Giving a Helping Hand April 26, 2013 by Kassidy Koons with Spring Food & Friends Senior Meals- Redbird Writer Upon Us and Serve and Deliver Meals
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1 Volume 71 Issue 13 Giving a helping hand April 26, 2013 By Kassidy Koons With spring Food & Friends Senior Meals- Redbird Writer upon us and Serve and deliver meals. Call 419- Knox Community Hospital- warmer 488-5342 or visit ekin- Work in gift shop as cashier or weather, hopefully, everyone needs [email protected]. stocking items, help nurses in any- to find a way to get that cabin fever way possible. Call or email out of your system. Some will go Maurine Hathaway at 740-393- outside and play sports, go hiking, 9092 or or something in the park, but there Maurine.Hathaway@KnoxCommH is another great idea that some osp.org. might not have though about, vol- unteering. This will allow you to get out of the house and to help All of these organizations make a difference in your or other are great and certainly worth giving surrounding communities. Below is some of your time to, but there are a list of some volunteering oppor- also many other places that desper- tunities and their contact informa- ately need your, our, help in order tion, if you want to learn more, call to help others and to really make a or go to the organizations website. difference in our communities and world. If you would like to learn Ashland County more about other volunteer oppor- Knox County tunities, a quick and easy Google Ashland County Community search will yield plenty of results Hospital- Knox County Humane Society- that you may have previously never Volunteers help serve meals, assist Play with dogs or cats, exercise/ have thought about. patients, visitors and staff, clerical walk dogs, clean up after animals. support, and more. Call Patty Ad- Call 740-392-2287 or visit ams at 419-201-4482. www.knoxhumanesociety.com. Habitat for Humanity Ashland Chamber of Commerce- Knox County- Answer phone, open mail, greet There are both contrac- customers, cover booth in Plaza. tion, or non-contraction Call 419-482-3486. volunteering opportuni- ties. You can either regis- Ashland Emergency Food Bank- ter online or in person. Assist clients in selecting foods. For more information Call Susan Harris at 541-488-9544 visit http:// or visit www.hfhknoxoh.org/ www.ashlandemergencyfoodbank.o volunteer/ rg. individuals.php. 2 Summer movie preview extravaganza By Colton Young Summer is novel. In this movie, Jim Carraway This is the End- June 14, When Redbird Writer for swim- (played by Toby Maguire,) enters the Apocalypse begins, friends: ming, tan- into the world of Jay Gatsby, a lav- James Franco, Seth Rogen, Jonah ning, and spending time outside. ishly rich man. But Jim will soon Hill, Danny McBride, and Craig But another popular form of enter- discover that behind the excessive Robinson (all playing themselves) tainment in the summer is movie, lifestyle, lies obsession, insanity, decide to go out in style and spend and summer 2013 is full of big, ex- and tragedy. their last hours doing whatever they citing movie releases. Here are The Hangover Part III- May 24, want to. This comedy centers some of the most anticipated: After their first trip in 2009 to Ve- around the crude jokes and com- gas, and then Thailand in 2011, The panionship felt between the star- Wolfpack (Stu, Phil, and Alan) re- studded cast. turn to Vegas for one last night af- Monsters University- June 21, ter Doug is kidnapped by gangsters World War Z- June 21, This sum- and the guys are forced to seek out mer action flick that has been in Mr. Chow. Just like the last two production for over five years is films, the guys will undoubtedly finally set to release with a budget experience mayhem and bad deci- of around $150 million. When the sions in their attempts to save their zombie apocalypse comes to frui- best friend. tion, U.N. employee Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt) must travel across the world, encountering numerous life and death situations, in a race against time to save the human race from the zombie threat. This film is based off the popular book of the same name by Max Brooks. White House Down- June 28, Iron Man 3- May 3 This is the sec- ond sequel to Marvel's Iron Man movies. Stars Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, and Don Cheadle return as Tony Stark, Pepper Potts, and James Rhodes respectively This movie aims to explore Stark's emotional responses to his personal world being torn apart by the villain Mandarin, and his attempts at re- venge, relying only on his intellect The Internship- June 7, Their first and his Iron Man suit. reunion since Wedding Crashers, The Great Gatsby- May 10, Leo- Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson nardo DiCaprio plays the titular star in this Comedy about two mid- character in this Drama/Romance dle-aged men who try to make it as by acclaimed director Baz Luhr- Google interns. The men must com- man. Luhrman, best known for a pete with each other and with the modern Romeo and Juliet and tech-savvy elite college grads hop- Moulin Rouge, hopes to create a ing to make it big as well. thrilling rendition of the classic Man of Steel- June 14, 3 Summer movie preview extravaganza cont. By Colton Young Turbo- July 19, Turbo has always Redbird Writer wanted to race in and win the Indy 2 Guns- August 2, This crime- 500. The only problem: Turbo is a drama-comedy-action film, based The Lone Ranger- July 5, snail. However, when a freak acci- on a graphic novel, follows a DEA This Western, based off of the dent causes Turbo to gain super- agent and a Naval Intelligence Offi- popular television show of the same natural powers, his dream finally cer (Mark Whalberg and Denzel title, is told from the point of view comes within reach. This Dream- Washington respectively) who are of Tonto. Tonto, the Native Ameri- Works film (Shrek, Over the tasked with investigating each can played by Johnny Depp, re- Hedge, Madagascar) is intended for other. However, when they are set counts the events that took place children, but wil appeal to all ages. up by the mob that they both that transformed lawyer John Reid thought they had been stealing into the masked vigilante known as from, they are forced to team up the Lone Ranger. and fight the men who are target- ting them. Redbird writers summer movie top picks Kassidy Koons– I am super excited to see The Great Gatsby, and the new Star Trek movie, it comes out on my birthday. Krista Matteson– I really want to see Hangover Part III, because the first two were super funny. Kylie Lewis– I want to see The Great Gatsby because it is directed by my favorite director. Tyler MacQueen– Man of Steel, because it is the origin story of Su- perman, the producer also did a great on the Batman movies. Miranda Stake– Despicable Me 2, I thought it was really, and is one of my feel good movies. 4 Finding Dory swims into theaters fall of 2015 By Emma Van Keuren Does eve- Finding Dory is all about Dory, The script is fantastic. And it has Redbird Writer ryone re- everything I loved about the first member one: It's got a lot of heart, it's really the Pixar animated movie about a funny, and the best part is—it's got kidnapped clownish called Nemo? a lot more Dory,” said Ellen De- Do you remember the Pacific regal Generes, the voice of Dory. blue tang amnesiac fish voiced by Finding Dory will take Ellen DeGeneres who accompanies place about a year after the events Marlin, the father of Nemo on a of Finding Nemo. This story will rescue mission to find his son? take place around the California Well the sequel to that animated Coast, and many new characters movie made in 2003 by Pixar is fi- will make an appearance and have a nally being made, and it’s called, who is trying to reunite with her large role in Dory's life. Finding Dory. family. The movie Finding Nemo The film was scheduled to "I have waited for this day earned $380,843,261 at the box of- release on November 25, 2015. It for a long, long, long, long, long, fice and $540,900,000 internation- has also been confirmed that char- long time. I'm not mad it took this ally. Finding Nemo even won best acters from the first film will ap- long. I know the people at Pixar animated movie at the Academy pear in the sequel, including Dory, were busy creating Toy Story 6. But awards in 2003. Nemo, Marlin and the 'Tank Gang'. the time they took was worth it. Editorials: I'd rather break my television than watch this... By Emily Schneider One thing Scooby Snacks that makes Scooby is full of very unsatisfactory shows. Redbird Writer that has the hero go? I never see them any- Inuyasha and Rurouni Kenshin changed to- more. were both great, night-time shows, day compared to our child hood is Next is the new Tom and but now, late-night consists of brain the remakes of our childhood car- Jerry movies. They are nowhere cell- burning garbage like the Eric toons. Many shows are being re- near as funny, and Tom doesn't Andrey show and Loiter Squad. made, like the new Looney Toons, even chase Jerry to get rid of him. These shows are a waste of televi- Scooby Doo, and Pokemon. It's more to beat him in a race or get sion.