Motorcycle Accident

Current Event
By Gloria
Article from local newspaper

A 27-year old motorcyclist collided with a truck on (Major Road). The man on the motorcycle is now in the hospital with life-threatening injuries, even though he was wearing a helmet.

This is sad, and I will be praying for the poor guy, but it was mostly his fault. The man was driving at over 60 mph on a 35 mph road. In a way, it was a truck driver's fault, too, for not stopping at a stop sign. This really convinced me that when I start driving, I need to drive very carefully. Romans 13:1 says, "Let every soul be subject to governing authorities, for there is no authority except from God and the authorities that exist are appointed by God." God put rules there for a reason. Had both drivers, or even one of them, been following the rules, this might not have happened at all.

I hope this will be a lesson to people in our town to follow driving rules. If people pay more attention to this article, there might be less speeding and more stopping at stop signs. The motorcyclist could have had at least a girlfriend who right now is worrying about her boyfriend in the hospital. Then all her friends will find out and spread the story to their friends, who'd spread the story to their friends, and so on. That's how word spreads and hopefully this will make an impact. If people pay attention to this and learn from it, there might be fewer accidents in our town.

Birthright Stew

By Hannah

One day Esau came home, starving. He said, "I'll trade anything for some of your homemade stew."

Jacob saw his chance. So he traded his some of his homemade stew for Esau's birthright.

Birthrights were a very big deal in those days. The oldest son got more inheritance and they called it "birthright."

Here is a recipe for Birthright Stew*

Several handfuls of wild lentils
Wild onions
Salt
Water
Meat (optional)

Place in clay stew pot and allow to cook slowly over open fire. Stew is done when broth turns red and the aroma is too good to resist.

*From Amazing Book of Bible Facts by Sandy Silverthorne. Published by Harvest House Publishers, 1994

Mental health screening creates crisis where none exists

Current Event
by Gloria

From: http://www.naturalnews.com/033969_mental_health_screening_teens.html
 (Oops, I forgot to check the date. The article is not current, but the issue still is.)

Because of increased rate of suicide and depression in teens, a program has been started called "Teen Screen" and has been proved to be drastically wrong. Teen Screen is a test, which basically tries to assign a mental disorder to the individual who takes it. Middle and High schools all over are starting to make their students take this test.

In my opinion, this test is unnecessary and wrong. Personally, I wouldn't want a label following me around for the rest of my life. Yes, a label. And I could guess that I would be labeled with ADD. ADD is Attention Deficit Disorder and I would probably be given pills to take that I have heard "make you stop feeling hungry." That is proof right there that it messes with your body. Psalm 139:13 says, "for you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well." God made us, so people should stop trying to find something wrong with God's creation.

This isn't just a personal problem. There is an 84-94% chance that a teen who takes this test will be labeled falsely. If a teen is labeled with a disorder they are given medicine. Apparently, parents have no say in this. Statistics show that if every teen in America takes this test, then over 8 million kids will be put "into the hands of the psychiatric/drug industry." The writer of the article made it clear that essentially, the children will be given drugs. This actually could change the world.

Janie Rabbit

By Danielle

                                                

   There once was a rabbit named Janie. Janie is an adult rabbit, she is unique in 2 ways 1:she has red lightning bolts on her black silky thick fur, and 2: because she can send lightning bolts and strike the enemy. One sunny day Janie saw that it was a nice day for going on a walk, she was hopping along the covered with grass Merry Berry Lane when she stopped and gasped there was a rattlesnake going towards a little mouse. Now Janie thought she had seen this child before, a long braid, little glasses, dyed tail, “oh” Janie gasped “Melinda!!” the little brown mouse looked at her but then she saw the snake and froze in terror “go shoo” Janie said to the rattlesnake and the little Melinda unfroze and said embarrassed “thank you for saving my life for the 5^th time” “no problem” Janie said while handing a piece of cheese to her“this might help” Janie said soothingly “it always does” Melinda answered “bye Janie!” then Janie went on hopping along but no sooner she was stopped by the King and his warriors “oh hello your majesty” Janie said cheerfully “ we  have heard about your powers and we don’t believe in them” the king said “then why do you have all those warriors with you?” She asked “well lets not dilly-dally and I’ll give my warriors some command they have been waiting a long time to hear Attack” the king shouted, then Janie twitched her ear towards and a huge black storm cloud came  “It’s only a light drizzle” but it wasn’t big huge raindrops splattered down then one by one they got struck Janie heard hisses of pain then she heard “I’ll get you somehow”. After the storm was over stuffed the rattle snakes inside her pack when she was done there were10 more rattlesnakes “oh I’ll leave those for Coyote Joe” and she hopped back to her village the doctor was happy for the venom and the dancers were happy for the rattles “is that a early Christmas present for me” they both said together. That night there was a feast or rattlesnake stew and to finish it off a dance from the dancers with rattles.

 The End

39 clues alphabet rhyme

by Gloria

A is for Amy, who likes to read
B is for Bae Oh, who's flaw is greed
C is for Cahill, the big family
D is for Dan, who I think has ADHD
E is for Ekaterina, branch with the smart dudes
F is for finding the 39 clues
G is for Grace Cahill, an amazing woman
H is for The Holts, all buff like Hamilton
I is for Ian, who's absolutely confusing  
J is for Janus, the branch of painting and singing
K is for Kobra, Ian and Natalie
L is for Lucian, the most powerful branch of the family
M is for Madison, who's a little bit bratty
N is for Nellie, Dan and Amy's Au Pair
O is for Oh, like Uncle Alistair 
P is for the pain, both sharp and blunt
Q is for questioning why you entered this hunt
R is for Reagan, the nicer Holt twin (yes that's fair)
S is for Saladin, the cat who's mostly just... there
T is for Tomas, the warrior branch of the Cahill's
U is for ugly, like aforementioned people 
V is for very dead if a Tomas heard that
W is for Wizard, Jonah isn't really "all that"
X is for XD 'cause I laugh 'till I cried
Y is for why did Irina Spassky's kid die? 
Z is for zzzzzzzzzzz I'm done :)

The Turtle’s shell

A   Fable

by Danielle 

     Once upon a time there was a turtle named Emmit. On Emmit’s 9^th birthday he had 30 presents, after he opened all of them his father said “ we have one more present for you” and he took a card out of his shell and handed it to Emmit, Emmit open it and gasped in amazement “I’m getting a new shell!”(But is very exiting thing for turtle’s to get a new shell) he was so exited he didn’t hear his father say“don’t tell anybody about it” Even though it was 5:00 Emmit rushed to his room got his pajamas on and almost brushed his teeth when his mom called from downstairs “Emmit dear don’t you want dinner it’s your favorite but it’s getting cold” Emmit stopped just before he squeezed the toothpaste onto his toothbrush. He ran as fast as he could down the stairs and grabbed his bowl gobbled it and rushed up the stairs and up to his room yelling “ good night mom and dad!”  He got his teeth brushed and plopped on his bed and fell right asleep. The next day he woke up early (just as he planned even though it was5:00 and he needed to go to school at 7:00) and woke up his parents and got ready for school Emmit’s mom said sleepily “honey you know the bus comes at 6:00”  “yes I do but I want to go to school by our car today” Emmit said. After Emmit’s parent’s got dressed they took him to school he went inside and saw the janitor and the janitor said “you the one that’s supposed to help me today?” “No sir, but tomorrow I’m getting a new shell!” Emmit shouted happily. One hour later lots of turtles came for the breakfast, then when he was done eating his 7^th helping Emmit shouted “Hey everybody I’m getting a new shell tomorrow!” After school he went home ate dinner and got in his pajamas and brushed his teeth and got in bed and tried to go to sleep but he had slept so long last night he couldn’t get to sleep, so Emmit got comfortable and finally got to sleep. The next morning he was so comfortable that he slept for a long time, his mother woke him up saying “Emmit your shell is here” Emmit woke up quickly and said “it’s here oh no!” and he got dressed quickly and rushed outside  “Oh no” he said “It’s gone!” then his mother said “oh my I only left it for a second.”

Moral: Don’t brag of what your going to get or you might not get it at all