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Vol. 5 Issue 5 No. 39

Feb. 28, 2018

The London Experience

Rigo Badillo Staff Writer Unique McLendon Staff Writer

Last year in July 2017, members of the CHS cheer squad went to London and performed in a parade. Anjelica Page joined us for an interview describing what she experienced during her time there. She was very excited to go sightseeing in London for the first time. Page got the opportunity that many cheerleaders wish to have. Anjelica Page was thrilled about this special event. This is her story:

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Why did you go to London?“It was for the New Years Parade in London.

We went the week before New Years, but we were chosen in July” How long were you there?

“Only a week”

How did you get the selected for this opportunity?

“First, it started in at a cheer camp in Texas.

Then, the coaches pick a certain number of girls to go.”

How many girls were in Texas practicing with you? “It was just our high school cheer girls.”

How many girls were in your hotel? “Approximately 2000 girls from around the world” How long did you guys practice with the others? “It wasn’t a long practice. Maybe only two days.”

Anjelica Page

A Day in Santa Fe where we had to review it and start filling it out. The

had to show our community involvement such as volun-

This month, I had the opportunity to talk to Marissa Cabrera and David Garcia about the trip they were selected for. They travelled to Santa Fe for a meeting with many other students from around New Mexico.

How were you selected?

Marissa: We were selected to be in the NMPED (New Mexico Public Education Department) Student Network by filling out an application.

David: Getting accepted was actually pretty complicated.

First, Mr. Brady nominated Marissa and me as worthy student leaders. Then, Mrs. Harris later passed the 20page application on to us

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to you?”, “Who is someone in our community you believe is a good leader?”, and “Please identify one issue impacting your school or community and explain why student input on this issue would be valuable?”. Lastly, was all of our permission forms.

What was entailed in your trip?

Marissa: This first trip was to understand the meaning of who we are in this program and what our responsibilities are going to be.

Marissa Cabrera, left, and David Garcia, right standing with Lieutenant Governer John Sanchez

application consisted of our information, what student activities we participate in, what our involvement is, and how many years we have been involved. Then, we

teer work, how many years involved, and our involvement. We then had to answer extended response questions consisting of questions like “What does leadership mean

David: On our trip we did many things.

First, we were introduced to each other and were reminded of our purpose as a student leader network, that is, to bring...

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valuable ideas and insights to the Public Education Department and also learn about what NM's public education stands for. Our service term is from January 15th through December 14th, 2018.

Who did you meet while in Santa Fe? Marissa: We met: · Lieutenant Governor John Sanchez · Secretary of Education Christopher Ruszkowski · New Mexico Senator William Soules · 2017 New Mexico Teacher of the Year Stephanie Gurule-Leyba · Director of the Community Leadership Foundation Celestina Garcia David: We then went to the Roundhouse and met with Senator William Soules. He helped us become a little more informed about how our education may change during the 30 days legislative session. We took a tour of

How many events were there? “Only the parade, the rest was just touring London basically.”

Speaking of touring, what places did you go see? “I saw Big and Small Ben. We also passed

by Buckingham Palace, the Queen’s principal London residence. Sadly, we didn’t get to see her.”

What do you mean by, “Big and Small Ben”?

“Small Ben is a miniature version of the giant clock, Big Ben, in the middle of London.”

How much did each pay for this? “My family and I paid 10,500 for the whole trip” How did you pay for this event? I spent most of my free time fundraising many afternoons selling items to come up with the money. Also, by the grace of my family, they gave me as much money as they could.“ How do you feel about the fundraising you

the Roundhouse where they had 6 million dollars worth of art displayed from artists.

The Roundhouse had some turquoise floors and marble everywhere. They also said Spain had gifted them light fixtures that were really really thin sea shells placed at the

middle of the roundhouse.

Then, last but not least, we met with motivational speaker/leadership trainer Celestina Garcia.

What was the purpose of your trip?

Marissa: The NMPED Student Network’s purpose is to be the voice for students all around NM to discuss the Public Education Department. As a group, we are supposed to make and bring suggestions and ideas to the board to hear and visualize a

student’s point of view!

How did the food taste? “Things that were sweet were very sweet, and things that were salty had a very bland taste.”

What is something that shocked you there?

“Something interesting to know about London is that there are no street trash cans. You have to wait until you get to a restaurant or a public place with a trash can.

I ordered a drink from Starbucks and my new friends and I were walking and exploring. I finished my drink and one of the people who guided us around told us that there are no trash cans so you’re going to have to wait.

I held that cup for about 2 hours.”

What was the highlight of the trip?

Marissa: The highlight of the trip was getting to meet some amazing people from around NM! I didn’t truly realize how much culture New Mexico has and how beautiful NM was until I went to Santa Fe. David: The best parts of the trip was seeing all the art in the plaza, hitting it off with 24 other student leaders, 23 not including Marissa, and being passionate leaders together and the part where Mr. Brady bought us some amazing chocolate!

David: The NMPED Student Network will now hold monthly webinars due to the difficulty of transporting students from all across the state to Santa Fe. We’ll also learn a little and put our student input

We would like to thank David Garcia and Marissa Cabrera for their time with us.

We wish them well as they go and report back to the NMPED about Clovis High.

In my head, I was thinking, that is disgusting. The coke was very sweet and it gave me a headache.”

excited to know that I was going to be on T.V.”

London Continued did? “Hard work and dedication is the key to events. I wanted to go so badly that I did anything and everything to help pay for this event.”

into our Public Education Department. We will be heading back in June and December and I honestly can’t wait!

Would you recommend anybody to particiDid you like the culpate in this event? “Yes, it ture? “Yes, it was beautiful was a beautiful event and it and very artistic. Though, was interesting to go around everything is so congested, and experience the culture. and so close together.”

When you get to be a part of their tradition like the New Did you like the peoYears parade. It feels nice to ple there? “Well the people see new things and adapt to are more rude there. In the another country.”

U.S. we say excuse me when we are trying to get by, but After interviewing over there they just shove Anjelica, we felt her exciteyou out the way.” ment in recalling the memoDid you go by yourself or did someone go with you? “My dad and sister came with me.”

How did you feel knowing you were going to LonEngland is famous don to perfor the tea. Did you enjoy form in front it? “Yes, it was good, but at of thousands times I wanted some coke. of people Another weird thing they do is watching? “I serve their coke with lemons. felt nervous but

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ries of her trip. So if you are given the chance that Angelica had, take your shot and

don’t be afraid. CHS and the rest of the team here encourage you to just try.

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that don’t know what they want to do after high school.

If the student decides to go to college, they might have to worry about how they are going to get into a good college or how they’re going to find a way to pay for it. And if the student decides against going to college, what will be their next step, what will they do after their final year of high school. A big concern is what jobs are going to be available for these people?

College is a difficult thing. It is not meant for everyone. Yet, it is so important, especially today, that students attend college. So much of the job field is now comprised of workplaces that require some form of a college degree or post-secondary training, and it is predicted to grow. Scientists predict that 65% of the workforce by the year 2020 will require either a bachelor’s degree or some form of education beyond high school. The Center

percent of the job openings will require some college or an associate’s degree and 36 percent of the job openings will not require education beyond high school.” STEM based jobs are becoming more and more prevalent, which require in most cases a bachelor’s degree. This makes it seem like college is becoming more and more “required” to go to, and this can be a scary fact for those who just don’t want to go to college, especially when, on average, the students with a bachelor’s degree will always make more money in any point of their career than the student who does not attend college. This certainly might answer the question I asked about college earlier and it makes the answer sound like a degree is necessary to live a better life. Although that may not be the answer today, I do believe that it will become the answer in the years coming.

on Education and the Workforce states, “By educational attainment: 35 percent of the job openings will require at least a bachelor’s degree, 30

The workforce today has plenty of job opportunities for the everyday worker, but soon I believe that less and less of these jobs will be

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"Necessity Is The Mother Of Invention"

A big part of the life we live today can be impacted by the education we gain not only during our high school years, but also the post secondary years we choose or choose not to invest in. This is the driving force of why so many people decide to try to and attend college. They are told to some extent that their success in life is tied to the diploma they get, and that the diploma will help them get a better job and make better money than a person without a degree. Is this case, however, does having a degree guarantee success or can a person without a degree be even more successful? This is the question I want to answer today.

The idea of “college equals success” has become the societal norm, which is driven into the head of every young adult that grazes the high school classroom, by teachers, parents, and even fellow students.

This can often affect the student’s choice of whether he or she wants to attend college. This choice can often be one of the most important and difficult choices the student makes during his or her lifetime, in the fact that whatever they choose could affect their life in a certain way. This can be hard for the students

available. We live in a very technologically enhanced world and more of the average worker jobs, such as cashier positions, are being replaced with technology.

Employers like that they can program technology to do the job, without human error, as well as not having to pay these workers. With a faster growing technology based workforce, more positions in the STEM field are going to be opening up, allowing for more job opportunities in programming and engineering. I believe that this will become the societal norm in the future, that we will walk into a store, like Walmart, and the only checkouts will be selfcheckouts. People who are engineers and programmers had to get some kind college education to work in that field. Eight hundred thousand jobs were lost in 2017 to Automation and AI technology.

Although 3.5 million new jobs opened up, I believe that this might not be the case in the future, with more and more companies looking into these kinds of services.

So it raises the question, “Is college becoming more prevalent for the everyday worker?”

I believe, like stated previously, though it is not necessarily now, it is going to become a problem for people in the future without a degree to find job opportunities.

"Robert's Rules Of Order"

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Krystal Mailman Staff Writer Elizabeth Schneider Staff Writer

on which the assembly take certain action, as stated in Robert’s Rules of Order. The next section of competition was the written test. The test section included three parts, The Clovis High School the minutes, the test, and the Future Farmers of America, book statements. During the (FFA), program focuses on minutes portion, competitors three main goals: promoting watched a five-minute meetpersonal growth, career suc- ing while taking notes. After cess, and premier leadership. the meeting, there was a test There are many activities given based on the meeting. that the FFA program here The next section of the testin Clovis does, some include ing portion had 50 questions Supervised Agricultural Exbased on Parli Pro, with only periences (SAE), fundraisone hour to complete them ing, and judging. Recently all. The competitors then had in FFA, students have been 30 minutes to search through building and fixing trailers (Ag Robert’s Rule of Order for Mech), practicing speeches, certain statements that were preparing for job interviews, given. There were five stateand Parliamentary procedure ments that each required two (Parli Pro). Based off of Rob- parts: the page number, and erts Rules of Order, Parli Pro the line number. The final is about rules, ethics, and phase of competition was the customs for governing meet- team activity. The team acings. tivity had a time frame of 45 On the week of October 23, eight members of the Clovis High School FFA program went to Indianapolis, Indiana for the FFA Nationals.

The Parli Pro competition included three parts, a business scenario, a written test, and a team activity. The business scenario, also known as Parliamentary Presentation, had one main motion, five required motions, one per person.

Each person also needed an additional motion, and four debates per person which were 30 to 45 seconds long.

Motions are a formal proposal by a member of a deliberative assembly

minutes, with one written scenario. Within the allotted time there were three questions that needed to be proved true or false using Robert’s Rule of Order. Those three phases of competition resulted in experience and many memories for the competitors.

The competing team for Clovis included Anthony Sharer, Jack Palla, Aaron Reid, Deanne Guthrie, Casity Flowers, and Catherine Hisel. All-in-all, Clovis had a successful competition in October. In the Parliamentary Procedure National Competition, there were three possible scores a team could get: gold, silver, and bronze. The team from Clovis was able to obtain a silver score with the assistance of Bill Morrison, a former agriculture teacher who came out of retirement to help coach Clovis. One of

the FFA members, Anthony Sharer, became an Accredited Parliamentarian by scoring 86% on the written portion of the test.

Although the FFA program scored well in a national competition for parliamentary procedure, it’s not the only important thing that FFA does.

Another important part of FFA is judging and competing in many places such as Clovis, Portales, and Las Cruces.

Some of these include dairy, forestry, landscape design, and wildlife. For example, one of the competitions is landscape design. For landscape design, the students get a description of the house, family, land around the current house, and what the family wants. Secondly, the students receive a printed layout of the current house, and using the descriptions given, they design the landscape around the house using native plants.

Next, they must explain why they designed it the way they did with a plant palette and miscellaneous palette.

Then, a test is given based on math skills, ability to read landscape design and knowledge of the climate.

The final phase of competition is a plant ID test.

There are twenty plants, and by using only sight, the student must identify what the plant is. FFA competes and judges in multiple competitions throughout the year, most members have two or three main parts of competition that they do.

FFA and agriculture has many

different groups and each group has different things that they do. Ag Mech has been making and repairing parts of trailers. Horticulture is doing aquaponic gardening, which is where they raise fish, in this case tilapia, and plants together. This works because the plants are grown in the water without soil, and the waste and bacteria the fish produce give nutrients to the plants. The plants in turn

filter the water that the fish use. Agriculture also has a farm that the students in agriculture attend to. It includes chickens, cattle, rabbits, pigs, and goats. This portion of agriculture is run by animal science.

petitions. Students can get certified in groups such as natural resource management, plant science, animal science, agronomy (soil), and many more.

Students in FFA can become certified in many different things. They can become certified in these by getting a high score in tests for com-

FFA is a fantastic program with many different parts that all work together to teach important life skills to students.

After interviewing the FFA president, Tanner Duncan, he stated “I would be in a com-

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in their families, careers, and community by addressing important personal, work, and societal issues through Family and Consumer Sciences education. We are a Career and Technical Student-Led Organization (CTSO) for young men and women in Family and Consumer Sciences (FCS) education in both public and private schools through grade 12.

FCCLA is the only national CTSO with the family as its central focus. FCCLA is also

focus. In terms of community service, FCCLA has had many opportunities to help the community. In August, we partnered with the Lions Club and took tickets, checked passes, and assisted community members with questions at the entrances at the Curry County Fair Grounds for a week. The Lions Club is made up of community members from all types of occupations. Unfortunately, the group has gotten smaller and older and needs just a

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pletely different place without FFA… I highly advise everyone to join an agriculture class so they can be a part of this organization.” There are many different activities to attract those with different interests. If there is anyone with any interest in learning life skills, FFA and Agriculture are definitely the groups to join.

The Woman Behind The Show

We had the chance to speak to Mrs. Garcia about an organization known as FCCLA (Family, Career and Community Leaders of America).

They are a generous group that helps the community to the best of their abilities, and does group projects focused on family.

What is FCCLA?

Mrs. Amy Garcia helping a student in her class

Mrs. Garcia: Family, Career Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) was formerly known as FHA HERO (Future Homemakers of America and Home Economic Related Occupations), but back in 1999, we made the switch over to FCCLA. This helps with the stigma that all we do is cook, clean, and sew.

FCCLA makes a difference

the second oldest CTSO, with FFA (Future Farmers of America) being the oldest.

What do you do in FCCLA? Mrs. Garcia: We focus on community service, leadership, and family. All of our projects and everything that we do somehow leads back to the family. Because of this we have a large range of

little help keeping up with admission sales. The Lions members sell the tickets to the public and FCCLA stands at the gates, take tickets , or check passes. Then we stamp the participants to prove they have paid. We participated in the “Drive One 4 Your School” activity in September. In this activity, we helped Hamilton Ford

with setting up, cleaning and, filling out information sheets for community members.

Every licensed driver of 18 and older could come and test-drive a Ford vehicle that the dealership brought to our school on a Sunday afternoon. The Ford Company in turn will donate $20 per test drive with with a maximum of $6000.00 to the school for the different organizations the drivers choose to support. In October, we participated in the 2nd Annual “Trick or Treat Street” at the Curry County Event Center. Businesses and organizations were asked to have a booth at the center where they could play a game or hand out candy.

FCCLA chose to do games with the children with candy prizes. FCCLA members dressed up, played games, gave candy, and enjoyed our time with community families.

We had a total of five games that we set up. We chose games that were age appropriate and were accessible to all participants. We also have leadership opportunities such as C.O.R.E (Chapter Office

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Retreat for Excellence) that we attended October 23, in Albuquerque. Students from all 6 CTSOs (Career Technical Student Organizations) meet up to be trained on how to be better leaders. The Tri-Leadership organization came in with motivational speakers and professional trainers to help our students be better leaders. Our students then brought that information back and trained the rest of our members. Our officers had the opportunity during our district meeting in Portales on November 15 to train members from Portales High, Portales Jr. High, and Texico who were not able to attend the training. We also have competitive events that we participate in throughout the year. Our competitions have a large range from hands-on to public speaking to Parliamentary Law competitions.

What other projects do you do?

Mrs. Garcia: My FCCLA group have done many different projects such as working with the Kiwanis for their annual Pancake Breakfast.

We use our knowledge in foods to prepare all the pancake batter, help prepare the

sausage, hand out drinks, and help out in any way possible. Other projects that FCCLA has done are making lap blankets for local nursing homes, baby hats for the local hospital and pillowcases for the pediatric department in the hospital. We have worked with the United Way ringing the bells during the holidays and the Lighthouse Mission with their annual Family Christmas Party for the needy. We are up for anything that would help the family and our community. If you have a project and need some help, come see us.

What kind of Fundraising do you do?

Mrs. Garcia: Our first fundraiser is selling low-calorie snack packs. We are looking at possibly doing a buyout for our school and selling pretzel rods. Of course, we are selling the raffle tickets for the car and we are always looking for new ideas.

proficiency and achievement in chapter and individual projects, leadership skills, and career preparation. STAR Events offer individual skill development and application of learning through cooperative teams individualized and competitive performance measured by an established set of criteria. STAR Events are grouped into: Foundational, Leadership, Career Focused, and Online Events.

These events can be categorized into two levels: national and state level. FCCLA students compete both on the district and the state level with hopes of having the opportunity to represent New Mexico at the National Level.

What kind of competitions are you involved in?

Mrs. Garcia: Our competitions are called STAR Events (Students Taking Action with Recognition). They are competitive events in which members are recognized for

How successful is FCCLA? Mrs. Garcia: FCCLA today has over 164,000 members in more than 5,300 chapters that are active in a network of associations in 49 states, in addition to the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. Here at Clovis High we currently have 49 members and we are working on getting new members.

Clovis High has had many past State officers and a past national officer. Clovis has competed in many district, state and national meetings where we received Gold. I

such as the Legion of Honor, Hugo Award for Best Novel, Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel, and most recently, The Companion Of Honor. In 1997, Rowling released the first book of her series, The

Sorcerer’s Stone. This book is iconic and a home to many people’s hearts.

When Rowling starts, she tells of the beginning of little Harry’s life. She slowly weaves unknown figures rid-

believe that our chapter has been very successful in the past and it will be successful this year. But success is not only measured in metals, it is in how we have impacted our community, our families and ourselves.

How can you get involved in FCCLA? Mrs. Garcia: To become a member of FCCLA, you have to be enrolled or have been previously enrolled in a Family Consumer Science class like: baking, culinary, child care certification, child development, clothing, independent living, and basic foods, as long you have taken any of these classes and payed your dues, you can get started. We are always looking for new members, so come check us out. We meet every Wednesday after school in room A-1.

A Magical World Of Mysteries

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I solemnly swear that I am up to no good…

J.K. Rowling is a British based author that holds much fame to her name. In this article, I will be analyzing Harry Potter and The Sorcerer’s Stone and Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets. J.K. Rowling has won many awards with her prized book series,

ing flying motorcycles into a usually perfect and normal suburban community. Her writing is almost flawless as she mixes in characters to the setting and how they relate to each other. From page one, you are mesmerized by her words by how she gives every little detail a personal touch.

Though, many times Rowling will leave us confused for many pages before she explains what she means.

Rowling tends to focus on the main character, Harry

pages, Rowling continues to impress. She slowly shows us Hogwarts castle along with giving us a perfect blend of character introduction and “Harry had never even imag- plot development. Throughined such a strange and out the book, Rowling slowly splendid place. It was lit by introduces us to the magical malady while making it bethousands and thousands of candles that were floating in lievable for these events to actually happen. She continmidair over four long tables where the rest of the students ues to impress us with her were sitting.” word poetry up until the very end. The vivid and unimaginable end to such an impres After being sorted into sive book brings us back to Gryffindor, the school year the real world, wanting more starts. Rowling then uses her muggle (human) magic adventures from the magical wizarding world. to paint a beautiful picture of

literature. After many more

Potter, for long stretches of time, though she can move swiftly to another character like we weren’t reading about Harry’s problems for half of the chapter. For example, take the uncle, AKA Uncle Vernon, of our unlikely hero, who deeply fears Harry’s wizarding powers. Rowling can also illustrate Uncle Vernon’s trembling fear when a beefy huge man bursts through the door to personally tell Harry that he is indeed a wizard.

Another thing that Rowling mesmerizes us with is her detailed imagery. When Harry finally arrives at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft

and Wizardry, the picture that our beloved author shows us in the great hall is one of beauty.

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blue and not breathing. I ran into his bedroom to find my stepmom laying on her bed not breathing and I told my dad we had to do CPR. We picked her up and laid her down in the hallway and proceeded to do chest compressions until the paramedics showed up and took over.”

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With the beginning of her next book, she starts where she ended in The Sorcerer’s Stone. Rowling uses her words as weapons as she gets us to feel what Harry Potter feels as he’s trapped with the Dursley’s yet again. Though, it is not long before our relief sweeps over us as she uses her amazing brush to whisk Harry away in a flying blue car. The mesmerizing fact that Rowling can take our breath away at the beginning of every visit to Hogwarts is amazing in itself.

Mischief Managed.

An Heroic Act

On December 25th 2017, a Clovis High School JROTC (Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps) cadet, Isaiah Hatfield, performed an act that would save the life of his stepmother. After an incident occurred on Christmas night, Isaiah’s stepmother would have died had Isaiah not been there to perform CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) on her. We interviewed Isaiah and he gave us the story of that night’s events.

What exactly happened that night?

Hatfield: “It was about 8:30 at night on Christmas. My dad was in the bathroom brushing his teeth while I was in my room. My dad went back to his room and then I heard my dad yell “Heather!”

“Heather!” I didn’t really think much of it, until I heard my dad on the phone with 911, telling them that his wife was

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Did the paramedics say

you doing CPR actually helped your stepmother?

Hatfield: “Not the paramedics, but the doctor at the hospital said it saved her life.”

like to add?

Hatfield: “I would like to thank JROTC for allowing me to learn these skills that saved my stepmother’s life.”

What was the first thing that went through your mind in that moment?

Hatfield: “I’m not really sure.

I just saw her and I knew I had to do something.”

Isaiah’s actions have earned him a reputation as a local hero. His heroic actions were recognized by FEMA, the Clovis City Council, the Clovis School Board of Education, and JROTC. On February 14, Isaiah was awarded with the Silver Valor Award in JROTC , the second highest ribbon a JROTC cadet can receive. He has also spoken in front of the City Council and the Clovis School Board, recounting his experience on Christmas and becoming an inspiration for the people of Clovis.

Where did you learn how to do CPR? Hatfield: “I learned how to perform CPR in JROTC for a first responder program that we’ve recently started in Clovis called CERT (Community Emergency Response Team).”

Is there any other information you would

Isaiah Hatlfield, Class Of 2019

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The London Experience

Rigo Badillo Staff Writer Unique McLendon Staff Writer

Last year in July 2017, members of the CHS cheer squad went to London and performed in a parade. Anjelica Page joined us for an interview describing what she experienced during her time there. She was very excited to go sightseeing in London for the first time. Page got the opportunity that many cheerleaders wish to have. Anjelica Page was thrilled about this special event. This is her story:

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Why did you go to London?“It was for the New Years Parade in London.

We went the week before New Years, but we were chosen in July” How long were you there?

“Only a week”

How did you get the selected for this opportunity?

“First, it started in at a cheer camp in Texas.

Then, the coaches pick a certain number of girls to go.”

How many girls were in Texas practicing with you? “It was just our high school cheer girls.”

How many girls were in your hotel? “Approximately 2000 girls from around the world” How long did you guys practice with the others? “It wasn’t a long practice. Maybe only two days.”

Anjelica Page

A Day in Santa Fe where we had to review it and start filling it out. The

had to show our community involvement such as volun-

This month, I had the opportunity to talk to Marissa Cabrera and David Garcia about the trip they were selected for. They travelled to Santa Fe for a meeting with many other students from around New Mexico.

How were you selected?

Marissa: We were selected to be in the NMPED (New Mexico Public Education Department) Student Network by filling out an application.

David: Getting accepted was actually pretty complicated.

First, Mr. Brady nominated Marissa and me as worthy student leaders. Then, Mrs. Harris later passed the 20page application on to us

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to you?”, “Who is someone in our community you believe is a good leader?”, and “Please identify one issue impacting your school or community and explain why student input on this issue would be valuable?”. Lastly, was all of our permission forms.

What was entailed in your trip?

Marissa: This first trip was to understand the meaning of who we are in this program and what our responsibilities are going to be.

Marissa Cabrera, left, and David Garcia, right standing with Lieutenant Governer John Sanchez

application consisted of our information, what student activities we participate in, what our involvement is, and how many years we have been involved. Then, we

teer work, how many years involved, and our involvement. We then had to answer extended response questions consisting of questions like “What does leadership mean

David: On our trip we did many things.

First, we were introduced to each other and were reminded of our purpose as a student leader network, that is, to bring...

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valuable ideas and insights to the Public Education Department and also learn about what NM's public education stands for. Our service term is from January 15th through December 14th, 2018.

Who did you meet while in Santa Fe? Marissa: We met: · Lieutenant Governor John Sanchez · Secretary of Education Christopher Ruszkowski · New Mexico Senator William Soules · 2017 New Mexico Teacher of the Year Stephanie Gurule-Leyba · Director of the Community Leadership Foundation Celestina Garcia David: We then went to the Roundhouse and met with Senator William Soules. He helped us become a little more informed about how our education may change during the 30 days legislative session. We took a tour of

How many events were there? “Only the parade, the rest was just touring London basically.”

Speaking of touring, what places did you go see? “I saw Big and Small Ben. We also passed

by Buckingham Palace, the Queen’s principal London residence. Sadly, we didn’t get to see her.”

What do you mean by, “Big and Small Ben”?

“Small Ben is a miniature version of the giant clock, Big Ben, in the middle of London.”

How much did each pay for this? “My family and I paid 10,500 for the whole trip” How did you pay for this event? I spent most of my free time fundraising many afternoons selling items to come up with the money. Also, by the grace of my family, they gave me as much money as they could.“ How do you feel about the fundraising you

the Roundhouse where they had 6 million dollars worth of art displayed from artists.

The Roundhouse had some turquoise floors and marble everywhere. They also said Spain had gifted them light fixtures that were really really thin sea shells placed at the

middle of the roundhouse.

Then, last but not least, we met with motivational speaker/leadership trainer Celestina Garcia.

What was the purpose of your trip?

Marissa: The NMPED Student Network’s purpose is to be the voice for students all around NM to discuss the Public Education Department. As a group, we are supposed to make and bring suggestions and ideas to the board to hear and visualize a

student’s point of view!

How did the food taste? “Things that were sweet were very sweet, and things that were salty had a very bland taste.”

What is something that shocked you there?

“Something interesting to know about London is that there are no street trash cans. You have to wait until you get to a restaurant or a public place with a trash can.

I ordered a drink from Starbucks and my new friends and I were walking and exploring. I finished my drink and one of the people who guided us around told us that there are no trash cans so you’re going to have to wait.

I held that cup for about 2 hours.”

What was the highlight of the trip?

Marissa: The highlight of the trip was getting to meet some amazing people from around NM! I didn’t truly realize how much culture New Mexico has and how beautiful NM was until I went to Santa Fe. David: The best parts of the trip was seeing all the art in the plaza, hitting it off with 24 other student leaders, 23 not including Marissa, and being passionate leaders together and the part where Mr. Brady bought us some amazing chocolate!

David: The NMPED Student Network will now hold monthly webinars due to the difficulty of transporting students from all across the state to Santa Fe. We’ll also learn a little and put our student input

We would like to thank David Garcia and Marissa Cabrera for their time with us.

We wish them well as they go and report back to the NMPED about Clovis High.

In my head, I was thinking, that is disgusting. The coke was very sweet and it gave me a headache.”

excited to know that I was going to be on T.V.”

London Continued did? “Hard work and dedication is the key to events. I wanted to go so badly that I did anything and everything to help pay for this event.”

into our Public Education Department. We will be heading back in June and December and I honestly can’t wait!

Would you recommend anybody to particiDid you like the culpate in this event? “Yes, it ture? “Yes, it was beautiful was a beautiful event and it and very artistic. Though, was interesting to go around everything is so congested, and experience the culture. and so close together.”

When you get to be a part of their tradition like the New Did you like the peoYears parade. It feels nice to ple there? “Well the people see new things and adapt to are more rude there. In the another country.”

U.S. we say excuse me when we are trying to get by, but After interviewing over there they just shove Anjelica, we felt her exciteyou out the way.” ment in recalling the memoDid you go by yourself or did someone go with you? “My dad and sister came with me.”

How did you feel knowing you were going to LonEngland is famous don to perfor the tea. Did you enjoy form in front it? “Yes, it was good, but at of thousands times I wanted some coke. of people Another weird thing they do is watching? “I serve their coke with lemons. felt nervous but

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ries of her trip. So if you are given the chance that Angelica had, take your shot and

don’t be afraid. CHS and the rest of the team here encourage you to just try.

Austin Hodges Editor-In-Chief

that don’t know what they want to do after high school.

If the student decides to go to college, they might have to worry about how they are going to get into a good college or how they’re going to find a way to pay for it. And if the student decides against going to college, what will be their next step, what will they do after their final year of high school. A big concern is what jobs are going to be available for these people?

College is a difficult thing. It is not meant for everyone. Yet, it is so important, especially today, that students attend college. So much of the job field is now comprised of workplaces that require some form of a college degree or post-secondary training, and it is predicted to grow. Scientists predict that 65% of the workforce by the year 2020 will require either a bachelor’s degree or some form of education beyond high school. The Center

percent of the job openings will require some college or an associate’s degree and 36 percent of the job openings will not require education beyond high school.” STEM based jobs are becoming more and more prevalent, which require in most cases a bachelor’s degree. This makes it seem like college is becoming more and more “required” to go to, and this can be a scary fact for those who just don’t want to go to college, especially when, on average, the students with a bachelor’s degree will always make more money in any point of their career than the student who does not attend college. This certainly might answer the question I asked about college earlier and it makes the answer sound like a degree is necessary to live a better life. Although that may not be the answer today, I do believe that it will become the answer in the years coming.

on Education and the Workforce states, “By educational attainment: 35 percent of the job openings will require at least a bachelor’s degree, 30

The workforce today has plenty of job opportunities for the everyday worker, but soon I believe that less and less of these jobs will be

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"Necessity Is The Mother Of Invention"

A big part of the life we live today can be impacted by the education we gain not only during our high school years, but also the post secondary years we choose or choose not to invest in. This is the driving force of why so many people decide to try to and attend college. They are told to some extent that their success in life is tied to the diploma they get, and that the diploma will help them get a better job and make better money than a person without a degree. Is this case, however, does having a degree guarantee success or can a person without a degree be even more successful? This is the question I want to answer today.

The idea of “college equals success” has become the societal norm, which is driven into the head of every young adult that grazes the high school classroom, by teachers, parents, and even fellow students.

This can often affect the student’s choice of whether he or she wants to attend college. This choice can often be one of the most important and difficult choices the student makes during his or her lifetime, in the fact that whatever they choose could affect their life in a certain way. This can be hard for the students

available. We live in a very technologically enhanced world and more of the average worker jobs, such as cashier positions, are being replaced with technology.

Employers like that they can program technology to do the job, without human error, as well as not having to pay these workers. With a faster growing technology based workforce, more positions in the STEM field are going to be opening up, allowing for more job opportunities in programming and engineering. I believe that this will become the societal norm in the future, that we will walk into a store, like Walmart, and the only checkouts will be selfcheckouts. People who are engineers and programmers had to get some kind college education to work in that field. Eight hundred thousand jobs were lost in 2017 to Automation and AI technology.

Although 3.5 million new jobs opened up, I believe that this might not be the case in the future, with more and more companies looking into these kinds of services.

So it raises the question, “Is college becoming more prevalent for the everyday worker?”

I believe, like stated previously, though it is not necessarily now, it is going to become a problem for people in the future without a degree to find job opportunities.

"Robert's Rules Of Order"

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Krystal Mailman Staff Writer Elizabeth Schneider Staff Writer

on which the assembly take certain action, as stated in Robert’s Rules of Order. The next section of competition was the written test. The test section included three parts, The Clovis High School the minutes, the test, and the Future Farmers of America, book statements. During the (FFA), program focuses on minutes portion, competitors three main goals: promoting watched a five-minute meetpersonal growth, career suc- ing while taking notes. After cess, and premier leadership. the meeting, there was a test There are many activities given based on the meeting. that the FFA program here The next section of the testin Clovis does, some include ing portion had 50 questions Supervised Agricultural Exbased on Parli Pro, with only periences (SAE), fundraisone hour to complete them ing, and judging. Recently all. The competitors then had in FFA, students have been 30 minutes to search through building and fixing trailers (Ag Robert’s Rule of Order for Mech), practicing speeches, certain statements that were preparing for job interviews, given. There were five stateand Parliamentary procedure ments that each required two (Parli Pro). Based off of Rob- parts: the page number, and erts Rules of Order, Parli Pro the line number. The final is about rules, ethics, and phase of competition was the customs for governing meet- team activity. The team acings. tivity had a time frame of 45 On the week of October 23, eight members of the Clovis High School FFA program went to Indianapolis, Indiana for the FFA Nationals.

The Parli Pro competition included three parts, a business scenario, a written test, and a team activity. The business scenario, also known as Parliamentary Presentation, had one main motion, five required motions, one per person.

Each person also needed an additional motion, and four debates per person which were 30 to 45 seconds long.

Motions are a formal proposal by a member of a deliberative assembly

minutes, with one written scenario. Within the allotted time there were three questions that needed to be proved true or false using Robert’s Rule of Order. Those three phases of competition resulted in experience and many memories for the competitors.

The competing team for Clovis included Anthony Sharer, Jack Palla, Aaron Reid, Deanne Guthrie, Casity Flowers, and Catherine Hisel. All-in-all, Clovis had a successful competition in October. In the Parliamentary Procedure National Competition, there were three possible scores a team could get: gold, silver, and bronze. The team from Clovis was able to obtain a silver score with the assistance of Bill Morrison, a former agriculture teacher who came out of retirement to help coach Clovis. One of

the FFA members, Anthony Sharer, became an Accredited Parliamentarian by scoring 86% on the written portion of the test.

Although the FFA program scored well in a national competition for parliamentary procedure, it’s not the only important thing that FFA does.

Another important part of FFA is judging and competing in many places such as Clovis, Portales, and Las Cruces.

Some of these include dairy, forestry, landscape design, and wildlife. For example, one of the competitions is landscape design. For landscape design, the students get a description of the house, family, land around the current house, and what the family wants. Secondly, the students receive a printed layout of the current house, and using the descriptions given, they design the landscape around the house using native plants.

Next, they must explain why they designed it the way they did with a plant palette and miscellaneous palette.

Then, a test is given based on math skills, ability to read landscape design and knowledge of the climate.

The final phase of competition is a plant ID test.

There are twenty plants, and by using only sight, the student must identify what the plant is. FFA competes and judges in multiple competitions throughout the year, most members have two or three main parts of competition that they do.

FFA and agriculture has many

different groups and each group has different things that they do. Ag Mech has been making and repairing parts of trailers. Horticulture is doing aquaponic gardening, which is where they raise fish, in this case tilapia, and plants together. This works because the plants are grown in the water without soil, and the waste and bacteria the fish produce give nutrients to the plants. The plants in turn

filter the water that the fish use. Agriculture also has a farm that the students in agriculture attend to. It includes chickens, cattle, rabbits, pigs, and goats. This portion of agriculture is run by animal science.

petitions. Students can get certified in groups such as natural resource management, plant science, animal science, agronomy (soil), and many more.

Students in FFA can become certified in many different things. They can become certified in these by getting a high score in tests for com-

FFA is a fantastic program with many different parts that all work together to teach important life skills to students.

After interviewing the FFA president, Tanner Duncan, he stated “I would be in a com-

Rose Bradley Staff Writer

in their families, careers, and community by addressing important personal, work, and societal issues through Family and Consumer Sciences education. We are a Career and Technical Student-Led Organization (CTSO) for young men and women in Family and Consumer Sciences (FCS) education in both public and private schools through grade 12.

FCCLA is the only national CTSO with the family as its central focus. FCCLA is also

focus. In terms of community service, FCCLA has had many opportunities to help the community. In August, we partnered with the Lions Club and took tickets, checked passes, and assisted community members with questions at the entrances at the Curry County Fair Grounds for a week. The Lions Club is made up of community members from all types of occupations. Unfortunately, the group has gotten smaller and older and needs just a

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pletely different place without FFA… I highly advise everyone to join an agriculture class so they can be a part of this organization.” There are many different activities to attract those with different interests. If there is anyone with any interest in learning life skills, FFA and Agriculture are definitely the groups to join.

The Woman Behind The Show

We had the chance to speak to Mrs. Garcia about an organization known as FCCLA (Family, Career and Community Leaders of America).

They are a generous group that helps the community to the best of their abilities, and does group projects focused on family.

What is FCCLA?

Mrs. Amy Garcia helping a student in her class

Mrs. Garcia: Family, Career Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) was formerly known as FHA HERO (Future Homemakers of America and Home Economic Related Occupations), but back in 1999, we made the switch over to FCCLA. This helps with the stigma that all we do is cook, clean, and sew.

FCCLA makes a difference

the second oldest CTSO, with FFA (Future Farmers of America) being the oldest.

What do you do in FCCLA? Mrs. Garcia: We focus on community service, leadership, and family. All of our projects and everything that we do somehow leads back to the family. Because of this we have a large range of

little help keeping up with admission sales. The Lions members sell the tickets to the public and FCCLA stands at the gates, take tickets , or check passes. Then we stamp the participants to prove they have paid. We participated in the “Drive One 4 Your School” activity in September. In this activity, we helped Hamilton Ford

with setting up, cleaning and, filling out information sheets for community members.

Every licensed driver of 18 and older could come and test-drive a Ford vehicle that the dealership brought to our school on a Sunday afternoon. The Ford Company in turn will donate $20 per test drive with with a maximum of $6000.00 to the school for the different organizations the drivers choose to support. In October, we participated in the 2nd Annual “Trick or Treat Street” at the Curry County Event Center. Businesses and organizations were asked to have a booth at the center where they could play a game or hand out candy.

FCCLA chose to do games with the children with candy prizes. FCCLA members dressed up, played games, gave candy, and enjoyed our time with community families.

We had a total of five games that we set up. We chose games that were age appropriate and were accessible to all participants. We also have leadership opportunities such as C.O.R.E (Chapter Office

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Retreat for Excellence) that we attended October 23, in Albuquerque. Students from all 6 CTSOs (Career Technical Student Organizations) meet up to be trained on how to be better leaders. The Tri-Leadership organization came in with motivational speakers and professional trainers to help our students be better leaders. Our students then brought that information back and trained the rest of our members. Our officers had the opportunity during our district meeting in Portales on November 15 to train members from Portales High, Portales Jr. High, and Texico who were not able to attend the training. We also have competitive events that we participate in throughout the year. Our competitions have a large range from hands-on to public speaking to Parliamentary Law competitions.

What other projects do you do?

Mrs. Garcia: My FCCLA group have done many different projects such as working with the Kiwanis for their annual Pancake Breakfast.

We use our knowledge in foods to prepare all the pancake batter, help prepare the

sausage, hand out drinks, and help out in any way possible. Other projects that FCCLA has done are making lap blankets for local nursing homes, baby hats for the local hospital and pillowcases for the pediatric department in the hospital. We have worked with the United Way ringing the bells during the holidays and the Lighthouse Mission with their annual Family Christmas Party for the needy. We are up for anything that would help the family and our community. If you have a project and need some help, come see us.

What kind of Fundraising do you do?

Mrs. Garcia: Our first fundraiser is selling low-calorie snack packs. We are looking at possibly doing a buyout for our school and selling pretzel rods. Of course, we are selling the raffle tickets for the car and we are always looking for new ideas.

proficiency and achievement in chapter and individual projects, leadership skills, and career preparation. STAR Events offer individual skill development and application of learning through cooperative teams individualized and competitive performance measured by an established set of criteria. STAR Events are grouped into: Foundational, Leadership, Career Focused, and Online Events.

These events can be categorized into two levels: national and state level. FCCLA students compete both on the district and the state level with hopes of having the opportunity to represent New Mexico at the National Level.

What kind of competitions are you involved in?

Mrs. Garcia: Our competitions are called STAR Events (Students Taking Action with Recognition). They are competitive events in which members are recognized for

How successful is FCCLA? Mrs. Garcia: FCCLA today has over 164,000 members in more than 5,300 chapters that are active in a network of associations in 49 states, in addition to the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. Here at Clovis High we currently have 49 members and we are working on getting new members.

Clovis High has had many past State officers and a past national officer. Clovis has competed in many district, state and national meetings where we received Gold. I

such as the Legion of Honor, Hugo Award for Best Novel, Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel, and most recently, The Companion Of Honor. In 1997, Rowling released the first book of her series, The

Sorcerer’s Stone. This book is iconic and a home to many people’s hearts.

When Rowling starts, she tells of the beginning of little Harry’s life. She slowly weaves unknown figures rid-

believe that our chapter has been very successful in the past and it will be successful this year. But success is not only measured in metals, it is in how we have impacted our community, our families and ourselves.

How can you get involved in FCCLA? Mrs. Garcia: To become a member of FCCLA, you have to be enrolled or have been previously enrolled in a Family Consumer Science class like: baking, culinary, child care certification, child development, clothing, independent living, and basic foods, as long you have taken any of these classes and payed your dues, you can get started. We are always looking for new members, so come check us out. We meet every Wednesday after school in room A-1.

A Magical World Of Mysteries

Ryan Perkins Layout Editor

I solemnly swear that I am up to no good…

J.K. Rowling is a British based author that holds much fame to her name. In this article, I will be analyzing Harry Potter and The Sorcerer’s Stone and Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets. J.K. Rowling has won many awards with her prized book series,

ing flying motorcycles into a usually perfect and normal suburban community. Her writing is almost flawless as she mixes in characters to the setting and how they relate to each other. From page one, you are mesmerized by her words by how she gives every little detail a personal touch.

Though, many times Rowling will leave us confused for many pages before she explains what she means.

Rowling tends to focus on the main character, Harry

pages, Rowling continues to impress. She slowly shows us Hogwarts castle along with giving us a perfect blend of character introduction and “Harry had never even imag- plot development. Throughined such a strange and out the book, Rowling slowly splendid place. It was lit by introduces us to the magical malady while making it bethousands and thousands of candles that were floating in lievable for these events to actually happen. She continmidair over four long tables where the rest of the students ues to impress us with her were sitting.” word poetry up until the very end. The vivid and unimaginable end to such an impres After being sorted into sive book brings us back to Gryffindor, the school year the real world, wanting more starts. Rowling then uses her muggle (human) magic adventures from the magical wizarding world. to paint a beautiful picture of

literature. After many more

Potter, for long stretches of time, though she can move swiftly to another character like we weren’t reading about Harry’s problems for half of the chapter. For example, take the uncle, AKA Uncle Vernon, of our unlikely hero, who deeply fears Harry’s wizarding powers. Rowling can also illustrate Uncle Vernon’s trembling fear when a beefy huge man bursts through the door to personally tell Harry that he is indeed a wizard.

Another thing that Rowling mesmerizes us with is her detailed imagery. When Harry finally arrives at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft

and Wizardry, the picture that our beloved author shows us in the great hall is one of beauty.

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blue and not breathing. I ran into his bedroom to find my stepmom laying on her bed not breathing and I told my dad we had to do CPR. We picked her up and laid her down in the hallway and proceeded to do chest compressions until the paramedics showed up and took over.”

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With the beginning of her next book, she starts where she ended in The Sorcerer’s Stone. Rowling uses her words as weapons as she gets us to feel what Harry Potter feels as he’s trapped with the Dursley’s yet again. Though, it is not long before our relief sweeps over us as she uses her amazing brush to whisk Harry away in a flying blue car. The mesmerizing fact that Rowling can take our breath away at the beginning of every visit to Hogwarts is amazing in itself.

Mischief Managed.

An Heroic Act

On December 25th 2017, a Clovis High School JROTC (Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps) cadet, Isaiah Hatfield, performed an act that would save the life of his stepmother. After an incident occurred on Christmas night, Isaiah’s stepmother would have died had Isaiah not been there to perform CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) on her. We interviewed Isaiah and he gave us the story of that night’s events.

What exactly happened that night?

Hatfield: “It was about 8:30 at night on Christmas. My dad was in the bathroom brushing his teeth while I was in my room. My dad went back to his room and then I heard my dad yell “Heather!”

“Heather!” I didn’t really think much of it, until I heard my dad on the phone with 911, telling them that his wife was

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Did the paramedics say

you doing CPR actually helped your stepmother?

Hatfield: “Not the paramedics, but the doctor at the hospital said it saved her life.”

like to add?

Hatfield: “I would like to thank JROTC for allowing me to learn these skills that saved my stepmother’s life.”

What was the first thing that went through your mind in that moment?

Hatfield: “I’m not really sure.

I just saw her and I knew I had to do something.”

Isaiah’s actions have earned him a reputation as a local hero. His heroic actions were recognized by FEMA, the Clovis City Council, the Clovis School Board of Education, and JROTC. On February 14, Isaiah was awarded with the Silver Valor Award in JROTC , the second highest ribbon a JROTC cadet can receive. He has also spoken in front of the City Council and the Clovis School Board, recounting his experience on Christmas and becoming an inspiration for the people of Clovis.

Where did you learn how to do CPR? Hatfield: “I learned how to perform CPR in JROTC for a first responder program that we’ve recently started in Clovis called CERT (Community Emergency Response Team).”

Is there any other information you would

Isaiah Hatlfield, Class Of 2019

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