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WHAT’S HAPPENING. Outdoor School | 5 Geology Fieldtrip | 8 Fall Sports Photos | 12 Girls’ Soccer | 16 Flying Carp | 20 Incident at the Holiday Inn | 21 A World of Hunger | 22 Animal Testing | 23 PHOTO FEATURE 12 Military Families | 24 TL Fall Sports Student Artwork | 26 5 8 Exchange Students | 30 On the Cover: Sophomore Alex King pushes past a Horizon Christian defender in Trout Lake’s 3-1 victory over the Eagles early in the season. 26 2 | October, 2010. .WHAT’S HAPPENING. Principal’s Corner Village Voice Staff “Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier.” ~ Charles Kettering Hope you are having a great fall season. Like the beginning of any year, there is a good deal of positive energy and activity as well as some great challenges. The year has begun with an excellent group of 205 students. This number represents the highest number of students in my 23 years with the school district and a 12% increase in students from last year. In all, counting our new kindergarten students, we have 45 new students in our school this year. Most of this growth is at the K-4 level. Three years ago Trout Lake K-4 student population was about 47 students. We started the 2010-2011 school year with 82 K-4 students. As you might expect this has created some challenges. To meet this challenge we have added some additional teachers to the existing K-4 staff. In addition, we have added some support staff through the Northwest Service Academy Americorp program. We welcome Lisa English and Kira Fogarty as support to our school programs. Both are working about 25 hours per week in support of teachers and students here at Trout Lake School. With their help and adjustment of our current staff we will be able to provide some extensive one on one and small group instruction in reading and math. Kira will also be working on starting a Farm to School Program in conjunction with the very successful Trout Lake Community Garden. Our Trout Lake School volleyball team has started the year with outstanding Village Voice Staff: Left side (back to front): Helena performances. To date they have only lost one match and that to a 3A school out Rustad, Krissy Yarnell, Anna Klahn, Jessie Robertson, of Oregon. Our soccer team, with many young players, has competed hard and has Caitlin Scott, Maggie Baker, Linda Montavon. Right 3 victories on the season. If you get a chance, come out to a game! Both volleyball side: Lucas King, Eli Caudillo, Ben Vollema, Grace and soccer games are free admission this year as we seek to attract more community Anton, Amy Underwood, Amanda Lee. members to support these fine teams. Congratulations to these athletes and their coaches. This summer began the challenge of replacing our aging roof. The current roof is at the end of its life cycle. We have divided its replacement into five phases and were What’s Happening able to complete two phases this summer. Our hope is to complete the project in two to three summers depending on the money we have available. Speaking of money, as October 13 (Wed.) you know it is a challenging time. It looks like the district may face some cuts mid- Grade Check year from the state, which would be a first in my 23 years. The next state budget cycle looks especially challenging. Increased enrollment and some conservative fiscal October 13 (Wed.) management as well as exceptional community support have allowed us to maintain PSAT Testing our existing programs for the students of Trout Lake. Another facility challenge is our heating and air conditioning system. The board is currently exploring grant opportunities to help deal with this. October 20-22(Wed.-Fri.) As the district does every two years, you will have opportunity to support the Early Releases - PT Conferences district’s levy request in February. This process is gearing up and there will be a community group that will meet in October to look at the school’s financial picture October 27(Wed.) and make a recommendation to the school board. The district appreciates your input into this important decision. More information will be coming in future Village Bookmobile Voice Principal’s Corners. As always if you have questions or concerns do not hesitate to give me a call or stop by. Enjoy the fall season and challenges that you will face! October 29 (Fri.) Doug Harvest Festival 1:30 pm November 2-6 (Tues. –Sat.) Scholastic Book Fair . October, 2010 | 3 . .FIELD TRIPS . and had group classes. In the afternoon they went on a long day hike to Outdoor School see fossils, had a recreational time, ate dinner, and sat around a campfire MS students spend three days in the Oregon desert. watching skits and debating various environmental issues. According to On September 17-19, Trout Lake’s 7th and 8th grade classes took the students they learned a lot and had a blast in the process. Student an extended field trip with OMSI. They drove to Fossil, Oregon— Tamaira Huffsmith says that they learned “how to identify whether which they told me was “the middle of the middle of nowhere”—for an animal was prey or a predator from a skull or by just looking at the 3 days of Outdoor School, a program run by OMSI. There students animal, and how to make and use a compass” and much more about the can learn about the environment by being out in it. various plants and animals that were native to the desert environment. Initially, some students were a bit skeptical about the trip—some To Mikayla Philips and Emily Logan, the fact that what is now a desert people knew that they would have soccer conflicts or were a little area was once a rain forest was a big surprise—along with finding apprehensive. However, most were excited to get out of the normal banana tree leaf fossils in the area. school routine. Students were given a detailed list of items to bring, Besides learning about the region, the group enjoyed a lot of growing including; packs, sleeping bags for sleeping in cabins, flashlights, times together. The best parts to JD Cox were singing Puff the Magic ponchos, rain pants, sunscreen, hats, and various other objects to Dragon with Lorraine Underwood (a parent chaperon) around the prepare them for rain or for shine. campfire at night, watching the staff put on funny skits, and hearing a Upon arrival at the Hancock Field Station, they got off the boy in his cabin scream because there was a scorpion on the floor. bus, met the staff working there, and met students from St. Mary’s The twenty-eight 7th and 8th graders that went really had a great Academy who were attending Outdoor School at the same time. All time at the Hancock Field Station. They got out, hiked to some cool of the students present then gathered around a fire and watched skits sites and got to stay dry and warm during this outdoor school. Everyone created by the Trout Lake students. One of the students described who went, including the adults, learned about the great outdoors and that evening as one of the funniest moments because as Abbie had fun learning experience. Veremiere said “Mr. Elyard subbed in for one of the students and was Amy Underwood a singing, dancing tiger with a ridiculous mask.” During the next few days, they had a fairly well set schedule. In the morning they got up, took a morning hike, ate a delicious breakfast, Photos by Lorraine Underwood . October, 2010 | 5 . FIELD TRIPS . 6 | October, 2010. .FIELD TRIPS. October, 2010 | 7 . FIELD TRIPS . Geology Class Field Trips Juniors and Seniors in Geology take field trips around Trout Lake and to the John Day Fossil Beds. One of the best ways for students to learn is through experience. That is why, on September 26th and 27th, the fourteen juniors and seniors in the Trout Lake School geology class went on a field trip to explore the area around John Day in central Oregon. This region is rich with geologic history and is a great place for young geologists to study this particular field of science. We started out in two vans from the school parking lot and made a few stops along the way to look at different rocks before making our first big stop at Smith Rock. Smith Rock State Park is one of the best climbing sites in Oregon. It is composed of welded tuff (compressed volcanic ash)that is smashed up against a wall of rhyolite. It is soft but very firm, perfect for climbing. It was formed about 1.2 million years ago from a pyroclastic flow. Erosion has worn all the soil around it away and left these huge chunks of rocks. It is known for one of its rock formations, Monkey Face, and some of you might have seen the area in a western movie filmed nearby. After exploring the Smith Rocks for awhile we left to go to our camp ground at “The Fish House Inn” in Dayville. We made it there just before dark and set up our tents. After a few “cold” jokes, a soccer game, and a couple of card games we crawled into our sleeping bags and went to sleep. The next day we explored Picture Gorge. It was formed 16 million years ago when dozens of cracks opened up in the earth’s surface and spewed tons of molten lava.