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Editors: Aniston

Hutchings & Grace

Chamberlain

Writers: Yearbook

Staff and Creative

Writing students

TABLE OF

CONTENTS

Amazing people and

things going on at

HMS

Pages 1-7

Fun Page

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THE Times January 28, 2021 - Volume III, Issue 5

Welcome to the new and improve

Tiger Times!

As the yearbook staff (who is in charge of the

student newspaper in your hands) reflected on

how to improve the Tiger Times, we felt that we

should make the paper solely about you—HMS

students, faculty and staff.

We’ve departed from our usual feature-centric

style into a paper of short briefs about the

interesting and amazing things going on at our

school and happening to those around us.

Please give us feedback and/or suggestions on

what to highlight in our student newspaper by

emailing us at hmsyearbook2021@gmail.com or

by simply telling yearbook and newspaper

adviser, Mr. Wadsworth (in room 205).

Welcome back,

HMS!!!

Happy New

Year!!!

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HMS Brightest Students

By Aniston Hutchings

When waiting in the lunch line have you ever wondered whose pictures were on the wall? They are HMS's exemplary students that have been selected as Student Of The Month for their outstanding work. There are two students from each grade of different genders. Who are these great examples? They are among you in your classes and friends.

One of these outstanding students is Grace Chamberlin. In an interview with her, she revealed she was shocked to be selected. When questioned on advice to give to aspiring students of the months she sug-gested turning in all assignments that have quality work so you could achieve good grades. The student body should follow their example and acknowledge their great work.

The student of the month has been around since the beginning of the school year. It is important to acknowledge hard-working scholars. Sania Roy’s passage explained,” Acknowledging someone's hard work makes someone work even harder.” The student of the month award is tiny praise for all the time put into achieving their above-average grades.

Hyrum Smith, of Franklin Covey, demands.” A successful student is willing to do what an unsuccess-ful student is not.” These students go above and beyond what they are expected to be. The school thanks them and looks to them for inspiration.

Is There A Valentine's Day Dance This Year?

By Mckagun Crane

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If you were here at Hurricane Middle School last year you would know that there were a couple of dances. One of the most popular dances was the Valentine's day dance. With Valentines day coming up soon many of you might be wondering if there will even be a dance. According to the principal Mr. Homer said, “We will not be doing a Valentines dance this year because we can’t.” There are many factors for the reason we can’t. One of the reasons why the school can’t do the dance is because it is on a Sunday during presidents day week-end. Another reason why there won’t be a Valentines day dance is because of Covid-19. So to sum it up there will not be a Valentines day dance this year.

The Fruit doesn’t fall far

from the tree By Davis Henderson

There is a tree in the front of the commons ar-

ea that this year started making fruit. It made fruit for the first time in 30 years. Although now all of the fruit is off of the tree. According to a plant identification app called Picture This, the fruit is bitter orange. Bitter orange is originally from Asia and most of it is used for medicine.

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(Answers on page 8)

TEACHER 3:

TEACHER 1: TEACHER 2:

What’s your favorite color? My favorite color is

What’s your favorite hobby? Running is my favorite

hobby

If you didn’t work at a school

what would your job be

I would not have a job is I

couldn’t work here

What is your favorite food? I love a good BLT

What are some interesting

past jobs you’ve had?

Interesting jobs: None

really, I worked as a ref

for the one and only Jody

Ballard

What college did you go to? I attended Dixie State

What is your favorite ani-

mal?

My favorite animal is my

dog Phydeaux

What’s your favorite color? Blue

What’s your favorite hobby? Bowling

If you didn’t work at a school

what would your job be

General Contractor

What is your favorite food? Nachos and salsa

What is your favorite sports

team?

None

What are some interesting

past jobs you’ve had?

DJ at local events

What college did you go to? Utah Valley University and

Western Governors Uni-

What is your favorite animal? Monkey

What’s your favorite col-

or?

Green

What’s your favorite hob-

by?

Fishing/ Reading

If you didn’t work at a

school what would your

job be

Park Ranger

What is your favorite

food?

Chocolate

What is your favorite

sports team?

Tampa Bay Rays

What are some interest-

ing past jobs you’ve had?

Computer Program-

mer

What college did you go

to?

Dixie College / South-

ern Utah University /

BYU—Jerusalem

What is your favorite ani-

mal?

Elk

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Want to Visit Spain or Boston? By Austin Terry

Would you like to visit Spain on the spring

break of 2022? Or would you preferably visit histor-ic Boston in June of 2022? Well, now is your chance!

"Seeing the world allows for incredible growth, and the excitement of exploring some-place new will give you and your studentsyour child something to anticipate for months to come.” said HMS English teacher Mr. Wadsworth, who is organizing the trips with the help of EF Tours.

In the meeting, I'll be talking about why I feel this tour is important right now, trip details, EF's risk-free enrollment period, and all the ways in which they're leading the charge on student safety" (Mr. Wadsworth, HMS teach-er). Come to Boston to visit historical sites such as the Old North Church where the "One if by land, two if by sea" sign was sent, or Lexington where "the shot heard around the world" was fired. Other places that will be visited are the Boston Common, Freedom Trail, Bunker Hill, and Salen.

Boston isn't for you, visit Spain. This gorgeous destination has the beautiful coast of Costa del Sol and the capital of Spain, Madrid. Explore other places like Seville, Grenada, Valencia, and Barce-lona.

Freshmen Picking up the Heat By Emma Patterson

Freshmen, Nizhoni Dominguez, Abby Stout, Addie Crandall, Katie Elison, and Madi Slack are representing HMS with their amazing skills on the court. These freshmen are paving the way for many young girls who dream to be a basketball star. For the past few years, very few girls have tried out to be one of the es-teemed Lady Tigers. But this year, all of that has changed. Twelve astounding freshmen were welcomed into the Lady Tigers family. Five of which play varsity. Two of these aston-ishing girls shared some inspiration about bas-ketball. Addie Crandall asserted, “You will have good games and bad games but keep your head up and work even harder.” Abby Stout stated, “Hustle hard, you never know which game could be your last.“ Talent is definitely common here at Hurricane Middle School so come and see your fellow classmates rocking the court.

During the game against Pine View, all these freshmen got playing time.

Park Guell in

Barcelona

(top) and

Faneuil

Square in

Boston

(right) are

two places

travelers on

the 2022

trips will see.

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Arguing isn’t so Bad, Right? A Debate Story

By Allie Miller

It all started at 5 AM on January 16th, 2021 as the Hurricane Debate team loaded onto the bus. Although everyone had nerves, laughter filled the air. Today, they were going to face competing schools at the Beaver Tournament. Arrival came at about 7 and everyone was ready. Many rounds of debates, speeches, arguments, and creativity per-vaded the hours. Finally, around 5 PM the time that everyone was waiting for had come. The awards ceremony was here. It lasted about 2 hours. Cheers, claps, and shouts rang the auditorium.

Finally, the words “Overall, 1st goes to Hurri-cane,” were spoken. Ecstatic screams and hurras erupted. The Hurricane Debate team won! All their arguing had paid off. That night they returned home at 10 and celebrated. Their wooden trophy will al-ways represent their courage, smarts, hard work, and victory. This day will always be remembered.

COVID-19 Impact on SUPAF

By Jencie Porter

COVID 19 has had a big impact on the mu-sic classes. This year all SUPAF performances will be virtual. The classes will have to send in a video online and judges will also give a review virtually. This will be a complete new experi-ence for a lot of people. There are less perfor-mances and concerts than previous years. The amount of people that can watch these perfor-mances is also limited. Parents and siblings that like to come watch their family perform won’t be able to attend.

SUPAF is usually held at the high school. Normally at SUPAF, students from other schools come to watch other performances. Af-ter performing the students get to hang out on the lawns outside and get to know each other.

All the students from different schools get out of their comfort zone and interact with people that they usually wouldn’t. This year is going to feel way different.

Hurricane Lego League By Davis Henderson

HMS supports a Lego League. For Lego

League, we build a robot made out of legos to go around a table to do “missions”. But that's only a third of the entire competition. There is also a project that you have to do. Each year there is a theme and depending on which theme it is what the project is about. This year it is about getting students more active. The last part of the competition is called core val-ues. That is how nice you are to other teams and to your own team. They will be competing on Saturday January 30th at DSU.

A Lego robot used in the Lego robotics competitions

The HMS orchestra plays for the Christmas

concert last month

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Girls Who Code By Kaylee King

For years the push for girls to be involved in programming and IT has been very prominent. With this comes many programs that seek to peak a girl's interest in coding. In Hurricane, there have been lego league teams, but nothing that any girl can participate in for FREE. That is, until this year. Starting at the beginning of this year coding classes will be available for free to ANY girl who is interest-ed. This will be the very first Girls Who Code group in all of Washington County.

There is no experience required as they will teach you how to code abso-lutely free. It is for any girl in 3rd to 12th grade, so don’t be afraid to sign up. Mary Hallewell will be in charge of this club. She graduated from Hurri-cane High School in 2013 and went on to graduate from Utah State University with a degree in computer science shortly thereafter. She was working as a data engineer in Arizona.

For more information see https://www.hurricanerecreation.com/girlswhocode for details.

Hurricane High School

cheerleaders take state!

By Cheyanne Kay

The Hurricane Cheerleaders just took state!

On January 23rd the Cheerleaders went up

north to a cheer competition. They are the Northern

Region Champion for Varsity Co-Ed Show Cheer

No Tumbling as well as Northern Region Champi-

ons for Sideline School/ Fight Song. Varsity Co-Ed

Show Cheer No Tumbling or also called Show

Cheer is the Cheer routine for Competition. The

Sideline School/Fight Song is the Cheer routine for

the school theme song.

Olivia Christensen, an Hurricane Middle

School student as well as a Hurricane Tiger Cheer-

leader, explains that her favorite thing of being a

cheerleader is the bond you grow with each other as

a team. This bond grew stronger during the state

championship, as they all had the same emotions.

After their amazing performances they had to drive

back home to make it in time to meet their parents

to listen to the announcements for the competition.

Unfortunately, they had to stop in Cedar to listen to

the announcements, without their families; however,

when they got to Hurricane they came to a big sur-

prise, where their parents and the Hurricane Fire-

fighters were there to celebrate with them for their

big accomplishment.

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The Return of Taco Bell Nacho Fries By Caleb Stevens

Did you know that there is a food so glorious, so amazing, so groundbreaking, so mouthwater-ing, that is back at Taco Bell! This food is so wonderful that it has entire commercials and ads dedi-cated to its gloriousness. This glorious food is known as NACHO FRIES!!

This delicious fry sadly only stays for about six months and then gets changed out by another lim-ited time food. A 9th grade middle school student named Maxx Hall loves the nacho fry box. He said “Nacho Fries are the most amazing fries in the world!” Just like maxx a lot of other people love these fries. In the first five weeks there were 53 million orders! The reason for all these orders are because of how in depth and thought of these fries are. It took Taco Bell almost 5 years, after coming up with the idea of Nacho Fries to produce it. In an article The Truth About Taco Bell Nacho fries, by Molly Allen, one of the head chefs there Rene Pisciotti said “The fry has gotta be crispy, its gotta be hot and it's gotta be well seasoned” and luckily it is, it is the most amazing and delicious fry ever.

HMS has its own set of authors By Grace Chamberlain

Did you know there are authors here at HMS? Many students in our school have chosen a hob-by that is rapidly rising in popularity: writing nov-els. Reading books is an incredibly popular pas-time for many teens around the world, but could writing books be just as fun? 83% of people that were surveyed say they find writing novels quite as fun as reading them.

“It’s fun to be able to pick the plot and decide what happens,” said one Anonymous student, Author of Game Maker, a fantasy novel about two girls trying to escape from an island to return to their family after magically being transported there.

Fantasy Novels are most popular to write, but Scottland Imlay has authored one Romance Nov-el and has several Regency Romance novels in the making.

“It’s easy to write about something you’re in-terested in,” Scottland says. “It can be any genre, but it has to be something that excites you and makes you happy to write.”

Authors in our school include RJ Campos, who wrote a 400 page fantasy novel titled Heart

of the Sea, Scottland Imlay, who wrote a Ro-mance titled Distance and has quite a few Histori-cal Romance novels in progress, Grace Cham-berlain, who is writing a fantasy novel called The Magic, and several other Anonymous writers of titles including Game Maker, an unnamed Fanta-sy novel, and an unnamed Fantasy Thriller novel.

Nacho fries up close (left)

and the author poses by the

sign at Taco Bell advertising

them (right).

HMS’s student authors pose for a portrait

(from l-r): R.J. Campos, Grace Chamberlain

and Scottland Imlay

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Teacher Spotlight answers: 1. Mr. Fry 2. Mrs. Hawkins

3. Mr. Scholzen