The Wildcat Gazette April 12, 2013 By Us For You Volume III, Issue 11 Carl Tanner Cool Under Heat! Plans To Fix Elementary Building In the Works By: Hannah Garrett By: Colton Mitchell On Feb 8, 2013, Carl Tanner was home with his little By now I’m sure you’ve all seen the elementary school brother, Tommy, when the most tragic thing happened. Carl had building--it’s in pretty rough shape. What’s up with the front of been playing outside with his little brother when he realized that it? Well I asked Mr. Sweet and he informed me that a while he needed to fill the wood stove. The fire had went out so he back, there was a bus accident where one of the school buses poured a little gas on the flame and there was an explosion and he ran into the front of the small school and caved in one of the was on fire. After he realized what happened, he ran out and corners. With all the damage done to the school they had to file jumped in the snow bank to put out the fire. He then ran into his an insurance claim, and the contractor who is supposed to fix house to call 911. Don Koch, who was across the street plowing, the building has just now been selected, so it will be fixed soon. saw what happened and rushed over to help him. Don helped When the building clean up the mess the fire made. Tommy ran over to the school is all fixed it will nearby to get Carl’s dad. be used for the The ambulance showed up at Carl’s house and took him summer and mi- to Shelby Hospital. He was then taken to Helen Devos Children’s grant programs. Hospital in Grand Rapids to be treated for his first, second and Right now it is all third degree burns. Carl had burns on over 75% of his body and closed down and is he was in the hospital for twenty days. During those twenty days not being used for Continued on the Everything Else Page anything. It is cur- rently being heated at a low tempera- ture so the building’s pipes don’t freeze. The portable that is currently being used as the migrant building will be turned into storage, and a possible classroom if there is an overflow of stu- dents. So that’s what is up with the elementary school. Driven into Poverty By: Cheyenne Kalfsbeek For years I have impatiently waited to get a license. I believe that this is a feeling that everyone has at some point Doctors were amazed at how quickly Carl recovered. when they grow tired of waiting around for others to taxi them around. Anyhow, my objective here is to bring a pressing issue Drivers Ed Approaching to light. The issue being is the high cost of insurance for teen By: Gerardo Barrios drivers. Drivers Ed Segment 1 and 2 are near. Segment 1 for Now of course teen driving insurance is going to cost Drivers Ed will begin on Monday April 15th. Classes will be held more. However, is it really fair to make it almost triple the cost from 3:00-5:00 p.m. To sign up you must go to allstardrivereduca- of the common adult’s driving insur- tion.com. Segment 2 is being offered at Hart High School on ance? Teens may be less experienced, April 9, 10, and 11. It will be held from 3:15-5:15 p.m. If you are which makes them more likely to get interested you must sign up in central office. Segment 1 costs in accidents, yes. Yet, I would think $300 dollars. In Segment 1 you pay for the book. You will also that they would give teens a chance to pay a gas fee and the standard class fee. To take Segment 1 the youngest you may be is 14 years and 8 months old. Segment 2 prove themselves worthy of lower will cost $50 dollars. One can only take Segment 2 if they have insurance before charging them an arm and a leg. completed Segment 1. Just a reminder payment is required before The primary problem with the present set-up pertains taking the classes. Continued on the Everything Else Page International April 12, 2013 By Us For You Volume III, Issue 11 The first day in New York we had a tour around many places in the city. We went to Rockefeller Center, Times Square and we took dinner at BBQ Dal- las. We had one hour of free time in Times Square. Like always, there is some- one who gets lost. Unfortu- I used to travel a lot when I was in Spain. I came -The Statue of Liberty. nately, she was supposedly in my group, and she here and I didn't go anywhere and I didn't visit an- ything until Spring Break. The organization which decided to go shopping alone. Her cell phone was I came here through, International Experience, pre- out of battery so she went to the cops and then she pared a trip to New York and Washington D.C. called one of the chaperones. The second day in with other exchange students like me. There were New York, we did a tour on a boat around New exchange students from Spain, Switzerland, Thai- York. I saw the Statue of Liberty and I took a cou- land, China, Austria, ple pictures. We went France, Montenegro, to Broadway Theatre Germany, Finland, and Madame Tus- Serbia, South Korea saud NYC Museum. It and Poland. Most of was pretty awesome those exchange stu- but I like the one in dents are living in London better. Michigan but they On the way to are spread across the Washington D.C., we United States. It's stopped at two awe- amazing how many some cities: Philadel- good friends you can phia and Baltimore. get in 5 days. I’m We had lunch at Phila- going to miss them. delphia and we had 2 hours of free time. We visited I met the bus with all the important things in most of the exchange Washington. It was in- students in Sturgis, credible because we visit- and we took a couple ed all the places that ap- breaks during the way pear in the movies. We visited the capitol, The to the hotel in New -In Madame Tussaud’s York. We met the -Rockefeller Center Building. Wax Museum. other bus with the rest of the exchange students White House, Arlington Na- in Toledo, one of the tional Cemetery, The Tomb places where we took a of the Unknown Soldier, Lin- -The Capitol (Washington) break. We arrived at the coln Memorial, Jefferson Me- hotel really late so every- morial, Washington National Monument and more! body was tired and noth- After visiting Washington for two days, the way home was really fast. Saying goodbye to my friends -Rockefeller Center. ing fun happened. was very hard and it made me really sad. International April 12, 2013 By Us For You Volume III, Issue 11 By: Finja Petersen The next day we left New York and drove I NY and Washington D.C. towards Washington, D.C. Our first stop we made was Philadelphia, where we en- On Saturday morning at 10:00 a.m. we left joyed nice sunny weather. We got Sturgis by bus. It was packed full of exchange stu- to see the Liberty Bell and we ate dents from all over the world. We all went on a one typical Philly Cheese Steak Sand- week trip to New York wiches. Then after another ap- and Washington D.C. proximately two hour bus ride, we During this trip we drove stopped in Baltimore. There, we through nine states which could see the harbor and got time were: Michigan, Indiana, to shop and to eat before we con- Sun over the Liberty Bell in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Our tour bus tinued our trip to the capitol. Philadelphia Jersey, New York, Dela- During the following three ware, Maryland and Vir- ginia. days in Washington, we did a Capitol tour, visited a New York was the first couple of the Smithsonian Museums, walked to all destination where we kinds of memorials, did a tour to Arlington National stayed for three days. I Cemetery, and saw the illuminated White House. was very impressed by all the skyscrapers which Another German exchange student and I at Times look exactly like they do Square in the movies. Those three days we had a full pro- gram and got to see a lot of places, for example: Times Square, the Statue of Liberty, the Rockefeller View of the Washington The Capitol Center, Ground Zero, National Monument Central Park, and Madame from the Lincoln Tussaud’s. Memorial One night we ate at Wind and snow on the boat Bubba Gump Shrimps tour to the Statue of Liberty which was really cool, be- cause everything in the res- taurant is related to the movie Forrest Gump. Another night we watched Spiderman in a The huge Arlington Most of the exchange students in Broadway theater. It was National Cemetery front of the Lincoln Memorial amazing. Spiderman actu- The 9/11 Memorial ally flew through the audience with the aid of wire ropes which were installed on moving elements on All in all, the trip was a very good experience and a the ceiling. lot of fun. Spending time in a big city and exchange experiences with other students was a nice variety.