Caston team wins English competition six years in a row

Caston students won the English Hoosier North Athletic Conference competition, for the sixth year in a row.

Schools in the HNAC are invited to participate in the competition every year. It consists of two divisions, a Junior Division, for freshman and sophomores and a Senior Division, for juniors and seniors.

Each division must submit three poems, short stories and personal narratives. The Senior Division must include an additional three, from a provided challenge category. This year, the challenge category was “Children’s Book.”

All Caston High School students submitted entries into at least one of these categories, with some students completing all categories.

Teachers, librarians, aides and other volunteers help the English department choose the top three that will be submitted to the English HNAC competition. Winners then finalize their entry before it is submitted into the competition.

Multiple judges are provided for each category by the selected school hosting the English HNAC competition.

Each judge is given all entries in their category without the student’s name provided. The judges rank each entry and the total average ranking for each student determines placement.

The awards ceremony was held

May 4 in the Culver Community High School.

First place winners for Caston High School were Ashley Pacheco, Senior Division, Short Story and Narrative; Silas Manley, Senior Division, Challenge; Zach Rochers, Junior Division Narrative; Mason Prenatt, Junior Division Short Story; and Braden Rush, Junior Division Poetry.

Caston ended the competition with a score of 421; Culver Community High School, 342; Knox Community High School, 280; and Winamac Community High School, 115.

The English HNAC contest provides each student with the opportunity to write creatively, to be involved in numerous edits and to receive feedback from people other than their teachers.

Satisfaction in the lord

(Read Psalm 17:1-15)

“As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness; I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.” Psalm 17:15.

Is it not logical to believe the only one who can recreate us is the one who created us in the first place?

If your watch were out of order, you wouldn’t take it to a blacksmith. If your car needed overhauling, you wouldn’t go to a machine shop.

Our spiritual problems can be solved only by the God who created us originally. He created us in his own image and likeness; today, by the grace of his son, he can recreate us in the likeness of his resurrection. Through faith in Jesus Christ, we are recreated and become partakers of his life.

First, get away (read Mark