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September 15, 2017
T he C olumbia P ress
Trail of stolen cell phone leads to 15-year-old
A 15-year-old Warrenton
girl stole a $700 cell phone
from a woman who told of-
ficers she’d set her phone
down to pop into the sauna at
Fitness 1440 for 10 minutes,
according to a police report.
It was missing when the
woman came out of the sau-
na. Later, she attempted to
call the phone from her home
several times after the Aug.
31 theft and it rang but no
one answered. Other times it
went directly to voicemail.
The victim went to the
AT&T store to have the
phone deactivated, but em-
ployees there first attempted
to “ping” the number’s loca-
tion and it went to an address
in the 500 block of Southwest
Cedar Avenue. A police offi-
cer went to the residence and
the teenager’s grandmother
retrieved the phone and gave
it to the officer.
The victim decided not to
press charges once she got
the phone back.
Fitness: Students get chance to achieve
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making it fun.
“It’s trickery,” admitted PE
teacher Jenny Smith, who ar-
ranged for the visit from the
Guard’s Physical Health As-
sessment Team.
“You’re working out and it’s
fun. It doesn’t always have to
be the hard stuff,” said Smith,
who completed the obstacle
course, too, to prove to her-
self that she could do it.
The mobile obstacle course
was a humongous jump-
house-style contraption with
tubes to crawl through, a large
ramp to climb and slide down,
a wall to maneuver over and
baffles to run through.
Students were required
to try each skill test. Events
were timed and students
were encouraged to do some
activities more than once to
improve their time. The fe-
male and male athletes with
the best overall scores were
recognized.
“I want to make compe-
tition fun for them,” Smith
said. “I’d like to see some kids
continue to give more effort
and this gets them self-moti-
vated.”
Pritchard, too, wants the
kids to be inspired to com-
pete against themselves.
Unfortunately, as a culture,
we’ve become less motivated
to excel physically and in oth-
er ways.
“We don’t have dinners at
home together anymore; so
we’re not eating as healthy.
Too many of us are in the ‘we
Above: Ezra Moses
Haines, left, makes
his way down from the
rock-climbing wall while
Isabella Jeremiah nears
the top.
Right: Evan Mossman
nears the top of the 25-
foot rock wall.
take the easy way’ mode,”
said Pritchard, who has two
teenage daughters. “We’ve
gone too far in what’s easy.
We don’t push them (our
children). We don’t push
ourselves. When we do have
a national emergency, it
doesn’t bode well if we’re all
less capable.”
Her fitness team is fit, but
not body-builder or model
types, she said. “We’re aver-
age guys. We’re hoping they
might think ‘I want to do
that.’”