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FVHS 2013

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Letter from the EditorsSpotlight CornerDo You Know the Maintenance Man?Behind the Scenes: Baron BannerCreative Arts Contests

Flu FactsWinter Fashion

Chef’s ChoiceThe Best and Worst of 2012

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from the editors

Hello readers!Our names are Joy Chen (girl on

the right) and Dorothy Nguyen (girl on the left), and we are your 2012-2013 Entertainment and News editors for the Red Magazine! We hope you enjoyed the first publication as much as we did.

As you read through the 2nd issue of our magazine, keep in mind the effort and dedication put into making this possible. Our writers, designers, and photographers all toiled for countless hours to bring their part into this issue. We’d also like to thank you for your support of us and your participation in our polls and contests. This magazine is not only our work; it also represents your voice and opinions.

We try our best to spotlight unique aspects of Fountain Valley High School. If you feel like you know something interesting going on in school, please let us know! Email us at fvhsbaronbanner@gmail.com.

We hope you enjoy this issue of Red Magazine! From your editors,Joy Chen and Dorothy Nguyen

Feedback: questions, comments and concerns can be e-mailed to fvhsbaronbanner@gmail.com or through our Facebook, Baron News.

EDITORSAdrien Ha Editor-in-ChiefAndrea Liu Editor-in-ChiefDorothy Nguyen FeatureJoy Chen Entertainment

DESIgNERSConnie Wong Chief DesignerAriel VuTrang LeZachary BeersDebbie Chen

PHOTO EDITORSKevin TranTyler Ratzlaff

CONTEST JuDgESTyler RatzlaffAmy HollingsworthMichael EichJo Anna Troyer

Red MagazineFVHS

Comics by: Heng -Yi Liu

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By: Debbie Chen

FVHS students volunteer at Kid Works in Santa Ana for Reach Out, an organi-zation where older students are mentors and role models for underprivileged children. Its goal is to steer these chil-dren away from bad influences and to teach them positive ideals.

“[The kids are] really energetic and enthusiastic. I love playing the games with them because they were really fun.” says Sandra Do (‘13) “They defi-nitely influence kids in a positive way because they help kids interact with others.”

Around forty-five students help out at Kid Works on Friday afternoons. There, directed by club presidents Toan Nguyen (‘13) and Lindsay Danley (‘14), volunteers and children spell out words with their body shapes and and take turns drawing part of a picture. It is not just a fun activity; it advocates teamwork and obedience to a higher authority.

Vice president Andrew Chau (‘13) says,“It’s awesome that we get to work with small children. I always wanted to help elementary school students with

By: Cecilia Chung

Beverly Pham (‘14), and her brother, Benjamin Pham (‘16), received an award for volunteering in their commu-nity from California State Senator Lou Correa on December 2nd.

Beverly entered a singing contest at the age of five and won third place. That was when she started looking into dif-ferent performance organizations. She joined several groups and sang for the community. Following her generous mindset, her family began to follow in her footsteps. “My brother and I perform by singing, dancing, or playing instruments for organizations in the Westminster and Fountain Valley Vietnamese commu-nity,” says Pham. “We do it purely for volunteering.” The Pham family works hard to perfect every performance for their audiences. Depending on the occasion, the time for preparations ranges from a week to months. The award that they received recognizes their contribution and dedication to making their community a better place to live in. It was a great honor and was presented by Senator Correa himself. Despite her widespread recognition, Pham says that the most important thing is the pleasure of making adifference.

“I think the best part is the feeling thatyou helped out at an event because we mostly volunteer to raise money for benefit concerts or other fundraisers. It feels good to help people out and not need any compensation for it,” says Pham.

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their work and life in general, and I think we’re making a really good impact on their lives.”

Reach Out was founded last fall by its current presidents.

“Someone from Lindsay’s old school told her about it and asked if she could be the president of it for our school, says Nguyen. I was nervous at first, but it’s actually something I like to do because it helps kids and it’s fun.”

Danley was also nervous, but it worked out better than she thought it would. “I always wanted to be more involved in the school, in volunteer stuff, but I wasn’t really sure how, and this was my perfect chance. It’s my first time working with kids, but I like it so far.”

It is still a growing and expandingclub. In this second semester, the volunteers will do something culinary. The semester is about international culture and health as opposed to the previous semester’s themes of teamwork and trust.

“We hope to get more members andget this to be a big club,” says Nguyen. “Club members can come up with club ideas on their own. Different minds thinking and a larger pool to work with would be more fun and helpful for the kids.”

Student: Beverly Pham

Club: Reach Out

Photo Credit: Thomas Huynh

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The Man Behind the Maintenance

Fountain Valley High School is hometo over 3600 students,

140 teachers, and50 other staff. Fountain Valley’s culture is constantly focused on school spirit and involvement in events and achievements, but rarely taken into account is the maintenance staff that toils night and day to keep the campus functioning cleanly and efficiently.

One ever-present, but fre-quently overlooked person on campus is Bruce Estrada, FVHS’ senior custodian, who has watched the school evolve for almost eighteen years. Preferring the title “custodian” to simply “jani-tor,” Estrada and his team of seven men do much for the school under the cover of night.

“As a custodian, I do set-ups for school events, participate in school activities, work with the students, organizetesting, help put on awards

ceremonies, and much more,” says Estrada. “I start work in the mid afternoon, and I stay here late at night, as maintenance in case any technical, electrical, or other problems arise that need at-tention before the school day restarts.”

His lengthy list of work experience in the district, including an extended position as the adult school’s only custodian, shows that he certainly knows what he is doing. Although he has worked at FV for almost two decades, he knows the school will never get old.

“The amount of activi-ties on campus, with the games, dances, assemblies, meetings, and ceremonies, overwhelmed me when I first came here,” he says. “I was used to working with adults, and mostly by myself, but when I came here I realized that I had to do a lot more than just janitorial work on such a thriving campus.”

Photo Credit: Trang LeTue Duong

Some might not be aware of the cost for a custodial staff to clean up after students. To

stock a bathroom with a few rolls of toilet paper and some paper tow-el doesn’t seem expensive; however, the math says otherwise.

According to Estrada, the school buys over 200 cases of each of the two types of paper towels a year, and each case contains 30 individual rolls. Altogether, that is about 400 cases of paper products per school year, containing 12,000 separate rolls.

Each case of plastic trash bags also contains 30 bags, and about 200 cases are purchased per year per type of bag. There are four different kinds of plastic bags for different sizes of can and for different types

of trash. In total, 800 cases of trash bags are bought annually, making for an impressive total of 24,000 bags used on campus each year.

“The money it takes to run a school is unbelievable, especially with the budget cuts, and if kids just took some time to pick up after themselves and to try to conserve, the school could be in much better shape,” said Estrada. “Both our students and staff need to request more from themselves, and take pride in their own campus...be-cause in a way, it represents them.”

Although Estrada has enjoyed his work here, he is the perennial fly on the wall of the school, always watching and taking notice of things that may need improvement.

By Rachel Philips

Estrada has his daughter’s name, Dinneh, tattooed on his fingers. Dineh is the Navajo word for the Navajo people.

By: Amina Ahmed

Baron Banner, the school newspaper advised by Mr. Ziebarth and head- ed by editors-in-chief Adrien Ha (‘13) and Andrea Liu (‘13), informs the school on the latest campus news.

Staff members meet during zero period every morning to report on the latest news. Articles are then published online or printed in Red Magazine or the newspaper.

“I love being in BaronBanner! It is different from all my other classes because I get to work independently and go at my own pace,” says Sandy Hoang (‘14), a first year Baron Banner staff member. “The class is fun, yet educational, and Mr. Ziebarth is a really fun teacher!”

Every week the staff has production meetings where students brain- storm article ideas and discuss events taking place on campus. Most of the work is not actually done in class, but rather after school or during an event. However, during class, staff have the chance to work on articles, improve their writing and analyze stories from the L.A. Times in order to fine-tune their journalism skills.

Staff members are also assigned beats, or coverage on a certain topic, such as academic departments, clubs and sports.

“In Baron Banner, I brainstorm and organize ideas for upcoming articles. I also write my rough drafts and revise my work to get it done as soon as possible,” says Hoang.

By joining Baron Banner, staff members become more engaged in their school community and acquire valuable interpersonal and language skills that will serve them in the long run.

Says Catt Phan (‘14), assistant arts and entertainment editor, “I really love all of the people in here because they are really cool and even though it’s super early, just being able to hang out with them and get the news out there is worth it.”

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Baron Banner is an award-winning journalism program. In 2012, Baron Banner staff competed in the annual OCJEA Write-Off, where they won a multitude of awards, including first place in Editorial, Feature, and Critical Review, and ended up winning second place overall in sweepstakes.

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“Photography is a statement about how I view the world. I don’t take pictures; I make photographs.”

Photography Winner:

Thomas WarloeCreativeArtsContests

Writing Winner:

Sharon Park“Many of my writings, especially poems, are all built upon the foundation of present-day, emotion, real-ity, and life. When I wrote my two poems, they were written based on my nega-tive emotions and perspec-tive of life since at the time I was in a period of stress.”

Passed into my hands, another new mission,Off I ride into the blanket of the night,As I pass through towns,Each time I am given Satan’s embrace. So tired am I,Alas, continuing on I must go,Guided by the seraphims’ light. At each interval,I am brought into a crowd,Only to be partaken in a sacrifice. Whenever a wave of peace hangs,In my head rings the words: “Why constrained?How I yearn a long, single, eternal journey,Never to see the same places. To be forcefully driven into a journey,Or to happily go off by myself?Perhaps the latter.A journey of my own pick,None to chain me.Yet why am I born into a controlled, endless cycle?”

Endless Cycle

Benjamin Pham Stacey Hall

Photography

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Honorable Mentions

Ellie Tucker

Natalie Ramirez

Trang Le

Kanyanat TongprasearthLisa Rastogi

Art Runner-up Art Honorable Mentions

Beverly Pham Shelby Pepper

Baothu Nguyen

“Well, a lot of my inspira-tion comes from dreams I have. They’re usually oddly realistlc, so i can draw a lot from them. For this piece particularly. I don’t think it was from a dream. Honestly I don’t remember what really inspired it.”

Art Winner:

Zachary Beers

WHAT TO DO WHAT TO NOT DO

Wash your hands often

Cover your coughs and sneezes with your arm or a tissueStay home if you have a fever over 100 degrees and don’t come back to school/work until you have been fever free without medicine for 24 hours.

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE FLU

DO NOT Share Personal ItemsDO NOT Touch your eyes, nose, and mouth

Get Vaccinated

DO NOT COME TO SCHOOL

• A 100 F or higher fever or feeling feverish

• A runny or stuffy nose

• Headaches and/or body aches

• Chills

• Fatigue

• Nausea, vomiting, and/or diarrhea (most common in children)

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• A cough and/or sore throat

SYMPTOMS

By:Michelle Bui Information By: Nurse McLean Crawford

IF YOU HAVE THE FLU

WHAT TO DO WHAT TO NOT DO

Wash your hands often

Cover your coughs and sneezes with your arm or a tissueStay home if you have a fever over 100 degrees and don’t come back to school/work until you have been fever free without medicine for 24 hours.

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE FLU

DO NOT Share Personal ItemsDO NOT Touch your eyes, nose, and mouth

Get Vaccinated

DO NOT COME TO SCHOOL

• A 100 F or higher fever or feeling feverish

• A runny or stuffy nose

• Headaches and/or body aches

• Chills

• Fatigue

• Nausea, vomiting, and/or diarrhea (most common in children)

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• A cough and/or sore throat

SYMPTOMS

By:Michelle Bui Information By: Nurse McLean Crawford

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1. Scrub the potatoes clean and set it in boiling water.2. Preheat oven at 400° F and butter the baking pan.3. Cut the onions (slice, ring or dice) in saucepan, melt butter over medium heat, then mix in flower and 0.5 tsp of salt.4. Stir constantly for a minute, then stir in milk. When the mixture has thick-ened, stir in 1.5 cups of chesse until it is all melted.5. Fry the onions with garlic. 6. Once the potatoes are cooked (check by sticking in a toothpick to see if it is soft), put them in a large mixing bowl and mash (skinned or unskinned).7. Layer half of the potatoes on the bak-ing pan, half of the onions over that, then pour half of the cheese mixture over the entire thing. Repeat this step with the other half of the ingredients. Sprinkle shredded cheese on top.8. Bake in oven for 1.5 hours or until golden brown.

Ingredients

Equipment Directions

• 4 russet potatoes• 1 white onion• 3 tbsp butter• 3 tbsp all-purpose flour• 2 cups milk• 2 cups milk• 2 cups cheddar cheese (preferably sharp)• 2 tsp power or 2 cloves garlic• Salt• Pepper

• Small pot• Saucepan• Baking pan• Medium frying pan• Mixing bowl

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