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Chino Hills High School TheHowler A Student Publication Volume XII, issue I Friday, March 17th, 2017 Established 2004 Upcoming Events: Dance Team Grand National Champions! aMarch 17th: St. Patty's "Green" Day JACKELINE NGO aMarch 20th-21st: Mr. Husky Editorial Editor aMarch 21st-22nd:Choir Concert The Chino Hills High Girls Dance aMarch 23rd: Minimum Day Team took home seven 1st place tro- aMarch 24th: No School (Holiday) phies from Florida’s Contest of Cham- aMarch 24th- March 31st: Spring pions for Dance. The Girls Dance Break Team had a fantastic time competing aApril 3rd-9th: Color Guard @ WGI and dancing with other high school Dayton aApril 8th: PROM dance teams from around the nation. aApril 14th: No School The team competed in many dance aApril 21st: Spring Sports Rally numbers, and received First place in: aApril 22nd: 8th Grade Orientation Large Dance, Large Lyrical, Medium aApril 22nd: Polynesian Luau Hip Hop, Medium Dance, Medium Photo Coutesy of Chino Hills Dance @CHHS_danceteam aApril 27th-29th: Spring Musical Lyrical, Small Lyrical, and senior Emi- In This Issue... ly Ha received first place Overall Solo- ery day at school and outside of school at various Dance Studios. Along with the ist. Many of the dancers enjoyed their hours spent at school, many Dance Team dancers practice for about 4-5 hours Student Life4 3 time in Florida. They also were able -Hang in there!! Less than 3 every day at their separate dance studios. Overall, all of their practice inside to go to the Disneyland Florida Resort Months left of school! and outside of school has paid off allowing them to become the Grand National and enjoy food, rides, and games with -Make sure you get your Champions of Dance. Chino Hills High Dance Team is also preparing for future tickets for prom coming their team. The team has practiced ev- competitions around California. Good Luck Dance Team! Go Huskies! up soon at the Cerritos Performing Arts Center April 8th! #Love 4 Lexi through what she was going through. Editorial4 4 early the next morning to decorate the -Around the World Prom March 5, 2017 will forever be a special school with purple hearts, bows, and 2017 day for Alexis Anderson. On this day, posters rejoicing in the great news for -Is Cheating becoming Lexi received a heart, and everyone Lexi. Lexi fought hard despite the odds worse? who knows Lexi and her condition was and received what she was in desperate Learn about it in Editorial! overwhelmed with joy and grateful- need of. We, the Husky family, are so - In the matter of minutes, ness. People took to social media to ex- excited for Lexi to recover and come illnesses can spread press their happiness, posting pictures back to Chino Hills High School, and Husky Nation4 5 and sending kind words to Lexi! Some continuing her journey of being a Hus- -Learn about some of Chino of our Chino Hills High School Hus- ky. We love you Lexi! Hills High School’s most kies took it upon themselves to come #Love4Lexi amazing Huskies including: Dominique Velasco, Taylor Photo Courtesy of: GoFundMe Johnson, Josie Ma, Romel Crisologo, and more! Breanna Ruiz Husky Pride Editor Sports411 Alexis Anderson, a student here at -Cue in to what’s happening Chino Hills High School, had been in in Sports this season the need of a heart for a number of including teams from weeks. All of her friends and fam- basketball, soccer, ily supporters prayed and hope for baseball, and more! a heart. The Chino Hills community -Learn about National worked hard to bring awareness to Signing Day on Feb. 3rd. Lexi’s condition. Not once did any- one lose an ounce of hope. They knew Lexi is a fighter and could get Photo Coutesy of: Chinohillshowler.org 2 News The Howler l Friday, MArch 17th, 2017 Dance Champion! WWE Rally Shows Support for Lexi National Overall Soloist JACKELINE NGO High School’s performing arts such Donahue. They wrestled one another in SIMONE CARILLO Editorial Editor as the Polynesian club, Dance Team the traditional sumo-wrestler costume A&E Editor and Drumline. The theater students and had a goal to push one another out The WWE (World Wrestling Emily Ha is a se- were also recognized and called up to of the ring to win. Mrs. Donahue ended Entertainment) Rally at Chino Hills nior at Chino Hills the front. Throughout the rally many up winning with a huge smash, and the High School made a huge and smash- High School; she games were played by students and crowd laughed and had a great time ing entrance for the Huskies. The rally has been on the the seniors playing could receive free watching the teachers’ small sumo- opened up with a great shout out to dance team for prom tickets for the upcoming Prom wrestling rivalry. Many exciting per- support Lexi Anderson, a sophomore three years. She formances throughout the rally made in need of a heart transplant, and a mass on April 8th, 2017. One specific game tried out for the that caused a huge stir was the Sumo- it enjoyable to watch with friends in re-tweet on twitter to bring awareness team as a sopho- Wrestling challenge between teachers, and support for her and her family the bleachers and definitely made the more, and it is now specifically Mrs. Schempp and Mrs. WWE a rally to remember. with the difficult time. After the heart- her last year being felt shout out the rally began with loud on the team as a and exciting music as well as awards senior. She is defi- and performances. The awards given nitely the positive included the top 10 to 20 of each class, light and motiva- also all the freshmen who received a tion in our team, and she is always the 4.0 GPA. There was a huge amount of hardest worker. We are going to miss freshmen who received a 4.0 GPA, go her so much, and we wish her the best Huskies! After the awards, the Chino in her upcoming years in college. She Hills Dance Team performed and it ended the year with a bang and received was a jam-packed hip-hop number 1st place for her outstanding solo, in a that many enjoyed watching. Along category with about 90 soloists. This with performances of the Chino Hills Photo Courtesy of: Activities / #Love4Lexi was such a big accomplishment for her and we are extremely proud of her and Journalism Making Moves Chino Hills Harsh the team. Go Huskies! ANDRES ALANDETE Chinohillshowler.org. Staff Writer The Journalism program is Consecutive Rainstorms ALEXIS MEDINA also trying to get the rest of the school Staff Writer The 2016-2017 school year of involved by encouraging students at the Journalism program of Chino Hills CHHS to write articles and submit In sunny California one thing you High school is proving to be a big one them to [email protected] to do not expect to see is cold, gloomy so far. Ms. Dorado has had big plans possibly be published in the newspaper weather, yet for about four consecu- for this program, and we have started online site. Journalism also has a new tive days Chino Hills saw enough rain to publish the newspaper not only in Journalism club that is open to all stu- to make the dry hills of Chino Hills print, but now the newspaper is on- dents of Chino Hills High. Anyone is green again. Chino Hills faced harsh line, with great success. welcome to join, if you are interested rainstorms with even some random The Journalism students are in joining you can speak with Ms. Do- appearances of hail. How did this ef- now allowed to publish news and rado in room 270. Also, if you would fect school? Students still had to go to events ongoing at CHHS the moment Photo Courtesy of: Alexis Medina like to take Journalism next year and class and continue their daily sched- they happen. You can check out the Students driving through CHHS parking lot be a part of the school newspaper, see ule, but places like the parking lot saw Journalism program, and the news- your counselor, or Ms. Dorado for severe flooding. Many cars looked fornia drought situation. While most of paper articles put out by its staff at more information. like boats or submarines, as they were Northern California could be out of a more than wheel deep in rainwater. drought, Southern California is still not Roads also faced the harshness of doing too well. While the rain helped, the rain as they were damaged with Californians still need to conserve wa- potholes and cracks that seemed to ter if we wish to end the drought. Al- grow every rainy day. Traffic became though the rain and hail were a strange heavier and would sometimes seem sight to see in sunny California, it was to take twice as long to get to a des- a nice change. Chino Hills is beautiful- Photo courtesy of: Chinohillsholwer.org tination. However, this rain was not ly green again, and Californians were Make sure to consider taking Journalism next year! all bad as it greatly helped the Cali- exposed to some real weather. Student Life 3 The Howler l Friday, march 17th, 2017 Chino Hills High ASB Campaign Week RALLIES BEHIND THE SCENES BREANNA RUIZ a great deal of time painting, creating, ASB/Husky Pride and working on the posters, props, and On January 27,2017 the Chino Hills skits for a rally. The night before, stu- ASB Huskies made the Chino Hills dents stay until around 10:30 pm set- High School campus the “ Happiest ting up the gym and practicing the rally place on Earth” with their amazing walk through.