Volume 12 No.1 Thusday, October 25, 2018 One Section 4 Pages

We are a Team

Pictured above left to right ,front to back: Cody Stagner, Dixie Fletcher, Isaac McDonald, Dalton Cranick, Quintin Zillen, Nicole Braisher, Tessa Mumper, Mykala Murray, Jessie Schneider, Colton Wells, Noah Robertson, Max Schwab, Owen Scheller, Dylan Land, Quintin Kosowski, Ricky Naecker, Lillian Gretak, Darrian Roberts, Miah Freisner, Taylar Costello, Brendan Schoen, Clarice Mick, Kylie Zbornak, Amber Mix, Anna Fernandez, Jenna Subick, Savannah Bruhn, Kaleigh Ziglar, and Cassie Borrowman.

Your College Decision IsApproaching

By Samantha Eulberg On Wednesday, October 3, the seniors at MOHS took a field

trip to the Capital Area College Fair to walk around and talk to colleges to see what requirements they needed to get accepted into their schools of choice. The seniors left the high school at 8:05 in in the morning and didn’t get back to the high school

until about1 p.m.This college fair was a great opportunity for the seniors to figure

out what colleges are out there and to get a broader feel for whichcollege they might want to attend. There were many great collegesat the fair including Greenville University, SIUE, U of I, Blackburn,Kendall College, University of Notre Dame, Paul Mitchell BeautySchool, Lakeview, Lindenwood, University of Kentucky, Univer-sity of Iowa, University of Missouri, Ranken and SLU. If you area senior and you were unable to attend the college fair, those areonly a few of the many colleges that were at the fair.

By Savannah BruhnI have played basketball with

the same group of girls from Mt.Olive since I was in first grade. Injunior high and high school wehad so many accomplishmentsand I never wanted to play with-out them. Going into high schoolI was able to play with the samegroup of girls two more years,then they graduated. Mt. Olivestaff, along with parents andplayers, knew that there wouldnot be enough players to have ateam of our own in Mt. Olive.

At first I was devastatedbecause I wasn’t able to playon my home court anymorewith my original team. Whenthe decision had been madeabout the co-op with Staunton,I refused to accept it. I was notgoing to play basketball for thelast two remaining years of myhigh school career. Until the firstpractice came about.

I went to Staunton for myfirst practice and didn’t recog-nize many faces, which wasoverwhelming.I decided to stayon the team and play for the entireseason. I am so happy I decided togo to that first practice and meetall of the girls and the coaches.The co-op with Staunton wasthe best decision that couldhave been made by our staff inMt. Olive. One year later, I lookback on last year’s season andwouldn’t have it any other way.I have made so many friends andwe have accomplished things Ididn’t think we would. I am soexcited for the 2018-2019 sea-son. My team has bonded andwe play well together.

Thank you to the Stauntonstaff and students for acceptingthe Mt. Olive players. I’m soproud to be a Staunton Bulldog.

Pictured above are the items that were collected fromthe freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior classes.

Helping Others in NeedBy Samantha Eulberg

The Mt.Olive High School Student Council orchestrated a chal- lenge between the freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and seniors to see who could collect the most donations for the Mt. Olive Care Center. The winners of the challenge received a donut party for

breakfast and a pizza party for lunch. The seniors got first place in the challenge. The juniors got second place. The sophomores

gotthird place. And coming in fourth place were the freshmen.

Judy Clayton was surprised about how much was collected.She hopes we can have another drive for Thanksgiving. SavannahBruhn stated,“It is highly important because people depend on thecare center for their needs and it’s awesome to be able to help outin such a small community.” Mrs. Haenel, Student Council spon-

sor, stated, “Having a food drive is a simple way for our studentsto give back to a community that does so much for our school.”

Good job and thank you to all of the students who participatedin this helpful event and to the Student Council for hosting it. Con-gratulations to the seniors for winning; you guys did a great job andI hope that you enjoyed your donut and pizza party.

Seniors, your high school journey is almost over, so congratula- tions and good luck on future choices.

SC Sponsors Costume Contest

By Samantha Eulberg On

Wednesday, October 31, your dream comes true! You can dress up in your Halloween

costume and be whoever and whatever you want for the

school day. This is a MOHS Student Council sponsored day

that allows the high school students to show off their

costumes and have some fun on Halloween. There are only a

few restrictions regarding the costumes including no masks, no hoods, and no weapons. In addition the costume needs to

be schoolappropriate and cannot advertise alcohol or drugs.

There will be one student first place winner per grade and onestaff member first place winner overall. Overall there will be fivewinners and each of those winners will receive a fun prize. Thestudents will serve as judges for the teachers costumes and theteachers will judge the students. So dress up, have fun, and maybewin a prize and enjoy Halloween at school. If you need some coolcostume ideas go look at page four and read through Dixie Fletcher’sDIY costume ideas.

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Wildcats are ReadyBy Timothy Rettig

Coach Best, this year’s basketball coach, is ready to get his players into shape. He gets his players in shape by making them run a lot of suicides and do lots of push-ups. Coach Best states,

“A lot of the drills that we do as a team involve running for a good period of time.” At the beginning of the season they will

practice6 days a week with a 2-hour time frame. Once the season goes on practices will vary throughout the week. Sometimes they will have off days and sometimes after game days they won’t have practice. Coach Best says, “I believe our biggest rivals this year are going to be Gillespie and Staunton.” Hopefully the season brings those rivals to defeat.

Coach Best has been coaching for two years as a head coach. Best’s first time coaching was when he started coaching after he

finished playing for MacMurray College. He was an assistant coach and then he moved up and became a head coach. Coach

Best’s favorite thing about coaching is that he gets to see the excitement from not only the players but also the fans and

community that come to watch them play. Coach Best says his biggest challenge of coaching is keeping the players focused on basketball all year long. “It’s a long season and sometimes kids

get burnt out towards theend,” Coach Best states.

Coach Best wants the team to come up with a team goal insteadof a seperate goal. Some of the strengths the team has this year isthe size. Coach Best states, “We have our big guys coming backthis year and I think we can use that to our advantage against someof the teams in the area.”

Good luck to Coach Best and the Wildcats on the basketballseason this year!Making Others Smile

By Rikelle TaylorOn Halloween, MOHS students will be handing out treat bags

to kindergarten through fifth grade students. The bags will consistof popcorn, small erasers, and small candies. This is a great wayto promote a positive culture and give our high school students achance to be a role model for younger students.

New MOHS students pictured left to right: Dylan Mason, Rikelle Taylor, andSydnie Scheller.

Welcoming More Newbies!By Rikelle Taylor

We have some more new students at MOHS and it's time for you to meet them. There are two new

freshmen and one new sophmore.First let's talk about one of our new freshmen. Sydnie Scheller is 14 and she has three chickens

named Phoebe, Stanley, and Dexter along with her dog Baleigh. She has three siblings all of whom areboys. Sydnie moved here from Carriel Junior High in O’Fallon, IL. Her favorite food is chicken andin her free time she loves hanging out with her friends. Her favorite class is PE because she doesn’thave to sit in a classroom. Her favorite thing about MOHS is that she has many family members herein the building she can see and talk to. Sydnie plays volleyball and is planning on doing track. All ofMOHS wishes you the best Sydnie!

Next we have our other freshmen, 14-year-old Dylan Mason. He has four siblings and two dogsnamed Loli and Gabie. He moved here from Gillespie Middle School. His favorite food is pizza andhe enjoys playing video games. His favorite class is Spanish because he says, “It's exciting to learn anew language.” Dylan’s favorite thing about going to school here is that we have Chromebooks andget to use them in class. We hope you enjoy high school here, Dylan!

Lastly we have our new sophomore Rikelle Taylor. She is 16 years old and has one sibling, Linden

Taylor. She has seven pets total. She was at Mt. Olive school from first grade through sixth grade.Then she moved to Gillespie school and attended school there for three years, and now she is back inMt. Olive. In her free time she likes to draw or spend time with her friends. Rikelle’s favorite classesat MOHS are Art II and journalism. She enjoys these classes because they have very few people inthem which means it is more peaceful in the classroom. Her favorite thing about MOHS is that thereare less people which means it’s easier to concentrate on work or projects. We hope the rest of highschool was as good as your first.

Two new teachers at MOHS this year: Mr. Stansbery and Mr. Duvall.

Fantastic New Teachers at MOHS!By Samantha Eulberg

Last month Jade Bersch wrote an article about Mr. Simmons, one of the new teachers at MOHS. While he is a new teacher here, there are two other new teachers as well: Mr. Stansbery and Mr.Duvall.Mr. Stansbery is the Algebra II, geometry, and pre-calculus teacher. Before coming to teach at Mt.

Olive he taught at King’s Fork Middle School in Suffolk, VA, and Sparta High School in Sparta, IL.His favorite color is green, his favorite holiday is Thanksgiving, and his birthday is on January 23.Mr. Stansbery grew up in Warsaw, IL. He stated that his favorite part of MOHS is, “The small classsizes because I get to talk and know my students better than at some of the bigger schools I haveworked at.” Most teachers have a reason that they decided to become a teacher, Mr. Stansbery saidthat his dream of becoming a teacher came from one of his history teachers when he was in juniorhigh and that she inspired him to want to teach others. Moving to a new town and teaching at a small,new school sometimes might cause you to have to make changes or adjustments in the way that youteach, but Mr. Stansbery stated, “I haven’t really had to make too many adjustments, I went to a highschool that was a little bigger than Mt. Olive, we averaged 50ish kids per grade, so I kind of knewwhat would be different in a small school.”

Mr. Duvall is the MOHS band director, the middle school band director, and he also teaches thegeneral music class in the grade school. MOHS is Mr. Duvall’s first full-time teaching position,but he has and still does work with some high school marching bands in the Metro East including,Alton High School, Civic Memorial High School in Bethalto, Highland High School, and also FortZumwalt South and East in St. Peters, MO. He traveled the country during the summers of 2015and 2016 teaching a professional marching band called The Mandarins Drum and Bugle Corps fromSacramento, CA. His favorite color is all shades of blue, and his favorite month is July. Mr. Duvallwas born on March 8, which makes him a Pisces, and his favorite holiday is Thanksgiving becausehe loves food. He stated, “My favorite thing about teaching at Mt. Olive are all the friendly andwelcoming teachers, administrators, staff, and students! Everyone here truly makes this such a greatfirst teaching experience!”

He grew up in Granite City, IL, and he fell in love with playing the trumpet and being in schoolso during his high school year he discovered that combining the two together was his passion. Eventhough teaching is his passion, he said that if he could be anything in the world he would be a surgeon

as he is intrigued by surgery and everything about the emergency room. Mr. Duvall also stated, “I donot believe I have had to make any adjustments while teaching at Mt. Olive so far! Every school willalways be unique in how they operate and how the students learn. I have learned how to adapt whatI am used to doing for these students so they are set up for success, all while having fun during thelearning process when it comes to music education!”

We are all very lucky and very excited to have the both of you here at MOHS, so welcome, and I

hope that you both have amazing year!

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Pictured above: Quintin Kosowski.

From Passing to ShootingBy Timothy Rettig

Quintin Kosowski, quarterback for the South Mac Chargers, endedhis football season and is now headed into his basketball seasonto bring many wins to the Cat’s team. Quintin wishes the footballseason would have went longer than it did and ended differently.The football co-op was a major thing with this football season.Quintin states that this year’s co-op wasn’t as good as last year’sbut it was still a fun season.

At the end of the football season, Quintin got injured. He wasworried he would be out for the season because of the injury, butQuintin recovered from it and is leading the team into the basketballseason. Quintin says, “My football injury won’t affect this year’sbasketball season for me at all.” Headed into the basketball seasonhe is looking forward to just playing and having a good time andtrying to make it as long as it possibly can be. Quintin has alreadymade his goals for this coming season which include winning tengames and scoring one thousand points for his high school career.

Quintin is a really good athlete and basketball is his numberone sport.

“I have been playing since I came out of the womb,” Quintinjokingly said. After this year of high school, Quintin is planningon attending college but not until after he gets out of the Air Force.Quintin wants to attend a college for basketball so he can keep hisbasketball career going.

“My dad is the one who encouraged me to play basketball incollege,” Quintin explained. Quintin stated that he is choosing theAir Force because he wants to learn how to operate a plane.

“I think it would be cool to fly,” Quintin said.Good luck to your Air Force and basketball career, Quintin!

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Haunting for a CauseBy Jade Bersch

Bob Hudzick is bringing his famous haunted house back again this year! The haunted house is held October 26-28 at 122 West

Elm Street in Gillespie. Friday and Saturday nights it will be opendusk till ? And on Sunday it will be open from dusk to 9:30 p.m.

Bob Hudzick explained, “It’s an outdoor haunt and it consumesmy front yard and my neighbor’s.” Admission is $5 and the noscare haunt, from 3:00 p.m to 5:00 p.m on Sunday, is $1 each orone canned good each.

Bob has been doing these haunted houses for 10 years now. Hedoesn’t want to give away too much but and he also mentionedhow there will be new and improved lighting, direction, sound, newthemes, and so much more. But why does Bob put so much effortinto this haunted house and who does it benefit? Bob Hudzick ex-plained, “We enjoy Halloween. We always over decorate, so we justpush the envelope a bit further and provide some entertainment forwhat was neighbors, now to whomever. This year the money raisedwill be divided among the HEIDI foundation in Gillespie, BlackDiamond Days kids corner and the Mt. Olive Fire Department.”Bob loves hearing screams and laughter because he said he knowshe is doing a good job then, but he also has some complications.His biggest one he said was dealing with mother nature and settingit all up, but friends and family are always allowed to work andhelp and he is also letting students help out to get their communityservice hours in. Bob hopes to see you all there getting scared!

Let’s Get this Season StartedBy Timothy Rettig

Coach McBrain, this year’s coach for girls basketball, will be coaching the varsity team while Assistant Coach Hirschl will be coaching the junior varsity team. Coach McBrain states that he isn’t big on setting goals besides for wins and losses. “I feel that if we control what we can control, and improve everyday, we can have a very successful season,” Coach McBrain says. Practices will begin October 29 for the girls which will begin their season

of many hard practices and many games.Going on the second year of co-oping there have been a few

seniors who graduated but they have gained a few options in allpositions. ‘I am excited!” Coach McBrain exclaims. They have acouple girls that are going to help out a lot at the varsity level andthere are some girls at the junior varsity level who will be success-ful on varsity in the future. This past summer both schools workedhard together, which will be a big advantage for the team.

Some strengths the team has this season is that they have a lotof experience from last year’s season which was their most suc-cessful season they’ve had in awhile. One weakness the team hasis rebounds. “We have to continue to improve our rebounding,”Coach McBrain states. One thing Coach McBrain does is watchesgame films so that they can improve the team. He says, “We areable to see what we did well, and what we need to improve upon.It also gives us the chance to see how the opponents are guardingus and what they tried to do offensively.”

“Coach Hirschl and I are really excited for the season to start!We can’t wait!” exclaims Coach McBrain. Good luck athletes!

Staunton/Mt.Olive Co-op Soccer team. Pictured above, back row, left to right: Chase Allen, Trent Stamer, Nick Henning, Max Fairman, Carson Rantanen, Jacob Schnefke, Jacob Futrell, Mark Masinelli, Brendan Schoen, Matthew Sievers, Dylan Partridge, Drake Rantanen. Front row: Coach Larsen, Daniel Pratte, Conner Anderson, Ian Bridges, Jonathan Daugherty, Joseph Masinelli, Noah Birk, Brent Kinder, Cayden Silvester and Coach Hirschl. Not pictured: JJ Brandt, Sam Booth, Seth Kleckner and Joe Haenel.

Summing up Soccer SeasonBy Samantha Eulberg

The MOHS co-ops with the Staunton Bulldogs soccer team coached by Matt Larsen. Their season recently ended with a winning conference record and an overall season record of eight wins, 13 losses, and three ties. Injuries definitely affected their season. Coach Larsen said he saw more

injuries this year than ever before. Carson Rantanen broke his collarbone. That put Carson, the lead goal scorer, out for the last two and a half weeks of the season. There was also a concussion, a

sprained ankle, a thigh sprain, a hip flexor injury, and a broken finger. With Carson being out for the rest of the season, Brent Kinder, switched positions to help lead the team to some victories the last two and a half weeks of the soccer season. To keep in shape in the off season, a few kids on

the team play club ball andothers play basketball, wrestling, or track.

There were definitely some highlights for the season. Coach Larsen stated, “I was personally ex-tremely happy to beat Greenville, both at the JV and the varsity level. At the varsity level, we were up4-0 at one point, which I’ve never seen in my years as a coach.” Coach Larsen also said, “I am veryproud of the season we had, and of the boys in general. They are talented, respectful, hard-workingyoung men and that is what defines success to me.”

Good job, Staunton Bulldogs, on the amazing season.

Tumbling into Basketball SeasonBy Savannah Bruhn

The cheer team, along with the football team, has had to overcome some difficulties with the football season coming to an early end.

Coach Kim Miller states, “We will begin preparing for the basketball season. We will work on learning all the floor cheers,

fundraising,and preparing for the senior night performance.”Coach Miller still has not decided if she is going to have another

tryout for the basketball season. She says, “My team is pretty fullright now, and we only have one uniform left, so I am trying toweigh my options and decide what will be best for my team.” Bas-ketball season is a lot more hectic for the cheerleaders. Sometimesthey have two or three games a week to cheer at along with tryingto get practices in. Along with regular season games, they have togo to the tournaments which can last up to a week.

Coach Miller goes on to talk about the differences in cheeringduring basketball, “In basketball you’re a lot closer to the othercheer team, so there is more opportunity to showcase your skillscompared to the opposing team.” Coach says there are a lot morerules for the basketball season concerning when they can cheer andwhat they can do during timeouts and quarters. They also have toperform the school song at every home game.

For the upcoming basketball season, Coach Miller stated someof the goals she is wanting to reach. She states, “I would like toimprove our difficulty level on stunts, hopefully getting at least twogroups to get a liberty. I would also like to hold the mini cheer clinicfor the little kids during basketball season as a fundraiser. I wouldalso like to have the team perform a full competition routine during

Soccer seniors, pictured above left to right: Noah Birk, Carson Rantanen, BrendanSchoen and Trent Stamer.

halftime of the senior night game so they can get some practice for competitions in the coming year.”

Good luck to all of the winter athletes!

We have the MOST heart:Mt.Olive/Staunton SoccerBy Timothy Rettig

Brendan Schoen, the goalie for Staunton, is the only soccer player from Mt. Olive School to par- ticipate in the co-op this year. Brendan stated that it’s weird being the only one from his school but

the team and coaches have been very accepting. The Bulldogs welcomed Brendan with great pleasure

and they make him feel welcomed and appreciated.Brendan has been playing goalie for a few years. He was the starting goalie for Gillespie, was a

backup defender for Staunton one year, and last year he was the backup goalie for Staunton. Thisyear he is the starting varsity goalie for Staunton. Some of Brendan’s strengths of being a goalie arehis reaction times. Some of his weaknesses are low balls.Brendan’s favorite thing about soccer is that he enjoys the aspect of the team where the team worksreally well together. Brendan says they practice every weekday they don’t have a game for 90 minutestotal. People often say that they learn many valuable skills from a sport, outside of the athletic skills

Page 4 The Cats’ Connection Thursday, October 25, 2018and soccer has taught Brendan to have compassion and heart for people.Brendan says, “For people who want to try out next year do it, the worst thing that can happen is

that you don’t like it, but you should at least give it a try and don’t make yourself a stranger.”

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Spooky or Sweet,These are some Nice Treats!

By Dixie FletcherSince Halloween is right around the corner, treats are in order.

A lot of people just go out and buy bulk candy to hand out at Hal-loween and that’s fine but it’s not too fun. So why not try makingthese treats for the trick-or-treaters instead? There are many differentunique homemade treats you can hand out this Halloween. Theyrange from brownie bats to tootsie pop spiders to candy hands.

The first treat is the brownie bat. What you will need is as fol-lows: two to three boxes of Cosmic brownies, black constructionpaper, googly eyes, school glue and a pair of scissors.

What you will need to do to make these is cut out some bat wings

with the construction paper. Once those are cut out you need to gluetwo of them to each individual package of brownies. Next glue twogoogly eyes onto the package so you end up with a brownie withgoogly eyes and bat wings.

The next treat you could make is a tootsie pop spider. You need

the following for this treat: large tootsie pops, googly eyes andblack pipe cleaners. Bend four pipe cleaners around the stick ofthe tootsie pops in the shape of spider legs. You should end up withfour “legs” on each side. Next glue on two googly eyes.

Another treat you can do is bewitched Halloween popcorn. What

you will need is as follows: plain popcorn, regular M&Ms and miniM&Ms, Halloween sprinkles, marshmallows, and butter.

In order to make this treat, first pop the popcorn. Then you melt

the marshmallows and the butter together. Once the marshmallowsare melted you mix the popcorn, sprinkles, and M&Ms together.Once mixed, sprinkle the rest of the sprinkles and M&M’s on topand put in small, recycle containers.

There are so many fun ideas to make handing out candy morefun. See the following website for even more ideas https://www.countryliving.com/food-drinks/g1194/halloween-treats/

Halloween Parade and ContestBy Jade Bersch

Halloween is just around the corner and this year we are going to have some fun. The yearly Halloween parade sponsored by

Turner Hall will be on October 30 and will start at 6 p.m. Everyone will start to lineup at 5:45 p.m at the City Park. Right

after the parade there will be a costume contest held at JC

Niemann Park. There will be judges there ready for the

contest. This year’s categories are as follows:

Infants ages 0-2, Toddlers ages 3-4, Children ages

5-7, Children ages 8-11, Adult, and Group. There is also a new category this year and that is the pets category so bring out your goats, sheep, and gators to show off their amazing costumes. Turner Hall will be accepting candy donations for this event. Please turn in all donations to Turner Hall no later than October 25.

Enjoyingyour Favorite Halloween Candy

By Rikelle Taylor If you like candy this is your chance to enjoy and appreciate all of it! Have you ever wondered what the most popular Hallow- een candy is? In Illinois the num- ber one candy is Sour Patch Kids according to People magazine. The average money spent on candy around this time of year in the United States is $2.7 billion. There are 5,442,766 pounds of

candy sold and consumed in theUnited States each year.

I was wondering what candyMt. Olive High School students

would choose as their favorite soI did a random poll to see whatthe most popular candy was.Fifty students were polled and

the winner for MOHS is Kit Kat!In second was the write in vote

for Sour Patch Kids, in third wasReese’s, fourth was Milky Way,fifth was 3 Musketeers, and last,but not least, was popcorn balls.

Whatever your favorite candyis be sure to enjoy it this Hal-

loween!

October Birthdays

Savannah Bruhn 10/05Brianna Braisher10/09Jordin Kierbach 10/10Scelzi Kolster 10/15Rikelle Taylor 10/15

Kael Souter 10/17Jade Bersch 10/22Emma Hahn 10/26

Quintin Kosowski 10/26Logan Mix 10/29

Happy Birthday!

November Birthdays

Tessa Mumper 11/03Jayden Chambers 11/07Mason Pritchett 11/09

Kayla Bumgardner 11/12Tristan Strohbeck 11/22Natalie Pesavento 11/25

Brigitte Long 11/29Krista Whited 11/29Thomas Miller 11/29

Happy Birthday!

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It’s Halloween, Time to Get Spooky!By Dixie Fletcher

Halloween is just around the corner and a lot of people don’t have

a costume for their small children. A cute idea for children, or evenadults, is to be a human gumball machine. The supplies needed forthe costume are listed as follows: a red dress, a red shirt, red pants,cotton balls, paint, hot glue, hot glue gun, cardboard, and scissors.

The first thing you would need to do to begin making this cos-tume is to make the cotton balls different colors with the paint andlet those dry. Then, plug in the hot glue gun so it can warm up.Lay the clothes out on a flat surface. Once the the cotton balls dry,begin glueing them down on the outfits in the shape of a gumballmachine. After all the cotton balls are on the outfit you need to cutsome cardboard into the shape of the knob. Once that is made youneed to glue it on and ta-da! Your costume is finished.

Another cute Halloween costume you can do with your daugh-ter is make her into a delicious cupcake. The supplies needed forthis costume is as follows: a white long sleeve shirt, a pink tutuor pants, small puff balls of many different colors, hot glue, and ahot glue gun.

The first thing you would need to do to start making this costume

is to warm up the hot glue gun. Then you need to lay out the shirtand once the hot glue gun is warm enough, you need to start glue-ing the small puff balls to the shirt.

For a cute couples costume you could go with Green with Envy.The supplies are as follows: a green t-shirt, a green bow, black leg-gings, a white t-shirt, and black letter stickers.

The only thing you need to do to throw these costumes togetheris to spell envy out on the white t-shirt.

Another costume you can do is Chip on Your Shoulder. Thesupplies you will need is as follow: a blank t-shirt of any color,black leggings, and a piece of yellow-orange paper folded like aruffled chip.

Whatever you decide to dress up as on Halloween, have a goodtime.

Haunted Houses are Everywhere!By Dixie Fletcher

It's that time of year where haunted houses are open for business. There are many to visit in Illinois and Missouri, but there are

someclose to you that you can visit too.

The first haunted house is The Apocalypse Attraction at theYMCA on E. 3rd Street in Alton, Illinois. Admission is $15 forage 14 and up and $10 for age 13 and under. There are thirty-fivedifferent rooms and all of them have a different theme. The actorsages range from age sixteen and up.

The second haunted house is The Darkness. It is located on 1525

S 8th St, St. Louis. It features zombie laser tag, an outdoor screamzone, Silo-X haunted house, Monster Museum, and The Darknesshaunted house. The price of a ticket for The Darkness is $25.

The third haunted house is Creepyworld. Creepyworld is locatedon 1400 S Old Hwy 141, Fenton, Missouri. It is America's biggestand longest haunted screampark with 13 different attractions in onelocation. It features a haunted hayride, a haunted house, graveyards,haunted hospitals, haunted prisons, and cornfields. The price of aticket to the haunted house is $25. It will cost you an additional$13 if you wish to experience the extra attractions.

The fourth haunted house is The House of Occult Lemp Brew-ery. It is located at 3322 Demenil Pl, St. Louis. According to TheLemp Brewery website, The Lemp Brewery haunted attraction isSt Louis' only REAL haunted house. The tickets are $25 with anextra $10 if you want a speed pass.

If you are looking for a good haunted house this fall then one ofthese is surely a great option for you. Happy Halloween.