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Happening NOW •Girls Tennis: Varsity triangular today at Yankton High School—vs. Harrisburg 1 p.m., Yankton 3 p.m.; Metro Conference Meet 9 a.m. Saturday at McKennan Park •Cross Country: Varsity and JV at Brookings Invitational 4 p.m. today; varsity at University of Minnesota Meet 2 p.m. Saturday at Les Bolstad Golf Course in St. Paul, Minn. •Soccer: Final regular season games vs. Roosevelt tonight at Howard Wood Field—JV 4 p.m., girls varsity 5:45 p.m., boys varsity 7:30 p.m. •Volleyball: vs. Harrisburg tonight at WHS— freshmen and JV 4:30 p.m.; sophomores 5:30 p.m., varsity 7 p.m. •Boys Golf: JV City Meet 4 p.m. Friday at Country Club of Sioux Falls •Football: Homecoming game vs. Rapid City Stevens 5 p.m. Friday at Howard Wood Field •Marching Band: At homecoming game Friday; competition at Waseca, Minn., 5 p.m. Saturday—WHS performs at 6:33 p.m. •Homecoming: Dance 8-11 p.m. Friday in commons and gym

Lunch Time at WHS •Today’s lunch: Chili Fritos, sweet potatoes •À la carte lines: French bread pizza, chicken fajita, chef salad, sandwiches

Group Meetings •Girls: Interested in powerlifting should attend a meeting at 3:15 p.m. today in A-126.

Orange Letter Days •Friday: Spirit Day •Tickets: For Friday’s Pizza Feed and Dance will be sold during lunch in the commons today—$5 each. •T-Shirts: Will be distribuited to students who pre-ordered during lunch periods today outside the main gym. NOW Thursday Staff

Co-Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rachel Boer and Alyse Dockter Assistant Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sadie Goodhope Staff: Brock Wulf, Carter Munce, Caitlyn Wolfgang, Marlene Valdovinos Co-Editors-in-Chief . . . . . . . . Madi Forseth and Libby Nachtigal Adviser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jason Lueth The News of Washington is a publication of the Orange & Black Staff Washington High School–Sioux Falls, S.D. Some material courtesy of American Society of Newspaper Editors/ MCT Campus High School Newspaper Service

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95th Orange Letter Days reaches pinnacle Friday Football team hosts Stevens in homecoming action From NOW Staff Reports riday will be an Orange Letter Day as the 95th annual homecoming at WHS reaches it’s climax. After a week of “Versus” competition, Warriors will come together and wear their best orange, black and white on Spirit Day Friday. Homecoming t-shirts that were pre-ordered can be picked up today outside the main gym entrance. Some will even decorate their cars (without reducing visibility or drivability, of course) with their best Warrior Spirit and will be eligible for prizes awarded at Friday’s pep rally. Teachers and their classes can also get into the Warrior spirit by decorating classroom doors, and the classes with the best doors will receive a prize during the rally, as well.

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Teacher Jim Trett said participation has been excellent this year, so far. “Dress up days are really good,” Trett said. “Student and teacher participation has been outstanding.” After an abbreviated class schedule Friday, students will enjoy the traditional pizza feed, homecoming carnival and the variety show encore all afternoon.   Groups will be divided in half by the color of their pizza feed ticket—tickets will be sold today during lunch as well as Friday morning for $5. No school lunch will be served that day and there will be no open lunch. Following the afternoon events, students will end their school day at the homecoming pep rally in the main gym as they celebrate Warrior pride (Cont. on back—OLD)

Special schedule in effect Friday for homecoming A special schedule will be in effect Friday as students celebrate an Orange Letter Day! The homecoming day schedule includes classes in the morning, then special events. 8:10–8:38 a.m........ 1st Period 8:43–9:11 a.m.......2nd Period 9:16-9:31 a.m..... Reading period Tornado Drill 9:31-9:59 a.m....... 3rd period 10:04-10:32 a.m.....4th/5th period Attend period opposite your lunch Variety show participants dismissed 10:37-11:05 a.m.....6th period 11:10-11:45 a.m.....7th period Students dismissed to events by intercom according to ticket color 2:20-3:05 p.m......... Pep Rally 4 p.m.....Gate Opens at HWF 5 p.m..............Football Game 8 p.m.....Homecoming Dance

Volleyball team hosts No. 1 Tigers tonight By Madi Forseth and Kinsey Strom Volleyball team members will host the Harrisburg Tigers tonight at WHS. The Tigers are the defending state champions and rated No.1 in this week’s poll. Action will begin with the JV in the main gym and freshmen in the auxiliary gym at 4:30 p.m. tonight. The sophomores will follow at 5:30 p.m. and the varsity at 7 p.m. in the main gym.

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The Warriors fell to cross town rival O’Gorman on Tuesday and suffered a loss out west to Rapid City Stevens in three games Friday. As the second half of the regular season begins, WHS will hopefully get back on a winning track once again. Coach Kelly Schroder said he is excited for tonight’s game. “Harrisburg is a team that doesn’t do anything differently, but is the team to beat and we’re coming in with no fear

and confidence, because we know we have nothing to lose,” Schroder said. “The student section is very much needed for this match-up tonight.” Junior Peyton Rymerson is ready for tonight. “Practice was tough, and we need to be strong in order to compete with this team,” Rymerson said. “We need as many people there as possible to keep the hype up for us.” The Warriors will also host Roosevelt Tuesday.

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OLD wraps up with dance Homecoming dance one Friday after football game not to be missed, Warriors (Cont. from front) and get fired up for the football game vs. Rapid City Stevens at 5 p.m. at Howard Wood Field. The homecoming royalty court, including seniors King Brady Grapevine and Queen Jena Mitchell, will be introduced before the game.   Usual ticket prices will apply and activity tickets will be honored. Mitchell said she was honored with the title. “It was a great honor and experience to be chosen as queen and it is a great way to start off my senior year,” Mitchell said. Stevens is currently 3-1, with their only loss to the Roosevelt Rough Riders in Week One, 53-13. Since then, they have beaten Watertown 14-13, Spearfish 33-2, and Aberdeen Central 14-0. They are currently No. 2 in Power Points to the Warriors. Coach Chad Stadem said the Warriors will need to bring their ‘A’ game on Friday.

“Stevens is coming in at 3-1 as the second seed, so it should be a good and competitive game,” Stadem said. “I’m excited to see our crowd, and how loud they can get.” Senior center Will Farniok said it will be an exciting game. “This is the seniors’ last homecoming as Warriors, so we really want to make our school proud,” Farniok said. The theme for Friday’s game is homecoming shirts. If you orded one, they may be picked up today during lunch periods near the main gym entrance. There will be no t-shirt handouts at the game, so make sure to remember to wear your class shirt. Following the game, WHS students will be invited back to the school for the homecoming dance from 8-11 p.m. in the commons. The dance is for WHS students only, and all must have their student ID to enter. Tickets will be sold today for $5, or are $10 at the door.

As homecoming nears an end, there are only a couple events left that you should not miss out on—once a year, a few times during high school activities. One such event is the homecoming dance. This dance, in my opinion, is one of the best dances of the year. It is held here at WHS, and starts at 8 p.m following the football game and ends at 11 p.m. Ladies, it is a dance where you do not have to stress about finding a dress, getting your hair done, or doing your make up. Gentlemen, you also do not have to worry, because you do not need a date! Hear me. . . All you have to do it show up right after the game in what you Alyse Dockter are wearing! Best of all, if you get tired of dancing (or just don’t want to), there will be bean bag games and a lightning basketball tournament in the gym!   Freshman year I did not go to the dance because I thought it would be boring and a waste of my time. Then sophomore and junior year I went to it with my friends, and we had the best time! We played a couple games of lightening in the gym (which got very competitive) and we danced in the commons with other students, forming dance circles and cha-cha lines. The DJ played top hits and we also got to request songs, keeping in mind that they had to be school appropriate! Tickets for the dance for WHS students only will be sold in the commons during lunch today for $5. In order to get into the dance you will need to have your ID and present it as you walk in the door. Senior Alyse Dockter says start preparing your dance moves now!

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Alexa begins offering first aid advice By Joe Carlson Star Tribune (TNS) MINNEAPOLIS — “Alexa, forget my grocery list and morning traffic reports. Tell me about CPR.” Alexa, Amazon’s voice-activated digital assistant for the home, has learned a new skill — dispensing medical information about first aid from one of the best-known names in medicine, Minnesota’s Mayo Clinic.

Technology Watch The information is accessible by speaking to the Amazon device, which users might appreciate if they’re busy doing something with their hands, like putting aloe on a burn or examining someone who has stopped breathing. Users who enable the free Mayo Clinic First Aid program and then ask Alexa for information about CPR are told, multiple times, to call 911. The device also advises in its robotic-female voice to begin cardiopulmonary resuscitation for one minute and then call 911 if the person is unresponsive from suffocation. If the user asks for it, the device will go on to discuss specific techniques for doing CPR on an adult, child or baby. Although the program includes a disclaimer that Mayo Clinic First Aid should not be used in a lifethreatening medical emergency, “instructions for CPR” is one of the suggested topics in the program’s description, along with “tell me about spider bites” and “how to treat a cut.” Online mega-retailer Amazon sells a variety of hands-free home assistant devices like the Echo and the Echo Dot that can listen to human voices and respond to commands. Alexa is a cloud-based system, similar to Apple’s Siri.