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— Could the Draft be in your future? The war in Iraq hits close to home. to LU DC £ Students and staff share memories of seniors Daniel Sawyer and Thomas Earhart. Underdog Varsity Volleyball Team takes State Championship with upset victory. - page 6 - page 8 15 S: m LU S Z & lu talented cast )s exhilirating in the fall » *sS Hi Geology classes' trip to Mt. St. Helens cave turns out to be totally tubular. LL - page 3 LU - page 12 Official Student Publication of West Linn High School Published Since 1921 Adams wins Holiday Tour of Homes poster contest with original design for the 'o's in the piece was a fun idea. And let's face it, Margaret Adams, senior, the snowman is adorable! created the winning design All in all, Margaret's piece for the annual Holiday Tour looks very professional," of Homes, a Lynn Pass, Graphic Art fundraiser teacher, said. This is not the first time for Grad Adams has been recognized Night. To for her creative artwork. advertise She has won two contests at the event, online sites for her designs 600 copies and two years ago her of the poster photograph of Christine have been ▼ Rutan, taken for her Photo I distributed class, graced the cover of the around Kaleidoscope. West Linn. Adams created "Winning stuff is pretty neat. I am addicted to scratch-its and those are based on chance and should not be played for investment purposes. So winning something I actually had some control over feels a lot different. Better, to clarify," Adams said. Adams attributes her natural ability to various influences, especially her parents. She is still not sure what she wants to use her design talents for as far as a career goes but she enjoys being creative and would like to explore job options in that area. 2007 "The last thing in the world I want is to live in front of a computer. That's not to say that in 30 to 40 years when I'm finally looking for a job computers won't be incorporated into our heads and we'll be able to simply imagine something and it will then Tickets Avail transfer onto a document. If a company can offer anything along those lines Saluté Cafe Italiano on top of basic health consider the deal WLHS CAREER CENTER benefits, proceeds benefit '0 8 substance free grad party sealed," Adams said. K aitlyn R agan Staff Reporter the winning design, which consists of a snowman with holly leaves on a white background, as a project for her Graphic Arts class. " I stuck with the classics on this one. I think that holly and snowmen are fairly typical symbols of winter for people/' Adams said. "Margaret's (design) was inventive, fun, original and easily readable. She used colors that worked together well, and left room for the typography to breathe. Her use of the snowman shapes Curves Itafari changes face of poverty in Rwanda m V alorie W allace ___________ AIDS, poverty and hunger. In 2005, two Portland "Growing the country, one women, Karen Freelander brick at a time," is the slogan and Bethe McChesney, heard of the Itafari Foundation Eugen Butera, a Rwandan which addresses one of the woman speak of the dire most talked about issues conditions her country was in today's society: the facing. The women were genocide in Africa. The Itafari so moved, they couldn't Foundation was formed to go home until they found i f elp people in the African a way to help. The Itafari country of Rwanda rebuild Foundation was bom. a community plagued with loumalism students Contributing Writer will continue to sponsor Banamwana August, who hopes to be a journalist. He writes letters of thanks to praise them for the "sacrifice" they have made to support his education. Staff members and students gave money last year for five year-old Jack who hopes to become a teacher. Itafart in Rwanda_____________ ■ continued on page 2 December 2007 - Volume 96, Issue 3 School community mourns loss of Earhart and Sawyer , J on H elmkamp ____________ As of press time, no fur co-Editor-in-Chief ther information had been released as to the cause of Students and faculty the accident. were stunned to learn of A brief memorial was the tragic deaths of Daniel held in the school library Sawyer and Thomas Ear- at 2:55 p.m. on Nov. 26, the hart, seniors, on Nov. 17. Monday after returning to Although some learned school after the Thanks of the accident shortly giving break. Students after it happened, others and staff left their sixth learned of it days later, period classes to pay their and still others not until respects to the two boys. A few of their close friends, the father of each boy, and Earhart's sister, Gracie, Class of 2007, spoke about them. People responded w ith tears, silence and laughter to shared memories. Sawyer’s funeral was held on Tuesday Nov. 27 at Lincoln Memorial Park at 2:30 p.m, while Earheart's funeral was held two days later at Mary's Woods Cha pel at 2 p.m. Accounts have been set up for both families at Bank of America to help Daniel Sawyer offset the cost of their Contributions they returned to school. services. also be made at bins The accident occurred can at Senor Taco, Bales when Sawyer and Earhart located Round Table veered into the north Marketplace, Pizza, Perfecto Dry Clean bound lane of the two lane ers and Market of Choice. U.S Interstate 97, colliding Checks can be made pay head-on with an oncoming able to the families. commercial truck carrying a load of steel about 15 miles north of Klamath Falls, Ore. Sawyer, driving a 1993 Tovota 4Runner, corrected back into his lane as the oncoming truck swerved into his lane to try and avoid Sawyer and Earhart. The tw ovseniors were pronounced dead at the scene. Two hours before the 4:20 p.m. crash, a state trooper ticketed Sawyer for speeding, citing him for going 73 miles per hour in a 55 miles per hour zone. Thomas Earhart Please see page 6 for related articles about Earhart and Sawyer
