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Lunch Time at WHS •Today’s lunch: Chicken and gravy, mashed potatoes, dinner roll, green beans •À la carte lines: Pepperoni pizza, cheese enchilada with chips, chef salad, sandwiches
Group Meetings •Quiz Bowl: Team members will meet at 3:10 p.m. today in A-136 to sign up for the WHS Triangular to be held next Monday. •Marching Band: Color guard rehearsal will take place from 6-8 p.m. Thursday and continue each Thursday for the rest of the year, unless specified. •Oak View: Library lock-in will take place 6-9 p.m. Friday, including pizza, games and an anime-themed escape room. More information and sign-up by Thursday in the WHS library. •S.D. Air National Guard: Open house 5:30 p.m. April 13 at 114th Fighter Wing base. RSVP to 3592669 to attend.
Other Reminders •2017 Yearbooks: Should be ordered now at jostens.com or with a check for $67 to adviser Cindy Heckenlaible in A-133 fourth period. NOW Wednesday Staff Co-Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jack Talley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . and Lauren Olson Assistant Editor . . . . . . . . . Devyn Kennedy Staff: Rheannan Bills, Deion Larsen, Justin Strutz, Joe Simko, Maddie Risch, Thomas Vissers Co-Editors-in-Chief . . . . . . . . Maham Shah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .and Carson Herbert Adviser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jason Lueth The News of Washington is a publication of the Orange & Black Staff Washington High School–Sioux Falls, S.D.
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Gymnastics team celebrates completion of recent season Warriors bid farewell to long-time coach at event
By Lauren Olson arrior gymnastics team members celebrated their recently completed competition season at their end-of-season banquet Tuesday night in the commons. The team also bid a sad goodbye to their head coach Ellen Engebretson at the event, who has retired from coaching after this season. Engebretson was the head gymnastics coach for six seasons at WHS, and feels honored to have been a part of the tradition. “I am handing the reins over to someone new,” Engebretson said. “My goal was to turn the program around, make it successful in terms of numbers and participants and for the program to become respected by fellow competitors, as well as students and staff at WHS. I believe we have accomplished that.” The team also awarded MVP awards in each event at the banquet. Varsity awards went to freshmen Kia Gjoraas for bars, Mary Christensen for floor and Madeline Nelson who took the Workhorse Award; junior Lily Saaleephiw for vault and eighth grader Holly Weidner for beam. JV awards went to eighth graders Iyana Augustus for bars and vault and Sophia Taarud for floor and freshman Melody Englert for beam, with freshman Shannon Wiley going home with the Workhorse Award.
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Photo courtesy Ellen Engebretson VALUABLE WARRIORS—Varsity MVP award winners include (ROW 1, L-R) eighth grader Holly Weidner, beam; freshman Mary Christensen, floor; freshman Kia Gjoraas, bars; (row 2) coach Ellen Engebretson; freshman Madeline Nelson, Workhorse Award; junior Lili Saaleephiw, vault and assistant coach Ashlee Wilbur.
Warriors fall to Harrisburg 4-3 Marathon 15-inning game sets modern WHS record By Rheannan Bills The Warrior baseball team took the Harrisburg Tigers to 15 innings in their season opener Tuesday at Legion Park in Harrisburg, finally losing to the Tigers 4-3. The Warriors’ stamina was tested in the opener, as this was the longest game in modern WHS history, surpassing the previous record of 13 innings in 2015. Total game time was
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4 hours and 19 minutes. Offensively, WHS had only nine hits in the 15 inning game, however pitching was strong with junior Alex Bertram throwing five innings with no runs allowed, senior Brad Struck throwing 4.2 innings and senior Austin Kubik 4.2 innings. Coach Chad Barman said it was quite the game. “While we ended up on the
wrong side of the result, playing that many innings was a good learning experience and we have some positives to build on and we have some gaps that we need to work hard at filling,” Barman said. The JV game was canceled due to the length of the varsity game. The Warriors will next take on cross-town rival Roosevelt at 5 p.m. Thursday.
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What school year-end event are you most looking forward to, and why? “I can’t wait to go to my friends’ open houses and eat all the food.” A ssembled and photos by De vy n Kennedy
“I am excited for summer baseball because it is chill, and more fun than school baseball.”
“Open houses, because it’s fun to see the pictures of the seniors when they were kids.”
“I’m looking forward to seeing my friends over the summer and getting ready to end my freshman year.”
“I look forward to semester tests, because I can see how my students have truly mastered the English language.”
Now is the time to finish strong Yesterday felt like a preview of summer, and my Wednesday was going well. Then, newspaper adviser Jason Lueth made me write this column. It made me think of everything that I need to do before the end of the year—all the things that I need to still accomplish, and don’t have the Hear me. . . time to do. As summer fast approaches and fourth quarDeion Larsen ter begins this week, I came to the startling realization that I still have a lot coming up this spring and summer, and no time to waste. My biggest problem is planning a graduation party. As I am the oldest in my family, neither my parents or I really know what we are really doing. Also, being the first
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in my family to graduate it is a bit scary for me and my family, as well. But graduation is not my only worry. I also have to figure out what I’m going to be doing this summer and fall. My plan for this summer is to start working more and spending time with friends before most of them leave for various school, work and other opportunities this fall. I am still uncertain what I want to do with my future, but I feel like many others feel the same way. Whatever your plans are for the future, I believe everything will come together if you give it some time. So now is not the time to take it easy and coast until the end of the school year. Now is the time to take school seriously and do well on year end AP, semester and standardized tests. If you do this, the year will go well for you, and you can finish strong. Senior Deion Larsen needs to get some things done.
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Climate may catch up to Phoenix By William Yardley Los Angeles Times (TNS) PHOENIX — Phoenix changed in a matter of decades from a scorching desert outpost into one of the largest cities in the nation. The Arizona city is a horizon of asphalt, air conditioning and historic indifference to the pitfalls of putting 1.5 million people in a place that gets just 8 inches of rain a year and where the temperature routinely exceeds 100 degrees.
Your green world Now the city faces a reckoning. Climate change is expected to further expose the glaring gap between how the city lives and what it can sustain. The future, scientists say, will be even hotter and drier, the monsoons more mercurial. Summertime highs could reach 130 degrees before the end of the century. “My colleagues and I wonder about the future habitability of Phoenix all the time,” said David Hondula, an Arizona State University climatologist who studies the impact of heat on health. As President Donald Trump rolls back the country’s commitments on climate change, Phoenix is one of many cities facing daunting predictions of what lies ahead, and most have few resources with which to prepare. Public health and economic prosperity are both at risk. The average high in August now exceeds 104 degrees, but 110 is not uncommon, and the temperature has hit 120 more than once. Last summer, a study by Climate Central and the Weather Channel found that the average temperature in Phoenix had increased 1.12 degrees over the previous halfcentury. No major city’s temperatures rose more — and no major city regularly reached such scorching highs in the first place.
