Ocie's Fair Fun
The Brown County Fair just ended! This year's annual fair was held from September 23rd to the 28th. I interviewed Ocie Howard about her experience at the fair. Ocie started showing about four or five years ago, and she started showing because of her interest in animals. This year, she showed rabbits and chickens, and she won a reserve championship with her chicken. Unfortunately, the storm shut down the fair on Friday, but on the other days she had fun. Ocie stayed at the fair campgrounds, and rode most of the rides. She had a lot of fun this year, and hopes to return next year.
Ella Rouvier
Jack's Time at the Fair
Today I interviewed Jack Binder about his time at the Brown County Fair. This year, he showed rabbits. Jack has five of them in total, but showed two at the fair. Their names are Hazard and Aries. The rabbits that did not get shown were Pumpkin, Blue Flame, and Jaws. Jack got first in his class with Hazard. Aries ended up getting 3rd place in his class.
Ethan Blust
Ethan's Fair Experience
On the 3rd of October, I interviewed Ethan Blust about his fair animals. He has three chickens and a Nubian goat. Ethan won grand champion with his chickens and 2nd place with his goat. The goat's name was Oreo and the chickens did not have names. The goat that he showed is six months old. His chickens were in meat pen class, the goat was in a dairy class.
Jack Binder
Addy's Fair Artwork
On October 8th, I interviewed Addy Icard about her time at the fair. She entered her artwork, which featured a horse, ladybug, spiderman, and mountains. She got a 1st place ribbon for her mountains and the rest of her artwork got second place. Except for her ladybug, which did not receive a ribbon at all. I asked her if she would enter artwork in the fair again and she said she probably would not enter any of her artwork in the fair again. She said that the artwork that she entered was ripped when she got it back except for the picture of the mountains, which was on a canvas. Addy shared that she did not go to the fair, but her parents ran the SheBrews pop-up.
- Isabella Bollman
Halloween Dance 2024
The Halloween dance is right around the corner! It is on October 25, 2024, from 6-9 pm. Many students have been talking about the costume and dance contests. Dress up and dance for a chance to win! Wear your costume for a discount on the dance entrance fee. Regular admission is $15.00, and with the discount, it is $10.00. The costume contest and dance is run by Ms. Patton, who is the Fayetteville drama teacher. She will do an amazing job just like every other year. Most importantly, she and everyone else just want all of the students to enjoy their time there and have fun. We hope you attend and wish you luck if you enter the contest! Have a spooky night!
- Brittyn Brown & Sophie Garrett
Volleyball Championships
If you would like to learn more about the middle school volleyball teams, then this article is for you. Today I interviewed Emily Pfankuch on her 7th and 8th grade volleyball teams. Emily said there's still a lot to improve and build on confidence wise. She also said she believes her team has improved greatly but just not as fast as other teams. Going into tournaments, the 7th grade team has 5 wins and 8 losses. Moving onto 8th grade volleyball, I asked Emily if she thinks the 8th grade will win championships, and she said she believes her 8th grade team will in fact, win championships. Emily stated, “We are the only team who can consistently set it up for hitters and we can finish with strong hitting." The 8th grade team has 13 wins and 0 losses. They had a perfect season. The 8th grade volleyball team won championships and got 1st place overall. However, the 7th grade volleyball team has lost championships but placed 2nd overall. In the end, both teams had good seasons and will continue their journey to improve next year.
- Scarlett Young
Fall Festival
The Fall Festival is coming up! The Fall Festival is presented every year by the FPLS PTO, and will be held on the 25th of October, from 6pm to 8:30pm in the Elementary school. There will be food, games, prizes, haunted house, face painting, photo ops, cakewalk and more! The haunted house is covering the entire upstairs, starting at one set of stairs ending at the other. Every year the haunted house improves and we are so excited to see it again this year! The Candy Monster is also making a return again this year; students can bring in candy and “feed” the Candy Monster. All donations will be used at our Fall Festival. We would also like to recognise our sponsors from Shebrews Coffee, Beckers Burgers, and the food truck Funnel Of Luv. We hope to see you at the festival!
- Scarlett Young
Drama 2024
Drama is when you have to learn how to act, and use those skills to calibrate with others. There are not just jobs in drama for acting, as it is a group effort which requires way more than just acting. We also need creativity, for things that would be hard to workaround, which can help make it easier. Drama is a team of individuals who each help each other. Drama cannot be done fully alone.
There are also ranks, in which I'm a representative. My job is to help people trying to find more information about drama. These can be things like telling people which day is auditions, or what play we’re doing. I also have to try and get other people into drama so our team can be bigger with more creative ideas. I do this so our team can expand and have new people to help us.
The other roles can be much more than acting, as I mentioned. You can be a backstage person, helping pull a certain, or switch lights. You can also do makeup for plays, which will help the actors look like what they are playing. You can also help with the setup, or if you're more of an artist you can draw the backgrounds. There is a place for everyone.
Our next play will be “A Wonderful Life”. The auditions are on 10-16-24. We will need multiple people to act. The play will be around december. I hope to see people watch the play soon!
- Chase Workman