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thepioneer
Volume 2 Issue 3
The newspaper of Trinity High School
November / December 2009
UNDEFEATED CHAMPIONS!
Mark Natale / Pioneer Staff
The Trinity Pioneers boys’ football team raises the Division V championship trophy in celebration of their 41-7 victory over Bishop Brady High School of Concord on Nov. 15.
By Mark Natale
Pioneer Staff
A football team can go
through a lot in 21 years—
new coaches, new players,
new mentalities, new divisions. It took Trinity High
School’s football team 21
years after its 1988 state
championship to hoist another
trophy, but the Pioneers are
once again state champions,
this time in Division V, with
a commanding 41-7 win over
Bishop Brady of Concord.
Just three years after
dropping out of the NHIAA
division schedule and playing
as an independent team with
8 scrimmages, the Pioneers,
under the guidance of former
head coach John Trisciani, rebuilt the program from nothing, leaving head coach Gary
Leonard with a team ready to
win the state championship.
“A lot of this credit goes
to John Trisciani who came
in there and did a lot of work,
got the numbers up at the
school, really improved the
attitude of the football team,”
said Leonard after the championship game.
With a dominating victory over Bow High School
to wrap up the regular season, 59-0, Trinity looked to
repeat the carnage on Nov.
12, when the team faced Bow
again in the semifinal round
of the playoffs. With another
resounding victory over Bow,
37-0, the Pioneers headed to-
wards the championship game
preparing to play Bishop
Brady, an upset winner over
second-seeded Pelham, 32-18.
With an electric buzz in
the air, Trinity and Brady fans
alike filed into Gill Stadium
on Nov. 15 to watch the game
of the year between the two
Division V giants. With a 1:30
kickoff time, Trinity elected
to receive the ball. The ensuing 11-play drive resulted in a
Trinity touchdown, run in by
senior running back Connor
Lyons from the 10-yard line
and capped with a successful two-point conversion run
from senior Brad Taillon.
Brady followed with
its own 11-play drive that
resulted in a touchdown and a
successful PAT, bringing the
score to 8-7 with Trinity in the
lead.
After being forced to punt
on its next possession, Trinity
played tough defense,
See FOOTBALL, Page 5
NH Food Bank feeds the
Trinity siblings skillfully ski
their way into Junior Olympics hungry one meal at a time
By Joe Walsh
Pioneer Staff
While most families
share hobbies like hiking
or birdhouse construction,
the Dziemian family picked
a different pastime and has
taken it to the extreme.
Nic, a junior, and Nessa, a
sophomore, are both freestyle skiers, and though this
may not sound very exciting
at first, they aren’t your ordinary skiing pair of siblings.
Inside this issue:
Pioneer Playlist
See what some Trinity
students and faculty members are listening to.
See page 18
Junior Olympics, hosted at
Waterville Valley. Not long
after, Nic competed in Squaw
Valley, California, placing
third for moguls and first in
duals.
Photo Courtesy of Nessa Dziemian
Nessa Dziemian performs a
freestyle jump at a competition.
Last March, Nessa placed
first for freestyle skiing at the
The gift of break-up
Joe Walsh offers a suggestion for the best Christmas present of all. Read
his opinion on what to get
for your significant other
this year.
See page 2
By Tiffany Keenan
Pioneer Staff
See DZIEMIAN, Page 5
In September, a New
Hampshire Food Bank representative visited Trinity High
School and encouraged Trinity students and staff members
to visit the Food Bank to see
what it was all about. I took
the opportunity to take a tour
and found that I want to get
more involved in volunteering
at their facility.
Located on West Brook
Street in Manchester, New
Bests & worsts of
Christmas
From gifts to light displays to songs and more,
we have your guide to the
bests and worsts of Christmas.
See pages 10-11
Mr. Maurier
He is a teacher, musician,
and role model to Trinity
students. Find out all you
ever wanted to know about
Trinity’s long-time resident
of room 309.
See page 4
“I’d been to Junior
Olympics before, and usually it’s the older, more senior
girls who end up winning.
I knew my chances were
pretty slim,” said Nessa. “It
was such an icy
Hampshire Food Bank is the
primary distribution facility to
all the soup kitchens, afterschool programs, shelters,
food pantries, and other
church affiliated pantries.
Some agencies use the Food
Bank as a “safety net” in case
of an emergency food shortage. With around 500 different registered agencies around
New Hampshire, the Food
Bank is in constant need of
canned food items and other
See FOOD BANK, Page 7
SPORTS
Around the leagues
Find out about your
favorite professional and
semi-professional sports
teams and how their seasons are going.
See page 12
Page 2
The Pioneer
Opinion/Editorial
A look back on a year What’s up with all the guilt?
at Trinity High School
It’s the holidays again.
ing rally, with the traditional
A time for family, a time for
freshman mess. Tensions
friends, and, ultimately, a time were high between the
for looking back. As a Trinity classes, but once again we
community, we have a lot to
came together for a final
look back on, and
prayer, and united
Editorial
much to be thankfor the homecomful for.
ing game that
Mourning the
weekend, a win for
loss of Ms. Raczka last year,
the Pioneers.
we returned from the holiday
The football season flew
break with a certain heir of
by, and the Pioneers found
uncertainty.
themselves, after much hard
Then, a few weeks later,
work and dedication, the unTrinity
defeated state
welcomed
champions.
Mr. Losier
Then there
as the newwas this year’s
est member
semi. Mixed
of the staff,
sentiments
still keeping
from the stuin mind our
dent body, but
great loss.
overall it was,
Just a
once again, a
few months
time to come
later, we won the championtogether as a school.
ship basketball game. A fitting
Now we find ourselves
end to an awesome season by going once more into the
the boy’s basketball team, the holiday season. These are
girls even going all the way to just the highlights, though.
the semi finals.
Like watching a game sumThen came the end of the
mary after watching the
year. We said goodbye to the
game itself.
class of 2009, and welcomed
While reading this, most
the beginning of summer.
of you should be able to
Summer flew by, and we
think back to your own
returned at the end of August, memories. Your own celebrahalf ready to continue our
tion at two state division
time here, half wishing for
titles, your own memories of
more time.
Mrs. Raczka.
We welcomed the class of
That’s what the holidays
2013, watched as they strugare, a time for reflection.
gled to find their place, and as Alone, with your family, or,
they took it.
for some people, with your
A new style of homecomschools.
A time for
family, a time for
friends, and,
ultimately, a time
for looking back
The Pioneer
Co-Editors-in-Chief
Joe Walsh
Alexa Serrecchia
News Editor
Mari-Briege Dunn Sports Editors
Ryan Mitchell
Mark Natale
A&E Editors
Emma Pratte
Sarah Ruggiero
Staff Writer
Tiffany Keenan
Advisory
Mrs. Terri Greene Henning, adviser
Mr. Denis Mailloux, principal
Mr. Steven Gadecki, assistant principal
Mr. Patrick Smith, dean of students
[email protected]
Everyone knows that the
holiday season is a time for
giving, but it is also a time
for guilt.
Everywhere you look
there are reminders to
donate, to put others before yourself, and to think
of the less fortunate during this blisteringly cold
time of year, when the food
banks in the area are low on
non-perishables and needy
families won’t be able to
buy their children presents
or provide them with a nice
Christmas dinner. If you’re
starting to feel guilty and
over-priviledged thinking
about all that, you’re not the
only one.
Going to the mall during
this time of year is especially guilt-invoking. I dread
walking through the parking lots and coming upon
the entrances where Salvation Army bell-ringers are
stationed.
While I often do donate
a dollar bill or the loose
change in my pockets,
there are also times when I
have no funds to give, and
as I approach that bright
red bucket I feel the need
to explain to the person
standing there why I’m not
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inclined to donate on that
particular occasion.
My mom picked me up
from school and needed to
stop here to pick up wrapping paper, but she didn’t tell
me we would be going to the
mall and I already used my
lunch money for the day and
all my mom has on her is her
Debit card.
I swear I’m not a selfish jerk, I volunteer every
week, I just don’t have any
money to give today, and I
plopped some bucks in here
last weekend, anyway. Sorry, I’ll remember next time,
just please stop shooting
me looks while you stand
there looking so forlorn and
shivering as you clang that
bell so obnoxiously.
These are the thoughts
that occupy my mind as I
pull open the doors to Sears
at the Mall of New Hampshire. The guilt is enough
to make me plan my route
of travel around the mall so
I can avoid the charities on
the days when I am unable to
donate money.
But that also makes me
feel like a jerk.
Here at Trinity, students
are very conscious of giving
back to the community and
are very involved in volunteering, so why does the
holiday season make it seem
like we’re not doing enough
to help out?
With all of their guilt-inducing advertisements flashing faces of adorable children
and animals, charities coax
you into feeling like a greedy
individual, but let’s face it,
it’s not possible to dish out a
significant donation to every
single charitable organization
that exists.
But, if you’re only donating your time and money
because you feel that you
have to, you’re doing it for
the wrong reasons.
So this winter, give
because you want to, not because it will make you feel
like a jerk if you don’t.
Give the Gift of Break Ups
It’s that time of year
again. The time when malls
across America are packed
with teens looking for the
perfect gift to show their
“love” and appreciation
for their significant others.
Soon gift wrap will be torn
open, and relationships will
coming crashing to an end.
Another year has passed,
and with its passing comes
another round of unwanted
gifts and awkward moments.
Let’s start with guys buying gifts for girls. All it takes
is a little bit of time to think
it through. She doesn’t want
a scented candle, a carnation,
or a gift card.
All these gifts say is
that you are too lazy to put
actual thought into buying a
good gift, or maybe you’ve
been thinking about other
aspects of your relationship
as opposed to what she’s
actually feels. Listen for a
little bit.
She’ll probably tell you
what she wants. You might
even get away with not having to buy anything at all!
Sometimes they just want
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something you put time into,
rather than something that
broke the bank.
Don’t think that you
haven’t done anything
wrong either, ladies. If he
says he wants the newest
edition of Call of Duty,
and you give him a trip to
Yankee Candle, or a Build
a Bear with a recording of
your voice, you’re just as
guilty of giving terrible
gifts.
Chances are, if you
don’t know enough about
him to get him a good gift,
then he probably doesn’t
even care enough to want to
hear your voice coming out
of the teddy bear he didn’t
want.
So here’s the dilemma
for teens across America:
what to get your boyfriend
or girlfriend when you’ve
obviously spent months just
not paying attention. Honestly, you need to give the
gift they can’t return: the
break-up.
Your relationship obviously isn’t going anywhere.
Throw out all the lame
excuses you want. Maybe
you’ve lost yourself in
the other persons eyes, or
maybe you’ve just spent too
much time trying to find the
tongue ring you lost back in
June.
I’m not sure, and I don’t
really care. The moral of
the story is that you need
to save yourself some time
and all those awkward
holiday memories and just
break up.
Don’t worry though, it’s
no one’s fault. Sit down, relax, have a glass of egg nog:
I’ve just saved you a whole
bunch of money and time as
far as gifts are concerned.
Write yourself a New Year’s
resolution to be more selective next time.
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The Pioneer
Opinion/Editorial
Poor Thanksgiving as a holiday
Seems to me like no one appreciates it very much lately, do they?
Sometime in late November there is a little forgotten
holiday called Thanksgiving.
For those of you who
have forgotten, Thanksgiving was when the Pilgrims
were in way over their heads
for the approaching winter
and their Native Americans
friends came to help them
out. It is a time of year when
we Americans are supposed
to be thankful for what we
have.
If not for anything else,
we should give thanks for
family and a warm meal.
But no, in today’s world we
just want more. That warm
feeling you get inside is just
not good enough, it is not
tangible.
That must be why we all
love Christmas so much: because we can’t hold or show
it off to our friends.
The holidays should not
be about getting material
things, it should be about
family. The time spent with
our families is something
that we can never get back.
When I was in first and
second grade, Thanksgiving
was a big deal. Now, society
just skips right over it. We
made little paper pilgrim hats
and Native American headbands; all the boys wanted
to be Native Americans, and
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all the girls wanted to be
pilgrims.
What happened to that? I
am not saying that everyone
needs to go around wearing home-made pilgrim
costumes, but I think some
homage should be paid to
Thanksgiving.
By the first day of November, far before Thanksgiving, Christmas carols can
be heard playing in stores
where Christmas decorations
and Christmas themed items
are piled on the shelves. I
mean, I love Christmas as
much as the next red-blooded
American, but two months
of it?
Today turkey day is just
brushed off as an excuse to
pig out between Halloween
and Christmas. Thanksgiving was kind of a big deal in
American history; it should
be remembered as such.
It does not mean anything
anymore. Thanksgiving is a
holiday that is simply lost on
our generation.
Okay, Christmas is great,
but very often over anticipated. There is so much hype
surrounding Christmas that
once it comes, it can only a
little bit of a letdown. It is 24
hours of a holiday after 62
days of hype. We often forget
that Thanksgiving is there,
and it is sad. Thanksgiving
is one of the most American holidays and we should
celebrate this holiday instead
of ignore it.
Everyone loves Christmas carols, and getting your
picture taken with Santa is
always great, but on November 15th? That is more than a
month before Christmas!
Even the Thanksgiving Day Parade is all about
Christmas. We don’t even
celebrate Thanksgiving on
Thanksgiving! Christmas
will always come. I don’t
understand why we can’t enjoy Thanksgiving while it’s
happening and prepare for
Christmas afterwards.
The very next day after is
equally ridiculous. We can’t
even sleep off the turkey
before Black Friday comes
along and smacks us in the
face with fistful of Christmas
cheer, and where did Thanksgiving go?
Why is everyone talking about the world
ending in 2012? It is just so ridiculous!
Dec. 21, 2012. This is the
day that the Mayan calendar
ends and, as many people
believe, the day the world is
going to end. Some of these
people have decided to take
their bright ideas global,
making big blockbuster movies to spread the word.
In the last five years alone,
there have been multiple
films made about “the end
of the world,” such as I Am
Legend, Wall-E, The Day
After Tomorrow, and The Day
the Earth Stood Still, to name
a few. All of these films have
one underlying message:
global warming, pollution, or
aliens are going to end life as
we know it.
I love action films. They
keep you on the edge of your
seat. I also enjoy cartoons
because they are always fun
to watch. Yet, even these
movies can be completely ruined by underlying messages
about how the world is going
to end if I buy a Hummer
instead of a Prius.
My favorite example to
use is Wall-E. This seems like
a cute animation film with an
adorable little robot who falls
in love with another adorable
little robot. However, when
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you step back and look at the
setting, you realize all of the
people are living on a spaceship because the earth became
too polluted to live on. Little
kids watching Wall-E only
see how cute the robot is, but
the adults watching may be
naïve enough to think that
someday they, too, could be
living on a spaceship if they
don’t try to “reduce their
carbon footprint.” Sorry, but
I have a news flash for all the
skeptics out there who live
and breathe off their crazy
end of the world theories: we
are still going to be alive on
Dec. 22, 2012.
After seeing 2012, my
first reaction was: wow.
Great movie, it was definitely
suspenseful and kept me on
the edge of my seat. Also, it
was heart wrenching every
time someone called their
family member to say good
bye before being killed by a
falling building or a crack in
the Earth.
V, a remake of a 1980s
show, premiered on Nov.
3 on ABC. In the first four
episodes, we are introduced
to the Visitors, aliens who
arrived on Earth and parked
their 29 ships over 29 major
cities around the world. By
the fourth episode, we learn
that the V’s have an ulterior
motive than the “peace” that
their leader, Anna, is claiming.
What a surprise. The aliens
with superior technology are
going to destroy us. Where
have I heard that one before?
You can only recycle something so many times, and it
seems as though the “end of
the world” storyline has been
reused one time too many. I
am tired of politics taking over
Hollywood. I want to be able
to enjoy a movie for the goofy,
ridiculous storyline that it has
without leaving the theater
realizing that some people actually believe the movie to be
true. We will see who is laughing on Dec. 22, 2012— that is,
if we make it that far.
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Winter nostalgia is,
legit, my favorite thing
I love the
You put lights
Ryan Mitchell up with your famwinter, the snow,
the lights, and
ily, so people like
Opinion
the holidays.
you can enjoy them
Winter is a
as they walk at
season that never
night, feeling the
fails to bring
same way you do.
me back. Even
And the winwhen I’m busy
ter is the time for
and supposed to
holidays: Thankshave “important
giving, Christmas,
things” to think
Chanukah, Kwanabout, it seems
za, Boxing Day and
like the winter will always
New Year’s. Most of the time
free my mind and help me
your family is together, and
remember the good old days. you get to eat excellent food.
Yeah, like between five and
Mashed Potatoes, Turkey
ten years ago, but so what.
(which I’m not a huge fan
Five to ten years ago seems
of), Stuffing, Bread, Cranlike forever to me.
berry Sauce, Pie.
I’ve always loved the
After Thanksgiving,
snow. Every year I wait for it Christmas comes around, the
to fall, because lets be honseason of giving. Whether
est snow is just much more
or not people say it’s comappealing than the cold dead mercialized, I’ve always
ground. I ski all the time
saved myself the concern
and I love sledding, almost
and enjoyed Christmas for
making me feel like the snow whatever it is. What is it, you
was made for completely for might ask? A time of givour enjoyment.
ing, memories, baby Jesus,
It’s always soft and
and best of all: two weeks of
didn’t hurt, so when the big- absolutely no school. Two
ger kids on my street tackled weeks with snow and lights
me when we were playing
everywhere.
snow football, it didn’t hurt.
Winter is the season.
Falling off my sled while
When winter comes around,
going off the jumps my
I remember and I relive. I
friends and I built didn’t
still go sledding for hours,
hurt. Even getting hit with
I still pray at every chance
snowballs didn’t hurt, fallof a snow day, I still have
ing off my skis was another
snowball fights, and when its
story, but even so, snow is
all said and done, I still run
just fun, harmless, and pain- inside soaking wet with snow
less.
just like I used to.
Then there are the lights.
The only difference is
Something about the colnow I can untie my own
ors and the fact that it will
boots, and when I come
never be completely dark on
inside, my mom doesn’t have
any winter night is nice. It’s
hot chocolate waiting for me
great to walk outside at night
on the counter, and I’m seriregardless of the temperature. ously behind on my homeEvery night, the lights light up work, but it’s winter, it’s that
the streets and keep the town
time of the year, it will be
from going dark.
okay.
Advent Prayer Service
Mr. Nelson, former Campus Minister, will be
hosting an Advent prayer service over
Christmas break.
When: December 22, 2009, at 7:00 P.M.
Where: Blessed Sacrament Church on Elm Street
The service will be followed by a Christmas
celebration in the church hall.
It is asked that those who would like to attend
bring one bag of groceries to be donated to the
needy this holiday season.
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News
November / December
Teacher, musician, role model to Trinity students
By Mark Natale
Pioneer Staff
“Music is a whole extra
language and sharing that
with someone is going to naturally be a bond greater than
average,” said Ms. Carolyn
Trachim about her bond with
biology teacher and chorus
director Mr. Maurice Maurier.
Since early childhood
education, Mr. Maurier has
been involved in the New
Hampshire Catholic Schools
system, starting with his
elementary school, St. Augustine in Manchester. Coming
from a school in which half of
the day was taught in English,
while the other half was spoken in French, Mr. Maurier’s
capacity for language comprehension was a skill held in
high regards as a child.
After attending St. Anthony’s school, where he was the
class vice president, for the
first two years of high school,
Maurier attended the newly
formed and much larger Trinity High School. At Trinity,
Maurier became student council treasurer and continued
to participate in the school’s
drama club, glee club, math
team, and campus ministry.
Upon graduating from
Trinity, Mr. Maurier attended
St. Anselm’s College as a
natural science major with
an emphasis on biology. At
St. Anselm’s, Maurier met a
professor who would become
instrumental in his decision
to become a teacher himself,
Dr. Barbara Stall, a professor
at St. Anselm’s for about 40
years.
In January 1976, Mr.
Maurier attained his first position at Trinity High School as
a student teacher for a woman
preparing for maternity leave.
He was able to keep his job
after another position opened
up a year later.
Although he struggled for
his first two years as a teacher,
Mr. Maurier said he stuck it
through and has been teaching
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Mr. Maurier leads the chorus during the Thanksgiving Mass while Ms. Trachim (right) accompanies on the piano.
ever since.
“I was teaching chemistry to seniors and the classes
were very large those days.
They made my life pretty
miserable,” said Maurier.
Since then, students have
found little to complain about
Mr. Maurier, and his wide
range of knowledge allows
him to bec an even more
dynamic teacher. At one point,
Mr. Maurier was teaching
biology, French and Algebra I
in the same year.
“I went into Mr. Maurier’s
class with a sense of dread
and a fear of writer’s cramp,
but, two courses later, I was
transformed into a student
who shared in Mr. Maurier’s
love of the science of biology,” said Sarah Bourque,
a Trinity alumna who is
now studying Occupational
Therapy at the University of
New Hampshire.
For those close to Mr.
Maurier, his love and passion
do not simply stop at his field
of study—he is well-known
as a compassionate friend to
many faculty members.
“Personally, he’s probably
one of my best, closest, dearest friends. He’s somebody
that I trust,” said Ms. Theressa
Risdal, a guidance counselor
at Trinity.
Over his 35 years at Trinity, Mr. Maurier has made
some life-long bonds with
current and former teachers.
One of Maurier’s tightest
friendships is with fellow
choral director Ms. Trachim.
The bond between Maurier
and Trachim is something
that, in a large part, has grown
because of their mutual love
for music.
“Over the years, there are
moments when you just want
to explode and you can’t and
you find the time when you
can just share what’s going on
and you can ease some of that
burden,” said Trachim.
In their shared history together, Maurier and Trachim
have become dynamic parts in
the music ministry at Trinity.
Inspired at a young age
by female vocalist Karen
Carpenter, Mr. Maurier first
started to become passionate
about music as a child when
his elementary school choir
competed against other Manchester schools competitively.
In high school, Mr. Maurier
joined the Trinity glee club,
and formed a folk group with
a few friends called Spirit of
the Times.
After taking a couple
years off from singing to
focus on college, Mr. Maurier
started to take private lessons
from Sister Cecile Charette,
a former classmate of his
mother’s. In private study for
12 years, Maurier broadened
his vocal range and developed
his tenor voice into a heldon
tenor.
Since then, Maurier has
sung in select parishes in the
state and recently started singing with a group of vocalists
that he has known for years,
The Sacred Path Singers. He
has also most recently become
a cantor at St. Matthew’s parish in Windham.
Throughout his years in
Trinity’s music ministry, Mr.
Maurier has become famous
in the Trinity community for
his annual rendition of “O,
Holy Night” at the Christmas
liturgy. Originally performed
as a duet with a former teacher, the song holds different
meaning for each person that
hears it. After losing his singing partner, Ms. Sieradski, Mr.
Maurier could not bring himself to sing the song he year
after her departure, and took
much convincing from faculty
members to perform the song
as a solo the next year.
“The song usually reminds me of people who were
here years ago that I was
teaching with, and so, when
I’m singing, it reminds me of
those people who aren’t here
anymore. So, for me, it’s oftentimes a sad occasion,” said
Mr. Maurier.
After Mrs. Cynthia
Raczka’s passing last year,
the song has an even deeper
meaning now.
“Mrs. Raczka and I were
here for all 35 years [as I
worked here], so she heard
me sing that song every
single year that I sang it. I
certainly was thinking of her
last Christmas at the liturgy.
I’m sure I’ll think of her again
this year,” said Mr. Maurier,
choked up with emotion.
Accompanist Ms. Trachim
understands why he would
feel sadness while singing the
featured song.
“It’s hard to put words to
feelings. There’s real special
feelings, hugely because it’s
just so beautiful. In a way,
too, because so many people
have said that moment is
Christmas for them. It means
so much to so many people
that you just feel the moment,” said Trachim.
Others in the audience
take a simpler approach to the
song.
“It’s just amazing, and I
think, wow, what a precious
gift he shares with us. It just
makes the holiday that much
more special. It’s breathtaking
and brings tears to your eyes,”
said Ms. Risdal.
Though faced with a
challenge of putting together
original music for several
Masses throughout the year
in a limited time-frame, Mr.
Maurier seems to work wonders with the chorus and the
music ministry.
Senior Brady Manning
said this of Mr. Maurier’s
teaching and directing ability: “He likes to say that we
are really fast learners in the
chorus, and that is why we
are able to prepare so many
songs. Truth is, almost all of
the credit goes to him; his capacity to teach is boundless.”
Trinity community honors family war veterans
By Sarah Ruggiero
Pioneer Staff
The Trinity community gathered on Nov. 11, to
honor the men and women who have served in the
US military.
Veterans who are Trinity faculty members or
relatives of the Trinity community attended the
Veterans Day assembly to be recognized for their
service.
The assembly began with an introduction by
Mr. Mailloux and was followed by a performance
of color guard by senior Nick Sauvan and his three
shipmates of the Naval Sea Cadet Corps. Senior Tori
Smarse sung the national anthem.
Next, Lieutenant Colonel Robert Hoaglund,
father of junior Robby Hoaglund, spoke about his
experiences as a 29-year veteran of the US Army’s
Special Forces.
Hoaglund had enlisted in 1979 after being inspired
by a teacher, a Green Beret, his freshman year of college. He then went on to earn his own Green Beret,
and after three years, he transferred to the Army Re-
Emma Pratte / Pioneer Staff
Junior Robby Hoaglund presents his father with a pin
during the Veterans Day assembly in the gymnasium.
serve and earned his master’s from Boston College.
Over the past three years, Hoaglund was in Afghanistan serving in the U.S. Army Special Forces.
His taskforce’s mission was to “rat out the Taliban”
and hand out food, candy, and pencils to Afghan
children.
“I did what I could to lighten the lives of the
Afghan kids,” said Hoaglund in his speech.
Hoaglund said his time spent in the army was
“quite rewarding,” and conclued by saying, “this
great nation remains the land of the free only so
long as it is the home of the brave.”
Next, Mr. Sheehan read off names of veterans
present at the assembly. Each veteran was presented
with an American flag pin by their Trinity relative.
Trinity’s own Mr. O’Leary and Mr. Reid were honored for their times spent in the US Army and the
US Marine Corps.
Mrs. O’Gorski then announced the names of veterans unable to attend, and Mrs. Brankin announced
the names of deceased veterans as senior John Duffy
rang a bell in each one’s honor.
After taps was played, Mr. Flaherty spoke
about the “Support Our Troops” drive, benefiting
2nd Lieutenant James Turner of the United States
Marine Corps, a 2003 Trinity alum, and his division
currently serving in Afghanistan.
The donated items were heaped together in a pile
in front of the podium.
Mr. Flaherty then invited veterans and their families to Campus Ministry to enjoy refreshments.
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forcing an interception made
by senior quarterback Jake
Castricone. The next Trinity
drive ended shortly thereafter following a fumble from
freshman Ryan Carrier on the
Brady 38-yard line.
The very next play was an
interception brought back by
junior Jared Butler for a Trinity touchdown to put Trinity
up 16-7 going into the second
half.
“It was an adrenaline
rush,” said Butler about scoring the touchdown.
After receiving a pep talk
from the coaching staff during
halftime, the Pioneers came
out stronger in the second half
with a more focused defensive
line.
“We didn’t play good
defense in the first half, and
we let them know that at
halftime, but they did turn it
up in the second half, and I
give them credit for that,” said
Coach Leonard.
The Pioneers did turn it up,
with three straight defensive
stands in the third and fourth
quarters, while the offense
continued to drive the ball on
the ground against a tiring
Brady defense.
With Lyons shut out of
DZIEMIAN
course [this year], and that’s
really my biggest weakness. I
just had a plan to get into the
final round, so I could do my
real run.”
Junior Olympics acts as a
finale to what is an incredibly
long and grueling ski season.
“We have competitions pretty
much every weekend in the
season, which starts after
Christmas,” said Nic. “The
time between Thanksgiving
and Christmas is when we
really have to get into shape,
and then after Junior Olympics, in late March, there are
a few competitions, but they
count towards the next year’s
season.”
Together, Nic and Nessa
train pretty much all year
long. Although things slow
down in the summer season,
there is still work to be done.
Their family takes a trip to
British Columbia, Canada,
for two weeks so they can ski
on glaciers to stay in shape.
“It’s pretty sweet. You
should see our crazy goggle
tans, and it’s different because we can wear t-shirts
when we ski,” said Nic.
Summer training also
includes two weeks at Lake
Placid to train with water
ramps. “You basically go
down this turf, and then off
a jump into a giant pool of
bubbles, which reduces the
impact of the water.” Said
Nic “It still feels like a mas-
Connor Lyons, senior, holds the championship trophy as his fellow
team members hold up their fingers around him to show that they are
“Number 1.”
the offense almost the entire
game from a Brady defense
that made sure to shut down
the Trinity running back,
Taillon needed to play a huge
game and did so with several
strong carries to the right.
“They keyed Connor the
whole time, and they just
figured I wouldn’t be a factor,
and so the holes just opened
up, and I hit them,” said Taillon.
With touchdowns scored
by Lyons in the third quarter
and sophomore Josh Hughes
to open up the fourth quarter,
Trinity looked for strong defense to hold its 32-7 lead.
After a 7-play drive, Lyons
hit a 41-yard field goal with
4:30 left in the game to put
sive belly flop from about
thirty feet if you land on your
stomach, though.”
The two started skiing
when they were toddlers, at
the urging of their parents.
Now, they say, it is something they all do together.
“Well, our parents are our
sponsors,” said Nessa. “They
go with us on all of our trips
and almost all of our competitions.”
The pressure is on with
the family so involved,
though. “We definitely push
each other,” said Nic. “I push
her to make sure she’s at the
top of her game, and she does
the same to me.”
“But it’s tough,” said
Nessa, “because I definitely
feel a lot more pressure to
do well when my family is
competing and they know the
expectations. The bar is set
pretty high, for both of us.”
But to them, it’s all about
the sport. On the off season,
Nic works for his coach
at trampoline camp in the
summers, teaching younger
skiers the tricks he’s tried to
perfect.
And on December 14th,
Nessa will head out to Winter
Park in Colorado to compete
in selections. Ranked 14 in
the country for women’s freestyle skiing, Nessa need only
move up four spots to gain a
place on the US Ski Team.
“Sometimes it’s stressful,
but in the end I just love skiing,” Said Nessa. “It makes
you feel like you are flying in
Trinity on top 35-7.
“It was my only attempt of
the year, and especially being
a senior, being my last game,
I wanted to hit it. It was fun,”
said Lyons.
Backed down to their own
27 with under three minutes to
play in the game, the Pioneers
held their ground against
the charging Giants offense,
and Lyons was able to intercept a pass and bring it all
the way back for an 89-yard
touchdown run to cap off the
game. Although penalized for
excessive celebration, Lyons
thought it was worth it.
“I didn’t think I had it. I
just snuck past that lineman
and something came over me.
I needed to dive into the end-
zone because I know it’ll be
my last run as a senior,” said
Lyons.
The defense held its
ground on the final, highlighted by a sack by senior
Mike Husson, the first of his
high school career, and as the
Pioneers ran onto the field
after the final whistle, they did
so as the new state champions
with a 41-7 victory.
“It feels very good. It still
hasn’t sunk in, but you know,
it’s a pretty good feeling,”
said junior Troy Butler after
the game.
The four senior captains,
Lyons, James Horn, Phil
Dion, and Castricone were
handed the trophy after the
game and carried it back to
the rest of their teammates.
“It’s awesome, the best
feeling I’ve ever had. We
went from not being in a
league to winning the states in
two years, so it has to be awesome. We turned it around,”
said Dion.
The lack of confidence that
had plagued Trinity teams for
years was no longer a factor
as the players celebrated with
the fans.
“We knew we were the
best team in the division; we
played like it all year and we
came out here today to prove
it,” said Castricone.
The Road to the
Championship
Kearsarge: The Trinity
boys’ football team lines up
for a play against Kearsarge
Regional on Sept. 18. The
final score was 28-14.
Semifinals: James Horn,
senior, tackles a Bow player.
This 37-0 win over Bow on
Nov. 7 took the Pioneers to
the championship.
Championship: Connor
Lyons, senior, kicks a field
goal from the 41-yard line
to give the Pioneers a 35-7
lead.
Photos Courtesy of Nic and Nessa Dziemian
Above, Nessa Dziemian competes at a freestyle competition at her home mountain, Waterville Valley Ski
Resort. Below left, Nic Dziemian competes in a moguls competition, one of his specialties, and, Below
right, a freestyle competition.
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Blood Drive
On Tues., Nov. 30, Trinity’s National Honor Society
hosted a blood drive for the American Red Cross. McHugh
gymnasium was set up to accommodate the drive for the
date, and students were invited to donate blood during their
free mods given that they were 17 years of age or older or
16 years with a parent consent form. Fifty eight students
donated blood, collecting 45 pints of blood in all.
NHS members also gave up their study mods to make
sure the annual event went smoothly. Donors were first
asked to fill out a registration form and answer a round of
questions via computer before giving blood.
SophomoreRetreat
With the lights off, candles lit, and a deep silence penetrating the minds of the sophomores at Trinity High School, the
Class of 2012 sat in deep meditation to wrap up its annual
retreat at Camp Carpenter.
As the sophomores first arrived at the Lawrence L. Lee
Scouting Museum at Camp Carpenter on Tuesday, Nov. 17,
they weren’t sure what to expect from the retreat that had been
kept a secret by campus minister, Mr. Joe Malinowski.
As the retreat began with a speech from junior Greg Denis
about the power of love through his adoption, the focus of
the retreat became clear, with a concentration on love and its
involvement in a youth’s life. Discussions broke out in small
groups about how love affected each participant individually
and how each member of the class had experienced love in his
or her life.
After a brief break and a talk from Mr. Bill Sheehan, Mr.
Malinowski challenged the groups to come up with an advertisement that promoted love. Following creative skits that
each group designed individually, junior Aimee St. Germaine
spoke to the class about a strong faith life and how she was
able to attend Trinity through her family’s generosity.
“It was a lot better than I thought [it would be],” said Matt
Acorace, a sophomore.
After a candle-lit service in which Mr. Malinowski and
Mr. Sheehan, along with two student volunteers, blessed each
sophomore individually, the class sat in thought for fifteen
minutes to conclude the retreat.
“By the end, there were students that got something from it
to take with them,” said Mr. Malinowski.
DonGiovanni
On Sat. Oct. 24, seven Trinity students from the chorus,
chaperoned by fellow chorus member Ms. Amber Byron, attended Don Giovanni, the famous opera, at the Palace Theatre.
Sponsored by the Queen City Rotary, the students were
given free tickets to attend the show and were given a private
tour backstage led by Jean Esslinger of the Queen City Rotary.
The students, along with students from two art schools in
New Hampshire, following the backstage tour were presented
with a brief overview of the Mozart Festival Opera, the company that put on the show. A surprise question-and-answer
session followed led by the lead female character from the
show about the experience and education required to become
a professional opera singer.
Following this presentation and an explanation of the
mission of Opera New Hampshire from Executive Director
MarcyKate Connolly, all of the students were led to a room in
which they were given a presentation on the more important
pieces in Don Giovanni by a former professor from Plymouth
State University. Following discussion on the opera, written in
1787 by Lorenzo Da Ponte, and its long-standing popularity in
Europe, the focus of the discussion shifted to the music, written by Mozart and the style that he used throughout the show.
After the three-hour opera, the cast was presented with
an invitation to the after-party and an opportunity to talk to
several cast members about the show.
“I thought the opera was great,” said Mo Gibbons, a
sophomore. “It was amazing to watch both the singers and the
orchestra perform and I’m so happy I was able to go.”
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Save the date: March For Life preview
By Alexa Serrecchia
Pioneer Staff
On Jan. 21, 2010, Trinity
students, staff, and parents
will embark on a pilgrimage
to Washington, D.C. for the
annual March for Life.
In past years, anywhere
from 200-250 members of the
Trinity community have taken
part in this pilgrimage. This
year will be both similar and
different to past years.
“We are not going to the
indoor rally. We are going
to be attending Mass with
Bishop McCormack at St.
Joseph’s On Capitol Hill
along with other pilgrims
from New Hampshire that are
attending the March. We are
going to add our own flavor
to the Mass,” said Mr. Mal,
campus minister.
This year, there will also
be a lot more sightseeing
involved than usual. The
tentative schedule begins on
Thurs., Jan. 21 late in the evening when Trinity’s pilgrims
will depart for Washington,
D.C.
“We will drive directly to
Washington, D.C., and go to
church with Bishop McCormack and other pilgrims from
New Hampshire. Then we
will have time for breakfast
and sightseeing before we will
meet together for the March,”
said Mr. Mal.
After the March, there
will be more time for dinner and sightseeing before
students and chaperones
will head to their respective accommodations, St.
Elizabeth Seton School for
the girls and DeMatha High
School for the boys. These
are the same high schools
that students have stayed at
in the past.
On Sat., Jan. 23, students
and chaperones will head to
New York City for Mass at St.
Patrick’s Cathedral at noon,
followed by three to four
hours of sightseeing in the
heart of downtown Manhattan. The Trinity pilgrims will
then head home with an expected arrival time of 11 p.m.
on Saturday.
This year, the t-shirts will
be black, and “the hats and
scarves colors are going to be
a surprise,” said Mr. Mal.
He encourages all first-timers to attend.
“The March is a great
time to make new friends
and grow in your faith at the
same time. Most students,
when they go, want to go
back because it is such a
moving and powerful experience,” said Mr. Mal.
*If you have not turned in
your deposit by Dec. 18th,
you can still do so, but you
will be put on a waiting list.
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Trinity gives back in more ways than one
By Mari-Briege Dunn
Pioneer Staff
Trinity High School never
hesitates to give back to the
community. There is always a
drive going on for those less
fortunate than us and a student
organization is always volunteering. Activities like these
are nothing new to the Trinity
community, but in a time of
great need, people have found
more and more appreciation
for the Trinity students and
their acts of kindness.
On Oct. 23, the students
paid two dollars each to dress
down and were encouraged to
wear pink for Breast Cancer
Awareness. Collectively, the
students and faculty raised
$714.
“The response from our
students was pretty impressive. Everyone seemed to
understand the cause, and
if they hadn’t dealt with
something directly, then they
knew someone who had.
People sometimes forget that
every donation-- large or
small-- goes to help make a
difference and our students
should be proud of the effort
they made,” said Mr. Smith,
dean of students and faculty
member in charge of the dress
down day.
On Nov. 23, baskets filled
with Thanksgiving foods were
Sarah Ruggiero / Pioneer Staff
Mr. Malinowski, campus minister, looks at over 230 Thanksgiving food baskets that were brought in by
Trinity students, faculty, and staff on Nov. 23. The baskets went to those in need in the community.
spread out on the front lawn
of Trinity, a tradition that has
been carried out for years.
“It’s always amazing to see
how kind and generous our
students and the Trinity family are when it comes to helping those in need. We truly are
sharing the love of God; one
can of gravy, one box of cake
mix, and one dozen rolls at a
time,” said Mr. Mal, Campus
Minister.
NHS members continue to
visit St. Teresa Manor to help
the elderly. A few students
will be helping get the elderly
ready for when their families
visit.
“The best part about doing
these things during the holiday
season is everyone does it with
a smile and without complaining,” said Bridget Meehan,
senior and NHS member.
The annual Toys for Tots
drive will take place Dec. 7,
and conclude with the Teacher
vs. Student basketball game on
Dec. 17.
“Giving back to the community is one of the best
feelings in the world if it’s
something you are passionate
FOOD BANK
non perishable food items not
just for the holiday season
but year-round. There is no
registration or annual fee
to become an agency of the
Food Bank.
There is an astronomical
need of food on a day-to-day
basis. On average, one meal is
equal to 1.25 pounds. 20,000
pounds of food every day is
delivered around New Hampshire that is 16,000 meals.
This holiday season’s
demand of food has increased
by 40% in the past year.
Thanksgiving turkey requests
for November 2009 numbered
more than 25,000. Last year,
the Food Bank delivered
around 16,000 turkeys.
According to FM radio station WZID’s morning news,
the Food Bank asked for 50
tons of turkeys and received
61 tons.
The food bank receives
donations from food drives,
donations from grocery stores,
salvage lots, specialty offers
through Feeding America,
and food purchased through
distributers.
One of the Food Bank’s
major donors is Wal-Mart.
With items such as chips that
have changed their packaging, the New Hampshire Food
Bank receives the old packaged chips that taste the same
and are fresh.
Tiffany Keenan / Pioneer Staff
Above, boxes of food are stacked up at the New Hampshire Food
Bank for distribution.
“The need has increased, so
we are always in need of more
cans,” said Erin Torrey, development associate.
When entering the Food
Bank, I was welcomed by
volunteers loading up trucks
for delivery. I was surrounded
by rows of boxes upon boxes
of canned food, drinks, fruits,
breads, and snacks.
As I continued through the
double doors, I reached the
“culinary kitchen.” Every
eight weeks, the staff provides
a culinary training program for
the unemployed and underemployed adults. The adults
obtain 260 hours of skills and
knowledge of building a resume to begin a job search by
learning techniques and how to
get back on their feet.
Next to the kitchen is an
enormous freezer of meats.
These meats are mostly given
by the grocery stores that are
past the sell-by-date but still
good for a few more days.
With the loud sound of the
forklift bringing the heavy
boxes to the front, Torrey
continues to describe the job
descriptions of all the workers
at the food bank, “No one has
a set role. We all help in any
way we can,” said Torrey.
Excited to see one of the
trucks hauling in donations,
Erin brings me to the sorting
station and explained to me
how operates. Volunteers go
through all the items to make
sure the cans aren’t crushed
and the boxes aren’t ripped
open or damaged. They are
extremely cautious of the jars
and cans of baby food and
about. There is just something
truly inspiring about the look
of joy in a child’s face, or a
look of contentment in the
face of an elder, and knowing
that you’ve caused it. It’s not
about seeing giving back, it’s
about giving back and seeing
the results. When it comes to
giving back to the community,
giving really is receiving,”
said Brady Manning, senior
and statewide NHS president.
On Nov. 11, students
brought in items requested by
2nd Lieutenant James Turner
USMC, a 1993 graduate
double check the expiration
dates. “We want to make sure
none of the food will make
anyone sick,” said Torrey.
Monday is considered the
“zoo day.” Most agencies
come and pick up their food,
hoping the shelves will be
stocked. Some food is delivered to them. Product items
are “quantity restricted” for
an even distribution, meaning that each agency gets the
same amount of food.
There are more volunteers
than those on the payroll. Volunteers are not only stationed
at the Food Bank but also at
other events and food drives
convenient to where they live.
“Warehouse volunteers”
are assigned to sorting donations, taking inventory count,
order picking, organizing the
main shopping area, coolers and freezers, and helping
registered agencies load their
vehicles.
The goal of the food bank
is not only to supply enough
food for all but to help others
of Trinity, who is currently
serving our country over in
Afghanistan. Gum, DVD’s,
razors, razor blades, magazines, Pop-tarts, beef jerky,
instant coffee and batteries
were collected for 2nd Lieutenant Turner and his fellow
troops. More than 200 pounds
of requested items were collected. Mr. Larsen, art teacher
at Trinity, had gotten in contact with Turner and asked the
Trinity community to help.
“I am never surprised by
the support of the people
within the Trinity community,
especially when it comes to
the student body-- past and
present,” said Mr. Larsen.
Mr. Larsen hasn’t made
contact with Turner since the
drive because of where he is
based, but says that he will
continue helping the troops.
Donations will be accepted
around Christmas to help pay
for shipping on the items that
have been collected. Checks
can be made payable to Campus Ministry with “treats of
our troops” in the memo line.
Mr. Larsen wanted to
personally thank everyone
and was very pleased with
the feedback he got from the
community.
“Trinity never stops looking after the students, regardless of their graduation date,”
said Mr. Larsen.
get back on their feet. “We’re
trying to focus on making
people independent and end
their dependence on our services,” said Torrey.
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Robotics: Savage Soccer Juniors continue to help their communities with various student-run projects
By Emma Pratte
Pioneer Staff
Photo courtesy of Tim Moreau
A robot is shown at the Savage Soccer Competition on Nov. 4.
By Mark Natale
Pioneer Staff
Members of the Trinity Robotics team recently
competed at Worcester Polytechnic Institute for a VEX
competition called Savage
Soccer on Nov. 14.
Trinity had seven teams
competing in the competition and finished qualification
matches with three teams
in the top 10, with a fourth
selected to compete with the
top eight alliances in the final
rounds.
This year’s Savage Soccer game revolved around a
“ballcano” in the center of
the field, a raised platform
with slanted edges, in which
robots could score points or
sacrifice themselves, and four
mobile scoring units called
Oasis Scoring Implements
(OSI). The goal of the game
was to get specified ping-pong
balls into the OSI’s and hang
them on their Tubular Bonus
Structure (TBS).
While many teams
in the competition had been
preparing for the event for
weeks, Trinity’s teams had
less time than most to prepare
their robots because many
team members are no longer
in ACS.
“To me, it was a way
that I could prove that I could
design and build a robot in
three hours and program it in
20 minutes, that is still more
robust and technologically
advanced than most of the robots that other schools worked
for weeks on,” said Brendan
Newcott, a senior, who was
partnered with fellow senior
John Duffy on his team.
The eventual champions
of the event, Alex Gadecki
and Robert Demaris, finished
building their robot the night
before the competition.
“Gadecki [convinced] me
to redesign the lift that carried
the goal. If it had not been
redesigned, I’m not sure if
it would have ever worked.
Some changes we made to the
intake and chassis. All this
happened from six p.m. until
one a.m. the morning of the
competition,” said Demaris.
After dominating the qualifying rounds, Trinity teams
were immersed in the top
eight for the finals, but many
were hoping that the struggles
they had faced in the qualifying rounds would not come up
again in the finals.
Newcott and Duffy, eventual semi-finalists, were picked
by a surprisingly dominant
team of sophomores Jason
Butchard and Eric Gadecki.
While not as experienced as
the older members of the team,
Gadecki and Butchard put
together a good run together to
finish as semi-finalists.
Junior Harrison Williams,
paired with New Hampshire
Vex Championship winner,
senior, Russel Stockdale, lost
in the quarterfinals due in part
to a control issue and a collision that kept the wheels of
the robot off the ground.
“We had some problems
with the controlling of our
robot and ended up losing
some of our matches because
of that,” said Williams.
Some Trinity teams had
dominant autonomous programs during the competition,
and Williams’s program won
the competition’s programming award, but Newcott’s
program had an impressive
showing as well. After suffering through a few glitches in
his program, Newcott’s 200line program of PID control
loops allowed the motor to
zero in on the target.
Senior Simone Veillette was in attendance as a
coach for the teams and left
the competition with a good
feeling about the future of the
VEX Robotics program at
Trinity.
“In the end, everyone put
up a good fight, but no one
could stop Alex [Gadecki]
and Robert [Demaris],” said
Veillette.
Following a disappointing showing at the NH VEX
Championships, Gadecki was
pleased with the win.
The juniors are midway
through their love your
neighbor projects. This
project, inspired the Good
Samaritan parable and fueled
by Scott Harrison’s story, has
come along nicely.
Students were given
the quote: “For me, charity
is practical. It’s sometimes
easy, more often inconvenient, but always necessary.
It’s the ability to use one’s
position of influence, relative
wealth and power to affect
lives for the better. Charity
is singular and achievable.,”
Scott Harrison is man who
left his privileged new York
life to be a photojournalist for a organization called
Mercy Ships. This organization gives free medical care
to world’s poorest people.
Students were given the
challenged to ‘join Scott’s
campaign’ and to share their
gifts and talents to those
who are less fortunate. The
juniors have come up with
many creative ways to help
those who are less fortunate
in our community.
A handful of juniors are
collecting baby products to
help mothers who are having
a hard time supporting the
child their decided to keep,
rather than getting an abortion.
Ian Connolly and Jeff
Bessette are volunteering
their time at the Animal Rescue League in Bedford.
Katie Rajchel is teaching
30 children, some as young
as three, to sings songs. She
will bring these children to
perform for elderly at different Nursing homes in area.
Everyone is doing his or her
part.
Elyse Greco, with her
partner Lauren Husson, are
raising money for a family
from St. Thomas Aquinas
School in Derry, where Elyse
went to school before Trinity.
They were given vague
descriptions of the family
and their wants and needs
this Christmas season. To
collect money, they made
snowman earrings, which
they sold for eight dollars
a pair. “They were fun to
make,” said Husson. They
traveled to different craft
fairs and sold them to friends
and family, hoping to make
enough money to buy all the
gifts that were asked for.
Other students are taking
a different approach. Emily
Martin and Emily Bourque
started an organization called
“Kids for the Cure.” They
created this organization
with the intention to help out
kids whose parents are going
through cancer treatments.
They are making baskets,
or care packages to help out
these kids.
“A lot of the time, kids
are told what’s going on
with mom and dad, but it’s
hard for them to understand.
It really helps them see the
reason and helps the whole
family,” said Martin.
The baskets include a
teddy bear, pamphlets on
cancer, toys, candy, journals, pencils a book entitled
Our Family has Caner Too.
This book, aimed at children
between the ages of seven
and 12 encourages children
to ask their questions and
gives them the reinforcement
of knowing that they are not
alone.
To raise money to collect
the money necessary to put
the care packages together,
the two Emilys talked to
different churches, like St.
Paul’s and First Church in
Nashua, as well as different
hospitals to collect donations.
In total, they hope to
collect 50 baskets and hand
deliver them to New Hampshire Oncology and SNHU.
Sarah Tarr is another junior whose project is directed
at helping the children in our
community. She is making
blankets that she will donate
to the St. Charles Children’s
Home.
The St. Charles Children’s
Home is a group that helps
out children whose families
are in crisis or are at risk in
their homes.
Tarr got the idea from her
grandmother, who is acquainted with one of sisters
who run the St. Charles
Children’s Home.
“I knew about them
before: kids who don’t have
anywhere to go because they
aren’t safe at home go there.
And so, then I knew I wanted
to do something for them. I
wanted to knit scarves at first
but they needed blankets,
so that’s what I decided to
make. This way, the nuns
don’t have to spend more
money on blankets this winter,” said Tarr on her project.
Tarr, who learned how to
sew in middle school is making the blankets at Litchfield
Middle School, where her
mother teaches. The home
economic teacher offer to let
Tarr use her classroom and
sewing machines and even
offered to donate some of her
time to help out.
“I was planning to do all
the sewing myself, but she
offered to help me, which is
great because blankets take a
while to sew.”
The blankets, which
take about $12 to make and
are made of fleece, will be
Christmas presents for the
girls at the home. To raise
the money to buy the materials, Tarr has been asking
for donations from family
and friends, but has done no
formal fundraising.
“I have had color requests. I don’t think the kids
know what it’s for, but they
told Sr. Mary Rose their
favorite colors so I can make
personal blankets. Destiny’s
is green, Jenny’s is purple,
Emma’s and Kandace’s are
pink, and Rebecca’s is yellow.”
These projects are due to
wrap up in mid January.
Courtesty photo of Greg Sowa
Students smile energetically for a picture at the “On A Boat” themed semiformal dance on Nov. 21
from 7p.m. to 11 p.m..
November / December
Mathletes kick
asymptotes
By Mark Natale
Pioneer Staff
The Trinity math team has
competed in two math meets
already in the state, finishing
second in the first meet behind only St. Paul’s School in
the small school division and
placing fourth in the second
meet of the season.
Currently third in the state
standings, veteran members
are surprised with the recent
interest that the team has been
receiving.
“The interest level spiked.
There were 40 people at the
second school meet,” said
Maddy Walsh, senior member
of the team.
While the team normally
gets around 15 students to
participate at a single meet,
40, until now, was unheard
of.
“We’ve never had close to
that many, and other schools
don’t either. It’s kind of
unheard of to have quite that
many students attend,” said
Ms. Carolyn Trachim, the
math team adviser.
Led by senior members of
the team Walsh, Mike Giberti,
James Strampfer, and John
Strampfer, the team looks
to continue capitalizing on
strong attendance.
Other strong support for
the team comes from sophomore Eric Gadecki, junior
Aimee St. Germain, and
junior Tom Horn, who was
the school’s high-scorer in the
second meet.
With 10 students on an
official team, the top scorers
on the team are selected to be
graded, while all others are
labeled as alternates.
By ranking, Trinity falls
just behind Bishop Brady high
school, but the Pioneers have
more individual points scored
than their rivals.
With three meets left in the
five-meet season, including a
meet on Dec. 9, Trinity looks
to bounce back from its disappointing finish to place above
Brady and vault itself into
second place behind St. Paul’s
School. St. Paul’s, a private
institution of top students
from around the world, is a
perrennial powerhous in the
state math meets.
“I think they [Brady]
wanted to avenge their football loss,” said Ms. Trachim.
After the regular season, the team will select five
“mathletes” to go to the state
competition in March at
Plymouth State University to
represent the school in a competition between 47 schools in
the state.
Trinity has high hopes
for this meet, after scoring
better than many of the larger
schools in their first competition.
“I think we’re going to do
well, at least second behind
St. Paul’s in our division,”
said Giberti.
The Pioneer
News
Page 9
New club hopes to purify Trinity students
By Ryan Mitchell
Pioneer Staff
Trinity is now home to
another club: the Pure Love
Club. The Pure Love club,
inspired by a recent trip to
school by chastity speaker
Jason Evert, and a group
of students desires to “stay
pure” is the latest addition
to the school’s list of organizations.
At first, the words Pure
Love Club may conjure up
thoughts of purity ringsporting teenagers sitting
around a room muttering
awkwardly through their
Booklets and a pure love promise card are items used by the Pure
braces about their feelings
Love Club given to the school by Jason Evert.
towards the opposite sex,
usually specifically towards
message of hope, love, and
it,” said Nick Sauvan, a seanother socially awkward
respect, the Pure Love Club
nior and member of the club.
member of the club sitting
seems to be falling victim
The club, headed by
across the room blushing.
to a lot of harassment in the
co-presidents and seniors
But for a second, lets cast
hallways. Despite the jokes
Simone Veillette and Brady
those thoughts aside. Maybe
about the kids who aren’t at
Manning is scheduled to
such a club is just like any
lunch because they are at the
meet twice a week during
other club at a high school:
meetings, amd the laughs
lunches, and already has
a place where like-minded
when people witness differaround twenty-five members
people can meet and share
ent advertisements for the
signed up. That being said
their ideas.
club, the members advised
though, the group still plans
“Were a support group,”
by Mr. Malinowski and Ms.
on growing.
said Simone Veillette, a
Girard are suprisingly not too
“There are a lot of people
senior and the co-president of worried about it.
who could definitely benefit
the club, “…just to know that
“People making fun of
from this that are not willother people are with you, so it is definitely going to die
ing to admit it, and I think
you don’t feel pressured.”
down when people realize
people will realize that,” said
Despite the warm-hearted that others are serious about
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The PLC’s curriculum
of sorts is guided by a set of
works and teachings done by
Jason Evert that have become
used as a reference and a
set of guidelines for similar
groups all over the country.
Other than growing, other
big changes are also in store
for the club including a new
name.
“I think were definitely
going to change the name,”
said Veillette.
The group does not have
any specific ideas for a name
change yet, but are certainly
open to ideas. The name Pure
Love Club was taken from
Jason Evert’s teachings. The
Pure Love Club is a movement that he started, with
chapters all over the country,
which at first made it an obvious choice for the group’s
name.
The group also plans on
adding an anonymous suggestion box to their meetings
and is beginning to discuss
what there agenda will be
over the following weeks.
As the fledgling pure
love club, begins its career
at Trinity and tries to spread
it’s message there’s one thing
that the Sauvan wants you
to keep in mind: “You’re not
alone.”
Page 10
The Pioneer
Christmas 2009
Of course girls buy each
other Christmas gifts!
What are the
best holiday
songs?
The Pioneer
Staffers weigh
in with their
favorite gifts
“I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Clause.”
--Ciara Speller, junior
Alexa loves getting money because she spends
it on whatever her heart desires. She also loves
getting hats and scarves because she can never
have enough.
Mari-Briege loves getting clothes.
Sarah likes magazine subscriptions because
they are the gift that keeps giving, month after
month! She also loves getting books because
they give her something to do in between naps
and keep her brain from completely melting
over break.
“Baby, It’s Cold Outside.”
--Leah Wesolaski,
senior
Joe loves getting socks, a comb, an iPod,
chocolates, and American Express gift cards,
and Mobil gas gift cards.
Ryan loves getting music.
Tiffany loves getting iTunes gift cards and
DVD’s.
Mark loves getting socks and books because
even if he won’t read them for a couple years,
he still appreciates the thought.
Emma loves getting money, iTunes gift cards,
and DVD’s.
“All the Chipmunk
songs.”
--Mitch Pellerin,
sophomore
“ ‘Christmas Wrapping’ by the Waitresses.”
--Mr. Malinowski
Why should I spend
Sarah Ruggiero gly and warm, all thanks
my hard-earned money
to you.
on Christmas presents
For girls, it is a comOpinion
for all of my friends?
pletely normal gesture to
Maybe because I’m an
buy each other Christmas
incredibly thoughtful and
gifts. Girls are just more
generous person. Maybe
open about how they
I have cash literally spillcare about each other,
ing out of my wallet, and
and it is almost expected
I couldn’t think of any
that a girl will receive
other way to spend it.
a gift from at least her
Maybe I feel the need to
closest friend.
impress my friends, or I
I suppose I don’t
want to make them feel
really think twice about
bad when they realize they didn’t
buying each of my close friends a
buy me a present for Christmas...or
Christmas present. I mean, being
my birthday. Neither of which I am
my friend is a pretty demanding
bitter about.
task, and my minions deserve to be
If you’re a guy and think that
rewarded every once in a while. It’s
it’s weird for girls to buy each other
fun to go searching for a present for
gifts, it’s probably because you
my friends, and I know that they will
wouldn’t be caught dead buying
appreciate whatever I find for them.
presents for all of your manly, macho
Also, shopping for friends is fun.
man-friends.
It’s a good excuse to go to Newbury
I imagine that gift-giving and
Comics, where you can find the best
holiday sentiment is off-limits in Man gifts that are both extremely amusLand. If a guy went shopping to find
ing and extremely useless-- one year
presents for all of his “BFFLs,” his
it was a blue, fortune-telling garden
manhood would presumably be called gnome for my best friend. Waste of
into question, and we wouldn’t want
money? Nah.
that happening, would we?
But once I buy a present for my
So, gift-giving is a very different
very best friends, I feel like I should
topic for guys than it is girls. I mean,
also get presents for my other close
guys, what are you really going to get friends, and a couple other pals, and
your best friend, anyway? You and
so on...and by the end of the day I
all of your friends will own the latest have an assortment of gifts for about
Call of Duty before holiday vacation ten people. I don’t want to exclude
even rolls around. Oh, but here’s an
anyone, at the risk of sparking any
idea: maybe your best man-friend
jealousy. As I said, a being friend
wants a cozy holiday robe. That
on my list of friends to shop for is
wouldn’t be awkward to give to him, a very coveted spot. Ryan, I think
and you’ll be able to sleep at night
you’re just feeling spiteful because
knowing that your best bud is snugyou didn’t make the cut this year.
Best holiday lawn displays Staff Holiday Yays
Everyone loves the movie Elf, eggnog and
snow days.
Alexa loves plain
white lights, wreaths
with bows, garland,
and real Christmas
trees in the window
decorated with ornaments and tinsel.
Mari-Briege loves white candles
in the windows.
Sarah loves colorful bulbs, snowflake
lights, trees and shrubbery lined with lights,
and snowmen....actual snowmen, made of
snow, not necessarily lights.
Joe loves fake window candles and homemade wreaths. He believes less is more.
Ryan loves white lights.
Tiffany loves lights in the windows.
“Probably ‘The First
Noel.’ ”
--Katie Pelton,
freshman
Mark loves traditional Santa decorations in the
windows of shops and Christmas Eve paper bag
lighting in neighborhoods.
Emma loves white lights, Gingerbread houses,
and a light in every window.
Alexa loves the song “Dominic the Donkey,” chocolate Advent calendars, building
snowmen, cutting down and decorating a
tree, the Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
TV special, the smell of Christmas trees,
and ABC Family’s “25 Days of Christmas.”
Mari-Briege loves Bruce Springsteen’s
“Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town,” the movie National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation,
and stocking stuffers.
Sarah loves secret santa, having two
weeks off from school, quirky Christmas
ornaments (for example, a singing Oscar
Meyer Weinermobile), and Ghirardelli Peppermint Bark Squares.
Joe loves gifts, cookies, and the song
“Sounds of the Century.”
Ryan loves sledding, not going to
school, and snow.
Tiffany loves Christmas cookies, hot
chocolate, the movie How the Grinch Stole
Christmas, fires in the fireplace, mashed
potatoes, and Christmas trees.
Mark loves increased volunteering
around the state and the fact that a busier
mall=increased revenue.
Emma loves Christmas carols, singing
loud for all to hear, Now That’s What I Call
Christmas, fires in the fireplace, deviled
eggs, Carols for a Cure, hot chocolate, and
presents.
The Pioneer
Christmas 2009
Why do girls buy each
other Christmas gifts?
In the true spirit of
being shopped for. And
Ryan Mitchell
cynicism, one can even
what is this whole girlfind things wrong in
friend gift-giving thing
Opinion
so joyous an occasion
centered around? Those
as the holiday season.
two exact things? What a
Whether it’s the people
coincidence! Think about
sleeping in their tents at
it, going to the mall,
the mall before Black
walking around for hours
Friday, people angrily
and buying a bunch of
confronting others about
things, then meeting up
“keeping the Christ in
with all of your “best”
Christmas,” and vice
friends, and exchanging
versa, many things seem
gifts, and like getting
to go awry even during
all these like cute things
the holidays that are characterized
and stuff, sounds like the perfect day
by cheer and warmth, among other
spent for many girls.
things.
And yes, the tradition is centered
But one tradition that perplexes me around those two things, but is cerjust as much as the aforementioned
tainly not limited to those two things
issues though is how girls buy all of
alone. I mean, you can’t forget the
their best friends Christmas presents.
inevitable giggling at the gag gifts,
I understand that it’s just a kind
shouting “OMG THIS SHIRT IS SO
gesture from one friend to the next,
CUTE,” and to leave out hugging at
but it just seems so…unnecessary.
this point would just be a sin. Then
I’m not going to go breaking the
maybe if you and your friends are
bank just to get some gag gift or
really emotional there’s crying, but
a piece of clothing for one of my
let’s hope not.
guy friends. First of all, because the
This is all not to say that I canlook I would get after would make
not appreciate expressions of kindthe whole affair very awkward, and
ness or “spreading good cheer,” but
secondly, because it would just be
isn’t there a more sensible, even
too much. Why do I have to buy my
economical way to tell someone you
friends presents and expect them
care during the holiday season? So
to do the same for me? Also, I just
instead of another colored T-shirt
feel like “hey bro, here’s a new pair
that says Abercrombie on the front
of earrings” just wouldn’t really fly
or another pair of earrings, maybe,
with my friends.
girls, you could just try giving your
Oh, but that’s not all. I also have
best friends a hug and saying, “Hey,
a hunch: What if this whole gift giv- Merry Christmas.” Maybe this is
ing thing started for the betterment
even more effective. Maybe you’d
of girls with friends as a whole? I
be surprised. Many have found that
mean, let’s be honest, what are two
such a simple and immaterial gesture
things that girls love? Shopping and
can go a long, long way.
What are the
worst holiday
songs?
The Pioneer
Staffers weigh
in with their
least favorite
gifts
Alexa hates getting clothes (because she could
buy her own if you give her money), and
awkward stocking stuffers such as batteries,
ChapStick, and Dollar Tree gift cards.
“ ‘Do You See What I
See.’ It creeps me out.”
--Mr. Perry
Mari-Briege hates getting socks.
Sarah hates getting a set of four cereal bowls
decorated with kids cereal characters, because
she doesn’t eat cereal. She also hates getting
generic teddy bears, usually bought by guys,
probably from the nearest CVS pharmacy.
Joe hates getting L.L. Bean gift cards and premade gift baskets.
Ryan hates getting t-shirts that don’t fit.
Tiffany hates getting ornaments and Simon
gift cards because there is a time limit and they
show no thought.
“ ‘Blue Christmas’ I
guess. It’s slow and
brings a damper on the
Christmas Spirit.”
--Hunter Viscarello,
sophomore
Mark hates getting t-shirts because he doesn’t
need another $3 t-shirt. He also hates getting
toothpaste, “Really mom? Really?”
Emma hates getting candy, and anything you
bought her just because you feel like you have
to buy her something.
Staff Holiday Nays Worst holiday lawn displays
Alexa hates re-gifting, long lines at the
mall, when there’s no snow on Christmas
Day, and Joe Walsh being a Scrooge.
Mari-Briege hates the song “Dominic
the Donkey,” Christmas sweaters, blow-up
Christmas-themed Bart Simpsons, The Santa
Clause Trilogy, and green bean casserole.
Sarah hates the song “Merry Frickin’
Christmas,” her snowman head Christmas
tree topper, over-celebration of Christmas at
the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, parking lots during shopping season, and overcommercialization.
Joe hates the song “Dominic the Donkey,” chocolate Advent calendars, Christmas
music before Thanksgiving, the “Alvin and
the Chipmunks” Christmas soundtrack, Santas in the malls, and ABC Family’s “Countdown to the 25 Days of Christmas.”
Why would Ryan hate Christmas? But if
he had to pick, he hates most Christmas music, Santa not being real, Joe Walsh being a
Grinch, and people who actually care about
how other people celebrate the holidays.
Tiffany hates overplayed Christmas
music, holiday sweaters, and crowded malls.
Mark hates hearing Christmas music
on every radio station and deciding every
year whether or not to spend money on his
friends.
Emma hates mall Santas, the Salvation
Army guys, generic Christmas gifts, shoveling, the fact that Santa is fake, Dec. 26th and
Joe Walsh: the Grinch who stole Christmas.
Page 11
“All of them are annoying.”
--Nicholas Terry,
sophomore
Alexa hates tacky
blow-ups all over the
lawn, blinking colored
lights, fake icicles,
and a life-sized Santa
on the roof.
Mari-Briege hates any blow-up
Christmas character.
Sarah hates blow-up snow globes and
blindingly bright, blinking, seizure-inducing
lights.
Joe hates seeing Las Vegas in your yard. He
hates inflatable snow globes, obnoxious, plastic
nativity scenes, actual stuffed animals, and real
window candles… that’s just a fire hazard.
Ryan doesn’t hate any decorations
because it’s all in good fun.
“Jingle Bells.”
--Adam Chambers,
sophomore
Tiffany hates blue lights, huge blow-ups, and
anything that waves.
Mark hates stuffed-animal nativity sets, fake snow
in windowsills, and artificial trees.
Emma hates anything that blinks, anything that moves,
and anything that inflates.
“Silent Night.”
--Josh Spaziano,
freshman
Page 12
The Pioneer
Sports
Around the leagues
By Mark Natale
Pioneer Staff
New England’s summer
sports have reached a conclusion and are now enjoying
their lull in the winter, but
winter sports are now in full
swing.
After watching the Yankees win the World Series
over the Philadelphia Phillies from their couches, the
Boston Red Sox have been
actively pursuing the free
agent market to put together
a champion team next year.
With Blue Jays ace Roy
Halladay in his sights,
GM Theo Epstein looks
to bring a deal to the table
that will bring the Cy
Young award winner to
the Sox. Trade rumors also
include deals for San Diego Padres’ first baseman
Adrian Gonzalez.
As left-fielder Jason
Bay struggles to find a deal
that he likes, following a
4-year, $60 million offer from
the Sox, reported by SI.com,
he will go “through the process” of finding a team that
satisfies his needs. After Alex
Gonzalez was let go to sign
with the Jays, the Red Sox
need shortstop Jed Lowrie to
stay healthy this year.
The MLS finished its season on Nov. 22, as Real Salt
Lake and Kyle Beckerman
defeated the Los Angeles Galaxy and David Beckham 1-1
in a shootout (5-4 PK’s). The
New England Revolution had
lost its conference semifinal
series to the Chicago Fire,
3-2 on aggregate goals. After
goals from Emmanuel Osei
in the 47 minute and Shalrie
Joseph in the 75 minute in
the first game, the Revolution
could not stop the Fire’s John
Thorrington and Cuauhtemoc Blanco in the second
game of the series.
After completely embarrassing the Tennessee Titans
59-0, and losing in the closing
minutes on a questionable
fourth-down call by Bill
Belichick against the Colts
35-34, the New England
Patriots are riding atop the
AFL East with a 7-3 record.
As the season reaches its
home stretch, the Patriots
have just one game against a
.500 team left in the season,
the Jacksonville Jaguars in
Week 16. Following an important game against the New
Orleans Saints, in which the
The Patriots need to
dominate their next
few games to get the
push needed to do
well in the playoffs.
Patriots lost, the team looks to
rebound in order to finish the
season strong in its final push
to the playoffs.
With a 66.4 completion
percentage, quarterback Tom
Brady is starting to hit most of
his favorite targets again. With
79 and 63 receptions respectively, Wes Welker (averaging 10.8 yards per reception)
and Randy Moss (averaging
14.7 yards per reception) are
back to top form as well. Moss
leads the team with eight
touchdown catches on the
year, while Welker, along with
Benjamin Watson, has four
TD’s on the year.
The Boston Celtics, following a two-game skid in
mid-November against the
Atlanta Hawks, 97-86, and
Indiana Pacers, 113-104, have
lost just one game since, to
the Orlando Magic, as they
continue to draw out their
lead in the Atlantic division
of the Eastern conference.
With a 13-4 record, the Celtics have shown the NBA that
they are a legitimate title
contender for the third year in
a row.
Led by Paul Pierce’s 19.7
PPG and a 43.7% 3-point
shot and Kendrick Perkins’
62.2 field goal percentage,
the Celtics are striving to put
another banner up in the TD
Bank Garden.
The Boston Bruins, riding
a six-game point streak in late
November, have gotten over
their early season woes and
have now taken the lead in
the Northeast Division of
the Eastern Conference.
With goaltending duties
being shared nearly equally
between Tim Thomas and
rookie Tukka Rask, the
Bruins have been blessed
with strong performances
from both keepers.
On the backs of leading
scorers Patrice Bergeron,
Michael Ryder and Blake
Wheeler (7 goals apiece),
the Bruins need to focus on
finishing games in regulation
time, instead of sending the
majority of their games to
shootouts.
A powerhouse this year,
the Manchester Monarchs
have a commanding lead over
the rest of the Atlantic Division in the Eastern Conference of the AHL. An affiliate
of the Los Angeles Kings,
the Monarchs are looking to
capture another title this year,
behind strong goaltending
from Jonathan Bernier (3rd
in the AHL with a .948 save
percentage).
Jimmie Johnson managed to capture his fourth
consecutive NASCAR title at
Homestead-Miami Speedway,
topping sentimental favorite
and teammate Mark Martin
and teammate Jeff Gordon.
A Trinity guide
to college bowls
By Mark Natale
Pioneer Staff
College football is preparing for a month of high-powered, high-intensity bowl
games this year leading up
to the national championship
game in Pasadena.
Dec. 19 starts the bowl
season with the New
Mexico Bowl (Fresno State
vs. Wyoming) and the St.
Petersburg Bowl (UCF
vs. Rutgers). The next day
features the R+L Carriers
New Orleans Bowl (Southern Miss. vs. Tennessee).
The MAACO Las Vegas
Bowl pits Oregon State and
BYU on De. 22. The San Diego Country Credit Union
Poinsettia Bowl will highlight Utah and California.
The Sheraton Hawaii
Bowl on Christmas Eve
includes Nevada and SMU.
Dec. 26 Will feature three
games: the Little Caesar’s
Bowl (Marshall vs. Ohio),
the Meineke Car Care Bowl
(Pittsburgh vs. North Carolina), and the Emerald Bowl
(Boston College vs. USC).
Texas A&M will share the
stage with Georgia in the AdvoCare V100 Independence
Bowl on Dec. 28 preceding
the EagleBank Bowl (Army
or UCLA vs. Temple) on
Dec. 29. Also that day will
be the Champs Sports Bowl
(Miami vs. Wisconsin).
Roady’s Humanitarian
Bowl will match Bowling
Green and Idaho, and Arizona and Nebraska will play
in the Pacific Life Holiday
Bowl on Dec. 30.
Winter independent athletes
look to shine this season
By Mark Natale
Pioneer Staff
Connor Lyons signs a commitment letter to play baseball at Northeastern University on a 50%
scholarship as his mother, Lee Lyons, and grandfather, Henri LeBlanc, look on.
New Year’s Eve will
feature five games: the Bell
Helicopter Armed Forces
Bowl (Houston vs. Air
Force), the Brut Sun Bowl
(Oklahoma vs. Stanford),
the Texas Bowl (Navy vs.
Missouri), the Insight Bowl
(Minnesota vs. Iowa State),
and the Chick-fil-A Bowl
(Virginia Tech vs. Tennessee).
Jan. 1 will include the
Outback Bowl (Northwestern vs. Auburn), the Capital
One Bowl (Penn State vs.
LSU), the Konica Minolta
Gator Bowl (West Virginia
vs. Florida State), the Rose
Bowl Game presented by
Citi (Ohio State vs. Oregon),
and the Allstate Sugar Bowl
(Florida vs. Cincinnati).
The International Bowl
(South Florida vs. Northern
Illinois) and the Papajohns.
com Bowl (South Carolina
vs. UConn), along with the
AT&T Cotton Bowl (Oklahoma State vs. Ole Miss) and
the Autozone Liberty Bowl
(Arkansas vs. East Carolina
will all be played on Jan. 2.
Ending the day’s games will
be the Valero Alamo Bowl
(Michigan State vs. Texas
Tech).
The Tostitos Fiesta Bowl
(Boise State vs. TCU) on
Jan. 4 will be followed by the
FedEx Orange Bowl (Iowa
vs. Georgia) the next day.
Central Michigan and
Troy will play in the GMAC
Bowl on Jan. 6 and the Citi
BCS National Championship Game featuring Texas
and Alabama will conclude
the year’s games.
Some Trinity athletes this
season are getting quite a
deal: they will be representing Trinity at state competitions while training with
private instructors and other
teams in the state.
New to Trinity’s sports
repertoire will be the gymnastics team, led by the
only members on the squad,
Nancy Trachim and Emily
Hinton. After taking a brief
hiatus from competing in
gymnastics at a competitive level, both girls look to
represent Trinity well at the
state meets this winter behind the coaching of former
Trinity gymnast, alumna
Anna Bissett.
“[I want] to add a harder
skill into either my floor or
beam routine for each meet
as the season progresses,
since I’ve already come a
long way after being out of
gymnastics for four years,”
said Trachim.
Senior Dane Mason will
represent Trinity at the state
wrestling meets this year,
while practicing with state
powerhouse Manchester
Central. Mason will be
coached by his parents at
meets.
“I want to go undefeated
this year and place in the
New England tournament.
I went last year, but didn’t
place in the top six,” said
Mason.
The Trinity swim team,
led by juniors Abby Mitchell
and Aimee St. Germaine,
will feature Kathleen Lamontagne and sophomore Grace
Pope. The team hopes to
repeat its strong performance
in the 4X100 relay this year.
November/December 2009
The Pioneer
Sports
Boys’ athlete of
the fall season
Lyons
After everything that
has been said about Connor
Lyons perfromances, baseball
or football, Lyons yet again
wins Athlete of the Season
honors.
Lyons, one of Trinity’s top
two running backs, gave us
a season to remeber, finishing with an incredible performance and All State First
Team Offensive Honors.
Lyons shined on the field,
on both offense and defense
and, as a captain, established
himself as a leader among his
teammates.
Just by looking at the
statistics, it is clear that the
Pioneers would have been at a
huge loss without Lyons, who
has been hailed as one of the
top running backs in the state.
Lyons has incredible speed
and equally as incredible
athleticism.
Lyons is a standout athlete,
and this fall season would
have been a stand out player
on any football team in the
state.
Honorable Mentions:
Pete Kimball: Kimball, a
senior member of the Boys’
Varsity Cross Country team,
qualified for this year’s Meet
of Championships, after
finishing 29th at the Class
L Championship Meet with
a time of 17:09. Coming in
at 29th, Kimball just barely
made the meet of Champions
seeing as top 30 individuals
in Class L do so. Kimball
placed 56th at the Meet of
Championships with a time
of 17:03.
Jake Castricone: Jake Castricone played just about every
role this season for the Boy’s
Football team, as a quarterback, captain, and a defensive
back, Castricone was impressive on both sides of the ball.
Whether it was gaining yards
or making a big hit, it seemed
like he was everywhere on the
field.
Jake Castricone deserves
mention because his versatility was a big part of the Pioneers championship season.
Girls’ athlete of
the season
Abby Mitchell, a junior
captain on the soccer team
and a varsity member of the
Cross Country team, impressed in the fall by scoring
the girls’ soccer team’s only
winning goal in a game at
Nashua South on Oct. 20th,
scoring her second goal of the
season.
Mitchell also placed well
in meets for the cross country team, including a 22:05
at Coe Brown’s Black Bear
Invitational on October 3rd.
Mitchell is one of the only
athletes in Trinity that plays
multiple sports per season.
During the fall, Mitchell
competes in Soccer and
Cross Country and during
the winter she competes in
Indoor Track and Swimming.
Mitchell also Competes in
Outdoor Track during the
Spring.
Mitchell won all state
Honors for her outstanding
performance during the soccer season.
Honorable Mentions:
Chelsey Serrano: Junior
Chelsey Serrano capped of
a fabulous Cross Country
season on November 6th at
the New Hampshire Meet of
Champions being hosted by
Nashua South finishing in
42nd with a time of 19:56. A
week earlier on Halloween,
Mitchell
Serrano punched her ticket
to the Meet of Champions
coming in 16th place at the
Class L Championship again
posting a time of 19:56. Serrano placed first for the girls
in almost every meet of the
2009 cross country season.
Leah Sherr: Sherr, the goalie
for the girl’s soccer team,
could not help the girl’s win
many games, but often kept
them alive with her perfomances, like the girl’s game
against central where Sherr
recorded 36 saves.
Trinity athletes to watch
during the winter season...
David Madol, a 6’6 junior returns from last years’s
Championship basketball
season, ready to take on a new
role: the leader.
Madol, who is being hailed
by many as the best basketball
player in the state this year,
has improved bounds since last
year.
As a sophomore last year
Madol backed up his brother
Polombo
Richard, a freshmen at Providence, and Dylan Clark, a
freshman attending Elon University on a baseball scholarship.
“People are not even going
to recognize him,” said Coach
Dave Keefe.
Madol and company, in
typical Trinity Basketball
fashion, are looking towards
another title
Josh Polombo, who led the
Pioneers in points as well as
goals scored as a sophmore in
2008, is returning for his final
year, leading a young Trinity
Boy’s Hockey team, that is
coming off a playoff season
last year..
Polombo,a forward, had to
sit out a good portuion of left
year aftyer braking his arm
before the season’s start.
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Madol
This year, Polombo returns
healthy, and ready to lead
his team to a very successful
season.
“I am very excited for this
season. We are capable of going further than we ever have
since my freshman year, but
we can’t be too [confident],”
said Polombo to Pioneer
staffer Mark Natale..
Young hockey team
looks for strong run
Underclassmen lead boys ice
hockey as team looks to better playoff run from last year
By Mark Natale
Pioneer Staff
The Trinity hockey
team this year will focus
on a younger squad this
year that, while not filled
with seniors on the team
like last year, will concentrate on a larger group of
skilled players.
Following last year’s
success in the playoffs,
the Pioneers look to coach
Mike Connell and senior
leadership to guide them
to the playoffs and success
once again.
After leaving last
year’s heart-breaking loss
to Pinkerton in the final
seconds of their quarterfinal game, the Pioneers
kept their heads up and
were optimistic about this
years’ team.
Connell mentioned that
the seniors this year had
started a tradition of never
quitting, and the team
plans on coming out strong
this year to prove it.
Opening the season
with four out of five
home games, the Pioneers
will look to capitalize on
their home-ice advantage
against several strong
teams at the St. Anselm
College Sullivan Arena.
With a large fan base
already, the team looks
to use momentum from
early games to help carry
it through the rest of the
season.
An important series
against Bishop Guertin
in the beginning of the
season will test just how
tough the Pioneers are
this year, as they look to
bounce back from the sour
ending to their last season.
Without the power
shots of Barry Kendall
and Tom Gagnon, or the
skilled play of Jeff St.
Jean, all 2009 graduates,
Trinity needs to find replacements for the strong
points of the team last
year.
With returning senior
Josh Polombo as a strong
goal-scorer and definite
play-maker, the Pioneers
hope to replace Kendall’s
exploding offense with a
wider spread of attackers. Sophomores Tyler
Theouloulou and Connor
Merrick should help with
the attack as well, with a
strong support from junior
Eric Werner and sophomore Matt Holtshouser.
Senior Andrew Hall
will also be an important
part of the squad this year.
“I think that we are
definitely going to look
better this year than last
year. It seems every year
we are getting better and
better,” said sophomore
Connor Simon.
Defense will be the
Pioneers’ key to success
this year, and with sophomore Cory Kolden back in
net this year, the team will
have a strong support from
the goaltender’s position.
A constant force behind
the blue line, senior Jim
O’Connor will have to
help lead the rest of the
team in front of the net.
Returning senior members
include Wade Pepin, Ethan
Siemiesz and Chris Platek,
all commanding presences
in past years.
“We lost a lot of leadership last year but we took
a huge step in the right
direction and I feel that we
can continue to become a
better team this year,” said
O’Connor.
The Pioneers will need
to focus on staying out of
the penalty box this year
to stay successful. With a
last-minute penalty coming in the quarter-final
game last year, resulting in
a season-ending shot from
Pinkerton, Trinity knows
that staying out of the box
will make the opponent
work harder.
A strong penalty kill
this year will go a long
way in a league where
getting a numbers advantage increases the odds of
goal-scoring opportunities
immensely.
The underclassmen
this year will really be
the focus of the team.
With success last year,
the underclassmen on the
team will need to continue
to help the team along as
it reaches for its goal of
doing well in the playoffs.
Many think this year will
be the best Trinity has
seen in a while.
“I am very excited for
this season. We are capable
of going further than we
ever have since my freshman year, but we can’t
be too [confident],” said
Polombo.
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Sports
Girls’ basketball: a new team
after the loss of a key player
By Ryan Mitchell
Pioneer Staff
For the most part, no
team returns from a near
championship season looking quite the same as they
did. Star players and members of the supporting cast
will graduate, and returning
players will take the places
of the departed members,
but in 2009 one loss will
have the Trinity girl’s basketball team returning and
looking almost completely
new: the loss of Karima
Gabriel.
“I think she was averaging around 20 points and
12 rebounds a game, so it
means that a heck of a lot
of other people are going
to have to step up and fill
the void,” said Trinity head
coach Pat Smith.
Gabriel who transferred
to Peddie Prep in Hightown,
N.J. was going to be the
team’s only senior in 2009,
leaving the team to be lead
by four juniors: center Emily Martin, forward Paige
Heslin, and guards Emily
Marro and Jasmine Theroux.
But without Gabriel’s size
that is almost unheard of
around here and her dominating presence in the paint,
it will be hard for the girls
to compete with teams like
Winnacunnet, who returns
all of its starters from last
year’s untouchable championship team. Not to say
there isn’t hope though. The
lady Pioneers will most likely find themselves a young
team, in a strong league, but
not with an impossible task.
“All of the middle teams
got better,” said Smith. “We
could either be twelve and
six or six and twelve.”
Smith says that the loss
of Gabriel is obviously one
that is huge, but it is not one
that will be impossible for
the girls to fill. He admits
that there was a low turnout of girls wanting to be
a part of the program this
year, with numbers drifting
around 20 to 25 girls, but
some of the squad’s players who showed potential
last year, like Marro, Theroux, and Martin could have
breakout performances and
prove themselves to be big
names among Class L giants
such as Central’s Christiana
Bakolas, Winnacunett’s Tiffany Ruffin, and Pinkerton’s
A.J. Guidi.
With a completely new
team, in a very different
league, the girls will need a
new game plan. They can no
longer depend on Gabriel’s
size or skill, and will have
to look to younger players
to form a supporting cast.
With all the variables, many
things could happen. It will
be interesting to see how
things play out.
Sports Log
Season Previews
Indoor Track
This year’s Winter Track season began on Wednesday, Dec.
2 with an informational meeting with the coaches. Coaches
Bob Leonard and Chris Larochelle, who were also assistant
football coaches this past season, briefed the growing team on
the coming season.
Practices were to begin the following day, Thursday, December 3, and to be held daily for one and a half hours. An attempt was being made at holding practices at the “Hampshire
Dome,” with the ultimate decision having not yet been made.
Indoor track meet events include sprints, hurdles, and long
distqances.
A long list of returning members were met with a large
amount of new members.
“I kind of just want to do the throwing,” said junior Troy
Butler, a new member of the team. “So I’m excited.”
Ski Team
Trinity’s Alpine Ski Team returns with about 10-12 kids
led by their Coach Mr. Tristan Perry, and captains juniors
Jeff Bessette, Ian Connoly, and Lauren Albee.
The team that competes at three Mountains: Gunstock,
Ragged, and Pats Peak returns between 10-12 kids to the
slopes for the 2009 season.
“It’s skiing, bottom line,” said Coach Perry. “It’s going to
be a blast to go out on the hill and practice.”
The team is excited, because of an excess of new members bringing up the team’s nuber from somewhat of a down
year, last year, as far as commitment goes.
“I’m really excited because we have a lot of new menbers that can hopefully help us towards getting closer to our
goals,” said Bessette.
Madol prepares to lead Pioneer Basketball
By Ryan Mitchell
Pioneer Staff
Somewhere within the
definition of a Trinity Pioneer,
if there were one, would be
two words probably in bold
text, all capitals, underlined,
or in any combination of the
three, the words: “basketball
fan.”
Every year, Trinity’s
die-hard student section is
rewarded with an abundance
of talent. The school has seen
Luke Bonner win All-American honors, and his teammates known as Trinity’s Fab
Four go on to play at Division
I schools like the University
of Louisville (Chris Brickley
and Chad Millard), and Purdue (Chris Lutz). Two years
ago, we saw point guard Ryan
Bourgeois score 1,000 points,
and last year, there was Jordan
Laguerre.
“Jordan was one of the
most athletic players to ever
come through the state of New
Hampshire,” said head Coach
Dave Keefe “I’m going to
miss him dearly.”
Laguerre, who transferred
to New Hampton this year
spent a memorable three years
at Trinity, finishing his career
off with a Class L title that was
won when he single-handedly
outscored Memorial in his
team’s 50-25 victory.
“Jordan is exactly where he
needs to be right now, and he’s
making the best of his new
life,” said Keefe.
But without Laguerre,
where does that leave the
Mark Natale / Pioneer staff
David Madol (15) reacts with teammates after last year’s championship victory over Memorial, a 50-25
win. A junior, Madol is expected to lead the Pioneers, with the help of a young supporting cast, in what
looks to be another Championship-caliber season.
Trinity boys basketball team in
2009? Well, with a lot of new
faces first of all. Last year’s
starting point guard, Phil
Hayden, returns as the team’s
only true starter on any Class
L basketball team last year,
but players like junior David
Madol and new addition,
senior Gordon Duffley from
Central have stepped up their
game and are ready to take on
big roles. Especially Madol.
Last year, David filled in
for his older brother, Richard
Madol, and teammate Dylan
Clark, and now only a year later,
is being hailed by many as the
best player in NH.
“I don’t think people are
going to recognize him,” said
Coach Keefe.
Madol, a big, hard worker,
is going to be a big reason for
Trinity’s change in style this
year, from a small athletic team
to a team centered around a
big man. Keefe says that he
believes Madol to be the best
player in the state, ahead of
Bishop Guertin’s new transfer
from Bedford, junior Connor
Green, and Nashua South’s
junior point guard Jake Nelson.
Madol, who Keefe described as
a hard worker, has grown into
a monster over the past year,
improving on his size to accompany his ball-handling skills and
abundance of athleticism. What
makes Madol so special for a
basketball player in New Hampshire is his immense amount of
athleticism that he has to go with
his size, making him an unusually versatile big man.
Aside from Madol, Trinity’s
Class of 2011 features players
such as the big man Aderotimi
Laniyan and notorious sharpshooter Zach Stevens who
will be looking to fill the void
left by the departed Cormac
Fitzpatrick, who left the Pioneers to play his senior season
at Memorial under his father
who holds the head coaching
position.
Stevens, who plays a
similar to game to that of the
talented Fitzpatrick, has been
working on becoming a more
complete player since last
season.
“[Stevens] knows that he
has to be a better player in
order to succeed as a player in
New Hampshire. He knows
that he can’t hang back and
shoot threes all day,” said
Keefe.
“I’ve been working really
hard on dribbling everyday,
I’ve been working on getting
to the basket, I knew I had to
get quicker,” said Stevens.
According to Keefe,
though, the team has around
11 guys competing for a starting position at this point. With
only two seniors, they are a
very young team.
Coach Keefe says that with
such a new team, they could
run into some rough games towards the beginning of the season, but as always expectations
are high. Which is expected,
seeing as Trinity team’s have
made it to the big games in
Durham eight times in the last
eight years.
“I’m excited,” said Keefe.
“This is a great group of kids
that know what it takes to take
it to the next step. They know
what it takes to win a championship.”
In 2009, Class L is a wide
open league with teams like
Memorial, Bishop Guertin, Dover, and Merrimack among others, seeing their own glimpses
of the title. And though Trinity
may not be the favorite in many
minds, we’re up there. Trinity
is a completely new team, and
this year’s team has youth, size,
talent, speed, and athleticism.
If things go well, that could be
a deadly mix. As everybody
looks forward to the season’s
beginning, with so many new
faces, it’s hard to see what
lies ahead, but I would not be
surprised if this team found
itself in Durham again celebrating, hearing the shouts of their
student body, who believe that
they have won.
Local sports venues
Manchester
2005, a brandMark Natale
sports fans are
new stadium
Opinion
spoiled and they
that fit 6,500
don’t even know
people. Still, the
it. How many
Fishercats have
cities in Ameriaveraged 5,400
ca can brag that
people per game
they have five
in attendance
different sports
through the
teams? So why
years, a pheis attendance
nomenal record
down at so
considering the
many of the
recent economic
city’s local sports venues?
recession.
With five semi-profesAlthough it’s not a surprise
sional sports teams located in
that the local soccer team
Manchester, most fans in other doesn’t draw in record atcities wouldn’t know which
tendance, the Phantoms, a
games to attend which night.
First Division United Soccer
In Manchester, they choose not League team who plays at
to go.
SNHU, still struggle for recThe Queen City is the home ognition in a town that seems
to the Manchester Monarchs to ignore its local sports teams.
(hockey), the NH Fishercats
Sports fans in the Queen City
(baseball), the NH Phantoms
seem to have started taking
(soccer), the Manchester
their sports teams for granted.
Millrats (basketball), the NH
Some fans remain loyal to
Rapids (soccer) and, until
the teams they have watched
recently, the Manchester
for the past decade now, but it
Wolves (football).
seems like others have simply
The Wolves, an Arena
lost interest in what’s going on
Football 2 team, recently dein the city. With five profescided to cease operations due
sional sports teams located in
to a caving Arena Football
nearby Boston and Foxboro,
League and a lack of fellow
most fans think it’s worth the
teams in the Northeast. The
drive and money to see “betWolves were plagued with
ter-quality” play.
low attendance because of
Why not save your money and
lack of interest.
watch a game where the action
The Rapids are a start-up
is purest, and not based on the
team in the National Premier
money or fame?
Soccer League and will begin
Manchester is home to
next year for the 2010 season.
some of the best sports action
The Manchester Monin the nation, if only people
archs, an American Hockey
would take the time to watch
League franchise team owned
it. Sure, we don’t have topby the Los Angeles Kings,
notch players like Zdeno
has always experienced great
Chara, Tom Brady, Kevin
success with fan attendance at
Garnett, Taylor Twellman,
games. With tickets ranging
or David Ortiz, but Manfrom $12 to $22, most fans
chester has its own breed of
found a night at the Verizon
up-and-coming players. With
Wireless Arena a good deal.
players like Brian Dopirak
Recently, however, due to poor (Fishercats), Jonathan Berfinishing results, attendance
nier (Monarchs), Desmond
at the Monarchs games has
Ferguson (Millrats) and Dangreatly decreased—it’s hard to iel Hernandez (Phantoms),
find a game where even half of Manchester sports fans can
the upper-level at the Verizon
witness the stars of tomorrow
Wireless Arena is filled.
in games today.
It’s the same story for
So, the question is, why
the New Hampshire Fisher
don’t the fans realize it? Why
Cats, a Double-A club for the
can’t we see that a night out
Toronto Blue Jays whose inau- on the town, eating dinner and
gural season was in 2004—the seeing a good game, is a lot
club struggled to fill seats
cheaper than driving down to
this summer as people were
Boston and watching a game
closing their wallets in tough
that you’d be lucky to get good
times. Ticket prices have held
seats at?
firm at anywhere from $6 to
In the Queen City, there’s
$32, though. The Fishercats,
no shortage of good seats, fun,
who won the Eastern League
and pure love of the game,
Championship in their inaugu- making this a great place to
ral season, moved to Merrelax and watch a good game,
chantsauto.com Stadium in
you should try it some time.
Support the boys’ basketball
team as they takes on
Memorial, Dec. 18 in a
rematch of last year’s state
championship game!
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Sports
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Trinity Winter Sports Schedules
Boys’ Basketball
Date
Away
Home Score
12/18 Memorial Trinity
--1/5
Trinity
Winnacunnett
--1/8
Londonderry Trinity
--1/12
Trinity
Goffstown
--1/15
Trinity
West --1/22
Trinity
Exeter
--1/26
Timberlane Trinity
--1/29
Central
Trinity
--2/2
Nashua North Trinity
--2/5
Trinity
Dover
--2/9
Spaulding
Trinity
--2/12
Trinity
Bishop Guertin
--2/16
Merrimack Trinity
--2/19
Trinity Alvirne
--2/23
Keene
Trinity
--2/26
Nashua South
Trinity
--3/2
Trinity
Pinkerton
--3/5
Concord
Trinity
--Boys‘ Freshman Basketball
Date
Away
Home
Score
12/14 Nashua South
Trinity
--12/17 Trinity
Nashua North
--12/19 Memorial
Trinity
--12/21 Trinity
West
--1/4
Central
Trinity
--1/6
Trinity
Bishop Guertin
--1/7
Goffstown
Trinity
--1/9
Trinity
Keene
--1/11
Trinity
Alvirne
--1/16
Trinity
Nashua South
--1/23
Nashua North
Trinity
--1/25
Trinity
Memorial
--1/28
West
Trinity --1/30
Trinity
Central
--2/1
Trinity
Goffstown
--2/4
Keene
Trinity
--2/6
Bishop Guertin
Trinity
--2/8
Trinity
Alvirne
--Girls‘ Freshman Basketball
Date
Away
Home
Score
12/14 Nashua South
Trinity
--12/17 Trinity
Nashua North
--12/19 Memorial
Trinity
--1/4
Trinity
West
--1/6
Trinity
Bishop Guertin
--1/7
Goffstown
Trinity
--1/9
Trinity
Keene
--1/11
Trinity
Alvirne
--Date
12/26
1/2
Indoor Track
Location
Dartmouth University
University of New Hampshire
Time
12:00
5:00
Date
12/11
12/15
12/18
1/5
1/8
1/12
1/15
1/22
1/26
1/29
2/2
2/5
2/9
2/12
2/16
2/19
2/23
2/26
Date
12/14
12/16
12/19
12/22
1/2
1/6
1/9
1/13
1/16
1/24
1/30
2/4
2/6
2/10
2/17
2/20
2/23
2/27
Date
1/16
1/23
1/25
1/28
1/30
2/1
2/4
2/6
2/8
Date
1/10
1/24
1/31
Girls’ Basketball
Away
Home
Score
Trinity
Concord
--Pinkerton
Trinity
--Trinity
Memorial
--Winnacunnett Trinity
--Trinity
Londonderry
--Goffstown
Trinity
--Trinity
West
--Exeter
Trinity
--Trinity
Timberlane
--Central
Trinity
--Trinity
Nashua North
--Dover
Trinity
--Trinity
Spaulding
--Bishop Guertin Trinity
--Trinity
Merrimack
--Alvirne
Trinity
--Trinity
Keene
--Nashua South Trinity
--Hockey
Away
Home
Score
Nashua South
Trinity
--Berlin
Trinity
--Trinity
Nashua North
--Bishop Brady
Trinity
--Memorial
Trinity
--Trinity
Bishop Brady
--Concord Trinity
--Trinity
Bishop Guertin
--Trinity
Exeter
--Nashua South Trinity
--Trinity
Central
--Salem
Trinity
--Trinity
Londonderry
--Hanover
Trinity
--St. Thomas Trinity
--Trinity
Pinkerton
--Londonderry
Trinity
--Trinity
Memorial
--Away
Home
Score
Trinity
Nashua South
--Nashua North
Trinity
--Trinity
Memorial
--West
Trinity --Trinity
Central
--Trinity
Goffstown
--Keene
Trinity
--Bishop Guertin
Trinity
--Trinity
Alvirne
--Location
Time
4:00
4:30
12:00
Trinity Fall Sports Standings
School
Trinity
Bishop Brady
Pelham
Bow
Somersworth
Kearsarge
St. Thomas
Stevens
Epping
W
8
6
6
5
4
4
2
1
0
Football
L
T
0
0
2
0
2
0
3
0
4
0
4
0
6
0
7
0
5
0
Points Rating
136.00 17.000
92.00 11.500
90.00 11.250
76.00 9.500
56.00 7.000
52.00 6.500
22.00 2.750
10.00 1.250
00.00 .000
Boys’ Soccer
School
W
L
T
Concord
14
1
1
Exeter
13
0
3
B. Guertin
12
2
2
Pinkerton
12
4
0
Central
11
3
2
Londonderry 11
5
0
Winnacunnet 11 5
0
Memorial
9
4
3
Merrimack
9
7
0
Salem
8
8
0
Keene
7
8
1
Timberlane
6
7
3
Spaulding
6
8
2
Nashua S.
5
9
2
Nashua N.
5
11
0
Goffstown
4
11
1
Alvirne
2
14
0
Dover
1
13
2
West
1
13
2
Trinity
0
14
2
Points Rating
14.50 .9063
14.50 .9063
13.00 .8125
12.00 .7500
12.00 .7500
11.00
.6875
11.00
.6875
10.50 .6563
9.00 .5623
8.00 .5000
7.50 .4688
7.50 .4688
6.00 .4375
6.00 .3750
5.00 .3125
4.50 .2813
2.00 .1250
2.00 .1250
2.00 .1250
1.00 .0625
Girls’ Soccer
School
W
L
T
Londonderry 15
1
0
Salem
15
1
0
Exeter
13
2
1
Central
13
3
0
Keene
12
3
1
Merrimack
11 3
2
Concord
10 6
0
Pinkerton
10 6
0
Winnacunnet 10 6
0
B. Guertin
9
6
1
Nashua S.
9
7
0
Dover
5
11
0
Timberlane
5
11
0
Goffstown
4
10
2
Alvirne
4
12
0
Nashua N.
4
12
0
Spaulding
3
13
0
Memorial
2
14
0
West
1
14
1
Trinity
1
15
0
Points
15.00
15.00
13.50
13.00
12.50
12.00
10.00
10.00
10.00
9.50
9.00
5.00
5.00
5.00
4.00
4.00
3.00
2.00
1.50
1.00
Rating
.9375
.9375
.8438
.8125
.7813
.7500
.6250
.6250
.6250
.5938
.5625
.3125
.3125
.3125
.2500
.2500
.1875
.1250
.0938
.0625
School
Spaulding
Londonderry
Bishop Guertin
Salem
Pinkerton
Alvirne
Nashua N.
Merrimack
Goffstown
Winnacunnnet
Keene
Exeter
Nashua S.
Concord
Memorial
West
Timberlane
Dover
Trinity
Central
Girls’ Voleyball
W
L
T
Points Rating
17 1
0
17.00
.9444
16 2
0
16.00
.8889
15 3
0
15.00
.8333
15
3
0
15.00
.8333
14
4
0
14.00
.7778
13 5
0
13.00
.7222
13
5
0
13.00
.7222
12
6
0
12.00
.6667
10
8
0
10.00
.5556
10 8
0
10.00
.5556
9
9
0
9.00
.5000
8
10
0
8.00
.4444
8 10
0
8.00
.4444
5
13
0
5.00
.2778
4
14
0
4.00
.2222
4
14
0
4.00
.2222
4 14
0
4.00
.2222
2
16
0
2.00
.1111
1
17
0
1.00
.0556
0
18
0
0.00
.0000
School
Pinkerton
Keene
Salem
Timberlane
B. Guertin
Memorial
Dover
Spaulding
Central
Exeter
Alvirne
Nashua N.
Concord
Merrimack
Winnacunnet
Goffstown
Nashua S.
Trinity
Londonderry
West
W
30
25
24
22
21
20
18
18
16
15
14
13
10
10
10
9
7
6
5
1
Golf
L
T
0
0
2
0
3
0
8
0
9
0
10
0
12
0
12
0
14
0
15
0
16
0
17
0
17
0
20
0
20
0
21
0
23
0
21
0
25
0
29
0
Points Rating
30.00
1.000
25.00
.9259
24.00
.8889
22.00
.7333
21.00
.7000
20.00
.6667
18.00
.6000
18.00
.6000
16.00
.6000
15.00
.5000
14.00
.4667
13.00
.4333
10.00
.3704
10.00
.3333
10.00
.3333
9.00
.3000
7.00
.2333
6.00
.2222
5.00
.1667
1.00
.0333
Staff Note: schedules and
standings are current as of
Dec. 4. Trinity’s results and
standings are in bold.
Page 16
The Pioneer
Arts & Entertainment
Trinty’s stage alive with ‘The Sound of Music’
By Tiffany Keenan
Pioneer Staff
On Friday, Nov. 13, and
Saturday, Nov. 14, Trinity
High School’s drama club
preformed the musical The
Sound of Music in Trinity
high School’s gymnasium.
The Friday night show had
an outstanding turnout with
an audience of more than 200
people. “There were people
sitting on the bleachers,” said
adviser Ms. Byron.
“I was so happy to see all
of the people there. It was
definitely one of our best
turnouts that I’ve seen,” said
cast member and sophomore,
Mo Gibbons.
Saturday night’s audience
too, just barely filled the seats.
This family-oriented
musical filled with song and
laughter was directed by senior
Allison Parent, who said she
was very proud of her cast
members and emphasized the
hard work of putting the production together. “It was the
most successful show I’ve ever
been in,” said Parent
The Sound of Music
starred senior Jessica Parent
as Maria Rainer, an upbeat,
soon–to-be nun who loves
to express herself through
music. She was thrilled and
astonished with the result of
the play. “I was very surprised
by the outcome. It was chaotic
at rehearsal. Our expectations
were much lower,” said
Parent.
Senior Brady Manning
played Captain von Trapp,
a strict Austrian who keeps
his seven children in line. He
is engaged to Elsa Shraeder,
played by Gillian Gravel.
Everything was a concern
for the drama club before the
show. “We still aren’t totally
sure how it came together so
well. We were all delighted
that the play went far better
than we expected,” said Manning.
Maria is assigned to be a
governess at the von Trapp
house. She changes the
children’s outlooks on life and
brings singing into the
household. With songs like
“My Favorite Things” and
“Do-Re-Mi,” she raises the
spirits of the Army lifestyle
the children live by. She falls
in love with the captain and
questions becoming a nun.
Many liked the powerful
casting choice of the children
and enjoyed their enthusiasm,
played by sophomore Mo
Pioneer Staff photo
Angela Berube, Thomas Tarr, Mo Gibbons, Mark Natale, Emilee Thompson, Sarah Tarr, and Olivia
Blomquist sing “So Long, Farewell” as the von Trapp children in Trinity’s The Sound of Music.
Gibbons, senior Mark Natale,
freshman Emilee Thompson,
junior Sarah Tarr, freshman
Thomas Tarr, junior Angela
Berube, and freshman Olivia
Blomquist.
The stage presence of
Mark Natale as Friedrich, the
oldest of the von Trapps, kept
the audience entertained.
“Mark was really good
with his character. [The children] did a great job overall
and were very funny. The
singing was great. Gillian
Gravel did amazing,” said
senior Nicole Connolly.
DJ Hero: Expensive, but worth it
By Ryan Mitchell
Pioneer Staff
DJ Hero, the latest installment in music video games
by Activision, seems like it
was definitely made to appeal to people like myself.
First off, I am not a “gamer,”
the Guitar Hero/Rock Band
music did not appeal to
me because I cannot stand
“metal” music, which made
up about 75% percent of the
song selections. Like most
others, I have a soft spot for
most DJ/club remixes, and
this is exactly what pop culture the success of DJ Hero is
relying on.
When playing DJ Hero,
you have about a hundred
songs and ninety mixes to
choose from. Featuring artists
range from Jay-Z to Gwen
Stefani, from Third Eye
Blind to Daft Punk and
everything else in between.
Just as Guitar Hero had
the guitar, DJ Hero has the
turn table, the cross-fader, and
those familiar, little colored
buttons to correspond with
the little colored dots on the
screen.
The set-list features songs
that I would say are both good
and bad, many of them being
those top 40 hits that I am not
a fan of, but when mixed with
a Daft Punk instrumental, and
accompanied by visuals that
are just begging for epileptic
attacks by game players, these
songs can become very bear-
Some students were
surprised with the performance, “It was better than I
thought it was going to be,”
said Christian Goodnow, a
sophomore.
Running more than two
hours in length, the students
felt the show was too long. “It
went on forever,” said
sophomore Sam Rainey.
Some teachers gave extra
credit to those who went to the
play. Many teachers encouraged the THS students to support not only the football team
playing for the state champion-
Susan Boyle is still
dreamin’ the dream
By Emma Pratte
Pioneer Staff
Photo from Amazon.com
able.
Like Guitar Hero, DJ
Hero is very hard to get used
to, and let’s be honest, it
completely fails to simulate
any kind of actual challenge
posed by real disc jockeying, but isn’t that besides the
point?
If I’m playing DJ Hero,
I don’t want to feel like an
actual DJ, because I’m not
one and if I did want to, I
probably wouldn’t be spending money on a video game
simulator, I would be trying
to purchase real instruments
used by DJs.
My one complaint about
DJ Hero would be that some
of the mixes end up being
less of songs as they are an
endless stream of random
effects, like DJ scratches and
never- ending loops, with no
established patterns or paces.
But other than this, overall the
game is enjoyable for almost
anybody.
Like Rock Band and
Guitar Hero, the game makes
a great diversion for anybody
looking to hole themselves up
in their basement for hours at
a time, or for anybody who
wants something to entertain
their house guests (so pretty
much just holing yourself up
in your basement along with
a bunch of other people). But
it can also be great fun for
someone who, like myself,
does not play a lot of video
games, does not like most
mainstream, popular music,
and leaves my house for hours
at a time.
For its pros and cons,
DJ Hero seems to be worth
its price of about $120.
All-in-all, DJ Hero is
great fun, a lot of the music
is great, and if you like dancing, it just might make you
want to stand up and dance a
little.
ships but also the drama club.
Many solos and duets were
sung by the cast. Ms. Trachim
was responsible for the music
and was accompanied by
sophomore Tyler Plante.
Ms. Byron, faculty
adviser, praised her cast and
said she was extremely pleased
with the outcome of both
shows after all the preparation
and work. “We get our scripts
eight weeks in advance, but
over the summer the students
think about the play they want
to do and the costumes they
want to wear,” said Ms. Byron.
Susan Boyle’s debut
album I Dreamed A Dream
came out on Tuesday, Nov.
24.
We all remember Boyle
as the 48-year-old woman
with a bad haircut, a frumpy
outfit and pipes that rival
even the best signer in the
business today.
She got her start on the
television show Britain’s Got
Talent, which she didn’t
even win. Here in America
she became a Youtube sensation. Her album, named
for the Les Miserables
song that made her famous,
reached the top of the charts
all over the world.
Other than an unusually
young sounding voice, Susan Boyle gives a CD that
was pretty much expected.
Boyle’s debut album, shows
little diversity. Her vocal
capabilities are boxed into
slow, mellow, coffee shop
music, that, by the end of
the CD, start to sound the
same. Boyle sings well, but
her sound is not necessarily
appeal to teenagers.
The music is extremely
varied, with songs like ‘Wild
Horses,’ ‘Daydream Believer,’ ‘How Great Thou Art,’
and her classic, ‘I Dreamed
a Dream,’ but she some how
manages to make them all
sound exactly the same.
Boyle has the potential
to be a one-hit wonder with
the album. With no original
songs, and even a Christmas
carol thrown in there, Boyle
has really stuck herself in
a seasonal sort of sound,
which is really sad with her
talents.
If you get a chance to
listen to this CD, do so, but
buying it would probably be
a waste of money.
The Pioneer
Chiggy’s is the breakfast place
By Emma Pratte
Pioneer Staff
Chiggy’s Place is a
relatively new restaurant
in Manchester. Located on
Kelley St., Chiggy’s offers
good food at a good price.
It is open for breakfast and
lunch, seven days a week.
Parking on Kelly Steet is not
the easiest thing to do, but it
is free.
With pictures of fund
raising events, loyal patrons
and family friends hanging
on the walls of the restaurant, Chiggy’s Place creates a
warm and inviting atmosphere
for people of all ages. It feels
like home, except with better
food.
“Order ready!” can be
heard sporadically as plates of
simple yet delicious food are
carried throughout the
comfortably cramped restaurant. The service was quick
but not rushed, and the wait
staff was pleasant.
Chiggy’s is a little
breakfast gem in Manchester. Be prepared to wait for
a seat if your party exceeds
two people, but it will be well
worth the wait.
The typical menu is
embellished with their very
own cinnamon butter and
oversized cups of coffee and
hot chocolate. Their delicious buttermilk pancakes are
$2.00 for one, $3.25 for two,
and $4.25 for three. Waffles
are $4.00, and French toast is
$4.25.
Chiggy’s, being a west-end
eatery, offers delicious crepes.
Mayer’s ‘Battle Studies’
impresses loyal fan
By Mari-Briege Dunn
Pioneer Staff
Chiggy’s massive waffle dusted with powedered sugar, and being
drizzled with maple syrup.
Whether you have them with
fruit topping and whipped
cream or just maple syrup,
these crepes are as good as the
ones French Canadian grandmother makes.
The lunch menu at
Chiggy’s is just as diverse
as breakfast. From a grilled
chicken sandwich for $5.75
to a peanut butter and jelly
sandwich for $2.25, the lunch
menu covers many tastes.
During the lunch hours the
restaurant quiets down a little,
which can lead to a bit more
comfortable dining experience.
This holiday season
Chiggy’s is helping out the
community, as it so often
does. There will be a Toys
for Tots drop off location and
they are holding their annual
Toys for Tips, when the wait
staff gives up their tips to buy
toys for less fortunate kids.
Don’t be fooled by their
slogan, get mugged. It comes
from their massive, no-needto-be-refilled mugs. Chiggy’s
Place is a comfortable restaurant that serves a good
breakfast.
If you are looking for a
casual dining experience,
Chiggy’s is your place.
The menu is expected for
any breakfast restaurant,
but it is the quality of the
food served that really puts it
above and beyond other
breakfast joints in Manchester.
Page 17
In John Mayer’s fourth
studio album, Battle Studies, Mayer keeps a balance
of his old acoustic sound
with a new folk/rock sound.
His soothing lyrics focus on
being content with normalcy
as well as trying to be accessible to his audience.
In true John Mayer fashion, the subject of love is
very prevalent in this album.
Mayer covers it all, whether
it is about a broken heart or
falling in love.
“Heartbreak Warfare,”
“Assassin,” and “War of
My Life” all stay true to
the album title. He relates
love to a battle by using war
metaphors about his former
relationship with actress
Jennifer Aniston, sings
about karma and realizes
that life is tough, but in the
end, you just need to soldier
on.
“All We Ever Do Is Say
Goodbye” is about realizing
it’s time to move on and get
over that certain someone.
Mayer does a duet with
Taylor Swift in “Half of My
Heart,” a straightforward
song about his heart being
torn in two and only being
able to love with half of it.
Mayer’s catchy cover of
Robert Johnson’s “Crossroads” is one of my favorite
tracks on the album.
“Who Says” and “Perfectly Lonely” both declare
independence, conveying his
ideal night on the town and
stating Mayer’s content with
being single. “Do You Know
Me At All” is a mediocre,
whopping twelve-line song
about love, portraying
Mayer as kind of desperate.
“Friends, Lovers or Nothing,” beginning with an
Elton John-style piano and
bringing in the typical John
Mayer guitar riffs and solos,
addresses jealousy and an
all-or-nothing kind of relationship. “Edge of Desire”
shows Mayer’s vulnerable
side by saying “I’m scared
you’ll forget about me.”
Battle Studies is different. Some say it’s not as
good as Continuum, his last
album, but I beg to differ.
The two can’t be compared
because they’re so different. It’s a completely
different sound compared to
Continuum. The gist of the
songs are also so much more
melancholy. Battle Studies is
all about heartbreak whereas
the themes in Continuum
were much more more positive.
Mayer’s latest album is
unlike any other album he
has recorded. If anything, it
is more similar to his earlier
albums. His songs still have
soul, there’s no question
about that, but they’re mellower.
Mayer doesn’t fail to impress in his latest and, in my
opinion, greatest album…for
now.
‘A Christmas Carol’ doesn’t quite live up to potential
By Emma Pratte
Pioneer Staff
Disney’s A Christmas
Carol tells the classic story by
Charles Dickens.
Ebenezer Scrooge is a
cranky old man living in
London during the early 19th
century. He despises Christmas and every happy feeling
associated with it. He hoards
all his money and looks down
on his clerk and nephew for
being so happy with so little,
during what he thinks is a
pointless season.
The story takes place on
Christmas Eve when four
ghosts visit old Ebenezer.
The first is Jacob Marley,
Scrooge’s business partner
who died seven Christmas
Eves ago. He warns Scrooge
that three more ghosts will
come to visit him, the ghost
of Christmas past, present
and future. We all know the
story, so what makes this one
different?
No detail was spared in
creating the animated characters. From each wrinkle
on Ebenezer Scrooge’s face
to every snowflake (literally
single snowflakes) on the
signs and roof tops the animation along with the 3D experience makes you feel like are
really on London street during
a snowy Christmas day. As
the opening credits roll, you
are flown over the rooftops of
London on what feels more
like an amusement ride than
a movie. If you get motion
sickness, this scene will make
you sick.
Jim Carey’s performance is
far from expected. He voices
not only young, middle-age
and old Scrooge, but also
the ghosts of Christmas past,
present, and future. If it was
not stated in the credit, you
wouldn’t believe that it’s
Carey. Colin Firth brings to
life Scrooge’s nephew, Fred.
His animated counter part
shares such a resemblance to
the real Firth it quite possible to mistake the two.
Robin Wright Penn is another
recognizable name. Most
commonly known for her
work in The Princess Bride
and Forest Gump, she lends
her voice to the character of
Belle, Scrooge’s love interest
in the past.
This being a Disney
production, you would think
that it is as was advertised: a
kid-friendly, family-oriented,
cheery Christmas movie, but
it’s not. In many aspects, this
film is actually quite frightening, staying faithful to the
book. Jacob Marley’s entrance
is especially alarming. We can
hear him come up the stairs
with his chains for a solid
minute before we actually
see him, and when we do,
he is quite a sight. Paralleled
in creepiness is the ghost of
Christmas yet to come. A
Christmas Carol fulfills the
PG rating to the limit.
This film seems to have
been made to teach a message: keep the Christmas
spirit alive. This is why the
book was written, but this
film seems to be directed at
children. Kids get it. They do
not need the story of Ebenezer
Scrooge yet.
The dialogue is taken
almost word for word from
Dickens’s book. The characters are using words and
phrases that are easily understood by a high schooler, but
there is a fat chance anyone
in Disney’s normal audience
will have more than a vague
understanding of what is being said.
Seeing how faithful
Disney’s A Christmas Carol
is to Dicken’s A Christmas
Carol made for a somewhat
boring movie. We have seen it
before. Although the fantastic
animation and 3D technology
bring it to life in a way that
we have not experienced, it
is nothing new. In fact, by the
end of the movie, Scrooge
still isn’t that appealing and
Tiny Tim is not shown to us
enough for a real attachment
to grow for character. Tiny
Tim is usually a big player
in Scrooge’s conversion; in
this case, his “God bless us
everyone” just doesn’t have
the effect that it could.
If you have an hour and a
half to spare, it would not be
a total waste of time to see the
newest version of A Christmas Carol. It is simple and
straightforward and a movie
that will remind you of the
true meaning of Christmas.
Page 18
The Pioneer
Pioneer Playlists: what
Trinity’s finest listen to
‘This Is It’ – the King of
Pop’s Final Performance
Jacko film leaves this superfan dazzled
By Mari-Briege Dunn
Pioneer Staff
Mr. Perry
“14 Years” – Guns N’ Roses
“Brothers in Arms” – Dire
Straits
“Voodoo Lady” – Ween
“Pick & Roll” – Gourds
“You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere”
– Bob Dylan
“Hey You” – Pink Floyd
“Start Wearing Purple”
– Gogol Bordello
“Whatever It Is” – Zac
Brown Band
“Just Dropped In” – Kenny
Rogers
“Pancho & Lefty” – Townes
Van Zandt
“Miss You” – The Rolling
Stones
“Crazy Train” – Ozzy Osbourne
“Where is My Mind?” – Pixies
“Out Last Night” – Kenny
Chesney
Ashley Joncas, fashionista
“Le Disko” – Shiny Toy
Guns
“Black Cat” – Ladytron
“Dog Days are Over”
– Florence and the
Machine
“Creator” – Santigold
“Love Token” – The Duke
Spirit
“Swept Away” – Flyleaf
“Lithium” – Evanescence
“So Sick” – Flyleaf
“Bad Romance” – Lady
Gaga
“Ignorance” – Paramore
“Closing In” – Imogen
Heap
“Don’t Upset the Rythm”
– The Noisettes
“That’s Not My Name”
– The Ting Tings
“The Fear” – Lily Allen
“My Immortal”
– Evanescence
Mr. Smith
Mrs. Hollingworth
“Flagpole Sitta” – Harvey
Danger
“All I Want” – Toad the Wet
Sprocket
“I Wanna Be Sedated”
– The Ramones
“The Impression That I Get”
– Mighty Mighty Bosstones
“I’m Shipping Up to Boston” – Dropkick Murphys
“Molly” – Sponge
“Mr. Brightside” – The Killers
“Jumper” – Third Eye Blind
“Alive” – Pearl Jam
“Tonight, Tonight”
– Smashing Pumpkins
“I Alone” – Live
“Big Yellow Taxi” – Counting Crows
“Hold My Hand” – Hootie
and the Blowfish
“Viva la Vida” – Coldplay
“I Will Follow” – U2
“Viva la Vida” – Coldplay
“Fake It” – Seether
“On My Way” – Del Sol
“Down Under” – Men At
Work
“Nothing Else Matters”
– Metallica
“Love Story” – Taylor Swift
“Ingen Summar Utan
Reggae” – Markoolio
“Don’t Look Back in
Anger” – Oasis
“Extreme Ways” – Moby
“Run Around” – Blues
Traveler
“Me & Bobby McGee”
– Janis Joplin
“Ready Steady Go” – Paul
Oakenfold
“Destination Calabria”
– Alex Gaudino
“The Climb” – Miley Cyrus
“I’m Yours” – Jason Mraz
Kaitlyn Telge,
senior class president
“Shiver” – Coldplay
“Sparks” – Coldplay
“Electric Feel” – MGMT
“Winner” – Drake
“Best Day” – Taylor Swift
“Money to Blow” – Drake
and Lil Wayne
“Stellar” – Incubus
“Wish You Were Here”
– Incubus
“#41” – Dave Matthews
Band
“Neon” – John Mayer
“I Want You” – Kings of
Leon
“Stories” – Trapt
“Lost Ones” – Jay Z
“Hunger for the Great Light”
– Dave Matthews Band
“White Houses” – Vanessa
Carlton
As a huge fan of MJ,
I walked into Michael
Jackson’s This Is It with
high expectations and anticipation to see one of my
all-time favorite musicians
give us a glimpse of what
his London would have
been like– amazing.
Director Kenny Ortega,
who also directed the High
School Musical movies,
worked with Jackson while
rehearsing for the tour.
The movie shows Michael Jackson, his band,
back-up singers, and dancers, all incredibly talented
people, rehearsing for a
show that would have awed
people.
Jackson was clearly in
his element while performing on stage. He seemed
very comfortable on stage
and could still move like
he did in the 80s. He was
also very strong vocally,
showing off his pipes during
rehearsals for songs such as
“Human Nature” “Beat It”
and “Billie Jean” along with
many other hits.
I found it funny how
the people he worked with
treated him like royalty
which seems appropriate as
he is known as “The King of
Pop.” He certainly proved
the title to be true by coaching those around him, including his musical director.
Everyone did exactly what
he wanted and agreed with
everything he said, calling
him by name or “sir” every
time they spoke to him.
Whatever MJ said, went.
Jackson seemed very
kind to the people around
him. He never made a scene
when something was wrong,
but he did make sure that he
addressed it.
Many times in the movie
he is shown correcting a
tempo or volume of the
song. It appeared as though
he couldn’t quite connect
with everyone. He would
give them advice that they
didn’t seem to understand.
By telling the band to “let
it simmer, sizzle” and other
verbs that one wouldn’t normally connect with music,
he proved to be on a different level than the others.
Evidently, Jackson was a
perfectionist and wanted everything to be exactly right.
The anticipated shows
would have certainly been
very intricate, with fireworks, dancers popping
out of the stage, and video
recorded specifically for the
concerts.
In “The Way You Make
Me Feel,” there was actually
a structure that appeared to
be a building in construction
that the dancers performed
on. “Thriller” had a music
video and was supposed to
have an actual graveyard on
the stage. Each number had
its own theme with a lot of
hard work put into it.
Although a majority of the show was still
in production while being
filmed, we get the idea of
what would have been. The
movie was a little lengthy,
but as a fan, I was willing to
let it slide.
The tour very well could
have brought the King of
Pop back, but that is obviously something we’ll never
know. The tour looked to
be one of the greatest, most
intricate shows in history.
This Is It’s title was fitting,
but left the fans of MJ,
including myself, wishing it
wasn’t.
‘This Is It’: a waste of time for non-fans
By Ryan Mitchell
Pioneer Staff
I am not a fan of Michael
Jackson, probably because
I am just not a fan of pop
music in general, but with
that in mind, I can tell you
that I was also not entertained by Jackson’s postmortem documentary This
Is It.
This Is It follows Jackson while preparing for
his final tour. It chronicles
his hard day- to-day work,
giving us a peek into his
aspiration for perfection,
as he runs through hit after
hit, going as far back as the
days of The Jackson 5.
I guess the movie would
be a good watch if you were
a die-hard fan of MJ, but for
me, it was boring and very
weird at times.
From his strange personality to the odd way in
which the crew treated him,
always calling him Michael,
Sir, or MJ, a lot of the real
personal interaction in the
film seemed very, very
awkward.
Jacko also had a knack
for wearing sunglasses
around the clock in a dimly
lit stadium and for using
weird terms to describe
musical phenomena such as
“let it sizzle,” “let it simmer,” or “fire.”
Jackson and the cast of
directors also loved throwing out the word “love”
at different times, saying it was “all about the
love,” when in the twohour film they literally did
not exchange any kind of
conversation that was not
completely about business
or the show whatsoever.
Love & music, huh? Call
me cynical, but I wasn’t really feeling it.
Now, I’ll give it to the
King of Pop: the man certainly knows his music and
works very hard at his performance. But for someone
who does not particularly
enjoy his music or listen to
it very often, the movie got
very boring. It was night,
and I found myself struggling to stay awake when
MJ and the crew ran through
the particular numbers that I
didn’t recognize.
Bottom line is, if you’re
not a big MJ fan, you should
probably not see This Is It.
It definitely felt like a
waste of time and money to
me. It was cool to see such
an iconic performer just
before his death, but my distaste for his music and the
oddities of his personality
certainly weighed heavier
on my experience than did
any potentially positive elements of the film.
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November/December 2009 The Pioneer
Page 19
‘New Moon’ is an even
bigger hit than ‘Twilight’
By Mark Natale
Pioneer Staff
It’s been awaited with
bated breath by millions of
teenage girls across the globe
for a year now, the coming
of the second movie in the
Twilight saga, New Moon.
For those familiar with
the popular book series authored by Stephanie Meyer,
New Moon is well-known
as the beginning of an epic
struggle between vampires
and werewolves, the Cullen
family and the Quileute tribe,
Edward and Jacob.
Casting led by Kristen
Stewart (Bella Swan), Robert
Pattinson (Edward Cullen)
and Taylor Lautner (Jacob
Black) was the exact same as
the first movie in the series
of four, but relied heavily on
the main three.
In Twilight, the focus
of the production had been
Bella’s strong friend support
during the development of
her relationship with Edward, but New Moon focused
more on the torn relationship
between Bella and Edward
and her developing relationship with Jacob.
Directed by Chris Weitz, a
new director for the Twilight
series, New Moon leaves
behind many of the awkward
pauses that plagued Twilight
and focuses more on the passing of time during the movie.
Following Edward’s
departure from Forks, the
movie focuses on Bella’s
realization that reckless
actions produce an image
of Edward in her sight that
warns her not to do anything
dangerous. Obsessed with
these moments with Edward,
Bella constantly puts herself
in life-threatening situations—anything from getting
on the back of a motorcycle
of a complete stranger to
cliff-diving at high tide.
With this realization that
with danger comes Edward,
Bella convinces Quileute
friend Jacob to assist her in
repairing two motorcycles
that she found in a scrap heap.
The two spend a lot of
time together, and Jacob
starts to get ideas of pushing their relationship further,
especially now that Edward
is out of the way. Though
continually shut down by
Bella, Jacob promises that he
will never give up on her, the
love of his life.
After finishing the bikes,
Jacob disappears from
Bella’s life for a while, causing her to become an emotional wreck again. Using
some clever guiding, Jacob is
able to lead Bella to find the
truth about his illness—he is
a werewolf and needs to protect her from the vampires.
Following some scary
moments in which Victoria
(Rachelle Lefevre) comes
back to kill Bella, Bella is
rescued by Alice (Ashley
Greene), who takes her away
to Italy to stop Edward from
having the Volturi kill him.
With many intense fight
scenes intertwined with emotionally complex moments,
New Moon is quite a few
steps ahead of its predecessor
Twilight and is a hit for guys
and girls alike.
Weezer’s ‘Raditude’ packs in
a lot of fun but little emotion
By Sarah Ruggiero
Pioneer Staff
Starting with the name,
Weezer’s new album Raditiude is chock full of gimmicks.
One part radical and one
part attitude, the phrase was
invented by Weezer-buddy
Rainn Wilson, also known as
Dwight Schrute from “The
Office.”
And even better: if you
phone-order a a Wuggie– a
legitimate Snuggie with
“WEEZER” emblazoned
across the front– you get the
album for free.
However, gimmicks don’t
equal substance.
Raditude is the essay that
lead singer Rivers Cuomo
scrapped together at the
last minute, and it’s really
short, but he was able to
slip in enough witty jokes to
make up for the lack of solid
thought and content. Really,
he’s just trying to push his
teacher’s–er, fans’–limits.
The lyrics seem a bit too
shallow to come from the
journal of one of Harvard’s
finest, but maybe that’s the
point– maybe Cuomo is just
looking for the satisfaction of
a hit song.
To hardcore Weezer cult
members, the procession of
recent Weezer albums has
become increasingly disappointing, and Raditude is
Cuomo’s latest mechanism in
torturing his fans.
The Blue Album and
Pinkerton– Weezer’s first
two– were revealing, insightful, and bursting with
awkward sincerity.
On Raditude, the most
we learn about the frontman is that he enjoys romps
through the mall and lets it
all hang out with his homies.
The emotion and honesty of
Pinkerton that fans found
so striking and mesmerzing is more or less absent in
Weezer’s latest release.
“(If You’re Wondering If
I Want You To) I Want You
To” opens the album with
peppiness and sounds as if it
could be the next song to be
featured in an AT&T ad.
The geek rock quartet
never skimps on quirky
charm, and for Cuomo, a
standard wooing consists of
him inviting his girl out for a
romantic evening of cheese
fondue.
And, as is usual, the album
is full of offbeat pop culture
references
The chorus of the second
track almost sounds cute
– “This ain’t impossible, this
ain’t improbable, you are
my baby tonight”– but then
it turns creepy as Cuomo
proclaims: “and I’m your
daddy.”
The album’s climax as far
as humor goes is “Can’t Stop
Partying,” a “club” jam for
the Asher Roth-loving frat
boys, which was produced by
hitmaker Jermaine Dupri and
features a cameo by collaboration-leech Lil Wayne.
To the Top 40 music listener, this song sounds like
any other song on MTV, and
to the more knowledgable
fan, it sounds like a joke.
But there’s more beneath
the surface: with this one
track, Cuomo stabs his primeval superfans in the back
with a self-satisfied grin on
his face.
Pizza Bella
Family Restaurant
178 Route 101
Bedford Village Shops
Bedford, NH
472-8560
Pizza, salads, hot
and cold subs, side
orders, dinners,
gyros
Hours: Monday–Sunday 10 am–10 pm
Delivery: Monday–Sunday 5 pm–10 pm
KC’s in Manchester gives off a festive, rock and roll atmosphere.
KC’s offers heaping
portions of barbecue
By Mark Natale
Pioneer Staff
If the paper tablecloths and
rolls of paper resting beside a
mix of four different barbecue
sauces on every table doesn’t
give it away to the average
customer, eating at KC’s Rib
Shack can get a little messy.
KC’s Rib Shack, located
on Second Street in Manchester, is the Queen City’s home
to authentic Southern barbecue.
Filled with the sounds of
classic rock from the ’60s
and ’70s, KC’s atmosphere is
one of an authentic hole-inthe-wall joint from the South
where good food dominates
the need for up-scale decorations. With walls decorated
with guitars and Christmas
lights year-round, KC’s tries
bringing a cheery atmosphere
to a restaurant that would
otherwise be quite boring.
Plenty of tables in the
restaurant, along with a set of
four booths, ensure plenty of
seats, even on the busiest of
nights. After finding my own
table, it took a few short seconds for a waitress to come
my way asking me if she
could get me anything to start
off, a definite plus in the way
of service.
Although I wasn’t in the
mood for an appetizer that
day, KC’s is famous for its
deep-fried pickles ($6.99)
served with a ranch dip that’s
always a classic.
For dinner, I ordered a QQ
Pladda for two (your choice
of two sides; four meats:
spare ribs, chicken breast,
pulled pork, beef brisket, or
smoked sausage; and two
cornbreads). At $12.99 per
person, the meal came with
plenty of meat for what was
ordered.
Seasoned well and practically dripping with fat, the
ribs were almost cooked
to perfection, with enough
moisture that they didn’t need
the extra barbecue sauce on
the side. The beef brisket
was some of the best I’ve
ever had, so moist and juicy I
couldn’t believe it.
The pulled pork was
another hit, freshly pulled
after being cooked for more
than 15 hours, again seasoned
to perfection. The chicken
breast, while moist and flavorful on the inside, could have
used a much crispier skin.
Sides, too, were a hit.
The mashed potatoes were
warm and delicious, and the
near-sweet coleslaw was a
nice change from the typical
restaurant ‘slaw. The cornbread, a staple in the South,
was a hit for me—sweet, not
too crumbly, and made with
real corn.
Other hits on the menu
include the Jamaican Jerk
Chicken Wing Pladda (authentic Jamaican Jerk spice,
$11.99), the Pulled Pork
Sammie (classic, Carolinastyle pulled pork on a bulky
roll, $7.99), the Cardiac Sam
(pulled pork, cheese, pulled
chicken, bacon and roasted
red peppers on a bulky roll,
$9.99), and the Carolina
Burger (topped with pulled
pork, barbecue sauce and
cheese, $9.99).
With a friendly wait staff
and authentic trucker atmosphere, KC’s Rib Shack
definitely delivers when it
comes to authentic Southern
barbecue.
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The Pioneer
The Back Page
The Season’s Best Hot Chocolate
Starbucks:
I usually go to Starbucks for coffee, but upon trying their hot chocolate, I think I’ll make the switch. Though a bit too hot in the beginning to immediately start drinking, the hot chocolate was great once
it cooled down. It was really chocolaty, with a kind of vanilla flavor
to it. And they serve it with whipped cream and cocoa powder, which
basically doubles the goodness. All in all, this drink was pretty awesome, but it rang in around $3.50. The price and the temperature
were my only complaints.
Dunkin Donuts:
Dunkin’ Donuts’ hot chocolate is the classic hot chocolate. It is
sweet, rich and creamy. It is the kind of hot chocolate that you
would figure that Santa is drinking up at the North Pole. With
Dunkin’ Donuts locations all over the state, this hot chocolate is
readily available. Dunkin’s also offers white hot chocolate and
Dunkaccino, which, for the fools who don’t already know, is half
hot chocolate and half coffee, but if you want a real treat, go for the
original. You can’t go wrong.
Panera:
The hot chocolate from Panera Bread is something different, but far
from expected. As much of everything else at Panera, their hot chocolate is good. This delectable hot beverage is served with whipped
cream with drizzled chocolate syrup on top. Its perfectly light and
sweet taste is offset by the slightly bitter aftertaste. This hot chocolate
definitely has a distinct flavor. With Panera Bread locations being so
few and far between, going for their hot chocolate over the next coffee
shop would be worth it, Try it, if for no other reason, then just something new and different.
Barnes and Nobles:
The Barnes & Nobles Café, located in the Barnes & Nobles at 1741
South Willow Street in Manchester, “proudly brews Starbucks Coffee,” as noted on its cup holders. The café doesn’t serve Starbuck’s
Signature Hot Chocolate but rather created this delectable drink as a
substitute for those chocolate lovers who aren’t satisfied by plain hot
chocolate. The Godiva Hot Chocolate is extremely rich, and, when
topped with whipped cream, tastes similar to eating a creamy, solid
bar of dark chocolate. It is not listed on the menu anymore, so you
have to be “in the know” to try out this tasty treat.
Gloria Jeans:
After initially burning my tongue and spilling the cocoa on my leg,
I found Gloria Jean’s chocolate fudge hot cocoa to be sweet but
relatively mild in flavor. Although the whipped cream and sprinkles
had already melted by the time the temperature fell below scaldinghot, the cocoa was very pleasant, even if it wasn’t very rich, which
is what you would expect from a gourmet coffee shop. And at $3.22
for a small cup, I’d rather just break out a packet of Swiss Miss at
home.
This Month’s Staff Picks
Read below to find out what your Pioneer staffers are obssesed with and can’t get enough of.
Alexa loves white Converse sneakers, Glee,
broccoli cheddar soup from Panera, her class
ring, the movie Up, and anything chocolate!
Mark loves Stevie Ray Vaughn, Popular
Science magazine, ties, flights to Florida,
and the Boston Bruins.
Mari-Briege loves John Mayer’s new album
Battle Studies, her new Silence & Noise
leather jacket, Converse All Stars, College,
and Taylor Swift.
Joe loves Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2,
Orbit Cinnamint, Vanilla eggnog, Cocomotion by Mr. Coffee, Anthem by Ayn Rand,
and Starbucks coffee, Holiday Blend.
Tiffany loves New Moon, sweater dresses,
scarves, double chocolate chip cookies,
Uggs, and Clinique moisturizer.
Ryan loves the rapper Blu, the band Passion
Pit, basketball season, the document By The
People about Barack Obama, Fage yogurt
with honey.
Emma loves the album Next to Normal,
Lincoln Park After Dark nail polish,
Liquid Liner, colorful scarves, Blogger.
com, The Fame Monster by Lady Gaga,
and snowflakes that stay on her nose and
eyelashes.
Sarah loves vegetable and beef stir fry,
Mapquest.com, HGTV’s House Hunters,
“Cool Guys Don’t Look at Explosions”
video by The Lonely Island, Spin Magazine,
and boots that don’t look like camel feet.
Holiday Movie Previews
Did You Hear About the Morgans? – Sarah Jessica
Parker and Hugh Grant play a successful couple in
Manhattan. Their marriage is on the rocks when, one
day, they witness a murder and must enter the witness
relocation program to escape the man hired to kill them.
This movie seems like a gamble, because it can either
be really funny or just another cheesy romantic comedy.
Are you willing to risk the price of a movie ticket and a
few hours of your time?
Release date: December 18
Avatar – James Cameron, director of 11 time Oscar winner Titanic, makes his long awaited return to
directing in this out-of-this-world sci-fi action film
about a hero who has to save an entire civilization of,
well, blue people. Already being hailed for its special
effects, the hype alone will most likely lead to a big
hit in the opening weekend. Your best bet is to wait a
few days to avoid the crowds if you want to check this
movie out.
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakuel – At this point,
you’re probably going to be sick of hearing their songs
on the radio, but this sequel (or squeakuel, if you’re really
clever) picks up where the first installment left off, with
the introduction of the chipmunk bands female counterparts, featuring the voices of Amy Poehler and Christina
Applegate.
The Lovely Bones – Based on the book by Alice Sebold,
The Lovely Bones follows the story of Susie Salmon,
a young girl who was murdered and whose family is
struggling to unravel the mystery surrounding her death.
Release date: December 11, expanded release December 25
Sherlock Holmes – The much anticipated latest portrayal
of Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic mystery character,
Sherlock Holmes. Featuring Robert Downey Jr. and
Jude Law as the two main characters, the film is supposedly filled with action and suspense.
The Pioneer’s Recipe Corner
This month’s recipe:
Best chocolate chip cookies you’ll ever eat
Ingredients:
1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup whole wheat
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened
3/4 cup granulated sugar
3/4 cup packed brown sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract (and a few drops extraJ)
2 large eggs
2 cups chocolate chips or chocolate morsels
* If you like nuts, add one cup chopped nuts.*
Directions:
Preheat oven to 375° F.
Combine flour, baking soda and salt in small bowl.
Beat butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar and
vanilla extract in large mixer bowl until creamy. Add
eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
Gradually beat in flour mixture. Stir in morsels and
nuts. Drop by rounded tablespoon onto ungreased
baking sheets.
Bake for 9 to 11 minutes or until golden brown. Cool
on baking sheets for 2 minutes; remove to wire racks
to cool completely.

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