Easter is the one time of the year that the kids get to go Easter egg hunting. Getting to spend time with your family and friends and sharing a meal and quality time together is a great part of this holiday. Easter is also about getting to know more about your beliefs and why you believe in it, if you celebrate Easter religiously.
Kids love summer so they can hang out with friends and go out on vacation. Students and families love summer so they don't have to work on school work and don't have to worry about waking up early in the morning for school. Kids go out and live life like going fishing and seeing family that they haven't seen in a long time. They can go to pools or have water gun fights or water balloon wars.
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Every year Liberty High School holds the father-daughter dance on February 20 from 6:00 pm-8:00 pm but due to Covid-19, the dance was held at the Mountain View Youth Center the seniors who worked at the Dance are Kaden Daniels, Kayna Willbanks, Maci Ripko, Kiah Resse, Braden Gastineau, Kelstin Roy, Jenna Burks, Jocelyn Clark, Jesse Baldwin, Jonah Conley, and Haley Radford.
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The Kansas City Chiefs and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers were set to vs. each other in the 2021 super bowl. The Chiefs were coming off of a hot year after winning the super bowl in 2020 and only losing one game in the 2021 regular season to the Los Angeles Raiders. The Chiefs were the favorite coming into the game with a 16-2 record compared to the Buccaneers 14-5 record. In the end the Buccaneers ended up taking the underdog win with an astounding 31-9 win over the Chiefs.
Valentine's Day, the day of love and romance, is during the month of February on the 14th tradition to give your crush chocolates and other symbols of affection.
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The month of January brings our small town a bit of a buzz. Every year, for seven years, Jeremy and Miranda Tharp bring together towns from all over the area to compete in a Winter Sports League. Now this is all with lots of help from the youth center, middle school, and elementary school directors. The Winter Sports League is a basketball tournament for boys and girls in sixth grade and below. Throughout the day there are five courts going at all times. This year the league had sixty-one teams enter, the highest ever, since hosting the tournament.
A New Year's resolution is something that is not widely done. Some people try to achieve their goal, but usually come up short or do nor make one at all. It all just depends on how you were raised or how important it is to you. Many say that sticking to your resolution is one of the hardest things to do. When asked “What does a resolution mean to you?’ Devon Snider of the Freshman class responded with, ”A goal that someone has for the year.” When asked, “Do you think that others should stick to theirs?”
Mrs. Brown, one of Liberty High School’s esteemed educators, was recently awarded the McDonald's Outstanding Educator Award. Members of our school and community voted for Mrs. Brown as an outstanding educator. She was one of 10 winners out of 800 teachers who were nominated in South-Central Missouri to receive the award.
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During December many families come together to share the holiday spirit.
Recently this year, Liberty High School decided it would be a great idea to send some supplies for the soldiers. With Christmas right around the corner this is an amazing idea. Some soldiers won’t get much for Christmas. It would make the soldiers feel happy and cheerful this holiday season to get something even if it's small.
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Every year on November 11, the United States citizens honor military veterans, who served in the United States Armed Forces. Many men and women sacrificed their lives to protect this country.
Thanksgiving gives Christmas a run for its money on being America’s favorite holiday. The only difference is gift exchanging; although with Thanksgiving you do exchange with others but with your favorite foods. One of the great debates of the holiday is turkey or ham? In a very close call with a poll Liberty High students took the week before break, with a 7% difference, many decided ham was preferred over turkey. A fun fact about the first Thanksgiving dinner is that turkey was not an original item on the menu, many had venison, duck, goose, oysters, lobster, eel and fish were served.
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Every year the alumni of schools all over America come back to their hometowns to watch the homecoming football game and ceremony. The homecoming game encourages alumni to come, enjoy a football game at their high school and reminisce about their high school years and memories. It’s a tradition that is important to many community members every year. This year’s homecoming at Liberty High School took place on October 2nd 2020.
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¨See you at the pole is an event that is part of the FCA/Youth Alive Club at Liberty High School. It’s an exciting time every year, where students gather together to fellowship, worship, and pray,¨ explained Coach Ernst. Across the nation, students gather around their school's flagpole to show their faith in God. This is held yearly on the last Wednesday of September.