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Julia Pitts, Writer

Julia Pitts is a ninth grader in AAJHS. She has been an over achiever all her life juggling hobbies of playing the clarinet, drill team, chorus and dance class. She took dance from ages 4-14. She has had a GPA of 98 through seventh and eighth grade.

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Catch it!: Ninth grade student Sakeria Haralson was partaking in fishing. Most students were eager to catch fish that day.

Classes take spring field trips

Julia Pitts
May 30, 2017
Awards! Seventh grader Elly Eisel going to collect an award from a seventh grade teacher.

Students recognized at awards ceremonies

McKenzie Quirin
May 30, 2017
Poetry slam stokes young poets

Poetry slam stokes young poets

McKenzie Quirin
May 19, 2017
Running to the finish line! Eighth grade track players Sarah Weathersbee and Elise Abbott race to get to the finish line during a meet.

Track team pushes through season

McKenzie Quirin
May 5, 2017
Read Mateys!: The book Teach Like a Pirate is what the teachers read from for the book study. Many of the teachers did lessons inspired from this book for their part in the study.

Staff “teaches like pirates”

Julia Pitts
May 5, 2017
Spring break artwork: The picture depicts a spring scenery that is fitting to this time of year. Students all around are excited for spring break!

Lion News

Julia Pitts
April 13, 2017
Aevidum Club designed a mural that demonstrates Aevidum says no to drugs.

Student clubs seek members

McKenzie Quirin
April 10, 2017
Doing school work: In school suspension teacher Cameron Kyle helped a student do work on the desk top. Kyle is one of the replacement teachers that are fulfilling their duties.

Filling shoes of staff members

Julia Pitts
April 10, 2017
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[Photo] Lion News

March 29, 2017
Communities all around celebrating President’s Day

Communities all around celebrating President’s Day

McKenzie Quirin
February 28, 2017
Student council hosts multi grade level dance to benefit Cereal Box Project

Student council hosts multi grade level dance to benefit Cereal Box Project

Julia Pitts
February 15, 2017
book blizzard!: all week long students were donating books for a good cause. There were well over 100 books in the end.

[Photo] Lion News

February 10, 2017
Time to talk business!: Seventh grade Information Processing teacher teaches ninth graders about business classes over at the high school. He even had students come up that take the classes he talked about.

There’s more to scheduling than what students see

Julia Pitts
January 27, 2017
Wrestlers working up to championships

Wrestlers working up to championships

McKenzie Quirin
January 27, 2017
Lion News

Lion News

McKenzie Quirin
January 13, 2017
Reading: Members of the clubs were reading for the public. Nice to get holiday spirit through books.

Barnes and Noble

Julia Pitts
January 3, 2017
Special education teacher retires

Special education teacher retires

McKenzie Quirin
December 16, 2016
Crafty Cheerleaders!: Cheerleaders Kayli Barefoot and Paige Glasgow did arts and crafts with the public. That might makes the holidays more exciting!

Barnes and Noble hosts book fair

Julia Pitts
December 16, 2016
Lion News

Lion News

Julia Pitts
December 16, 2016
Cookies with Mckenzie

Cookies with Mckenzie

McKenzie Quirin
November 22, 2016
Ann-APPLE-is, the city of apps

Ann-APPLE-is, the city of apps

Julia Pitts
November 22, 2016
Family run business serves Italian

Family run business serves Italian

McKenzie Quirin
November 16, 2016
Employment hard to find for fourteen year olds

Employment hard to find for fourteen year olds

Julia Pitts
November 16, 2016
Hillary Clinton should win by landslide

Hillary Clinton should win by landslide

Julia Pitts
November 3, 2016
Action! The team formed a line to practice some drills before the game to make them prepared. They were a better team that game which resulted from their drills.

Girls’ volleyball season comes to end

Mckenzie Quirin
October 21, 2016
Seventh grade teacher Shawn Cerully laughs wildly as he watches people falling on an episode of ROAR-diculousness. He posed as Rob Dyrdek for this year's PBS assembly.

PBS committee hosts Roar-diculousness

Julia Pitts
October 21, 2016
In this elective which is the second portion of FCS you take home a robotic baby to symbolize difficulties with teen pregnancies. They have cried and needed burped,changed, and fed all like a real live baby.

[Photo] Aspects of the School

September 26, 2016
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