The student news site of Lake Stevens High School

Valhalla

The student news site of Lake Stevens High School

Valhalla

The student news site of Lake Stevens High School

Valhalla

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Pumped up: The Boys Swim and Dive team excitedly yell the cheer they do before every meet. Swimmers created cheers for the divers that they chant after each dive. Things like, Honey, wheres my super suit? or...C-4. Hit! you sunk my battleship! for each diver makes it fun. I know the divers love hearing them, and the swimmers love making them up. Its fun to watch other schools react too. We have probably the most enthusiastic diver cheers in the area! Coach Brady Dykgraaf said.

Boys Swim and Dive is soon coming to an end after a successful season

Dakota Latham, Photographer February 8, 2022

The boys team this year won all seven regular season meets, and is sending many athletes to districts. They have had many ups and downs, especially regarding the impacts of COVID-19, but the team has maintained...

Portrait of biochemist Marie Maynard Daly, circa 1942.

Scientist – Marie Maynard Daly

Camille Kent, Photographer February 7, 2022

Marie Maynard Daly was a Biochemist. Born on Apr. 16, 1921, in New York City. Daly was the first African American woman in the United States to get a Ph.D. in Chemistry. She earned her degree at Columbia...

Alice Walker spoke at the Auditorium

Author – Alice Walker

Aimel Rai, Head Photographer February 7, 2022

Alice Walker was born on Feb. 9, 1944, in Eatonton, Georgia. Walker grew up poor being the youngest of 8 children. Growing up in the drastically split-up South, Walker defied numerous stereotypes, including...

Grammy award-winning singer and songwriter John Legend sings a few of his greatest hits to University of the Pacific students.

Musician – John Legend

Nylah Harrington, Photographer February 7, 2022

John Rogers, more commonly known as John Legend, was born December 28, 1978, in Springfield, Ohio. He’s had a deep love for music and even took piano lessons at three years old. With age, his talent...

Marsha P. Johnson

Activist – Marsha P. Johnson

Maren Hammer February 7, 2022

Marsha P. Johnson: One of the first well-known black gay and transgender rights activists, she fought heavily for gay rights and for transgender youth like herself.  The Marsha P. Johnson Insitute,...

NASA mathematical Katherine Johnson at work in 1966.

Mathematician – Katherine Johnson

Camille Kent, Photographer February 7, 2022

Katherine Johnson was born on August 26, 1918, in White Sulfur Springs, West Virginia. Johnson was an American mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to...

Maya Angelou gives a riveting speech for Barack Obama’s Campaign at The Carolina Theater, Greensboro, North Carolina, September of 2008.

Author – Maya Angelou

Aimel Rai, Head Photographer February 7, 2022

Marguerite Ann Johnson, better known as Maya Angelou, was born on April 4, 1928, in St. Louis Missouri. Maya and her older brother, Bailey were sent to live with their grandma in Arkansas when they were...

Rihanna at 106 & Park at BET Studios, New York City.

Singer – Robyn Fenty

Nylah Harringon, Photographer February 7, 2022

Robyn Fenty, also known as Rihanna, was born Feb. 20, 1988, in Saint Micheal, Barbados. Rihanna dropped out of school and moved to the United States at the young age of 16 to jump-start her singing career....

Stokely Carmichael in Alabama 1966

Activist – Stokely Carmichael

Maren Hammer February 7, 2022

Stokely Carmichael, a prominent civil rights organizer, first led the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), then became the honorary prime minister of the Black Panthers, and lastly leader...

Dancer - Josephine Baker

Dancer – Josephine Baker

Maren Hammer February 7, 2022

Josephine Baker: The first French-American war hero and black woman to be inducted into Paris mausoleum for revered figures.  As a civil rights activist, she was the only woman to speak at the 1963...

Our new reality: In the virtual world you can appear however you want, and do whatever you want - like play cards in space! There are no limitations to what the metaverse can become. “This isn’t about spending more time on screens, its about making the time that we already spend better,” Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta said.

The Metaverse is a step forward in technology and social media.

Emilie James, Photographer February 7, 2022

CEO of Meta (formerly known as Facebook), Mark Zuckerberg, has started to take the company in a different direction, starting with a brand new form of the social media platform called the Metaverse. The...

Black excellence: Highlighting Black musicians, scientists, authors, and activists. In 1926 Carter G. Woodson declared that a week of February would be devoted to Black history. Later in 1976 under President Gerald Ford, it was amended to a whole month. Black History Month is important because throughout the years African-Americans have been neglected with the accomplishments that they’ve made and so it is important to celebrate the accomplishments that they’ve created and their impact on the world, senior, Emily Arias-Sanchez said.

Black History Month special

Maren Hammer, Nylah Harrington, Camille Kent and Aimel Rai, Photographers and Head Photographer February 3, 2022