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Structured learning center student Vibol Huy loads the washer and washes cafeteria laundry on a daily basis.

SLC students perform jobs around campus to learn more skills

Vibol Huy, Photographer March 5, 2024

Approximately 2,000 students walk the halls of LSHS. Among them are students who take at least some of their classes in the structured learning center (SLC). A portion of their work in classes includes...

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Two thumbs up for frosted sugar cookies

Around Valentine’s Day, we made sugar cookies in Jennifer Bishop’s Culinary Class. The cookies were pretty easy to make. Junior Brianna Opliger and senior Jack Korthase are in our cooking group....

Seniors Harini Arumugam Gandhimathi, Molly Rose Bates, and Amelia Vasquez along with Zoey Martin from Lynnwood High School at the FCCLA Regional Competition.

Lake Stevens High School’s FCCLA members support each other through competitions and events

Hannah Branham, Arts and Entertainment Editor March 4, 2024

On Jan. 27 at Lake Stevens High School, some of the club’s members competed in the Regional Competition. FCCLA is the Family Career Community Leaders of America club created to help students prepare...

Sophomore Logan Johnsons demonstrates his cursive handwriting.

The soon to be lost art that is cursive.

Addison Bowen, Staff February 29, 2024

Cursive has been taught in elementary schools across the country for many years. Recently, in the past ten years teaching this skill has declined to where most schools only teach printing. Why have so...

Tonya Grindes niece and The Viking  pose together for a photo after the Viking  helped her get over her fear of the mascot.

Lake Stevens Vikings mascot changes people’s lives

Alli Smoots, Staff February 1, 2024

Have you been to a school event lately? Have you seen the Viking at assemblies of games? School mascots are a big part of morale and school spirit. Our school mascot, The Viking, whose name is Mjölnir...

Senior Maxwell Hill, a student in Leadership and the Executive Vice President, gave a speech at the LSHS Veterans Day Assembly, in 2023.

Leadership students run LSHS’s activities as a team

Hannah Branham, Arts and Entertainment Editor January 31, 2024

Lake Stevens High School highly values student participation and student voice in the community. Most activities and assemblies at LSHS are run by Che Mai Gray and Monika Tabor’s Leadership class. Leadership...

Sophomore Gracie Varnell and senior Esther Gardner are in the midst of making a breakfast pizza with toppings of their choice. The class was given the opportunity to make three different types of pizzas this week. Students get to eat their creations after baking. Only put pineapple on half, Varnell commented.

Culinary Catering

Aiden Hubble, Opinion Editor December 14, 2023

Culinary is the art and practice of preparation, cooking and presentation of food. The Culinary Catering Program at Lake Stevens High School offers students the ability to bring out their inner chef and...

Three students disregard school policy as they walk out the east gates during fourth period.

The Real Cost of Skipping Class

Jared Hardie, Staff Reporter December 14, 2023

After the remodeling of Lake Stevens High school, the district decided to add a fence around the school. This was to keep unwanted people out and to keep our students inside campus where they are safe....

Multiple students wait to be served in the LSHS lunch line.

Not all schools “got milk”

Chloe Sanders, Features Editor and Photographer December 14, 2023

Across the nation, schools are feeling the impact of the current milk carton shortage. While the milk supply is normal, companies are struggling to provide enough cartons and resources to their purchasers....

The Career Center (VH109) is a room in East Hall across the hallway from the Counseling Center. If a student has any questions about what they want to do for a career or how to get a job, they can ask Kim Lafortune, the career specialist.

College and career visitors help students make plans for the future

Jory McColley, Staff Reporter December 11, 2023

At some point every high schooler is asked some variation of “What do you want to do in life?” and there are many possible answers. Many students want to go to college or trade schools; others will...

Dahmonni Allen plays his drum after Wind Ensemble.

Dahmonni Allen

Logan Roberts, Head Photographer December 7, 2023

Senior Dahmonni Allen attended Seattle Black College Expo on Nov. 4 at Rainier Beach High School and received an offer from University of Arkansas Pine Bluff. They offered him a $50K full ride scholarship...

The community service form can be found online at the LSHS website or you can pick up physical copies in the career center. They must be filled out completely and submitted by email or turned in to the Career Center to Gina Buckmiller by May 1.

Community Service

Jory McColley, Staff Reporter December 7, 2023

At LSHS, students must complete 45 hours of community service before May of their senior year in order to graduate. Community service is work provided free of charge for the betterment of a community....

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