Christmas in Dixie

Angel Tree 2012: Wrapping

Wrapping

Angel Tree 2012: Shopping

Shopping

Photo of the Day: Save It or Shave It

Photo by Tammy Miller, Dixie High School

Angel Tree 2012

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Angel Tree has officially started here at Dixie High School. We are trying to collect funds to raise as much money as possible to help local families. This year, we are seeking the help of the community and past alumni in raising funds for this charitable organization. If you would be interested in donating any amount to Angel Tree, please visit our Finance Office at Dixie High School. Any donation is appreciated. For more information on Angel Tree, please email the Interact Club at interact@dixiehigh.org. Thank you!

For Class Competitions totals, click here

Fundraising for Angel Tree 2012 ends Friday December 7, 2012 at 3:00pm

Champions!

3A State Championship Football Game

Beauty and the Beast

Beauty and the Beast

by Baylee Hogan

Reporter, Flyer Flash

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DHS drama has pulled off another spectacular performance. Mr. Saxton’s long countless hours working to put on this years production of Beauty and the Beast have paid off once again.


Audiences were captivated by the stunning costumes and creative choreography shown by the talented members of the drama department. Beautiful scenes and backdrops brought the drama to life.


Many DHS students attended the play and were impressed by the wonderful performance that there fellow peers were able to put on. “Avonlea Dally really looked like Belle. She was a great fit for the part,” admired Kember Childers.


Students and adults from around the community were all invited to see the play.


Desert Hills student Brock Johnson enjoyed the play and the characters, “My favorite character was Le Fou, I thought it was a perfect portrayal from the movie of how goofy, clumsy and quick witted he is!” Le Fou’s Josh Heaton put on a crazy, fun performance that had the audiences wondering what he was going to do next.


“What impressed me the most was how huge Garrison was!” Dakota Bair marveled.


Lots of magic tricks were used during this production. Everything from the wilting rose to the optical illusioned box that held Chip.


The seemingly bodiless Chip was wheeled around the stage while the audience stared cluelessly at how they were seeing what they were. Amanda Sullivan shed some light on this mystery, “It was all done with mirrors, Cameron’s (Chip’s) dad worked really hard to make it look perfect.”


“My favorite part was when the beast was raised up while he transformed into a man,” said Jeff Glauser. “it blew my mind!”


The fog and the lighting helped to cast a dramatic feeling on all of the scenes. Not to mention fabulous backdrops and transitions from one scene to the next.


Brock Johnson could not have agreed more, “The stage looked amazing and the transitions were fast and cool! Being able to turn the beasts tower when Gaston stabbed him was fun to see.”


Beauty and the Beast has lived up to the long line of Dixie High productions as being some of the best entertainment in town. The community always look forward to DHS’s productions, and thanks to another spectacular one, they’ll continue to.

Dixie Breezes Past North Sanpete

Dixie Breezes Past North Sanpete

by Arthur Anderson

Reporter, Flyer Flash

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Dixie was able to pull off their first playoff win in two years, against North Sanpete and in blowout fashion as they trounced over the unsuspecting Hawks.


The Flyers seemed to have a hard time making into the endzone in the first quarter as Blake Barney and the explosive Dixie offense had several drives that ended down close to the Hawks twenty or thirty yard line.

Dixie Football will be facing Stansbury tonight in the
second round of the State Playoffs.
Photo by Kirra Wilkinson, Flyer Flash

However that soon changed as the Flyers made their way into the endzone for the first time early in the second quarter as Blake Barney drove the Flyer Offense down the field ending in a 5 yard touchdown run by the #1 Ranked Quarterback in region 9. Though this score was a good momentum builder for the Flyers, the real explosion came when Andy Appel caught a pass from Barney for a 44 yard catch and run, just coming a yard short of the endzone.
This gave the Flyers the momentum they needed to pull off the rest of their 35-6 rout of the North Sanpete Hawks.


Mitch Wilkinson was incredibly tough throughout the game, both in the receiving game and the return game bringing two kicks past the 40 yard line and scoring a 10 yard touchdown through the air.

Happy Halloween!

Photo of the Day: Researching the Election

Students research the election as part of a project in a Dixie High Language Arts class.

Photo by Kirra Wilkinson, Flyer Flash

For more on the Election, read the Flyer Flash, Issue 4

Photo of the Day: Hat Day

Photo Courtesy of the Counseling Department

Heated Presidential Election 2012

Heated Presidential Election 2012

by Sophia Tagliarino

Reporter, Flyer Flash

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With the Presidential Election coming up in early November, the buzz concerning who’s to be President has reached the excited mindsets of the students here at Dixie.
 

Firstly, there’s the candidates to consider. Corey Fernandez thinks the current President Barack Obama has run his course, “He’s a bad President; he’s making us more in debt.” Obama’s previous presidency is indeed questionable, but despite of it, he is striving for another term.
 

(Photo: Emmanuel Dunand, AFP/Getty Images)

Obama’s running mate will be Joe Biden, his campaign adorning the slogan “Forward.” In a March 2011 Pew poll, Obama held an advantage of 47 percent to 37 percent in votes.
 

The Republican Representative, Mitt Romney, obviously has a better reception at Dixie High School. “He’s Mormon and he’s gonna be elected for President,” claims Skyla Price, addressing his controversial religion right away.
 

Alongside Romney will be Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan, and their slogan is “Believe in America.” Like Obama, he’s striving to deal with the various challenges facing America today, each planning to do so in their own way.
 

Lots of issues surround the election in such a way that they will eventually determine who wins, based on each candidate’s solutions for the problems, and the credibility they steadily gain with advertisement of their campaign.
 

Students had much to say about each issue, sometimes even recommending which presidential candidate should be the one to take care of it.
 

“Education to the two political parties is like Canadian bacon; Canadian’s take credit for its mass improvement but we all know its still just ham,” says Mason Aldred, alluding that the many debates over education are only there for the benefit of each opponent’s campaign.
 

Photo of the Day: Interact Yard Sale

The Interact Club of Dixie High sponsored a yard sale to benefit Angel Tree (KONY Coins for Kids) on Saturday October 27, 2012.
Photo by Shaun Smith, The Dixie Blog

Front Five

Front Five

by Arthur Anderson

Reporter, Flyer Flash

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This years Football team is full of talent, evident by their high ranking and playoff berth.

So much talent beginning with Quarterback Blake Barney leading the league in passing yards and most rushing yards by a quarterback.
 
Drew Batchelor one of the leagues most electric receivers and Barneys favorite target, leading the league in receiving yards and tying Pine View running back Prentiss Miller for points scored this season.
 
Tanner Webster, fourth in the league in rushing yards.
 
The Flyers have more than enough talent this year.
 
But, have you ever thought about how these players became successful?
 

Dixie vs Desert Hills Football.
Photo by Kirra Wilkinson, Flyer Flash

Sure you might say these players worked hard and are incredibly talented, and that is true, but where would any of those guys be without the front five?

Front Five? While attending a Dixie High School football game, everyone is focused on the star players, everyone wants to see Blake Barney break a big run, or throw a touchdown pass, or see Taylor Berry pound a touchdown run into the end zone.
 
All of these plays people want to see couldn’t be possible without Dixies offensive line.
Though smaller by most Region 9 standards, these Offensive linemen no doubt are some of the best in region, Right Guard Kolten Hunter put it best saying, “It’s not the size of the line, it’s the size of the Heart.”
 
Lead by Jesse Lambert at Center, Gavin Graff at Left Tackle, Jaxon Davis at Left Guard, Kolten Hunter at Right Guard, and David Teaupa at Right Tackle, these players have allowed Barney and company to climb their ways up the Rankings and Stats.
 
This Offensive line has to be one of the best that Dixie has seen over the years, none of these players have ever backed down from a challenge, Defenses can’t seem to penetrate the solid Dixie front five, one of their best performances being against Pine View, where the Panther three man defensive line weighed more than four of the five Dixie offensive linemen put together, they held the Panthers pass rush to one sack, while the Pine View pass rush leads the league with an average four sacks a game.

Fro Yo

Fro Yo

by Zach Christiansen

Reporter, Flyer Flash

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Do you crave Krave? Want to munch at Menchies? Currently there are several yogurt shops in St George, such as Menchies, Yogurtland, Krave and many others.

If students were to go to Menchies they would be offered a variety of flavors like cinnamon, graham cracker, cherry tart, praline salted pecan caramel, cheesecake, angel food cake, black cherry greek yogurt, butter brickle, gingerbread man, red velvet, and many others. There are so many flavors and different places to find what you’re craving. So why pick frozen yogurt over ice cream?

“The current market trend is showing yogurt shops popping up all over the nation. From the fall of 2010 to the fall of 2011, the number of yogurt shops increased 31 percent,” according to Racheal Pomerance of U.S.News. The health craze is taking its turn in the spotlight. There is now a new term given to these frozen yogurt shops. They are called “fro yo” shops!

Racheal Pomerance also reported that yogurt is made up of milk and that there are enzymes, sometimes called cultures, flavoring, gelatin and sweetener. Ice cream has sugar were frozen yogurt can have honey to substitute as sweetener. Frozen yogurt is lower in fat than ice cream because yogurt is made from pure milk and ice cream is made from the cream, which holds fat.

Yogurt is considered to be a healthy treat. But is this true? In each normal healthy person there are digestive enzymes that break down food so that the body can absorb nutrients into the body. These enzymes are also the unique difference between ice cream and yogurt. The probiotics, or bacteria, are what make it a healthy snack.

Dieticians have stated that it is not such a healthy snack because of the sugary toppings and add-ins that are included in the yogurt. Have you ever had a sugar high followed by a sugar low? Too much sugar can lead to fatigue. It is recommended that one small spoonful of sugary add-ins or using fruit as an add-in is a step in the right direction for keeping yogurt a healthy treat.

The Scale of Life

The Scale of Life

by Shyenne McMahon

Assistant Editor, Flyer Flash

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Everybody has those days when they come home from school and their parents put them right to work, whether it’s cooking dinner or cleaning the house. The parents tell the kids to do it because they say they’re tired from working all day. What parents don’t understand sometimes is how much high schoolers have to do all day, especially if they work and play sports on top of school.

Such a heavy weight is put on high school students to do well in school in order to get into college and do well in life, and with the economy the way it is many parents really can’t help pay for college education. There are many students working part time jobs in high school to start saving for college, paying for their sport, or even just for spending or gas money.

Students have to find a healthy balance between sports,
academics, and a social life.
Photo by Kirra Wilkinson, Flyer Flash

Sports teams in high school require quite a bit of money sometimes and use so much of what used to be a student’s free time. Many students try to work all of this into their schedule while still getting enough sleep, and having time for friends - but sometimes that isn’t quite the case. “It sucks. I don’t sleep and I have no social life,” Amy Hauck relates.

There’s nights when Ashley Hurd doesn’t get home from work until 11PM after going to school all day, still has homework due the next day, and has Jetette practice at 6AM the next morning. “I try to do it all the day before but I’ll wake up as early as 3:30 in the morning to do my homework,” she admits. Instead of having a cynical attitude about it, she stays her optimistic self. “It’s a struggle, but I love all 3 things and I wouldn’t change it.”