BLOOD DRIVE

by Cristina Martin

We were able to see 40 people and collect 29 pints of blood. We had a few more deferrals than normal, but sometimes that is to be expected. Make sure to give a big thanks to the medical terminology juniors and Dunegan for helping to make the blood drive happen! Make sure if you are interested in potentially saving 3 lives and/or helping multiple people, sign up for the next blood drive when details are posted in the Spring.

Every ounce counts!

The History of Halloween

Halloween was originally a Celtic holiday from Samhain, and was a pagan religious holiday to celebrate the end of summer and the harvest. People would wear costumes to scare away ghosts and dance around a bonfire. Pumpkin carving, or originally turnip carving, was used to ward off evil spirits and protect people. While there are many ways it could’ve started, trick or treating could’ve started from three different ways; Celtic’s leaving small offerings out to give to spirits but then people started dressing up for offerings, or trick or treating came from a practice that involved people asking for food and giving prayers in return. The final way trick or treating could’ve been created from a German-American tradition where children would dress up and call their neighbors so see if they could recognize them, being rewarded with treats if they could not recognize the kids.

As always, there were plenty of spooky good movies (or even just spooky movies) that came out this October:

Friday Night at Freddy’s

A long awaited film to the indie series of video games! While critics hate it, the fans of the video game series absolutely love it. When a security guard is hired at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzaria, he soon discovers that there may be a secret to the old animatronics, and maybe they get just the tiniest amount of quirky at night.

A HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

WRITTEN BY ISABEL LAIB

HALLOWEEN MAY HAVE PASSED BUT IT WAS STILL A SPOOKY GOOD TIME! FROM COSTUMES TO MOVIE NIGHTS WE HAD IT ALL! HERE'S A QUICK SUMMARY OF OUR SPOOKY CELEBRATION, ALONG WITH SOME SPOOKY GOOD COSTUMES FROM TRAPPERS!

The Conference

There was no way this meeting could go smoothly…

When a bunch of employees start fighting for their integrity, a masked killer is also trying to pick them off one by one.

The Exorcist: Believer

The next installation in the terrifically terrifying Exorcist series is sure to give you demonic frights! When two little girls start showing signs of demonic possession, the single father of one of them must step forward and confront evil himself.

On April 5, 1972 in the Vancouver and Northeast Portland area, a tornado swept through the area. The weather was normal with only one difference at 11:00 in the Willamette Valley area, strong showers from the coast were approaching the area. The showers made their way West up to Portland and Vancouver, thunderstorms occurred in Tigard and Tualatin area with strong thunderstorms with high wind that was going 60 or 50 mph. According to the National Weather service “Tornadoes are violently rotating columns of air, extending from a thunderstorm, which are in contact with the ground. Tornadoes develop when wind variations with height support rotation in the updraft.”

The first reported touchdown of the tornado occurred in Portland, near Marine drive and NE 33rd Street, it eventually moved up North to Vancouver and its second reported touchdown was on Highway 14, then to the Mcloughlin Heights neighborhood. The tornado headed towards the other side of the Mcloughlin Heights neighborhood towards the old Peter S Ogden elementary school and Fort Vancouver high school which is where Parr Lumber is, leaving 6 dead and 300 hundred injured. 70 of those injured were students of Peter S Ogden elementary school.