On Saturday, September 27th, The Awesome Do Something Club raised nearly $400 at the annual Ben Avon Fall Festival. They brought in $300 for the Live Like Lou [Gherig] Foundation and $80 for the WPA Humane Society. Behind the brains of this operation were the creative minds of the Do Something Club. They came up…
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Writing A Good Story: Life Lessons from Sierra Leone – story by Ethan Woodfill, Payton Wisniewski, Maggie Moore, and Kiara Devese
Sophomore Miriam Kluitenberg’s sister Sarah spoke to the 9th grade during 7th period on Thursday, September 18th. “Who is playing these good tunes?” said Joey Bevilacqua. The fast-tempo and upbeat music brought much anticipation and suspense to the auditorium. World Geography teacher Mrs. Maisner introduced Sarah, and spoke about how the freshmen will be learning…
Eulogy to an Ending Coffee Shop, and Happy Birthday to a New One
I remember the first time I went to Ben Avon’s local coffee shop, The Fire Escape. It was just over four years ago, on Halloween of 2009, and I was in the 8th grade. Though, at the time, I wasn’t a big coffee drinker, I remember trying out the ever-popular pumpkin spice latte and loving…
Crossword Puzzle Answers
Here are the answers to the crossword puzzle from the latest edition of the avonews.
An Interview With Steven Drain
Whenever the Westboro Baptist Church has been discussed in my high school classes, I have found them – as do many people – mystifying, hypocritical, and perplexing. Everything about them was bewildering to me: their pickets at the funerals of deceased soldiers, their picket at the funerals of the children and teachers killed by Adam…
Passion for Fashion
Last week was one of the most tiring weeks of my life. On Saturday, March 8, the Cheyenne River Youth Project held an event called Passion for Fashion. At the event, middle school and high school girls pick out prom dresses, get their hair, makeup, and nails done, get a spa treatment, and choose accessories…
Read Across America | Avonews Edition
Today is Read Across America Day, and, in honor of the occasion, students in Mr. Tuffiash’s Journalism 2 class browsed through old copies of The Avonews dating back to 1925. Of course, back then, it wasn’t called The Avonews, and Avonworth wasn’t even a school. Nonetheless, the origins of our school’s paper go back to…
A Long Week
Right now, everything seems to be falling apart. The internet is down, so I am using it next door at the other living quarters. Our hot water broke, so we have to shower here too. An alarm keeps going off every second because of the water situation. I also lost my phone on a run,…
Target Security Breach: Calm down America
Photo taken by Mallory Manz at a SuperTarget in Florida. Target is the ultimate destination for just about anything, and millions upon millions of people shop there daily. But around Christmas time, the earthquake of destruction struck the Target Corporation. If any of you shopped at Target between November 27, 2013 to December 15,…
Bon Appétit
I have realized that about half of my life now revolves around food. I have never cooked entirely for myself and now I have to. I also have to cook for the kids a few days a week, which is just an added challenge because kids seem to hate everything. Then there are additional events…