New sinkholes are scattered across Lebanon, including one on Lebanon Catholic’s football field, as a result of tropical storm Lee which dumped 6 inches of rain on Lebanon County and the surrounding area. It caused damage and devastation similar to that of Hurricane Agnes in 1972. Numerous students and teachers spent two days of the second week of school at home since school had been canceled. More than a hundred roads were closed and bridges were underwater. Chunks of macadam and asphalt were torn up. Members of the LC family were affected by the severe flooding; some were hit harder than others.
Principal Mrs. Rose Kury spent 7 days cleaning up, after 4ft of water flooded her basement. Only two boxes of pictures were salvageable, many memories were lost. “It’s like starting anew,” she said, but felt blessed

Inappropriate dance moves at the Homecoming Dance had been a complaint by some last year, so, as Homecoming approaches, the editors decided to ask the juniors and seniors their opinion on this topic. Here are some opinions:
Bryan Bates – Each era has had its own style os dancing, so why can’t ours? You only live one time.
Philanna Emerick – I think some of the dancing is extremely inappropriate; nobody should have suggestive behavior at a school dance.
Casey Semenza – Everyone should shuffle. Ha! Ha!
Andrew Hainly – We pay the money for the clothes; we go to the school; we are the majority. Dance however you want!
Erika Jackson – We’re not living in the 1950s anymore. It’s modern day dance. Welcome to the 2000s!
Sydni Chapman – I feel that our dancing is mild compared to other schools. I think if some people take it out of control, the others should not be punished for it.
Ian Long – When we dance, we don’t have dirty thoughts; it’s how we dance.
Abby Schrum – We’re not going to do the Mom Dance.
Bethany Fern – If it is not affecting anyone, then why does it matter?

Kardashians crank out crazy show

Move over June Cleaver, there’s a new favorite Hollywood mom in town and you do not want to mess with her or her kids. Kris Jenner and her scandal-ridden family, better known as the Kardashians, are Hollywood’s hottest craze. With their hit show on E!, Keeping Up With the Kardashians, TV addicts, who have no actual lives themselves, know and are addicted to knowing more about the life of this pathetic family.
Kris, who was formerly married to the late Robert Kardashian, an attorney involved in the OJ Simpson trial, had four children together: Khloe, Kourtney, Kim and Robert. After she divorced her first husband, Kris married former Olympic decathlon champion Bruce Jenner, with whom she had two more children, Kendall and Kylie.
Everyone is obsessed with this family, a family of useless people who do not do anything good for our society. They do not actually even do anything professional. Kris, the mother, acts like an uptight agent who books photo shoots for her daughters, for whom she cannot even make any family time because she is always too busy. Bruce, the father, acts like the “hip” dad and is always clueless about everything. So why do we bother to devote our attention to them?
And then there are Kim’s, Khloe’s and Kourtney’s husbands, all three terrible choices in men. Kim and Khloe wasted no time in getting to know their basketball star husbands, Kris Humphries and Lamar Odom, before they, within months, married them. And Kourtney’s husband, Scott Dissick, is probably the most disrespectful man on the face of this planet. And brother Rob signed to be a contestant on the present season of Dancing With the Stars. It seems like all the family does is star on reality TV shows. The next thing you know, Kim and Khloe will be starring on VH1’s hit show Basketball Wives.
Thank goodness for Kendall and Kylie, for they are considered the most “normal” of the family members, but probably not for long since they just started their modeling careers. At least, they are doing something professional though, but they still come from the crazy Kardashian family, so eventually, they will not be normal.
Although the family is not the classiest of all families, it is we who watch their show and pay attention to their nonsensical lives. The Kardashians is only one of the most-watched television shows thanks to us. We are also the ones who read all the articles in the tabloids about their boring lives; whether it is about Kim’s newest sex tape release or photos of Kourtney being spotted with her baby, Mason. It seems as though we can never get enough of the Kardashians.

Huge papier-mâché ice cream cones and pizzas, elegant pendants, and shoes modified to look like fantastic creatures caught the eyes of visitors and students alike as they entered the school lobby and even as they set foot in Niko’s Restaurant downtown. The art department has been showing off at every venue it can find.
The students’ works were featured in the downtown Art Walk. The Lebanon First Friday Art Walk is a monthly occurrence, where restaurants, bars and downtown businesses “display art work, and people go there to talk," said art teacher Mrs. Michele Stasny. This is the first time Lebanon Catholic has been featured in the Walk, and it supplied some needed advertising for the school at the same time, she said.
The art produced in the high school art classes was displayed at Niko’s, a chic little restaurant and bar located just above the Lebanon Farmer’s Market. The owner, Steve Kujovsky, is an LC graduate. Development person at the high school, Mrs. Lori Kostow, kept up an e-mail correspondence with Kujovsky, discussing ways to “get alumni together.”

This was one result ofthat. Principal Mrs. Rose Kury said another benefit from this showing is that the students were brought into “the public and business eye.”“Steve (Kujovsky) said it was a hit. People were very impressed with the artwork,” said Mrs. Kostow. “The chefs of Niko’s really took a liking to the giant pizza and other monstrous food.” They hope to make the school’s display at Niko’s a yearly occurrence, she said.
In another celebration of the art program, the kids’ artwork from Kindergarten through twelfth grade was on display during the days before the showing of the spring musical, “The Wizard of Oz.” Stacey Valdez, a sophomore, said each art student had to pick two pieces to display in the lobby. Valdez chose a huge ice cream cone and a triptych symbolizing the six days of creation.
“The art exhibit before “The Wizard of Oz” was very well-received, and the display was appealing,” said Mrs. Kury. “A lot of good comments came from grandparents, parents and students.”

Lebanon Catholic students are back on the high school football field this fall after a ten­ year absence. The high school dropped its football program ten years ago. “We stopped because we didn’t have enough students to support a team,” said athletic director Mike Miller. The only difference this time around is they’re wearing Annville-Cleona jerseys instead of LC uniforms.
The Annville-Cleona School Board approved an agreement earlier this year to allow LC students in grades nine through 12 to play on its football team, according to the Lebanon Daily News.The plan also needed the approval of the PIAA.
The four LC students who are playing football this fall with Annville are senior Ian Long, sophomore Mike Marakowski, and freshmen John Groh and Darius Ramos.
Mr. Miller said LC had tried to reach an agreement to join with Lebanon High School’s football team, but Lebanon was not interested.