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Contenders for the crown Announced

9/23/2016

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By Bailey Miller @bailey_miller35
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This year’s homecoming court queen candidates are Madelynn Santi, Dianna Slight, Laura Anderson, Claire Anderson, and Grace Krafcisin. The homecoming court king candidates are Tanner Schminke, Ethan Lewis, Brayden Biersner, Devan Baldus, and Colbey Wadsworth.

Madelynn Santi participates in swimming and track. She likes spending time with her teammates from both sports and having a good time. Her favorite memory from high school is her freshman homecoming. She said, “I had a blast with all my friends.” Santi plans to go to The University of Iowa and major in psychology so she can help people get through problems and make their lives more enjoyable.

Dianna Slight participates in basketball, track, and softball. Her favorite memory in high school is winning the sprint medley at the Drake Relays and breaking the state record for the 400 meter dash. After high school, Slight plans on attending The University of Northern Iowa or Iowa State University. She wants to become a school counselor. She likes the hours and feels that it would be a good job if you want to start a family. Slight also likes that she would have time to coach.

Laura Anderson participates in softball and basketball. Her favorite memory from high school is playing in the high school state softball tournament. Anderson does not know what she wants to do after high school.

Claire Anderson is the student council vice president. She is also involved in the National Honor Society and the school-to-work internship program. She is involved in these activities and groups so she can prepare for life after high school. Her favorite high school memory has been attending dances with all of her friends. After high school, Anderson plans on going to either Iowa State University or Central College. She plans to major in either communications or public relations.

Grace Krafcisin participates in volleyball and tennis. She wants to attend DMACC to become a nurse that specializes in obstetrics because she wants to follow in her father’s footsteps. Grace’s favorite memory from high school is being involved in volleyball and basketball because she has made so many friends in both sports.

Tanner Schminke is a four sport athlete. He participates in football, basketball, golf, and baseball. His favorite high school memory was playing in the state baseball tournament. “It was one of the best teams that I’ve ever been apart of,” he said. After high school, Schminke wants to play at football at The University of Iowa, but he also may go somewhere smaller so he can play. He wants to major in Athletic Training or Kinesiology because it will keep him around sports even if he doesn’t continue to play.

Ethan Lewis participates in basketball and golf. He hasn’t decided whether or not he wants to attend the University of Iowa or Iowa State University. “They both have good engineering programs,” he said. Ethan wants to major in civil engineering because math and science have always been easy for him. Ethan’s favorite high school memory is beating ADM in basketball in the first round of districts and moving on to the district final to play Perry.

Brayden Biersner participates in theater, swing choir, and swim team. He wants to attend Simpson college and is planning on majoring in English so he can eventually become an educator. Brayden’s favorite high school memory was performing a solo at the Civic Center.

Devan Baldus’ favorite memory of high school is the football games he has played in. He participates in swimming and track. After high school, he is planning on majoring in aerospace engineering, but he doesn’t know what school he is going to go to yet.

Colbey Wadsworth participates in football, speech team, cheerleading, swing choir, track and field, and RSVP. He would like to attend The University of Iowa because of their ranking in Psychological Studies. He wants to major in Psychology because he believes mental health is highly ignored and how much it impacts one's life. Colbey’s best high school memory was going to state track for shot put and discus.

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Building Cars and Teamwork

9/23/2016

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​By: Maggy Muller @Maggy_Muller
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Being able to enjoy a class and knowing that’s the career you want to fulfill in the future is what juniors Josh Ryan and John Anders love about Shelly Vanyo’s 1080 racing class.

“The best part is being able to design the best parts to make a better car.” says John Anders.

Before the students are assigned a team, they must create a presentation about themselves, some of the assets that they have, and how they would be a good addition to any group. Then, Mrs. Vanyo chooses teams that would work best together.

Before the cars are given, the teams are required to make a list of rules called “team norms” in which every team member has to make up certain requirements that the other team members have to follow, or else they won't be able to drive the team’s car.

Some of the students favorite parts about driving and modeling the cars are getting to be able to customize the cars and working like a business. Teams have to go to car dealerships like Pat Clemons, and try to get sponsorships and money to make modifications to their cars to make them faster and durable. They also like that the class is hands on, and the cars are able to go up to 60 mph.

Shelly Vanyo gives her input on the RC cars, “It’s not something that I personally enjoyed or took part in, but I thought it would be a good learning experience for the students. I was pushed out of my comfort zone to get to know about RC cars.”

Mrs. Vanyo adds that some of the pros of making RC cars is getting to be able to work on the students engineering skills and basing the design of your car based on your own skill level.

“It’s basically like Nascar, except a smaller version. The class is a great class to take because it gives in detail about what you can do and how well you can do it,” says junior Josh Ryan.

John Anders adds, “It’s easy to know what you’re doing when everyone is putting in their part. You can get a fast time, the best steering, and the best motor by having everyone in their own place. With enough teamwork and positivity you can get sponsorships from big car dealerships.”

Watch out Boone High, these cars are fast, dangerous, and they are coming to you this week!

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New Art Teacher Plans to Paint a New Beginning at BHS

9/22/2016

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Libby Penick @lmpenick
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This year, Boone High School is welcoming six new teachers. One of them is teaching art, and her name is Holly Motsch. She is teaching photography, painting, and drawing.

Mrs. Motsch grew up in Grinnell, IA. After she graduated, she studied Art Therapy at Grand View University. By the second semester of her freshman year, she had switched to Art Education. Once she graduated, she married her husband Joshua Motsch, who works in Des Moines for Social Security Disability Determination. They now live in Polk City.

Mrs. Motsch taught three years before coming to Boone High School at Perry Middle School.

“I really like the cafe and the technology opportunities the school offers,” Motsch states when asked about her first impression of Boone High. She says she has been welcomed warmly by fellow teachers and students and is excited to be a part of the Toreador Way.

“My first impression of Mrs. Motsch was that she was like a breath of fresh air! I love how she thinks ‘outside the box" - she's very creative, extremely talented, and just a wonderful person to work with! I just love her!’ says Motsch’s fellow art partner, Mrs. Pomerenk. “I love my room and that I have a partner in art. Mrs. Pomerenk is the best partner I could ask for,” said Motsch in reply.

This year, Mrs. Motsch is looking forward to the art conference. “It is being held at Boone this year, and I am excited to be a part of it.”

Boone High is looking forward to what Mrs. Motsch will accomplish this year.

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Homecoming 2016 Preview

9/22/2016

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By: Sammi Crouse @sammijo019
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Homecoming is right around the corner, and students will show their festivities when they dress up for the daily themes, that starts Monday, September 26. The dance will be on the following Saturday, October 1.

The theme for Monday is ‘Merica Monday, where students will share their patriotism. Tuesday will be twin day, so you can grab a friend and dress up together. On Wednesday, students will wear very colorful clothing, almost like a “color war.” Seniors should wear pink, juniors should wear orange, sophomores wear blue, freshmen purple, and staff green. Thursday will be -er day, which is where students dress up like something that ends in -er, -or, etc. Finally, on Friday, students will show their Boone Toreador spirit for Spirit Day. There will be photographers taking pictures of costumes to be posted on social media for a chance to win a free ticket to homecoming.

Along with the fun dress up days, students can also participate in contests. This year, the contests will be “Biggest Muscles” on Monday, “Biggest Hair” on Tuesday, “Most Sparkle” on Wednesday, and “Best Legs” on Thursday. To vote for contests, students will need to like the Boone TV Facebook page. The winner of each contest will receive a free ticket to the dance.

There will also be other events that will take place to prepare for homecoming. The street painting will take place on Saturday, September 24th. The event will take place from 1-5 pm. Students are asked to bring their own supplies.

The powderpuff game will be Sunday, September 25th at 7:00 pm. The junior girls will play against the senior girls and boys will be cheerleading.

Also sports teams, clubs, and classes will be making banners. These banners will be posted around several local businesses. There will be a contest for the banners; people can vote by adding donations into a jar that the businesses will have. All of the donations will be given to the Hope Foundation. The reward for the winning team will be a donut party. If you would like more information about how you can help, you can see Mrs. Lumley. She is also asking that if you have any pickle jars or canning jars you would like to get rid of, you can give them to her.

After school on Friday, people can meet for a few hours to start decorating the gym for the dance. The decorating will be continued on Saturday morning at 8:00 am. The dance will be held in the gym Saturday night from 8:00-11:00 pm. The theme for the dance is neon. Tickets can be purchased before the dance in the office or at the dance. Each ticket will be $10.

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Mogul Mitch Rising in Boone High

9/15/2016

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Evan Appenzeller @EvanAppenzeller
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No one in  Boone High School has had success with their social media accounts quite like junior Mitchell Moore. That is why he was named Boone TV’s Social Media Consultant this year. Moore is in charge of making sure that the news gets out to all the students through the use of social media. He plans to keep Boone TV growing bigger and bigger by “adapting to the students.”

Moore primarily uses Twitter to spread the word. After all, he has had plenty of experience with using it. His own personal account is followed by some high profile people such as rapper, Riff Raff. Moore also created an NBA account that currently has 18k followers. He is working on creating a Snapchat account as well with a Toreador based filter that everybody could use.

Aside from all things social media, Moore is also deeply invested in sports and a great Toreador fan.  He takes part in the basketball and tennis teams. He dedicates a lot of his time practicing for these sports. When he isn’t playing a sport, he is found in the student sections cheering loudly for the Toreadors. Moore always makes sure to go all out on the themes for football games. Whether it be Hawaii Night or White Out, he is always showing up in style.

A nice little leisure activity he likes to do is rapping. He goes by the name of Mogul Mitch and doesn’t hold anything back. Mogul, as he likes to be called, has released three songs written and performed by himself.

One person that has worked with Moore for a while is senior Lance Losh. “Mitch knows how to spit bars, but he is also bringing Boone TV social media to the top.” This goes to show that Moore is respected by his peers for his hard work in Boone TV and the rapping industry. Moore is an inspirational person to anybody that knows him. He is the type of person that sets his mind to something and goes out to achieve it. ​

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Seniors recognized in final days at Boone High 

5/24/2016

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By: Katelyn Williams @katelynann228
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On Wednesday, May 18th the seniors were honored with many different scholarships and awards. The Boone High School student body, family, and friends were there to watch them receive their awards.

A total of 2.2 million dollars were awarded to the graduating class, some were highlighted for athletic and academic excellence, interest in The Navy, Marine Corps and The Army National Guard. There were also scholarships awarded to those going into careers such as Teaching, Criminal Justice, and Nursing,

Members from the graduating classes of 1951, 1952, and 1979 were present to award scholarships.

Others were also recognized at the assembly such as The Varsity B award winners, an award given for lettering in three sports in a calendar year.

As all the students were being recognized, Teacher Nate Spora also received the Mallas Family Educator Award. This award was chosen by a group of eight students.

Senior Sarah Heller said, “I applied to a lot of the Ag scholarships because there is a lot in our county and that is the major I plan on going in to. I started applying a long time ago because some were due last fall.  I feel I got these because my agriculture background and I also did well in school. My advice is to apply for as many as you can because you never know how many you will get.”

As senior year came to a close, the seniors were able to be awarded for their time and effort they gave during their high school years.

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Saying goodbye to seniors

5/24/2016

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By: Erin Peterson 
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On Wednesday, May 18th, juniors, underclassmen, and teachers all started bidding their goodbyes to the class of 2016. The Senior’s awards on Wednesday opened space to have the rest of the week trail behind with the senior’s last day on Thursday, graduation practice on Friday, and finally, graduation on Sunday afternoon.

Throughout the year, Boone Tv has done features on a few of the many talented seniors that will be leaving this school district. Seniors such as Joey Cornelis, Jade Myers, Emily Westrum, Eli Doss, Kayla Williams, and Jenna Sundberg have flooded Boone Tv’s news section and for good reason. Iowa State University, University of Northern Iowa, and the University of Northern Iowa are all some of the many colleges Boone students will be traveling for the next part of their educational careers.

“I can’t believe that I’m graduating this Sunday. This grade has been together for the past 15 years and Sunday is the last day that we’ll for sure all be together. It’s just weird to think about.” Senior Coby Gideon says. After high school, Gideon plans on going on to work on his vehicles and in a mechanics shop.

This year, most of our seniors are excited to be heading out of home and going to new places. With a vast majority of the new freshmen heading into the beautiful and huge ISU campus, the school is sure to see some new talents and thrilled students.

From all juniors, underclassmen, and teachers, we wish the graduating class of 2016 well in their next big steps into the future.

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2016 Fine Arts Festival

5/17/2016

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By: Erin Peterson 
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On Tuesday, May 17th, the fine arts festival marks the last for not only the school year, but for seniors and orchestra director David Swenson as well. While the band, choir, and orchestra changing between groups, the audience is going to be able to walk around to view some students achievements and work in their art classes throughout the year.

Beginning at 6:00, the choir portion of the festival will start with the harmony choir, to which they will be singing two songs. The first song is “Beyond the Sea”, arranged by Audrey Snyder, which will be followed by “The Sound of Silence”, arranged by Roger Emerson.

After the Harmony choir, the Concert choir will take their places and sing two songs of their own. “Need You Now”, arranged by Greg Gilpin and “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” arranged by the same Robert Emerson from “The Sound of Silence”, are the two songs highlighted from Boone’s Concert Choir.

Next, Chorale will sing “Can’t Find This Feeling”, arranged by Greg Gilpin which will be followed by “Razzle Dazzle” arranged by Larry Shackley.

To finish off the choir portion of this year’s arts festival, all choirs will combine and sing “You Are the Music in Me”, which was arranged by Mac Huff. This song will feature all of the choirs singers as they say goodbye to high school choir.

    In the middle part of the festival, Chris Truckenmiller will direct the band in a Zelda Medley called “Gerudo Valley”, which will lead to the next song called “Ye Banks and Braes O’Bonnie Doon”. Afterwards, the Band’s seniors will play “Baba Yetu” from Civilization. To end the band portion, the band’s percussion ensemble group will play a song titled “Bayport Sketch” arranged by Jared Spears.

Next, The Boone High School orchestra, directed by a retiring David Swenson, will kick off the end portion of the 2016 Fine Arts Festival. To begin their section, the group, along with some band and percussion, will play “Smoke on the Water” from Deep Purple. Next, the strings and percussion will bring the audience back to the sixties and play Ben E King’s “Stand By Me”. Afterwards, the orchestra’s “Highlights from Harry Potter” is sure to bring smiles to some faces in the crowd. After all of the band and percussion have left the stage, the string orchestra will play “Tears in Heaven” from Eric Clapton’s album Rush. To finalize the festival, the orchestra will end with this year’s senior song, “Faithfully” from Journey.

While the musical performance side of the festival is going on, the Choir room will be holding the Raccoon River Conference Art Show. Winners of the Art Show will have their, along with other students, art work shown so teachers, parents, and student will be able to see them. ​

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Boone Ole Cafe; a success

5/10/2016

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By: Inga Wegger 
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After almost a full school year into having the Cafe Ole, Bonnie Larrew, a worker in the cafe, is happy with how everything has went by. “I feel like it’s gone really well. Once we got all the kids on the same page on how the accounts work it’s been smooth sailing. I’ve had a lot of requests of food items which is fun. Everyone seems happy about having the cafe.”

Before Larrew started working in the Boone Cafe Ole, she worked in a restaurant up until she was 20 years old, after that for a national gift store, and lastly she was the director of a child abuse prevention council in Boone County. She feels like all of these things have given her good qualities to work in the cafe.

“I think that it’s super cool that we have this cafe in Boone of all places. I think it’s a great opportunity to have a safe and fun place to hang out. The cafe makes our community more progressive which is helpful and I am grateful that the administrators included this in the redesign of the high school. Also, I really enjoy working here.”

When asked about what she enjoys the most about working in the cafe she answers, “I really love the kids. It is a surprise for me, because didn’t expect to like high school kids as much as I do. High school kids are known forh possibly be challenging, but I have not had any difficulties with them.”

The students are also happy with the cafe, senior Jackson Hull says, “I think the cafe is a great addition to our school.”
Larrew says the only thing she would change if she could are the dietary restrictions from the federal government because there is a lot of nutritious food that they are not allowed to sell in the cafe because of the restrictions. But all in all, the cafe has been a success. ​

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Cornelis prepares self for a new chapter

5/9/2016

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By: Inga Wegger 
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Senior Joey Cornelis is ready for moving on from High School into a new journey in life. After high school her plans are to go to Iowa State University where she will major in Accounting. “I think graduation in general is exciting and a big step in my life, and I’m looking forward to my life after graduation.”

Cornelis became interested in learning about accounting when business teacher Ed Dobelis sparked her interest a couple of years ago. “I’m really into facts and logic and accounting has one end solution which I like a lot. I would say that I’m more a logical thinker than a creative one”

Cornelis is involved in volleyball, tennis, a part of peer helpers, and a member of National Honor Society.

When being asked what her favorite memories from Boone High School are, she answers; “Although I will miss the atmosphere and seeing my friends at the school, my favorite memories from Boone High School are definitely the dances and being in the student section at different sporting events as well as playing in sporting events myself.” ​

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