Students at Grove received free t-shirts by contributing to society by learing C.P.R. Throughtout the year, students were learning about their bodies and their health in the wellness classes. Coach Cliff Curd and Mr. Buddy Wiggelton took a few class days to let the students learn C.P.R. Instructors from Henry County Medical Center took a few of their, “vacation days”, to help the students learn Cardio Pulminary Resusitation. The Volunteer nurses were Lujan Meketi, Natile Huffine, Christie Glass, Jackie Wyatt, and Mrs. Angie Dotson, who have all become registered nurses. Also, they received help from Stephanie Winders, coordinated School Health Program for Henry County Schools. Mrs. Winders helped with the check offs at the end of the sessions, to make sure the students have completed the C.P.R class.

Most people, students and adults, enjoy tanning in tanning beds and laying out all day at the pool. After all, you look great, feel great, and get pampered! While most of us enjoy going out to the spa and coming back feeling rejuveinated and looking like we just got back from the Bahamas, tanning can also have some negative side effects…

While your skin looks all great and healthy on the outside, underneath it can be real ugly. Scientists don’t need to prove that tanning causes irrregularities to your skin, because people who tanned as teens and continued through their life, know that their skin got more wrinkled faster than their friends who didn’t.

Tanning also causes skin cancer. Solar rays and ultra violet lights damage your skin pigment and eventually, after many years, will make you turn out looking like living beef jerkey! So if you tan frequently and your skin looks good now, it won’t in a few years when you need surgery to remove all that cancer.

Now, if you go tanning every once in a while, or only tan like right before prom or something, then you’ll probabally be ok! Tanning can be fun if you do it responsibly and don’t become addicted. You can also tan safely by going in a tanning bed before the pool, so you don’t get sunburned, and then putting lotion on. Sun tan lotion doesn’t keep you from tanning, it keeps you from burning. Personally, I don’t tan, but a lot of my friends do, and they look cute! Remember not to get too carried away though!
By Jessica

Remember those days in Tennessee when it snowed three inches across half the state? The kids would bundle up, go out and build snowmen; all the schools in the county were closed. Well, I’m sure we all wonder why Tennessee doesn’t get that kind of snow anymore. These days when people watch the weather and the meteorologist predicts snow; I question that statement.

By now, I figured out half the time they are wrong. The most we got this season was some flurries and a dusting toward the far east.

Why is all this happening? Well, I can tell you why. When the low pressure passes near us or to our north, it will usually take most of the moisture with it before the cold air gushes in behind it. So there are days when the forecast calls for snow, just know they might not really know what they are talking about.

Grove is a busy place during an average school day. When students arrive they either go to the auditorium or the lunch room. Some students go to early morning tutoring. Recently, students have been encouraged to participate in early morning walking in the gym. When the bell rings people are dismissed from those places, then they go to their lockers and class. You get five minutes to get from class to class. If you’re late there are consequences. Grove offers many classes, there is anything from algebra to drivers ed, and theater arts. There are four lunch blocks during third block classes. At lunch, they offer a main course, two side dishes, and a desert.

During last block classes, the place is even busier. People are returning from lunch, going to class, getting on buses to go to the high school and more. Grove dismisses at 3:25 and everybody gets on their buses. There are usually about five or six buses outside waiting. The Grove kids are then shuttled over to the high school to go home.

What is acne? It is what teens call “zits.” Everyone says it is gross. Some learn to deal with it. For instance, go and look around the hallways, there are tons of people that have acne. Read the rest of this entry »