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March  2010




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Everyone loves snow days, but when it snows like it has this year, and we end up having to give up our entire Spring Break; they kind of suck. I know that the roads are unsafe on most of the days, but there has been a day or two that I know the roads were drivable, and they still cancelled school. That's just crazy. I think that it's better to go to school now, when the weather is crappy, than have to make up it all up on the nice days were going to have this spring. Sleeping in is great, don't get me wrong, but it really isn't worth losing our Spring Break.

--Cari N. Holbrook
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Alice in Wonderland
   What's in                     What's out


      Kia Forte                                         Ford Focus

       Channing Tatum                                 Robert Pattinson
             
         Rock Band                                          Guitar Hero
 
          Color Orange                                     Color Yellow

    Blackberry                                            iPhone

    Playstation 3                                          Xbox

            Alice in Wonderland                      Inglourious Basterds
           
           Baseball/Softball                                Basketball

               Buckle                                          Hollister

             Olive Garden                                   Red Lobster

                  Frappe                                        Iced Coffee

 – Bobbi Harris
         
Tis the Season

The history of Saint Patrick's Day is based off of a legend of the Patron Saint of Ireland who was accredited for "chasing the snakes out of Ireland." In reality he was a man named Maewyn Succat who was born in Britain. While young he was sold into slavery in Ireland where he was said to have received a vision from god to go to France and become a monk.

From there he went to Ireland to convert the Pagan people into Christians with the blessing of the Pope. He stayed in Ireland for over 20 years building churches and schools to better spread the teachings of Christianity. The word 'snake' was slang for witch or Pagan which was why Patricus or Patrick was said to have chased the snakes out of Ireland.

St. Patrick died on March 17, AD 461 and that day has been commemorated as St. Patrick's Day ever since. The point of St. Patrick's day is to celebrate the universal baptization of Ireland, although it started as a Catholic holy day, St. Patrick's Day has become a worldwide holiday.
--Victoria Freeman     



 

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