Middle and High School Read-In By Mallory McKee

     This week is Teen Read Week at Whitmire Community School.  Today, Middle and High School students left their classes to sit out in the hall and read silently.  It was very interesting because everyone was actually quiet for the whole twenty minutes.  It is good that we got the chance to just catch up on some reading.  This was a very fun activity that should be done more often.

Teen Read Week Schedule

     This week is Teen Read Week at Whitmire Community School.

Monday: Game Day
Door Judging Contest

Tuesday: Graphic Arts Design Contest
Library Fine Amnesty Day

Wednesday: Poetry Slam
Teen Advisory Board members announced

Thursday: Middle and High School Read-In (10:40-11:00)
*New Moon (Team Jacob!) Poster Give-Away

Friday: Reading Buddies
(Teens read to Elementary Library Classes)
Candy "Body Parts" drawing

*Students who check out books will be entered into poster drawing and candy "body parts" guessing contest.

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     The student press of Whitmire Community School will provide accurate, balanced , coherent, diverse news from this school, community, district, state, and world, while maintaining ethical standards, free expression of opinion, and high level of technical and stylistic aspects of writing, in order to heighten mutual awareness throughout our entire school community.

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"Love Me Forever" A Personal Poem By Jessica Caswell

     I'm finally numb from the world around me.  I have been this way since you left me.  I feel like I've been running for days.  I can't see through the fog to find my way.  Feelings are distractions and its hard to block them out. 
     I close my eyes to go to a new place.  I'm standing on the water as you walk towards me.  My vision blurs but you're still there.  As I get closer I start to sink, the water is rushing and I can't think.
     You put me in your arms and hold me tight.  I never want you to let me go, especially not tonight.  Please don't let me go and love me forever.  I will always come to this place and we'll stay this way together.

Open Season By Shelby Riffey

     Bow season has officially opened.  It opened the 15th of September.  All of the licensed hunters that have a bow or a crossbow, need to get in the woods early.  Save that big buck for a little on in the season so you can take him when it cools down.  You can take a little time to look at the size and thank God for the privilege to be able to hunt these huge deer.  Muzzle loader season opened around the beginning of October.  Good luck hunting and be safe.

"Valley of Dry Bones" A Personal Poem By Caleb Notter

     Where a great army once stood now sits a valley of dry bones that have been stripped of all tendons and flesh.  They fought for some great time against an opponent who was a crafty and deceiving Serpent.  Their one key flaw as they fought their many battles against this opponent was that they were not fully committed to the war at hand.  They seemed to lose focus while they were fighting and lowered their Swords.  Today as I gaze out over the valley, a Heavenly Voice is speaking to me telling me to prophesy to them, saying unto them that the Voice will breathe breath into these dry bones that are scattered about the valley floor.  Right at the moment I am speaking the words of the Voice to the bones, a great earthquake is taking place right in front of my eyes; the bones are starting to come back together.  The men's bones are returning to their owners and now have their flesh and tendons coming back.  Now the Voice speaks again telling me to call to the winds, in the Voice's name, to bring breath to the lungs of the hollow soldiers who had once lost their will to fight.  Again, when I speak this prophecy is fulfilled as the soldiers have started to breathe and recommit themselves to the fight against the Wicked One.  They now know how they had been defeated by their own blindness to the Enemy's attacks and have learned a great lesson from their mistakes.  In the near future, they will win many battles against the Evil One and his armies.  They shall be freeing a once enslaved and blinded people and opening their eyes to the Truth.