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By Darcee Garrett and Emily McKinney

            Mrs. Corbett has been teaching for 24 years. She likes to spend time with her family. She likes hiking, and riding her UTV (utility task vehicle). She went to West Vigo High School as a student. Mrs. Corbett played softball in college. She has three kids that are 24, 22, and 18 years old. She likes going out to eat at Outback Steakhouse with her family. She likes teaching at West Vigo High School. She enjoys watching the West Vigo Viking’s sports teams. Thank you, Mrs. Corbett, we appreciate what you do for our school!

           Mrs. Laughlin is an art teacher and community service leader.  Mrs.Laughlin graduated from Indiana State University with an art degree in education. Later on, got her master’s in art. She also earned a degree in community development. She became an art teacher but didn’t think it was right for her. She worked as a designer.  Later on, she decided to change her career and become an art teacher again. She has been teaching for 19 years. When she wasn’t teaching, she worked with senior citizens. She has worked with high school and middle school students but prefers to work with high schoolers. One of Mrs. Laughlin’s favorite parts of being a teacher is seeing students succeed and see their progress. Mrs. Laughlin once had designed her own toy line. The toys were different designs of horses. Some of Mrs. Laughlin’s favorite activities to do in her free time are working on her own art projects and being in nature. She currently prefers to do traditional art. This is just a tiny bit of who Mrs. Laughlin is.

Mrs. Corbett

Mrs. Laughlin

Last week, we released a poll asking what your favorite Thanksgiving food is. The responses were extremely fun to read! The most popular pick was the “everything” option. In second place was turkey and chicken (or any other type of meat). That option was pretty close to being in a lower place, with mac n cheese and deviled eggs being close seconds. Mashed potatoes (with or without gravy) were also close, but not as close as the other two. There were also some shocking results in this poll! There weren’t, many people that chose the dessert option. I can understand how few people chose vegetables as an option. Yams were not chosen out of the 100+ people who responded. Yams don’t taste good anyway, in my opinion! One option that was mentioned in the “other” category was noodles or chicken and noodles.  I hope everyone has a good Thanksgiving!

    The annual Thanksgiving holiday tradition in the United States is documented at its earliest in 1619 in what is now called the Commonwealth of Virginia.   Thirty-eight English settlers aboard the ship Margaret arrived on the James River at Berkeley Hundred in Charles City, Virginia on December 4, 1619 (History.com) A religious celebration immediately followed the landing dictated explicitly by the group’s charter from the London company. The charter declared,” On the day of our ship’s arrival at the place assigned for plantation in the land of Virginia, shall be yearly and perpetually kept holy as a day of Thanksgiving to Almighty God.” (History.com) Since the mid-20th century, the original celebration has been commemorated there annually at the present-day Berkeley Plantation, the ancestral home of the Harrison Family.

           The more familiar Thanksgiving is traced to the pilgrims and puritans who emigrated from England in the 1620s and 1630s, they brought their previous tradition of days of fasting and days of Thanksgiving with them to New England. (History.com) The 1621 Plymouth, Massachusetts Thanksgiving was prompted by a good harvest. (History.com) The pilgrims celebrated this with the Wampanoags, a tribe of Native Americans who, along with the last surviving Patuxet had helped them get through the previous winter by giving them food which at that time was scarce. In exchange, an alliance and protection against the rival Narragansett Tribe were made. Several days of Thanksgiving were held in early New England history. This has been identified as the first Thanksgiving. (History.com)

                 According to historian Jeremy Bangs, director of the Leiden American Pilgrim Museum, the pilgrims may have been influenced by watching the annual services of Thanksgiving for the relief of the siege of Leiden in 1574. (History.com) Leiden’s autumn Thanksgiving celebration in 1617 was the occasion for sectarian disturbance that appears to have celebrated the Pilgrim’s plans to emigrate to America. Later in New England, religious Thanksgiving services were declared by civil leaders such as Governor Brad Ford who planned the Plymouth Colony’s Thanksgiving celebration and feast in 1623. Bradford issued a Proclamation of Thanksgiving following a victory in the Pequot War in the late 1630s to celebrate. (history.com) The practice of holding an annual harvest festival did not become a regular affair in New England until the late 1660s. 

History.com. Thanksgiving 2022 – Tradition, Origins & Meaning – HISTORY, 27 October 2009, https://www.history.com/topics/thanksgiving/history-of-thanksgiving. Accessed 8 November 2022.

             Veterans Day happens on November 11 every year to honor the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. In 1918 that signaled the end of World War I. Congress said yes to a resolution in 1926 for an annual observance and November 11th became a national holiday in 1938. Veterans Day gives tribute to every American Veteran that is alive or dead but especially gives thanks to the veterans living who served our country. Arlington National Cemetery has gravestones for over 400,000 veterans.

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     Lung Cancer Awareness Month Article

     Yearly, millions of patients have lung cancer. What is lung cancer?

     Lung cancer starts in your lungs. Your lungs are two spongy organs that allow oxygen when you inhale and expel carbon dioxide when you exhale. Lung cancer is the most common cause of death globally. The common cause of lung cancer is people who smoke.

     Signs and Symptoms of Lung Cancer:

     Early stages don’t have any symptoms. Late stages of lung cancer include: 

• Blood in Mucus/Phglem
• Difficulty Breathing
• Pain in the Chest Area
• Unexplained Weight Loss
• Headache

     If you have any signs or symptoms that are severe or worry others around you, make an appointment with your doctor.  

 Causes and treatment of lung cancer. The causes of lung cancer include: 

• Heavy Cigarette Smoking
• Being exposed to certain substances
• A family history of lung cancer

     Treatment for Lung Cancer. Treatment includes surgery, medications, and therapy.

• Surgery: The doctor will remove the lung cancer tissue
• Chemotherapy: This drug will kill lung cancer cells. This drug may be taken, injected into your veins, or both.
• Radiation and Targeted Therapy: Radiation therapy uses high-energy rays to kill cancer cells. Targeted Therapy uses drugs to stop the growth and spread of cancer cells. They can be either taken or injected through your veins.

              “Basic Information About Lung Cancer | CDC.” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/lung/basic_info/index.htm. Accessed 4 November 2022.                   Mayo Clinic. “Lung cancer – Symptoms and causes.”

             Mayo Clinic, 22 March 2022,   https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/lung-cancer/symptoms-causes/syc-20374620. Accessed 2 November 2022.

                Almost everyone knows what wrestling is but do you know the history of wrestling? Wrestling’s first real trace was 5000 years ago when Troy and the Sumerians were still around. Many people don’t know that wrestling is a form of combat and that it was made by Ancient Greeks to train in hand-to-hand combat. One of its first tournaments was in New York around 1888 at the same time, it was also so popular that even Abraham Lincoln was a wrestler. There were two types of wrestling. One was a toppling event for the best two of three falls and the other was a mix between boxing and wrestling that ended in one contestant submission. A man named Jean Exbroyat was the first person to form a modern wrestling circus troupe. He also established a rule to not execute holds below the waist he called it “flat-hand wrestling”. The history of wrestling is incredible.

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