Mr. Young will hold a 2K basketball tournament right after the football tournament is over. It will be a one on one blacktop tournament. After that, Mr.Young might do a 3 on 3 or a 5 on 5 tournaments. A little bit more information on the 2K tournament is it is a bracket-style. There are no requirements to join, meaning anyone can come and join in the fun of a tournament.

Tournaments are held in the library during lunch. The library is a place where anyone is able to come and eat or chill and hang out. You can come and play board games, read a book, play video games, or just chill and hang out with friends.

The West Vigo Choir hosted a Disney themed dinner event. The choir performed selected Disney songs for those who attend the event. The first song performed was Be Our Guest, Seize The Day, You’ll Be In My Heart, and Into the Unknown. The choir served Fazoli’s spaghetti for dinner. We had a couple of trays of food left over, which we ended up giving away! It was fun listening to the choir perform these songs. The choir sold 200 tickets for the event for people to enjoy the concert. The choir has worked really hard on these songs.  Everyone enjoyed the concert and they sang along with some of the songs. There were also some solo’s during the the performances. It was a lot of fun singing those songs. The students who had solos did a great job. Some people also wore Mickey ears during the performances. Enough money was made during the event to cover our expenses, and to pay for our class accompanist for the rest of the year.The choir planning on doing this again in the future, but doing something a little different. It was a really fun performance to do. As a member of the choir, I would love to do this dinner again in the future!

• You Got a Friend in Me Quintet: Emily Beeghly, Ellie Davis, Abigail Meehan, Preslie Stewart. 
•  Love is an Open Door Quintet: Dawson Cuffle, Darcee Garrett, William Marrs, Emily Mckinney.  
• Princess and the Frog solo was by Kennedy Graham.

Mixed Choir Members: Keira Anderson, Ragan Anderson, Mackinzie Baker, Emma Barbour-Morley, Red Bell, Samantha Broderick, Steven Burton, Kenzie Camp, Ryan Cobb, Dawson Cuffle, Shelly Dean, Hunter Dewey, Bennett Evans, Darcee Garrett, Rilee Goodwin, Abbie Graham, Jorja Harney, Haven Johnson, Grady Kastigar, Ella Larimer, Laikyn Luttrell, William Marrs,  Aly McCammon, Emily McKinney, Layne Moyes, Kayla Pasko-Priest, Gracie Pennell, Luke Pennell, Emma Price, Logan Puller, Jayden Robinson, Alexis  Rowe, Ashlyn Sharp

Treble Choir: Emily Beeghly, Allie Benson Atterson,  Maddie Blitz, Nora Bonomo, Ellie Davis, Emily Gabbard, Kennedy Graham, Briar Hamrick, Sarah Hayne, Kyler Jones, Allie Lasecki, Maddy Lindsay,  Ella Loomis, Delaney Marrs, Ally Mata, Abigail Meehan, Preslie Stewart, Reagan Taylor, Reese Walters, Mariah Wycoff

 Featured guest:  Joe Varel 

On March 17th the celebration of St. Patrick’s Day started in Britain in 1931 at the Lerins Abbey Church. The church established a feast day honoring St Patrick. He had been a patron saint of Ireland who died around the fifth century, 12 centuries before the modern version of the holiday was first observed. Legend says St. Patrick was actually born with the name Maewyn Succat, but that he changed his name to Patricius (Patrick) which derives from a Latin term that means “father figure” after he became the priest.  Green became associated with St. Patrick’s day around the 19th and 20th centuries.

 What do Leprechauns have to do with St. Partick Day is that leprechauns were initially written about in a 19th-century Irish fable. We wear green because the traditional folklore says that wearing green makes you invisible to the leprechauns. If you don’t wear green you will be pinched. St. Patrick’s Day color was really blue originally, not green. St. Patrick’s original church was called Saul Church. St. Patrick was originally from Roman Britain. Irish immigrants brought St. Patrick’s Day traditions to the United States. So many people were honored by him because of the day of Saint Patrick’s and the arrival of Christianity in Ireland and celebrate the heritage and culture of the Irish in general. What does the leaf of a 4-leaf clover mean?  The first leaf is for hope, the second is for faith, the third is for charity, and the fourth one is for luck. It is also said that it would be in the image of God: a single plant with three lobes, which represents the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.   

Fun Facts 

• The real St. Patrick was born in Britain.  
• There were no snakes around for St. Patrick’s to banish from Ireland as told by legend. 
• The shamrock was considered a sacred plant. 
• The first St. Patricks Day parade was held in America.
• March 17th is not St. Patrick’s birthday. 
• Despite his Irish notoriety, St Patrick was British.
• Saint Patrick didn’t wear green. 
• St. Patrick died on March 17.

References: n.d. TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates. Accessed March 15, 2023. https://time.com/.

The reason I chose to research Napoleon Bonaparte is that I learned about him during my sophomore year world history class. Napoleon really interested me and I wanted to learn more about him. Napoleon was a very interesting person to learn about. He was a rough and tough French military commander, but he had a bit of a soft side as well. Something that I learned recently is that Napoleon actually had a fear of cats. Who knew? I really enjoyed learning about Napoleon and I hope you do too. Here are some facts about Napoleon Bonaparte. I hope you are as interested in him as I was my sophomore year!

Facts about Napoleon from Historyhit.com

Napoleon was born August 15, 1769, Ajaccio, France to Carlo Bonaparte, Letizia Bonaparte

Napoleon Bonaparte, later known by his regional name Napoleon I, was a French military commander and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led successful campaigns during the Revolutionary War.

Napoleon wrote a romance novel-behind the ruthless, battle-hardened facade. Napoleon was a bit of a softie, as both his embarrassingly soapy love letters and a recently unearthed romantic novel prove. Penned in 1795, when Napoleon was 26, Clisson et Eugénie is a brief (just 17 pages) exercise in sentimental self-mythologizing that, according to most reviews, fails to establish him as a lost literary genius.

Napoleon’s wife narrowly escaped the guillotine- Josephine, Napoleon’s first wife, was previously married to Alexandre de Beauharnais (with whom she had three children), an aristocrat who was guillotined during the Reign of Terror. Josephine was also imprisoned and scheduled for execution before being released five days later when the Reign of Terror’s architect

He was tone-deaf- Apparently, one of Napoleon’s least endearing habits was his penchant for singing (or humming and mumbling) whenever he became agitated. Unfortunately, pained accounts suggest that his singing voice was distinctly unmusical.

Napoleon’s phobia- General Napolean Bonaparte, Emperor of France, discoverer of the Rosetta Stone in Egypt, and staunch adversary of the British, suffered from ailurophobia, a fear of cats.

Source: History Hit, https://www.historyhit.com. Accessed 16 March 2023.