Peggy Armson enjoys building relationships with the students she feeds on a daily basis. Peggy has seen many students walk the floors of the high school. “This is my 15th year,” said Armson. If someone is in the lunch room, chances are that Peggy is there. Peggy is in charge of the more unique food [...]
Archive for June, 2010
Changing the face of sports: Race-based mascots removed from the game
It’s been a long time coming, but last month the Wisconsin legislature passed a bill that allows racially insensitive mascots, logos, slogans and nicknames to be removed from public schools if deemed necessary. Signed into law by Governor Doyle on May 5, the bill allows Wisconsin residents to object to racist mascots. If the state [...]
Heckendorf leaves a lasting impression
When you walk down the red hallway and peek your head in the doors of the shop rooms, you will often see students hard at work. One might be surprised that under one of the welding masks, a ponytail can be found. That ponytail belongs to welding teacher Kristie Heckendorf. Heckendorf has been an influential [...]
Staff reviews a year of big changes at the Paw Print
This year’s newspaper has seen many changes this 2009-2010 year; from paper to gloss to going online. In the past years the newspaper has been–a newspaper. But this year the editors and staffers decided to take a different approach, and ended up with the news magazine. “The news magazine is more stylistic,” senior Ryan Whaley [...]
Let’s Go Beach Bumming!
The school year is coming to a close, and we all know what that means– SUMMER! If you’re looking to have a great day relaxing in the sand and going for a swim you should be thankful you live in Black River Falls. Our area boasts some of the most well-maintatined and busiest beaches in the [...]
AIDS speaker advises ‘Find that moral compass’
“I’m not here to make friends with you. I’m here to tell you a story,” said Jim Bertolini. Bertolini’s story is about living with AIDS. As a part of Social Psychology, social studies teacher Tony Boerger arranged for Bertolini to speak to students who have taken the class during the school year about about how [...]
5 Questions with…Mrs. Neville!
1.) Choosing between the colors red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo or violet, what would you dye your hair if you had to? I think blue because it would be the closest to a normal color. If you get in the sunlight, it would look black, if it is dark enough. It is the least [...]
The Rundown earns four stars
Action-packed and hilarious, 2003′s The Rundown is about Beck (Dwayne Johnson, also known as The Rock) who goes to the Amazon to chase down his mobster boss’s son, Travis, and bring him back to Los Angeles. Beck arrives at the Amazon in a broken and duct-taped plane driven by a scottish man named Declan (Ewen [...]
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