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Student Council Raises Morale with Dress-Up Days Student council raises morale with dress-up days - 2 • Hallmark club the spreads Christmas cheer - 3 • A view of Thanksgiving through the years - 4 • A look at how Illiana celebrates Thanksgiving - 5 • Cheer team takes 4th at State - 7 • )) Preview of Illiana’s Winter Festival - 6 EchIlliana Christian High o School ) Volume 75 Issue 3 November 25, 2020 Dyer, Indiana Change to Illiana’s constitution misses by few votes Aubrey Porter Board, and overall allow Reporter 25% of the board to be non- Reformed. Upon the campus’ move Principal Mr. Peter from Illinois to Indiana, Boonstra hoped that these the Association Expansion proposed changes would Committee proposed a rec- bring a “sense of ownership, ommendation to rework belonging to people outside certain parts of Illiana’s of the Reformed church, constitution. Acting on that and help the future of Il- recommendation, the school liana as a whole.” Because board proceeded to evalu- other Christian schools in ate the current state of the the area all let parents who document. are not a part of the Re- Junior Max Winters looks away from the needle as he donates blood. Photo by Jim Kamphuis The first change intro- formed church vote, he felt duced was located in Ar- obligated to offer this same ticle III, which mentions opportunity at our school. Blood drive achieves goal the qualifications for Il- Although these changes Hailey Ross the number of donations they students showed up. liana’s association, other- failed to pass, falling short Reporter have been receiving at their “This is the most students wise known as people who of the ⅔ majority by a mere offices. Indeed, according to I’ve seen come out in my life- can vote for changes in our nine votes, Boonstra be- Illiana’s student body senior Student Council mem- time” said Sara Cutter, Versi- school. The board decided lieves that “[the board] will and staff donated 37 pints of ber Simon Molenaar, the US ti’s donor service supervisor to recommend opening up pursue this change in the blood on Thursday, Nov. 12, is experiencing a blood short- on site. the membership qualifica- future; we can learn from during the Student Council age due to the pandemic. Junior Loralee DeYoung tions, enabling people out- the results and reactions sponsored blood drive. “Since blood is so need- participated in the blood drive side of the Reformed church of the voting.” He also un- The overall goal of the ed, we are happy to be able to and reported having a good derstands that it might be school was 37 pints of blood to be members. help,” said Molenaar. and at the end of the day that experience with the people The second change, overwhelming for people goal was reached. In order to try to entice and said, “I never really had which went hand in hand to propose several changes Versiti, the organization more donors to give, Versiti a bad experience with them.” with the first, would only be at once, and that hopeful- that collected the blood, was offered all donors a free CO- Versiti wants students to passed if the first was vot- ly next time there will be eager to receive the blood do- VID antibody test. Whether it have a good experience so ed into effect. This change better communication and nations considering how CO- was the antibody test or just they might become future would allow Association clarification on what this VID has adversely affected a sense of generosity, Illiana blood donors. members to be a part of the means for the school. out consistently,” she said. “We Veteran veneration goes virtual already have some design im- military, including where provements that will greatly Gracie Jania and when they served. improve our ability to compete, Reporter “Lots of family mem- such as making our robot more compact and faster along with bers were able to answer testing different intakes.” the survey… We got pic- Veterans Day celebra- Chris Kinkade, a sopho- tures to go with each re- tions at Illiana on Nov. more on the team, said, “Sure, 11 happened with a slight spondent,” Dutton said. we didn’t finish first, but it was a twist; instead of celebrat- Dutton used the infor- real test of how well we can lose ing the veterans with a mation collected to create as a team. It isn’t hard to win as flag-raising ceremony, profiles of different veter- a team, but losing as a team is a school-wide chapel, and ans, and those profiles ap- real testament to how well the breakfast run by the Stu- peared on Illiana’s Face- team functions.” He added that Photo by Brent Vermeulen dent Council, Mrs. Jenna book page. The sophomore robotics team works on its robot at the first competition. the team will continue to im- Dutton and Mrs. Cassie Even with no in-person prove their abilities to “drive” Siersema put together a events scheduled to cel- Robotics students progress the robots. way to celebrate those who ebrate the veterans, Dutton Robotics team coach Brent and Siersema found ways to served our country safely to quarterfinals Vermeulen said he was impressed bring the day to everyone’s and respectfully. at Crown Point High School. The with the freshmen who made it to The two created a “Vet- attention. “We just wanted Olivia Oostema teams had the objective of using quarterfinals, and he believed the erans Day Spotlight Sur- to keep everyone safe, but Co-Editor in Chief their robot to put a ball into one event served as a “stepping stone vey” on Illiana’s Facebook we still wanted to celebrate of nine goals in the arena. for bigger tournaments this year.” account. According to Dut- the veterans… and honor Two robots designed by Il- Senior team member Sydnee ton, interviewing the vet- them,” Siersema said. liana’s robotics team progressed Tuuk said that the team didn’t do The team is scheduled to erans began the week prior Dutton said, “I want our to quarterfinals in the team’s first as well as they’d hoped. compete in a similar competi- to the holiday. The vet- veterans to know we appre- competition of the year. “We had a good design, but tion at Portage High School on erans interviewed shared ciate their service and how On November 7, Illiana unfortunately there were some December 12 and hopes to have stories of their time in the grateful we are for them.” competed against 35 local teams small things that didn’t work a robot make it to state this year. 2 News Bridging Concerts chasm between to take poverty and new format affluence for future his past month I had the opportunity to months go to Los Angeles, California and serve Talongside my brother and family. For Hailey Ross those of you who don’t know, I have an older brother Reporter named Jacob who is 21 and lives at the Dream Cen- ter in California. He works as an intern for their short Due to COVID the choirs, term missions program where band, and orchestra have had to he plans and oversees all of get creative with conducting per- the short term mission trips formances. In the fall, performance people take to the Dream groups recorded the different en- Center. The Dream sembles playing and then posted Center has many dif- those videos to YouTube. ferent ministries, For winter, the instrumental one being Re- programs are hoping to perform start, a place for an in-person audience, follow- for children to ing the CDC and county health Sophie Thompson go to do their Photo courtesy of Illiana’s Facebook page department’s guidelines. Sports Editor e-learning while Students from Mr. Fennema’s homeroom pose together dressed for Fan Friday. This, however, is not the case parents are un- for the choirs. Mrs. Kathy Sliek- able to watch them because of work or other things. StuCo sponsors dress-up Fridays ers, choir director, will continue to record performances for the near The first day we went to Restart and helped the Sophia Thompson flannel Friday. The second they make those days a little kids. As soon as I walked into the outdoor area and be- future as it is difficult for students to was fan Friday, where stu- more exciting. With every- gan walking around awkwardly, hoping a child would Sports Editor sing in masks. dents wore jerseys and other thing going on right now, need my assistance, a little boy sat up on his desk and The choirs also have picked things to represent who they it’s nice to have a little bit of called me over. There was already a man sitting with up handbells. With handbells, the After the cancelling are a fan of. The last dress excitement in the school.” him trying to convince him to focus on his schooling choirs were able to perform mask- of Illiana’s annual Sadie up day for Nov. is the 20th. Students council mem- and failing terribly. The little boy whose name tag read, less, but that might change for the Hawkins dance, Student ber Simon Molenaar claimed “Raiden,” looked at the man and asked if I could take That day’s theme is a tie-dye winter concert. Council thought of another his place at the table. The man sitting with him was theme. he thought the idea for dress “It’s a bummer that we can’t way to get students involved quick to get up, leaving me with a rowdy little boy.
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