Missoula Children`s Theater Pipes into Sunburst

Musicians compete at district and state level 4
Sunburst Celebrates Summer with Many Events 7
Junior Brett Simons throws a javelin
during a recent track meet at Dutton/
Brady.
The
Refiner
North Toole County High School
Sunburst, MT 59482
April 2012
Missoula Children’s Theater
Pipes into Sunburst
By Whitney Aschim
Marking its 41st year of
touring, Missoula Children’s Theater returned to
Sunburst with the “Pied
Piper” the week of April
21-25.
Sunburst was one of the
first towns to accept the
MCT tour group to come
and perform four decades
ago.
There were several parts
available to all who audi-
tioned from tiny little rats
to cooks, sons and daughters, all the way up to the
lead part itself, the Pied
Piper. Approximately 70
students auditioned for
this year’s play. All students received a role.
Freshman Nicole Friesen was the lead role of
the Pied Piper, along with
freshman Jennifer Samsal
as the leading lady, Sara.
Junior Satyn Tomsheck
was the mayor’s snobby daughter and senior
Whitney Aschim took
the role of Cook #1,
with this being the end
to her 13 years of Missoula Children’s Theater
plays. Sophomore Chimane Hastings helped
out in the background,
giving actors their cues
and feeding lines during
practices, as an assistant
director.
Volume 50 Issue 9
Graduation
Pending
By Becky Flesch
On Saturday May 19, 18
seniors will be graduating
from North Toole County
High School at 3 p.m. in
the NTCHS gymnasium.
The
NTCHS
Choir will be singing a
few of the seniors’ favorite songs along with a special song that they have
been rehearsing. Also, the
state ensemble “Hidden
Away” will be performing
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Eight-grader Tim Jarvis and junior
Satyn Tomsheck play the mayor’s
children and are returning from hiding
after the Pied Piper led them away to
teach the town a lesson during the Missoula Children’s Theater production of
“The Pied Piper” Friday April 25.
Index
Community . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Graduate Profiles . . . . . . . . . . 2, 3
Opinion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
School. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5, 6, 10
Sports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
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Game on for Lock-in
By Whitney Aschim
On Saturday May 19 to
Sunday morning on May
20, Lock-in will be “getting its game on.”
After graduation, at
10:00 p.m., Lock-in will
begin and will go until
4:30 a.m.
This year the Lock-in
is putting on a mass of
games like several years
ago. There will be Laser
tag, bungee cord races,
boxing and much more.
All snacks and prizes
are being provided by
Booster Club. Some prizes involve a Kindle, fire
making kit, bags and ap-
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Photo by Amanda Tharp
pliances. In the drawing
for prizes process, seniors
will be in one container
and drawn first. Choice in
prizes goes by first called,
first serve. In other words,
whoever is called first
gets the first choice, and it
goes on from there. Food
and snacks consist of ice
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NORTH TOOLE COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL
THE REFINER
Graduate Profiles
May 2012
Graduate Questions
1. Senior wills
2. What are your plans after high school?
3. What is your favorite high school memory?
4. What will you miss most about high school?
5. What is one lesson you learned from high school that you will keep with you
forever?
Aurora
Hurlburt
1. I will my locker to Vanessa and
I will everyone my sense of adveture and my fun-seeking abilities.
2. I’m moving to Billings and
shortly after I will be in the Navy.
3. “Does that mean it’s on tap?”
4. I’m going to miss all the fun
people and all the funny jokes.
Most of all I will miss Ben and
Josh’s stories in Culinary.
5. High school is full of drama and
no one knows how to be the best
you except for you.
Whitney
Aschim
Josh
Friesen
1. I will my knack for finding
explosive wow day projects to a
person who likes explosives.
2. Go to Marine Corps.
3. Senior football
4. Classmates and seeing everyone
each day.
5. Play it safe in school. Don’t cut
it close beacause it will eventually
catch up to you and bite you in
the butt. Just ask Amanda and Ms.
Becker.
Alex
Watterud
1. I will Zach my ability to finish
math homework in class. I will
Rachel my mad point guard skillz.
I’m passing on the torch. Better be
ready, Lady!
2. Go to Butte, major in Biology
and minor in Chemistry with plans
to go into pharmacy.
3. Prank calling people at State
Volleyball (Brooke, Hali, and
Angie.)
4. Miss the closeness of everyone.
5. How to manage my time.
Hunter
Leichliter
1. I, Whitney Aschim, give Vanessa my love for music and song,
may you never stop singing. To
Satyn, I give my everlasting love
and friendship, may we laugh for
years to come.
2. I plan to have a lovely summer
and in the fall attend MSU-Northern in Havre.
3. I have too many high school
memories that I will always keep
with me, but my favorite has to be
anytime we cheerleaders had our
little conversations and how hyped
up we got for games, especially
when Amanda fell out of too many
spins in excitment.
4. I will miss all my underclassmen friends I’m leaving behind;
these past few years have been a
joy to know you all, and I hope to
hang out whenever we can.
5. One lesson I will always take
with me from high school is that
to never give up, no matter how
hard and impossible it seems.
Keep trying, and you’ll succeed in
some way.
1. I will my wisdom to the lower
classmen who most need it.
2. Attending UM for music.
3. Senior trip/senior prom.
4. Friends
5. Stay away from idiots.
Hali
Miller
1. I will my Kix Captain skills to
Chimane
2. Attending U of M
3. State volleyball, friends
4. Living at home! Friends,
dance, volleyball
5. Know that things will change,
but it’s mostly for the better . . .
relax and have fun.
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Kolter
Cook
1. I will my pickup to Goober
2. Work
3. Life-size Jenga and the Techno.
Expo.
4. Woodshop
5. Always listen to Goober
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Scott
Bye
1. I will nothing to no one
2. Maybe go to college, work on
farm and just explore what I may
want to do.
3. Getting third in districts sophomore year and finally winning a
game in football
4. Sports and all my friends
5. Hard work beats talents when
talent doesn’t work hard.
Becky
Flesch
1. I will my #8 volleyball and my
#13 basketball uniforms to my
sister, Nicole Potack, who will be
a freshman next year.
2. Attend MSU-Northern in Havre
3. Sophomore year busride during
North Star tourney, Angie was trying to tell a funny story which resulted in everyone laughing, Tisha
puking, me crying, and Stephanie
having a 40 minute nose bleed.
4. All of the crazy, lovable people
and the sport seasons, especially
basketball with Griff and Sue.
5. Time flies, so you have to make
the most of it while you’ve got the
time. Love life.
NORTH TOOLE COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL
THE REFINER
Graduate Profiles
Cash
Ehlers
1. IDK
2.Attend U of M
3.IDK
4.IDK
5.IDK
Kelsey
Burley
1) I will my height to Vanessa.
2) I plan to go to the University
of Montana in Missoula and start
off with a major in business, but
I’ll probably switch majors really
quickly.
3) Photo class during my Junior
year. That class was so much fun.
:)
4) I’m going to miss the little
Emo group of our school. They
pretty much made high school
fun.
5) I learned that sometimes
people aren’t treated fairly, but
you gotta suck it up because it’s
gonna happen your whole life.
Jesse
Tomsheck
May 2012
Graduate Questions
1. Senior wills
2. What are your plans after high school?
3. What is your favorite high school
memory?
4. What will you miss most about high
school?
5. What is one lesson you learned from
high school that you will keep with you
forever?
Amanda
Tharp
1. I, Amanda Tharp, will my
leadership and motivation to my
little brother Tyler, may they help
you the next three years. I will
my outgoingness and excitment
for trying new things to Chimane-good luck in Kix!
2. I plan to attend Rocky Mountain College and study music and
English education and political
science.
3. While I have many wonderful memories to take from high
school, I will always cherish the
conversations the clarinet section
had during Pep band performances.
4. Next year, I will really miss
seeing everyone’s smiling faces,
especially my classmates. I will
also miss all the amazing opportunites I have been given.
5. One lesson I have learned in
high school that I will keep with
me is that you can never be afraid
to try new things. The world has
amazing things to offer us if we
take the first step to reach them.
Justin
Haushultz
1. I will my good looks to Braydon Dunk, my post moves to
Andy Ryan and Jarret Bloch, my
smarts to Hannah Hauschulz, and
my neat, groomed, natural hair to
Tyler Tharp.
2. Undecided
3. When Cash and I switched
Drew and Kolter’s socks at
Drumheller
4. Some of my friends
5. Time goes by fast, so spend it
Kress
Lamey
1. Hunter-all my money; Amanda-all my partying skills
2. Get a job and work
3. Science Olympiad with Josh
and Hunter junior year
4. Hanging out with Josh, Kress
and Amanda
5. People can be retarded and may
not always have common sense.
wisely.
Titia
Bloch
1) I will my ability to not get seriously injured to Steph Gliko and
my annoying abilities to Courtney
Lindskog.
2) I plan on going to college at
University of Montana Western
for Natural Horsemanship.
3) My favorite high school
memory is Kelsey and my fight in
the locker room during volleyball
this year.
4) I’m going to miss lunchtime
with my Val!
5) Everyone has a dark side and
will show it one day so never tell
secrets.
Andrew
Stevens
1. I will my personality to the
Finster
2. Join the work force and Airforce
3. Practicing football where I laid
Braydon out like 30 times and he
just kept laughing.
4. The people
5. You have to put up with people
all the time, no matter how stupid
they are.
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Jayleen
McAlpine
1. I will my leadership in basketball to Brooke
2. Attend the College of Technology in Great Falls
3. Friends and the Bobcat/Grizz
game
4. Friends and sports
5. Don’t make plans; they always
change. Have fun.
Class of
2012
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NORTH TOOLE COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL
THE REFINER
School
May 2012
Students Excel at District Music Festival
By Vanessa Legler
Band and choir students
showed off their hard
work and comitted time to
District Music Festival in
Havre Friday April 20.
Choir/band teacher and
director Tami Hauschulz
loaded all of the band
and choir students on the
cruiser Friday morning at
7 a.m. to leave for Havre.
When arriving in Havre
they headed toward the
highschool for the big
group projects to be
graded and judged on what
they have been working
months on to perform.
After performing and
sight reading, the bus
transported the students
to the Townhouse hotel
where they stayed for the
night.
The next morning
students got up at 6 a.m.
to head to the Havre
highschool to perform
solos and small groups in
both band and choir.
After all of the groups
were finished students
waited anxiously on the
bus for the results.
For band, all got excellent
rating except
for
Jericho
which
got
superior and
headed on to
state.
For choir
s e n i o r s
Junior Satyn
Tomsheck and freshman Jennifer Samsal
sing as part of the
choir. Both attended
District Music
Festival in Havre on
Friday April 20 and
sang with the group
during competition.
Whitney Aschim, Justin
Hauschulz, and Becky
Flesch, and junior Noemi
Schaerer’s solo got a
superior rating and moved
on to state along with the
group songs “Zum Gali,”
“Four White Horses,”
“Goin’ Up,” and “Hidden
Away”
got
superior
ratings and headed for
state in Helena.
Hauschulz said, “The
day went awesome! I
loved seeing the growth in
my students musically.”
Hauschulz also said,
“Goin’ Up was one of my
favorites because of the
piano part.”
Sophmore Heather
Froslie said, “My favorite
part was waiting on the
bus to get results and
also I liked making Luke
Becker watch the Lucky
One with me.”
“It was exciting when the
judge said “Four White
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21 Musicians Perform at State Music Festival
By Vanessa Legler
Three students and two
ensembles earned top ratings at the state music festival in Helena Thursday
May 3 to Saturday May 5.
Twenty-one students,
including seniors Justin
Hauschulz, Becky Flesch
and Whitney Aschim ad-
vanced to state with their
solos along with junior
Noemi Schaerer. Ensembles “Hidden Away,” and
“Zum Gali,” took superior ratings. “Going Up,”
and “Four White Horses”
also advanced to state and
scored excellents.
For band, the saxophone
quartet “Jericho” earned
an excellent as well.
J. Hauschulz, Schaerer and Flesch all earned
superior ratings for their
individual performances.
Aschim also received a
high excellent score, just
one point from a superior.
T. Hauschulz said “I
think it went awesome!
I was so proud of everyone they did superb and
they were very much prepared.”
“State music was a great
way to end my senior
year, and I’ll miss singing
with this choir and Mrs.
Hauschulz,” said Flesch.
Participants in State Music Festival for both band and choir pose for a photo after announcements. State Festival was in Helena Thursday May 3
through Saturday May 5.
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NORTH TOOLE COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL
THE REFINER
May 2012
School
FCCLA Cleans Highway Students FCS Hosts
for Earth Day
Experience
Anual
barely any wind and warm
By Becky Flesch
Unsafe
Picnic
On Sunday April 22 the temperatures.
By Kelsey Burley
Students were amused
FCCLA had a highway
Driving
On Wednesday April
and
somewhat
disgusted
cleanup right outside of
town in celebration for
Earth Day.
Fifteen members showed
up to lend a helping hand
for the cleanup. Junior
Brett Simons was the person who organized and
prepared for the event.
“I’m glad that so many
people showed up and
that they worked so hard.
It felt good to give back to
the town of Sunburst for
Earth Day,” he said.
The weather was just
right for the cleanup with
by the items that they
found in the ditches.
Freshman Courtney Lindskog said, “I made Brett
pick up all of the pee
bottles and had to listen
to him and Mason argue
over who had picked up
the most garbage, but it
was awesome to clean
up the highway for Earth
Day.”
This was the last cleanup of the year for the FCCLA group until the fall
of 2012.
By Aurora Hurlburt
On May 1 and 2 NTCHS
students and staff participated in a school wide activity to see how driving
while drunk or distracted
affect your motor skills on
the road.
Student teacher Jordann
Lankford said, “Dunk
and I dominated, but the
school should advocate
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FCCLA members pose for a group
photo after cleaning the interstate
Sunday April 22 which was also
Earth Day.
18, all FCS classes prepared and attended a picnic put on for their fellow
classmates and the staff
and faculty members of
NTCHS.
This annual picnic is put
on as a thank you to the
staff and faculty members
that the students encounter and learn from on a
daily basis. FCS teachers
Mrs. Nancy Linnell and
Mrs. Elizabeth Smith coordinate this event every
year. This is also used as
a chance for classes that
handle food to learn about
quantity cooking, buffet
service, and catering social events.
Three classes, Life
Skills, Prep for Careers
and Culinary, prepared
all the food at this event.
The Prep for Careers class
chose the menu for this
event, and the menu usually consists of salads
and food appropriate for
a such event. All Family
Consumer Science classes
were required to attend
this picnic for a grade.
Linnell said, “This is
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Students Embrace English with an Author’s Tips
Freshman Emily Griffin, junior Brett Simons, sophomore Connor Overcast, author Trinity Faegen, sophomore Erika Postma,
juniors Vanessa Legler and Satyn Tomsheck, and sophomores
Chimane Hastings and Tylor Tomsheck pose in a Cut Bank classroom before Faegen’s presentation to the future potential authors
Thursday April 26.
By Brett Simons
How do people learn to
be writers? By finding an
author and watching that
person at work. Listening
and seeing how authors
work is probably the best
way that young, hopeful
readers can learn to write
novels in the future.
Trinity Faegan is one
such author that students
had the opportunity to
go and see as part of
the Mont. Storyteller’s
Roundup Thursday April
26.
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Sophmores Connor
Overcast, Chimane Hastings, Tylor Tomsheck, and
Erika Postma all attended.
Juniors who attended were
Satyn Tomsheck, Vanessa
Legler, and Brett Simons.
Freshman Emily Griffin
was another attendee to
the conference.
The event was held in
Cut Bank High School.
The eight students took a
bus down to attend the interview.
Faegan didn’t always
want to be a writer; she
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NORTH TOOLE COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL
THE REFINER
School
May 2012
Elementary Students “Wow”ed by Science
By Vanessa Legler
On Tuesday May 8 high
school students from the
ISI class participated in
Wow Day where they
showed nine fourth graders cool and interesting
projects. Some of the projects included the follow-
ing: flame changing tests,
non Newtonian fluid,
dry sand, and exploding
gummy bears. The fourth
grade students got very
interested in the different
project. Wow Day gave
these students a chance to
see the fun side of science
and see what they could
do in high school if they
want to.
Senior Hali Miller said,
“I think that all the experiments were really fun and
I think that the high school
students enjoyed it as
much as the grade school
kids did.”
According to benefit.net
hands on learning gives
students better retention
of the material that is being taught. It also enhances creativity and is more
enjoyable for not only
See WOW 7
Left -- senior Hunter
Leichliter uses
beakers to
demonstrate
scientific technic to visitng
fourth grade
students as part
of Wow Day
Tuesday May
8.
Right -- junior
Kamron Ratzburg blows off
a little steam
as part of a
science experiment for the
visiting fourth
graders.
Two New Members Inducted to NHS
By Brett Simons
The National Honors
Society welcomed to new
members to its ranks.
Sophomores Mason Kearns and Luke Becker
were inducted on Tuesday
April 17.
National Honors Society is a prestigious group
that does projects for both
school and town.
To be inducted students
need to have a 3.20 GPA,
and they will receive a letter saying that they are being considered for NHS.
After that possible inductees must submit a letter
saying why they should
be allowed to enter NHS,
and why they are the best
candidate. The letter goes
to a board of teachers who
will decide on who they
feel has the most potential
in being able to join National Honors Society.
Kearns and Becker received the privilege to
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Top -- seniors
Amanda Tharp
and Alex Watterud
officially welcome
newest NHS members sophomores
Mason Kearns and
Luke Becker Tuesday April 17.
Bottom -- National
Honor Society
members Becker,
Tharp, seniors
Cash Ehlers and
Whitney Aschim,
juniors Brett Simons and Kamron
Ratzburg, seniors
Watterud and Hali
Miller and Kearns
pose for a group
photo after the Induction Ceremony.
join the group and were
inducted in a ceremony
presided over by President
Amanda Tharp and officers Hali Miller and Alex
Watterud. Members Whitney Aschim, Cash Ehlers,
Kamron Ratzburg, and
Brett Simons also were
present for the ceremony.
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NORTH TOOLE COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL
THE REFINER
Community
What’s up in Sunburst
By Vanessa Legler
This summer many
events are being held for
students and community
members in Sunburst.
Vacation Bible School
is coming this summer.
Vacation Bible School
is a summer event that
welcomes kids age three
through 4th grade learn the
way of the bible through
songs and activities.
Sophmore Chimane
Hastings is volunteering at
the Vacation Bible school
program and said that the
way it works is there are
stations with groups of
people in the same age
group as each other, and
they go around and learn
different things and have
snacks and play games or
activities.
Songs are usually played
by a CD or Mrs. Kris Ryan
on the piano.
“I think it’s a great opportunity for kids to have
lots of exposure to the bible and fun with friends,”
Hastings said.
Sunburst also welcomes the Summer reading program for children
preschool-2nd grade. The
reading program starts on
June 6 through the 27 on
every Friday of the week
from 10:30-11:00 a.m.
The theme of the program
is “Dream Big.” Kids will
have a reading log where
they add up their minutes
that they read for and get
it signed every week by
a parent or guardian and
by the end for the program whoever has the
most minutes read gets a
prize. There will be story
time and crafts on Fridays
by Librarian Mary Jo As-
chim.
“The program really
helps kids read through
the summer.” Aschim
said.
This year Peggy Tobin is
putting together Gala days
in a meeting on June 5 at
7:00 p.m. at City Hall. Not
knowing what she is going
to plan yet, she said last
year’s Gala day celebrations were a success they
would like to build on.
The EDG (Economic
Development Group) took
over Gala days several
years ago. They are raising money for the pool.
Tobin said “Last year
was very successful with
the town movie; I hope
this year is exciting too.”
“I’m excited for Gala
days; it’s a good time
with friends,” said senior
Becky Flesch said.
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From 6
the students but also the
teachers. Hands-on learning can also develop a
sense of achievement and
critical thinking. All these
things are important skills crap out of the kids. They
for a student to have.
really liked all the presenJunior Brett Simons tations.”
said, “It was fun to set the
table on fire; it scared the
Senior Hunter Leichliter, junior Kamron Ratzburg, senior Cash Ehlers, and junior Brett Simons perform an explosive science
experiment while fourth-grader Logan McNeil watches behind protective glass during the Wow Day science presentations
Tuesday May 8.
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May 2012
Sunburst
Sends
Students
to
Special
Olympics
By Cole Brown
Special Olympics is
a chance for handicapped
students to physically
compete against other
handicapped students.
Special Olympics has
two different competitions; divisional and state
competitions. Divisionals was held in Great
Falls and was April 2627. There is an opening
ceremony for divisionals in which each team is
viewed by the audience
in a march. NTCHS has
three participants; senior
Jesse Tomsheck, junior
Cole Brown and junior
Satyn Tomsheck. Brown
and S. Tomsheck are volunteers while J. Tomsheck
is a participant.
The Tomsheck sisters could not make it
to divisionals because J
Tomsheck was receiving
the “Yes I can award” in
Billings at the time, and
then because that Thursday Special Olympics was
canceled due to weather
problems. However, they
won gold in the unified
bocci competition at state
Thursday May 17.
State Special Olympics
is from May 15 through
May 19. State Special
Olympics will feature several things that divisionals didn’t. These things
include a much larger
opening ceremony, a huge
dance and a fun night for
participants to play games
and earn prizes. AccordSee SPECIAL OLYMPICS 8
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NORTH TOOLE COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL
THE REFINER
May 2012
Opinion
Gay Marriage Should Be
Legal Across the Nation
By Kelsey Burley
Last week President
Barack Obama announced
his open support for approving same-sex marriages saying that it
“strengthens
families.”
He had said that he wants
everyone in this country
to be treated equally and
that the country has never
gone wrong when giving
people equal rights.
Soon after Obama proclaimed his support, Vice
President Joe Biden apologized because he pressured Obama into publicly
announcing his support.
Soon after the announce-
SPECIAL
OLYMPICS
ment, rival in the upcoming election, Mitt Romney,
stated that he continues
to stand on the side that
same-sex marriages are
unconstitutional.
Romney believes that samesex marriages and civil
unions that give the partner rights of a spouse in
certain conditions should
be outlawed and that there
should be a constitutional
amendment banning such
relationships.
My opinion is that samesex marriages and civil
unions should be legal. I
feel that all people deserve
the right to the pursuit of
happiness and that if they
are homosexual that not
being able to marry who
they want would be a violation of this right. Many
people argue the point that
if you legalize same-sex
marriage that you would
also have to legalize polygamy. This may be the
case, but I believe that
if you give this right to
people, that they would
respect it. Many people
would marry into polygamy but because they believe in it and don’t feel it
is morally wrong. I don’t
feel that people would
misuse these rights.
Obama claims that the
legalization of same-sex
marriages would strengthen families. This may not
be true in all cases, but I
think it is somewhat true
in most. I believe that it
would strengthen families because families who
deal with same-sex relationships would have
to be able to openly deal
with the opposers of them.
Also, families who don’t
personally have same-sex
relationships have to learn
how to teach their children to accept them.
Political Cartoon
By Cole Brown
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ing to J. Tomsheck “I had
a really nice time and enjoyed all the dances.”
The physical sports include bocci ball, bowling,
track and field, softball
throw and gymnastics.
Many people around the
local communities where
state is held (it has been in
Bozeman for the last three
years) get involved by
volunteering and the local
schools pick one or more
teams to support. They do
this by giving the teams
bags of candy and visiting
with each member.
J. Tomsheck said “I
think its really cool they
decided to support Special
Olympics.
Junior Haley Denison
said, “I like special olympics because it gives everyone an equal opportunity to succeed in desired
events.”
“It’s exquisite to know
someone who not only
participated but won
gold,” said sophomore
Austin Robbins.
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NORTH TOOLE COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL
Golfers
Putter to
State
Tournament
By Brett Simons
This year five students made
it to State Golf in Ennis Monday
May 14 to 16. These five students were freshmen Andy Ryan,
Braydon Dunk and Courtney
Lindskog. Sophomore Cameron
Richmond and junior Rachel
Ehlers also attended as well. The
coach of the team is Jay Dean Johannsen and his son participated
in the team for several years.
They have won twice in recent
years, in 2007 and in 2009.
Lindskog scored a 218 and
Ehlers a 240. For the boys, Ryan
scored a 188, Dunk a 228 and
Richmond a 202.
The way that the judges get the
scores is they add the scores for
the two days up.
Ryan said, “It was a lot of fun
and a good experience I’m glad I
went out and played.”
All in all, the golf season was
a success with the induction of a
girls’ team this year and several
more experienced players who
will continue to get better as the
years go on.
THE REFINER
Sports
May 2012
Nine Track Athletes
Compete at Divisionals
By Becky Flesch
Nine Refiners
travelled to Great
Falls
Thursday
May 17 to compete in the Class C
Divisional Track
Meet.
Senior Cash
Ehlers competed
in five events including the following: the 100 m,
200 m, 400 m, the
long jump, and the 4X1
relay with senior Hunter
Leichliter and sophomores Matt Becker and
Mason Kearns.
Ehlers broke the school
record in the 200 m preliminary with a time of
22.45 sec.
Leichliter also competes
in the 400 m race and in
the 4X4 relay with Kearns, Becker and senior
Josh Friesen.
Freshmen Nicole Friesen and Jennifer Samsal
compete in the 800 m
race.
Junior Noemi Schaerer
and J. Friesen will race
the 2 mile.
Junior Kamron Ratzburg travelled as an alternate racer for the team.
Sophomore Luke Becker was also planning to
attend as an alternate but
fell sick and did not go.
Top right -- junior Kamron Ratzburg bursts into his race.
Bottom right -- sophomore Jacob Alborano passes the baton with sophomore Matt Becker as part of a
relay race.
Bottom left -- senior Scott Bye practices has swing before the state golf meet.
Photos by Mr. Russ Biniek
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their song. This group is
made up of seniors Justin
Hauschulz, Kress Lamey,
Whitney Aschim, Becky
Flesch, and juniors Noemi Schaerer and Rachel
Ehlers.
The band will be performing the school song
and the Jazz Band will
also be performing a few
pieces.
NTCHS Alumni Dustin
Frost is the guest speaker.
Many of the graduates
are having after parties
at one of the churches in
town but some are also
having their own parties
at their houses.
The NTCHS graduates
are Whitney Aschim, Titia Bloch, Kelsey Burley,
Scotty Bye, Kolter Cook,
Cassius Ehlers, Becky
Flesch, Josh Friesen, Justin Hauschulz, Aurora
Hurlburt, Kress Lamey,
Hunter Leichliter, Jayleen
McAlpine, Hali Miller,
Andrew Stevens, Salutatorian Amanda Tharp, Jesse Tomsheck, and Valedictorian Alex Watterud.
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For five straight days,
the students practiced and
rehearsed for the big day
on Friday to perform for
the school, family and
friends. There was a daytime performance for students and an evening one
for the community.
MCT is a nonprofit organization who thrives
April 2012
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PICNIC
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off of generous donations
and the happiness of what one of the few years that
they do. So far, MCT has this picnic was not able
received a cumulative to be held outside. It’s alamount of $25,000 from ways more fun to hold this
their lifetime patrons over picnic outdoors.”
the years.
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The program allows stuFrom 5
dents of all ages to develworked as a Campus Cop
op dramatic skills.
while in college. She
lives in outback Texas
with her husband and cat.
Top -- freshmen Nicole Friesen and Jennifer Samsal perform as the Pied Piper and Sarah.
Bottomw left -- middle school students and junior Noemi Shaerer debate as the town council
Faegan talked about
around the mayor of Hamelin Town.
Bottom right -- junior Noemi Shaerer and seventh-grader Desiree Hastings complain about
some tips to become a
the mayor.
Photos by Amanda Tharp
good author and ways to
write better. She left the
students who went with
the idea that when writing
it is better to just be yourself.
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Horses” was going to
state and I had a blast with
friends and learning new
card tricks,” Lindskog
said.
Friesen said, “It was
a wonderful learning
experience in music.”
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cream, candy, chips and
other yummy treats.
Anybody who loves being nocturnal and sleep
deprived will be there.
It’ll be a game of fun nobody will forget.
Fifty-six students
NTCHS students and seven guests plan to attend.
DRUNK DRIVING
more on distracted driving because distractions
are more readily available
to high school students
than alcohol is. It is a real
eye-opener to see what
happens when you text
and drive; students in high
school are more likely to
drive distracted than drive
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drunk at this age.”
Mrs. Iverson showed
NTCHS students how
drunk and distracted driving affects society in a
negative way. Since it
is National Youth Safety
Month, she wanted to
show how drunk and distracted driving influences
people’s ability to correctly operate a motor vehicle.
The golf cart was provided by the Three Forks FCCLA. Gary Iverson picked
it up so that NTCHS could
borrow it and he also took
it back. Mrs. Iverson is
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rent ones are scratched.
The new goggles will convey a higher blood alcohol
level than the old ones.
Sophomore Connor
Overcast said, “If you
drink and drive at the legal
limit you are endangering
yourself and others.”