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December<br />
7<br />
Saturday<br />
Breakfast with<br />
Santa<br />
Time: 8 a.m.<br />
Where: Commons<br />
December<br />
All Knighter<br />
Meeting<br />
Time: 6:30 p.m. - 8 p.m.<br />
Where: Commons<br />
December<br />
12 13<br />
Thursday<br />
Friday<br />
Drama Trivia<br />
Night<br />
Time: 4 p.m. - 10 p.m.<br />
Where: Auditorium and<br />
Senior Anjolina Blackwell reads from her script in preparation for the upcoming<br />
fall play. The show, Once Upon a Pandora’s Box, written by Monica Flory, will be<br />
performed by the FHN Masque Players on Nov. 21-23. (Photo by Alayna Furch)<br />
DRAMA PREPARES<br />
THEIR SECOND PLAY<br />
After putting on a production of the<br />
play “The Lion and Mouse Stories”<br />
earlier this year, the drama club is<br />
working on the show “Once Upon a<br />
Pandora’s Box” for their second fall<br />
play. The play will be shown from Nov.<br />
21-23.<br />
“Usually, productions take six to<br />
eight weeks to complete,” Kim Sulzner,<br />
drama teacher and director of the play,<br />
said. “These last two have been<br />
done in three to four.”<br />
Instead of having their<br />
traditional one fall play and<br />
one spring play, the drama<br />
club has opted for two fall<br />
plays. This was done in order<br />
to minimize expenses and save money<br />
for the spring play.<br />
“Addams Family was really<br />
expensive,” Sulzner said. “We like to<br />
carry over a big enough balance to<br />
look into doing a musical every year<br />
and usually children’s shows bring in a<br />
lot of extra money.”<br />
The general plot of “Once Upon a<br />
Pandora’s Box” revolves around two<br />
siblings in New York, Tabitha and<br />
Louis, played by Ashlynn Bozich and<br />
Collin Foster respectively, after opening<br />
a strange box. By opening the box, the<br />
siblings release five fairy tale villains.<br />
Together, they must figure out how to<br />
contain them.<br />
“I feel like Sulzner knew what<br />
she was doing when she<br />
was casting,” Bozich said.<br />
“Tabitha has a really strained<br />
relationship with her mother,<br />
and I just lost my Mom, so I<br />
feel like I can really get into<br />
her.”<br />
Auditions took place on<br />
Friday, Oct. 25. Sophomore Bryce<br />
James will play the role of Rumple, one<br />
of the five villains in the play.<br />
“I think I am going to like this play<br />
more than ‘Lion and Mouse Stories’,”<br />
Bryce James said. “It is deeper than<br />
‘Lion and Mouse Stories’, and I like<br />
the characters more.” (Brief by Aadhi<br />
Sathishkumar)<br />
A flag waves next to FHN, which was founded in 1983. In the past couple years<br />
rumors have been going around about a new school that is going to be built. The<br />
school board acknowledged the possibility that they are going to build a new school<br />
close to the soccer field, tearing down the one standing. (Photo by Sarah Williams)<br />
FHSD POLLS SUPPORT<br />
FOR NEW BOND ISSUE<br />
The Francis Howell School District<br />
(FHSD) has previously asked the<br />
community for more money by putting<br />
a tax levy proposition on the ballot.<br />
It has failed each time so the Board<br />
of Education is thinking of doing a<br />
different approach; a ‘No Tax Increase<br />
Bond’. Currently they are looking<br />
towards the community to see if this<br />
new option would pass if it’s put on<br />
the ballot.<br />
“Thus far, the reaction has been very<br />
positive because we have explained<br />
what we’re looking at and<br />
why,” Patrick Lane,<br />
treasurer on the Board<br />
of Education said. “We<br />
have had some negative<br />
responses, but we feel like we’ve<br />
answered most of those questions.”<br />
A ‘No Tax Increase Bond’ is similar to<br />
a loan. The bond will allow the district<br />
to receive how much they asked for at<br />
small increments throughout several<br />
years. That will allow them to pay it<br />
off at a slower rate, and keep tax rates<br />
$<br />
the same.<br />
“If you don’t act on things now and<br />
you wait the costs are going to go up<br />
and it will be more expensive at a later<br />
date,” Chuck Dale-Derks, a parent in<br />
the district, said. “Then we put the<br />
district at risk of having a facility that<br />
has an emergency need.”<br />
The district allowed architects to<br />
walk around all the buildings in FHSD<br />
and assess the repairs that are needed<br />
at each one and roughly how<br />
much it would cost. This<br />
showed some concerns<br />
for a couple buildings and<br />
how much longer they can last<br />
without repairs.<br />
“We need to upgrade our facilities,”<br />
Janet Stiglich, a Director on the Board<br />
of Education, said. “We need to for the<br />
safety of all of our buildings, for the<br />
safety of our kids to bring some of our<br />
facilities into the 21st century [and]<br />
to make sure that we have a creative<br />
learning environment for all.” (Brief by<br />
Macy Cronin)<br />
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