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TRENDING
- SENIORITIS by Julia Garcia
04/17/2013 
We start out three feet tall in elementary school. We gain a few feet in middle school, puberty leads us into high school. Before we know it, we’re putting on our caps and gowns at [...]
- The RANT ::: HELMET HEAD
04/15/2013 Transportation says a lot about a person—and four wheels are so old school. Not only are they bold and exciting, motorcycles are pretty practical. Generally, motorcycles cost less in terms of repairs and parts. Motorcycle insurance is also cheaper, and less expensive than insuring an entire car. The average cost of motorcycle insurance is nearly ¼ the price of auto insurance. They have better gas mileage, which saves time and money. In terms of road tax, the motorcyclist also pays lesser road tax because the motorcycle occupies lesser road space. Also they take up less space and it’s easier to find a parking spot. “Motorcycles turn a wimp into a man,” says HHS senior, Lika Zinchenko [...]
- IT GETS BETTER
03/29/2013 I first started thinking about my sexual orientation on a field trip in middle school. We were going swimming. I saw my friend changing clothes and realized I was looking at them differently. That was [...]
- REALSCHULE
03/28/2013 
On March 18-19 eighteen students from Bavaria, Germany came to Heritage to get a taste of American high school for three weeks. One of the students, Svenja, has enjoyed many of her new [...]
- PI DAY!
03/14/2013 
March 14 (3/14) is Pi Day, a celebration of the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter — one of the most beautiful and confounding numbers in mathematics. It’s technically written as [...]
- Dakota Clevidence wins WIAA Athlete Award
03/14/2013 
Each week throughout the school year, the Washington Interscholastic Athletic Administration recognizes varsity athletes who exhibited an outstanding performance for the previous week. One of this weeks winners is HHS baseball’s own [...]
- GO BRITNI
03/08/2013 
Britni Atwell had to find gym time wherever, whenever it was available. For much of a six-year stretch, she coached herself, doing anything for gymnastics. “It’s more than just a sport. It’s everything,” [...]
- THE BURNS
03/06/2013 
Alright guys, bros, boys and men. It’s time to talk toilets. We see this all the time; it’s in almost every guys’ bathroom in this school: The burns on the [...]
- DEATH TO COOTIES
03/04/2013 
Remember way back in the day when we were kids- We used to cut hearts out of construction paper, write silly little love notes and give out Valentine cards and candies to all [...]
- NO H8
02/22/2013 
Hello Our Mighty TWolves! The GSA Club is joining the nationwide NO H8 Campaign. GSA is selling TShirts for all staff & students to wear for the Monday and Friday of [...]
- Britni Atwell wins four straight individual event titles
02/19/2013 Britni Atwell of Vancouver's Heritage not only set the standard at Saturday's individual finals, she set a precedent — becoming the first gymnast in the state meet's 45-year history to win four straight individual event titles. And, she did it twice: on vault and floor in Class 4A competition. "I'm in awe, I guess," Atwell said with a laugh at the Tacoma Dome Exhibition Hall. "I don't know what else to say." [...]
- KREWE
02/11/2013 A spattering of beads flew from a passing parade of bodies. Still more launched from a passing streetcar. Traffic built up behind and around the parade, but the beads kept coming. People kept laughing, cheering, parading. Tuesday is MARDIS GRAS! [...]
- The RANT ::: SOCIAL NOTWORKING
01/24/2013 
by Hugo Gonzalez and Cassidy Lucas You’re sitting at home bored, watching TV, scrolling through the same channels over and [...]
- WITHOUT YOUR WALLET
01/24/2013 
by Matt Fry Many guys will always have their wallet with them. They usually put it into the same pocket every single time they are done using it. Everything a man needs can [...]
- The RANT ::: STUPID SMART PHONES
01/23/2013 
by Jeremy Hess and Jay Ulrich Who doesn’t love smart phones? They are so convenient! Let’s say you’re out and about and you get lost or want to check a price of something but don’t [...]
- TEEN DREAM
01/23/2013 
by Jay Ulrich Being a senior in high school, can put a load of pressure on a person. It’s normal for a teen to have some stress every now and then. Some teens go out [...]
- Tomorrow, Tomorrow, I love ya Tomorrow
01/16/2013 Hey Heritage! Annie is here! Advanced Tickets are on sale until January 18, order now and get $2 off Adult priced tickets!
January 19 at 2 and 7pm, [...]
- ZOE HALL & HHS in COLUMBIAN
01/16/2013 
One Heritage High School junior takes her city’s heritage to heart. Zoe Hall, 17, recently “adopted” Vancouver’s Old City Cemetery in the Central Park neighborhood after her father read an Aug. 15 article [...]
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 Image by Jessi Proulx Empty field
slender spires
soft stiff grass
a violinist.
A lonely note
through the night
echo of
Canon in D.
Slender strings
produce every note,
voices in wind.
Summer sky
night,
a sudden crescendo: Continue reading CANON IN D by Amanda Mar →
“The career fair showed me I don’t have to be what society wants me to be.”
-Amber Poer, HHS Class of ’13
Women have moved up in the world throughout the century from staying at home to jobs that normally have men in employment. On Friday, May 17th, students from Heritage High School attended the Women in Trade Career Fair in Oregon that is anything but traditional.
The fair included hands-on activities for women and girls to explore the possibility of taking a future job in the trades. Activities like construction experience, positive skills coaching, and working directly with female role models were available at the career fair.
High-paying trades like plumbing and construction were encouraged careers for young women to pursue because women have remained 2.5% of the construction-trades skilled workforce for the last 30 years.
Oregon Tradeswomen, Inc. who runs the Women in Trade Career Fair has been doing it since 1993 to increase the number of women working in the trades and to help fill the gap in the labor force that has dropped because upcoming retirements of skilled trades people.
This baseball season, Heritage players have hit a grand slam in performance. Ranked 105th in high school baseball in Washington, Heritage T-Wolves headed to Tacoma Saturday for state after a gruesome game against Skyview for the district title. They got 2nd in districts, and were awarded 6th in state.
Senior Dakota Clevidence was named player of the year for a .523 batting average in which he hit 5 homeruns—three in the same game. He was also chosen for 1st team all-league first baseman along with others on the team.
“I feel accomplished and proud that my hard work paid off,” Dakota commented.
Senior Alex Smith was also chosen for 1st team all-league pitcher for his outstanding job as pitcher in which he “puts the light out” as said by another team mate. Senior Timmy Hergert was also chosen as 1st team short baseman.
“We’re like family. We’re closer than any other team I’ve been on,” Dakota comments. “The coaches trust in us to play, they let us play,” and trust that they will do the right thing. The coaches are not the only people to keep the players pumped and in control but also the ones on the bench. The players who stay in it even if they don’t play, who talk when others don’t. The benchwarmers brought the success too.
 Images by Jessi Proulx
Lady Liberty turns her face as the buildings fall to dust
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Two.
The news stations play the same questions over and over and over.
They call all the people who have a drop of an opinion on the matter.
They crowd the faces of elected officials, law enforcement, innocent bystanders,
Anyone with an inkling of sense still rattling around their dust-filled brains behind their dust-filled eyes
And they draw half-answers out of them with a slow syringe, and distribute them through radio waves and TV broadcasts as security blankets, and they just keep talking
Because the silence of unanswered questions is too loud for them to bear. Continue reading SECURITY BLANKET by Kristen Buehner →
 Images by Amber Poer
The doors open to the truck. I grab the lever in the bottom right to let me out of the backseat and step onto the gravel. The three of us walk along the path created by the footsteps of previous adventurers—Dom the leader, me in the middle, and Brandon as the caboose. We trek over one hill, through some bushes, over another hill and finally to our destination.
A permanent tent lies at the bottom of the hill covered with a blue tarp angled around a tree. Beer caps hammered in by previous campers snake up the tree, giving it flimsy coat of armor seven feet up its trunk. Memories—beautiful, yet destructive.
We wait for Amber and Nick to arrive. Brandon crosses the two-feet-deep water in search of a walking stick but finds broken glass bottles sitting under the water. With disgust all over his face, he reaches under the water to grab Continue reading DAYBREAK by Julia Garcia →
On the 13th of March, two AP Lit classes and two AP Lang classes wandered down to HHS’s library and sat down at the tables in the back corner, there to listen to their guest speaker from Seattle talk about her book. Her name was written on the board in Ms. Zadeh’s neat handwriting:
“Jacqueline Moulton, writer, artist, teacher.”
Jackie, as Ms. Zadeh called her, stood shorter than about three-quarters of the kids in the room. Her large red-rimmed glasses matched her lipstick. She paced back and forth as her royal blue skirt swirled beneath her, and presented her ideas about the fear that inevitably comes with the creative process. Her soliloquy came with genuine earnest and cat-lady humor. She spoke, unscripted and enthusiastically, about fear and creating and failure to an audience of slouching English kids, all mesmerized by this colorful and Miss-Frizz-from-the-Magic-School-Bus-but-with-tattoos-like-person.
Her book “The Day I Was Too Afraid to Jump Off the Highdive & Other Tales of Fear and Trepidation,” presents her numerous ideas about fear in a collection of poems, prose, and pictures. Fears of silly things, like cardboard tampons or stubbing a toe. Fears of big things, like loss, loneliness, unknowns of life. Continue reading WRITE IT DOWN by Kristen Buehner →
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