THE BEAR FACTS
January 21,2023
Good morning! I’m! Isaac Delange!
I’m Griffin Geving
And I’m Joey Doerning! Thanks for tuning in to the “Bear Facts”, the radio
show where each week we keep you up to date on all the news at Bishop Garrigan
High School.
This morning about two dozen Garrigan students are over in Spencer for the
Iowa High School Speech Association district large group speech contest. The
Bears have five entries at district contest, and the first performed about half
an hour ago. Savannah and Isabella Waechter competed in musical theatre with
“Stepsisters Lament” from the musical Cinderella.
Right about now Garrigan’s readers theatre is performing. This show is called “A
Guide to the Teenage Zone”. It features Avery Berte as a spooky narrator, Ava
Hough as a girl who lives in a dream world, Lauren Swift as someone who has
everything about teen life figured out, and Molly Peterson as a girl who can’t
make up her mind. Haley Nemmers plays someone who wants to please everyone, and
Gavin Swift is type-cast as a straight A student.
Audi Crooks plays a girl who has her life planned out, Violet Bode plays someone
who is good at stating the obvious, Brooke Ludwig’s character is a girl who is
going through a period of negativity, and Ella Schaaf plays someone who is
always on her phone. Benjy Trainer was cast as a boy who thinks outside the box,
Scott Bormann plays someone who has an answer for everything, and Thadd Kollasch
plays a boy who is always thinking up ways of causing trouble. Finally Sacha
Alesch and Aubrey Meyer are cast as teachers who have to deal with all the
students’ problems.
In the next hour or so two different improvisation groups will perform. The
first features Audi Crooks, Benjy Trainer, Violet Bode, Sam Plathe, and Brendan
Plathe; and the other includes Gavin Swift, Scott Bormann, and Tate Foertsch.
The Bears’ final event will be our one-act play, “The Great Pandemonium”. That
show features Garrett Heying as a high school drama director who’s at the end of
his rope.
The one-act also stars Isaac DeLange as the assistant director who acts like a
drill sergeant and Griffin Geving ad the light and sound technician. Eva Snyder
plays an overly emotional and insecure girl, while Sam Plathe is an
over-prepared and over-dramatic leading man. Brendan Plathe plays the school
principal who thinks he knows everything that’s going on, while thadd Kollasch’s
character is a young actor who plays eight different parts in the play.
Avery Berte plays the school’s head cheerleader who is standing in for her
boyfriend in the play, and Ava Roethler is another cheerleader for the hockey
team. Ella Schaaf plays the props director who doesn’t want to do anything.
Finally there’s Tate Foertsch, who plays a character whose claim to fame is T-P-ing
the principal’s house. The one-act will be performing at 10:30 this morning.
Good luck to that cast and to everyone who is competing at district speech!
Many students will be rushing back from Spencer after the speech contest. That’s
because the Golden Bear basketball games against Forest City have been moved to
this afternoon. The JV games start at 1pm, with the varsity following at 3:00.
The games were originally supposed to happen January 3rd, but they were
postponed twice due to snow. Hopefully the Bears will finally be able to get
another victory this afternoon.
Catholic Schools Week 2023 is just a week away. The annual celebration begins
next Sunday and continues through February 4th. The school administrators will
be speaking at parish masses next weekend, and families associated with the
school will be passing out cookies after mass. During the week students in every
class will be playing trivia, answering questions about Garrigan’s history.
Our Catholic Schools Week mass will be on Monday afternoon, January 30th. Bishop
Nickless will be making a rare trip to the far corner of the diocese for the
occasion. Other big events include an all-school rosary and a community meeting
on Wednesday and lots of fun activities on Friday. We’ll tell you more about
Catholic Schools Week on next week’s show.
Our Senior Spotlight this week shines on Sam Bohan here to tell you about him is
Gavin Swift . Sam comes to Garrigan from Humboldt. He’s easily the tallest
person in the Class of ’23, and the activity he likes the best is probably
trap-shooting. Next year Sam plans to head down to DMACC, and he’s planning a
career in law enforcement. We wish Sam all the best after high school.
On our Golden Bear calendar this week, there’s district speech contest over in
Spencer today. There’s also a wrestling meet at Hampton—Dumont.
Monday there’s JV wrestling, and the JJV basketball team will be playing at
Garner. Then on Tuesday there’s a basketball quad with Garner Hayfield Ventura.
It will be Law Enforcement Night at Tuesday’s basketball game, and the music
department will be serving a meal that night. There’s also wrestling at West
Hancock Tuesday night.
Wednesday is an inservice day for the teachers. Then Thursday the JJV basketball team will be playing
North Union at Swea City.
Next Friday the JV and varsity Bears will be playing at North Union. There will
be a pink-out that night. Finally next Saturday there’s quiz bowl at Buena Vista
University in Storm Lake.
That’s the “Bear Facts” for this week. Thanks for joining us, and be sure to
catch the show next week to hear all the details of Catholic Schools Week here
at Bishop Garrigan High School.