Leo club helps hunger drive
Kelly Snawerdt, Print Editor
October 19, 2018
West's Leo Club had a Student Hunger Drive canned goods pick-up on Oct. 17. Students in the club donated their time to help go around eight streets (Fairmount through Clark) by West and pick up the food that neighborhood citizens were willing to donate. The Leo Club advisor Stephanie Hansen said t...
WINGs Club hosts guest speaker
Emma Day, Marketing Director
October 18, 2018
West’s WING (Womens Impacting the Next Generation) Club hosted guest speaker Stephanie Seidl on Oct. 18 during Falcon Flex. Seidl works for Century Insurance,an agency that deals with commercial insurance, focusing on car dealerships. Insurance is what people pay for to protect their belongings suc...
Students plan to take on Italy
Aiden Rushing, Reporter
October 17, 2018
Science teacher Ian McCloud is planning a trip for students to travel to Italy. The date is tentatively set for July 2020. The trip will be orchestrated through the company EF (Education First) A meeting was held Thursday Oct. 11 discussing the specifics of the trip. McCloud’s main reason for t...
Challenging hunger
Kate Kealey, Editor in Chief
October 16, 2018
As West’s student senate finishes up the third week of the student hunger drive, each week until the drive is over West will have a different challenges and goals to meet to raise money and food to end hunger. Oct. 8-12’s challenge was to raise $1500. To help meet this goal staff members did...
First fall pep aud of the 2018-2019 year
Aiden Rushing, Reporter
October 2, 2018
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Student senate competes for pounds instead of gold
Kate Kealey, Editor in Chief
September 25, 2018
On Monday Sept. 24 Davenport West student senate competed in the River Bends student hunger drive kick off. Each school had the chance to create a one minute skit about the hunger drive. The winning team would receive 2,000 pounds of food to start off the hunger drive. "We all win when we donat...
Fifty-eight students inducted into National Honors Society
Naomi Walker, Co-Media Editor and Business Manager
September 21, 2018
On Sept. 20 at 7:30 p.m., 58 new juniors and seniors were inducted into National Honors Society (NHS) for the 2018-19 school year. These students were joined with the 63 NHS inductees from the 2017-2018 school year. “The initial criteria is that students have to have a 3.5 or higher GPA at the en...
Welding students refurbish 9/11 memorial
Naomi Walker, Co-Media Editor & Business Manager
September 20, 2018
On Sept. 11, Mr. Zinn’s Vocational Welding class began their project to refurbish the 9/11 memorial located in the front of the school. “We built the memorial 17 years ago in my class and refurbished it once about five or six years ago. I was driving by it and thought it was time to make it look...
Pepper spray mishap sparks concern about safety
Tori Dierikx, Reporter
September 14, 2018
Students in English teacher Katie Choate’s Introduction to Newspaper had a first hand experience with pepper spray on Sept. 6. “It didn’t take long for us all to start coughing,” junior Nakia Allen said. Choate said the incident happened as a joke, but within a span of thirty seconds, i...
Drumming up awareness to beat the stigma
Zak Keel, Reporter
September 11, 2018
Students in Davenport West High School’s drumline are raising awareness to beat the stigma of mental health through an outreach partnership with the Vera French Community Mental Health Center. The goal is to raise funds to support community programs that Vera French offers while creating an open disc...
West’s Nest ready for new school year
Hanna Seago, Managing Editor
September 8, 2018
West’s own food pantry has begun operation for the school year. The Falcon Nest is run by Jenn O’Hare and provides students and their families with a full service food pantry, clothing closet, laundry room and basic need supply center. “I would say we try to help with basic needs. So food, to help...
Lights, camera, action!
Hannah Andrews, News Editor
September 7, 2018
The director looked upon the audience with nervous anticipation, they laughed at the joke and the nerves flooded out like a rushing river. Being new to film making, Vanessa Banks hopped into the Urban Exposures a 10 week independent film project. The four participants got together every day for four ho...
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