and his family are very unique to LGBT (lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender) households. Some are small -- others, not so much.

“Probably the biggest challenge is that every form you #ll out asks for the mother’s name or the father’s name, and sometimes I mark through father and put my name, or sometimes I just ignore it,” Jennifer said.

So far, however, having children pro-vided the biggest obstacles for Jennifer and Emily. !ey could not conceive children by themselves and when they #nally had Sam and his sisters, there was then the matter of dealing with unsupportive family mem-bers.

“We had to try way, way, way harder to have children, and we had to go through a lot more hoops to have children,” Jenni-fer said. “But that just makes them more wanted and more appreciated, perhaps, because we did have the struggles. Not just struggles with family members – which are and have been for us, big struggles -- but also worries about the community, worries about school, worries about their friends – you know, if they’re not going to be asked to sleep over at a friend’s house because of who their parents are.”

!eir greatest fears lie in the sticky legal matters which set them apart from traditional households. Because Jennifer and Emily cannot marry in the state of South Carolina – nor would an out-of-state marriage be recognized here – they must #nd creative ways to circum-vent some of the gaps in their legal rights as parents.

“We had to go through a special adop-tion of each other’s children, biological children, just to make sure that they were protected under the law… It doesn’t pro-tect me or Emily, it protects the children,” Jennifer said.

Protected, in the sense that if some-thing happened to Jennifer or to Em-ily, Sam’s grandparents would not be able to take him and his sisters away because Jennifer and Emily are now the legal parents of all three children.

Aside from that,

Sam and his family are exceedingly normal. Even bullying, an issue which causes a lot of fear among parents from every walk of life, has hardly caused any problems for Sam or his sisters.

“It [bullying] really hasn’t been an is-sue,” Emily said.

“A few snarky comments from the el-ementary school kids is as bad as it got, and he [Sam] handled it better than I did,” Jen-nifer said.

Most of the comments Sam receives nowadays about his family tend to be in-quisitive and positive.

“In fact now, a lot of people kinda think it’s cool,” he said.

And it’s not much of a secret – Jennifer and Emily go to PTA meetings and teach-er nights together. !eir names and Sam’s were withheld from this article because of worry for Emily’s teaching job, which could be jeopardized by parents unhappy with this knowledge, not because of fear for Sam’s safety.

So when his moms stress about school, it’s mostly

about his grades. “I think having two moms, you get a

lot more worrying around the house ‘cause women worry more,” Sam said. “!ey con-stantly ask me what I’m doing in class, are always worried about my grades and my biological mom probably checks power-school every day.”

His biological father is a di"erent story. “I don’t think he knows I exist,” Sam said. “He was just a donor.”

While he would like to meet his father one day, it’s not one of the biggest things on his mind – especially since he feels he hasn’t missed much by not having his fa-ther in his life.

“My mom actually kinda leans toward a dad #gure. I don’t think I’ve ever seen her wear a dress,” Sam said.

For his family, what they have is nor-mal. “I never knew any di"erent,” Sam said.

“Our household is just like anyone else’s,” Emily said.

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life with two mothers, two sisters is the norm for junior

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11« dec. 13, 2012 tribal features

busting the mythsEver wondered if the myths you’ve heard all your life are true? Tribal Tribune staffers Sam Walker and Ellie McDermott take a look at some common folklore to see if it is true.

Myth: Sugar makes you hyperWhen babysitting a child, the mother will usually tell

you to not give the child anything sugary, especially be-fore bedtime because they will bounce of the walls due to hyperactivity from the sugar. Studies show that this com-monly believed fact is not true. Dr. Wolraich of the Uni-versity of Iowa did an experiment where he got together a group of normal preschoolers and then preschoolers who are apparently “sensitive” to sugar. He gave them sucrose, or common table sugar, then he also gave them arti!cial sweeteners called aspartame and saccharin which

normally have no e"ect on behav-ior. He deducted that there were no di"erences in the children’s behaviors. #is very well-known “fact” that we hear around every Hal-loween and when we drink a soda is in fact not true.

Source:http://www.yalescient i f ic .o r g / 2 0 1 0 / 0 9 / m y t h -busters-does-sugar-really-make-children-hyper/

Myth: The MSG in Chinese food causes hunger and sleepiness.

“MSG [Monosodium Glutamate] is a naturally-occurring product, and it does not make you sleepy, and it does not nec-essarily make you hungry,” said Bill Twaler, head of Wando’s Culinary department.

“What it does is give you a sense of full-ness, so you eat less and you have the idea that you’re full before you [actually] are. #at’s why you eat a big Chinese dinner and then twenty minutes later you’re hungry again, because there’s less food [in your stomach],” Twaler said.

Myth: Butter helps soothe burnsIt has been rumored that applying butter to a burned

area of the skin alleviates its severity.“I don’t know anything about that kind of voodoo.

I’ve heard about those things like butter, mustard,” said Bill Twaler, the head of Wando’s Culinary department. “Maybe

butter is supposed to draw the heat out, [but] I just stick my hand in ice water.”

Myth: Chicken noodle soup cures colds#e ideal food to eat when you’re sick is chicken noo-

dle soup because it makes you feel better. #e old wives’ tale is that it cures the common cold, which is partly true. It doesn’t cure the cold completely, but it does reduce the in$ammation in the lungs caused by colds by slowing down the white blood cell activity. So when you’re sick, a nice hot bowl of chicken noodle will, just like your mom always told you, make you feel better.

Source: http://www.rd.com/slideshows/popular-old-wives-tales-!ction-or-fact#slide2=&slideshow=slide5

Myth: Stress turns your hair grayPeople o%en say that if you stress too much you’ll

give yourself gray hair. Well, don’t stress because this is not true! Every hair on your head has melanin that gives it its color. As we grow older its start die out making our hair color turn gray. But scientists have not found any indications that this process is linked to stress.

Source: http://www2.counton2.com/news/2012/nov/05/medical-myth-does-stress-

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For freshman McLain Fowler, life hasn’t always been easy.

She has trouble with something that most people take for granted.

When she was little, she was diagnosed with Legg Calve Perthes disease, a debilitating disease that compli-cates walking.

McLain didn’t fully comprehend Legg Calve Perthes disease at the time of her diagnosis.

“I was really little so I didn’t really know. I didn’t really understand exactly, it actually took a year for me to under-stand a lot as I got older,” she said. “I guess it was kind of scary not really knowing much about it and then having all these surgeries so young.”

Living with Legg Calve Perthes disease is not easy. A lack of blood !ow to the hip bone causes it to crack, giv-ing the tendons and cartilage a chance to pop and become useless. Prosthetic tendons and knee cartilage are neces-sary since the disease has progressed. Constant pain in the knee, upper leg and back cause McLain to take painkillers to subside the pain.

Living with the constant pain and unknowns of the disease is a struggle everyday.

“I’m used to it, it doesn’t really scare me anymore…there’s nothing I can do,” McLain said.

McLain’s sister, junior Maggie Fowler, continues to en-courage her.

“If I’m hurting or something, she’ll distract me, she’ll keep me company if I’m in pain or if I don’t want to go out anywhere...she’s really supportive,” McLain said.

Maggie helps her sister in any way she can, aiding McLain Spanish and math homework to help her stay caught up on school work.

An absence in school is something McLain knows very well.

“She’s had a lot [of surgeries] and so she’s always in Baltimore because that’s where she gets the surgeries, so my mom is always gone too…sometimes gone for like a month at a time,” Maggie said. “I have to take care of her a lot... a"er her surgeries.”

#at’s nine surgeries to be exact.Accepting her disease proves to be di$cult for McLain

-- the reality that she is far from normal takes a toll on her everyday life.

“I can’t even actually walk around school and every-where I go out in public…it’s just cause you see everyone walking and it’s kind of humiliating…I guess I just want to be normal,” McLain said.

Doing normal, mundane things can be a task in itself

for McLain. She usually doesn’t go out with her friends be-cause she has to use her wheelchair for the long distances. She is faced with back problems and is constantly in pain. Simple things -- leaving class a few minutes early or walk-ing aided by crutches -- can put a spotlight on her limita-tions.

#e rare prognosis of this disease causes deterioration to the hip bone, and then allows itself to recover on its own. A usual case of Legg Calve Perthes will last about three to four years, but in her rare case, McLain has been %ght-ing for much longer. It’s been %ve years since McLain’s dis-ease was expected to subside. But the rarity of McLain’s case is nothing compared to her 18-year-old brother’s, George.

“Well my brother actually had it %rst… and right when he was released [recuperated] [McLain] was diagnosed, and we were the %rst family in the world to have two kids [with the disease] … because it’s not genetic or anything,” Maggie said.

McLain’s brother, George Fowler, was diagnosed around the third grade and received a %xator to correct the cracked bone. A %xator is a steel device that is implanted and drilled into the hip bone for a period of time to slow-ly correct the blood !ow. A"er the %xator, he received a brace/cast for a longer period of time to set the bone in its correct spot.

George is one of McLain’s biggest inspirations be-cause he has been through the same thing she is experi-encing. Knowing that there is an end to the disease helps to keep McLain going.

McLain’s mom has become an expert in taking care of children with this disease because two of her children have su&ered from it.

“It’s made me do things I didn’t think I was capable of doing. It’s made me be a nurse when I didn’t think I could be,” she said. “It’s made me be a teacher when I didn’t think I could be. It’s made me very, very appreciative of walking. Just something so simple as walk-ing.”

Facing no certain cure for the disease McLain’s mom o"en %nds herself obtaining as much

as she can about the prognosis. “I’ve done a lot of studying and reading and research.

I’ve listened to the people that came before that had any information to give me and tell me that what could be done and what couldn’t be done and what should and shouldn’t,” she said.

McLain’s mom has learned to strengthen McLain through a little tough love.

“She usually hates it when I say this but I just tell her to suck it up and that it could be worse and try to think of the things she can do versus the things that she can’t.”

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holiday recipes reindeer run

!e cold wind stung my face as it blew while the sun began to peek out.

It was early morning—around 8:00 a.m. My best friend, Maddie, and I had picked our best Christmas sweaters, laced up our tennis shoes and headed downtown for the annual Reindeer Run.

For us, it is a tradition. During our 8 years of friendship, we have never missed an opportunity to run the Reindeer Run.

And out of all those years, I do not believe we have actually ever “run” the course. We walk. Slowly, but moving our arms quickly to make it seem like we are exerting energy into the race.

One year, we completely ditched the race altogether. We ended up walking o" course to Maddie’s aunt’s downtown apartment, had wa#es with her cousins, and walked back as if we had been run-ning the whole time.

Our parents were thrilled with our times, but later had a good laugh learn-ing about our whereabouts that morning.

Getting a good time or ranking in the race was never our goal. Our only goal is to enjoy ourselves, catch up on what’s going on in each other’s lives and basking in the holiday spirit.

My favorite part has always been when we get to the Battery. !e cool breeze of the ocean is such a relief during our run. !ere is nothing prettier than running under the shade of the oak trees, looking at the waterside houses and just enjoying the city.

upcoming runs:Charleston Marathon: Jan. 18-

20, 2013. Includes a marathon, half marathon and 5K. For more informa-tion go to charlestonmarathon.com

Bulldog Breakaway: Dec. 15, 2012 and Jan. 5, 2013. Includes a 5K. For more information go to runningintheUSA.com

Charlie Post Classic: Jan. 26, 2013. Includes a 5K. For more infor-mation go to charlestonrunningclub.com

COLUMN BYmadi brandli, staff writer

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ingredients:1. Regular Pretzels

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directions:1. Get regular pretzels, Hershey’s Choco-

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2. Preheat oven to 225 degrees Fahrenheit

3. Place the pretzels spread out on a cov-

1. Bake cupcakes regularly, can be home-made or out of the box

2. Frost with chocolate icing once cool enough

3. Top with pretzels as the antlers on the side (as shown)

4. Place Nilla Wafers on the bottom center as the face

5. Place white M&Ms on either sides of the top of the wafer as

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side note: As the Christmas season surrounds us, it’s hard to not want to have a bite of the festive treats that come with it. These fun

treats are not only easy to enjoy, but easy to make as well and can turn into simple and meaningful gifts.

-- anna grace ewing

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Senior Evan Heins laughs as one of four of the cats he is currently fostering crawls over his chest and onto his back. “I mean, everyone loves kittens...” Heins said. “You only have to keep them in the good parts, when they’re cute, and you don’t have to deal with them forever.”

One of the four kittens looks on as his foster siblings play with their toys below. The cats stay up-stairs in a bedroom where they are checked on frequently and played with daily.

deirdre borland

fostering kittens gives heins family opportunity to help animals find shelter

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!e moment your foot enters the door, it is assaulted by a tiny mass of black fur. One small kitten hangs from your leg, another from your shoe, yet another meows out for food.

A room "lled with kittens: for many, it’s a dream.For senior Evan Heins, however, it’s all in a normal

morning.Heins is one of many who choose to foster, a unique

decision that gives kittens without a home a greater shot at being adopted. With local stray cats estimated in the millions in South Carolina alone, the process allows stray kittens the chance to be socialized as well as spayed or neutered.

“We basically take the kittens in when they’re young and get them accustomed to humans until they’re old

enough to be spayed and neutered,” Heins said. “!en we give them back and they get adopted. We don’t keep them, we just get them for a little bit and give them back.”

!e process of fostering can take anywhere from two to six weeks, Heins explained. Socialization, getting them used to human contact, is key for "nding the kittens per-manent homes; and it’s a family e#ort.

“We started in the beginning of the summer. My mom has a friend at her work that was talking about how she does it, so my mom thought she’d do it,” Heins said.

Donna Heins admits to being skeptical at "rst. “I thought at "rst, how could you not get attached to

them?” she said. “But you’re doing a better service by fos-tering than if you kept them. If you keep them, then you wouldn’t do any more.”

Beginning in June of this last summer, the family took on a litter of two kittens that would spark a new love of fostering; since that "rst group, the Heins family has since taken in almost twenty kittens.

“We foster through the Charleston Animal Society,” Mrs. Heins said. “And they’re great, we’ve never not had [a kitten] get adopted. !ey do an awesome job.”

!e process of fostering is straightforward, easy to do,

and most of all very much needed; the Charleston Ani-mal Society o$en takes in dozens of stray kittens at a time, relying on families who can take several in and get them accustomed to humans.

“To foster they give you a form and everything, and they’ll give you everything you need; they’ll give you cat litter, food, everything,” Mrs. Heins said. “Once they hit two pounds, you take them back. You generally take them back two weeks for a checkup and give them shots and they weigh them. Once they hit two pounds, then that’s when they keep them and spay and neuter them and go up for adoption.”

!e Animal Society, in addition to requiring foster families, also bene"ts from donations; blankets and old beds, Mrs. Heins explains, are very much needed.

Aside from the practical aspects of fostering, Heins says the best part is de"nitely the cats themselves.

“!e best part is having kittens,” Heins said. “I mean, everyone loves kittens. And some people don’t like cats, so you get to keep kittens and get rid of them before they get too big. So you only have to keep them in the good parts, when they’re cute, and you don’t have to deal with them forever.”

ALL PHOTOS BY JADE YOUNG // staff

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comingfull circle

!anksgiving. !e one day of the year where the people in this country gather to give thanks for what they have, to re"ect what binds them, as people, together. Most Americans spend this !ursday around a large table, accompanied by family and a larger meal, but this is not the case for some. Student Concern Specialist Terrence Whittaker spent the day in a di#erent set-ting, with a story containing much more than just stu$ng.

On !anksgiving day Whittaker could be found, not in a dining room, but in a supermarket, working his second job at Bi-Lo, one he started 23 years ago.

“I took the job there because we need-ed additional income. We had Jordan, our son, so from there she [his wife] wanted to

be a stay at home mom,” Whittaker said. A chance occurrence started his ten-

ure at Bi-Lo. “I was just shopping there and the

manager came up and said ‘Hey, we just lost somebody in produce and we are looking for somebody’ and I mention to the guy, I said, ‘Hey, look, I applied about two, three months ago but I never heard back from you,” Whittaker said. “He goes ‘well, I tell you what, take your groceries home and come on back, and I’ll see if I can take you in.’ He says ‘Are you willing to work?’ and I said ‘I’ll tell you what sir, if you’re willing to hire me, I won’t quit on you.’ And I’ve been with them for 23 years.”

Whittaker even volunteered to work this past !anksgiving on behalf of others.

“I worked a shi% at Bi-Lo so every-body could be o# from seven to three,” Whittaker said. “!e reason I do it is be-cause it gives about two people who can be o# with their families.”

While working his shi%, Whittaker received a phone call that signaled the beginning of a abnormal, yet meaningful

“In disasters you see the best of people,” Lee Howes said as she sat upright in her chair, photos of missions past propped on her desk and hanging on the walls.

For Howes, helping those a#ected by Hurricane Sandy was her duty.

It was one of the colder days in Bergen County, N. J. Howes and her team were cleaning out underneath a trailer which was full of water and mud, making for a di$cult job. !ey &nished late a%ernoon and were sur-prised when a woman who lived in the trailer came out.

“She had nothing le% inside her trailer but a few things, and came out with hot chocolate for the team,” Howes said. “She wanted to do her part, in some way to say thank you, it just touched your heart.”

Hurricane Sandy hit the northeast Oct. 29, a coast-wide devastation. Lee Howes, a volunteer for the Sa-maritan’s Purse program, decided to help. !e Christian faith-based program is dedicated to helping internation-al victims of natural disaster and those in need of medical supplies.

Howes, who does “a little bit of everything,” at Wando, from human resources to student cur-riculum, used her vacation time to help those in need.

“!ey [the organizers of Sa-maritan’s Purse] called me on a !ursday a%ernoon and said, ‘By the way, could you be here Monday?’” Howes said. She went up a week later.

“I got there at 11:30 that day and was out in the &eld by 1:15, and under a trailer,” Howes said.

She and her team worked for two weeks straight in a trailer park in Bergen County. One of the levees had bro-ken and "ooded the trailer park of 150 or more homes.

“I changed my jeans from my good jeans to my bad jeans,” she said. !e water had risen from a few inches to two feet in the park. !e narrow trailers were destroyed.

She would go under the trailer and pull out the pink cotton candy of insulation to try to save the "oor.

“Every morning we would get up at 5:30, we would eat, were gone, stayed all day,” Howes said of her typical day. “We had a bag lunch for lunch, of peanut butter and jelly, and it was the best I had ever had because I was starving by lunchtime.”

!is process repeated for two weeks, Nov. 9-24. Howes returned Nov. 24, but still remembered what she le% in New Jersey.

“It’s hard to come back because you hear people complaining and they have nothing to complain about...” Howes said. “We take for granted what we have.”

Howes has been serving others her whole life, “be-ing able to serve…that’s where my passion is.”

Howes said helping others is how she was raised. “I don’t know how to live my life with it just being

about me,” she said.

!anksgiving. “My wife calls me about 10 o’clock,

she’s got everything on the stove and in the oven and the turkey and the big bird ready to go, and we didn’t have any electricity in the kitchen,” Whittaker said. “We couldn’t call anybody up on !anksgiving so... our neighbor, we knocked on their door [on Friday] and said ‘For everything you’ve done for us’ she goes ‘I’ll tell you what, why don’t you bring that bird over here and we’ll cook it.’”

Before the Whittaker family ate that Friday, they called a repairman to look at their stove, thinking that it was the prob-lem.

“We tried to &nd an appliance repair-man and he said ‘I’ll tell you what, it’s not your stove, its your breaker switch’ so he &xed it and he got our electricity back,” Whittaker said.

Just before this repairman was set to leave, however, a conversation sprung up between him and Whittaker.

“We got out on the porch and we set-tled money, and he was putting his tools back in the van, and he goes ‘Hey, it’s re-ally nice that you can have a !anksgiving like that.’ We got to talk and it was kind of neat because he said ‘You know what, I lost my wife a year ago to breast cancer’ and I said ‘I tell you what, go put your tools up in the truck, I want you to come eat with us,’” Whittaker said.

!ough it may not be on a !ursday, this Friday !anksgiving meal helped so-lidify what the true meaning of the holiday is -- love and helping one another.

“It really is a true !anksgiving story,” Whittaker said. “It doesn’t matter what day it is; you should always give back if some-body’s in need.”

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helping others away to give back for concern specialist

staff writer

helping sandy victimsa way for howes to help

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As senior Lauren Anton helped serve the orphans !anksgiving dinner, some seemed excited and grateful while others looked distant and lost. She was so over-come with emotion that she had to turn away.

“!ese kids didn’t know what it was like to enjoy the holidays with a stable fam-ily,” Lauren said.

On !anksgiving day, both Lauren and her twin sister Angelie helped bring a home-cooked meal to boys from Wind-wood Farm, a children’s home in Awendaw.

!e sisters found out about the vol-unteer opportunity through a member of their mother’s church group.

Although the event was run by Life Park Church, the Antons attend Seacoast.

“I love little kids,” Angelie said. “!ey’re not all little kids, it’s age seven to 17, but I just thought it would be a really great opportunity and rewarding.”

!e event, which took place at Life Park Church in Park West, aimed to pro-

vide a !anksgiving meal to the boys from Windwood.

“Volunteer work that we’ve done in the past was mainly with animal shelters, so this was a new experience,” Angelie said. “I’ve never worked with foster children or orphanages or anything with kids.”

Each of the volunteers made a dish and helped serve it to the 40 children. Both girls enjoyed being able to help the boys.

“!ey were so appreciative,” Lauren said “!ey had wonderful manners and said ‘please, thank you, ma’am, sir.’”

“!ey were all so sweet and really grateful,” Angelie added. “I actually heard that when one of the orphans was getting back on the bus he asked, “Why are all these people so nice?’ It was so sad.”

Although the boys’ gratefulness was heartwarming, seeing their hardship was di$cult for the sisters.

“!ey got a few kids right before !anksgiving, so they looked really upset and seeing that was kind of hard,” Angelie said.

“Some of the kids looked so sad, it broke my heart,” Lauren said. “I had to turn around because I started crying.”

!is volunteer opportunity helped Lauren and Angelie see how fortunate they were to have a supportive family.

“!ey have just the essentials to sur-

vive -- food, clothes,” Angelie said. “But knowing that I have a loving family and more than just food and clothes…it makes you really grateful.”

“You have to take time to realize how fortunate you are to have a loving fam-ily and a house to come home to,” Lauren added.

!e experience has even a#ected Angelie’s plans for the future.

“I’m thinking about child psychol-ogy. I would have my own o$ce but I would de&nitely be volunteering in or-phanages and talking to the children there,” she said. “I’ve always liked psy-chology and kids, but that experience re-ally touched me. I can see myself doing that.”

!e Antons hope to visit the boys soon. In addition, they were inspired to do future volunteer work. !ey will be participating in the Key Club’s Christmas charities as well as the Big Brothers Big Sisters program in college.

Volunteering with the Windwood kids gave the sisters a renewed gratitude and a new sense of the true meaning of !anksgiving.

“It was great to help out and serve others, because that is really what !anksgiving is all about,” Lauren said.

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two sisters volunteer during the holiday season

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Lowcountry Orphan Relief sup-plies various goods and services to abused, abandoned and neglected children in the Lowcountry. Donated clothes, toiletries, school supplies, stuffed animals and books are sorted through and organized by volun-teers. Eventually these items are distributed at schools and homeless shelters. You can help by donat-ing money for the organization and goods for the children, or even by spending a morning folding clothes and filling orders at one LOR’s Chil-dren’s Closet downtown. To donate immediately or sign up to volunteer this Christmas season, go to www.lowcountryorphanrelief.org.

The Wando FCCLA and Key club are organizing the Helping Hands Holiday Drive, an effort to collect supplies for local charities. Boxes are located along Main Street where you can deposit gently used or new toys, clothes, coats and canned goods. These items will benefit Crisis Min-istries, an organization that helps homeless people get on their feet, and Camp Happy Days, an organiza-tion for kids with cancer that includes an annual camp held in the summer. Bring in gently used or new toys, clothes, coats and canned goods to support this drive. Donations will be collected until mid-January.

Christmas Commandos is an orga-nization for children who are facing their first holiday season after los-ing a parent. Toys are collected and fundraisers are held throughout the season to gather gifts. On Christ-mas Eve, a group of darkly dressed volunteers leave the presents in the front yards of the children. The next morning, they will find Barbies hang-ing from trees and bicycles propped against the stairs – a Christmas they will never forget. Donate toys or money, sponsor a child, help to wrap the gifts or even host a toy drive to get involved. For more information, visit http://christmascommandos.com/

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It wasn’t the usual chorus concert. No black dresses, programs or rehearsal. !e venue was even moved to a more relaxed atmosphere.

But this concert meant much more than any other performance.

!is Dec. 2 concert at Awendaw Green – completely organized by students -- would raise over $4,000 for pancreatic cancer research.

Another year of choir had begun, but there was a slight change in Chorus Direc-tor Eric Wilkinson, according to senior Miranda Kopfman. Wilkinson’s mother, Mary, was diagnosed with pancreatic can-cer this past summer, and he had traveled many miles to visit in Rochester, N.Y., over the course of three months.

!is is not the "rst time Wando stu-dents have been a#ected by the disease. Math teacher Joe Kutcher su#ered from pancreatic cancer and ultimately lost his battle in July 2012.

Showing support for their choir direc-tor and former teacher, seniors Kopfman, Maria Sturmer, Allie Klobukowski and Jes-sica Fraiser decided to organize the ben-e"t. !e bene"t honored Kutcher and Mrs. Wilkinson, who also lost her life three days before the event.

Students auditioned songs to perform at the bene"t -- "ve bands and 16 audi-tioned pieces were performed.

“Chorus students really stepped up, they wanted to help and wanted to play -- we had over the amount of volunteers than we could have ever wanted,” Sturmer said.

Chorus students each have personal reasons for showing their support through singing.

“It’s a good cause, and Mr. Wilkinson is like a father "gure to me and the rest of Wando Chorus, so you can’t really stand on the sidelines in a situation like this,” ju-nior Carson Keeter said.

!e bene"t also proved to be a special remembrance for Mrs. Kutcher.

“To know that something like that was planned and executed by students in honor of Mr. Kutcher truly brought tears to my eyes,” Mrs. Kutcher said. “I know how very important the students and faculty and Wando is (was) to Joe. !ey meant the world to him.”

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Mrs. Kutcher believes Mr. Kutcher was present the day of the bene"t concert. A special bouquet of pink roses proved that.

“A few days before Mr. Kutcher passed away, he pointed to something on the wall and asked me if I saw it. I said no – at that point, he realized he really was not seeing what he thought was there,” Mrs. Kutcher said. “I urged him to please tell me what he ‘thought’ he saw. He said it was a multi-colored rose.”

!e beautiful rose reminded Kutcher of two rose bushes Mr. Kutcher bought for her on her birthday in May 2011. Af-ter they planted the bushes, the family’s German-Shepard puppy accidentally de-stroyed the delicate roses while playing.

Mr. Kutcher planted the $owers again, but the remaining stub never bloomed again.

“A%er he passed away, my sister-in-law noticed that the bush that never bloomed at all had a freshly bloomed multi-colored pink rose on it,” Kutcher said.

While selling tickets at the bene"t, an unknown lady approached Kutcher and said she decided to cut the pink roses from her yard to decorate the table.

“Yes – Mr. Kutcher saw and felt all the love his beloved Wando sent to him that day! I know it,” Kutcher said.

Both Wilkinson and Kutcher have and had a vested interest in their students’ lives and actions.

“Over the course of four years you re-ally get to know someone and being with him [Wilkinson] every single day, you get to know him as a teacher and as a person,” Kopfman said. “He’ll have heart-to-hearts with the class or you stop by in the morn-ing to ask him something and he just ends up saying ‘hey, what’s going on with you?’ He just makes a point to know what’s going on with you and making sure you’re okay. He’s kind of like a father to all of us.”

!e support the Kutcher and Wilkin-son families have received will leave a last-ing impression and impact the choir’s close family-like relationship as well as the en-tire Wando family.

“He truly loved Wando and all that it represented. It brings us daily peace to know that Wando loved him as much as he loved it,” Kutcher said. “His colleagues and students continue to amaze us at what they come up with to honor him. We want his name and legacy to go on and Wando is helping us do that in many very special ways. I don’t know how we can ever begin to repay our gratitude for that.”

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BOOTStop 5 dec. movies need tips on how to wear this season’s most popular boots?

features editor georgia barfield is here to help.

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Moccasin: Channel your in-ner Pocahontas with a pair of these fringed dandies. They

evoke a certain carefree, bohe-mian aura. Pair them with earth tones, tribal prints and flowy sweaters to complement their native vibe.

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Riding: This is a classic staple to any wardrobe, regardless of whether you

spend your days at the stable or not. The simple shape and co-gnac leather hue have kept it in style for years. Wear them with skinny pants, a ruffle blouse and boyfriend cardigan to complete the equestrian uniform.

2 Strappy: The thick buckled hardware and chunky toe of these boots will add just

the right amount edge to any outfit. Create the perfect edgy feminine look by donning a dark mini dress, studded leather jacket and textured tights along with these tough girl boots.

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Slouch: Versatility is what makes these boots a great ally for any gal. Dress them

up with a snug sweater dress and colored tights. For those days when comfort is your main concern, pull them over a pair of leggings and top off the en-semble with an oversized t-shirt and cotton scarf.

4 Short Cowgirl: The Chel-sea length of these boots and chap-like fringe on the

side add modern twist to the typical cowgirl boots. Transform yourself into an urban rough rider by pairing them with dark skinny jeans and an oversized flannel shirt.

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tablet wars 10 inch7 inch

Nexus 10: Price- 16GB-$400/32GB-$500.

With the debut of the Nexus 7, Google knew not everyone was sold on the smaller tablets. In October they released the Nexus 10. !e best quality of the Nexus 10 is the visu-als with 300 pixels per inch, and the resolution is higher than the iPad’s retina display. !e only problem is that though it is running on the most up to date Android plat-form there are some so"ware problems. !ese are the only thing that keeps the Nexus 10 from not beating the iPad 4.

Microsoft Surface: Price-32GB-$500/Touch Cover-$130.With Microso"’s entrance into the tablet world, they tried something di#erent creating a tablet that allows you to have some computer functions. While the idea is great and the interface is good, the Surface falls short of its high expectations. With $ner tweaking, the Surface has the po-tential to be a great tablet, but right now they just aren’t there.

Asus Transformer Infinity Tab: Price-32GB-$500/64GB-$600/Keyboard Dock- $150. One of the less known tablets, the Asus Transformer is a tablet worth the look if you can spend the money. !e overall design of the tablet is one of the best on the market. One feature is a thin strip of grey which is there to enhance wireless communication. !e battery life is also incredible at 14 hours. !e issue is the price, which can quickly turn people o#.

iPad Mini: Price-16GB-$329/32GB-$429/64GB-$529. Cellular network connection available starting at $459.Apple $nally entered the seven-inch tablet $eld with the iPad mini. Although the iPad mini does not have Retina display, it still has 163 pixels per inch which isn’t that bad. !e iPad Mini also has one of the best battery lives of any tablet. !e biggest downside is the price, which is considerably higher compared to other seven-inch tablets.

Nook HD: Price: $200/8GB $230/16GB.If you’re looking for a small tablet just for an e-reader, look no further. With all of the Barnes and Noble content, the Nook HD is perfect for reading any books, magazines and videos from Barnes and Noble. With 243 pixels per inch, it has the highest quality of seven inch tablets. !e Nook HD is the not the fastest or smoothest though, which dras-tically takes away from it overall function.

Kindle Fire HD: Price-16GB-$199/32GB-$249.With the release of the Nexus 7, Amazon de-cided to release an updated version of their popular Kindle Fire. !e Kindle Fire HD runs on the Android platform 4.0, Ice Cream Sand-wich. Kindle Fire runs on Android 4.0, which won’t give you the smooth style that Android 4.1 o#ers with the Nexus 7.

Nexus 7: -16GB-$199/32GB-$249/32GB with cellular network connections-$299. !is was the $rst tablet launched by Google, and it launched with much success. Running on the latest An-droid, the interface is smooth and quick. It also features the new Google feature, Google Now, that learns based o# of your searches and gives you weather, travel and other helpful features based o# of where you are. Out of any possible seven inch tablet, the Nexus 7 is best of the best and is worth a look.

iPad 4: 16GB-$499/32GB-$599/64GB-$699. Cellular network available starting at $629.!e iPad 4 is the updated version of the iPad 3, which will be discon-tinued just half a year a"er release. !e new iPad 4 is in many ways the same, but it does have Apple’s new A6X -- the same processor used on the new iPhone 5, which makes it considerably faster than the last version. !e iPad 4 also has Retina display which gives it some of the best visuals. It also now has the lighting port, so if you already have old Apple chargers, you’ll need a USB converter. !e iPad 4 is the built the bets out of any of the tablets and their experience gives them the edge over Google’s new Nexus 10.

here’s a guide to the many tablets on the market.--compiled by waring hills

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do it yourself: christmas craftshow to do it

This makes a cute, practical gift that doesn’t take much time and is easy to make. You can purchase your blank mug or plate (ceramic) at the dollar store, Wal-Mart, Target or a pharmacy.

do, just make sure the surface is smooth)step one: step two: Draw your choice of design onto the mug.step three: sheet onto the top rack and place your mug on top.step four: step five: Take your mug out and let it cool. Now it’s waterproof and safe to use!

personalized mug

what it is what you’ll need how to do it

Make your own personalized t-shirts for a friend or family member with quirky sayings or inside jokes.

step one: Lie out your plain black t-shirt and insert the flat piece of cardboard.step two: Using a pencil, etch out your design onto the shirt (if you can).step three:

step four: Depending on the brand of bleach you use and how thickly it was applied, the color will come out differently on the shirt. In the example, Publix brand bleach turned a coppery-orange.

t-shirt bleaching

what it is what you’ll need

spend a fortune this Christmas, the solution is simple... DIY (do it yourself). There are -

spair melt away. Here they are, step-by-step, with a store guide to help you find the materials for your homemade present. Minimizing cost and maximizing happiness is what it’s all about this holiday season. --caroline rothkopf

how to do itstep one: Mix your dry materials together in the medium sized bowl.step two: -

step three: Pour into your container and decorate. You can find printable tags online that you can at-tach to your container.

what you’ll need This is a great holiday scrub to include in a care pack-age, and it only requires cheap household products

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mocha spice hand & foot sugar scrub

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ALL PHOTOS BY LUCIE WALL//STAFF

dec. 13, 2012 »22 tribal entertainment

For some rea-son when we !rst entered Great Har-vest Bakery in the Belle Hall Shopping Center, we had low expectations be-cause our !rst two experiences at Kud-zu and Village Bak-

ery seemed impossible to top. Fortunately for us, we were soon proved incorrect. "e whole place smelled amazing, the sta# was friendly and there were free bread samples.

My personal favorite was the spinach and feta loaf; it was delicious. I expected the place to be a bit overpriced, but the lemon and blueberry scone was around $2, a fair price. (Just in case you were wonder-ing, the scone was amazing too.) "e rain-bow on the wall was a bit o#-putting, but the unique seating – bar stools and a long counter facing large windows – made up for the faux-pas, in my opinion. I highly rec-ommend it.

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Carried by Jack Tatum’s vocals, $oated away by the luxurious melt of instrumental harmony. “Paradise” is a song that erases imperfec-tions from life, encom-passed by the comfort of not caring when the moment’s over. Wild Nothing gives you ‘80s inspired sounds with dream-like undertones that can bring anyone to hypnotic state of bliss.

“Paradise”

Wild Nothing

Nocturne

"e Strokes possess an infectious sound that I call to in any time of distress. Soul-ful and rich vocals are the perfect match to the band’s alluring sound. Interwoven

guitars and subtle drum melody sold me on choosing this as my favorite.

“Automatic Stop”

The Strokes

Room on Fire

“Bizarre Love Triangle”

New Order

Brotherhood

"is is the song you sing when you’re driving with your perm blow-ing in the wind. Catchy and relatable lyrics and an upbeat tempo, what more could a teenage girl ask for? If it’s play-ing at CVS in the tooth-paste aisle, I will start singing out loud.

I wish Youth Lagoon sang me lullabies to sleep. "ey have a truly exceptional sound, cap-turing intimate mo-ments in time. Trevor Powers’ fuzzy, tender voice creates an awe in-

spiring experience for any listener.

“Cannons”

Youth Lagoon

A Year of Hibernation

Every issue a Tribal Tribune staffer will share her taste in music, selecting the top four songs she thinks every one should have on their playlist.

picks&peeves mitch winkler page 2 & 3 editor

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Humor me. Make me laugh, but please don’t try too hard -- you have to be e#ortless in your delivery. Just kidding. But for real, I want to LOL. LOL so hard that other people want to !ne me, but !rst they have to !nd me, what’s 50 grand to some one like me, please remind me.

Jay-Z said something like that in a song, but with a more expanded vocabulary. I laughed.

PICK: laughing

Freedom of speech means freedom of speech. You have the right to voice your opinion, but the demons of the media would have you believe otherwise. You know why most comedians are funny? It’s ‘cause they don’t care what the media thinks about them -- they know how to make you laugh and that’s all that matters, to me at least. You know what, if the 24-hour news cy-cle didn’t exist, the world would be a lot funnier, and so would politicians.

PEEVE: being politically correct PEEVE: pseudo surf brands

You’ve got to look classy – always. But there comes a time when you have to step it up a notch. And it’s in those times that we, the gentlemen, summon the bowtie. "is oracle of good looks will never steer you wrong. But beware of the faux bow, the dreaded clip on. It may look the same, but your aura of awesome is severely diminished once your façade has been ex-posed. But if you can’t tie a bow tie, this is your best alternative.

PICK: bowties

Walking into the Village Bakery in the Old Village on 125 Pitt St., you immediately get the feel of a small town bakery. As you walk in the door, you’re met with the smell of bacon, as they

also serve sandwiches."is helped the experience get o# to

a great start. "e bakers were very helpful and answered all our questions. We de-cided on a slice of their coconut cake. "e slice of cake was quickly brought out and we were able to dig in. "e icing had just the right amount of richness and the cake wasn’t dry.

Overall, it was one of the better co-conut cakes I have had. "e only problem was the prices. "e slice of cake was about $5.50, but the cake was well worth the cost.

Walking into Kudzu at 794 Cole-man Blvd., we al-ready knew that it was going to be an excellent experience. "e aroma of freshly baked goods was tantalizing and the

service was superb. "e people there gave us a bunch of

free cookies, which were very good. "ey were a bit on the crunchy side, but that would be okay if you like crunchy cookies. We came when they were about to close and their merchandise was almost all gone, so we know that it was freshly made daily. We thought it was a little weird they were ad-vertising their lunch specials on the freez-ers when they mainly specialize in pastries. However, the food looked appetizing, and there were still a lot of people in the bakery. Overall, the food was good, the ser-vice friendly, and it was moderately priced.A

Just like Hollister, Aeropostle and Abercrombie and Fitch, these brands are for tools. And who likes tools? Snotty women. Granted, just because you wear American Eagle and its posse of brands doesn’t mean you’re a tool, and just because you date a tool doesn’t mean you’re a snotty woman. But do yourself a favor and don’t wear these brands and don’t date snobby wom-en.

A B+

waring hillsvillage bakery

rachael nuzumgreat harvest bakery

kishan patelkudzu

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-- compiled by albert lee

SELLING SONGS

SELLING BOOKS

GROSSING MOVIE

TV RATINGS

diamonds // rihanna

locked out of heaven // bruno mars

the third wheel // jeff kinney

the elf on the shelf // carol aebersold

playing for keeps // filmdistrict

hyde park on hudson // focus

sunday night football // nbcthe big bang theory // cbs

girl on fire // alicia keys

call of duty: black ops IIjust dance 4

red // taylor swift

SELLING ALBUMS

SELLING VIDEO GAMES

top twosEver wonder what the top songs, movies and TV shows are for the month of December?

app of the

MONTHspotify

Music is great when you don’t have to pay $1.29 per song, and with Spotify Premium, not being interrupted by commercials like YouTube or Pandora is another bene!t. Spotify Premium is only $10 a month and gives you access to unlimited music, whenever, wherever. And it doesn’t stop there, folks. You get access to Spotify’s radio as well and can skip any song you want. "ere is also Spotify Unlimited, which is $5 a month, and even free Spotify. "ere are small di#erences with each ver-sion you choose, but spending $120 a year on unlimited music is worth it.

-- compiled by emily lor

Out-gunned, out-manned and absolutely overwhelmed, with constant perils from the universe coming from every direction. "at’s what makes Faster "an Light enticing from the start for the gamer that likes a challenge.

"e particular indie game FTL: Faster "an Light – also interpreted as “For "e Loss” – begins with your spaceship and crew embarking on a mission to deliver intelligence to the Federation, scavenging what resources are available while remaining one jump ahead of the advancing Rebel $eet. Your spacecra% in FTL jumps from star to star, not knowing what’s at the other end: an aggressive scout ship, a slaver trap, a free item dri%ing in space. It’s a game of randomized events, where every situation is unique, and no single game session is the same.

Oh right, and if your crew happens to perish along the journey, it’s game over.

Yes, FTL is a rogue-like, punishing type of game where death is permanent and random chance kills you just as o%en as your own bad decisions.

But FTL is vastly di#erent from the rest of the genre as it is constantly presenting the player with interesting

Video games are meant to be enjoyed, but some take a special type of masochism to appreciate. Dwarf Fortress is one of those games.

Dropping you in the midst of a wilderness with only a party of dwarves to take care of, build a fortress with and prepare for inevitable destruction, Dwarf Fortress boasts al-most no graphics whatso-ever, and easily the most complicated controls of any game ever designed.

Killing !em So"ly is what you get when you try to cross a plot about a mob hunt with a theme about America’s failing economy. "e result is a movie with a confusing opener, complex characters and a lot of bad language. "is leaves the viewer to piece together who is who and what is what. Once the viewer gets a good grip on director An-drew Dominik’s world, the movie is quite enjoyable.

"e plot is centered around Jackie (Brad Pitt)

dwarf fortress

albert leestaff writer

indie game ftlpushes playersto the limit

And it is unbelievably, sickly rewarding.

When you play this game, you will die many times (fans of the game call this Fun). You will be eaten by dragons, massacred by elves, in!ltrated by vam-pires and succumb to star-vation. You will watch as your generations-old cul-ture crumbles before your eyes.

And you will come back again, learning better ways to defend yourself, cleverer fortress designs and superior strategies.

If you’re looking for an easy game, Dwarf Fortress isn’t for you. But if you’re looking for a game that’s deep, rewarding, entertain-ing and free, you should probably give it a try.

who is called into New York City to clean up the mess a couple of small criminals created when they held up a small time crime lord’s gambling busi-ness.

Killing !em So"ly becomes graphic at times making these scenes realis-tic and making the viewer almost sympathetic for the characters Dominik cre-ated. "e movie tries to explain the central theme that everyone from the common street thug to the president is trying to make more money than the next guy. Dominik makes this theme very clear in the last lines of the movie when Jackie says, “America is not a country. It’s just a busi-ness. Now pay me.”

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choices. Its simple yet elegant interplay of mechanics rewards both tactical thinking and twitch skill, o%en demanding choices from the player: do you burn the fuel and risk ship damage seeking out the rewards reaped by destroying enemies, or do you sprint for the exit and hope a few lucky random encounters will net you a new crew member or weapon?

"e constant tension of adapting your tactics for every circumstance and micromanaging your ship’s crew and systems keeps FTL briskly paced and compelling. No matter that the game — which was funded through a massively successful Kickstarter campaign — visually resembles pixelated graphing paper. "e aesthetics are charming, as well as highly functional, with a stunning soundtrack. Noting both the relatively high replay value for its price of $9.99 on PC, available for digital download via Valve’s Steam store, it’s clearly a game worth the price.

My favorite aspect of FTL is that it’s a story-generating engine. "e many permutations of game-dictated events and your accumulated decisions allow for a rewarding variety of experiences.

"at’s what !nely-tuned games have: they let us author our own experiences.

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Friday night football lights. !e roar of an adrenaline-rushed crowd. Players with numbered backs, storming the "eld in victory.

!ese are the images that come to mind when thinking of sports: football teams, soccer jerseys, lacrosse sticks. All popular, well-known athletics that are broadcasted anywhere from a sports bar to ESPN. !ey are the teams schools cheer for, practically religions to many.

However, as junior Roman Shtompil will tell you, they are not the only sports out there.

Shtompil is a fencer, a unique athlete whose passion lies not in a football, but a fencing foil. And while fencing in itself is a sport that has been around for years, it is one still widely unknown to many.

“[Fencing] isn’t what you would expect it to be,” Shtompil said. “It’s not swashbuckling sword "ghting, it’s a lot more focused, and it’s a lot more trying to be faster than your opponent.”

Having moved to the Mount Pleasant area two years ago, Shtompil wasn’t famil-iar with the people or the town. Fencing, he said, was a way to get to know both, while also engaging in a sport he always wanted to try.

“I fence with the East Cooper Fenc-ing Club,” he said, “And I go to a lesson every Tuesday. I’ll practice at home a lot, too.”

Fencing, as with any sport, isn’t just about practice.

“We go to tournaments all over [the state]. !ere’s one we go to every year that’s up near Charlotte, and there’s one over here every year,” Shtompil said.

!e tournaments, Shtompil claims, and the people he meets there, are perhaps one of the main highlights of the sport.

“In the area there aren’t many fenc-ers, maybe 20 something in my entire club, but from around the state I’ve met a lot of people,” he said. “Every tournament there’s the same [group], so you really get to know a lot of great people.”

Fencing in itself is an interesting sport to watch; fencers paring and jabbing and light on their feet. However, as Shtom-pil pointed out, it isn’t nearly as easy as it looks. Speed de"nitely counts, he says.

!e rules are certainly easy to under-stand, as Shtompil explains. “Fencing in general, you start out on a strip and the two people are facing each other,” he said. “!e director [gives the signal], you go and try to block and par and stab each other, and the "rst one to hit a buzzer goes o# and you get the point.”

Technique and practice, as in any sport, are key to a good player.

For those interested in taking up the unique sport, Shtompil advice is simple; look around for it.

“[Fencing’s] not really advertised. Look it up on the internet for fencing clubs. Just "nd one in your area, see when the les-sons are, get in touch with a coach. !ey’ll get you started.”

Shtompil’s passion for the sport doesn’t show signs of depleting any time soon, ei-ther. “I plan on [continuing]. I know that most colleges don’t have fencing teams, but most do have fencing clubs. I plan to do fencing for a while, it’s a fun sport.”

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junior’s love of a unique sport drives him to compete

staff writer

taking a stab at

Junior Roman Shtompil, fencer at East Cooper

Fencing Club, performs

a lunge while weilding

an epee and wearing his

uniform, which inlcudes

a kevlar jacket, knickers,

plastron, mask and a glove

to protect the fencer’s

hand. Schtompil has been

fencing for two years.

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Q:Why did you commit to

play at Wofford?

“I just really enjoyed the people that I met there and

the whole atmosphere. I went to a couple of games and really felt at home.”

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Did you play?

“Yes, I started. I played right guard on the O line.”

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“I feel like I played pretty well.”

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found out you were named

to play in the game?

“I kind of always knew I was going to play because my

coach was one of the coaches for the north/south game, so it wasn’t a shock, but it still felt good to be recognized.”

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moment?

“It was when we got our first touchdown. We were jump-

ing up and down and yelling and screaming. This was the first time in six years that the South won the game.”

senior lineman committed to play at

Wofford College and played in the

North-South football game Dec. 8.

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What was playing at the

North vs. South game like?

“It was fun. We spent a week in Myrtle Beach just getting to know the guys and im-

proving as a team.”

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21 3softball/baseball

football

boys lacrosse

gloves: $100-300batting gloves: $15-30glove: $50-250cleats: $70-130turf shoes: $50-100bat: $200-400helmet: $20-60sliders: $20-40belt: $10-15socks: $5-10hat: $15-30sunglasses: $50-130bat bag: $30-100ball: $3-16total:

$638-1,511

shoulder pads: $180-200helmet: $50-80chin strap: $3-12mouth guard: $2-15cleats: $100-140girdle: $15-30knee pads: $50-70game pants: $15-30gloves: $15-150socks: $5-15bag: $20-30ball: $30-60

total:$485-832

helmet: $100-230pads: $30-60cleats: $60-200gloves: $30-50stick: $50-300mouth guard: $6-10bag: $50-80ball: $2

total:$328-932

it’s all about the equipmentbased on prices for new equip-ment, the tribal tribune calculated what sports are the most expensive based on equipment prices. 1 32ALL PHOTOS BY LIZ BENSON // editor

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freshmanrobert gardner

sophomorecaroline spach

psychology teacherbrad batson

juniorsavannah hallman

seniorstephen wilson

“I don’t really watch college. I watch a lot of NFL, but I would

pick Alabama.”

“Alabama because they beat Georgia and that wasn’t suppose to

happen.”

“Alabama because they have been there before, and they know what it

takes to win at that level.”

“Notre Dame be-cause they are ranked

number one.”

“Alabama because they have a better coach than Notre

Dame.”

speaking of sports: who do you think will win the national championship and why?

bowl predictions 2013

Blazing speed. Oregon has it, Kansas State doesn’t. What Kansas State does have is quarterback Colin Klein. Oregon’s speed kept them in the conversation as the best team in the country until its one loss against Stanford late in the season. !e Ducks are fun to watch and score a lot of points, and in football the team that scores the most points wins.Oregon 35-21

!is game is probably the most controversial of the year. What can’t be disputed is that NIU quarterback Jor-dan Lynch has had an incredible season throwing for 24 touchdowns, rushing for another 19, and setting the re-cord for quarterback rushing yards. FSU’s defense should be able to contain Lynch with defensive lineman, Bjoern Werner. FSU should be able to break up Lynch’s game and should win easily.

Florida State 31-13

Both teams play traditional football and rely heavily on their star running backs. Stanford’s Stepfan Taylor has rushed for 1,442 yards and 12 touchdowns; Wiscon-sin’s Montee Ball has 1,730 yards and 21 touchdowns. Stanford has the edge with their ground defense ranked 3rd in the FBS. While Ball will erase some of Stanford’s defensive advantage, I see Stanford winning a close one.

Stanford 20-17

!is match-up places teams with polar opposite strengths against each other. Clemson will see if their high powered o"ense can take on LSU’s great defense. Clemson ranks six in the country in points per game and LSU’s defense has held their opponents to an average of 15.6 point per game. Although Clemson should show up to play, I think LSU’s defense will be too much for the Clemson Tigers.

Louisiana State 24-21

For me it’s more of a mystery who will start as quarterback than who will win the game. !e Wolverines have Denard Robinson and Devin Gardner, while the Gamecocks have Connor Shaw and Dylan !ompson. South Carolina had one of the hardest schedules in the country and still sits at 10-2 despite losing their leading rusher and receiver Marcus Lattimore.South Carolina 17-10

As bitter as I am that the Gators are in a BCS bowl when my Georgia Bulldogs, who beat the Gators and won the SEC east, are not -- I am picking the Gators. I can’t decide if I’m more frustrated that Florida is in a BCS bowl or 10-2 Louisville from the Big East. I don’t think Louisville has what it takes to go toe-to-toe with the 11-1 Gators.Florida 23-10

Notre Dame and Alabama undoubtedly have two of the best defenses in college football -- respectively they rank one-two in scoring defense. While both have great defenses, only Alabama has Nick Saban as a coach. Giv-ing Saban a month to study gives Alabama the advantage. Notre Dame’s o"ense ranks 76th in the country in scor-ing. !ey’ll need big plays to beat Alabama.

Alabama 24-17

Alabama is the SEC’s representative in the title game as the conference goes for its seventh consecutive title. I’m picking Bama because they know how to win when it counts. !e Crimson Tide is vying for its second title in as many years and its third in four years. Watch for running backs T.J. Yeldon and Eddie Lacy to have big games.Alabama 24-10

Stanford vs. WisconsinJan. 1

Oregon vs. Kansas StateJan 3

Northern Illinois vs. Florida State

Jan. 1

Notre Dame vs. Alabama Jan. 7

Florida vs. LouisvilleJan. 2

Clemson vs. LSUDec. 31

South Carolina vs. Michigan Jan. 1

written bywaring hills, staff writer

written byjonathan rice, co-editor in chief

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Noonan received Coach of the Year award and Hart was awarded Quarterback of the Year from the S.C. football Coaches Palmetto Cham-pions Team. “It’s a reflection of the program, play-ers and coaches,” Noonan said about his award. As for Hart’s award, Noonan said, “He [Christian] had an excellent year...It was well deserved.”

coach jimmy noonan &senior christian hart

senior victoria kleinSigned with West Virginia Wesleyan for women’s swim-ming Nov. 16.

Was selected as the Moultrie News’ first player of the year award. Thompson was a linebacker for the Warriors.

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WHAT ORGANIZATION DID THEY WIN FROM????

(Left) Sophomores Ally Bundron and Ana Ontono celebrate their win in the in the semifinals, which will took them into the final round. (Top) Senior Trey Floyd talks with senior Grace Wachowski

about the upcoming game. (Bot-tom) Senior Alexandra Unrine

and senior Davis Banks com-promise on the next play.

Powder Puff was held at Wando’s stadium Nov. 29. Sixteen teams in all competed but only one was titled Powder Puff champions 2012 -- senior team, Scared Hit-less. They won after beating four teams: Southern Style, Pumped Up Chicks, Cool $quad and Necessary Rough-

ALL PHOTOS BY BRIA GRAHAM // editor

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Pederson (right) and Amy Smilak celebrate with team-mates, We’re Inappropri-ate, after scoring a touchdown in the game.

ness. The winning team, Scared Hitless, has been competing to-gether since their freshman year, but this year was the first time they have won the annual game.

-amber kallaur

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COLUMN BY

sarah heywood, staff writer

search for new home leads family to U.S.

a fight for freedom

to chat and make friends –they were look-ing for help.

!ey weren’t supposed to have le" the ship in the #rst place, and they weren’t planning on getting back on. It wasn’t until later that my mom learned there were two big reasons why they le". !e #rst: Babcia and Dziadzia wanted her and Ciocia Kasia to have a future, something that wouldn’t have happened if they stayed in Poland. !e second: if Dziadzia didn’t soon join the Communist Party, he would be thrown in jail and likely never let out.

!ey made contact with a woman in Florida who promised to help them, and therein laid the problem. Walking the roughly 1,200 miles from Pennsylvania to Clearwater, Fla., was not an option. I was stunned to learn that the club members had denied them help, and an Italian con-venience store clerk, a complete stranger, was the one who lent a hand and bought them the Greyhound bus tickets they needed to make the trip.

!e United States Immigration and Naturalization Service also tended to be a problem. !e law is you have to announce yourself to the INS within two weeks of arrival, or you could be deported. Dziadzia did just that, and INS had their paper-work, yet when the Polish government

#nally learned they had jumped ship, it alerted the FBI.

!e FBI spent the next four years searching for them, only to #nd they had established themselves as legal immigrants long before. Sigh.

One year later, in the true tradition of the U.S. government, the INS lost their paperwork, and then prepared to have them deported.

Mom, with the support of her high school JROTC lieutenant colonel, peti-tioned the governor of Florida to let them stay. !e Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 came as a stroke of good luck, establishing mom and the rest of the family as legal immigrants, although the past #ve years they spent in America were counted as being time spent illegally.

A"er, mom and her sister Ciocia Kasia, went to a private Catholic school – America’s school system even had a bad reputation in Poland – before going to a public high school in Saint Petersburg, Fla. Dziadzia got a job as a construction elec-trician, then as a shipyard electrician, and a"er working at McDonald’s and a seafood processing plant, Babcia’s Polish educa-tion was #nally recognized, and she began work as a pharmaceutical researcher. !e communist government in Poland fell

a"er much upheaval in 1989. But Babcia, Dziadzia, Ciocia Kasia and mom stayed.

!e reason? !ere wasn’t anything to go back to. Not anything worth going back to, anyway.

!e moral of the story may very well be that you shouldn’t trust Americans too much. But I may be exaggerating. My mom’s story proves to me a very good point: there are still people out in the world who see America as a beacon of hope, a chance for a new beginning. We can moan and groan all we want about government over-regulation and taxes and milk that costs another #ve cents more a gallon, but in the end, we have it so much better than a lot of the world.

If we can convince a bunch of hardworking, severely anti-Communist Europeans to stay here, then I don’t think we have things that bad.

Mom became a U.S. citizen in 2004, the last in the family to do so. Everyone has gone back to visit Poland once or twice, but they tend to agree that they still like it here more. Babcia and Dziadzia own their own café and art gallery in Connecti-cut, and Ciocia Kasia and mom are taking care of their own families, with many of the same worries as their parents had for them. Well, without the communism.

A crumbling nation, a pretend vaca-tion and the FBI have at least one thing in common: they were all, at one point, a worry for my grandparents. I’ve always known that my mom, my aunt and my grandparents were from Poland. It wasn’t until about a year ago that I realized they had been illegal immigrants and were nearly able to be classi#ed as refugees.

It began in 1980, nine years before the Berlin Wall would fall and 11 before the Soviet Union would be dissolved. Poland was a Communist nation, and the times were changing. My mom remem-bered that it was always di$cult to get food, but the government had begun to give out ration cards and food shipments were becoming rare. Teachers would send students out during school to stand in line at the grocery store for them, since anyone who didn’t line up soon enough was unlikely to get any food at all.

Certain commodities like sewing machines and washing machines were hard to come by. Financially, my mom’s family was very well-to-do because my grandpa Dziadzia had a good job. But they had little because there was so little to be had.

Babcia – my grandma — and Dziad-zia suddenly decided to sell their home and many of their possessions to move into a small apartment. Mom, 11 at the time, knew something was happening, but she wasn’t sure exactly what it was.

In 1981, the family prepared to go on a cruise. !ey didn’t ride Carnival or Port Royal, but the cargo ship Dziadzia worked on. !ey had been to America before, cruising around the Great Lakes, and this time around their #rst stop a"er France was going to be Erie, Pa.

When they reached their destina-tion, the whole family took a short trip o% the ship to visit a nearby Polish club, an organization which brought together members of the local Polish community. But Babcia and Dziadzia weren’t looking

Poland

In 1973, young Joanna

Heywood gets ice cream with her mother and older sister in their hometown outside of Gdansk, Po-land. The entire family fled just a few years later in 1981 after martial law was declared by the communist government. Jo-anna’s daugh-ter, Sarah, now attends Wando as a senior.

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editor’s chair

A!er too many months of working in retail for mini-mum wage, I had a whopping $1,500 to purchase a car.

It just so happened that my older brother was try-ing to sell his white 1994 Ford Explorer a!er achieving the ultimate granola dream of buying a Subaru.

Buying the Explorer seemed like a favorable option when compared to the creepy Buicks and Oldsmobiles being sold in my price range on Craigslist.

And that’s how “Snowball,” as I christened the Ex-plorer, came into my possession, well stocked with the “special needs” of a car that has been roaming the earth longer than myself.

"e air conditioning doesn’t work, so during the summer I had to rely on rolled-down windows for venti-lation. Oddly enough, the two back windows have been glued shut, so I’ve had to make do with only the two front windows being rolled down.

Snowball happens to be a luxury edition Explorer. I’m sure at one point its leather interior was sumptuous and comfortable, but years worth of wear and tear have le! gaping holes and gashes.

It would have been nice to say that despite Snow-ball’s aesthetic #aws, it was a mechanically sound vehicle. However, I’m not going to.

Every few months Snowball gets vacuum leaks. "is causes it to demonically shake and roar whenever I’m idling. A!er a few minutes of idling, Snowball completely shuts down.

"is added a new level of complexity to waiting at stoplights. Whenever Snowball stalled, I would have to wait for the light to turn green, and rapidly shi! to park, restart the ignition and then shi! back to drive, all much to the delight of the drivers waiting behind me.

A!er one particular episode of this stoplight pande-monium, the driver behind me furiously drove around me. His le! arm protruded from the window, with one particular $nger extended.

Made in 1994, Snowball dates back to that time be-fore the birth of the Toyota Prius. "e manufacturers at Ford did not feel inhumane for creating a car that got 11 miles per gallon. As a result, I’ve grown accustomed to the needle on the fuel gage having an unhealthy attrac-tion to the letter “E.”

Perhaps Snowball’s many faults should cause me to loathe it. When I really think about it though, I realize I love this car.

"ere’s nothing like driving across the Sullivan’s Is-land bridge, windows down, Fleet Foxes CD blaring, salt wind whipping my hair around. I swear I can feel Snow-ball’s wheels lose contact with the pavement. I’m #ying now.

Yes, I realize I love this car.

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despite car troubles, staffer still finds old vehicle endearing

Neverending tides of emotion and guilt wash over me as I walk over to sit across from my father. I turn to face him with pleading eyes.

“I’m so, so sorry. I wish I could be a better daughter. I wish I could be more understanding and know what you are going through. I know it’s hard, and I’m with you every step of the way. I just want to be there for you.”

It was the end of December. Every year, my family has the tradition of making time to sit down and apologize for anything wrong we did over the year to each other. It was my turn. I wanted my father to know what I’ve been pushing to the back of my mind all of these years.

My dad has Retinitis Pig-mentosa, an eye disease that a%ects a person’s night vision and peripheral vision.

It is also the leading cause of blindness. A majority of people with RP are legally blind by the age of 40.

My dad is 46.I have been exposed to RP since I was little. As I was

growing up, I knew my grandmother was slowly losing her vision over time. Now she can only see about $ve percent of what normal people see and is legally blind.

As I grow older, though, reality hits hard. "e thought of my dad slowly becoming blind scares me. I want him to be able to see me grow up. I want him to be able to see his grandchildren run to him with beaming smiles, wrapping their arms around his legs.

"at day in December makes me think back to when I was nine, trick or treating with my dad, my friends and

their dads. I always had to hold my dad’s hand and guide him away from obstacles in his path so he didn’t trip. I was annoyed that I had to stay behind- holding my dad’s hand and dragging him along while my friends ran from house to house, their dads laughing and chasing a!er them.

I was so sel$sh. I remember it was just a few days before when he

accidentally stepped on my foot. He apologized profuse-ly for tripping over something that is invisible to him, making sure I was okay. Behind the worry in his eyes, I saw pain. Pain because he wished he could be able to see and make sure he didn’t hurt me.

I snap back to the present and wrap my arms around him.

“I will always be there for you, dad. We’ll make the best of it. All we can do is hope for a cure, but I’m going to do everything I can to make sure you are taken care

of. You are never a burden. I love you so much, and we’ll get through this together.”

I step back and look up at him. A pool of tears form in my father’s eyes, rolling down his cheeks one by one. It was the $rst time I had ever seen him cry.

My dad’s loss of eyesight is an ev-ery day battle. Since the outer portions of

the retina are a%ected by RP, his lack of peripheral and night vision make it di&cult to see anything other than whatever is right in front of him. He has to constantly be aware of his surroundings, and make sure to not trample over oblivious people beside him or objects close to the ground.

I will never truly understand what he’s going through, but I know it’s tiring -- despite his constant at-tempts to assure me he’s $ne. I know how hard it is to accept the fact you might go completely blind in a mat-ter of years, chances of being able to see slowly #oating out of your reach. Sight shouldn’t be taken for granted.

I realize now that my dad has taught me so much about life. He is always smiling and optimistic despite his daily struggle. He is truly my inspiration.

COLUMN BY

KBEF�ZPVOH, staff

family tradition every december brings staffer closer to her father

Junior Jade Young with her father Marc, right, bond every December through their family tradition of apologizing for anything they did wrong over the year.

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In a society where credit and debit cards are the preferred method of pay-ment for almost everything, it can be easy to become so comfortable using our cards that we forget to protect the infor-mation they hold. !is is especially true when using credit and debit cards online, where scams and legitimate websites can look very similar. And with holiday shop-ping season in full swing, many people are going to be doing a lot of shopping online. Luckily, all it takes is a little bit of awareness to avoid being swindled.

When you can, stick to sites you know are safe -- most major brands and

retailers will have their own secure on-line stores. If you decide to try a shop-ping site that you haven’t used before, do a quick Google search to see what other shoppers have experienced when using it. Don’t enter your credit card number for anything but purchases, and never give your social security number online.

Even if you take all of these steps, be sure to check your balance statements regularly. As South Carolinians were rudely reminded this October when a hacker broke into state records and stole millions of people’s "nancial informa-tion, sometimes all the preparation in the

world can’t stop a skilled thief. If some-thing about your card activity seems o#, freeze your account -- that can stop most of the damage before it’s been done.

!ese tips may seem to be common sense, but it’s tempting to skip important precautions just because it’s less hassle. No one is immune to being a target of credit card fraud, and having to spend the holidays "xing your bank account is a sure"re way to make them less happy. But by being cautious and watchful, you can use your credit card safely to get your holiday shopping out of the way and get back to celebrating the season.

Coming into school used to be one of my favorite parts of the day.

I like walking down the hallways and saying hello to people. It gets my mornings o# to the right start. !at is, until I hit a wall of sophomores that not only do not want to wish me well, but actually get my day o# to a bad start.

“!e Mob,” as I like to call them, does not listen as a whole. You have to individu-ally call kids out and physically move them in order to get to your desired destination

every morning. I understand that moving from the

Freshman Academy across the rotunda is a traumatic experience, but I promise, the security you "nd from lumping together with all of your friends isn’t going to last. One day you will realize you can stand with one, maybe two friends and be completely content.

Who knows -- maybe you could even "nd yourself being productive and doing homework or getting help from a teacher.

Imagine that -- actually getting something done in the morning other than making people angry.

!e moral of this editorial is MOVE. I love seeing your wonderful faces in the morning, but not when they are so close together that I am afraid an infectious dis-ease will spread through the group faster than the school nurse can tell you she isn’t allowed to give you medicine. !ank you for your time.

--senior georgia compton

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When I first walked into The Vault, it was like going back in time. From hats to varsity jackets to shirts, The Vault carries favorite sports team’s nostalgic logos on authentic fabrics.

While slightly pricey -- hats going for $20 and shirts going for around $30 -- the quality is top notch. Some holiday specials the Vault has are buy three hats get the fourth free and buy four shirts get the fifth free. --madison ivey

the vaultThe Savannah Bee Company, located at 216 King Street, direct-ly across from Forever 21, is a novelty shop specializing in honey. From Acacia, a light , crisp version of honey, to Winter White, a frosting-like seasonal treat, this store carries the whole spectrum. Once inside the door, you are greeted with a tasting section, so you can sample them all. The pricing is reasonable too, with a three ounce jar going for $6 and 12 ounces ranging between $12-$17.

The Savannah Bee Company also supplies all-natural bath products. All of them come with a natural honey base and natural flavorings such as Mint Julip, Earl Gray and Clementine.

The soap goes for $6 and the chapsticks are $3.50. The crowning jewels of this store are the recipe cards laid all

over with fresh ideas to utilize your purchased honey. --madison ivey

savannah bee companyThe Goorin Brothers Hat Shop is the perfect place to stop by

if you’re near Marion Square and searching for a classy and unique gift. The family-owned company is a little pricey, but the quality is worth it. Their everyday hats range from $40 to $80 while their handmade, fancier hats can reach up to $175.

The store also has a series of vintage-looking hair clips and ac-cessories that range $16 to $18 -- perfect for any girl. Plus, through December, for every purchase of two or more hats, the store will donate one hat to a cancer patient. --elizabeth levi

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Spelled out in golden, florid letters is Magnifilous Toy Empo-rium -- the toy store of every dreamy Christmas movie you’ve ever fawned over while baking cookies as a child. And walking into the 525 King Street store, each of those childlike feelings rush back to you: suddenly, for no apparent reason, it seems absolutely crucial that you own the 10-foot stuffed giraffe welcoming customers near the door. From the carousel to the piano that plays itself to the endless assortment of knick-knacks, crafts, books and toys, there’s nothing in this store that isn’t straight from the daydreams of youth.

The prices range from less than $1 to over $2,000. --megan parks

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christmas on

The Tribal Tri-bune explores the local stores

of King Street search-ing for the perfect holiday gifts. We found four especially unique stores featured here. For more ideas, check out www.wandotribaltribune.com.