STERLING SCHOLARS GOALS LOOK TO MAKING THE FUTURE A BETTER PLACE
NO MORE SCHOOL QUARANTINES?
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BY ELI WEAVER
SCHOOL NEWS EDITOR POSTED 1/17/21 Governor Herbert announced, starting Jan. 1st 2021, students will no longer be quarantined if they are in contact with a student or staff member who has tested positive. This is only true if both parties are wearing masks. link Said, “The current protocol is that if someone is exposed to a person who has COVID-19, both parties have to go home and quarantine. However, officials have learned through research and data the risk for infection is very low. About 1% of those people actually get sick.” This caused a lot of commotion, good and bad. This could help schools stay open for longer and they won’t shut down quite as often. However, people were not happy with this news. President of UEA, Heidi Matthews, wrote a fuming letter to Governor Herbert saying, |
“‘We are disappointed the governor and health officials have elected to ease school quarantine and contact tracing guidelines in the midst of growing community COVID-19 cases and deaths. If school districts adopt these recommendations, it places educators at added risk and adds to the anxiety and stress our school employees already face...the UEA raised the following concerns: 1. The impact of the proposed changes on school safety is unknown, 2. There does not appear to be data supporting the change, and 3. A change to quarantine guidelines that appears to decrease the safety of those in schools will increase the anxiety of already-stressed educators, as well as potentially increase the number of school employees at risk of COVID-19 infection.’” link Please remember to wear your masks so we can keep ourselves and others safe. We can also keep the school open and make this year seem as normal as ever. We’ve got this
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TEACHERS + Vaccines
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BY: ELI WEAVER
SCHOOL NEWS EDITOR On Thursday, December 10th, Governor Herbert announced that teachers would be prioritized in getting the COVID-19 vaccine. His original goal was, “[T]eachers and staff at K-12 schools in Utah will be eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine in January, possibly by the end of December.” (source) Due to shipping delays, rumours of the date getting pushed back to the end of January or even beginning of February started to spread. Spencer Cox, who won the 2020 election for Utah’s Governor, shot down these rumors. |
He said, “Teachers and staff members in Utah’s K-12 schools will be eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine beginning the week of January 11.” He also mentioned that, “Utah adults 70 and older will be eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine beginning the week of January 18.” (source) Not only will this help keep our teachers safe, it will also help keep the school open and hopefully will cause less school closures. Let’s work together and stay safe by wearing our masks, social distancing when possible and when available to you please consider getting the COVID-19 vaccine. We can do this Chargers!
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HOW SAFE IS SAFEUT?
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BY ELI WEAVER
SCHOOL NEWS EDITOR What is SafeUT? University of Utah has a website dedicated to this app (https://healthcare.utah.edu/uni/safe-ut/) According to this website, “The SafeUT Crisis Chat and Tip Line is a statewide service that provides real-time crisis intervention to youth through live chat and a confidential tip program – right from your smartphone.” They also are accepting donations to help this organization run and support teens in Utah. SafeUT can help with yourself or someonelse on any of these topics, “Depression, anxiety, or other mental health issues; Suicide prevention; Loss and grief; Bullying and cyberbullying; Drug and alcohol problems; Self-harm; Relationship difficulties; Any life challenge.” |
SafeUT can help with yourself or someonelse on any of these topics, “Depression, anxiety, or other mental health issues; Suicide prevention; Loss and grief; Bullying and cyberbullying; Drug and alcohol problems; Self-harm; Relationship difficulties; Any life challenge.” One of the greatest features SafeUT has to offer is the “tip” function. On the app, or website, you can submit a tip if you experienced or saw, violence, bullying and emergencies. SafeUT is confidential, free to use, offers two way real time communication, and is available on android and apple devices. If you ever see, feel, or hear any bullying, harassment, violence or are just going through a rough time in 2020 and need someone to talk to please visit this link and find some help! https://safeut.med.utah.edu
POSTED 11/29 |
WHAT IS NOT HAPPENING
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BY: JADA CLAYTON
EDITOR OF THE HOME PAGE While this page is usually dedicated to announcing new and exciting things, Corner Canyon and many other schools have understandably hit a wall for any new ideas and activities. The school is creating changes that many might not agree with, but the reality is, society and Ms. Rona are demanding these changes. To begin, sports are drastically limiting the amount of spectators to parents only, or they are giving each player 2-4 tickets each. This makes it very difficult for students to support fellow students. Many students have not been able to attend a football game, or watch their close friends in their sports either. Because everything seems to be so unexpected and we are all rolling with the punches, classes are being held online, and some students self quarantine so that they don't have to be forced into quarantine during their sports season, and/or for personal reasons. |
Another huge part of the high school experience, for most, is the dances. Dances have been completely cancelled until further notice. For many students, dances were something to look forward to. And to anyone from an outside perspective it might seem that dances are pointless anyway, but the students may beg to differ. This has led to rumors of students hosting small and lowkey dances.
Assemblies have also been cancelled, and to Corner Canyon students the assemblies were quite the production each and every time. Usually the school kicks off the start of a new year with a ¨Hello assembly¨, then the next large assembly would be the Christmas/Charity assembly. Like previously stated, the changes are a bummer and can affect student and teacher morale along with the mental health of many. But we have to choose to still rise and keep pushing through, GO CHARGERS! POSTED 11/2 |
CCHS STERLING SCHOLARS
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WHAT IT TAKES TO BE A STERLING SCHOLAR
The pursuit of excellence — in scholarship, leadership and citizenship — is what defines a Sterling Scholar in the state of Utah. Each high school senior who is recognized and awarded has demonstrated knowledge, success and vision. Each student is required to present a portfolio of work in a specific category, be interviewed by judges and advanced at the high school, semifinal and finals levels. (Deseret News) |
Mathematics – Tor Charnholm
Science – Nickolas Solum Social Science – Mason Hughes English – John Askew Dance – Ella Fankhauser Visual Arts – Gwenaelle Horrocks Family and Consumer Science – Abby Van De Graaff Skilled and Technical Education – Cannon Reading Vocal Performance – Sydney Rudel Theater Arts – Lauren Carn Instrumental Music – Jared Memmott Foreign Language – McKay Larsen Business and Marketing – Ellie Whitehead Computer Science – Kyle Holland |
Corner Canyon performing arts takes on the
Utah Shakespeare Festival
CCHS's Productions Company rehearses Caesar's (Lauren Carn) death scene in Act I of "Julius Caesar".
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SHAKESPEARE COMPETITORSWe took the liberty of asking several of the students who competed in the ensemble piece, choral pieces, and individual events what they thought about Shakespeare this year, especially how COVID-19 affected the process. and this was their response:
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BY EVE CANDELL
FASHION & FOODIES EDITOR After weeks of unpredictable rehearsal schedules, quarantined actors and singers, school cancellations, the Corner Canyon High School Shakespeare Team is finally able to perform their Shakespeare Showcase this past Wednesday and Thursday. For past competitions, the Shakespeare Team travels down to the Utah Shakespeare Festival in Cedar City, held at Southern Utah University. The festival is an opportunity for students to participate in workshops, compete with other schools, and to meet other fans of the bard from all around the country. However, unfortunately due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this year the competition was held virtually. However, this performing arts students made the best of the situation. Several different performing arts groups competed in this festival every year. This year, CCHS’s Productions Company performed various scenes from Act I of Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar”, students competed with various shorter scenes and monologues from a number of plays including “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, “Cymbeline”, and several others. In addition to Productions Company, CCHS’s Chamber Choir also competed in “Julius Caesar”, as well as performing two of their own songs. They competed with “O la, o che bon eccho!” by Orlando di Lasso, and “Sing We and Chant It” by Thomas Morley. In past years, Dance Company and the Theatre 3 class have also collaborated with the theatre department, but unfortunately this year they were unable to. The Shakespeare Team this year put forth a little extra effort to put together the ensemble piece. The team had a lot less time to prepare for competition than they did in past years, and since school took an online sabbatical for several weeks, they had to take several extra precautions to make sure everyone remained safe throughout the COVID outbreak at Corner Canyon. In order to keep everyone safe, temperature checks were administered, masks were strictly enforced, and social distancing was implemented where possible. Although the competition was a little more unconventional than past years, the team put together quite an impressive show. They will be performing on Wednesday the seventh and Thursday the eighth for a limited audience, composed of proud families and friends. POSTED 10/7/20 |
"Shakespeare has been an amazing experience! Times are so weird and it was beautiful to put something together in such a time crunch! It brought me so much joy."
- Ellie Harris (CCHS Choir President) "Especially since this is my first year in Productions Company, it was super nerve racking to be able to compete for my school. But, it was fun to be able to learn and act with a group of people that I love acting with, so the nerves all went away in the end." - Isaak Reymond (CCHS Productions Company Member) "Competing with Mason Miller has been so fun because we've never really worked with each other. He definitely works really hard and has so many fun ideas for the scene." - Sydney Rudel (CCHS Drama Club Public Relations Officer) |