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Food Drive unites district Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019
From Oct. 7 to Nov. 8 the Cedar Falls High School holds a food drive. During this time the whole Cedar Falls School District is welcome to join in on the festivities and host their own activities as well. As of Tuesday, Nov. 5, the food drive at CFHS has raised $476 from powder puff volleyball, $221 from Chick-fil-A, $349 from Trunk or Treat and $1300 from third hour challenge. Although Student Senate is in charge of coordinating the whole food drive, senior leadership, junior leadership and sophomore leadership lead activities as well. This year the groups had bake sales, third hour challenge, Trunk or Treat, a volleyball tournament and Chick-fil-A fundraiser. Many events occur during the food, but Julie Cuvelier, business education teacher and senior leadership coordinator, said her favorite part is the fundamental aspects.. “I just like the part where it’s the physical work where we go down and box the food and stack the food and prepare it for the people, so we check the expiration dates and get it ready for them,” Cuvelier said. Cuvelier also said she thinks the Trunk or Treat is a great event. “Trunk or Treat is organized by student senate, and it’s amazing to me that so many different groups can be invited to that, and then they come that day, and it all comes together as an event, so I really like to see that event come together,” she said. By donating $1 to the food drive,
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Seniors Avery Straw and Sami Zapitul check the expiration dates before boxing donations from third period classes, and, at right, senior Noor Afzal greets another visitor at the trunk or treat event on Sunday, Oct. 27. one will provide a hungry person with four meals, or a family of four dinner. Alternatively, one point two pounds of food is equal to one meal. For senior Lilian Schmid, who is part of student senate and senior leadership, this is her favorite part. “My favorite part of the food drive is the idea of helping people,” Schmid said. “In Student Senate we had the people from the food drive come to a meeting, and they told us all the important things that the money that we raised did. Knowing that really motivates me to give food and money for a cause. The idea that I’m helping out kids who are hungry or families that are hungry really excites me. Also, I think it brings a lot of the stu-
dents together, knowing that we’re doing something good.” Sophomore Molly Boevers, a member of sophomore leadership and student senate, said she wanted to help out around the school, so she joined sophomore leadership. Cuvelier said she is seeing the efforts of students like Boevers throughout the food drive. “Some people step up and say, ‘I want to be the one that boxes,’ ‘I want to be the one that grabs the food,’ and they do it on their spare time. It’s not a part of class. It’s over power hour or pushing for after school hours. That’s probably the most amazing thing I see happen,” she said. Schmid said there is no small dona-
tion for this event. “Students are doing things to help people when they don’t even know it, like buying a Chick-fil-A sandwich during lunch or buying food from the bake sale or buying cinnamon rolls from the Tigers Den. There are little things that students do that add up to a lot of money that we can give to help people in need,” she said. Currently there are 43,430 people in Northeast Iowa who are food insecure. Through this event, Boevers said she internalized this number. “I think it’s important because it is surprising how many people are food insecure.” By Editor-in-Chief Sophia
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Iowa repeats regional goalball title
The Iowa girls goalball team defended its title as the winner of the North Central Association of Schools for the Blind (NCASB) goalball tournament by defeating Missouri with a score of 2-1 on Saturday, Nov. 2. The NCASB Goalball Tournament is held in St Louis every year with 10 states participating: Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Minnesota, Kentucky, Kansas, Missouri, Wisconsin and Tennessee. Goalball is a team sport developed in 1946 to help rehabilitate returning World War II veterans with visual impairments. The object of the game is to roll the ball past the other team into their goal. Goalball is played on a standard volleyball court with goals on either end. Raised tape
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The Iowa goalball team won the title on Nov. 2. is used to outline the key areas of the court so that players are able to orient themselves. Games are played between two teams with three people on the court for each team. All athletes must have a visual impairment to be eligible to play; however, each athlete
wears a blindfold to ensure an even playing field. The offensive team rolls a ball which contains bells either fast or slow in an attempt to get past the opposing team’s defense. The defensive team listens for the bells in the approaching ball and tries to block it from going into the goal. The defensive team blocks the ball with their bodies, so they often drop to the floor and stretch out as far as they can to block the ball. The ball is rolled back and forth with the offensive and defensive teams alternating until the team with the most points wins. Goalball is played in two, five- or seven-minute periods, and the rules for men’s and women’s goalball are the same. The Iowa girls goalball
team placed third three years ago at the NCASB goalball tournament in a surprise upset since the Iowa team had never placed in the tournament before. Determined to improve on 2017 results, the Iowa Rams worked hard in the off season competing against adult athletes in Des Moines to improve their skills. This hard work paid off as the Iowa girls team won the tournament in 2018. Determined to defend its title this year, the Iowa team continued to work hard in the off season and went on to defend its title by winning first place. The girls won their first game Friday night versus Kentucky, 5-1. Their second game was against Illinois who had been the reigning champions
before Iowa beat them in the finals in 2018. Iowa won that game, 3-0. On Saturday, Iowa was able to beat Ohio 10-1 and defeat Indiana 2-0, before winning the championship game against Missouri, 2-1. The Iowa team consists of five girls from ninth through 12th grade even though girls as young as seventh grade can participate. “I’m honored to be a part of the Iowa team and extremely excited to finish my high school goalball career with another championship,” said senior Justine Yang, who has been a member of the team for the last three years. By Staff Writer Justine
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Food drive brings out best of CF efforts Once again, like each year, our student-driven food drive has come, impacted many around the high school and in our community and flown by quickly with all the fun activities. By holding this food drive, CF schools take a great step toward ending hunger in Northeast Iowa, and Black Hawk County specifically. Currently, 13.8 percent of Black Hawk County is food insecure, 17.2 percent being children. This U.S. Department of Agriculture defines food insecurity as a lack of consistent access to enough food for an active, healthy life. Brian Winkel Photo It is sometimes hard to believe that people around us, specifically in the Senior Beau high school, are food insecure when Andersen we have so much food surrounding us, and at our fingertips as it might seem, boxes some but some only know they are getting third period dobreakfast and lunch, which comes from nations for the the school. What about the weekends food drive. or breaks? One may not be able to see these struggles that are happening right here in our community, but that is another benefit of the food drive. Not only does it feed thousands of people, but it educates the people who may think they are not affected, but may just know someone who is food insecure. Helping out does not mean spending all one’s time and money on the food drive. That’s another great thing about the food drive: helping a little, helps a lot. Donating $1 means four people will be fed. The food drive offered so many great activities that did not require students to devote their whole schedule to, like the Chick-fil-A event. Buying your dinner there meant others got fed as well. If you feel like you missed out on a great opportunity to feed lots of people that may just be close to you, you haven’t. The Northeast Iowa Food Bank is always welcoming volunteers to help sort donated food for families. Also, on top of the Northeast Iowa Food Bank website there is a button where you could click “donate” and change the lives of multiple people. To learn more about how we are impacting Northeast Iowa, visit https://www.northeastiowafoodbank.org/. The lessons we learn from this food drive don’t have to end when the food drive does. It is necessary that throughout life we be aware of injustices and insecurities throughout the world. A major lesson to take away from this food drive is never get too comfortable in your life; always be willing to extend a hand.
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version was used by a few different authors on the site and had received similar results and.”many Wattpadders believe that writers should earn money for their work.” There is no exact percentage given for how much of the revenue the author’s make, but it is put out there that Wattpad does take a percentage. The only other thing they have said is that their priority is the authors and that the “majority” of the revenue goes to them (the writers). If a writer is interested in joining the Paid Story program, there is sure to be a bit of a wait. “For now, the program is invite only and writers are contacted individually,” Wattpad said. “Currently, Paid Stories is looking for existing or new stories by writers who have established a presence on the platform by achieving a milestone
of 10,000 reads or more.” There is a Google Form open to those who would like their stories to be considered for the program, and this form can be found at goo. gl/9xGbCZ. This feature is relatively new and still has some flaws that Wattpad is working to fix and improve every day. While their intentions with the Paid Stories feature are good, it can still be frustrating to many users who are used to every story on the site being free to read. Seeing both the good and the bad of Paid Stories so far, there is no telling where it could go from here or how it could change in the future. There is currently a feedback form on the Wattpad site that can be found at goo.gl/ yEX93A. By Online Editor Skylar
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Are you ready for the snow?
No. It’s cold. I did enjoy it as a kid when I could play in it. —Lily Keith sophomore
Yes. It’s very fun to play in. —Emma Laures senior
Yes. I love snow. It’s so pretty in the morning. —Nathan Le senior
I came from Taiwan. I never saw snow. I think I like snow, but I’m not sure if I see so much snow I will still like it. —Jessie Chuang senior By Staff Writers Kendall & Kaitlyn
I come from Kenya. I first saw snow in the northern part of Iowa during a camp with friends. The first feeling was so good in that it was something I have never seen in my life. —Dija Lusansanya senior
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On the first day of freshman year, senior Natalie Huffman walked through the doors of Peet Junior High wearing makeup to school for the first time. Experimenting and practicing over the summer, Huffman found new confidence on that first day. Since then, Huffman has been strutting into high school with confidence in each and every new look she tries. “That’s a feeling that never gets old,” Huffman said. Huffman is influenced by the beauty community of social media and finds inspiration watching from the viewer’s side of the screen. “Seeing people ‘transform’ themselves into anything they want with such a wide array of products and colors is insane to me. I love love love watching videos about makeup, whether it’s reviews, tutorials, first impressions of new products, I love it for some reason and find it so interesting how large the industry is and how much it impacts people,” Huffman said. Huffman said her creativity is influenced by more than the typical makeup artist you’d find on YouTube. “I think one of my biggest inspirations for makeup creativity is not only people like Jeffree Star and Nikkitutorials who strive to make people feel the absolute best about themselves while being so successful, but a huge role model to me is Billie Eilish. Her creativity and mindset is so mind blowing to me. Even though she isn’t really tied into the ‘beauty community,’ she just has the most insane ideas that continue to blow people like me away,” Huffman said. When it comes to makeup, Huffman said eyeshadow is her weapon of choice. “I love eyeshadow overall. Eyeshadow, lipstick and lashes are definitely some of my favorite things to experiment with. Some of my favorite holy grail products that I always find myself coming back to and continuously using is the Jaclyn Hill X Morphe palette. The colors are so universally flattering on all skin
Senior Natalie Huffman has been refining her makeup skills for over four years.
“For anyone who loves makeup like I do, don’t be scared to go out of the box and play with color. Intense colors, glitter, gloss—take whatever appeals to you and go for it. Makeup is what you make of it. Do it because you love it, not because you feel as though you need it.”
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Submitted Photos tones with a wide array of flattering warm tone shadows with fun pops of color that leave room for so much play,” Huffman said. Creating many exotic looks over the years, Huffman said she can’t pick a favorite look because it all depends on the day. “I don’t necessarily have a favorite look because all looks have their own special thing
about them, whether it’s just a brown smokey eye with a deep berry lip or bright blue eyeshadow with gems, it all ties back to how it makes me feel and view myself,” Huffman said. A creative person by nature, Huffman has always had an eye for art. “I’ve always been involved with art in some way shape or form.
Painting, ceramics, drawing, all that stuff. Same with those styles of art, there’s no right or wrong way to approach or follow through with the process of creating and creativity, and because of that I think that being involved with other arts doesn’t directly influence each other and makeup, but it helps spark creativity more often,” Huffman said.
Like any skill, Huffman said makeup takes practice, but it also needs to be spontaneous and without routine. “There’s no right or wrong way to do makeup. It’s all in how you approach it, but looks tend to be more ‘successful’ the more you do it. I don’t think it’s something that needs to be heavily and consistently practiced. It’s more of how you feel about yourself and enjoying the process that comes with makeup. There are so many ways to approach it, so like I said, I don’t think there’s specific guidelines to follow, but looking back on how I used to do my makeup there are some significant changes that cause me to become more satisfied with how I look if that makes sense,” Huffman said. Wanting to “stand out to an extent,’’ Huffman aims for a slightly edgier style in terms of fashion. “Social media and, believe it or not, Tik Tok is where I get most of my inspiration for my looks. I love the whole baggy clothes with an insane amount of jewelry trend that’s going around right now, semi e-boy look. I love the stacking chains, big rings and other interesting pieces of jewelry look right now. Overall, taking different pieces from a variety of ‘fashion categories’ that appeal to me and putting them together into something I feel good and confident in is my overall goal for my style,” Huffman said. “Makeup influences my style in a way where it’s another piece that creates the whole look overall. I feel as though some of my looks aren’t complete with[out] a bold lip color or dramatic lashes. So, it definitely is one of the building blocks that add up to the final outcome.” Huffman never knows when inspiration may strike, but she has identified a trend in her makeup schedule. “Honestly, when I do my more intense looks, I usually do it right before I’m about to shower or really late at night. No idea why, but it seems like every time I know I should be asleep, that’s when I usually do the more intense looks, and that’s one of the best things about makeup. It’s not permanent, and you can always take it off and start over again,” Huffman said. By Staff Writer Alayna
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Boucing back from earlier season injuries, senior Mackenzie Michael finished 29th at the state cross country meet in Fort Dodge on Saturday, Nov. 2. At top, junior Cooper Olsen finished 104th individually with a time of 18:30 in the event.
Michael finishes 29th at State, men finish 7th At the state cross country meet, Saturday, Nov. 2, senior Mackenzie Michael took 29th place out of the 126 girls running that morning. The chilly Iowa breeze didn’t make it easy for the runner, but because it was her last race, Michael wanted to end the season on a high note. “I knew it was my last high school race ever so I really wanted to lay it all on the line and have a really good, strong race,” Michael said. Injured for most of the season, Michael focused hard on taking care of her body the best she could so she could run when it really mattered. Michael said the healing process has been difficult, so to see these postseason results has been gratifying. “It’s really been a lot of off and on. Some-
times I’m healthy and other times I would be so unhealthy to the point where I couldn’t run, so I’m just happy I finished strong,” Michael said. Michael was the only runner representing the women’s cross country team last Saturday, and although it’s been this way before, Michael said it’s strange not having the company of her team. “It was odd. I mean last year we only had me and another girl run, so I guess it wasn’t much different, but it was still weird not to have my team there,” Michael said. Even though her team wasn’t running with her, Michael was able to rely on the attendance of her friends, family and teammates while she ran. “It was so amazing. It made me so happy to have such a great support system and just so
many people cheering me on,” Michael said. Michael couldn’t have crossed the finish line or even gotten to the state meet without a little help along the way. Michael said it wasn’t a single person who contributed the most to her success, but rather a collective effort from multiple people. “I just think my team as a whole and you know all the physical therapists and chiropractors that helped me through and just fixed me,” Michael said. Throughout the course of the season, Michael experienced a back, hamstring, and foot injury. Now that the cross country season has concluded, Michael will take a few weeks of rest before getting back to work in the off-season. Michael plans on swimming before getting
Men’s State Cross Country
Team placed 7th Eli Smith, 25th in 16:20 Tj Tomlyanovich, 33rd in 16:32 Joel Burris, 41st in 16:38 Brayden Burnett, 46th in 16:40 Michael Goodenbour, 49th in 16:42 Alex Horstman, 50th in 16:43 Cooper Olsen, 104 in 18:30
back into weightlifting with her training for track. “I know college is gonna be a lot more intense but at the same time I’ll get a lot better,” Michael said. Michael plans on attending Oklahoma State University after graduation to participate in cross country and track. By Staff Writer Alayna
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Football In the Tiger’s 44-0 thrashing of No. 15 Dubuque Senior in the opening round of the football playoffs on Friday, Nov. 1, junior Ryan Ostrich rushed for 136 yards and two touchdowns. What do you enjoy most about playing football? I really like the competitiveness and the contact in the sport. Who is one upperclassman you look up to on the football team and why? Collin [Bohnenkamp] because I admire his work ethic. What made you want to start playing football? I have played since I was a kid, and I have always watched it, and it’s been a dream of mine to play college football. Can we plan on seeing you participating in any other sports this year, and, if so, what? I plan on running track. Do you plan on playing football after high school? I hope to. What has been your favorite memory the season with the team? Being undefeated and celebrating every win. What is your outlook going into this Friday’s game? I think it is going to be a very exciting game.