Miss out on all the excitement that ensued at the boy`s basketball
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Miss out on all the excitement that ensued at the boy`s basketball
Are you curious about the choir and what the seniors are planning for their final concert? Turn to page 7 to find out! Miss out on all the excitement that ensued at the boy’s basketball game on February 4th? Turn to page 10! February 10, 2012 Abby Wright Page 2 Hey there Mustangs! Let’s take a look at what’s going on this week! Boys Basketball 2/10 6:00PM Boys Varsity Basketball vs. Delphos Jefferson High School 2/15 5:00PM Boys Freshman Basketball @ Lima Central Catholic School 2/16 6:00PM Boys Varsity Basketball @ Lima Central Catholic School • • • Girls Basketball 2/11 1:00PM Girls Varsity Basketball @ Shawnee 2/17 6:00PM Girls Varsity Basketball vs. Lima Central Catholic School • • Wrestling 2/11 10:00AM Boys Varsity Wrestling @ NWC @ Grove • Other Events 2/15 7:30 PM “WINTERFEST” all-bands concert • • 2/24 4:00-6:00 Harlan’s Chicken BBQ in the Auditeria Meal includes ½ Chicken, Green Beans, Mashed Potatoes & Roll. Tickets on sale now from the Junior class for $7 Page 1 Cover Page 2 Upcoming events Page 3 Agenda Page 4 Editorial Page 5 4th-‐6th grade Talent Show Page 6 Band Page 7 Choir Page 8 Girls Basketball Page 9 7th & 8th grade Girls Basketball Boys Basketball Page 10 Page 12 7th & 8th grade Boys Basketball Cheerleading Page 13 Wrestling Page 14 JH Wrestling Page 15 Sports Collage Page 16 Senior Review Page 17 Meet a Newby Page 18 Polls Page 19 Least Favorites Page 20 Ms. Advice Page 21 Mr. Advice Page 22 Spirit in the Halls Page 11 February 10th 2012 Anthony Clawson Page 3 Hey everyone, welcome back after a good and exciting weekend. For this week for the Agenda we will be look at pages 98 and 99. These pages are from February 6th to February 12th and they talk about many great things. This week’s vocabulary word is haggard. Haggard is an adjective This week in history on and it means worn and gaunt in February 9th 1962, appearance. An example of Jamaica began its haggard would be my favorite shirt is haggard because I have journey to independence. Jamaica worn it so many times in my eventually did gain its independence on August 6th lifetime. 1962. Originally Jamaica was part of the British Empire since 1655. Jamaica and nine other British colonies were eventually freed of Britain. This week’s study tip is This month’s character do a quick summary of what you learned trait is integrity. when you are done Integrity is a noun and studying. It’s always it means Moral good to go back and just have a quick soundness; inherent review of what you have studied complex of attributes because the things you studied that determine a first are not as fresh in your person’s moral and ethical actions and reactions; mind. Another good reason is unreduced or unbroken completeness. Integrity is a this will help you remember nice trait to have in your close friends and in things that are difficult. You may yourself. This is a good trait to have because it sets forget things too, so going back you apart from everyone else and makes you respectable in the eyes of other people. over them is always a good thing to do. February 10, 2012 Kenzie Conrad Page 4 Hey there Mustangs! It’s another awesome week here at Allen East and that means it’s time for another awesome editorial. This week’s topic is propaganda and its influence on people. there are diet pills, diet drinks, pre-‐made meals that are As most of you may know there is some questionable supposed to be “healthier”, P90X commercials, and propaganda out there, and a lot of kids like to try and other weight loss “solutions” are all over the place and act the way the different forms of propaganda tell them that seems normal to people of this generation, but to. We all know that there’s always been a celebrity what about the harm that these “solutions” cause to that we wish we could be like, and things like billboards peoples bodies and their metabolisms. Anorexia and movies make us think it’s perfectly and bulimia are two of the most common fine to look and act just like them. diseases in women because they “aren’t good It’s a known fact that there are some enough” or they “want to be like her.” Bulimia is celebrities who have eating the worst out of the two because it typically disorders, drug addictions, some doesn’t show as easily as anorexia, the “goal” of have even ended up under house bulimia is to stuff yourself full of food and then arrest or jail because of their actions. throw it up before it reaches your stomach and is Most people would say that they believe their children digested . However, bulimia is worse than anorexia are smart enough to know that they shouldn’t get because it doesn’t show as blatantly as anorexia does. involved in things like the things previously mentioned Bulimia deteriorates your body, destroys your teeth and but some things happen without the parent or, just isn’t healthy, not to mention how dangerous it is. sometimes, even the kids knowing it. Some examples of Drug addictions are just as bad, if not worse, as this would be style, some kids dress the way they want anorexia and bulimia. Drugs are easy to get addicted to as an expression, they want to show who they are and and the most common are household or prescription be able to be creative, for some their style is what helps drugs. The problem with drug addictions is, they’re them fit in, for others it makes them unique. There are a much easier to start and hide because they’re so lot of people who would agree that there are a lot of common. Key signs of a drug addiction are major weight celebrities and propaganda that are good influences, loss, unhealthy eating habits, withdrawal symptoms and however, and they sometimes remain unnoticed. There eventually death. With all the propaganda that’s around are lots of ongoing things such as commercials, these days it’s hard to believe that there isn’t more campaigns, billboards and even advertisements in problems with kids, especially teens, who see all of newspapers and magazines that are making an attempt these advertisements and want to be just like that girl to help end bullying. In most cases this propaganda or just like that guy. It’s hardly uncommon to see doesn’t really help because kids want to be “cool” or attractive men or women on a billboard, especially keep their reputations up so they can hang out with the when companies are trying to get you to buy “right” people. But what about all the billboards of something. “I want to be that skinny”, “I want to be models and celebrities, who in other people’s eyes, are pretty like her”, “Oh! Look! That’s on sale today!”, or “I perfect. In today’s society it’s not uncommon to see wish we had that, everyone else does.” Don’t fall for all propaganda that is clearly trying to, indirectly, get the the advertisement tactics out there! Be aware! idea of anorexia out into the open. In today’s world February 10th, 2012 Cole Plaugher Page 5 On Wednesday February 8th the yearbook class held a talent show for the 4th – 6th grade. It was a great fantastic show, one the whole family could enjoy. All the talents were really fun and exciting to watch. Although a few acts stood out to the nights judges. Let’s see who won what on Wednesday evening. The judges for the talent show were Larry Altenburger, Kathrine Kidwell, and Brittany King. They got to decide who got 1st, 2nd and 3rd in singing and variety. As I said before there were two categories in the talent show, and they were singing and variety acts. The winners in the singing category were… 1st – Jasmine Johnson 2nd – Haylee Mattevi 3rd – Gabby Scott In variety the winners were… 1st – Doinic Camps 2nd – Sydney Treglia, Taylor Brown 3rd – Lilliam Gooden, Morgan Gutierrez February 10th, 2012 JODAN SLOAN Hey there, Mustangland! The brass is getting ready for a concert on top of rehearsing for Pep Band. Let’s see how things are going in the band department! Q: Do you like Mr. Dellifield? The pep band only has a few games left, and they are preparing themselves for the upcoming brass season. The brass has also played host to a foreign exchange student by the name of Narada Reanprayoon! Let’s ask her how her brass A: Yes, I love him! Q: In concert band, what instrument do you play, and do you enjoy it? A: I play flute. I like it, but it’s not as fun as cymbals! experience has been: The brass is also in the Concert Band season. They are playing such songs as: Pevensey Castle, New Life Celebration, and Legend Of Q: So Nat, how has your year with the brass been this year? A: It’s been good! It was so much fun, The Eagles. The Concert will be held on Wednesday, February 15th, 2012 and I’ve never done anything like For the parents reading this, on Saturday it. morning, February 25th, 2012, the 4th annual Q: What instrument Princess/Superhero Luncheon will take place. Tickets are $5.00 per person via did you play, and reservation. Crafts and Games will be held, did you enjoy it? and a menu of Chicken Nuggets, French A: I played cymbals, and I LOVE IT. It was my first time playing, and it was hard, but fun. Fries, Apple Sauce, Cookie, M ilk and/or Juice w ill be served. Doors open at 10:30, and it w ill be held from 10:30 to 11:45. February 10, 2012 Andrew Hoffer Page 7 The Allen East Choir has been very busy lately. They are practicing for their Spring Concert which will be held on Friday, May 18th. Here is an interview with Kayla Fox, one of The Allen East Choir Spring Concert so far the senior members of the choir, to get her still only consists of these songs: opinion on the upcoming concert and to see Ø “Sing We for Love Together” by how her senior year in choir is going. Giovanni Gastoldi Q: How is your senior year in choir going so Ø “Wade in the Water” by Roger Emerson far? Ø “Ave verum Corpus” by Wolgang A: It’s going pretty good there has been lots Amadeus Mozart of improvement. More songs will be added in the future by Q: How do you like the current selection of Mrs. Spencer. The Spring Concert is also songs for the Spring Concert? where seniors sing their senior songs. Here A: They are very interesting and fun to sing. is a list of the seniors and if they plan on Q: What has been your favorite memory in having a senior song what that song might choir? be. A: My favorite memories are making fun of • Meagan Sanchez-‐ Undecided on song Alan all the time. • Britny Blair-‐ Undecided on song Q: How do you feel about this being your • Alan Lemaster-‐ “Good Riddance” by last year to sing for Allen East? Green Day A: It really sucks to leave Spenc but I got to • Kayla Fox-‐ “Country Strong” by move on and go sing in college. Gwyneth Paltrow Q: Is there anything else you’d like to add? • Katelyn Twining-‐ Undecided on song A: “To the • Colt Lovejoy-‐ Undecided on song underclassmen-‐ • Collin Linn-‐ Undecided on song never give up!” • Ashley Neal-‐ “I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing” (Yuna Ito’s version) February 10th, 2012 Kyra Mae Plaugher Page 8 Hey there Mustangs! This week the Allen East Girls Basketball had Parents Night against the Crestview Knights. They are still looking forward to the last three games and going against some of the hardest teams. The record for the varsity is 9-‐8 and the jv is 15-‐2. The junior On Thursday, nd varsity had a January 2 , the varsity girls had a home game home game against the against the Crestview Crestview Nights. The Mustangs were Knights, on nd having a rough start, but they still held the Thursday, January 2 . The Mustangs played very good defense and kept the Knight’s offense back by pressuring. The Knights in single digits at half time. The Mustangs were lucky and was up 2 at half Mustangs were up 3 points of the half time time. The score was 30 -‐28. In the second score being 12-‐9. In the second half the half the Knights fought hard, but didn’t knights pressured the ball, but it didn’t stop the Mustang’s offense. The Mustang’s stop the Mustangs offense. Aubri Woods defense tied the score of 32-‐32 and then the ladies only let went into the overtime. The Knights Mustangs score 2 scored 5 points points the and the Knights second scored 2 points. half. This was a great NWC victory for the The Mustangs got a great NWC win, with Mustangs. The final score was 41-‐30. The the final score being 39-‐34. The high high scorers were Kaycee Rowe with 13, scorers were Aubri Woods with 16, Calry Jadin Salyers 12, Morgan Truex with 8 and Clum with 10 and Kiley Lutes with 6 points. Mallie Kirkendall with 6 points. February 10. 2012 Jordan Coates Page 9 Hey Mustangs! The 7th and 8th grade girl’s basketball season is coming to an end. They still have tournaments to show off what they have! They play at Lincolnview Saturday, February 11th. The 8th grade girls play Paulding at 12:30 and the 7th grade plays Lincolnview at 1:45. The 7 th grade girls played LCC last week here at Allen East. It was a tough loss with the score being 14-25. Kelli Leis scored 6 points during the game. Then last week the USV. It girls was played an at intense game with a ONE point win, The 8 th graders had TWO wins in ONE week! First off they beat LCC by the score of 29-14, with the help of Kylie Wyss with 14 points, and Alexis McCluer with other 6 points! win Then was the against 24-23! Kelli Leis and Kaitlyn USV, the score being 47- McKeever the 36! Kylie Wyss leading in each. points ended up with 25 game with helped 6 win points points and Madison Miller with 10! Kaitlyn McKeever Defending the bulldogs! Jade Meyer making a play! At the LCC game. 1-‐2-‐3 TEAM! Alexis McCluer getting her game face on! February 10, 2012 Chaz Moore Page 10 Hey there Mustang Land, We’re back with another exciting week of Varsity Boys Basketball. We will be giving you an update on the games that took place and the games that will be coming up. On Friday February 3, 2012 the Mustangs took on the Crestview Knights. The game was a very good game with both teams wanting to a win. In the first quarter the score was 14-‐8 with Crestview on top. The score was close to at the end of the first quarter, but the Knights were able to score 22 more points by the end of the first half to the Mustangs only 7. At the start of the third quarter the Mustangs picked back up right where they left off coming out scoring 8 more points to the Knights 17. In the fourth quarter the Mustangs got on a really good run, scoring 14 points to the Crestview Knights 16. But at the final whistle it wasn’t enough for the Mustangs to come out on top with a win. The Mustangs go on to lose this game 69 -‐ 37. Some key players to the game were Tanner Richardson with 8 points and 6 rebounds. Another key player would is Matt Shuey with 8 points and 5 rebounds. The Mustangs had one 3 point field goal and that was Dylan Mulholland. The Mustangs next game would be Saturday February 4, 2012 where they take on the Fort Jennings Musketeers. On Saturday February 4, 2012 the Mustangs played the Fort Jennings Musketeers. The game was a very good game with both teams not giving up until the final whistle blew, and one came out on top with a win. In the first quarter the Mustangs came ready to play, and the score at the end of the first quarter was 17-‐11 with the Mustangs on top. In the second quarter the Mustangs scored 12 more points but Fort Jennings came out scoring 14 points. Making the score at the end of the first half 29-‐25 with the Mustangs on top. In the third quarter the Mustangs scored 13 more points to the Musketeers 18. In the fourth quarter of action the Mustangs scored 10 points to the Musketeers 16, which brought the game into overtime. Both teams played very hard but the Mustangs came up short of a win. In this nail biting game the Mustangs lost 70-‐76 in overtime. The leading scorer for the Mustangs was James Richardson with 32 points. He also had 5 assists and 6 rebounds and four 3 point field goals. Another key player for the Mustangs was Tanner Richardson with 14 points and 15 rebounds. Tanner Richardson is now 60 rebounds away from single rebounding season record. February 10th, 2012 Bradley Agler Page 11 Hello there Mustangland! We’re here again to bring you yet another update on everything Allen East! Here is our special little spot for 7th & 8th grade boys’ basketball. On February 2nd, the boys played home against Upper Scioto Valley. Just like the 7th grade boys, the 8th They gave the game their all, and graders played Upper Scioto Valley on prevailed with a winning score of 45 February 2nd. They also beat them, to 39. In the game the top scorer was dominating with a Spencer Miller, who came in with 24 score of 31 to 25. points. Then the boys went on to play For this game the their tournament game against top scorer was Spencerville. Yet again the boys Luke Perkins, who played their hearts out, but it was a scored 19 points. Then on February hard loss, of 62 to 37. They boys did 4th, the boys played Lincolnview for a great job, concluding the season their tournament game. The boys with a record of 6-7. Coach Sommers played as hard as they could but commented saying “I’m very proud of suffered a loss with a score of 41 to our kids. Each of them became better 20. They ended with a concluded the basketball players and teammates. season with the record of 2-10. Coach This class has a Wells told us “We had a fun year, and lot of potential I really enjoyed all the players. They and should be fun worked hard and never skipped to watch for practice. They did get a lot better years to come. It and I look forward was my privilege to watching them to coach them.” in the future.” February 17, 2012 Kelsi Twining Page 12 Hey there Mustangs! Let’s take a look at the spirited Allen East Cheerleaders! February 10th, 2012 Braden Goodwin Page 13 The boys had four wrestlers in a JV tournament at Bath and the varsity also had a tri. Meet at Cory Rawson on the 7th of February. Read on and see how our Mustangs did! The JV had a tournament at Bath. There were four wrestlers wrestling in that tournament, Braden Goodwin in the 160 pound weight class, Izak Ackerman in the 170 pound weight class, Seth Gehle in the 152 pound weight class and Race King also in the 152 pound weight class. Braden took 1st in his weight class pinning his way through the tournament. Izak took 2nd and only lost one match the whole day. Seth took 2 nd and also only lost one match the whole day. Race lost two matches and got put out of the tournament because of double elimination. The Mustangs went to a Tri. Meet at Cory Rawson on February 7th 2012. First off against OG Race king in the 152 pound weight class won 7-3. Max McAdoo in the 170 pound weight class won with a pin in 3:50. Grant Criblez in the 182 pound weight class won with a pin in 3:50 and finally Colt Lovejoy in the 138 pound weight class won with a pin 1:33. The score between both teams was 59-22 Cory Rawson. When the boys wrestled Cory Rawson Seth Gehle lost 17-1. JR Conyers won 22-6. Max McAdoo won with a pin in 1:42. Grant Criblez won with a pin in :46. Jon Cox in the 195 pound weight class won by Injury Forfeit. Tyler Baker lost to a pin in 5:59 and Colt Lovejoy won 16-1 by Tech Fall. The Final scores between both teams was 39-24 in favor of Allen East. February 10, 2012 Isaac Spencer Page 14 If you’re itching for a good smack-‐down, be sure to go to some of the matches the junior high wrestling team is playing. They boys are very competitive and are pulling out some outstanding scores. So if you’re in the mood for a good thrashing, come watch our wrestling Mustangs compete. against Cory Rawson, Lee Dues did Just this week Allen well with a pin in 1:00 minute in the East went to a meet first period. Travis Goodin lost his against Ottawa match by a pin in the third period. Glandorf. All of the players did great, Allen East versus Ottawa Glandorf winning at least one of Win/Loss Win/Loss their personal matches and many of Before After them not losing a single match. The Lee Dues 21 – 3 23 -‐ 3 meet had two pins performed by SKylar Caprella 15 – 9 17 -‐ 9 Allen East. One Kyle Lesh 8 – 14 9 -‐ 15 pin was from Lee Dues in 3:20, and Brent Wilson 4 – 16 5 -‐ 17 another pin was Brandon Soules 18 – 1 20 -‐ 1 from Brandon Logan Emerick 13 – 10 15 -‐ 10 Soules in 2:05 Travis Goodin 20 – 2 21 -‐ 3 seconds. That same day Allen Jesse Erevia 1 – 1 2 -‐ 2 East had a match Dalton Mast 14 – 8 16 -‐ 8 February 10 th , 2012 Athy Long T T e B a k e e n o Tyyyllle errr B Ba ak ke errr e en njjjo oyyysss w r e s t l i n g . w r e s t l i n g . wrestling. 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T T h e c h e e e a d e n e e Th he ec ch he ee errrllle ea ad de errrsss n ne evvve errr c e a s e t o i m p r e s s w i t h c h e ce ea asse e tto o iim mp prre essss w wiitth h ttth he eiiirrr h h g h e n e g hiiig gh he en ne errrg gyyy!!! February 10th, 2012 John Stephens Page 16 Hey Mustangs, this week for senior review we interviewed Ashlie Szippl. Ashlie is also one of the most athletic girls from the senior class. Q. Have you gone to Allen East all of your life? A. Yes I have. Q. What do you plan on doing after high school? A. I plan on attending Ohio Northern University then get married. Q. What are you going to major in? A. I am going to major in Nursing Q. What activities do you enjoy most? A. I enjoy hanging out with Dylan and my Family most. Q. How long have you ridden horses? A. So far I have been riding for 13 years. Q. What is your favorite thing about senior year? A. My favorite thing is that it is almost over! Q. Do you plan on making a career involving horses? A. Hopefully in the future I will own my own farm, so yesJ. Q. Who’s your favorite teacher? A. I like them all equally. Q. What’s your favorite class? A. Bio 3 is my favorite class. Q. What are you going to miss most about Allen East? A. I’m going to miss being able to do what I want. Q. If you could go back in time and redo one grade, which would it, be? A. I wouldn’t redo any of them because everything happens for a reason. February 10, 2012 Narada Reanprayoon Page 17 Who’s one of The Mustang Brass members in position of trumpet and loves horseback riding? I’m sure you’ve seen her laughing it up in the hallways with her friends because she’s outgoing. We are talking about “Kylee Dirmeyer ”, let’s get to know her a little more by reading on! Q: How is your freshmen year going? A: I guess it’s okay. It got its ups and downs. Q: How long have you been going to Allen East? A: I have been going to Allen East since kindergarten. Q: Are you in any sports or activities? A: I’m in 4H with my horse, French Club, and band. Q: What is your favorite class? A: My favorite class is French because Madame K is so funny! Q: What’s been your favorite thing about high school so far? A: My favorite thing about high school is everyone is mature, no drama! Q: What is your favorite thing to do during weekend? A: I love to hang out with Sydney Delgado and Nat the brat. Q: Do you have any plan for next school year? A: Yes, hopefully join soccer again. I really miss it, but I’m super busy. Q: Would you like to add anything else? A: Yes! Come to my youth group (KTFL)! ask me if you are interested J “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me” –Philippians 4:13 February 10th, 2012 Drew Swaney Page 18 This week’s polls question is; what would you do if you could be president for a day? Cole Meyer: I would make a national Mr. Schelb: Milk and cookies for th holiday that is on November 5 , stating everyone! that everyone has to give their highness Cole Meyer a birthday present. Or a national taco day, called national taco Clay Plaugher: I would paint the white appreciation day. house to look like the American flag. Braden Chaz Moore: I would throw a nation-‐ Goodwin: I wide block party. would buy a brand new Casey Crow: I would create a national Porsche, midget wrestling day. because I can. Johnny Stephens: I would get rid of all Anthony Evans: I would nuke all of the speed limits. Middle East and their allies. Andrew Hoffer: I would have a country-‐ Mr. Montgomery: Eliminate long drag strip, where you can race departments of energy and education, as whenever you want going how fast you well as remove us from the United want, as long as you don’t dive into the Nations, and remove all troops and ocean at the end. station them around the U.S.-‐Mexican border. Cole Plaugher: I Isaac Spencer: I would hire Bert Reynolds and Gary to become the mayor of Lima. Busey would take Trey Gossard: I would sell Michigan to over the world, by using his creepy face. Canada. February 10th, 2012 Bradley Agler My least favorite movie is Part One of Harry Potter: Deathly Hallows. This movie was my least favorite movie because it didn’t do the book justice. It was a very boring movie and it wasn’t really on track with the others and it really made me second guess going to see the second part. In the first part they make you believe that the second part won’t cover the bases left open from the book. I’m not really a movie critic but this one wouldn’t have gotten very many stars, from me at least. I believe that if you write a series of books and then turn them into corresponding movies, the movies should be just like the books. Otherwise, most people watch the movies first and it either ruins the book for them or it ruins the perceptions totally because of the sometimes major differences in the tone, mood, setting, the actions of the characters and even the characters appearance. My least favorite bug is spiders. Ever since I was little I never liked spiders. They are very scary, creepy, nasty and sometimes hairy. I’m basically afraid of spiders because they can bite you. Some spiders are poisonous and they could hurt someone badly. I don’t know how people can have spiders as a pet. Most people would agree with me that spiders are horrifying. Page 19 -‐Kyra Plaugher -‐Kenzie Conrad Obviously my least favorite consol would be the Nintendo Wii. Its controls are often in accurate and the games themselves are just plain lame. You can’t play shooters and most puzzle games are difficult to successfully use a Wii remote on and makes it pointless. In comparison to other movement consoles the Wii falls in last place with the Xbox 360 Kinect in first followed by the Sony Move. Also the games have horrible graphics. So therefore the Wii is the worst gaming consol of today. -‐Isaac Spencer My least favorite type of shoes is the low cut shoes. I don’t like them because they don’t have the ankle support that high and medium tops have. They also don’t have the style and comfort level that other types have. I prefer the looks of higher top shoes over low cut shoes. That’s why I don’t like low cut shoes. -‐Cole Meyer ` February 10, 2012 Amanda Baker Page 20 We all have tons of problems here at Allen East. Ms. Advice has the answers to all your many problems. Lets see what problems Mustang Land had this week: Dear Ms. Advice, How do you tell your parents that you are dating a wonderful guy, and not get screamed at? -‐stressed&confused Dear Stressed&Confused, Cook a nice dinner for your parents, and clean the house. Then, give them each five dollars. Do this all the day before your birthday and then tell them on your birthday, because they can’t yell at you on your birthday. But really you should just confront your parents about it, and ask them about dating. Tell them he’s just a friend and bring him to dinner. Later see what your parents think of him and if he’s as wonderful as you say, they will love him and you can stop going behind your parents’ backs. Dear Ms. Advice, We want our band director back! What do we do? -‐Musically challenged Dear musically challenged, Make the best of the situation. Things will work out for the best, and definitely don’t contribute to any rumors. Dear Ms. Advice, Why did the chicken cross the road? -‐duck Dear Duck, You see, my father watching TV, when a Camel popped out of his microwave and threw a cheese cube shaped like the state of Texas, at my his table. It missed and hit his pet opossum. The opossum got very scared and slobbered all over my father’s radio. This caused an electrical shock-wave, and fried his TV circuit. My dad got mad and ran outside, got on his tricycle and rode away to my house. He walked in the front door, hit my brother in the head with a Hannah Montana doll, and knocked him out. He grabbed my TV and headed for the door. I was eating my rice when this all happened so I threw my chopsticks at my dad. They hit his nose and he dropped the TV. The TV landed on a shovel. The shovel flew into the air and hit a telephone wire, which made all the birds sitting on the wire, fly away. There was a hunter nearby, and he shot one of the birds which fell out of the air and landed in a bald man's pudding. The man started to scream and burst into tears! This man's pet chicken got scared of the man, who was now crying, and ran across the road. The chicken then got hit by a black Cadillac. February 10, 2012 Cole Meyer Page 21 This week in Mr. Advice I will be giving you the readers the answers to everyday problems. For any problem big or small I will give advice that will answer them all. Although this advice is free I guarantee a helpful solution or your money back. Dear Mr. Advice, Valentine’s Day is just around the corner and I have no idea what to get my girlfriend. We have only been dating a couple months and I don’t want to spend all of my money just in case it doesn’t work out between us. Will you please help me? Sincerely, No Gift for Girlfriend Dear No Gift for Girlfriend, I know how you feel about not wanting to spend a lot of money on a new girlfriend. Gifts don’t have to be expensive they just have to come from the heart. Honestly I would just get her chocolate, a stuffed animal, and a flower. Those are simple gifts that girls love and they are fairly inexpensive. Sincerely, Mr. Advice Dear Mr. Advice, I’m a senior this year and I’m starting to not care about school. My grades are starting to drop and my parents are getting on my case about them. How can I pull my grades up and start caring about school again? Sincerely, Slacking Senior Dear Slacking Senior, That’s not good. School should be your number one priority. Even though it is your senior year you still have to pass your classes to graduate. If you get bad grades it will affect your grade point average. If you grade point average is low colleges will look down on that. So you should take that into consideration and hit the books to get your grades up. Then your parents will leave you alone about them. Sincerely Mr. Advice, Dear, Mr. Advice I keep getting sick because this Ohio weather is cold and snowing one day then warm and sunny the next day. Is there anything I can do to stop myself from getting sick? Sincerely, Sickly Kid Dear Sickly Kid, I know the weather has been messing with me too. One thing that I have been doing to stop getting sick is taking vitamins. They give you essential vitamins and minerals that help build you immune system up. You should take them regularly for them to keep working. You could also drink orange juice the vitamin C will help you’re your immune system strong. Another thing you should do is continue to wear a coat even if you don’t need one. If you feel yourself starting to get sick either go to the doctor or take over the counter medicine. Sincerely, Mr. Advice Dear Mr. Advice, I just recently got a job and they are working me one day a week for a few hours. I’m not making enough money to pay for gas to get back and forth to work with these insanely high gas prices. What can I do to make more money? Sincerely, Will Work For Gas Dear Will Work For Gas, That is quite a predicament that you’re in. I’m totally following you on that. I had a job like that before. You should look for another job somewhere else or one that is closer to you. It may not be a bad idea to try and work two jobs which will give you a lot more money and with these gas prices that is a really good idea. 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