final issue of 2012/2013 year

Contents:

— Page 2 Mock Wreck

and Important dates

— Page 3 Riddles and

Plastic Art

— Page 4 Best High

School and JROTC In-

spection

— Page 5 & 6 Literary

Journal

Dardanelle High School

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Volume 1, Issue 6

Texting & Driving with

Officer Moore

Officer Moore of the Dardanelle Po-

lice Department provided an oppor-

tunity for our students to understand

the consequences of driving while

under the influence and texting and

driving. While the students enjoyed

their time, they gained an important

understanding about these issues. Thank you, Officer Moore, for giving your time to

work with our students.

Cheerleader In-

formation

$450.00 pay-

ment due in full

by May 17th

(This covers all

costs for the

2013/14 year.)

Dardanelle

Arbor Day at

DES! EAST students Re-

genea, Dalton D., Dal-

ton K., Tyler, Brandon,

Steve, Colten, and

Katelyn bagged and

gave out over 1000

pine tree seedlings to

the Dardanelle ele-

mentary students in

connection to the Arbor Day Celebration in out town. Working with

Wayne Shewmake and Mayor Carolyn McGee from the Tree USA

committee and representatives from the Forestry Service, the stu-

dents gave out the trees after a presentation addressing the value

of our trees. Thank you Mr. Laughinghouse, to Wal-Mart for provid-

ing the bags and to Mr. Shewmake and Forestry Service for provid-

ing the seedlings.

Dardanelle High School Lizards’ Trail May 8, 2013

Summer School will be on June 3-21. Cost is $85 per semester class. Driver’s Ed is $150. All payable at time of registra-tion. If needed, students can pay for fee in 3 pay-ments of $25. (at least) at sign up, a second payment in April, and final payment in May on the 31st. NOTICE: NO RE-FUND WILL BE MADE IF THE FINAL PAY-MENT ON THE 31ST IS MISSED! NOTICE: THERE IS A ZERO TOLERANCE POLICY ON AB-SENCE IN SUMMER SCHOOL. BEING AB-SENT FOR ANY REA-SON WILL RESULT IN REMOVAL FROM THE CLASS.

Free summer meals! These are available to children and teens when school is out! To find a site near you, call 1-888-4KID4AR, Text FoodAR to 877877 or visit dhs.arkansas.gov/dccece/snp.

Teen Awareness for drinking and driving

issues: The Mock Wreck On Monday, April 22nd, A mock wreck brought

awareness of the dangers of driving while under the

influence of drugs/alcohol. Presented to the seniors

and juniors, local emergency

responders provided a mock up

of a wreck under those circum-

stances. EAST students also

presented a program about teen

issues of the effects of alcohol-

ism within the family. We of

the newspaper urge the

students to listen to the warn-

ings and to not drink or use

drugs while getting behind the wheel.

Important Senior and Graduation dates! May 14th– Celebration of Achievement– 7 P.M.

May 15th– Last full day for seniors who are exempt from semester

tests. The exemption list will be published by noon.

May 16th– Semester Tests for Seniors. All classes within class peri-

ods.

May 17th– 9 A.M. Commencement rehearsal for all seniors. Assemble in

Pavilion. Required if you are participating in Commencement.

May 19th– Baccalaureate at 2:30 P.M. Commencement at 7 P.M. (In line

at 6:30)

We of the DHS

Lizards’ trail wish you a

good summer and hope you

stay safe! Congrats to the

2013 Senior Class! Goodbye and see you

next year!


Riddle Corner 1. What goes around and in the house, but never touches the house? 2. I am too much for one, enough for two, but nothing to three. What am I? 3. I saw the dead bring forth the living. I saw the living bring forth the dead. Who or what did I see? 4. What starts with e, ends with e and has one letter in it? 5. We're five little items of an everyday sort. You'll find us all in a tennis court. What are we? 6. Two bodies have I, both joined into one. The longer I stand still, the quicker I run. What am I? 7.They are two sis-ters. One gives birth to the other, who in turn gives birth to

the first. What are the two sisters?

Answers

1. The Sun 2. A Secret

3. A Funeral 4. An En-

velope 5. The Vowels.

6. An Hourglass. 7.

Night and day

Plastic Art Showcase!

JROTC Tri-Annual Inspection

Dardanelle High School listed

in 2013 Best US High

Schools!

Dardanelle was listed in the 2013 US list of Best American

High Schools. The list is made by using the 2013 data. Dar-

danelle has won the “Bronze” level. Good job for making the

school get this far!


Earned Honor unit with distinction. After having practice over it for the majority of the day on the 5th and 8th, the Sand

Lizard battalion had the tri-annual inspection on the 9th of April. While we waited for the inspectors to arrive, we got in for-

mation and open ranks in preparation for the in-ranks inspection, the first area to be scored. Our inspectors were 4 men from

the National Guard. They were looking for gigs, or things wrong with the uniform, like crooked name tags and not having black

socks, we are proud to say that not many were found. As they were checking for that, they asked each cadet two questions

from a set based on things all cadets are supposed to know. They range from what color socks do you wear with the uniform,

to what regulation covers the wear of the uniform (AR 670-1 and CCR 145-2, just so you know what they had to remember).

The cadets were stuck standing still in formation for over an hour. Two fainted, two others felt a little sick, but those were

the only problems.

After the in-ranks inspection was Color Guard, with Drill and Ceremony right after. Color Guard members were Jesse Rhoads

(rifle), Daniel Hernandez (rifle), Destiny Moughon (state flag), and Tiffany Overton(US flag and commander). D&C was exe-

cuted in platoons of 12 cadets, led by the company 1sgts, Cadet Rebecca Henderson (Alpha) and Cadet Rafael Andrade

(Bravo). Other than a few command and in-step problems, everything went very well.

Fourth event in the day was the staff briefing, being inspected by Juan Fuentes. The Battalion Commander and the staff

(there’s 5 staff members) all had to give a briefing about themselves, what their job is, how they do it, and what else they

wanted to do in/for the program. After each person, the inspector asked questions about things that were not in the briefing

that he wanted to know, such as further elaboration on a certain area of their job or after graduation plans. In this, it was all

perfect scores, not one point missed. Last in the inspection, after the curriculum knowledge portion, were staff area inspec-

tions. In this, the inspector actually looked at all the things the staff was responsible for taking care of to make sure it was

all up to date, correct, and to recommend how it could be better. The fifth event, curriculum knowledge, went wonderfully. He

had nothing but good things to say, and we had a perfect score once again.

At the end of the day and the debriefing, we had been awarded Honor Unit with Distinction, and were all very happy and re-

lieved.

Stories of the Apocalypse

By: Joshua Hogg

Characters:

The new guy, Dante Johnson: White hair, red eyes, tannish skin tone: the situation has made him scared

about what is around the next corner, and he promises to keep Jasmine safe during this time.

The new girl, Jasmine Solotov: Reddish brown hair, green eyes, tannish skin tone: the current situation

has made her frightened of almost everything in sight.

Tues. December 25, 2012

1221 hours

Normal days are always the same-- every hour, every day, and every week. But this is not one of those

days.

My name is Dante Johnson, and along with my girlfriend Jasmine Solotov, we are the last survivors of the

apocalypse a.k.a. Judgment day, which happened four days ago. The beginning of this incident started

when Jasmine and I were at a café not too far up the mountains; then we saw it happen.

It was December 21st. The things we saw would haunt us forever. We saw a nuclear missile fly towards

the nuclear power plant that served as one of the few power sources for the town we lived in. The explo-

sion rocked the whole countryside and shook the mountainside. Jasmine and I made it out of the café

before it could come crashing down.

I feel sorry for those who didn’t make it out. We held a memorial service for those who were crushed un-

derneath the mountain slide. It was a painful task to make the gravestone with all the names.

We were scared to go down the mountain and find out what has happened to this once beautiful land-

scape. We decided to head for the top of the mountain to have a better look at the landscape and then

go down and assess the damage to the land. When we reached the mountain top, what we saw broke our

hearts.

The landscape had become almost a heap of ash. Each time we turned our heads, all we saw was gray

everywhere. We even saw some small bits of ash falling from the sky, almost like a nuclear winter.

“We need to get back to town and see what we can salvage,” I told her. “We’ll need it.”

“Ok,” she replied nervously. “I’m scared.”

“I know. I am too.”

We started to scale down the mountain and noticed that the entire mountainside was black with piles of

ash and black trees. Such a barren empty wasteland caused by a single explosion had been unimagina-

ble until it had happened a few minutes ago.

While we were going down the mountain we came across some skeletons that had been turned a tannish

brown color, and their teeth had turned black. Black teeth are very unusual after a large nuclear explo-

sion. Next to the skeletons are the clothes they wore; shirts are half-burned, pants are black and almost

completely burned through. Backpacks that hikers wore are burned into, but the oddest thing is that all

the food and some water are still intact.

“Wait here for a minute,” I told Jasmine. “Just don’t touch any of the skeletons, ok?”

“Ok,” she replied.


Literary Magazine



Literary Magazine


I went to my scrap metal of a truck that belonged to me. The thing that I keep under my

seat is my backpack with all of the school supplies and books that I use during the

school day. I also keep are Meals Ready to Eat, known by soldiers as an M.R.E.s. I usually

keep at least two or three underneath the passenger seat. I looked underneath the seats

and grabbed my backpack from under the driver’s seat and the three M.R.E.s that were

under the passenger seat.

The one thing that I had to do was to take some stuff out of my bag, which I really hate

doing, but I got some stuff out of the bag and carried the M.R.E.s in my backpack to Jas-

mine. I am able to write this in the journal I keep in my bag in case anything like this ever

happened in my life. And people thought that this was a silly idea, but I proved them

wrong already just by writing this right now.

“Hey,” I called to her. “I’m back.”

“About time,” she replied.

“What do you mean?” I asked her.

“It was getting a little spooky around her.”

“Sorry about how long I was gone. Salvaging is not as easy as it looks though.”

“Whatever.”

I showed her what was inside the bag, and the expression on her face told me that she

was feeling sad.

“Is this all you found?” she asked me.

“It was all I could find,” I told her.

She sighed. “Ok.”

I suing the bag onto my back and began to walk down the mountain side; then I looked

back at her and noticed she hadn’t moved an inch.

“You ok, Jazz?” I asked her.

“I just can’t believe this happened so quickly,” she replied sadly.

“I know. I can’t either,” I told her. “Come on, let’s go.”

We began to walk down the mountainside and towards town, hoping that we would find

someone else that survived. We need to find more people, resources, along with food,

shelter, and water. I know there will be other things that we will encounter along the way,

but for now we can only rely on each other, and that was it.

This is Dante Johnson and if you are reading this, then you are a survivor.

To be continued.....

final issue of 2012/2013 year

Documents

summer school

mock wreck

texting driving

semester class

important dates page

best high school

dardanelle arbor day

spection page