By: Brenden Lopez
Art Club
The first art club meeting for this year was on September 10th where kids met with Mr. Urness after school in the art room. Usually the meetings are every Thursday after school, and they either talk about things coming up or they have work days where they can come in and work on any projects they need to finish. The Art Club does various activities during the year like ice carving or collecting trash to recycle into paper. They also sell entertainment books at the beginning of the year, which is a book full of coupons from area businesses. At the first meeting for Art Club, students elected the president, vice president, treasurer, and secretary. This year’s officers are Jenny Barrette as President, Stephanie Norman as Vice President, Eva Lee as Treasurer, and Grace Nicora as Secretary. Art Club has also selected a design for this year’s t-shirts and hoodies. The design, created by Grace Nicora, consists of a sapphire background with white writing, and the hoodie will be purple with white writing. If anyone is interested in purchasing these items, the t-shirts are ten dollars, the hoodies are twenty dollars, and there is a sign up sheet available in the Art room.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Rocket’s Sweep Conference Invite
By: Jessica Meinen
At the Central Lakeshore Conference Cross Country meet on Thursday October 15th, the Cedar Grove-Belgium Rockets boys and girls did extremely well. In the girls race, Marina Paul placed 1st with a time of 15:35, and Kiera Depies was close behind in 2nd with a time of 15:51. Both Marina and Kiera were All Conference, along with Erika Meinen who placed 6th. Jessica Meinen, Kelly Del Ponte, Taylor Ansay and Tammi Del Ponte finished the race soon after. All of the girls’ runners, including the JV, ran very well at the meet. Sheboygan Lutheran placed second to the Rockets and Oostburg placed third.
The boys placed first with only 19 points, setting a new CG-B school record for the Conference 1st place score. On the boys’ team, Josh Mulloy finished in first place with a time of 16:36. Joel Merrit placed 2nd with a time of 17:05 and TJ Du Mez finished in 3rd with a time of 17:10. Richard Beabout, Alex Holle, Brandon Krauska and Al Murphy all finished in the top 15 runners. Joe Schueller, who ran on the JV team, was the first boy JV runner to finish overall. The rest of the boys JV team followed with great races for each one of them. Sheboygan Lutheran followed the boys in second place and Elkhart Lake placed third. On Saturday, October 24th, the Sectional Cross Country meet will be held at the Sheboygan Lutheran High School course.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Bada Bing Student of the Month
by Erika Meinen
Each month, the high school teachers nominate a student to be the Bada Bing Student of the Month. The student that gets picked is usually someone who does very well in academics, and this year the teachers nominated sophomore Montanna Zajac, the daughter of Corinne and Dean Zajac.
Not only does Montanna succeed academically, but she also participates in student council and is involved in sports almost all year long. She plays fast pitch and softball and runs cross country. Some of her hobbies include running, drawing, and basically anything else that has to do with outdoors. Since she likes drawing, she also joined the school’s art club. The art club helps decorate the school by doing things such as painting the ceiling tiles and putting pictures on the wall.
Montanna is only a sophomore, and she already has big plans for her future. She is planning to go into the field of science or maybe go to MIT. She says, “I just want to be something big, do something important.”
Each month, the high school teachers nominate a student to be the Bada Bing Student of the Month. The student that gets picked is usually someone who does very well in academics, and this year the teachers nominated sophomore Montanna Zajac, the daughter of Corinne and Dean Zajac.
Not only does Montanna succeed academically, but she also participates in student council and is involved in sports almost all year long. She plays fast pitch and softball and runs cross country. Some of her hobbies include running, drawing, and basically anything else that has to do with outdoors. Since she likes drawing, she also joined the school’s art club. The art club helps decorate the school by doing things such as painting the ceiling tiles and putting pictures on the wall.
Montanna is only a sophomore, and she already has big plans for her future. She is planning to go into the field of science or maybe go to MIT. She says, “I just want to be something big, do something important.”
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Volleyball
The Rockets volleyball team was off to a fast start at the beginning of the season with winning 8 out of 10 non conference games. They also took home first place medals from the Marshal tournament. With conference games coming up, the Rockets have high hopes of winning and bettering their record.
The team this year consists of 7 returning varsity players, Kristen Slotman, Rachel Slotman, Kaslin Ebbers, Kim Hoffmann, Malorie Kappler, Erika Kirst, and Ashley Turnquist, and 7 new comers, Becca Arentsen, Jackie Bruggink, Stephanie Rupple, Cheyenne Dutter, Laura Lamers, Nikki Gottsacker, and Steph TeStroote. Mrs. Weavers is also back after taking a year off with the determination to take her team to the next level. Our captains this year are three seniors Kaslin Ebbers, Kristen Slotman, and Rachel Slotman. These three girls are working very hard on and off the court to make there team as best as possible. One of the captains, Rachel Slotman, says “All of the girls on the team this year strive to get better, because of this; our team could go far in the post season. I am really excited to go see what happens the rest of the year.”
Setting goals is important to any sports team, and that’s exactly what our volleyball team is doing. The girls all got together and thought of goals that would be good for the team to have. Some of these goals for each game are having a 90% serving average, 20 kills, 20 digs, 10 blocks, and never losing by less than ten points. These goals were set very high for the team only because they know that with a lot of practice and a whole bunch of effort there team can reach any goal. Another one of our goals was to be in the top three of our conference.
So far our conference is going very well. We have had four victories against Ozaukee, Random Lake, Christian, and Elkhart Lake. So we have only lost two games against two very good teams, Oostburg and Howards Grove. With games against Lutheran, Stockbridge, and Kohler coming up the Rockets are hoping for wins and ending the season with a great conference record and hopefully doing well in regionals.
Dance Team
The Cedar Gove Belgium dance team is off to a great start! They are shooting for high hopes and great goals. This year the team is planning on going to competition, which they have not done in four years. Also new this year is Amanda Salazar. Amanda came here from Sheboygan Falls, where she used to be on the Sheboygan South dance team. Head coach Mary-Beth Desens, with the help of Amanda, are planning on pushing these girls to the best of their abilities. The team is contributing ideas for fund raisers to make money for new uniforms and poms. Like every year, the team organized a Kiddie Clinic. This year went fantastic even though we had a downpour. If your child did not get the chance to sign up, don’t worry we have another Kiddie Clinic during basketball season. The dance team appreciates all the support they get, and we hope you are able to come see them perform sometime this season.
Welcome Mrs. Lennon
If you have been down the freshman hallway recently, you may have noticed the absence of one of our former computer teachers. The “Mr. Cronkright” name tag has been replaced with a “Mrs. Lennon” one. For anyone who is not taking a computer class, Mrs. Lennon is the newest addition to our Technology department.
Mrs. Lennon was born and raised in Missouri. She lived in Georgia, where she taught for several years, before moving to Wisconsin. She attended Missouri Western University, where she received her degree in Instructional Technology. Mrs. Lennon is currently teaching Accounting 1 and 2, Microsoft Office 1, Business Management, Introduction to Business, Marketing, and 7th and 8th grade general typing. If you are at all interested in any of these classes, Mrs. Lennon encourages all of the student body to take them. Mrs. Lennon really enjoys teaching at our school. She commented on how similar Cedar Grove is to her home town, and how our school reminds her of where she went to school. Mrs. Lennon fits in wonderfully at our school and has made a great addition to our staff.
Mrs. Lennon was born and raised in Missouri. She lived in Georgia, where she taught for several years, before moving to Wisconsin. She attended Missouri Western University, where she received her degree in Instructional Technology. Mrs. Lennon is currently teaching Accounting 1 and 2, Microsoft Office 1, Business Management, Introduction to Business, Marketing, and 7th and 8th grade general typing. If you are at all interested in any of these classes, Mrs. Lennon encourages all of the student body to take them. Mrs. Lennon really enjoys teaching at our school. She commented on how similar Cedar Grove is to her home town, and how our school reminds her of where she went to school. Mrs. Lennon fits in wonderfully at our school and has made a great addition to our staff.
Mid-season Soccer
There certainly were high hopes coming into the 2009 season for the players and coaches of the boy’s soccer team. The only thing on the mind of the coaches and returning players was to avenge the short lived post season from the previous year. A tough loss in the first round of the playoffs ended the last season for the Rockets. This year hopes to be anything but the same.
The season-opener showed just how competitive the year would be with a loss to Oostburg. Head coach Papi Pozo always taught to keep your heads in the game and to never give up, which is exactly what the team did, coming back mid-season to win four straight games to achieve a 5-3 record. Because of the large amount of new players joining this year, a junior varsity team was formed playing a few games this year. Only one game in, the junior varsity team is 1-0. The season is only half over and we look forward to seeing how the rest of the year turns out. With such a close and competitive conference anything can happen.
The season-opener showed just how competitive the year would be with a loss to Oostburg. Head coach Papi Pozo always taught to keep your heads in the game and to never give up, which is exactly what the team did, coming back mid-season to win four straight games to achieve a 5-3 record. Because of the large amount of new players joining this year, a junior varsity team was formed playing a few games this year. Only one game in, the junior varsity team is 1-0. The season is only half over and we look forward to seeing how the rest of the year turns out. With such a close and competitive conference anything can happen.
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