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Mount Si cheer teams win at state, head to nationals in Orlando By ALLYCE ANDREW
Senior Center honors contributors at annual meeting Page 5
The Mount Si High School cheerleaders reached a milestone even the Seattle Seahawks couldn’t this season: A trip to Disney World. After an undefeated cheer season and a second state championship, the varsity Red and Silver cheer squads traveled to Disney World on Thursday, Feb. 5, for the national high school cheerleading championship. The Red team competed against 50 teams nationwide, while the Silver took on 29. Head coach Jessii Stevens is a Mount Si alumna and has spent seven seasons with the team. In an e-mail during the height of the
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Amanda Antoch, center, performs with Mount Si’s Red cheer squad Feb. 3. The teams, both winners at state recently, did one last home show before going to national competition. competition, she detailed the teams’ goals. “Both teams are really
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excited to be at nationals and represent Mount Si,” Stevens wrote. “For Silver,
our goal is to make finals and for Red, our goal is to make top three in the
Condor and Thunderbird
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Totems mark cultural exchange between sister cities Snoqualmie and Chaclacayo
Opinion 4 5 Puzzles On the Scanner 6 Classifieds 12-14 15 Calendar
By CAROL LADWIG Editor
Vol. 101, No. 38 Carol Ladwig/Staff Photo
Peru students Fernando and Cristian laugh as they take over painting duties on the condor sculpture.
Six students from Peru had been visiting Snoqualmie for less than a week, but were quickly embracing Washington culture. As a pair of wooden condor wings, painted that morning in bright colors, sat drying on the floor, host mom Renee Gieseke observed the prominent Seahawks blue and green. “I think we’re influencing them already,” she said with a laugh.
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The students, three boys and three girls from Snoqualmie’s sister city of Chaclacayo Peru, may have just gone for the brightest hues, though, during the Saturday painting session of the sculptures. The condor’s accompanying sculpture, a Thunderbird, was also painted that morning, and sported lots of color. Both statues were carved by North Bend artists Bob and Laura Antone, in a marathon week of hand-carving that started on Monday, Feb. 2. They were on hand Saturday to help with the final assembly of the statue, but the students, along with some boys from a neighboring tribe, did most of the painting. “They’re doing this part,” said Bob. “Everybody’s picking their own colors and symbols… you can see an elk, and the Valley on this one.” The sculptures, erected Sunday outside the Snoqualmie Valley Chamber of Commerce building at the George Swenson SEE TOTEMS, 2
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nation. Competing at the nationals level is incredibly different than competing in Washington; the teams are phenomenal in Florida! “I think seeing teams with such incredible technique will be eye-opening to the girls and make them want to push themselves that much harder next season.” Allie Banducci, 14, and Vanessa Vance, 15, are both freshmen, Silver squad cheerleaders. This will be their first time at nationals and visiting Disney World. At their February 3 send-off practice, both girls admitted they were nervous. “I’m nervous because there’s going to be a lot more people than we usually perform in front of…” Banducci began. “And it’s like whole new routines, so we have to keep practicing,” Vance interjected. Despite the glitzy distractions of Disney World, the girls said they’re more excited about the competition than visiting the park.