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    Fundraising for Prom Royalty Continues Despite Small Turnout

    By Aly Miranda | Photo courtesy mmatins / Foter.com / CC BY-NC-ND | Despite the small number of seniors fundraising for prom this year, Principal Melvin Echard will let the fundraising tradition continue as the selection process for prom royalty. The money from the fundraisers will be going to the National Down Syndrome Society. “I [...]

     
  • Roosevelt Students Send Blood To West

    Roosevelt Students Send Blood To West

    By Fatima Valadez Students volunteered to donate blood on April 30 to send to West, Texas because of the explosion that happened there earlier in the month where 35 people died. It was the second biggest blood drive this year. The biggest blood drive this year was in February. They would’ve been more blood donated, but since it [...]

     
  • Sophomore’s Artwork On Tonight’s Battle of the Bands Program

    Sophomore’s Artwork On Tonight’s Battle of the Bands Program

    By Savannah Francis | Sophomore Ashleigh Askew’s artwork will be featured on the cover of tonight’s Battle of Flowers Band Festival program. “Its a good feeling, I was shocked,” Askew said, after she had figured out that she won first place in the Art Show. Askew said she just “thought of an idea” for her [...]

     
  • Silent Auction in Teacher Work Room

    Silent Auction in Teacher Work Room

    By Aly Miranda National Art Honor Society is holding a silent auction in the teacher work room until May 3. The student hand-made prints will be sold to raise money for NAHS for their workshop/celebration at the end of the year. “Last year, the students created tie-dye T-shirts and jewelry and took it home. This year, I [...]

     
  • Last School Band Concert April 30

    Last School Band Concert April 30

     By Fatima Valadez | File Photo | The band will have their last in-school concert on April 30 at 6:30 p.m. in the auditorium. They will be playing a selection of songs. This has always been something special for the seniors; to recognize them and their parents on the last school concert. The marching band [...]

     
  • Second Group of DATA Sophomores to Port A

    Second Group of DATA Sophomores to Port A

    Photos and Story By Aly Miranda | The second half of DATA sophomores finally went on their Port A field trip on April 19. Because of the weather, the time was set back from leaving San Antonio at 5:30 a.m. to leaving at 6:30 a.m. The group that went on April 12 experienced a cool, fun and [...]

     
  • West Texas Explosion Has Wide Effects

    West Texas Explosion Has Wide Effects

    By Kathya Anguiano | Photo credit: Fir0002 / Foter.com / CC BY-SA | A massive explosion at a fertilizer plant in the North Texas town of West last week left 14 people dead and injured more than 100 people from the city’s nearly 3,000 population. The blast took place at the West Fertilizer Plant, about 18 miles north [...]

     
  • Leo Club Collects Shoes for Homeless

    Leo Club Collects Shoes for Homeless

    By Fatima Valadez | The Leadership-Experience-Opportunity or Leo club is now having a shoe drive to help the homeless. This is the first time they have done it, since a neighborhood church called  John Calvin that is on Walzem contacted Leo Club sponsor Lisa Alanis. The shoe drive isn’t only for the Leo Club members, [...]

     
  • Track and Field Athletes Prepare For Area

    Track and Field Athletes Prepare For Area

    From Staff Reports | Photo by Daja Williams | This past week on Thursday and Friday many members of boys and girls track have placed at district and are advancing to Area. In girls track E’kara Mitchell finished second in the shot put with a 39’3″. Ayanna Atkins is the District Champion in the shot put [...]

     
  • Put a Poem In Your Pocket; It’s National Poetry Month

    Put a Poem In Your Pocket; It’s National Poetry Month

    By BryShaniq Brown-Byrd Beginning in 1996, the  Academy Of American Poets chose April to be  National Poetry month. They claimed it to be the largest literary program in the world, reaching 10 million American people with programs such as ‘Poem in Your Pocket Day’ which is this Thursday and the ‘Dear Poet Project.’ Poem in [...]

     
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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    Fundraising for Prom Royalty Continues Despite Small Turnout

    By Aly Miranda | Photo courtesy mmatins / Foter.com / CC BY-NC-ND | Despite the small number of seniors fundraising for prom this year, Principal Melvin Echard will let the fundraising tradition continue as the selection process for prom royalty. The money from the fundraisers will be going to the National Down Syndrome Society. “I [...]

     
     
  • Roosevelt Students Send Blood To West

    Roosevelt Students Send Blood To West

    By Fatima Valadez Students volunteered to donate blood on April 30 to send to West, Texas because of the explosion that happened there earlier in the month where 35 people died. It was the second biggest blood drive this year. The biggest blood drive this year was in February. They would’ve been more blood donated, but since it [...]

     
     
  • Sophomore’s Artwork On Tonight’s Battle of the Bands Program

    Sophomore’s Artwork On Tonight’s Battle of the Bands Program

    By Savannah Francis | Sophomore Ashleigh Askew’s artwork will be featured on the cover of tonight’s Battle of Flowers Band Festival program. “Its a good feeling, I was shocked,” Askew said, after she had figured out that she won first place in the Art Show. Askew said she just “thought of an idea” for her [...]

     
     
  • Silent Auction in Teacher Work Room

    Silent Auction in Teacher Work Room

    By Aly Miranda National Art Honor Society is holding a silent auction in the teacher work room until May 3. The student hand-made prints will be sold to raise money for NAHS for their workshop/celebration at the end of the year. “Last year, the students created tie-dye T-shirts and jewelry and took it home. This year, I [...]