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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.”

Foreign Fun at Dixie

Foreign Fun at Dixie

by Brittney Clark

Reporter, Flyer Flash

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Roaming unfamiliar halls thousands of miles from home, living with strangers, heavily relying on virtual translators just to get by - this is the beginning of the life of the typical foreign exchange student.
 
This year, there's a small group of four, all from different countries (Russia, China, Spain, and Japan), who have had a similiar experience. Scary as it may seem to be so isolated from all that you've ever known, and ever more isolated in a place so unlike your own, for them it's actually exciting - they are eager to learn about Americans and their culture.
 
For Julia Akentyera, native of Kazakhstan (located in Central Asia and Eastern Europe), the most striking thing about America - and Dixie High students in particular - is their social attitudes. “Everyone is so polite and super nice,” she says.
 
In her country, relationships are more of a formality; for instance, you’d be considered “crazy,” “mental,” or “drunk,” for acknowledging a stranger in any way. For someone who speaks three languages (Russian, English, and Kazakh), the universal language of kindness is the only one that she can easily understand.


The difference in cultural norms is so vast, in fact, that she feels as if she’s “in another life.” Not used to the overall openness, she really feels welcomed here - especially while at the football games. “The Dixie spirit fills me from my face to my toes, and I feel like a Dixie Flyer!”

What are the Chances?

What are the Chances?

by Tristan Cowles

Sports Editor, Flyer Flash

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For some people going to college is a dream in itself, and for others playing sports at the collegiate level is a whole other task. The odds of playing sports past high school aren’t as high as some players might think. Then if they are talented enough to get there it may not be as glamorous as the athlete might think. In the end if enough work is put in, anyone can find a place in the college sports world.

For the average athlete there is less than a 10 percent chance that they will be put on the roster of a college team. For Dixie alumnus Creighton Atkin, he is one of the high school players to beat those odds. For Atkin his chances were even lower with about between five and six percent of high school soccer players playing college.

Dixie football vs. Desert Hills High School
during the regular football season.
Photo by Kirra Wilkinson, Flyer Flash

He is currently playing soccer for Erskine college in Due West, South Carolina. “You just have to find a place where you can fit in,” is some advice Atkin gave about trying to find a team to play for at the next level.

When starting to look for a colleges there are some steps that have to be done while in high school so an athlete can become a collegiate athlete. Counselor Mrs. Mitchell says that keeping up on grades is essential in finding a spot on a roster. “Getting a good ACT score and good grades will help, so that the coach won’t have to give as much money to an athlete giving them a better chance of getting on the team.”

Mrs. Mitchell also says the very first step would to be registered with the NCAA. “The athletes need to register with the NCAA clearinghouse, usually in their junior year so colleges can start looking at them.

Being able to fit in with the team might not just be being the best player on the team. There are some major things that can help an athlete find a team. “Having good grades, the way you play your position, and how well you can work with the other players on the team,” are the thing that Atkin says are key into getting recruited.

For some high school athletes they only strive to play for a division one team. This may keep them from getting out of high school athletics and moving on to a higher level. Being narrow mind isn’t a good thing when coming to a look for a school to play for. “Take whatever you can get; don’t only try and find something that might not be realistic for you,” Atkin said lastly.

Strictest Rule in School

Strictest Rule in School

by Isabel Sneddon

Reporter, Flyer Flash

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Every school district has a dress code or dress policy, and every student has grown up hearing the rules of dress deemed appropriate for school: Don’t represent your gang while at school, keep your mustache, beard and/or sideburns clean and groomed, and no dangling belts. These are just three of the plethora of rules that have been enforced among teens have been taught, as they’ve grown from kindergarten all the way to senior year at high school.

Students have a variety of styles here at Dixie that fit
fit within the dress code.
Photo by Tyler Johnson, Flyer Flash alumni

There have been countless debates on dress code requirements and whether or not we should just throw all those rules out the window and adopt a new policy of strictly enforced uniforms.

Students in most public schools have managed to avoid a uniform consisting of khaki’s and a collared tee shirt, and most hold strong to their right to express their individuality by dressing in their favorite skin tight jeans and deep v-neck shirts.

It has been reported that middle-class students feel peer pressure to buy expensive clothing. There also is cliquish behavior exacerbated by differences in what students can afford, and some kids are wearing inappropriately sexualized clothing that isn’t conducive to studying. And according to teachers, the dress code is in place so that students feel comfortable in school.

Photo of the Day: Flyer Flash in Color

The Flyer Flash is printed in color for the first time in the history of its printing.
Photo by Shaun Smith, The Dixie Blog

Photo of the Day: Band

Photo by Kirra Wilkinson, Flyer Flash

Members of the band rehearse on a daily basis for concerts, sports games, parades and more.

For more on the Band, pick up Flyer Flash, Issue 3

Tips on Applying for College

Tips on Applying for College

by Kristy Laub

Assistant Editor, Flyer Flash

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No, money doesn't grow on trees. No, you can't press the "easy" button for paying for college. But, you can do the next best thing, apply for college scholarships. College scholarships can help with the outrageous (but sometimes priceless) value of a college education. Here are some tips for high school seniors on applying for college scholarships.

Perhaps the key to receiving the most college scholarships is to prepare years in advance. Essentially, you want to become as "well-rounded" as possible. That means maintaining an excellent GPA and participating in extracurricular activities such as a school newspaper, sports, band, school newspaper, volunteering in your community, etc.
 

Dixie State College is located here in St. George and
is an option for many students after Dixie High School.
Photo Courtesy of Dixie State College (dixie.edu)

Volunteering in your community will not only provide you with experiences and references for College but will broaden your view and help you become an all around better person.
 

This one is common sense, but the article wouldn’t be complete without it. Guidance counselors can help you prepare for college as well as give you great advice for applying for scholarships and college in general.
 

“Students need to start as soon as possible. Know what college/s you want to apply for ahead of time, also receive a Letter of Recommendation," Mrs. Mitchell, Dixie High Guidance Counselor recommends.
 

If possible, try to apply for the scholarship/s several weeks or even months before the deadline. This will help your references have plenty of time to complete a reference letter or form. It will provide you with plenty of time to complete the application without feeling rushed. It will also free up your time to apply for more scholarships if they are available.

Plans for Fall Break

Plans for Fall Break

by Zachary Christiansen

Reporter, Flyer Flash

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Fall break is upon us and many students are getting out of St George. For some people fall break means staying at home and doing nothing. For teachers fall break is:

“Getting ready for my wedding,” said Ms. Julianne Gifford.
 
“Vegas, baby!”said Mr. Craig Milligan
 
“Absolutely nothing,” Mrs. Launa Williams,
 
Mrs. Sophia Ford, counseling secretary, said “We can’t afford to go anywhere with the price of gas at $4.00 a gallon.”
 
Some students at Dixie High are even going out of the United States for fall break, “I'm going on a cruise to Mexico for 4 days. On our cruise we are going to Catalina Island then to Ensenada,” said Ian Anderson, senior.
 
“I’m going on a cruise to Hawaii, Samoa and Tahiti,” added Sophia Tagliarino, senior.
 
For most students, home is their vacation. “Hang out with my girlfriend and work on recording and E.P.,” Shiloh Martinez said, senior, when asked what he was doing for fall break.
 
For other students, fall break is an escape to nature. “Probably going camping,” said Hanna Perkins.
 
Why do we have fall break? “We used to have UEA, where teachers go to Salt Lake and have meetings. Now the teachers don’t usually go, so we still keep the break every year.” said Mrs Lewis, Dixie High’s counselor. Fall break is also a transition between 1st and 2nd quarter.
 
Here are some ideas for those with nothing to do over the break: There’s Fiesta Fun Center, Laser Mania, St. George Recreation Center, Washington City Recreation Center, Skate Park/ Bike Park, ATV, Horseback, Hiking, Sporting Events, Movies, Fishing, Camping and the list goes on and on.


Even if it’s just staying at home and enjoying the extra two days to sleep in, fall break is an excuse to step back from classes and regroup before returning to school.

Photo of the Day: New Teachers

Photo by Kirra Wilkinson, Flyer Flash

New teachers at Dixie are getting settled in for the new year.

For more on New Teachers, read the Flyer Flash, Issue 2

Photo of the Day: Concurrent Enrollment

Photo by Kirra Wilkinson, Flyer Flash

Students from all the high schools in Washington County have the opportunity to take college classes from Dixie State College at the old seminary building across from Dixie High School.

For more on Concurrent Enrollment, read Flyer Flash, Issue 2