When life gave School Accounts Secretary Denise Heinle a curveball, she knew there would be a lot on her plate. From her husband passing from cancer, family members struggling with COVID-19 to undergoing...
Senior Sri Jaladi rolled over and checked his phone, still groggy with sleep. He scrolled through emails and notifications, stopping when he saw a message from the United States Senate Youth Program (USSYP)....
“A really long time ago, I realized that this is how it’s going to be—if it was for the safety of my peers and my family, then that’s how it was going to have to be, and I accepted that. But it...
“You step into the dark. Your torch barely illuminates the space around you, your vision is very limited, and suddenly! Flying from the darkness, you are surrounded by a horde of flapping wings and snarling...
Sophomore Addie Gleason quickly turned her camera off of the FaceTime screen and pulled up her messages. She had been showing her friends the new necklace she made, a fossil intertwined in a design of...
Combining graphic design with his hobby of playing Rocket League, sophomore Devin Tyler has made video game graphic designing into a job. Tyler can make multiple styles of graphic design, including logos,...
Addie Gleason, Managing Editor-in-Chief
• March 16, 2021
Walking into a store, bright, colorful posters attract your attention, advertising the latest trendy style. Big numbers and percentages line the aisles as you walk by, trying to pull you in with deals...
Thomas Bruns, Opinions/A&E editor
• March 14, 2021
After spending hours on a plane to visit his grandparents in rural China, senior Justin Xu noticed a disparity between rural English speakers and urban English speakers. He was invited to a local middle...
Ask any dancer and they will agree that injuries are a part of life. In this technical and strenuous art form, routine exercises often pose risks if executed incorrectly. For sophomore Olivia Davis, what...
Mesmerized by the woodwinds, freshman Alexandra Deluca dreamed of playing the piccolo when she was 10. However, her elementary school music teacher steered her to the flute. One Christmas present later,...
![Proud of the new school store renovations, School Accounts Secretary Denise Heinle sits in front of her desk. Over the summer, Heinle added some flavor to the office with the help of three bus drivers and her late husband. The room was transformed by a paint job, new furniture and hand created decor. “I wanted it [the room] to be more spirited. The school store just had all these college posters in it and they were old and nasty,” Heinle said. “It had never been decorated until I got there.”](https://pwestpathfinder.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Denise-Heinle-900x619.jpg)
![Club members and juniors Cooper Carl, Hector Wilkenwork and freshman Max Werner work to defeat a shield guardian in the “Curse of Strahd” campaign. Taken right before school went online in 2020, this was the second-to-last time the D&D club was able to play in-person. “It's a very tight-knit group,” Wilken said. “We know each other, we're friends [and] we're close.”](https://pwestpathfinder.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/File_000-30-e1617033543319-900x675.jpeg)
![Senior Skyler Ji converses with students on a video call. Ji, who has been speaking Chinese since birth, treasured the opportunity to talk with native Chinese speakers. “I wanted to join because of the opportunity to talk to and interact with people in China. I used to go to town a lot, but, recently, I haven’t been,” Ji said. “I also wanted to join because of the opportunity to talk to Chinese people and see how COVID[-19] has been impacting them.”](https://pwestpathfinder.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Mark-student-video-call.png)
