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  • Dog Shows: a fun and competitive extracurricular

                Dog shows may not be a common extracurricular activity amongst students, but for Emilie Hooker, sophomore, participating in shows with her dog is her pride and joy. Emilie and Ziva, her samoyed dog, bonded together through their experiences at these events. Janet Chu-Hooker, Emilie’s mom, was the one…

  • College acceptances on social media don’t define you

    “Harvard ‘22!” “Happy to say I’m going to USC next year!” Splattered over social media every year are college commitment announcements. Pictures are taken, posts are made and bios are changed. Sure it is a happy milestone in one’s life, and social media users just want to share their accomplishments with others. It’s the…

  • Be open about what you want for presents

    I’m not going to beat around the bush: buying gifts sucks — a lot. Sure, it’s a romanticized concept: going to the local store to purchase something your loved one will open up and smile at with glee. However, this is not the case, especially when you are unaware of what to get them…

  • The Oaks Village presents the first annual Special Holiday Boutique Mini-Market

    The Ventura County Certified Farmers’ Market Association is holding the first annual Special Holiday Boutique Mini-Market. The event is held at the outdoor village of the Oaks Mall. At the function, customers are met with a variety of goods made in California. The mini-market is ongoing on Thursdays from 12pm to 5pm until December…

  • Gun Sales Surge

    When most people think about Black Friday sales, usually X-boxes or household appliances come to mind. However, in recent years, the number of people buying guns on Black Friday has soared. According to NPR, there may have been more than 203,000 guns sold this Black Friday throughout the U.S. According to the Bureau of…

  • Miller YMCA scheduled to close

    The Miller YMCA opened in 2007 and provided the local community with a pool, a gym and a facility which several programs were able to run through. As of Dec. 31 it will be shutting down and replaced by a nationwide church called Godspeak. Lexi Leblanc, senior and President of Youth and Government spoke…

  • Holidays make festive hearts pine

    Most people are excited for December and the festivities surrounding it, but many forget that this past November we had four major holidays. Four. Thanksgiving has turned into a pre-Black Friday formality, and the still-growing success of Cyber Monday and Singles’ Day are starting to make some cracks in the soon-obsolete brick-and-mortar retailer. November…

  • The furniture keeps disappearing on me

    I had a couch once. It was the epitome of beauty. Like most things though, it had a few loose stitches and was oozing stuffing here and there. It had been through its fair share of struggle: it had been ripped and torn at the seams, stained with the blood and tears of the…

  • Early Christmas spirit

    It’s a regular morning in November as I get in my car before school. I turn on the radio and flip through stations until a song I like is on. I continue to switch until Christmas songs fill my car with their jingle bells and holiday spirit. I am content with the song and…

  • Taylor Swift’s newest album Reputation receives mixed reactions

    Taylor Swift’s sixth studio album, “Reputation,” debuted on Nov. 10 and sent people into three different emotions. Her fans were ecstatic to hear the news and danced like nobody was watching to first single, “Look What You Made Me Do.” Others were the opposite. Some flat-out did not care. I found myself somewhere in…