Where’s Tim? What’s the Angelo needs - Page 4 best Girl his space. Scout cookie? Literally. - Page 5 - Page 5 Volume #19, Issue #5 March 15th, 2019 OWL sends 17 projects to state can listen to the piano player tition and support their peers. Ten senior and seven junior projects advance by the main entrance, or buy “Moral support is good,” says Elsa Carlson proved their projects to the after a long, adrenaline filled er projects that were awarded the famous two dollar eggrolls. Helena. “It also just feels good Staff Writer best of their ability. In hopes morning, the results for the honorable mention. “Other than watching other to share this information that Thought you were done of becoming a state qualitier, competition were finally an- During the competition, people’s projects,” 10th grader you’ve learned with other peo- hearing about all the history many changes were made to nounced on March 9th during there were many fun things to Helena Squires Mosher says, ple, cause hopefully they can day jazz? Well think again, be- the history day projects. Per- the awards ceremony at John- do outside of the actual judg- “It’s also fun to hang out in learn some new things too.” cause the regional competition formances were run count- son High School. OWL did ing time. In fact, with only the halls and play some card The awards ceremony was has just wrapped up and we’ve less times; exhibit boards and an amazing job at the compe- 20 minutes of judging time games; that’s what I’ve done in a ruckus as usual. All SPPS got results. websites were redesigned, all tition, with 10 senior projects allotted to each project, there the past.” It is also common for middle school and high school After working tirelessly for while papers and documenta- and 7 junior projects advanc- can be lots of downtime. To friends who are not part of his- qualifiers crammed into the weeks, regional qualifiers im- ries were being reworded. And ing to state. We also had 2 oth- avoid getting bored, people tory day to attend the compe- History Day, 6 “How cold of weather can I do this in?” Edric’s annual polar vortex adventure Madigan Lodahl Staff Writer What did you do during the last polar vortex? Most people stayed inside, watching mov- ies, playing video games, and staying in touch with friends on social media. Special Education Teaching Assistant Edric Lysne decided to sleep outside without even a tent for warmth. Every year, Edric watch- es the forecast, and on what is predicted to be the coldest night of the year, he goes into his backyard and sleeps under the stars. Temperatures are Kate Moe usually around -20 degrees Student team getting their heads in the game (left), Francesco jump serves during the second game (right). fahrenheit, when frostbite can effect exposed skin in 30 min- utes, so it’s really important to Teachers defeat students two-nil have the right gear. “I wouldn’t recommend just grabbing a Reward volleyball match played in front of a rowdy crowd blanket off your bed and doing Paloma Leone-Getten eventually subbed out to ref I’m glad the teachers were able co Divella showed off his jump one else in the wave and other this, that probably wouldn’t Staff Writer the game, which helped the to win without cheating this serve and 11th grader Lucas cheers. “It was fun to watch. work,” Edric said. On Friday, February 15, the students gain a bit of an edge. time,” said Spanish teacher Plaman caught the teachers off It was very high energy and it He uses a sleeping bag that teachers defeated the students But it wasn’t enough. Gym Tim Leone-Getten. guard with some well placed was cool to see actual volley- insulates up to -40 degrees, in two games of volleyball in and health teacher Joe Brad- The students, in blue, start- hits. “We were really good at ball players play and help the and dresses in warm fleece the Humboldt gym. ner helped the team with some ed the game with many experi- uplifting each other and hav- people that don’t to get bet- clothing. He puts an air mat- The game was a reward for nice passes and tips, while enced players, and seemed like ing fun, instead of just trying ter,” said 10th grader Linnea tress and camping pad under students for passing 85% of teacher’s assistant Derrick Le- they would win easily, howev- to win the game,” said 9th Campbell. him to insulate himself from their classes. The teachers took Tran aced the students with er, they quickly subbed out to grader Lili Hobday. The volleyball game was a the freezing ground and uses their side in orange, and start- several float serves. Overall, give everyone a chance to play. The gym was filled with success, although dozens were a down jacket as a pillow be- ed the game with math teacher the teacher team worked well They still had several talented deafening cheers from every disappointed that principal cause any cotton would get too and volleyball coach Damon together. “It was a lot of fun players throughout the game grade, with help from several Dave Gundale did not partic- frosty. Liberatore in the game. He playing in front of a big crowd. though. 11th grader Frances- 11th graders, who led every- ipate. Before Edric goes to sleep, he has a little ritual. Sleeping bags don’t produce any heat, they just insulate the heat that Amy Klobuchar to run in 2020 your body produces, so you have to make sure you’re really Senator announces her presidential bid at Boom Island event warm. Edric makes sure to eat Frankie Buettner a roar of excitement and en- tance. Without officially saying lis looked more like the North a really good dinner and move Staff Writer thusiasm for the future of the the announcement was her bid Pole that Sunday to many around a lot before getting into As snow heavily came United States. for president it was pretty clear Americans across the coun- the sleeping bag, doing things down on Sunday, February 10, As I arrived to Boom Island what was going to happen. try, but to me and my fellow as simple as going up and anticipation grew for new pol- on that white out afternoon, I Volunteers frantically gathered Minnesotans that day was the down the stairs and shoveling itics in Minnesota, and across saw several fellow Minneso- names and emails of Minne- perfect way to highlight Amy’s snow. The biggest problem that he Frankie Buettner the Nation. Snow covered the tans waving American flags sotans while they handed out future campaign. encounters is how frosty his Amy Klobuchar speaks heads and shoulders of excited and dancing to an ABBA song warmers, personalized cook- Amy’s announcement had about her presidential run. Americans and was met with playing from the DJ in the dis- ies, and hot cider. Minneapo- Klobuchar, 2 Edric, 3 1 Hosting & competing Archers raise funds by hosting tournament Grace Bellamy & Emily Yang ment, archers, families, and any hiccups with logistics in Staff Writer vendors. Throughout the day, stride. “We always figured out OWL hosted an archery there are many different teams a way to make things work,” tournament with nearly 550 and families coming and go- he said. Tom added that “they archers on February 23rd at ing. Parking and gym space [the archers] were amazing as Johnson High School, where are the most important factors volunteers and ambassadors Adult to Blame the high school team placed when it comes to choosing a for our program and the city sixth and the middle school location. At Johnson, the tour- and clean up was flawless.” Leo Bickelhaupt team placed seventh. nament utilized the field house Saturday morning prepara- Layout OWL’s high school team and the gym. The tournament’s tion included setting up con- Grace Bellamy ranked six out of eight, while motto of “work hard, have fun, cessions and providing spaces Paloma Leone-Getten St. Croix Preparatory Academy git’r done!” exemplified how it for vendors. Parent volunteer ranked number one. Princeton went: it was a success. Tara Diaz was in charge of Helena Squires Mosher Middle School won the mid- OWL’s team packed up the concessions. She went to Cost- Visual Artists dle school division, in which supplies for the tournament co and chose items that would Milani Dimayuga OWL ranked seven out of 12. the Thursday before, and make a good profit. The com- Jonas Kammeyer-Mueller The tournament included 30 brought the gear over to John- mittee has to decide on what archery teams from around son Friday afternoon. They set to buy, how much to buy, how Kate Moe the Metro Area, including up for the tournament that much to sell each item, and Writers Mahtomedi, White Bear Lake, evening. Archery captain, how much needs to be opened Jose Batres Pearson Chaska, and more. As a team, 11th grader Jacob Rohde said at a time. Ultimately hot dogs, OWL’s performance was not that the captains completed bottle water, soda, coffee, and Grace Bellamy Emily Yang their best. OWL’s archers the more complex tasks, like more were decided as the best Shayla Brooks The OWL archery team shooting on February 23rd (above), spent a lot of time helping to measuring tape lines to mark for concessions. However, the the awards table at the competition they hosted (below).