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Thursday, December 15 th, 2011 An independent and locally owned newspaper since 2011

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Christmas Break Is Here

By Carmen Rempel
GRADE 7 HOLIDAY REPORTER

Big White Christmas Parade (photographed by UNKNOWN) Editor's note: Please help us find a great picture of this year's parade... you could win some serious BIG BUCKS!

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The yearly Big White Christmas Parade is coming Christmas Eve

By Lewis Brunt
GRADE 5 PARADE WRITER

CHRISTMAS PARADE COMING TO TOWN

Boomer and Loose Moose will also be there. Hundreds of people have come in the past few years. Here is an interview with some of them. "The parade is fun and exciting for the whole family said Gareth. Noah said "I like it because it is a lot of fun. Now for some interviews from people who have never been to the parade. "I have never been to the parade but I'm sure that it will be a lot of fun." stated Johnny. Mr. Bond said I am curios about what will happen and I look forward to it.
By Cole Isfan
GRADE 4 THEATRE REPORTER

BIG WHITE - Christmas Break will be coming to Big White soon and everyone is getting excited and ready for Christmas Day! When Christmas Break comes, Big White will have even more people. There will also be more people skiing and boarding. Some people have already planned what they are going to do on the first day of Christmas break. Yes, I am excited for Christmas Break! It always means were getting closer to Christmas! said a Grade 5 girl. Some people have started doing their Christmas shopping and some are doing there Christmas shopping during Christmas Break. People are singing and children are full of joy and happiness.

I'm exited for Christmas Break as well because my dad is coming! said one Grade 6 girl. People are putting up their trees and decorating them for Christmas. Im exited as well, I can't wait for Christmas Break! said one of the parents. Some of the children have new ski gear but some of them don't. Sometimes they get ski gear as a present. New Year's Eve is also coming to Big White during Christmas Break. A lot of people will be staying up all night and there will be a lot parties for New Years Eve. I love New Year's Eve! said a Grade 5 girl, I love to stay up!

Parents/Students Get Excited for Christmas Play

BWCS - The Christmas play is coming up and everyone is getting exited. Here are some Interviews from some of the stars of the Christmas play: A Grade 8 student said: "I think Im going to fail". A Grade 3 student said: It will be awesome and the final performance will turn out pretty good. A Grade 5 student said:" it is awesome staring in the Christmas play". The last person to interview is Mr. Bond. Mr. Bond thinks it is stressful but he is proud of everyone who worked on the Christmas play. He is wondering how the final performance will turn out. Pressure must be killing them. It must make them stressed. Everyone must be thinking about the play right now hoping they will not mess up. Good luck everyone!

BIG WHITE - Another Christmas means another Christmas parade. The Big White Christmas parade is coming on December 24 th at 7:00pm. After there will be a firework display. The parade route stretches from Swiss Bear though the village to Stone Bridge. Many Big White staff (tube staff, ski instructors, 'lifties', and groomers) will be participating. Strait after there will be the torchlight parade with skiing/boarding Santa and then fireworks.

Something Really Important Happened in the Universe...

By Cole Rempel
GRADE 9 SENIOR SCIENCE WRITER

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Today, CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, had a press release concerning the odd results of a test with neutrinos moving faster than light from a while back. The employees at CERN said to be cautious about the results at the time but now are saying it is more possible. Now they say that they have a 2 sigma certainty which means it is more likely than it was a while ago. A 3 sigma is classified as an observation and a 5 sigma is a discovery in other words at 5 sigma it is almost 100% certain but as always with scientific work it can be disproved if there is proof enough to say otherwise. They have said that the Higgs Boson is the particle they may be observing. The Higgs Boson is a very important particle that should explain why there is mass in the universe.

BIG WHITE - On Thursday December 1 st the mountain opened! Many shops opened and some restaurants opened as well. The Ridge Rocket and the Bullet chair opened. Many more chairs will open but there have been some rocks on the runs so they will not open the lifts on some green, blue or black runs. We all hope that more snow comes so we can ski more runs. Many of the students have skied. Telus Park is open for the crazy stunts. The Plaza chair is open to get to village. The green runs that are open so far are Highway 33, Serwas and Easy Out. The blue runs that are open so far are Ridge Connector and Perfection. Happy Valley is open. The things that are open in Happy Valley are the ice rink, Tube Park, magic carpet, snowmobiling and the ice wall. Lara's open as rink is Seniors Work on Xtranormal Secret gondola is hockey orwell. The ice or just fun to play figure skate By Jonathan Martel It was not just an assignment but for family fun. Now that the ski season is GRADE 8 SPY REPORTER also almost a game. They chose open the school will have a Christmas BWCS - The seniors are using a two characters each and a break. Happy skiing and happy holidays website to make a special funny background. They also chose everyone! animated show for the Christmas actions, sounds, voices, music, play. As it is a secret this reporter expressions, camera angles, and You can also make your own account will not be talking about the show made the script to go with a part of on Xtranormal for free and make your itself but rather the site they are their assignment. They had many own videos, which everyone can view. using. Xtranormal is a website difficulties learning the new site. Remember please check out the class where you can make an animated These included not being able to blog because Mr. Bond works very series with ease. When the save, submit or have more than hard on it. Also come down and watch students were presented with the two characters in their story, but the Christmas play on December 15th. challenge of making an animated everything turned out okay show in such little time some were according to sources. If you are Author's Note:This has been my article not very optimistic, believing that curious to see the final products for the Big White Out I hope you have they could never do it. However, they will be revealed at the end of enjoyed it and I am excited to write when they saw how easy it was the Christmas play and will be more articles for your viewing. As they instantly began the task with posted on the class website (Mr. always have a good day and shred the purpose. Bonds Blog), which Mr. Bond slopes. updates regularly.

Without the Higgs Boson the universe would consist of all atoms and particles flying aimlessly, without gravity, around space meaning no galaxies, stars, planets or moons. When it comes to mass, physicists liken the Higgs Boson to groupies at a party. Heavy particles interact strongly with Higgs Bosons, equivalent to a lot of people swarming a celebrity and making it harder for the famous person to start moving and, once moving, harder to stop. Particles with little mass are those that interact weakly with Higgs Bosons, making them more fleet-footed. The scientists at LHC, Large Hadron Collider, say that it will probably be another year until they confirm the existence of the Higgs Boson.

Clockwise from top left: Kid and Mrs. Claus excited about play and Christmas break, Frosty quit smoking a pipe to play hockey!, Fire Fighters Bice and Day workout with tables instead of weights, Mr. and Mrs. Clause sitting by the fire. (photographed by Carmen Rempel and Cole Isfan)(This caption by Mr. Bond :))

Big White Opens

By Alexandra Cottingham
GRADE 6 SNOW REPORTER

Such a nice looking village... and mountain too! (photographed by Alexandra Cottingham)

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Senior students raise red worms in class

By Georgia Sherriff
GRADE 5 BEAT WRITER

KIDS PLAY IN DIRT

BWCS - The senior students have started raising worms as class pets. It will be a science project. They will observe them. There is also a job as Worm Master. The Worm Master will spray the worms with water, feed them and weigh the food. Now more about the worms! Red worms are vermicomposters. (VER-ME-com-posters) meaning that they eat leftover food turning it into rich moist soil. Worms will not eat meat, dairy, onions, oranges, limes or lemons. The rich moist soil is good for plants. There are plants growing in one bin of worms already without sunlight! Also when a worm died... the worm was covered in mites! The mites eat the dead and dying worms. Mr. Bond and the class looked at the mites under the microscope. They wiggled and ran around and seemed happy eating the dead worm. If you are going to raise worms remember that they need lots of water, plenty of soggy ripped cardboard and the right food. Merry Christmas!