Alabama tornadoes hit close to home

Erin Blatney Staff Writer Video by Jordan Hagan When current University of Alabama student and Coppell High School 2007 graduate Morgan Lenoir was taking shelter in the basement of a friend’s house, she had no idea that when she emerged, the town she called home would be hardly recognizable. “I remember being in the basement and a guy coming down and saying that he had been listening to the radio and the weatherman said something like ‘Oh this is big’ and then the radio cut off. We didn’t know how bad it was until the next day when my friends and I went to try and volunteer,” Lenoir said. Thousands were left homeless across the…

Are you gonna eat that?

Do you know the nutritional value of a hamburger from a fast food restaurant? Do you care? In a city such as Coppell where there is an array of fast food restaurants, questions like these are reasonable to ask any teen or resident. Whether or not it’s reasonable to think they’d have an answer is a different story. Restaurants are required to provide the nutritional values for items on their menu but it’s pretty safe to say that most teenagers aren’t paying too much attention to how many calories or grams of saturated fat they’re actually eating. It’s not only what teens are eating affecting them but also the amount of physical activity.  The combination…

Are soldiers hereos?

Staff Writer Paige Wilson A solider is seen as someone who deserves respect, someone who has given all and asks for nothing in return. A person who sacrifices their life for ours and we even jump to the word hero. Before the holidays, all of the My Advisory Period classes got together and wrote holiday cards for the soldiers. The majority of these cards contain cute pictures of snowmen and Christmas trees. They also have a similar message such as “Thank you for your sacrifice” or “Thank you for being a hero”. This all seemed pretty normal until my English teacher Michael Vergien made an announcement. “Don’t thank them for being a hero,” Vergien said….