USD 430 South Brown County

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. ---------------------------------------- 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.

From Newspaper Staff for 9/3/2021, part 3 Opinion on World Events By: Tiana Cavin One of the things that it seems like nobody is talking about is the Taliban taking over Afghanistan. This is a major deal, that’s been going on all of our lives (us students). Although all of the students and teachers have their own viewpoints, this is still a very serious problem that will affect our lives in some way. The reason why I say this is that as of Sunday August 15 ,2021 president Joe Biden ended the 20 year war against Afghanistan. Now I say that this will affect us because look at what has happened since we left, the citizens are fleeing their own country just because they don’t feel safe and going to other countries and other countries are letting them in. The Afghan government fled, and the Taliban has control, and they have been ruthless since they took control. The Afghan Air Force had 167 operational aircraft, including 33 black hawk attack helicopters, it only took the Taliban a couple of days to figure out how to fly the Black Hawks and there are videos of them hanging people from the sides. This is just a small graphic video going around, and I say small because there’s a lot more such as them killing people trying to evacuate at the airports and just killing people who may have connections to the states. It is a very sad and tragic problem considering that over 2,400 troops lost their lives fighting in this war, and to see us leave like that. I believe that we tried but it’s sad to see how we gave up. True that we are helping the civilians escape and flee, but it’s not like we can save all of them alone. There are so many stories that are coming out every day to update the current crisis, but a couple of headlines were ‘Biden defiant on the End of The War’ (US News)and that talks about how he seemed it was a good thing to withdraw while the Taliban is seeing it as a victory. Another headliner is ‘Top Senate Republican says “There isn’t going to be an impeachment” of Biden over Afghanistan withdrawal’ (CNN).

From the Newspaper Staff for 9/3/2021, part 2 Kansas News By Desiree Madere As states are starting to order mask mandates, governor Laura Kelly said on Wednesday, August 25,2021 that it will not be needed at the moment. She said many Kansans worried about the spreading coronavirus in Kansas schools. She has a task force ready to handle mask mandates if it comes to that. ------------------------------------ Over 300 Kansas inmates have enrolled in college classes through the Kansas Department of Education. As of Tuesday, September 2, 2021 325 inmates have enrolled so far. This is all thanks to the Second Chance Pell grants. Which were awarded to seven Kansas colleges back in the fall of 2020. -------------------------------------- Jeff Colyer has dropped out of the 2022 Kansas governor's race. He was recently diagnosed with prostate cancer. He has endorsed Derek Schmit for governor. Jeff Cloyer used to be the lieutenant governor under Sam Brownback. He is expected to make a full recovery after treatment