The National Honor Society under the auspices of faculty sponsors Mrs. Linda Schmitt and Mrs. Heidi Libertella toured historic Boston for two days. The first day featured a lengthy exploration of the Freedom Trail and then a dinner specially created for the group by a leading seafood house. The next day the group went to the Museum of Science and among other things saw an awesome Imax film about the Colorado River and how global warming is affecting this water lifeline for the West.
... or so the Bush administration would have you believe.
Currently, the administration is working on rewriting the Clean Air Act, which protects national parks from air-polluting power plants being built within close proximity.
Life is good for anyone in Camden's Concert Band or Orchestra. A few weeks ago both ensembles traveled to Agawam, Massachusetts to compete against bands from all over the North East. For this festival each ensemble prepared two pieces."
Design a New Blue Devil Football Logo
The Camden Football Boosters are looking for some new Blue Devil Football Designs.
Flash Gordon and the Radio Heroes
See pictures and read about this wonderfully funny and thought out play. Our Theater Department once again deserves plaudits for an excellent production.
Adding to the Camden streak of success this year, Camden’s two Odyssey of the Mind teams placed respectively third and fourth in the New York State finals at Binghamton University in Vestal, New York on March 29 th. Both teams did exceedingly well and placed well above the tough competition.
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Relay for Life 2008
CHS Takes Part
The universality of the appeal to find a cure for cancer bound our community together.
CHS had a team that came in second in fundraising and helped throughout the event. We are proud of the part our students played in helping to make this one of the most successful Relay years ever. Great job Blue Devils and congratulations to all in the community who helped to make Camden’s assault on cancer meaningful.
No Good News
Gas will continue to stay at a high price after Republicans in Congress continue to protect the big gas companies. The 5 biggest companies made over $36 billion in the first 3 months of the year.
Will the End Ever Come?
The record breaking prices of a barrel of oil seem to be in the top stories every day. Just yesterday, oil hit $135 per barrel. Gas prices all over the country continue to rise, reaching $4 per gallon here in Camden this week.
More Tough Times to Come
As high school juniors are preparing for some of the biggest tests they will have to take, there is bad news coming from the colleges across America.
Daft Punk
What goes best with techno? You named it, robots! This is the same answer Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo came up with when they formed the group Daft Punk.
What About the Food Shortage?
Among all of the other crises that are being talked about all over the news, there is a crisis that I am sure no one knows about.
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Imagine this: you’re at the mall, ready to make your last stop of the day. You’re walking toward any random bookseller - Borders or Barnes and Noble - to browse around, grab a chair and peruse your finds, enveloped in the sweet scents of coffees brewing in the café and the sounds of fellow readers flipping through glossy magazine pages. Now imagine the mall bookstores of the future: same old chairs, same old cafés, same old customers… but the shelves are filled with strange, white plastic devices.
Read about the Lady Blues' impressive season. Despite some ups and down, the team came together and did the Blue proud. We look forward to this young team doing
This past June 6 th and 7 th I took part in the Relay for Life by being a member of the High School’s team, Dream of a Cure.
The Movies Becoming Real
A recent article in The New York Times told the story of Ray Kurzweil, a man who, for 30 years, has predicted when pieces of technology will become a reality.
Can you imagine not being able to dream? Millions of people around the world do not have the ability to think of achieving success or “striking it big.”
A recent report given out by the House of Representatives has raised many questions that everyone should be thinking about. The army recently gave out more than 500 “moral waivers” to criminals throughout the country, allowing them to serve in the army.
Everyone seems to have their own opinion on, well, everything; how Social Security should work, which candidate would be better, and where we should be fighting. But, as the writer of the editorial points out, most of our opinions are based on nothing.
Wishing the Class of 2008 continued success in all of their endeavors!
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