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Mission Statement: To create publications that makes every member of the Kodiak community feel appreciated by capturing all students, sports, events, and interests.

News as told by by students at Cascade High School for our fellow students and local community. Our goal is to keep those seeking information well informed and updated on current events and issues. We are creating a newspaper that makes every single person feel good by capturing ALL students, sports, events and interests. 

Disclaimer: This newspaper is a student (volunteer) created publication. Any typos, errors and/or omissions were not intentional and are part of the learning process. We apologize in advance for any mistakes you may find as we are doing out best to cover CHS news as accurately as possible.

Meet the CHS Pub Staff

Editor(s)-In-Chief

"I am excited to take the helm this year to both help guide our staffers through their publications experience and, as a team, produce high quality, meaningful work."

-Izzy

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Isabel Menna

Contact Isabel: Email
Isabel's Portfolio: Isabel

"I'm so grateful to be Co-Editor-in-Chief this year and pass on all of the skills and tricks I have learned over the years to all of the incoming staffers before I graduate and hopefully inspire them to continue with Pub next year."

-Maddy

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Maddy Black

Contact Maddy: Email
Maddy's Portfolio: Maddy

Junior Editors

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Caroline Menna

Contact Caroline: Email
Caroline's Portfolio: Caroline

"While I love putting voice to my thought and ideas by writing for the Group, this year I am equally looking forward to taking an advanced editorial and production role to help deliver a great product to the CHS community."

-Caroline

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Paige Runions

Contact Paige: Email
Paige's Portfolio: Paige

Sophomore Editors

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Gwen Pehowski

"It looked like a fun class and I thought I would learn a lot of skills and it looks good on resumes."

-Gwen

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Avery Houghton

Contact Gwen: Email
Gwen's Portfolio: Gwen

Contact Avery: Email
Avery's Portfolio: Avery

Returning Staff

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Jackson Feeney

I'm most excited for designing yearbook because I like making it look pretty." He also stated he will contribute by him being "very detailed oriented."

-Jackson

"I joined [publications] last year, and I got told that it was going to be fun and creative, something you could put your ideas into. I liked it, so I went into it again this year."

-Fernanda

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Fernanda Ramirez

Contact Fernanda: Email
Fernanda's Portfolio: Fernanda

Contact Jackson: Email
Jackson's Portfolio: Jackson

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Rhetta Cummings

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Ben Jerome

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Rhetta's Portfolio: Rhetta

"I joined Pub for the vibes and wanted to follow my brother Jerome's legacy."

-Ben

Incoming Staff

"I joined publications because I enjoy creating things and find interest in websites and technology in general."
-Vanessa

I'm really excited to take photos and sort through them because I have had experience due to my job, but I've never been behind the camera."
-Emily

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Vanessa Ibara

Contact Vanessa: Email
Vanessa's Portfolio: Vanessa

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Emily Sanchez

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Emily's Portfolio: Emily

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Paula Wasmuth

Contact Paula: Email
Paula's Portfolio: Paula

Foreign exchange student Paula Wasmuth said she joined publications "to experience classes that we don't have in Germany. For example, we don't have a yearbook in Germany."

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Indica Mendoza

Contact Indica: Email
Indica's Portfolio: Indica

"I'm most excited for photography because I like taking pictures and I can experiment. I can capture memorable events for our school."
-Indica

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Kikkan Brine

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Kikkan's Portfolio: Kikkan

"I already took photography and I know how to work a camera and I take my writing seriously throughout my high school years." -Kikkan

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"I joined publications because I wanted to experience something new and meet new people."
-Selena

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Selena Oropeza

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Selena's Portfolio: Selena

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"I joined publications because I wanted to contribute to a part of the school."
-Meghan

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Meghan Haggard

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Meghan's Portfolio: Meghan

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"I think I will contribute to the class because I am a joyful person and I'm good at taking pictures."
-Xiodali

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Xiodali Solis-Guzman

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Xiodali's Portfolio: Xiodali

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"I will contribute to this class with my use of writing skills and use of art and design skills."
-Anja

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Anja Lundgren

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Anja's Portfolio: Anja

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"I joined pub to be more interactive with school activity and I like to be involved."
-Mylee

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Mylee Hobbs

Contact Mylee: Email
Mylee's Portfolio: Mylee

The Cascade High School Publications team are the creators of the yearbook, The Ursa Major, and the online newspaper, The Kodiak Chronicle. Our team's job is to capture everybody and everything at CHS. Our team spends the span of the school year (and for some staff, the summer) to produce a product that the student body and Cascade community can enjoy throughout the years. Roselyn Robison has been advising the Publications team for four years and makes sure that every member of our staff are working hard and loving their contribution to the productions at hand.

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