Florida

The summer after I was in 11th grade, I was in marching band for the school and every year when it's over you go on a trip, and that was the year they were going to Florida and I went with. We took a bus and it was the longest ride I had ever been on. We made stops on the way and got to see different states. When we got there, we got to go to MGM and Disney World. We also got to go to the ocean and the hotel we stayed in was a really nice one. I was gone for about a week and it was beautiful and warm and the ocean was amazing.

Trial drug may help smokers kick butts

NicVAX is a trial drug that's supposed to help smokers quit smoking. It basically stops nicotine from entering your brain. The trial started last week.

Halloween

My most memorable Halloween costume would have to be when I was a scarecrow. I was only five at the time, but I do remember it. I was in pre-school and we went for a walk around Isanti, kind of like a little parade, but everyone dressed up and got to bring their parents. I have pictures, which is probably another reason I remember it. Either way, it was fun.

Teen set on fire; now trying to survive

Michael Brewer is trying to survive. Five of his friends put rubbing alcohol all over him and set him on fire. They did this because Brewer didn't pay $40 dollars for a video game. Now, he's struggling for his life.

Kids take care of mom without legs or arms

Lisa Strong lost her arms and legs due to complications from a kidney stone. Her 10-year-old son and 11-year-old daughter have to help her with just about everything.

Missing girl after Metallica concert

Morgan Harrington was 20 years old when she went missing during a Metallica concert. Her mother said she was very excited about the concert and helped her pick out her outfit that morning.

Seniors Wii bowl for world record and health

Seniors Wii bowl in Houston, Texas. They won a world record for the largest senior citizen Wii bowling tournament. There are six-hundred senior bowlers and over 1,500 supporters. It's said to help keep them going if they were to have a bad fall or a broken bone, because most of the time that causes a downward spiral. This keeps them active and working with their bodies.

Obituary

Erin Rose Moore, 19, died last night in a car accident caused by an over-tired semi-truck driver.

Moore graduated high-school in 2009. She was a hard worker; at her job for over three years. She enjoyed writing and being with her family.

Moore will be missed by many. She was the daughter of John and Jennifer Moore, sister to Nicki, Luke, Kimmie, Phil, Amanda, and Tim, and an aunt to Josephine and Natalie.

The memorial service will be held Saturday, October 31st, at 3 o'clock pm.

Woman born with half her brain.

Michelle Mack was born with only half of her brain. She is 27 now and it took doctors from when she was born until she was 17 to figure out that she only had half her brain. Her parents knew something was wrong but had no one to turn to. Her young teen years were hard for her because no one knew the truth about her brain, but she is living a full life. She graduated high school, can speak normally and can remember dates better than a lot of people.

Carissa Parker

Carissa Parker loves to take pictures. She’s only been doing it for a few years but absolutely loves it. Since she was eight, her mom has had a business selling scrap booking items and photo preservation products -- which is how she got into loving this.
She takes pictures of everything. Her favorite thing to take pictures of is people, mainly children. She enjoys taking pictures of anything, though. She said, “This world is such a beautiful place, and I feel honored to have the ability to capture it in a way not everyone can.” Her pictures take place everywhere! “I love just capturing my natural surroundings, the places I live, the people around me, places that mean the most to me.” she added.
It surprises most people, but she has never taken a single photography class. When she moves back to Minnesota, though, she wants to go to art school. She already has a job lined up with her sister-in-law when she’s done. She also wants to take a dark-room class and eventually develop her own pictures.
The camera and equipment are the most important things you need to pursue this, though. Right now, she has a Kodak C913 but she wants a Nikon D80. She also uses Photoshot CS2 to edit her pictures and a tripod.
For beginners, she says that a simple camera is all it takes. The kind you should get if you’re really serious about this is anything from the Nikon D series. “Practice, practice, practice!” she said, “Just like a sport, you realize what works and what doesn’t by just taking pictures.”

Interview: Christine Morris

1. What exactly is hemp and how do you make things out of it?

Hemp is like a type of string. But other things can be made of hemp. Hemp jewelry is made by twisting, tying and knotting the string in a specific pattern depending on what is desired.

2. How long have you been making things out of hemp?

I started getting into it about three years ago

3. What made you interested in this?

Some one made me a hemp necklace with glass beads. I liked the way it looked. After it is worn in, it is very comfortable. You can put any kind of beads you want on it and you can tie it in different ways to give a different look.

4. What do you do with your items when they're done?

I make some for myself but i mostly sell them

5. How long does it take to make a necklace?

It depends on the necklace but usually about an hour

7. How did you learn how to make them?

My friends and husband

8. How much do you sell them for and where do you sell them?

I will sell them for various prices. It depends on the cost of the beads
and what was made. Bracelets necklaces and anklets can range between $15 -
$25. Some beads are more expensive. Locally blown glass beads are generally
priced higher.

Sleep

Sleep

Diana Gant, a psychologist who is one of the nation's leaders in the study of sleep, has been working in our psychology department for 17 years. She has studied sleep for even longer than that. She became interested in sleep by wanting to know how people kept productively going after a little amount of sleep. They ended up falling asleep when they got to the laboratory, though. They were in a nice quiet room and slept for about nine hours. According to her studies, people are supposed to get nine to 10 hours of sleep per night. Some people think that they can survive only on five hours or so, but it will catch up with them. The lack of sleep makes you unhappy or even gives you a drunken feeling, so it's not safe to drive. You know if you aren't getting enough sleep if you are dozing off after you eat a nice lunch. You also may get depressed after awhile. Some examples of the harm it can bestow upon you are the space shuttle Challenger, the accident at Russia's Chernobyl nuclear reactor and the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Lack of sleep is in all of the them and probably was the reason for all of the happenings. If you aren't getting a good night's sleep or if you're having troubles falling asleep, some things you can do are find a dark, quiet room. Then you need to shut off all the lights and relax for about an hour before you actually go to bed. Tobacco, coffee and alcohol don't help. Once they wear off your mind becomes more alert. Last, you need to get a nice, comfortable bed with clean linens and just lay down. You will have a wonderful night of sleep.

H1N1 Vaccines

The first H1N1 vaccines went out today. There will be 10 to 20 million doses going out per week for the next few months. In a day, by noon, about 100 go out in one hospital. The main concern for the H1N1, and those who should be getting the vaccines first, are pregnant women, children, young adults, and people with chronic lung disease, heart disease, or diabetes. There have been about 340,000 confirmed cases and more than 4,100 reported deaths.

Earliest Memory.

My earliest memory would have to be dancing to the song "I Got You, Babe" by Sonny and Cher. I think I was probably five-years-old or so and all four of us girls dressed up and danced with rings from our playground, because my dad was building our play ground for us, and we were in inter-tubes and had noodles for a pool. We were random children, but I remember dancing for our parents, which we did often, but this was for their anniversary or something special; otherwise we would have danced to The Backstreet Boys or something.

Men and Woman's Insecurities aren't so Different.

Men will never ask one another if their pants look good on them, but that doesn't mean that they aren't just as insecure as woman; they just don't talk about it. Men worry about their looks just as much as woman. They can be worried about their weight and how much they're sweating. They're generally just worried about what other people think. Once they get their self confidence up, though, they wont be as worried.

Migrates vs. the Police Department

Does it bother you that migrates are in your community? Well, it bothers Sherriff Gus Dicesari. He thinks that the community should be spending less money on migrate workers and more money on the Sherriff’s department and law enforcement. Commissioners Anita Shenuski and Raymond Laybourne support him. Shenuski said in a heated discussion with Anne Chenn, the commission president, “ We never had problems until we began letting migrants come to this county to work. They are a problem for our law enforcement, our schools and our healthcare system. They take away jobs from decent people and work for next to nothing and if something gets stolen, you can bet it is one of them that’s taken it. We need to protect local residents from them.” Chenn shot back with, “Those people who come here to work are decent, hardworking people being employed at jobs that local residents don’t want to do. They add a great deal to the local economy and they pay taxes. You are being a hypocrite when you try to blame those people for everything.” The county commissioners estimated that there are 5,000 migrate families in the county and more migrate workers become permanent members of the community.
The county’s budget for this year was $127 million. Dicesari says that the police department needs eight new police vehicles to replace the eight older police vehicles that spend more and more time in the shop. Chenn made the decision that they officers would have to make do this year because the county did not have the extra money to supply the new vehicles and the five extra deputies. Chenn told him that the officers would just have to not drive those vehicles home everyday; it would save on gas mileage. The ending vote was that 5-2; they sheriffs department would just have to wait.

My First Day at ARCC

My first day at ARCC, I was a nervous wreck. I'm not really sure why; I was just scared. My class was a computer class -- I'm not the best with computers -- so I was also nervous about that. Over-all, it was a good class. My fears were soon over come and it just turned into fun.

Teen Acne and Depression: Related?

Have you ever noticed that as a teen, you get acne when you're in the worst of moods? Studies have shown that bad acne and depression are related. Teens that go to the dermatologist for horrible acne were found to have serious emotional and social problems.

Two tractors cause a major accident on Interstate 790

Two tractors collided early this morning on Interstate 790 causing an enormous accident.
Sgt. Albert Wei of the police department said that this accident looks like something from a war zone. Involved were four tractor-trailers and fourteen cars. One tractor was hauling diesel fuel and was very lucky not to roll over or catch on fire. This would have made the accident more-so like a war zone. Tony Sullivan, who is the fire chief, said that in his 18 years of working with the fire department, he has never seen anything like this.
Two people driving cars were killed and twenty were taken to the hospital. Only four out of those twenty, though, were seriously injured. Those four are at a life threatening stage. A
“Life Flight” helicopter from Memorial Hospital was called to come to the scene of the accident to take away the two worst injured civilians.
The police department is not done investigating the accident. The police officers found it hard to figure out what people are from which vehicle and who the drivers were compared to the passengers.
It was said the accident happened in the northbound lanes closed the whole highway. People had to take Interstate 690, which is on the eastern side of the city. This backed up traffic for 3 hours during rush hour traffic.

Bedtimes.

Setting bedtimes for kids can make the whole house hold a better place. Parents have been letting their children stay up and watch T.V. until the pass out. It has been proven that setting bedtimes for children makes the morning a lot better and there's less chaos. Besides that, it teaches them discipline.

Cafe Caffeine

Cafe Caffeine is a coffee shop in Cambridge and I don't really like coffee so I haven't been to many coffee shops in my life time, but this one interested me; I'm not really sure why.

From the outside, it just looks like a coffee shop next to a book store and an organic shop, which the setting in itself seems like something I would like so one day I decided to go with one of my friends. I got hot chocolate and she got a latte and it was very good. They don't rush to make things because it's a family business so there aren't lines and lines of impatient people waiting to get coffee. They also stand there and talk to you about life and how everything's going; they're just really friendly people and the environment's amazing to me. So I would have to say that this is the best experience I've had and in some weird way, it makes me feel a little more at home.

Dos and Don'ts of leads.

With writing leads, I need to work on not stating the obvious, because I generally do that. I also need to work on keeping it to the main point of the story, I don't know why this is so hard for me, but it is. I also feel like I forget about the readers. I just go off on a tangent, so I go back in a lot of my writings & revise.

I have learned a lot about writing leads. I learned that it's bad to use unfamiliar names & to opinion-ate, which I knew, but I'm not very good at keeping my opinions to myself. These are only a few but it's nice to know these things for the future as well as this class.

Car rolls, a daughter dies.

In East Bethel, on Sunday, a 19-year-old girl, Rachel Nguyen, gets into a car accident. Her friend found her at about 5 in the morning, but she was in critical condition. The police showed up at the parents house at 7:30 to tell them the horrible news. Luckily, there was no one else involved in the accident.

Noteworthy news experiences

My first noteworthy news experience would have to be back to 9/11. I didn't know anyone it affected long term but I know it affected everyone short term. It made the United States come together and help out one another in ways we don't normally show just on the streets. I remember I was going to the art institute with my 5th grade class and we had to turn around and go back to the school right when we got there. My teacher turned the news on and it showed one of the planes hitting one of the twin towers, or right after. I didn't understand at the time, why this made so many people cry, but it brought everyone closer, and it made me aware that there is bad in this world but there is also plenty of good coming from people.

My second noteworthy news story would have to be with the 35w bridge collapsed. My boyfriend at the time's sister almost was one of the people on it. He was so scared which made me nervous and I remember it so specifically. I remember watching the news, looking at pictures of the colpased bridge, it was horrifying. It kind of scared me away from bridges for awhile, but I trust this one, now. My dad is also a constrution worker, so after that happened, he would keep up-dated on what he knew about the building of the bridge

My last noteworthy news story is Hurricane Katrina. This didn't affect me in any way, except my entire 8th grade science class turned into watching natural disasters and doing fund raisers for them. My teacher was a little obsessed but it made me want want to go and help people in which natural disasters did happen to.

Introduction

Writting is my passion. When I was depressed, I used it to get what I felt out. It's harder for me to discuss my feelings any other way, now; writing is the easiest way for me to do this. Although it started out as something to keep my mind in one place, it has become one of my favorite things to do.

Besides writing, I work at a Christian nusing home in Cambridge, MN. I'm a dietary assistant and I've never loved anything more. The people there are some of the greatest people I have ever met. Working there means I'm actually doing something to help out people who need to be helped and I've never felt more accomplished.

I'm 19 years old. I graduated from CIHS this past year. I have three older sisters; all married. The oldest, Nicki, with her husband, Luke Dochniak and their daughter Natalie, who's three years old. i baby sit her most days while they are at work. Then there's Kimmie, and her husband Phil Pearson with their daughter Josephine. She's 7 months old. The second youngest is Amanda who graduated in 2006, married to Tim Elliott. I am happy to announce that my parents are still together, which has helped me greatly throughout the years.

I have one dog but I love animals. I could see myself working at an animal shelter, but I have yet to decide what I really want to do in the years to come.