September 2016
Volume 92
Issue 1
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Cody Kinney Reporter Council Bluffs Community school district had a mission in mind when they announced plans for a new athletic complex, and after putting in many upgrades and new facilities, the complex enters its final stage and is near completion. The idea behind the Council Bluffs athletic complex was started in 2014 and over these last 2 years there has been a ton of work done to build, re-do and improve facilities. Over the recent months the complex has seen some major upgrades done, especially the football stadium. With the additions of a brand new state of the arc video board, completed concession stands and new locker rooms, the Gale Wickersham stadium has seen many upgrades and is one step closer to being finished. One of the key upgrades
Wickersham Stadium update made to Gale Wickersham Stadium was the installation of a brand new Daktronics video board in the North end zone. With the new videoboard comes many great new opportunities for both students, the community and teachers, one of those teachers who will be heavily impacted is a Tucker Center teacher Randy Lau. Lau who has taught within the district for many years and has been involved in different forms of media, broadcasting and journalism for the majority of his life. Along with the videoboard, a new class with many cool opportunities for students has presented itself, as now Lau finds himself teaching a college level sports and entertainment media class at the Tucker Center. The videoboard made its debut at AL’s first home football game of the season. Stadium continued pg. 2
Photo of new score board at CBCSD stadium. Photo by: Jordan McAlpine
BLink wifi launches new phase
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Jordan McAlpine Reporter The BLink wifi project has expanded and phase II is now live throughout Council Bluffs! “The announcement of phase II is just one more step towards a really big goal of making the whole city a wifi hotspot and the best part of this is that it’s just not the school district, but it’s for the entire city.” David Fringer.
On Wednesday the city of Council Bluffs held a press conference at Gale Wickersham Stadium. With this press conference came the announcement of the expansion of BLink (Bluffs Community Wifi Network) into a new phase of the project. The expansion means more of Council Bluffs will now be included within the radius of the BLink wifi network, including the area surrounding the Gale Wickersham stadium. This phase
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will also improve wifi capability in downtown Council Bluffs and the area around Bayliss Park. So far Matt Walsh has been very impressed about the progress made on BLink and where it is heading. “We think it speaks volumes about where council bluffs is heading. To be on the cutting edge of technology and to be able to offer people free wifi, who in some cases can’t afford it or would rather just use the free wifi network, it tells people that
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Busses leaving students Adriana Ibarra Reporter
During the 2015-2016 school year times were changed in hopes to cut $4.5 million dollars from the district budget. When the news broke people became concerned. Both AL and TJ offer classes at the Tucker Center. As the school year began the buses were not on time or either forgot the students at their school or the Tucker Center. Lori Thomas, the human biology teacher here at TJ stated, “For me personally it’s not as a big of an inconvenience, but I feel sorry for the students because it is putting a hardship on them.” Students have walked into class late 30 minutes leaving them without instructions and disturbing the class. As the school year unfolds students hope that their bus will arrive on time. “If I was a parent, I’d be re-
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ally upset if that was my son or daughter who was missing that much of school”, Thomas said. “It has gotten better and I hope that it continues to get better but, it is really unfair to the student when they have to miss school because the buses aren’t there when they’re supposed to.” Monday schedule: 1st hour: 8:18-9:05 2nd hour: 9:22-10:07 3rd hour: 10:10-11:05 4th hour: 11:10-12:27 1st lunch: 11:05-11:27 2nd lunch: 11:35-1:57 3rd lunch: 12:05-12:27 5th hour: 12:32-1:30 Tuesday-Friday 1st hour: 8:10-9:19 2nd hour: 9:24-10:33 3rd hour: 11:10-12:42 1st lunch: 11:05-12:42 2nd lunch: 1:45-12:08 3rd lunch: 12:19-12:42 4th hour: 12:47-1:56 5th hour: 2:01-3:10
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