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Volume 47 Edition 17
Foods co-op students create cafe, build real-life restaurant skills Torie Jochims Staff Writer
Some people dream of starting their own café, serving homemade food they have made and treating guests to down-home hospitality, and in Gayle Bruene’s Family Consumer Science class, the students are doing just this. The students are working hard, putting their heart and soul into a restaurant experience of their very own. Between choosing recipes, pricing the food and creating a menu, these groups of three to four students have their work cut out for them. Students will be offering their services to all within the building who get their orders placed on time, and a diverse menu helps the project keep rolling with orders. The menus are unique for each group in the class and offers a wide variety of tastes. “I enjoy seeing them get excited about the menu and recipes they have chosen and the pride they take in making sure the food is good,” Bruene said. She originally started up the café project with her food service co-op class
six years ago. “It’s a great hands-on learning experience. All of these students are in food service co-op and work at food related jobs,” Bruene said. “This experience also allows them to share their individual knowledge with other members of the class.” The café unit is a large project that is time consuming, but worth the effort to the students, for these students are considering entering a career in food services post-high school, so the café unit is proving to be a valuable learning tool. “It is a lot of work and right now they are costing their recipes, and I know some don’t enjoy all the math skills needed to complete this activity,” Bruene said. “Many of our customers are already asking about when it will be. I have even had former students come back and order from us,” Bruene said. With such anticipation and returning visitors, it proves to be a success. “Most of our business is B-C shift school employees and students. We do mainly a carry out and delivery business,” Bruene said. Though the
project may be a difficult and busy one, Bruene said she wasn’t worried about the class. “I have a very talented and creative group this year, so I am sure it will be a success,” she said. Even though cooking is one of the main objectives, the managing and pricing components are also important. “Each group of three to four students has a date that is their day as restaurant managers, and the other students are their employees for the day. The group in charge assigns the work to be accomplished by the others, and if someone doesn’t do his or her part or is absent, the managers have to pick up the slack,” Bruene said. The dates set for the café are March 30, April 6, April 27, May 11 and May 18. The café is open to orders from anyone in the school building, but orders must be in the Tuesday before each of the dates for delivery. Each group can handle up to about 40 orders due to time constraints. Once each group finishes designing them, a menu is posted outside the foods room (room 117) door on the Monday before each restaurant.
Mixing up the goodies for her team’s menu is senior Laura Kressig. She and the other students in FCS teacher Gayle Bruene’s class will then take pictures of each creation to use for the menus in their café.
Cast of 100 students, staff deliver medieval musical this weekend Steve Ramsey Staff Writer
The CFHS drama department will be presenting their spring musical, ”Once Upon a Mattress” on March 2 and 3. “Once Upon a Mattress” is the “true” story of the princess and the pea. Prince Dauntless, played by sophomore Sam Lilja, needs a bride because the marriage law says that no one can get married until the prince does. Twelve girls come and are tested to see if they are good enough, but they all fail. Prince Harry (played by sophomore Rhys Talbot), upon learning that his girlfriend (played by sophomore Amelia Gotera) is pregnant, requests to leave on “a perilous journey” to find a true princess for Dauntless. Harry comes back with Princess Winnifred, or Fred for short. Fred is played by senior Rhiannon Talbot. Dauntless falls in love with her, but his mother, Queen Ag-
grravain (played by senior Rachel Fritts) has other thoughts. Of course this leads to mayhem including wizards, mattresses and more. “(The musical will) provide students with an opportunity to implement multiple fine arts skills that could be used within the real world, to work as a group cooperatively and to perform with each other in areas that school often separates like singing, acting, playing instruments and dancing,” English teacher and musical director Michelle Rathe said. Rathe also said that it offers students the opportunity to show off dancing skills they’ve acquired outside of school. Many students that participate in the musical are already involved in choir and drama. Only a few cast members are not in choir. The whole cast and crew is made up of over 100 people. “Those who have only previously been choir are about one third of the cast,” Rathe said. Other lead actors include senior Spencer Col-
lins as the mute king, senior Peter Fegley as the wizard, senior Kegan Bakken as the minstrel and junior Ben Main as the jester. Students have been working hard since December and will continue with rehearsals until the show. Practices have run Monday through Friday from 3:30 to 6 p.m. “Students are also expected to attend at least one set construction day,” Rathe said. There are also many CFHS staff members helping out. Kendra Wohlert is the choir director, and Gerald Ramsey is directing the pit orchestra. There are also a few non-staff members working on the production. Mike Cavin is the tech director and Ranea Bamsey of Kinetic Energy was the choreographer for three of the numbers. The production will be held in the CFHS auditorium at 7 p.m. on March 2 and 3. It will be $4 for students and $6 for adults. Activity passes will not be accepted.
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Polishing their parts for the musical are sophomores Amanda Gotera and Rhys Talbot.