In commemoration of the recent blizzard, our photo of the week is from Jack Taylor, who snapped a quick shot of the mayhem in his backyard. If you have a photo you’d like to submit, please email the photo, your name, and the story behind the photo to chspineneedle at gmail dot com. Continue reading Photo of the Week: The Blizzard
The blizzard obviously topped all topics this week, creating a three day week and leaving students and staff with a plethora of stories to tell. You can read a number of stories from the Blizzard here at the Pine Needle. *** The football team didn’t play Sioux Falls O’Gorman last Friday night, or on Saturday, or early in the week, as a number of rescheduling … Continue reading Cobbler Round Up: Blizzards and Drips, oh my!
By Avery Friedt Many families were affected by the blizzard that hit our area this weekend. It was a bad situation for many of us, but from this disaster came stories of people who went out of their way to lend a helping hand. That is the case with my neighbor, Rick. This was our blizzard experience. My dad left town on Thursday to go … Continue reading Blizzard Perspectives: Love Thy Neighbor
By Trent Hullihen On Saturday after the storm died down a lot, about 1:00pm or so, my brother and I walked down the street to Tyler’s house, which is just a few houses down. They have a snowmobile, so instead of taking turns, we just decided to go on it three people at a time. No sooner did we get on than we came to … Continue reading Blizzard Perspectives: Snowmobiling Adventures
By Joe Klewicki So I woke up on Friday to my phone blowing up with texts saying, “no school!!” I just thought, “I need to get stuck at a friend’s house this weekend,” so I called my friends and said we all need to get stuck at one house. They all agreed, and we went to one house and waited while watching the snow fall. … Continue reading Blizzard Perspectives: Living with My Friends
By Molly Boehler It was a freezing Friday morning and I was snuggled up in my Winnie the Pooh comforter. I walked out to the living room where my mom was sitting with her bowl of oatmeal watching the news. My dad then popped out of the kitchen saying, “Good morning Sunshine! How was your slumber?” I responded by telling him good morning and then … Continue reading Blizzard Perspectives: Redeeming a Really Bad Disaster Vacation
By Max Frost On Friday at around noon I was deep asleep when I heard my phone ring. I went to check it and it was my mom; she wanted me to come up stairs and eat some breakfast. When I walked out of my room I was so amazed at how much snow was on the ground already, and how the snow was so … Continue reading Blizzard Perspectives: When My iPad Died…
By Justin Bates Thursday night when I got home I got out all the snow shovels just in case, to be ready for what could happen, and thank the Lord I got them out because that night the snow hit hard. I would go outside about every two hours, just shoveling my front door out from the drifts. I went to bed that night knowing … Continue reading Blizzard Perspectives: Mountin Man to the Rescue
By Chloe Kramer Trees crashed down all around the house. From inside you could hear branches snap under the weight of the snow and the wind howling loud like a wolf at the moon. At moments everything stood still, in sudden shock of hearing branches fall onto our roof and onto the ground. In those moments everyone in the house would stop what they were … Continue reading Blizzard Perspectives: The Wind
By Shae Heitsch I have had a different experience with this storm than most people from Rapid City. Being a part of the ranching lifestyle brings a whole different experience. Instead of worrying about not having power to watch television, we worry about keeping the animals sheltered from the wind and cold. Ranchers around me lost devastating amounts of livestock, cattle, and horses. I was … Continue reading Blizzard Perspectives: A Rancher
Congratulations to CHS Seniors Kayla Horst, Megan Mohr, Tiara Boutte and Amanda Thompson for being invited by BHSU to attend its annual Black Hills Shootout. These select students had the honor of working with several Pro Photographers. The Black Hills Shootout is an event sponsored by Canon and draws hundreds of participants throughout the United States. This was an amazing experience for our future photographers … Continue reading Cobbler Photographers Attend Shootout
By Cullen Knowles Even though music is a fundamental aspect of our society, music education is often considered to be an unnecessary part of our curriculum. Science, social studies, and mathematics receive far more attention than music education, and our school board has attempted to severely cut back on our music programs in the past. This clearly indicates that many educators fail to realize the … Continue reading Music Can Play a Crucial Role in Education
The Cobbler Cafe is up and running and is better than ever. This year they have new equipment, including a nacho cheese machine. A nacho cheese machine! That means when students end the day in a slump, they can head down to the Cobbler Cafe and buy nachos. When they’re the daily special they can be as cheap as a buck, which is quite a … Continue reading Weekly Roundup: Cobbler Cafe starts well, homecoming approaches
By Cullen Knowles Our government has once more fallen under the shadow of controversy. With the US on the brink of becoming involved in the Syrian crisis, many Americans are extremely concerned about the advantages and disadvantages of using military intervention to resolve the conflict. Bashar al-Assad has obviously used chemical weapons against his own people, which is a blatant violation of international law and … Continue reading A Student’s Overview of Syria
For many, summer is a time to break out a book and kick back in ways we don’t have time to do during the school year, and this is particularly true for teachers. We asked a few teachers to share what they read this summer and their choices are as various as the subjects they teach. Find a good book by looking at their lists, … Continue reading What did the teachers read this summer?
The end has come. But not for the track team, which is traveling to the state track meet as we write. The girls won the last GDC meet but will have their work cut out for them at state. Look for the field events to be a crucial piece. Of course, when it comes to championships, it’s all crucial, and the Cobbler runners will have … Continue reading Year Ends Well with Memorable Commencement
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