10/31/2019 0 Comments Halloween Drive-In-MovieYou've been summoned to attend the HFHS Drive-In-Movie on Halloween October 31 at 8 Pm. This spooky event will be held at the HFHS Main Entrance Parking Lot. Free admission and Concessions will be available for Purchase. All Profits go towards Prom.The movie that will be playing is ”Insidious” and will be projected on the side of the school. Due to limited space they are asking students to carpool. The Positive Jags are the ones running the drive-in, setting it up, and for the most part working it. They are also teaming up with the prom committee and FFA for concessions. Positive jags have put a lot of time and hard work into preparing for the drive-in and making sure everything goes smoothly. They have put a lot of thought process and problem solving as well as using teamwork and work ethic. They are hoping to have the parking lot packed with eager horror movie fans and are excited to see how everything turns out. See you tonight!
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10/29/2019 0 Comments HFHS Blood DriveBy: Raechel Painovich
Tremendous thank you to our blood drive donors! The blood drive at Hinckley-Finlayson High School was held last week on Wednesday, where 68 units of blood were collected which can potentially help 204 people. The goal at HFHS was 53 units which was greatly surpassed with this latest blood drive. Mr. Linden a teacher here at HFHS is the head of the blood drive and along with him are Hannah Davis, Jaeyden Brigan, Haley Risley, Ean Chose, Seth Davis and Grace Balut the blood drive coordinators. Donors must be 16 years of age or older to donate blood. Donors can choose between two donation types: whole blood or double red blood cells. With a whole blood donation, one pint of blood is collected. The process takes anywhere from about five minutes up to ten minutes. This is the more common donation method. A double red cell donation on the other hand counts as collect two units of blood. This occurs because the red blood cells are separated and collected while the remaining part of the blood, plasma, is returned to the donor. The process takes about twice as long as a whole blood donation. Hinckley-Finlayson is one of the few schools in the Northland area (approximately 50 extending from Pine City to International Falls) who host four drives a school year. This is only made possible because of our dedicated students, staff, and community members who volunteer for this great cause. The next blood drive at Hinckley-Finlayson is Wednesday, December 18. If you are 16 or older, consider becoming a donor or continuing to donate. 10/25/2019 0 Comments Speak for the TreesBy Kenidy Cessna What is Forest Degradation and Deforestation? Forest Degradation is a part of a forest that is permanently damaged by one of a combination of biological factors. A lot of forest threats are caused by illegal forest degradation. Deforestation is the clearance of forest area by cutting/logging trees for non forest uses.
Deforestation and forest degradation are huge threats to climate change, animals and the environment. 31% of our planet are forests according to World Wildlife (WWF). Every minute 18.7 acres of forest is being destroyed, that is equal to 27 soccer fields. Raising awareness for this cause is important and cannot be over exaggerated. Rain forests are home to most biodiversity, they are in the most danger. In the last 15 years roughly 17% of the Amazon rainforest was lost due to deforestation for cattle ranching. In studies WWF has done they predict forests equal to double the size of Texas to be destroyed. If no action is taken they believe some of the well known species they hold such as tigers, orangutans, and elephants will become extinct. As some people still use fuel wood for heat and cooking they think about half the illegal logging is being taken for those uses. Taking action and protecting our forests are vital to all living beings environments. Small things such as donations, speak out against illegal logging, speak out about smart decision making when it comes to building, mining and other infrastructure. It doesn't take one person to do a single great thing, it is a million different people being educated and taking action 10/24/2019 0 Comments Football Playoffs Have BegunBy: Raechel Painovich
Tuesday night the Hinckley-Finlayson Jaguars football team faced East Central at our home field and came out on top with a score of 44-20. The jaguars’ defense played strong throughout the game which was a winning factor for the team. Offensive player of the game, Ashton Hosler had 109 yards on 16 carries and 2 touchdowns to contribute tto the jags’ points. Jacob Perrotti also had 5 catches for 84 yards and 2 touchdowns to add to the points. The defensive line of Zack Watrin, Ricky Skaff, Randy Skaff, Justin Matson and Gary McFarland held the eagles to 16 yards rushing, 4 sacks and 2 forced fumbles. Coach Brad Hopkins has said, “that their offensive line did a good job blocking for the running backs. They also had zero turnovers that is always a positive in controlling the game.” Coach Brad pulled out many positives from the game but still said they need to make some defensive adjustments before they play again. The Jaguars started out the game, giving up a touchdown to the Eagles but denying them on the 2-point conversion. From there, they continued to gain yards and score touchdowns, leaving the Eagles to only score two more touchdowns. They balanced the scoring out as they were able to have 4 receiving touchdowns and 2 rushing. Ashton Hosler ran for 2-TD’s, Jacob Perrotti caught 2-TD’s, Quentin Matrious and Randy Skaff each caught one TD Pass also. Throwing the ball Cedric Lafave and Brady Johnson combined for those 4-TD passes. The players mentioned that their defense was getting to the quarterback and blocking the screen passes which was an important asset to their game. Brad also said they struggled with pass coverage, they allowed an unusual amount of passing yards to a team they held to one catch earlier in the year. With the positives and the negatives, the team thought they could basically do anything they wanted on both sides of the ball. The football team is convinced they didn’t show their best game to Braham the last time they played them, and are hoping to pull off a win on Saturday. Brad adds to that by saying Braham is a very solid team. They lost to Deer River earlier in the season, and escaped a few close games vs Pine City and Rush City. We played Braham a couple weeks ago and came away on the short end of the score. We hope that with better weather for the match up and I should have 4 starters who were out last time we matched up will make this a very good game.The jaguars will face the Braham Bombers on Saturday in Braham starting at 2pm. The football team would love to see lots of supporters at their game. 10/24/2019 0 Comments Jaguar Boys’ Place 3rd at GRC MeetBy: Mr. Linden
The Jaguar boys’ placed 3rd overall at the GRC Conference meet on October 15th. The Jags placed behind the champions from Rush City and 2nd place Pine City. The boys’ team was led by five seniors running in their final GRC meet and two all-conference qualifiers. The varsity race saw a surprise tactic not seen since the late 1990’s/early 2000’s known to HF cross country historians as ‘The Vickerman.’ The Vickerman entails a runner sacrificing oneself by beginning the race at an above normal and unrealistic pace for 3.1 miles but includes the right for that runner to say they led a varsity race. A special congratulations goes out to Jaguar Howard Hodena who successfully displayed The Vickerman. Hodena is able to say he led about a half mile of the varsity race and somewhere a picture and video exists to back this claim. Brock Bjerke was the top Jaguar finisher and all-conference qualifier by finishing 4th overall. Brock went out with the leaders with this group of four going through the 1 mile mark in about 5:25. The halfway mark of the race saw this group of four begin to separate into individuals with Brock settling into his fourth place. The final mile of the race still required a maximum effort with contenders from Rush City and East Central doing their best to try to close the gap to Brock. However, they would not succeed and Brock maintained his 4th place until the end finishing in 18:44. Isaiah Brindamour also was able to finish as an all-conference runner by placing 9th overall. Brindamour found himself in a group of five runners for the last ¾ mile to mile distance. Going into the final quarter mile, one of the runners from this group would finish 11th and not be an all-conference qualifier. Isaiah responded to the challenge with one big acceleration for the final kick. Isaiah finished with a time of 19:28, two seconds ahead of 10th and 11 seconds in front of 11th. Rounding out the scoring for the Jaguars was Josey Olson and Lucas Kreft who as teammates were sprinting for the line for places 14 and 15. Both narrowly missed the 20 minute barrier finishing in 20:04 and 20:05. Jacob Barstad was the fifth Jaguar in placing 18th, Brody Froehling sixth for the Jags placing 23rd, and Howard Hodena who placed 29th. The junior varsity boys’ placed three in the top ten of this race. All three Jags ran personal bests with Devon Mulder placing 4th in 21:21, Garrett Hosna placing 7th in 22:03, and his teammate placing 9th in 22:04. The junior high boys’ also placed three runners in the top ten with Griffin Stiel leading the way placing 2nd, 5th went to Colton Froehling, and 6th overall to Dalton Hosna. The Jaguar varsity squad will have some rebuilding to do looking forward to next season. The team will graduate six seniors, five of which consistently ran varsity. These five spots will be up for grabs but this team has many younger runners who will hopefully be looking to step up into this role. 10/24/2019 0 Comments Jaguar Girls’ Place 2nd at GRC MeetBy: Mr. Linden Jaguar Cross Country met at Pine City Country Club October 15th to compete at the Great River Conference meet. The meet brings the schools of HF, East Central, Rush City, Braham, Pine City, and the girls from Mille Lacs to determine Great River Conference titles and all-conference runners. All-Conference runners are determined by placing in the top 10 in the varsity races. Conference honorable mentions go to the 11th and 12th place runners for the boys and the 11th-14th place runners for the girls. The Jaguar girls’ varsity team finished 2nd overall by two points to Pine City. Despite the close finish by two points, the girls’ team had an excellent showing. Each individual did her job and competed at or near season best levels. Reese Hartl led the Jag ladies with her 2nd place overall finish in another new Jaguar 5k record of 20:25. Reese found herself in 3rd place at the 1 mile to go mark but found a new gear to catch and pull away from Pine City’s Eva Johnson in the final half mile. Reese continued her strong kick and finished five seconds behind the GRC champion Alaina Steele from Pine City but this margin marks the closet Hartl has finished to Steele. Raechel Painovich placing 6th was the second Jaguar to finish. Raechel also found herself needing to close a growing 5 second gap with a mile to go. Somewhere on the backside of the course this new gear was also found with Raechel bringing her competitor to within striking distance at the 200m to go mark. A determined sprint erased the gap and another runner was brought in and passed by a Jaguar. The real strength of this girls’ Jaguar team compared to the GRC competition comes in the form of the next four Jaguars who finished in two packs giving the Jaguars what was their chance at a victory that afternoon . Teammates Ava Anderson finished 9th overall running her personal best of 22:57 and Sophie Hodena finished 10th overall with her time of 23:17. Seventh grader Violet Cox who already had a remarkable October by winning in Hinckley and placing in the JV race in Royalton, continued her hot month by placing 12th overall and earning Conference Honorable Mention. Her teammate Audrey Storlie finished right behind her in 15th, separated by a mere 4 seconds. In the end it was Pine City who took this title. The strength of this team is their top three runners who placed 1st, 3rd, and 5th overall. These small numbers go a ways toward helping secure a low team score. They were helped by their senior who finished 13th overall and 7th grader who placed 16th. The junior varsity race saw a sweep of the podium by Jaguar runners. Eighth grader Isabella Bennett took the victory running 25:29. Killeen Prater placed 2nd overall with a time of 26:46. To complete the sweep was 10th grader Joey Hendry who battled back and forth but won the 3rd spot overall in a time of 27:41. Lauren Thom was the lone Jaguar representative in the junior high race placing 4th overall. Looking forward the Jags will look to regain this title next year. The team does not include any seniors, should return all seven varsity runners, and should receive healthy competition from our junior varsity runners. 10/18/2019 0 Comments Junior High Football Season Wrap UpBy: Erich Richter
Last night, the Junior High Jags Football team wrapped up their season in Rush City. An anonymous source stated that the 7th grade game was officiated on the caliber of an NFL Packer game. The 7th graders lost a hard fought battle 6-0, with many potential scoring drives that stalled out at the end. The 8th grade team won 26-6. Trey Visser had 2 rushing TDs and a tip-toed KR TD up the Jags sideline. Cyliss Lafave scored a rushing TD and a 2pt conversion rush. Chase Klar started the game at QB and won the starting spot in our hearts. Rush City changed their outside run gameplan from earlier in the season in fear of being victim of any more DE Denzer sandwiches, so the Jags interior run game stepped it up and had a strong game. The 8th grade Jags closed their season 4-2, 5-2 if you include the fact that Pine City was too Pine City to play in a little moisture, or to reschedule. A proverbial 5-2 would tie last year's 8th graders for the best season record in Richter JH HFHS FB history but perhaps an asterisk belongs in the record book. The 8th graders had one bad loss when they were forced to play on a tiny Ogilvie 9 man field and change their offensive and defensive scheme without advanced notice. In the 5 other games, the 8th Jags D surrendered a total of only 5 touchdowns on the season. Stingy defense gave coach Richter the confidence to only punt once all season (confidence or incompetence?). Scorers on the season include: Visser (10 tds, 5 rush, 2 rec, 2 pass, 1 KR), Cyliss (9 tds, 5 rush, 2 rec, 1 pass, 1 KR), Seth (1 rush), Buck (1 rec), Blake Painovich (2 pass), Klein (2pt catch), Gage (2pt catch). 8th graders moving on from JH Football to Varsity next year include: Cody "Pound-for-Pound" Klein, Hunter "The Fork" Bork, Derek "The Body" Buck, James "The Sandwich Artist" Denzer, Brytin "The Boulder" Bridges, Trey "From Downtown" Visser, Jerricka "The Flash" Ringler, Chase "Doug Flutie" Klar, Cyliss "Primetime" Lafave, Gabe "Sam Mills" Fredrick, Gage "The Tower" Sorenson, Seth "Troy Polamalu" Olson, and Mathias "Little Lenzen" Lenzen. Junior High Coaches Whelan, Visser, and Richter brag about the growth of these players this year and over the past two years, and wish them luck in the future as they move on to varsity. 10/15/2019 0 Comments Guthrie Field TripBy: Killeen Prater Thursday October 10th, students involved in the high school plays attended the glass menagerie at the Guthrie in Minneapolis. These students were giving this chance thanks to Corrila Clark. This is a great opportunity for many students. The students that participate in the high school plays are very excited to see how a professional play is performed, this can be a great tool to enhance their acting skills. Plays are a great way to show how literature and arts interact. The play was about 2 hours long. It is a play that is focused on a memory of the narrator Tom Wingfeild. This play is set in St. Louis in 1937, Tom is an aspiring poet who works in a shoe warehouse to support his mother and sister. Many of the students had positive reviews and would recommend it to others. Anna Degerstrom who has seen many plays at the guthrie went as far to say that it was one of the best plays she has ever seen. The Guthrie is such a cool experience and if you get the chance you should definitely go see any play there. With this is mind many other students enjoyed the play very much, everyone dressed up and looked very formal representing our school very well. This trip was going to include 10th grade english students but because of a substitute shortage the school could not send chaperones. These students were disappointed but they will be allowed to attend a play at the Guthrie in February. The theatre students will also be allowed to attend this play. 10/14/2019 0 Comments 2019 HFHS Fall CheerBy: Emily Bradshaw The HFHS Cheer team is off to an exciting start. Theirs a lot of new faces this year as well as a new coach, Bailey Cramer. In a quick season recap with Cramer and one of the team captains Ana Eng, Cramer said “I have had this job for a month and a half, the girls on this team improve everyday that we have practice. They also have continued to learn new things from myself, as I was a cheerleader in high school.” Ana said “it's been good, we have learned to help and respect each other and work better as a team all together.” The girls have improved so much from the start of the season including being loud while performing cheers, builds, and dances. They are also looking forward to continue learning new cheers and stunts. Qualities this team has shown include work ethnic, having fun, Great attitudes, leadership and responsibility. In an interview we asked what some of the girls Favorite Cheer memories were… “car rides on the way to games” - Emily Klar (Flyer) “Homecoming” - Evelyn Klein (Middle) “let's see, we had a lot of fun on the bus ride to deer river and at the high school.” - Rebbeca Dutcher ( Base ) “When Madison Lange punched me in the face when we tried a new build. “ - Ana Eng ( One of the Captains) “ As a cheer coach the best memory that I have is helping these girls to improve in a sport they enjoy doing. “ - Coach Cramer … as well as funny and or memorable stories: “one time Ana accidentally yelled at a little girl. That same day a girl came up to me at completely different locations and said ' she's the pretty girl" and "omg she's so pretty" - Willow Thomas “Just spending time with the Squad, also Secret Santa from past years has always been super fun.” - Ana Eng “Every practice is a funny story just waiting to happen.” - Bailey Cramer
10/14/2019 0 Comments The Sandy Lake TragedyBy Kenidy Cessna The Sandy Lake Tragedy is arguably one of the biggest calamities to occur in the Midwest region. For those who are unaware of this event, it took place in 1849 and its outcome was horrific, hundreds of Native Americans died due to poor treatment from the white government. Many claims of what really happened have floated around and there’s an abundance of stories that have been passed through families and friends. I’ve spent the last week researching and reading multiple documentaries about the Sandy Lake Tragedy and they’ve all been told from different perspectives. In 1849 almost every Native American and caucasian settler were incompatible.
As the settlers discovered more and more of America they pushed Native Americans to the side and out of their lands, this is what they refer to as Manifest Destiny. When settlers had discovered America and taken resources for themselves they left the Natives with nothing. A lot of people blame two specific people when it comes to the Sandy Lake Tragedy; John Watrous and Alexander Ramsey. Watrous was the Indian Sub Agent at La Pointe and was in charge of delivering food, currency, and other necessities to the Native Americans. Ramsey was superior to watrous but acted the same and overlooked any complaints submitted about his partner in crime. Ramsey and the white government had made and signed a treaty which tricked the tribe into making them dependent on Ramsey and only Rasmey. Watrous had illegal payment deals that the ojibwe weren't told about, he had posed to them that they were official and the government had signed off on all of them. A lot of the native peoples passed from starvation and diseases, both because the government had failed to give the Native Americans healthy and fresh foods. Any type of food, money, warmth, etc. had all been delivered late, some months later than they had promised the shipment to arrive. The delayed shipments ahd reasons and they were well thought out by Ramsey and Watrous; a major point behind it would be that they wanted to keep the land they had and keep the ojibwe in a restricted area at Sandy Lake. |
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