About 8% of children in the United States do not know where their next meal will come from. Within this number, 0.8% often miss meals because of poverty. This statistic represents not just a number, but real kids who have to deal with the growing problem of food insecurity. Hunger affects those near us even…
When star high school athletes have a major injury, it is a devastation to the team. Most never come back. But one student wouldn’t let his injury keep him down. Junior Henry Nolan is half of our star tennis doubles team. Nolan and his partner Steven Weeks have won the tennis state championship two years…
Just like Kermit the frog said, it’s not easy being green. But just because it’s not easy doesn’t mean that it isn’t a worthwhile goal. The purpose of the Green Team started out well enough—to encourage reuse and recycling and to play our small part in saving the planet. That purpose, however, somehow got lost…
Blood, sweat, and tears. That is what the fitness team puts into their sport. Being on the physical fitness team means pushing past the limits for the sheer sake of doing it. Our Marine Corps JROTC won the 2017 National Physical Fitness competition in San Diego, California last May. This sport takes an immense amount…
It’s common knowledge that talking on a hands-free device while driving is perfectly safe, but common knowledge isn’t always right. According to the Center for Disease Control, there are three main types of distraction while driving. “Visual requires you to take your eyes off the road. Manual requires you to take you hands off the…
There are a myriad of things people are passionate about, with the most frequent being sports or school. Junior Chris Felicitas has a passion for something a little more abnormal: dancing. Felicitas said, “I started dancing in first grade at Saint Edward when my class were having a dance party and everyone was impressed with the way…
In recent years, we have found a way to make the can drive that benefits Helping Hand into a competition between the home rooms. The results produced more cans, but has the competition taken away from the focus on feeding the poor? When it comes to charitable causes, do the ends justify the means? The…
Every student at this school has had the same question run through his head at one point or another: “Will laptops ever be allowed in class at this school?” Many students believe that the main opposition to laptop introduction is the vice principal himself, Mr. Matt Dempsey. However, he may not be as stubborn on…
It’s four o’clock in the morning and only two things are stirring, the duck hunter and the ducks. Both foes prepare for the daily clash of survival and triumph, with the most strategic side winning. Duck hunting is a strenuous event that speeds up the heart rate of any man. Junior Spencer Day said,…
