Homecoming game will be October 7

By Tyler Hughes

    Students and staff alike are happy to announce the traditional Homecoming event will be continuing for the 54th year in a row. Ms.Coit is the official director of homecoming and considers herself lucky to be apart of it. Coit loves Homecoming because she is a fan of bringing people together and making good memories.

    Homecoming has been going on since the fall of 1961 and has been going strong ever since.Fortuna has such a strong love for tradition and hopes to see Homecoming keep going for as long as possible. This year the Homecoming game and dance will be October 7, with the JV game at 5:30 pm, the varsity game at 7 pm, and the dance at 10 pm.        

    ”It will be a deliciously fun theme,and a spirited good time for everyone who gets involved,” said Ms.Coit.

    Ms.Coit,as well as everyone involved in it, urges you to attend Homecoming and make great memories with friends at both the game and the homecoming dance, starting the first week of October as it has been for generations and will continue to be for generations to come.

Wrestling invites all to come out

Are you up for a challenge? Then you should go out for Wrestling. Wrestling come-outs are on November 9 at 6 P.M in the gym. “There are no try-outs. No cuts. All may stay on the team as long as you practice and stay eligible,” said coach seven-year coach Steve Schmalzel. “We will attend seven tournaments this year. Not counting HDN, sections, and State.”

For come-outs, you will need a pair of tennis shoes or wrestling shoes, if you have them, and athletic clothes. And also a signed athletic contract and a physical.

Tyler R., a junior at Fortuna High, wrestles and plays on the varsity football team.

Paulsen's The River takes readers on a coming-of-age journey

Gary Paulsen, a 1986, ‘88, and ‘90 John Newbery Medal award winner, with notable books such as the Hatchet series and Dogsong, grew up with a single mom. With  his dad being stationed in the Philippines during WW II, Paulson did not see his dad till the age of seven.When he got back to the states, he spent most of his time at his grandma's in minnesota; she was a major influence in his life.

Paulsen has many award-winning novels such as the Hatchet series and Dogsong. Dogsong being the best known book that Paulsen has written. Dogsong is a coming-of-age story of two teenage Inuits in the wilderness of  Upper Canada. Most of Paulsen's books are coming-of-age stories mostly in the wilderness.

We begin the story with a young Brian Robertson, only two years after his miraculous survival in the wooded lakes of canada for 54 days with no food and only a small hatchet to use a weapon and a gathering tool.The Canadian government wants him to go back to the woods with a psychologist named Derrick. Derrick choose the perfect lake, brought all the supplies, but when tragedy strikes and the unforeseen happens only Brian can save his and someone else’s life in the lakes and woods of Canada.

I would recommend the book to any young reader older than ten years old, I would also recommend for any age. This is a very good book in the Hatchet series. I would also recommend Hatchet the first book in the Hatchet series of books, This book will take the reader on a journey of spirituality, an uplifting ride, and of a teen becoming a man.