By Erika Greco and Emma Weintraub Walled Lake Central has been given the exceptional honor of displaying three of our teams at the Thanksgiving halftime show at Ford Field when the Detroit Lions take on the Green Bay Packers. Poms, marching band, and cheer will all be there November 28, showcasing their talents and making…
By Lauren Gapp Detroit has many holiday traditions and many memorable things to see this time of year. One of them is the America’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. This fun event is on Thursday, November 28, starting at 9 a.m. on Detroit’s famous Woodward Avenue and ending at approximately 10 a.m. The Big Heads Corps, over…
By Alexsys Carcone The Walled Lake Central ski team had their first meeting of the year. on October 21, headed up by Coach Tim McBride. The team discussed topics regarding fund raising events and the upcoming schedule. In anticipation of the upcoming season, team members currently meet every week, Monday through Thursday, for an hour…
By Erika Greco The time has come. Down the list, Abraham, Adams…Baker. One’s dreams shattered in an instant. With one look at a list of names, the hopes for making a sports team are over without any explanation. It was either checking a list of names posted at school or checking an online roster that…
By Jill Ciampa Every year, clubs at Central come and go. Some make students wonder how they ever came to be. One such new club added to the 2013 school year is the Minecraft Club. The club will meet on Thursdays, from 2:30-3:30 in D201. The club is going to be supervised by English teacher…
By Rithu Uppalapati Senior Corbin Pontius, the only person from Central eligible for the second part of the Michigan Math prize competition coming up on November 29, learned of this honor on November 8. Out of the 10,000 participants who took part one, 1,000 students are qualified to take part two. “Ten students took the…
By Jill Ciampa You may have noticed a few additional bald heads around school recently. Those are the varsity hockey players who shaved their heads in advance of their first scrimmage of the season, a 1-1 tie against Northville on Thursday, November 14. The first league game of the season was a win against Canton…
By Lauren Gapp The annual PTSA Reflections contest is back and ready for new talent. This year’s theme is “Believe, Dream, Inspire” and all entries are due Wednesday, November 27. “[PTA Reflections Chair Karen Semaan and I] approved posters and flyers to be posted around the school,” Principal Charles Morgan said. Contestants can display the…
By Simone Stephens The holiday season is here! As it arrives, stores begin shelving their latest and greatest holiday decorations. From awesome snowmen blow ups, prancing reindeer statues, or even the beautiful lights enticing American homes, holiday shoppers have their pick from just about anything. But do shoppers spend way too much on these “magnificent”…
By Kennedy Werner Let us go back to 1620, when that tiny and famous ship, the Mayflower, sailed from England to Massachusetts containing 120 pilgrims. One year after settlement, the pilgrims and the Native Americans of the area celebrated the pilgrims’ first corn harvest in a huge three-day feast, otherwise known as the “first Thanksgiving”. …
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