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The Music Man Jr. News p. 1, 4-7 By Hope Nelson 8th Grade Profile p. 7

Teacher Feature p. 8 Have you heard about The Music Man? The Music Celebrity Birthdays p.10 Man is a musical about a con Who Knew? p. 2 man named Harold Hill, played Book Review p. 9 by Sam Golwitzer, who comes to a town called Rivercity to The Question p. 12 scam the residents with a boys Fun Zone p.9 -13 marching band. But when he Fashion, Web Site meets Marian Paroo, the town Spotlight, Club librarian played by Caitlyn Corner, Game Review, Movie Ozee, things don’t go Review, The according to plan. Go check Question, Celebrity out The Music Man on News, Advice, This February 19, 20, and 21, Day in History By Camilla Boyd 2014. If you have any 10. DRINK HOT COCOA Word Search p. 13 questions please see Mrs. 9. GO PLAY IN THE SNOW Schneider for details. The 8. OPEN CHRISTMAS GIFTS full list of cast members is 7. EAT GOOD BREAKFAST 6. PLAY WITH YOUR GIFTS on page 4 and 5. 5. GO VISIT FAMILY 4. TELL PEOPLE MERRY CHRISTMAS 3. BE HAPPY 2. MAKE A SNOW MAN AND # 1 IS… 1. DO SOMETHING NICE FOR SOMEONE

By Keelan Hansgen 6th grade: Kaleigh Swinford, Crows recognize human faces and hold Garrett Metzger, Tyler Jensen, grudges on those they do not like. Trystian Hughes, Camilla Boyd, Garrett M. says: He thinks they must Keelan Hansgen, Alyssa Criddle, have some special part of their brain that Rebecca Stilwell, and Victoria lets them do that. Harle Camilla B. says: That's creepy. You wouldn't want a swarm of birds attacking 7th grade: Ella Orvis, Lizzy Elliott, you. Logan Harrington, Rilie Jaguars get a high from eating roots, which also increases McKinney, Kylie Leathers, their senses for hunting. Nicholas Aquino, Phillip Koerner, Phillip K. says: That's shocking! Keelan H. says: That is one of the weirdest things I've Lauren Chaney, MacKenzie heard! Emery, Sophia Steelman-Teach, A Subway ticket machine in Moscow accepts 30 squats as Hope Nelson, Sam Golwitzer its payment. Mrs. Allen says: It should be a lot more than that. If it th 8 grade: Hayley Faulkner, Alexis were 130 squats it would help your muscles, then that McElroy, Emili Kronst, Reed would be acceptable. Heldt, Kayla McCawley, Haylee Phillip K. says: Strange and weird at the same time. Sissman, Carter Dupuis, Noah Garrett, Ke’Asia Taylor, and Zach Rohlfs

By Alyssa Criddle …Who knew British police carry a teddy bear in their police cars to comfort children if they were in an accident? …Who knew a crocodile can't stick its tongue out? …Who knew hot water is heavier than cold water? …Who knew without coloring, Coca-Cola would be green? …Who knew slugs have four noses? …Who knew an ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain? …Who knew a group of 12 or more cows is called a flink? …Who knew if you sneeze too hard you can fracture a rib? …Who knew most lipstick contains fish scales? …Who knew if you yelled for 8 years, 7 months, and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee? …Who knew the strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue?

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The Music Man Jr. The Music Man Jr. Cast List Bradley Central recently held auditions for the Conductor Jesse Quiroz cast of The Music Man Jr.. Salesman 1 Skyler Boudreau In this musical, the story follows fast- talking traveling Salesman 2 Sean Myers salesman Harold Hill as he cons Salesman 3 Nick Trusty the people of River City, Iowa Salesman 4 Trystian Hughes into buying instruments and Salesman 5 Devin Tambling uniforms for a Newspaper 1 Cameron Vitton boys' band he vows to Newspaper 2 Trenton organize. The catch? He doesn't know a Countryman trombone from a treble clef. His plans to skip town with the cash are foiled when he Newspaper 3 Nick Aquino falls for Marian, whose belief in Harold’s powers just might help him succeed in the Newspaper 4 Zakeece Burtis end in spite of himself. Charlie Cowell Derek Robinson Mark your calendars now - this show is sure to be a hit, full of comedy and music by our 6th, Harold Hill Sam Golwitzer 7th and 8th grade students. The show will be performed February 19–21, 2014 for both Mayor Shinn Noah Garrett students and the public at Kankakee's First Eulalie Morgan Whalen Church of the Nazarene. MacKecknie The musical is directed by Mrs. Amy Schneider Shinn and Miss Sarah Hasik, assisted by Miss Alma Hix (PLL) Jaylenn Myart Williams, Miss Wozniak, Mrs. Berns, Ms. Menser. Audition assistance by Mrs. Buente Oliver Hix * a salesman to and Mrs. Anderson. (BSHOP) be placed here

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The Music Man Jr. Cast The Music Man Jr. Cast List Ethel Abby River City Adults River City Kids Toffelmier Altenberger (PLL) Chloee Kuk Chloe Bretveld Jacey Squires Bryan Lizzy Elliott Alexis Hicks (BSHOP) McGarey Julianna Bourassa Destiny Wunsh Mrs. Squires Miranda Phoebe Jensen Alexa Smothers (PLL) Robins Rachiel Matthews Hannah Grace Marcellus Madhav Washburn Gampala Shania Wright Tori Harle Marian Paroo Caitlyn Ozee Hayley Faulkner Laura Vazquez Mrs. Paroo Kaleigh Faith Dahn Hanna Teneyuca Swinford Sophia Steelman- Amaryllis Ally Criddle Teach Winthrop Phillip Koerner Suzy Harris Jacinda Garcia – Wan Tan Ye Olin Britt Dawson (BSHOP) McCue Janae Buckner Olivia Rivard – Wan Tan Ye Tommy Djilas Devin Tambling Ty’Eisha Patel Maribel Franco – Wan Tan Ye Zaneeta Shinn Kiley Hinkleman Autumn Ukso Constable Nick Trusty Hannah Chaney Locke Rebecca Stilwell Gracie Shinn Mackenzie Emery Lauren Cox Ewart Dunlop Jesse Quiroz Allie Kuntz (BSHOP) Khadejia Sawyers

Maud Dunlop Beth Saathoff (PLL)

(PLL) – Pick-a-Little Ladies (BSHOP) – Barbershop Quartet

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Illinois State News

Top priority: ‘Reform’ makes pensions By Samuel Golwitzer more important than schools, roads Paul Walker, the star in Fast and By Logan Harrington Furious, has recently died in a car crash. The crash killed two people including Public employee unions in Illinois are trying Walker. He died on 11/30/13. Walker to kill pending pension reform, even though the state is making some extraordinary promises. “The said on his Facebook page that he was a average voter does not get to retire in their early 50s passenger in the car and that he was and get their salary for the rest of their lives with heading to a charity event called Reach escalators,” Bruce Rauner a GOP candidate for Out Worldwide. Walker had been governor and avowed opponent of Illinois’ public working on Fast and Furious 7 and a TV employee unions told Illinois Watchdog. Bruce is show called Hours when he died. It is focusing on the funding guarantee, which would unsure if these will be released. The allow public employee unions to sue the state if “Santa Clarita Signal” caught the crash lawmakers fail to pay as promised. So what this and it showed a red Porsche crashing into basically means is that after you retire you get a a light pole. The car then burst into specific pension from the government of your state flames. It is unsure if it was intentional and now in Illinois, you can sue the state if they do or not. Some people said that they saw a not pay your pension. liquid leaking from the car. Info. taken from the website: www.watchdog.org

Holiday Jokes Illinois passes Same-Sex By: Tyler Jensen Marriage Law By Phillip Koerner Q: Why was Santa's little helper depressed? A: He had low Elf-esteem! November 20, 2013 will be an Q: What do you get when you cross Santa Clause historic day in Illinois history. That was the with a duck? day that Governor Pat Quinn signed the Same-Sex marriage law into effect. Illinois A: A Christmas Quaker! will be state number 16 to pass it into Q: What do you call Santa when he stops? effect, with Hawaii passing their law into A: Santa Pause! effect just a week before. People will be Q: How do you scare a snowman? allowed to marry the same sex starting June 1, 2014. A: With a blowdryer!

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Boys’ Basketball Team By: Zachary Rohlfs By Hope Nelson The boys’ basketball team is doing okay. The 8th Congratulations to all the girls who made the grade record is 5 wins and 8 losses. We are the Knights cut for the volleyball team! We will let you and it’s ok. There are more games to play. We can win know next issue who is on the team. We will other games and may lose games too but it’s ok because also keep you posted and updated on how the season is going. If you have any questions we’re trying our hardest. What we need to do is keep our please see Mrs. Mericle. Good luck girls! heads up and don’t look down. If we lose, don’t get down. Just try to win because we’re the KNIGHTS. I hope we win the next game Go Knights! Super Smog ALEXIS MORPHEY By Noah Garrett

By Emili Kronst In China there was an enormous amount of smog that engulfed the entire city of Harbin, China. One citizen recalls What’s your favorite kind of the smog amount to be “scary and dangerous” which pretty Christmas cookie? Sugar cookies. much sums up what the environment would be. Smog is a Me too! What do you want for mixture of fog and smoke with smoke being most of the Christmas? Bow and arrow for atmosphere. Extreme caution was taken with the Chinese hunting. Is Christmas your favorite Military and police officials. Forty flights were canceled and holiday? If so, why? Yes, because of visibility was reduced to almost half a football field’s length. The World Health Organization detected a pollution rise 40 presents and seeing family. Do you times larger than the safe amount. have a thing you do with your family every year? Yes, making sugar China’s northern cities get the most pollution run-off cookies. Sounds like fun to me! Do because of factories and high traffic amounts. China’s you like cotton candy? Yes. Yum! Environmental Protection Agency monitors the harmful Do you like tacos? Love them! particle amount going into the air and on that day, the What’s your favorite kind of soup? monitoring system started reading off heavy amounts of at Cream of chicken. Yum! Do you like least 1000 micrograms of pollution per cubic meter. The safe pollution amount is 25 micrograms per cubic meter. to bake? Yes. That’s my favorite too. What are your favorite colors? Baby The main cause of this problem is China’s coal chimneys. blue and lime green. Pretty. What’s China has as abundance of coal underneath their feet and it one of your hobbies? Softball. Fun! is mined 24/7. It’s then shipped to factories to be used as What are your favorite school heating and fuel. subjects? Math and Band- we love band!

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Mrs. Malone Mrs. Allen By Hope Nelson By Emili Kronst When you hear someone mention Mrs. Malone’s name what do you think? Librarian? What’s your favorite ice Teacher? Helper? Well, Mrs. Malone is a wonderful cream? Mint Chocolate Chip and person. She is nice, kind, caring, and is great at helping Chocolate Peanut Butter from you out in the library when you need it. Mrs. Malone Oberweiss. That’s my favorite too! started out as a teacher’s aide because she loves kids. When is your birthday? July 8. When she heard the news that the Bradley Central Lucky, you get a summer birthday! librarian was retiring, she applied and got the job Do I hear a pool party? What is your because she loves to read. She loves mystery crime middle name? Jennifer. I love that drama. James Patterson is one of her favorite name. If you could go anywhere out authors. I asked her how the book fair went. of the country where would you go? She said that they weren't Any sandy Caribbean beach with as busy this year as they were in the past but heat. That sounds good to me. How all the profits went to buy books for the many kids do you have? 3. You schools’ teachers and the library. Mrs. Malone sound super busy! How long have has 1 daughter. Her name is Mianna. She is a you been married? 14 years. That’s a sophomore in high school. She is fifteen years long time! What’s your favorite old. She also has 3 step kids who she calls her animal? The kind that are caged. big kids because they are all in their 30s. Same here! Favorite food? Besides Mrs. Malone loves animals. She has 2 cats, tacos, her favorites are green olives Serafina and Selena, who was named after the Latin and frozen Three Muskateers candy singer Selena. She also wants to get a dog. Her favorite bars. Green olives, um, ewww, but color is purple. When Mrs. Malone is not working as frozen Three Muskateers, yes please! your librarian, she is running with her daughter and Do you like tacos? Yes, supreme kind volunteering with her family. She loves dolphins. She with black olives and sour cream. loves the ocean, the summertime, and the Yummy! What are your favorite sunshine. During the summer she takes a family colors? Pink and orange. I love those vacation to Mexico and goes boating. I then asked her colors together too! some weird questions. If she was stranded on a deserted island and she could bring one person it would be her family. If she could bring one object it would be sunscreen. If Mrs. Malone could live off of one food for a week it would be pasta because you can make it into so many different things. The last thing I asked Mrs. Malone was what is it that makes you enjoy coming to work every day and she said her kids. When she says her kids she means the students of Bradley. So now what do you think of when someone mentions Mrs. Malone, because I think friend.

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ALLEGIANT By Sophia Steelman-Teach By Kylie Leathers Do you want to look good this winter? With the Divergent Trilogy selling over one Don’t know what to wear? Well you have million copies, author Veronica Roth has quite a come to the right place. Here are some big fandom to please while writing Allegiant, the fashion trends for this winter. third and last book in the Divergent series. With Animal Prints – It seems like we are dressing plenty of dialogue, remarkable plot twists, and extreme action, Roth may just become the next like we were in the 80s. There is animal print Suzanne Collins. Allegiant comes with characters everywhere. Leopard print, cheetah print, you’ll fall in love with, pages you’ll cry in, and an zebra print, and many others. Be sure to grab ending that will shock you. Allegiant is definitely, this off the rack if you want to be stylin’! in my opinion, a must read for dystopian lovers. Studs – Bring on the bling! Studs are crawling into winter 2013. You can wear them on your Into the Wild shirts, shoes, pants and jackets. Anything By Keelan Hansgen goes. Just don’t overdue it! You’ll look a little crazy with five thousand studs all over Into the Wild is the first book in the series Warriors. you. You might think that this series is about fearless warriors trained to live in the wild, but it's not. Scarves – As you can see, many girls around Warriors is about... cats. They are fierce, and they Bradley Central have been wearing scarves. train to become warriors, but they are different. It’s a very simple look. Just take a solid color The first book is about a young kittypet (house cat) shirt (preferably long sleeve) and use one of named Rusty. When Rusty is invited into the forest your favorite scarves to go with it. The most by Bluestar, (Leader of Thunder Clan) his life is popular scarves are the infinity scarves. changed forever. Rusty is accepted into the clan and Colors matter too! Here are the renamed Firepaw. He was accepted into 1 of the 4 hottest colors this winter: emerald, magenta, clans, Thunderclan, Riverclan, Shadowclan, and violet red, and indigo. Windclan. When Firepaw arrives, the clan deputy has just been killed in a battle and no one knows Have fun stylin’ it up this what happened. As Firepaw trains, he becomes more winter! Don’t forget to be yourself. agile, and gets used to the forest life. He decides he It’s not all about trend. Remember never wants to go back to the soft life of a kittypet. it is about your personal style too. Will Firepaw be named a warrior or will he stay an apprentice forever? If he does become a warrior, what will his name be? Find out in Into the Wild by Erin Hunter.

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Websight Spotlight Facebook.com

By Tori Harle

LOL Breaking News!! Facebook is By: Ella Orvis the number one social media website. th Yay!! The runner up is Twitter. Ewww! I 1: Nicholas Hoult on December 7 , 1989 despise Twitter but anyway, Facebook is 2: Taylor Swift on December 13th, 1989 good and bad at the same time. The good 3: Ricky Martin on December 24th, 1971 th news is with Facebook you get a chance 4: Ryan Seacrest on December 24 1976 to chat with friends and play games. The 5: Louis Tomlinson on December24th, 1991 bad news is you need to watch who you 6: Jimmy Buffet on December 25th, 1956 th befriend on Facebook. Be careful who you 7: Jesus Christ on December 25 , 0001 th friend!!! Some are bad people who are 8: Lebron James on December 30 , 1984 out to get you. And don’t start any drama 9: Psy on December 31st, 1977 either.

Game Review Catching Fire Donkey Kong Country Returns By Mackenzie Emery

By Garrett Metzger Catching Fire is the second movie to The Hunger Games. In Catching Fire, Katniss Donkey Kong’s Bananas have been Everdeen has won The Hunger Games stolen and he has to get them back from the alongside Peeta Mellark, another District 12 evil tiki magicians. So now you must travel Member. Katniss has gone through some bad across the island to battle the boss. There are times in The Hunger Games and comes home also new levels to discover. On single player to even worse. After her and Peeta’s suicide you can summon Diddy Kong and his jetpack. attempt to win together, this act of rebellion There is also the ever-favorite multiplayer makes President Snow bring harder times to mode. The second player gets to be Diddy the Districts. This makes the Districts rebel Kong. The rhino is back to smash some more against the Capital. As the rebellion is going bad guys. In some levels you can ride on a on, Katniss and Peeta are battling to make it rocket barrel or a mine cart. (Next D.K. game through the 3rd Quarter Quell. This is a out is Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze.) survival contest just like The Hunger Games but only happens every twenty-five years, and is also only for victors of The Hunger Games. I hope you like this action packed movie.

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Advice By: Hayley Faulkner

Brian Griffin – Family Guy Ok, so most of my friends complain about one thing...bullies. I know they’re By Tori Harle horrible and what to do about them? Hmm. I know a couple of things about bullies. I know Brian Griffin was the how some of you feel. Seventh grade year I most knowledgeable in the cried in class…and this year too. They make whole family. The only you feel bad but you need to know, they are reason Brian died was to get just little kids picking on you because THEY ratings. Brian was a good ARE insecure about themselves. Don't believe dog and a writer. If you them. Block them out. Everyone is different didn’t see the episode “The and unique. You can be tall or short, blonde or Life of Brian”, Brian got hit by a car and Louis brunette, wear glasses or no glasses. It and Peter brought him to the hospital and doesn't matter. You have friends that like you that’s where he died. Everyone was shocked just the way you are, they support you and if when they saw it. People were crying, mad, they join in with the taunting, then I'm sorry to shocked, and sad. say, but they're not your friend. I know you may have known them since 2nd grade but that gives them no right. There are tons of kids in this school to be friends with. One kid won't Christmas Puzzle change your life. There are also adults here to help. I know you may not want to be a tattle- By Trystian Hughes tail but if you feel like you are having a real problem you NEED to talk to someone. People Unscramble the 7 mixed up like teachers, parents, trusted guardians care Christmas words. Bring your and they WILL help you. We have great answers to Mrs. Allen for a sweet teachers here at B.C and Peer Mediation can treat! help too. You are always cared about to someone even if you don't think so. I hope this helps you, with whatever you may be going through. This is my best advice.

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By Lauren Chaney By Camilla Boyd If you can have one thing from Santa. What would it December 13, 1989 be? Taylor Swift was born on this day and she

Mackenzie Emery said a new IPod is a well-known girl country singer. Currently she touch 5 is 23 years old. Her real name is Taylor Alison Hannah Chaney said Season Two Swift. Taylor has won 130 awards. Her height is of Sherlock. 5'' 10''. The songs she is famous for are 22, I Miranda Robins said a Wii U Sophie Steelman said a big Knew You Were Trouble, You Belong To Me, stack of Miley Cyrus CDs and a Our Song, and Teardrops On My Guitar. Taylor meet and great ticket Swift has one brother name Austin Swift. Taylor Beth Saathof said world peace is older than him. So on December 13 or a new phone remember that it's Taylor Swift’s birthday.

6th Grade Math Team By Nicholas Aquino

Math team is a series of math competitors that go to multiple events over the school year. This math team however, competes with the best students from other schools to determine who really is the best. So will our teams be the last ones standing or will their luck fade? Good Luck!

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Christmas Word Search By Trystian Hughes

CAROLING CHRISTMAS FAMILY FRIENDS GIFTS PARTY PRESENT TREE LIGHTS

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