Eagle Talon
New ag building is getting closer to a reality
By Tennyson Jackson
The Colby High School Agriculture department is preparing to build a new agricultural building. Some students may have questions about it. Some general information about the new building coming to the CHS campus.
The building is planned to be built as soon as the funds are available to start the construction process. This new building will cost anywhere from $2.3 million to $2.5 million and will be positioned on the Northwest side of the main Building.
Colby FFA is wanting this new building because of the impact it will have and then leave on the students of Colby.
“Colby is a very agricultural town and this building will help teach hands-on skills to the students,” says Stephen Shull, one of the people helping with planning the new building. Colby FFA helped two weekends ago at the Sunflower Festival by participating in feeding the patrons at a booth to help raise money for the new agricultural building. They are planning on raising 50% of the funds via donations and the other 50% via grants.
“With this building Colby will be able to offer more hands-on classes for the students. The biggest thing at the moment is there is not an environment for students to learn,” says Shull.
Guess the crop
By Tennyson Jackson
This weeks crop is: (Report your Guess to Tennyson or Mr. Green to see if you are correct)
JAG-K begins another year
By Chloe Ackerman
Jobs for America’s Graduates, or JAG- K is a non-profit organization that partners with schools in Kansas to help students who are facing various challenges. They currently have 104 programs in 46 Kansas school districts. JAG-K students have a 95% graduation rate, 86% success outcome rate and exceed national standards.
This year, our JAG-K class’ goal is to get seniors into college or the work field and to prepare freshman, sophomores, and juniors for the workforce. There are a lot of scholarships that are offered for students who take part in JAG-K and it's a great opportunity for students to learn life related skills that they may not learn otherwise.
The project based learning, or PBLs, that they do are picked by the students and vary from year to year. Business owners often come and speak to the JAG-K class to give them advice and brief them on the benefits their work field has to offer.
Once they graduate, each student will be contacted once or twice that year to see how they are doing and if they are putting the skills they learned to good use.
Above: Monday's Spirit Day participants.
Below: Tuesday's Spirit Day participants.
Homecoming week brings excitement to the school and community
By Breon Barton
To many people, homecoming is the event of the year. Always wear a raincoat into a rain storm, a person can never be too prepared.
It’s that time of the year again; homecoming! Colby High School is gleaming with excitement with Spirit Week, the football game, and homecoming dance.
Spirit Week is a big part of the month. The themes for Spirit Week are Neon Blast (Monday), Movies on the Moon (Tuesday), Class Colors (Wednesday), Lil Miss/ Mr. (Thursday), and Orange and Black (Friday). The class colors for Wednesday for each grade are yellow for the freshmen, blue for the sophomores, the juniors’ color is green, and red for the seniors.
Spirit Week is only the start of the best time of the year. The homecoming parade allows many clubs and organizations from both the school and the community to represent themselves. The parade will take place on September 16, 2022 at 2:30 in the afternoon. The parade route will begin at Fike Park and continue south down Franklin Ave. It will then turn west down Third Street and continue down the street. The parade will cross Range Avenue and end at Dennen Field.
The football game is on Friday, September 16th against Cimmaron. Head football Coach Reese Mckinney is most excited for the game. “I am most excited about the football game. It will be the first home game of the season. We should have a large crowd out supporting the team.”
He also added that during homecoming week he wants to keep things as close to normal as possible.
“The biggest change we have made this season for games is how we run out onto the field. You will have to show up to find out,” he said.
Homecoming is a great event for the high school and the community. The schedule for the high school on Friday September 16th will look different from other days. First and second hour will be the same. After students check in for their seminar class, they will begin float building at 9:50 am and continue that until 11:50 am. All students will have lunch from 11:58 am to 12:28 pm.
All students will check in with their teachers 5th hour at 12:32 pm and then report to the gym for the class competitions. Those will last until 1:30 pm when the students will be released to Fike Park for the parade.
At 2:05 pm, floats and students will line up at the start of the parade route at Fike Park on 8th Street. The parade begins at 2:30 pm. The route will be for the floats to go south on Franklin Avenue the turn west on 3rd Street. It will continue in front of Colby Grade and Middle Schools all the way to Dennen Field.
At 3:05 pm, the pep rally will begin at Dennen Field until 3:25 when the students will be released.
Cassandra and Melissa Zimmerman perform durning the recent NHS Induction ceremony.
NHS inducts a new class
by Landen Vogler
On Monday August 29th the National Honors Society held their annual induction ceremony. They inducted 18 new members bringing the total number of members to 40 students.
The Colby Chapter of National Honors holds high standards for their members. They have to maintain at least a 3.75 GPA. They must also complete 10 hours of community service. Some services the members do are trick or treat so others can eat, and the annual blood drive. This year’s blood drive will be held on September 29th in the CHS gymnasium from 9:30 am to 1:00 pm.
Additionally, the NHS members participate in the Guardian Eagle program. This is when the members go to the grade school to read and help the kids with their homework.
Cameron Elling speaks at the NHS Induction