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California Drought By: Kaitlyn Brooks
The Issue: Earthquakes, drought, wildfires, famine; what may sound like the apocalypse is unfortunately a reality in California. “The Drought of the Century,” or the “MegaDrought,” has extended its long arm to plague the entire golden state and is threatening to last long into the future without relief. State officials are scrambling to find ways to conserve the depleting water supply and according to the California Department of Public Health, seventeen rural communities are in danger of running out of water within the year. Fifty-six percent of California is now in a state of severe drought, which is the highest level of intensity according to the National Drought Mitigation Center. Eighty-two percent of the state is in exceptional drought; a figure that is still rising. Notices have been sent door to door, warning residents that the state is now fining people up to $500 dollars for
Results of the drought in California.
failing to comply with drought regulations. Californians, it reads, are not to use water for washing their cars or for landscaping, and may only water their lawns two days a week. Here in Sutter County, Officials have been seen driving around neighborhoods, noting which households are breaking the rules. In locations where the drought is more prevalent, these restrictions are far more severe, limiting people to a set amount of water per household. The drought is having numerous adverse effects throughout
Rivers that were once overflowing are now dry, their riverbeds caked and split open.
California. Fire season has been extended well into autumn with eleven wildfires currently raging across the state. Many people have been forced to abandon their homes. There is also a higher risk of earthquakes along the San Andreas fault due to increased groundwater pumping. The process is actually lowering the earth which then bounces back up because there is nothing to weigh it down, agitating the two tectonic... continued on page 2
The effect of the drought on Lake Oroville, CA.
plates that California sits upon. California's agricultural industry, which supplies food to much of the country, is facing enormous cutbacks as the drought persists. Researchers at the UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences predict that as many as 17,100 farmer workers will be out of a job and losses in the industry will amount to $2.2 billion. Central Valley alone is expected to lose $180 million as a result. Hopes have turned to El Niño, a storm that hits the western United States around every two to seven years as the state’s last chance. While the storm began with a strong formation and a sixty-five percent chance of occurring, it has since dwindled to a size that is expected to offer little help to the parched state.
What You Can Do: The fact of the matter is that Californians do not know how to conserve their water. In fact, water use has increased overall by one percent since the drought was announced and by eight percent in Southern California. Millions of gallons are lost daily; and these gallons could be conserved. Cities and suburbs take in about 20 percent of the state’s water. The population could help these numbers go down until our resource goes back up. Here are some tips to help diminish the severity of the drought.
• Skip the bath altogether and shower instead (saves 70 gallons). • Turn off the water when washing your hair (saves about 150 gallons per month). • Let your lawn “go dormant” during the winter: watering only every three to four weeks. • Check your toilets and pipes every year for leaks and insulate to prevent any more. • Construct a “rain barrel” and place it beneath a drainage pipe to catch extra water that can be used for watering your plants.
• Wash dishes and laundry only when the machines are full. • find out how much water you need to drink a day and do not go over • Set your sprinklers to water your the limit. lawns early in the morning when temperatures are cooler (saves 25 Adaptation may be difficult at first, Efforts are being made to conserve gallons each time). but it will save you money and statewide. Groundwater provides precious water in the end. California's thirty to forty percent of California’s • Do not let the tap run when population is currently 38,340,000 brushing teeth, shaving, washing water supply in years of normal people; if everyone saves even a few hands, and washing dishes. rainfall and sixty percent in years of gallons per day, billions of gallons of drought. Limits on groundwater water could be conserved to provide • reduce shower time from ten pumping are going to be enacted, for those who need it and supply our minutes to five minutes. however they will not be in effect agricultural industry. until the 2020s. There are plans to • Use a drip irrigation system for purify and recycle California’s used watering plants instead of continuos water supply, called grey water, but water flow (saves 15 gallons each their are many who have balked at the time you water). idea. Desalination plants, which take the salt out of ocean water are in development, yet the process is costly. The country’s largest desalination plant will soon provide 50 million gallons of water per day to some 300,000 residents, but at a cost of $1 billion in construction according to the project’s website.
Featured Essays Young and Beautiful by: Nichole Horsfall Sophomore
sounds a bit silly to think I would want to stay 18 just so I can drive, but in my mind, it makes sense. Plus, when you think about it, someone who could drive around 16 would not be taken quite as seriously because they are younger. They would be pulled over more frequently, and I would not want that.
Peter Pan is the story of a boy who doesn’t want to grow up. If you could pick any age to be forever, which would it be? You can pick an age you have not yet been. Why would you pick that Secondly, if I am 18 forever, I age? Be sure to use examples and would still be pretty young, but details when writing your essay explaining which age you would not too young. If I am 18, I could take my friends to a dance club choose and why. for some fun. We would be able to get in and just be able to hang Think about Peter Pan, and out and have a good time. Also, how he never grows up. If you by the time I am 18, I could go had the chance to stay forever see a rated R movie without young, would you take it? What anyone to chaperone me. Also, I if you could choose what age you would be able to wear cute outfits wanted to be? Which age would and make myself look good you choose? If I had the because of my young possibility to stay one age complexion. Another good thing forever, I would choose to be 18. about being this young would be My decision is not a blunt choice, that I would never get wrinkles or blemishes. I would have clear, however. I do have reasons for beautiful, young skin. Then I wanting to be 18, such as being could also be with a boy without able to drive, being young (but having to worry about him being not too young), and being able to a couple years older. have fun without responsibilities. Lastly, I would love to be 18 forever so I could have fun with Firstly, when I am 18, I would my girls without having too many be able to drive. Knowing how to responsibilities. Sure, I would drive would mean I could easily need to get a job to help pay for get around to my friends. I would certain expenses, but that would not have to get a ride from my be a minor thing. I would not parents or anyone else. Plus, have to worry about going to driving means my friends and I school, having homework, or could stay out late and not have having to vote. Well, sure it might to worry about being picked up at be fun to be able to vote, but it is a certain time. If I had chosen a a responsibility that I do not want younger age, I would probably on my shoulders. I want to be have a curfew and several strict able to go out for a night on the rules to abide by. Maybe it town with my closest friends
without having to worry about any homework that is due tomorrow, or it being a school night. I just want to have fun, live my life the way I want, and be free. No matter how much fun it would be to be 18 forever, there would be some consequences. For one, you would have to constantly move around or else people would begin to question why you never grew up. It might be an okay thing to deal with; you could always meet new people and make new friends. Which, I always enjoy, but some people might hate to leave their friends behind. Another downside about being 18 forever is that you would live forever, and have to watch everyone you love grow up, grow old, and pass away. Plus, I do not think you could really start a family or get married when you are 18 forever, unless you knew a way to make the person you love young forever. I have told you what I would do if I were 18 forever. I have told you why I would want to be 18 forever. My reasons are being able to drive, being young (but not too young), and being able to have fun without too many responsibilities. Now it is your turn. What would you do if you were young forever? How much fun would it be, and what age would you be? What would you do if you were young and beautiful forever?
Playing the Violin: My Special Skill
This teacher was Helen Graham, and she is still my violin teacher. Part of the reason why I have by: Joanna Jarvis been so successful is because my Eighth Grade mom has made sure that I practice almost every day. Everyone has certain skills in Practicing is something that I do not always enjoy, but I appreciate which they excel. What is one area in which you excel? Write an her enforcing my practicing because it pays off in the end essay describing your success and when I perform a piece. how you achieved it. Be complete and specific in describing how About six years ago, when you achieved this success. I was six, I started playing in the Sutter Buttes Family Orchestra, or Family Orchestra, as everyone An area in which I excel is playing my violin. I owe all my called it. Conducted by Mrs. Gaston, Family Orchestra was accomplishments in this area to comprised of people of all ages my family and teachers. I have and almost all abilities. I started already made it almost halfway through the Suzuki Violin School out barely able to play with the group, but last year, in Family books, and I play in the Yuba Sutter Youth Symphony. Here are Orchestra's final concert, I was some of the ways in which I have Concertmaster! Family Orchestra was never very prestigious, but it been successful and why my taught me how to play in an family and teachers are orchestra, and it is part of the responsible for this success. reason why I am in the Yuba Sutter Youth Symphony! When I was four years old, I watched my older sister, Two years ago, I Alison, perform at a violin recital. auditioned for a spot in the I saw the way she played and decided that I wanted to play the second violin section of the Yuba Sutter Youth Symphony, and violin also. So, when I was four years old, I started taking lessons ended up with a spot as the last chair in the first violins! It was a from Ingrid Gaston. It took me almost two years to complete the lot of work to learn the songs and keep up with the more talented first Suzuki book, but thanks to players, but I knew that playing Mrs. Gaston and my mom (who in a symphony was something I helped me practice), I made it through. Since then, I have made enjoyed when I heard the beautiful sound of all the it through the first four books, instruments blending at our and I am about halfway through concert. Last year I again with the fifth book. About four auditioned, and ended up as years ago, Mrs. Gaston retired, Principal Second, which is the and I had to find a new teacher.
first chair in the second violin section. I was slightly disappointed at first, but they chose me for that spot because they wanted someone who could lead the other violins, and I enjoyed that more than I thought I would. This year, I am second chair in the first violins, which means that I am seated next to the Concertmaster! The music is slightly challenging, but very fun to play, and I can see how much I have improved in just two years. Because the Concertmaster is a senior in high school, there is a good chance that I may be Concertmaster next year. I do not know if I am quite ready for that, but I am open to the challenge, and I still have another year to improve before then. Through the years, I have participated in many enjoyable violin activities, from playing fiddle tunes at Apple Hill, to playing at the yearly Suzuki book graduation for local players, to playing for people in nursing homes. Sometimes I really hate practicing, but it is always extremely rewarding in the end to make beautiful music for other people to enjoy. I know that I am not the best of players, but in the eight years that I have been playing the violin, I have improved tremendously and discovered a passion for playing. I am very grateful to my teachers and family for helping me become the violinist I am today, and I hope to keep playing the violin for many more years!
The iPhone 6 Bigger Than Bigger: by Jordan Brooks
IN JUST SEVEN YEARS We went from this...
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As of Thursday, September 4th, 2014, we are five days away from Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC). Most Apple followers would know that an Apple conference held in the fall will reveal a new Apple iPhone. In anticipation of this event, I am going to share where Apple started, regarding the iPhone, and predict what innovations the new device will entail.
To this!
While it may seem like a dinosaur to most of you, the breakthrough of the first iPhone phone to actually having it. It’s was revolutionary. It was the first in your pocket. device to feature a multi-touch You can play games on a screen. retina display. What is a retina display? In a nutshell it’s a high Most of you pull out your phone everyday and tap on that resolution screen with pixels so compact that you can’t even see screen and barely think about them with the naked eye. It’s just how amazing it is that you can clear. do that. It was just seven years ago that touch-screens became an actual possibility. Apple’s App Store is a very common thing nowadays, but downloading, creating, and using applications didn’t even exist seven years ago. The most current iPhone model can be unlocked and turned on by scanning your fingerprint. Seriously. We went from imagining how cool it would be to have a secret agent
You can surf the web, play games, listen to music, read, watch television, do your homework, take photos, navigate throughout the world. And it’s all in a four inch screen and is only .30 inches thick.
When I was younger, I used to sit with my dad and ask him question after question as he would work on his computer. Of course back then, computers were as big as trash cans. They were big, heavy, and made of a cheap metal. These computers would always overheat, causing yet another tragedy, followed by a purchase of a new part or some tedious repair.
Apple has been an obsession of mine since my dad brought the first generation iPhone home in 2007. If I had the time I could sit in a trance watching What’s next for the Apple Apple keynotes all day. And iPhone? Can they innovate any while I do understand I cannot further? Will it be thinner? Have make you all as obsessed about more battery life? These updates this technology as me, I do want are all something that we are to emphasize how amazing I feel used to. What will come with the these products truly are. iPhone 6?
September 9th The iPhone 6 is Unveiled
wait... that won’t work. Oh, and don’t forget your cell phone, it looks something like this-
Imagine an empty suitcase as you’re preparing for a trip. You want to take photos and videos, so you place a camera and a cam-corder in your suitcase. You need a calendar, so you snap it off the wall and add it as well. You well, maybe that’s an grab the Sunday paper for your exaggeration. weather forecast. You pack a note pad, an itinerary (to stay on track), Can you picture your suitcase and add a to-do list. with everything you are going to need? Can you? Did you think it If you’re going on a long flight, would look like this? you’ll need some good reading material. So you grab a couple of magazines and maybe throw The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes into The iPhone 6 and its the mix. You make sure you have predecessors can do everything your airline tickets and all your that the contents of your giant credit cards. Oh and your map! You’re going to need a map if you suitcase can do plus much, much more. Its features follow the path plan on trekking through ... of the new age we are speeding wherever it is you’re going. into.
amount of features that people with health issues can use to their benefit. The new camera allows you to take even better photos and now shoot video in slow-motion. The quick-type feature anticipates what words you are going to type. This allows for faster texting and writing all together. With iMessaging you can send quick clips of your voice right from the app, you can do this with video as well and send it instantly. You can send multiple photos at one time using iMessaging, you can share your location, and join or leave group texting.
Family sharing allows you to send requests between family members for purchases. You can share music, photos, and app, You want to listen to music on and all keep your individual The new phone unveils a your trip? If you smush the accounts. magazines down we might have health app, allowing you to keep track of exercises, medications, enough room for two or three inhaler usage, calorie intake; and Below are some new features CDs. A computer? Well, if you that the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus slide it under the camera and... oh that isn’t even the half of it. The health application offers a huge have.
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The new iPhone has two different sizes. The first model, the iPhone 6 has a 4.7 in screen when measured diagonally. The iPhone 6 Plus has a 5.5 in screen when measured across the screen as well.
The new iPhone is amazingly thin. The iPhone 6 is 6.9 mm and the iPhone 6 Plus is 7.1 mm thin. The display is extremely crisp and clear. It is their “Biggest and Thinnest iPhone ever.”
All new health app, allows you to have a medical id you can view when the phone is locked. Am az ing cam era an d 10 80 p hd video. Available in Silver, Go ld, and Space Gray
The Game Of Golf!!!!! Golf is an awesome sport to play. When you first start out it’s hard, but once you start playing, its like a second nature. Golf originated in 1421 when the Scottish were aiding the French against the English and the Scottish were introduced to the game of Chole. This later on became golf. Hugh Kennedy, Robert Stewart, and John Smale
bigger the number the smaller the head; meaning smallest to biggest- fairway, three, and then one. I own a 1-wood and personally my wood is my favorite club out of all eight of my clubs. Next you have the putter. The putter is the club you use at the end of the hole. You use the putter when you are on the green trying to get the ball in the hole, that is if you did not get a hole in one. When using your putter you have to remember to take it slow. Putting is what really makes your score. Up next is the iron. The iron is what you use while you are on the fairway were players who were credited between the tee box and the green. There are two different with introducing the game in irons, you have the six iron and Scotland. the eight iron. With the iron the smaller the number the further There are four different you go, and the closer you get clubs used in golf and each of to the green. For example, if those has their own sections. The two parts of the club are the you are only 150 yards from the head, which is the part you hit with, and the staff, which is the part, you hold. First you have the wood, also known as the driver. This club is used at the beginning of each hole and has the biggest head. You have your 3wood, your 1-wood, and your fairway driver. Remember the
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green, you want to use your six iron. When you are only 75 yards away, you want to use your eight iron.
That brings us to the last club you use while playing golf, the pitcher or the sand wedge. The pitcher is used when you are right off the green and you need that little pop up onto the green. The sand wedge is when you are on the fairway and you hooked your ball to the left or right and ended up in the sand trap. There are five parts to a golf course. You have your tee box, the fairway, green, the rough, and finally the hazards.
The tee box is where you start your adventure on hole number one, and each time you start a hole you go to another tee box. There are four different tee boxes. The gold, if you are in the gold you are extremely good at golf. Next is the blue. Blue is where you go when you are really good, but not quite at gold. Then there is white. The white tee boxes mean you are good just not a pro. Finally you have the red. Now on most golf courses gold, blue, and white are men tees, and red are women. But how I see it is it your gender does not matter. If you are a pro at golf go to the gold, if you are okay to good at golf, then go to the red tee box. Then you have your hazards, which contain both water and sand. If you hit into the water then you get a new ball and count it as one stroke. If you go into the sand traps that are located at each hole, you can get your sand wedge/ pitcher. You can walk into the sand and hit your ball out. And if you can not get it out of the sand, take it out, place it on the green and take one stroke. The fairway is the long part of the hole where you spend most of your time. You hit your
ball from the tee box, and then you go to the green. You also have the rough; this is the place right off the green. The grass is still short here, but taller than the green. Finally you have your green. The green is located at the end of each hole. This is where it really matters. You could have taken seven strokes to get your ball onto the green, but what really counts is how many it takes you to get into the hole. If anyone has any interest in learning how to play golf you can go to Iles golf academy. They have summer camps that run from June - September. Also, from May – October is a girl’s golf camp, but they are allowing boys to join. You have to be 7-17 years of age. You can be as young as six years but they do not recommended it. The golf courses that participate are; Mallard Lake in Yuba City. Colusa Golf and Country Club. Plumas
Lake Country Club in Plumas Lake, and Coyote Run. Coyote Run golf course is on Beale Air Force base. So if you are military, that’s great, but if not the employees there are super awesome and will do everything they can to get you onto the base. The summer camps are both gender and are free. The girl’s golf is $10 one time pay, each year.
Football, and when I say football, I mean the real football not soccer.
The game of football was first played on November 6, 1869. Rutgers and Princeton played what was billed as the first game of college football. However, it wasn't until the 1880s that a great rugby player from Yale, Walter Camp, pioneered rule changes that slowly transformed rugby into the new game of American Football. You can see high school football, college football, and pro football. The NFL (National Football League,) was formed on August 20, 1920. It is broken down into two divisions- NFC, and AFC. Both NFC and AFC are then broken down into West, East, North, and South. There are a total number of 32 teams in the NFL. Football season start usually in early September and goes until early February. In February the Super
Bowl comes, the biggest game of football. How the Super Bowl works is during January the six best (four division winners and two wildcard teams) NFC, and AFC teams play until the championship game where one NFC, and one AFC team will win and go onto play in the Super Bowl. Last February was the Seattle Seahawks VS the Denver Broncos. The Seahawks won.
uprights are the things that the kicker on each team kicks the ball though to get a field goal or extra point. Uprights are located at both ends of the field. What is the meaning of the end zone? That means...
Now whoever wins the Super Bowl gets these awesome
The players are really the BIGGEST part of the game.
TOUCHDOWN!!!!!! The end zone is where you run in to get a touchdown. Also, it is how you get your points to win the game. Really, the end zone is the biggest part of the game well out of the non living objects.
Now, for the football field itself.
rings, shirts, hats, and a bunch more stuff. My favorite NFL team is the SanFrancisco 49ers. Now enough on the NFL. Let’s talk about the parts of football. The Uprights or how some know them as the giant gold post at the end of the field. The
You have your 50 yard line, your 20, 10, touchdown!!! And numbers between 1-100 yards. A football field is broken down in half 50 and 50 meaning it is a total of 100 yards. Can you imagine running 100 yards? Well, people have done it, and it’s called a runback.
#4- first-down, game clock, In college football after a first down Touchdown gets you six the game clock points, an extra point gets you stops, but in NFL one point. You get an extra point it just keeps only after a touchdown. You have going unless the your field goal which gives you player goes out of three points, and then a safety bounds or the which is two points. Now the team called a point of the game is you want a time-out. big score.
Scoring, how to rack up the points to win the game.
#5- Out of bounds catches, in college the player must have full control of the ball and have at least one foot in bounds, while in NFL the player must have the ball and have both feet in bounds.
So we talked about NFL, but as I said earlier there is also high school, and college football, so lets talk about college. There are a total of 125 college football teams all over the United States. My three favorite colleges Now for high school football. are University of Hawaii, Humboldt State University, and In our area we have quite a bit Washington State. of high school teams such as; There are difference between Wheatland Pirates, Sutter Huskies, Yuba City Honkers, pro and college football:
Marysville Indians, and River Valley Falcons. There are a lot more high school football teams in the US than there are pro and college teams put together. There are a total of 16,047. That’s a lot of teams. I hope you learned some stuff about football from this article and I hope you enjoyed reading it.
#1- two minute warning, there is no two-minute warning in college football. #2- two-point conversion, there is no two-point conversion in college football. #3- knee down, in NFL if your knee touches the ground you still have a chance, but in college if your knee touches the ground you’re are done and it goes to the next play.
NFL, College, High School-FOOTBALL!!!! By: Kylea Tucker
CELESTIAL EXPLORATION Student -Bethany CoreyThe Universe The Universe; she calls. She calls without voice.
Exoplanets The Gemini Planet Imager (GPI)
She moves to no end and lives without choice. Her brightest stars are hidden; so are her darkest nights. The Earth, the Sun, the Moon, are some of her faintest sights. From the soil of the ground, to the reaches of the sky....
This is an image of the star HR4796A, taken from the GPI telescope in the Laboratory for Adaptive Optics. The bright blue ring orbiting its axis is a dense cloud of dust and matter that is in the process of forming a planet.
Kepler Satellite
....Do the furry creatures run, and the feathered eagles fly. There is no beginning. There is no end.
This year, more than 700 exoplanets were discovered and confirmed to be legitimate by the satellite Kepler. The satellite failed to continue operating as of last There is no time she will not spend. year, but it brought us a plethora of information; not just of these There is life, and there is death.... new exoplanets, but of other heavenly bodies. Previously, ....But she will live on. She has no Kepler discovered a possible last breath. 3,500 other planets, as well as 246 confirmed. -Bethany The total of all confirmed
“Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.” -Edwin Hubble
“To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.” -Stephen Hawking
exoplanets discovered by Kepler is about 1,010. Of these include gas giants and many small rocky planets; one of which (186f) is within a “habitable zone” of its sun. It is similar to Earth in size, but scientists speculate that it doesn’t contain any advanced life forms. However, this planet does provide insight as to what development of life on other planets would look like in its early stages.
“Astronomy compels the soul to look upward, and leads us from this world to another.” -Plato
Nebular Discoveries Do nebulae cook from the outside inward? For a long time, most scientist have thought that in all, nebulae, stars, and planets form in the most dense center areas, and the emptier, more distant-from-center areas are filled in later (this is the Nebular Theory). This would make the center of the nebula older than its outer reaches. This is the case for most and many nebulae, but recently, a star cluster was found in the center of the flame nebula that presents itself as a challenging variable to astronomers. “A key conclusion from our study is we can reject the basic model where clusters form from the inside out. [....]. So we need to consider more complex models that are now emerging
This is an image taken by NASA’s Chandra and Spitzer telescope. It is made of a combination of X-ray and infrared imaging. The cluster of pink colored stars is NGC 2024.
from star formation studies,” said Eric Feigelson of Penn State. This young cluster, NGC 2024, is located 1,400 light years from Earth within the Orion region, and is about 200,000 years old. This is in contrast to the nebula’s more external stars, which are about 1.5 million years old. In addition to NGC 2024, the center clusters of the Orion Nebula are about a million years younger than its outer stars, which are about 2 million years old. This means that the Flame nebula (as well as parts of the Orion nebula) could have “cooked from the outside in,” or some other intricate astrophysical phenomenon is at work. One way this could have happened is the momentum given off by the stellar energy of new stars, which could sort of expel older stars to the outer edges of the nebula. This, however, is theoretical. Scientists are still not completely sure how nebulae really form.
The Flame nebula
Our Local Sky
LUNAR CYCLE
September 24th:
New Moon November 6th: Full
Moon November 22: New
Moon
UPCOMING CELESTIAL EVENTS
December 6th: Full
Moon December 22: New
Moon
2014
1. The 23rd of September marks the Autumnal equinox, when the sun is aligned with the earth’s celestial equator, and both day and night are of equal length. 2. On October 7th, Jupiter will be at opposition (meaning the closest it can be to Earth) and it will be lit up by sunlight and visible in the night sky. 3. On October 8th, the moon will be full and in a total lunar eclipse. It will appear large, bright, and red in the night sky. 4. A Draconids meteor shower will occur on October 8th-9th. 5. An Orionids meteor shower will be on October 22nd-23rd. 6. There will be a partial solar eclipse on October 23rd. 7. A Taurids meteor shower will occur on November 5th and 6th. 8. A Leonids meteor shower will occur on November 17th and 18th. 9. On December 13th and 14, there will be a Geminids meteor shower.
WRITING CLUB
Join the Writing Club Although you can work alone, the idea of this writing club is to encourage others to join forces and write just for the fun of it. Based on the photo, adapt a story of any kind. The story should be between 250-500 words. It can be about anything you wish‌ as long as you include the words in the word bank on the right hand side of the page. You can give your submissions to the journalism class on Thursdays from 12:30 PM to 1:55 PM. Or email them to: corejournalismstudent@gmail.com. The top two will be featured in the next newspaper. Have fun and write on!
Word Bank 1. Amorphous - having no definite form or distinct shape 2. Plethora - extreme excess 3. Vestige - an indication that something has been present 4. Serendipity - good luck in making unexpected and fortunate discoveries 5. Cleave - separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument