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THE LEAF | FRIDAY, SEPT. 26 | SHSLEAF.ORG
Spirit store finds new home Calculator $13 Gummy $6 bears Jenna bao
staff writer
Caroline Gao
business manager
anthony popenoe
staff writer
David wertheim
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hile many students are used to seeing the bookstore adjacent to the commons, students of all grades will have to adjust to its new location next year: beside the little theater. “The breakable wall that’s broken will be replaced with a solid wall, and the spirit store will come off with that,” Principal Doug Mader said. The bookstore aims to provide a one stop shop for students to get anything they might need, from schools supplies like notebook paper and trifold boards, to snacks like breakfast bars and gummy bears, to useful items like hair ties and batteries. “If they need something for a class they can find it here instead of running to fifty different stores,” volunteer Patti Cron said. In recent years, the Spirit Store, or The Hangar, has focused on providing spirit wear/ spirit items for the student body and the community and expanding the variety of options. They currently
have interesting products like Sycamore laptop bags and foam fingers. “I go to the bookstore a lot of mornings to get a granola bar for breakfast. It is very convenient,” junior Jacqueline Lazar said. The new book store will be open to the community during events like basketball games, and the central position will make where and what it is clear. “Now, if you wanted to buy spirit wear, people wouldn’t really know where to go. With the new facility, if you come to a basketball game, you’re going to see it. It’s right there. So it will give our community and our student body more access to things that they need,” Mader said. This fall the bookstore chairs met with Mr. Mark Steedly’s marketing class for the store’s promotion. The Hangar has started a Twitter account, now accepts credit cards in the bookstore every Fri. during lunch, promotes spirit wear items under $20, and increased marketing to photography students. “It will be a way to market our school and to build pride in our high school, and make our high school a center point of our community. Which it should be. And to make sure we have an inventory for our community and the student body. So we can have a facility that we are all proud of,” Mader said.
“It will give our community and our student body more access to things they need”
Batteries
$2.25
Directory $2 Goggles $3 Revenue
2010-11 2011-12
$8677 $2943
(Stopped selling food)
$10,109
2012-13 (more books and sprit wear ) 2013-14 $9721