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Lady Grizzlies fall to the Folsom Bulldogs
December 9th, 2010
Last night, the Folsom Bulldogs defeated the Lady Grizzlies 51-40.
For most of the game , Folsom kept more than a fifteen point lead. Until the fourth quarter, when a three-pointer from GB senior Cayley McDowell and two drives from Shelbi Tooley fired up the team until the end of the game.
Galleria at Roseville ablaze, suspect faces arson charges
October 21st, 2010Today, October 21, at approximately 10:30 a.m., a suspect walked into the Gamestop store on the upper level of Roseville’s Westfield Galleria Mall where he yelled for customers to evacuate the store and proceeded to light the store’s merchandise on fire.
The suspect, Alexander Piggee, an African-American male in his early twenties, was a frequent shopper at the Galleria prior to this incident.
“If I had seen his picture, I would be able to point him out right away. Many people working in the mall had seen him around before,” Igor Karpov, Westfield maintenance employee said. After initially being notified of a possible situation, employees continued business for about a half hour.
“They told us to leave around eleven o’clock. First, (the mall) had a fire drill and was telling us to just be still and that there were police around the mall. Then, about thirty minutes later, they had everyone evacuate the stores,” Mai Vue, M.A.C. Cosmetics employee, said.
According to Fox 40 News, Piggee appeared to have a weapon and kerosene in his possession. Barricading himself in an area outside of Gamestop, he was able to ignite several other fires before being arrested. Unfortunately, firefighters were not able to go inside the mall due to a backpack that Piggee left behind, which may have contained an explosive device.
Piggee was eventually apprehended by police.
As of posting, the mall has had one roof cave in, and the smoke can be seen from as far away as Sacramento.
Priorities not possessions
September 14th, 2010
Irecently received a phone call from my mom while at the Decades Dance.
“Allie, the entire first floor of the house is flooded!”
Concerned, I hurried home to see what the damage was. But on the drive home, my thoughts were not about the house being ruined, but rather, the things inside it.
I was afraid my clothes, folded on the laundry room floor, were now ruined. I was afraid my lacrosse gear would be useless. I was afraid my laptop would no longer function.
For a few minutes, I felt a sense of panic about losing items I frequently used. However, I never once thought about the sentimental value attached to the pieces.
On the short drive down East Roseville Parkway, I thought about how I would find the money to replace every single thing I had just lost, how long it would take for me to buy new copies of everything, and what it would be like to live without them temporarily.
And then I pulled up to the house. Read the rest of this entry “
Noodles and Company
September 14th, 2010As the fingerprint-free glass doors sway open and customers glide straight up to the counter, they may be misled by the empty restaurant around them. Although less busy than some of the mainstream restaurants in the Roseville area, Noodles and Company has started off with a great reputation since it recently opened in The Fountains at Roseville. Read the rest of this entry “
Guessing: Quarter point penalty removed from the AP test
September 14th, 2010 Since its start 55 years ago, the Advanced Placement testing system has gone through various changes to its format and scoring. Yet possibly the biggest change to come will go into effect this year.
In the past, a wrong answer on an AP test, other than AP Art History, would be marked off one-fourth of a point. However, this year will begin a new policy of scoring—there will no longer be a penalty for wrong answers. Although this may not seem like a great change, it can potentially change the outcome of a test score. Read the rest of this entry “
Competition never ends; Junior Olympics draw track and field, water polo
September 13th, 2010Throughout the year, athletes train and compete in various sports, setting school records and trying to compete at the state level. However, during the summer, there is one opportunity for these athletes to compete against others from all over the country: Junior Olympics.
Junior Olympics is a nationally staged event, held by USA Track and Field, where athletes are given a chance to compete against high-caliber competitors in one of twenty nine different sporting events offered.
This summer, GBHS had athletes who participated in two sports: track and field and boys’ water polo. Read the rest of this entry “
GBHS varsity girls’ volleyball defeated by Vista Del Lago
September 10th, 2010Although defeated by Vista Del Lago in their second preseason game of the year, the Granite Bay High School varsity girls’ volleyball team was able to work together to learn how to better perform in future games.
After losing the first game by only a few points, 25-21, GBHS was motivated to fight back against the VDL Eagles in the second game, winning 25-20. Read the rest of this entry “
Living through a calendar
May 20th, 2010Beep, beep, beep.
The sound of my alarm clock blares into my ears yet again, signaling the start of a new day.
I get up, stretch and head over to the calendar to look at the tasks ahead of me.
School, lacrosse, tutoring, homework and – in order to function the next day – an early bed time; these are the things I have to look forward to before I get up and start all over again.
I live my life based on a schedule. Read the rest of this entry “
After the whistle blows: Coaches continue to coach off of the field.
May 20th, 2010As summer quickly approaches, classes, school activities and sports are coming to a close, allowing both students and teachers time off during the summer months.
Once that final bell rings on May 27, many teachers will not receive paychecks again until school reopens in the fall or coach their sport until the next season begins.
However, some of the coaches of teams at GBHS find both creative and productive ways to spend the hottest months of the year.
In order to earn a little bit of extra cash during the summer months, a few of the varsity coaches run summer camps for the sport that they coach.
Steve Fischer, GBHS varsity boys’ and junior varsity girls’ soccer coach runs both a camp for GBHS soccer players and another for youth players in the area. “It is nice to have a little bit of extra cash in the summer,” Fischer said, “It is not the primary reason, but it is a nice benefit.”
Although Fischer and other coaches at GBHS run camps that earn profit, the main goal of the camps is to benefit their school programs.
“When I’m running a community soccer camp for younger kids, I get to know the players and parents before they get to the high school level, and it’s nice for them to get to know us,” Fischer said.
By running camps for younger players over the summer, athletic programs at GBHS gain recognition as well-developed programs that they want to be a part of by running drills and meeting the coaches, youth athletes get a sense of what it is like to play on a specific sports team at GBHS, and what the atmosphere of the sport’s coaching style and administration are like.
Like Fischer, GBHS varsity basketball coach Jason Sitterud also runs camps to support his program, and help them financially at the same time.
“We hold a summer basketball camp for kids from kindergarten to eighth grade in the summer to help raise money for our program,” Fischer said.
Ernie Cooper, GBHS varsity football coach, also holds camps to benefit his program.
“We put on a Junior Grizzly Youth Football Camp,” Cooper said. “The money made goes to pay for our senior football retreat in Santa Cruz.”
Even though coaches at GBHS run programs outside of their coaching duties, the coaches make it clear that extra coaching is not about making more money.
“It give me something to do. I love the summer, but it’s nice to have something to keep me busy,” Fischer said.
All of the coaches at GBHS have experience in their specific sport, both playing and coaching, and have a multitude of knowledge to share with young athletes hoping to improve their game.
“This fall will be my thirtieth year coaching high school football” Cooper said. Fischer played twelve years of semi-pro soccer and has coached for thirty one years, and Coach Sitterud “has coached at every level over [his] last thirteen years of teaching at GBHS.”
In addition to having camps for younger kids, and promoting their programs, coaches run camps for high school students to get ready for high school season and tryouts.
“Essentially what the camp is about is we teach them a few skills, but primarily to (prepare them) for the tryout,” Fischer said. “We are going to teach you the drill, give you the grading criteria, and we are actually going to do it, and make suggestions and comments so that when you come back for tryouts in August you know what we’re looking for.”
Overall, the sports programs at Granite Bay benefit greatly from having camps during the summer. Younger students get to see what it will be like to play in high school, and high school students can prepare for their sports’ upcoming seasons.
Junioritis
May 20th, 2010During the last stretch of weeks before graduation, Granite Bay High School seniors are often known for not completing homework, taking tests without studying, and missing class. All of these acts make up common symptoms of a disease that many 12th graders have: “senioritis”.
While senioritis is caused by an early desire to complete high school, and move onto the next phase in a student’s life, it is also affected by many other things.
“At the culmination of students’ high school career, they get to a point where they’ve gone through their applications and have plans post-high school, and they feel a need to just enjoy their last high school moments,” GBHS counselor Tiffani Gieck said.
In addition to seniors’ feelings of wanting to finish high school and the long days that go along with it, it seems that the desire to complete secondary school as quickly as possible has trickled down to the junior class, causing “junioritis”. Read the rest of this entry “
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