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Happening Now •Oral Interp: Varsity competition all day at Mount Marty College in Yankton •Debate: After school event at Harrisburg High School •Gymnastics: Season opener vs. Vermillion and Lincoln 6 p.m. at Lincoln High School •Boys Soccer: Open field 7:30 p.m. at Avera Sports Dome, 1601 W. 44th Place
Lunch Time at WHS •Today’s lunch: Barbecue pork sandwich, steamed broccoli •À la carte lines: Pasta, soft taco, baked potato bar, chef salad, sandwiches
Group Meetings •Girls Only: Hour of Code will take place during lunch periods Dec. 6. Register today at goo.gl/h6GxKU. Space is limited.
Other Reminders •Winter Formal: Will take place from 8-11 p.m. Saturday at WHS. Tickets are $10 each, and may be purchased during lunch periods through Friday. Outside dates can be signed up at the ticket table through lunch Wednesday, and must be at least in high school and under 21 years old and provide a school ID or S.D. driver’s license for admittance the night of the dance. NOW Tuesday Staff Co-Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sidney Kennedy and Seth Benson Assistant Editor . . . . . . . . . . . Taylar Erickson Staff: Daniel Slaven, Madelyn Moravec 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/ TNS Campus High School Newspaper Service
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Warrior quiz bowl team sees victory once again Students take top prize at Tri-Valley competition By Taylar Erickson and Madelyn Moravec arrior quiz bowl team members again triumphed at the Tri-Valley Quiz Bowl Competition, taking first place Monday at Tri-Valley High School near Colton. In total, 36 teams competed as seniors Noah Witt, Matthew Questad, Samantha King and Levi Rustand from WHS took first. Two other teams from WHS also had good showings at the event, adviser Fred Reiner said. “We are having a very successful year and I am extremely proud of the hard work that the students put in at practice and going to competitions,” Reiner said. “Our senior team is truly talented.” King, a member of “The Senior Squad” that won, was happy with the win. “It was a lot of fun,” King said. “This was our fourth time in a row getting first place, and we had a hard match against the Roosevelt team, but we didn’t give up and we finished strong.”
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Photo courtesy Fred Reiner KNOW THE ANSWERS—A quiz bowl team consisting of (L-R) seniors Noah Witt, Matthew Questad, Samantha King and Levi Rustand pose with their medals at the TriValley Quiz Bowl Monday.
Delta Dental van visits WHS Nearly $25,000 worth of free care provided to students
By Daniel Slaven The Delta Dental Dakota Smiles mobile program visited WHS Oct. 23-27 to provide care to students who do not have a regular dentist and have not seen a dental professional for a number of years. In total during the visit, the program provided care to 28 WHS students and provided $24,875 worth of free dental work. The Delta Dental program includes two trucks that serve as mobile clinics to provide preventive, diagnostic and restorative care to kids across the state. Delta Dental manages, operates and staffs the
mobile trucks, and works with local community site partners to identify children most in need of care who can least afford it. Local community sponsors also contribute a modest stipend for the visit. No patient is denied services due to inability to pay. The two trucks have visited 81 communities and provided more than $16.5 million in dental care to more than 30,000 patients since the program began in 2004. Both trucks travel across the state an average of 40 weeks every year. Around 3,000 total kids are served each year in South Dakota on the trucks.
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School nurse Carrie Clarke helped identify students who needed care and coordinated the visit at WHS. She said she could not have done it without the assistance of the WHS staff. “Please know that we are eternally grateful for your patience and kindness as we interrupted your class to pull students—we had to interrupt some teachers quite frequently,” Clarke said. Clarke said the care was worth the effort, however. “Healthy students learn better and have better attendance at school,” she said, “and that includes healthy teeth.”
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Senior helps boys cross country team to first state title in 30 years Bonheur Mvuyekure runs life-route from Congo to WHS By Sidney Kennedy and Madelyn Moravec Senior Bonheur Mvuyekure has run a long way in his young life, running from his birth country of the Congo in Africa all the way to WHS. One of his most recent runs was only five kilometers around a Black Hills campground resort, but it had significance to WHS as he helped bring the school their first cross country state title since 1987 Oct. 21. Mvuyekure finished in third place overall with a time of 16:22.46 and helped lead the Warriors to the title. Mvuyekure, and his family including three sisters and two older brothers, moved to South Dakota from the Congo in 2007. “I came to the U.S. because it was more safe than Congo,” Mvuyekure said. “It provided me and my family with better opportunities.” Mvuyekure attended All City Feature Elementary for first and second grade, then Annie Sullivan Elementary before moving on to Whittier Middle School where he realized he had a love for sports and started playing football as a Whittier Wolverine. He continued to pursue his passion for sports at WHS, getting involved track his freshman year and cross country as a sophomore. “I love cross country because of the people and the work ethic,” Mvuyekure said. “I became a better runner by training a lot and putting in a lot of hard work in the summer and during the school year, while trusting my coaches along the way.” Mvuyekure also took first at the Metro Conference
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Photo courtesy Warrior Cross Country RUN FAST—Senior Bonheur Mvuyekure (215) runs with a Warrior pack including seniors Shodo Mahamed (213) and Yonas Sadi (216) and sophomore Merci Bita at the State AA Meet Oct. 21 in Rapid City. Meet this season and was named All-State. But Mvuyekure doesn’t only excel in sports, but in the classroom as well. He has balanced athletics with five AP classes at WHS and is a girls basketball manager and involved in SALSA. He also volunteers at Avera in the ER. Schools including Northwestern College, Augustana University, Dakota State University and the University of South Dakota have offered scholarships. “I am very excited for what the future holds and to run for the school I end up choosing,” Mvuyekure said.
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First U.S. car race held in 1895 History.com (MCT) On Nov. 28, 1895, piloting a gas-powered “horseless carriage” of his and his brother’s own design, the mechanic, inventor and eventual racecar driver Frank Duryea won the first motor-car race in the United States. The race, sponsored by the Chicago TimesHerald, was intended to drum up publicity for the nascent American car industry. It worked especially well for the Duryeas brothers. In the year after the Times-Herald race, the brothers sold 13 of their eponymous Motor Wagons, more than any other carmaker in America.
Our History The race course was originally supposed to loop from Chicago to Waukegan, Ill., and back, a harrowing 92 miles. But thanks to the sudden arrival of a spectacular blizzard, race organizers decided to abbreviate the route. “With eight inches of snow,” one journalist wrote later, “Waukegan might as well have been Timbuktu.” The racers drove just 50 miles, from Chicago to Evanston, and back again. The other rules would remain the same: Vehicles had to have at least three wheels, all wrapped in twine to give traction in the snow, and they also had to be able to carry at least two people, the driver and a race-appointed umpire who would ride along to guard against cheating. Because of the bad weather, only six of 89 racers made it to the starting line—the Duryea; three Benz cars and two electrics whose batteries died almost immediately after the race began. About 10 hours after the race began, the Duryea chugged across the finish line. The only other finisher was one of the Benzes. The victorious Duryeas won $2,000 and enough publicity to establish themselves as the American Motor-Car Company.
