S E P T E M B E R I S S U E V O L U M E 1 4 , I S S U E 1

Editors:

Coltin Coonts

Brady Stich

Dawson Dunbar

Contributors:

Ava Dietz

Luis Dominguez

Alivea Peight

Kaidyn Sargent

Jade Gabel

Zoe Johnson

Sean Ormiston

Jaden Julius

Jaedon Terhaar

Beau Linden

Ethan Gift

Jenna Bidlingmeier

Adviser:

Mrs. Fry

I had the pleasure of interviewing Owen Kemple. He has 2 cows, 2 sheep, a rabbit, 13 cats, a dog,

and 9 chickens. The cows are named Bob and Jan. He has a mom

named Jennifer, a dad named Jason, a sister named Emma and his

favorite sibling is his brother Luke. He is twelve years old and his

birthday is February 30th, which is also his favorite holiday. His

favorite subject is lunch. Owen is musically inclined and plays the

French Horn. His favorite color is green, he likes hanging out

with his cows, using machinery, building stuff, playing video

games, and playing with LEGO’s. His favorite teacher is Mr.

Smar. He enjoys the show The Last Ship, and his favorite cousin

is Alex Leamon. His favorite number is 5. His favorite food is

Tacos. His favorite ice cream is double butter pecan. The gross-

est thing he ever ate is playdough. His favorite sport is baseball.

This was Owen’s first interview.

By: Ava Dietz

October 1st and 2nd - Student Leadership will be selling donuts

to raise funds for Tyler’s Justice System.

Week of October 19th – Look for special dress days for Bully-

ing Awareness/Drug Awareness week.

October 30th – Halloween Dance

October 29th – Blue-Yellow dress day to recognize Down

Syndrome Awareness Month.

P A G E 2

This quarter I got the privilege of interviewing Mrs. Adams. She is a new

teacher here at Le-Win, and she teaches language arts and literature. She's

from Pearl City and has two kids and one dog. Mrs. Adams graduated from

NIU. She used to teach in Warren. She said she loves hanging out with her

kids. Mrs. Adams really enjoys working with the staff here at the junior

high. She said Mrs. Polhill has been a joy to work with. I really enjoyed

interviewing Mrs. Adams.

By: Dawson R. Dunbar

Meet the new student teacher Mr. Drake! Mr. Drake graduated high school

from Forreston, and will be graduating college from Platteville. He plans

to start his career as a gym teacher. Mr. Drake has a sister named Anna

and a dog named Maddie. He is 22 and favors the color red. Mr. Drake

enjoys watching golf, baseball, football, and basketball, especially the

Wisconsin Badgers. In his spare time, he likes to golf or help out on his

family’s farm. He is 6 foot 5 inches and loves to eat chicken alfredo. It

was really enjoyable to get to know Mr. Drake.

By: Alivea Peight

I had a chance to sit down with Ms. Hinderman, one of the newest teachers here,

to get to know her. Ms. Hinderman is an eighth grade earth science and lab sci-

ence teacher. She also teaches seventh grade careers and sixth grade exploring

technologies. This is her fifteenth year teaching and she has taught at Mineral

Point in Wisconsin, Orangeville, and now, here. She has one daughter named

Carissa and a fiancé named Danny. In her free time Ms. Hinderman likes to run

and spend time with her daughter. Her favorite food is lasagna, and her favorite

show is The Hunt on CNN. She told me her favorite color is white because it is

really all the colors. She also told me that she loves to shop, and her favorite store

is Maurice’s. It was great getting to know Ms. Hinderman.

By: Jenna Bidlingmaier

P A G E 3

By: Jaedon Terhaar

P A G E 4

8th Grade

Coach: Tammy Daughenbaugh

Jenna Bidlingmaier 6

Madilyn Schultz 7

Jordan Streckwald 8

Krista Keene 9

Gabi Brinkmeier 12

Paige Sowle 13

Hannah Milliken 16

Kierra Lynn Schulz 17

Jenna Zeal 20

Samantha Kempel 21

Jaden Julius 23

Jaiden Rakowska 25

Alivea Peight 33

Managers:

Alyssa Daughenbaugh,

Kalli Humphrey

By: Jenna Bidlingmaier

7th Grade

Coach: Bonnie Broge

Maya Curtis 1

Sidney Weegens 2

Addie Roberts 3

Alyssa Williams 4

Taylor Dawson 5

Kirstin Molitor 10

Ally Milder 11

Ella Wolfrom 14

Maggie Johnson 15

Sadie Mowery 18

Ashtyn Brinker 19

Hannah Brinker 22

Sarah Madigan 24

Ashlyn Almasy 27

Kassidy Humphrey 30

Katelynn Gable 31

P A G E 5

What is you favorite type of shoes?

Brady E.- Twinkle Toes and Jordans Izzy– Nike Payton– Flip Flops

Marissa S.– Under Armor Juan– Jordan’s Ethan– Under Armor

Brody– Under Armor Alexis– Nike Austin– And1

Leah– Under Armor Luke– Nike Owen– Nike

By Luis Dominguez

What is your favorite restaurant?

Gennings D. – Culvers Maggie J. – Caraba’s Ashtyn B. – Chipotle

Carter B. – Olive Garden Andrea S. – Golden Corral Taylor D. – Texas Roadhouse

Addie R. – Maria’s Logan F. – Subway Caleb M. – Pizza Hut

Maya C. – Gordon Ramsay BurGR Max A. – Taco Bell Pacey M. – Imperial Palace

Alex D. – How would I know? Sage H. – Red Robin Sidney W. – Spider Crab Sushi

By: Jaden Julius & Zoe Johnson

What is your favorite TV show?

Liv P– The Secret Life of The American Teenager Andrew S– Chicago Fire

Jaden J– Dora The Explorer Ethan G– PAW Patrol

Gracie M– Friends Kenzie L– Chicago Fire

Sean O– Under The Dome Coltin C- The Walking Dead

Luis D– American Ninja Warrior Ben S– SpongeBob

By: Kaidyn Sargent

P A G E 6

Meet the 7th grader Logan Lee Foley, the son of Denis and Heather Foley. Logan has two

siblings, one sister Mackenzie and one brother Wyatt. Logan’s favorite food is cheese pizza

with some lemonade to wash it down. In his free time Logan likes to play with Legos and

go swimming. Logan’s three best friends are Alivea Peight, Gennings Dunker, And Caden

Kuberski . When relaxing, Logan likes to watch the movie Yogi Bear and hang out with his

three dogs, Tipper, Shotzie, and Sissle. Logan enjoys going to school especially when it’s

science time. Also, Logan is in the school band and plays the baritone. It was my honor to

interview Logan.

By: Alivea Peight

I would like to introduce you to the one and only Madilyn Elyzabeth Schultz. Madi was

born on December 21, 2001, which would make her 13 years old. She lives with her mom,

Angela, brother, Cobryn, and sister Kaidynce. Madilyn is an exceptional athlete and enjoys

competing in volleyball, basketball, and softball. Madilyn has played club basketball for

the Rockford Wildcats, volleyball for Excess, and softball for Freeport Crush. When Madi

isn't playing sports she is either spending time with friends or family. Her favorite food is

mashed potatoes and gravy, preferably from KFC. Madi is a fan of the Green Bay Packers

and enjoys watching them demolish the competition on Sundays. Madilyn has a wonderful

sense of humor and it is all smiles when around her..

By: Jaden Julius

I sat down with Maddex Sargent to see what he is like. As we began talking, and I learned a

lot about him. He was born on April 9, 2004, and he was born in Freeport, IL. His favorite

food is tacos, and his favorite drink is Pepsi. He has two older sisters named Kaidyn and

Tailor. I asked him what his favorite thing to do with his sisters is, and he said, “I like to

make fun of them.” I asked him what is his favorite subject is and he said, “band.” I asked

if he had any pets, and he said, “I have one dog named Pollie.”

By: Ethan Gift

P A G E 7

6th Grade

Sarah Foley, Luke Benson, Taylor Ditzler-Amill, Payton Scace,

Ross Stabenow, Isabella Flamino, Leah Geoebel, Kalli Humphrey,

Sarah Edler

7th Grade

Alex Daughenbaugh, Carter Burke, Ally Milder, Taylor Dawson,

Ashtyn Brinker, Sidney Weegans, Addison Roberts, Noah White,

Caleb Matz, Kassidy Humphrey, Sarah Madigan

8th Grade

Jenna Zeal, Grant Fiedler, Alivea Peight, Channing Vorwald,

Jordan Streckwald, Abby Strominger, Jaiden Rakowska,

Kierra Lynn Schulz

P A G E 8

My name is Grant Fiedler and I’m in 8th grade. I have been on student leadership for

two years and have had a lot of fun helping the school. In the past two years, I have

helped with many things student leadership does. These include helping the preschool-

ers in the elementary, helping create posters, and working concessions for games. I

look forward to doing these activities again and I look forward to other things I may

get to do, such as work at the soup kitchen.

Other places I have volunteered at include my church and the train show. At my

church, I am an altar server for Sunday masses and funerals. I worked the concessions

stand for the music boosters at the train show. In past years I have also helped with

flag and morning announcements.

I am a great student and always try to succeed. I have always gotten straight A’s and I

study very hard. I have set a goal every year to read all the Rebecca Caudill books.

Last year and the year before that, I have received the citizenship award, language

award, science award, math award, and the presidential award.

I have always loved the canned food and winter clothing drives around wintertime. It

incorporates competition with things that are very important, such as canned foods for

those who cannot afford food items. I also think that we should help the Lena Lions

Club with their Operation Goodfellow. I know we run our own canned good drive, but

we could go and help the Lions Club load and deliver all of their care packages.

I think being part of student leadership has helped me grow as a person in many ways.

I have learned how fun and easy it is to help a community in many different ways. I

hope I will have the opportunity to participate in this wonderful program again.

Sincerely,

Grant Fiedler

P A G E 9

Hi, my name is Addison Roberts. I would like to apply for Student Leadership be-

cause I am a responsible student. I also think it is an honor to be a Student Leader.

I think I am responsible for many reasons. In the summer, I help my grandma at her

licensed day care. I play with the kids, help make lunch and feed the kids, and rock the babies

to sleep. Also, during the school year I help her by walking the younger children to the ele-

mentary school and making sure they get to the correct place. I was a Girl Scout for 3 years.

During that time, we cleaned the elementary playground and helped in the community.

I have been an altar server for the past 2 years at our church. The past 2 summers, I was a

helper at my church for their annual Strawberry Social. I helped carry trays of food for peo-

ple, refilled drinks, cleaned tables and bagged pies. I also helped out this summer with our

Church Vacation Bible School. I helped with everything from coordinating skits, serving

snacks and, helping with crafts.

If I am chosen to be a Student Leader again, I will make the school a more positive

place by standing up against bullies. If I see bullying, I would like to make the victim feel

welcome by eating lunch with them and being nice to them. Also, if I am chosen, I will enjoy

coming up with new ideas to get classmates to know other classmates better. An idea I have

for this would be in the classroom. My idea is, to never let students have the same partner

twice. I think this would allow classmates to get to know other students better that they might

not already know.

Last year, I really enjoyed Student Leadership for many reasons. I enjoyed having

positive people around me. We picked up trash on country roads, and we had a really fun

time doing it. I volunteered and worked many concessions for athletic events; I especially

enjoyed working concessions on the 2 Saturday tournaments. We also got to participate in

many fun things like passing out candy grams, helping the in the elementary classrooms and

attending a bullying skit in Monroe. I also had an awesome opportunity to go to Chicago and

learn more about gravity and experience indoor skydiving.

Student Leadership really helped me last year. I was nervous about being in Jr. High

and the 7th and 8th grade student leaders really were positive role models to me. If I get in this

year, I will make sure the 6th graders get the same experience from myself.

I hope you consider me again for Student Leadership because I am a positive role

model and enjoy helping others.

Sincerely,

Addison Roberts

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I, Kalli Humphrey, want to be on the 2015-2016 student leadership team

because I think I could make our school better. I think I could help our school

because of the things I do.

One thing I do to make our environment better is pick up trash. I pick up

trash at the park and when I go on walks with my family. When I find cans, I

save them to recycle for money. At Christmas time my sister, two cousins,

grandparents, and I use the money we have been saving over the year to buy for

someone in need. We buy clothes, snacks, book bags, and other necessary be-

longings.

My cousins, sister, and I all help out at our church. We serve food and

drinks at church dinners. I have a blast there because the elder people have a lot

of stories to tell and we all love listening to them talk. Also, we help at Doc’s,

our family business. When I help out there, I raise money also to give to chil-

dren in need.

The idea I have for my upcoming school year is to put a donation box in

the office to collect items such as clothes, books, supplies, and some other great

ideas. Then the student leadership team could take the items that we get and do-

nate them to charity.

I will also try to make our school year a more positive environment by

trying to help if I hear or see people getting bullied. I will make it stop by asking

them to please just leave him/her alone. Then if they don’t stop, I will find the

closest teacher. I will also be kind and nice to all the kids and teachers. I want to

try and make bulling stop at our school. And this is why I want to become a stu-

dent leader!

P A G E 1 1

Dear Mr. Lobdell:

Many students in my grade feel strongly about cell phones. Some think we should have them, others

disagree. I am writing this letter to advise you to keep the “No Cell Phone” policy in Lena-Winslow Junior High

School. It may surprise you to hear support for this from a student, but I believe this is in the best interest of the

school as a whole.

If you allow cell phones into the school, you could be responsible for students becoming addicted to

their phones. Researchers say that 40% of youth use their phones and other electronic devices more than four

hours a day. If you add another three to four hours of cell phone use because of the introduction of phones to

schools, you’re going to get around seven hours of cell phone use per day. If you’re thinking, cell phone addic-

tion isn’t that bad, you are wrong. Researchers have proved that cell phone addiction is just as bad as tobacco

addiction. On top of that, if children are too used to being on their phones, switching the phones off can cause

things such as sleep disorders, irritability, and even digestive problems. Why cause all these problems when they

could simply be avoided by not allowing phones?

Additionally, phones will be a big distraction in school. A study in Wales was done where students

were given a test in five different environments, a quiet environment, a steady speech environment, a changing

state environment, an environment where students listened to music they liked, and an environment where stu-

dents listened to music they didn’t like. The steady speech, which was like having a heater in the background,

and the quiet environment have the best results. This shows that it didn’t matter if people were talking, repre-

sented by the changing speech, if it was music students like, or if it was music students disliked. Any changing

speech, talking or music, led to worse test grades. This shows that using phones to play music or talking because

of phones will be a detriment to education.

Yet another reason to keep the no cell phone policy is while students are supposedly multi-tasking be-

tween their phone and homework, they are actually wasting valuable time. Professor John Medina says the brain

can’t multi-task efficiently. The brain will actually go through four steps each time the brain changes focus. The

brain gets distracted, disengages, re-engages, and starts the new activity. This process may not seem very time

consuming, but if a student switches focus 100 times during a study session, this will take up a significant

amount of time.

Lastly, keeping phones out of school will make it so pupils won’t have worse grades because of inter-

rupting texts, alerts, and everything else that phones will set off. To back this up, research has been done that

shows exam scores will drop 6% if cellular devices were to be allowed in schools. Along with this, if you grant-

ed cell phones access to school it will be the equivalent of making the school year one week shorter. This will

decrease the amount of knowledge learned per year. Teachers will then have to teach students information that

they should have already known.

Of course people will say that music helps students learn, but that is only true with instrumental music

styles like classical. In other words, this means if there are lyrics, it only hinders learning. I did a survey of 50

people and only three said they listened to music without lyrics. This means 6% of the students would benefit

while the other 94% would receive worse grades.

With the support above, I see there is no reason to change the “No Cell Phone” policy. It lowers test

grades, distracts students, and causes problems all around. Thank you for taking your time to read my letter.

Sincerely,

Grant Fiedler

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Dear Mr. Lobdell:

I am contacting you about the issue of cell phones in school. Many of your students would like cell

phones in school, but I am in favor of the rule we have prohibiting cell phones. I believe we should

keep this rule implemented. If students had phones, the likelihood of cheating would go up, there

would be more distractions, and it would increase the chances of cyberbullying. I am a strong support-

er of no cell phones in school.

Specifically, cheating is a big reason I believe the rules we have are good for our school. In one sur-

vey from Common Sense Media, tens were asked them how they would cheat on their mobile devices

if they got the chance. 22% of teens would look at notes or information they stored on their devices,

20% would text friends to acquire answers from their cheating friends, 19% would look up answers

online, and 23% would take pictures of the tests or quizzes and send them to friends. There are many

ways to cheat so the teacher wouldn’t find out if we changed the rules. Cyberbullying could be fac-

tored in to cheating because someone could send you the wrong answer on purpose to get you a bad

grade. This could be harmful to student’s grade, and 45% of kids have been cyberbullied at one time

of another. Therefore I have faith that the rules we have in place do a good job of preventing these

things.

I also believe having your cell phone in your pocket all day would be a major distraction because you

would constantly have the urge to check it. On average, students’ scores 9% worse on schoolwork

when on their mobile devices, especially when texting. In some schools, banning cell phones was the

equivalent to one extra hour of school per day or five days at the end of the year. This could make a

great difference to those who need the extra time to get a better understanding of what we are learn-

ing. Some schools’ exam scores rose up to 6% after phones were banned according to a study from the

University of Texas. I believe these schools made the right decision and benefitted from it.

On the other hand I realize that some students would argue that their phones could be used to contact

their parents for emergencies, but we have ways of doing that now. If your parents needed to contact

you about an emergency, they can just call the office, or if you need to call your parents about an al-

tered practice, you can call if you ask Ms. Reed. There are ways to keep in contact with kids and par-

ents in place already at the school and I believe it should stay that way.

At the end of the day, I believe the policies we have in place about cell phones in school are doing

their job quite well and should stay in place. I believe that is one reason why we have one of the best

schools in the area. We benefit from having no cell phones and having laptops instead. We have lap-

tops in many of our classrooms which basically replace any need for cell phones. I have faith in the

decision you have made, and hope you don’t change your mind anytime soon.

Sincerely,

Alec D. Bennett

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By: Beau Linden, Zoe Johnson & Jade Gabel