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VOLUME 10, ISSUE 2 Denison High School1901 S. Mirick Ave.Denison, Tx 75020“From the Stinger to...”

The Holidays | 5 Sports | 10

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“Even though we’re a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas.”

-Richard Roeper

Cross Country, Golf, and SwimDHS Athletes Work For Excellence

From The Editor

Jamie BranscumEditor-in-Chief

Student By Day, Employee By 3:40Mandi Elrod

Staff Writer

November

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Mikayla RossStaff Writer

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ThanksgivingA Pilgrim Dinner,

An American Tradition

November 24

Christmas Parade

DowntownDecember 1

National Novel Writing

MonthWrite 50,000 in the Month of November

EVENTSCOMING

Dear Reader, What are you most thanks-ful for this year? Is it family? Food? Your Job? If you can’t find anything you are thank-ful for, then try to imagine living without everything you have right now. Living with-out the laundry you hate to wash, without the dishes you won’t clean, without the AC that keeps you awake during class, or without your annoy-ing little sister (my little sister isn’t annoying, of course. If I write that, I will regret it when she reads this editorial). I don’t know of a single person who would want to live without these things. I am most thank-ful for the home I am being raised in. I love the meals we share and the board games we sometimes argue over. I’m glad Jesus is in my life. He is the rea-son I have peace and comfort. As most of us know, some people don’t have family to be with on Thanksgiving. I en-courage you to take someone in this Thanksgiving who needs love. Give him/her a bless-ing that can be passed on for many years. By touching one person’s life, you are affecting a multitude. Most importantly, have a happy Thanksgiving!

One struggle that seems to face teenagers is money. The lack of it, that is. Those who get jobs have the chance to get money. It’s getting harder and harder for teenagers to find jobs these days, since the economy has got-ten so out of hand. Surprisingly though, most students that were asked said that they got jobs be-cause they wanted them, not be-cause their parents made them. This says a lot about teens today, because instead of disregarding responsibility, they embrace it. “I wanted to have a job so that I could feel responsible,” ju-nior Erik Gibbons said. Adults especially feel that stu-dents can get a lot out of work-ing, no matter the age. It’s good for the rest of their lives. “I think that for a student to

have a job is a good idea as long as it doesn’t distract from their aca-demic success,” Principal Warren said. “I had a job when I was in high school and I actually worked for the school as a janitor. I made my own money and I bought my own things.” The law states that all a teen-ager can work is 20 to 30 hours a week. It’s this way so that work hours and school hours don’t contradict with each other, and there’s less stress on the person. So even if it’s difficult, they still have plenty of time to themselves

to finish whatever they need to do for school. “It’s only hard sometimes because I have so much home-work and so much to do. But I wouldn’t trade it for the world,” junior Lauren Hancock said. Getting a small after school job wouldn’t be too bad of an idea. Parents all of over the place talk about how it teaches values, and in the long run a lot of expe-riences are gained for future ca-reers. New businesses are being built every day, and new oppor-tunities are coming with them.

The coldest winter in 30 years was recorded across many parts of the US dur-ing the 2010-2011 winter season. For Texas, it seemed as if it was the coldest win-ter ever. With the inconsis-tency of Texas weather no one can be officially certain of what the weather will be in 30 minutes let alone a whole new day. Some believe

or have heard that with one of the hottest summers, this year brings a harsh winter and heavier snow. “I’m thankful that it’s go-ing to be freezing outside; this summer was extremely hot and I just want some cold,” senior Christian Sher-man said. Many people are excited to bring out the comfy boots, oversized sweaters, scarves, hats, sweats, and long sleeves; anything that has to do with

winter. This year, everyone should be prepared to layer up on the apparel though. The heavy winter is fast ap-proaching and the colds and flus are underway already making their daily rounds hitting people with the “snif-fles.” “I’m glad that I finally get to wear my winter clothes. We definitely need a break from the heat wave we had to face for forever,” senior Rainee Reynolds said.

Happy Thanksgiving DHS!Happy Thanksgiving DHS!

Seniors T hankful For the ColdColdSenior Jenna Martin scooping popcorn at the Cinemark in ShermanPhoto by Chris Ogborn

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November 2011 The Buzz

Every year, many people look forward to the launch of Apple’s latest iPhone, and, every year, they keep getting better than the previous. It has even gotten to the point where you won-der what else there is to add. “I love how when I get text messages and I’m working on Facebook, it will pop up at the top instead of interrupting what I’m doing. It’s a whole lot faster too,” junior Jordan Brown said. Not only is the iOS5 soft-ware up-to-date with many new features, the phone itself is also improved. Even though it looks exactly the same as the iPhone 4, the “death grip” problem in which calls were dropped when the corners of the phone were touched fixed, it is much faster, and the camera has been im-proved to an eight-megapixels. “I’m most excited for [Siri] because I think that it is awe-

some. I’m very for-getful and it’s definitely something I would need,” ju-nior Lauren Handcock said. Software wise, it is getting completely re-designed. Some features are an emoji category added into the phone, you are now able to set custom tones to messages and reminders, a new ringtone store, and delet-ing individual items in the call history, and there will be user setting for the auto-correct and spell check. Siri is also a new feature iOS that will al-low users to set reminders. “Mine was jail broken, so [the

software update] took me about five hours, but it was defiantly worth it. I love it,” Brown said. The update will most likely take a while, anywhere from 25-90 minutes in total. The software is available for iPhone generations 3GS and 4, iTouch generations three and four, and the iPad one and two. “Hopefully, I’ll get another one for Christmas. I had to switch from an iPhone 4 to an HTC Evo 4G and I hate it. I despise it. I would not care if it broke,” senior Emilee Bizzle said.

iPhone 4S Surprises ManyCallie Keese

Staff Writer

Editorial Policy The Buzz newspaper is a student-generated publication that is produced, edited, and maintained by the DHS jour-nalism staff of room 105. The Buzz encourages student ex-pression and is designed to be a forum for open discussion.

As part of its mission to serve as a medium for debate, The Buzz supports and accepts letters to the editor. All sub-missions must be signed by the author and delivered to Room 105. The staff reserves the right to edit any material.

Editorials appearing in The Buzz represent the sole views of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the administration or those of the DHS Journalism Department.

The Buzz StaffAdvisor: Brian EavesEditor-in-Chief: Jamie BranscumManaging Editor: Kayla Robinson

InterestingWebsite

Pinning, posting, collect-ing, and re-pinning; what seems to have become one of the hottest new startups is Pin-terest. It’s a website designed for posting up fun and unique ideas and creations whether it be for beauty, home décor, furniture, crafts, weddings, and basically any idea you can think of. “Pinterest is such a great website; I spend hours on it just looking up cute ideas,” se-nior Jenna Martin said.

This virtual pin board is also designed where accounts can be made to pin up their own cool and enjoyable ideas. Albums are made to differen-tiate categories however a user would like. However, a person could not just simply make an account and go on pinning. They have to send an invite or have an invite be sent to them in order to gain an account on this pin board. “I just had to wait about a day before my invite was confirmed; it didn’t take long at all,” senior Rachael Carney replied.


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Students who receive the gifts are ones who qualify for free/reduced lunches, don’t have the money to purchase

these items, or their families have come upon a hard time.

Photography Staff

Editor: Brooklynn Allen

Co-Editor: Emilee Bizzle

Staff: Lauren Hancock Courtney Clapp

Taylor ReedyKatelyn Montgomery

Chris OgbornCelsey Walker

Staff Writers:Mikayla Ross

Stormy AndersonMandi Elrod

Melody JarvisJessie Johnson

Callie Keese

National Honor Society’s 3rd Annual

Holidayfrom

theHeartDecember 1 from 6-8 p.m.

Main Street Denison, Texas

@ Heritage Park

Come join us for:~FREE hot chocolate ~Writing cards for our brave soldiers

~Taking pictures with SANTA CLAUS ~Seeing perfor-mances by talented DHS students

COAT/BLANKETDRIVEWhen is it? Now through December 1st

Where to drop off? Listen to morning announcements for details. They can also be dropped off at NHS’s Holiday

from the Heart.Who receives the coats/blankets? The Grayson County

Shelter and Pregnancy Crisis Center.

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November 2011The Buzz

COMMENTARY Halloween is enjoyable for most kids, but for teenagers it’s in between being too old to trick-or-treat, and having parents who don’t want to deal with a Halloween party. While most pass out candy or stay home and watch TV, there are many things to do locally. Most teenagers enjoy a good haunted house. They’re creepy, scary, some make you laugh, some make you cry, and some make you wonder what horrible childhood experienced exactly. For those that live to be put through things that would make most adults cringe, we are lucky enough to have one of the scariest haunted houses in America just an hour away: Cutting Edge. Located in Fort Worth, Cutting Edge boasts many titles ranging from a Guinness World Record for being the longest walk through a haunted house to being one of the top 13 scariest haunted houses in America voted by HauntWorld.com in 2010 and 2011. It was also featured on the Travel Channel on the show “America Haunts,” a show featuring the best haunted houses in America. It takes almost an hour to go all the way through the attraction and takes place in an old meat packing plant built a little over 100 years ago. For those wanting an extra thrill in addition to their scare, the Six Flags Over Texas Fright Fest would be an ideal choice.

Not only are the rides still open during Fright Fest, but there are a total of four haunted houses scattered throughout the park. The rides also each have their own scary theme at dark. The only downside of fright fest is that admission into each haunted house costs extra. The haunted houses themselves are completely independent of each other, all with different back stories, themes, scares, and characters. What’s the best part of Fright Fest? According to the website, every movable object is moved around to make you a little more confused. Even though Moxley Manor is half an hour west of Dallas in Bedford, it is a very unique haunted house worthy of checking out. Not only does it share blood, gore, screams, and live action with most other haunted attractions, it is unique in its own way: it might be haunted. Paranormal investigators have found evidence of a possible haunting, but you will just have to decide that for yourself. If you’re one of those people thinking “I really want to have a fun Halloween, but I don’t really want to spend a lot of money…” or “My parents would not at all let me drive all around the city to go to haunted houses,” then my advice to you is to watch the most famous scary movies in America. While most teens have seen movies such as Paranormal Activity, the Saw series, and the Scream series, some of the

best movies, are actually a few years to a few decades old. The Exorcist, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Halloween, Silence of the Lambs, Poltergeist, Psycho, Nightmare on Elm Street (the original, not the new version), The Shining (one of my very favorites), Se7en, and Alien are some of the most famous horror movies in America history. If you go to a horror movie and your first thought is “They needed a lot more blood and gore,” then I suggest watching Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Silence of the Lambs, Nightmare on Elm Street, Se7en, or Alien. They all range from showing a few dead bodies, to gushing blood, to separated body parts. Granted, although all of these do show/have blood in some manner, the amount of gore does range from low to high. If you’re like me though, and the sight of blood and guts makes you want to go cry in a corner, I would stick with The Exorcist, Halloween, Poltergeist, Psycho, and The Shining. While these movies don’t have an insane amount of blood, enough is shown to get the creepy feel of Halloween. I, for one, meshed Halloween experiences by dressing up and being dragged through a haunted forest with my friends, who I’m fairly sure got amusement from scaring me. Then forced to watch horror movies against my will. I hope your Halloween was as exciting (and terrifying) as mine was.

Halloween Ideas for TeensCallie Keese

Staff Writer

On Monday, October 3, President Barrack Obama officially declared October 2011 as National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. While many consider this a huge step, even the President noted that we have a long way to go. “During Domestic Violence Awareness Month, we recognize the significant achievements we have made in reducing domestic violence in America, and we recommit ourselves to the important work still before us,” President Obama said. While many of us would like to believe that such crimes would never happen to us, statistics show that every day three women

Do Extracurriculars Benefit Students ?

Stormy AndersonStaff Writer

While most students don’t think of it beyond something to do after school or something extra to put on a college application, studies suggest that extracurricular activities leads to improved grades, better concentration, and can even be a deterrent of depression. “Extracurriculars help students stay connected to the school by giving them something fun outside of the classroom, and helps students meet other students,” senior counselor Carrie Boetteger said. With approximately fifty clubs and organizations to join at DHS, the possibilities are seemingly endless, and students are reaping the benefits. “I would say approximately 85% of seniors are involved in some form of extracurricular activity,” Boetteger said. However, that estimation only counts toward seniors, not the three other grade levels represented at DHS. Nor does it mention the amount of students involved in more than one activity; students like junior Jaleb Case. “[I’m involved in]

die due to domestic violence in the United States. One in every 13 men will experience domestic violence in their lifetime, compared to the twenty-five percent of American women that will become the victims. However, there are steps one can take to avoid becoming a statistic and that begins with knowing the signs of abuse. Do you recognize any of these situations in your relationship? Does your partner embarrass you with put-downs? Look at you or act in ways that scare you? Control what you do, who you see or talk to or where you go? Stop you from seeing your friends

or family members? Take your money, make you ask for money or refuse to give you money? Make all of the decisions? Prevent you from working or attending school? Act like the abuse is no big deal, that it’s your fault, or even denies doing it? Destroy your property or threaten to kill your pets? Intimidate you with guns, knives or other weapons? Shove you, slap you, choke you, or hit you? Threaten to commit suicide? Threaten to kill you? If you answered yes to any of those questions, you are urged to contact the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-SAFE or at www.thehotline.org.

October for Domestic Violence Awareness

soccer, cross country, Boy Scouts, Art Club, and French Club,” Case said. Yet being involved with too many activities can have side effects, like lack of time and stress. That’s why it’s recommended not to spread one’s self too thin. “It’s best for students to pick a few activities and get very involved in those instead of joining ever club or activity.” Boetteger said. Many students have the desire to join multiple clubs but have difficulty working it in with already complicated schedules. “I have a lot of students involved with Art Club who want to join but can’t because of other commitments like athletics and band,” Art Club sponsor Elizabeth Dillow said. However, in the end, many agree participating in extracurricular activities is worth being constantly busy. “Outside of all the clubs, I really don’t have the time for anything else, but it’s been good for me. I’ve met a lot more people,” Case said.

Stormy AndersonStaff Writer

With Halloween over, one writer reflects on how to have a scary 31st

Food4


Students in a hurry be-tween extracurricular ac-tivities have to buy dinner on a low budget and with limited time, usually lead-ing to an after school meal of greasy, fried, unidenti-fied food at the local fast food chain. However, there are places in Denison that offer express food service that won’t break the scale. Jack in the Box is the top choice of fast food for a ran-dom group of 60 interviewed Denison High School stu-dents. The cheapest menu item, two tacos for 99 cents, is about 320 calories, the third healthiest one-item-meal in the Denison area. A one-item-meal is the cheap-est item at a fast food restau-rant that actually accounts for a meal such that a burger is a meal and fries are not. Advertised as a healthy alternative to fast food, Sub-way is often enticing to stu-dents who want to watch

Cheapest Food For Students

Kayla RobinsonManaging Editor

their weight but overlooked by those searching only for fast and cheap food. Indeed, the 6 inch sub sandwich is a whopping $3.75, a whole $2.76 more than the cheapest f a s t food one-item-meal available in Denison. The 6 inch sub ranks as the sec-ond healthi-est against other one-i t e m - m e a l options here with about 235 calories and 13 grams of fat. The second least expensive one-item-meal is the 99 cent Crunchy Taco from Taco Bell, and also the second most pop-ular with the interviewed high school students. Surprisingly, this taco is also the healthiest of the Denison choices. How-ever, although the Crunchy Taco only yields about 170 calories and 10 grams of fat, most high school students

Listeria WarCantaloupes Vs. Humans

There have been out-breaks of listeria food poi-soning in the past and this time it’s in Rocky Ford can-taloupes that are processed and shipped to at least 25 states by Jensen Farms. The death count is at 23 people and 116 sickened according to the Federal Health Officials. In 1998 listeria-contaminated hot-dogs and deli-meat killed 21 people. The infection seems to been targeted the ill, pregnant and elderly, generally between the ages of 35-96. Though Jensen Farms issued a voluntary recall of the whole fruit on

Melody JarvisStaff Writer

September 14, those who have consumed the fruit can become ill up to sev-eral weeks later. Listeria is a common bacterium that typically causes mild ill-ness in healthy people, but may cause serious illness in the elderly. FDA officials are concerned that Rocky Ford melons may remain in consumers’ homes. Deaths have been record-ed in 12 states including: Colorado, Indiana, Kan-sas, Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, Okla-homa, Texas, and Wyo-ming.

Quick/Healthy Recipes

crave more than one taco for their meal and therefore

Taco Bell is only the healthiest if the student

eats one taco. Whataburger

ranks as the unhealthi-est in the city, with its 620 c a l o r i e W h a t a -b u r g e r . S t u d e n t s

tend to avoid the food because of its relatively high price of $2.69, but the restaurant’s proximity to Munson Sta-dium makes Whataburger an ideal stop for pre-foot-ball game food. This meal contains 30 grams of fat, much higher than that of any other one-item-meal in Denison. Ten percent of the interviewed stu-dents would choose Whata-burger over other fast food.

For many students, a scraped together, chemically preserved, hodgepodge of a bag of chips and some vending machine animal crackers grabbed be-fore fourth period cuts it as a healthy, balanced lunch. Some students simply do not have the time to prepare a sack lunch before school, others, the in-clination. According to www.kidshealth.org, there are many quick, easy, and healthy reci-pes that students can rely on to stay healthy without attempt-ing to digest cafeteria food. Tiny pizzas are a lunch-appropriate take on the typi-cal bagel. One whole wheat bagel, cut in half, will serve as two pizzas. To make these, one

must have an oven set at 325 de-grees. Spreading tomato sauce and low-fat mozzarella cheese over the bagel halves creates the foundation for the “pizza” feel as opposed to that of a “bagel with cheese.” Toppings can in-clude green peppers, chopped onions, tomatoes, mushrooms, cooked spinach, and/or olives. This way, the pizzas prove their versatility and adaptability for any student. These pizzas can bake in the oven on a baking sheet for 5-8 minutes, or until the cheese is bubbly, and yield about 210 calories, 9 grams of protein, 4 grams of fat, and 34 grams of carbohydrates. A quick and easy snack for students is Taco Popcorn. Seven

and a half cups of air-popped popcorn mixed with a variety of spices makes for a snack that can be portioned out into zip-lock bags for a week’s worth. Cooking spray is needed to make the spices, which can in-clude cumin, garlic powder, onion powder, and optional cayenne pepper, stick. Worces-tershire sauce should be drizzled over the popcorn, which is then placed in an oven at 300 de-grees for ten minutes and tossed once. A serving of one and a half cups yields 45 calories, 1 gram of protein, 1 gram of fat, and 9 grams of carbohydrates. Many students wish to find a healthy dessert option, regard-less of the rest of their meal. A

healthier alternative to a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup is a “Peanut Butter Bar.” These bars can be made by melting 1/4 of a cup of margarine with a package of marshmallows in a saucepan, then removing it from heat and mixing in 6 cups of puffed rice cereal, 1/2 cup of peanut butter chips, 1/2 cup of chocolate chips, and 1/2 cup of chopped pea-nuts. Pressing this mixture into a baking pan will evenly distrib-ute the dough into a flat bar-like shape, which should be chilled in the refrigerator and then cut into 2 x 1.5 inch bars. One bar yields about 94 calories, similar to that of a “100 calorie pack” of popular desserts, and 2 grams of protein and 4 grams of fat.


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Following Thanksgiving, normally falling between the 23rd and the 29th, people may be familiar with a day most known by the name… Black Friday! As the first day after the last major holiday before Christmas it inaugurates the Christmas season. It isn’t an actual holiday in the least bit, but surprisingly there are a huge percentage of employers who give some of their employees the day off in hope of an increasing number in potential shoppers. Black Friday has been the busiest shopping day since the year 2005. From 1933 through 2001, Black Friday ranked from fifth to tenth on the list of busiest shopping days, with the Saturday before Christmas usually taking first place. However, in 2003, Black Friday actually was the busiest shopping day of the year and it has retained that position every year since except for the year 2004, when it was ranked second. The day after Thanksgiving

being the “official” start of the holiday shopping season may be linked with parades celebrating Thanksgiving often including an appearance by Santa at the end of the parade, with the idea that ‘Santa has arrived.’ Eventually it just became an unwritten rule that no store would try doing Christmas advertising before the parade was over. Therefore, the day after Thanksgiving became the day when the shopping season officially started. In the past years the Black Friday sales have been known to start extremely early and entirely too late, but surprisingly, they used to last the entire weekend! This practice has drastically disappeared in recent years however, to create a larger sense of urgency in the buyer’s minds. The term Black Friday actually originated in Philadelphia by 1966, and began to expand in usage in 1975 as shown by two newspaper articles from November 29, 1975, both datelined in Philadelphia. By the early 1980s, a theory began to circulate that retailers traditionally operated at a financial loss for most of the

year and made their profit during the holiday season on the day after Thanksgiving. When this would be recorded in the financial records, once-common accounting practices would use red ink to show negative amounts and black ink to show positive amounts. Black Friday, under this theory, is the beginning of the period where retailers would no longer have the losses (the red) and instead take in the years profits (the black). The earliest known use was found in a 1981 Philadelphia Inquirer and presents the “black ink theory as one of several competing possibilities: “If the day is the year’s biggest for retailers, why is it called Black Friday? “Because it is a day retailers make profits, or black ink.” – Grace McFeeley of Cherry Hill Mall said. While most retailers intend to and actually do make profits during every quarter of the year, some retailers are so dependent on the Christmas shopping season that the quarter including Christmas produces all the year’s profits and compensates

Ingredients needed are: ¾ cup packed brown sugar (divided into ½ and ¼ measurements), 1 tsp ground cinnamon, ½ tsp salt, 2 lbs.butternut squash (peeled, seeded, and thinly sliced),1 (21 oz) can apple pie filling, 2 Tbs lemon juice, ½ cup all-purpose flour, ½ cup quick-cooking oats, 6 Tbs cold butter or margarine. Preparation: In a bowl, combine ½ cup brown sugar, cinnamon and salt. Add squash, pie filling

Spirit of Black Friday Shopping for Seasonal Gifts

Sweet Thanksgiving Recipes for the Family Holiday DinnerJessie Johnson

Staff Writer

Jessie JohnsonStaff Writer

and lemon juice. Pour into a greased 9-in. square baking dish. Cover and bake at 350 degrees F for 30 minutes. In a small bowl, combine the flour, oats and remaining brown sugar. Cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Sprinkle over squash mixture. Bake 45-50 minutes longer or until topping is golden brown and squash is tender. Heads up: This recipe is pretty time consuming. You might need to try this recipe a few times to get it just right to fit your taste buds. The Butternut Squash taste can be a tad overwhelming. Your guest may enjoy having more of the apple pie filling to even out the taste, but good thing is it’s up to the baker! Also, the crisp part of this recipe didn’t taste too crispy… So, you may have to get creative on that part!

for losses from other quarters. Many retailers close to Canada frequently attract cross-border traffic, so in 2009 several major Canadian retailers had their own version of the day by running promotions to discourage shoppers from leaving for the U.S. Canada’s Boxing Day has often been compared to Black Friday in terms of retailer impact and consumerism. More recently though, Black Friday has been exported to nations outside of North America such as Australia and the United Kingdom by major online retailers like Amazon or Apple. Recent years have seen marked increase in extreme chaos resulting from people’s desires to take advantage of Black Friday sales. In 2006, a man in Roanoke, Virginia shopping at Best Buy was recorded on video assaulting another shopper. In 2008 a crowd of approximately 2,000 shoppers in Valley Stream, New York, waited outside for the 5:00 a.m. opening of the local Wal-Mart. As opening time approached the crowd grew anxious and when the doors were opened the

crowd pushed forward, breaking the door down, and trampling a 34 year old employee to death. The shoppers did not appear concerned with the victim’s fate, expressing refusal to halt their stampede when other employees attempted to intervene and help the injured employee, complaining they had been waiting in the cold and were not willing to wait any longer. In 2010, a Madison, Wisconsin woman was arrested outside of Toys ‘R’ Us store after cutting in line, and threatening to shoot other shoppers who tried to object. A Toys for Tots volunteer in Georgia was stabbed by a shoplifter. A man was also arrested at a Florida Wal-Mart when other shoppers waiting in line for the store to open noticed that he was carrying a handgun and reported the matter to police. From Black Friday’s beginning in 1966, all the way until now, there has been a lot of history made concerning the topic. However, remember, though the shopping is fun, tis the most important thing to simply remember the spirit behind it.

Often, the Holiday season is a time to impress friends and family with tasty treats, and below are a few recipes that are tasty enough that everyone will be attacking the dessert table!

Ingredients needed are: 1 cup butter (softened), 1 cup light brown sugar, 1 egg yolk, 1 tps vanilla, ¼ tsp salt, 2 cups unsifted flour, 1 pkg semi-sweet chocolate chips (6 oz), ¾ cup

Ingredients needed are: 2 cups crushed pretzels, ¾ cup margarine, melted, 2 tps white sugar, 1 package cream cheese (8 oz), ¾ cup white sugar, 4 ½ oz frozen whipped

If you have any commentary after trying these recipes out, feel free to stop by Room 105 (the Journalism room) and drop your comments off in the box right outside of the door, and we’ll make sure to put your comments in the next issue!

walnuts, coarsely chopped. Preparation: Pre-heat the oven to 350°F. Grease a 9x13 inch pan. Beat the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add the egg yolk, vanilla and salt and mix until thoroughly combined. Beat in the flour and mix until just combined. Turn the batter into the pan, evening it out by pressing it with a sheet of wax paper to help your hands from sticking. Bake for 22-25 minutes, or until golden brown. Remove from the oven

topping (thawed), 1 pkg strawberry flavored gelatin (6 oz), 2 cups boiling water, 2 (10 oz) packages frozen strawberries. Preparation: Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). In a medium bowl, mix crushed pretzels, margarine and sugar. Press crushed pretzel mixture into the bottom of a 9x13 inch baking dish, and bake in the preheated oven 8 minutes. Remove from heat and allow cooling.

and immediately sprinkle with chocolate chips. Let the chocolate chips sit for a few minutes to soften, then spread with a rubber spatula until they form a smooth, even chocolate layer. Sprinkle nuts evenly on top. Heads up: For all those chocolate lovers, you’re going to want to put a lot of chocolate chips, and perhaps let up on the flour so that the chocolate is really affective! Makes 24 large squares or 48 small triangles.

Blend together the cream cheese and sugar. Fold in whipped topping and spread evenly over cooled pretzel mixture. In a medium bowl, dissolve the strawberry flavored gelatin in boiling water. Mix in strawberries and set aside to cool for 15 minutes. Pour gelatin mixture over cream cheese mixture and refrigerate until set, about 4 hours. Heads up: It’s really sweet, so feel free to go easy on the sugar!

Chocolate Toffee Squares Butternut Apple Crisp

Pretzel Salad

See a Need... Jamie Branscum

Editor-in-Chief

“As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping your-self, the other for helping others,” the late humanitar-ian and actress Audrey Hep-burn once said. Many groups of students at Denison High School have already learned this philosophy. National Honor Society recently do-nated money to Mrs. Nowlin and her family while her 3 month old son, Caleb, went through surgery. “We chose to give money to Mrs. Nowlin because she is a member of our DHS community and was going through a tough time. We felt that a helping hand might re-lieve some of the stress Mrs. Nowlin was under,” NHS President Mary Claire Carlson said. Pediatrician Dr. Lip-scombe at Texoma Medi-cal Center said diagnosed Caleb with Craniosyn-ostosis when he was 2 months. Normally, the skull is in pieces after birth and slowly molds together over time. How-ever, Caleb’s skull was al-r e a d y

molded together when he was born. “[The surgeon] had to take part of the skull out. Because we found out early, only part of the skull had to be taken out. If we would have found out later, it would have been a more extensive surgery,” Mrs. Nowlin said. Encouraging baby Caleb during the whole process was his mother, father David, and brothers Matthew (5) and Joshua (4). Caleb now has to wear helmets 23 hours a day for 6-8 months in order to make sure his skull is piecing together correctly. Caleb is al-lowed freedom from the hel-met one hour a day for bath time, play time, and whatever

else. His family had fun dec-orated his three little

helmets. A helmet alone without

i n s u r a n c e cost about

$3,000.

“Because of [the donation], we were able to take care of the helmet before Caleb’s sur-gery. We were able to give him his helmet right after the sur-gery. He had the helmet right when he needed it. It is a big burden off our shoulders. A million thank you’s,” Mrs. Nowlin said. With a decorated helmet and a supportive family, Caleb is doing well today. He came out of the surgery well. His testimony can relate to DHS students and faculty that are dealing with a hardship. “So many are going through so many things. Constant en-couragement was the biggest thing for me. To find people who love and encourage is

important. One step at a time,” Mrs. Now-lin said. Mrs. Nowlin said that DHS s t u d e n t s and faculty should be looking for ways to help

others. Students can do this by being involved with NHS, DenTeens, Friends of Rachel, Stuco, and other service based organizations. Even without membership with one of these clubs, students and faculty can reach out to others with a caring heart and a helping hand.

“As you grow older, you will discover that you have

two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for

helping others.” -Audrey Hepburn

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What you might not know!

Angela NOWLINNHS LENDS A HELPING HAND TOWARDS ANGELA NOWLIN, ENGLISH TEACHER, FOR HER NEWBORN SON, CALEB.

...Fill a NeedJessie Johnson

Staff Writer

“There are some

students who

attend DHS who volunteer there be-cause the

shelter has made a

significant impact on their lives...”

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is worthless. -Aesop

It’s obvious that there are needs to be met everywhere people look. However, with busy schedules it’s hard to make time for anything that doesn’t have a due date attached to it. But on October 8, 2011 the Stu-co of Denison High School made an effort to reach out to the current residents of the Grayson County Shelter by showing up and simply asking “What can we do for you?” “As the Vice President of Student Council, I was amazed with the turn out in the num-ber of students who volunteered on their own time to help with the Homeless Shelter in Deni-son. Our volunteer hours were between 9 and 3, and the time we spent there we were helping with the chores inside the shel-ter, organizing the pantry, orga-nizing the Crowded Closet, and also playing with the children on the playground. I witnessed

such a

great thing coming from the kids that go to our own high school, because the things that we did for the people who were residents of the shelter seemed to bring them such joy. It was such an awesome feeling to give back,” senior Kaylem Renfro said. While students take the time to volunteer at the shelter due to opportunities with school functions or clubs, there are some students who attend DHS who volunteer there because the shelter itself has made a signifi-cant impact on their lives. “Because I used to live there I wanted to give back. It’s funny because I’m there so much I’m kind of known as a daughter or as a sister to some of the people that live there now,” sophomore Kathryn Garlick said. Kathryn has been able to look back on the shelter as something in need of pouring back into, but some may as-sume living in a shelter may af-fect kid’s attitudes or outlooks

on life in a negative perspec-tive, that could be reflected

in their behavior. “There’s a big situa-tion with the kids act-ing up. If they don’t

obey they get something called ‘the red chair’. They normally have to sit there until they stop acting up. There’s sometimes even a line for it. It’s normally the older resident’s kids, and their behavior is normally af-fecting the newer kids,” the fre-quent volunteer said. Kids in homeless shelters can be very vulnerable to the influencing of others, especially newer residents. Positive influ-ences are good to have around during the years these children are developing, and thanks to volunteers they’re able to have that. “There are a lot of churches that come there and the kids enjoy getting to get out when there’s more volunteers. Like a couple of weeks ago there was a group that came and took the kids to Waterloo and they got to hang out and play for like two hours and they loved it. But there are adults in need as well.” Kathryn said. Some approach the holiday season as a time to serve others; to be able to go pour time and energy that they may or may not have serving like Kathryn does on a regular basis. Howev-er, more often than not, people

tend to leave the “chain reac-tion” thing, to someone else. “How you spend 2% of your life, will determine how you spend the 98%.” -Anonymous The quote above presents the idea that the littlest time people spend on something can influ-ence the majority of time spent on something else. So perhaps if 2% of everyone’s time was spent on serving others it would be-come the 98%. Maybe it’d be-come a lifestyle. Maybe it’d even start a chain reaction. The Grayson County Shel-ter located at 331 West Morton Street Denison, TX is always welcome to volunteers. They’re always looking for full or part time volunteers to help with the following: Cleaning & Mainte-nance, Preparing Meals, Assist-ing the Crowded Closet, Of-fice/Clerical, Gardening & Yard Work, Stocking the Pantries, Computer Work, Scheduling, Planning Fundraisers, Mak-ing Calls, Playing Games, Babysitting Children, and Grocery Shopping. For more details please contact 903-465-6041, or stop by, and they’ll get you set up in an area that fits your ability to give back the most!

An old Stinger favorite makes its reappearance as the Buzz’s first Deal or Dud....Do you think Neuro Drinks are a deal, or a dud?

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Mandi ElrodStaff Writer

Deal or Dud: Neuro Drinks

COMMENTARY I personally have never been much for energy drinks. They’re

Think about the average day for a teenager in high school. That alarm clock that is hated but secretly loved because its loud beeping can do nothing but awaken, the “god of keeping things on time”, goes off. Most of the time it’s straight to the snooze button for those bliss-ful 8 minutes of sleep, until it goes off again. Then the slow but steady awakening pro-cess which can take a couple hours or so, depending on how late that cute guy or gal from math class decided to keep texting the night before. Then it’s off to school where the only answer anyone will get for a couple of hours will be “ugh” or “whatever.” According to The Ameri-can Sleep Disorders asso-ciation, teens need anywhere from 9.5 to 10 hours of sleep every single night, because hormones that are important to growth and sexual matura-tion are released during slum-ber. Teens these days usually get about 7.5 to 8 hours of sleep a night if they’re lucky. This leaves them tired and cranky for the rest of the day. “Almost all teenagers as they reach puberty, be-come walking zombies be-cause they are getting far too little sleep,” James B Maas, one of the nation’s leading sleep experts, said. On his website he also states that insufficient sleep causes problems in school such as being sleepy in class, not doing work, and hav-ing disciplinary problems more frequently than usual. In Elementary school, the phrase “nap time,” sent chil-dren running around crying that they weren’t tired, and it became known as an un-fair punishment. But getting older, those children that once hated those stupid mats on the floor would do just about anything to get one. Studies suggest that the best thing to do would be for par-ents to give their teens earlier bed times, and to join clubs or sports so that they’re bus-ier during the day and more tired earlier in the evening.

usually unhealthy and don’t re-ally do what they’re supposed to. So when I was walking through

Wal-Mart one day, I re-member my attention being caught by the bright colors and cool design of the bottles of Neuro drinks lined up on a display case, and was surprised at how badly I wanted to try one. At the price of $1.60, they’re about half the price of a normal energy drink and pretty much the same size as a 16 oz. can. Finally, af-ter about 10 minutes of pure contemplation, I finally decided to try the plain red Neuro Sonic, because it was said to promote an increase in high level functioning, as well as better memo-

ry, alertness and concentration. The taste was like no other that I can describe; it tasted sort of fruity and had a funny after-taste that I couldn’t quite put my finger on. After about 10 minutes, being the critic that I am, I started to think that as usual the stupid energy drink wasn’t going to work, and I was just not thinking when I bought it. Surprisingly within an hour I had begun to feel more re-vived and awake. It had actually worked, and it honestly amazed me. One bottle of Neuro has only 35 calories and there are no by- products in any of them. I honestly think that everyone should try one of these drinks.

Verdict:

Overrated?Mandi Elrod

Staff Writer

COMMENTARY Thirst. It’s a pretty av-erage concept that gen-erally gets taken care of quickly in today’s soci-ety, with our easy access to such commodities as water bottles. But, as I experienced recently during our school lunch period, not everyone has the opportunity to quench their thirst. It was around the middle of C lunch, 12:30 pm. Having for-gotten to pack a bever-age in my handy dandy plastic lunch box with the froggy on the front, I was really thirsty af-ter eating my delectable meal of plain white rice and hamburger meat. I decided to get in line at the “sub line,” where the lunch lady told me

Sleep:

that they were out of water. A tad disgrun-tled, I assumed that maybe this line was only partially stocked due to the fact that there are also the Snack Shack and the standard cafeteria lines. The Snack Shack was my next stop. As I peered into the window, I saw only a few Powerades sitting in the fridge, but asked about the water anyway. “You can have milk,” the lunch ladies said. I don’t drink milk. I don’t drink the juice from the school be-cause it’s generally half-frozen and oddly slushy. And I don’t drink sugary Pow-erade. I wanted wa-ter. I craved water. I

needed water. The body is about 60% water, and I was functioning at somewhere in the realm of 45% after the rice absorbed all of the liq-uid in my body. Is that too much to ask, to have access to water during school lunches? I stared at the vending machines at the back of the com-mons. Full of ice cold water bottles, but shut off until after lunch, as per a new Texas State Law that students can-not be provided with access to “competitive foods,” foods that com-pete with the National School Lunch Program. The lack of a water fountain in the com-mons or cafeteria left me with no other choice but to check out the school

lunch lines. They were devoid of water bottles, also, but the lunch ladies indubita-bly offered me milk. The new laws seem to have been put in place to make stu-dents healthier. But, students are being de-prived of the “liquid of life” during lunch, leaving them with the choice of either pro-longing their thirst or succumbing to the sub-par thirst-quench-ers that the school has deemed appropriate for us. We deserve to at least be given access to some type of water if school lunches are to continue to be monop-olized. Water, water, almost everywhere, but not a drop to drink.

No More Water at Lunch


The cafeteria is running out of certain foods and drinksbefore juniors and seniors have the chance to buy them.

DEAL

should be booming and every teenager should have one, but so far it has not turned out that way. “It’s terrible; I think I only had one friend when I checked it last, because hardly anyone actually uses it,” junior Joseph Trinkle said.

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When a new website is created, with the popularity of social media in this technological age, an onslaught of eager teenagers ready for a better system have been known to flood the website to sign up for an account on the latest and greatest social website. “I wanted to see if it’s like Facebook, if it was the new place to socialize,”

junior Joseph Trinkle said. Google+ was opened to the public on September 20, 2011. Around that same time, Facebook went through a major update that many people were upset about. It seemed as if everyone was going to leave Facebook for one reason or another and get a Google+, either because they were sick of the constant changes of Facebook or because they just wanted to try Google+ out. “I like that Google+ gives you

access to all the things run by Google though, like YouTube and all that. You don’t need separate accounts,” junior Maria Hayes said. Not only does Google+ give you access to all other websites run by Google, it also comes with new features that Facebook has never had before. “Circles” are used to order a user’s friends, and then the user can share certain information with certain friends. The site also comes with an image editor, along with sharing and privacy settings.

Group video chat is also available on the site which is open for up to ten people per “hangout”. “Video Chat and Circles [would be a nice addition to Facebook],” senior Chris McClenny said. Even though Google+ does have many features that Facebook does not have, and may not ever have, the amount of teenagers signed up is very few, even though there were over 40 million users in October of 2011. It seems with that statistic, Google+

Google + more?Callie Keese

Staff Writer

COMMENTARY What is depression? By definition it is a disorder in

which the person e x p e r i e n c e s p r o l o n g e d h o p e l e s s n e s s and lethargy until usually rebounding to normality. Now see, depression has a few levels for example there is the mood swings defined above, and then there

is Bipolar, also known as Manic Depression. In this a person goes from depressed- hating the world to an overly active, hyperactive state. In the right hands, bipolar can be a productive disorder. Some of history’s most creative people like Walt Whitman, and Ernest Hemingway, were all bipolar. The point for this rant of mine is this. Bad things happen, and while depression is a mental disorder and may not be able to be prevented; it is your choice what you

do with it. Yes, you can try to sleep it off, not eat, cut yourself off from human contact- Or you could get a pencil, go somewhere you are comfortable, and write something amazing. Put it in a competition, win, and publish something. You can’t write? Then draw, sing, dance, create, destroy, mold, the possibilities are truly endless. Life is not fair, and it plays by its own rules. In this game we willingly play, we are the puppet masters of our seeming predestinated playground.


Different Kinds of Depression


Gas Guzzler

Gas prices have always been an issue. They are either too high or too low; some part of the country is always suffering. According to GasBuddy.com October 31st, 2011 the average gas prices in Denison Texas were $3.45, and just a week before that it was ten cents less. The cheapest regional price is $2.64 in the Gulf Coast. Eia.gov says “A loss of Libyan crude exports of over one million barrels [of Gasoline] per day, and along with unrest in the

M i d d l e E a s t , helped to

push the average world

crude oil price from around $90

per barrel in mid-February 2011 to over

$120 per barrel by mid-April. Gasoline prices went over $4 per gallon in many areas of the country”. Resources are saying it’s not likely that filling up the gas tank will be easier. This is a result of China being rebuilt, and production costs, the price of getting oil out of Gulf of Mexico, being so high. China is in demand of more oil now than ever so they can become a new country. Many would ask why we can’t just drill from Alaska. Many believe that if Alaska is drilled the environment

will never be the same. The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee fears oil spills. It may be a little more complicated than America just saying, “Let’s go drill somewhere we own.” The W a s h i n g t o n Examiner online however, said that the oil prices are going down by the penny, Amarillo has the highest gas prices at 3.31 and Corpus Christi has the lowest at $3.12. This is the normal for this year though. “The national average is just one penny away from being the lowest we’ve seen since the start of March, even as crude

oil prices have risen,” Patrick DeHaan, GasBuddy.com Senior Petroleum Analyst said. Prices as of November 6, 2011

stood 42.0 cents per gallon higher than the dame day one year ago and 1.4 cents per gallon higher than a month ago.

One of the annual American holidays,

where people all over the U.S.A. get together with loved

ones, stuff their faces, and spend time with

one another. It’s about love and being thankful. The “First

Thanksgiving” was in 1621 when the Plym-outh colonists and

Wampanoag Indians celebrated the har-

vest together. Because of Abraham Lincoln, it officially became a holiday in 1863 after many years of infor-

mal celebration. Now, a favorite part of the celebration is turkey and pie, football, and

family time. Enjoy the holidays

DHS!

Thanksgiving

Sports10


Last year, the girls cross country team finished 3rd in

Boys Basketball

Boys BasketballFriday, Nov. 18

@ Princeton

Monday, Nov. 21Against Byron Nelson

Home

Saturday, Nov. 26 Against Timbercreek

Home

Girls Basketball

Girls BasketballMonday, Nov. 21

Against WhitesboroHome

Monday, Nov. 28@ Gainesville

SwimSwimSaturday, Nov. 19

Invitational @ Frisco

GAMESCOMING

Cross Country Brings Glory To DHS Jamie Branscum

Editor-in-Chief

District and advanced to the Region 2-4A Championship and finished number 17 out of 24 teams. This year, the Varsity girls have placed 9th out of 15 in a run at Muenster on September 10th, 5th out of 10 at Pottsboro on September 24th, and 2nd out of 8 at Waterloo on October 1st. The Varsity boys placed 1st in Muenster, 3rd in Pottsboro, and 2nd at the Waterloo Run. At the Sherman Arts 5K meet, Alex Shock and Maggie Maddux won their individual age divisions. The Head Coach this year is Scotty Voight and the Assistant Coach is Sarah Stanley. The Cross Country State Meet is November 12th at Old Settler’s Park in Round Rock, Texas.

The 2011-2012 golf teams are represented by 17 boys and 5 girls. Varsity Boys are Ryan Shumaker, Eric Gann, Dalton Johnson, Clay Langford and Austin Adams. Varsity Girls are Erin Noah, Chelsea Adams, Lauren Joie, and Mary Ann Fox. On October 31st, at the girls’ tournament at Twin Creeks in Allen, Noah shot a 105, Chelsea shot a 102, Joie shot a 118, and Fox shot a 117. The boys’ team placed first at the Richardson Big 4 Invita-tional, with Shumaker shoot-ing a 75, Gann shooting an 81,

Where “Fore” Art Thou?


Johnson shooting a 76, Lang-ford shooting a 91, and Austin shooting a 97. Anyone can watch a golf tournament, most of which are out of town. Although the fall season ended October 31st, the spring season begins in Febru-ary and ends with the district tournament in April.

Sophomore Josh Brown enjoys his part in the TOG Band. Photo by Courtney Clapp

Junior Quentin Mason practices for Jazz Band. Photo by Kateyln Montgomery

The work is not over for the Colorguard and Touch of Gold Band, as they still have to com-

pete against other schools.

Photo by Courtney Clapp

Senior Araceli Rodriguez performs with the Colorguard Photo by Courtney Clapp

Photo by Brooklynn Allen Photo by Brooklynn AllenPhoto by Celsey Walker

November 19th is the last swim meet this semester until the finals on December 9th.

Cross Country runners honored with award at Munson StadiumPhoto by Taylor Reedy

Photos by Brooklynn Allen

Swim Team meets more than expecatations at DHS

Fun Page 11


Happy Thanksgiving!

Connect The Dots!

Happy Birthday Scorpio and Sagittarius!

Scorpio Sagittarius

(Oct. 23-Nov. 21)

The Scorpion

Element: Water

Positive Traits:

Loyal

Resourceful

Observant

Dynamic

Negative Traits:

Jealous

Obsessive

Manipulative

Suspicious

You May Know:

Katy Perry

Picasso

Scarlett Johansson

Leonardo DiCaprio

Bill Gates

(Nov. 22-Dec. 22)

The Archer

Element:: Fire

Positive Traits:

Helpful

Benevolent

Caring

Friendly

Negative Traits:

Over Bearing

Hot Tempered

Self Centered

Superficial

You May Know:

Walt Disney

Jimi Hendrix

Frank Sinatra

Ozzy Osborne

Sarah Silverman

The Flower: Part Two

To Be Continued...

Elizabeth Baker*Jennifer Painter Brianna O’QuinJuanita Wilks

Julie Newsome

GEIV AHSNKT

TKREYU

OMNVEREB

Word Scramble Fun!

Answers:

Give Thanks,Turkey,

November, Pilgrim,

Autumn

*Last Issues’s Credit on ‘The Flower’ should have included Elizabeth Baker. We apoligize for any inconvience this may have caused.

ILSMPIRG

TANUUM

If You Have Any

Thoughts, Comics, Po-ems, Sto-ries, or

Comments for the Fun Page (or any thing else)

Submit Your Idea to Room

105!

Grayson, Would You Please Present Your Poem to the

Class?

Yes Ma’am

Roses, Once Brightly Red...

... and then you faded

like the pink

ribbon around

my wrist.

Roses?

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The holidays have once again taken the stage with joy-ful spirits; it’s a time for celebra-tion. This time of the season is definitely one that is celebrated more than ever. The happiness and the love spread throughout this one time frame is some-thing that amazes everyone. “I love the holidays, it’s my favorite time of year. I love the atmosphere…and food,” senior Beau Hester said. Many people do get that “lit-tle kid on Christmas morning” feeling when they think about


the wonders that go on from Oc-tober to January. It is, without a doubt, a time for giving and receiving. Thanksgiving is what most people consider the time to be thankful. Its way of giving thanks for the things they have been blessed with and spend-ing time with their loved ones. “All the quality time with my family is what I enjoy, and the food, let’s not forget about the food,” senior Austin Ratcliff said. Food is definitely a major part in the holiday cheer. Pies and casseroles, bread and baked

Christmas• Give and Recieve Presents

• Decorate the Christmas tree

• Prepare for Santa’s visit

Kwanzaa• Decorate

• Be proud of African heritage

• Honor the seven principles

goods, even home soul foods are just some of the favorites for this time of year. Hot foods that make the cold weather even more enjoyable are popular. A roasting fire with hot chocolate while a festive movie is on lifts the spirit even higher. Songs about Christmas time play and smiles are seen all around. “My favorite thing that gets me even more excited about the holidays is the music. If I could play it all year round I would (and sometimes I do),” said senior Bailey Abrantes.

Giving Thanks for the Break

• Eat Turkey with Stuffing

• Give thanks for Family, Friends, and Food

• Watch football thanKsgiving

• Light a candle on the menorah each night

• Eat foods fried in oil

• Play with a dreidel

Hanukkah

How to Celebrate:

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