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Jon Holtz announced this week that 2012 will be his last year coaching BHS gymnastics. Holtz has been coaching gymnastics for 17 years. Martha Driscoll-Nelson will continue coaching gymnastics without him and will also be searching for a new gymnastics coach. “It’s mainly about my family,” said Holtz. “I have two boys at home who need more dad time. And the past three years our gymnasts have been amazing, it’s good to go out on…
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Students in FACS teacher Julie Mundahl’s second and third block Gourmet Foods classes bake cakes, and always have a competition every quarter to see who can decorate the best cake. Usually, they set up the cakes in the cafeteria and BHS students can vote on which one is their favorite. But now this year, Mundahl has decided to try something new in the class to showcase the cakes even more then just the competition. “A…
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With winter in our midst the water is frozen over and the ice skaters have now come out. Thanks to the amount of lakes and ponds here in Minnesota this is an ideal spot for any pond hockey lovers. Playing pond hockey has many up and down sides. “It is fun and good exercise during the winter said Junior Ben Leipholtz. “ I wish I could play hockey on a league but it is to…
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The popular app Words With Friends has made the typical high school students want to spell. Recently, the game has dethroned Bubble Shooter as the new online addiction for BHS students. “Every one is now addicted to this new Scrabble game,” Said Sophomore Justine Stensby “Words With Friends is now even bigger than Bubble Shooter. It’s mind blowing how fast it caught on through social media.” In Words With Friends, which works on Facebook as…
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The Bison Girls’ Basketball team played at St. Michael on Thursday, January 19, in the Coaches verses Cancer game. ‘We are here to make the yellow ribbon just as important and the pink’ was the speech given right before the game. The game was dedicated to Luke Letellier, a sophomore at St. Michael – Albertville High School who was diagnosed with stage four cancer two years ago. During the game there was a raffle going…
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Senior Kat LaCroix has been hard at work gathering numerous students/groups to put together a Lip dub video to the song Hey Ya by Outcast. Lip dub is a type of video that brings a community together to show off themselves and their group of friends while lip singing to any given song. “I was at a yearbook camp and they showed a video of lip dub to everyone . I thought it was really cool and…
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Term two at BHS will come to an end today. This means that two term classes will end and new ones will begin. Students must prepare themselves for a new schedule, new teachers, and new classmates. In order to get themselves ready for the new term they must survive their last week of term two first. For most BHS students their last week of the term is filled with finals, stress, and last minute projects. “I’m relieved that the quarter is…
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On Monday, students will start third quarter. The end of the quarter can bring stress to students with the big finals. Others, may just like the fact the year is half way done. “I am happy that third quarter is coming up,” said Freshman Wesley Sanderson. “I can’t believe the year is already half over.” Many students are excited for the upcoming quarters. For teachers they get to meet new students and learn new names.…
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With the prices of snacks going up constantly in movie theaters while choices stay the same, many students are finding creative ways to save money by sneaking in their own food and beverages. “My friends and I only had enough money for tickets, so we brought a one gallon pail of ice cream and plastic spoons from home,” said Freshman Annika Fredrickson. “As long as you have some sort of a bag to place it…
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The 2012 Track and Field season is just around the corner for Buffalo High School. For the distance runners, the season starts long before the first day of practice. “I start running two weeks into the year,” said Junior Bo Bralier. “These miles that I start to run are called ‘Winter miles’.” The Track and Field season usually begins on the second Monday in the month of March. Bo is just one of many that…
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