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Music has the unique ability to carry emotion, allowing its listeners to recall the feelings and the corresponding memories they experienced when they last heard it. Music is an important part of the holiday season, and has been for many years. It establishes traditions and familiar emotions to help each holiday, year after year, be a merry one. The Lind-Ritzville High School (LRHS) band acknowledged and spread the importance of music during the holidays during their winter concert on Monday, Dec. 7. Along with providing...
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) estimates there are about 13,600 independent community shelters nationwide. Throughout those shelters, the ASPCA estimates 7.6 million companion animals enter each year while only 2.7 shelter animals are adopted. These numbers reinforce that animal shelters are charitable organizations in need of volunteers, donations and loving homes for animals to call theirs. This winter, Ritzville Grade School students, Lind-Ritzville High School students, community...
The primary goal of high school is to equip students with the knowledge they need to thrive in whatever colleges or careers they choose to pursue after they graduate. Senior transitions highlights this goal. A semester long class offered to students in the senior class, senior transitions works to inform students in the details critical to their success as they transition to the future. Recently in senior transitions, students have been practicing the job interview process, studying how a desirable applicant looks, acts, and...
Meditation has long been practiced by followers of the Buddhist religion, but not until recently has it been recognized for its cognitive benefits. Research supports that mindful meditation improves memory, correlated to development in areas throughout the brain. While many students at LRHS have study methods that work for them, meditation could be a valuable tool in improving their memory retention. Meditation is essentially an exercise for the mind, aimed towards making the brain more efficient. In an article from the...
The Navy SEALs have a mantra they say in the face of adversity: the only easy day was yesterday. In order to improve, effort must be made each day to become stronger in the areas where a system is not as strong. This ideology is also at the heart of Lind-Ritzville Cooperative School District as students, teachers and staff align to improve the quality of education, one day at a time. To achieve this goal, LRHS is working to implement the Washington State Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI)’s nine c...
For the past six years, the Bi-County Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Challenge has been providing middle school and high school aged students with the chance to put their STEM skills, but more importantly their collaboration and communication skills which always accompany the application of STEM, to the test. On Tuesday, Nov. 3, Lind-Ritzville’s STEM club brought their team to the Bi-County STEM Challenge. The team consisted of six members, Hawk Busayok, Emily Rosen, Jack Anderson, MicKayla Hall, Emma A...
Many are already familiar with the fight or flight response humans experience to perform better in the face of stress. However research of adverse effects of stress, especially of chronic stress, on the brain is not as well known. Effects initiated by the fight or flight response, when prolonged with long term stress, can cause many negative effects on the brain and inhibit learning. The fight or flight response is a biochemical reaction that causes the body’s sympathetic nervous system to release a variety of hormones. An ar...
In order to give students more exposure to the fine arts, members of the Lind-Ritzville High School (LRHS) band took a field trip to the Coeur d’Alene Symphony on Saturday, Oct. 10. The students who were able to attend enjoyed the opportunity to listen to professionals who share their passion, including their band director, Jennifer York, who has been a member of the Coeur d’Alene symphony since 2003, and became principal bassoonist in 2005. Abby Gering, a student who participated on the trip, said, “I mainly wanted to go be...
The line that distinguishes science fiction from fact waivers, often to the point where it fades away in places. In the novel The Earth To The Moon, Jules Vern depicted the Apollo 11 mission to the moon—an event that wouldn’t commence until 1969—over a century prior in 1865. The underlying question behind the parallels connecting fact and fiction has been sustained for many years, and yet remains unanswered: does art imitate life or does life imitate art? Do the inventions, events, or discoveries occur independently of or pr...
School is a process of educating, discovering and developing. School spirit, while not directly incorporated in the learning process, is an important asset in Lind-Ritzville High School (LRHS) classrooms. The more school spirit students have, the more enthused they are to be a Bronco and support all of the values that the Bronco represents: passion, pride, respect, responsibility, determination and discipline. For the last five years, local businesses have sponsored school...
Homecoming is a tradition founded on school spirit and community pride. As generations moving through Lind-Ritzville High School (LRHS) evolve, the traditions evolve accordingly. Homecoming 2015 festivities at LRHS began on Monday, Sept. 28, and will conclude on Friday, Oct. 2. Activities for students and staff throughout the week included dress up days, hallway decorations, a class versus class dodgeball game, powder puff football and muscle man volleyball games, the watching of class videos, and Thursday’s volleyball m...
Between its size, spirit and location, Lind-Ritzville High School is a classic representation of rural America. Consequently, the school has five foreign exchange students in attendance. Nora Nerdum Stølan, Ebba Vik, Carlos Vuilleumier, Elora Birkholz and Caroline Eriksson are all seizing the opportunity to gain a genuine look into American culture. Elora Birkholz journeyed 4,987 miles to LRHS from Potsdam, Germany (near Berlin), a city of 160,000. Birkholz believes the...
Lind-Ritzville High School has hosted many foreign exchange students in the past—receiving accolades last year as a top AFS (formerly the American Field Service) school in the nation. This year is no different. Five new foreign exchange students have joined the ranks of LRHS for the 2015-16 school year: Nora Nerdum Stølan and Ebba Vik of Norway, Carlos Vuilleumier of Austria, Caroline Eriksson of Sweden and Elora Birkholz of Germany. While from different backgrounds, all of the exchange students share the common interest of...
Discoveries in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) are more prominent in our society now than ever before. Between vaccines for diseases, the newest app on a Smartphone or a more fuel efficient car, STEM has potential that today’s students can’t overlook. Lind-Ritzville High School’s STEM club is designed to increase student exposure to STEM and prepare them for potential careers. Last school year was LRHS’s first inaugural year with STEM club. This year, the returning members of the club will be combini...
Instrumental to the education of today’s youth, teachers are responsible for informing, inspiring and shaping the future. In the last few years, however, the nation has seen a widespread decrease in mathematics teachers—positions that are critical to the academic development of students interested in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). Many of the factors that could have caused the decreasing numbers of math teachers persist today. Annually, the U.S. Department of Education releases their Teacher Shortage Are...
John Bunchan, former Governor General of Canada, gave meaningful insight on leadership. He wrote, “The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.” Tom Arlt, the new principal of the Ritzville School District, has taken it upon himself to follow the words of John Buchan and lead local students towards greatness. His intentions, deeply rooted in the community of Ritzville, are aimed at conquering challenges and creating achievement. Arlt has history in Rit...
In order to keep up to date with the new questions being posed to upcoming generations of scientists, LRHS Advanced Placement (AP) Biology class will be using an online curriculum starting this fall. The goal of online curriculum, designed by McGraw-Hill, is to make learning as efficient as possible to better prepare students for the AP exam (worth college credit) that faces them at the end of the year. The school district’s subscription to the curriculum can be renewed annually as the material within it is updated to accommo...
As the material being taught in high school classrooms has shifted over time, it only makes sense that the test whose scores are considered for students’ college acceptance changes too. Consequently, College Board, the company that has been responsible for the SAT for the last 89 years, will be updating their standardized test. The changes College Board plans on making to the SAT are designed to better reflect the knowledge students acquire in high school classrooms. The upcoming revisions will impact students starting with t...
Affordability is an important factor to consider when pursuing a higher education. In order to reduce the financial burden presented by in-state tuition, Washington legislature signed Senate Bill (SB) 5954 into law on July 6, 2015. SB 5954, also known as the College Affordability Program, will reduce tuition rates for public universities over the next three years. Then, the bill will set a limit—based on a percentage of the average annual income in Washington—as to how much each University can charge students for tui...
Athletes are constantly training, preparing themselves for their next opportunity to conquer adversity. The layover that summer provides creates a decision for athletes: they can choose to take a break from the intensity and pressure of competition or to begin off-season training harder than ever before. Mid-summer’s passing serves as a milestone to remind student athletes at Lind-Ritzville High School of their commitments. Fall sports seasons are in sight, and with that comes the need for athletic paperwork and the c...
In the middle of fire season, Smokey the Bear’s cautious message resonates through all of us: only YOU can prevent wildfires. However, fire prevention was an issue long before Smokey ever reminded us it was. Now more than ever, Congress is working to lessen the impacts of wildfires. Smokey the Bear is the longest running public service advertising campaign in American history. In 1942, the Cooperative Forest Fire Prevention Campaign used Walt Disney’s Bambi—on loan for one year only—to advertise wildfire prevention. The cam...
Weather patterns are easy to observe. Conjectures formed upon stepping outside include (but are surely not limited to) “it’s hot!” or “it’s never going to cool down!” While the observations come naturally, the explanations are slightly more detailed. A driving factor in the abnormal atmospheric conditions, seemingly terrorizing those brave enough to partake in outside activities, is El Niño. The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) explains, “El Niño is characterized by unusually warm ocean temperatures in...
“When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another... a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to separation,” Thomas Jefferson wrote in June of 1776. His powerful words changed the course of history. The preamble to the Declaration of Independence continues, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with...
Transitioning from one chapter to the next is a daunting process, but exciting nevertheless. After students of Lind-Ritzville High School (LRHS) said goodbye to their graduating seniors, a new group of students—the Class of 2019— was welcomed into the school to take their place. Two days prior to the students’ release for summer break, Eighth Grade Move Up Day saw next fall’s freshmen class gather at LRHS to become acquainted with the halls and faces they will spend the next four years with. Ultimately, the move up day was...
Performing is a lifelong skill that teaches invaluable lessons in public speaking, confidence and expression. Lind-Ritzville High School (LRHS) drama students have worked tirelessly throughout the course of the school year to improve their acting skills and ultimately increase their ability to perform. Students’ efforts paid off in LRHS drama class’ production of Big Nose on Monday, June 1. Student actors and actresses performed their first full length play of the year, as...