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January 14, 2015 Volume XXI Hawk Issue 7 Happenings A Publication of Hamburg Area High School, Windsor Street, Hamburg, PA 19526 The adversity of facing Kristen Wade: New Year’s resolutions November student of the Erik Fleischel – 11 On January first, New Year’s Day, many people choose to make internal promises month to themselves on how to become a better individual. This is known as a New Year’s Resolution. Most resolutions typically involve an improvement to one’s health, whether Nicole Eberhardt – 12 it be losing weight, getting in shape, or quitting smoking. These are all difficult tasks and would take immense amounts of effort to complete. Junior Ryan Smith and Coach Mr. Kristen Lee Wade, the November student Forrer share the resolution of wanting to give the varsity ice hockey team a winning record of the month, is a very active member of the this year. Hamburg Area High School family. She is the Resolutions such as working out more can Student Council Vice President, 2015 Class be odd and foreign to an individual at first. If one President, a member of the Varsity girl’s is able to successfully incorporate their resolution Tennis team, participant in the TV studio, into their lives every day, it will soon become a Wilderness Club, and National Honor Society. habit and will no longer need a reminder to be Even though she has a very busy schedule, done. Habits form after the completion of three she always takes time to relax and help rid herself of problems. stages. The first stage is where one feels inspired On a regular basis, Kristen enjoys taking bubble baths, as well as having small and heavily motivated to complete their goal. This meltdowns, which helps her get rid of her built up stress, but no matter how much anxiety is often the feeling accompanied with the first few Kristen has, her friends are always there for her to make sure she does not take anything days when one is trying to form a new habit. The too seriously. Kristen is passionate about everything that she does, and she never lets next stage is the most difficult. The individual loses anything stop her from obtaining her goals, which she always wants to do on her own. the motivation they originally had, and their old She is most passionate about being independent, she does not accept any handouts ways are beginning to seep back into their lives. If from anyone. Kristen wants to be able to self-sufficient and make herself successful and one is victorious in the fight with the goal, the final believes that other people should feel the same way. stage enters into the equation. This is when the Outside of school, Kristen enjoys watching movies. She likes comedies, action movies, task becomes normal to everyday life and what and chick flicks, but if she had to choose her favorite, it would be horror movies. When she was once a goal is now becoming routine. is not at school or watching horror movies, she works hard as a waitress at CJ Hummel’s The case for those who create resolutions for multiple nights a week, so her schedule is very full, but she always has people there to themselves is typically failure. Statisticbrain.com support her and push her to do her best. Kristen’s friends are there for her at all times, but states that only eight percent of those who make resolutions are successful in achieving it. her mother is the one person who pushes Kristen to strive to be the best she can be, “She For more statistics on New Year’s resolutions, visit http://www.statisticbrain.com/new- does not accept excuses. Whenever I encounter a challenge or conflict, my mom makes years-resolution-statistics/. me figure out how to solve it myself, and do what I can to resolve the situation. She always plays the devil’s advocate.” Kristen looks up to many people for inspiration, but Mrs. Mennig had one of the biggest impacts on her life. Kristen admires how professional Mrs. Mennig is and how she is always smiling, as well as how much she pushed Kristen to do more critical thinking and thinking for herself. Kristen Wade is a self-driven, intelligent and confident student. She One Minute to One Degree always does the best that she can, puts as much passion as she can into everything she does and never gives up until she reaches her goals. of Excellence in full swing Kiana Wright – 9 The Hamburg Area School District administrators, teachers and students are now participating in a weekly event called “One minute to one degree of excellence”. At the beginning of each week day the Principal, Mr. Spohn, gets on the loud speaker. He makes an announcement to create and review ones idea of how to make their school life better, for example study, focus, and participate more or do their homework. He asks each student to pair up and talk about how they can accomplish their goals by the end of the week. In just one minute a student comes up with one degree of how to make Hamburg school life excellent. This routine is new to Hamburg Area High students, considering there was an assembly held about a month ago to talk about Hamburg’s rating. The students had just finished taking their Algebra, Literature and Biology CDT’S. Mr. Netznik and Mr. Spohn called the students together to introduce “One minute to one degree of excellence”. Than Wright, the supervisor of technology information says, “this is a good concept and a great idea for the students”. This will hopefully continue throughout the school year so it can teach the students to become a better learner and become successful. Mr. Spohn spoke briefly at the Hamburg MiniThon introduction assembly. He said, “in order for this to work we have to have participation. One thing that Hamburg Area School District excels J.R. Molnar, pictured at is caring about people”. For more information about One Minute to One Degree of above, had an Excellence talk to Mr. Spohn or Mr. Netznik. Congratulations incredible series. He Neal bowled a perfect 300. Kerschner! In this issue... In this issue... Read how he and the December Safe Skating - 2 Reviews - 4 rest of the team are Student of the Month doing on Pg. 6 Snacking - 2 Fundraising - 5 Volleyball - 3 Auditions - 5 See the next issue for the feature articles about Neal and JR. Mini-View - 3 Spotlights - 6 Seniors & Teachers - remember you can nominate students for Basketabll - 3 Spotlights - 7 student of the month. See Miss McCarthy for information. Page 2 Hawk Happenings January 14, 2015 Practice safe skating Hunters Laura Mills – 9 come out When the weather gets during cold, people like doing activities outside, such as hockey and, ice the fall skating. There are some key tips to follow Neal Kerschner – 12 to keep safe for ice skating, The whiz of an arrow; the concussion e s p e c i a l l y of a rifle; the belch of a muzzleloader; because the these are all sounds attributed to fall, ice could more specifically, to hunting seasons. be thin and While there is always at least one season open at all times throughout the year, the majority of break. That person would be stranded, with no one around to help get the person hunting is done during the winter and fall. Regarding of a hunter’s preference, a sportsman out of the water or wherever they may have fallen. A few tips are stay safe, in Pennsylvania has a wide variety of game and seasons that they can hunt. such as clothing, skates, getting on the ice, and getting back up after falling. Regardless of the quarry being pursued by a hunter, there are very strict rules and guidelines that must be followed. These are put in place by the Pennsylvania Game Commission to 1) keep Ice skating involves keeping warm either outside or in an inside rink. Pants and sportsmen and bystanders safe, and 2) allow a safe and managed harvest of the particular long sleeve shirts because if the person falls and injury’s their knee then the person is game animal. The management does work in the state of Pennsylvania; according to the still protected because of having those long pants and shirt. Wearing gloves keeps the Game Commission, hunters consistently harvest over 300,000 whitetail deer per year, with person’s hand warm while out on the ice. I do not recommend wear and hats because over half a million harvested in 2000 and 2002. Especially during this time of year, the Game there can be a lot of people trying to skate at the same time and if the person falls Commission and hunters alike face criticism and a multitude of stereotypes. someone might not be watching what they are doing and run into the person that fell. One particular stereotype about hunters is that they are unethical and unfeeling towards Another tip is what kind of skates to use. When buying or renting skates the the animal they are pursuing. This is not generally true; the Game Commission takes great person should ask for their shoe size not any size bigger or smaller. The skates care to set regulations that provide the most humane harvest of an animal as possible. should be a comfortable fit compared to a snug fitting because if the person wears too Regulated hunting actually improves an animal’s population, which can be observed in the snug of a skate it will not be comfortable to be skating in.

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