Best Friends 2

Wrestling 2

Quotes/Interesting Facts 2

Basketball 2

Blood Drive 2

Thanksgiving 3

Briunna Freeman Signs 4

Inside this issue:

Volume 4, Issue 13 Pelham High School, Pelham, GA November 21, 2014

2014 BUZZ Staff Teacher—Mrs. Meg M. Whigham

12th— Owen Beall,Trey Harrell, Emily Hornsby, Justin Poitevint, Jordan Robison, Kambreya Wynn

11th— John Drake, Talia Hallmon, Gabriel Lewis, Dasia Maples, McKenzie Smith 10th— Destiny Thomas, Alysia

Threatts, Sarah Weaver, Karsyn West, Paul Woods

Happy Thanksgiving from The Buzz Staff!

Always in the mood for fun,

Mrs. Beasley, Branson and

Blaze’s mom, decides to photo

bomb the pictures being taken

for the Spotlight of the Week!

In the Spotlight—Branson and Blaze Beasley

It takes all of us to make Pelham City Schools “The School System of Choice,” where we are committed to educational

excellence every day in every way. Be sure to follow us on Facebook and Twitter

to keep up with all the latest news.

The Pelham City School System does not

discriminate on the basis of race, color or

national origin, sex, or disability.

This week’s Hornet Spotlight shines

on Branson Beasley, brother of

Blaze Beasley. Branson is a senior at PHS and has attended Pelham Schools his whole life. He is in-

volved in FFA and 4-H, and he is the Drum Major for the Pelham Marching Hornets Band; he is also involved in showing cows. Branson

shows six different types of cows including Angus, Shorthorn Plus, Maine Heifers, and Crossbred Steers. He has been involved in cow showing

since he was in sixth grade and has a strong passion for it. “I was raised around 800 heads of cows and I have watched people show cows and I thought it would be fun,

and it is.” He has won many Championship titles and Reserved Grand Champion titles. Branson says he will show for the rest of his senior year and would like to

after he graduates high school, but he will probably be-come a “Show Jock.” A Show Jock is a person who fits and clips hair on cows preparing them for Cow Shows. While doing this, Branson will attend ABAC for two

years and then transfer to the University of Georgia to finish up his college years.

This week’s Hornet Spot-light also shines on Blaze

Beasley, sister of Branson Beasley. Blaze is a fresh-man at PHS and has attend-

ed Pelham School System her entire life. Blaze is involved in FFA, FCA, FCCLA and band, and she

also plays tennis. Blaze is involved in many activities, but her most prized hobby is showing cows. She has been showing cows since she was

eleven years old and has loved every minute of it. “I love meeting new people that love doing what I do, making money, and the excitement when you win.” She has won

fifteen Grand Champion titles, and twenty Reserved Grand Champion titles. Two years before Blaze started showing cows, she showed pigs, but once she began

showing cows, she never stopped. Blaze says she will continue to show cows for the rest of her high school years and after she graduates. When she graduates, she plans on attending national cow shows while attaining a

major in Animal Science to become an embryologist in the cattle industry.

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This land is my land: There are four places in the U.S. named Turkey. Louisiana's Turkey Creek is the most populous, with a whopping 440 residents. There's also Turkey, Texas; Turkey, North Carolina; and

Turkey Creek, Arizona. Oh, let's not forget the two townships in Pennsylvania: the creatively named Up-per Turkeyfoot and Lower Turkeyfoot!

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appre-ciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. ~

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide

the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude! ~Henry Ward Beecher

Quotes of the Week

Around this time of the year people are grabbing jackets and basket-ball tickets. With such great success the Hornets and Lady Hornets

had last year, includ-ing both teams win-ning the Region

Championship and making it to the Elite 8. The girls finished with a season record

of 27-1. They’re the first Lady Hornets basketball team to go undefeated in the regular season (23-0). Our Lady Hornets lost one of their starters which

means they still have a lot of experience on the team. The goal of this

year is to get “Promise Land” or as you may know it, the State Cham-pionship. The boys finished with a season record of 24-4. However,

the boys graduated 6 seniors last year which means our 2014-2015 Hornets are young and determined to do whatever it takes to get the State Championship. Everyone is looking forward to a great basket-

ball season in the small town of Pelham, Georgia. The first official regular season game will be November 21st in Pelham at the old high school gym against P.K. Yonge. Come out and support your Hornets and Lady Hornets.

Best Friends of the Week Angela West and Ashley Cochran have been friends for 16 years. They

met when Ashley was dating

Angela’s cousin and she went to meet his family. Together they enjoy going shopping,

going out to eat, and going on vacations such as the beach and music concerts. Some of the most memorable moments

they share are riding four-wheelers at the sand dunes and mud bogging at the power

line in their great white truck, but they share many. The thing that Mrs. Cochran likes most about her best friend is that she can trust her and tell her anything. Mrs. West says there are so many things she

likes about Mrs. Cochran, so she cannot be limited to just one. “She has an amazing sense of humor and can make me laugh even when I don’t feel like it. She is a strong and caring person, beautiful inside

and out,” Angela said. “Ashley is a friend I can always depend on because no matter what she is doing or what time of day it is when I need her, she is there.” They share a bond that will last for a lifetime!

Basketball Season

This time every year young men come out to participate in the intense sport of wrestling. With a new year, comes a new coach. Coach Culley

is the new head coach, and he has some big plans in mind. He has the boys working hard to get them in shape for their first match which was Thursday, November 20. Whether its pushups, sit-ups, running or

wrestling until they collapse, Coach Culley will definitely have them ready. We hope our wrestling Hornets will have an amazing season! Good luck!

Wrestling

The PHS Sr. Beta Club hosted a blood drive on Friday November 14, 2014. They had 80

people sign up to donate blood, and the total collected in this blood

drive was 70 pints. It is extremely important for those who can donate to remember to do so espe-

cially during the very busy holi-day season. Sr. Beta sponsor,

Mrs. Wingate says this drive

was one of the best yet. The next project of the Beta Club is sell-

ing Christmas suckers during the month of December.

Sr. Beta Hosts Blood Drive

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This year for Thanksgiving break the students are getting a whole week off. This is two more days than usual and they plan on making the most out of this break.

Shaniya Williams is going Atlanta to visit family and ice skating. Matthew Satterwhite is going to Jacksonville for some rest and relaxation.

Kilian Seymour is going turkey hunting in AL. Savannah Swilley is going to Lake Eufaula in AL. Lila Maloy, Brianna Cox, and Austin Gilmore are going to the Florida vs. Florida State game in Tallahassee, Florida.

Laura Watts is going to Newnan, GA to visit Nurse Watts. Mrs. Protho is going to the Georgia vs Georgia Tech game in Athens, GA. Lizzie Kelly is visiting her dad in Nashville, TN.

Daniel Smith is going up to New York to spend Thanksgiving with family and CJ

Drake. Neha Patel is going to Orlando to shop with friends from her temple.

Elizabeth Gomez is going to St. Augustine, FL to have some fun.

Black Friday

Every year for the Thanksgiving holiday there are traditions that are held all around the United States. Whether it’s a freshly cooked turkey on the table or cranberry

sauce in the stuffing or just on the side to make the flavors really pop, families gath-er around the table to enjoy the feasting on all the delicious food served. Other traditions such as cracking the wishbone are odder but many families battle it out

between one another to see who gets to crack the bone that has been taken from a turkey’s carcass and dried out. Whoever cracks the biggest piece is granted one wish. Some families even get up early enough to watch the Macys parade which takes place in New York City or even eat turkey and watch a football game. Thanks-

giving traditions have been held between all American since the pilgrims have founded the first colony in America and ever since then the traditions have contin-ued.

On Friday, November 26th local and nationwide businesses will be

hosting t h e i r a n nu a l

b l a c k F r i d a y s a l e . T h e

b u s i -nesses participating in this event will be offering special promotions to promote sales. This event attracts many

customers with their low prices on any sort of item they

want. This event is so popular that some customers even spend the night outside of the stores so they can be first in

line. Many local businesses, including Camilla’s Walmart will be opening early and offering promotional sales to kick off the holiday season. Since many of the businesses

around Pelham are small and private owned, they will be participating in Small Business Saturday, which is like Black

Friday, but is for smaller businesses. One business that will

be partaking in Small Business Saturday is Pelham’s own Home

Service Center. So come shop locally next weekend to support our businesses and get great deals!

Thanksgiving Plans

Thanksgiving Traditions

Happy Thanksgiving To All!

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Briunna Freeman Signs With Arkansas Razorbacks

Pelham’s very own, Briunna Freeman, made history by being the first basketball girl to sign to an SEC college on Tuesday, November 18, by signing early to the University of Arkansas. Briunna has won many awards, medals, plaques, trophies, and mentions

while playing high school basket-ball. During the 2013-2014 season she led her team to a region cham-

pionship. Even though Briunna loves basketball, she based her decision to sign with the Razor-backs on academics. “You know, I

look more at the academics than I look at the athletic part of a school” she said. “You can easily

get hurt or something could hap-pen, but you can always fall back

on majoring in something that you want to be.” While

playing Division 1 women’s basketball, Freeman plans on majoring in sociology and eventually become a social worker. Coach Tookes stat-

ed,” Briunna is a talented player and also a good student. I expect her to do big things at the University of Arkansas.” Coach Tookes’ style of coaching is another reason Briunna

chose Arkansas. She feels that the coaching style of Arkansas’ Coach Dyke is very similar to her high school coach’s style because both

are very intense. After signing, Briunna thanked her coaches, teachers, parents, fami-ly, and most importantly her teammates.

Harmony Smith is one of her teammates but also her best friend and read a beautifully written tribute to Briunna before everyone gathered to enjoy the deli-

cious food provid-ed by family and friends. The Buzz staff and Pelham

High School con-

gratulate Briunna Freeman on mak-

ing history and signing with the Universi ty of

Arkansas!