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 Members of the Wapakoneta Middle School Student Council pose for photo outside the classroom earlier this year. To date, the group has raised nearly $2,300 in which they have donated to various local and area organizations throughout the 2009-2010 school year. Photo provided By KRISTA HAYES
Staff Writer
With the end of the school year nearing, Wapakoneta Middle School Student Council members are hoping to end their term on a positive note.
During the school year, the school government raised nearly $2,300 for various local and area organizations.
“Each year, we try and raise as much money as we can for various clubs and organizations that we vote on and decide to help support at the beginning of the school year,” Wapakoneta Middle School Student Council President Neal Maxson said.
Elected a Student Council representative of his homeroom, Maxson, a seventh-grade student, said this is his second year serving on the council. This year as president, his main responsibility is to set forth an agenda and preside over the group’s monthly meetings which are held the first and third Thursday of each month.
“I joined the Student Council because I was looking for a new activity to do and thought it’d be challenging experience,” Maxson said. “Politics have always been one of the things to stick out in my head and when I grow up, I want to be a lawyer.
“Overall, as president I think I have done a pretty good job,” he said. “Being president is a lot harder than what I thought it would be since I have to make the agendas, run the meetings, and keep the advisers in the loop. I have the whole weight of the council on my shoulders, and at times it can get frustrating, but I would recommend it to all the kids coming to the middle school next year because it’s a fun activity to be involved in.”
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Wednesday, 28 October 2009 |
By KRISTA HAYES
Staff Writer
With candy-eyed ghouls, ghosts and goblins expected to be out in full force Thursday in celebration of trick-or-treat night, two Centennial Elementary School students recently shared their favorite Halloween traditions with the Wapakoneta Daily News.
“Every year I dress up for Halloween to go trick-or-treating, and this year I am going to go as a pirate,” Shayne Truesdale, a first-grade student in Jann Klopfenstein’s class said. “I get to wear a pirate hat, eye patch, earring, and I even get to carry a cool sword.
“My twin brother, Shawn Truesdale, is also going to dress up,” he said, “but I don’t know what as because he hasn’t told me. I usually don’t ask.”
Truesdale intends to join hundreds of area school children dressed as everything from witches and skeletons to princesses and ballerinas, as they make their way from house to house Thursday gathering candy and treats. Trick-or-treat is scheduled to be held in Wapakoneta from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday.
“I go trick-or-treating at the fire station, downtown, in my neighborhood and at my friend’s house,” the son of Brenda and Eric Truesdale said. “Last year my mom went with me and I ate so much candy corn that I got sick.”
Making the event a family affair, second grade student Tanner Rogers enrolled in Abi Kuck’s class said he and his family have already mapped out their plan of attack to include several neighborhoods with a stop at Harvest Baptist Church.
“I go trick-or-treating every year with my mom, dad, sisters (Harley, 3, Tori, 13 and Alyssa, 10), my grandma and grandpa, and my uncle,” the son of Angie and Jay Rogers said. “I get a ton of candy and my favorites are bubblegum, chocolate bars and Sour Patch Kids.”
With plans to dress up as a bloody ghost, Rogers is betting his 2009 Halloween costume will be one for area residents and candy distributors to remember for years to come.
“I’m going to wear a mask that has yellow teeth and a bloody heart, so that when you pull the string to the heart, blood runs out and comes over the mask,” Rogers, 8, said. “My dad might also go to Meijer to buy me a fake chainsaw or knife to go with my costume.”
Among other Halloween traditions Truesdale and Rogers said they like to participate in each year are carving pumpkins, going on hayrides and visiting pumpkin patches, helping to decorate their houses for the holiday and watching scary movies at home in the dark.
“I like to watch Goosebumps and Scooby Doo,” Truesdale said. “I also help my mom and dad decorate the house, and this year we decorated with skulls and have a wooden cat that has a spider on its leg. We were going to get two giant pumpkins with glowing eyes, but our neighbor stole our idea.”
“Yeah, I like to watch Goosebumps too, and Goonies and the Gremlins,” Rogers said. “At my house we have skulls hanging up and we also have zombies popping out of the ground. There are cobwebs everywhere and a monster that chokes people as they walk under him — he doesn’t choke them for real though.”
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 29 October 2009 )
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