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Happening NOW•Speech: Warrior Invitational Individual Events Tournament 3:30 p.m. today at WHS; Team Debate Sweepstakes Invitational 8 a.m. Saturday at Roosevelt•Show Choir: Mid-Season Weekend Retreat today through Tuesday in auditorium

Lunch Time at WHS•Today’s lunch: Popcorn chicken•À la carte lines: Cheese pizza, bean and cheese burrito, chef salad, sand-wiches

Group Meetings•WHS Book Club: Will meet to discuss “Anatomy of a Misfit” during lunch periods today in the library. See librarian Kerri Smith for details.•All Winter Athletes: For WHS will meet, along with a parent, at 6 p.m. Monday in the gym—all physi-cal/medical consent forms must be turned in prior to first practice.•Freshman-Junior Girls: Interested in winter indoor soccer will meet at 3:10 p.m. Wednesday in A-120.

Other Reminders•WHS Library: Will close at 3:30 p.m. today.•Oak View Library: Will host a screening of “Catching Fire” at 1 p.m. Saturday.•Seniors: Pick up any transcripts ordered in the registrar’s office—they will not be mailed.

NOW Friday StaffCo-Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lexus Paulson

and Carson HerbertAssistant Editor: . . . . . . . Sydney ArringtonStaff: Shemles Megosha, Megan Rose, Addison Sannes, Amirah Michaeli, Rachel Konrad, Natalie MeyerEditor-in-chief . . . . . . . . . . . Jack NachtigalManaging Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . Lizzie SpierAdviser. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jason Lueth

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By Carson Herbert and Shemles Megosha

Currently, 582 students from South Dakota, Minnesota and Iowa are registered to compete in the 33rd Annual Warrior Invitational Individual Events

Speech Tournament today at WHS. Debate Coach Travis Dahle said he is looking forward

to the huge event. “This is the largest number of entries I have ever had

at Washington,” Dahle said. “The fact that we have to use spaces like the band practice rooms and the gym shows how big this tournament has gotten. It’s great to be able to show off WHS to so many students.”

A total of 118 judges will be present to judge the 30 teams in the invitational. The event will feature 14 categories of oral interpretation, oratory and extempo-raneous speaking in four rounds.

Oral interp coach Michelle McIntyre said she thinks her team is well prepared.

“We are very excited to compete and we have a large squad, most of whom are going to be double entered in two events,” McIntyre said. “We are also running our readers theatre for the first time, which was written corroboratively this summer by a team of our senior interp members. We hope to win another George Washington statue this year!”

Statues will be presented to first place winners, dream catchers to second place and trophies to third.

Individual events speech tournament largest in region

By Lexus PaulsonClassic Connection (ClaCo)

show choir members will attend a four-day retreat at WHS beginning today to pre-pare for their upcoming season.

The four-day event will kick-off tonight with the ladies learning how to do their hair and makeup, followed by the whole group watching a sur-prise movie and participating in team-building activities.

On Saturday, the retreat

will continue when Drew Neneman, a friend of director Kirk Schjodt, will be in town. Neneman has collaborated with Schjodt on past shows and has even written a song for a past Classic Connection show.

On Monday, the group will have rehearsal from 6-9 p.m., putting both the singers and the band “Quacko” together.

Rounding out the final day will be the group’s two profes-sional choreographers coming

on Tuesday to put finishing touches on the show and a sneak-peak for ClaCo parents.

The public can get a glimpse of the show Dec. 12 at the Sioux Falls Show Choir Preview Night.

Schjodt said he is excited about the upcoming season.

“ClaCo is shaping up to be fabulous this year,” Schjodt said. “We have a veteran group and their experience has helped us develop our show this year.”

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Fracking could cause earthquakes

By Sean CockerhamMcClatchy Washington Bureau(MCT)

WASHINGTON — Evidence is growing that fracking for oil and gas is causing earth-quakes that shake the heartland.

States such as Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas and Ohio are being hit by earth-quakes that appear linked to oil and gas activity.

“Certainly I think there may be more of this that has gone on than we previously recognized,” Oklahoma Geological Survey seismologist Austin Holland told colleagues last week.

Hydraulic fractur-ing, known as frack-ing, is when massive amounts of high-pressure water with chemicals is pumped underground to break shale rock and release the oil and natural gas inside.

Before 2008 Oklahoma averaged just one earthquake greater than magnitude 3.0 a year. So far this year there have been 430 of them, Holland said.

Scientists have linked earthquakes in Oklahoma to drilling waste injection. Shale drilling produces large amounts of wastewater, which then is often pumped deep under-ground as a way to dispose of it without contaminating fresh water. Injection raises the underground pres-sure and can effectively lubricate fault lines, weakening them and causing earthquakes, according to the U.S Geological Survey.

A study published in the November edi-tion of Seismological Research Letters con-cluded that fracking operations triggered a series of earthquakes up to magnitude 2.2 last year in Harrison County, Ohio.

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Exciting girls basketball season days awayThe countdown to the biggest day of the year has offi-

cially begun—there are only 17 days remaining until the first girls basketball practice, and 35 days until the first game! I have been going to open gyms and doing different workouts on my own, but I can’t get enough! With the sea-

son only weeks away, I am start-ing to get antsy.

I wake up thinking about basketball, and go to sleep thinking about

basketball. How much is too much? Not only am I excited for the season to start, but I’m also excited to be back with my teammates.

The goofy girls are what makes basketball something to be a part of at WHS for me. The team had seven seniors graduate last year, but that means seven new players have stepped-up to fill their positions on the team.

The WHS Girls Basketball Program has a proud tradi-tion. At the end of last season head coach Nate Malchow stepped down at the pinnacle of his coaching career after a state championship, and became the school’s new activi-ties principle. But with new head coach Jamie Parish, the tradition will not be lost.

This season is going to be a battle, but it always is. This season will be the first time in many years that we take on the St. Thomas More girls. It will be a lot of fun playing some new faces, especially in a season opener. I want to see an amazing student section this year. See you there!

Junior Sydney Arrington is daydreaming about ballin’.

Sydney Arrington

Hear me. . .

S.D. football playoffs reach semifinals today, Saturday

From staff reportsThe 2014 South

Dakota Football Playoffs have reached the semifinal rounds this weekend.

Both 11AAA games will be played at Howard Wood Field today, as No. 1 seed Lincoln hosts No. 4 O’Gorman at 4:30 p.m. and No. 2 Roosevelt hosts No. 3 Brandon Valley at 7:30 p.m. today in a semi-final doubleheader.

Semifinals in the six other South Dakota class-es include the following games to be played today and Saturday.

11AA Today:•Harrisburg at Yankton 7 p.m. and Pierre at Brookings 7 p.m.11A Saturday:•Hot Springs at Madison 4 p.m. and West Central at Dell Rapids 4 p.m.Class 11B Saturday: •McCook Central-Montrose at Parkston 7 p.m. and Groton Area at St. Thomas More 7:30 p.m.Class 9AA Saturday:•Kimball-White Lake at Woon-socket/Wessington Springs/Sanborn Central 5 p.m. and Deuel at Gregory 4:30 p.m.Class 9A Saturday:•Wolsey-Wessington at Philip 7:30 p.m. and Alcester-Hudson at Howard 6 p.m.Class 9B Saturday:•Harding County at Hamlin 7 p.m. and Faulkton Area at Canistota 6 p.m.

Both 11AAA games at Howard Wood today

Reaching the PinnacleMembers of the Warrior Marching Band perform part of their 2014 field show “The Pinnacle” in

the WHS auditorium during the season-ending

indoor marching show Thursday night at WHS.

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