The WildcatLifelong Commitment to High Standards

Student Publication of Lawrence County High School September 2014 // Vol. 17 // No. 02Pauline Aubry is a fifteen year

old German native. Of course there are many differences between America and other countries. One that Pauline has noticed is the difference in trans-portation options. In America there are no trains or buses, mostly because you can get your driver’s license at the age of sixteen, w h e r e a s i n Germany, you must be eigh-teen. She has a relatively aver-age American host family; however, Pau-line herself has a rather inter-esting heritage. Her mother, Isabelle, is a French citizen and her father, Wolfgang, is from Germany, which makes her fam-ily German-French.

Another fifteen year old Ger-man na-tive, Anna L u i s a B r n j a k , n o t i c e d some dif-ferences of anoth-er kind: f o o d . Anna Lu, a s h e r friends on the soc-cer team call her, has taken n o t e o f the fact that many Americans in this area are, as she put it,

“obsessed with sweet tea.” Her favorite fast food restaurants

i n c l u d e Ta c o Bell and Krispy Kreme. One non-food-related vari-ance that she has observed is how much nicer south-erners are than Germans. She stated that she now understands why everyone thinks Germans are rude.

Alice Di Bella is an Italian exchange student who loves every type of music on the face of the earth and movies, such as Inception and Pulp Fiction. Not only does she enjoy these films, but since she has come to America, she

has found oth-er obsessions, such as go-ing to football games, f rog gigging, and in general, just living like an American. She is also newly addicted to Re-ese’s. As she said, she “love, love, loves Re-ese’s.” Back in Italy, Alice has two pet turtles and a thirteen

year old sister named Clara. Thibaut de Hemptinne, pic-

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tured with Alice Di Bella, is an exchange student from Belgium.

Since Thibaut has journeyed to The States, he has discovered the game spoons, school spon-sored activities, and the ham-burger. All of which, he deeply, “LOVES.” Back in Belgium he is the youngest of his parent’s, Sophee and Mark, four chi ldren . Thibaut enjoys listening to elec-tro, hip-hop, and R&B music.

Marta Ripoll h a s c o m e t o America f rom Palma de Mal-lorca, Spain. She is the sixteen year old daughter of Teresa and Tomas, who have no other children. One thing Marta

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has enjoyed here, in America, is the breakfast, especially Pop-tarts. She generally listens to pop music, of which Rihanna is her favorite artist. Although she does not participate in ac-tivities for school, she enjoys horseback riding and tennis in her spare time. One of her fa-vorite movies is The Notebook and she has enjoyed attending our American football games.

Natalie de Novaes tesch ho-sken is a sixteen year old Bra-zilian foreign exchange student, who prefers her native cuisine to our food here in America, be-cause it’s much healthier. One change that Natalie has noticed between her home town and

Lawrenceburg is that her city is much larger with more malls and buildings, but she enjoys shop-ping here because everything is “cheap.” Much like her fellow

exchange students, N a t a l i e e n j o y s h a m -burgers , F r e n c h fries, and d o n u t s . In Brazil, N a t a l i e has four d o g s , t h r e e birds, and a fish.

Sophie Spitzer is a fifteen year old na-tive of Austria. She participates

in cross country and Interact. Sophie is also one of the few people in Austria who enjoys American football. Her favorite movie is Despicable Me and she loves chicken. Like Natalie, Sophie has many pets, includ-ing three goats, seven chickens, two ducks, two cats, and two

guinea pigs. Sophie listens to both American and German rap; however she also enjoys punk artists such as, Die Arzte and Arctic Monkeys.

Sara Litmanen, seventeen, is a Finnish exchange student, who is involved in many activi-ties at LCHS. She is a member of the LCHS soccer team, Cat in the Hat, Interact, SGA, and the yearbook staff. Her favorite American foods include Oreos, S’mores, Poptarts, and num-ber nine at Taco Bell, which happens to be Crunchwrap Supreme Combo. Like Anna Lu, Sara thinks that the people in Lawrenceburg are nicer than in her home country. Some of her favorite artists include Iggy Azalea, Ed Sheeran, Calvin Har-ris, and Birdy.

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Katelynne Wilburn ‘15Stella Johnson ‘17

Breaking Barriers

The Wildcat Page 2Editorial

This editorial is going to be quite a bit different from my last one. I am going to go on the offensive just a little.

Okay, there are several things that scare me about my gen-eration, but something that hap-pened a few weeks ago made me lose a lot of faith in my fellow teenagers.

So, I have a minor heart con-dition known as Vasovagal Syn-cope. This basical-ly means that my heart rate and b lood pres-sure will rapidly drop and tem-porarily slow or stop the blood flow to my brain, causing me to lose consciousness. It’s similar to what happens to the faint-ing goats, except I don’t faint when I’m scared, and not near as of-ten. Yes, I know, I ’ v e h e a r d all the jokes, bah to you too.

This nor-mally only hap-pens when I get overly hot, or my blood sugar spikes or drops too rapidly, and sometimes even at the sight of blood. But, the reason that I’m telling you this isn’t to bore you or make you feel pity for me.

My condition is really noth-ing to worry about unless I faint and hit my head to hard or something along those lines. I live a perfectly normal life and can do anything that any other kid our age can.

I haven’t fainted since about fifth grade and didn’t really think about it again until now. I have gym this semester and I was feeling a little off one day. Well, while we were jogging across the gym, I started to feel dizzy and I was getting tunnel vision. Both of those things, along with the fact that I was

hot, are indicators that I’m about to faint.

Right as I realized what was happening, the coaches called for us to have a break and go get a drink of water. Nor-mally when I know that I’m about to faint, I can sit down and cool off to prevent i t

f r o m happening. So I went to the

l o c k e r room to do that

v e r y thing, but this

t i m e it didn’t work.

When I came to, I found my- self lying in the middle of the locker room floor. I looked around and not a single one of the boys in the

locker room at the time was even paying at-

tention to me. Guys were just walk-

ing around me minding their own business as if nothing out of the ordinary had

happened.I was overly

surprised that no one seemed to take

notice to what had hap-pened. You would think that if a student just suddenly collapses in the locker room, that some-one would be mildly concerned. But, in my case, that didn’t seem to happen.

In the past, s t u d e n t s have gotten a teacher when I have fainted at school, and ev-eryone tends to over-reacts. It seemed to be the completely opposite this time.

No one went and got one of the coaches, no one crowded around me, no one helped me

up, no one so much as asked if I was all right.

Now, I put no blamed on the coaches, because they were not alerted as to what happened, and my own coach wasn’t even

there that day. Nor do I blame the

s t u - dents. It was my fault for not sitting

down quick enough or telling one of the

coaches what was go-ing on. But, it does however,

bother me extremely that not a single guy in the locker room even asked me if I was okay.

It’s not like no one helping me was really that big of a deal, I was able to get up and go through the rest of the day as if nothing happened, but what if my condition was more serious? Or what if it was another student that has epilepsy? Honestly, I could have had a heart attack for all the other students know. But no one thought to ask if I was okay.

This really makes me worry just how much sympathy and human concern we have left. If no one has a concern for something as minor as this, what will happen when our genera-tion becomes the leaders of the country, medical personnel, and just ordinary adults?

Why is it that no one both-

ered to help me? What h a s h a p -pened since elementary school that m a d e m y peers lose

a little bit of their humanity?

Is it just that we are teenagers now, or

are we losing our com-passion towards other

people? I truly don’t know, but it makes just a little fearful

of what’s going to happen as we

Illustration By Brandi Childress ‘15“Welcome to LCHS, Fellow Wildcats!”

Where’s the Love? b e c o m e adults.

I ’ m a s k i n g you a l l , as fellow teenager and, well, fellow hu-man be-ings don’t let go of your car-i n g f o r o t h e r p e o p l e . Always at least ask if someone i s okay, even if it e m b a r -r a s s e s you.

Justice Trapp ‘15Editor-in-Chief

The Wildcat Page 3Features & News

Rosemary Ranch Chicken KabobsIngredients:• 1/2 cup olive oil• 1/2 cup ranch dressing• 3 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce• 1 tablespoon minced fresh rosemary• 2 teaspoons salt• 1 teaspoon lemon juice• 1 teaspoon white vinegar• 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper, or to taste• 1 tablespoon white sugar, or to taste (optional)• 5 skinless, boneless chicken breast halves – cut into 1 inch

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r e c -tions:

1. In a me-d i u m s i z e d mixing b o w l , stir to-g e t h e r the ol-ive oil, r a n c h d r e s s -i n g ,

Worcestershire sauce, rosemary, salt, lemon juice, white vinegar, pepper, and sugar. Let stand for 5 minutes. Place chicken in the bowl, and stir to coat with the marinade. Cover and refrigerate for 30 minutes.

2. Preheat the grill for medium-high heat. Thread chicken onto skewers and discard marinade.

3. Lightly oil the grill grate. Grill skewers for 8 to 12 minutes, or until the chicken is no longer pink in the center, and the juices run clear.

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Grill Your Heart OutBrandi Childress ‘15Pen and Teller are known for

their mystifying magic shows, so this month The Wildcat has reviewed one of their many comedic acts.

In this video you will see that the trick is actually one of Teller’s solo acts, in case you didn’t know Teller doesn’t speak while performing his magic tricks. He mostly uses miming and facial expressions to direct the audience.

The illusion starts off, like most others, with selecting an audience member. Teller places a towel in her lap and a fish bowl in her hands. You then see Teller wet his hand in the larger tank next to him, he then “turns,” the water into coins!

The illusionist continues to do this until the jar is half full he then throws the coins back into the tank, but you will have to watch the video to find out what they turn into!

Alakazam!

Katelynne Wilburn ‘15

Mr. Beckman’s UDL classroom has a whole new atmosphere this year; the walls of the por-t a b l e h a v e b e e n painted a s k y blue and c r e a m c o l o r , l e a v -ing the r o o m feel ing c o m -fortable and fun.

Two new freshmen get to en-joy the new color, Mason Huntly and Zack Barrnett, a returning student, senior, is Nicholas Sherrill. As I sat and talked with Mr. Beckman as he gave me the run-down of what has happened, I realized that I would not be able to properly express the progress of his students, the overcoming of many struggles,

and the tremendous amount that they have learned.

Math has i n c l u d e d a project with mea-surement, u n d e r -s t a n d i n g how mil-l imeters , c en t ime-t e r s a n d inches all fit on a rul-er. There has been a large focus o n f r a c -

tions; a favorite term is “quar-ter”. A hands-on subject this term is science; they have taken apart tech, such as a coffeepot, and are planning on dissecting it like a frog, piece by piece and wire by wire. The students have also been participating in some regular classes this semester, such as Horticulture, Theatre and Digital Imaging, doing very well in each class.

The Sky InsideAlicia Fehr ‘16

This year’s first SGA spon-sored game night was Friday September 5.

Game night started after our

first win in football against Hardin County.

During game night the amaz-ingly awesome game of spoons is played with teams of six, and the winner of that team will

go onto the champion-ship game close to the end of the night.

W h e n the night started to wind down there were a r o u n d 15 people that would vigorously fight for a

spoon to stay in the game.

After there were many rounds of people getting aggravated because they could not snatch a spoon fast enough, the fresh-man, Kenzie Doss came out with the win.

There was also Texas Hold ‘Em played and the winner was Jase Carvell.

We encourage all of the stu-dent body to come to the rest of the game nights and get four of a kind so they can get that spoon!

Snatch ‘Em!

Payton Gore ‘15

For all things work together for good for those who love God and those who are called accord-ing to his purpose. Romans 8:28

FCA begins at 7:30 every Friday morning. This gathering to uplift and share God’s word is open to all, whether you’re an athlete or not involved in athlet-ics at all.

Field of Faith is on October 22nd on the football field from 6:30 to 8:30 pm. Everyone is welcome. See You at The Pole is September 24th at 7:00 am at theLCHS flagpole. This year’s

theme is, “Never stop praying, especially for others.” Everyone is welcome.

EPIC (Every Person In Christ) is another great Bible study group that begins at 7:30 every Wednesday morning. It is also open to all students.

Currently, EPIC is working on a skit called Mud on Your Wings, but details about this have not been given yet.

A new Bible study for LCHS girls will held in Mrs. Hall-mark’s room CTE building every Tuesday morning at 7:30 .

“IN”spired ScoopSavanna England ‘17

The Wildcat Page 4Sports

On September 2nd Lawrence County’s boy’s and girl’s golf teams both won their matches against Collinwood and Zion The boy’s team shot 143 and had a great outing. Parks Hartsfield, Triston Crowder, and Hunter

The Wildcats ended their two-game losing streak at the start of the 2014 season with a 16-13 win over Hardin County to

pull their record to 1-2. Hardin County took a 3-0 lead with :55 seconds left in the 1st quarter. The score remained 3-0 until Jacob Lovelace went 80 yard

Losing StreakHole-In-One

Run, Cats, Run! Bringin’ It HomeOur cross country team trav-

eled to Henry Horton State Park on September 9, 2014 to run in another meet with several dif-ferent schools.

The boys did an overall good job hav-ing several of the boys placing. The Wildcat asked a member of cross country, Jordan Haney, and he said, “we did an amazing job overall both boys and girls.”

The girls ran rather excellently as well as the boys did. After asking a couple mem-bers of the girls team and all of them said that they were pumped and ready to run their hearts out till the end.

Cross country will return to action on the 16th of the month here at LCHS.

Almost half way through the season our Lady Cats have dominated the court.

We started out 6th game host-ing Coffee County on Septem-ber 4.

Our varsity players were just played out having a rough set of games and couldn’t pull out any wins, with their worst being during the 4th set 12-25. The Lady Cats left the game with the attitude that they would bring back some wins the next time they played.

The Lady Cats returned to play on the 8th and traveled to Summertown to play the Lady Eagles once again but both ju-nior varsity and varsity came out with no wins, but they played as hard as they could.

On the 9th they were on the road again to play against Co-lumbia Lady Lionettes.

Our JV team pulled out a win, but unfortunately our varsity team didn’t pull out a victory.

They finally came back home and got to play on their home court against Mt. Pleasant.

Both the junior varsity and varsity dominated the court win-ning every set.

September 15th they will travel to Tullahoma to get their winning streak back on it.

Shelbyville, September 4th, 10-0 loss. Here is where your colors as a pessimist, optimist, or a realist come in.

Rea l i s t : t he numbers do not lie, there were 10 goals held against us, therefore, we los t , we were not as good as Shelbyville.

Pessimist: this game means that the rest of the sea-son will be filled with losses in the stats.

Optimist: There is room for im-provement.

“Pers is t and fight,” if there was a mantra that the Lady Cats had been chanting in their head through-out the game that would be it. The game was against them, playing defensive, to keep the ball out of their end. There was a definite Player of the Game, goalie, Jordan Gokey.

Shot after shot, Gokey kept her stance; she snagged, jumped and blocked her way through the

game, looking great.Home game, Loretto Septem-

ber 8th 6-0 Varsity win!The night started off with

the Junior Varsity game; the team looked comfortable, hav-ing possession of the ball the whole game. Julie Springer and

Brittany Tucker placed the only points in the whole game giving us a 2-0 win. The Varsity team

started with fresh legs and JV win. The begin-ning of the game gave high promise; the Lady Cats had the ball under control and in the oppos-ing end, but could not place a ball in net. Sud-denly, part way through, the balls just started fall-ing in the net, one after another, our Cats kept racking up the score. Sara Litamanen came off the field with four goals, Chandler Jones with two.

The Lady Cats broke a five year streak on Sep-tember 11, five years of district game losses.

The game against Franklin was intense all the way through. The first half was 1-0 against the Cats, but after a halftime pep talk from the coach, Sara Litamanen put in a goal sixteen seconds into the second half. This 1-1 score lasted through the rest of the game in a back

Change of PaceAlicia Fehr ‘16

Womble all led the way shooting a 35, while Kallen Rochelle shot a 38, and Peyton Sockwell shot a

44. The girl’s team shot 101 with Juliana Campbell leading the way with 44. Katie Methvin shot 57, and Mattie Egly shot 60.

On September 4th the boy’s team took on Coffee County and Tullahoma. They won shooting 310. Parks Hartsfield led the way shooting 77 for LCHS’s win. Brandon Moss ‘16

for a TD on the opening drive of the 3rd quarter. The extra point was no good, and the score was 6-3. The luck continued with 3:30 remaining. In the 3rd when Tanner Wray threw a 11 yard TD pass to Keonte Bass to make the score 13-3. A 26 yard field goal for Hardin County would cut the lead to 13-6

for Hardin C o u n t y . Soon af -ter, Colby D e u c h l e answered with a 40 yard field goal of his own. The tiger would a n s w e r wi th a 1

yard TD run to cut the lead to 16-13. The Cats are continuing to build non this momentum.

Brandon Moss ‘16

Brandon Moss ‘16

Payton Gore ‘15

The Wildcat Page 5Features & News

This month The Wildcat has chosen to review the fun and addictive song “Rather Be” by a British electro group called

Clean Bandit. You may not know this song by name, but once you hear it you’ll recognize its enchanting rhythm.

“Rather Be,” was actually released in December of 2013 in the United Kingdom, but didn’t become popular in the United States until recently.

In its first week of release, the song did incredibly well in the charts, so well in fact that it was number one in the UK singles chart for four consecu-

tive weeks, beating out Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines.” It is also the fastest selling single of 2014 so far.

T h e s o n g also holds the UK’s record for the most streamed video in a week on Spotify. Over a week’s time the video received over one mil-lion plays, tak-ing the place of Daft Punk’s s o n g , “ G e t Lucky.”

If you pay at-tention to the

lyrics you can clearly see that this piece of music is just an-other gushy love song, telling of how when the singer is with her significant other there is no place she “rather be,” but it sure does have a catchy way of saying it.

If I was to grade this tune on a scale of one to ten, I would give it a twelve, just because I love it that much!

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Rather Be Listening To Rather BeKatelynne Wilburn ‘15

When I hopped off the plane, a frantically waving family of four came over to give me a group hug. I felt myself tense up at my sudden closeness to a group of strangers.

“Remie!” the tall red headed woman with a strange sounding American accent cried as she started fussing over my dishev-eled hair.

“Who are you?” I asked with a tangible degree of awkwardness.

“I’m your Aunt Delilah, sil-ly!” she declared, as if this was perfectly obvious.

The slightly pudgy man with a similar accent stepped up beside her and placed a comforting hand on her shoulder.

“Delilah dear, she doesn’t remember. She was in a coma for two years.”

“Yeah Mom,” an adorable blonde five year old girl com-mented. “Why do you keep forgetting? You’re not the one who was in a coma!”

I couldn’t help but laugh at that. I liked this kid al-r eady. I c rouched down to be at eye level with her.

“What’s your name?” I asked sweetly.

“I’m Brianna, but everyone calls me Bri,” she informed me with a brilliantly white, partially toothless smile.

“And who’s your brother?” I asked, gesturing toward the bored looking twelve year old at her right.

“That’s Mark. He doesn’t talk much,” she explained in that silly whisper voice that kids use when they don’t want to offend someone.

The rest of the introductions went quickly since the only per-son left to introduce was Uncle Mike. After we picked up my bags, we piled into the car and went home.

Even though it was only two in the afternoon, I was suffering from severe jet lag so I immedi-ately trekked up to my new room and unpacked my few things.

As soon as that was finished, I flopped down onto my bed and slowly drifted into a deep slumber.

Waking up in a rather disori-ented state of mind, I heard Bri yelling at me about breakfast. I rolled over and looked at the alarm clock to realize that I slept through the night and into the later hours of the morning. .

“W-wha?” I murmured sleep-ily.

“It’s time for breakfast Re-mie!” said my impossibly cute cousin.

I sighed, it was now time for me to face my new family.Remembering:

Chapter 2: Meet the Family

Stella Johnson ‘17

Ever get tired of lugging that old smartphone around? Hav-ing to pull it out, unlock it, and look at it just to tell the time? Me neither, but hey convenience is key, and several companies are looking to revolutionize the watch, and make money on our laziness.

This watch seems to be looking to completely replace that h u n k o f hand pieced together cut-t i n g e d g e tech in your pocket you call a phone. Most smart-watches can not only tell time, ohhhh no, prepare to have your mind blown. They can also….Do simple math! That and call people, text, play apps, music, videos, etc. But hey, who cares about that amaz-ing stuff when you can add and subtract? Now I mean these things are fairly cheap for what they are, but hey, hope you have some thick pockets because the average price of the high tech

Big Ben’s for your wrist is $189. If you want one that is more

impressive then the most expen-sive watch out there that will run Flappy Birds or whatever you kids out there play is around $300. Now I know that a lot of you people out there are huge

Apple fan-boys and girls, even t h o u g h each ver-s i o n o f A p p l e ’ s p h o n e s l o o k t h e same and d o n ’ t d o much ex-tra for the crazy price, A p p l e i s coming out with a smart w a t c h o f

their own. This is to be called the iWatch, and will run you about $400 to have a time tell-ing device that can browse the internet.

So go out now and get your-self a watch that is the equiva-lent of a Rolex with a digital screen. Me, I think I’ll stick to using my phone and playing all my apps on a five inch screen.

Flappy Birds and Telling TimeTaylor Cothan ‘17On Sunday September 7,

our SGA held another fun and adrenaline filled event.

The kickball games started off in the afternoon with many teams of students participating.

After some long and exhaust-ing games the last game of the night paired up a team of juniors against a team of freshmen.

The team of juniors, which had John Calvin Bryant, Bryce Clift, Jackson Ferguson, Jordan Burdette, Zach Coleman, and Kirk Kemp, won the games.

There were many of teams that came to get into the action but did not have the skills to come out on top.

If you didn’t get a chance to participate in this event there will be a lot more SGA spon-sored games throughout the year, especially the Friday of Homecoming week!

Kickin’ It!

Payton Gore ‘15

The Wildcat Page 6Features & News

Interesting facts of the month!

1: In Maryland it’s illegal to wash a sink no matter how dirty it is.2: Chocolate milk was in-vented in Ireland.3: The girlfriend of the guy who founded Match.com left him for another man on Match.com.4: German is the second most spoken language in North Dakota.5: The sun is white and not actually yellow.6: Crocodiles are more closely related to birds than to lizards.7: A “butt load” is an ac-tual unit of measurement, equivalent to 126 gallons.8: Chickens are the closest living relative to the t-rex

9: Almonds are part of the peach family. 10: The longest place name still in use is: Taumatawhakatangi-

hangaoauauotameteat uripukakapikimaungahoronukupokai-whenua kitanatahu, it’s in New Zealand.

Chocolately FactsColby West ‘17 They Came to Baghdad is a

captivating mystery novel by

“The Queen of Mystery,” Ag-atha Christie.

In this novel, what was sup-posed to be a relatively unevent-ful trip turns more than sour. Things fall apart for Victoria Jones and her new found ro-

mantic interest Edward when a strange man by the name of

Henry “Fakir” Carmi-chael stumbles into her room with a stab wound and dies. Shortly after, she is approached by Mr. Dakin who gives her two options: pretend this never happened, or help infiltrate a secret organization that plots to sabotage a highly important meeting of world leaders.

Victoria, being the adventurous woman that she is, goes with the second option.

Hers is an adventure that will surprise you paragraph after para-graph, page after page and leave you question-ing everything. Why does no one seem to know Edward’s last name? Why was Carmi-

chael killed? And why is Rupert Crofton Lee so important?

If you want something that will leave you guessing till the end, pick up a copy of They Came to Baghdad today.

Stella Johnson ‘17

Spy Time

For the month of September, The Wildcat staff decided to pick someone very special and well deserving to be teacher of the month. T h i s is why our ad-v i s o r , M r s . Melis-sa Bra-z i e r , h a s b e e n chosen t o b e i n t r o -d u c e d to the L C H S s t u -d e n t s a n d staff.

First off, Mrs. Brazier grad-

uated from Columbia State, where she received her Associ-ates degree in business admin-istration. She also graduated

from MTSU a n d U N A , which is how she obtained her Bachelor’s degree in edu-cation and her Master’s de-gree in special education.

Mrs. Brazier has had many jobs be fore she started her teaching ca-reer. She has been a l i f e guard, a baby sitter, and even an administra-tive assistant,

but her favorite job was being

a ballet teacher when she was still in high school. You could say she has done a little bit of everything.

When asked, “What motivates you,” Mrs. Brazier replied with, “God’s Word.” Mrs. Brazier has a grandson, Karsen, with autism and a nephew, Wes, with a severe brain injury. These two are a huge inspiration to her, as they should be to all. They teach Mrs. Brazier to never say she can’t do something, “They are the greatest inspiration to me, and they both work so hard to do things that come easy to the rest of us “normal” people.”

If Mrs. Brazier was a super hero her super symbol would be a huge “N”, for Super Nonna. She would want this because

The Land of the Braize

Katelynne Wilburn ‘15

no matter how wiped out she is at the end of the day she always tries to be the best grandmother she can be!

If Mrs. Brazier was to write a book about her own life she would title it, “Blessed Be-yond Belief,” because God has blessed her with a wonderful family, job, church family, and group of friends, which is so much more than she could have ever dreamed of.

On a different note, on behalf of The Wildcat newspaper staff, we would love to thank Mrs. Brazier for everything she does, and puts up with, for us. We love and appreciate you sooooo much, even though you’ve tried to poison us a few times!

This great Christian film shows the roller coaster of life at its finest through a broken family. Mac McDonald, a police officer striving for a promotion, has seventeen years of built up anger after his first son died at a young age of a hit and run. His bitterness has caused his life to fall apart and his family to crumble. On the day he is so sure he is going to get the promotion he has been waiting for; the promotion instead goes to the well liked preacher and family man, Sam Wright.

Sam Wright also has struggles of his own: trying to figure out what God wants him to do, be a preacher or police officer. He soon gets the answer he has been asking for when he is paired with Mac. Despite Mac’s obvious hatred toward Sam, he does what God is calling him to do. Sam struggles to understand this man’s bitterness while Mac struggles with his anger and hate. When a twisted turn of events leaves Mac’s second son fighting for his life, Mac fi-nally accepts what has been long awaiting him. The new found freedom from hatred and the burden of his past gave a whole new light to Mac and his family. At the end of the day, all that’s left to do is forgive and move on.

This awe-inspiring, heart wrenching, emotional film will captivate not only your atten-tion, but your heart as well.

Savanna England ‘17The Grace Card