VOLUME 1, ISSUE 5
DECEMBER 2008
Hillcrest Middle School
Falcons!
INSIDE THIS ISSUE:
On Page Two: Twilight Movie
Sport Survey and Food Survey
On Page Three: Energy Drink survey,
and Opinions
On Page Four: Mr. Eubanks & Brooks,
and Movie Reviews
On Page Five: Mr. Hinrichs, Mr.
Greaves, and Dear Aunt Sally
On Page Six: Mrs. Bland and a cartoon
On Page Seven: A Cartoon and Mrs.
Johnson
On Page Eight: Euro Cup, Trends, and
Movie Review
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WINTER FASHIONS BY: CODY CURL & JANELLE BOSTON
It’s beginning to look a lot tion of different styled Looking for a place to hang
like winter. Hoodies and pull-over’s at during winter? The movies
It’s time to pull out your Tilly’s and Pac Sun. Some are always an option, but if
boots, jeans, and gloves, of the popular brands for you’re looking for something
because winter is ap- girls and guys are Tapout, new maybe try ice-skating.
proaching quickly. If InFamous, Hollister, Aero- Take a few friends and hit up
you’re planning on visiting postale, SoCal, DC, Lith- the rink. Also talk to your
the snow this season, don’t ium, and Energy Drinks parents about going up to the
forget your UGG boots such as Monsterand snow and on the way up pick
and Skinny Jeans, two Kronik. Some common up a few sleds for a little
very popular clothing op- colors for guys are black, fun! While you’re up there
tions for this winter. Fur white, brown, and gray. build a few snowmen and
jackets are also “in” and have a snowball fight. If you
will keep you very warm like a little challenge try and
for the cold weather. learn a new sport such as
Some places that offer snowboarding or skiing.
these items are Tilly’s, Get out there and try some-
Dillard’s, Famous Foot- thing new this winter, and do
wear, Aeropostale, Pac it in style.
Sun and many others. For
guys there is a large selec-
DIRT SPORTS SURVEY BY: JASON MCCAMMOND
Sand railing: 4% Dirt biking: 10%
I surveyed 100 people, ask-
ing them: Would you rather
go quading, dirt biking, go
carting, or sand railing? Here
are my results.
Quading: 60% Go carting:
24%
VOLUME 1, ISSUE 5 PAGE 2

TWILIGHT MOVIE V. BOOK BY: KAREN HANSON

Book Review:
Twilight, #1 New York time best seller,
by Stephenie Meyer is a love story with
a bite! Personally I give this book 5 a
star review. It’s really not just a love
story it has action that makes you sit on
the end of your chair. Its keeps your
interest and makes you want to read
more after the end of chapters. If you
read Twilight you have to read the three
books that follow twilight, New Moon,
Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn.
Movie Review:
The movie Twilight is not as good
as the book, but it was ok. The book
was way more descriptive and the
movie cut out on some of my favor-
ite parts. At the end of the movie it
got better. Twilight the book was Caption describing picture or graphic.
way better even though the movie
had more comedy. This movie
came out November 21, 2008.

SPORT SURVEY BY: COLIN LEWALLEN

I surveyed 100 people on what sport Baseball: 21%

they would rather play Baseball, Football: 17%
Football, Softball, Bmx, Skateboard-
ing or other, and here are my results. Softball: 17%
Bmx: 24%
Skateboarding: 11%
Other: 10%

50%
45%
40%
FOOD SURVEY BY: DUSTY ROGERS
35% I took a poll on fa-
30% vorite food types. I asked
25% 100 people if they liked Ital-
ian, Mexican, Chinese, or
20%
Japanese foods better.
15%
Italian: 44%
10%
5% Mexican: 24%
0% Chinese: 20%
Japanese Mexican Chinese Italian Japanese: 12%
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SURVEY ON ENERGY DRINKS BY: CAITLYN SASSEN

I surveyed 100 people on their Monster: 46%
favorite energy drinks. The
choices were between Monster,
Full Throttle, Rockstar, Red Full Throttle: 11%
Bull, and Amp. Here are my
results.
Rockstar: 9%

Red Bull: 24%

Amp: 11%

KIDS OPINIONS ON ENERGY DRINKS BY: AMANDA HAWILEH

In the article about energy drinks, I asked 4. “I like energy drinks because they’re good, real
multiple kids a question and these were their good.” –Zach Smith 8th
responses.
5. “Energy drinks are delicious and nutritious.” –Cole
Question: What is your opinion on energy Phillips 8th
drinks? Do you like them? Do you think they
6.”I think energy drinks are ok because they can give
are healthy enough to drink? Do you drink
you a boost of energy, but the chemicals and stuff can
them often?
make you sick.”
Responses are in the next column:
7.”They’re good but on a regular basis they’re bad.
1. “I like energy drinks because they’re good They’re like poison in a bottle.” –Jesse Lobell 8th
and they make me hyper” – Katelyn Fernan-
8. “They’re good, but not healthy and I occasionally
dez 7th
drink them.” –Rhyeca Riley 8th
2. “They are good and they make me hyper.
9. “Energy drinks are bad because they make your heart
Even though they’re bad and unhealthy,
rate go up and you can die.” –Molly Eagleton 8th
they’re delicious.” –Elizabeth Aguilar 7th
10. “I think they are delicious, but really bad for you.” –
sick.” -Anna Reilly Grade 8
Eric Keswick 8th
3. “I think energy drinks do help you and they taste
really good, and Red Bull is the best energy
drink ever.” -Nick Barraclough

NURSE JOANS INTERVIEW BY: KAYLEY SIEKMAN

What is your opinion on energy
drinks?
“They are a health hazard.
They can cause kidney, liver,
and heart damage.”
Is it safe for teens to drink them?
“No. It isn’t safe for anyone to deink them. I
wish they would take them off the market.”
What ingredients make them unhealthy?
“Water or even flavored waters. If you
like the sugar, go diet. Or green tea
decaf.”
What can happen if a person drinks too
many?

Why aren’t they healthy?
“They use excessive amounts
of caffeine in hidden names
such as Guaraní, and tourine.
They use excessive amounts of
vitamins which can be hazard-
ous to your body.”
Have you ever had an energy
drink?
“Yes, I tried one in college. It
made me shaky, sick, and
nauseated.
“The caffeine, sugar, the niacin, and other “Can cause heart damage, overtime
vitamins.” kidney and liver damage, or Gastritis.”
If a person is addicted, how many should they Should teens be allowed to buy them
limit themselves to? under the age of 18?
“They should go through a weaning process.
“No, because your body’s still growing
Half at first, then half of half, and so on and and you shouldn’t damage it.”
so forth. Then they increase their water
diet.”
What is a good alternative for energy drinks?
VOLUME 1, ISSUE 5 PAGE 4

MR.EUBANKS AND MR.BROOKS BY: ALISSIA REED & KATIE CAMREN

Our very own Mr. Eubanks went to Hill-
crest middle school, while Mr. Brooks was
in Texas at Wonderlich Jr. High and now
they both work here! They did plenty of
other jobs before coming here and coached.
Mr. Eubanks worked at Paradise bakery and
he also delivered pizza and he even coached
at Deer Valley and Mountain Ridge, he said
that ridge was the best, he even taught sci-
ence at Deer Valley. Mr. Brooks taught
science for 16 years. They have been coach-
ing for quite sometime Mr. Eubanks has
been coaching for 4 whole years and sub-
bing for two years. Mr. Brooks has been
coaching for 7. Did I mention he was Mr.
Eubanks’s teacher? They must really love
teaching us kids and watching us have fun. would say “no”. During our interview we
When I asked them why they decided to be learned a lot about them. I hope you did to.
a coach out of all the other jobs, they re-
plied, “Well I grew up around sports and
love them, it.” They like to teach eighth
grade better than seventh grade. Mr.
Eubanks and Mr. Brooks absolutely love to
be in the gym and share with us his new
ideas and interests in games. While we are Caption describing picture or graphic.
in the heath room we normally talk about
the use of drugs and alcohol. While they are
teaching us about drugs and alcohol they
thinks they are getting through to us, and I
think they truly are because if somebody
offered anybody drugs or alcohol they

EAGLE EYE THE MOVIE BY: JACOB GRENDAHL

Shia LaBeouf did an im-
mense job of pulling off the movie
and I actually bought the drama.
A terrorist calls people and
tells them what to do. “If they don’t
comply,” the terrorist says, ”they
get killed.” They find out the terror-
ist is a computer program trying to
find out what would happen if the
line succession is depleted.
They find the computer and
destroy it. After that, everything is
fine including the line of succes-
sion.
This movie is rated PG-13.
I give the movie a **** star rating
because it achieved its intended
goals by being an action movie and
it was just an all around good
movie.

MIRACLE AT ST. ANNA REVIEW BY: BRENDAN PEERY

In Miracle at St. Anna, Dereck Lake and James Gandorfini and all the other actors did a very good
job at acting out the movie and drama. In the movie a old guy took a German Luger and at his job at the
bank a guy with German accents walked us and wanted to guy stamps so the old guy pulled out the Lu-
ger and shot the old man 2 or 1 weeks before his retirement so then the copes were looking into the
case and why he shot the man a reporter started asking questions and they went to his house the cop
and the reporter and found a very old statue head in the closet of the old mans house witch was form
world war two and then the reporter wants to see the old man so he dose and he starts asking the old
man questions and then it go back to a flash back of world war to and his company is walking through a
field then they get into a battle with the Germans and the end up in a town and on the way they picked
up a kid and he new a German solider and they take the solider prisoner and a freedom fighter kills him
for no reason then they get into a big battle in the and all the company but him and the little boy and
then it goes back to present time and it shows him in court and the little boy who is now a older man
buys him out of jail for 2 million dollars and then they meet on a beach and the old guy is sad because
no body new about what he went through then the little boy who is grown up said I know what happened
and the movie ends. so the moral of the movie is there are miracles and over all I give this movie 5 out
of 5 stars
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INTERVIEW WITH MR. GREAVES BY:

MORE ABOUT MR. HINRICHS BY: SHEA DOMINIC FIACCABINO
PAINTER&SHEA SHIRK
Have you ever really wondered what your favorite teacher might be thinking Q: What made you want to become a teacher?
about, or maybe what they have been up too? Well by reading this article you can
A: I knew that if I worked as a teacher I would have to get another
learn to understand Mr. Hinrichs better than you have ever imagined.
job at Home Depot and I love it there.
Did you know that Mr. Chet Hinrichs wanted to become a teacher at the age of
Q: What do you like about social studies?
twenty-one? I bet you also didn’t know that his childhood hero’s were the Green
Lantern and the Hulk! Some of the most popular super hero’s in the world. Now A: Everything, the people, events and how history changed our
we also asked Mr. Hinrichs what he would typically do after the school day is over, world.
and he replied that he would eat and would be obliged to taker care of his lovely
three children. Q: Are you going to coach any Hillcrest sports this year?

Mr. Hinrichs also has a very wide variety of music selections, He enjoys everything A: Yes, 7th grade baseball.
but Country Music. What also is probably floating through your mind right now is Q: What do you enjoy to do in your free time?
how many years Mr. Hinrichs has been teaching, well we were thinking the same
thing! He has been teaching for approximately 6 amazing long blood sucking years. A: I enjoy spending time with my wife and kids.

We all know that Mr. Hinrichs is a story teller but I bet you he hasn’t told you this, Q: How many children do you have?
In his freshman year he had discovered that he was suffering from severe stomach A: 4 children.
pains during lunch, he had discovered a liquid like substance in his cargo pants.
Now some people wouldn’t be this open to admitting an experience but we all know Q: What is your favorite book?
Mr. Hinrichs. Which also means that he was open and honest about sharing an- A: It would be a toss up between Flags of Our Fathers and The Ru-
other one of his childhood experiences with us. As we all know that bullying is ins.
never the answer take it from somebody that knows how it feels. One day when
Chet Hinrichs was going to school he had gotten beaten up by another vicious stu- Q: What is your favorite sport?
dent and was hysterically upset. Looking for comfort from his best friend at the A: Baseball.
time, didn’t do anything to help little Chet.
Q: What is your favorite sports team?
Now we all know that everyone likes to eat. Well Mr. Hinrichs’s preferred restau-
rants are any Chinese establishments or any Sea food joints. By reading all of this A: The Arizona Cardinals
might have been overwhelming to you but now we can all say that we know more Q: What is your favorite band?
about Mr. Hinrichs than any other school teacher at Hillcrest Middle School.
A: I appreciate Slipknot, Meticllia, and God Smack
Q: What is your favorite television channel?
A: The History Channel and ESPN

Mr. Hinrichs loved the Green Lantern and The Hulk as a Child.

DEAR AUNT SALLY FEATURING ANGELA BY:ANGELA DELLY

Dear Aunt Sally,
I have heard a lot of things
about Chuck Norris. Are all of
them true?
-I Love Chuck Norris
Dear Chuck Norris Fan,
I would like to help you with an
overall life question. Is anything
true all of the time? Is ALL ice
cream cold? You may answer
yes, but what if it has melted in
the hot sun? I would use the
wording “all” to answer this
question. Very few things are
true “all” of the time. In fact,
when you take a multiple choice
test, answers containing the
words “all” or “nothing” are
usually not the correct answer.
Therefore, I would assume that
not everything you hear about
Chuck Norris is true.
Some of the things have heard
about Chuck Norris are very
funny such as, Chuck Norris is
the reason why Waldo is hiding
or Chuck Norris counted to Infin-
ity – twice and then my personal
favorite – When Chuck Norris
does a pushup he isn’t lifting up
himself, he is pushing down the
Earth. However, none of these
rumors (and the many other
rumors) are not humanly possi-
ble.
However, I can see why you are
a fan, as he is an experienced
black belt and an accomplished
movie and TV star. –Dear Aunt
Sally
Dear Chuck Norris Fan,
You can’t believe all of the ru-
mors and jokes you hear about
people. Some of the humorous
jokes about Chuck Norris are
physically impossible, but are
still hilarious. Even though he is
a famous movie star and has a
black belt in Tang So Do and
Tae Kwan Do, he isn’t a super-
hero. Although, I respect the
fact that you adore him, op-
posed to other teenagers who
tease him. -Angela
Dear Aunt Sally,
So, I just found out that my
grandma has cancer. I’m falling
behind on my work, and I’m
failing social studies. What
should I do? I’m worried and
stressed, so I don’t do my
homework, how can I get back
on schedule?
-Stressed Out Kid.
Dear Stressed Out Kid,
I understand that you are
stressed about your grandma,
but would she want to see you
like this? The circle of life is very
hard to take in, but try to con-
centrate and take deep breaths. Chuck Norris
Talk to your parents and tell
them how you feel, I’m sure
they can help you. Also, talk to
your teachers about your school
work, and consider a tutor. –
Angela
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THE INSIDE SCOOP ON MRS. BLAND BY: ALLISON COLYAR
Q. Do you like teaching 8th grade
math? Why or why not?
A. Yes, I like teaching 8th grade math.
I enjoy math and like seeing students
learn a concept for the first time and
understand it.
Q. If you had to teach another subject
what would it be? Why?
A. Computers or P.E. I like technology
and enjoy athletics and I think they
would be fun.
Q. How do you like coaching basket-
ball?
A. I like coaching basketball because I
like seeing a team enjoy a sport, each
other, and have fun. I enjoyed sports
when I was little so I want to help oth-
ers as well.
TURKEYS IN AN OVEN BY: A.J. FAGIOLO
PAGE 6
Q. Have you always wanted to be a poker tournaments. I also like
teacher? hanging out with friends and I like
watching football all day on Sun-
A. No.
day.
Q. If not what did you want to be?
Q. What teachers are you really
A. I wanted to be an accountant and close to?
when I was a little a vet. Now I want to
A. I hang out with Ms. Davis and
be a professional poker player.
Mr. James. I eat lunch with Mr.
Q. How long have you been playing/ Herold and Mrs. Herold, Mr.
coaching basketball? Hinrich, Mrs. Brookins, Mr. C. Am-
A. I started playing basketball when I bos, and Ms. Johnson. But all the
was in 6th grade played on a school teachers are my friends.
team and we won 1st place. That is a
total of 14 years playing basketball and
3 years coaching.
Q. What do you like doing on the week-
ends?
A. I work as a poker tournament direc-
tor some weekends, or I may play in
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INTERVIEW WITH MRS. JOHNSON BY: MONROE JACCARD
Q1. What was your favorite subject in middle
school?
Answer: Math.
Q2. What made you decide to tech language arts
& math?
Answer: They were my favorite.
Q3. What is your favorite age group to teach?
Answer: Middle school. Especially eighth grade.
Q4. What makes this age group easy to teach?
Answer: Their skills, and they laugh at my jokes(:
Q5. Does teaching take away time from your
family?
Answer: Sometimes, because I have to grade
papers & do my lesson plans.
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Q6. Would you choose a different career so you
could be at home more?
Answer: I don’t know if there would be another
career where I could be at home more.
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Answer: I craft, read, and sew with my family.
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Answer: I enjoy spending time with my husband
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Answer: Yes, absolutely.
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Answer: I like being a counselor, problem solver,
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 2008 EURO CUP BY: ADED YAKO
Wednesday 25 June 2008
29 SF Germany 3-2 Turkey Basel - St. Jakob-Park
Thursday 26 June 2008
30 SF Russia 0-3 Spain Vienna - Ernst Happel
Sunday 29 June 2008
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MORE FASHION TRENDS BY: ALYSSA GONZALES

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Russia
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girls, Ugg Boots and Fur-lined hoodie jackets as popular. Many boys wear bro socks and Fallen
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Shoes. Ugg boots can be found at Tilly’s, Old Navy, Aeropostale, etc. Both bro socks and Fallen
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Shoes can be found at NoFear, Zumiez, Industrial Rideshop etc.

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NICK AND NORAH’S INFINITE PLAYLIST SUMMARY BY:JACQUELINE NATTO

Nick the member a band
has recently been dumped by his
girlfriend, Tris. Nick believes that
he can win her back by sending
her special songs on CDs that he
has mixed just for her. Nick has
sent her about 10 CDs, but Tris
only throws them in the trash.
However, Tris' best friend, Norah,
has retrieved most of them, and
she really likes them. Norah has
never met Nick, but the music he
likes, she likes too. Norah and her
friend Caroline are at a nightclub
where their band is playing, and
Norah is attracted to Nick while he
is playing his guitar.
Tris shows up at the
same club with her new boy-
friend. Norah doesn't want Tris
to think that she is dateless, so
she asks Nick to pretend to be
her boyfriend for 5 minutes and
gives him a kiss. Then Tris tells
Norah that Nick is her ex-
boyfriend. Now that Norah has
Nick, Tris gets jealous, and de-
cides that she now wants him
back. Then, Nick and Norah like
the band "Where's Fluffy" so,
they end up looking for it, and
finding it. Finally, after Norah
spends the whole night with
Nick, he ends up with her.