The Bluffer - Red Bluff, CA
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The Red Bluff High School Dance team spends time practicing different combinations after school, on Thursday the 16, for the upcoming dance show on the 23 to 24 in the PAC. Features Page 3 April 24, 2015 Dancing in the Streets comes to the stage In the 94th Annual RB Round-Up events took place including barrel racing shown above. Outside the Box partan ound S off Sound Off/Nichole Valdez Mrs. Haase (Teacher) "My favorite part of the Round Up is the wild horse race because it's funny." Josepsh Mills (11) "The wild horse race because it was a good send off." Mr. Gleason (Teacher) "My friend, Bob Tallman, came and visited my 4th period English class." Hanna White (10) "Meeting Chris Cagel and the cowboys because they have nice butts." Daisy Brose (12) "Bull riding because I like watching people get wild." Scott Bradley (9) "The whole thing. I grew up in the country, so it reminded me of my past experience of being in it." What is your favorite part of Round-up and why? Courtesy Photo Kourtney Sanders Staff Writer Shania Prieteo Staff Writer Chico State Field Day embraces student interest in Chemistry Brittany Lawley Staff Writer Tonight, April 24 at 7 o'clock, is the annual dance show located in the PAC and the theme this year is dancing in the streets. However, its not all about hip hop dancing, it's about expressing yourself fully and openly. All dance show classes will be performing a dance they personally choreographed. Jordyn Salinas, a Junior, stated, "I'm happy because I'm doing what I like and people got to see me doing it." The dance teacher, Mrs. Shilts, is always happy to see the kids' hard work pay off and said each year, after the girls performed on the stage, they get hooked. She continued saying there was a few surprises she had planned for us, a few things we wouldn't be expecting. Shilts said that each year, the dance show reminds her of a wedding. She feels that there are so many different elements that are coming together, and when it does she shares a sense of accomplishment with the dancers. Presley Gonzalez, a Junior, said her favorite part was performing, and those nervous chills are definitely setting in. It's Gonzalez's first year performing and stated, "Thinking your gonna mess up on stage in front of all these people [is the most nerve wracking part]." For Salinas, she knows it can make you feel very nervous but said once it's over you get a rush of excitement. Mrs. Shilts likes how the dance show gives kids an opportunity to express themselves, to choreograph something and see it all come together. Shilts said that there wouldn't be any solos like the previous years but that she was still excited for the dance with the song Uptown Funk. Mrs. Shilts stated that, "Were really lucky to have such a supportive community and I feel fortunate to be able to teach Red Bluff community turns out for Round-Up Rebecca Frey Staff Writer The famous Red Bluff Round-Up Rodeo is the third weekend in April every year, and this year is the ninety- fourth annual Round-Up. The Round-Up has many activities spread over the three day weekend (plus other events the week leading up to the three days) such as bareback riding, steer wrestling, saddle bronc riding, tie down roping, team roping, barrel racing, bull riding, and much more. This year the Round-Up was April seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth. About sixty Red Bluff High School Agriculture (FFA) students are involved in the Round-Up. Sophomores Justin Croman and Hanna White and freshman Kim Cornelison are all handing out programs for the rodeo the weekend of. "Ag and FFA are going to be selling programs for five dollars at the rodeo. It'll help benefit the Ag department." White said. The Ag students are also getting school credit for participating. "It helps get FFA points for the end of the grading period. It's a fun thing to do with Ag." White said. All the proceeds made goes to Ag and FFA. "If we sell a certain amount of them, we get money for FFA." Croman said. Selling programs also benefits the students themselves. "It helps get FFA points for the end of the grading period. It's a fun thing to do with Ag." White stated. Each student talked about their excitement for the rodeo. "It's fun, it gets you involved for Ag, and it gets you into the rodeo for free." On why she was doing this, Cornelison said, "Because we're raising money for FFA and you get to go to the rodeo." White also spoke about her reasons. "You get to see all the animals while you're there," she said. Since its start in 1924, thousands of people go to the Red Bluff Round-Up Rodeo each and every year. The Chico State Field Day on the 17th of Friday was meant to embrace the interest in chemistry. Chico State invited people from local high schools who are highly interested in chemistry and excited for school to come and explore all chemistry possibilities at college level. This event has been going on for two years, this being the second year. The first year the school was involved up to 30 kids were taken to the field day. This year 30 students were expected to go and learn about the more advanced chemistry. "I'm hoping that my students really get to see what the college experience is like," David Michael, the science teacher who was helping put the field day, said. He wanted his students to experience and understand the different levels of science in college and the more in depth way of studying chemistry. "The first year we were involved we were excited to take 30 kids up to it," Michael said who expected 30 students at this year's Chico State Field day as well. The whole experience of the field day was meant to show students the differences in college chemistry and high school chemistry. "I'm just really excited that we have students that are really interested in what college chemistry is really like," Michael said. There were two parts of activities at the field day. The first was rotating blocks of experiments that college students are involved in. The second activity was a chemistry magic show with experiments that focused on the exciting part of chemistry. The plans for the field day was to entertain and educate the students at the same time and to show them the joy in chemistry. Hillary Clinton is a sixty-seven year old attorney and has decided to run for President for the 2016 Presidential election. Hillary ran for the first time in 2008, but lost to our present President, Barack Obama. In 2008 her strategy to get more votes was to act like she was tough and to be an "iron lady." In this upcoming election she plans on taking a new direction. She is going to be more kind and friendly and more like herself. She was the first woman to ever run for President. Hillary Clinton is married to the forty-second President of the United States, Bill Clinton, and was the First Lady of the United States from 1993- 2001 since Bill Clinton had been re- elected in 1996. She is also the sixty-seventh Secretary of State. In her video that was released on April twelfth 2015, declaring that she would in fact be running, she focused on everyday life and how everybody is getting ready for something. At the end of the video Clinton had said, "I'm getting ready for something too, I'm running for President." In another video from one of Obama's latest speeches, he said, "She was an outstanding Secretary of State, she is my friend, and I think she would be an excellent President." Even though at least a dozen Republicans and a few Democrats are interested in running, so far Clinton is not only the only woman, but is also the only Democrat who is definitely running along with three other Republicans. Courtesy Photo/ www.redbluffroundup.com/_pages/photos.html