Issue 2: 2009-2010

october 23, 2009 300 richardson place wilmington, ohio 45177volume xviii issue ii

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Police arrest local skateboarders

Many skateboarders have been arrested the past few months around the Wilmington downtown busi-ness district.

According to city ordinance 3 0 9 4 p a s s e d i n 1 9 9 0 a n d found in chap-ter 373 section 11 of the codi-fied ordinances of Wilmington, Ohio, “No per-son shall operate a bicycle or skateboard upon a side-walk within the downtown business district.”

Also according to the ordinance, if the operator of any bicycle or skate-board shall violate this ordinance then they will be found guilty of a minor misdemeanor and their bicycle or skateboard may be immediately taken and impounded.

“The ordinance was 19 years old and just out of the blue they started enforcing it,” Jennifer Stewart, Jen’s Deli owner and Clinton County Skate Park Association president, said.

Police arrested freshman Todd Mangeot, saying he violated the city ordinance, Stewart and Mangeot said.

“Todd actually skated from one city block to the next through the crosswalk, and based on the city

ordinance that’s the only place in the downtown you’re allowed to skateboard,” Stewart said.

After several attempts, the police could not be reached for an interview on the arrest or the ordinance.

Mangeot had injured his wrist previously at the Backer Bowl and stayed in the hospital for three days.

“I went to roll in and my wheels hung up,” Mangeot said. “I fell eight feet to the bottom and I severed my spleen and sprained my wrist badly.”

When he returned to Wilmington after his hospitalization, he was ar-rested by Wilmington police.

Stewart was at the scene when the arrest took place; she said police told Mangeot he resisted arrest.

“He went to grab Todd’s arm that had the cast on it and he kind of jerked away,” Stewart said. “The cop said

that’s it you’re resisting arrest with violence and then handcuffed him and put him in

the back of the police cruiser.”

She took a picture of the arrest and police records indicate she said something offensive to the police and was also cited during the incident. Mangeot said when he was sitting in the police cruiser he heard Stewart yelling at the cops.

According to the po-lice reports, Stewart

“did recklessly cause inconvenience, annoy-ance, or alarm to another by making unreason-able noise or offensively coarse utterance, gesture or display, or commu-nicating unwarranted and grossly abusive lan-guage to any person, which by its very utter-ance or usage infl icts in-jury or tends to incite an immediate breach of the peace and persist after reasonable warning or request to desist; in vio-lation of W.C.O.509.03 (a2) Disorderly Conduct Persisting M4.”

Stewart went to Edi-tor Gary Huffenberger at the Wilmington News Journal with the picture she took to try and get a story about Mangeot’s arrest published.

“Gary went to the police station to get their side of the story, he actu-ally went to Nick Babb who is the Safety Direc-tor,” Stewart said. The article was then written and published.

“Two weeks after my newspaper article came out [the police depart-ment] summoned me to court in the mail for obstructing justice and disorderly conduct,” Stewart said. “I am fac-ing three months in jail

Katie Brewernews editor

Local authorities enforce city ordinance from 1990

“We’re trying to bring the

actual sport of skateboarding

to Wilmington with the new

skate park, but these arrests

are not helping...”Jennifer Stewart

Skate Park Association President

and $1,000 fi ne if I am found guilty.”Stewart said there are many misconcep-

tions about skateboarders – that they are all druggies and delinquents.

“We’re trying to bring the actual sport of skateboarding to Wilmington with the new skate park, but these arrests are not helping much with the situation,” Stewart said.

On Oct. 24 at 2:30 p.m., pro skateboarder Doug Brown is coming to Books N’ More in downtown Wilmington.

“There’s a lot of negative press right now,” Stewart said. “Doug wants to put a positive light on things for us and help support the skateboarding situation in Wilmington.”

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On every Thursday before the Friday night football game, students from Wilmington High School go out and paint store windows in downtown Wilmington.

Next To New, a new business in town, is the student meeting place on Thursdays right after school.

“I lived in a small town that was al-ways decorated for every Friday night game to support the football team. It always made it look like a good spirited town that supported their football team win or lose ,” Er ic Wogomon, Next to New owner, said. “It also made it say that you are coming into our territory.”

Junior Sarah Dixon, and other art department students, help paint win-dows every Thursday to get Wilming-ton ready for the games.

“It is a great thing because they are really supportive and every week more and more businesses downtown want us to paint their windows,” Dixon said. “It is a great opportunity

Local businesses decorate downtownWilmington stores support hurricane sports by painting windows and decorating streets

Area stores take part in “buy local” program

Mercedes Welschasst. sports editor

Neil Vancecopy editor

With the downfall of the economy in the past few years, Wilmington businesses have developed a plan to try and help keep them thriving.

This plan, which is known as Buy Local First, was put in effect months after the announcement that DHL would be leaving Wilmington.

According to the website, “The Buy Local First campaign was launched in November 2008 with one goal in mind: to help people make a difference in Clinton County (www.buylocalcc.com).”

“To help promote local business is the primary reason to be involved in [Buy Local], and to stimulate the busi-ness community,” Gibson’s Goodies owner, Mary Gibson said

Since then many businesses in the area, including Gibson’s Goodies, Books N’ More, Swindler and Sons Florist, and First Choice Video have become involved in the Buy Local Progarm. They offer special deals to local customers who have the special buy local key chain.

“I offer a 5% discount on our ice cream products in conjunction with

that,” Gibson said.The objective, according to the

website, is for everyone living in the Clinton County area to shop at the local stores instead of taking their business away to shopping malls and other such places.

The hopes of buying local are that if the community supports the businesses than the businesses will support the community.

According to www.buylocalcc.com., locally owned businesses are more likely to hire locally, more likely to source locally, and more likely to invest profi ts locally. That means more jobs, more investment, and more local growth in Clinton County.

“Well hopefully it will encourage people to buy locally and have to stimulate the sales in the light of the fact that we have seen a decrease,” Gibson said. “It will encourage people to stay within their community and buy from their local merchants to hopefully survive this economic crunch that we are going through.”

for community service, it looks good on college applications, gets you in-volved in the community, and a lot of people really appreciate it.”

Before every game Wogomon would like big turnouts so he isn’t the only one holding the pride for his team by doing everything on his own.

“We expected a big turnout for the all the football games to show our pride for the team. We want-ed everyone ev-ery Thursday to come out every home and away game to paint,” said Wogomon.

He said stu-dents should come support their football team and show

some school spirit.All students of any kind are wel-

come to come out every Thursday after school and meet at Next To New to paint. Paint and brushes are all provided, but all that is now needed are the painters.

“Come out,” said Wogomon. “Help paint to show your pride for the team.”

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-Out of $100 in a locally owned business, $32 goes out and $68 stays in Clinton County

-Out of $100 in a non-locally owned business, $57 goes out and $43 stays in Clinton County

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-Out of $100 in a locally owned business, $32 goes out and $68 stayslinton County Out of $100 in a non locally owned business $57 goes out and $43 s

-Leading causes of money leaving Clinton County in a non-local business include: marketing, accounting, imported supplies, etc.

-Leading causes of money staying in Clinton County in a local business include: local taxes, community donations, local supplies, etc.

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After the fi rst diagnosed and re-ported case of the H1N1 virus (also known as the swine fl u) back in April of 2009, the Clinton County Health Department has been working with the Wilmington City School District and others in the county to help in-form and protect students and staff members from the virus.

According to the World Health Or-ganization, as of Sept 20, 2009 there have been 300,000 laboratory con-fi rmed cases of the pandemic H1N1 virus worldwide.

According to the Clinton County Health Department there have been no confi rmed cases of the H1N1 virus in the country. In an interview with Curt Bone, Director of Business Opera-tions of Wilmington City Schools he commented on the requirement for a case to be confi rmed and reported to the health department.

“The only way that they report them in Clinton County is you actu-ally have to be hospitalized. If you are tested positive and you are not hospitalized, it’s not reported to the

health department,” Bone said. If tested positive for the H1N1

virus, the treatment will be the same as if being treated infl uenza type A. Since the treatment for the H1N1 virus is the same as the type A infl uenza, the

Wilmington City School District is not doing anything special to sanitize buildings. Custodians are continuing the same cleaning routine they have been doing for years.

“H1N1 and type A are treated the same so there is nothing special to do for the swine fl u that we haven’t

Facts in Clinton County on 2009 H1N1 virusThe Clinton County Heath Department works with the Wilmington City School District

to protect againt the 2009 H1N1 virusJessica Maus features editor

already been doing for years,” Bone said.

As for cafeteria procedures, they are the same; nothing is being changed due to the outbreak of the virus.

“They [the cooks] have strict sani-tizing procedures anyway, as far as food temps and cleaning.”

According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention website, two vaccines for the H1N1 virus have been produced and licensed by the Food and Drug Administration. The two vaccines are the fl u shot and a nasal spray. On Oct 5, 2009 the fi rst live attenuated 2009 H1N1 vaccine were administered and on Oct 12 administration of the H1N1 fl u shot began. At the end of October there will be approximately 40 million doses of the vaccine available.

With the H1N1 vaccination begin-ning administered across the country, a question may arise when the vac-cine comes to Clinton County. Will students and staff be required to get vaccinated? A school district cannot require a student or teacher to get

“H1N1 and type A are

treated the same so there is

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swine flu that we haven’t al-

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vaccinated, nor will they be denied entrance to a school, Bone said.

“We can’t require students to get it, when the health department gets the option to be able to give it, we will work with them in order to roll it out to all the schools in the county and us,” he said.

Though a vaccination is not re-quired, it is suggested.

While the district is not stressing over the new sanitation policies, they are however stressing that faculty and students wash their hands frequently, cough into their sleeves rather than their hands, and not drink after oth-ers.

“Wash your hands, don’t drink after people, you can use a non alcoholic based hand sanitizers if you would like, cough into your sleeve rather than your hand,” Bone suggested.

If a student or even a teacher has symptoms of the fl u they should be sent home and see a doctor. If diag-nosed with the fl u do not return to school until fever free for 24 hours.

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Should fear be spreading with the pandemic?This so called “swine fl u” is being blown out

of proportion by the mediaNo one knows how this virus will evolve, and

people have a right to be worried

Near the beginning, 2009 H1N1, formally known as swine flu, was almost laughable. Students would joke and chuckle and sar-donically claim that every sneeze was a re-

sult of the 2009 H1N1 virus. But now, with innocent people dying weekly, it doesn’t seem so funny, does it?

Can a variant of the seasonal fl u, seemingly harmless, become a killing machine? The correct answer is yes. Why is this? Viruses mutate. They become deadlier, sneakier, and able to work around our immune systems and reduce our antibodies to confused, sniveling proteins.

“To survive, viruses must adapt or evolve, changing its surface proteins enough to trick the host cell into allow-ing it to attach,” according to www.cbc.ca. They simply mutate to survive.

The Spanish Infl uenza of 1918 the “mother of all pandemics” according to the offi cial Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website, www.cdc.gov.

The Spanish Infl uenza consisted of three waves, falling one after another in from 1918 to 1919. The fi rst wave seemed relatively benign, with high ill-ness rates but low mortality rates. Fear didn’t seem necessary. Then the second wave hit. Malicious and bloody, it rav-aged the world, leaving few survivors in its wake. The third and fi nal wave was not nearly as devastating, but still murderous.

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severe. Total deaths were arguably as high as 100 million,” said www.cdc.org.

Could it happen again? The CDC had a grim answer.

“We can only conclude that since it happened once, analogous conditions could lead to an equally devastating pandemic,” www.cdc.gov said.

If one looks at the start of this infa-mous pandemic, one would see simi-larities between the Spanish Infl uenza and 2009 H1N1.

Both appeared in the spring, both started off relatively mild. But as November rolled in, the second wave of the Spanish Infl uenza crashed upon the unsuspecting masses, showering them with deaths. Not having reached November yet, one must wonder if 2009 H1N1 will continue along the pandemic path, or remain virtually inoffensive.

The World Health Organization (WHO) warns the public of becoming complacent.

“There remain many unknowns about this virus. Experience with previous pandemics shows they can come in two or three waves, can start mild and become more severe, can af-fect some countries more than others and can last for as long as two years,” said the offi cial WHO website for the Western Pacifi c Region, www.wpro.who.int.

In addition to this, WHO states that “based on past pandemics and analysis of the currently available data, up to one third of the world's population could yet get infected.” In case anyone was wondering, the world population is currently 6,790,494,589, according to the offi cial website for the United States Census Bureau, www.census.gov. One third of that is 2,263,498,196. Over two billion people.

According to the CDC, most of those who have become infected with the virus recovered without medical treatment. But wait, this sounds famil-iar. Didn’t the Spanish Infl uenza start out looking harmless?

It is certainly possible that 2009 H1N1 will not follow in the footsteps of the Mother of all Pandemics. Maybe it will remain the worry in the back of everyone’s mind. But does anyone want to stake their lives on a maybe?

Imagine this: and elementary student sits in class working hard to fi nish their assign-ments, and then they sniffl e and sneeze. The teacher immediately

sends the child to the offi ce fearing that they could possibly have “swine fl u.” Panicked, the offi ce secretary calls the student’s parents while the poor child sits there thinking they have done

something wrong and are now in trouble. Once the

parents are

contacted, they inform the secretary that their child has seasonal allergies.

Is this really what our society has brought us to? A constant fear and paranoia of a common sneeze at this time of year? When the weather sud-denly gets chilly, as it has this year, a sneeze is to be expected. Just as if the weather was toasty many people would break out in a sweat. But no, the apparently “knowledgeable” me-dia of our society has brainwashed citizens into believing that they’re all going to catch the swine fl u and die. Sounds harsh, right? Well don’t believe them.

For starters, according to both the Centers for Disease Control and Pre-vention (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO), 2009 H1N1 has many of the same characteristics as the seasonal fl u and majority of people who have contracted 2009 H1N1 re-cover without need for medical care.

Obviously, a person who has previ-

ous medical conditions, such as heart disease, has a higher risk of needing medical attention. Same goes for chil-dren because their immune systems are not developed enough to completely fi ght off any kind of fl u.

A popular question is how to prevent 2009 H1N1. No, people do not have to walk around with masks over their faces that are uncomfortable and make it hard to breath. In fact, according to http://www.cdc.gov/H1N1fl u/qa.htm there are many ways to prevent 2009 H1N1: one should cover their nose and mouth when sneezing or coughing, wash their hands often, avoid touching the eyes, nose or mouth, try to avoid contact with sick people, and stay home

when sick. Wait a second, don’t these all sound pretty familiar?

Sounds like the obvious steps to protect one’s health that everyone began learn-ing at about age three.

It is a well known fact, thanks to the media let-ting everyone know about every single one, that there have been deaths caused by 2009 H1N1 and that the world has a pandemic on their hands. When any sickness, such as 2009

H1N1, is caught by one per-son in an area that is densely populated it is going to spread extremely quickly, and with weak medical services there will unfortunately be deaths.

The media is taking the obvious op-portunity to use something as overrated as 2009 H1N1 to attract more viewers and readers. Every single detail about a new case, a death and now the upcoming vaccine is broad-casting on just about every news cast.

Frankly, it is now a tor-ture to even listen to the incredibly descriptive and exaggerated stories that the media now has to of-fer about 2009 H1N1. When will the media let go of its hold on society? When will people realize swine fl u is just like the seasonal fl u? When will this end, or at least die down?

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The hurricane is a student-produced newspaper published eight times each year by the Wilmington High School newswriting class.

All printing costs are paid through adver-tising revenues.

The purpose of the hurricane is to inform and entertain the students of Wilmington High School and the members of the community. It is an open forum for student, faculty, staff, and community expression.

The hurricane is a member of the Ohio Scholastic Media Association (OSMA) and the Journalism Education Association (JEA).

Letters to the editor are encouraged. They must be signed; however, names may be withheld if the editorial board determines that the situation warrants it. In addition, the staff reserves the right to edit material for length, grammar, libel, poor taste, or obscenity.

All signed columns are the views of the writer only and do not necessarily reflect the views of other staff members, faculty, or the administration.

Staff editorials (those without bylines) are the consensus of the editorial board, who makes the final decision concerning the content of the newspaper.

Editor-in-chief (visual): Zach McCune

Editor-in-chief (content): Madison Law

News Editor: Katie Brewer

Opinions Editor: Katie Swindler

Features Editor: Jessica Maus

Sports Editor: Megan PhillipsAsst. Sports Editor: Mercedes Welsch

Entertainment Editor: Libby Wetterhan

Asst. Entertainment Editor: Emilia LanderCopy Editor: Neil Vance

Adviser: Maggie Krohne

Letters to the editor should be sent to Wilming-ton High School room 214. Letters may discuss previous articles or columns published in the hurricane, or other newsworthy issues.

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the hurricane asks...“Are H1N1 fears overblown or

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We, the staff of the Wilmington High School student run newspaper the hurricane, feel that if students take the effort to get ready for a dance, they should take the effort to go sober.

We feel dances are given to students as a reward for their ef-forts at school, the long weeks full of notes and tests they endure. Why, then, must students ruin this gift by drinking?

Many students take hours getting ready for dances, and will readily admit that. One would think this fact means one would actually like to remember the three hours spent at the dance. But it has been seen, time and time again- drunk students at the dance.

Aside from that, dozens of hyped up, drunken students on the roads of Wilm-ington, at night, isn’t exactly the pin-nacle of safe, responsible behavior. In

fact, it is just about the epitome of idiocy.The responsibility falls not only on

the students (though most of it does), but the WHS staff as well. Maybe less money goes into the decorations, and more money goes into prevention

and dis-cipline? Maybe some of the budget can be allocated for Breathalyzers, ad-ministered by police officers?

Certainly it is a worthy use of the school’s money, keeping drunken stu-

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dents out of the school and off the road.In addition to the students and staff

working on keeping students sober, perhaps parents could do their part. Maybe they pay a little more attention to where their kids are going before the dance, ask a few extra questions.

There are numerous cost-effective (and free) ways to keep teens from drinking before d a n c e s , e v e n drinking at all such as Breatha-lyzers at the dance,

and parents taking an in-terest in their children. This is why we,

the staff of the hurricane, feel that it’s time for the staff, students, and families of WHS to kick it up a notch to keep dances safe and enjoyable.

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of economy taking place in our very own community.

To achieve this status of intra-dependence, members of the com-munity must learn to buy locally and support their local businesses. What does it mean exactly to buy locally? To buy locally simply means putting money to use around your commu-nity; at local markets, restaurants and grocery stores, rather than travelling out of town to shop, thus pouring local money into big businesses and other towns.

Following the rippling effect of DHL’s departure from Wilmington, Clinton County’s economy has been struggling to recover. From job loss, to home foreclosures, the road to recovery has looked bleak for many citizens and businesses, until a plan was proposed in which local busi-nesses came together to help increase local spending and the success of Wilmington businesses.

So why is it so important to buy lo-cal? Well just think about it, where is

every dollar inevitably going to? If put to use in town at local

busi-nesses such a s Jen’s Deli, or The Mediter-ranean, the money of the purchase will be used to cover the cost of preparing the meal,

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Buy local first, second, third and fourth

Putting money back into the hands of the people of Wilmington is why it is so detrimental toward the success of the community. It gives our citizens the money that they work for, as well as motivates them to spend on other local businesses.

For example, let us say an individual works as a cook at a place like Jen’s, they receive a weekly pay check made possible by the money of hungry townspeople coming into the restau-rant for a meal. Now what do they do with that money? Spend it. Where do they spend it? On their water and electric bills which in turn is another local service and pumps more money into our own economy.

This is opposed to the track the money would follow if taken to out of town businesses. That money would go out to a person from a different community, thus trickling down to big commercial businesses such as Wal-Mart and McDonalds, rather than places like Community Markets and McD’s Pub.

So next time you are deciding whether or not go venture out of town to satisfy your hunger or go shopping, consider who needs the money more, that neighbor struggling to make ends meet or an over sized inconsiderate corporation like Wal-Mart? My vote goes to the neighbor.

Zach McCuneeditor-in-chief

New problems roll in for downtown skaters

With the recent ar-rests of local skate-boarders one has to ask themselves, what is this town coming to.

Why are police of-fi cers just now starting

to enforce skateboard-ing laws?

For years local skaters have been able to skate up and down Main Street peacefully and without harm. Now they are getting arrested for what they didn’t know was against the law.

Once a law is set in and not enforced one should expect it to be broken eventually without knowledge that it was ever a law.

These local teens are getting arrested as if they were harming other people. They mean no harm and they defi nitely should not be punished when the local police are the ones at fault for not even enforcing the skating laws in the fi rst place.

There have also been ar-rests for simply carrying your skateboard on the sidewalk after riding across the street.

Is skating through downtown even causing any problems? If it’s not, then why would someone want

to fi x it?If it wasn’t for the stereotypes of

skaters being up to no good then these arrests would never have hap-

pened. Most of Wilmington’s skaters are doing some-thing with their lives in a positive way and are living as good examples.

If Wilmington’s crime rate is so low

that they have to focus on skates than that is great, but unlikely.

There is no sense in the reason for the arrests, which is that it is a danger

to the people around the local busi-nesses.

If a skateboarder is advanced enough to skate fast down the side-walk, wouldn’t they have the skills to stop and at least be aware of any “dangerous” obstacles? If the skater is a beginner than they wouldn’t be any risk to people in the area because they wouldn’t be going fast in the fi rst place.

Don’t get me wrong the police de-partment in Wilmington does a lot of good for our community. They have lowered the drug rate and made the streets of Wilmington safer, but with the recent arrests it does make one question what is going on.

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For minors living in the United States, there are whole scores of safety regulations on things like driv-ing, drinking, smoking, and applying to the Armed Forces.

One more has been added to the list. Thirty one states including Cali-fornia, Florida and New York now regulate the use of tanning beds and salons by minors.

“Policymakers should con-sider enacting measures, such as prohibiting minors and discouraging young adults from using indoor tan-ning facilities, to protect the general population from possible additional risk for melanoma,” a recent report made by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, a branch of the World Health Organization (WHO) said.

Most of the states that regulate underage tanning prohibit minors under 14 from tanning, while minors over the age of 14 must have a parent or guardian sign a special health waiver provided by the tan-ning salon.

Dr. Jennifer Con-lon of the Pediatric Associates of Day-ton believes posting regulations for minors is logical.

“We post regula-tions for minors for other things that are going to be potentially harmful,” Conlon said. “As long as you’re still a minor and your parents are still responsible for your choices it’s not a bad idea to limit something that we know is potentially harmful.”

The current law in Ohio accord-ing to the National Conference of State Legislatures is that for all those under 18, “facility operators must obtain written consent from a parent/guardian before each tanning session (signed at the facility) that authorizes the number of sessions the minor may purchase. For that number of sessions, the minor may sign for themselves.”

The proposed legislature for 2009 in Ohio, however strictly prohibits all minors under the age of 18 from using a public tanning bed unless a prescription for ultraviolet radiation treatments is prescribed.

Conlon believes there is no safe way to tan, whether it’s in the sun or a salon.

“And actually its interesting because the tanning industry I think, is trying to make a push say-

ing, ‘Oh but we all need more vitamin D,’ and certainly sun exposure does create vitamin D for our bodies, but the bot-tom line is that there are safer ways to get vitamin D…you can take a supplement and not expose yourself to skin cancer,” Conlon said.

Some common side-affects of tanning include sun stroke, sunburns and premature ag-ing. Some other side-affects include melanoma and non-melanoma cancers, which according to the National Cancer Institute is the most common form of cancer.

“It’s the increased risk not only for skin cancer, but for premature aging. And you know, when you’re 18, you just never think about the part where

your skin is gonna look older than your age when

you’re say, in your 40’s or 50’s,” Conlon said. “Most teens are going to tan because they think that the tan look is more attractive.”

According to Conlon, tanning in all forms remains a risk that count-less teens will probably take until regulations are put into place.

“You see people walking around that aren’t that old and their skin looks very old, tanning is one thing that will prematurely age your skin, from ultraviolet sun exposure,” Con-lon said.

Tanning laws to protect minors

Madison Laweditor-in-chief

Next To New a new business that has come into the small town called Wilmington is trying to help out with families that had lost their jobs through DHL/ABX.

“Every-one was starting to lose their jobs, money was getting tidier, and the economy was kind of going south. So we want-ed to solve and help everyone’s needs by opening up this store,” owner Eric Wogomon said.

Next to New is a shop that has donated clothes and shoes for men and women and even teens. There are also dresses for a special dance with affordable prices. It may not be like a big Kohl’s store but it has clothes from stores like Aeropostale, Ameri-can eagle, Hollister and, more. Next to New tries to hold designer brands so people can still look nice, get the clothes they used too, but not pay near the price they are now.

Walking into the new business one is greeted with a great owners welcome. Owner Eric and his wife Sandy ask “how they may help you” to get started.

Eric always wanted to open up

Next to New is next to new in town


his own store but it has always been scary because you never know what you are going to get into. It seemed

like the right time and the right thing to do. “We kind of opened this more to be a part of the community and to help other as well start a store at the same time. It helps people that need money that have clothes that don’t have a job and this is their only from of income of selling their clothes at our store,” said Wogomon.

There are no Wal-Mart or Kmart brands, it is all named brands,

“ All are prices are very low and affordable for everyone to have,” Eric said.

If Next to New is on ones path then it is located on 14 N. South St come out and get some new close for some good prices .

The Next to New store located in downtown Wilmington

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“You never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them.”

That small piece of advice from the beloved classic, To Kill a Mocking-bird, often rings true. In the case of Maryssa Houser, one doesn’t need to stand in her shoes to know her.

As one of three deaf teenagers cur-rently enrolled at Wilmington High School, Houser, a freshman, is open and friendly, and isn’t afraid to jump up and say hello to anyone.

“I want to show my personality, I want to show that I love to be involved with what’s going on…I’m a very friendly per-son,” Houser said via interpreter.

Houser was born in Wilmington, and has been in the dis-trict for three years. Before that, she spent some time at both Fay-etteville and Clinton Massie, as well as the Ohio School for the Deaf in Columbus.

“I think living here is pretty cool. I think what I like best is that it’s very peaceful and quiet around here, I en-joy that,” Houser said. “There doesn’t seem to be a lot of commotion going on.”

Houser has three stepbrothers, one of which is also a fresh-man at WHS and one real sister. Aside from meeting new people and hanging out with her friends, Houser likes to be

involved in a wide variety of sports and activities.

“I really enjoy soft-ball, soccer, cheerleading, cross country and hope-fully soon I’ll get to enjoy swimming,” Houser said. She ran with the WHS Cross Country team this fall.

Aside from sports , Houser is also involved in the Choraliers, WHS’s audition choral group lead by David Beck.

“I am their first deaf person in the Choraliers,” Houser said with a smile. “And some of the kids know a little bit of sign language.”

Houser knew sign lan-guage right from the start. “It is my fi rst language,” she said. “My grandmother was the fi rst deaf person born…my grandfather was born hearing, and got the

fl u and became deaf. And I was the next generation, so my grandparents of course, who were deaf, taught my

mom and her siblings how to sign, so they knew how to—they knew sign language growing up. And so when I was born and I was deaf, my mom was able to com-municate with me and she taught me ASL (American Sign Language) from the begin-ning.”

H o u s e r b e -lieves she can sign pretty well for now, but has trouble with lip-reading.

“Mostly when I communicate w i t h h e a r i n g people we write notes back and forth,” Houser said. “I want to learn how to lip-

read. Maybe some of my friends can help me learn how to do that. I really enjoy hanging out with all of my hearing friends.”

Houser feels most frustrated when

people sometimes choose not to go up and try to talk with her.

“I’m most frustrated because noteverybody will talk to me,” Housersaid. “And I’m a very social personand some people won’t communicate atall. I like to go in and meet new peopleand I don’t like to sit there with nothinggoing on…I understand the hearingworld, and I’d just like to join it.”

In school, Houser said that what sheenjoys most is her computer classes,choir and math.

“I’d like to go to college,” shesaid. Houser is interested in two col-leges specifi cally at the moment; OSU(Ohio State University), and GallaudetCollege in Washington, DC. She isinterested in acting, mechanics, andmortuary science, “I think it’s veryinteresting, I’m a bit nervous about thatthough,” she said.

Houser definitely believes one doesn’t need to be deaf or even know sign language to get to know her, or step into her shoes, per say.

“I’m a very friendly person, I’m fun to be around, and I would re-ally like to teach other people how to sign, I want to help people, you know if they’re sad or depressed, I’d really like to help them feel better, and I think I can do that,” Houser said. “I want everybody to have a great life.”

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Maryssa Houser and friend Justin Proffitt carry a conversation on at lunch.

Maryssa and Justin talking at lunch about their day.

Overcoming silence through songBorn deaf does not stop Maryssa Houser from living her life to the fullest

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First ever blindness awareness monthWith over a 150 million people across the globe visually impaired or blind, New

Jersey and Pennsylvania welcome the fi rst ever Blindness Awareness month.

Across the globe, a child goes blind every single minute. Around 124 million people are severely vi-sually impaired and about 37 million people are blind.

This October, New Jersey and Pennsylvania welcome the fi rst ever Blindness Awareness Month (BAM) thanks to The Little Rock Founda-tion (TLRF), Governor Corzine of New Jersey, Governor Rendell of

Pennsylvania and many others.“We are honored that Governor

Corzine and Governor Rendell have recognized the importance of ex-panding the education of the public and named October as Blindness Awareness Month so that many orga-nizations can work together to build a better world for the blind and visu-ally impaired,” executive director of TLRF, Tina Fiorentino said in a press release.

According to http://www.blind-nessawarenessmonth.org, TLRF is a non-profi t organization dedicated to improving the lives of children who are visually impaired from early child-hood to adulthood.

TLRF was founded by Tina and

Rocco Fiorentino after their twin baby boys, Michael and Rocco, were born four months premature in 1996. Mi-chael died at birth and Rocco had less than a 5% chance of survival, but after ten surgeries he survived and was left with total blindness caused by retin-opathy of prematurity (ROP).

The Fiorenti-nos were desper-ate for support and information and, after expe-riencing frustra-tion at the lack of resources available, they decided to form a foundation to help other par-ents with simi-lar challenges.

“I believe it is important to bring awareness to people that there are many chi ldren and adults who are blind and visu-ally impaired,” TLRF Commu-nity Events Co-ordinator, Deb-bie Nichols said. “However, there are not enough blind children population that doctors are to-tally educated on how to treat a blind child.”

During the month of October, because it is BAM, there will be a number of activities and events to help spread awareness of ways to prevent, treat and cure blindness and other visual impair-


ments. BAM came from the idea and determination of 12 year old, Rocco Fiorentino.

“Last year, I had an idea about edu-cating the public about eye diseases, eye care and to address the rising trend of blindness and severe visual impair-ment.” Rocco Fiorentino said. “So I

went to our local Assemblyman, Lou Greenwald for his support in asking the state of New Jersey to recognize Oc-tober as Blindness Awareness Month . With his help and Assemblywoman Pam Lampitt, they were able to con-vince Governor Corzine to sign a bill into law offi cially naming October as Blindness Awareness Month.”

According to Tina Fiorentino there are currently 80 organizations par-ticipating in BAM in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

“Anyone can get involved too by going to our website at www.blind-nessawarenessmonth.org for details on fundraising events and ideas,” Tina said. “Please help us spread the

“I believe it is impor-

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many children and adults

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impaired.”Debbie Nichols

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word!”Adults and children with visual

challenges need the help of others and according to Debbie Nichols, people should not be intimidated to ask a blind person if they need help.

“To make a difference in the life of a child who is blind or visually impaired,

accept them in your school and be a friend to them,” Tina said. “If you see them facing a challenge, such as fi nd-ing a classroom or going down a fl ight of steps, give them a helping hand.”

Remember, October is BAM only in the states of New Jersey and Penn-sylvania, but could possibly expand to other states as well.

“We are very excited about the opportunities to tell the stories of people like me who face life with the challenges of being blind or visually impaired,” Rocco said. “Maybe we can start in New Jersey and Pennsylvania and take this nationwide!”

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No paint, no pride

Megan PhillipsSports Editor

For many years, students and fans have been able to paint up at football games, basketball games, soccer games; pretty much every sporting team the high school offers. Starting this school year, the rules and restric-tions have changed. Students are no longer allowed to full-body paint up (the chest and back). The new rules state that students must follow the dress code in the student handbook every student got at the beginning of the school year.

If students do want to paint up, they’re allowed to paint their arms, legs and face. No other body part on a student should be showing.

Is it really fair that students in the past could paint their chest, face, arms and legs, anything they wanted as long as it was appropriate, and now students are not allowed to today; for no reason at all? No one was ever harmed, so why change the rules?

“I think it’s not at all fair,” senior Jerica Doyle said. “Why change the rules now? It’s never been a problem in the past. Students are just hav-ing fun and showing good school spirit.”

The administration said the rule is state-wide.

“The rule about going shirtless and having full body paint is a rule from the OHSAA in all tournament contests,” Principal Jeff Fryman said. “The rule is more about the shirtless issue than the body paint. I believe that if you cannot do that at a state contest (sectional, district, or other); why should we allow it at our regular season contests? Students can still show their school spirit without being in full body paint.”

Students at the high school are not happy with the changes made this year; painting up being one of them. Even with this disagreement on the rule, students should always respect school rules.

Students, fans, and spectators can enjoy the game; just make sure you don’t show too much skin doing so.

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New rules keep students from body painting at WHS sporting events

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Study Table is a requirement for all athletes to attend if their grades are dropping, but it is being over used by atheletes who don’t try in class?.

All athletes that have dropping grades and have to bring them up before their game need to go to study table. It is not a source that all athletes should rely on, because then they just don’t try in class.

Personally, getting up earlier, having to do work before I have to is a no no for me. Being in a sport should make an athlete think of what should be done in the classroom. Do all the assigned work, pay attention, and a BIG thing keep your grades up! That way you don’t have to go to Study Tables.

“Anytime we can help our student athletes to bet-ter their academic perfor-mance, I am for it. Our study table rules are in place to help our athletes understand their present performance in a certain class, and try to help them with that performance,” Athletic Director Mike Wallace said.

Ask yourself this question: do I want to go to college and what do I want to go for? If the major object is why you want to go to college is to be the best at that sport. Then I would want to think about my grades, and what I can do to keep them up.

Colleges look at a high school tran-script that contains fi nal grades for the

9th through the 12th grade. They look at your fi nal grades, class rank, and the type of classes taken. If high school offers College Prep, Honors, Acceler-ated, or Advance Placement are you taking those kinds of classes? Since high schools may offer different kinds

of classes, colleges want to have some-thing to which they compare students no matter where they have attended high school. That is why the ACT/SAT is required.

Colleges also want to know if students demon-strate community or school service activities, leader-ship activities, and extracurricular ac-tivities. Many col-leges will require an essay to dem-

onstrate their ability to communicate through the written word.

All of these things together make up a “holistic review” as colleges like to put it.

So athletes should not rely on Study Tables to pull up their grades, unless it is absolutely neccassary. Student athletes should try harderer the FIRST time in their classes, before they slack off and head to Study Table as a way to compete in the next game or match.

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Homecoming, a victory over the Knights

all photos / zach mccune

The varsity football team runs out to take the field against the Kings Knights on Oct. 18.

No illnesses for our student section.The football team strives to raise the score against the Knights

The Hurricane defense holds off the Knights from scoring a touchdown on Oct. 18

The varsity football team defeated the

Kings Knights 35-14 Sunday

night, Oct. 18, 2009

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Obsession: a continuous and dis-turbing preoccupation with an often unreasonable feeling attached. The term obsession is taken to a com-pletely unheard of extreme in the domestic thriller, Obsessed, star-ring the music industry’s Beyonce Knowles. The home of Knowles’ character, Sharon, along with her husband Derek (Idris Elba), has been infi ltrated by the seductive offi ce temp with a disturbing at-tachment to her boss, Derek.

As the plot progresses, the ten-sions in Derek’s offi ce do as well. The seductive temp named Lisa (Ali Larter), transitions into more than just a temp, she becomes a haunting temptation. Lisa’s con-tinuous sexual advances begin to make him uncomfortable and cause him to question her role in the offi ce and whether or not she is trustworthy.

Lisa’s character is further ques-tioned at the offi ce Christmas party, where she nearly traps Derek in the bathroom, hoping to persuade him. When the slightly intoxicated Derek refuses, it sets Lisa on the obsessive rampage she will follow for the duration of the fi lm. She becomes the predator and Derek becomes her prey.

Following the fi rst temptation, Derek returns to work the follow-ing Monday in hopes of getting her terminated from the job, when he discovers that she mysteriously quits. His moral and spirits begin to lift and he believes the awkward tensions to be at an end. Unfortu-

nately for Derek, Lisa continues to pop back into his life at the most in convenient times.

The biggest inconvenience for Derek was Lisa’s belief that she and Derek were in love and were in a relationship. Although she was sadly mistaken she continues to act on her obsession. Lisa locates Derek at a work retreat, sneaks into his room after they have had an angry alterca-tion and attempts to commit suicide, which created an eerie and disturbing undertone at this point in the fi lm. When Derek is forced to take her to the hospital because he feels morally obligated to do the right thing, he must confront his wife Sharon (Knowles) at the cost of losing some of her trust.

Trust is lost, yet quickly gained back as Knowles’ character witnesses her husband’s attempts to push the estranged Lisa farther away from their family. No efforts succeed and Lisa’s attempts to win Derek and replace Sharon become even more extreme. Pushing the fi ery and strong willed Sharon to the breaking point, as the two have an altercation in the end of the fi lm.

Overall, the fi lm was enticing and able to keep the viewer on the edge of the seat. At times the plot lagged and some of the events became a tad bit predictable and reminiscent of another similar domestic thriller, Fatal Attraction. Although there were some weaknesses, as is true with many other fi lms, the star powered Obsessed, holds its ground and sticks out from other fi lms, earning a grade of a solid B+.

Zach McCuneeditor-in-chief

The auditions are fi nally over and it’s time for the work to begin. The pattern starts with this season’s fall play “Scapino.”

“Scapino” is a play based on four lovers living in Italy and a mischie-vous servant named Scapino. In this twisted love story, the fathers of these lovers visit them to tell them about the wives they have picked for their sons. Little do they know the sons are already with two women they found themselves. Throughout this com-plex plot Scapino works to trick and scam the fathers out of money that the sons need to keep their loves.

The practices consist of long fun-fi lled hours, boasting blocking steps and rehearsing scenes over and over.

Everyone, no matter what part, has to give out effort to make the show come together.

As the show draws closer the tens-er the practices become. The director starts to focus on everything and the actor becomes more in character.

The hours of practice start to pay off as one starts perfecting the little things that give a show personality.

It takes many volunteers to put a show together. If one thing doesn’t get done then a show can fall apart in an instant. Other students help with the production by building the set in their theater classes.

Many of these hard workers are the crew whom are the backbone of the production. They work on keep-ing everyone on the same page with what’s going on and help with the transition into different scenes.

One reason why students par-ticipate in the play is so that they can freely express themselves without having to worry about what others may think.

The play has a long way to go but with the continuous work and effort put out by those involved,“Scapino” is a play that can be enjoyed by many on the 13, 14 and 15 of November.

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-A letter from a cast member.

Sarah Dixon and Stacy Taylor run lines during one of Scapino’s first practices.

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The show in which the world popu-lation blacks out around two minutes while having glimpses into the fu-ture leaves the viewer wanting more.

A team of investigators try to figure out what these visions mean, will they come true, and if this will ever happen again.

Agent Mark Benford (Jo-s e p h F i e n n e s ) a n d A g e n t D e m e t r i N o h ( J o h n C h o )

are the main characters in th is exci t ing new show. The problem with “FlashForward” is that it is has the po-

tential to put out a great first season, but whether there is enough content to last more than one season is the question.

Flash Forward

The newest pop culture phenomenon “Glee” is the best show of the season.

“Glee” is about reject high school students competing in their glee club and overcoming dramatic obstacles.

N o t o n l y i s “ G l e e ” e n t e r -t a i n i n g b u t h i l a r i o u s l y f u n n y.

Aside from Cory Monteith who plays Finn who can neither act nor sing, all the characters are extremely talented.

One up and coming actor this season is Chris Colfer who plays Kurt. Kurt is a gender confused reject at the high school which is set in Ohio.

Whether you’re the captain of the football team, or the lead in the choir “Glee” can be enjoyed by everyone.

“Glee” is exactly what Fox needed to pump up its ratings.

Glee

Yet again NBC attempts to air a show that has no real plot or potential with the new comedy “Community”.

“Community” takes place at a community college where a group of characters make their way through its obstacles and achievements.

“Community” doesn’t live up to expectations. It is funny but lacks plot and is slow moving.

“Community” might have had a chance to make it to season 2 if only it had

a specifi c audience it was focusing on. “Community” will only get my at-

tention if there was absolutely nothing else to do or watch on TV.If you are one of the only people involved with “Community” don’t

get your hopes up, the chances of it returning to a second season are slim.

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st Changing leaves, Changing TV

Neil VanceCopy Editor

Fall not only

brings in a change in the season,

but also a change in the television lineup. While

some new shows live up to expectations, other fall short.

Flash Forward, Glee and Community are the top networks

most advertised new shows, but do they deserve it?

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