That unique spark
Natalie Walsh, Staff reporter
March 6, 2019
Waking up around six in the morning everyday to trudge to school is a battle endured by every high schooler; a battle most of us lose. The snooze button is smacked once (or twice), and when we finally get the urge to scurry out of the house, we find ourselves sitting in a classroom of 20 other student...
February issue: Why I Didn’t Report
Kayla Reyes, Social media editor
February 22, 2019
Filed under 2017-2018 issues, Focus, Showcase
In the #MeToo era, stories of sexual assault arise
A deadly trend
Kayla Reyes, social media editor
February 11, 2019
In recent years, the use of nicotine products, specifically vaping devices like Juuls and Sourins, has skyrocketed among adolescents. The vast majority of high school students have been introduced to nicotine products in some fashion, and roughly *22% of FHC students use a nicotine product regularly. N...
Families found
Whitney Klein, Social media editor
December 20, 2018
A young girl in a high school relationship. She thinks she’s in love, the world is perfect, but then suddenly, a missed period, a positive test, she’s pregnant. The perfect little world she once knew comes crashing down. She’s too young. What will she do? Give up the baby. There are 1.5 mil...
Overseas
Maggie Wilkerson, Staff reporter
December 20, 2018
Growing up in the country or state you were born in is a privilege that many of us don’t ever think about or fully appreciate- familiar streets, customs, and people are a comfort that not all kids or students have. The process of leaving one’s home for a place completely unlike what they are us...
Better together
Craig Eddy, Entertain editor
December 20, 2018
In a nuclear family, there is a mother, a father, and children ranging from one to many. In the case of parents who identify as LGBTQ, they may choose partners of the same gender as them. For their kids however, it’s a different story. Some kids may enjoy having two moms or two dads, some may hate...
Similar with singular
Chloe Bockhorst, Voice editor
December 20, 2018
Photos are lined up on a fireplace mantle, showcasing cheesy smiles and poised candid moments of a family. Nothing stands out to those who are in the pictures; it’s the same family they’re used to seeing everyday, living and growing with. To a new guest, they seem nearly normal. But to a differe...
December 2018 issue: The Happy Issue
Lanie Sanders, Web Editor-in-Chief
December 11, 2018
Filed under 2017-2018 issues, Focus, Showcase
Need a lift as finals draw near? Enjoy 28 pages of positivity
Finding a new path
Gabby Buchholz, Copy editor
December 6, 2018
On Nov. 15, 2017, senior Mackenzie Daiber expected her Seminar to be like any other before it. She was getting coffee from a teacher’s room, and chatting with friends. But she was called down the office, and everything in her life would suddenly, and drastically change. “My parents came up ...
Fact or Fiction
Jessica Fults, Feature editor
November 14, 2018
Filed under 2018-2019 issues, Focus
“Standing too close to the microwave causes cancer,” the headline flashes across the screen on Twitter. The ‘researchers’ who wrote the report found a correlation between the two. It sounds feasible, so it starts to rapidly spread throughout different social media platforms. The truth is, he...
October 2018 issue: In Living Memory
Lanie Sanders, Web Editor-in-Chief
October 26, 2018
Filed under 2017-18 issues, Focus, Showcase
Remembering loved ones helps in processing grief
Not-so nuclear
Lanie Sanders, Web Editor-in-Chief
October 26, 2018
In this issue staffers from the Central Focus explore unique families and the way they mold the kids who were raised in them
At six thirty in the morning on Saturday the 26th the FHC Winter Guard arrived at the school to leave for Mascoutah High School in Illinois for the...
