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Emory Anderson
Staff Writer There are some changes being made to the gym floor here at Bonneville High School (BHS). This kind of change happens about every 20 years, but it can vary. On April 19, 2024, BHS students and faculty had the opportunity to voice their opinions on the project's end design. Levi Owen, head principal, and Tyler Johnson, athletic director, are leading the project. This project, being their first major school-based project, is sponsored by Rockwell Homes, a local homebuilding company founded nearly 30 years ago. Rockwell Homes chose to finance this project because “[t]he school, in and of itself, does not have a funding mechanism for this type of upgrade.” The cost needed to be covered by Rockwell is somewhere between 65-75K. After the faculty pushed for upgrades throughout the school, administration chose to invest in the main gym and its overall appearance. With BHS being the oldest of the traditional high schools in the district, “[they] wanted [the] students to feel more school spirit and pride in being a Bonneville Bee.” The design options presented in the April survey were designed by the boys basketball coach two years ago. He came up with these ideas that students got to pick from because “he had worked with a flooring company that does floors for the NCAA and NBA on the initial design.” All designs, which consisted of four primary options with minute differences, scored favorably with good feedback on potential changes. When gathering feedback on the floor designs, Johnson and Owen worked with Rockwell on the floor designs. The decision to update the main gym floor is not something new; it has been in the works for the last two years. The floor's estimated finish date is July 2024. After reviewing the survey data, it was decided that all four designs would be incorporated into the final project. Even though this project is going to be done well into the summer, it may impact some summer activities such as practices or camps. With these changes being made to the gym floor and not many things being affected by it, it will be something that will be an improvement seen by everyone. A big thanks goes out to Rockwell Homes for funding the project. Having pride in school culture and appearance can lead to an increase in school spirit. Go Bees!
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Social Media Manager Bonneville High School has different aspects of science that students can learn about. Bradley Coombs, a science teacher, is responsible for many of these classes. His classes include two outdoorsman classes, Vertebrate Zoology, Anatomy and Physiology. Coombs was fresh out of Kansas Wesleyan University when he got an offer to be a substitute at BHS. Due to a teacher leaving during the school year, Coombs took over his classes for the remainder of the year as a full-time substitute. The following year, he was hired as a full-time teacher. At the end of 2024, Coombs will complete his fifth year teaching. Having started college with the hope of becoming a physical therapist, during his sophomore year Coombs decided to take a scientific path. One of the biggest reasons he chose to change career paths was the physical therapy world is often “cut throat.” When looking at other career options, his love of math and science was kept in mind. Coombs had a love of both; however, he chose science because he enjoys teaching ecology. Coombs enjoys teaching all his classes; however, he enjoys some more than others. One of Coombs’ favorite subjects to teach is the outdoorsman class. He explained, “Ecology [is the] base of learning Idaho's ecosystem.” Pairing well with his outdoorsman class, Coombs prefers a kinesthetic approach to teaching, including projects and assignments. Coombs’ outdoorsman classes give students the opportunity to gain basic knowledge of the surrounding environment as well gain a hunting license and a boating license. Coombs prefers to live as life takes him; he lived by the motto "go where the building blocks [fall].” However, Coombs never saw his career path to be football, an extracurricular activity he did. He saw himself down the path of science or math. His interest in mathematics was partly due to its influence on science formulas. If he needed to he could teach a math class. However, Coombs prefers to stick to his habitat, science. For upcoming students some things to know before taking Coombs classes. His teaching is mostly based in sketch books, heavy lectures, and activities based teaching. In his five years of teaching at BHS. Coombs has helped the BHS science department grow in their many programs for students to learn. Ashlynn Morgan
Staff Writer Seussical, the musical, is a wild story filled with characters from the Jungle of Nool to the tiny who's on Who. Two of the lead roles were interviewed about the musical. The Cat in the Hat is played by Ainsley Smith, a senior. She was interviewed a week before the show on their thoughts about the musical and how it is going. Smith replied that she enjoys how “mischievous” Seussical is, and that the whole thing is colorful and childish. Trying out for a musical can be very stressful, but she knew she wanted to join because this is her last year at Bonneville, and she wanted to be a part of the cast one last time. She helps herself prepare for a musical by looking on the internet for a script. She uses key words to help her find a one-minute monologue. For the song part of the audition, she finds a song she already knows and tries to match the song with the character she wants to try out for. Smith’s first musical was in sixth grade, and she has done a musical every year since then, besides her freshman year. She was in “Anastasia” and “Bright Star" in high school. Seussical, involves a crazy amount of rhyming as well as plentiful supplies of color. Sometimes memorizing lines is difficult and takes a long time. However, Smith gets motivated to learn her lines because of the cast. She understands that if she does not do her part, it will slow down the process of getting the musical prepared for opening night. Smith sees that the musical is time consuming and takes plenty of practice outside of the regular hours. Smith wants the musical to be the best it can be, and she is aware it takes plenty of time and dedication to make it enjoyable for the audience. Her favorite part about being in a musical is getting to sing musical theater songs because “they are expressive.” She enjoys being a part of the cast and how the songs can portray emotion to the audience. Her favorite musical theater song: “When he sees me” from the musical waitress, it is a “silly song” and it is “fun to sing” so she used it for her audition this year. The part of JoJo is being played by Sarah Bingham, who is a senior. She loves how this musical is childlike and less on the serious side unlike past shows. She loves how “it brings out the childlike joy and fun that we all miss.” Sara has a huge part because the plot of the show is JoJo trying to save Whoville and that comes with many lines. She is motivated to learn her lines because she loves coming to a rehearsal prepared. When she shows up prepared the show can move along faster and she enjoys working on the small details. Bingham loves all the songs, but she loves “Alone in the Universe” the most because of how beautiful the song is. She prepared for her auditions by finding a monologue and song in the theme of the show and what the teachers asked for. She makes sure to find something that can fit her and the character she wants that can show her talents. She has done six musicals and two plays; she did “The Murders Announced” in the fall this year. She believes that the hardest part is the time commitment. There is so much that goes into it practicing songs, dances, lines, scenes, and then sometimes getting in tech hours. She says the best part about being in a musical is “the family.” It is frustrating to be around them sometimes, but she says that they can make up and you get really close to people. She loves that the cast is like a family and how comfortable she feels around them. Seussical the musical is a bright and colorful musical full of upbeat songs and amazing characters. Ainsley Smith and Sarah Bingham are two talented seniors starring in this musical. Eric Perez
Editor-in-Chief There is a new class in town with big potential. Military leadership is now offered throughout the D93 high schools. It is all taught by the same instructor for every school. The class combines leadership and military skills. Skills that can be used in everyday life with leadership aspects and hard working military based skills. Joshua Hawkins is teaching the class, Hawkins is a member of the U.S military. He was chosen by District 93 to teach the class, as he is a member of the military and has his teaching license. The class combines leadership skills with military tactics to help students “learn to take charge” according to Hawkins. Although taking the class “can prepare you if you are planning on joining the military,” students who are not planning on serving can gain leadership skills that will benefit them throughout life. This trimester students have started learning about land navigation and reading maps. students are given practical exercises like finding points on maps, using protractors and military coordinates. They learn about drop zones where they drop troops at and finding military bases. The ability to read and understand maps is important because if students are ever lost or are given maps in the military, they will be well prepared and know how to use them. PE class or weights, dressing down is a part of the class, in military leadership you do not dress down but dress ups. Students have to wear their Military Leadership uniforms, which is their military leadership shirt given to you at the beginning of the class. They have to show up on time and participate in all the activities. When coming into class students have to be wearing their uniforms, they have to come on time, and do their daily pushups. When students come dressed up and on time it teaches them time management. When they are doing their push-ups, it builds muscle and gets some of the needed physical activity. Even though it is in different ways, Students' minds are just as worked as most Bonneville core classes. After a Lesson then the Practical exercise students are put in stressful situations or are given problems that need to be solved and are expected to solve them. The situations require quick thinking and taking control, usually with military type situations. Military Leadership comes with a great deal of responsibility, and pushes students to go the extra mile, and teaches good work ethic. Learning leadership skills helps students be better leaders in many different situations. Learning military skills can help in many ways, if someone is going into the military or can skills people could use in everyday life. Emory Anderson
Staff Writer The Bonneville High School’s student council, also known as StuCo, has decided that there are some changes that need to be made. The students that will be most affected by this change are the kids who want to run. Ashley Yorgason is the advisor for this class, she oversees StuCo events. She also helps with elections and nominations for kids and makes sure that funds are in balance for student activities being held. Yorgason has decided that there are things that are going on in Student Council (StuCo) and how it is run. One of the biggest changes that was made was how kids are chosen to be a part of StuCo. Instead of having the student body nominate their friends for the ballot, teachers now have the ability to nominate students who are punctual, kind, and respectful. To help Yorgason identify students who would serve the school well, she sent out a nomination form to teachers where they can suggest a student and explain why they chose them. Another major change to StuCo is that nominees will not be 100% student body. With this change, the "popular kids," according to Yorgason, will not be the only students in the election or class. Another change made is two new positions, an upper class and a lower-class representative. These positions are meant to help “our subgroup of student council run events and things like that.” One of the positive aspects to this is that this is a change people will see it happen. With this change new faces will be seen either running for StuCo or become a part of it. Rylann Jones, senior and student body president, joined StuCo her freshman year after participating in Rocky Mountain Middle School's National Honor Society. Her job is to help get class started. This could mean one of three things she either helps with a question of the day, what every announcement needs to be made or she does there to do of the day. As student body president, some of Jones' responsibilities include representing Bonneville, doing the morning announcements, and talking during the assemblies. One of the changes Jones would like to see next year is that more people will want to apply themselves to more communities. Although change can be intimidating for some, Jones is eager for the new StuCo changes and believes that this change will help everyone feel more useful and included. With these changes being made to StuCo new faces will be seen and not the same kids year after year. Along with that teachers now have the opportunity to be included a little more with the decision on the nominees for StuCo. Grisel Gonzalez
Assistant Editor The 2024 school year is coming to an end, and teachers moving from school to school is common. As the year comes to a close, the math department at Bonneville High School (BHS) is experiencing changes. Mr. David Doyle, one of the Algebra I and II Prep teachers, will be packing up his classroom, room 228, at the end of the year. Mr. Doyle explained that he is leaving BHS because of district budget cuts and classroom management evaluation scores. Doyle is not entirely sure of his plans for the future, but he is currently looking for a new job. He explained that he loves working with kids and loves his current job, but he is entirely focused on keeping a roof over his childrens’ head. Although Doyle would prefer to stay in teaching, any job will do so long as he can continue to provide for his family as a single dad. After this year, he will most likely go into substitute teaching since he loves the teaching profession. When asked about his career, Doyle said, “This is what I chose to do with my life, and if I can’t do it, I’m really going to miss it.” Doyle would like to see better support for teachers from the administration, especially for the newer teachers. Along with scaffolding for new teachers, Doyle wishes there were higher standards in regards to cell phones. According to Doyle, “Cell phones are the bane of teaching because teachers have to fight the students for their attention.” He explains that with all the new social media platforms, it is easy for students to get easily distracted by a notification. Like many teachers, Doyle wishes all unnecessary distractions could be eliminated to ensure students are focused throughout the class hour. Although Doyle taught math at BHS for the last two years, he is also qualified to teach chemistry. Doyle stated that if he had the opportunity to teach chemistry, it would have been his first choice because “[t]hat’s what [his] degree is in.” Doyle’s degree in analytical chemistry, and he would have “applied for that in a heartbeat.” Although his time is cut short, Doyle is leaving BHS with memories to last a lifetime. His favorite memories at BHS are when the students have thrown his birthday parties because “[i]f it wasn’t for them [he] wouldn’t have had a birthday party at all or celebrated [his] birthday at all.” When asked about current and former students, Doyle declared, “I love them all.'' Doyle, often known for his open-mindedness, tries to connect with students from walks of life. He thinks kids are often judged by their outward appearance; however, he takes the time to get to know all of his students individually. Doyle states: “[T]hat's where I’m different, I get to know my students as people because if you don’t know what makes them tick you can’t teach them or reach them.” Overall, Doyle will always have a love for teaching and the students at BHS wish him the best of luck in the future. |
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