Archive for April, 2012

  • Day of Silence Sparks Awareness

    Day of Silence Sparks Awareness

    Wa-Hi’s Gay-Straight Alliance, and other supportive students, participated in an international event called Day of Silence on April 20. This was a day-long activity in which students all across America spent the day in varying levels of self-imposed silence. Some remained tight-lipped all day, others were only quiet in certain classes, and several only joined [...]

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  • Cast Members Voice Their Opinions About the Play and Their Parts

    Cast Members Voice Their Opinions About the Play and Their Parts

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  • PC Pro Examinees Pass Certification

    PC Pro Examinees Pass Certification

    Seniors Edwin Flores, AJ Walker, Blake Noel, junior Travis Stinebaugh and sophomore Hans Bauman passed PC Pro Certification exam on April 19. All students are enrolled in CTE Dennis DeBroeck’s classes. Each student had to work through scenarios given and come to the correct answer. They had to work individually within a given time period [...]

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  • FFA Hosts Annual Plant Sale

    FFA Hosts Annual Plant Sale

    The FFA plant sale will take place in the grassy area in front of the CTE building from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on April 30 to May 3. Parking will be available on Abbott Road. To view plant prices, click here

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  • College Place School Bond Passes First Vote

    College Place School Bond Passes First Vote

    The vote for the College Place School Bond for the rebuilding of Davis Elementary and the building of a high school took place on April 17.  Sixty-one percent of voters voted yes. Final count of the votes will take place by April 20. The next step in the process is to tally the votes again [...]

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  • Madonna’s Latest Album Found Overly Robotic and Tiresome

    Madonna’s Latest Album Found Overly Robotic and Tiresome

    Madonna is good at two things: dressing far too young for her age (as of August 2011, 53) and churning out close to annoyingly catchy dance/pop hits. Her latest release “MDNA” (a play on her own name) proves that she’s still doing both; quite well, actually. After the flat falling “Hard Candy” (2008), somebody must [...]

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  • FBLA Members Compete at State Competition

    FBLA Members Compete at State Competition

    Six FBLA students competed at the State Conference in downtown Seattle on April 12 through April 14. Sophomores Lea Davidson and Hannah Hampson, Seniors Gregg Heller, Parker Postlewait and Jocelyn Vargas and Junior Brenda Lopez competed in different performance events: Accounting 1 and 2, Business Calculations, Business Communications, Business Ethics Team, Business Math, Client Service, [...]

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  • Onlookers Appreciate Downtown Art

    Onlookers Appreciate Downtown Art

    The many sculptures that adorn Walla Walla are often glanced at and passed by without a second thought. Does one really know what the names of the pieces are or does one just recognize them as the “dog outside Starbucks,” “the lemon outside Brights” and “the chickens outside Backstage Bistro?” Wayne Chabre Delicate Balance   [...]

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  • Indie Band Surprises Critic

    Indie Band Surprises Critic

    Over the past few years, the rules of beauty have changed. Some little girls want to grow up to be another Kardashian, instead of their mother, or the first female president of the United States. Movies have been reduced to formulaic cornucopias of cliches and CGI mush (e.g. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen). In this [...]

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  • Journalists Compete at National Level

    Journalists Compete at National Level

    Seven student journalists participated as student hosts at the JEA National Convention in Seattle from April 12 through April 14. Senior Maddy Nelson and juniors Allen Flaa, Emma Opsal, Julia Cosma, Melissa Nelsen, Miranda Ruff and Quinn Anderson helped check-in over 3,000 attendees and facilitated the student media swap shops, where 600 students from other [...]

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