Volume 10, Issue 2 Halloween Trivia by Kelsie Flynn October 12, 2011 Halloween candy sales Chocolate candy bars and tell fortunes. average about $2 bil- top the list as the The tradition of bob- lion annually in the most popular candy bing for apples came United States. for trick-or-treaters from the Romans. with Snickers as #1. The word Halloween Haunted house attrac- has its origins in the Jack o’ Lanterns origi- tions bring in about Catholic Church. It nated in Ireland half a billion dollars comes from a contrac- where people placed annually. tion All Hallows Eve. candles in hollowed- out turnips to keep Halloween is the se- Around $3 billion dol- away spirits and cond most commercial- lars is spent every year ghosts on the Sam- ly successful holiday on Halloween cos- hain Holiday. world-wide after tumes in North Ameri- Christmas. ca. Halloween was brought to North Around 35 million chil- The Halloween color dren, in the U.S., be- America by immi- orange is associated grants from Europe tween 5 and 13 years with the fall harvest who would celebrate old go trick or treating and black is associated the harvest around a every year, which is with darkness and bonfire, share ghost around 90% of all chil- death. stories, sing, dance dren in that age group. Photos by Austin Markee HIGH SCHOOL WINSLOW JUNIOR - LENA The Paw Print 6th Grade Student Survey by Brian Sisler What Is Your Favorite Halloween Candy? Eli L: Kit Kat Noah: Chocolate Anna P: Reece’s Gaige S: Hershey’s Hannah O: Reese’s Kyle P: Skittles Owen P: Laffy Taffy Cindy J: Chocolate Logan K: Butterfingers Ty C: Snickers Jay R: Kit Kat Viola K: Kit Kat Asa L: Milky Way Morgan H: Kit Kat Miranda L: Reece’s Reid H: Snickers Christian S: Reece’s Taylor K: Candy Corn 7th Grade Student Survey by Austin Markee What Is The Favorite Costume You Have Ever Worn? Hollace J: Superman Trey C: Race car driver Brandon R: Alien Leigh H: Witch Harley C: Scream Jake D: Red Power Ranger Tanner L: Tigger Daylan C: Maid Tristan K: Princess Brian D: Skeleton Lilly S: cowgirl Sondra W: Tigger Bri H: A pumpkin Jordan L: Scooby Doo Kade L: Winnie the Pooh Payden L: Red Power Ranger Anthony H: Sumo Wrestler Debbie G: Koala Bear 8th Grade Student Survey by Brett Sisler What Is The Scariest Movie You’ve Ever Seen? Isaac L: Scary Movie 4 Toby S: The Last House on the Left Jimmy P: Saw III Noah P: Cinderella Killian K: Saw VI Ryan L: My Life is a Movie Kylea W: Paranormal Activity 2 Harley D: Haunting in Connecticut Jared L: Insidious Mike P: Quarantine Page 2 THE PAW PRINT Meet 6th Grade Student Noah Milder By Cassidi Mae Tippett & Jessie Warner Noah Robert Milder is 11 years old. His birthday is January 12, 2000. Noah is the son of Kim and Kevin Milder. Noah has one sis- ter, Ally age 9. Noah has a dog named Tucker and a fish named Tom that eats other fish. Noah plays the snare drum in the school band. Noah likes to play football, baseball and basketball. Noah’s favorite food is a hot dog. Noah likes to hang out with his friends. His favorite animal is a dog. When Noah is an adult he wants to be a football player. Meet 7th Grade Student Deborah Gustason By Hope Enck Deborah Anne Gustason is 12 years old. She was born July 2, 1999. She is the daughter of Tammy and David Gustason. Debbie has two brothers, Alex and Eric. Debbie has a dog named Zora and three cats, Ozzy, Lita & Tokie. For hobbies, Deb likes playing vol- leyball and reading. She plays softball and volleyball. Debbie’s fa- vorite candy is M&M’s and her favorite food is nachos. Her favor- ite drink is Mt. Dew. When Deb is an adult, she wants to be a nurse. Meet 8th Grade Student Grace Vacval By Brittni Arnold Grace Marie Vacval is 13 years old. Her birthday is January 22, 1998. Grace is the daughter of Mark Vacval of Lena and Gina Fa- tigato in Cicero, IL. Grace has two sisters, Annmarie 16 and Sarah 10. Grace has two dogs and four cats. Grace likes to swim, ride bike and play with her two dogs. Grace’s favorite candy is Kit Kat and her favorite food is steak. When she is an adult, Grace wants to be a cosmetologist. VOLUME 10, ISSUE 2 Page 3 Student Leadership Essay by Della Crain Hi, my name is Della Crain; I am eleven years old and would like to be on the Student Leadership Committee. I just completed my 3rd year in my 4-H club, Lena Live Wires. I won numerous awards for my leadership and participa- tion in 4-H. I received top 1st year 4-H member for the County, top 1st year in Sewing, Project achievement in Food, and received top hon- or for the Club's scrapbook I completed with 2 other members for our club. I participated in monthly meetings, attended camp, help with fund raisers to pay for county and state dues, and donate and collected non perishable goods and food to the pantry; and give candy to the nursing home during Easter and Halloween. In my last year in elementary school, I was selected to be on the Wee deliver in April, and during the school year I went to Mrs. William's class, 2-4 times a week and gave help to a student to read who has dyslexia. I have been taking dance and tumbling classes since I was 3 years old and performing at each year-end recital. Dance has been very fun, but I looking forward to Jr. High and its new challenges, and would love to commit my time to Student Leadership. I like to help out others and learn new ways, and its fun to share work with other committee members, and I like being involved with my school. I would like to do more for our community like: donate more to the food pantry, by making a game out of it, by giving items points, and the grade with most point wins, doing a coat and mitten drive, set up a giving tree for the teachers, or volunteering time at the friendship center. We could set up students with pen pals across the world, and students would learn about other cultures. I have dedication, loyalty, and participation in many past and current activities and as you can see, I have the qualities it takes to be a student leader. Student Leadership Essay by Allison Weegens I’m Allison Weegens and I would like to be on Student Leadership because I like to help others. Some of my favorite things from last year were the winter and summer clothes drives, making placemats, making power point presenta- tions that were educating about bullying, and much more. I would like to make the school a more positive environment by giving rewards to people who do good things. I would also help others by talking to them if they are having a bad day and try and make it better. I would help new stu- dents find their teachers and classes. My ideas for the upcoming school year would be to encourage students to come to sports events and cheer on their classmates. I would also like to do more bullying power points or something to keep educating about bullying and try to stop it. I also think that we should sell t-shirts, sweatshirts or anything else like that to show school pride. I am going to accomplish these ideas because I want to also make the school a better place and more positive atti- tude. I can do this by personally going to sports events, I could help educate about bullying and not be a bully myself and be nice to others. I also could buy the t-shirts and other clothes to show my school pride. Student Leadership Essay by Dorthea Fiedler My name is Dorthea Fiedler and I would love to be a Student Leader this year. I was a Student Leader last year and the year before I was a Peer Mediator. For both of those years I loved helping our school. I have some ideas that we could do for the 2011-2012 school year. This year during Halloween time we could have a costume contest at a dance. The idea of this is that you come to a dance in cos- tume and you just have a good time. Then at the end everyone votes for their top 3 favorite costumes. But you cannot vote for your own outfit. Then the winners are announced before everyone leaves. That was one of the ways we can do at our school. A couple years ago we went to the soup kitchen. We didn’t go last year, but I think it would be good to do that again during Christmas time. Also another thing we could do around Christmas is hold a toy drive for the kids around town. Another one is that we could make a collection of gifts for a needy family. We could ask a church if they knew any needy families. If they did, they would just give us the information of how many people are in that family. (ex.- 2 parents and 2 girls, ages 8 and 9. We won’t know the name so that we won’t know how needy they are) We could put things in it like clothes for the family, toys, food, etc.