Fairmont High School
Christa Thorndyke is the daughter of
Cindy and SandyThorndyke. She was
nominated as a Top Athlete by Coach
Baker. She plays Volleyball and will be
on the Softball team in the spring.
Christa has worked hard since arriving
on the FHS campus and feels “you’ve
got to hustle every step” to be a good
athlete. She likes high school and feels
this honor is a plus. Christa likes all of
her classes and teachers, but has really
gotten close to Miss Sealey since she got
here. Christa’s personal life saying is,
Don’t let the game beat you, you have to
beat it” and “There’s always someone
watching.”
She also says, “GO
TORNADOES!”
Issue 3
Brianna Lazzaro is the daughter of Gwen
and Perry Locklear. She was nominated
for this honor by Ms. Houser and Ms.
Prevatte.
Being selected as a Top
Tornado has not changed Brianna—she
likes high school in general. She also
likes spaghetti, her favorite song is
“Love the Way You Lie” and her
favorite band is Nickelback. She plays
softball and a little football with her
cousins. Brianna says, “I am a Christian,
like me or don’t. If anyone needs
spiritual help, they can always come to
me no matter who it is, or what’s the
situation.” Not surprisingly, Brianna’s
personal life saying is “Practice what
you preach.”
By Laura Jones
Homecoming Spirit Week will be
October 11-15. Each day will be as
follows: Monday- (Blast from the Past),
Tuesday- (Twin Day), Wednesday(Dress to Impress/Celebrity Day),
Thursday- (Collegiate Day), and Friday(Black and Gold).The dress code still
applies for everyone.
The Student Council will be selling
blow pops during Homecoming week for
a fundraiser. The deadline for
Homecoming Attendants, King and
Queen Contestants to pay their $15.00 is
October 1st. If anyone is interested in
being in the parade the parade fee is
$5.00. Elections for Homecoming Queen
and King will take place October 13th
during first period.
KKIS was started at FHS in 2005 as a
way of thanking and rewarding students
for being in school on the 20th school
day. On September 22nd, the students
were given a Gatorade and asked to keep
up the good work by attending school
daily. The Freshman Academy met as a
group and were introduced to Dee
Oxendine, YDS; Mitchell Thompson,
Social Worker and
their Freshman
Academy Coordinator, Travis Kemp.
Yearbook orders are now being
taken. The cost is $45.00 and may be
ordered in the Front Office or online.
Seniors that are interested in
purchasing a Senior Page need to see
Mrs. Floyd for information.
September 24, 2010
Art students assisted by other classes on
campus produced approximately 700
pinwheels which they placed in front of the
school in the shape of a Peace Symbol on
September 21st, the International Day of
Peace. Pinwheels for Peace is an art
installation project started in 2005 by two Art
teachers, Ann Ayers and Ellen McMillan,
who teach at Monarch High School in
Coconut Creek, Florida, as a way for their
students to express their feelings about
what’s going on in the world and in their
lives. The project was quickly embraced by
their students and the entire school
community and by millions of art teachers,
teachers, parents, children and adults who
desire peace in our world.
The first Pinwheels for Peace were
installed on Sept. 21, 2005. Since then, we
have grown from 500,000 pinwheels planted
the first year, to three million pinwheels in
2009!
By Desiree Grice
Deonte
McMillan was
chosen as the
PENC (Public
Educators of
North
Carolina)
Young Artist
of the Year in
the High School Division. His work was
recognized at an awards ceremony in
Raleigh on September 18th. He was the
only student from outside the Raleigh
area to achieve that distinction.
There is a correction to the
information in last week’s paper. Art
Club dues are $10.00. Students wishing
to join the Art Honor Society will pay an
extra $9.00 as seniors or $3.00 as
underclassmen. See Mrs. Berdeau for
more information.
By Mi’Chaela Livingston
On September 19th, 2 members from
The Fairmont FFA chapter were chosen
to participate in the Lumber River
Federation Elections. Junior Bryan
Lewis was elected Federation President,
and Senior Cigi Bass was elected
Sentinal.
By: Desiree Grice
Members of the Beta Club, Student
Council, Art Club and some seniors will
be going to New York in the Spring. To
help defray costs, students may
participate in the following fundraisers:
Skate Night Sept 28, 6:30-8:30 and Nov
2, 6:30-8:30; Car wash at Advance Auto
Oct 2, 8:00-2:00 Rain Day Oct 9;
Farmers Festival Spaghetti Plate Sale,
BBQ Plate Sale, and Doughnut Sale.
There are more to fundraisers in the
plans.. The trip will last four days.
By Christy Holden
HOSA will have a meeting next
Monday October, 27th, at 3:10. The
meeting will take place in Ms. Wanda
Berry’s room. HOSA if you don’t know
what it stands for is Health Occupation
Students of America. This meeting is
available to students that are interested in
any Health Career. In this meeting the
students will decide what should be
done, and where it should be done at.
Also, in this meeting the students along
with Ms. Berry will discuss certain types
of projects, activities, and stuff about
nature. The students in this meeting will
decide where they want to volunteer at if
they stay with the program. They will
volunteer if they would like at Rest
homes and other health places. They
will be involved in doing a health fair,
Health related projects, and Relay For
Life. Everyone Interested In Any Health
Career Is Invited To Be A Part Of This
Meeting.
By: Kortney C. Bethea
By: Kortney C. Bethea
The senior trip this year will be held
in Orlando, Florida, May 5th-8th .(The
date is subject to change) This trip is for
all eligible seniors. The cost is $379 and
covers everything--- hotel room, tickets
to two parks, breakfast, and an all you
can eat pizza party. All seniors are
encouraged to attend this senior trip to
make it a trip to remember.
Last Friday, the Varsity Football
Team took on Trask. Cain Wilkerson
commented, “Defense played well. We
have a few kinks on offense that we need
to work out, but we will be okay.” The
Golden Tornadoes played a very hard
game, but came up short at the end with
a score of 6-13. Coach Woods said,
“Defense played good, but offense didn’t
produce as well as they needed. We had
too many penalties and bad snaps, as
well as the last game, but we just could
not overcome them. To make our team
and games better we just have to work
harder and score more points.”
The team plans to play harder tonight
by working as a team. “We didn’t do as
well as we thought we would have.
Everybody tries to do their own thing on
the field instead of working together as a
team. If everyone does their role to the
best of their ability and cut down on
turnovers and penalties, maybe we
would win as a team,” said Juwan
Addison and Jahvar Billings. The team’s
motto for this year is, “Play hard and
play together.”
By Mi’Chaela A. Livingston
Cadet Captain Samantha Adcock, a
Senior, went before the Regimental
Board of the Robeson County JROTC
Program. She received the S-2 officer
position and was promoted to Lt
Colonel. On Saturday, September 25th
our Nationally Ranked Drill team will be
competing at Scotland High School. This
meet will begin at 9:00 am. Please come
out and be supportive! HOOAHH!
By Laura Jones
Fairmont High School will be having
its first ever Powder-Puff Game during
Homecoming Week. Powder-Puff is
when the junior ladies compete against
the senior ladies in a flag-football game.
Practices will be held on Monday nights
after football practice around 6:30.The
gentlemen usually dress in drag and are
the Cheerleaders for the girl football
players. The game is a lot of fun and
hopefully lots of people will come out on
October 11 at 7:30. Admission is $3.00.
Please come out to support our school,
the Football Team and Homecoming week.
By Syreeta Small
The JV lost to Trask 35 to 16. In 1 st
quarter, they were down 12 to 0 with a
minute left,but the score was 8 to 12 at
half. In the 1st play of the third quarter
the JV scored making it 16 to 12. They
played a very good game overall and
had good team workl. They should have
won; however, some penalties and
turnovers did them in.
Today: Varsity Football at East Bladen
Sept. 27: Tennis @ W. Columbus – 4:00
Sept. 28: Volleyball @ St. Pauls – 4:30
Skate Night @ Mr. P’s
Sept. 29: Tennis vs. Red Springs @
Home – 4:00
College Day
1:30-2:30
By: Christy Holden
The Girl’s Volleyball has two games
coming up. They will be going up
against Red Springs and East Columbus.
Coach Baker said that his girls will have
to be ready for sure to go up against East
Columbus. They are powerful, but not
powerful enough to hold down these
Tornadoes. Coach Baker also said that
they should do well against Red Springs
if they don’t have a let down. the girls
won their game that they had last week
against West Columbus with a score of
3-0. Right now their record is 7-3 and 20 in conference.
By Marissa Love
Fairmont’s match against South
Robeson went exceedingly well. The
Lady Tornadoes thrashed the Mustangs
with the score of 9-0. The singles
victories go to Samantha Freeman,
Taylor Lovin, Kerri Floyd, Staci
Hollingsworth, Hayleigh McCormick,
and Hannah Ammons. The doubles go to
the
teams
of
Freeman/Floyd,
Hollingsworth/Lovin and McCormick/
Ammons . Fairmont is now 4-0 in the
conference and 8-0 overall.