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On Feb. 15, Jr. Dylan Falck, suffered a severe injury regarding his C3 vertebrae. Falck was wrestling when he was thrown down by his opponent and ended up being knocked unconscious. Falck was later sent to the hospital and discovered he had fractured his C3 vertebrae. The injury landed him in a neck brace for 7 weeks and had to wear it every day. Almost a year after his injury Falck is back on the matts. During Falck’s most recent match at Fort Madison he earned first place and was announced ‘Champion’ at the meet.                “I was a little scared to start wrestling again.” He said, “After a month or two I was back out their doing my thing without even thinking of my injury.” Falck said. After Falck’s injury, it didn’t stop him from doing what he loves. “One of his first questions after the injury was; ‘When can I wrestle again?’ and we knew kind of right away” Amanda Falck, mother of Dylan said. With a g...

Media Law A new concept for me would be learning what libel and slander was. I always knew slander as "gossiping" and never imagined it as an actual thing people have to look out for. I have already noticed changes in what I'm hearing and figuring out what's slander and what's not. For example Dec. 4, 2018 a rumor went around the school that we were going to have to make a non snow day up. Well later I found out somebody had just made that up and was spreading fake news . I didn't think of it as gossiping anymore, I thought of slander. Libel was different, I always thought of libel as "fake news" and figured they were the same thing. Now I'm aware that a lot of things can be fake news not just written things. Libel is a little more tricky to find because you actually have to search for it. Unlike slander where you could say, "We have a full day of school on Friday," and many people would believe you. I now have to be cautious with th...

            When I see my GPA, my emotions start to twist, whether it’s a good or bad GPA, the lower numbers makes my anxiety spread. When I see a lower GPA, it brings me down and I start to get on myself and think ‘why am I such a bad student?’ It then stresses me out and I can’t think straight, because all I can think about is how low my GPA is. I believe it would be much easier on students and parents if we didn’t have to know our GPA until the end of the semester.               Your GPA is your grade point average and tells you how well you are doing in your classes all together. GPA’s were put in place to document how good of a student you are. But know in days, some people slack on the homework but know the material or know the material but don’t score so well on the test, which goes to show; is your GPA really an accurate representation on how well you do? Re...

(Interview with Kristina Merritt) “Being a mom, nobody tells you if you're doing it right.” Kristina Merritt, a high school math teacher at Kennedy shares, while talking about her home and school life. Living with her husband Adam, not to mention her three boys; Brody (8), Cade (4), and Knox (7 months). Life at home can be a bit overwhelming. Some days it can be hard to be a mother. Merritt is a high school math teacher on the weekdays. She deals with kids all day and only gets a break from 1:16- 2:08 and even then, she takes time to help her students. Being a geometry teacher can be difficult sometimes. Geometry can sometimes be considered one of the ‘hardest’ math classes which means, Merritt must have her work cut out for her. At the end of the day Merritt just wants to go home and hang out with her family. However, it isn't always easy to switch out of ‘teacher mode’. “I wanna be a mom at home, not still [a] teacher.” Merritt says. She doesn't like to bring ...

Kennedy Cougar’s varsity volleyball team took on the Johnston Dragons on Oct. 23 and didn’t go down without a fight. The match went on for five sets, Kennedy won two sets and Johnston won three. “It was a heated game.” Shayla Dralle, a junior on Kennedy’s varsity team shared. The whole game went on for two and a half hours and was completed at 9:20pm with a two-hour drive back. The match was called the ‘Regional Semi-Finals’ and if they won this won they would have gone to the ‘Semi-Finals’. This was the Cougars final game of the season and was very back and forth.   Dralle also shares that the “refs weren’t making good calls” and it got pretty emotional.             In first match, the Johnston Dragons won the first set, 20-25. In the second match Kennedy made a come back with a score ending in 25-22. The Cougars also won their third set with the score of 25-22. Only needing one more win to make it to the semi-finals Kenne...

Written by: Stephanie Nolasco http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2018/09/19/brady-bunch-star-maureen-mccormick-says-her-parents-almost-turned-her-into-cops-while-star-battled-drug-abuse.html                 “My mom and dad, they almost turned me into the cops,” Maureen McCormick shares about her struggle with addiction. McCormick is best known for starring on the famous tv show “Brady Bunch” as Marica Brady and later for appearing on the show “Dancing with the Stars”.             “I started messing up on jobs and so many things.” McCormick said. McCormick had been struggling with addiction for years, it got so bad that she ended up trading sex for drugs with a cocaine dealer in Hollywood. She had understood she’d been struggling with addiction for a while, but what really convinced her to act on it was her, now husband, Michael Cumming, where he t...