Many changes are happening at Malad High School. There will be new faces among the teaching staff.
Cody Peacock has accepted a job offer to teach in Lyman, Wyoming. Peacock taught government and history. He was also the head coach for the varsity football team. He will receive a larger salary teaching in Wyoming.
According to Shannon Davis, teacher at MHS, faculty and students are concerned about the loss of teachers due to Idaho’s teacher salary scale. This is not the first teacher Malad has lost to Wyoming. Last year McKay Young was offered a teaching position at a Wyoming school. Young had a similar situation. He was the head coach for the varsity football team, taught government, history and Spanish.
So far, MHS has received eight applications to fill Peacock’s teaching position. The current concern with the new teacher is making sure concurrent enrollment history and government classes are available to the students.
According to Irene Alder, MHS councilor, the football and cross country head coach positions have been opened to district employes at this point. There have been no applicants thus far.
“We had a meeting with the football team to explain the situation and there were several tears,” Davis said. “It was extremely similar to when McKay Young left.”
Julie Willie, math teacher, will be leaving this year due to retirement. There were 10 applications turned in and the position has recently been filled. The school has not yet released the name her replacement.
“I think it’s all very different,” said Shelby Udy, MHS student. “All of the teachers that we started high school with are leaving. It changes our attitudes because we aren’t used to how they teach.”
“It’s sad, but Peacock’s getting a chance to make more money for him and his family,” said Renzee Sorenson, MHS student.
Friday, April 27, 2012
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Malad Car Show
This year the Malad Car Show will be held Saturday, June 9 on Main Street.
There will be a “Cruise In” Friday night. Those presenting cars in the show will drive through town and later gather at the Malad Drive In. The “Cruise In” will be hosted by Lynn and Connie Price, owners of the Malad Drive In. There will also be a cardboard car show for kids that night.
“We invite everyone to spit polish their cars and cruise town,” said Ronda Neal, committee chairperson.
All day Saturday, the cars will be parked on Main Street for people to enjoy and JC Hackett will MC the event. Admission for car owners is $20 per car. At 2:30 p.m. that afternoon, the cars will be judged and prizes awarded, all of which are sponsored by businesses in town. The donating businesses will choose their favorite cars and that car will receive a prize. Some of the awards being presented are Best in Show, Best Original, Car Hop, Sock Hop, Cruising to the 60’s and Cruising to the 70’s.
There will be t-shirts for sale throughout the day along with other items sold by vendors.
A “Poker Run” is scheduled to take place during the show. People at the show will receive a map that they can follow to specific places throughout town. Once they arrive at the designated locations, they will receive a playing card. At the end of the hunt, whoever has the best hand of cards, wins.
The Malad Car Show takes all year to plan. The committee must keep track of people that have been a part of the show and send them invitations. Funds from the show go toward the city for other community events.
“It’s a bigger deal than people realize,” Neal said. “We advertise so people will come back and participate every year.”
“Planning begins in January,” said Lance Tripp, co-chair. “We get artwork for t-shirts every year and those need to be prepared pretty far in advance.”
According to Curt Elcock, car show member, there will be a showing of the movie “Thunder Road” at the Iron Door Playhouse during the event for participants to enjoy.
According to Lynn Price, founder, the show was started around 1997. The largest show Malad has ever hosted was last year, boasting 157 cars.
“Our community is all about hospitality and making people feel welcome,” Neal said. “The car show owners love the atmosphere of downtown Main Street. We listen to the car owners and take advice to make it better.”
A few car collectors will be showing in this event and along with many local cars and various cars from out of town.
“My favorite part of the show is welcoming people to our community,” Neal said. “I love putting all of those beautiful cars on Main Street and listening to the stories of the cars. People are always so willing to share their stories.“
“I like seeing good crowds and seeing people there having a good time and the community benefiting from it,” Tripp said.
There will be a “Cruise In” Friday night. Those presenting cars in the show will drive through town and later gather at the Malad Drive In. The “Cruise In” will be hosted by Lynn and Connie Price, owners of the Malad Drive In. There will also be a cardboard car show for kids that night.
“We invite everyone to spit polish their cars and cruise town,” said Ronda Neal, committee chairperson.
All day Saturday, the cars will be parked on Main Street for people to enjoy and JC Hackett will MC the event. Admission for car owners is $20 per car. At 2:30 p.m. that afternoon, the cars will be judged and prizes awarded, all of which are sponsored by businesses in town. The donating businesses will choose their favorite cars and that car will receive a prize. Some of the awards being presented are Best in Show, Best Original, Car Hop, Sock Hop, Cruising to the 60’s and Cruising to the 70’s.
There will be t-shirts for sale throughout the day along with other items sold by vendors.
A “Poker Run” is scheduled to take place during the show. People at the show will receive a map that they can follow to specific places throughout town. Once they arrive at the designated locations, they will receive a playing card. At the end of the hunt, whoever has the best hand of cards, wins.
The Malad Car Show takes all year to plan. The committee must keep track of people that have been a part of the show and send them invitations. Funds from the show go toward the city for other community events.
“It’s a bigger deal than people realize,” Neal said. “We advertise so people will come back and participate every year.”
“Planning begins in January,” said Lance Tripp, co-chair. “We get artwork for t-shirts every year and those need to be prepared pretty far in advance.”
According to Curt Elcock, car show member, there will be a showing of the movie “Thunder Road” at the Iron Door Playhouse during the event for participants to enjoy.
According to Lynn Price, founder, the show was started around 1997. The largest show Malad has ever hosted was last year, boasting 157 cars.
“Our community is all about hospitality and making people feel welcome,” Neal said. “The car show owners love the atmosphere of downtown Main Street. We listen to the car owners and take advice to make it better.”
A few car collectors will be showing in this event and along with many local cars and various cars from out of town.
“My favorite part of the show is welcoming people to our community,” Neal said. “I love putting all of those beautiful cars on Main Street and listening to the stories of the cars. People are always so willing to share their stories.“
“I like seeing good crowds and seeing people there having a good time and the community benefiting from it,” Tripp said.
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Spring Concert
The Malad annual Spring Concert is scheduled for tomorrow, April 26 at 7 p.m in the High School gymnasium. Malad’s Middle School and High School students will be performing in this concert.
The seventh and eighth grade bands, the High School swing choir and the Dragon’s Minstrels Band are all going to be a part of the show.
There will be a fairly wide range of musical genres performed. Some of the songs selected by the Dragon’s Minstrels are “March Jambalaya,” “Keynoter March,” “Hungarian Dance” and other well known pep band pieces that are regularly played at sporting events. The middle school bands will be playing more basic songs because they’re still in the learning process.
“We will start with some pop music and work up to Michael Jackson and Mick Jagger,” said Ralph Bennett, the music director.
Some of the songs that the swing choir will perform are “Dig a Little Deeper,” from the movie “The Princess and the Frog”; “I See the Light,” from the movie “Tangled” and a medley from “Tarzan.”
The swing choir is not only a singing group, but a dancing group as well. Swing choir will be performing a song called “Axel F” including a light show that has been choreographed by the choir’s very own dance captains. Dance captains choreograph each dance that the swing choir performs. According to Lamona Bennett, the assistant music director, a professional choreographer was asked to teach the students the steps to “Dig a Little Deeper,” but other than that the choir does their own choreographing.
“After we decide what songs we are going to sing, we review videos from past performances, put our own styles into the dances and just change it up,” said Jamal Andersen, a dance captain.
There are over 100 students scheduled to perform in this concert. Each student will be graded on how well they perform each selection.
“My favorite part of the concert is working with the kids and seeing what comes out,” Ralph said.
“It gets a little draggy practicing in the mornings,” Lamona said. “You don’t really get to see them have fun with it until the show. It’s like a flower that just blossoms.”
The seventh and eighth grade bands, the High School swing choir and the Dragon’s Minstrels Band are all going to be a part of the show.
There will be a fairly wide range of musical genres performed. Some of the songs selected by the Dragon’s Minstrels are “March Jambalaya,” “Keynoter March,” “Hungarian Dance” and other well known pep band pieces that are regularly played at sporting events. The middle school bands will be playing more basic songs because they’re still in the learning process.
“We will start with some pop music and work up to Michael Jackson and Mick Jagger,” said Ralph Bennett, the music director.
Some of the songs that the swing choir will perform are “Dig a Little Deeper,” from the movie “The Princess and the Frog”; “I See the Light,” from the movie “Tangled” and a medley from “Tarzan.”
The swing choir is not only a singing group, but a dancing group as well. Swing choir will be performing a song called “Axel F” including a light show that has been choreographed by the choir’s very own dance captains. Dance captains choreograph each dance that the swing choir performs. According to Lamona Bennett, the assistant music director, a professional choreographer was asked to teach the students the steps to “Dig a Little Deeper,” but other than that the choir does their own choreographing.
“After we decide what songs we are going to sing, we review videos from past performances, put our own styles into the dances and just change it up,” said Jamal Andersen, a dance captain.
There are over 100 students scheduled to perform in this concert. Each student will be graded on how well they perform each selection.
“My favorite part of the concert is working with the kids and seeing what comes out,” Ralph said.
“It gets a little draggy practicing in the mornings,” Lamona said. “You don’t really get to see them have fun with it until the show. It’s like a flower that just blossoms.”
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Iron Door Playhouse
May 4,5,7,11 and 12 at 7 p.m. the Iron Door Playhouse is scheduled to show the musical "Man of La Mancha." This musical is about Miguel Cervantes, an actor thrown into jail by the Spanish Inquisition where his life is threatened by his fellow inmates. To distract the inmates, Cervantes begins to put on a play and invites them to join him. Cervantes plays Don Quixote, a “mad” knight who is determined to fight the evil in the world.
“I really like the lesson that the story is trying to teach, hope,” said Christopher Austin, a cast member.
This will be the playhouse’s performance of the year. The Iron Door Playhouse hosts four productions each year, but only one musical. According to Mike Hess Jr., director, the Mother’s Day production is usually very popular, but not popular enough.
“This year we thought, instead of the standard drama, let’s do the musical and get more people in to see the play,” Hess said
“It’s new for us to do a musical for the Mother’s Day production,” said Scott Danielson, lighting and sound director. “This will be our big play of the year and the leads are all new.”
The play stars Matt Thomas as Don Quixote, Carissa Hess as Aldonza Lorenzo, Quixote’s love interest. These actors are both new to the Iron Door Playhouse.
“Neither of these actors have been in our productions before,” Danielson said. “They are amazing.”
“It’s nice to get new actors because they take advice much better than the veterans and they just do it,” Hess said.
Tryouts began in January. The scripts were ordered a month in advance to read through and get approved by all theater guild committee members.
“This play was one of the longest running broadway plays in the 70’s and 80’s so this is a classic,” Hess said. “It will be new for the younger generation. It’s not as popular as 'Phantom' or 'Wicked' but it’s new for a community that is probably not familiar with it.”
“Almost every play that we’ve done someone comes out and shines that you never knew before,” Danielson said. “It’s always exciting.”
The Iron Door Playhouse has shown about 85 productions in it’s lifetime. The playhouse opened about 21 years ago and has continued to grow ever since. Because Malad is such a small town, many of the actors are the same in each play.
“I like to be a different person and entertain people,” Hess said. “It’s interesting to be me all day and come to the theater guild and be someone else for a couple of hours.”
“It’s fun to go and learn to be someone else and apply your own personality to that person,” Austin said.
“I really like the lesson that the story is trying to teach, hope,” said Christopher Austin, a cast member.
This will be the playhouse’s performance of the year. The Iron Door Playhouse hosts four productions each year, but only one musical. According to Mike Hess Jr., director, the Mother’s Day production is usually very popular, but not popular enough.
“This year we thought, instead of the standard drama, let’s do the musical and get more people in to see the play,” Hess said
“It’s new for us to do a musical for the Mother’s Day production,” said Scott Danielson, lighting and sound director. “This will be our big play of the year and the leads are all new.”
The play stars Matt Thomas as Don Quixote, Carissa Hess as Aldonza Lorenzo, Quixote’s love interest. These actors are both new to the Iron Door Playhouse.
“Neither of these actors have been in our productions before,” Danielson said. “They are amazing.”
“It’s nice to get new actors because they take advice much better than the veterans and they just do it,” Hess said.
Tryouts began in January. The scripts were ordered a month in advance to read through and get approved by all theater guild committee members.
“This play was one of the longest running broadway plays in the 70’s and 80’s so this is a classic,” Hess said. “It will be new for the younger generation. It’s not as popular as 'Phantom' or 'Wicked' but it’s new for a community that is probably not familiar with it.”
“Almost every play that we’ve done someone comes out and shines that you never knew before,” Danielson said. “It’s always exciting.”
The Iron Door Playhouse has shown about 85 productions in it’s lifetime. The playhouse opened about 21 years ago and has continued to grow ever since. Because Malad is such a small town, many of the actors are the same in each play.
“I like to be a different person and entertain people,” Hess said. “It’s interesting to be me all day and come to the theater guild and be someone else for a couple of hours.”
“It’s fun to go and learn to be someone else and apply your own personality to that person,” Austin said.
Monday, April 23, 2012
Malad Baseball State Champions Defend their title
This year, the Malad High School Baseball team is defending their State Championship title.
“It’s tough to be the State Champions because every one is shooting at you,” said Dennis Evans, Varsity’s head coach.
Seven senior baseball players graduated last year including six varsity starters — Skyler Thorpe, pitcher; Bubba Crump, outfielder; Jeremy McClellan, center fielder; Tyrell Hubbard, shortstop; Cody Hess, third baseman; Chase Nieffenegger, outfielder and Ruben Ramirez, junior varsity right fielder.
“Last year’s seniors were exceptional athletes but, more importantly, exceptional young men who set a great example for the younger players,” said Bobby Green, Varsity’s assistant coach. “I don’t think the team has missed a beat as these younger players have come up in a good JV system and learned from the graduating seniors as well.”
“We are a really young team and a lot of the players haven’t normally batted against these older pitchers but we’re doing well,” said Bracken Gibbs, senior pitcher. “We’ve all played together since we were younger and we really haven’t missed a beat.”
The team lost five games so far this season. All losses were to higher districts. Malad played two teams from their district and won both games.
“Last year we had only three losses at this point but we didn’t lose any after that,” Evans said.
To help defend their state title, the team is working harder on hitting and defense.
“Our defense has been letting us down,” Evans said. “In practices we’ve tried to focus more on our weaknesses. Last year we didn’t have very many...we’re working harder on getting better.”
Baseball 2A District Championships are scheduled for May 2 and May 5. Once the district’s first and second place have been awarded they are sent to play in the State Championship. State is in Orophino, Idaho this year on May 18 and 19.
“Our goal every year is a State Championship,” Green said. “We have high hopes for this team.”
“I think we’ll do just fine at State,” Gibbs said. “We’ve already played a lot of the teams that we’ll see at state and we played really well against them.”
“It’s tough to be the State Champions because every one is shooting at you,” said Dennis Evans, Varsity’s head coach.
Seven senior baseball players graduated last year including six varsity starters — Skyler Thorpe, pitcher; Bubba Crump, outfielder; Jeremy McClellan, center fielder; Tyrell Hubbard, shortstop; Cody Hess, third baseman; Chase Nieffenegger, outfielder and Ruben Ramirez, junior varsity right fielder.
“Last year’s seniors were exceptional athletes but, more importantly, exceptional young men who set a great example for the younger players,” said Bobby Green, Varsity’s assistant coach. “I don’t think the team has missed a beat as these younger players have come up in a good JV system and learned from the graduating seniors as well.”
“We are a really young team and a lot of the players haven’t normally batted against these older pitchers but we’re doing well,” said Bracken Gibbs, senior pitcher. “We’ve all played together since we were younger and we really haven’t missed a beat.”
The team lost five games so far this season. All losses were to higher districts. Malad played two teams from their district and won both games.
“Last year we had only three losses at this point but we didn’t lose any after that,” Evans said.
To help defend their state title, the team is working harder on hitting and defense.
“Our defense has been letting us down,” Evans said. “In practices we’ve tried to focus more on our weaknesses. Last year we didn’t have very many...we’re working harder on getting better.”
Baseball 2A District Championships are scheduled for May 2 and May 5. Once the district’s first and second place have been awarded they are sent to play in the State Championship. State is in Orophino, Idaho this year on May 18 and 19.
“Our goal every year is a State Championship,” Green said. “We have high hopes for this team.”
“I think we’ll do just fine at State,” Gibbs said. “We’ve already played a lot of the teams that we’ll see at state and we played really well against them.”
Friday, April 20, 2012
Distinguished Young Womens
The Malad Distinguished Young Woman program will not happen this year due to a lack of participants in the program.
DYW is a program that allows high school juniors to compete for college scholarship money. The program’s motto is, “Be healthy, be physically fit and drug free; be involved, serve your community; be studious, stay in school; be ambitious, set and achieve goals; be responsible, live by moral and ethical principles.”
“I loved doing DYW,” said Moriah Ihler, last year’s first alternate. “It mainly helped me with my interviewing skills and helped me get a resume together. Because I am a people person, DYW helped me bring that out in my interviews.”
Only three girls signed up for the program this year — Heidi Hannah, Stephani Treasure and Nicole Hubbard. The girls attempted to recruit more participants for the program but were unsuccessful.
“We just didn’t have enough local interest,” said Jamie Hess, a committee member. “We had three girls sign up and we have to have a minimum of five.”
If the girls still wanted to compete to earn scholarship money, they could have registered online for the Idaho At-Large program. This is a competition for girls in Idaho that don’t have the opportunity to compete in the DYW. The winners from the Idaho At-Large will receive scholarship money and then go on to state with the other girls in DYW.
“A girl from American Falls Idaho went to state as an ‘at-large,’ she was the winner in three categories and one of the top-10 finalists,” said Sandra Thomas, the Malad DYW Chairperson. “She was the only one if not one of the few from her year... just think, if she had decided not to do the ‘at-large,’ she would have missed out on winning scholarship money and also the experiences.”
Because there will not be a DYW program in Malad this year, the committee has decided to have a program to honor past, present and future DYW participants. Carlie Stewart, last year’s winner, will be the MC.
“It will be a fund raiser, we will run it kind of like a program,” Thomas said. “We will have a ‘minnie miss’ routine with girls of Malad Middle School to help inspire younger girls to participate when their year comes.”
Committee members have asked people throughout town to show their talents in this program. There will be dance, guitar, piano and other talents performed that night.
“We’re having people perform talents that have previous DYW experience or people that have been taught by DYW participants,” Hess said. “We are hoping the performers will give a positive reflection upon the DYW.”
The winners of last year’s DYW will present their “forget-me-nots” at the program and Stewart will depart as last year’s winner. The program is scheduled for April 28.
“We’re hoping people will listen and understand that it is not a beauty pageant and that girls have a lot to learn from this.” Thomas said.
DYW is a program that allows high school juniors to compete for college scholarship money. The program’s motto is, “Be healthy, be physically fit and drug free; be involved, serve your community; be studious, stay in school; be ambitious, set and achieve goals; be responsible, live by moral and ethical principles.”
“I loved doing DYW,” said Moriah Ihler, last year’s first alternate. “It mainly helped me with my interviewing skills and helped me get a resume together. Because I am a people person, DYW helped me bring that out in my interviews.”
Only three girls signed up for the program this year — Heidi Hannah, Stephani Treasure and Nicole Hubbard. The girls attempted to recruit more participants for the program but were unsuccessful.
“We just didn’t have enough local interest,” said Jamie Hess, a committee member. “We had three girls sign up and we have to have a minimum of five.”
If the girls still wanted to compete to earn scholarship money, they could have registered online for the Idaho At-Large program. This is a competition for girls in Idaho that don’t have the opportunity to compete in the DYW. The winners from the Idaho At-Large will receive scholarship money and then go on to state with the other girls in DYW.
“A girl from American Falls Idaho went to state as an ‘at-large,’ she was the winner in three categories and one of the top-10 finalists,” said Sandra Thomas, the Malad DYW Chairperson. “She was the only one if not one of the few from her year... just think, if she had decided not to do the ‘at-large,’ she would have missed out on winning scholarship money and also the experiences.”
Because there will not be a DYW program in Malad this year, the committee has decided to have a program to honor past, present and future DYW participants. Carlie Stewart, last year’s winner, will be the MC.
“It will be a fund raiser, we will run it kind of like a program,” Thomas said. “We will have a ‘minnie miss’ routine with girls of Malad Middle School to help inspire younger girls to participate when their year comes.”
Committee members have asked people throughout town to show their talents in this program. There will be dance, guitar, piano and other talents performed that night.
“We’re having people perform talents that have previous DYW experience or people that have been taught by DYW participants,” Hess said. “We are hoping the performers will give a positive reflection upon the DYW.”
The winners of last year’s DYW will present their “forget-me-nots” at the program and Stewart will depart as last year’s winner. The program is scheduled for April 28.
“We’re hoping people will listen and understand that it is not a beauty pageant and that girls have a lot to learn from this.” Thomas said.
Student Council Elections
Malad High School Student Council Elections are beginning this week.
Candidates up for election include: Braxton Davis for President; Wesley Peterson and Stephani Treasure for Vice President; Nicona Broadus and Meaghen Brown for Secretary; McKenzie Willie for Historian; Carson McClain and Cole Finder for Business Manager; Heidi Hannah and Katie Neal for Head Cheerleader.
Student Council considered having the candidates make a campaign video with their election speeches. Instead of having candidates present speeches in front of the student body, they would just run the videos for the voters to see.
In the end, Student Council decided against the videos. According to Shannon Davis, Student Council Advisor, they felt the candidates should “feel the pressure” of standing before the student body to give their speeches.
“We had discussed the possibility of doing videos to ensure that there were no borderline behaviors or content in the speeches, but after talking to the student council we made an arrangement with the administration to have candidates pre-present their speeches, and they must do the exact same speech for the student body at the assemblies,” said Jacob Stevens, current Student Body President.
Offices with more than two candidates running are required to present a preliminary speech Tuesday, April 24. The speeches cannot be longer than three minutes. If a candidate has any planned participation from the audience, that candidate will be disqualified. The speech must strictly be a speech and nothing else. This goes for all speeches within the Student Council Elections, not just the preliminaries. Final election speeches will be held on Thursday, April 26 in the High School gym.
Those running are required to create a poster. Each candidate will be given eight feet of paper. This paper cannot be cut into smaller pieces. The candidate's poster will sell them as officer. They must include their proposal for the upcoming homecoming year, a resume and a current letter of recommendation. Posters will be hung before school Monday, April 23.
According to Malad High School Counselor Irene Alder, students are not willing to take responsibility and become the leaders of the rest of the student body.
“We had to postpone elections for one week because we couldn’t fill the ballot,” Alder said. “Don’t like something, don’t just gripe, run for an office and make a difference.”
Candidates up for election include: Braxton Davis for President; Wesley Peterson and Stephani Treasure for Vice President; Nicona Broadus and Meaghen Brown for Secretary; McKenzie Willie for Historian; Carson McClain and Cole Finder for Business Manager; Heidi Hannah and Katie Neal for Head Cheerleader.
Student Council considered having the candidates make a campaign video with their election speeches. Instead of having candidates present speeches in front of the student body, they would just run the videos for the voters to see.
In the end, Student Council decided against the videos. According to Shannon Davis, Student Council Advisor, they felt the candidates should “feel the pressure” of standing before the student body to give their speeches.
“We had discussed the possibility of doing videos to ensure that there were no borderline behaviors or content in the speeches, but after talking to the student council we made an arrangement with the administration to have candidates pre-present their speeches, and they must do the exact same speech for the student body at the assemblies,” said Jacob Stevens, current Student Body President.
Offices with more than two candidates running are required to present a preliminary speech Tuesday, April 24. The speeches cannot be longer than three minutes. If a candidate has any planned participation from the audience, that candidate will be disqualified. The speech must strictly be a speech and nothing else. This goes for all speeches within the Student Council Elections, not just the preliminaries. Final election speeches will be held on Thursday, April 26 in the High School gym.
Those running are required to create a poster. Each candidate will be given eight feet of paper. This paper cannot be cut into smaller pieces. The candidate's poster will sell them as officer. They must include their proposal for the upcoming homecoming year, a resume and a current letter of recommendation. Posters will be hung before school Monday, April 23.
According to Malad High School Counselor Irene Alder, students are not willing to take responsibility and become the leaders of the rest of the student body.
“We had to postpone elections for one week because we couldn’t fill the ballot,” Alder said. “Don’t like something, don’t just gripe, run for an office and make a difference.”
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