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Lewiston High School
Lewiston, Idaho
May 9, 2014 Vol.87 No.5.1
Spring sports bring color to the valley Baseball heads to state, softball wraps up
both games. The varsity baseball team had strong defense this season which showed After a regionals win against Lake City in their record, said Head Coach Tom May 8, Bengal varsiGrunenfelder. Standout ty baseball athletes baseball players include earned the chance to Kade Woods, junior, and compete at the state the two team captains, Jake level, with 15 wins Ralstin and Martin, seniors, and nine season lossfor their offense. es. Meanwhile, var“We didn’t play well collecsity softball finished tively in the first (regionals) the season with 14 game, but we came togethwins and nine losses. er and battled through the Baseball and softball second,” said Martin. played Lake City May “I would just like to see 8, with baseball winthe student body out to the ning 5-0, and softball game,” said Grunenfelder. P. Schumacher winning 6-4. As for the softball team, “If we keep playing they work on improving this way, we can win state,” said Team their routine plays and “correcting erCaptain Brett Martin of the May 15-17 rors” so the other team won’t have “exgames set at Hawks Stadium in Boise. tra chances” to defeat them, said Head May 6, Bengal baseball won against Coach Dave Garrett. Post Falls 5-1. The Bengal girls defeated The softball team’s strongest players Lake City, 6-4. include Paige Wells, who excels with Both teams also competed at Church batting and defense, among other playField and Airport Park in Lewiston April ers, according to Garrett. 12 against Coeur d’Alene. The Bengal “The season in general is going good. boys won the first game, 12 – 8, and lost We just need to cut down on our misthe second, 10 – 6. The Bengal girls lost takes,” said Garrett. paigeschumacher reporter
Ride ’em and rope ’em
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LHS rider Taaron Davis competes in the District III High School Spring Rodeo April 19 and 20 in Weiser, Idaho. ayannakershisnik reporter
LHS students Taaron Davis and Zac Zwerneman competed in the District III High School Spring Rodeo April 19 and 20 in Weiser, Idaho. Zwerneman competed in bareback and saddle bronc, while Davis competed in team roping, calf roping and steer wrestling. The riders continue
to district finals May 10 and 11 at the Asotin County Fairgrounds in Asotin, Wash. Davis said his goals this year include placing in bulldogging, team roping and calf roping. He said he also wants to “help my competitors be the best that they can be and to just have fun. That’s the only way you’re going to get better.”
Run or dye: Color the Valley 5k raises spirits, funds for LCSC groups mcKennaanderson website editor
Sat. April 12, members of the LCSC Business Student Department hosted Color the Valley, a 5K color run, at Community Park in the Lewiston Orchards. During this run, participants coated with multiple colors of chalk-like powder run or walk until they finish. The event consisted of multiple color sta-
tions along the designated path of the run. As participants ran or walked, volunteers threw the chalk-like powder at them. All proceeds from the fun run helped to promote scholarship and future events held by the Business Student Organization and Kinesiology. This event in conjunction with the Lewiston Dogwood Festival, an annual festival celebrating the spring season.
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Runners celebrate in colored powder at the finish line of the Color the Valley 5K.
News/Entertainment 2
Friday, May 9
Homeschooler Kym French club prepares wins DYW crown flash mob dinner saraschneider reporter
cess. “She wasn’t conceited or anything. She wasn’t expecting to be on the top. Rachel Kym won the Distinguished She was very laid-back,” Offerdahl said Young Women competition and of Kym. “She was very competent and $1,200 in scholarships April 19 in the she didn’t have a weak spot. She was very well-rounded.” LHS auditorium. Other winners, all earning $200 each, “The interesting thing about Rachel is that she’s homeschooled,” said Ash- included LeAnna Etheridge and Cecillee Grunenfelder, Lewiston program ia Watkins, fitness; Kym and Watkins, interview; Kym and Lauren Martin, coordinator and judge. Miranda Nemeth won first run- self-expression; Etheridge and Shelby Sharp, scholastics; ner-up and $900 Melati Woodbury while, second and Watkins, talrunner-up Taylor ent; and Devann Offerdahl earned Maurer, spirit. $700. Distinguished “I think [Kym] is Young Wom en, still a good repreformerly Jr. Miss, sentative, as a hohas a presence in meschooler,” Offerdahl said. “She still cbrandt vall 50 states with earned it fair and Left to right: First runner-up Miranda more than 400 losquare and I think Nemeth, winner Rachel Kym, and second cal programs. The it was all very de- runner-up Taylor Offerdahl pose together competition is for after receiving awards. scholarships, and serving.” Offerdahl noted Kym’s calmness begins at the local level during the juand modesty throughout the pro- nior or senior year for high school girls.
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At an as-yet-undisclosed location May 22 at 4:30 p.m. , Cynthia Yarno and the French Club will hold a Diner en Blanc, where guest traditionally wear all white and eat French food in a public location. In keeping with tradition, club members will spread word of the location just before the event starts. French Club will serve bread, cheese, salad, and buffet foods for no cost. When Yarno previously visited France, she drove by a Diner en Blanc in a town square. She described the mass of people wearing white and said, “It was just amazing because it was a surprise. It was a huge party.” The first time the French Club cele-
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brated a Diner en Blanc, 30 people attended. Yarno and the club members hope to double that number this year.
Retro Review: Back to the Future NES game disappoints angelyncox graphics editor and historian
Even for this fan of 1980s movies, Nintendo Entertainment’s (NES) 1990 Back to the Future II and III video game disappoints in multiple ways. First off, to the game creators, never make DeLorean cars aqua with pink detail. Never challenge Marty McFly with Mario-type enemies that exist only in fantasy realms. The video game occurs in 1985, when the well-known Marty McFly explores on an eight-bit setting in order to save his world from his family’s enemy, Biff Tannen. The wrap-up of the game trilogy allows the player to unscramble words which relate to the movie such as “skate board” and “almanac” while playing on a very similar landscape to that of Mario. The background remains the same throughout the game; tall black buildings with a toxic, lime green sky, with accessibility into some build-
ings, doors, and other structures such as the diner, all while players manipulate McFly. The game-creators created McFly with an image similar to a love child between a greaser and Phillip J. Fry from the television series Futurama. The cumulative strengths of the Back to the Future game lie in the player’s ability to fly on hover boards and runs around on a never-ending adventure. With a somewhat believable landscape, Back to the Future stays within the fantasy realm by providing challenges of higher ground to jump to. Back to the Future’s weaknesses run on for years…25 years to be exact! As mentioned before, the enemies a look more Mario-typed than realistic. The game features spiked-shelled turtles, mushroom-looking minions, bats, birds and a mail man who throws baseballs in McFly’s direction. Back to the Future supplies even worse graphics than the 1989 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles NES video game. People interested in playing Back
to the Future II and III can access the game on websites such as Amazon for a ridiculous price of $399.99 or eBay. The games such as Back to the Future II and III exist on websites that contain downloadable retro video games from games systems or arcade games. Even in light of the upcoming Back to the Future 25th anniversary, Back to the
Future II and III earned two stars out of five due to the unrealistic properties of the game such as the enemies who possess no relation to the movies released in 1989 and 1990. For a better option, try Telltale Game’s Back to the Future: The Game, available for preview here: https://www.youtube. com/watch?v=2f_8VOFivXM.
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The DeLoriean travels through time in the original Back to the Future movie, which far surpasses its 1990 8-bit video game.