Food Club is not just about gardening but about the friendships made along the rows.
Seniors Jillian Nash and Samantha Smit stand outside of the Bigfork High School Garden. Bigfork High School has more clubs than most people know. In club corner we will take an inside look at a different club each month.
Food club, also known as garden club, was founded by Senior Jazzmyn Musser, Junior Emily Weist and Junior Kennedy Palmer in the 2012-2013 school year. When they weren’t hugging yaks, they were creating a school garden and compost system. The three may have graduated with five other girls and one guy, but their legacy is being carried out by a group of boisterous girls that they coaxed into joining their gardening team.
There will be a few field trips this year. The first will be to visit the Flathead Valley Community College with the Advanced Culinary class. There is also a trip that freshman, sophomores and juniors can apply for, to go to Thailand. This trip is over the summer and looks to be quite fun. If you are interested ask Sue McGregor for more information.
Although the numbers have dwindled to ten, the gardeners are hard at work. If food is of interest to you, then go to one of their meetings every Tuesday at lunch in the guidance office. Each week there is a designated “Snack Master” volunteer, this person is to bring food for the whole club.
'Splorin' the Caves
The Cave Club participants enjoy exploring the caverns within our earth. Senior Sarah Abbott and Junior Charlie Pierce show off a poster made by a former cave clubber.
Hidden deep inside the walls of BHS is a club like no other. With their quirky members and advanced knowledge of climbing through even the smallest caverns, Cave Club has become a family of cave dwellers. With six members this year, Hans Bodenhamer has given the adventurous a place to truly explore the world around them.
Cave Club is not all fun and caves as the name may imply. The group goes on at least two trips to caves a month ranging from Glacier National Park to Augusta, Montana. In each cave, especially around wintertime, the members will mark down which caves have bat roosts in them.
This is because there is a problem among the bats, white-nose syndrome.
According to Batconservation.org, “White-nose Syndrome is a disease caused by a non-native, cold-loving fungus which can be found in the caves of the affected regions.”
There is also another reason for the cave explorations. Every cave they go into has the minerals checked for change; they could be changed naturally or by humans. They also check to see what kinds of creatures are living inside the caves: spiders, moths, insects, wood rats, etc.
Not only does cave club teach students to trust one another, it also can help with responsibility at school. Senior Sarah Abbott said, “Cave club has definitely helped me to focus on a specific task, whether it be focusing on the location of a bat, or listening to what a teacher says.”
Speech! It is not a sport… it is a lifestyle! Taking a glance down the Junior hallway, there are so many different people. Look closely, can you see any of the hybrids?
Throughout Bigfork High School are three hybrid species’ among the regular unsuspecting student population. These hybrid humans live amongst us, and often annoy us with their voracious vocabularies and inability to ever shut up. Their talent is to engage in activity that is number one among all human fears, even above death. Each hybrid’s name coincides with their special talent. They are simply known as the Speechies, Dramatarians and Debaters.
These people have formed a tightly knit family. Senior Rosalie Lander said, “They are great, like minded people who are there for the same reason I am and we all support each other.” There is nothing but praise from their fellow teammates. Junior Shannon Frizzell said, “I love them and they are great all the time! Everyone is extremely smart and generally very nice. I love being on a team with them.”
Some people may even be envious of these amazing artists. They have the guts to perform something they have created or picked and be judged by someone they have never met before they walked into a room. Lander has been a Dramatarian since her sophomore year. The reason Lander joined drama, “I have always liked theatre but, never felt comfortable joining the children’s theatre. I wanted to be a better public speaker. I would have to say that speech is an introvert’s musical theatre, but still very difficult.”
Next time you are walking through the halls during passing period, be sure to take a look around. Can you spot the hybrids?
On our way to Greece The history class has organized a once in a lifetime experience, a trip to Greece. It is going to be full of beautiful places and companions from a history class like no other.
Everyone who went on the Washington D.C. trip in the 7th or 8th grade remembers it fondly. Well this year a 12 students from the classes of 2016 and 2017 have been working especially hard to raise money for a completely different trip; Greece. The students will earn their money through working and various fund raisers.
There is talk of going Speaking of which there is a raffle staring a $500 gift card to Costco that will be held on March 25th, so if you had not heard about it prior to this month's paper, go buy a ticket, they are only $10 a piece!Where this may seem like a great deal of money and work, it will be well worth it. In just 8 days the group of fifteen will be exploring a great amount of Greece.
For their first adventure the students will go to Athens for two days where they will see the Parthenon, the Temple of Athena, the Temple of Zeus and take a walking tour of Athens. On the second day of their Athens adventure these courageous world travelers will see the Olympic stadium and continue to see the beautiful city of Athens.
During their next two days the fifteen will tour Cape Sounion, which holds the Temple of Poseidon and travel to Delphi where they will take a look at the Temple of Apollo and visit the Delphi Museum. The following two days will take them to Ancona and Florence. They will take a very in depth tour of both cities where they will view statues from great artists like Michelangelo and view a leather-making demonstration.
The last two days of the trip will be an exploration of Rome, in which they will see Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel, visit St. Peter’s Basilica, view the Colosseum and much, much more.
Although the students will have a blast on their trip, they have to give a detailed presentation of their trip to the school board. Hopefully this presentation will make the board members wish that they could have gone to Greece with the group.
HOSA Wait! We have a new club?
Junior Alyssa Wallen poses with mentor Mrs. Rhonda White, to show off their excitement and support for HOSA. The medical field can not only be pursued in college but, also in high school.
The club HOSA has been around for years in other communities, but this year Bigfork High School finally got a big enough group together to ask the Student Council to grant them “club” status. Although this club is fairly new, it has already begun to help out Bigfork Public Schools; they have brought a box full of different activities into a few elementary school classes. They also did a career fair for the middle school; which they have done for the past few years at the high school.
The medical field is a quickly growing field with the baby boomer generation becoming more dependent on others to care for them. HOSA focuses on helping people reach a higher understanding of the variety of options the medical field holds for them.
What do the letters H, O, S, and A stand for? According to Junior Alyssa Wallen, “HOSA stands for, Health Occupations Students of America,” but as that is a mouthful and sometimes hard to remember, “it has changed to Future Health Professionals.” Wallen also said, “there are in-state competitions, coming up in much, that we participate in where we compete against other groups in a variety of different subject such as: medical topics, medical spelling, debates, and even patient bed changing.” If they make it past the State competition the member or members will go on to a National competition that is held in Florida each year.
The club sounds like a great deal of fun, so if you are interested go talk to Science teacher Mrs. Rhonda White, Senior Cassie Cislo, Sophomores Cameron Pancoast and Celeste Rehbein, Juniors Kassandra Butterfield, Alauna Weilacher and even Alyssa Wallen. Good luck to the HOSA group and congratulations on becoming an official club!