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MIDDLE PAGES New Year Resolutions | Hempfield Sports | Winter Poetry | Winter Recipe

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

BY ROBERT FROST

Whose woods these are I think I know His house is in the village though He will not see me stopping here

To watch his woods fill up with snow.

People have New Year’s Resolutions to improve on themselves or just to set a goal for the year. For early Christians, the first day of the new year became a tradition for thinking about one’s past mistakes and resolving to be better in the future. Despite the traditional religious roots, New Year’s resolutions today are really for anyone. It is said that around 4,000 years ago, ancient Babylonians were the first to create New Year's Resolutions. The New Year’s Resolutions acted as promises. According to recent research, only 8% are successful in achieving their goals. A few of the most common New Year’s Resolutions in America are exercising to get in shape dieting to lose weight, saving money, eating healthier in general, and doing something for self care. The easiest resolution for Americans to keep is personal development, and the hardest is healthy eating/ diet changes.

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Students and teachers were asked

what their personal resolutions

were. One student stated that they

wanted to be better prepared for

class and bring materials to

school. A seventh grade teacher

explained how she wanted to

begin reading more books per

month and to practice yoga and

stretching more.

No matter what your new years

resolution will be, make sure that

you focus on

Winter is here, and so is wrestling. Two wrestlers we interviewed are Kain Hayden and Trenton Brandt. Kain is a 7th grader who has been wrestling for 4 years. We asked him a few questions about him, the team, the practice environment, and the team’s chemistry. “I like it, it’s a lot of fun. It’s way different from elementary.” Kain commented. “We are taught to be close and we are always together, we are either best friends or butting heads.”

We asked Trenton Brandt, an 8th-grader who’s been wrestling for 9 years, similar questions. “It’s very difficult, most of us practice well together.” Trenton responded. Wrestling is in full swing, and so are the hard working players of Hempfield wrestling!

Winter Sports

It’s winter time so you know what that means… basketball! Here at Centerville Middle School many of our students love basketball, whether that’s watching it or playing. Some of our students also take part in playing on the district’s junior high team. Three of the players, Nick Deeg, Elias Sherrick, and Andrew Layser, were interviewed and asked a series of questions about their position on the team.

Elias and Nick are both point guards and Andrew plays forward. They all agreed that the team gets along very well and that they are all very close. Andrew believes that one thing the team needs to improve on the most is their communication skills when they’re on the court. As of right now the biggest competition they have and their biggest rival is Manheim Township, like in many other sports. If you get a chance go and see one of their games and show your

Wrestling

Basketball

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Winter Poetry

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Winter Love

By: Linda Gregg

I would like to decorate this silence,   but my house grows only cleanerand more plain. The glass chimes I hung over the register ring a littlewhen the heat goes on.I waited too long to drink my tea.   It was not hot. It was only warm.

Winter Trees

By: William Carlos Williams

All the complicated details of the attiring and the disattiring are completed! A liquid moon moves gently among the long branches. Thus having prepared their buds against a sure winter the wise trees stand sleeping in the cold.

Choices

By Tess Gallagher

I go to the mountain sideof the house to cut saplings,and clear a view to snowon the mountain. But when I look up,saw in hand, I see a nest clutched inthe uppermost branches.I don’t cut that one.I don’t cut the others either.Suddenly, in every tree,   an unseen nestwhere a mountain   would be.

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CHOCOLATE MINT COOKIESIngredients

¾ cup butter

1 ½ cups packed brown sugar

2 Tablespoons water

2 cups semisweet chocolate chips

2 eggs

2 ½ cups all-purpose flour

1 ¼ teaspoons baking soda

½ teaspoon salt

36 chocolate mint wafer candies

Directions

1) In a large pan over low heat, cook butter, sugar and water until butter is melted. Add chocolate chips and stir until partially melted. Remove from heat and continue to stir until chocolate is complete melted.pour into a large bowl and let stand 10 minutes to cool off slightly.

2) At high speed, beat in eggs, one at a time into chocolate mixture. Reduce speed to low and add dry ingredients, beating until blended. Chill dough for about 1 hour.

3) Preheat oven to 3 degrees F (175 degrees C)

4) Roll dough into balls and place on cookie sheet about 2 inches apart. Bake 8-10 minutes while cookies are baking unwrap mints and divide each in half. When cookies are brought out of the oven, put ½ mint on top of each cookie. Let the mint sit for up to 5 minutes until melted, then spread the mint on top of the cookie.

Add a special touch to these cookies with crushed peppermint!

Eat and Enjoy!

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Middle Pages Staff: Students:

McKenzie Hess — Head Editor

Kylie Stemmer — Director of Photography

Julia Reed — Director of Art and Communications

Emily Supplee

Sarah Sutherland

Mary Loiseau

Aryana Arocho

Lindsay Over

Cate Quinlivan

Aliera Richards

Brady Regard

Advisor:

Garrett Harbeck

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ResolutionsWinter SportsResolutions (continued)

Winter PoetryCHOCOLATE MINT COOKIESMiddle Pages Staff: