The BRFHS Publications staff won many high honors yesterday at the CVSPA conference. Seven current Publications students traveled to the 2010 Chippewa Valley Scholastic Press Association (CVSPA) conference hosted at UW-Eau Claire. The conference is an opportunity for area high school newspaper and yearbook students to earn recognition for their hard work. “[This year] we [...]
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Midterm Mock Elections Break Record Held for 18 Years
With the midterm elections coming up on November 2, BRFHS spent the past week holding mock elections to determine where our school stands on the political race. During these mock elections, students put their vote in for Governor, US Senate, House of Representatives, State Assembly and State Senate. Along with that, students shared their opinion [...]
Sophomores finish their final WKCE test
The WKCE or Wisconsin Knowledge and Concepts Examination, the state’s standardized tests, took place on October 25-27 for the sophomore class. While the sophomores were busy testing, the freshmen, juniors and seniors got to sleep in. The freshmen and upperclassmen didn’t have to come into school until 10:30 on Tuesday, and 10:20 on Wednesday. “The [...]
WKCE testing in spotlight
Everyone has had to do it: the dreaded sophomore testing. This year the sophomores are getting an incentive for high scores. “As teachers we have talked about an incentive for sophomore students. If they were proficient or higher in all of their tested areas, then we could give them a reward to try and encourage [...]
Did you see the Packers beat the Vikings?
The Green Bay Packers pulled out their fourth victory by four points, beating the Vikings 28 to 24. “This shows who truly is the top dog in the NFC north. The Minnesota Vikings obviously are an inferior team and clearly that is why they were defeated so easily,” said devoted Packer fan and senior Robert [...]
Did you see the Brock Lesnar fight?
Brock Lesnar, former UFC heavyweight champion, was defeated in the Octagon by Cain Valasquez, who is now the first Mexican to have the UFC Heavyweight belt. “I don’t think anyone in the United States saw Cain winning in the first round with a knockout. I was afraid Lesnar was going to win, but I was [...]
FFA Beat Update: National FFA Convention
Every year some members of the Black River Falls FFA participate in the third largest convention in the nation, second only to the Democrat and Republican Convention. The members this year was senior Zachary Markhardt, senior Cassie Olson, sophomore Aspen, senior Will Peasley and junior Dan Anderson. “We attended sessions, workshops and career booths. In [...]
Voting, Pride, and Ping-Pong for the Senate
On October 19 at the Student Senate meeting, it was all about voting, Tiger pride and ping-pong. ”Every student in the school will have one of these in their hands,” said adviser Paul Rykken. Rykken was referring to the Student Voting Guides, a blue packet of information pertaining to the candidates in the senate, assembly [...]
5 questions with Carly
Volleyball player, Farmville lover and sophomore Carly was faced with some serious, and not so serious questions. If you could be friends with anyone in the world (dead or alive) who would you be friends with and why? “Taylor Swift because she is a really good role model to kids. She is very pretty, a [...]
FFA Beat Update: Parent’s Night
FFA’s annual Parent’s night, held October 12, highlighted member accomplishments and projects from the previous year. Parent’s night is best described by FFA adviser, Bradley Markhardt. “We have two main focuses. One, obviously is the parents, and two, to hand out FFA degrees. Discovery for Middle schoolers, Greenhand for starting high schoolers and Chapter for advanced [...]
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