VOLUME XLIII ISSUE III
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
New trees donated to school By Jostun Pomplun
Random Quotes from around Berlin High School “Mrs. Rossow, I’m not going to be here on the seventeenth,” junior Jessica Steger said. “Where are you going?” Rossow asked. “Buddy Squirrels!” Steger said. “What’s that!? A cheaper version of Chucky Cheese?” asked senior Allison Yonke.
“A fouton, that’s something you eat,” senior David Carlson said. “No, that’s a crouton,” senior Anthony Tumbarello replied.
“I’m a tough little bugger, but when it comes to my knuckles...” senior Katie Krouse said as she lost a game of knuckles to senior Brian Brisky.
Berlin High School received three donated Emerald Lustre Maple trees from Marty’s Blue Sky Nursery and Landscaping, Inc. out of Eureka. The donated trees replaced three dead Columnar Ash trees that were cut down at the end of October. All three were planted on the north side of the school. Two trees are behind the circle drive and the other is in front of the music rooms, closer to the parking lot. “The trees were replaced because they were in various stages of death. The three in the front were ash and I think they had the disease,” agriculture teacher Charles Gallinger said. The disease Gallinger is referring to is the emerald ash borer, an invasive beetle. It burrows inside the tree and eats the cambium and phloem, removing a ring of bark from the tree and causing it to die. The old trees were removed and the new trees were planted by Gallinger’s Forestry/Conservation Management class. To remove the
Photo: C. Gallinger Planting one of the three outdoor donated trees are juniors Levi Schultz and Ryan Priem. Sophomores Eric Evans and Jared Labbus assisted. Junior Ryan Priem enjoyed trees, students sawed them down They then worked in groups of with chainsaws and then cut the five or six to plant the new maple planting the trees despite the difficulties. brush off. trees. “It was fun planting them, but it “The trees were not that big, One student that helped was was cold, wet and muddy,” Priem so they tipped over pretty easily,” junior Levi Schultz. Gallinger said. “It was pretty hard to plant said. A rose tree was also donated in The whole class helped in the trees. Even though we had planting the trees. Gallinger five people, it was still difficult memory of history teacher Tom marked where the holes had to to move them, even with me,” LaFontaine. This tree will be potted and kept inside the school. be and the students dug them. Schultz said.
Students raise money, veterans take flight By Karnpal Cheema Over the course of the past month, area high schools including Berlin, Markesan and Princeton conducted various fundraisers to send veterans on Old glory Honor Flights. Old Glory Honor Flight is a non-profit organization in Appleton, WI whose purpose is to honor veterans by sending them to Washington, D.C. to visit and reflect at various war memorials. Old Glory Honor Flight was chosen as this year’s charity by the Markesan High School Student Council. “There are veterans in both Markesan and Berlin that have participated in the flights, and the student council thought it was important to honor our local veterans,” Markesan High Student Council Advisor Scott Mundro said.
All the participating schools used different methods for raising nearly $500 each. At Berlin High School, the student council sponsored bake sales, root beer float sales and pizza sales. To encourage donations, Principal Lynn Mork promised students that he would publicly
shave his head if the $500 donation was raised. The schools also faced a time crunch in their fundraising schedule. “The student council chose how to raise the money. We did not have a very long time to raise the money, so we had to find ways to
Photo: K. Cheema Teacher’s aid Judy Congdon shaves Principal Lynn Mork’s head at an assembly celebrating the fundraiser while counselor Ann Ragus films.
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raise all of the money in a short amount of time,” Berlin High School Student Council Advisor Ann Ragus said. “In all, Berlin High School raised over $700.” Each of the school’s funds served as an entrance fee into a staff volleyball tournament on November 7, which raised additional funds. Through all of the schools’ efforts, and donations and concessions at the volleyball tournament, over $1,500 was raised for Old Glory Honor Flight. “With the volleyball tournament and all donations, we will be able to send three veterans to D.C.,” Ragus said. Every year, the three student councils collectively choose a new charity to fund. “It is hard to say what our charity will be next year if the volleyball tournament continues, but I hope that it will be as successful as this year’s,” Mundro said.
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