THE NESTUCCIAN Thursday April 4, 2019 Nestucca High School Cloverdale, OR Volume 2 -19 Issue 5 Bridge Builders Crush Competition, Earn 5th Straight Championship! By Amy Moore “Winning first came as a huge Nestuccian Staff surprise! I’m so happy I got this Congratulations to Mr. Ron chance and I’m so excited to go Smiths engineering class for with Lael to Baltimore,” Re- winning the Holly -Cornell Re- mington said. gion Bridge Building Contest Levi Hallock, who finished held at Oregon State University seventh, was proud of himself. on Feb.23rd.. “I feel like seventh is a pretty This is the 5th consecutive win good score,” he said. “I could for Nestucca. “I am very proud have done better but I feel like I of these boys,” said Ron Smith, did my best. I can’t wait until engineering and mechanics next year, to see if I move up in teacher. “I got too watch them the ranks.” grow as engineers and seeing In all, Nestucca took the top them get this far, first place four spots. Josh Seals and again! It makes me feel so Mitchell Richwine finished proud that I got to help these third and fourth. kids succeed.” Jack and Lael will be traveling Special congratulations go to to this year's international com- seniors Jack Remington and petition held on Saturday April Lael Case who finished first 6th at Johns Hopkins Universi- and second, and qualified for ty, in Baltimore Maryland. the international competition. GOOD LUCK IN BALTIMORE! Left: Senior Lael Case took 2nd and qualified to compete in Baltimore, Maryland next month. Right: Senior Josh Seals finished 3rd at the regional competition. Pg. 3 Pg. 4-5 Pg. 7 Measles Sports Eggs 101 2 Snow Slows Sadie Hawkins Dance Goes Tropical By Eva Marshall one girl and one boy from the claimed, “The vegetarian pot School in Nestuccian Staff freshman, sophomore, and stickers were freaking deli- junior class. The Tiki King cious. I loved how he made The Sadie Hawkins dance was and Queen were Skyler Wal- such a variety! Thanks, Aure- March thrown by the Sophomore lace (freshman) and Cara lian.” class on Saturday, March 8th Simpson (sophomore). By Phoenix Dyrnes @ 8 pm. The dance was ca- Sophomore Eva Marshall is Nestuccian Staff tered by Aurelian, and let me The music was played by DJ very proud of her class. “We just tell you… MMMM! The Tiki Kiki. had a larger turnout than ex- The weather in Oregon is al- food was great! pected. Everyone came togeth- ways changing, one minute sun Sophomore Fiona Hill really er to help and takedown. It is shining down next it’s raining The court was comprised of enjoyed the cuisine. She ex- was a great time,” she said. cats and dogs. Recently we have been snow off and on, mostly coming down in the middle of the night making us either have a two -hour delay or no school what’s so ever. I talk to Ms. Leja, a teacher at Nestucca, to see what she thinks. “I love it,” said Ms. Leja. I also talk to students to see what they think The first person I talked to was Lacy Upton, a freshmen “I love them but at the same time I hate them cause I need to do chores at home,” Lacy said. Kirsten Wagner added, “I like them but it takes me away from school work and I worry about graduation being pushed back or something like that.” Sophomore Sahara Hendricks said, “I think it’s ridiculous. I grew up in Minnesota, so this is nothing.” Finally, the effervescent Pierce Trent said, “I think it’s lovely.” 3 Measles Outbreak hits Who is Oregon/Washington this D.B. By Eva Marshall Nestuccian Staff The virus that is spreading fast and doesn’t seem to be slow- Cooper With the recent belief of not ing down anytime soon, is, vaccinating your children be- you guessed it, the measles. Guy? cause vaccines cause may au- There have been numerous tism, there have been many outbreaks mainly on the west outbreaks of viruses that vac- coast, and you know who lives By Fiona Hill print he was known as ‘D.B. cines specifically target. Alt- on the west coast? We do. In Nestuccian Staff Cooper’ hough, this really isn’t some- Vancouver, Washington, there thing people should be joking have been 72 confirmed cases Now this month’s conspiracy is Now while it is widely as- about, Twitter and Instagram of the measles since January long overdue. We are tackling sumed that he did not make his users have not been shy in 1st, 2019. 63 of these one of most widespread con- jump, but where did he go? roasting these clueless, igno- 72 cases were people that were spiracies in the PNW, it is that With his remains never found, rant anti -vaxxers. The count- unimmunized. Although there of D.B. Cooper. Now for a we can never know for sure if less number of memes that have only been four confirmed little background on what ex- he indeed made that jump. have surfaced regarding the cases of the the measles in actly the conspiracy is, let’s go anti -vaxxers, are actually quite Oregon since January 1st, back the afternoon of Wednes- The only thing we ever found, hilarious. We have seen every- there is nothing stopping it day, November 24th, 1971. thing from essential oils to a small pile of his ransom bills from spreading like a wild- Now D.B. Cooper, whose actu- along the banks of the Colum- dead baby jokes. Every social fire… other than being vac- al name is unknown, hijacked a media platform is blowing up. bia River in February 1980, cinated. Boeing 727 aircraft from the which only sparker more inves- PDX airport, set to land in Se- tigations without any real an- attle, WA.and somewhere on swers. the route, he extorted $200,000 in ransom, and parachuted to With the case being closed in an unknown fate. July of 2016 with no real an- swers, there’s only one ques- Now let’s dig a little deeper on tion to ask. Where did he come who D.B. Cooper really was, from, and where did he go? or who we think he was. He Where did he come from, Cot- used the name ‘Dan Cooper’ at ton -Eyed Joe? their airport, but due to a mis 4 Girls Make Playoffs for First Time Since 2009 By Allana Tull excited for the last few weeks. & Nestuccian Staff She said, “The season is going awesome. The team is amazing Girls basketball traveled to City both JV and Varsity. We've Christian on February 13th for won a lot more games this year round one of the district then we have in a long time. I playoffs, but came home empty can't wait to see where this sea- handed after losing 36 -45. son is going to take us.” Freshman Rachel Strober lead the team with eight points. Olivia Leslie led the team with Olivia Leslie and Kiara Webber 14.1 points per game and 3.5 added six points each. steals. She made 64 three point shots on the year. “We played hard and made a good run in the fourth quarter, Shamilee Chatelain was the but City made more plays early leading rebounder with 6.7 per in the game and we weren’t game and chipped in 6.8 points able to close the gap,” head as well. coach Tim Foster said. Senior Yatzari Ozuna battled a Although the season ended knee injury during the last three earlier than they would have weeks of the season, but her liked, the team was proud of strong play was recognized by their accomplishments this sea- the rest of the league. good season. Our league was limited to the Varsity team. The son. pretty competitive this year, JV squad had their way with - and that’s gonna make us that teams most nights as they com- Olivia was selected to the All - They finished the season with much stronger going forward,” piled a 15 2 record. League 1st Team, Shamilee 10 wins and 14 losses, and Coach Foster said. made 3rd Team, and Yatzari made it to the district playoffs was chosen as an Honorable “Our JV girls did awesome,” for the first time in 10 years. Mention. “Olivia took a big step forward said Foster. “They played great this year. She is one of the bet- defense all year and by they “It was really cool to go to Olivia was also recognized at ter players at the 2A level and end of the season they were playoffs as a freshman,” said I’m glad to see her getting that pushing the older girls pretty the state level as she was Rachel Strober. named Honorable Mention All recognition from other coach- hard in practice.” - es,” he added. State. In early February, sophomore Shamilee Chatelian was pretty “The Varsity team had a really The Bobcat’s success was not Track Season Underway By Kayla Weltz stay like that for the remainder proved so much as a school, Nestuccian Staff of the season.” We’re gonna rock the heck out of this March 14th was the first spring “It went pretty good,” said year!” track meet of the season. Eve- freshman Wayde Farstad. “I ryone was pretty proud of how was kind of intimidated by the it went. “I feel like all the activ- other schools. ities went really well,” said assistant coach Tyler Bentley.