By: Tiffany Barnes The nominees for Walled Lake Central’s 2017 Teacher of the Year were very qualified, and the honor went to English Teacher Justin Schumacher. “I didn’t expect to win this year, but it was an honor to be a nominee with my other great colleagues,” said Schumacher. “I thank my students, my…
By: Alyssa Rester High school can feel more like a never-ending tornado of peer pressure and stress. Teenagers spend four years wandering the halls of Walled Lake Central, with the constant weight of peer pressure and fitting in sitting on their shoulders. One of the most common forms of peer pressure is fitting into a…
By: Brianna Ammori For the second year in a row, the Walled Lake Central Equestrian team headed to the regional championships, a three-day event in which Central placed 8th with 73 points. Roughly 36 teams from all over the Midwest and eight teams from each division competed from September 29 to October 1st. Walled Lake…
By: Miles Hirsch Walled Lake Central celebrated its first UMatter Week November 6-10. Aimed at making all Vikings feel valued along with raising mental health awareness and preventing suicide, the week included many special events and activities. “I thought that the week fulfilled its purpose of getting students to think about the impacts and effects…
By: Sydney Tinson Homecoming week is a long, stressful week for us all, but at least we have the big game at the end of the week to look forward to. This year, the game ended in a win over Waterford Kettering. Before the game, all of the fall sports teams and even clubs and…
By: Alana Harrison Walled Lake Central’s fall play, The Mouse That Roared, will open Thursday, November 30 and be performed at 7:30 pm each night through December 2. Adults are $10 and Students and Seniors are $9 The play, which was written by Leonard Wibberley, follows the struggles of the tiny nation of Grand Fenwick’s…
By: Erin Pratt The Kirk Pedersen Dodgeball Tournament, an annual event held at Walled Lake Central for Kirk a former WLC physical education teacher who was injured in a hunting accident in 2008 that left him paralyzed from the neck down, raised over $3000 for his day-to-day medical expenses. Every year the students at Central…
By: Alyssa Rester The infamous and delicious Shake Shack made its second debut in Michigan October 25 when the chain opened up a second restaurant in downtown Ann Arbor. Crowds of people came down to get a taste of the amazing diner burgers and fries. Anyone that loves a good grilled burger with a thick…
By: Nick Cummings For the past couple years, students at Central have had a very limited selection of soft drinks available to them at lunch. As the 2017 school year rolls in, so does a wider selection of pop. No longer are the days of only diet Mountain Dew, diet Code Red, diet Pepsi, diet…
By: Nathan Landry The Red Cross Club held its annual blood drive on October 20. Those 16 and older could donate blood with a parent’s approval and help to collect blood for Southeast Michigan and where every pint collected saved three lives. The blood drive happened Friday and people could donate blood between the…
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