ANNUAL JUNIOR EDITION
Beauty and the Beast starts early may
VOLUME 86, ISSUE 8
SANDPOINT HIGH SCHOOL
MAY 2009
Spring Sports Start Earlier
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Side Note
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New cell phone policy
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Senior murals may be painted over this summer Facility Levy calls for new floors and walls JESSIE WEBSTER
Journalism contributer
Key Club Adviser: Connie Kimble Upcoming events: Key Club is closing out the year by working with Head Start on end of the year cleanup, as well as Jacey’s Race. Our president and vice president-elects for next year attended Camp Casey at Widbey Island to learn how to be successful key leaders.
PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY MERANDA CARTER
■ STOMPING OUT CELL USE: Sandpoint High School staff is frustrated with excessive cell phone use during school hours
Mime and Masque Adviser: Jeanne Hunter Upcoming events: Mime and Masque is currently in production of Beauty and the Beast. The next improv show is Thursday, May 14. Mime and Masque meetings are every Thursday. It’s a great place to meet people by playing improv games.
Creative Writing Club Adviser: Barbara Crumb Upcoming Events: Meetings are held on Tuesdays from 3-4 in E14. Creative Writing Club is planning on holding an open mic night. There is no finalized date. Officer elections will be held soon.
NHS Adviser: Wendy Auld Upcoming Events: NHS students are required to accumulate 25 hours of service hours throughout the entire year. NHS students are currently tudoring. If you are interested in getting help for a class, see Mrs. Auld in room E3.
the classroom when they’re trying to teach,” SHS Principal Dr. Becky Kiebert said. They say also Journalism contributer that cell phones are a distraction to a student’s The Sandpoint High School administration is learning ability and they are used for cheating. considering a cell phone policy, beginning this fall. Dr. Kiebert has visited several high schools, The policy will not allow including Lake City High students to use their cell phones School, where this policy is at all in the building during It was really nice to see already being enacted. She school hours. Students can still said the staff believes that the bring their cell phones with them, human interaction. current cell phone policy at but will have to turn them off SHS is not enough because and will not be able to use them students abuse it and text when in the halls or in the commons. -Dr. Kiebert the teacher is not looking. If they need to use their SHS Principal The administration is also cell phone, they will have to considering this policy because go outside. When a student they believe there is not is caught with their cell enough human interaction phone inside the building by a staff member, it between students. will be taken away and a parent has to pick it up. “It was really nice to see human interaction,” The final decision has not been made yet, but Kiebert said, when talking about her visits to the the SHS staff is “sick of cell phones being used in other high schools.
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SHS Career Pathways class runs Safeway ‘Career Pathways Takeover’ gives students hands-on work experience TALA WOOD On April 28, SHS teacher Connie Kimble’s A-day Career Pathways classes were in charge of the Sandpoint Safeway. “The kids work alongside us for a while,” said Richard Knapp, the Manager of Safeway. The program is called “Career Pathways Takeover,” and Safeways all across the country participate in it. It is a little over 10 years old, and Safeway sees it as a win-win situation. “It gives [the students] an opportunity to see what it’s like to work in a retail grocery environment,” said Safeway Coordinator Charlotte DiCicco. “It’s a good way for us to recruit. They usually come away thinking it was a lot of fun.” Kimble agrees. “[It’s] to give students some exposure and experience in running a business [and] operating a store, “ she said.
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NFL Idaho legends Jake Plummer, Jerry Kramer keynote speakers terback of the Arizona Cardinals and Denver Broncos and resident of Sandpoint, came together for the Assistant editor fundraiser “A Night of Memories” that raised over $10,000 for the Daybreak Center and Bulldog Bench. In the 1960s, the Green Bay Packers scrimmaged “What you’re doing is for a great cause, for in the 96 degree, July weather. One young player the Daybreak Center, for the high school foothappened to make two mistakes during the scorch- ball team…,” Plummer said to the 125 guests. ing summer weather, The Daybreak causing his coach, Center is a nonAST ACTS Vince Lombardi, to profit organizayell at him continution that pro• 5.3 million people in America live with Alzheimer’s ously. The football vides daycare for • Every 70 seconds, someone is diagnosed with player, very dispeople suffering Alzheimer’s traught, sat in the from Alzheim• Alzheimer’s is the sixth-leading cause of death locker room after ers or dementia. practice with his chin Both Kramer and in his hand, thinking Plummer have had about what he was going to do next because he could family members with the disease and undernever make his coach happy. Suddenly, Lombardi stand the emotional toll it takes on the caretaker. came up to him, slaps him on the back of the head, “An Alzheimer patient goes through a series of and says, “Son, one of these days you’re going to be the stages and in the final stages they become almost like best guard in football.” That man was Jerry Kramer, children,” said Kramer, whose mother and brother a Sandpoint High School graduate and Idaho legend. Fundraiser continued page 2 Kramer, along with Jake Plummer, former quar-
JENNIFER PRANDATO
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‘Night of Memories’ raises $10K for Daybreak Center, Bulldog Bench
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Battle of the Bands winners plan feature concerts showcasing talent
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Meetings are held Wednesdays before school in room W8. Elections are going to be held sometime during May. French Club may hold a final crepe night if they can decide on a location and date.
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Adviser: Dana Stockman Upcoming events:
Administration says policy will help learning, human interaction
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Some Sandpoint High School senior murals may be painted and tiled over this summer due to the legislation of the Plant Facility Levy passed in 2008. The levy included funding for new flooring and walls. The plan to replace the carpet in the halls with tile includes covering these works. The tiling would extend several inches above the line of the carpeting and into some of the murals. The remainder of the partially covered murals would be painted over. “We have to follow through on the legislation. The public voted to have new walls and floors.” said Dr. Kiebert, SHS Principal. The facility managers find that the carpet is unsanitary to have in a school, which is why the carpet on the floors was taken out several years ago. The concrete floors are much easier to clean and do not trap bacteria and dirt. The renovation was so successful that its continuation was deemed necessary by voters in 2008. However there is strong opposition to the loss of some of the senior murals. “When I first came to this school it had no color, except for the gym,” Patsy Sletager, the school registrar said. “The murals gave it character.” When asked for her response to the murals’ possible covering, Sletager said, “I am totally against it. It is covering up history.” A similar response came from Nancy Miller, an English teacher. “I’ll chain myself to the wall before I’ll let that happen.” The murals represent many individuals’ legacies from their high school years. The memorials of students who passed away during their years at SHS would also be lost. Starting in 1994, the senior mural has been an annual tradition. “A lot of work goes into each year’s mural. It is a year long project,” art teacher Dan Shook said. Hours of work would be lost if the murals were covered. “I think it would cause a lot of controversy and heartbreak for a lot of people. I’m hoping that wiser heads prevail before it gets to that,” he said. “Nothing has been decided yet,” Dr. Kiebert said. The issue will be given to a committee that will make the final decision soon.
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You hear the stories, but until you get there you really don’t know what to expect. -Bryce Clark, freshman
Read more about school sports on p. 7