By: Mike Selkirk On Thursday February 13th, the Interact Club hosted this year’s annual Karaoke For a Cure. The event featured teachers at Watertown High School singing songs that they selected after raising enough donations. The event was very successful, with the Interact Club raising over five hundred dollars for cancer research. Thank you to the teachers that took part in the event, and thank you to all of those who helped raise the money and make the event a success.
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By: Ryan Barnosky
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) of Connecticut will be coming to Watertown High School this year on March 12th, to present a program called Names Can Really Hurt Us for the sophomore class. A student and teacher will work together with a small group of sophomores to discuss the importance of tolerance, kindness, acceptance. Each year the ADL reaches thousands of people including students, teachers, parents, and community members. The ADL of CT reports that the, “ADL advocacy and programs focus on anti-Semitism and all forms of bigotry, extremism, hate crimes, civil rights, interfaith and inter-group understanding, and peace in the Middle East.” Various teachers and students are involved in this day-long program happening in March. One teacher, Mrs. Keugler, expresses how she, “thinks it’s really important to empower kids to not only be advocates for themselves, but for other people in the building, to try and make this a positive high school experience.” Mrs. Lewis, Library Media Specialist, is involved with the ADL this year and conveys that she, “thinks there’s always room for improvement in how we interact with each other,” and also says, “it helps us appreciate and understand each other. Everybody has some strengths and some weaknesses, and if you can learn to work with the people that aren’t like you it only makes you that much better.” By: Madison Migiano Watertown High School had a winter concert on February 13th at 7pm. Chamber Choir, Concert Choir, and the Strings Ensemble were all a part of this concert. The two choirs have never rehearsed together before and the choir teacher hoped to have everything running smoothly that evening which it did. When asked what she thought of the groups singing, Ms. Bracia said, “I think they are great kids with lots of talent. They have amazing voices.” The selected songs that were sung during the concert are: Give us Hope, We are the World, Inscription of Hope, and Hope for Resolution. By: Michael Selkirk |
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