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Brody Thomas Midview West Elementary Grade 4 • Stacy Brandenburg REASER CONSTRUCTION PAGE #9

Bella Hostler Walter G. Nord School Grade 5 • Mary Kay Mullen MIKE BASS FORD PAGE #13

Kayden Daniels Elyria High School Grade 9 • Melissa Stanley MCDONALDS ELYRIA PAGE #2

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Jersey Brockmeyer Amherst Junior High Grade 6 • Wendy Kerschner

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Bryan Spaniel Lorain County JVS Grade 11 • Tina Krosse

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Zane Rhodes Amherst Junior High Grade 6 • Jami Sexton EDITORIAL PAGE #3

COVER STORY “The graphics selected were inspired by the various tools used in art. I used a couple of different sofware programs such as Google Drawings to make the outline and details and Adobe Photoship to add the text. Overall this took me about two days to complete and perfect to my liking. To research this project, I looked at other designs to get inspiration.

At the moment, I am interested in pursuing a career in graphic design.”

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Should esports be a sport?

Hey! Imagine this. You’re hanging out with your friends and one of them says that they want to be a professional athlete of esports.

One friend says that esports aren’t a sport.

Which would you choose?

Roundhillinvestments.org states that most esport teams practice with their teams for up to 10 hours a day. Much of the training puts a physical and mental strain on the players to do better. The training can be so intense that players retire after only a few years of playing competitively.

Esports is also very popular. ESPN broadcast esports games all the time now, too.

According to jackcentral.org, the audience also grew to 495 million people in 2020!

The esports market is on track to surpass 1.5 billion by 2023!

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Grade 6 Amherst Jr. High Teacher: Jami Sexton

Critics say that anyone can just play games and get money for it. They say it doesn’t take much skill, but they are wrong. Esports athletes see the game differently than casual players. Roundhillinvestments.org’s research states that casual player’s eyes dart around the screen while the professional player stays focused in the center. It states on Roundhillinvestments.com that esports athletes can achieve up to 400 movements on a keyboard and mouse, too.

With the growing crowd of esports viewers and the skills to be a top player being so difficult, esport must be classified as a sport.

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Less technology in schools?

Imagine a classroom where all the kids are on their chromebooks and the teacher is on her computer grading work. It’s raining

outside the raindrops are hitting the roof drip after drip, then out of nowhere the lights shut of. I believe that we should have less technology or many reasons such as if the power goes out. Technology also comes with many distractions which leads many kids to not get work done.

Others believe it helps kids by having more technology because they can get their work done faster. It’s ok to have your opinion, but from my experience, technology is distracting for kids and also the teacher

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needs to be helping and teaching students in order for them to understand their work.

In my opinion, I think we should have more classrooms with less technology because of the distractions that lead students to not paying attention and leaving our teacher pulling their hair out by the end of the day. Plus, students need to be able to maintain their fine motor skills that are needed for handwriting, coloring and using scissors. Technology is great, but it shouldn’t be the only tool used in the classroom.

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340 Griswold Road Elyria, OH 44035 440-324-3400 AchieveCU.org Braylee Beckham • Grade 4 • Midview West Elementary • Teacher, Janet Leopold

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Grade 6 St. Jude School Teacher: Jessica Pardee

How long do you want to sit on the side of the road waiting for a tow truck? If you

knew how to fix a flat tire you wouldn’t have to wait for help. Most high schools don’t have classes that teach you how to change a tire or change your oil. If this was taught then young drivers and their parents could save money and time.

Why don’t high schools teach useful things like this? Some people think there are too many classes already so they don’t have time or it’s a lack of interest or lack of funding. Finding a leak and plugging it only cost 15 to 30 dollars but replacing a tire is way more. The Pekin Insurance website says the average cost per tire is 137

to 187 dollars and the charges for a repair shop putting it on is more. Another website states that the average American spends 408.00 dollars yearly on basic vehicle maintenance if you do the work yourself. What if you don’t know how to do maintenance on your own car? That average can quadruple!

High schools should offer basic maintenance classes so that you can change your own tire and aren’t stuck on the side of the road. People are spending over 157 dollars on getting their car fixed. So you can see this is why I think that all high schools should have a basic mechanics class.

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Cats vs. Dogs Did you know that 44% of Americans own dog and 29% own a cat? Dogs are better

than cats because cats are haughty, they’re temperamental, and most of the time, they act like you don’t exist. On the other hand, dogs are loyal, cuddly, goofy, and best of all, they love you no matter what. Some people love cats because they don’t depend on you as much as dogs, are cleaner, and don’t take up alot of space.

In comparison to cats, dogs are the best because they improve their owner’s health and have a strong emotional bond to their owners. Research studies from around the world have found that dogs offer health benefits to owners. According to the Better Health Channel, walking a dog is healthy because it improves cardiovascular fitness,

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Furthermore, people who walk their dogs are seen by other people as friendly and approachable. The non-judgemental companionship and unconditional love offered by dogs is known to have considerable mental health benefits for owners, including increasing self-esteem. By developing strong bonds with your dog, as time goes by, you become a part of the dog’s family just as much as the dog becomes a part of yours.

The dog’s instinctive need to protect is established and reinforced through mutual trust and guidance. If someone threatens you or your family, the dog will react and become defensive. Now that you know how loyal dogs are and how clean cats are you can choose which team you are on!

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Teachers were given four weeks to have their students design ads and or write editorials.

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Local businesses and classrooms had zoom meetings. Businesses then choose their favorite ad winners. In some cases they chose additional winners. Editorials were judged on clarity and persuasiveness.

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Phones at 11-12 years old It’s very important for kids to have phones nowadays. A recent article from 2019 states

that, “Just over half of children in the United States - 53 percent - now own a smartphone by the age of 11.” Kids around 11-12 years old should get a phone!

First, kids will be able to contact someone if there’s an emergency. This could be really important if the child is alone at a mall, reataurant or even their own house.

The report - Ten Reasons Why a Kid Should Have a Cell Phone states, “Cell phones are a lifeline between a parent and their children, and cell phones also can be used to call emergency responders.”

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Anna Groboske

Grade 6 Midview East Intermediate Teacher: Kim Justice

Second, it could halp kids stay organized with school and other activities. Kids my age do a lof of sports, especially at middle school. My parents get upset at my brother if he doesn’t do something on time, so he sets alarms or puts stuff on his digital calendar to keep him on track with his schedule. I’m the type of person who loves to have everything organized, so having a phone would make me feel so good!

I’m speaking from a perspective of someone who does not have a phone, therefore, I think kids should get phones at age 11-12.

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Mental Health SOS Suicide is the 3rd leading cause of death for ages 10-24. This is why mental health

awareness should be taught in our schools.

Mental health education has many benefits. A study shows that teaching mental health increases people’s willingness to seek help. It also lowers conflict between students in school.

According to a study in 2011 in the journal American Psychologist, author Anthony F. Jorm states, “Schools, colleges, and universities are well placed as settings for improving mental health literacy because of the high-risk age groups serve and their educational mission”. This is why mental health should be taught to people of all ages.

How does this affect someone’s mental health in a situation like a pandemic?

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Grade 6 Amherst Junior High Teacher: Jami Sexton

If mental awareness is taught to younger people in school they will be able to identify mental illness in peers or even themselves and seek help quicker. This can also help during hard times like the Covid-19 pandemic. We hear stories on the news nearly every day about kids’ struggles during this unprecedented time.

We need to give them the mental health tools to successfully be able to get through this pandemic and whatever the future may hold.

The benefits of teaching mental health awareness has shown to have positive effects on all different kinds of people. If people don’t start learning about different mental health problems and how to help them, the suicide rate could slowly but surely get higher and higher.

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Save the rainforest Research has shown that we are quickly loosing the rainforest. In fact, every minute

we lose another 150 acres of the rainforest.

We need the rainforest to produce oxygen and clean the atmosphere to help us breathe.

There are things that we can do to preserve it such as saving paper and reducing your carbon footprint. There are small changes that can be done to make a big change in helping to save the rainforest, but we must act now.

Americans use more than 90 million tons of paper a year. An average of 700 pounds of paper is wasted per person each year.

According to data from Global Forest Resource Assessment 80,000 to 160,000 trees are cut down each day. The rainforest can be preserved by conserving paper.

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Alexandra Sas-Sixbley

Grade 6 Amherst Junior High Teacher: Jami Sexton

The ways to reduce paper include using both sides of paper to decrease paper consumption and help prevent deforestation. Use cloth bags to help the environment, because plastic bags use many fossil fuels to ship and plastic bags take a long time to break down.

Reducing your carbon footprint helps reduce pollution in the atmosphere and the rainforest helps to decrease the Carbon dioxide emissions. An average carbon footprint for a person is 16 tons! Things to help include taking the bus, driving less, turning down your thermostat just by a little, turning off lights, and electronics.

The rainforest is essential to the planet. By reducing your paper use and carbon footprint the rainforest can be preserve.

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“The Zoom was appreciated as we aren't permitted to have visitors in the building. The kids learned a lot about how credit unions work and how they can start their own accounts even though they are 'just kids', so they can start learning about finances. I have been privileged to have been assigned LorMet in the past and I appreciated learning about all the new programs they have and that they've even opened a new branch. Knowing how they've grown gives me confidence in the growth of Lorain County.”

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Never too many cooks in the kitchen Did you know that one in four Americans don’t know how to cook? This number is

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much too high. We need to teach the next generation how to cook because it not only improves nutrition, but mental health and ‘people skills’.

Studies have shown cooking improves their mental health. Cooking increases patience and self-esteem. For example, when a child waits for dough to rise or meatloaf to cool, they learn that they have to wait for somethings. It also increases their self-esteem when they know they cooked something.

According to Jillian Levy, cooking and baking as a form of a stress relief is now recommended for people dealing with a wide range of health conditions.

Another reason cooking at a young age is

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wonderful is it requires working together, which helps children to bond with the person they are cooking with and improves their communication skills. When a child is cooking with someone there is this sense of togetherness. Kids learn to communicate when they need to work together to make something. According to Kat Smith, asking others to take an active role in the kitchen can create a sense of community.

Lastly, cooking is an important life skill for people to have, and if you learn it early on in life, it will stick with you. Cooking saves money and is healthier than eating out.

Learning to cook is good for kids because it improves their mental health, increases their ‘people skills’, and teaches them a life skill.

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Benefits of organ donation Imagine if you had to carry a large tank of oxygen at all times because you needed new lungs. Sometimes organs don’t work right or

start to fail. To fix this problem oftentimes, organ transplants are needed. I strongly believe that everyone should donate their organs if they can.

First, when someone passes away it can be hard on the family and it is difficult to consider organ donation. Donating organs can help with the grief. Organ donation helps the family carry on the memory of their loved one. Families can also be happy knowing they saved someone’s life. Second, organ donation is completely free to the donor. The recipients cover all of the cost of the donation. Finally, not all donations are the result of tragedy, some donations come from living donors.

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Adam Szukarek

Grade 5 Walter G. Nord School Teacher: Erin Kinser

Living donors can donate tissue, one kidney or part of their pancreas, liver, or lung to help save someone else’s life.

While some people believe that you should be buried with all of your organs, I believe the organs are needed more by living people.

There are not enough donors in the world. My hope is that if more people like me will talk and educate about organ donation and more people will become donors. I strongly believe in organ donation because I am the recipient of a double lung transplant.

The next time you are thinking about making a change in your life, remember there are people in the world that need you.

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1-90 West to Exit #148 Route 254 Abigail Rinehart • Grade 5 • Walter G. Nord • Teacher, Mary Kay Mullen

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1-90 West to Exit #148 Route 254 Clara Durica • Grade 5 • Walter G. Nord, Amherst • Teacher, Mary Kay Mullen

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Alaina Malone-Brown • Grade 6 • Midview East Intermediate • Teacher, Kim Justice

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Jacinta Miller • Grade 5 • Midview East Intermediate • Teacher, Betsy Lanzer

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Save the arts Should students be able to express creativity in their own ways? Absolutely. Whether it’s

through drama, art, or music, schools must keep the arts.

Schools need to keep the arts because they enable students to express their creativity and increase achievement. Studies show that math and reading skills have significantly grown because of the arts. According to Theartofeducation.com, between 2011 and 2014, schools have experienced a 22.5 percent and 12.6 percent improvement in math and reading proficiency when the arts are reintroduced to their schools. Students can also learn history from plays, music, and visual arts. This is important because arts of all kinds give students more learning opportunities in many interesting ways.

One of the most common reasons why

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schools cut the arts is blamed on budget cuts. With losses in funding due to the pandemic, this might become more common.

According to kmsd.edu, since 2008, more than 80% of schools nationwide have experienced cuts to their budgets. The NCLB Act pushed schools to focus on standardized test scores. Funds to keep those numbers high were pushed into tested courses while arts classes that required schools to purchase supplies for students were cut first, leading to a huge drop in arts opportunities in schools. The majority of schools who have experienced budget cuts, cut the arts first.

All in all, whether it’s academic achievement or just to express creativity, students need the arts, and we must be vocal to keep them funded.

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Free Wifi yay or nay?

Have you ever walked into a store and your wifi went out? Do you think all stores should

have free wifi? In order to provide great customer service and increase their profits, they absolutely need to.

People tend to interact with the store more and stay calm longer with free wifi.

According to Small Business Trends, people stated they were 50.1% more likely to spend more money with free wifi, and people said they were 61.3% more likely to stay longer when free wifi was offered. With that being said it costs a business anywhere from $34.99 to over $500.00 a month to provide free wifi, but with a 50.1% more likely to spend money that would benefit the business more. Along with that, if you have free wifi then customers can go on social media or other websites making them more tolerant to wait in long lines at the store.

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Offering free wifi helps to improve customer service. Customers can access product information, reviews, and compare prices with other stores improving the shopping experience. With access to this information, customers are more likely to purchase a product on the spot. The free wifi can make it available for customers to open software programs that may be able to show where the product they are looking for is and what products they already have.

In conclusion, free wifi improves customer service, helps people stay calm, makes people tend to interact with the store more which improves revenue.

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“For many years I have had 5th grade students participate in Design an ad. This was my first year teaching high school digital art, and I was super excited for the opportunity to have my students use the skills they're learning to create digital ad designs. Students used Google Drawings and/or Photoshop to their create ads. All images had to be drawn. Downloaded images were not permitted.

The experience gave them the opportunity to apply their newly learned skills to create something that had a purpose outside of the classroom. They embraced the challenge and the end results far exceeded my expectation.”

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More sidewalks needed Did you know that in 2018, 6,283 people died walking on the side of the road? In my

community, lots of neighborhoods don’t have sidewalks and this creates problems for pedestrian safety. I strongly believe that Amherst needs more sidewalks in their neighborhoods.

First, sidewalks are a safe place for people to walk and run. On average, 4,500 people die walking in the road each year. Providing sidewalks prevents 88 percent of those deaths. Second of all, sidewalks make it easier for people to get exercise. Sidewalks are a safe place for people to play and socialize. Finally, many kids have trouble getting to school and sidewalks will make it easier for them. Many kids live too close to their schools to ride the bus. Sidewalks will make it safer for them to walk to school.

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Grade 5 Walter G. Nord School Teacher: Erin Kinser

While some people believe that sidewalks are a waste of money and not worth it, they must understand that even though they are expensive they will save lives. Also, more people will walk and not pollute the air with their cars.

I strongly believe that more communities like Amherst need more sidewalks in their local neighborhoods. I feel this way because in my neighborhood we don’t have sidewalks and that stops my brothers and I from riding our bikes and getting exercise. The next time you are riding your bike on a sidewalk remember you are a lot safer than in the street.

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Northwood kids and teacher share their experience creating ads Q: How did you come up with your layout idea?

A: "Since the radio station is sports, I thought of football because that is my dad's favorite sport."

Emma Kothe Q: How did you research WEOL to learn more about the company?

A: "My teacher told me about the business and I asked her questions about what they did."

“I have been participating in the Design an Ad contest for 10 years as a teacher. I also participated as a student when I was in 5th grade, and that experience is why I continue to have my students participate. I remember how fun and exciting it was to have the chance for my work to be in the newspaper.

The Design an Ad contest is also a great way to show students a real-world connection to persuasive writing.

Because of the pandemic we could not have the businesses visit the classroom. We did, however, have a business visit us via a Zoom call. This was a fun alternative to an in-person visit.”

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Q: What was your favorite part of designing your ad?

A: “My favorite part was writing about the business and trying my best to win” Mychael Carty- Woodings

Q: What did you enjoy most about designing your ad?

A: “I liked that I got to draw.”

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Playing an instrument has many substantial benefits. However, playing an instrument

is typically not required in school, often being an extracurricular. Why aren’t band and orchestra classes required classes when things like art are, even though playing an instrument is very beneficial for students?

A common belief is that students devote too much time to music and eventually fall behind on other classes’ work. However, this is not the case. Peter Gouzouasis, UBC education professor, led an important study on this matter. He reported, “Our research proved this belief wrong and found the more the students engage with music, the better they do in those subjects.” He also concluded that musical students “not only score significantly higher, but were about one academic year ahead of their non-music

peers.” In fact, schools with a required band or orchestra course tend to have students that score higher on standardized tests.

Playing an instrument strengthens students’ cognitive ability. In a 2014 study, professors from the University of Switzerland found that musicians’ brains remain open to change throughout their lives. Their brains’ development happened over time. The results of this study are still relevant today, and can be directly linked to the effects of music.

If playing an instrument was required in school, students would develop a better understanding of other subjects, allowing their brains to make connections between those subjects. In time, students will begin to embrace creativity and many new innovations will be created.

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Poached into extinction Did you know that illegal wildlife trade is the fourth most lucrative illegal trade in the world, right after drugs, human trafficking,

and arms trade? Wildlife trade plays a massive part in the extinction of many species, and it can also potentially have many other dangerous consequences. It is important that we do something about it.

An example of the impact of wildlife trade on the extinction is both the African and Asian elephants. They are both at dire risk of extinction. Between 35,000 and 50,000 African elephants are poached a year, and it is estimated that the African elephant will be extinct in the next 10 years if this does not stop.

Wildlife trade and products have become a substantial source of income for terrorist groups in Africa. This is a dangerous consequence of wildlife trade because

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the income from it increased the ability of a terrorist’s organization to purchase weapons, bullets, and explosives.

Another dangerous consequence of wildlife trade is the impact on human life. Many national parks have rangers who guard endangered species, but since poachers are so determined to get the wildlife, they will do whatever it takes to get to them which includes killing the rangers.

To help stop illegal wildlife trade and all its consequences, we must stop purchasing wild animal products. We can also be better informed and work with organizations, such as the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). These animals must be saved and not poached into extinction.

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