Activities

A child somewhere in the world dies every 10 seconds from hunger-related causes, which is 8,000 children a day.  What is being done to help? Kids all around the United States, including a group of Buffalo High School students, did not eating for 30 hours on February 25 in order to learn about hunger and do something about it.  They took on the challenge to create awareness and raise funds for children do not have…

The Buffalo Knowledge Bowl team won their eighth meet of the year Saturday morning at Rogers High School. However this win was overshadowed by the presence of Minnesota Twins announcer, Dick Bremer. “I was so happy getting [the opportunity] to meet Dick Bremer,” said senior Matt Feinberg. “He’s my favorite announcer, and I consider him a hero.”Bremer acted as special guest reader for the meet. His booming voice and sense of humor made it a…

Mrs. Rodenwald, teacher at here at BHS, is February’s feature teacher. She has been teaching for nine years. She was born in Fridley, Mn but attended Prior Lake High School. Her college degree is a BA in Biology/Ed MS in Chemistry. She is married to Todd Rodenwald and has three children: Danielle, 6, Annie, 4 1/2, and Brandon, 2 1/2. In her free time she enjoys reading, activities and athletic events, and playing with her…

Snow daze started on Friday the 18th with a 70’s disco dance after the boys basketball game. It was a great turn out and raised money for track and field. Snow days is a week of excitement and fun activities. Each day is a different dress up day including Tuesday being get up an go, Wednesday being work out day, Thursday being formal day, and Friday being flannel day. There are also after school activities…

The Buffalo Knowledge Bowl team placed 1st amongst 55 teams Thursday night at St. Cloud Tech High School. It was the team’s seventh 1st place finish in as many meets this season. “Going into the meet, I honestly thought we were going to lose,” said senior Nate Spanier, also team spokesperson. The team entered the meet already at a disadvantage, missing five of their team members, including two of team 1’s four members (seniors Jonathon…

Throughout last week, Students Stepping Up (SSU) held a “Hugs and Kisses” fundraiser. For $1, students could buy a bag of Hershey’s Kisses to send to anyone in the school on Valentine’s Day. Around 69 bag of chocolate were sold during the week at all lunches. “We made about $70,” said SSU member and senior Brittany Snyder, “But it’s not about the money, we just do it to have fun.” The candy was then sent…

Most students, when the clock hits 2:20, hurry toward the doors to get to their cars, and buses so that they can get home or to work, but there are many others kids who continue their day not in the classroom but in the weight room or on the indoor track in the BAC, training and bettering themselves for the upcoming season. There is a long line of spring sports offered at Buffalo High School…

Last week’s clue game “criminal”, History Teacher Devin Davidson has been captured thanks to students and staff of BHS. According to the clues given each day related to the mystery game, Davidson has robbed the bank of Buffalo while participating in SSU’s anual school wide game of clue. The money earned has come back to the students in prize form. If students participated and won a prize, it can be collected in room C-209. This…

The student group Students Stepping Up (SSU) is putting together the school wide clue game for the 2nd time with a new approach this year. The school-wide clue game was started during the 2009-2010 school.  The objective of the game last year was that one of the principles gets kidnapped by a faculty member of Buffalo High School.  Which was originally planned for this year as well, but they decided to shake it up a…

The Buffalo One Act team received a Six Star Performance at the Conference meet at Cambridge-Isanti on Saturday. This ranking was the highest of any school at the meet. Mallory Nelson and Julie Bothum both received All-Conference honors, and D.J.  McMoil and Michael Patchen received All- Conference Honorable Mention. Rebekah Herdklotz was awarded with All-Conference Tech Team. “Buffalo does quite well, we take it quite seriously,” said Patchen. “We send messages through our characters, but don’t…