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McCann shares her ideas on something she would like McFadden shares his ideas on something he would like to change. to change. ith 2015-2016 ASB elections coming to an end, “A change I would want to make is to make sure the “One change that I would like to make is just more PHS welcomes a new team of officers to lead excitement out of everyone to be at PHS and be proud to school has their input and views on certain issues and next year. Elections were held April 28. Each say that they are a Viking,” McFadden said. problems being contemplated,” McCann said. candidate had prepared a speech and presented to the Sophomore Xander Waits ran for ASB Treasurer. Junior Noah Fenz ran for ASB Vice President. sophomore and junior classes. “I decided to run because I want to be a big part of “I decided to run for Vice President because I want Junior Sam Ebner ran for ASB President. to make high school as enjoyable as possible for every PHS. I want to get involved. What a better way to do so “I decided to run for president because I thought I was student. I want to find a way to make it possible for every than running for ASB? You get to rep the students and ready for the next step after being ASB student to enjoy each and every day of work together with the other officers to better students treasurer. I would love to just make the “One change that I would school. I understand high school has experience as they go through the year,” Waits said. school even better than it is in any way Waits shares his ideas on something he would like to its rough days and tough moments, so like to make is just more my goal is to make everyone's time here change. that I can,” Ebner said. Junior Beau Pasquier also ran for ASB “As an ASB officer I would like to work on student Fenz said. excitment out of everyone awesome,” President. Fenz shares his ideas on something he involvement. Involved students have better high school “I decided to run for ASB President experiences than other. This could be involved in a sport, would like to change. to be at PHS...” because I have always liked being a part “I do not have a certain or specific a certain class, a club, coming to sports games the list of leadership in the school. I have been change in mind but any change that is goes on. I would want to tighten our Viking community, NOAH MCFADDEN part of the leadership in junior high; I JUNIOR beneficial to the students of PHS I am up bringing people closer. To all work towards having a better was ASB Treasurer and I was finally able three years,” Waits said. for doing,” Fenz said. to apply for a position in the high school. Junior Kennedy Robillard ran unopposed for ASB Sophomore Zoe Brown ran for ASB I love being able to help teach or inspire people to do their Vice President. secretary. best. I thought ASB would be a great opportunity to do “I wanted to run for secretary because I love being a part “I decided to run for Vice President because I really that,” Pasquier said. want to make a change and I feel like having to chance to of something bigger in the school. I joined leadership this Pasquier shares his ideas on something he would like represent our school could open so much last year and got to see and participate to change. all the behind the scenes work for doors for not only me but ‘us’ as a whole,” “During my term I would in “One change I would like to make during my time as an Brown said. assemblies, recognition pieces and events officer is to advocate for passes to go to Thr3e. I believe Brown shares her ideas on something like to continue to improve that our school runs. I also became great that students should be allowed to go across the street to he would like to change. friends with the current secretary, Pierce buy bagels or drinks that you cannot get at The Wall or The the communication at and got to observe her role. She is an “One thing I want to change is the Viking Blend,” Pasquier said. “Allowing students to go to exclusivity. What I mean by that is making incredible person and I cannot wait to try PHS.” Thr3e would lessen the number of detentions and could everyone feel welcomed and comfortable and continue her legacy,” Robillard said. even benefit our ASB budget by selling passes. Students and having the whole school feel like Robillard shares her ideas on something KENNEDY ROBILLARD should be able to obtain passes some way, whether it is a whole. Making it so that every day she would like to change. JUNIOR being a good student or paying a few dollars for them to get each student and staff member can feel “During my term I would like to a pass for a month or even winning the small contests we appreciated,” Brown said. “Also, we have continue to improve the communication have during lunch on spirit days. It would be something not really had much female leadership and I would love to at PHS. It has gotten a lot better in the past year but I feel I would like to change because I believe it would benefit be another great lady in the Viking ASB Hall of Fame such like it is still missing that final piece. I want everyone to the students and school alike.” as Kelty [Pierce] because she is such a great role model have a great experience at high school and have all of the Junior Noah McFadden ran for ASB Vice President. same opportunities. Not everyone hears about all the fun and that is something that I strive to be towards others.” “I decided to run for Vice President because I wanted things we do because the word is not spread well enough. Junior Hannah McCann ran for ASB Treasurer. to get involved in my high school. Sure that is cliché but “I decided to run because I wanted to become involved My goal is to help make everyone feel comfortable and I just thought that it would be a great way to end out my in our school and I had watched our previous brilliant welcome in our school,” Robillard said. high school career not only for myself but my school,” officers do a great job at it which enthused me to be a part Junior Valentino Flores is also running for Vice President McFadden said. although he was unable to comment. of such a strong group,” McCann said. B Y
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SAM EBNER ASB PRESIDENT JUNIOR
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XANDER WAITS ASB TREASURER JUNIOR
VALENTINO FLORES ASB VICE PRESIDENT JUNIOR
Candidate Kennedy Robillard is not pictured here. She ran for ASB Secretary.
NOAH MCFADDEN ASB VICE PRESIDENT JUNIOR
ZOE BROWN ASB VICE PRESIDENT SOPHOMORE
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This Focus looks at whether or not the new system of As the end of the school year approaches and the discipline put in place really affected the attendance issues temperature goes up, it is time that the climate of the here at PHS or did they stay the same. Also looked at is the administration’s school is tested. perspective in how they feel their year here The climate or state of PHS has fluctuated over these past three years, with current “With these stories we at PHS went and what they are thinking changing for PHS’ future. seniors not having the same principal any of hope to not dwell in about Taking over a high school, principal job is the three years. With a third principal in three years the past with the Focus a hard task but taking over the principal job PHS is harder because of the rich tradition coming in and a new vice principal, change but to look into the at of alumni and teachers having been here was expected but as the school year comes to the close, it is now time to look at how future and what we as a some almost 30 years. While it may not be the easiest topic to those changes went over. school can do...” cover without pushing buttons of a variety There has been a mix of stories and rumors of different groups, we made sure that flying about throughout the school year. In OUR VIEW both sides were heard and given equal this issue of The Viking Vanguard, the Focus opportunity to show. section looks at those stories and tries to With these stories we hope not to dwell in settle those rumors on what the students, administration, district and teachers think after one year the past with the Focus but to look into the future and what we as a school can do to make this school a better place. in a new system. We took the approach of not getting any teacher or The Focus also looks at the student and teacher opinions of the climate as two separate surveys were given to the student who participated in this Focus in trouble, the surveys are completely anonymous. student body and teachers.
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Baseball brings memories The beginning of baseball season means a lot to me, being a very big baseball fan. It means three things: summer is almost here, school is almost over and a lot of time spent outdoors.
making the playoffs and actually making a late postseason run. That just shows how little projections actually mean. The reason a lot of fans and experts they never actually start the season at had high expectations was the year before in 2014, the team missed the The beginning of baseball season home. means a lot to me, being a very big This year is full of mysteries, the one playoffs by one game and had an 8775 showing. baseball fan. It means three things, I am most concerned the playoffs summer is almost hear, school is about is the bullpen. “At this point people byMissing one game was a almost over and a lot of time spent We have one returning outdoors. member from last stopped paying attention success for Mariners because it was I have been going to Seattle year, Charlie Furbush to the mariners because fans the first time we had Mariners games for a long time, pretty and he is starting the they do not want to get sniffed the playoffs for much my entire life. Even year on the baseball since 2001. though the Mariners have Disabled List. their hopes up.” At this point people not been good for pretty Granted stopped paying much my entire life, I still there are attention to the follow them each year as pitchers that JAXON OWENS WEBSITE EDITOR Mariners because if they had won the World have been they do not want to Series the previous year. in there, two get their hopes up. With each new year, of them are there is a new slate for starters from last year and the However we need to keep supporting each team. This year is only other pitcher still around and provide energy on the stands to J. OW ENS especially with about 50 in the bullpen from last year will our baseball team to victory. WEB EDITOR This year… I honestly do not know percent of the roster being had three appearances in late brand new. Sept., when the Mariners were what to think, with so many new pieces including a new manager, General The Mariners have only been to the already out of the playoff race. playoffs once since I have been alive The team last year in 2015 was Manager and half a roster, I am trying and I was two years old when that supposed to be one of the best teams to come in with low expectations happened. Granted that season it was in their American League but no so that way if they are bad, or even mediocre, I will be happy or content one of if not the best season ever in where near met the expectations. Major League Baseball history. The Baseball is a game of expectations, with their performance. This does not team had 116 wins that year, which is going into last year the expectations mean that I am not going to route for tied for the most in a single season. were high and a lot of fans were them as hard as I have in years past, The Mariners always do a great job disappointed after a 76-86 showing, it just means if the Mariners do not for their Opening Day experiences for which is bad but it was worse because do very well, hopefully I will not be as the fans. Even though it seems like a lot of experts had the Mariners disappointed.
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In 2014 I went on a trip that would change my life forever. For most people, the firstout-of country experience is not going across the world to China. But there I was, an incoming sophomore in high school, flying 12 hours across the globe to do service projects in Langfang China. I went with my mom and 12 other teens and chaperones. I did not really know what to expect when going. The media makes China out to
be scary but when we got there it was far from it. I went to China with the idea that I am going to change someone’s life but what I did not know was the people and experiences I had were going to change mine.
We worked at Agape Life House in Langfang. That is an orphanage for children and teens with brittle bone disease. The owner of the orphanage is an American man named Keith, one of the kindest men you would ever meet. He has so much compassion and passion for what he does. He does not do what he does half heartedly. Keith is such an inspiration to all who encounter him, including me.
We h e l p him clean an abandoned house and cleaned the The Bread of Life Bakery’s kitchen. We also become friends with some of the children and teens living there. They are some of the happiest people I have ever met. They do not let their disease get the best of them. I bonded with a boy named Stephen the most. He is so positive and showed that you can have an amazing time doing anything. I consider him to be my older brother.
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SWIMMER LEARNS FROM MISTAKE
All athletes have moments they will remember for a variety of reasons in their high school career but for Maddie Joy, one moment made her question the sport she loves.
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“That girl next to me looks fast. Can I As I looked up at the scoreboard, my mouth and eyes registered in shock. Little take her?” I fought my brain and attempted to did I know, a girl across the pool had barely ignore the jitters by focusing on my race. out touched me by a tenth of a second. I had lost and not made State. I took one last look down the center of my I was absolutely devastated. lane. I’m almost positive that I was placed “This is just another race,” I told myself. in a pool long before I “You’ve got this.” walk. It was in my Before I could build any “The strength from my could young teenage years when more of my confidence, the whistle sounded and muscles and my stoke swimming became a huge passion of mine. Although I shot off the blocks and into the water with severe technique were working in swimming consumes a huge portion of my life, intensity I had never felt perfect harmony.” I am no star-athlete and before. have never been one of I felt strong, fast and MADDIE JOY the best at what I do. I ready to win. The strength GUEST have always been the from my muscles and my stroke technique were working in perfect second-place finisher or the swimmer who misses a time cut by a tenth of a second. harmony. By the time of the final lap, I was in This swimming trend of mine proved itself seventh place and knew if I maintained to be true on the night of my junior year District’s meet. my spot, I would allocate for State. I went home that night full of sadness The pain and exhaustion were starting and confusion. to test the limits of my body. “Why did I give up every Friday night I fought on. With only an arm’s length away, I to swim? Apparently, it has all been a reached in for the finish to claim my glory. complete waste of time.”
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My friends and family tried to brighten my mood, but their attempts were no match for my stubbornness. “You still have next year to get it,” they said. However, my pessimistic brain ignored their cheerful attempts and I began to see my love for swimming going down the drain. After a week of morosely questioning myself, I realized there was no reason I couldn’t use the defeat to motivate me for the next year. Ever since that day, I have been training harder and getting stronger. As my season is just starting, I am confident in myself to reach my goals. Everyone has bad days. Mine happened to conveniently fall on a very important day of my life. I have learned to become thankful for that depressing day of my past because without experiencing complete failure, I would not have gained the motivation to achieve ultimate success. Swimming will always be my first love and true passion, and I believe in never giving up on things you love. A N D
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“Laid back, almost too laid back”
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“I find the school very welcoming, there are some friend groups but not as many cliques as some other schools.”
“People here just judge everyone else. There is some joy. I see both sides, the hateful side and the upbeat side.”
“From my perspective, the climate is good.”
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us back from really becoming the greatest high school that we can be,” Sunich said. Yeomans further explains the importance of a principal building trust and n the past three years, PHS has seen a change in its administrative team every year. relationships with the staff of the school. “It is just like coming to a new school and making new friends. It takes time to Seniors graduating this year have not had the same high school principal for their build the trust. There are always pieces that we are, as an organization, as a district, duration at the school. Superintendent Timothy Yeomans describes why some principals would decide to need to improve upon. There are things that the school itself might need to improve upon,” Yeomans said. “PHS is such a strong school but a new principal who comes in leave the school that they are working at. “Principal decisions are ultimately recommended by me to the board and it is one of is working with people who might have been at that school for 30-plus years so that those situations where most people are always very surprised a principal would have [principal] needs to build that relationship and that trust. Our goal always is continuity. any goals or wants or changes in their life or anything else that would make them want We do not move people just to move them. We move them because there is a genuine need for that situation; we want those transitions to go as smoothly as possible.” to be different or leave a school,” Yeomans said. In addition to adapting to a new school, a new administration may end up having to Yeomans explains his thought process behind why he selected the current principal make alternations to existing policy. Some people might view the current attendance Dave Sunich. “The role of a principal in high school, is an extremely challenging [role] to fill policy as lenient, however Sunich states that the policy is focused on alternative ways because it is a very, very busy job and it has a lot of responsibility on that. We were very to discipline. “Our attendance policy is that kids are expected to come to school every day and it excited about the fact that Mr. Sunich, who was a very successful principal at other is a closed campus, so kids are not to leave the campus without permission. One of the levels, was not only interested but excited and enthusiastic about challenges of addressing kids that do not come is that we cannot really having that job,” Yeomans said. discipline them. There are certain levels of discipline that we can [use] With regards to the consistency of change within the administration “Sometimes you get but it does not really make sense to suspend someone from school this last couple of years, Yeomans provides insight into the challenges bogged down with the for not coming to school. So that is probably where one of the biggest that a new principal may face when they take over. “We do not ever hire anybody thinking, especially when you give day-to-day stuff and lose shifts is coming [from]. We are looking at alternatives to address the attendance issue,” Sunich said. “So really its more [about] digging someone the title of principal, that it would only last a year. So that is not something that happens. What I will say is that it is always a sight of your big goals...” down deeper and trying to identify why the kid [is] not coming to school; are there other factors that are preventing it or maybe making challenge when the principal changes three times in three years. It just it hard for them or making them not want to be here. [We are trying] to is. It is very important that as a system we are very mindful of not only DAV E SU N IC H address those things versus the symptom, which is that the kid is not PRINCIPA L the school, that always comes first [but] we have to be mindful [that] coming to school. The most important thing is to help them recognize Mr. Smith did a great job when he was at PHS and he was there for a that they are missing out on important learning.” number of years and did a fantastic job of that,” Yeomans said. Sunich describes the difficulty of addressing all of the cases of attendance issues. Sunich addresses how he approached meeting his goals of building relationships “I think the hardest part is that there is so many kids and it is so widespread it is with the school community and fitting into his role in the school. “Well, I did a lot of listening. I tried to meet with as many people as I possibly could almost impossible to catch them all. If we wanted to meet with every kid, that is all we before the year started, just trying to be visible and approachable and attend a lot of would do, is meet with kids about their attendance. There are so many other aspects of events. You know, immerse myself in as many different activities and experiences as I the job that we just cannot do that,” Sunich said. “The things that do work well though could. I think it [went] pretty well. I have a pretty good sense of what this school and are that when we get a kid with a real attendance crisis, they are in significant danger community value and have some ideas of things that I see that we need to work on. of not being successful because of their attendance then we can meet with that kid and Sometimes you get bogged down with the day-to-day stuff and lose sight of your big their parents and maybe develop a contract. [We can] try to identify what some of the underlying issues are that is creating attendance challenges and we can address some goals so all in all I think I did a pretty good job of that,” Sunich said. of those things which tends to improve their attendance.” Sunich describes his goals for the coming years. “One of [the things I would like to improve] is just helping our school, staff and To continue reading this story, visit vikingvanguard.com community to recognize how the world is changing and we might need to change with it and prepare our kids for it. 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more kids from leaving. Also, we have given the are just leaving campus to go to Thr3e or out to security guards to issue the detentions themselves the parking lots. It is not one of our biggest safety ool safety is one of the top priorities of the rather than just sending all the kids to the office to concerns right now but it is something we have been trying to address more and have kids just be dealt with by the administration,” Sunich said. ty guards here at PHS. Sunich expresses hope that more students will doing a better job of managing themselves and ording to security personnel Jim Jenkins, the recognizing that it is a rule that se in the number of students not following become discouraged from leaving needs to be followed and not have campus rules has made safety a bigger campus as a result of the more proactive procedures. “The number of students to play a game of ‘can I sneak rn. In the grand scheme of “Our hope is just by the visibility e number of students leaving campus leaving campus usually away?’ things, I think it is something we y increases in the spring when the weather and being more proactive with icer and self-control fades. It is not that we security, that that will discourage increases in the spring have a pretty good handle on,” Sunich said. nistration and security] have been stricter kids from leaving campus and when the weather gets Though it may seem absurd dents, it is that more students have failed to breaking that rule,” Sunich said. to some kids, not being allowed to Jenkins addresses some of the the rules,” Jenkins said. nicer and self-control leave campus even to cross the en it comes to students following the school more negative consequences that street to Thr3e has serious reasons fades.” Jenkins states that disobedience has become arise when students break the behind why it is prohibited to do rules and leave campus during prevalent this year than in the past. JIM JENKINS so. ere seems to be more students wanting to school hours. SECURITY “It is a school district policy that “We are neighbors in a ey the rules. It is simply not necessary to high school campuses are closed campus during school hours. We have been community like this. It is all about being a good neighbor. Students, campuses which means that kids are not allowed more students leaving they leave campus during to just come and go. The main reason behind that us during school hours this “It is a school district when lunch, may break traffic laws is just a safety concern due to there not being han we have in the past. It is policy that high school when they are trying to hurry to supervision when that happens,” Sunich said. apevine; one student leaves go get something to eat and come “It seems silly because Thr3e is close but if you us and gets away with it, campuses are closed back,” Jenkins said. “PHS gets allow kids to go to Thr3e then why do we not just ther students start trying to complaints from the people living allow them to go around the corner? Or if we just same thing,” Jenkins said. campuses...” in the community about things like let them go around the corner, why could we not ording to Principal David speeding, loud noises, students allow them to go down the street to Anthem? It h, administration has JIM JENKINS blaring music in their cars and just keeps going on and on so there has to be some pted to tackle the issue of SECURITY kind of line where the answer is just ‘no.’” littering around the streets.” nts leaving campus during Even with the increase in through a more proactive method. have asked our security guards to be number of students leaving campus at lunch, To continue reading this story, visit ive and be out there to actually prevent it Sunich reveals that a majority of those students are vikingvanguard.com happening rather than just catching kids just attempting to go to Thr3e. “The majority of students they get back. We are trying to be more visible y and discourage B Y
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DANCE TEAM DERAILS COMPETITION “The outcome could have been more unfortunate if it was not for the dancers’ The PHS dance team has never had work ethic,” Boyd said. One obstacle the team had to overcome this much success at a State competition, was the severe lack of however coach Marla dance experience coming Boyd was fully aware of “The outcome could have in to this season, Boyd their potential. “The team had not been more unfortunate if said. “There are only a performed at any couple of dancers on the it was not for the dancers’ competitions as well as team who have previous we coaches thought they work ethic.” dance experience. It is could until State,” Boyd very uncommon for a said. MARLA BOYD group of girls with so little The team soared above DANCE COACH background experience to the competition by do so well at state,” Boyd placing fourth in State. The firm goal for this team was placing in said. Dancing was not the only thing done to the top six. But none of this could have been ready the girls for State in March 25, they possible if it were not for the hard work also spent time getting into better physical this team was committed to putting in, shape. Junior Paola Chua is a dancer who is in Boyd said. her second year with the team. B Y
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Joshua Garnett prepares for 2016 NFL Draft
seventh grade. [Then] he came to us as a 6’4”, 285 pound offer him a scholarship at that point.” sophomore who could run and play. His dad played Garnett appreciates what his coaches at Stanford Alumnus Joshua Garnett is participating in this year’s in the NFL so his dad knew what kind of training as taught him. NFL Draft, which is taking place in Chicago, IL April 28development he needed and what kind a size he would “They really taught us about life besides football and 30. have,” Jeffers said. “He [was] a pretty talented kid from being consistent, doing what you are going to do, be Garnett received the Outland and Morris Trophies on the very start. I mean no one knows you are going to where you are going to be, saying what you are going to Dec. 10 and Dec.15 of 2015. win the Outland Trophy but [the coaching staff] knew say and everything you do outside of football. You need The Outland Trophy is given to the most outstanding he would probably be a Division one kid with the grades to be tough, you need to credible,” Garnett said. interior lineman in all of college football. Garnett is the that he had and his size and athleticism.” Jeffers tells how Garnett has changed since leaving. first offensive guard to win the Outland Award since Garnett goes into where he hoped to “The player he was for us and the guy he is now are 1997. The Morris Trophy is given to go in the NFL draft. just two totally different people. It is like saying that the the most outstanding offensive and “If I got to choose where “With the NFL draft [April 28] I am player he was his senior year is the same as when he was defensive lineman in all of the Pac-12. hoping to go on [April 28], it is going in eighth or ninth grade. He has grown so much; they I went I would definitely Garnett talked about if he could to be interesting, the draft is real close have developed him so much both through diet, weight choose where he got drafted. stay close to home, this year. It really depends on who goes room, footwork training and just the level of technique “If I got to choose where I went [in the where, what the team needs are so you that they get into,” Jeffers said. “When he left [the] bus here in Seattle with the NFL draft] I would definitely stay close to do not really know until he was a really good high school football home, here in Seattle with the Seahawks. Seahawks.” that day where you are player with a lot of potential, size and “His dad knew what I would want to stay here with the home going to go. No matter athleticism. Then they transformed him JOSHUA GARNETT fans where I grew up at and still be a part ALUMNUS whether it is [April 28] into an Outland Trophy winner.” kind of training as of all that stuff,” Garnett said. or today, I am just really Garnett relates to all the other developement he needed students Garnett relives his favorite memory from his time at excited to just go out there and figure out at PHS. the Stanford University. where I am going to be,” Garnett said. “Being a person from Puyallup, being a and what kind of size he “My favorite college memory has go to probably be A rule was passed two years ago, which football player, it is doable to get to that had.” winning the Rose Bowl, being a senior team captain allowed ninth graders to play at the high level. Guys look at the NFL and think and having your whole career kind of build up to that school level, this rule was not in place that there is no way I will get to that moment and at that moment [being] in the Rose Bowl, GARY JEFFERS when Garnett went to PHS. level. I went to PHS four years ago, I had COACH that was probably my best experience,” Garnett said. “My “I think as a ninth grader at Kalles Mrs. Coyer, Mrs. Reed and Mr. Sirl, I had team and I were all really excited, when you work with [Junior High], his parents had talked to all the same teachers that the students the same guys from the end of last season until Jan. 2 of the district about letting him come up and play with the here had, it is doable to get to that level, you just have to this year and you accomplish your goal that you set at tenth graders,” Jeffers said. “They did not let him so I do go out there and do you thing,” Garnett said. the beginning, you are really excited when you do it.” not think he hurt some kids but I do not think there were In a previous interview about Garnett, Gary Jeffers, his a lot of kids who wanted to go out and face him. He went To continue reading this story, visit high school football coach, explains Garnett’s greatest to a University of California at Los Angles camp between vikingvanguard.com strength. his ninth and tenth grade year. UCLA was the first to “[Garnett] was a special player when he was in B Y
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Pulitzer Prize winner and author of “To Kill a Mockingbird” Harper Lee has a new release on shelves that is stirring curiosity through the nation titled “Go Set a Watchmen.” Lee’s recently released novel is set numerous years later when Scout, now known as Jean Louis, makes a homecoming to her hometown of Maycomb, AL. Resting in her hometown, new and old characters introduce themselves to Scout and reveal they are no longer the people Scout once saw them as before. “Go Set a Watchmen” consistently elaborates on character development. Uncovering the deeper layers to the once simple characters Jean Louise had loved and admired as a child. “Go Set a Watchmen” proved to be a challenging read even to someone who has thoroughly read its prequel in advance. At best, Lee’s sequel brings new questions and revelations to old characters and shows readers how even heroes and pillars for rightful change are flawed and imperfect. For those that have not previously read its prequel, the plot, flashbacks and character development can create quite the challenging novel to follow. The novel delivers a story with a slow and confusing plot as well as a bland timeline of events that does not entice the reader in the same fashion as “To Kill a Mockingbird.” “Go Set a Watchmen” concentrates on reintroducing past characters in Jean Louise’s
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ometimes when a movie is created and executed poorly, reviewers liken the movie to watching a train wreck. In the case of “Batman v Superman,” a better metaphor would be watching a pile of garbage that is sitting on a train that is about to derail in slow motion. To make this metaphor even more accurate, imagine if you fell asleep while watching this train with the pile of garbage, only to dream about a completely different train about to derail, then waking up to the same train completely and utterly confused. That is what watching “Batman v Superman” feels like. Are you confused at all by that opening paragraph? If so, you just got your first frustrating taste of what it is like to watch the latest entry in the DC Cinematic Universe.
“Batman v Superman” is a series of loosely-connected scenes that include a really confusing scene that made no sense in context, several dream sequences that were not differentiated from normal scenes and a couple flashbacks. All of this is muddled even further by at least three different, yet competing, narratives that manage to fail to convey the characters of the movie accurately and adequately. Now it should be said that “Batman v Superman” is not all bad. Most of it is bad but not all of the movie failed. The visuals in the movie are great, the action scenes feel well executed and Ben Affleck plays the role of Bruce Wayne (also known as Batman) superbly. Affleck is perhaps my favorite actor who has played Batman, even if I did not like the overall portrayal of the character in the movie. One of the things that bothered me greatly was the way that the director (Zach Snyder) portrayed the characters of Batman and Superman. Batman is the most egregious offense because the director seemed to have missed an integral and well established part of the character. In
effect, he missed the last three movies and the last 77 years that the character has existed. Snyder completely ignored the whole drive and reason behind the way Batman operates in a way that feels jarring. There are a couple scenes that feel like they get the character right, such as when Batman invents a host of gadgets to battle Superman and when he did some investigation. In the original comics, Batman is an inventor and the world’s greatest detective, yet no movie before “Batman v Superman” has portrayed either of those aspects. I am glad that this character at least has these integral aspects. A similar misread of the character occurs with Superman. A character who is supposed to represent hope and what we can be as a society, is portrayed as a grim and uncaring character.
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OVERALL RECORD: 15-4
OVERALL RECORD: 16-0
BOYS OVERALL RECORD: 1-2
LEAGUE RECORD: 10-1
LEAGUE RECORD: 10-0
CURRENTLY TIED FOR FOURTH IN THE SPSL SOUTH.
LOSES TO: ORANGE LUTHERAN (CA) THREE TIMES AND ONCE TO EMERALD RIDGE
CURRENTLY IN FIRST PLACE IN THE SPSL SOUTH.
CURRENTLY IN FIRST PLACE IN THE SPSL SOUTH.
CURRENTLY TIED FOR THIRD IN THE SPSL SOUTH
TWO GAMES REMAINING:
LAST MEET:
VS. SPANAWAY LAKE TUESDAY MAY 3 @ 4 P.M.
THURSDAY MAY 5, ALL-PUYALLUP\ MEET : OM PHS VS. ROGERS VS. FR N IO RG AT .O EMERALD RIDGE L M R PS FO S IN @ SPARKS
VS. CENTRAL KITSAP TUESDAY MAY 17 @ 4 P.M.
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LEAGUE RECORD 7-0-2
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CURRENTLY FIRST PLACE AHEAD SLIGHTLY OF CURTIS HIGH SCHOOL. GAMES REMAINING: VS. EMERALD RIDGE TUESDAY MAY 3 @ 7:30 P.M.
VS. BETHEL @ 3:30 P.M. FRIDAY APRIL 29 @ BETHEL VS. EMERALD RIDGE TUESDAY MAY 3, 3:30 P.M. @ EMERALD RIDGE