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.

Prom is for juniors and seniors

By Kitana Neller

September 9, 2016

    Prom is near the end of the year because it is considered one of the last things you do your senior year. Prom is also associated with spring and romantic settings, and part of what makes the night so special is getting dressed up in gown and tuxedos.

    Mrs. Raven Coit in the Fortuna English department knows about prom because she is the activities director at Fortuna High. At Fortuna High, like most high schools, proms are only for juniors and seniors unless you are invited by a junior or senior.  Coit said, “their is no venue big enough anywhere in Humboldt County for an all-ages prom.”

Senior input needed for Safe and Sober

By Nicole Shaffer

    Seniors of 2016 should come to the Safe and Sober meeting monday, September 12, 2016 at Fortuna High School to talk about the next Safe and Sober Fundraisers.

    The Safe and Sober Team would like to see more seniors at the meeting and to hear your ideas. Dalya Olea, President of the senior class has gone to many meetings but is very concerned about the lack of Seniors actually going to the meetings. “There is a lack of participation at this point and it's really important that our class gets involved,” said Olea.

    Vice President, Jennifer Tovar would also like to see more seniors getting involved with Safe and Sober. Olea and Tovar both brought up great ideas to get the word of to seniors about the meeting without having to go to the Safe and Sober Facebook page. “I think that putting it in the bulletin would be very beneficial,” said Tovar. There is a Remind 101 that is available as well for safe and sober updates but has been abandoned by the Safe and Sober team, leaving only the Facebook page as there way to be updated about the meetings. Hopefully, these problems with be solved quickly to help get Seniors more connected with Safe and Sober.

    In the next meeting, they will be talking about the next fundraisers. Some ideas that has been brought up is a fundraiser at Apple Harvest on October 1.

Music Department plans to fundraise at Apple Harvest

Apple Harvest Festival

By Julia Lowry

    Mrs. McClimon, the music teacher at Fortuna Union High School prepares for the Apple Harvest on October 1st, 2016 in Fortuna California on Main St. The music department started participating in the Apple Harvest in the middle of the 1990’s. Their booth is usually around 11th and Main where Greens pharmacy used to be.

    McClimon says “We make about 300 pies and sell them. We get the apples from Clendenen's.” The pies cost $12. They feel good about the Apple Harvest.

    It's a good fundraiser for the music department; the money goes to trips if they have one or to get new marching band equipment. So go and buy some apple pies from the Fortuna High music department and have a fun, safe Apple Harvest.

Fortuna High girls golf still looking for players

By Sam Betts

    Rich Barsanti, the 2016 Fortuna High girls golf coach, coaches the girls at Redwood Empire Golf and Country Club to help try to improve their game by teaching them new techniques.

    Girls Husky golf is played during the best, nicest weather of the year. The matches start at 12 p.m. once a week for the next two months. To get prepared for the matches, the girls practice Tuesday through Friday at Redwood Empire in Fortuna.

    The Husky team participates in seven matches throughout the season. The seven golf courses the team competes in are: Benbow Golf Course, Del Norte Golf Course, Baywood Country Club, Redwood Empire Golf and Country Club, Eureka Golf Course, Willow Creek Country Club, and Beau Pre Golf Course.

    The golf coach, Rich Barsanti, is now going on his second year of coaching. After speaking to Coach Barsanti  for his love for coaching he says, “getting to know the kids and seeing them improve is my favorite thing about coaching the team.” His love for the game and willing to try and make the girls better is why he is an amazing coach.

Fortuna Boys Soccer hopes to use rapport to win season

By Zane Zerlang

    The Fortuna Huskies boys soccer team plans on going undefeated in the 2016 season to win NCS championship five years in a row.

    The Huskies plan on completing the perfect season by working hard in practice. The coach, Daniel Holmes, has been working with these boys since they got into high school. After talking to Coach Holmes he said, “I’m trying to build a team that the whole community can rally behind.” After saying that he explained the team being so good is not all his doing, he says it is due to the great team chemistry, and the bond the players have.

    So far this season they are four and zero. They have had to work very hard, due to the fact that every game is very challenging. For some time now, the Arcata Tigers have been the Huskies rivals. Through their battles, they go head-to-head and the Huskies have always pulled ahead.  

Senior Wills for the Class of 2016

We're bring back a tradition from many years ago, senior wills!

I, Katie Murray, leave my love for FFA, positive attitude, and my love for our Class of 2016. We are the only class who hasn’t won a lip sync or powderpuff and to only have one dedicated class advisor who hasn’t left us, Ms. Thompson. I will never forget all the pep rallies, our amazing librarian Lynn and the crazy lip sync by Duey, Kausen, and Benbow.  

I, Bounthouy Vonglakhone J.R., leave my kindness, my family blood or not, and my friendships that I have gained throughout the years. These 4 years have been the best because of my friends and without them I would probably be nowhere. To my crew Caleb Pockett, Hannah Gregory, David Reed, Rachel Dias, and Sarah Vandendriessche from Belgium.

I, Sarah Quintrell, leave my love and appreciation to all my close friends that I have made this last few years. This includes Kitana Neller, Paul Gibbens, Julie White, Austin Cunningham, and Jephrey Catalan. I love you all, and high school would have never been the same without all of you. You guys are awesome, stay awesome!

I, Hannah Williams, leave my Sarcasm, Happiness, and my memories to my friends Sara Torres, Damon Linharess,Thomas Cramer. To all my friends who I have the pleasure of walking across the stage with, who are Jacob Torres, Saber Jones, August Brown, Freda Hauck and Kassie Andrew, thank you for sticking with me these years, I love all of you guys. PS, Sara please don’t forget the locker combination. Because I won’t remember that. So don’t ask me.

I, Geovani Huerta, oh never mind, I thought you get credit for this, but you don’t so I am going to work on other stuff.

I, Nicholas Ruf, leave my communist manifesto written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Englels, to any who see the true light of Stalin and Lenin. I leave my communist shirt to all those who wish to embrace the greatness of socialism. And I also leave my Army stuff to any of  those stupid enough to enlist like me, Patrick and Renner. P.S.Renner stop talking about it, you can’t defeat ISIS.  

I, Freda Hauck, leave my Neopets account to Hannah Williams because I know she won’t kill them like she did our love. Heh.

I, Lily MacMillan, leave my love for this school, and dedication to the FFA to my younger sister Sierra. I hope you finish your High School career never regretting a decision you make, enjoy it while it lasts. I will never forget all the fun memories with my classmates participating in Homecoming activities, traveling to Tennessee, Kentucky, Washington DC and New York. My last four years have been unforgettable and I owe it all to the Class of 2016.  

I, Luis David Ornelas, leave my passion for music production, hanging out, having fun and branching out to new people. I'm working super hard this year and the following years to become a well-known rapper and a dubstep music maker. It's been a long and crazy ride these four years. I've met a ton of people that are chill and others that are strict but in the end, where all one happy crew. I respect everyone and well, from the looks of it that's what I get in return too which is neat.  I feel blessed meeting everyone from the people I hang out on a regular schedule, to the people I barely know. I would appreciate it if we could hang out some days and kick back. I believe that everyone graduating this year will be accomplishing many big tasks that they might not even see themselves accomplishing. To the teachers that touched every senior hearts this  year please, don't stop doing what you do.  We learned a lot from you and I feel that it will help us in our future and the upcoming seniors. I hope you all will remember us as one of most unique graduating class to graduate by far.  My final words are these, follow what you love and don't stop because of what other people think, and just be the real you whether people like it or not.