The junior high football game with JCN (Winchester) has been rescheduled for Tuesday, October 19 at 5:30.
Be sure to check your child's grades through Infinite Campus! End of the 1st Quarter is quickly approaching -- October 14th.
Look for the link to Infinite Campus under the Menu tab on our website!
This week in USD 430...
Everest Cheer & Horton Cheer & Dance had a wonderful time at the Highland Community College Spirit Spreader each squad learned skills and techniques they can utilize throughout the season. Taher packed a "sack lunch" for the Charger Squad.
Taking the ACT this weekend? Check out https://www.ontocollege.com/live-online-help/ for a LIVE online help session!
No interaction required, by listening you will learn a lot!
Thursday, September 9: 7 - 9:30 PM
Friday, September 10: 7-9:30 PM
EMS volleyball is playing JCN at 430 pm in Winchester tonight. Order of the games will be B, C, A. Good Luck Chargers!
It's GAMEDAY!! EMS Volleyball will travel to Winchester, to face the JCN Chargers, again. The team picked up the win last week over this opponent, but will battle them again tonight, starting at 4:30.
When asked about the repeat opponent, Ellah Stirton said, "I think we will be ready. We are all looking to get our two ace serves in, we have improved a lot and are still learning and improving."
Your Horton Chargers Volleyball Athlete of the Week!
Varsity Volleyball Home Schedule for September.
Graphic Created by Trevor Walkup Horton High School Senior class of 2022.
Your Horton Chargers Cross Country Athlete of the Week!
Your Horton Chargers Football Athlete of the Week!
Thanks to Brown County KDOT and the City of Horton for their work on the drainage ditch west of HES!
Thanks to the generous anonymous Horton donor that gifted these materials to our schools and students.
We are very appreciative for these gifts!
The JCN - EMS football game for Thursday, September 9, 2021, has been postponed. The schools are working on a make up date for later in the season. We will still have the JCN - EMS volleyball games (B,C,A) at Winchester on Thursday, September 9, at 4:30 pm.
This week in USD 430...
These girls are ready for Friday Night Lights! Are you? Come out to Charger Field and support your Chargers at 7 PM! GO BIG BLUE!
Please go to the EMS webpage and check out the newspaper that Mr. Noel's staff worked on for this week.
From the Newspaper Staff for 9/3, part 5
Summer Weights
By: Isabelle Gaskell
For the past decade, one of our own coaches, Nick Dowell, has been running a weightlifting program in the mornings during the summertime. Many people attended this program with their friends, siblings, and classmates, but some just did it to get better. I interviewed Amaya Boller, Nick Dowell, Trey Lockwood, and Drew Weddington about their experiences. (See Amaya and Trey’s interview in the 8/27 edition).
Senior Drew Weddington woke up at about 5:30 am, because it gave him a little bit of time to actually wake up and get ready to put some hard work in. His favorite day was Monday, which was field conditioning day, which included all athletes in the summer program.
“It gave us all an opportunity to be together,” Drew said, “And to push each other to perform our best. The energy was so wild on Monday mornings, that it had everybody whooping and hollering and getting pumped up for the next drill.”
“My favorite part of the summer program was all of us getting back together after a rough year, and being able to perform at our highest level of intensity, and not only doing better as athletes, but doing better as an entire school.”
To underclassmen, Drew said, “I highly encourage anyone who wants to better themselves to go out into the summer weightlifting program. Even if you're not an athlete, you can still go out and better yourself by going to conditioning.”
Coach Nick Dowell said that this was his 21st year running a weight program, but only his 14th year with HHS. His first 7 years were spent in various other schools before he finally landed here.
When Dowell first started offering the program in Horton, only 7 people showed up, and they were all boys. Now, there are upwards of 40 kids, and there is a pretty much equal number of boys and girls.
The biggest change he has seen over the years was the commitment and self discipline of the kids, as well as the competitiveness among the students. The thing he is most proud of when talking about summer weights is “today”.
“I am excited to go in there everyday,” he said. “The increase in participation numbers is good,we have had some outstanding people come through. We have a few state records and stuff, but the most exciting thing to me is, what can the kids do today? And I would say the same thing tomorrow, the same thing next week. The most exciting thing is who is going to get better tomorrow or next week?”
“I don't think my most exciting thing is what we have done, it’s, ‘what are we going to do next?’ you know. They [the students] have elevated themselves, exceeded past their expectations.”
When I asked him what he would change about the weight program, the only thing he could think of was a “bigger weight room.” Thank you to Dowell for his dedication and hard work running the weight program, and thanks to all who were interviewed.
From the Newspaper Staff for 9/3, part 5
Summer Weights
By: Isabelle Gaskell
For the past decade, one of our own coaches, Nick Dowell, has been running a weightlifting program in the mornings during the summertime. Many people attended this program with their friends, siblings, and classmates, but some just did it to get better. I interviewed Amaya Boller, Nick Dowell, Trey Lockwood, and Drew Weddington about their experiences. (See Amaya and Trey’s interview in the 8/27 edition).
Senior Drew Weddington woke up at about 5:30 am, because it gave him a little bit of time to actually wake up and get ready to put some hard work in. His favorite day was Monday, which was field conditioning day, which included all athletes in the summer program.
“It gave us all an opportunity to be together,” Drew said, “And to push each other to perform our best. The energy was so wild on Monday mornings, that it had everybody whooping and hollering and getting pumped up for the next drill.”
“My favorite part of the summer program was all of us getting back together after a rough year, and being able to perform at our highest level of intensity, and not only doing better as athletes, but doing better as an entire school.”
To underclassmen, Drew said, “I highly encourage anyone who wants to better themselves to go out into the summer weightlifting program. Even if you're not an athlete, you can still go out and better yourself by going to conditioning.”
Coach Nick Dowell said that this was his 21st year running a weight program, but only his 14th year with HHS. His first 7 years were spent in various other schools before he finally landed here.
When Dowell first started offering the program in Horton, only 7 people showed up, and they were all boys. Now, there are upwards of 40 kids, and there is a pretty much equal number of boys and girls.
The biggest change he has seen over the years was the commitment and self discipline of the kids, as well as the competitiveness among the students. The thing he is most proud of when talking about summer weights is “today”.
“I am excited to go in there everyday,” he said. “The increase in participation numbers is good,we have had some outstanding people come through. We have a few state records and stuff, but the most exciting thing to me is, what can the kids do today? And I would say the same thing tomorrow, the same thing next week. The most exciting thing is who is going to get better tomorrow or next week?”
“I don't think my most exciting thing is what we have done, it’s, ‘what are we going to do next?’ you know. They [the students] have elevated themselves, exceeded past their expectations.”
When I asked him what he would change about the weight program, the only thing he could think of was a “bigger weight room.” Thank you to Dowell for his dedication and hard work running the weight program, and thanks to all who were interviewed.
From the Newspaper Staff for 9/3/2021, part 4
Local News
By Desiree Madere
The number of active Covid-19 cases are decreasing in Atchison county. At the moment there are 72 active cases compared to 86 cases reported on August 25, 2021. There is currently only one person hospitalized due to Covid. As of this week Atchison county is rated 78th in the Kansas county Covid rankings.
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They are looking for a new use or the old Horton hospital building. The CEO of Amberwell health, Jeff Perry told the Horton City Commission that they are putting in the efforts to find a new use for the building. He said that the building is deteriorating quickly and it would require over one million dollars to update the building.