November 22nd, 2019

Good Morning Talawanda. Today is Friday, November 22nd, 2019

Freshmen: If you participated in the class fundraiser, orders are in. Please pick up your boxes today anytime! For those who participated, your candy will be delivered on Monday! 

Key Club will be running a Smash Brothers tournament for charity next Tuesday.  Money raised will be donated to the Oxford Food Pantry.  This isn’t a very serious event, so anyone is welcome to participate.  Drinks will be provided.  The cost is 5 dollars at the door.  To sign up, simply write your name on the sheet outside of Z’s room.  New players will be facing other new players in the tournament, and some returning players will receive bys.  For further details, please talk to Eli Walter, Shr-Hua Moore, or Kyle Hoefker.

There is an Environmental and Natural sciences club meeting today in Mrs. Ruther’s room

The School Counseling staff will be offering an informational CCP meeting on December 5 at 5:30 pm in the PAC.  This meeting will provide an overview of the program, how to apply and the deadlines.  Representatives from local universities will be in attendance to provide college specific information. Immediately following this meeting, there will be an informational session regarding the I.T. program that THS offers in conjunction with the University of Cincinnati.

As a part of our Vocational Agriculture program, students have been learning about GMOs.  But what are they?  Can you tell the difference between GMO and non-GMO?  This video was prepared by Productions in conjunction with FFA to give you some more information.

Now for todays birthdays, Jacob Freidline turns 16 and Autumn Spencer turns 18. Happy Birthday.

Art Club will meet on Tuesday, November 26th in Mr. Hunsche’s room until 4:00.  We have really enjoyed all the students coming to Art Club and we hope to gain even more artists before the end of the semester.  

Students interested in traveling with Ms Mann and Mr Tincher in 2021 should attend the informational meeting on Thursday, December 5, from 7:00-7:45 in room 319. This is directly after parent/teacher conferences. Parents, grandparents, guardians please attend, too! 

And now for Whats the T and Luke WP

The hockey team opened their season in front of a huge crowd defeated the Miami Jr. Redhawks by a 4-2 score. Daniel “swiss cheese” Emenaker recorded his first career win and the new twigs worked out for the Shrider boys who each recorded their first career goals for the Brave. They start the year 1-0 and play tonight vs Thomas Worthington.

The field hockey team will be collecting donations of small toys to send to the Dominican Republic, donations can be made inside Mrs. McCartney’s room.

Congrats to 1st year head coach Larry Cox who was named southwest division 2 coach of the year, Dalton Norris was first team defense, and second team honors were given to Luke Richardson, Terrell Wills, Nathan Fox, and Deondre Bothast-Revallee.

Home games for this weekend: The boys basketball team will be hosting Brave Madness beginning at 6:30 tonight, the Varsity scrimmage is scheduled for 8 o’clock tonight. Also tonight the hockey team will host Thomas Worthington at 7:20 tonight at the Goggin, we will livestream it on Brave TV, and you may be in for a big surprise with the announcer tonight. The hockey team will also host Findlay tomorrow at 2:40. Finally tomorrow night at 7 the girls basketball team will host Monroe and if you can’t make it to the gym we’ll be streaming that one live I’ll have the call for you tomorrow night.

And that’s our broadcast on this day. I’m Luke West Poley. Thanks so much for watching, and shoutout to Mr. Meece for the kind words about my intro.