Your White Oak Regiment of Roughnecks is going to state! October 23, at area, they got qualified to go to state. Their 13 weeks of hard work has paid off and finally they have achieved their goal.

The state marching contest will be held in San Antonio, Texas. The band is the only military band, while the other ones are core bands. The band will be competing in 20+ bands.

Jesse Gaut, a member of the White Oak band, gets asked a question about the whole band. Jesse is a freshman and plays trumpet.

Connor asks “What was the feeling when y”all got announced y”all were going to state?” Jesse responds “It felt uplifting and I knew that all our hard work has paid off, and I didn’t let the seniors and juniors down.”

Jesse gets asked another question about the best moment in band.

Connor asks “What was the best moment of band this year?” Jesse said “When they announced that we’re going to state.”

Cade Wheat, another member of the band, gets asked a nerve racking question about state. Cade is a freshman and play percussion.

Connor asks “Are you nervous for state?” Cade answers “Yes I’m very nervous for state, because I’m a freshman and it happens every other year, and this is the seniors and juniors last year so don’t want to mess it up for them.”

Connor asks more about the state marching contest.The feelings Cade is going to feel at San Antonio.

Connor asks “What feeling are you going to be feeling in the middle of the Alamodome?” Cade responds “It’s going to be nerve racking and it’s a huge stadium so the sounds are going to echo.”

Know Cower Bower, another freshman and also a percussionist, is getting asked a question about state and the excitement of state.

Connor asks “What are you most excited for state?” Collin responds “The trip down there and the actual competition were having.”

http://news.yahoo.com/u-n-criticizes-czech-detentions-strip-searches-refugees-103928253.html

Name: Connor McFarland
Source: Tom Miles

U.N. criticizes Czech detentions and strip-searches of refugees

U.N. human rights chief Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein accused the Czech Republic on Thursday of committing systematic human rights violations by detaining refugees for up to 90 days, strip-searching them for money to pay for their own detention.
I sad that someone would hold people in a room for 90 days. They did something and they really had to say in a room. That’s just cruelty and wrong that someone would do that to someone. How I feel about the article is that people know that did something wrong they don’t have to be in a prison for 90 days. The event doesn’t affect me because I live in Christ and he forgive me for my sins.
The event does impact the world, but Obama probably knows that this happened but he doesn’t do anything to save these people!? Hopefully the people will over there will stop prisoning people and just forgive them. The people are probably dying but they don’t care. The president or whatever they have who’s in charge needs to make it where people are not in prison for something very little.

http://www.humansofnewyork.com/post/131026968221/i-try-to-come-out-here-in-the-mornings-before

I like this post on “Humans of New York” because this woman has a big heart and wants to change the world. A lot of animals and humans are staving today. More people should go out and be kinder.

http://news.yahoo.com/teacher-reinstated-charges-dropped-husbands-death-154749272.html

 

Name: Connor McFarland

Article Source: Mitch Stacy

Girl’s 911 call as dad killed by car helps mom get job back

  In Columbus, Ohio a second grade teacher was accused of killing her husband. They were just driving down the road when she hit him. Their 12 year old daughter was in the back watching the whole thing and screaming.

  The issue in the story was why are people keep on killing people. How I feel about the event is why didn’t the father protect himself, but also I see that he couldn’t because he was driving. This event does affect me a lot because I love my parents but you may never know they could be insane.

   The event does impact the world because people are getting crazier everyday. Also it’s really sad that the child saw the whole murder happen. If we just take a second and be blessed that we don’t have psycho parents. Hopefully the world will change and not have so many killings.

 

http://news.yahoo.com/many-dead-20-wounded-shooting-184014927.html

 

Name: Connor McFarland

Article Source: Caitlin Nolan

 

Many Dead, 20 Wounded in Shooting at Umpqua Community College in Oregon

 

   Thursday up in Umpqua Community College’s Campus in Roseburg, Oregon there was a shooting. 13 people were and 20 were wounded. The shooting happened inside the Snyder Hall around 10:30 a.m.

   The article is sad because you hear more every week that people are shooting up schools,blowing up buildings, or someone just robbing a bank. How I feel about this article is people need to just think is this the right thing to do. The article doesn’t affect me really in any way but just hurts my heart someone would do this. We could stop this happening if we didn’t have such cold-hearted people.

   The event does impact the world because more and more psychos are shooting up schools. The main reason it’s happening because they are getting bullied or in depression and they think there’s no way out. If people weren’t bullies the killing rate would go down dramastically. The event probably wouldn’t happen if he didn’t have something going on in his head. The event impacts a lot of schools for the most part because they are trying to prevent these things.