Volume 2, Number 5 CliNtoNVille, WisCoNsiN January 2014

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Trucker Pride Makes a Comeback

morgan ANDERSON | chs intern

CLINTONVILLE - School spirit and pride in your school is something every student and alumni holds with them for the rest of their life.

Here in Clintonville, in the past couple of years, the students and faculty have noticed that sadly, Trucker Pride has slowly but surely decreased.

In an effort to help bring back some Trucker Pride, new athletic direc-tor and assistant Principle, Scott Werfal, planned an “Orange Crush Night” for the girls and boys Basket-ball games held on De-cember 5th and 6th.

Community Members who came out to support the girls, on Thursday the 5th, received a free Or-ange Crush T-shirt with every paid admission.

The shirts were neon orange with black print-ing and on the front said “Orange Crush” with the

hashtag “Trucker Nation” and on the back side “This is our House.” If people wore their shirt on Friday to support the Boys, they received free admission.

Many students, staff, and community members came out to support the Truckers as they hosted the Xavier Hawks.

The school was very happy to see the gymna-sium filled with support-ive Trucker fans and lots of cheering.

“The Orange Crush nights were truly a col-laborative effort between the district office, the high school administra-tive staff, and Mr. Lukos-ki.” says Werfal. “We all wanted to do something to promote school spirit and after having multiple dis-cussions ‘Orange Crush’ nights were born.”

The reason for the two nights were to get more people to attend the home events and it really did work.

Over 300 shirts were printed and every one was given away. In fact, more shirts had to be ordered for people to purchase be-cause the demand was so high.

Both the community and the student body seemed to enjoy the event and the administra-tion hopes to plan similar nights in the future.

“I’m just looking for our students and com-munity members to come out and support our pro-grams. We’re trying to rebuild out athletic tradi-tion at CHS, and having fans in the seats rallying around our teams is a vital component of that rebuild-ing.” states Werfal. “I’m looking forward to seeing those bright orange shirts for years to come!”

Since that night, many games have taken place with a fun activity for each! Like best seat in the house.

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community from St Mary Central High School in Neenah where he worked for two years as assistant Principal and Activities Director.

Before St. Mary’s he taught in Little Chute and Winneconne and also helped run a Scrapbook & Stamping store in Apple-

ton.Werfal says “Clinton-

ville has been a great dis-trict to work in so far for a number of reasons; the educational staff is ex-cellent, the students are very respectful and ener-getic, and the community is very supportive of the things we are trying to do.

I’ve enjoyed my time here and look forward to work-ing here as long as they’ll have me!”

In an effort to help in-crease school spirt, the CHS Student Council sponsors a “Best Seat in the House” night each

orange Crush!Clintonville High School students cheer on the Trucker girls Thursday, December 5, as they hosted Xavier High School. The students are shown wearing their Orange Crush T-shirts. Photo By Scott Werfal

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National Honors Society Serves Community morgan ANDERSON | chs intern

CLINTONVILLE - The Clintonville High School National Honor Society (NHS) has been busy with community ser-vice this school year.

Being inducted into the NHS is on of the high-est honor in the Clinton-ville School District. The groups brings their smart minds and generous help-ing hands together, to help put together many com-munity wide and school wide projects.

In November the group held a canned food drive at the High School. The donations were donated to the local food pantry. They collected 376 items and the winning home-room, Mr. Trautman, was awarded Dilly Bars.

For every five items a student brought in, they received a ticket to be en-tered to win an iPod touch. The winner was drawn by Cassie Blank and the iPod was awarded to Senior Jade Stilen.

During the month of December the group placed Giving Trees around the community asking for community members to donate hats,

gloves, or a scarf for a child in need.

The community donat-ed 70 hats, 70 pairs of mit-tens, and 18 scarves. NHS wants to say a huge thank you to the community for donating to this great cause. The donations were very much appreciated.

The items were distrib-uted on the 14th of De-cember. Approximately seven families received a hat, pair of gloves, and a scarf.

All children and par-ents left with a big smile and warm hands.

The Honor Society group is also in charge of the High Schools annual Holiday Tea.

On Thursday, Decem-ber 19, students enjoyed punch and cookies as they were entertained by their peers wonderful talents.

Cookies were made and donated by staff members at the high school and punch was donated by Ana Huber. Mrs. Schoe-nike’s class helped out the group by delivering cook-ies to the Tea.

Students came to the Tea during their English class and enjoyed each other’s company.

The Honor Society

group put this event to-gether. They planned it and spent all day before the Tea decorating to make it perfect.

The NHS group could also be seen at Shopko on December 23 ringing bells for the Salvation Army. The group volun-teered seven hours of time to help out a wonderful cause.

The 2012 inductees helped to induct their new 2013 group members on Saturday December 14th.

Newly inducted mem-bers for the 2013 National Honor Society are shown in the top picture to the right.

From left to right, the new inductees are Em-met Battenberg, Mattison Beyersdorf, Gabby Go-erlinger, Kristi Sawall, Kelsey Grzesiakowski, Danielle Keifer, Mike Kl-emp, Dakota Sears, Ke-aton Kubitz, Sierra Reeck, and Jarren Vanman.

This wonderful group of 23 talented students, from graduating classes of 2014 and 2015 at CHS, would like you to watch out for and participate in many exciting upcoming community activities.

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CLINTONVILLE - Jaycie Westphal, a senior at Clintonville High School, has been chosen as the Trucker Times artist of the month for January 2014.

Westphal is the daughter of Mike and Jo Westphal.

Westphal likes art because “it is an ev-eryday thing, from how we dress, to how

we decorate, and even how we write our name,” Westphal stated.

She loves how she is able to express how she is feeling through art.

Her favorite medium to work with is pencil or paint.

She enjoys to draw things like her fa-vorite bands, movies or even TV shows, like the Tardis from the hit TV show Doctor Who. (Pictured above)

Artist of the Month

morgan ANDERSON | chs intern

CLINTONVILLE - The Clintonville High School FFA has had many new and exciting changes for the 2013-14 school year.

With a new advisor and new officers the FFA has had a busy year gathering their members, attending conferences, organizing activities, and conducting meetings.

This school year, a new advisor, Mr. Wojcik, has taken over the FFA group as he was hired for the Agriculture teaching position.

Mr. Wojcik has a new group of officers he has been working with this year. New President, Barbara Boyer, has been doing a wonderful job working with Mr. Wojcik to create new ideas for the group. Also working with Boyer is Vice President Taylor Lohff, Secretary Kristi Sawall, Treasurer Mike Klemp, Reporter Andrew Klemp, and Sentinel Zac Reimer.

So far this year the FFA has attended the Sectional Leadership conference, the 212 Leadership Conference in Eau Claire. They also attended the National Convention from October

29th to November 2nd in Louisville, Kentucky.

This year was the first time in many years that Louisville has hosted the National Conference which made it that much more exciting. Students met with many other students from around the nation and gathered ideas for there own groups. Many new friendships were stared and many memories created.

Those wonderful leadership conferences have been put to good use with the new leadership in the FFA here in Clintonville.

This group of leaders has been leading approximately 130 other students at the high school who are also in FFA or in Agriculture classes. The previous FFA advisor Mr. Heinbuch, had all students enrolled in an agriculture class considered members of the FFA. This way students didn’t have to pay the fees and could be kept up to date in the classroom. Mr. Wojcik has continued this and has found more students are involved this way.

FFA has been involved in the community by participating in roadside cleanups every Fall and Spring. They organized a Biggest Buck and Doe

contest during hunting season this year.

The winner for biggest doe was Brandon Hopp and the biggest buck winner went to Noah Hartleben.

FFA also has some fun with each other throughout the year. They are planning to go tubing soon and are ready for a good time!

Upcoming events for the organization includes District speaking contests in January and National FFA Week. The group plans fun activities throughout the whole week at school for National FFA week which is the week of February 15th.

The group will continue to be busy throughout the next few months, and encourages the community to look for more updates around school!

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Story TIme @ CPL 10:15Page Turners @ 3:30GBB 7th vs Hortonville 4:15GBB 8th @ Hortonville 4:15ALL HS GBB vs Berlin 5:45ALL HS BB @ Weyewega 5:45

School Board @ CMS IMC 6:30Book Club @ CPL 3:45Story TIme @ CPL 10:15

LEGOs @ CPL 3:30Used Book Sale @ CPL 6-8GBB 7th vs New London 4:15GBB 8th @ New London 4:15ALL HS BB @ Berlin 5:45

Afternoon Movie @ CPL 1:30Used Book Sale @ CPL 9-5CAST Swim Meet @ CHS 7amALL HS GBB @ Xavier 5:45

Chess Club @ CPL 3:30Wrestling vs Little Chute 6:30

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CMS IMC = Middle School Library

FVTC = Fox Valley Technical College

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BB = Boys BasketballGBB = Girls Basketball

HS = High SchoolALL= Frosh, JV, and

Varsity

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Teen Book Club @ CPL 6:30 PM

Used Book Sale @ CPL 9-12CAST Swim Meet @ CHS 7amYouth Basketball @ CHS 8am

Babygarten @CPL 11GBB 7th vs Seymour 4:15GBB 8th @ Seymour 4:15ALL HS BB vs Omro 5:45

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It is my favorite time of year. The snow, Christmas, New Years and Winter in general!

After suffering through the heat all summer long, I can’t wait for the cold snowy days here in Wisconsin.

It’s the time of year when snowmobiling and ice fishing with my Dad are my favorite things to do on the weekends. Or you can fin me watching cheesy girl movies in front of the fire with my Mom at night.

My brother comes home from college and for once we are all together again.

Our cabin is my favorite place to go to relax. My family is going over the Christmas break to visit my Grandparents. They live really close to our cabin. It is very exciting!

My Grandparents live in Land ‘O Lakes, so we do not see them very often. We love to visit them because we miss them so much, and having a cabin there makes it much easier.

At my cabin I love to go ice fishing, snowmobiling, and spend time with my family. We are very close. We have to be close. If we weren’t close our cozy cabin would be no fun.

Spending Christmas with a healthy family is the best gift anyone could ask for. This time of year is, I think, when many people realize how fortunate we are and they might take that for granted.

It also leads people to give more to the needy than any other time of the year.

Since it is that time of the year where giving back is so important, I myself have been busy with Student Council an National Honor Society volunteering activities.

We did a giving tree and helped with the Salvation Army by ringing bells. I always tell the underclassmen to volunteer more than anything because it is fun, very appreciated, and looks very good on any application.

Through volunteering, I figured out a potential career for myself. It is very helpful and necessary in a society where not everyone is as fortunate as some of us are. It only betters you and your community.

Since the last time I wrote many exciting things have happened. I was accepted to college in October and since have

been getting a head start on applying for scholarships.

I’ve learned it is a very long and not so exciting process but in the end, completely worth it.

My mom is more relieved, I think, than anyone. I am so excited and am counting down the days until graduation!

While I am counting down to graduation I have been working hard at the Chronicle.

Unfortunately I have been without my friend and other intern Ana in the office all month due to her surgery. She is doing very well now and recently returned. However it has kept me extra busy this month. Ana and I love working together and I am happy she is back again!

This month of excess work has made me really appreciate what I have. I have a wonderful Mom, funny Dad, and amazing brother. Even my pets are awesome. They always know what to do when I’m sad. I have an amazing family.

I want to wish everyone an amazing Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Hopefully, 2014 will be the year that I go from a girl in a small town to a woman in the real world.

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C L I N T O N V I L L E - Saint Rose-Saint Mary has had an exciting couple of months. The teachers are working very hard to make sure the students have a fun educational environment, and the stu-dents are working hard to make their teachers and the community feel ap-preciated.

On October 29 they whole school went to the New Zoo in Green Bay. Each grade got to take a zoo class where they learned about animals and their habitats. They learned about everything from monkeys to cock-roaches. It was a fun way to learn more about other creatures of God.

In October Dr. Pete Oberhauser came and taught the kids about Bats.

The kids got to look at and even hold dead bats.

The Physical Educa-tion department this year is centered around good nutrition and good exer-cise.

Each week each class learns about a new nutri-tional fact. For example, they learned about protein one week.

Another cool thing that they got to do was every week they would make healthy snacks that as-sociated with that weeks nutritional fact. It’s a fun way for the kids to learn about healthy eating hab-its.

The third and fourth grade classes took a trip to the power plant in Manitowoc. They had fun learning about the amaz-ing power plant.

One of the most special times during the year is

Advent. They have mass each week. It is not just for the students, but it also for the whole community. Each grades take turns reading for the mass.

There was an all school Thanksgiving dinner the Tuesday before Thanks-giving. It was a fun expe-rience for the kids to have a huge Thanksgiving din-ner.

The Student Council at Saint Rose-Saint Mary has been very busy help-ing the good Fellows with the Christmas toy drive.

Whether it be helping the community or helping each other, the staff and students at Saint Rose-Saint Mary know how to serve themselves, the community and God.

They are all hard work-ing and dedicated people. This little school packs a big punch.

Busy Times Abound at St. Rose/St. Mary’s

week for at least one game. Students sign up during their lunch period and a slip is chosen out of the box.

The chosen student gets to choose one friend to sit on the orange couch that night at the game with them. They are treated with a soda and a box of candy.

This has brought more attention to the student section and has definite-

ly increased the spirits among the students.

Along with the efforts of organizations, the se-nior boys themselves never fail to entertain the crowd with some funny dress up night or funny cheer.

So far this year the boys have planned a tank top night, a beach night, and the girls have held a Christmas themed night.

School spirit is some-

thing that as a community we love to have and to see students getting more involved this year is very exciting.

In an effort to help the decline in Trucker Pride, all of these organiza-tions are asking for you to come and support all Trucker teams, clubs, and extra curricular groups. We hope to see more com-munity members in atten-dance!

PRIDE, from 1

My Favorite Time of Year

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Ugly Sweater DayStudents at Clintonville High School participated in Ugly Sweater Day recently. Photo By Scott Werfal

anastasia HUBER | chs intern

CLINTONVILLE - As the month of Decem-ber comes to a close the students at Clintonville High school are antsy to get out for the winter break.

The last week before the break is a blur of last minute tests, homework, and holiday projects. It can be a very stressful week for students and teachers alike.

Student Council wanted to bring a smile to peoples faces in the last week of school for 2013, so the Ugly Sweater day was born. It might not make the last week of school for 2013 any easier, but it might be a little bit hap-pier.

Ugly sweaters are fun to wear and fun to look at. They bring smiles to peoples faces when they get to see all the sequins, beads and colors.

There were short fat sweaters or long skinny sweaters; sweaters with reindeer, Santa and snow-men. There were some with parts that lit up and played music. There were even some with or-naments, wreaths and Christmas trees on them.

There were so many different assortments of amazing sweaters.

On Friday, December 20th, students and teach-ers at Clintonville High school dressed up in their ugliest sweaters. The ugli-est sweater would receive the prize of Best Seat in the House for the boys Basketball game on the same day.

Every student at Clin-tonville High school that was wearing a sweater was called down to the commons during the third hour intervention period.

The rigorous judging then commenced.

The three judges were Mayor Judith Magee, Captain Todd Taylor, and assistant principle and ath-letic director Scott Werfal. They were very intense. They wanted to make sure the ugliest sweater got the respect and praise that it deserved.

About ten of the ugliest sweaters were picked for further judging.

The judges took their jobs very seriously. Each sweater was inspected carefully.

They looked for cre-ativity, color and just plain outrageousness of the sweaters.

It was a tough deci-sion, but eventually they picked the three winners.

Third place was Nick Hogen with his bright red sweater. Along the sweater there were Christ-

mas trees garnished with sparkles and colorful or-naments.

Second place was Ali Johnson whose blue Christmas tree sweater was accentuated with flowers, fake candy and even working Christmas lights.

First place was Kai-tlynn Kupsky she also had a blue Christmas tree sweater. She made a Christmas tree out of pom poms, hung real or-naments, and wore a red bow. To top it all off she wore a head band with Christmas trees sticking out.

Over all the ugly sweat-er day was a hit.

There were over sixty kids that dressed up in sweaters.

It was a fun way to end the 2013 school year.

(L to R) Ali Johnson, who took second,

and Kaitlynn Kupsky who took first place

Colorful Sweaters Brighten Clintonville High School

WinnersSome of the best ugly sweaters were worn by (back L to R) Keaton Kubitz, Ross Westphal, Austin Clark, Nick Hogen (3rd), (front L to R) Ali Johson (2nd), Emily Klein, Brittany Bouchette, and Sydney Shreve. Photo By Scott Werfal

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