the forest B����� Issue 6 Forest Lake Area Senior High School April 28, 2006 The Importance of Being Earnest: Ten to state A witty spring play Four entrants make fi nals by Ben Fick but they don’t know who they really are. by Ben Fick The 2006 spring play is coming up. There As the plot thickens the other characters On Friday April 21, the Speech team is good reason to be anxious for the play due discover John is a phony and eventually competed at the state tournament. Ten to its successful that Algernon Forest Lake High School students competed history with is also acting as and four alternates also attended. a u d i e n c e s someone else. “Forest Lake always has a good showing a r o u n d “Most people at the state tournament- this year was no the globe. would say that exception. Our expectations were high,” Oscar Wilde the play is very said senior captain Caleb Rotach. wrote, “The well written, FLHS students who earned trips to the Importance of with hidden state tournament are: Rotach, Rachel Being Earnest” s u b l i m i n a l Piersdorf, Shawna McNamara, Paula in England in humor, you Reignier, Paul Joachim, Abby Pooch, Emily 1895. just have to Wagner, Shannon Joyce, Caitlin Sapa, “It’s rumored be interested Dana Bergantine, Katherine Monberg, Jake to be the enough to Loeffl er, Becky Zierke, and Dave Savord. wittiest play catch it,” said This is the last year that Henry Hebert ever written,” Isaacson. will help coach the speech team, as he is Shawna McNamara and Caleb Rotach practice said junior Rehearsal for The Importance of Being Earnest is coming to a Play practices their state-entrant performance in Dramatic close. Performances are on May 4-6 and May 12-13. retiring this spring. Scott Isaacson, are being held Duo. The duo made it to the fi nal round. Photo by Abby Pooch “Everybody loves Hebert, he’s great photo by Ben Fick the lead actor regularly after to have around and brings everybody’s starring as John Worthing. school from 2:45 to 5:00 p.m. every day attitude up,” said Rotach. Storytelling. The main characters John Worthing and his after school. Different parts of the play are Piersdorf and McNamara both qualifi ed “We are very pleased with how our team friend Algernon Moncrieff both pretend to run through everyday with emphasis on for the state tournament in the Storytelling did at state,” said coach Becky Haven. be a man named Earnest, John’s imaginary character development. and Dramatic Duo categories, respectively. Speech was a great experience for the brother. He goes by the alias of Earnest and “If the audience comes to watch with After having a fabulous time with her entire Forest Lake team and indeed they in doing so deceives all of his friends. Forest an open mind, I think they will be greatly friends in the fall play “Hello Dolly” will continue to excel. Lake High School junior Tyler Sperry rewarded with the humor and overall McNamara decided to join the Speech “Some of our fi nalists are underclassmen,” plays Algernon. Both of the characters are message of the play,” said Isaacson. team. said Haven, “so we are expecting good well liked by their friends and neighbors, “It was my fi rst year so I learned a lot, things next year too.” speech has defi nitely helped me to grow as “I’ve just had so much fun and I love an actress too,” said McNamara. being with the team,” said Piersdorf. Four of FLHS’ 10 entrants placed in the “You learn to take critiques from state fi nals. Katherine Monberg placed 3rd judges and coaches and the frustration Earth Day unmasked in Original Oratory, Laura Jacob earned of losing to someone if you beat them in third place in Extemperaneous Reading, your competition,” said McNamara. “I by Josh Nelson Rotach and McNamara placed third in encourage anyone interested in language or Very few people recognize the holiday What can I do? Duo and Piersdorf placed seventh in English to give Speech a shot next year.” Earth Day. Even fewer know when or what Want to know what you can do to help th it is. This year marks the 36 anniversary the environment? The World Wildlife of the holiday, fi rst recognized on April 22, Fund offers some suggestions: 1970 to make people aware of what can be Future Picassos done to help the Earth. 1. Don’t leave the water running. These four works of art were featured at the Gaylord Nelson, a former Wisconsin 2. Turn the light off when you 5th annual Region 7AA Visual Arts Festival senator helped develop the idea of Earth leave a room. in the Forest Lake High School cafeteria on Day. April 22. There were over 65 works of art 3. Conserve paper. Print on both “I heard about teach-ins that were going on displayed with seven schools participating. sides when possible. about the war in Vietnam and thought what better way to get people knowledgeable 4. Wash your clothes in hot or Pieces of art are, in clockwise order, by Pa about our environment.” cold water by hand. It works Houa Vang, Morgan Frank, Naomi Wolf, and Every year on April 22, Nelson goes as well as a washing machine Ashley Lang. around preaching his idea for a cleaner and cuts back on energy. planet. The idea behind Earth Day is that 5. Use plastic plates and cups people conserve energy, use resources - ditch the paper ones. wisely, and appreciate the environment in general. But the trouble is trying to get 6. Read and follow energy-saving people motivated to recognize the holiday. tips on appliances. People are more cautious of things 7. Turn your computer off at they are doing to harm or pollute the the end of the day. Leaving it environment on this day. It’s also the day on all night takes up about as where energy is conserved energy and folks much energy as printing off use alternative ways to get things done that 5,300 copies. aren’t so detrimental to the earth. 8. Look at labels. They usually By being more cautious of the environment give directions on whether the around us, dangerous things as pollution, product can be recycled. disease, global warming, and other dangerous disasters can be prevented. Forest Lake’s An inside All about April Last minute own festival look at weather! Prom checklist of cultures. the Twins Media Page 3 Page 12 Page 6-7 Page 11 4‧28‧06 the forest breeze page 1 NEWS FFA rides onto state Stars and Strikes Open house to be held May 5 by Abby Pooch Bowling alley to open in Wyoming Formerly dubbed “Future Farmers of Minnesota in the Department of Agriculture on America,” the currently christened “National April 24 and 25. by Josh Nelson FFA Organization,” is now much more than Advancing 33 people to the state competition Ask anyone what word they farming. The FFA is about leadership and is a great accomplishment to begin with. would associate with the city teaching students about how to constructively However, the Forest Lake FFA has more of Wyoming, the first word lead their lives. The FLHS FFA is continually successes up its sleeve. Three students will that may come out of their working toward this purpose and receive the Minnesota FFA Degree mouth is “boring.” They has achieved rapid recognition which, according to Mike Miron, may not be saying that any for their diligent toil. is “the highest recognition that the more though. A plan is in The Forest Lake chapter of state organization can bestow upon the works for a new bowling FFA will be sending 33 students an active member.” alley which is scheduled to to the state competition after Forest Lake FFA is one of the open next month. their having advanced past ten finalists for the Outstanding The finishing touches are regional competition. Katie Chapter award. To qualify for this currently being done on the The exterior of the new bowling alley in Wyoming set to open soon. Miron will be competing the award, the chapter looks through all Stars and Strikes Bowling photo by Josh Nelson category “Creed,” where (9 the things they’ve done throughout Center which features 24 is also available at your traditional bar setting graders only) memorize and the year and selects one individual lanes for standard leagues, fun leagues, parties, in the Starlight Lounge where you can purchase recite the National FFA creed. thing, one leadership chapter event and open bowling. The bowling lanes will be drinks and pull tabs, watch one of the big screen Ann Miron, Katie Miron, Kim and one community affair they constructed with up-to-date technology, lights, televisions, or enjoy playing in a pool table Zalusky, and Jack Oswald will be advancing in submit. Then, members of the FFA Alumni and seats and sounds. tournament, or you can show your moves on the Dairy category where competitors complete the FFA Foundation work together to judge the In addition to bowling, the facility will include the giant dance floor. a written exam relating to the dairy industry winner. There are 191 Agriculture programs an entertainment room, called The Celestial Birthday parties are another amenity of the and they evaluate dairy cattle and place them in Minnesota, so to get to the top ten is, well, Hall, for a myriad of events such as weddings, facility.