Category: Feature
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A Storytelling story
West High Theatre prepares for spring play As the theater production “The Canterbury Tales” arrives on February 23rd and 24th, West High cast members, techs and directors prepare and assemble the play. Preparing for show night, the directors are encouraging the performers and cast members to take it a step further to ensure this play…
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Opening a bank account
Some adolescents struggle with personal finance therefore, learning how to open and manage a bank account is an essential skill to have. Having a bank account comes with many benefits, depending on the type of bank and account you open: Interest on money back Direct deposit Pay your bills electronically Safer and convenient Compare accounts…
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Culture Shock
By Nevaeya Lotches and Malinda Roland Wichita Public Schools are very familiar with the bizarre nature the past year, this year feels now that everyone is back in school. West High School has freshmen, sophomores, who may not have been in school in person last year, and teachers that are new to this school and…
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Baseball team back in action
The baseball coach, Creighton Hoover is grateful that they get to play again this year because they didn’t get to play last year at West High School. After their 2020 season was cancelled at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, they are ready to be back on the field. “We are just happy to be…
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Las Cazuelas review
A Lesser known restaurant named Las Cazuelas, located on the South side of Wichita. Looking at Las Cazuelas off of Harry, the tan and red building doesn’t look like much. However, once I walked inside the appeal of this restaurant became more clear. Las Cazuelas is clean inside and the workers use disinfectant spray on…
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Sayōnara, Mr. Alldaffer
West High History Teacher, Micheal Alldaffer announced to all of his classes on March 5, 2021, that he will be leaving the United States for good. He announced that he will be moving to Japan to teach “gifted education.” “There was a job opportunity back in Japan that kind of came to my attention back…
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Blended learning model leads to extra stress, unfairness
The COVID-19 pandemic has greatly impacted us in many ways; One of those being the education systems. The USD 259 school district adopted the blended learning model, January 11, 2021. This allows some students to be on-site and the others remote, while all in the same class. Students and teachers have had to adapt to…
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My brothers barber
“We started going to the barber college and that’s where we would get our haircuts at. When we would go in everybody would kinda look at my brother. Umm he was burnt, he’s a burn survivor. Everybody kinda looked at him weird and they’d be scared to cut his hair. It made me and my…