Safe Space SIgns and why They're Important to Students
Image of the first page of the petition given to the Canyons District School Board, distorted so as not to see anyone's names.
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BY VEE WITZEL
HEADLINE NEWS EDITOR The very first gay-straight alliance, or GSA, both started and ended before any of us current students began attending Corner Canyon. So, when all of us started our freshmen year there were already signs on the walls of each classroom that said “This is a Safe Space,” on a colorful paper. The president of the last GSA campaigned very hard and worked with our administration for a long time to get these signs approved and make sure that they were up in every class. This was to make sure that even after he left when there wouldn’t be a GSA anymore, that students would still feel welcome and safe at school. These signs have helped so many students to feel safe in the classroom which is beneficial to their education. Personally, the first time I walked into a class my freshman year, I almost cried when I saw these signs because I felt supported and not cared like I had felt before. I know many other students have felt the same way before. This year, however, the district made the decision to take away anything with a rainbow on it, because they labelled a rainbow a political symbol. They said that if teachers REALLY wanted to, they could put the signs on their desks. However, no one was allowed to keep it in their classrooms anymore or else it may look like the school supports rainbows. This decision was, of course, made quietly, and students only found out once they noticed all of the signs were missing. Once they did notice, though, they decided to do something about it. A petition was made asking the district to allow the safe space signs back, and in a single day over 150 signatures were put on it. The petition was given to the district board and the hope is that they will reinstate allowing the safe space signs, so that new students will have the same opportunity to start high school feeling welcomed and safe as many of us did. If you’d like to help, you may send an email to nancy.tingey@canyonsdistrict.org , the president of the Canyons District Board, or any of the other members, and ask if they will consider the petition. POSTED 10/25/21 |
How Chargers Danced THeir Bones off at the Spooky Dance
BY OAKLEE EWING
MIND AND BODY EDITOR
Hey Chargers! This last Saturday (Oct. 23) was the infamous Halloween Dance! Though the overall theme for this dance was Disney, groups across the school had their own, unique ideas. My own group decided to have a carnival theme, so I along with my best friend Jaycee were marionette dolls, my boyfriend and her date, Jordan Rich, the puppet masters. Kerklyn Hoff and Kolsyn Folkerson were ring leaders while Rylie Barnes and Tommy Hasleton were clowns. Vee Witzel and their group are going as “dynamic duos” which includes, but is not limited to, Barbie and Ken, Harley Quinn and the Joker, and Woody and Jessie.
The dance started at 8pm and slowly but surely the commons filled up with students in their costumes! Disappointingly, I think the only halloween song I heard play was Thriller. Monster Mash would have been a great addition. This dance was your typical high school “mosh to anything with a beat” and we ended up getting the wind knocked out of us and pushed around from kids running into the mosh not looking anywhere they go. It was fun, and the songs were fine, but definitely the majority of the music was overplayed popular songs that I and many others quickly got tired of. Seeing everyone in their cool costumes was definitely worth it. There was a student seen in a maid costume, many StarWars themed groups, your typical dalmatian and firefighter duo, and even Coraline!
Even though we just got through the Halloween Dance, and haven’t even celebrated the real Halloween yet, in two weeks’ time (November 6) the winter formal dance will take its place on this Headline News.
POSTED 10/24/21
MIND AND BODY EDITOR
Hey Chargers! This last Saturday (Oct. 23) was the infamous Halloween Dance! Though the overall theme for this dance was Disney, groups across the school had their own, unique ideas. My own group decided to have a carnival theme, so I along with my best friend Jaycee were marionette dolls, my boyfriend and her date, Jordan Rich, the puppet masters. Kerklyn Hoff and Kolsyn Folkerson were ring leaders while Rylie Barnes and Tommy Hasleton were clowns. Vee Witzel and their group are going as “dynamic duos” which includes, but is not limited to, Barbie and Ken, Harley Quinn and the Joker, and Woody and Jessie.
The dance started at 8pm and slowly but surely the commons filled up with students in their costumes! Disappointingly, I think the only halloween song I heard play was Thriller. Monster Mash would have been a great addition. This dance was your typical high school “mosh to anything with a beat” and we ended up getting the wind knocked out of us and pushed around from kids running into the mosh not looking anywhere they go. It was fun, and the songs were fine, but definitely the majority of the music was overplayed popular songs that I and many others quickly got tired of. Seeing everyone in their cool costumes was definitely worth it. There was a student seen in a maid costume, many StarWars themed groups, your typical dalmatian and firefighter duo, and even Coraline!
Even though we just got through the Halloween Dance, and haven’t even celebrated the real Halloween yet, in two weeks’ time (November 6) the winter formal dance will take its place on this Headline News.
POSTED 10/24/21
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Come see the Grand Opening of the New School Store: The Shacc
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BY JANICA STOCKING
EDITORIALS EDITOR Just a few weeks ago, on October 8th, the school store had its grand opening. In previous years, Ms. Gross was in charge of running the school store along with the student staff taking her school store class. Ms. Gross recently stopped teaching at Corner Canyon High School. Since her departure from the school, one of Corner Canyon’s newest teachers, Mr. Jones, has taken on the responsibility of running the school store. It is Mr. Jones’s third year teaching and his first year teaching at Corner Canyon. He teaches several CTE and business classes including Entrepreneurship, Retail/School Store, Marketing, Digital Business Apps, Business Management, and Hospitality & Tourism. He also is a faculty advisor for FBLA (Future Business Leaders of America) and DECA (business & marketing club). With his new leadership, the school store has been able to officially rebrand itself. The school store, officially known as THE SHACC, sells a wide variety of drinks, candy, and food. Mr. Jones says that the school store will also be selling Corner Canyon apparel on their website, in the next couple of weeks. All the items sold at the physical store are relatively inexpensive with only one item selling for more than two dollars. Along with actual money, the store also accepts Charge Cards as a form of payment. Charge Cards are given out by teachers to students and can be used to buy any item sold at the school store. Due to inflation and other supply chain issues, the value of a Charge Card has been deemed flexible because the school store does have to purchase the items sold and account for their costs. At the time of this posting, one Charge Card is the equivalent of 50 cents. After interviewing several school store staff members and Mr. Jones, I was able to find out a lot about the school store. Brynleigh Johnsen, Tyler Macievic, and Gracie Newell all said that they were excited to take the class and that so far it has been really fun. They also all thought that they’ve learned a lot from taking the class and running the school store. If you want to get more updates about the school store or more information, follow them on Instagram @cornercanyon_schoolstore. POSTED 10/19/21 |
Why did you sign up to be a part of the school store?
“I thought it’d be a fun class for senior year.” - Brynleigh Johnsen
“I thought it’d be a blast.” - Gracie Newell
“[It’d] help me learn about social interactions.” - Alex Brady
What’s so great about running the school store?
“Everything we learn and talk about is applicable.” - Mr. Jones
“We’re actually learning about retail.” - Gracie Newell
“We’re learning about retail and cleanliness.” - Brynleigh Johnsen
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reflections contest
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Keeping Up With the Country: What's Up With U.s. News of the Week
BY VEE WITZEL
HEADLINE NEWS EDITOR
As people living in America, we’re advised to stay informed about what’s going on around the country because once we’re 18 we can vote. Now most of us can’t vote quite yet anyways, but it’s my opinion that it’s still important to know about what’s happening in the world around us. Of course, there are plenty of ways to see the headlines of all the big news stories, but you have to actively check them if you want to be able to stay up to date. So, if you’re here because your teacher is having you look at the chronicle as a starter, or if you’re just looking at it because you’re bored in English (as my younger brother told me he does) then here’s your chance to see what’s going on in the U.S. this week.
On CNN, the main headline news page tells us that the most important thing going on this week is that a fire in California has gotten so bad it’s forcing people to start evacuating. They say that the heavy winds they are experiencing right now are making it very hard to tame and to stop from spreading. I suppose those heavy winds are starting to travel across the country because on a call with my grandparents yesterday, I was informed that they felt as though their house (in Las Vegas, Nevada) was going to blow down for three hours straight.
On ABC News, the biggest story today is about William Shatner (Captain James T. Kirk from the original Star Trek series), who is the oldest man to ever go to space. At 90 years old, he took a little trip in a fancy rocket ship and says that he felt “overwhelmed” by the experience. Nonetheless, he encourages anyone who has the chance to take such a trip to take it, saying that everyone should do so.
NBC news reports that the percent of money that retired Americans are getting from social security has just increased. They say this is a good thing and is benefiting 70 million people, but I wonder personally where we are getting this money because of all the talk that the government will shut down soon when they run out of funds.
Below is a list of news sites that you can sign up for with subscriptions so that you can continue to stay updated on the news around you!
POSTED 10/13/21
HEADLINE NEWS EDITOR
As people living in America, we’re advised to stay informed about what’s going on around the country because once we’re 18 we can vote. Now most of us can’t vote quite yet anyways, but it’s my opinion that it’s still important to know about what’s happening in the world around us. Of course, there are plenty of ways to see the headlines of all the big news stories, but you have to actively check them if you want to be able to stay up to date. So, if you’re here because your teacher is having you look at the chronicle as a starter, or if you’re just looking at it because you’re bored in English (as my younger brother told me he does) then here’s your chance to see what’s going on in the U.S. this week.
On CNN, the main headline news page tells us that the most important thing going on this week is that a fire in California has gotten so bad it’s forcing people to start evacuating. They say that the heavy winds they are experiencing right now are making it very hard to tame and to stop from spreading. I suppose those heavy winds are starting to travel across the country because on a call with my grandparents yesterday, I was informed that they felt as though their house (in Las Vegas, Nevada) was going to blow down for three hours straight.
On ABC News, the biggest story today is about William Shatner (Captain James T. Kirk from the original Star Trek series), who is the oldest man to ever go to space. At 90 years old, he took a little trip in a fancy rocket ship and says that he felt “overwhelmed” by the experience. Nonetheless, he encourages anyone who has the chance to take such a trip to take it, saying that everyone should do so.
NBC news reports that the percent of money that retired Americans are getting from social security has just increased. They say this is a good thing and is benefiting 70 million people, but I wonder personally where we are getting this money because of all the talk that the government will shut down soon when they run out of funds.
Below is a list of news sites that you can sign up for with subscriptions so that you can continue to stay updated on the news around you!
POSTED 10/13/21
Portfolio on Paul Harrison: COding and Biking WOnder
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BY VEE WITZEL
HEADLINE NEWS EDITOR Mountain biking, as a sport, can be a bit confusing. In other sports you can see easily who has scored more goals, made more baskets, or gotten more holes-in-one. The numbers easily tell you who is winning and who is losing. With mountain biking, it may be easy to see who finishes first and wins individually, but when it comes to being part of a team it can get a lot more complicated. There are a lot of calculations that you have to do to determine who wins between all the different levels of competition and all the different groups that race at different times. Usually, teams won’t know who’s in the lead or if they’re doing well until the awards ceremony after the entire tournament is over. But Paul Harrison, senior and active member of the mountain biking team here at Corner, decided to do something to change that. Paul has been coding for as long as anyone has known him, he makes his own programs just for fun. He decided to use his coding skills for mountain biking, though, when he was working on the project that I'm sure many of you have also completed: the “Be the Change” project. Paul saw that not being able to know the scores was stressful on his coaches and so he made an algorithm to determine the scores throughout the entire tournament, and gave his coaches access so that they could check anytime they needed to. I don’t know much about mountain biking or about coding, but Paul did his best to explain to me what the program does. “The Scoreboard,” as I’ve started calling it since Paul never gave it a name, works by calculating who is winning and by how much during the races, giving minute by minute updates, by monitoring the official list of who is finishing on the races website. Paul became the absolute favorite of all his coaches and they LOVE his program, using it at every race now. Chargers- If you see a problem, do something to fix it and make us all proud! If you see Paul Harrison around the halls tell him good job, and wish him a late happy 18th birthday! POSTED 10/11/21 |
Paul Harrison working on the code for "The Scoreboard"
Paul (on the right) dressed up for the Winters dance.
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Club Rush: Come Down to the Commons and Check It Out!
BY JANICA STOCKING
EDITORIALS EDITOR
Club rush is an annual event at Corner Canyon where clubs are able to spread awareness about their organizations and are able to recruit members. There are many different types of clubs at Corner Canyon. From CTE (Career and Technical Education) clubs to clubs that are just for fun, there is a club for everyone. Some of the clubs charge fees to members who join to cover competition and enrollment fees, while others are completely free. According to the Princeton Review, joining a club is actually one of the best ways to boost your college application. It shows that you are more well-rounded and can help you improve your communication skills. If you become a leader (club founder, officer, etc.) within your club, that can also significantly help you stand out from the crowd of applicants.
If you join some of the CTE clubs and compete, you can win scholarships and get the chance to get national recognition if you win. You gain a lot of valuable skills by joining and actively participating in these clubs. If you’re taking a CTE course this year, you can also likely earn points in class for joining or participating in one of these clubs. Mrs. Morgan, who teaches Digital Business Applications and some concurrent enrollment CTE classes at Corner Canyon, says, “You can earn professional development points [in my classes] if you join FBLA or DECA.”
There are, of course, other non-CTE clubs at Corner Canyon. One of those clubs is the beading club. Ruby Winget is the founder and president of the beading club and says that it’s “a place where people...can come to let loose and be creative together. Beading for me has been a fun way to relieve stress while making something beautiful and useful.” Another club that will be at club rush is the art club. Art club allows CCHS students to creatively express themselves through art. Film club will also be having a display at club rush. Natalia Herrera says that film club is simply meant to create an atmosphere for students to watch movies together. There are so many other cool clubs like this to discover at CCHS, so you should definitely look into all the clubs at club rush Tuesday and Wednesday this week!
POSTED 10/5/21
EDITORIALS EDITOR
Club rush is an annual event at Corner Canyon where clubs are able to spread awareness about their organizations and are able to recruit members. There are many different types of clubs at Corner Canyon. From CTE (Career and Technical Education) clubs to clubs that are just for fun, there is a club for everyone. Some of the clubs charge fees to members who join to cover competition and enrollment fees, while others are completely free. According to the Princeton Review, joining a club is actually one of the best ways to boost your college application. It shows that you are more well-rounded and can help you improve your communication skills. If you become a leader (club founder, officer, etc.) within your club, that can also significantly help you stand out from the crowd of applicants.
If you join some of the CTE clubs and compete, you can win scholarships and get the chance to get national recognition if you win. You gain a lot of valuable skills by joining and actively participating in these clubs. If you’re taking a CTE course this year, you can also likely earn points in class for joining or participating in one of these clubs. Mrs. Morgan, who teaches Digital Business Applications and some concurrent enrollment CTE classes at Corner Canyon, says, “You can earn professional development points [in my classes] if you join FBLA or DECA.”
There are, of course, other non-CTE clubs at Corner Canyon. One of those clubs is the beading club. Ruby Winget is the founder and president of the beading club and says that it’s “a place where people...can come to let loose and be creative together. Beading for me has been a fun way to relieve stress while making something beautiful and useful.” Another club that will be at club rush is the art club. Art club allows CCHS students to creatively express themselves through art. Film club will also be having a display at club rush. Natalia Herrera says that film club is simply meant to create an atmosphere for students to watch movies together. There are so many other cool clubs like this to discover at CCHS, so you should definitely look into all the clubs at club rush Tuesday and Wednesday this week!
POSTED 10/5/21
CLUB SPOTLIGHT: CALLING ALL BOOKWORMS! NEW BOOK CLUB THIS YEAR
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Mrs. Jones, our library/media coordinator, is hosting a student book club this year. They held their first meeting on Monday, October 11th, but it's not too late to get in on the month's book selection, Letters to the Lost by Brigid Kemmerer (Utah’s 2019 Young Adult Beehive Book Award Winner). Pop into the library to get a book and info! Since Book Club will host a Utah author, Tricia Levenseller, coming to the book club meeting on December 1st, the book for November will be one of her books.
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Shakespeare Heads Down South to Ceder City, Say Break a Leg!
"WE WON SHAKESPEARE" 
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BY VEE WITZEL
HEADLINE NEWS EDITOR The Shakespeare showcase. It’s the show that all of the kids in theater work on for a very long time, many of them even practicing their scenes during the summer. How it works is each student or group of students gets to pick (or gets assigned) a scene from a Shakespeare play which they will then act out in front of everyone at the Shakespeare showcase night. After which they all head down to Cedar City to compete with their scenes there as well at the Shakespeare festival. Now that I've said “Shakespeare '' entirely too many times, I’ll tell you about what happened when I went to the Shakespeare showcase. Firstly, I made the mistake of going with a friend who’s in the video journalism class, and accidentally got roped into working in the sound booth the entire show because the teachers saw her camera and banished us there. I suppose it did give me a phenomenal view of the show, though. And oh- what a show it was! It started with the choir singing absolutely angelic melodies in Latin. It sounded like I had died and gone to Heaven. Suddenly, without warning, they were barking like dogs. Very loudly, and very chaotically. And by some miracle, it only got weirder from there. We went from Liz Vance (who came to me later to tell me that, "I have a quote for you. I am very bruised from Noah tossing me around") throwing a handful of glitter into Noah Garcia’s poor eyes, to Isaak Remund acting out a scene where he tried to convince his sister to give up her virginity for him (and ended up winning a scholarship for the scene, too), to Lauren Dunn absolutely nailing Ian Colton with various pieces of furniture. The night ended with a haunting scene involving lots of yelling, very loud drums, a pentagram, and possible torture. This weekend, a bus full of all these theatre kids (which I'm sure that bus driver loved) drove several hours all the way down to Cedar City and competed in the Shakespeare festival there. And guess what... they won first place! Along, with several other individual and sounds awards. If you know anyone involved, make sure to tell them congratulations! POSTED 10/3/21 |
All Hail the Halloween Dance, the Next Big hoedown at Corner
Senior Nathan Hougard's response to being asked to the Halloween Dance.
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BY VEE WITZEL
HEADLINE NEWS EDITOR Spooky scary skeletons send dance asks to their dates. October 23rd is the next dance here at Corner Canyon and it’s our annual Halloween themed dance! Everyone gets to pick cute couples costumes (or amazing single stand-outs if you’re going stag) to wear for a night of entertainment and masks. This time, masks in a good way, though. This year, the theme for our Halloween dance is Disney, and we’re encouraged to pick costumes that fall under that category. To anyone reading this, know that dressing up as Disney characters is NOT required, you CAN pick something else. To any student body officers who were involved in making the decision to make the dance Disney themed, I just want to talk. All jokes aside, we didn’t get to have a halloween dance (or any of the beginning of the year dances, for that matter) last year, so this year our costumes have to make up for lost time. Make sure to put lots of thought and creativity into choosing a super fun costume, and make sure to have super fun at the dance! Avery Hewiston, senior, is taking this philosophy quite literally and says she is going to dress up as Pitbull. Boys, if Avery asks you to the dance, I don’t suggest saying yes. Kellen Hellinger, senior, says he might dress up as an Apollo 11 astronaut, which doesn’t seem too scary until he added, “Watch out behind you.” Caden Fairbourn, senior, should probably be watching out a little more because he said that he was excited for the dance because he “can’t wait to see Kellen’s moves on the dance floor.” Though I suppose since he’s dressing up as the bus that hit Regina George, he’ll be able to protect himself. Keeping with the spooky season theme, the most common idea for a good date either before or after the dance is to visit a haunted house. So if you’re thinking of doing that, make sure to get tickets well in advance. The three closest haunted houses to Draper are Raven Manor, Dead City Haunted House, and the Utah Haunted Circus. So if you’re trying to find somewhere to go, that could be a good place to start! We’ll see you all on October 23rd in your scariest dress! POSTED 9/27/21 |
What are chargers dressing up as this year?
McJagger He-Man High School Teacher John Hansen Space Cowgirl Dumb and Dumber Characters Morticia Adams Sharpay Evans Blow up Dinosaur Little Red Riding Hood Marionette Doll Devil Powerpuff Girl Olivia Rodriguo The Cullen Family Contributors, in order of costume: Jagger Gamache Jackson Luttrell Mr. Hansen Mr. Wild Emilie Douland Nixon Smith Julia Wyman Kenzie Stoddard Keaton Hayes Emma Gleason Oaklee Ewing Janica Stocking Sophie Madsen Madison McGee Emma Johnson 
Absolute must-have group costume idea. Photo cred: Google images.
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How To Combat Covid Case Numbers: Utah Edition
BY ALAINA MAST
ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR
March 13, 2020, was the last day students at Corner Canyon went to school until August 24, 2020, for the next school year due to COVID-19. For those who don’t know, COVID-19 is a deadly and highly contagious respiratory illness caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. From March to August, there was a nationwide quarantine filled with mask mandates, social distancing, COVID testing, and extra hygienic precautions in public and in private.
A year later, COVID-19 is still on the rise, now having an even more contagious virus strand, the Delta Variant. Even though throughout the 2020-2021 school year, Corner Canyon High School, along with many other schools statewide, had a mandatory mask mandate, it is not enforced this year for the 2021-2022 school year. Due to no mask mandate and a lack of COVID-19 vaccinations in Utah, at only 49.5% of the Utah population being fully vaccinated, there has been an outbreak since the beginning of this school year. At the beginning of summer, COVID cases were averaging at 239 cases per week, compared to the weekly average of 2,110 cases, a week after the very hectic, maskless Labor Day weekend. Now, since the middle of September, the weekly average is 1,676 cases in Utah alone.
Salt Lake City mayor, Erin Mendenhall, urged Salt Lake City School District to have all students K-12 to wear their masks even if they are fully vaccinated. Many people are thrilled with the act that Mayor Mendenhall is taking, while many others are outwardly against it.
ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR
March 13, 2020, was the last day students at Corner Canyon went to school until August 24, 2020, for the next school year due to COVID-19. For those who don’t know, COVID-19 is a deadly and highly contagious respiratory illness caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. From March to August, there was a nationwide quarantine filled with mask mandates, social distancing, COVID testing, and extra hygienic precautions in public and in private.
A year later, COVID-19 is still on the rise, now having an even more contagious virus strand, the Delta Variant. Even though throughout the 2020-2021 school year, Corner Canyon High School, along with many other schools statewide, had a mandatory mask mandate, it is not enforced this year for the 2021-2022 school year. Due to no mask mandate and a lack of COVID-19 vaccinations in Utah, at only 49.5% of the Utah population being fully vaccinated, there has been an outbreak since the beginning of this school year. At the beginning of summer, COVID cases were averaging at 239 cases per week, compared to the weekly average of 2,110 cases, a week after the very hectic, maskless Labor Day weekend. Now, since the middle of September, the weekly average is 1,676 cases in Utah alone.
Salt Lake City mayor, Erin Mendenhall, urged Salt Lake City School District to have all students K-12 to wear their masks even if they are fully vaccinated. Many people are thrilled with the act that Mayor Mendenhall is taking, while many others are outwardly against it.
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"There is no way the Legislature is going to approve a mask mandate at this stage" |
Utah Governor, Spencer Cox, stated “Masks are not as effective as most of the pro-mask crowd are arguing. We know that they’re just not.” He said this in favor of the state’s ban on school districts creating their own mask mandates, like SLC major Mendenhall did.
As the spread of COVID-19 continues to surge, the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) is still encouraging the public to wear masks, social distance, get vaccinated, and to follow other COVID guidelines.
POSTED 9/26/21
As the spread of COVID-19 continues to surge, the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) is still encouraging the public to wear masks, social distance, get vaccinated, and to follow other COVID guidelines.
POSTED 9/26/21
Symptoms of COVID-19: Fever or chills, Cough, Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing, Fatigue, Muscle or body aches, Headache, New loss of taste or smell, Sore throat, Congestion or runny nose, Nausea or vomiting, Diarrhea.
How to Stop the spread of COVID-19: Wash your hands, Wear a mask, Social Distance, Get vaccinated.
Top places to get the COVID-19 Vaccine: CVS, Walgreens, Walmart, Local Clinic
Link to the live Utah covid cases
How to Stop the spread of COVID-19: Wash your hands, Wear a mask, Social Distance, Get vaccinated.
Top places to get the COVID-19 Vaccine: CVS, Walgreens, Walmart, Local Clinic
Link to the live Utah covid cases
