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Student profile Volume LII pg. 8 Issue VII the April 26,Lion’s 2010 Leo Junior/Senior Tale High Schoolo- Interact students end Canstruction fundraiser By Aubrey Dean-Cross years, Interact has been doing used to create the structure at the most cans or loose change out to Brown, the total number of Staff writer the Canstruction fundraiser at the mall were then delivered to of the school received free donuts cans that were collected at Leo Leo, but even throughout the Miss Virginia House. Thousands for the whole class to celebrate during the drive was around year the school has continued of cans get donated every year their achievement. To help 1,000 cans. The goal wasn’t to donate nonperishable to Miss Virginia House after contribute to money donations, reached but that’s still a helpful On Wednesday, March food items and spare change. Canstruction. Canstruction is one students were also able to donation to Miss Virginia House 31, the Canstruction can drive During Canstruction, of the major drives at Leo used participate in class tourney, sucker and the Canstruction project. officially ended. For a week and students use cans that were to help support Miss Virginia sales, and neighborhood walks. Leo will continue to a half, people have been asking raised to build a structure at the House. Each year Interact uses Community Harvest donate any change or cans that for can donations to go toward mall according to the selected this drive to collect cans and Food Bank, 3 Rivers Federal are collected by students and the Canstruction project. The theme, “Double the cans, double money. Any cans are accepted, Credit Union and local high administrators to Miss Virginia cans were then delivered to Miss the care.” Before the structure but there is a list of certain colored schools all participated in or House and other organizations Virginia House to be donated. at the mall was built, students cans that Interact is asking for sponsored Canstruction and that help needy people in the Leo Jr. Sr. High school prepared by building a smaller since the cans that are collected Miss Virginia House fundraisers. area. Daniel, Brown, Kern, Gabet, has a club called Interact that is image in the presentation room are used to create a structure Dean of Students Dennis Kern, or any other teacher in charge of responsible for the Canstruction at Leo. At the mall the students at the Glenbrook Mall. This Daniel, and teachers Rosi Brown, Students Sharing Hearts, Interact, project. According to Dr. Mark were able to create the same structure will be created on April Stephen Gabet, and Jared National Honor Society, or Student Daniel, Interact is a high school structure of cans by stacking and 16 through April 18 at the mall. Sauder assist in Canstruction. Council can be helpful to anyone rotary club that works hard to placing them in exact spots just To help raise cans and According to Kern, who has questions or concerns or promote leadership, community like in the prototype that was money, there was a challenge the goal that was trying to be ideas about caring for the needy. service, and service for the originally built at the school. against the first period classes. The reached was between four and school community. For two All of the cans that were first period class that brought in five thousand cans. According East Allen makes budget cuts Elmhurst comes to a close By Taylor Seiss students don’t want us there,” Feature editor said Solga in an interview with “The Journal Gazette.” Elmhurst will The Fort Wayne reportedly save Fort Wayne Community School board community Schools $1.6 came to the decision to million, according to www. close Elmhurst High School. fortwaynecommunityschools. Students will be com. Teacher cuts will also save allowed to finish the remainder the district close to $6 million. of the school year. Students of “This is a rough time Elmhurst will also have a choice for students to go through, but to disperse into three different they have to make the best out area schools, North Side High of it,” said board president School, Wayne High School, Mark GiaQuinta in an interview or South Side High school. with “The Journal Gazette.” According to Fort Wayne Elmhurst was first started Community Schools website, the in 1931, and currently holds 900 reason for the closing was because students. Those 900 students will of the recent budget cuts of Fort be put into three different schools Wayne Community Schools. Fort which are unknown to them. Wayne Community Schools are “I hope my senior year trying to cut $15 million and a goes how I imagined it would,” reported 138 jobs will be cut. said Solga in the same interview. According to FWCS Elmhurst has always been many students attended the board in the spotlight when it comes to meeting to see if their high school sports. They have won numerous would be closed. A junior from state titles in many sports, and Elmhurst, Megan Solga, cried now those teams are also being as the board closed her school. broken apart. Each team in the “We don’t know a lot of people or teachers at the other Continued on pg. 3 schools. I feel like the other By Rory Harris coaches, subject area coordinators, academically on EACS students as Editor-in-chief and stipends for the supervisors a whole,” said Hartman. Green’s of the choirs and journalism job, as described by Hartman, is NEWS “…to inspire in all programs, just to name a few. to study areas, listen to all input, students a passion for learning According to board member and then make a recommendation while developing knowledge, Bill Hartman, who is also an to the board to vote on. May 3-7 is Staff Appreciation Week. Students skills and character necessary to alumni of Leo High School, Dr. The board said will be able to fill out appreciative notes to staff become responsible contributors Karyle Green and her team have they weren’t excited to the local and global society.” listened to many suggestions about having to make the members in the back of cafeteria. Honor your This is the mission of from students, teachers, decisions to make these cuts. teachers and make someone feel special today! East Allen County’s school board, administrators, and tax payers “There wasn’t anything as stated on the official EACS throughout the EACS school on the list that I wanted to cut Prom tickets are on sale May 3 - 7, and are 25 dollars per website. The same mission of board. After many discussions, back, or scale back, or jeopardize student. the board that was made to cut decisions had to be made. in any way,” said school board $4 million from the district’s “Dr. Green then member Leland Etzler. Etzler, a budget on Tuesday, March 21. recommended the $4 million former football coach of Woodlan Cedar point and after prom tickets are being sold on These cuts include cuts that she believes will have April 28 and 29. Prices: Cedar Point is 45 dollars per per- everything from fewer football the least detrimental impact Continued on pg. 2 son, and after prom is 3 dollars presale and 5 at the door. 2 Volcano in EuropeTCID:PP causes chaos. 10 Eight things about the baseball team. 12 Class Tourney overview. 2 News April 26, 2010 Volcano eruption in Europe leaves thousands stranded according to ABC News. At By Ashlynn Jenkins London’s Heathrow airport, Editor-in-chief put on hold from take off are 1,200 flights to and from the UK and 180,000 passengers, according to ABC News. Iceland’s erupting “My boyfriend’s dad volcano threw airports across left last week for Europe for Europe into chaos, causing business,” said junior Rachel the biggest flight disruption Burtnett. “He was supposed since the 2001 terrorist attacks, to fly out Friday, April 16, but according to ABC News. due to the volcano eruption The volcanic dust in he is not allowed to leave. the air prevents airplanes to He has been able to contact take flight from the massive his family though so we cloud, which is reaching an know he is doing okay.” altitude of 55,000 feet. Volcanic Not only is the dismay causing much chaos ash contains tiny particles of COURTESY OF FLICKR.COM rock and even glass, which can for passengers, the halt of most dangerously melt in the flights could cost airlines and up exponentially. Just how is building the cloud up safety as the volcanic ash is heat of an engine, then solidify other businesses around the severe the airline industries even bigger and taking up hazardous to aircrafts. Iceland, again shutting those engines world hundreds of millions of will suffer depends solely on the pathway for flights to be a nation of 320,000 people, sits down, according to ABC News. dollars, if not billions. In 1989, how long these conditions able to launch. According to on a large volcanic hot spot The volcano disruption the eruption of Mount Redoubt persist, said ABC. Passengers ABC, not only does it cause in the Atlantic’s mid-oceanic drifted over northern Europe, in Alaska took down a KLM with non-refundable tickets visibility problems for the ridge, and has a history closing airspaces in several flight and eventually grounded likely will reschedule flights. pilot, but it could also cause of devastating eruptions. countries and leaving travelers thousands of Alaskan The problem is airplane engine failure. Passengers finally stranded on six continents.