By: Gracie Marsh Now as we are at the start of our third trimester, many seniors are thinking about graduation. This column will highlight one senior each issue and his or her thoughts regarding graduation. This week Paige Petersen is being highlighted.
Petersen is a senior here at Bear River and she is also first vice on the student council. In addition to student council, Petersen is also very involved in theater. She is currency working on the high school theater production of Curious Savage and works as a performer for Characters and Crowns. After Petersen graduates from Bear River, Petersen has planned mini senior trips with her friends. In July, she is going to go to BYU Hawaii with her cousin Kyli to explore and get to know the campus before she starts her semester there. Petersen plans to complete one year of college and then return home to serve a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. After her mission, Petersen would like to continue her schooling and plans to major in international communications and minor in art education and marine biology. Along the way, she also hopes to find her perfect match. Once Petersen is older she wants to have a job that lets her travel the world because she loves traveling. Petersen's favorite thing about graduating is seeing what the world has to offer her. Petersen’s least favorite thing about graduating is “the fact that I’ll miss all of my friends, and miss the fun things about high school such as football games, dances, and student council.” Petersen’s favorite classes were studio art because she loves to paint and her student council class. Petersen, throughout all of school, has found that she loves many of the teachers and staff that work here, especially her Grandpa Lane, a custodian. Petersen’s advice to upcoming seniors is “Have as much fun as possibly, because this is your time, and it’s time you won’t get back, so don’t care what others think and live it up! It's better to have made fun memories with some mistakes along the way, than to have made no mistakes while having missed out on memories. Also, you can miss school and still get A’s, so take those days off bestie, you deserve it.”
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By: Brooke Peterson This year, Bear River is having a COVID-friendly graduation for the class of 2021. There will be some pros and cons of this new way to celebrate. Unlike a traditional graduation, seniors will be unable to attend graduation with their full class. There will be different groups at different times on the special day. Pros for this type of celebration include not having to sit through the long speeches, there will be amazing photo opportunities, and it can be more personal to you and your family.
Sara Chapman, a senior, is so excited to graduate, but she is not sure how to feel about this different type of graduation. Chapman has dreamed about graduation since as long as she can remember. She wants to be safe with the health of others, but she does want graduation to be everything she has dreamed of. Either way, she is still stoked to be done with school and move on with her career choices. Chapman is excited to see the photo props that the student council will have put together for all of the seniors. She hopes that Tremonton will put all of the class of 2021 down Main Street like they did last year for the class of 2020. The school will again have a motorcade and Chapman is thrilled because her father is allowing her to borrow his brand new truck for the occasion. Chapman is in the loop with the student council, so she knew that graduation was going to be different this year even after how hard the student council fought to have all the seniors attend at the USU stadium. The idea was not able to be approved and be finalized sadly, but seniors will still be noticed and celebrated this year. Starting the school year still in a pandemic was something that most did not think was going to happen after the shut down all schools went through a year ago. Class of 2020 was not able to have a normal graduation either due to the pandemic, yet they were still able to celebrate and most of the graduating class enjoyed the small get together with family rather than having hundreds of other people surrounding them. Chapman believes the Class of 2021 will still have their time to shine and celebrate with Bear River’s unique graduation. By: Gracie Marsh Now as we are at the start of our third trimester, many seniors are thinking about graduation. This column will highlight one senior each issue and his or her thoughts regarding graduation. This week Dallen Murray is being highlighted.
Murray has big plans for after high school. Once right out of highschool he plans to find a house framing crew and work with them to get his name out there. After he gets good at what he does, he wants to get his general contractor’s license and start his own framing business. He wants to stay in Utah close to Tremonton and make his business boom. Murray found out about frame working because he had always loved building, but the love really came to be when he was working for Black Pine Builders for a summer. Murray is very passionate about building and framing so he is going to stay with that. Currently Murray is attending Bridgerland Applied Tech for building tech. Besides work plans, Murray said, ”In my free time I like to play golf and basketball and I love to go fishing on the weekends with the boys.” Right after high school Murray is going on a senior trip to Hawaii with his family. Murray is very excited for his trip because all of his work for school has paid off to get a good senior trip. Murray is very excited to graduate because he is excited to be out of the school but he is also a little sad because he won't be able to see his friends everyday anymore. During all of high school, Murray’s favorite teachers were Wilcox, Rhodes, and Littlefield because they are down to earth and good people to be around. Murray had a lot of favorites and least favorites during school; his favorite class was Ag Systems with Rhodes and Lifetime Sports with Wilcox; his least favorite classes were 11th grade math and language arts. High school was not Murray's favorite thing so he is super excited to get out and start his new life. Murray’s advice to upcoming seniors is “Get as many credits as you can so you can graduate early.” By: Brooke Peterson Antonio Lopez is a senior this year, he is also employed at JC’s diner in Elwood. Lopez started working at JC’s when he was 16, a sophomore in high school. He started as a dishwasher and has worked up to be a server.
Lopez ultimately got a job to have his own money to do whatever he wanted with. His parents didn’t force Lopez to get a job, but they did create a rule when he started working that he would need to pay for his monthly bills such as phone, gas, and car insurance. If Lopez did not get a job, his parents would still happily pay for those bills, but since he had his own income they wanted him to be more responsible with his money. Lopez was lucky enough to have parents with laid back rules, some teens are forced to get a job as soon as they’re old enough. Lopez explained that as a server you get paid very differently. Normally the employer has to pay at least minimum wage which is $7.25. Servers make a lot less than minimum wage due to the income of tips. Lopez stated, “As a waiter I am only making $2.75, not including my tips.” He explained that with tips included in his wage, he is making more than thirteen dollars an hour. At JC’s diner they have a lot of regulars come in since it has been around for so long, so Lopez has been recognized by them and gets tipped better by the regulars. At $13 an hour, Lopez is bringing in a lot of money for his age. With this kind of money, Lopez is able to pay bills and have some play money too. At the age of 17 he was able to buy a motorcycle and get a riding license to legally drive it. Prior to that purchase, Lopez paid for his very first car in full for a total of $2000. Since then, he has been able to get approved for a car loan and buy himself a brand new car which he was very excited about. Most working teens often have to make a choice between play money and bills with their income, but Lopez is able to do both. By: August Jensen If you’ve seen a small, plastic baby or fuzzy worm around the school, that was Hanna Nyman making her mark on Bear River High School. Nyman, a senior, has been hiding plastic babies around the school since the beginning of the 2020-21 and recently started handing out fuzzy worms. There are currently 500 plastic babies hidden around the school, and Nyman has approximately 199 that she still wants to hide. Worms on strings have also become popular with Nyman. She is currently handing them out to people and leaving them in places to be found. If you haven’t spotted a fuzzy worm yet, there is currently a pink one in Mrs. Stapley’s classroom named Fredrick.
When asked her reasoning for the worms and babies, Nyman responded, “I’m never going to see anyone ever again, might as well do wacky things.” Nyman says that she “enjoys confusing people and leaving them guessing why.” Before graduating, Nyman says that she wants to get more ‘wacky’ things and hide them around the school so she can continue to leave her mark. Nyman says that “pain is temporary, fuzzy worms and babies are forever.” While it may seem a strange way to be remembered, Nyman will have at least some impact because she decided to do something out of the ordinary. Nyman is an amazing senior, and she’s excited to be able to graduate at the end of the year knowing that she’s leaving her own unique mark at Bear River High School. |
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