Tuesday, November 15th, Newport High School recognized the November Students and Staff of the Month.

Gage Seger, Drew Green, and Chloe Clark were recognized as Freshmen Students of the Month for consistently being responsible, great role models!

Tug Smith and Natalie Biggar were Sophomore Students of the Month for their awesome commitment to displaying Grizzly Pride. Plus, they are both highly responsible leaders who lead by example and serving others first.

Christian Loutzenheizer and Erica Simila were Junior Students of the Month. These two students were nominated for being “Rays of Sunshine!!” Both of these students can be witnessed daily showing kindness and happiness to all others.

Gabe Furman and Amanda Fox were Senior Students of the Month. Gabe and Amanda have proven to be extremely trustworthy

and kind students. As Newport High School’s ASB President, Amanda must be consistently reliable and accountable... and, she is! Amanda is doing an excellent job in her position, and the love she has for our school is evident in all that she does!

Mr. Todd Matthews was chosen as the NHS Staff Member of the Month for November. Mr. Matthews teaches Art and Honors English at NHS in addition to coaching football and boys soccer.

The focus for November’s Student/Staff of the Month selections was the letter “R” for “Reliable” in relation to the “R” in THE GRIZZLY WAY.

As Grizzlies, we pledge to be there for each other! We strive to be fair and consistent in our treatment of others. We also aspire to model The Golden Rule and those Grizzly behaviors that make us unique and great!

Long story short, “We have each other’s backs!”

“R” Is for “Reliable” Students at NHS

Newport High School’s Weekly NewsletterPublished by NHS Students

November 2016 Week 3

The Griz

November 24th - 25thThanksgiving Break

1/2-Day November 23rdNo Classes November 24th & 25th

December 16th - January 3rdWinter Break

1/2-Day December 16thNo Classes Dec. 17th - Jan. 3rd

January 3rdProfessional Development Day

No Classes

January 4thClasses Resume at NHS

January 16thMartin Luther King Jr. Day

No Classes

January 27thSemester 1 Break Day

No Classes

Dates to Remember ...............................1

Holiday Reminders ................................2

Hour of Code ............................................2

First Snowfall of Winter.........................2

New NHS Staff Member .......................3

Wrestling Preview...................................3

Chloe’s Corner .........................................4

Happy Holidays Post Card ..................4

Dates To

Remember:

“Support, Educate, and Inspire... Every Griz! Every Day!”

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Contents

(left to right) Drew Green, Gage Seger, Chloe Clark, Tug Smith, Natalie Biggar, Christian Loutzen-heizer, Erica Simila, Gabe Furman, Amanda Fox, and Mr. Todd Matthews.

Wednesday, December 7, 2016 6:00-7:30 PM

Newport High School

Come Out & Have Fun Coding

Tuning Up Computers Checking out the Guts of a Computer

Learning about Careers in Computer Science

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The Holiday Season is here, and that means vacation time for local students.

Newport School District will be observing Thanksgiving November 23rd through the 25th.

There will be an early release on Wednesday November 23rd and no school Thursday, November 24th and Friday, November 25th.

For Winter Break, there is an early release day on Friday, December 16th, and no school December 17th through January 3rd.

Tuesday, January 3rd is a Professional Development Day. Classes in the Newport School District will resume on Wednesday, January 4th, 2017.

Saturday, December 24th is Hanukkah, Sunday, December 25th is Christmas, and Monday, December 26th is Kwanzaa.

Happy Holidays!!

Thanksgivingand

Winter Breaks

First SnowfallWinter 2016-17

November 17th

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New to Newport High School but Not Really

New Wrestling Coach, High ExpectationsAs the fall sports season draws to a close, Newport High School begins to look forward to the upcoming 2016-2017 Winter Sports season!

This year the Newport wrestling team has a new head coach, Adrian Bojorquez. Coach Bojorquez’s team lost

two senior wrestlers last year: Jensen Kirkwood and Alex Solis.

Both competed at the 2016 State Wrestling Competi-tion. However, rumor has it there is a group of talented freshman wrestlers who will be joining the team this season.

This year, Bojorquez’s goal is to have intense practices where wrestlers can train their bodies to be able to leave everything they have out on the mat.

Coach Bojorquez expects his team to wrestle with heart and passion, and he doesn’t believe that anything less will be conducive to a successful season.

He said he would like to, “...build, grow, mentor and nurture young men and women in such a way that each can realize their full potential for success as wrestlers in our league.”

Bojorquez believes that his team will be competitive with the best teams in the NEA this season. He hopes that the community, wrestling families, and student body will be more involved this season, but overall he is expecting a very good year for the NHS wrestling team.

By Audrey Price

This year NHS has a new addition to its staff: Mrs. Sarah Noble!

Mrs. Noble originally worked at NHS for two years as a paraprofes-sional and two more as a librar-ian. She now returns as a certified teacher!

During her years as librarian, the NHS library was known as the un-official “Math Tutoring Center” as Mrs. Noble was constantly provid-ing students with awesome assis-tance with their math studies.

So, Mrs. Noble decided to go back to school and earn her math teach-ing certification.

Mrs. Noble did her student teach-ing with Newport teachers such as Mrs. Honhorst, Mrs. Behrend, and Mrs. Ralston.

After working at Priest River Junior High as a math teacher, she re-joined the Grizzly Family for the 2016-2017 school year to teach Ge-ometry and Pre-Calculus at NHS.

“While working at Newport as a paraprofessional and librarian, I decided to get my math teaching certification, and I knew when I was done I wanted to come back and work at NHS because of the awesome staff and kids!”

By Emily Hunt

NHS wrestling coach Adrian Bojorques in the NHS hall.

Mrs. Noble teaches Geometry, and Pre-Calculus at NHS.

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Recipe To Success Includes Hard Work and Fun I recently had the privilege to in-terview the Newport Grizzlies’ head

basketball coach Jamie Pancho.

Coach Pancho provided a sneak peek at what he hopes this season will be like. Coach Pancho is very enthusiastic about this year and can’t wait for it to begin! Accord-

ing to Mr. Pancho last season “went well” thanks to some of his senior leaders such as, Ty McDaniel, Otis Smith, Kyler Zorica and Kaben Hast-ings. Last year’s seniors played a key role in the Grizzly boys almost mak-

ing it to state, but falling short by only six points. This season though our boys plan on attempting to make it all the way. Coach Pancho is definitely ex-cited to see some new and returning players and see what leadership roles they will play. Two of Newport’s returning players are, Danny Bradbury and Koa Pancho. While he expects these players to take on leadership roles, he knows that everyone will have a certain leadership role to play this year. When asked what he thought his team’s strengths would be Coach Pancho said that speed and rebound-ing will be great strengths. Coach Pancho says that Owen Leslie and Robby Owen are great

rebounders and he plans on them excelling this season. Overall Coach Pancho says that his team is full of players who are willing to work hard and have fun at the same time. While there are the mental hurdles every team goes through, Coach Pancho is confident they can overcome them and become a better team because of it. The Grizzly boys finished last season with a 14-9 overall record and an 8-6 league record which was good for 4th place in the Northeast A League. The Grizzlies tip-off this year’s season Tuesday, November 29th when they host Bonners Ferry. Both girls and boys will play that night starting at 5:45PM.

C h l o e ’ s C o r n e r

ChloeZaragoza

Freshman, NHS

Keep your eyes peeled for this year’s Newport School District/KUBS FM Holiday Card!! The above card was a product of NHS’s Digital Media & Broadcasting program. Nearly 1,500 cards were sent out last year. This year’s card should be in the mail shortly after Thanksgiving Break.