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Not only are the seniors anxious to graduate, but so is every other student yearning for the summer and getting ready for next year.  Students prepare for finals as the teachers dread inventory.

“I’m Preparing for football next year.” says, soon to be sophomore, Kevin Eli.

Next year’s junior, Taylor Bair, says, “Prom, and I’m preparing for college.”

Lani Mataia, who is going to be a senior next year, says, ” I am preparing for awesomeness, senoritas, senior prank and college.”

Graduating senior Sawyer Bivens says, “Other than college, I prepare for making money and not getting killed.”

There you have it, from all sides, what students prepare for as the school year is coming to the end.

If you attend Meeker High School, one thing that you definitely know is that we have the most incredible and genuine woman as our counselor. Elaine Collins.

No matter what it is that you are struggling with in your life, Mrs. Collins will do everything in her power to help you out. It makes no difference to her what color hair you have, if you’re wearing cool clothes or if you have tons of friends, she will help you the absolute best that she can.

Mrs. Collins is also a very genuine person. She means every single word that she says and truly cares about the students of  Meeker High. What many people do not know about her is that she lives an hour and thirty minutes away from Meeker. She makes an extremely long commute to Meeker every morning and every night just to help us. She is dedicated.

Unfortunately, Mrs. Collins announced that this is her last year counseling here. She says that she wants to spend more time with her husband. While every single person here will miss her, we will never forget how she has helped us all in different ways. Make sure you let her know just how much she means and tell her thank you before it’s too late to do so.

We will miss you dearly Mrs. Collins and we hope that your life goes wonderfully after your time here at Meeker High School.

The last day of school for Freshmen, Sophomores, and Juniors is May 26th!

Not counting today, April 5th, there are 36 days left of the 2010-2011 school year! This means that we have 36 days to make our grades as awesome as possible!!!

Monday, April 4th, marked the first day of the fourth quarter. Third and fourth quarter grades are combined at the end of the year to form the grades that will go on your transcripts.

Let’s all make sure that we’re in school, on time, and ready to finish out this year strong!

The big rumor around Meeker High School’s baseball team was that they may not come back after last year’s 0-18 losing streak. After a bunch of hard work and determination, the Meeker Cowboys won 3 out of the 4 games they played in Denver. Meeker lost twice to Fruita High School. They killed the Grand Valley Cardinals in a 2 in 0 swipe. Both of the games ended in the mercy rule.

” We played good as a team,” said 1st baseman, Trevor Matrisciano. Overwhelmed, Matrisciano was not sure what to say about the wins.

Shortstop Cole Steiner said, “The games were okay.”

Jose Villalpando says that he was just glad not to strike out or make any errors.

With five wins and three losses, it’s eight down, eight to go.

The Meeker girls basketball team traveled to Oak Creek Tuesday, February 22 to see who would be competing in regionals. Previously on Febuary 12, SoRoCo had traveled to Meeker, and defeated the girls 61-43.

Tuesday, the Cowboys came ready for a fight. In the first quarter the Rams kept up their game and stayed in the lead, but by the second quarter the Cowboys started showing SoRoCo the kind of team they really were. By the second half, Meeker caught back up and took the lead. Leading by ten they went into the fourth quarter with high spirits. SoRoCo not giving up began to catch up but slowly the clock began to run out. Two points down, on a failed last second shot, SoRoCo lost 57-55. Meeker redeemed themselves and are now off to districts!

As of late, more and more students at Meeker High School have either been absent or showed up later in the day. It seems as if students perceive certain classes as less important than others, and do not think that they have to show up or even do the work.

Showing up to class is a huge part of your grade, if you’re not in class, you can’t learn the material. If you don’t learn the material, you can’t do the homework assignments. Of course, homework assignments not being turned in makes your grade drop. All these missing assignments followed by a test over the material that you didn’t learn, leads to a pretty disgraceful grade.

Now that being said, there are times when you simply cannot make it to school. It may be that you’re sick, have a doctor’s appointment, or something else that you can’t control. However, there are plenty of times that students can make it to school, but choose not to.

When you’re in high school, I think that you have good enough judgement to decide when you should and shouldn’t miss school, but you need to start making the right choice!

Pity the poor person who has only heard the rhythm of a tango through their ipod. There is nothing quite like being transported straight to the streets of Buenos Aires through the golden strings of Extasis Tango Quartet. Tango lovers often go as far as Argentina to feel the melodic spirit of this latin dance, but on January 26, the sensual music of the  tango came to Steamboat live.

While a  serious quartet on stage, their  interview was commical off  stage, and just as entertaining  as their previous performance.

Claude Simons,   a  professional  violinst , is also  a member of the Colorado Symphony as well  as  Susan Cahill on bass.

Other Extasis members,  include evan orman on his bandoneon  and Mike Tilley on piano.

The lights are focused on the quartet, so bright that they are vividly lit for the audience, but too bright for them to see the audience they play for.  Tango is not their only music love, they also play classical music.

Their original bass player died and Susan Cahill began to play for them.

They all began playing their instruments when they were younger. Claude plays various instruments including piano and violin.  Mike Sims travels around with different singers and performers.  While the players miss being away from home, they like being on the road (no house chores they teased).

Their favorite part about playing is the physical sensation of music rythm, tone, and the emotions it builds upon.

Their worst performance was on Mexican TV when the speakers and amps went bad.  It was embarrassing because no one clapped.

Not watching  this performance on YouTube (although you can find it there) but in person was invigorating.

Check out Extasis on their new CD.

Many people complain about how small our school is,  but where else do you get the chance to talk one-on-one with teachers, and instead of being teacher and student, be friends. One person that many of the students have be-friended, is the alternative school, physical education, and health teacher,  Mr. Jason Browning.

Mr. Browning graduated from Chatfield High School in Littleton, Colorado where his graduating class was over 400 kids. After high school, he went on to Western State College in Gunnison, Colorado, and majored in history with a secondary education license.

He loves to hunt, fish, and play co-ed softball in the summer, but his life has changed drastically since October 4.  He just had a newborn son named Troy to add on to his family of three.

When asked what his inspiration was to become a teacher, he said that he disliked many of his high school teachers and thought that he could do better.  ”I like being around kids and having summers off was not too bad, and I just couldn’t give up summer vacation,” said Browning.

It seems that he is not only a hit with the kids, but also the teachers.  ”He acts as resources for other teachers,” said fellow teacher Cheri Robinson.  We also found out that he brings food from home, and cooks for his students. Also, a lot of the time, the food is made from scratch, not premade or out of the box.  Most students would agree that he gives amazing advice, and has a very open heart when you talk to him.   He listens, thinks, and then gives wise counsel. He also spends a lot of time working on real-world job skills with his students.

Having said all of these things, it is very easy to see why the students look up to him as a role model, and why they chose him as the teacher of the month for December.

A few weeks ago I asked a man what basketball was.

He looked at me and said,  ”Are you serious!”

So the man, frustrated, grabbed a dictionary and pointed out the word basketball and read it out loud.

This is what  the dictionary said:

Bas-ket-ball / ‘==,=/ n, often attib 1: a game played with a ball between 2 teams of 5 players, each team attempting to throw the ball through its own basket and to prevent the other team from scoring, the winner being the team that scores the most points.

Thats when I stopped him and said “NO!..thats when your wrong my friend.”The real definition for basketball is”

Bas-ket-ball / ‘==,=/ n, often attib 1: BASKETBALL, A SPORT THAT IS DOMINATED BY 5 “MEN” KNOWN AS THE COWBOYS AND THE COWBOYS CONSTANTLY THROWING THE BALL IN THE OTHER TEAMS NET AS THE OTHER TEAM STRUGGLES TO KEEP UP. THE TEAM WITH THE MOST POINTS OF COURSE WOULD BE THE COWBOYS, WINS..READ IT AND WEEP..TELL WHO EVER WROTE THE DICTIONARY TO GET HIS FACTS STRAIGHT,  BECAUSE THE COWBOYS ARE BACK AND BETTER THAN EVER!”

Its 2011 and its time for the cowboys to be unleashed once again because its a new year, a new team, and a new season. For all the fans out their..get rowdy..get siked..get your little #1 signs ready because the number 1 team around is back with more heart and just as better as last year and if not, better. When you start hearing the the fans chant “WHOSEEE HOUSEE!” everybody shall be chanting”COWBOYSS HOUSEE!”

THE 5 STARTERS THAT WILL BE LEADING US ALL THE WAY TO DENVER THIS YEAR WILL BE

INTRODUCING OUR GUNS

THE HOTSHOT JUNIOR= TREYYYY MORRIS!  (wing)

THE ALL OR NOTHING FRESHMAN= DYLANNN MOBLEY! (wing)

THIS ONE IS FOR THE LADIES..THE PRETTY BOY SENIOR= COOOLEEE STIENER!..you dont wanna miss him in action (point guard)

NOW INTRODUCING THE POWERBACK OF THE COWBOY NATION

PUT YOUR HANDS IN THE AIR FOR THESE TWO MEN..ITS A SCARY THOUGHT IF YOU DONT.

THE MEAN MACHINE, THE ALL MUCLES, THE RYNO,THE SENIOR= RYANNN WIIXXXX! (post)

LAST BUT NOT LEAST..GOES BY THE NAME OF THE SNAKE,THE SENIOR= JAKE (THE SNAKE) NIESLANIK!!!!(post)

“Guess whos back…back again…cowboys back..tell a friend..cowboys back, cowboys back so come on out, and see whose on attack.”

song name-cowboys back

artist-eminem ft. DJ Kevin

Some of you may remember the “good old days”, when people helped one another just because that’s how they were raised. That’s not the case, anymore. If you want any sort of assistance or help at all, you better have enough money or enough connections because if you don’t, there is no help. Some might ask, why is that? Well, that’s one hell of a good question. However, I believe that there are many reasons people aren’t as generous or helpful as they once were, the first one being morals.

Kids aren’t raised the way they should be; you say the word “spanking”, and a puzzled look comes across their face. All throughout their life they see others getting away with wrongdoing, and they decide to try it out. Once they get away with it, it slowly progresses throughout their elementary years, and once they get to high school it reaches it’s peak. They are doing drugs, getting drunk, getting pregnant (or getting someone pregnant), and they don’t face any consequences for their actions. Then, they get out of high school and move on to the real world, and realize that they have made a huge mistake, and that they have possibly screwed their entire life up. Then, when they go to get help from someone, no one cares if they need help or not because they’re screw-ups, and I couldn’t agree more.

Now, that being said, let’s move to the opposite end of the spectrum, where the problem still boils down to how they were raised. They grow up seeing their father, the surgeon, making tons of money, and coming down on them hard to do well in school. Some do, and some take the path that I mentioned before. The ones that do take their schooling seriously, seem to lose all of their sympathy for the poor, underprivileged and mistreated. They want to charge the hell out of the elderly and unfortunate, but in turn want to drive around Porsches and Ferraris. Now, as for the type of people we talked about before, who have messed their life up because of bad decision making, I can’t blame the doctors and medical employees charging a lot of money, or making them wait a little longer for healthcare. However, it seems that the doctors and healthcare professionals don’t make them wait because of who they actually are or what they’ve done, but because of their social status.

I believe that this is a prime example of bad parenting. People who are brought up thinking that they’re better than everyone else, tend to stay that way for the rest of their life. For the most part, that remains true with people who are brought up thinking that they’re worthless. However, there are those select few that are changed forever because they realize that they are not worthless. They stop caring what everyone else says or thinks about them, and just try as hard as they can to be a good person. Those are the ones who truly care about the well being of others, and that’s the sad part. The people who are brought up having piles of money, and have the potential to truly help people, don’t. They become pathetic excuses for human beings, who are self-centered and stuck-up. Whilst the people who have nothing tend to be the most genuine people you’ll ever meet. Now, you may be thinking “has he forgotten about all the celebrities who donate thousands of dollars every year to charity”, so let’s talk about those people.

Do you think that every celebrity who’s ever donated money did it because they cared about who they were helping, or do you think it was because they cared about how everyone else looked at them? I’m not saying that every person with money is anally challenged, because they’re not, but generally speaking, a lot of them are. There are some celebrities that center their careers around helping others, whether it starts that way or not. Those are the ones who really make a difference in peoples’ lives, because not only do they give their money, they give their time, and most of all, their love.

So, I’m done with my little rant, but I would appreciate it if people would raise their kids to be respectful, caring human beings, instead of pathetic (whether they be on the stuck-up end or no-good end) slobs. Raise good people who are going to better the world for all the rest of us.