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Written by Claira Fambrough
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Wednesday, 03 December 2008 |
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Vice Principal Brian Chatard packed
up his coffee maker and the photos of his
children in cardboard boxes. He gave
away his Chatard-look-alike bobble
head, and even his large wooden desk.
However, Chatard isn’t leaving Grant,
he’s just reinventing the way he looks
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Written by Cari Johnson
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Tuesday, 02 December 2008 |
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“I’m like, where’s my bike?” junior Lena Sernoff
reenacts enthusiastically. While students enjoy the bike
racks and handrails provided outside for them by the
school, the recent spike in bike theft at Grant High
School has certainly been less enjoyable. |
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Written by Chelsea Elzinga
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Tuesday, 02 December 2008 |
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“They had the most radiant smiles I have ever seen,”
says Grant High School junior Tra’ Ford, “smiles that
came from the heart.” Ford recently returned home from
a humanitarian trip to Portland’s sister city of Mutare,
Zimbabwe, where he, Grant theater teacher Trisha Todd,
and students Maddie Hanlon-Austin and André Walker
experienced
the unrelenting
joy
of the Mutare people while working with the Africa
AIDS Response program. Based in Portland, Africa
AIDS Response (AAR) is a
program that, according to their
website, africaaidsresponse.org,
focuses on ways to prevent HIV
infection, care for the sick, increased
economic development
efforts, especially among those
living with AIDS, and
ensuring that students
continue to have access
to education. |
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Written by Maddi Hanlon-Austin
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Tuesday, 02 December 2008 |
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“So my parents took my phone. Again!”
“Oh my god, that is so unfair! You didn’t even do
anything this time.”
“I know right? Plus they said I couldn’t go to that
party this weekend. They wouldn’t even tell me why.
They just said ‘No.’”
“They’re so crazy.”
“Tell me about it.” |
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Written by Mary Brant
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Tuesday, 02 December 2008 |
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Each time secretary Sue Davis answers
the phone in the Grant High School
vice principal’s offi ce, her eyes stray to
the rally trophy adorned with blue and
gray pom-poms that she proudly displays
near her desk. |
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