The Epigraph, Fall 2012

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The Epigraph Vol. 12 Issue 1

Co-Curricular:Diet in Yucaipa High . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Yucaipa’s Market Night/Yucaipa Improvements . . . . . . 6

A Whole New Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

A Changed Class: Flipped Teaching . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

News:Pay at the Pump: Customers get ‘Skimmed’ . . . . . . . 10

Seasonal Jobs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Features:Hometown Hero’s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Queen Bean Caffe: Yucaipa’s Newest ‘Addiction” . . . . . 14

Fancy Friday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Sports:Bryce Miller “Out of the Blue” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Tori Dutchover “On the Right Foot” . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Eric Abrams “The Boy of Fall” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Emilee Corral “Show Me No Love” . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Gap Jumping to Save a Generation . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Entertainment:Pokemon/Movie Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

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Staff Reporters: Astrid Ahumada, Vanessa Arce, Kimberly Arriaga, Miguel Aviles, Madeline Barton, Nancy Bazan, Alexandria Bush, Briana Giron, Savanna Groza, Crystal Lopez, Nikki Mailloux, Vanessa Pedersen (Co-photography editor), Courtney Sarringer, Aileen Sepulveda, Kemper Winkelman, Advisor: Scott Kennedy


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M e e t T h e E d i t o r s

Copy EditorCoolness Editor

Gino Woulard Jade Murguia Sara Shackleford Jealee Hubbard Samantha Taylor

Lawrence Sanchez Owen Beltran Alyssa Sanchez Zach Lungstrum Marcella Molina

Editor in ChiefFeatures Editor

Editor in ChiefFeatures Editor

Managing EditorNews Editor

Managing EditorNews Editor

Sports Editor Sports Editor Co-Curricular Editor Entertainment Editor Co-Photography Editor

Co-Curricular:Diet in Yucaipa High . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Yucaipa’s Market Night/Yucaipa Improvements . . . . . . 6

A Whole New Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

A Changed Class: Flipped Teaching . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

News:Pay at the Pump: Customers get ‘Skimmed’ . . . . . . . 10

Seasonal Jobs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Features:Hometown Hero’s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Queen Bean Caffe: Yucaipa’s Newest ‘Addiction” . . . . . 14

Fancy Friday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Sports:Bryce Miller “Out of the Blue” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Tori Dutchover “On the Right Foot” . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Eric Abrams “The Boy of Fall” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Emilee Corral “Show Me No Love” . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Gap Jumping to Save a Generation . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Entertainment:Pokemon/Movie Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Staff Reporters: Astrid Ahumada, Vanessa Arce, Kimberly Arriaga, Miguel Aviles, Madeline Barton, Nancy Bazan, Alexandria Bush, Briana Giron, Savanna Groza, Crystal Lopez, Nikki Mailloux, Vanessa Pedersen (Co-photography editor), Courtney Sarringer, Aileen Sepulveda, Kemper Winkelman, Advisor: Scott Kennedy


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Diet in Yucaipa High What is actually going on behind the counter in the Yucaipa High Cafeteria? by Samantha Taylor

For some students at Yucaipa High, they feel they are being ripped off. Due to not having chips with their meal, and this newly developed wheat streak; students feel this epi-demic is getting out of hand. But, if they truly knew the facts behind the food, they might change their mind. But, for some, there is no fact or truth behind the changes that could differ the way they feel about the new diet plan. Now you might be thinking: What could be such a dramatic differ-ence in a meal to get people talk-ing? It all started with a simple bag of chips. In previous years, Yucaipa High students were allowed a bag of chips with their meal, paying $2.50. This year, students no longer get chips but are still paying the same amount.“What a rip off!” Vanessa Pedersen, a high school student in Yucaipa High stated. But, in reality, the chips you “paid” for last year,

were surprisingly free. There are many things most Yu-caipa High students would be sur-prised to discover. Such as, the wheat streak that has seemed to take over the school lunches. Most students may say that it is gross and it’s pointless, but, they prob-ably didn’t know how nutritional wheat is compared to what we used to have.

The flour tortillas we had in previ-ous years are a lot less nutritous than the wheat tortillas we have now; same goes for the bread, and the noodles. If a student says, “it doesn’t taste good,” they really mean, “I’m not used to healthy food.” So in all honesty is this epidemic so dramat-ic to make a fuss? Or can the stu-dents of Yucaipa High endure the food and go on with their lives.

A prepackaged and healthy garden salad with garbonzo beans, and car-rots sits waiting in the cafeteria for a student to eat during B lunch.

Below: various nutritious fruits and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches are on display in the cafeteria.

“Go Healthy or Go Home.” -Yucaipa’s Eating Healthy Club

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Yucaipa’s Market Nightby Marcella Molina

Market night in Yu-caipa is a very recent and new thing on Yucaipa blvd. Market night is a nice place to go and hangout. It has vendor stands with new and interesting things like different types of produce, product and trinkets. Many of you know the market night in downtown Redlands. Yucaipa’s market night hopes to soon catch up to the Redlands’ market night in terms of regional interest and weekly visitors. The buildings around market night were re-cently renovated and because of their vintage architecture are called ‘Historical Yucaipa.’ The city wanted to build and improve this area of Yucaipa so they can attract area residents and locals to purchase and in-tereact as a community. Market

night is a good place for people to have fun, see friends, buy cool things and enjoy the classic and clean look of Yucaipa’s up-per blvd. This is a nice place to go to because of the lights, sidewalks, bands, and all the different food and snacks. It is family friendly and taking a walk around here seems com-fortable--even when there is no event going on. There is a bounce house and a band with different types of music and can be a nice way to start off a good weekend. Many people like market night and the way the streets are set up. With the new look of historical Yucaipa, market night is sure to become a best seller!

Renovations Benefit Yucaipa There are many new things that have come to Yucaipa during these past years, the residents of Yucaipa love the big changes. Historical Yucaipa is a whole new design up by Bryant Street. Histori-cal Yucaipa is also where the new mar-ket night takes place every Friday, where people can go and sell their hand-crafted creations. New shops have sprung up that cater to a newer ge n e r at i on of Yucaipans. E s p e c i a l l y The Queen Bean Caffé (see pg. 14), it is becom-ing more popular each passing day. The Queen Bean provides breakfast, lunch, dinner, and many different varieties of coffee. Their main goal is to create a com-fortable place for everyone. No one knows yet on the possibility of In-N-Out burger or the new movie the-atre. If Yucaipa were to get a new movie

theatre it would cause excitement in the YHS community. Students on campus have seen Yucaipa through many of it’s changes Yucaipa is now making more sidewalks and parks for the people of the town, the town needs more sidewalks for the people who walk around and new round-abouts

for the streets. Building new b u s i n e s s e s and fast food places will draw peo-ple to yu-caipa earn-ing enough

money to be able to build more and more new things for this small town. It’s a very new thing to yucaipa with maintaining new businesses. Yucaipa has been chang-ing these past years, businesses, fast food places, and the centerpiece to this place. These improvements are modernizing and making Yucaipa a more enjoyable place to live.

“...the new “Up Town” Yucaipa is finally done, with new apartments and stores. It is a great improve-

ment for our small town...”

by Marcella Molina

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A Whole New Library Improvements going on in the library

Have you noticed changes in Yucaipa High’s library? Carat Mitts, our school librarian, has made more than a few changes to our library. She has a wall of fame containing books that are most read and talked about, these titles can be found online. She has added an on-line bookshelf to our school website where students can check out books online. Each month, Mrs. Mitts has a poem of the month. Students can also find these online and in the school library. This month’s poem is A Plagued Journey by Maya Angelou. The Library will be having a book drive, through Barnes and Noble, to improve our library’s fiction and biography section. Mrs. Mitts is working with Barnes and Noble to get a Nook and an iPad for students to use, as well as ten new computers. She will also be attempting to get au-dio books for students to listen to. You can find the school’s library page by going to our school website. Once on the library web page, you will find a list of links available. Click on the link that reads digital col-lection. Also, on the library web page you can find the poem of the month. There are archives for previous months available there. If you’re interested in the library, you should check it out. A lot of fun and interesting things have been going on, and you don’t want to miss out on any of the fun, do you?

Photography by Courtney Sarringar and Nikki Mailloux

by Courtney Sarringar and Nikki Mailloux

“I thought up an end-ing for my book. ‘And he lives happily ever after, till the end of his days.’”– Bilbo

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by Marcella Molina


A Changed Class:Why online and flipped classes could change the face of public education and especially Yucaipa High

Are you tired of doing homework and not having anyone to help you when you don’t understand the

concept? Teachers at YHS, such as Mrs. Allen, Mr. Cruz, Ms. McCoy, Mr. Steen-hausen, and Mrs. Williams are teaching the idea, developed by Eric Mazur at Harvard, to help the students understand and com-plete educational content standards. In a flipped classroom, the students do their homework in class and get taught the les-son at home on the internet. You can access internet through the School Fusion page. Yucaipa High School teacher, Mr. Cruz, stated that when he was a student he was nothing like the students at Yucaipa High because students are surrounded with tech-nology now. The teachers that are going to try the flipped teaching process are going to attempt to get us to understand, and try to teach using technology. Teachers are hop-ing that the students like the flipped teach-ing strategy better than a normal teaching environment. Instead of the teacher teach-ing in class, now so students can learn in-

struction outside of the classroom. Teach-ers that are attempting the flipped teaching strategy are anxious to see if the technique will increase student achievement. Flipped teaching should help the Yucaipa High School students understand the lesson if they didn’t understand it before, because flipped teaching has the potential to help students anytime.Teachers are also offering online classes for all students, who have good grades. It is not a requirement but it’s available for everyone who has a 0 period or a sixth pe-riod. Many people ask questions like. “Stu-dents may do it at home, so do they have to go to class?” The answer is “no.” This form of learning requires students to be self-motivated. Classes are taught by Mr. Steenhausen and Mr. Taylor and a couple other teachrs. Mr. Steenhausen teaches the U.S. Government classes, and Mr. Tay-lor teaches Modern World History. Online classes are a great alternative for the busy YHS student.

Flipped Teachingby Alex Bush

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Below: A YHS student completes an assignment for an online class.


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Pay at the Pump

by VanEssa arcEAre you being skimmed when you swipe your card? People hate the high cost of gas and now they have to worry about skimmers. Skimmers are inconspicuous electronic devices that card thieves in-stall inside or outside a gas pump. These small inexpensive devices read and record card numbers as you pay for your gasoline. These credit card thieves and gas station insiders, freely wander around and use the stolen card numbers to make pur-chases.There are 1.36 mil-lion gas pumps in the United States, an es t imated 7 0 0 , 0 0 0 gas pump a c c e p t pay at the pump, and not one of those is secure against skimming. Some skimmers also use a tiny camera to see PIN numbers of debit card uses that enter them at pump side. If you use your debit card they can get your PIN and your card number; however if you just use

your credit card it is harder for card thieves to get your cash out of your bank account. More than 120 bank accounts were cleaned out in Washington state. Also, more than $200,000 was stolen from 180 victims at gas stations in California. David Paul, also known as Mr. Paul, a teacher from Yucaipa High School said, “this never happened to me and if it did I would check

my account, freeze my account, figure out how much financial damage was done, and figure out how much extensive was done to my account.”To protect yourself from skimming here’s what to do:· Pay cash at the gas stations· Pay with card inside, directly to the clerk· Look for irregular configurations at pump· Use credit cards instead of debit cards· Watch your statements every month When you pay directly to the clerk you will be able to see if he skims your card or not. Debit cards are less safe against skim-ming; when you swipe your debit card the thieves are able to get your PIN and your

card number, but when a credit card is swiped, thieves will not be able to take your money out of your account.

Customers Get Skimmed

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Seasonal Jobs Seasonal jobs mean they are short time obligations. They are only open for a certain amount of time. One of the jobs available in the fall is the Pumpkin patch on Live Oak Canyon Road. This historical place is a family owned company that was es-tablished in 1980s by two brothers, Gregg and David Palmer. The Palmer brothers started with forty-five acres of dry brush and hills, and eventually turned into a luscious green land-scape. Every year dur-ing the fall, the Christ-mas tree farm and pump-kin patch have games to play, fun activities, hay rides, food and much more. With the place be-coming more and more popular with Southern

California, they need more employees to work for them. Mrs. Karen Trathen, from Yucaipa High School Career Center, gave out over 200 applications to the students. “Who knows how many they hired?” said Mrs. Trathen. Seasonal jobs are located all around our area like Oak Glen, Willow Glen, Riley’s Farm, Los Rios Rancho, Halloween City, Re-gional Park, and Splash Kingdom. Seasonal works stock product, clean, sweep floors and serve as cashiers. Students are able to try something different and it’s an easy way to get extra cash and you are able to build up your resume experience if you take on a seasonal job.

by Savanna GrozaStudents can get great on-the-job experience without the pressure of an all-year job.

The Pumpkin Patch and Christmas Tree Farm, located on Live Oak Canyon Road is hiring during fall and winter. Mrs. Karen Trathen gave out over 200 applications to our students just for the fall season of the pumpkin patch.

Riley’s Farm is one of the many places to go for a seasonal job to get great experience to build up your resume and meet new people.

Pharaoh’s Adventure Park, is offering summertime jobs for people with lifeguard experience.

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Hometown Heroes

photography by Marcella Molina 12

by Alyssa Sanchez and Crystal Lopez


Hometown Heroes What is a hero to you? A hero can be someone you see on TV, the super heroes you read about as a little kid, or someone you see helping that little old lady crossing the street. Mr. Full believes that heroes are “policeman and firefighters because they put their lives on the line for the protection and safety of people they don’t even know.” Our very own hometown hero, the magnificent, Mr. Simon. Mr. Simon is a paid-call firefighter. Meaning that he works after-school, weekends, and in the summer. He was in-spired to become a firefighter by a big built guy, who was respected and who saved a baby out of a burning building. He also wanted to be a firefighter because of the ability to be able to help people. Mr. Simon also said that he is an adrenaline junkie and loves the rush. When he is on duty, his greatest fear is that the team will mess up. His family was both proud and scared of his decision to be a firefighter. Firefighters are heros, but there are also other heros who are close to home. As we all know, there are local people who are serv-ing our country. Some we know as friends and others we know as family. Danielle Sanchez, a student at Yucaipa High School, said that what she considered to be a hometown hero would be someone “in the Army because my sister, Raquel Sanchez, is [in the Army]. She went to the high school. She is now an official Army soldier. I love her so much. She is my inspiration into going into the Army.” An alumni from Yucaipa High School, Andrea San-chez, was close friends with a fallen soldier, Tyler Davis. “Tyler was amazing and had a great sense of humor, always had the biggest smile on his face, a giver. Tyler put people before himself and was honest; a little too honest at times.

He was never afraid to speak his mind. It got him into a lot of trouble. I knew him since [my] freshman year when he got killed.” (In 2012, a bomb exploded under the vehicle he was driving in Tore Obeh, Afghanistan). “ I was too shocked to cry,” Sanchez said. Many Yucaipa citizens mourned over this tragic incident. They had a tearful gathering by a picture near a dedicated area just for him. This goes to show how much of a hero Tyler Davis was.

“No one was ever named ‘Hero’ for following the crowd. Heroes set their own course”-Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There are many Yucaipa High school graduates serv-ing our country as we continue living our everyday lives. This list of the names is just a small group of people who are or have served to make your country a better place. We honor each and every one and thank them for their sacrifices to keep us safe. Remember, the people listed below once sat in the seats you are sitting in today.

Raymond D. Chaves (Private) 2010 Brandon R. Johnson (Corporal) 2007Jeffrey Castanon (Specialist) 2006 Kaleb Doucette (Boatswain Mate Third Class) 2009 Cameron Kinnear (Specialist) 2009 Jeff Blake (Machinist Mae 3) 2009Chase J. Stanton (Petty Officer 3) 2001 Brandon Blakely (Info. System Technician) Jonathan D. Hutton (1st Lieutenant) 2006 Kenny Holman (Staff Sergeant) 2002Andrea Stalter (Senior Airman) 2008 Jeremy Gileno (Petty Officer, 3rd class) 2007Philip Franco (Lance Corporal) 2009 Daniel Murphey (Aviation Mechanic) 2007Jonathan Arnetter (First class Airmane4) 2009 Marina L. Perez-Jackson (Airman 1st class) 2007Tyler Davis (Specialist) 2010

Christopher Lee Hafer (Private 1st Class) 2009David Sanchez Jr. (Corporal) 2010 Justin Gibertson (Specialist) 2009Jason Michael Hibbetts (Technical Sergeant) 2001 Lucas Eistiles (Master Chief Petty Officer) 1992Cody Beuler (AMAN4) 2007 Kevin Robinson (Specialist) 2009 Michael Welks-Campbell (Specialist) 2007 Vincent J. Amell (Combet Medical) 2007Walter Lukesh(Sargent) 2007 Bryce Edwards Frede (Corporal) 2004Matther D. Blackwell (Chief Warrant Officer) 2009Edward Franco (Lance Corporal) 2006Miles E. Davis (Sargent) 2006Matthew Colongelo (Engineman-3rd Petty Officer) 1999Bryan Engle (Seaman) 2010

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Our Yucaipa High Alumni Hometown Heroes

photography by Marcella Molina

by Alyssa Sanchez and Crystal Lopez


As I drove up Yucaipa Blvd, I decided to turn left onto 5th Street and, in a mo-ment, found myself at the Queen Bean Caffé ordering one of their specialties. Those who have been to the Queen Bean will agree, it’s an easy place to come back to.

The Queen Bean is an interesting little place, and the Epigraph wanted to find out more about it. Recently, the Ep-igraph got the privilege of interviewing Queen Bean Caffé owner, Josh Con-roy, with contributions from Jenifer Conroy, a family business partner. He had much to say about the Queen Bean. Lets have a look: The Epigraph(TE): What inspired you to become a business owner? Josh Conroy(JC): It runs in my family.We’ve had many generations of business owners in my family. It’s what [I’m] used to: working jobs at a very young age. I’ve al-ways had a feel for it, and I’ve always liked working with people. I could never envisioned myself work-ing assertively for anybody. I’ve always wanted to do something that was my own creation. I’d want to see how my thought and my ideas could transcribe into real-ity. For example, I had an idea here of creating an environment where people can safely congregate. I found that there weren’t too many places like that in Yu-caipa. There are a lot of young people but not really a place where they can come

and just hang out. They don’t necessarily have to buy something. This isn’t meant to be an environment where it’s all about making money, sitting here, getting your food, and getting out. TE: What are your future plans for the Queen Bean?

JC: If this store does well, I’m planning on opening a couple more Queen Beans. Also, I am trying to make this place more into a music venue that bands can book for the night and have a real show. Here we’re able to have shows, but I can’t have drum kits or anything super loud, because it’s hard to take orders and it’s not very fair to people who just want to come and sit down. We are also starting to do a closed magic show with a hundred and fifty people, so we’re starting to do some closed events. The Queen Bean has

started catering and delivery orders, so it’s kind of expanding the business step by step on a small scale. At the moment we’re still just trying to get a handle on how everything’s going right now.

TE: Why did you start Open-Mic Night?

JC: It’s like what I was originally saying; there was really nothing for this town, or a repeating event. There were some fairs that happened up on the Blvd. before. Farmers market is also one of those re-peating things, but I wanted there to be something consistent for people to do on Thursday nights. Because when we book a band they have to have some sort of ex-perience, but open-mic nights are a chance for anybody to be given 20-30 minutes to go on stage and do whatever they want to do; express themselves in any way they want. They could literally go up there and stare at the audience, they don’t have to do much, but at least it’s an opportunity for them to express themselves. We don’t re-strict ourselves to just musicians, people can do spoken word, performance pieces, something acapella, reciting something, it could be anything...I’m still waiting for a ventriloquist, we haven’t got any of those yet.

TE: How did you get the name ‘Queen Bean’?

Jenifer Conroy: There are so many different answers to that question. Part of it is that it’s a spin-off on Dairy Queen. We added the ‘queen’, so we were trying to come up with something with something fun, funny, and different. The corporation for our business that runs both Dairy Queen, and Queen Bean, is called ‘Queen Jen’, so there was

A look into Yucaipa’s newest ‘addiction’...The Queen Bean Caffe

Josh Conroy, founder of The Queen Bean Caffe

by Jade Murguia

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Left: Open mic night is an oppor-tunity for anybody to get on stage and express them-selves thtough music or other various ways.

‘queen’ already in there. Do you want to tell them about Ren and Stimpy?

JC: Oh, do you know Ren and Stimpy? (An older cartoon on T.V.) On the epi-sodes they used to do these little spin-offs. There was this one called ‘Ask Doc-tor Stupid’, where they were asking the question “What is that white thing that you find in a can of baked beans?” (It’s really just a little piece of lard), and then Stimpy goes, “That’s the queen bean!” Jenifer Conroy: So it really means a lot of different things, you know, it’s not necessarily one thing, but the ‘Bean’ is definitely supposed to be “bean” as in coffee beans, not the lard in baked beans!

The Queen Bean is a place where Yu-caipa residents of all ages can come to-gether and share enjoyable times. Some have called it a ‘hipster’ kind of coffee shop, considering its rustic and unique environment. Many have considered it to be ‘better than Starbucks,’ this is because it offers a much more laid back atmo-sphere, and more original combinations when it comes to making coffee. The Queen Bean’s coffee beans also hold an interesting story behind them. Most of the YHS student body has been acquainted with Mr. Westwick, or have had him as a teacher. Most students might not know that Mr. Westwick is ac-tually the main supplier of coffee to the Queen Bean. Here’s the thing, he isn’t merely supplying coffee, he is reaching out to his community. For every pound of coffee purchased from his business, he donates enough money to buy 10

pounds of food. So far, his business has donated over 175,000 pounds of food to local communities. The next time you purchase a cup of coffee from the Queen Bean, consider your money going toward a helpful cause. Mr. Westwick’s mission to help the hungry is inspiring, and makes Yucaipa High a little more closer to this coffee shop than it already is. Yes, Yucaipa High is associated with the Queen Bean in multiple ways. The Queen Bean has opened their stage to our school’s successful Speech and De-bate team to perform their speeches on open-mic night. This allows the team to gain points that go toward their grade and allows them to improve in their speaking skills--a huge convenience to the team. As Conroy mentioned, you can do al-most anything on that stage, the possi-bilities are endless. Speech is one of the many ways that Yucaipa High students have chosen to express themselves in a beneficial way.

All in all, The Queen Bean Caffé has truly become what it was envisioned to be by young owner, Josh Conroy. A safe, comfortable environment where any-body can go and just relax and experi-ence a content moment through a cup of coffee, or having a laugh with a friend. In fact, it really has become much more, it is Yucaipa’s own little ‘get away’. With some people spending the majority of their day at the Queen Bean, Yucaipa has come to appreciate this local coffee shop. If you haven’t stopped by there I highly encourage you. You won’t be dis-appointed.

Photography by Jade Murguia and Owen Beltran

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A look into Yucaipa’s newest ‘addiction’...The Queen Bean Caffe


There are some people who live to stand out and give others a laugh by their differences. Some people at Yucaipa High dress up “Fancy” on Fridays to express their originality. They call this, “Fancy Friday.” One of these students is Tobi-as Walnofer. He, Tyler Carson, and Maverick Gunderson all participate in this event every Friday. They started this trend last year and it was originally on Wednesdays. However they changed it to Friday so they could call it “Fancy Friday” and because it was more convenient to carry briefcases along on Friday more than Wednesdays. Tobias says that he does this because he enjoys seeing everyone’s reactions and making people smile by the way he dresses. He also said he dresses up because he likes the way he looks in his outfit. Outside of school, Tobias likes drumming, climbing, hiking, paint-ball, video games, reading and sometimes acting. Tobias has recently joined the Army and he told us his middle name is Noah. He also scored the highest in the school on the ASV-AB. Many people have inspirations to help pursue what they do in life, Tobias’s inspiration for his outfit is the Mad Hatter. Tobias also does this to encourage others to do the same and dress up as well.

“The more you say, The less value your Words are.”-Tobias Walnofer

By. Sara Shackleford & Jealee Hubbard

F a n c y F r i d a y

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All by Jealee Hubbard


Bryce Miller is a Senior water polo player and swim-mer. His positions are the “point driver,” and the

“sprinter” on the polo team. When the swim season starts he swims the sprint free, 500 free and 100 free, as well as doing the relays. Miller just fell into swim events by luck. When he was too late to sign up for football his freshman year, they were doing the swimming portion of PE at the 9th grade campus. He just had so much fun be-ing in the water that he told his mom and she signed him up right away. Now he plans on swimming in college and competing in a Division 1 NCAA team. The way he got into water polo is that his parents contacted Coach Carp and told him about how much fun he had in the swim portion of PE. “Swim was just a spur of the moment type thing,” All of Miller’s friends were going to swim practic-es after school while he was left with nothing to do, so he contacted his mom and told her that he was going to do swim. When Bryce isn’t busy with his two sports, he likes to work on his Jeep, sleep and eat, that is, when he ever has free time. One of the reasons that Bryce likes to play his sports is because he says it is different and it has the ability to keep him from being lazy. “There are outlets for my frustrations. It turned me into the skinny athletic guy I am today, instead of the overweight kid.” What makes water polo important is that it shows that there are other intense sports out there besides land-sports like football. Miller elaborates: “sports is an outlet for [dealing with] anger, pressure, and life.” The advice that Bryce gives to new players of his sport is to “push through it. The first year is always the worst and to go hard even when you think you can’t. You shouldn’t use ‘can’t’ anyway. It’s not a real word.”

Bryce Miller F a l l H i g h l i g h t s

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“Out of the Blue” Tori Dutchover


F a l l H i g h l i g h t s

Tori Dutchover

Tori Dutchover is a Junior Cross Coun-try runner. She is captain along with

Jess Aguliar, Kris Mazich, and Andrew Humpheries. “They are all great lead-ers and [this year took] the team to great places,” Dutchover said. Not only does she run Cross Country, she also is part of the distance team in Track and Field. She runs the 3200m (two mile) and the 1600m (mile). Tori chose Cross Country because her older brother Tyler ran. She saw him running and thought that it looked like it would be fun. “I loved it so much the first week, I knew that’s where I wanted to be.” After she graduates from high school she plans on going to a four year univer-sity, hopefully on a running scholarship. When Dutchover isn’t busy running the streets of Yucaipa, you can see her hang-ing out with her friends, listening to her favorite music, and sleeping! “I love to sleep in my free time,” Dutchover states. Tori loves to run Cross Country because, “it has the ability to show that [I] can go farther than [I] thought [I] could. You can be pushed to your limits and its re-

warding to know that you survived.” She also loves the people on her team. “They make coming to practice worthwhile. Just seeing the heart and dedication from everyone is really inspiring, it pushes me and keeps me going.” To Tori, Cross Country is important because it is able to teach hard work and discipline and perse-verance. “I feel like running makes [me] a tougher person.” The advice that Tori Du-tchover has for any new runners is to “be patient.” “Running is a slow process, you wont be your best after one practice. It takes time, but if you stay with it and keep reminding yourself that all the hard work will pay off in the end, you’ll be golden!” Dutchover and her fellow captains have taken the team to new heights this year, with winning both girls and boys Citrus Belt League Champions. Dutchover and Aguliar, took the varsity girls all the way past CIF Pre-Lims and CIF Finals, The Yucaipa Cross Country Varsity girls fin-ished the season placing 11th in State.

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“On the Right Foot”



Erik Abrams “The Boy of Fall”E rik Abrams is a Junior Footba l l wide re-

ceiver with f ive touch downs of success this year. He a lso par t ic ipates in t rack and f ie ld as a spr inter and long jumper. Abrams plays footba l l because, “It’s the greatest spor t in the world.” He got into the spor t because he enjoyed watching it growing up and when he f ina l ly got a chance to play it , he fe l l in love with the spor t i t se l f . When he’s not on the f ie ld, Er ik l ikes to be around his fami ly and f r iends . For any guys that want to join footba l l Er ik g ives some advice : “be prepared and committed because play-ing footba l l g ives up a lot of your f ree t ime.” Af ter he gets through high school footba l l , he plans on gett ing a scholarship to go play footba l l in col lege.

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“It’s the greatest sport in the world...”



Emilee Corral is a Junior ten-nis star. Adding to tennis,

Emilee also is a sprinter in Track and Field. Emilee’s Aunt was the one who got her into playing Tennis. The uniforms also had an influence on her deci-sion to play. “Its one of the sports where you can still look like a girl. (outfit wise)” Her Aunt was the only one to play tennis in her family. Corral says that her aunt was the one to push and encourage her to get into the sport. When she’s not playing tennis, Corral likes to read, hang out with friends, ride bikes, and she also has the special talent

of playing the ukulele. Tennis is different than any other sport to Emilee because it requires pay-ing attention to yourself and

your partner. “It re-quires a lot more focus because you predict your opponents moves before they start play-ing.” The advice that Corral gives to the upcoming tennis play-ers is, “Dont give up if your score is down,

make sure you cooperate with your partner on doubles, be en-couraging to other members on your team.” The tennis team was able to make it through the first rounds of CIF, ending their sea-son on a good note.

Erik Abrams “The Boy of Fall”

Emilee Corral “Show Me No Love”

“It’s one of those sports where you

can still look like a

girl...”



By Owen Beltran Imagine a safe spot to ride, no skaters no people in your way just an organized BMX park. Have you ever thought about getting into the sport of BMX? The city just approved the building of a BMX track right in your town. The track will be located next you Yucaipa High School. This high pace sport is very competitive its takes skill and the guts to get back up after you fall. The people that are involved in this sport and go to competitions, even the people who practice and ride with their friends give it their all are always pushing each other to go above and beyond what they think they can do. Local BMX riders Nick Santos and Brian Nunez gave information on the building process, their own opinions on the track, and how the sport of BMX has helped them“it’s going to give people a safe place to improve on their skills and give them a track that is close to home.” Brian Nunez, one of the many riders who give it their all when it comes to the sport of BMX. Nunez says that the park will be compleated by the middle of December and will be sponsored by the Yucaipa Bike Center. The track will be built by the actual riders who have time and are will to help out. He, as well as most of the other BMX riders are really excited for the building pro-cess to take place. But what about the learning en-vironment? “The track won’t be a distraction it will give students something to look forward to at the end of the day” Nunez said. Santos, was asked about the BMX scene and how the track will help. “When

the track is done I think that people will start to get into BMX, since there will be a track close to home.” BMX riders, and even kids, that are thinking about getting into the sport are excited about the project. The sport of BMX is a great all-around sport to get into with your friends or even some of your family members. BMX can be one of the exciting sports to participate in if you’re willing to give it your all and you aren’t afraid to take a few falls. If you’re looking for a great spot you and your friends can all get into and push each other to go above and beyond, be prepared for the new BMX track coming in December and you too can be part of the BMX scene.

Gap Jumping to Save a Generation How a school and city approved BMX park might save youth from the dreaded “There’s noth-ing to do in this town.”

Brian Nunez lauches off the coping at the skate park near Yucaipa High School. Photo by Nick Santos

- Yucaipa CA, Nick Santos.

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Nintendo has released two new Poke-mon games called Pokemon Black Version 2 and Pokemon White Version 2. These games are the second set of the long an-ticipated fifth generation pokemon games. Pokemon Black and White 2 released on October 7th. These new versions feature a pokemon named Kyurem’s alternate forms, Black Kyurem and White Kyurem. Kyurem is a Dragon and Ice type Pokemon. Black Kyurem is in Black 2 and White Kyurem is in White 2. The setting in these games is the Unova Region two years after the events of the first two versions. Since then a lot has changed, the story starts in a previously inaccessible

part of the Unova Region in the southwest. You start in a new town called Aspertia City with your childhood rival and there are lots of new towns, gyms, and Gym Leaders! In these new games you can battle Gym Leaders from the Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, and Sinnoh Regions! Black and White 2 contain 300 pokemon in the pokedex, thats more than the first two ver-sions! Also there is a special distribution of a newly discovered mythical pokemon named Genesect. Genesect is a bug and steel type Pokemon. Also on the release date, a special distribution of a newly dis-covered mythical pokemon named Gene-sect started!


Gap Jumping to Save a Generation

- Yucaipa CA, Nick Santos.

Hansel and Gretel Witch Hunters Rate: PG 13We all know the fairy tale of Hansel and Gretel and how their father had led them to the forest to spare for themselves but on January 11th 2013, Hansel and Gretel:Witch Hunters, puts a spin on the classic fairy tale. Hansel (Jeremy Renner) and Gretel (Gemma Arterton) have to sur-vive by killing witches with high powered weapons and paying the bills of a super-natural exterminator.

Gangster Squad Rate: RGangster Squad is a crime drama film that is based in Los Angeles in the 1940’s and 1950’s. King Mickey Co-hen (Sean Penn) is a Brooklyn -born mobster who runs the streets with not only the help of his men but with also with a group of politicians and the Los Angeles police department with the ex-ception of the good police officers on the LAPD. The”good cops” who are trying to keep the mafia off the streets and protect their town by taking down Mickey Cohen. This movie is to be re-leased January 11th, 2013.

Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Pt. 2Rate: PG 13In The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part Two, the sequel to Breaking Dawn Part One, Bella (Kristen Stewart), is happy as a new mother and with her new family until another vampire be-lieves that her child can create dangers and challenges for the vampire coven, the Volturi. The Cullens then have to gather other vampire covens and con-vince the Volturi that the child, Re-nesme, is no harm. The final movie in the Saga came out on November 16, 2012 and is sure to become a new fa-vorite among YHS students.

Go see these movies: Coming soon to a theatre near youMovie reviews by Crystal Lopez, Pokemon by Miguel Aviles

Pokemon: Black & White Version 2

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