Fortuna High girls dribble into a new season with a new coach

By Bekah Sanderson

    Fortuna High School is welcoming a new girls varsity basketball coach this winter season. Jesse Genaro, born and raised here in Fortuna, has been coaching for six years and is excited to be a part of this Husky family, once again.

    Open gyms are on Wednesday and Thursdays from 6:45 to 7:45 for Genaro to get to know his players, see their skill, and to start building his team. Genaro says, “My philosophy is simple, unbrace and then impose your will. The process consist of things such as being on time, practice at full speed, and anything that will make you a better player, then you take all that and impose it on the opponent at hand. Know your role and be the best at it.”

  Taylor Murray, a senior at this high school, also encourages girls 9th to 12th grade to come practice and have a good time. Fortuna High is very fortunate to have a great new addition to the athletic program and prepare for a unstopable season!  

Saul Lewis named new baseball coach

  By Scott Sederberg

   Fortuna High baseball has hired a new coach for the 2016-2017 season. The new coach is excited to be apart of Fortuna sports.Saul Lewis was hired at Fortuna High as a new baseball coach. Last year Fortuna High made playoffs but did not win league. Lewis has been playing baseball since he was eight years old and played for twenty years. All his life, he's been around baseball and knows the sport very well. He has coached for ten years and this year will be his first at Fortuna High.

    Lewis is excited to start the season and he wants to help the team improve this year. When asked what his goal for this season is he said “to help players become fundamentally sound baseball players that compete on every play.” He is looking forward to seeing his players be great on and off the field and help them be successful.

    This year the team will travel around California playing local and out of the area teams making it exciting. The community and school is excited to watch them play and support the school. The season will start in the spring and continue to the beginning of summer.

Fortuna High Announces Possible Schedule Change

By Becca Parker

    The administration at Fortuna High is in the process of proposing a more effective school schedule. The Principal Clint Duey says the schedule will be more effective with the starting and ending of the many sports season. Duey says, “Many freshmen play fall sports which start before school is in session, to make it easier for them to come into a high school sport, we think that starting school the second week of August will be an easier way for them to have transition time into high school before beginning their first high school sport.”

    Tara Kajtaniak, a teacher at Fortuna High says, “The staff at Fortuna High has always been dissatisfied with the way the first semester ends after the two week break the school takes for winter break. So us as a staff think that it will be more effective if we can make the first semester end the week before we are released for winter break.”

    The proposed schedule is to begin school the second week of August and to end school somewhere towards the end of May. Many students are concerned that it will possibly interfere with the week of fair where they show their animals. But Principal Duey assures them that he will make it possible for them to still be able to show their animals at the fair. Duey says,  “I will provide buses to take the students who show animals to and from the fair, so they are still able to feed and care for their animals.” Duey also says, “This schedule change is still in the works and the parents and students of Fortuna High will know more about it at a later time.”  

Huskies prepare to dominate Wildcats in Milkcan

By Jordan Black

    The Fortuna High Huskies are strategically preparing for the annual Milkcan game on Saturday at 2 p.m at Ferndale High.

  The Huskies have won 3 of the last 4 Milkcan games trying to make it 4 in a row. Ferndale looks like the typical Ferndale team. They run the option and the veer. They find the weakness in every team and try and exploit them.But Fortuna is well prepared for the standard Ferndale offense. They have been studying film, focusing on each player doing their jobs, trusting and depending their brother to do theirs.

    “Well after our pre-season games, I think we are going to do well against them. If we do our jobs. I think we are hungry and I think that we are going to take it to them on Saturday,” said Mike Benbow.

School library has new books!

By Trinity Amador

    Lynn Owsley, the lovely librarian of Fortuna High, wants students to know how to check out      books. Owsley says that we get our books from many different sources, mainly Amazon. We get     our books in July and throughout the year. We have a lot of fiction and new authors in the library.  

    The majority of books are science fiction, fiction, and we have very few non-fiction. About 15-20 high school students check out books to free read,meaning willfully reading them for enjoyment.

   Owsley stated The Secret History of Wonder Woman was the best new book.

Other books now available are:

Stephen King, The Wind Through The Keyhole

Morgan Rhodes, Rebel Spring

Sara Raasch, Snow Like Ashes

Sara B. Larson, Endure

Brandon Sanderson, The Bands of Mourning

Senior Besanceney starts fashion club

By Emily Rose Robledo

    Allison Besanceney is a senior here at Fortuna High School and has been a part of the art department for three years. Besanceney is starting a new club at school, the fashion club. The club will take place sometime in September with Mr. Holmes as the supervisor. The club will be held in the Mr. Holmes room which is AB3. Besanceney  wanted to start the club so people could express their individuality. This meeting will be held at lunch time. Besanceney invites everyone who is interested in fashion or would like to express themselves to join in on the fun!

    Besanceney got into fashion, she replied, “In 8th grade I wore my brothers old Tony Hawk shirts and old jeans, I realized I wanted to make something out of the fashion field, so that’s why I’m dressed like this today.”

    Fashion to Besanceney is individuality expressed through clothing. “If you have a dark personality, then you might wear dark ripped jeans and combat boots, or if someone is preppy then they might wear their converse and creme colors. Color scheme can define who a person is.”

   Besanceney hopes to accomplish with this club, she said, “Your clothes and outfits should be a boost of confidence. The individuality and freedom to express who you are as a person...I want them to express themselves artistically.”

    Besanceney hopes to have many people join the club. She wants at least ten to start it off and hopes more people will join. Besanceney hopes to accomplish confidence within as many people as possible. “You don't have to be a photographer or a painter to be apart of the art world. My major in college will be based on fashion, which is an art, and I hope to accomplish a lot.”

Fortuna High readies for Lip Sync

By Kaitlyn Ashby

   Lip Sync is coming up in October and it is at Fortuna High in the Damon gym.

    The lip sync is all about grades 9th - 12th  competing and dancing against each other to see which one is the best, and you have one week to practice then perform in front of thousands of people who come and watch you. You will perform your dance for  Lip Sync on October 7th.

    According to Bridget Beaton, “ It is the best high school  experience you could have.”