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Creek’s LExI successfully debuts their 14th season By Shelby Donnow Reporter
Many things in life can make us laugh, but nothing like Clear Creek’s League of Extraordinary Improvisers. The League of Extraordinary Improvisers is a group of hilarious students from Clear Creek led by Mr. Hewlett who never fails to make their audience laugh. Most commonly known as LExI, the improv group can make the toughest people crack when it comes to being entertaining by easily captivating their audience with their humor and improv skills. The League of Extraordinary Improvisers team includes 19 improvers, two hosts, three game coordinators and 14 players. This year, the hosts are seniors, Sutton Anderson and Molly Akin. The game coordinators are James Haas, junior, Silas Massey, sophomore and Dalton Volkmer, junior. The Players are Fatinah Al-Hmoud, junior, Emma Barnes, senior, Alex Hammack, senior, Yadir Hannon, junior, Angela Jardina, junior, Mark Kostjuhin, senior, Bryce Strickland, senior, Hunter Taylor, senior, Rebecca Trumble, senior, Corynne Baccigalopi, junior, Dillain Daggy, junior, Adonai Haregot, senior, Alex Harrington, sophomore and Maddie Vansco, senior. These students work diligently to better their improv skills in hopes of putting on the best comedic and entertainment show they can. “I am the happiest when I am performing. I like how I am never going to know what is going to happen,” Corynne Baccigalopi, junior at Clear Creek, said. Although most of the humor comes naturally to those in the troop, they practice every day in their class period along with a dress rehearsal before every show to make sure they are as prepared as can be. In their daily class period, the improv troop enjoys
playing games like scene based games, where the players are given an occupation or location, guessing games, where the players are given specific quirks and another one of the players must guess that given quirk, to better their improv skills.
They also enjoy playing a game called Poet’s Corner, where the improvisers are given a topic
and one of the other players must host a poetry slam and has the other players poeticize about a given topic. They are taught that improv should always revolve around CROW: characters, relationships, objective and where. The CROW method
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helps the troop stay on track while performing.
They are also taught to never say “no” to anyone’s ideas while improving since those ideas may lead to a good turn in events in the show. A simple “yes and..” suffices to keep the ball rolling. The improv group takes their art very seriously and continuously works to improve their skills. “I like being in improve because it is a fun place to make new friends. It is a very comfortable environment where you can always be yourself. Also, there is a really great teacher for improve. Mr. Hewlett is really great!” Yadir Hannon, junior at Clear Creek, said. The League of Extraordinary Improvisers is a great addition to the school and the theatre department. They love to make their audience laugh and will do anything to entertain them. They work very hard to keep the school happy and entertained. You can see this group perform at the next Black Box Show on November 9th, the LExI’s next improv show in December and the Cavalier Spring Show on May 4th. The group cannot wait to make everyone in the audience laugh again. Clear Creek is very proud to have them as a part of the school.
PALs students organize annual Homecoming carnival By Morgan Severson Assistant Editor
The PALs program at Creek has set the tradition of sponsoring the homecoming carnival. At the carnival, students from all grade levels can enjoy a 45-minute lunch of fun, food and festivities. “We love being a part of the carnival! It is one of our favorite days of the year. Everyone has so much school spirit and each organization does such a great job with the food and providing entertaining booths! My favorite part, besides the food and all of the other awesome booths, is seeing how much fun the students get to have. Knowing that Ms. Watson, the PALs and I organized something that all of the students get excited for is a really cool feeling,” Ms. Watson and Ms. Bryan, the PALs sponsors, said. The PALs program and all the students from clubs and electives at Creek work hard to put on a carnival for all the students and staff to enjoy. The day of homecoming is a day of joy and school spirit in preparation for the game Friday night. “My favorite homecoming booth [from past carnivals,] is probably the polaroid pictures just because I really like polaroids. I plan on going to obviously the PALs booth, because I’m a PAL, and I really
love the idea that we had of key chains. Setting up for the homecoming carnivals is seeing everyone come together and set up for this one big day everyone is looking forward to. After the game, I am probably going to iHop because that is the tradition,” Erika Leon, senior and PALs two, said. Some of the food booths include Chickfil-a, run by the PTSA, the Raising Cane’s booth, run by the girls’ soccer program, the cake pop booth, run by Rho Kappa and the Smoothie King booth, run by volleyball. Boys’ soccer will have nachos and the FFA booster club will have fries and chili cheese fries. The all-time favorite food at the carnival is the deep-fried Oreos from the Creek choir along with their mini stage set up that features Creek choir students that preform acapella music for the carnival. All of the delicious food and more is sure to satisfy every student. “My favorite homecoming booth is the ones that sell cupcakes and cookies and stuff like that. I plan on going to all the booths because I want to support my school and I just want to have fun. After the homecoming game, I am probably going to go eat and go to a party,” Maddy Holmes, sophomore, said. Some of the entertainment booths include a three-pointer contest, sponsored by Creek’s basketball program, a corn hole game by National Honor Society and Creek’s football
program, destroying a car booth, where students can take a sledgehammer to a car’s windshield. Also, JROTC is having a soda pop ring toss where students can win a liter of soda while FFA is having a take a selfie with a goat booth. Many more booths with games and activities will keep students captivated. “My favorite homecoming booth is anything that supports fine arts, like orchestra and languages like Spanish and also JROTC. I’m in a few honor societies so I plan on going to their booths to support them and represent a few of them. It’s going to be a really long but fun day,” Amanda Gumban, junior, said. Another popular booth at the carnival is the pie throwing booth, sponsored by ACADEC. At the booth students get a cahnce to throw pie at some of the staff at Creek. This booth is by far more popular than any others and entertains teachers and students alike. “My favorite booth is getting my hair sprayed different colors but also the pie throwing booths. I want to throw pies at the teachers who forget to but in my grades. I am excited for homecoming because of all the exciting event going on. I went to the store recently to get stuff for all the dress up days so I can show my school spirit,” Paige Severson, freshman, said. Along with all the mums and garters students will be wearing, there will be
many booths that sell spirit wear. The Spanish Honor Society will be selling sombreros decorated by the members, the debate students made headbands to sell and art students will be selling T-shirts as well as giving henna tattoos. DECA students will be providing a face paint booth, the Robotics students will be spray painting students’ hair and Mu Alpha Theta will be braiding hair, so there are many ways students can wear their school spirit. The theme for the homecoming football game, against Clear Falls, is “light up the Knights.” Students are expected to wear glow in the dark and neon spirit wear to “light up the Knights.” The Cat Corner is selling glow in the dark T-shirts for 15 dollars. Also, the Cavaliers will be selling glow sticks at their booth for the game as well. Homecoming is an exciting time of year for all Creek students and staff. The anticipation is high as the day approaches. Thanks to the hard work of all the student groups at Creek, the students can put on a carnival for everyone to take delight in.
Homecoming carnival booth map is located on page 16.