Each week throughout the school year, the WIAA (Washington Interscholastic Activities Association) recognizes twelve varsity athletes, a male and a female from each of the six classifications, who exhibited an outstanding performance for the previous week.

Newport High School’s Senior Hadley Stratton was recognized as the Washington 1A Female Athlete of the Week for week 7 of the 2015 Fall sports season.

Stratton recorded 26 kills, 20 digs, 2 aces, and 1 block in the Grizzlies’ victory over the Lakeside Eagles on October 13th.

That win and Stratton’s performance sparked the Grizzlies to a six match winning streak and a 3rd place finish in the Northeast A League to end regular season.

The Grizzly volleyball team opens District Tournament play Tuesday night, October 3rd against Chewelah at 5PM at Lakeside High School.

WIAA Athlete of the Week

Newport High School’s Weekly NewsletterPublished by NHS Students

October 2015 Week 5

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Friday, October 30thEnd of 1st Quarter

Sunday, November 1stTurn Back Your Clocks!

Daylight Saving Time Ends

Tuesday, November 3rdH.S. Band & Choir Concert

6:30PM @ SHMS

November 2nd - 6thParent/Teacher Conferences

(Early Dismissal)

November 10thVeterans Day Assembly

8:30AM @ NHS

Wednesday, November 11thVeterans Day - No School

November 26th - 27thThanksgiving Break - No School

WIAA Athlete of the Week ...................1 Dates to Remember ...............................1

Grizzly Football News ...........................2

P/T Conferences ......................................2

Veterans’ Assembly ................................2

Band & Choir Concert ...........................3

“Did You Know” Board...........................3

Fall Sports Schedules ...........................4

Dates To

Remember:

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Hadley Stratton with Head Coach and Mother Lori Stratton on Senior Night at NHS.

Newport High School will be hon-oring our past and present Veterans at our annual Veterans’ Day Assem-bly on Tuesday, November 10th at 8:40AM in the NHS Gym.

Deni Ellis from Inland Northwest Honor Flights will be speaking at our assembly.

The assembly will begin with the entrance of guests, staff, and stu-dents.

The NHS Choir will perform the National Anthem while the Scout Honor Guard presents the Stars and Stripes. Later, NHS’s Band will play “For Liberty and Unity”, “Armed Forces on Parade”, and “Taps.”

A special veterans memorial wreath will be presented followed by the reading of names of those past and present veterans who have attended Newport High School.

At the conclusion of the assembly, veterans will be escorted to the NHS cafeteria for coffee and donuts.

Staff and students are encouraged to invite friends and family that are veterans. NHS wishes all of our veterans a Happy Veterans’ Day!

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The Newport Grizzlies dominated the second half of last week’s battle against the Cougars in Chewelah. The Grizzlies scored 17 unanswered points in the second half of last week’s game to win by a final score of 24-12.

Last week’s win gave the Grizzlies an overall record of 4 wins and 4 losses.

The Grizzlies end their season at home Friday, October 30th when they host the Riverside Rams.

If you can’t make it to a Grizzly varsity football game, be sure to tune in to 91.5 FM KUBS or log on to NHS’s web page for live play-by-play of every Grizzly varsity football game - home and away!

VARSITYSept. 25 @ Lakeside - 7PMOct. 2 @ Deer Park - 7PMOct. 9 vs. Medical Lake - 7PMOct. 16 @ Colville - 7PMOct. 23 @ Chewelah - 7PMOct. 30 vs. Riverside - 7PM

JVSept. 21 @ Freeman - 5PMSept. 28 vs. Lakeside - 5PMOct. 5 vs. Deer Park - 5PMOct. 12 @ Medical Lake - 5PMOct. 19 vs. Colville - 5PMOct. 26 vs. Chewelah - 5PMNov. 2 @ Riverside - 5PM

Grizzlies Battle the Rams in Season Finale

Fall Conferences Approach

“Did You Know” Promotes The Grizzly Way

By Teylor Prange

It’s that time of the year again for parent-teacher conferences at New-port High School.

Newport High School will be holding 1st Semester conferences November 2nd through the 6th.

There will be early release days Monday through Friday. Students will be let out of school at 11:00. Busses will pick up students at 11:30.

If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to call Newport High School at, (509)447-2481.

Monday, November 2ndEarly Release - Periods 4, 5, & 6

No Conferences

Tuesday, November 3rdEarly Release- Periods 1,2 & 3

Conferences- 12:15 to 3:15

Wednesday, November 4thEarly Release- Periods 4, 5, & 6

Conferences- 12:15 to 3:15

Thursday, November 5thEarly Release-Periods 1,2 & 3Conferences- 12pm to 7pm

Staff Dinner Break - 4:30 to 5:30

Friday, November 6thEarly Release - Periods 4, 5, & 6

No Conferences

Adrienne Seger - Class of 2012 - is cur-rently serving in the U.S. Navy.

Veterans’ Assembly By Kody Campbell

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“Did You Know” Promotes The Grizzly WayNewport High School’s Leader-ship committee, also known as the Grizzly Way Committee created a new concept to recognize our fellow Grizzlies.

ASB advisor, Mrs. Rhonda Burn-ham, explained that The Grizzly Way committee’s “sole purpose is to assist in creating and building an atmosphere and building culture that enhances the values to become known as the Grizzly Way.”

The goal is to randomly select a student once every two weeks from each grade level to notice and recog-nize.

The chosen students will then fill out a form of interesting and fun facts about themselves. These fun facts may include: birthdays, favorite colors, something the student is pas-sionate about, who they’d like to be remembered as, or maybe an inter-esting fact or two that no one knows about them.

Then the form will be put up on the “Did You Know” board in the High School cafeteria for all of Newport’s students and staff to see.

This activity is meant to highlight students and allow our student body to learn more about each other.

Harley Taylor, one of NHS’s Grizzly Way leaders, is excited about this new element at NHS and says that, “the ‘Did You Know’ board creates an opportunity for students to find things in common with others and be recognized for who they are.”

Band & Choir ConcertDon’t miss Newport High School Band and Choir Con-cert Tuesday, November 3rd at Sadie Halstead Middle School at 6:30PM.

NHS Freshman and band member, Kari Goodrich, said, “there’s not exactly a theme for this concert, but we’re go-ing to play a bunch of really cool music including a selec-tion from the movies Lord of the Rings and Brave.”

In the words of NHS’s band and choir director, Mr. Greg Schuh, this concert should be “pretty tight!”

The High School and Middle School Bands will join forces in just a matter of weeks for their annual Holiday Concert to be held in December at Sadie Halstead Middle School.

On the “Did You Know” board... (upper left) Freshman Natalie Biggar, (upper right) Sophomore Dan Gentle, (lower left) Junior Leah O’Neal, (lower right) Senior Jordan Battle.

NHS Band member, Parker Martin, practices his part for the Band and Choir Concert to be held Nov. 3rd @ 6:30PM at SHMS.

By Teylor Prange

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Newport High School honored Senior soccer and volleyball athletes Tuesday night, October 27th. (lower left) A.D./V.P. Geoff Pearson welcomes athletes, friends, and family. (lower middle) Lauren Vaughn and Hadley Stratton - 4 year Varsity volleyball players, (lower right) friends and

family show their love and support at Newport High School’s Senior Night.

WELCOMESENIOR NIGHT

FALL 2015

(left to right) Cody Nichols, Kody Campbell, and Taylor Prange.

Meet “The Griz

Newsletter” Staff

GRIZZLY SPORTS UPDATESoccer - District Playoffs

NHS @ Riverside H.S.Saturday, October 31st - 1PM

$7 Adults/$5 Students and Seniors

Volleyball - District PlayoffsNHS vs Chewelah - 5PMNHS vs Lakeside - 7PMTuesday, November 3rd

Both Games @ Lakeside H.S.$7 Adults/$5 Students and Seniors