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The Journalism team was honored to have an exclu-sive interview with Linette De Los Santos, Miss Flori-da 2017. Linette was born in the Dominican Republic on September 15, 1991. She has been in love with pageants ever since she was 19 years old. Linette re-ceived a major in law during her second year of study at the Nova Southeastern University College of Law in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. The Miss Florida USA pageant lasted four days and she had to spend a week prior to the pageant at a hotel to prepare for the pageant by herself. The purpose of the week alone was to see if the candidates were capable of being independent and caring for themselves. At first, Linette’s opponent, Genesis Davila, had been named Miss Florida. How-ever, she was dethroned when the judges had discov-ered footage of people coming into her room and helping her get ready. Linette says it was exhilarating to walk down the catwalk. Her family supported Linette on her mission the entire way. Linette plans to continue doing pageants, and will compete in the Miss USA 2017 pageant. Linette’s advice to you is to fin-ish school and to follow your dreams.

Mrs. Castillo’s Journalism Class

EDITORS: SARAH UTRERA AND KAYRA YUZBASIOGLU CO-EDITORS: ZAIRA DATIEVA AND ELIE MATZ

Volume 5 Issue 2

Exclusive Interview with Miss Florida

October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. It’s an annual drive to spread awareness for cancer survivors and people battling cancer, all over the world. Our school, Ruth K. Broad Bay Harbor K-8 Center, is proud to say that we have our own breast cancer survi-vors. Mrs. J.Chipy, a breast cancer survivor and a middle school teacher in our school, explained to us about her inspiring journey. She was diagnosed with stage two breast cancer in 2008 and won her battle against cancer in 2009. She told us how her sister had advanced cancer and passed away three years ago. Mrs.Chipy said that cancer has made her appreciate things a lot more and because of this experience she became vegetarian. She said that when she was diagnosed she felt disbelief through the whole process and was amazed that it could happen to her. Words that Mrs.Chipy would like to tell people fighting or who have fought cancer is that, “Cancer affects one out of every eight women. Pay attention to your health, don’t ever be in denial when something seems wrong. If you are faced with cancer, be positive! Attitude is everything!” Ms. Rappaport was another teacher the journalism team inter-viewed. Ms. Rappaport’s message to women in the community is, “The day you are diagnosed with cancer is the day that fear ends and hope begins”. One of our former bobcat survivor also wanted to share a message, “The fact that people don’t know when cancer will come shows that you always need to take care of yourself and prepare for the unexpected.” Overall, you should never doubt when you feel like something is wrong. Live life to the fullest!

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Support Pink!

By: Gianmarco Ranalli and Emilie Shar-ma By: Elie Matz and Mia Rey

Mrs. Costa And Mrs. Miller’s Gardening

Club

Red Ribbon

Write-Ins

Cross Country

Dear Emilie

Breast Cancer

This month Mrs. Costa and Mrs. Miller are recieving seeds to plant for Fairchild. Fairchild results from Mrs. Costa and Mrs. Miller will be sent to NASA for further ob-servation by scientists at NASA.

Miss Florida

Flowchart

Election Poll

Fall Favorites

Water Ventures

FLOWCHART

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By: Morgan Cox and Emilie Sharma

CLINTON VS. TRUMP

By: Zaira Datieva and Mia Erlichman Supervisor: Sofia Losada

How Long Will You Last in a

Horror Movie?

Do you go to

Haunted

Houses? No Yes

Yes

No 2 Minutes

Yes

No

1 day

Do you go with

friends?

Do you get scared

easily?

Do you believe in

creatures such as

ghosts?

Are you a horror

movie fan?

Yes No

Yes No

Do you like to

scare your

friends?

Yes

12 hours

No

Do you stay out

late on Halloween?

Would you call

for help?

No Yes

Yes No

Would you be able to

handle an event with

your worst fear?

Do you think evil

spirits live in your

house?

Yes No

No Yes

You

Survived!

10 minutes

Do you improvise

under your worst

fears? No

Yes

As November 8th is Election Day, we did a middle school wide poll for who they believe would be the best president. We con-ducted an anonymous poll and created a graph based off the results. Given the results, Hillary Clinton got the greater amount of votes in all of the grades surveyed. The Journalism Team would like to encourage all Bobcats to get their parents to vote.

Red Ribbon Week, students and staff dressed in red clothes to represent the fact that we don’t support drugs. We had Sports Day, Patriotism Day, Red Day, Twin Day, and Comfy-and-Cozy Day. Eating dinner together regularly with family, making sure parents get involved in their children’s school, and that the school has anti-drug policies are some of the ways that we can prevent children from being in contact with drugs. Be a chooser not a

Starting since Monday Octo-ber 24th through Friday October 28th, our school had daily activities. During the week, our school cele-brated Red Ribbon week, which was made to show the students that we are a drug free school. It influenced and taught the students that the possession and use of drugs, even some legal drugs, are bad for our body, and it can cause really dan-gerous outcomes. During

loser, choose to be Drug Free!

Fall Must-Haves & Kicks of the Month

YOLO! BE DRUG FREE!

Water Ventures

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By: Katelyn Cuellar and Tomas

Laloggia

By: Luan Alves, Camila Olivera, and Emilia Sharma

By: Luan Alves

Wondering what's trending for Fall 2016? Well, this is the perfect guide for all your Fall must-haves. 1. Kylie Jenner’s new lip-kit colors are a super Fall MUST-HAVE. Her new colors Moon, Spice, Trick, and Pumpkin are the Fall Edition colors. 2. Pumpkin Spice Lattes are good, but the Salted Mocha Latte/Frappuccino has every-one salivating! 3. Everyone loves sweater weather, don’t you think? Feel cozy in a bomber jacket that will make that boring old out-fit scream “FALL!” 4. Boys, don’t feel left out. Beanies are a super Fall MUST-HAVE. They are

warm and hide your hair. It comes in handy if you’re hav-ing a bad hair day! 5. I don’t want to get into shoes too much, but Air Force Ones and Stan Smiths are a Fall FAVORITE!

Bikes Lanes

By: Sofia Losada

By: Gabriella De Carvalho

Hispanic Heritage

By: Sofia Losada and Grace Pajon

There have been bike trails painted in front of 98th street park. A meeting will be held on November 14th to vote on whether there should be painted bike trails around the school. Come and sup-port Ruth K. Broad at the Town Council meeting. Don’t forget to spread the word!

Words of Wisdom

“Don’t let fear or insecurity stop you from trying new things. Believe in yourself” - Mrs. A. Chipy

All of the 5th grade classes got to watch a Water Ven-

ture presentation. Plus, the 5th graders go inside the

Water Venture Truck! The Water Venture Truck is a

truck used to show and ex-plain the water cycle and much more such as read,

listen to the workers, and play the games. As the stu-

dents walked in the bus, they were surprised and amazed

at what they saw. Inside of the Water Venture Truck

were many games and learn-ing materials for the kids.

Some of the students said that learning all the infor-

mation was very fun and entertaining. One of the

games in the truck helped children learn how much

water they waste every day and how to reduce the amount of waste. We were

able to interview Ms. Cala-bresi to see a teacher’s point

of view on the presentation. She thought that this was a

very good learning oppor-tunity for the students and

that teaching the students about the water cycle was

easier. Ms. Calabresi also said

that the hands on experiments and games was a great way of

learning the information.

Thanks to Ms. Cendoya, the

5th grade classes were able to watch this presentation.

Kicks of the Month

Yeezy Boost 350 v2 Price: $220

Release Date: November 5th, 2016

By: Luan Alves and Gianmarco Ranalli

On October 14, 2016, the annual Hispan-ic Heritage parade occurred! Students dressed as their nationality and loved the experience! The students had showed and still do show great knowledge to-wards the Hispanic culture. FIESTA!

Movie Reviews

Hi I’m Isaac and I have been collecting submissions for our write-in column. In this col-umn bobcats can send in a story based off a certain topic and may be put into our news-paper. This month we have a story written by a 4th grader in Mr. Balzano’s class. This is a story about three girls who think they aren’t scared of Halloween: Anna, Lily, and Crystal. They think they’re going to have a good time, but it’ll be quite the opposite when we’re done with them! Muahahahaha! “Hi. I’m An-na. This year I was a morbid zombie girl for Halloween. At the Halloween festival, I went on the “Halloween Water

other chance and see if it changes. On the other hand, if you tell your friend your feel-ings and he/she laughs at you, says that they don’t care or don’t care about how you feel then you should keep distance from that person, because they won’t add anything to your life. When there are tests, I usually get too stressed, what should I do? You should, first of all, study. When you are in class, you should ask your teachers questions on everything you are having trouble with. Start

studying three days prior to the test, so if you have any emer-gency before the test, you al-ready studied. One day before the test, try to get a good night sleep, so energized and the next day you will be prepared to take it. In the time you are doing the test, try to stay calm and just do your best, and if you need help, try staying after school to ask your teacher.

scored fifth place, one boy in

the Junior Varsity boy’s divi-

sion, Giovanni Pardo, scor-

ing fifth place. Now going on

into the Varsity Division, we

have Morgan Cox, who has

scored third place in the Girls

division, and Nino Arias who

has scored second place in

the boy’s division. Congratu-

lations to all the contestants

who scored!

Bobcats Win Cross Country Trophies

They have done twice in the

month of October, a total of

seven contestants from the

Cross Country team scored in

the first two Cross Country

competitions of the year.

There were three girls who

scored in the Junior Varsity

girl’s division. These girls

were Leana Farsy Tripier

who earned first and second

place, Emily Palacio who

scored third and fifth place,

and Thara Baquin who

Dear Emilie, Welcome to Dear Emilie. This is the first month of answering your questions. We would like to thank eve-ryone for sending in ques-tions and would encourage you to send in more to room 265. One of my friends start-ed to bully me, should I still be friends with him/her? We believe that first you should let your friend know how you feel, then if your friend apologizes and says that he/she will try to change, we suggest you give them an-

Ride of Horrors”. It wasn’t that scary… until the ride sep-arated! Everyone went in dif-ferent directions, and I saw all my worst nightmares, so much that it was like the ride was made for me! I screamed until it was over, and I’ve decided to never go back again.” “Hi, my name is Lily. This year for Halloween I was a unicorn princess. I went to the hallow-een festival to get some cotton candy, but I stayed to go on the water ride. It was a little scary, but then the ride sepa-rated and I saw snakes and spiders. So scary!” “I’m Crys-tal. I’m a vampire for Hallow-een. I went to some ride, I forgot what it was called, and

then the boat we were on separated or something and we all went in different direc-tions and it ended, Not scary at all, in my opinion. So that’s the story of the three girls. Yes, all were scared… except Crystal. Muahahaha!

Halloween Fright!

By: Nina D’ambrosio

By: Camila Oliveira and Emilie Sharma

By: Georgy Datiev and Wilfred Rodriguez By: Ian Chacin, Isaac

Hoffman and Gregory Kelly

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By: Ian Chacin, Isaac Hoffman, and Gregory Kelly

The winner of the best costume from the haunted house was Kimberlee Cortella. She was dressed as a doll with a blue and white dress and white pants, she also had black boots with a painted on doll face.

Middle School: The Worst Years

of My Life: was the worst mov-ie of our lives. While watching it, we had lots of fun laughing at the bad acting, garbage plot, horrible pacing, and so many changes you’d wonder what connects it to its original book. So to start, let’s look at the character development. It’s bad. The main character is rad and edgy, says to not be rad and edgy, and then continues being rad and edgy. The evil stepdad that’s never been done before in movies (sarcasm) is loved by the mom, despite his obvious and extreme hatred for both of her children, and then isn’t loved for no reason. The humor is so badly trying to be “hip” that it’s appalling that it was written by anyone under 35. From a “hip” teacher that uses Drake’s mixtapes to discuss N.A.T.O. to a scene where the “geek” girl that’s also never been done before in movies (also sarcasm) has to explain to the “hip” artist main character what VHS is, and how “vintage” it is, you’ll be rolling on the floor going in-sane from every bad joke.. The only good part of this movie is the two animated segments. They come out of left field, and last about a minute each, leaving you wishing for an entire movie like that. For that, we give this movie 0 stars, because despite being a kids flick, it still needs to be enjoy-able. In our opinion, just read the book instead.

Halloween Costume