![If you want to be a part of the speech and debate team, you can go to room 238 before and after school.](https://whstoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/If-you-want-to-be-a-part-of-the-Speech-and-Debate-team-You-can-go-to-Room-238-before-and-after-school-and-discuss-it-with-Ms.Ri_.png)
Suspenseful speeches
Joseph Potts, Reporter
• April 8, 2019
![“It is important to become educated on the game. I played until I was a junior and so I just relied on my smarts and athletic ability. Somebody with more technique and who was more educated on how to hit the ball correctly ended up taking my varsity spot when I was senior,” science teacher and tennis coach Ian McCloud said. “I don’t ever want to see that happen again, and I know I have gotten a lot better when I know how to play the game correctly, so get educated.”](https://whstoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/IMG_1125-e1554746410580-900x675.jpg)
Serves up
Sarah Bernick and Sophia Iniguez
• April 8, 2019
![A lack of adaptation to the way humans react to climate change could result in harm to everything. Plant life would suffer, humans would suffer, and everything else would in the process. “We’re getting more mold and more viruses. It’s throwing off the balance,” Zimmerman said. “We could be bringing back viruses from over 10,000 years ago. It’s ridiculous.”](https://whstoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/20190402_173827-e1554663720723-506x900.jpg)
A looming threat draws ever closer
Tim O'Leary, Reporter
• April 7, 2019
![This photo by senior Skylar Hintze that depicts the aspects to lead a happy and healthy life such as being a role model, communicating, having faith, friends, family, humbleness, forgiveness, passion, balance, confidence, and compassion. “Everyone has different keys to life for themselves. One person may feel families are the most important aspect, while someone else may feel communication is important to them,” Hintze said.](https://whstoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/key-to-life-01.jpg)
The keys to living a happy and healthy life
Tyler Newman, Reporter
• April 7, 2019
![Part of the Falcon spirit at West includes the victory bell. When sports teams and clubs win a victory, they are able to ring the bell during the morning announcements. In the past the bell has been reserved solely for athletic achievements, but this year victories from any school activity can be recognized with a bell ring.](https://whstoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/DSC_0076-900x600.jpg)
West is best
Sophia Iniguez, Reporter
• April 5, 2019
![Tammy Burton is a the world language department head at West, more specifically teaching the advanced levels of Spanish, such as dual credit. She believes that reaching higher levels of language learning increases student motivation immensely. I have found that the students are much more motivated for doing the work and asking grammar questions and really getting in depth into the language, Burton said.](https://whstoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/IMG_4155-900x675.jpg)
Falcons and foreign language
Laurence Walker and Thomas Yates
• April 3, 2019
![190 families were in attendance at West’s first mobile food pantry put on by the River Bend Foodbank. With help from the boys track team, over 250 people were able to receive fresh food at no cost.](https://whstoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/IMG_0696.jpg)
West hosts first mobile food pantry
Emma Bernick, Media Editor
• March 30, 2019
![Freshman Brianna Aleksiejczyk shrugs her shoulders as she is no longer bothered by the questions or mispronunciations of her surreal surname.](https://whstoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Surreal-Surnames-e1553918357924-675x900.jpg)
Surreal surnames
Sarah Bernick, Reporter
• March 29, 2019
![I am ready for college and to start my own journey, because Ive definitely caught a recent diagnosis of senioritis, senior Jackie Calderon said.](https://whstoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/DSC_0003-900x600.jpg)
Powering through senioritis: the end is in sight
Kelly Snawerdt, Print Editor
• March 28, 2019
![Choir directors Nick Andersen and Laura Engels are the new choir directors at West and plan on big changes coming soon.](https://whstoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/IMG_1076-900x616.jpg)
Changes in West High’s vocal music program
Laurence Walker, Reporter
• March 25, 2019
![“Every student should get to choose if they want a locker. Some lockers are more beat up and old than others, senior Madison McNabb said.](https://whstoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/IMG_0487-e1553390736113-675x900.jpeg)
Lockers: useful or useless?
Thomas Yates, Reporter
• March 23, 2019
![Quad Cities Blues hockey is a local high school team that consists of people from Illinois and Iowa such as Moline, Davenport, Bettendorf, and Pleasant Valley. It is a part of the Midwest Hockey League, which contains teams from all over the midwest.](https://whstoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/JosephPotts.A-photo-of-the-entire-Quad-Cities-Blues-Hockey-team.-Photo-by-Michelle-Arndt-900x675.jpg)
Wings of winter
Joseph Potts, Reporter
• March 20, 2019
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