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Lead in the water was a big controversy between parents and the school since parents were afraid that their kids health would be at risk from drinking the contaminated water.

Fortunately, that was not the case. There was only 1 sink that had

lead. The way they know is because they tested all the water outlets at McNary high school, and when they received the results back and found out there was lead in that specific sink they turned off the faucet.

There are two faucets in the main gym that haven’t been tested because the floor was getting re-done, and those were also turned off since they were not able to get tested. The results for those will be received in the next couple of weeks.

The lead was found by women in the environmental quality office in Keizer. They took the samples of water and the results are sent back to the office and they report back with the results.

No one really knows what the cause is for the lead in the water.

“I don’t know what the cause is other than this is a 51 year old school. There was lead found in many schools, elementary, middle and high schools, in our district,” Jespersen said.

McNary high school wasn’t the only school with the lead, so there isn’t really much information to show what caused it, he said.

“I don’t know if this for certain but I’m guessing all the schools that had lead in the water were the older schools and schools that didn’t have lead were the newer schools,” Jespersen said..

Problem of lead in water fountains being fixed

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A taped off water fountain in McNary’s gym. Recently, lead was found in McNary’s water, and water fountains were taped off to prevent students from drinkning out of them.

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McNary High School first opened it’s doors in 1965, and then in 1966 the first class walked the graduation floor. McNary’s first graduating class reunited at McNary High School on Aug. 8th 2016. Out of a class of about 250 students, 12 graduates attended, where they participated in a golf tournament, a barbeque with North Salem High School’s class of 1966, a tour of North Salem High School, and a tour of McNary where they reminisced over their times as students.

A lot of the graduates were surprised to see the changes from 1966, despite only being there for one year.

“Back then they had a girls league, but I’m not sure how long that lasted, but there were no sports for girls.” Connie Bartlett, class of ‘66 graduate said. The first year there was no football field, because Whiteaker was being built. The kids from there were lodged in [McNary]. It was split between them, who had the first floor, and us who had the second floor.”

“It’s very exciting to be back. We were the first graduating class so we got to set all of the traditions, choose the colors, and we wrote the fight song, and the alma mater. Before we went here we had half days at North High School, we’re the baby boomer generation so there were a lot of us, and we

were supposed to come here sophomore year, but everything was flooded and there were ducks all over the place, so they put us at North and went here later,” Linda Collins said. Collins was the ASB secretary, and was also in charge of the 50th reunion. A lot of the graduates also had advice for current students at McNary.

“Think about the future and what you want to do for the rest of your life. Never stop learning, enjoy your activities, and giving yourself to other people,” Merna Bender-Williams said.

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New to McNary High School, Ricky Camarena has one goal in mind: to be a world class secretary.

Camarena has been hired for the 2016-17 school year as a school office specialist, working the reception desk in the guidance office. He moved to Oregon from Austin, Minnesota, where he worked at Austin Elementary School as a success coach.

Camarena said “I’m doing my best every single day, and if I can change a student’s life for the better, it would make my goal.”

Camarena speaks Spanish and English, which helps him reach more people who walk into the guidance office. His goal is to offer “red carpet” service to everyone in the guidance office. His method is simple: “have everyone feel welcome, and treat them with respect and kindness.”

Camarena has adjusted to the new job quickly. “I love it, right now it is super busy which is good,” he said “I love to help family and students, and help students reach higher goals, and have family’s feel like home.”

McNary High School Principal Mr. Erik Jespersen, said Camarena is “fantastic, energetic, and positive.”

Jespersen said McNary has a vision of making the guidance center a very comfortable and positive place in order to make students feel like they belong here. This “red carpet treatment”

can help with endeavors such as getting the drop out rate to zero.

“We want to do everything we can to get them enrolled again as quickly and comfortably as possible,” Jespersen said. Camarena intends to help with this mission.

Camarena has always taken extra steps to help students. As the success coach in Minnesota, he would take a backpack each Friday with a meal for students that are in need through the Salvation Army and a local church.

Camarena has an older brother, Miguel Camarena, who is the head coach for McNary varsity boys soccer team and community school outreach coordinator for McNary. “He’s been really amazing, and he helps me a lot, this is the not first time we have worked together. My brother was my soccer coach,” Camarena added.

Camarena has coached soccer for 14 years, including seven years of high school soccer. He was the head coach at Austin Elementary, as well as the head coach of McNary for one year. This year Camarena is his older brother’s assistant coach for the boys varsity soccer team.

Camarena added that anyone can go to him for any reason and he will always be able to help them out.

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The current cell phone policy at McNary High School is that each classroom has “phonevelopes,” a phonevelope is a yellow/orange envelope that has velcro on the seal, available so that if there are any seen headphones, cell phones, or other electronics they are to be put in and not be taken out until class ends.

Principal Mr. Erik Jespersen’s thoughts on the cellphone policy is that “kids and adults are addicted to their cellphones”.

The phonevelopes are used to take away the distraction of the phone without creating anxiety from the student by taking their phone away, and allowing teaching and learning to continue in the classroom.

Sophia Martinez, a Sophomore student at McNary said “it benefits teachers in a lot of ways, but in some cases it’s not fair to the kids”. She thinks it would be good for teachers to give students breaks in class to check their phones, also to give their minds a break from learning.

“I believe the cell phone policy is fine how it is, with students being enforced to put their phones away during class and focus on learning,”said a Sophomore, Jeffrey Freitag.

Freitag also said the cell phone policy is not working “as well as the teachers would like. I often see students bring out their phones in class and using them”.

“It’s not a matter of if they’re good or not, it’s all about how lenient and laid back they are,” said Freitag.

Danielle Spray a freshman at McNary said “if the teachers see electronics, we should be given a warning first because it would give

the students a chance to make the right choice, if they still haven’t the first time.”

“If I could change the policy,” Spray said “I’d let the students have their phones out and listen to music as long as they’re doing their work and not slacking off ”

Kaidan Loose a Junior at Mcnary

agreed. that as students do their work, they should be allowed to be on their phones.

Loose also agrees that students should be able to use their phones in class as long as they are learning, it doesn’t become a distraction and they get their work done before going on their phones.

Katherine Hays, a Sophomore at McNary said she only had one problem when she couldn’t look at her phone and her mom was coming to pick her up, she also said if a student needs to contact their parent then they should be able to, but the students should not abuse the “parent card”.

Freitag said “the teachers just have too much students on their hands. Maybe electing a few students in each class to keep an eye on students to help teachers crack down on the students who secretly use their phones”.

Amanda Patton a junior at McNary said she puts her class work first but when she’s done she likes to use her phone.

Patton also said she would change the cell phone policy by having the teacher not be so strict. Because if the kids are done with their work they should be able to go on their phones if they are not distracting the people around them.

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“Kids and adults are addicted to their

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McNary’s new cell phone policy: put it away

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Equality is about giving each student equal opportunities, but some students need more help to get equal results. It’s called equity and due to a program called Equal Opportunity Schools, E.O.S., and a survey taken last year by over 90% of the students here at McNary, the staff has been working diligently to improve equity around the school.

“Equity is about the endgame, getting all students to the same point,” Mr.Erik Jespersen, Principal at McNary High School said, “Equality is giving every student the same opportunities to succeed.”

When E.O.S. helped McNary staff to look at the data they found that 54% of students were free or reduced lunch, 35% were latino, and students in A.P. classes were found to be predominantly white.

Using equity the McNary staff has been putting forth new programs to make sure all students are able to succeed.

One of the things McNary is doing to improve equity is opening up new A.P. classes, such as A.P. economics, A.P. human geography, A.P. geography, and A.P. physics. There are no required GPAs or grade levels to join an A.P. class but it’s not recommended for

freshmen or people that can’t handle a regular class environment. Every 3 weeks all of the A.P. teachers, the assistant principal, and the principal himself will meet to discuss accomplishments and problems they’ve notice with the A.P. programs. When thinking about fairness Ms.Susanne Stefani, Assistant Principal at McNary, who will be attending the A.P. meetings, said they need to think about “who are we leaving out?” and “Are the systems and policies we put in place inadvertently creating any barriers?”

“We need to know what those barriers are,” Mr.Scott Gragg, instructional coach at McNary, said, “and we need to find solutions.”

Another program set forth by McNary is the “One Sport, One Club, One Activity, Every Student, Every Year” program. “Research says that students who find one or more things they like about their school, like a club or sport, are more likely to succeed and are less likely to drop out,” said Stefani. “Students that come to school for more than just academics have better grades, and better behaviors,” said Jespersen.

A common scene used to describe the differences between equity and equality, is where there are two kids, one tall and one short, both wanting to watch the

baseball game on the other side of a tall fence, equality is giving each kid a box so they can attempt to peer over the fence and watch the game. The tall kid can already see over the fence without any boxes but the short kid still isn’t tall

enough to see with one, Equality is where both kids get a box, giving them equal opportunity. Equity is where the short kid would get two boxes so that they can both watch the game, which would provide the same results for both kids.

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Mr. Erik Jespersen explaining equity to Mr. Somerville’s class in a press conference. Equity for students is a new goal for McNary’s staff.

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College credit for $25, high school classes that teach college level skills and study habits. This year over 300 McNary students are jumping at the opportunity to take Advanced Placement (AP) classes.

In an AP class, students learn college-level material and at the end of the course take a test to see if they qualify for college credit. “AP classes help students first by giving them college credit for pennies on the dollar,” said Mr. Scott Gragg, Instructional Coach at McNary, “and second by allowing students to participate in a collegiate environment.”

“AP classes give students a taste for college and an opportunity for college credit,” Siri Scales, senior at McNary High School, said. Scales is currently enrolled in five AP classes. “The workload is heavier than a normal class,” said Scales, “the expectations are higher and the type of students in AP classes are more involved.” After high school, Scales plans on going to Chemeketa Community College for two years, then transfer to a four year college to get a degree in anthropology.

“I took AP to prepare for college by practicing having a crammed schedule,” Rafael Santana, another senior at McNary, said. “I also get to go into college with credits already done, plus it looks good on an application.”

“Allowing sophomores into AP

classes is good because it’s getting kids ready for college at an early age,” Santana continued, “but some sophomores are struggling. If you’re able to handle AP, then that’s great but if you struggle, then maybe not.”

“It requires effort to do an AP class or an honors class, whereas some students could fly through regular classes.” Santana is currently enrolled in four AP classes. After high school Santana plans on going to a four year college to get his bachelor and then go to 6 years of law school to become a lawyer. “I wasn’t really afraid to take AP,” Santana explained, “I got mostly A’s and B’s, and I’ve been challenging myself since middle school.” Santana added, “I would definitely recommend AP to other students. It does take a lot but it’s worth it to take a college level course in high school.”

This year McNary has opened four new AP classes: AP Economics, AP Human Geography, AP Geography, and AP Physics, which makes a total of 15 AP teachers at McNary. Every three weeks, all 15 AP teachers, Ms. Stefani, and Principal Mr. Erik Jespersen gather to talk about successes and things that need improvement in the AP program. This way AP can continue to become something that everyone can succeed with. There are currently no requirements to join AP classes, but it’s heavily cautioned to freshmen and students struggling in normal classes.

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L i b e r t a r i a n p r e s i d e n t i a l candidate Gary Johnson was the subject of immense criticism on T h u r s d a y , S e p t e m b e r 8th when in response to a question about the Syrian city Aleppo, he responded with “What is Aleppo?”

News outlets quickly picked up on Johnson’s question and left many Americans, including myself, who aren’t well-versed in complex Syrian geopolitics wondering what Aleppo was and why it mattered. Aleppo, as Mike Barnicle, host of Morning Joe on MSNBC explained to him, is “the epicenter of the refugee crisis” resulting from the Syrian civil war. Not knowing what Aleppo is, however, is hardly Gary Johnson’s most controversial moment, when he’s voiced his support for the legalization and regulation of prostitution on multiple instances.

But controversy and ridicule isn’t necessarily damaging to Johnson’s campaign, and as a purposeful campaigning method it has proved effective for Donald Trump–

playing a pivotal role in winning him the GOP nomination and quite possibly the presidential election.

With both leading party candidates polling an unfavorability rating of higher than 50% as of 9/28–more than any other since 1984, when Bill Clinton held the record, according to CNN (via RealClearPolitics), exposure is all Johnson and other third party candidates really need.

These passive populist methods are working well for Johnson. Unexpectedly, even better than they’re working for Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate, who overtly preaches a populist narrative, saying that: “[Clinton and Trump] are both very much representatives of the oligarchy” (RT), yet still consistently poll under Johnson by three or more points. Both of their platforms, beyond following their party’s ideals is based on providing another option for disillusioned voters who feel that the two major party candidates don’t represent them.

A third party option needs only two things to get votes: money and exposure. Between the huge spike in registrations to the Libertarian Party and Johnson’s most recent media junket: Johnson and his party have no lack of exposure. Plus, according to Google Trends, Johnson’s on-air Aleppo “gaffe” earned him a huge spike in search queries on Google. No such thing

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On October 7th, a video of Donald Trump and Billy Bush on the set of a reality TV show was released to the internet that may have cost Trump the presidential election, as well

as the respect of many Americans, including myself. The video has even caused many Trump supporters to pull their support from his campaign.

“I moved on her and I failed. I’ll admit it,” Trump said in the video, “and I moved on her very heavily in fact I took her out furniture shopping.” Trump goes on to use very vulgar and inappropriate language about the woman. It is important to mention that at the time of this video being recorded, 2005, Trump, at the time 59 years old, was recently married to his third and current wife, Melania Trump. “You know I’m automatically attracted to beautiful- I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait.

And when you’re a star they let you do it. You can do anything.” The quote continues with what many view as Trump is describing sexual assault and bragging about it to Billy Bush.

It is sick and wrong for a presidential nominee to be discussing women this way. A President is supposed to be someone that children can look up to and aspire to be like. If Trump becomes President then we are sending the wrong message to our children. If we elect Trump, we are saying that actions and language such as his are okay. That is not a message we should be sending to the thousands of impressionable children in America

On the same day, October 7th, Trump released a minute and a half long apology video in which he apologizes once and talks of how his travels around the country campaigning have changed him.

The video was brought up at the second Presidential Debate on October 9th. “I’m not proud of it. I apologized to my family, I apologized to the American people. Certainly I’m not proud of it, but this is locker room talk. You know when we have a world with ISIS chopping off heads, where you have- and frankly drowning people in steel cages. You have wars and horrible, horrible sights all over. Where you have so many bad things happening. This is like medieval times,” Trump goes on for another half minute to talk about how he will defeat ISIS

and how this is only a distraction to the real problems in the world. Anderson Cooper, the moderator at the debate, then asked Trump directly if he had ever done the things said in the video. All Trump could say was “No, I have not,” before talking for another half minute about how he will defeat ISIS.

It appears that all Trump can do when discussing the video is deflect. If Trump had taken the minute he spent talking about ISIS at the debate and used that to apologize live to the American people, his supporters, and most importantly women: I would consider him sincere in his apology. But as soon as Trump attempts to deflect the question and deflect the responsibility of his actions I personally lose all respect.

I am not saying that I support Hillary Clinton. I am saying that Donald Trump should not be the next President of the United States. Donald Trump is a crude and sexist man that is not capable of taking full responsibility of his actions. Donald Trump is not a respectable human being and the thought of the young children in America looking up to a man like him sickens me.

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion and that is what America is founded upon. I strongly urge anyone over the age of 18 to register and vote for the person that they think should be President.

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Mr. Benjamin Busch is a Physical Science teacher. He gradauted from Lewis and Clark. Mr. Busch tought english in Taiwan for three years.

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Mr. Bill Kirkwood is an Algebra 1 teacher. He graduated from Lewis and Clark. Mr. Kirkwood did his student teaching at Southridge High school last year.


Mr. Justin Lindemann is an English 9 teacher. He is dual certified in drama and language arts. Mr. Lindermann did his undergraduate at Western Oregon.


Mrs. Megan VanCleave is a Biology teacher. She was a basketball star at Lebanon High School. Mrs. VanCleave went to Cordon for her degree in science education.


Mr. Joshua Rist is a new music staff member at McNary. He is a composer and a vocalists. Mr. Rist was a musical performer at Oregon State University. He spent three years in choir at Hermiston High School


Mrs. Andrea James is an English 10 and Math in Film teacher. She was a Track and Cross Country star in high school. James got her Masters of Teaching at Lewis and Clark after graduating from Portland State University.


Mrs. Katie Wickham is a Chemistry teacher. She has a master’s degree in Geochemistry. Mrs. Wickham has also taught Chemistry at Rogue Community College. She has also done testing on herds, vitamins, and oils for the FDA.


Mr. Jordian Granteno is a Social Studies teacher. He spent his prep school years here at McNary. Mr. Graneto has also taught at North Salem High School. There he taught AVID, Social Studies, and was the Head Coach for Boys Varsity Basketball.


Mr. Caleb Singleton is the newest PE teacher. He is coming to us from Judson and Scott Elementary.

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Mr. Benjamin Busch

Mr. Justin Lindemann

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Mrs. Katie Wickham

Mr. Bill Kirkwood

Mrs. Megan VanCleave

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On November 18th, 2016 Ken Collins Theater will celebrate its 30th anniversary. McNary alumni will be participating in the event, where they will be singing and performing pieces from the shows they performed in, and possibly current students performing pieces from old shows, if not a lot of alumni want to participate. The celebration will also feature the opening number from The Addams Family Musical, which is going to be opening January of 2017.

Mr Dallas Myers, the theater teacher at McNary High School, has been thinking about the anniversary for years.

“Originally my plan was to redo the season that Ken Collins first did but that didn’t really work out. The original season that he did was Oklahoma the Musical, followed by You Can’t Take it With You, followed by The Fantasticks the Musical. The season didn’t feel right though, I couldn’t find a good way to tie them in thematically besides being a 30th anniversary thing. Also the idea of doing two musicals in a year was daunting, and we would also throw a Shakespeare play in there, so doing two musicals and a shakespeare play would be tough,” Myers said. Myers hopes that this event will bring out the community.

“The community has always been super supportive of theater, but now I want the community to come out and celebrate themselves. Keizer loves to support McNary in every aspect and many people who graduate from McNary make their way back to Keizer at some point or continue to live close. What I think I was talking about was honoring their legacy, building upon what the community has already done for theater at McNary and celebrating with them. We have a lot of great students in this department but now the goal is to get them to celebrate themselves. There are 600 seats in the auditorium and there have been way more than 600 students in theater here, so it would be cool to sell it all out,” Myers said.

The Theater was built in 1986, and named after Ken Collins, who taught both theater and art at McNary High School for 30 years. It was built in order to provide a better performance space for McNary Theater. Collins retired in 2003 and died in 2007.

“Ken was a huge producer of shows and known around the state for really elaborate productions with high entertainment value, so the bigger better auditorium could help him achieve those goals,” Myers said.

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McNary’s theater department and productions through the years. Plays included are “Of Mice and Men,” “Miracle Worker,” and “Brigadoon.”

730th Anniversary

The first play of the year is going to be Defying Gravity. Opening night for the play is November 2nd. Defying Gravity is based on the NASA Challenger crash in 1986.

Senior, McKinley Friesen plays Elizabeth in the show. Elizabeth is an adult who is reliving memories from back when she was 5 with her mother. Her mother is the teacher who won the contests as being the first civilian to go into space on a NASA shuttle.

Junior, Bella Fox is the teacher

in Defying Gravity. Her character “is very sweet and joyful. She really cares about everyone,” said Fox.

Senior, Josiah Henifin plays the character Ed. Ed is an older man traveling with his wife to Florida to see the shuttle launch. “They are definitely tourists,” Henifin said. On their road trip they go to a bar and meet Donna and CB.

Donna, played by senior, Annie Purkey, is a bartender at a restaurant/bar that the astronauts hang out at. CB, played by senior, Ashton Thomas, is part of the ground crew for the Challenger.

Sophomore, Madelyn Hurst, plays Betty, Ed’s wife. According to Hurst, “ she is a stereotypical old lady and is fascinated about

everything.” During the show Ed and Betty are able to work through some of their struggles and become closer.

Another character in the play is Monet. Monet, played by senior, Ryver Nakayoshi, is a painter.

Most of the cast said that the play is really powerful and impactful. Henifin said “this show is going to be super heavy and super powerful. It’s definitely PG-13.” Madelyn Hurst, sophomore, said “it’s an impactful show that means a lot.”

“This play is going to be very different from most of the shows we’ve done.We have a great cast and the show is going to be beautiful,” said Friesen.

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McNary is offering a way to get involved in the Keizer community through the school. The Teacher Cadet Program was brought to McNary through principal Erik Jespersen. He has seen the impact it can have on students. While working at McKay High School, students with interests in teaching spoke up with the idea of going and interacting with younger students and gaining experience. Through the help of the district and the students that spoke up–the program came to be years back. “It is an amazing experience,” Jespersen said. “It’s a great program and a great way for our students to give back.”

But the Teacher Cadet Program is not only meant for those who want to teach, but those who like to interact with others. It is a way to mentor kids and help them gain experience.

Morgan Sigurdson, a senior at McNary, has had her own fair share of mentoring outside of class.

“I love kids, it’s a good program if you want to go into teaching,” Sigurdson said. Many were chosen randomly to be in the class, but Sigurdson asked to be in it because she knew she would fit right in.

Marrla Wilkinson an English 12 teacher at McNary was chosen to be the coordinator of this class. “She’s a dynamic human being,” Sigurdson said.

Both fourth and eighth period class only consist of about 20 students or less. “We are all good friends, so willing to listen, everyone is very caring and not afraid to ask question if help is needed,” Sigurdson said. The majority of students are seniors, but it is not necessary to be one to attend the class.

Although they have not attended an elementary school just yet, they are preparing in class by discussing about what they will do as well as preparing learning games and projects to do with the younger students.

To be in the class and get the opportunity to mentor the elementary students at their school, a mandatory background

check is required. Students cannot have a felony and if it’s a minor, they must explain the reasoning for it. It is protocol to keep all students safe.

“There are elementary school principals calling and requesting to be part of the program,” Jespersen said. “These are the types of things that we want for our school. It’s a

great experience, and a great way for students to give back.”

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Students in the cadet program formulate their plan for mentoring elementary school students. The idea for the teacher cadet program was brought by Principal Erik Jespersen

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Last year McNary lost its French teacher. Mr. MacAvoy left McNary to work at Claggett Creek Middle School as a behaviour specialist.

Because of this, the school was on the lookout to hire another language teacher. According to McNary’s Principal, Erik Jespersen, they looked to see which languages were requested the most. Those requests showed that there was a spike in the number of students that wanted to take Spanish. Since there was a spike, the school decided to hire another teacher, Mrs. Mary Barfknecht, to teach Spanish full time and cut French.

However, the school did decide to hire a part time French teacher, Mrs. Sara Nickel. Students need two years of a foreign language to graduate, so Mrs. Nickel only teaches third and fourth period of French II. This way, students can continue to build on their skills from French 1. This means that Mrs. Nickel will only be teaching at McNary for the 2016-2017 school

year.Some students, like Ivan Alarcon,

are disappointed that there is not going to be any more French next year. “I’m really disappointed. I really wanted to learn more about French, but now I can’t,” Alarcon said.

Alarcon said Mrs. Nickel seems to be doing well at McNary. “She’s pretty nice. She knows what she is doing and stays on task really well.”

Mrs. Nickel is also unable to work full time because she has two children that she takes to school every morning, which means she can’t teach the first two periods of the day.

Mrs. Nickel went to school for her undergraduate at University of Oregon. She also studied at Poitiers University in France. She then went on to get her masters degree at Willamette University.

French program cut, Ms. Sara Nickel steps in


Ms. Sara Nickel, temporary French teacher, at her desk in the portables that she shares with Ms. Hernandez. The French classes were cut this year due to former French teacher Mr. MacAvoy leaving.

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New freshmen at McNary are probably confused about the school. Thankfully, the upperclassmen have some advice.

One club, one sport, or one activity is McNary’s new goal to improve participation. Doing such can help with meeting new people, according to Mr. Erik Jesperson,

Principal of McNary High School. “It helps to develop an emotional attachment to the school [and] find your niche,” he said.

Not only should freshmen get involved, they should listen to the advice of their upperclassmen. Looking back, seniors remembered what helped them freshman year. McNary senior McKinley Friesen said “get involved with something.” According to her, getting involved can lead to new friends and new

hobbies. Senior Brittany Brown showed that what helped her was leadership and volleyball.

“Don’t let your GPA drop freshman year,” said senior Kelsey Koenig. GPA is grade point average; grades have meaning and have a weight to them. A 4.0 GPA is achieved with straight A’s, but an F or D can drop it down quite a bit. A GPA should not drop because of laziness the first year in high school. Letting a GPA drop early

on will only make it harder on in the future to raise it, according to Koenig.

McNary Senior Tyler Sorenson said “make the most of right now. Even if worries about work and other activities come up, remember to have fun and not become overwhelmed.”

For freshmen wondering about the school layout and still getting confused, seniors recalled what helped them remember. According

to Koenig, she remembered it was a square on top of a square.

“To be honest, I drew a map on the back of my hand,” Sorensen said. Brown said “it may seem big at first, but it’s small once you get used to it.”

Freshmen, you are now McNary Celtics: embrace it.

Seniors take a look back, give advice to freshmenBy Emma Reeves

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Jayden is a student at McNary that makes money by selling things that he has interest in. He sells rare high end Nike shoes for more than what he gets them for.

Not only does he sell shoes to people he knows but he also sells them all around the United states. To sell his shoes he usually uses Ebay and even though ebay takes some of each selling he makes a good profit in the end.

Jayden started selling shoes about a year ago because he himself loves rare Nikes.

He knew he wanted to sell shoes because he had a passion for Nike shoes and he loves money. He had been doing this for about a year and is having really good luck money wise.

Unlike most teens Jayden is saving his money. He makes a profit of about $4,000-$5,000 a month, but instead of spending it all he is reinvesting his money and saving 40% of his earnings each month.

Even though the selling life is quite thrilling when it comes to making money there are some flaws with being a young entrepreneur. “I’ve been scammed about 4 times in the past year. I usually will have a gut feeling if I do not think a sale is going to work, but I still do

it anyways,” said Schmidt. He has had a couple of sales where the people won’t send their money and he had already sent off the shoes.

An instructional coach here at McNary thinks that what Jayden is doing has the potential to be very successful. Scott Gragg a formaerNew York Giants, San Francisco 49er’s, and New York Jets player helps out here at McNary as an instructional coach to help out other teachers. Gragg has had a lot of experience with Nike during his lifetime. During the years from 1996 till 2005 Gragg was endorsed with a shoe contract

with Nike. “If it does not impact the students learning and school life then I think it’s a great idea,” stated Gragg. He believes that if you can find passion in things and they make you happy then why not do

that thing especially when you can get money for it.

Jayden hopes to keep up his shoe selling and to keep making a good profit in something that he enjoys.

Sophomore selling shoes for big profitBy Hannah Miller

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Kayanna Dunaway, a senior at McNary High School, is an artist who is striving to make a career out of her love for art.

She has had a deep love for art starting at a very young age. She has been into art since her early elementary school days where she would frequently draw horses, an activity she enjoyed doing.

Dunaway specializes in the mediums of drawing and painting. She currently has a job at Enchanted Forest Theme Park painting faces.

She doesn’t look up to any specific artist or admire any, but she has a special process in how she creates her art. Before she starts a new piece of art she looks up new ideas or feeds off of works done by other people. She uses the inspiration she finds out of doing so to put her own view on things and creates her own works.

Whenever she gets the time to let her creativity flow she usually draws cartoons or does quick sketches.

Dunaway has even had some success with selling her art. She has sold fondue art on cake, personal photography and even comic book paintings.

Her main focus when creating something is to communicate to others by putting meaningful messages in her work.

After High School she would like to attend Chemeketa Community College so she can take advantage of the free tuition for two years, then she would like to go to Marylhurst University where she can earn a degree in Art Therapy.

She plans to use a degree in Art Therapy to become an art therapist for children. “I want to be able to help kids by using art,” said Dunaway. She has a goal to help others by using something that she herself is passionate about.

Dunaway’s family is her main foundation. She feels a great deal of love and support from them.

Many others see a great deal of potential in her. One person who has faith in her art is Mark Kohley, an art teacher here at McNary. Mr. Kohley has been Dunaway’s art teacher for several years now. “Yes, there are a number of things she could do in the future,” Kohley stated.

“She’s willing to take risks and not just go safe. She gambles more with her work than she did before,” he said.

Although Kayanna has developed as an artist over the past few years, she believes she’s not done evolving. She wants to improve

her skill in water color painting. She also wants to learn the ability to slow down when she’s creating something. She believes that if she learns how to take her time on an

art piece it will improve her skill as an artist overall.

Dunaway’s determination to be successful and achieve her goals is one that brightens up the halls of

McNary.

Passion opening doors for future success


Kayanna Dunaway sits on a desk in front of art around the school. The art on the wall has been there for many years. Art has been a passion for many students here at McNary.

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Photo by Tyler Rose

Jayden Schmidt stands in the sports office. He enjoys selling Jordans, Nike, and Adidas shoes to make money on the side.

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Playing soccer for around a decade each, McNary’s varsity team captains have led their teams to a successful start to the soccer season.

Gustavo Villalvazo and Bryan Keo, both seniors, are the boys varsity soccer team captains. Although the team has started the season strong, the captains feel like they could still improve.

Keo said, “I know we haven’t been getting the results we want on paper.” However, the team’s been working really hard to keep it up and do better to get where they want to be both on the field and on paper.

According to Villalvazo, pressuring, communication, and high intensity are the team’s strong points on the field. “We’re hard workers,” Villalvazo said.

For the girls, Abigail Smith, senior and varsity team captain, sees a lot of the same positives. She feels that their midfield is their strongest attribute.

“I think as a team, we’re a lot closer than we have been in past years,” Smith said. Attributing the closeness of the team as one of the keys to winning.

The boys team is proud of keeping a tie game when down two players due to receiving red cards. “We were two men down. We never gave up, and I feel like we played better than them [the other team] and created more chances,” Villalvazo said.

Smith was most proud of the

varsity girls’ game against Gresham. Though not in our conference, they are a team that has been a challenge for our McNary girls in the past.

“In past years, we wouldn’t have been able to beat a team like that,” Smith said. The girls won in a two to nothing shutout. Even though they had the home field advantage, this is an exciting win for the girls, according to Smith.

As far as weaknesses within the teams go, “finishing forwards not finishing,” Villalvazo said, is a problem. When able to score and given opportunities, the team fails to. According to Keo, the team needs to create opportunities to

score and capitalize. According to Smith, the girls also

need to work on completing their scoring opportunities. “Finishing on goal because we have so many opportunities to score and we can’t follow through,” Smith said.

Both teams see West Salem as their hardest opponent in the Greater Valley Conference (GVC).

“Overall, they’re a good team, and they all work well together. They’re pretty solid in all of their positions,” Keo said. Smith added that they have a lot of club team players, making them more of a threat. According to her, they’ve always been good.

Both teams want to improve

their records going further in the season. The boys want to win the GVC and make it far in the state tournament. The girls’ team want to make it as far as they can in playoffs and do well in conference games.

Soccer team shooting for first in the GVC


Gustavo Villalvazo and Bryan Keo on McNary’s football field. Villalvazo and Keo are the boys varsity soccer team captains.

By Rebecca AmerinoThe Piper

For about nine years McNary student Ariana Santana has been playing her favorite sport, soccer.

Santana joined soccer because when she was little her mom would take her to her dad’s games. Her dad would kick the ball and she would chase it.

She has helped in the JV games, and also given directions. The key players in the Varsity Girls Soccer team are Jessy Shore, Abi Rodriguez, Abigail Hawley, Kayla Evans, and Natalia Gonzalez.

The things that Santana’s great at are accuracy at passing the ball, looking up to pass the ball, and also communicating.

Santana brings trust to the team and gets along with any of the players on the soccer team.

Santana said the type of advice the coach gives the team “be smart about the decision you make on the field. ”

Santana said her greatest opponent would have to be West Salem.

A couple of Ariana’s goals this season are to score at least one goal

or two, prove that she can get more playing time because she only gets at least ten minutes on the field.

Her dad goes to all her games and tells her what she can improve on during and after the game. Santana says her Mom and sister come and cheer, but her mom also gives her advice, same with her brother.

Ariana likes soccer because she likes the running and interaction with other players.

Santana’s plans for after high school are to go too PSU for the soccer team.

One of Ariana’s weakness’is that she’s small and it’s easier to knock her down. A couple of her strengths would be because she’s fast, and she’s good at fighting for the ball.

Some things that Ariana thinks the team should improve on this year is they need to stay focused, can’t go down in other words can’t lose, and they need to stay strong.

“I encourage Santana since she’s a freshman and she’s basically the smallest one on the team,” said Kolbie Kopp, another soccer player.

Freshman on varsity making an impressionBy Adrianna Hernandez

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Courtesy of McNary Girls Soccer Program

Ariana Santana She is a freshmen on the girls varsity soccer team.

Trip to DC a dream come true for Celts

Ryan Kirch, a social studies teacher here at McNary, has been part of planning the Washington DC trip for quite a while now, but the program was founded in 1971. Over 800,000 students and teachers have participated in this program “Close Up,” is what the organization is called.

According to Kirch, the whole purpose of this trip is to further educate and inspire students. These programs are aligned with each state’s social studies standards, common core, and the C3 (College Career and Civic life) framework.

The students stay at national hotel chains such as Marriott, Sheraton, Hilton, Crowne Plaza, and Holiday inn. The hotels are safe and close to the Metro.

This trip is filled with once in a lifetime experiences like examining and debating the proper size and power of governments, visiting Jefferson, FDR and MLK memorials, meeting with members of congress or their staffs, attend and observe Congressional Committee Hearings, explore the U.S Capitol Visitor Center and Museum, visit the Supreme Court and Library of Congress. They also go to cultural events like the holocaust museum.

There’s people from all across the country and the students get mixed with other students, getting put into groups and do group work.

The cost of this trip is $2,000 per student. Some students do fundraisers and some pay out of pocket.

According to Kirch, the DC trip is very important “I think it’s really important for students to understand the impact and responsibilities they have in their community. Generates good opportunities, it’s changed people, it’s unbelievable,” Kirch said.

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Jacob Jackson has been playing football since he could walk. He was just a little toddler at the age of five playing tackle football for Pop Warner. He played all through elementary and middle school. Nine years after his first year of football as a little toddler, Jackson was ready to start for the Mcnary High School freshman football team. But a critical surgery had stopped his season short. Jackson played Wide Receiver and even played Quarterback for the freshman team. Jackson’s season may have ended quick and stopped short, but Jackson said he considers himself to be “Mentally strong.” Jackson now starts as a free safety for McNary High School varsity football. Jackson plays Z receiver for offense too.

“I feel like one of my weaknesses in football is I’m a smaller varsity athlete,” Jackson said. “But the team as a whole has been improving,” he said. When it comes to a team, leaders are always a main role that are shown through teammates. “I find our leaders always doing what

they need to do. Josiah Gilbert, Kolby Barker, Brandon Vanvorus, and Marc Bisa seem to be great leaders to our team,” he said.

Jackson described the leaders of the team as, “always doing their job and always doing something for the team”.

Josiah Gilbert, Mcnary High School student and quarterback said ”JJ’s actually better than Most of our juniors. He has great hands and great instincts, he’s always going hard and doing his job as well”. Josiah Gilbert plays Quarterback and Strong Safety for the Mcnary High School football team.

Jackson said some of the goals for the season are to have more wins than losses and to improve in the team’s fundamentals. “We have a strong and stable defense this year, our offense is equally as stable, but our defense for sure will stand out,” Jackson said. Jackson plans to go to University of Arizona after graduating high school and earning his master’s degree in Masters of Communication and possibly even fulfilling a dream of his to work for Sports center. “I want to travel, I want a job involving sports and traveling”. Another

goal of Jackson’s is to keep his starting position on the football field as free safety and he wants to

improve on his position. “Sports is what I’ve done my entire life. It’s all I know, it’s what I love”.

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Photo by Rebecca Amerino

In this photo Jacob Jackson number 19 is getting ready to take on the Forest Grove Vikings on McNary’s turf.

By Carson HeldtThe Piper

Scott Gragg is an Instructional Coach for the McNary High School staff. Gragg grew up in Silverton, where he went to high school, dated and met his wife, ran track, and played golf, football, and basketball.

After high school, Gragg attended the University of Montana to get his undergrad in mathematics. Gragg played for the University of Montana’s football team as a lineman. Shortly after college, Gragg became a 2nd round pick as a left tackle in the NFL.

He was drafted in 1995 to the New York Giants. Gragg had many brushes against All American

players such as Michael Strahan. “I had to block him everyday in practice” Gragg said when asked about Strahan.

In 2000, Scott Gragg was signed to the San Francisco 49ers. Scott became an All American Pro linemen in 2001 while playing for the 49ers. Gragg then was signed to the New York Jets in 2005. Gragg then retired from the NFL.

Gragg started 149 games as a tackle out of the 172 games he played. Throughout his career he even had 7 recovered fumbles. After retiring, Gragg attended George Fox University and got his masters in teaching. His son is a 6ft 11 linemen for the McNary varsity team as a junior, who recently transferred.

Gragg was a math teacher for four years and then came to McNary

to be close to his Silverton home town with his wife and son; and he enjoys teaching and coaching at McNary High School.

Mr.Caleb Singleton is a Weights and Physical Education teacher for McNary High School. He is a new staff member as well as Gragg. Singleton is also the head coach on the side with KJ Mcrae, Nick Phillips, Clem Perez, David Holcomb, the McNary High School Junior Varsity football team for the 2016-2017 season.

This is Singleton’s 7th year coaching. He was previously an assistant coach at Western Oregon University, Aloha High School in Beaverton, and Mckay High School. He “enjoys being the head coach and looks forward to coaching other sports as well.”

Singleton started playing football

when he was in the 5th grade. His father grew up in Texas, where “football is life in the state of Texas,” Singleton said. “I didn’t start to develop a love for the game until my senior year in college. Now that my career is done as a player, I enjoy coaching and passing my many gifts as a player on to the student athletes I coach,” Singleton said.

Singleton attended West Salem High School, and played football for Western Oregon University as a defensive back. As a freshman at WOU, Singleton was named Western Oregon University’s MVP against Humboldt State. As a sophomore, Singleton was selected by the GNAC first team player of the week of October 11th, after a two interception performance against Southern Oregon.

After College, Singleton was chosen to play professional football for Poland for the Warsaw Eagles.

This is Singleton’s first year teaching high school PE. “I feel like I have a lot to accomplish,” Singleton said, “as a new teacher one of my priorities is to develop positive relationships with my fellow staff members and the student population.”

“The JV has come a long way and continues to show tremendous growth as a team.” Singleton said.

Singleton hopes to become a world class teacher and wants to reach his goal in the near future.

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A recap of this years homecoming assembly, football game, and dance. The theme chosen by the homecoming commitee was “Night on the Nile.” Jaylene Montano and Alex Martin were crowned as homecoming queen and king, and at the football game, the Celtics pulled off a win against McKay that friday night. All assembly photos taken by: Parker Kehret, all other photos taken by: Tania Calderon

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