The Daily Oakwood Times
March 12, 2013
Volume 5 Issue No. 108
Band and choir to perform at Hoopeston
By Anna Leigh Cooney
The OHS Music Department will be
attending All-County Band and Choir on
Thursday.
Fourteen band and choir members
will be going. Representing choir are seniors Josh Blair, Harlena Hardin, and Alex
Perez, and sophomores Aaron Moody, and
Cheyenne Summers.
Band members that will represent
OHS are seniors Wesley Day, Rachel Gonzalez, Morgan Weise, and Brandon Wittig,
sophomores Greyson Carpenter, Beckah
Cypers, Mitchell Day, and Kenzie Hodson,
and freshmen Eric Evans. Five band and
choir members are not participating.
All-County Band and Choir is an event
that OHS participates in every year; this
year it will take place at Hoopeston Area
High School. The group will leave the
Senior Rachel Gonzolez preforms at
the winter concert. The band and choir
will perfrom at All-County in Hoopeston.
(Photo by Staff0
school around 7:15 a.m.
Two collegiate professors will be
instructing and advising the participants
for the performance that will be held later
that night, at 7 p.m. The choir instructor
will be Professor Leslie Mandell from
Illinois State University. Eastern Illinois
University, Director of Athletic Bands, J.
Cory Francis will be instructing the band.
“It’s a really good thing for them to go
and participate in a big band or big choir,”
said band and choir sponsor Melissa Kandel. “It’s a nice change from the smaller
groups we are used to working with.”
The basketball sportsmanship winners
will be introduced during intermission of
the band and choir’s performance. The
OHS boys’ basketball team is the county
-wide winner, and junior Lexy Terry is the
individual girls winner.
Students attend U of I open house
By Lacey Clark
Themistry and Ag students had the
opportunity to attend the engineering open
house at the U of I, last Friday
Assisted by Mrs. Losoff and Mrs.
Neckolney, approximately 20 students
attended. The two groups split up and
went to different parts of the open house,
chemistry staying in the engineering portion, and Ag going to the aces building. The
open house was used as an educational and
a recruitment tool for the field of science,
agriculture, and the U of I College.
“It was fun to see all of the different
exhibits,” junior Kasie Larsen said. “I got
to put my hand in a live cow’s stomach.”
The engineering portion of the open
house consisted of many presentations and
experiments put on by the U of I students.
People were able to interact with the ex-
periments, and if safe could touch and hold
things that were made. The agricultural
portion of the open house consisted of
many college and career opportunities, a
greenhouse students could look at, and a
large pole barn with different animals students could interact with. There were also
classes students could take, and different
educational presentations on agricultural
opportunities.
Can I fast-forward to college?
Teeter Pan
By Lindsey Teeters
After 12 years of school, everything seems to be worth it. Ever since my
eighth grade year, I’ve wanted to go to Southern Illinois University. Yesterday
I got my acceptance letter and all the official papers I need to attend.
I have known I was accepted for a while because SIUC allows you to
check your application status on their website, Saluki Net. But actually getting
a physical copy of my acceptance was better than I expected. I am so excited.
The campus is so pretty and the location is just far enough away for me
to get home when I want, or for my parents to come visit me, but they can’t
just drop in on me. I need a healthy distance from them. I’m really close
with my family, and I think a little distance will do me some good, to let me
spread my wings and what not.
I can’t wait to start packing and buying things for my dorm. That is the
most exciting part. The only thing that makes me a little nervous is the whole
living with someone I don’t know. I’m kind of weird, loud, and really a mess.
I hope I can find someone who can live with me without hating me. I really
hope that Gabby and I can work out our rooms so we are suite mates. I will
need a little reminder of home every now an then, and someone to ride the
train with me.
I can’t wait. I have been looking forward for this moment for so long,
and as it gets closer, I am losing interest in high school. I have a little more
than two months left, but I think I can stick it out. Hopefully, anyway.