Overhills High School has been lucky to have had Mrs. Cicily McCrimmon as Principal for both the 2015 and 2016 school years.
She stepped in when needed, picking up the reins unexpectedly, and has always been the epitome of a professional and a leader. She is respected by her staff who had many good things to say about her, including: "She sets high expectations for staff and then leads by example," Mrs. Owens~ Special Education teacher. "She lets me work and makes me feel like a professional," ~ Sid Lathan, Math tecaher and Avid Adviser "She made Overhills feel like a family," Rex Alaimo, Wood Shop Mrs. McCrimmon has handled issues, celebrated victories, and mourned losses with this Jaguar family as a teacher, an Assistant principal, and then as Principal for several years, and is now moving on to continue her studies and professional growth in other arenas. We thank her for her guidance, her time, and her loyalty. She will always be a Jaguar and will be sorely missed. -Susan Hudgins ,Journalism Adviser Attention seniors! The school year is coming to an end and it's time to make sure all your requirements are met to ensure that you walk across that stage this June!
First things first make sure that you complete the Senior Intent Survey it is required that this form is completed. Next make sure you have met the CPR requirement if you are unsure if you have or not check with your assigned guidance counselor. You can find this survey on the school website on the senior information page. Secondly, graduation practice will take place June, 8 at 7:15 a.m. in the OHS cafeteria, attendance is mandatory and you must be on time. Directions will be given in the cafeteria for the transition to the auditorium for practice. Tickets for graduation will be given out at the end of practice each student will receive 8. All fees and charges to the school must be paid to receive tickets! Graduation itself will take place June 11 at Campbell University. The program will begin at 10 a.m. however graduates should arrive at8 a.m. Appropriate attire for graduation will be compulsory and enforced! Gentlemen should be wearing a collared shirt and tie, dress slacks, and proper shoes, no sneakers! Ladies dress nicely in a dress, skirt, or slacks, and suitable shoes, no flip flops! Cap and gown are required for student participation in the graduation ceremony so if you are still without, contact Jostens ASAP! Please make sure to notify family and friends who will be in attendance that strollers and balloons of any type are not allowed in the Pope Convocation Center. Get to it class of 2016 and make sure you meet all the requirements, see you June 11! -Jacara Poole The U.S. Senate recently approved a bill May 17. The bill, named the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA), allows family of the victims in the 9/11 attacks to sue the Saudi Government for their alleged role in the attacks that killed nearly 3000 people. This bill has been stalled in the senate for months before finally moving towards the house. The bill needs the signature of the President to be enacted.
This bill has strained relations between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia. Saudi has warned that if the bill passes, they will sell $750 billion in U.S. assets, including treasury securities. Analysts say that the Saudi won't due that won't do that, because it would hurt them more economically than it will the US. -Kohen Hernandez Tanishq Abraham , 12 years old from Sacramento , California was accepted into two universities. He began community college at age 7 and has three community college degrees in generally science , math , physical science and in foreign language studies. Abraham believes he will have medical degree by the time he is 18 years old. He is going into college to become a doctor , bio-medical engineer and medical researcher.
-Carly Ranka One of the last Republican candidates, Ted Cruz, has dropped out of the race for nomination. He only had 564 delegates and was trailing behind front runner Donald Trump who had 1147 at the time. This clears a path for Trump to win the nomination, since Cruz was the closet candidate to him. This decision comes almost immediately after his loss in Indiana to Trump.
The third candidate in the final three, John Kasich, also dropped out following Indiana's primary. He only had 160 delegates and nobody was sure why he was still in the race. He was trailing behind both Trump and Cruz by a large margin. With everyone else gone Trump now stands as the projected winner of the Republican party. -Alex Panell After being pressured by several outside forces, Aeropostale has finally declared bankruptcy. They plan on closing 113 stores across the U.S. and 41 stores in Canada. This decision comes almost immediately after they were delisted from the stock market after losing 95 percent of its value over the past two years. They're worth about a penny a stock now.
The company released a statement that shows they have been losing money for 13 straight quarters. It also showed that they have $354 million in assets while $390 million in debt. The company hopes to emerge from bankruptcy within the next six months and has already received $160 million in financing from crystal financial LLC. -Alex Panell Three bodies were recently found dead in their home inside of a gated community known as Oakmont, Friday May 6 around 4 p.m. The deaths were results of murder-suicide according to preliminary autopsy reports bu the Office the Chief Medical Examiner . The bodies were found by deputies by deputies and were proven to belong to Danielle Falls Biggs,35, and her two children 3-year-old Benjamin and 21-months-old Gwendolyn, in their home on Cherry Hill Drive. The deputies who found the family were responding to a call from a neighbor who requested a well being check.
The autopsy reports showed that the children had passed as a result of gunshot wounds, and the mother's death was ruled a suicide by gunshot wounds. Biggs' husband is an active-duty member of the military and was not in the U.S. at the time of the incident. This happening is still under investigation. -Jacara Poole The JROTC Awards Ceremony took place, Tuesday, May 20. The dinner was provided by the ROTC booster club, parents who assist with the program. The awards were given out by importance and by the cadet let levels. The National Awards were given out first, such as; The Suns and Daughters of the American Revolution award, Scottish Rite of Freemasonry JROTC award, and The Daedalian JROTC Achievement award.
After the National Awards were received the JROTC awards were announced, such as; The Superior Cadet Award, Cadet of the Semester, NCO of the Semester and The Officer of the Semester. The Drill and Raider teams also received awards that night. The ceremony was concluded with three promotions, Cadet Damari was promoted to Battalion Commander, Cadet McCord to Battalion Executive Officer, and Cadet Sumrall to Battalion Commander Sergeant Major -Abbie Sumrall Up coming classes make sure you give a big jaguar welcome to the new principal Ms.Steve Mathews.
-Carly Ranka Owana Anderson if offering two checks for $1500 to the students who apply for the scholarship awarded by Unigo Group. These checks are non-renewable but allow you to use the money for schoolbooks and tuition you might need to pay.
Students are allowed to apply each year but if you have already received a check you may want to reapply again. To sign up, or to apply a different scholarship visit Unigo.com -Chloe Cunningham Former OHS secretary treasurer, Renee Thomas, recently passed away May 12 in her late 70's. Thomas worked at OHS from the opening day, 2007, until she retired a year and a half ago. She benefited our school by taking care of almost everything! She always had an answer to everyone's question.
Thomas was close to her daughter, Jamie Thomas and everyone at OHS. She was very close to Brock Pace, Vicky Hasapis and Sid Lathan. Lathan stated that Thomas loved to do things with her family and enjoyed doing yard work with her husband. Thomas was an amazing person and very kind. She was the first to greet Lathan at OHS. When Lathan first started working at OHS, he was a single parent and sometimes had to bring his son to work. Lathan stated that Thomas would take his son to her office and entertain him while he was teaching. Thomas will definitely be missed and will be remembered. -Breanna Bowers EgyptAir's Flight MS 804 disappeared during a flight from Paris to Cairo, Thursday, May 19, with 66 people on board. The plane disappeared from radar over the Mediterranean Sea and crashed. Greek officials said the jet made two sharp turns then suddenly lost altitude before vanishing at 37,000 feet.
Egypt's Civil Aviation Ministry said search and rescue teams were looking for the missing jet near the Greek Island of Crete. There is no immediate information about what caused the plane's disappearance. -Heather Barker The "I Have a Dream" Scholarship is an easy way to receive $1500 to help make your educational dream come true. The students applying must be 13 years or older and a U.S. citizen. The student must also be enrolled no later that the fall of 2023,in an accredited post-secondary institution of higher education. The winner will be notified by email or phone on or around April 30, 2017.
Unigo wants students to explain what your dreams are by answering the essay prompt. Scholarships don't have to exist in your rich reveries. Let your dreams by your muse and your ticket to free money for school. -Abbie Sumrall E-cigarettes are electronic cigarettes that are powered by batteries. It produces vapor, instead of smoke, and serves as a replacement for cigarettes. E-cigarettes have been highly popular lately, doubling in the adult population and tripling among high school students. The e-cigarettes sales are predicted to top $10 million by 2017.
In a recent study conducted by the National Poison Data System, it shows that e-cigarette poisonings among children rose by 1500 percent between 2013 and 2015. Ninety percent of the poisoned children swallowed the nicotine-laced liquid, e-juice, which is inside e-cigarettes. Also, it shows how e-cigarette exposure is more harmful than cigarette exposure, because of the liquid nicotine. Half of the children exposed were under the age of 2. E-cigarette poisonings are rising, due to their sudden increase in popularity. Kids who are exposed may suffer from seizures, coma, respiratory arrest and even death. One way to prevent e-cigarette poisoning among children is store the e-cigarettes in a safe place. -Courtney Stout The West Virginia primaries for both Republicans and Democrats was held Tuesday, May 10. The state has 29 delegates for democrats and 34 for republicans. Bernie Sanders won the state with 18 delegates while his rival Hillary Clinton only received 11. The only candidate left for the Republicans, Donald Trump, won every delegate in the state.
Right now Donald Trump is still the presumptive nominee for the Republicans since everyone else has dropped out. While the Democrats are still having a race. Clinton has 2240 of the 2383 delegates needed, Sanders only has 1433. The next couple of states could decide the democrat nominee. -Alex Pannell Michaela Myer, an Overhills high school student, hosted a Woman Empowerment Walk at the OHS football field May 14. When the walkers arrived, they wrote an insecurity on a name tag and wore it in addition to a red string tied around their finger. The walk started at 10:30 a.m. and three laps were completed while holding a red banner with "Woman's Walk of Empowerment" printed on it. As the walk proceeded, music was playing. After the walk, a group of OHS students sang "I'm Only Human", "Born This Way", "Haven't Met You Yet" and "Shut Up And Dance". They rocked it!
The performers wore red shirts with printing that said "hello beautiful". Myer states that the reason the shirts were red is because red is the symbol of beauty and confidence. The goal of the Woman Empowerment Walk was to ensure women that they are beautiful without makeup. Myer believes all women are naturally beautiful! -Breanna Bowers Teachers across Detroit called in sick to work, Monday, May 2, closing 94 of the city's 97 schools. Thousands of angry teachers, staff and supporters filled the streets outside of district headquarters to protest after finding out they might not be paid for the work they have done this school year, causing over 45,000 students to stay home from school.
The Michigan legislature approved $48.7 million in funding that will allow the district to meet payroll, only through the end of June. The Detroit Public School system is working on a plan to help with this problem, but no solution has been set in place yet. -Heather Barker The Proton Energy Scholarship offered by Unigo is intended for students who want to pursue a major in a science or technology- related field. The scholarship is arranged to cover the student's cost of tuition. It is renewable up to three years, as long as the student keeps a 3.0 GPA or higher and a full-time course load. The student must also plan on enrolling on a full-time basis. There are one or more awards offered annually, the students applying must be a graduating high school senior.
The deadline for the scholarship is Monday, February 20, 2017. For further information about the application process and additional information requirements, please visit the Unigo website at www.unigo.com. There is a link that will direct you to the application. -Abbie Sumrall As this school year comes to a close, many students will want to forget about school and focus on enjoying summer but this might be the perfect time for rising juniors and seniors to start studying for their standardized tests. Here are a few tips to remember during your SAT tests. Rule number one is that there is only one correct answer. So therefore a good strategy for any test would be the process of elimination. Rule number two is to try predicting the answer to the question before reading the answer choices. If you come up with your own answer first you'll be less influenced by the wrong or "trick" answers. Rule number three is to find a passage reading strategy that suits you best. Some methods are to skim the passage first, get a general idea of the story then answer the main idea questions first before going back for details. Another method would be to read your questions first then go back and find the answers. Lastly rule number four and probably the most important is to double check your work!
Now onto the ACT test; for the English section be sure to choose the most concise answer given, read the paragraphs first and be weary of the "no change" answers on the grammar correction part. For the math section make sure to pay attention to the diagrams and plug your answers back into the equations to see which one is correct. Next for the science section do the conflicting viewpoints section last! It's the most time consuming and hardest part of the test. The next tip for science would be to use the visuals they give you. Lastly, if you plan on taking the essay part make sure your introduction and conclusion paragraphs stand out. The graders will most likely be paying attention to your intro and conclusion paragraphs as well as your body paragraphs topic sentences more closely. -Ania White Texas senator Ted Cruz dropped out of the race the become G.O.P nominee May 3. The following day, May 4, Ohio governor, John Kasich, announced he was also dropping out of the race, leaving business man Donald Trump as the Republican nominee. "As I suspend my campaign today, I have renewed faith that the Lord will show me the way forward and fulfill the purpose of my life," Kasich stated at a press conference. Kasich came in fourth place total in delegate count.
In his time in the race, Kasich amassed only 154 delegates in total and won only one primary, which was in his own state. He was fourth after Trump, Cruz and Rubio. Trump was already being called the presumptive nominee even though Kasich was still in the race. By then, Kasich was already mathematically eliminated from possibly becoming the nominee. Now we wait to see our Democratic nominee. -Lillie Garcia Canadian authorities ordered the evacuation of Fort McMurray, Alberta May 4, in face of a approaching wildfire.Eighty eight thousand people were evacuated out of the city as the fire consumed parts of the city. Thankfully, there hasn't been any reported casualties caused by the fire.
Authorities do no no if the fire was started by humans or nature. The fire started May 1 and has burned 602 square miles of forest by May 7 and has destroyed 1600 homes in housing subdivisions. There are also worries that the fire will grow due to dry conditions and winds blowing the fire northward towards more forested areas. Thankfully these areas are unpopulated. -Kohen Hernandez The Indiana primary happened for both Republicans and Democrats Tuesday, May 3. On the republican side, there's businessman Donald Trump, Texas senator, Ted Cruz and Ohio governor, John Kasich. On the democratic side, there's former secretary of state Hillary Clinton and Vermont senator, Bernie Sanders. The front-runners on both sides are Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
In the primary, Trump won 53.3 percent of votes, while Cruz won 36.7 percent and Kasich 7.5 percent. Shortly after the primary, Cruz drops out of the race, and a day later, so did Kasich. "It has been some unbelievable day and evening and year," Trump said about winning the primary."Never been through anything like this,". On the democratic side, Sanders won with 52.7 percent of votes and Clinton won 47.3 percent. Clinton still leads in Democratic nomination. However, theatlantic.com said "Sanders just got the victory he desperately needed," The next primaries will be held in Nebraska and West Virginia. -Courtney Stout Afeni Shakur Davis - mother of Tupac Shakur, one of hip-hops iconic figures - died Monday, May 2. The police responded to a family member's call of a "possible cardiac arrest" at her home at about 9:34 p.m. Shakur was taken to the Marin General Hospital, where she was pronounced dead at 10:28 p.m. "There was nothing suspicious about her death and no evidence of foul play," Lt. Doug stated. An autopsy was scheduled for later that day.
Shakur was a well-loved and respected member within the community. Her background not only resides in the community but her extensive involvement with other activities. She was a person of wisdom, love, and strength. Her commitments were to her family and building a more peaceful world for future generations. -Abbie Sumrall One of the worlds largest motor companies, Mitsubishi, has admitted to cheating fuel tests. The company released a statement that shows the cheating has been going on for 25 years, way longer than initially thought. Almost immediately after the confession the company's stocks dropped 10 percent and half of their market value vanished. The vehicles with false fuel tests have only been sold in Japan according to Mitsubishi.
Mitsubishi isn't the first motor company to admit to cheating tests. In 2014 Hyundai and KIA payed a total of $100 million to the U.S. for lying about fuel economy. That same year Ford compensated about 200,000 vehicle owners after discovering the gas mileage was wrong -Alex Pannell |
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