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Helllloooooo Fabulous Readers! Journalism is back and ready to go for another year. We have a new staff eager to bring you the news and happenings from around the school and community. Look forward to sports updates, original creative writings, original photography, endangered animal facts, staff and student spotlights, and a new category, Fun Fact Fish Fridays. We hope you enjoy our edition of the Oaks' Notes, and if you have anything you would like to see in your student paper, feel free to drop us a line and email Mrs. Fulkerson. We hope everyone has had a great start to the school year and look forward to bringing you a new edition each Friday!

Feature

The Beginning of the New School Year

By Blaise Barger

It is finally time for students to get back into the school spirit. Now being two weeks into the school year, students are beginning to settle back into school. Many events have already taken place within the area of Oak Hill, including: football, band, and volleyball. In all, kids are back in school and are ready to get back into action.

Football Season

The Oak Hill Oaks are two weeks through the football season. So far they have faced Wellston and Fairfield Christian Academy. The Oaks so far are 0-2, but don’t let that deter you. Even though the record might not show it, the Oaks have had signs of them improving from previous years. In fact, in both of their first two games they went into half time tied at 14-14. Furthermore, during scrimmage season they technically went 1-1, showing that they do have the ability to win ball games whenever they are able to put everything together.

The Marching Band

The Oak Hill marching band has had two main performances already for halftime at football games. So far they have played a “Top Gun” show including, “Danger Zone,” “The Power of Love,” “Great Balls of Fire,” and “The Final Countdown.” However, for the first time this year the Oaks are preparing for their annual pregame show at the home football game against Rock Hill this week. During their pregame show, they honor America and the different branches of the military that serve to protect our great country. This week they will honor the Navy in their pregame show.

Volleyball Season

The volleyball season has started off with a lot of success. Currently the high school girls volleyball team is 4-2, with probably their biggest win over Minford after four sets. The volleyball season is just beginning, but their early success brings excitement for the rest of the season up ahead.

Conclusion

In conclusion, Oak Hill is getting back into the school spirit. Through only two weeks of school now, the athletic department is going full force. This includes football, band, and volleyball. In all, the Oak Hill season for school and sports is blooming, and the students are ready to begin a new chapter in their lives.

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Profile

Mrs. Spees

By Shyann Hart

Mrs.Spees is a middle and high school counselor. She makes sure that the middle and high schoolers have everything they need to graduate or that gets them on the path to graduate. She takes care of the teacher's master schedules every year. She also makes the students schedule every year. She also helped the seniors apply for scholarships and offers that will help them with financial aid in college. She also shows them how to apply for colleges. She takes care of the CPP Students schedules at Rio and makes sure they're on the path and have everything they need to graduate as well. She is the person who makes sure we have all our seals on our diplomas. She is also the one who puts in our Ohio State test scores so we can see them. She prints transcripts and diplomas for past graduates. She also makes sure that when we get new students that all the classes they've taken before end up in our system that way they don't take classes they have already taken. She helps seniors apply for FAFSA for financial help in college. She goes to Buckeye Hills once a month to have a meeting to make sure that the students over there from Oak Hill have everything they need and are also on the right path to graduate as well. She also used to be a teacher at the elementary school. She was a first grade, second grade and fourth grade teacher. Then she became the elementary school counselor. Then after the high school counselor retired, she took over for the high school and has been the counselor since 2008.

Meet The Staff

Jasmine Dunaway is currently a senior at Oak Hill High School. She was born on August 5th and is 18-years-old. As the eldest sibling, Jasmine has 3 brothers: Jacob, Diesel, and Brayden. She also has two French bulldogs, Athena and Oreo; her family affectionately refers to Athena as "Tina." Jasmine considers herself an honest and loving individual—qualities that have significantly influenced her character. Her friends describe her as funny, honest, energetic, and sympathetic, traits they admire in her. Outside of work and school, Jasmine enjoys sleeping, playing Roblox, keeping in touch with friends via text or FaceTime, and cooking or baking. She aspires to travel to destinations such as the Bahamas and Florida, and is particularly interested in exploring haunted and abandoned locations. After graduation, Jasmine plans to take time off to travel and experience new places before deciding on her long-term goals.

Shyann Hart is a Senior at Oakhill Middle and High School. Shyann is in choir and enjoys singing with her fellow choir members. Shyann loves to drive around and hangout with her friends and family. Another thing Shyann really enjoys is being outdoors.She enjoys being in nature and playing with her nine dogs. Shyann hates being inside and you'll never see her home. Shyann works at Walmart and loves her job. Shyann listens to music and reads when she doesn't have anything else to do at that time. Shyann also wants to become a hairdresser after she graduates High School.

Aidan Isabelle is an 18-year-old Senior at Oak Hill High School who has spent his entire academic career with Oak Hill Schools. The youngest child with only one brother who graduated from Oak Hill as soon as he started Kindergarten, his time in school has been a relatively solo experience, besides for his good friends. He considers himself to be solemn on an average day, a no-frills human being, until there’s an interesting conversation. Music and the Marching Oaks play a vital role in his life, but the memory of running track, and five years of playing football for the Oaks hasn’t left his mind. His hobbies include: Road cycling, mountain biking, and motorcycles, computers new and old, fishing and aviation, as well as cars and modern history, as well as many more. After graduation, Aidan plans on attending a major college as an aviation major, on the path to becoming an airline pilot, and living the rest of his life seeing the world.

Torie Scott is a senior in high school and has been in choir since she was in sixth grade. She loves reading and has watched every episode of the “Simpsons” and can quote “Supernatural” episodes word for word. She is in the musical, NHS, and NSHSS, which she loves. She has always had a passion for academics, especially history and science. She could probably tell you a fact from every time period and tell you a good book to read that's based during that time. She spends most of her free time reading or writing stories or taking pictures on her camera for her photograph profile. Writing and reading is more than a hobby for her; it's an escape from her hectic and busy life. It's her safe place when she's upset, it’s her friend when she's lonely, it's her home when she feels she has none and her best friend when she needs to vent. She will always have a smile on her face no matter what she's going through and if you ever need someone to listen, come find her in the hall or at lunch. She will listen without judgement; she promises. :)

Blaise Barger is a Junior at Oak Hill High School. Blaise focuses mainly on video games and sports. Throughout the year, he will be writing articles about different kinds of video games, Ohio sports teams, and Oak Hill baseball. Blaise has been associated with the Oak Hill band since the 6th grade while also playing baseball since first grade. Blaise’s favorite video game is “Donkey Kong Bananza.” His favorite sports teams include the Ohio State Buckeyes, Cincinnati Bengals, and Chicago Cubs. Furthermore, Blaise’s favorite subject in school is math, but he also enjoys reading as well. Blaise is excited to join our writers this year in making our school’s newspaper and hopes to inform people about many different topics throughout the year.

Joshua Saylor is a junior at Oak Hill High School; he was born and raised in southern-Ohio spending his entire time as a student within the Oak Hill Union Local school district. Joshua has been involved in baseball since the age of four when he began playing tee-ball for the Cubs. He has enjoyed hunting and watching sports as well; his life has been filled with sports due to his siblings involvement in Oak Hill sports. He only had interest in baseball until the eighth grade when he decided to try football; from the moment he stepped in the weightroom, he fell in love with the sport. Joshua dedicates much of his time outside of school to practicing football or watching the Cincinnati Reds. Joshua’s dream is to play college football while on the road to becoming an anesthesiologist.

Johnathon Schonter is a 15-year-old student at Oak Hill Middle/High School. He has been in Oak Hill most of his life and loves collecting military supplies and vintage items. Johnathon is a Sophomore, and is taking Journalism and Vo Ag 1, which means he is in FFA(Future Farmers of America). Also, Johnathon loves going fishing, junking, and all kinds of outdoor activities with his step-dad. He is well known at Oak Hill Middle/High School as the student who does the worm at all the school dances. Johnathon has a younger brother, Bradley Moore, who is in 7th grade. Johnathon chose Journalism because he wanted to work on the school newspaper. He also chose FFA because of all of the trips and information.

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