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Students and staff share
memories of seniors
Daniel Sawyer and
Thomas Earhart.
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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.
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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
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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
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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_____________ ■
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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
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about Earhart and Sawyer