Art Edition, January 2009

January 8, 2009

Ashland, Oregon

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Vol. III Issue IV

Photos, from left to right: Zach Miller, Maggie Witt and Emily Curty singing in Choir. Dylan Minor working in woodshop. Art, from top down by Sophia Borgias, Emma Harding, Kylie Peterman, Tess McWhorter and Sam Boenke.

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What is WFAF?

Dana is all smiles

By Zach Kitamura

By Zach Kitamura For many teenagers, wearing braces is a long and painful journey. But one Ashland High School student got the chance to experience a faster and painless way to get a brand new smile. The best part, it was free.

Freshman Dana Bogdanove won Girls’ Life Magazine’s “Spoil Yourself Giveaway” in June of last year, and ever since getting her Damon System braces on, it’s been a fast and painless process. “They ached a little the first day, but after that they were fine,” Bagdanove said.

Last January, Bagdanove entered the contest after reading about it in Girls’ Life Magazine. Out of 12,000 entrants, Bogdanove was one of ten selected finalists. The finalists all wrote essays about why they deserve better smiles and Bogdanove’s, viewable on rogunews.net, won and earned her the title of “Damon Braces Beauty.” Bogdanove learned the exciting news last summer. “I was totally ecstatic,” she said.

The Damon System braces are manufactured by Ormco Orthodontics, which sponsored the contest.

They straighten teeth faster, around 25 percent faster than normal braces, and with little to no pain. With a different set of braces, the process would take another half year to complete. The Damon braces normally cost $5,000.

Bogdanove is thankful for her new braces and her new smile. “I’m really just happy that I got them.”

This issue of the Rogue News is dedicated to the arts, centering on the Winter Fine Arts Festival. Nearly every page is dedicated in one way or another to the arts, whether its drama or fiberarts, painting or photos.

The Ashland High School Winter Fine Arts Festival (WFAF) is an annual celebration of the school’s talented artists. This years’ event takes place at 7 p.m. on January 13 and 14 at the Mountain Avenue Theater. It is a collaboration of performing and visual arts, combining live performances of choir, drama and music with an art show featuring painting, photography and other forms of visual art.

The Festival is conducted by the Ashland High Arts Advocates (AHAA), an organization of parents, faculty, alumni and community members.

The event has been held since 1994. The proceeds go towards funding AHS art programs and summer scholarships for art students. “This is the one time each year when family and community supporters of the arts at the high school can experience the Winter Fine Arts Festival poster rich and varied showcase that AHS students and faculty have been creating,” Former AHAA President Heidi Gottleib said.

“The event is especially important this year,” current AHAA President DW Wood said. “With the economic downturn and the school’s budget crisis, it’s more important for people to step up and support the arts.”

The festival begins at 6 p.m. Food from some of Ashland’s best restaurants is available at the pre-show café buffet.

The silent auction and student art show are also open. Student performances start at 7 p.m., with a concession stand during intermission.

The silent auction features a variety of items, including various performance tickets, pieces of art and even weekend getaways to vacation homes.

The buffet serves food delivered fresh from restaurants such as Geppetto’s, Pangea Grills & Wraps and Bonsai Teriyaki. It is separate from admission and costs $7 for one trip through the buffet. This is the third year that the café will be held, and the previous two have been a big hit. “There’s no need to eat beforehand,” Gottleib said.

Films from the video production class will be aired in the lobby and exhibits of art and photography will be displayed in the hallway outside the lobby.

The performances show off Ashland’s talented musicians and thespians. Band, choir and orchestra form the musical lineup. The musical performances are interspersed with samples of state theatre pieces and the spring musical “PaPoster art by Atiana Kuriyama jama Game.” There will also be a slide show that highlights all sorts of events from the past year.

AHAA has also created a Facebook page that shows upcoming events and pictures of past displays and performances. Photos are especially welcome. The ID is Arts Advocates.

Tickets cost $10 for adults and $5 for students and children. Tickets are available at the AHS Main office and at Tree House Books. If you can’t make it to either night, donations made to AHAA are welcome.

News Wire

• The FIRST Robotics competition has officially started! The team returned from the kickoff in Oregon City on Jan 3, where they received their kit of parts and information on this year’s game “Lunacy”.

The team is still looking for members to help design and build the robot, which will maneuver in a low-friction environment while pulling a trailer and attempt to score

points by launching cells into the opposing teams’ trailers. To find out more, visit usfirst.org, or to help out with the team, contact Team Captain Max Parker-Shames at max.parkershames@gmail.com.

• The school district’s entire e-mail system was completely erased on December 17, 2008. All e-mails and contacts were de-

stroyed. The district is currently working on getting the system restored.

• Check out the top stories on Rogunews. net: “AIDS dance a success” by Sierra Kistler and “Zooming in on video production” by Emily Greenblatt.

• The short story and poetry contest that was scheduled to be published this issue will be published in February.

• Scavenger Hunt began Jan 7.

Help out the team by looking up the clues at <http://www.sou. edu/youth/competitions/scavenger_hs.html>, but be sure to do it before Friday, Jan 9!

• Mock Trial is underway. This year’s case is about a student athlete who died becuase of steroid use. His father is now suing his son’s coach and the school. To participate, contact Bill Street in the AHS library.

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Reflecting on Obama

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On the world front, I beTwo years ago on a cold Illilieve Obama had it right when nois morning, Barack Obama anhe stated that we needed to sit nounced his candidacy for Presidown with nations that disdent. The senator who had come agree with us. Rather than havonto the scene in 2004 seemed ing Fox News play on Ameriready to be crushed by Senator can fears of Iranian weapons, Hillary Clinton in the Democratic we can actually understand Primaries. Flash-forward to the what Iranians want and work present day, and Barack Obama is together to overcome our difthe President-Elect of the United ferences.

States. The little-known Illinois However, Obama is already senator who preached hope someaccomplishing what I’ve been how pulled it off and is now only hoping for the most: he has a few days away from being inaurestored American pride. I gurated as the President of the am now able to go out in the United States. So the question I world and say I’m American, ask myself is, what should I be exwithout being ridiculed or pecting him to do? feeling ashamed. You may or I am 16. To me the Clinton may not be asking, ‘How ofAdministration is foggy at best. ten do you leave the country I’ve essentially lived with George Morgan?’ Good question, and Bush as President for my entire the answer is not often. Yet I Photo by Amber Lowey, Photo Illustration by Phoebe Parker-Shames life. Now, I’m not going to say Obama speaking in Medford during Oregon Primary. believe world opinion reflects this has been a completely terrible American opinion. I have been elsewhere. I’m really not expecting Obama to get the extremely irritated at the incessant whining about our experience. President Bush has done some things right, but during his tenure the in- worlds leaders to sit in a circle and sing ‘Kumbaya’. No, President and how much America ‘sucks’. I’ve heard ternational mistakes he made by invading Iraq and his it’s going to be so much harder than that. countless people stating their desires to move to CanWith America in a recession, we need Obama to ada. Now, thanks to President-Elect Obama, I’m heargeneral approach to world politics has turned even our allies against us, and now the world seems to have be- fix the economy, in part by creating some mandates ing less negativity, even about Bush. Suddenly, America come anti-American. It’s a common occurrence to hear for alternative energy. Through alternative energy we seems livable again about ashamed Americans overseas stating that they’re could become leaders in the fight against global warmSo once Barack Obama is inaugurated as our 44th ing, build a more efficient nation and create a whole President, he’ll have a long ‘to-do’ list. He’ll constantly Canadian.

I’m interested to see what the man that Time Maga- new industry at a time when America desperately needs be battling animosity, and might not do everything we zine declared “Person of the Year” is going to do as new jobs. Transportation projects could further pre- want him to do. Yet the changing of the guard has alPresident. While he may not be as talented at dodging vent global warming while creating new jobs. Wouldn’t ready created some profound effects. Change, finally, shoes as George Bush, he more than makes up for it it be nice to be able to take a train to Portland? Or even has come.

by Morgan Hall

Editorial: the power and influence of art Just as writing is not always written solely for the pleasure of reading, so too art is created for more than just something attractive to look at. Art can change the world as a political force. Consider the following examples: Last year at AHS, part of the senior mural was taken down because it featured a mostly naked Harry Potter. The student body was galvanized; art became the catalyst for social protest at our own school.

The National Parks System that is so important to the west coast as well as the whole United States would not have existed

were it not for the art of John Muir. His photos and drawings captured the beauty of nature and Congress’s consent to protect it.

It was fitting that art, which has long inspired change, was a strong force behind Barack Obama in the recent Presidential campaign. Music at his rallies as well as independent music videos on the Internet revealed the passionate feelings that Obama’s words inspired in the American public.

Art is also an instigator for change in other countries as well. Latin America has a long history of political murals. Diego

Editorial Board

Rivera was a political muralist who was born in Guanajuato Mexico, Ashland’s sister city. His huge frescos depicted the corruption of government and stirred feelings of reform. His wife, Frida Khalo, was also a famous painter. While Rivera focused on the political struggles of the world, Khalo focused on her own inner struggles and pain, and showed the strength of a powerful woman at a time when women didn’t even have the right to vote in Mexico (they gained that right just seven years before Khalo’s death). Both these painters influenced society and politics in Mexico, and even to some extent in the US. These artists and many others were

Editors-in-Chief.........................................Phoebe Parker-Shames, Žena Shelton Managing Editor.......................................................................Ella Riley-Adams Front Page Editors.......................................Anna Hume, Phoebe Parker-Shames News Editors...............................................Zach Kitamura, Michael Deckelmen Opinion Editors....................................................... Morgan Hall, Žena Shelton Feature Editors..........................................................Abbie Deal, Jackson Santee In-Depth Editors..............................................Ella Riley-Adams, Hannah Sayles Music Department Editor...............................................................Sadie Shelton Performance Arts Editor...................................................Phoebe Parker-Shames Woodshop Editor............................................................................Žena Shelton Photography Editors................................Jackson Santee, Phoebe Parker-Shames Sports Editor...............................................................................Trevor Hilligoss Back Page Editors......................................................Abbie Deal, Jackson Santee Graphic Designer/Ad Designer...........................................................Jesse Smith Advertising Managers.......................Anna Hume, Adam Pavlich, Jackson Santee Distrubution Manager..................................................................Nicholas Dake Technical Advisor..................................................................Max Parker-Shames

inspired by an inner passion to tell the world a message. Some even died to do so. Art is a form of communication and expression that is vitally important to human history.

We are immensely fortunate that we live in a town that appreciates this right of expression. The YAAL (Youth Academics and Activities Levy) supports the future artists of AHS. At a time when our schools are losing money and cutting school days and teachers, we truly value our community’s continued support of such an important part of education. Please help us celebrate this amazing privilege of expression by attending the Winter Fine Arts Festival this January 13 and 14.

Rogue News -The Rogue News will strive to practice professional journalism at Ashland High School. It will aim to be a voice for the student body, and an important contribution to the school and community. In order to achieve this goal, the Rogue News will attempt to do the following to the best of it’s ability.

-Report accurate and objective information -Uphold all journalistic ethics and standards -Provide an outlet for voices within the school through letters editor and editorials. Unsigned editorials represent the views of the staff, all others are signed. Letters to the editor must be signed unless extenuating circumstances warrant a students name being withheld, as decided by the Editor-in-Chiefs or newspaper advisor.

-Attempt to cover school events fairly and evenly.

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Not your ordinary musician While it’s obvious Koppel takes pleasure in composing, it’s also clear When someone mentions a she likes what she performs. composer, what usually comes to mind are names like Beethoven and “It’s really fulfilling to have my music come alive,” Bach, not an image of an everyday Koppel said. teenager like Lauren Koppel.

The idea of “Parade of Still in high school, she has the Rain King,” came from already had one of her pieces, a thunderstorm. “It was “Parade of the Rain King,” performed live in front of numerous all the energy, I was trying to represent that,” Koppel judges and orchestras all over the said. valley.

Sometimes composing Koppel didn’t start out loving music isn’t just a onemusic though; in fact, she was person job; Lauren’s sister forced into playing cello her plays electric guitar, the two freshman year. Koppel laughed a of them have come up with little, “I didn’t like it at first, but I a few cello and bass duets. grew to enjoy it, no, love it.”

It seems music runs in the Even in the beginning, Koppel family. wasn’t composing, and it can barely Lauren Koppel makes her cello sing for the camera.

When asked if be called a conscious decision, “I she wants to pursue Whether Lauren decides to just started humming little tunes composition in the future, Koppel continue composing as an adult and began to write them down, and said, “The college I want to go to is or not is still up to her. But what then it snowballed into orchestral,” Northwestern Illinois, they have a people forget is that Beethoven Koppel said. great music school.”

by Ellie Webb

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and Bach didn’t start out as great composers overnight: they started out as normal kids, just like Lauren Koppel.

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the band, orchestra and choir all perform. They will all have the opportunity to perform different pieces by a variety of composers to show the Ashland community what goes on behind the AHS music doors. The music program plays for “about two thirds or three fourths of the show,” Gerry Pare, the AHS orchestra director, said. The Winter Fine Arts Festival is something worth attending because it gives you a chance to see what these students have to offer. This festival also proves the dedication of AHS students to the never-ending world of music.

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These musical students not only go to music class every other day but they also practice their instruments on top of doing their homework and other daily activities of a regular high school student.

“Multiple band members are in many clubs and work as hard as other students in other activities,” Jon Soderberg-Chase, the band director at AHS, said. These musicians work just as hard as other students and are involved in many extracurricular activities and AP classes.

They excel in their academics as well as musically. One such student is Amelia Farber, a sophomore at AHS. She is in Treble choir, but also participates Model Unit-

ed Nations, Drama Club, Key Club, and non-school related classes like Teen Theater, Rogue Valley Youth Ensemble, OCPA (Oregon Conservatory of Performing Arts), voice lessons, and ballet classes. She is also taking many advanced classes: Algebra II Honors, Pre-AP English and Chemistry.

AHS musicians are not only dedicated to their music and schoolwork, but are also busy playing in concerts. “The band does multiple things at once. Some people play at basketball games and concerts,” Soderberg-Chase said. These students are always performing, whether it be in annual concerts, sporting events or community gatherings. “For Treble and Chamber choir members there are about ten evening gigs during first semester, but only three or four during second semester,” Holly Johnson, the AHS choir director, said, who recently organized the choir’s annual Songs and Sweets concert on Dec. 5. The orchestra also performed in their fall concert Nov. 21 with their Midnight Pajama Concert and the band in their Winter Concert Dec. 3.

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AHS music program isn’t well known among many, but it’s a program where high achieving students can create music that will stay with them forever, along with lasting memories.

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Winter Formal

Although this winter has consisted of heavy snow fall and record low temperatures, nothing will stop AHS from bringing the heat this year at the annual Winter Formal.

The National Honor Society is yet again putting their heads together to bring you the “Winter Wonderland” themed dance. This event will take place at the Britt Ballroom from 8:30 to 11:00 on the night of January 31.

Exact prices are undecided, but expect single tickets to be somewhere around $10

and couple tickets in the $20 range. Tickets will be on sale on the quad the week before the dance and can also be purchased at the door.

Be prepared to show an administrator your student I.D. card or answer mind boggling questions about your schedule.

So whether your going with your friends, a date, or just flying solo, it is about time to stop out of this cold, dull winter and into the dazzling “Winter Wonderland.”

It will be a night of thrills and “chills” that you will be sure to remember.

Ell it like it is: dancing through the ages

by Ella Riley-Adams “While there’s music and moonlight and love and romance, let’s face the music and dance,” Frank Sinatra once sang, and his words still hold relevance today.

At Ashland High School we have three major dances: Homecoming, Winter Formal, and Prom. For many, dances can be a strenuous marathon of decision making. The choices range from where to eat and what to wear to the more complex question of who to ask.

Back in the day, custom demanded that men always asked women. AHS librarian Bill Street can attest to this: “We (being the guys) always asked the girls. Once a year, we had a dance called Sadie Hawkins where the

girls asked the guys, but that’s the only time it ever happened,” Street said.

Now, dance requests aren’t as traditional. Sometimes girls ask guys, and sometimes couples are set up via friends. This increased flexibility can create more options for those involved and it’s less likely that potential dancers will sit at home.

But, to some, it means a drop in standards.

“A lot of guys are too shy or think it’s stupid,” Sophomore Nayeon Kim said. Gone are the days when men planned elaborate schemes to impress the girl of their choice. Now we’re lucky if we get a face-to-face request; a text message or phone call is more likely.

However, it’s not fair to generalize all of the boys at AHS. There are a select few that make a great effort to

uphold the standards of their sex.

Last year, an AHS boy took his potential date up to Acid Castles and spelled out the word ‘PROM?’ in candles. She said yes. Another time, a scavenger hunt was set up around Ashland. At the end of the chase, the boy met his date in Lithia Park to pop the question.

Guess what? She said yes.

This isn’t to say the task falls only to the men. In fact, in our time of feminism, maybe t h e burden should be split equally between the sexes. When asked who should be the dance ‘asker’, Junior Amanda Bottimore said, “For chivalry, men, but in the 21st century it could go either way. It’s whoever’s brave enough to ask first.”

Ballroom dancing and horsedraw carriages have been replaced with grinding and Subarus. Amidst all the transition, let’s not replace chivalry with chauvinism.

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Chop, chop, back to work by Žena Shelton

Behind the heavy door of Shop 8, woodchips spew from wood blocks guided by practiced hands. This is the woodshop room. Many students in this room have taken some version of woodshop, jewelry making or stained glass before and are back for more. One factor that keeps drawing them back is John Weston, the Woodshop teacher.

“Mr. Weston is really great. He is always there to help. He always puts the kids before himself, and he knows what he is doing,” Nicole Rinaldi, a senior in Weston’s Stained Glass, Jewelry and Wood Sculpture, said. She has made a silver ring, a lamp with stained glass panels, and is currently working on a pen.

Camelia Mayfield, who is in the Carpentry Skills class and has made a necklace cabinet and cutting board, said, “Weston’s a really good teacher because he takes the time to deal with all students individually and has the passion for wood-working.”

Weston has been teaching at AHS for 24 years. Over this time period he has taught Global Studies, Psychology, Architectur- John Weston (center) helps Bryndon Light (left) with his tea rack and Troy Culy (right) with the lid to his al Drawing, Stained Glass and Woodshop. scroll saw box.

Now only a part-time teacher, he teaches Weston not only brings his own adAdvanced Woodworking; Stained Glass, vanced skills to class, but he also has Jewelry and Wood Sculpture; and Carpentry Skills.

Weston attended UC Santa Barbara and went to Ha- several guest speakers come in. Warwaii upon graduation, after majoring in Social Science ren Straus talks about design, Christian and History, and built houses for a year. From there Buchard about his world-famous wood he went to Humboldt State University where he ma- projects and Jeff Berman about jewelry.

Lucas Edmands, a senior at AHS, jored in Industrial Arts and received his Teaching Certificate. He later moved to Australia where he taught is one student who has had the opporceramics, metals, and a craft class for two years. From tunity to work with Christian Burchard. there he taught for one year in a small school in North- “He is a fantastic wood turner. I really Photos by Phoebe Parker-Shames ern California, six years at the Junior High School in like working with him,” Edmands said. Wren Purdy finishes his walnut table Edmands, who is currently in the AdEagle Point, and eventually came here to Ashland. vanced Woodshop class the other kids in class and choosing what projects to and has taken five se- work on and being independent.” Fidler has made an mesters of Woodshop, intricate heart-shaped box, cutting boards, pens and has made many different a coffee table made out of exotic wood. He has also things including a goblet sold his pens and cutting boards at Taste of Ashland.

The Woodshop and Jewelry classes are a time when and several pen and pencil sets. Edmands has also students can meet other students that they wouldn’t had the opportunity to normally. They have the responsibility and freedom to sell his pens at the Taste choose what projects they want to work on. “There of Ashland and in the is an emphasis on developing some piece of fine Frank Phillips Gallery furniture and quality work [in class],” Weston said.

Weston works hard on giving his students opin downtown Ashland.

Miles Fidler is an- portunities to show off their fine work at The other repeat student Taste of Ashland and at the March First Friday Art of Weston’s and has Walk both in Ashland. “I’m all about getting stutaken seven semesters dent recognition for what they do,” Weston said.

Another place to view these incredible wood piecof Woodshop. He enjoys taking Advanced es is at WFAF in January. Extraordinary works of art Woodworking because are made in the Woodshop and Jewelry classes, and it he “Likes working with would be a shame to miss the chance of seeing them.

Julian Jones works on his electric fiddle.

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Pajama Game

Rosie Alspach and Jeffrey Star, the leads of the new AHS muscial “Pajama Game.”

Photos by Phoebe Parker-Shames

Come see the next AHS musical “Pajama Game” on February 26 through March 15.

by Phoebe Parker-Shames After a treacherous walk across the frozen Siskiyou Boulevard, over 40 students crowd into the Choir room off the upstairs hallway of the former Lincoln Elementary School.

While the rooms below sit filled with temporarily displaced weightlifting machines, the hallway upstairs is soon filled with song.

Rehearsals are already underway for the next AHS musical Pajama Game, which opens February 26. It is the story of a romance that takes place in the midst of an impending strike by the workers of the SleepTite Pajama Factory, who want a seven and a half cent raise for their constant hard work.

The actors in this musical can probably relate.

“I didn’t know we were going to get right into it,” Sophmore Eileen Wasche said. The cast meets every day after school to rehearse. The show opens seven and a half weeks after Winter Break, during which time the cast will be “racing with the clock” to choreograph the entire production, and perfect acting and singing.

“This is a very large production and we need all the time we can get to make this a fabulous show,” senior and Stage Manager Anna Barth said. “There are a lot of social groups coming into the theater.”

Rosie Alspach will take the lead as Babe Williams, a factory worker and head of the Union Grievance Committee, who meets the eye of the new factory superintendant Sid, played by Jeffrey Star. Their romance runs

into trouble however, when it becomes clear that Sid sides with Hasler (played by Daniel Burt), the head of the company, who refuses to grant the seven and a half cent raise. Babe continues to push for the increase in pay, backed by Mae (Chloe Rosenthal), Brenda (Sophie Javna), and the other factory workers. Meanwhile, another sideplot is growing between Gladys (Aubry Baur), Hasler’s secretary and her boyfriend Hines (Ford MurawskiBrown), the jealous factory timekeeper.

“It’s a great role,” Murawski-Brown said about his character. “I get to yell at people, I get to throw knives, I get to be drunk, I even get to take my pants off a couple times.”

There are some difficulties because of the time period of the play. “There’s that fifties element, it’s such another time and place,” Betsy Bishop, Drama Teacher, said.

This can be difficult for the actors as well.

“The way Sid treats Babe is different from the way men treat women now,” said Alspach.

“I keep reminding myself that it’s a different time.”

While the actors are busy rehearsing, a whole extra cast is busy behind the scenes.

“A textbook can’t teach you what you learn in tech,” Barth said. “You learn skills you can use in almost any field.” The techies will be very busy with this musical, complete with over 50 costumes, five sets, at least nine sewing machines, and three huge dance numbers.

Make sure to see this exciting production from February 26 through March 15.

Drew Woods, Jazmine Dake, and Sophie Javna during singing rehearsal for “Pajama Game.”

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In it to win it: Hockey

by Trevor Hilligoss

The Ashland High School Hockey team has been skating on thick ice for a long time now. In fact, they’ve been very comfortably ahead of the competition and even their own expectations.

For instance, they have taken top at the district championship three out of the last five years, and they lead the league in goals scored. They also have the highest win percentage out of the six teams they play against. In addition, individual players such as Casey Skolnik lead the division with points (23), goals(13), and assists(10).

But behind the athletes is the coach. Tom Harrison has been the head of the Grizzly Hockey Team for only one year, but in that time has made a team that was hit hard by graduating seniors into a group of dedicated players desiring one thing: to win. And as of yet it seems the Grizz has found that increasingly easier to do.

Even though they only have one “on ice” practice each week, Harrison is confident in the Grizzlies’ drive to compete. “We knew coming in we’d have a team of highly skilled, hard working athletes… we don’t have a ton of ice time each week, so land practice and athleticism has had to fill the hole.”

And a great job they have done. In the last three games they have trounced their opponents, outscor-

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ing them two to one on offense and shutting out a third of the points attempted against them.

Although the first games have gone down seemingly without a hitch, there remains a long road ahead for the Grizzly machine. “There’s a lot of playing yet to be done,” said Kai White, a senior defensive specialist, “No matter what happens in the beginning

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of the season, teams are made and broken with the decisions they come by throughout it.”

In the next five games they will be facing tough competition with South Medford, Crater, and South for a second time. Faced with this opposition, the Grizzlies still plan to take conference by storm this year and maybe even make a bid for state.

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by Trevor Hilligoss

s a kid you probably went to a birthday party down at the local bowling alley, rented your oversized shoes and stumbled onto the shiny wooden floor.

You then sauntered with about as much grace as an intoxicated Michael Jackson to the oddly shaped machine that ferried your bowling ball up from the dark abyss below the floor.

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the 2008-09 bowling team is nothing of the awkward memory you cherish. In fact, they are so good they will be bowling with the professionals in the PBA tour, which will be nationally televised January 17 on ESPN. So how good is so good? Well, as of December the Ashland Bowling team touts four top bowlers: Taro Shido, Aaron Beckwith, Max Defrisco and Jesse Smith. All this from a team that has only three returning boys and no returning girls from last years’ squad.

If everything continues to fall perfectly into place for the Bowlers of A-Town, they will be playing for

districts on February 8 and state on February 27. According to team manager Steve Smith, the chances the team’s name will appear in the playoff brackets are looking up. “[We] have had a great beginning to our season, and the kids are playing well.”

But as many teams before them know, the beginning of the season only sets the tone for articles like this one, written with a lot of hope. It is up to the players themselves to decide how long they want to stay on the lanes when this February comes, and from this reporters’ view, to miss a minute of what’s to come would be a crime.

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