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  • Students sets high goals

    Thursday, March 31, 2011 By: Trista Tidball

    Since in elementary school, Allison McBroom has been in love with running. “When I was a little girl in gym class, I realized my love for running,” she said.    The senior has been a varsity runner s

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  • Player named to the Des Moines Register All-State second team

    Thursday, March 31, 2011 By: Trista Tidball

    At the age of five, Caitlin Ingle discovered her passion for basketball. “I would watch my older brothers play and I wanted to be like them,” she said.    Since then, the sophomore has honed her skil

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  • Boys fall just shy of State

    Thursday, March 31, 2011 By: Megan Quick

    A defeat at the hands of a conference rival cut short the boys’ basketball team’s trek to this year’s state tournament.  With a 14-10 record, the boys beat Johnston in the substate semi-finals and ad

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  • Girls take hoops to new heights

    Thursday, March 31, 2011 By: Jessica Wade

    Rams make it to State for the first time in more than two decades

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  • A day in the life of a first-timer

    Monday, March 28, 2011 By: Brittany Parlee

    On March 4, 2010, at approximately 9:45 a.m., I donated blood for the first time at the Student Council Blood Drive.  When I arrived, I had to read a pamphlet of information telling me the process of

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  • Process, procedures, product prove that blood is central to body’s healthy function

    Monday, March 28, 2011 By: Ryan Nolan

    Every two seconds someone in the U.S. needs blood.  Nearly 100 students rolled up their sleeves March 4 in the annual Student Council blood drive to make their personal donations to a cause that any

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  • Scholarship aps: Both friend and foe

    Monday, March 28, 2011 By: Megan Quick

    “Scholarship applications are painstaking, time-consuming, tedious, not fun,” senior Ben Sloan said.  Applying for funds to attend a college or university may not be everyone’s favorite thing to do o

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  • Director sets activities foundation

    Monday, March 28, 2011 By: Sara Mallicoat

    Everyone knows about the high school football team, the basketball team and the wrestling team, but who is behind all of those sporting events and activities that happen here? That person would be act

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  • Atzen tackles freshman year head-on

    Monday, March 28, 2011 By: Sidniann Rummans

    Freshman year may have taken many students this past August and placed them in the middle of a tornado of new experiences, friends, classes and goals.  Many of these students instantly took hold of

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  • Devoted snowboarder mixes passion with work

    Monday, March 28, 2011 By: Derrick Sanders

    A job at a local sports park means that junior Trenton Breeden can marry his work and his favorite activity—snowboarding.  Breeden, 17, says when he graduates next spring he would like to make his wa

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Both the boys’ and girls’ bowling squads finished ninth at State on Feb. 25.  “We built up momentum as the season went on and went into the post-season in top form,” coach Jeff Hart said.  The boy
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Since in elementary school, Allison McBroom has been in love with running. “When I was a little girl in gym class, I realized my love for running,” she said.    The senior has been a varsity runner s
full story 
At the age of five, Caitlin Ingle discovered her passion for basketball. “I would watch my older brothers play and I wanted to be like them,” she said.    Since then, the sophomore has honed her skil
full story 
A defeat at the hands of a conference rival cut short the boys’ basketball team’s trek to this year’s state tournament.  With a 14-10 record, the boys beat Johnston in the substate semi-finals and ad
full story 
Rams make it to State for the first time in more than two decades
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On March 4, 2010, at approximately 9:45 a.m., I donated blood for the first time at the Student Council Blood Drive.  When I arrived, I had to read a pamphlet of information telling me the process of
full story 
Every two seconds someone in the U.S. needs blood.  Nearly 100 students rolled up their sleeves March 4 in the annual Student Council blood drive to make their personal donations to a cause that any
full story 
“Scholarship applications are painstaking, time-consuming, tedious, not fun,” senior Ben Sloan said.  Applying for funds to attend a college or university may not be everyone’s favorite thing to do o
full story 
Common phobias affect many; cures are possible through journaling, therapies
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Raising $3000 to take a nine-day trip to England and Scotland isn’t an easy feat. However, 10 students have undertaken this challenge.  At the end of June, English teachers Kara Sulzer and Emma Hante
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