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Junior point
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Tara Child
helping to lead
Lady Lions return
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The Return of the Roar
The Lion's Roar newspaper returns after seven year hiatus
By Lucas Davey
The Lion's Roar
75 years ago, in 1943, Cottage Grove High
School students began publishing their very own
school newspaper: The Lion’s Roar. The paper
was run by Cottage Grove High School’s year-
book class and was centered around the current
events and everyday lives of the town’s youth.
In 2004, the Cottage Grove Sentinel decided to
give The Lion’s Roar a space in their newspaper,
sparking interest and popularity for both publica-
tions. Unfortunately, in January of 2011, this small
yet powerful insight abruptly vanished from our
community.
As you have no doubt already noticed, effective
immediately, that student newspaper is back every
month for the foreseeable future, giving the town
a keyhole to look through into the lives of our
students. The Lion’s Roar is now run by Garrett
Bridgens’ Electronic Media classes at Cottage
Grove High and will run through the school year.
Rhonda Turnquist, the former editor of The Lion’s
Roar (from 1988 until 2010), spoke on the subject
and says the overall impact of this student news-
paper was overwhelmingly positive and well-re-
ceived. So much so that on some weeks, when they
would skip or miss a publication, members of the
local community would call in, asking the Sentinel
where The Lion’s Roar section was. “And some
people said ‘That’s the only thing we read.’” No
matter if you are a school-employed parent such
as a teacher, principal, janitor, or not, you cannot
know everything about your child’s time spent in
school. Turnquist thought it was a fantastic way
to let the readers see the good things through the
students’ perspectives and to focus on the, “kids
who don’t excel at sports… we were just able to
cover normal kids who do good things.”
The Lion’s Roar gave the youth something to do
other than drama, or sports, or music. “It was an
outlet for those kids who wanted to write that
way.” During the years Turnquist was in charge,
the students were so engrossed in this outlet
that teachers began asking The Lion’s Roar staff
not to deliver the papers to the classrooms as it
was too much of a distraction. To keep every-
one happy, the editions were not to be delivered
to teachers during class and were thus put in a
display case for all to see. Students would stand
around this revered display case just to read and
admire the dedication and work of their peers.
The Lion’s Roar was clearly healthy for both
the student audience and those devoted to the
responsibility of pleasing them.
The students tasked with informing the public
hold the true image of society in the utmost
regard. Positive news like the inspiring, popular
people and events are covered by the Cottage
Grove Sentinel, as well as the bad news like
crimes and social dilemmas. The Lion’s Roar
See ROAR on Page B10
Live from Cottage Grove High School
Creating a safe
place for students
South Lane Mental Health
continues working with district
students to address mental
health issues
Isabelle Hirst/The Lion's Roar
As a way for the community to support Cottage Grove basketball from home, Young Dreams Media has began broad-
casting all of the Lion's home games on Youtube. Upcoming stream dates are January 30th vs. Elmira and February
13th vs. Sweet Home. To watch your Cottage Grove Lions from home, search "Young Dreams Media" on Youtube.
By Chelsea Davis
The Lion's Roar
South Lane Mental Health works with every school in the district and
has been working within Cottage Grove High School for fi ve years
now, offering a safe place to communicate and seek help to anyone
in need. According to the 2017 Oregon Healthy Teens Survey, nearly
nine percent of eighth graders and seven percent of 11th graders have
attempted suicide within the last twelve months of taking the survey.
Virtually all the teens who took the survey were from 13 to 17-years-
old. Mental illness and associated disorders are seen in high school
and, even more specifi cally, our high school. South Lane Mental
Health served 68 students in 2017. Anxiety disorders are the most
common mental illness in the U.S., followed by depression. Ap-
proximately one in fi ve young adults, ages 13-18, experience severe
mental disorder at some point.
With all the social pressures of high school and life in general, this is
not surprising. Social media has caused new pressures of acceptance,
disconnect from family and anxiety from constant bombardment of
negative media and content, whether it be negative comments from
peers or societal pressures being pushed on adolescents. Bullying,
a major topic on teen crisis hotlines, has been on the rise in U.S.
according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’
Offi ce of Adolescent Health. One in fi ve students report having been
cyberbullied. About the same amount of students report being a cy-
berbully. Jessica Williams from South Lane Mental Health said that
bullying was a clear issue in many high schools and has evidently
added to the detriment
See SAFE on Page B10
A student led clothing
closet is set up to help
CGHS students
Kathleen Noll
The Lion's Roar
A new initiative is breaking barriers at Cottage
Grove High School (CGHS), and it starts in one
26’x 10ft’ room.
The Clothing Closet is fi lled to the
brim with supplies for high schoolers like do-
nated articles of clothing, like pants, shirts jack-
ets and shoes. There are also school supplies
like backpacks and personal hygiene products
like shampoo and deodorant. If students are in
need of a warm jacket for the cold winter, or
shorts for the hot summer, and can’t afford it
for themselves, the clothing closet is the place
to go.
In December of last year, this ap-
proach was launched by Mrs. Adler, her leader-
ship class, and student council. Leadership is a
class made up of roughly 40 students who have
an objective of making CGHS a better place
for everyone, they are the leaders of the student
body. The Clothing Closet was started as a
clothing drive. The student body and members
of the community were asked to donate clothes
that they don’t wear or need anymore. Big box-
es for each grade were put in the common area
in the high school, and a competition for which
class could get the most donations in their box
was put in place. This caused the donations to
grow rapidly in size.
Mrs. Adler explained, “We thought the cloth-
ing drive would be a really easy way to stock
the clothing
closet, and the results have
been overwhelming.”
When the drive was over and the
supplies was all donated, preparation started.
Leadership and student council took time out
of their fi nals schedule, weekends and evenings
to sort through all of the donations and decide
what stayed and what went.
A senior representative, Faryn Dahlen,
was one of the members of student council who
helped to categorize the donations, she admitted
that she herself would wear some of the clothes Cottage Grove High School student Halle Peterson sorts through clothing donations in the
that they found. Compared to what many may schools new clothing closet.
See CLOTHING on Page B10
What's Inside
pg.10
Dean of Student Combats Chronic Absenteeism
pg.10
Student Drama Producution Opens This Weekend
pg.11
CGHS Grad Returns to Teach at Alma Mater