MORNING ANNOUNCEMENTS
5/26/21
Are you interested in doing a podcast? The WB Experience Podcast is looking for new crew members. The podcast crew meets once every other week to record it and the following positions are open: co-anchor, audio tech, and editor. If you’re interested in any of the positions, or if you want more information, please email Alex Fisher at 22alexanderfisher@wbridgewaterschools.com
Powerblock yoga is back! After a great turnout last week, Mrs. Dietrichsen and Mrs. Brogna will be offering PB yoga Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, weather permitting. Your power block teacher will provide you with a link to join our Google classroom, where we will share information and post sign ups. Please sign up for a session through Google classroom each day you plan to join us.
Namaste!
The varsity softball team beat South Shore Vic 11-4. The seniors are gone so we’re going to ignore what they did during this game. Olivia Razza had 3 hits and scored 2 runs while Neala Boyd had 2 hits and scored 3 runs. Joelle Cameron joined the fun with 2 hits as well. Kaylee Theriault may need a tetanus shot after recovering a ball from a nearby swamp. The girls now have 5 wins and 0 losses for the year.
The JV softball team got their first win against Tri-County 8-3. Makenna Walsh had a great game on the mound with 12 strikeouts. Bella Hyde had two awesome doubles and Cassidy Perrault had a three run double that cleared the bases to secure the win.
The WB Athletic Awards night will be held next Wednesday, June 2nd. All athletes who received a varsity letter this year will be contacted this week with more information. Lists of varsity letter winners by sport are hanging in the Athletic Hallway. Please see Ms. Hammel in the Athletic office with any questions or you can also talk with your coach.
Any boys ice hockey player who played this year, there will be a meeting this Thursday (5/27) at Powerblock in the gym. If you have any questions please see Ms. Hammel in the Athletic Office.
The weight room is open to any WB student Monday through Thursday from 4-6pm. Anyone that is interested please see Ms. Hammel in the athletic office.
(5/26) Today’s break menu is scrambled egg and cheddar wraps with a hashbrown patty, pizza, soft pretzels, funnel cakes, assorted breakfast sandwiches and pastries. Don’t forget to grab your bagged lunch as you leave. Today’s varieties are a P&J uncrustable and a individual cheese pizza and it’s free!
This Day in History
On the evening of May 25, 2020, officially one year ago yesterday, white Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin kills George Floyd, a Black man, by kneeling on his neck for almost 10 minutes. The death touched off what may have been the largest protest movement in U.S. history and a nationwide reckoning on race and policing. The 46-year-old Floyd, a Houston native and father of five, had purchased cigarettes at a Minneapolis convenience store. After a clerk suspected that Floyd had used a counterfeit $20 bill in the transaction, the store manager called the police. When officers arrived, they pulled a gun on Floyd, who initially cooperated as he was arrested. However, Floyd resisted being placed in the police car, saying he was claustrophobic. Officers eventually pulled him from the car and Chauvin pinned him to the ground for nine minutes and 29 seconds. Floyd was unresponsive when an ambulance came and was pronounced dead at a local hospital. A video of the incident was posted on Facebook which stirred up protests that began almost immediately in Minneapolis and quickly spread across the nation. More than 2,000 cities and towns in all 50 states saw some form of demonstration in the weeks after the incident, as well as major cities across the globe. Demonstrators chanting “Black Lives Matter” and “I Can’t Breathe” took to the streets from coast to coast, and police departments around the country responded at times with riot-control tactics. Floyd’s murder came after protests over the killings of Ahmaud Arbery in Atlanta in February and of Breonna Taylor in Louisville in March. By early June, protests were so widespread that over 200 American cities had imposed curfews and half of the United States had activated the National Guard. Marches continued and spread throughout June. Chauvin was arrested on May 29, 2020 and charged with second-degree and third-degree murder, as well as second-degree manslaughter. On April 20, 2021, after a trial, which was broadcast live online and on TV due to the pandemic, a jury found Chauvin guilty of all charges.