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  5 Easy Valentine’s Day Activities By Lilia deBoer 1. Bake Cookies Bake and decorate some fun Valentine’s-themed cookies! 2. Make Personalized Valentines Pull out your collaging/art skills and make some fun, creative Valentines! 3. Make Some Valentine’s-Themed Crafts Try making paper/candy bouquets, painted candles or heart-shaped paper chains! 4. Do a Bouquet Swap Get a few friends to contribute different types of flowers and build your own bouquet! 5. Host a Valentine’s Party Get some friends together and try out these fun Valentine’s Day Activities!

Photography By Alex Fogarty-Helsten

  Book Recommendations By Alex Fogarty-Helsten 1. The Long Walk By Richard Bachman (later found out to be Stephen King under a pen name): A dystopian horror novel about a group of one hundred boys who participate in a televised contest where they have to keep walking at a steady pace nonstop until there is only one boy left standing. I read this book in late 2025 as it was becoming a movie adaptation. I personally really enjoyed it. It was filled with bloody horror, yet I found the characters still were well fleshed out and the story as a whole had good heart to it. It honestly made me go through a whole circle of emotions and it’s honestly the book I’ve had the biggest reaction to in quite a while. I would highly recommend it. I would also recommend the movie, but the book is better and it had way more detail and character depth. 2. That Was Then, This Is Now By S.E. Hinton: After reading The Outsiders in grade eight, I’ve been hooked on S.E. Hinton’s work. That Was Then, This Is ...

  Clouds Lilia deBoer Angelic, Breathtaking colour Dances effulgently. Floating gaily, Her illusions jade Kindless logic. Marocain narrates Old prophecies, Quietly relaying Stories too untold, Vivacious with Xanthous, youthful zeal.

  Interview With Our New Vice Principal, Karen Puzio By Uma Maric     Ms. Puzio kindly gave our newspaper an interview so our students have the opportunity to learn more about her.   1. How would you describe yourself to students who don't know you yet? I'm someone who genuinely believes that every person has potential waiting to be discovered. I've spent 17 years teaching Social Studies and working as Department Head and IB Coordinator at Churchill Secondary, and now as Vice Principal at Templeton, I get to support the entire school community. I love having real conversations with students, and I'm the kind of person who will remember what you told me last week and check in to see how things are going. As a VP, my door is open – whether you need help solving a problem, want to share something exciting, or just need someone to listen. I lead with my heart and my head, which means I care deeply about fairness and relationships, but I also believe in clear expectations...

  Movie Recommendations   By Nola Matsuzaki, Celia O’Brian-Wang, and Evynn Lau  Valentine’s Day is coming up, making it the perfect time to cozy up and watch a good film. We’ve compiled a list of the best romance movies, including rom-coms, musicals, and even action-packed movies that will make your heart pound. We’ve included some more tragic love stories and tearjerkers for those who aren’t feeling like a classic happy ending, such as The Notebook, La La Land, and Titanic. From timeless classics to current favourites, these unique films are all worth your time.   10 Things I Hate About You   A perfect movie when Valentine’s is just around the corner, 10 Things I Hate About You is a take on Shakespeare's play The Taming of the Shrew , set in a ‘90s high school. This movie follows Kat Stratford, a smart, beautiful, funny, and sharp-witted teen, and her younger sister, Bianca, who can't date until Kat does, and Kat doesn't want anything to do with that worl...

Night Songs   By Harriet Doherty-Moore   Zenith  yarns exhalations  westward, vacantly upstaging  the star’s requiem. Quietly palpitating,   overnight nocturnes materialize. Light keystrokes  join incantations. Hypnotic galaxies forever eclipse dirges.  Cosmic brilliance awaits.     

  A lament for the boys’ washroom By Mattias Kondor The room which lies before the mini hall Is used so often by the one who thinks He might fulfill his cleaning functions all But finds disaster coming to the sinks! The soap machine, expectedly, is messed, But he endures, and by routine commands The tap to start, but patience finds its test When flow recedes as quickly as his hands! He tries again and fails. He must be cursed, And as he tries another is undone For each sink operates just as the first His hands, frustrated, must wash one by one! It is a shambles, so I ask you, gents, To seek, for pointless plumbing, recompense!

  Perspective By Mattias Kondor The sun, again, descends the western skies, lets darkness coats the world it floats above, then rises in the east without surprise. It views with bright and eon-abled eyes, a birth, a growth, a child of cherished love; The sun, again, descends the western skies  too soon to hear this young one’s nightly cries for that which it speaks not in daylight of. Then rises in the east without surprise that star, to view a tailored wedding guise of stately suit and never-blemished glove; the sun, again, descends the western skies to dream the couple’s bliss; not to realize the suit is wake-bound, and the host thereof. Then rises in the east without surprise That everlasting optimist whose dyes Make swamp appear as stream and crow as dove. The sun, again, descends the western skies And rises in the east without surprise.

The Invisible People  By Wren Davies    The invisible people are actually visible  Kind of, not really  You notice them in class; they answer the questions and just seem like regular people.  But the minute class is over, they seem to vanish into the hallways  They are like the NPCs of school, Kind, Sweet,  The people who only seem to be there when they talk or when you need something.  Most of them are the kind, helpful people who seem to be either  the quiet kids, Or, the teacher's pet.  But they are there  And they do care  So maybe say hi once or twice, it will make their day  Believe me, I should know. 

  Theatre Temp Presents: Antigone By Lukas Bell After the massive success of Alice last December, the Templeton Theatre Company is preparing to follow up their sold-out success with another excellent play. This semester, Ms. Zambrano is not directing the play, but rather the father-and-son duo Micheal and Seamus Fera, two professional directors hired by the school. The play will be Antigone , and it will be showing on March 4 th , 5 th , 6 th , 11 th , 12 th , and 13 th . Antigone is a Greek tragedy, originally written by Sophocles and adapted by David Rush, about a man named Creon (played by Bethany Norman), the antagonist, who rises from the dust after a civil war caused by a fight between two brothers, hoping to bring order and peace to Thebes. He deems one brother a traitor, the other a hero. But Antigone (played by Milo Bogdanovic-Milosevic), the protagonist of the story and sister of the two brothers, wants to give her falsely accused brother a proper burial. She quarrels...

  VALENTINE’S LAVA CAKE RECIPE:   By Evynn Lau  Looking for something delicious to bake this upcoming Valentines? These lava cakes are soft, warm and sweet, perfect for the special day.   Ingredients (for 2 servings):  • 3 ounces/85 grams bittersweet chocolate, 70 to 74 percent cacao (not chips), chopped (about ½ cup)  • 3 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into cubes, plus more for the ramekin  • 3 tablespoons granulated sugar, plus more for the ramekin  • 1 egg  • ½ teaspoon vanilla extract  • ⅛ teaspoon kosher salt  • 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour  •    Powdered sugar, to serve (optional)    Instructions:  Step 1  Heat oven to 425 degrees and butter a 10-ounce ramekin (make sure its oven safe!). Sprinkle the buttered ramekin with granulated sugar.  Step 2  Combine the chocolate and 3 tablespoons butter in a heat-safe bowl set over a pan of simmering w...