The Striker
Ridge Community High School
Davenport, FL
Issue Date: Thursday, February 19, 2009 
Issue: Volume 2, Issue 5
Last Update: Thursday, February 19, 2009


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By Nicole Flores

You’re sitting in the chair and the buzzing noise is getting louder and louder. The needle is getting closer, about to break the skin, and you can hear your heart start to beat faster and faster. The full story >

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By Joseph Shiver

Coming from a dominant season with only a single loss to Bartow (0-1) toward the end of their rein, Ridge went into the District tournament “not at their best,” as supporters described it. Defeatin full story >

By Cassidy Williams

The government has a lot on its plate. From a recession in full swing to bailout plans for education, time and effort is distributed to many different sects. These are all extremely significant, but full story >

By Nicole Flores

Advanced placement (AP) teachers are already counting down the days until their students take the big exam in May. Students, however, are dreading the “big day.” After most honors classes were taken full story >

By Megan Sines

Barbies have been tradition for years, being one of the longest living toys in America, according to www.honors.umd.edu. As a kid, most of my day was spent creating fantasy stories with my collection full story >

By Alex Avalos

I remember during one of my classes, the teacher asked a question not many have been asked. “How many of you, by a show of hands, eat at least one time with your family a week?” a fraction of the clas full story >

By Megan Sines

According to Dictionary.com, talent is a special natural ability or aptitude, of which Ridge definitely has a lot of. On January 13th at promptly 6 p.m., the auditorium doors opened for the 4th annual full story >

By Ashley Watts

The massive swarm of colorful moving dots was not fuzz on the television January 20, it was a pan out shot of the estimated 1.5 million people that showed up in the bone chilling weather to witness th full story >

By Karina Siriano

Foreclosures and employee layoffs are what many Americans have been facing in these tough economic times. Families have been struggling to make ends meet in a time where it seems like things may only full story >

By Cassidy Williams

I do not particularly envision myself as a couch potato, wasting away hours of my valuable life glued to a sofa cushion being hypnotized by violent television and video games. That all could change in full story >