Upon entering his first year at Harding Charter Preparatory High School, Xavier Rhone faced the challenge of navigating a new social setting while accomplishing athletic goals. He recounts that in his first semester he was not close to anyone, until he opened up to others.
Jordyn Daniels, a student at Harding Charter Preparatory High School, is a reporter, golfer and avid Netflix watcher. She’s a shy person, but when you get to know her, her personality shines.
Adopted from Guatemala at 5-years-old for the second time, Violet Parrott joined a very diverse and adoption friendly family.
In early July, Ainsley Martinez was unaware of what career to pursue. What she didn’t know was that soon two journalism camps would help her discover a new love for war correspondence writing.
Renowned Renaissance polymath Leonardo Da Vinci once proclaimed, “For once you have tasted flight, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.”
Starting from a young age, Gabi Merchen found herself entranced by text scrawled across book pages. This curiosity for writing fully took shape in the halls of Yukon High School in Oklahoma as she stumbled into the role of editor-in-chief of her school newspaper, The Insight.
Tristan Breath strives to recreate the enjoyable feeling that resonates with viewers after they see films they love. Breath, a Norman North senior, wants to relate to the audience, not only in capturing universal thoughts and feelings, but also in the makeup of the cast.
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As it celebrates its 40th anniversary, Safety Town is helping the Norman community in ways its founders never could have envisioned. “We have noticed that children are now playing backseat drivers, telling their parents to get off their phones or telling them not to speed up through a yellow light,” Officer Thomas Zermeno said about graduates of the summer program that teaches 5- and 6-year-olds basic rules of the road.
While it may be convenient to buy an apple from the local Walmart, where does the apple came from? And where is the money is going? More than likely, the apple is not locally grown, and the money spent on buying the apple isn’t invested back into the community. Charles Dennis, a veteran produce vendor of Norman’s Farm Market, emphasizes the benefits the farmer’s market brings to the community both economically and environmentally. “They know it comes from Oklahoma and not from somewhere else,” Dennis said.