Photo of the Week- Cheer performs routine at spring ‘Meet the Blue Hawks’ celebration
February 22, 2021
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Haley Medeiros, HTT Editor In-Chief
Haley Medeiros was born in New Jersey, calls Massachusetts home, but has also lived in California and Texas. She moved to Celina the summer of 2017 and...
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![This poster, created from a placard worn by mourning marchers in Memphis, Tennessee, just four days after Martin Luther King’s assassination, hangs on social studies teacher Mandy Murphy’s wall. “When he died, I just felt like it was really sudden, like when I was learning about it in school, like someone killed him,” junior April Grodger said, “and I was like, ‘why? He does so much for this country, and then you just had to kill [him].” Martin Luther King Day is a national holiday that happens on the third Monday of Jan. every year, while King’s actual birthday is on Jan. 15th.](https://hilltoptimes.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/82D1EBCD-F3EB-4E75-8159-F50220087A62-e1642461685914-300x400.jpeg)
![Blood vials sit in a rack in the middle of the room. The red-capped vials were used more frequently, as they have no additive. However, the purple vials contain anticoagulants used for people prone to blood clots. Carter BloodCare is the one that draws the blood. They bring in their lobotomist and their medical screener, and they handle that aspect of [the blood drive,] Health Science teacher Lori Lewis said. With all of HOSAs help, the event ran smoothly.](https://hilltoptimes.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-20-at-9.14.34-AM-1-900x600.png)
![Blood vials sit in a rack in the middle of the room. The red-capped vials were used more frequently, as they have no additive. However, the purple vials contain anticoagulants used for people prone to blood clots. Carter BloodCare is the one that draws the blood. They bring in their lobotomist and their medical screener, and they handle that aspect of [the blood drive,] Health Science teacher Lori Lewis said. With all of HOSAs help, the event ran smoothly.](https://hilltoptimes.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-20-at-9.14.34-AM-1-475x317.png)
![This poster, created from a placard worn by mourning marchers in Memphis, Tennessee, just four days after Martin Luther King’s assassination, hangs on social studies teacher Mandy Murphy’s wall. “When he died, I just felt like it was really sudden, like when I was learning about it in school, like someone killed him,” junior April Grodger said, “and I was like, ‘why? He does so much for this country, and then you just had to kill [him].” Martin Luther King Day is a national holiday that happens on the third Monday of Jan. every year, while King’s actual birthday is on Jan. 15th.](https://hilltoptimes.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/82D1EBCD-F3EB-4E75-8159-F50220087A62-e1642461685914-356x475.jpeg)
![A copy of Rant by Chuck Palahniuk sits on a desk. Columnist Jade Kratochvil reviews the book in the following article. [Rant] wanted to feel things, to live, and it was hard for him because what was fun to everyone else wasnt for him, they said. I plan to read more of Palahniuks novels, Kratochvil said.](https://hilltoptimes.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/rant-take-2-475x355.jpeg)
![Sophomore Shawn Reid swims the 200 freestyle event. He took first with a time of 2:03.33, a personal best. Despite his results, Reid pushed himself farther and took a few practice laps. I [did] okay but I could have definitely gone faster. I know I can give that one extra pull, that one extra kick underwater, and [it would] affect [my time] in the smallest way, Reid said.](https://hilltoptimes.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/jVa73o9trOFC67LWfm5SEwOLOPH3HLCrYVYxop9E-475x317.jpeg)
