Healthy You: Dedication results in New Year success
Ashley Beyer, Lifestyles Editor
January 8, 2013
Filed under Healthy You!, Lifestyles
Visions of Christmas cookies and candies loom in people’s heads after the holidays, crushing anyone’s hope to stick to their New Year’s resolutions. Though people eat more unhealthy foods around the holidays, getting back on track is not as hard as one may think. Gradually changing eating habits... Read more »
Behind the Curtains: The Patriot goes backstage to uncover the covert contributions of some JC’s lesser-known staff members
December 13, 2012
Filed under In the Community, Lifestyles, On Campus, Uncategorized
Theresa Lambert: SAGE Dining Services At 87 years old, banquet waitress Theresa Lambert is called in to man the register in the cafeteria, perform jobs of a cook, and serve food. “I’m a jack of all trades,” Lambert said. “She maintains the same diligent stamina no matter how long she works,”... Read more »
Teacher Spotlight: Alvin Ward
Ashley Beyer, Lifestyles Editor
December 6, 2012
Filed under In the Community, Lifestyles, On Campus, Teacher Spotlight
Riding in the wake of the boat, math teacher Alvin Ward, class of ’70, kicks up a 10-foot spray. For Ward, this is just another vacation day on the water. Ward has been water-skiing since his junior year at JC, when he bought his first boat. “I raised money for the boat from my paper boy job,”... Read more »
Healthy You: Yoga and Zumba pump teens up
Ashley Beyer, Lifestyles Editor
December 4, 2012
Filed under Healthy You!, Lifestyles
Exercising is not always at the top of teens’ to do lists, but exercising does not always have to be boring. Keeping up with exercise is important, and one way to do that is to make it interesting. Doing fun exercises like yoga and Zumba are easy ways to get exercise and fun enough to stick with. Doing... Read more »
Sophomore inspires St. Margaret students to dream bigger
Ashley Beyer, Lifestyles Editor
November 20, 2012
Filed under In the Community, Lifestyles, Off Campus
Sophomore Amanda Brannan anxiously sits on a bus on its way to the Race for the Cure as sophomores joke and chat around her. Even though it’s 5:30 a.m., the students are restless, waiting to get to their destination. Brannan works every October to raise money for breast cancer awareness. She has... Read more »
Healthy You: Vitamins positively affect immune system
Ashley Beyer, Lifestyles Editor
November 15, 2012
Filed under Healthy You!, Lifestyles
It’s tough to stay healthy during winter, when viruses run rampant, but it’s even tougher when you spend an entire week with sixty other teenagers, sharing waters, makeup, and clothing, like some students experienced the week of “Singin’ in the Rain.” Whether it’s sharing a water bottle... Read more »
Healthy You: Lite, low cal chocolate snacks delight
Ashley Beyer, Lifestyles Editor
October 25, 2012
Filed under Healthy You!, Lifestyles
With late after school activities and sports keeping students at JC, eating healthy snacks, as opposed to most things that can be found in the vending machines, is hard to do. But there are options, like Kellogg’s Special K Pastry Crisps: Chocolatey Delight, Fiber One chocolate chip cookie brownies,... Read more »
Students form new friendships as Friend-to-Friend club kicks off
Lauren Fabiszak, In-depth Editor
October 16, 2012
Filed under In the Community, Lifestyles
As Mark admired his creation on the bright orange pumpkin, a wide smile spread across his face. Using colorful paints, he and his friends utilized their artistic abilities to make their pumpkins come alive during the year’s first Friend to Friend event. Established last school year by Nick Henninger,... Read more »
Every Student Has a Story: Amanda Brannan
Ashley Beyer, Lifestyles Editor
May 24, 2012
Filed under Every Student Has a Story, Lifestyles, On Campus
Every two weeks, the Patriot will randomly pick a student from the directory, find out more about his or her life, and prove that every student has a story. Losing a parent can be incredibly hard, but when faced with such devastation three years ago, freshman Amanda Brannan rose above and beyond to... Read more »
Jansing-Kaestner, Medrano move out of state, will not return to JC next year
Ashley Beyer and Maggie Cassidy, Lifestyles Editor and Print Chief
May 16, 2012
Filed under News
Next year, Science Department Chair Rebecca Jansing-Kaestner and Spanish teacher Jennifer Medrano will not be returning to teach. Jansing-Kaestner will be moving to Nashville because her husband was offered a job there as an airport designer for airports in the Nashville area, after working on... Read more »