Written by Marta Hanson 

It was the middle school girls' very first tournament. The hardest part about tournaments is that the game runs for only 24 minutes, while normal games are 40 minutes. We had an amazing defense. They needed to bring their game when it came to offense. The final score was 8 to 2; Stargate had won. We scored the first point but Stargate brought the game back to claim the win. Marta Hanson made some amazing steals but never made a layup.  The whole team preformed a great came but it didn't come out the way we wanted it to.  

Written by Colleen Longua 


       On March 31 the school assembled in the gym for a lesson on that little box that is owned by almost every teen in the state: the cell phone. Although cell phones are extremely helpful and are becoming more and more popular (as if they weren't enough so already) there are pros and cons for everything. For starters Wi-Fi is becoming more and more wanted for phones and other mobile devices but access to the internet is access to pretty much everything good or bad. Things like Facebook and other online ways of communication cause a huge problem as far as internet safety so that kind of creates a huge risk. 


      Say you're checking e-mail and you get a message from someone you don't know. Now you might be thinking don't open it. Now this isn't always clear so let me emphasize this; if you get an e-mail from someone you don't know DON'T OPEN IT just delete it and move on--no problem. Unfortunately this isn't the only place people go wrong. Anything open to the public online posses a danger. Online messaging can lead to cyber bullying really fast really easily and no amount of filtering can ever keep all of it out of your computer, phone, or whatever your using that has Wi-Fi. 


        Even though it may be easy to get into a fix online it's not exactly easy to get out. Once you put a picture or a post on the internet it can't be removed it never goes away ever. So how exactly do you stay away from that kind of thing? Actually that's no that hard. It's easy to tell where you should and shouldn't be. Don't open this, don't respond to them, don't click on that just watch what you're doing and where your going whenever your on that little box and you're pretty much set.      

 Written by Jack Powell        

         Do not despair on a significant other moving away; what seems like the enemy of your relationship can be one of the best things for it. Long distance relationships are not the curse they seem.

          A very significant benefit of going long distance is weeding out weak relationships. If a relationship is so weak that it cannot survive a distance of a few hundred miles for lack of commitment, it is a prime time to discover that fact. It is much better to break up in a time of little need in a comfortable environment than finding out on a hospital bed (or similar predicament) that your partner is scared of the commitment that, at that point in time, you desperately need.

          A long distance relationship can bring you and your other half closer together. Longing for each other is most certainly a good thing, it will draw your closer together than you might ever be otherwise. This brings us to the greatest advantage of long distance relationships.

          After a long distance relationship, you’ll never take the other person for granted. Being in a relationship that can survive hundreds or thousands of miles of separation is already a great blessing, and every moment you can spend with them is even better. I write all of this from personal experience.

                                                Truly, absence makes the heart grow fonder. 

Written by Amanda Roe

China is enormous. That’s a fact that everybody knows. China is nearly as large as the entire United States, which is most likely due to the large empire it once was. The United States has a population of 313.9 million people. Although the US has been able to maintain its population naturally, we have seen a slight fluctuation of poverty and over/under population in our country through the past century. The United States is only 32130 km2 larger than China. With a population currently at 1.351 billion, China’s population has far surpassed the United States’. China therefore has a very good reason to put a child bearing restraint on the country. The child bearing restraint went into place around the time of the Vietnam War, so it has been around for about half a century. It was put into place to manage poverty and overpopulation in the country. China has flourished with this system and been able to retain economic success throughout the past 50 years. This system of living has become natural for the Chinese. So natural that within the next generation, China is going to run out of people. The child restraint plan worked so much better than the founders imagined that is actually imploding on itself. Very soon, China’s population will consist of men and women above the age of 60, and boys and girls under the age of 15. The other problem is that there are more boys than girls. How are the boys supposed to repopulate China if there aren’t enough girls to repopulate it with? Onlooking countries and people are seeing China chasing its tail, wondering how on earth China is ever going to catch the tail, while the tail keeps getting farther and farther away. If China finally lets go of the child bearing restriction, it’s going to be dizzy from running in circles and will have to try to entertain this population issue in some other way. I don’t know how China is going to fix itself, but the United States has been able to maintain its population quite well in a natural way, without any childbearing restraints.

Written by Amanda Roe

It's baaack...our annual Winter Dance! This year's theme is Red, White, and You to symbolize your freedom to come to the dance with a date, friends, or by yourself. Either way, you're going to have a blast! 

This year's dance is actually on Valentine's Day, which is Friday, February 14th from 7-10 p.m.

Tickets are on sale now at the office. It's $12.00 when you buy ahead of time, or $15.00 at the door.

Grab your ticket and see you there!  

Written by Zia Tinker

Seniors and Juniors, who likes Prom? Who doesn't like dancing, eating and hanging out with your friends or your girlfriend/boyfriend? This year our Prom Committee is a little low on money. We are holding lots of fundraisers, but we still need some help. Please contact Amanda, or anyone else you know who's on Prom Committee, if you have any ideas on how to fund-raise, or would like to help in any way so that we can make this year's Prom as awesome as possible.

Written by Zia Tinker

Guess what time of year it is?
It's Valentine’s Day! Whoot-whoot!

This year we are doing Valentine’s Grams, aka Valegrams, and would love everyone in our school to receive one! This will be happening at both the Arvada and Littleton campuses. You will have from Friday, January 24th until Friday, February 7th to “order the love.” That two week time frame will fly by fast, so order now! Student Council is going to “distribute the love” on February 10th and 12th.

We are offering two things for the Valentine’s Grams,

Heart Lollipops Bouquets…...$2
Heart Chocolate Boxes...........$3

Show somebody some sweetness by getting them something sweet!

Written by Marta Hanson

The middle school girls’ basketball team had their very first game against Beth Eden Christian Academy. It was the very first home game ever and it was a great game. All of the girls did their best but, sadly, they lost 33 to 4. Two Roads scored the first point, so Beth Eden brought out their A-team. It was a challenging game because the Beth Eden girls were much bigger and had more experience. The girls fought their hardest, but still lost. In the second half of the game our Two Roads Falcons brought their A game and started to be more aggressive. Overall, they only got two shots in, but that was still a great score for their first game.

 Written by Marta Hanson

The middle school girls at Two Roads now have their very own basketball team! The tryouts were a success. Although there weren't a lot of girls who showed up to tryouts, there were still enough girls to make a team. Total, nine girls tried out and they all made it onto the team. Sadly, two of them had to drop off the basketball team because of personal reasons. The TRCS Falcon's have a great girls basketball team and are ready to play against other local middle schools.

Written by Amanda Roe

On Monday, November 11th, 2013 the school gathered for a 20 minute assembly to honor our Veterans on Veteran’s Day. The students seemed to be more respectful than at normal assemblies, for good reasoning. Students were about to hear from three Veterans, and it appeared that they wanted to hear every last word that each of them had to say. This was the first time that our school has done this, at least within my time being at the school. The first guest speaker was Neil Hammond, a parent at TRCS. He is a Marine Cor. Veteran and served in 1966, 1967, and 1968 in the 3rd Battalion, 26th Marines. Neil was 18 when he joined, and was 21 when he got back home. He worked in communications and Hammond said he was the “...Guy with the big radio on my back.” Hammond explained that the Marines on communications were normally the first people to get shot at, because of the fact that the enemy wanted to eliminate communication opportunity. He also explained that, when he got back from the war, “People actually spit on me.” They spit on him, and many others, because they disapproved of the war and fighting. Even if people didn’t respect him back then, Neil Hammond is still, and will always be, a very brave individual who we as people, a school, and a nation, owe our thanks to for protecting our country.

The second guest speaker is our own, and fabulous, Mrs. Marianne Henning. Like Neil, she was 18 when she joined, and 21 when she left. Mrs. Henning served as an Air Traffic Controller and, quote, “Got to work with some of the biggest aircraft.” Mrs. Henning explained that she was, “In during a peacetime,” so she wasn’t involved in combat, or all out war in general. Although she wasn’t involved in any fighting, she had her own kind of war going on in her own workplace. She was a woman. When she joined, she was among some of the first waves of women to join the Military. “My biggest problems were with the people that I worked with, because I was a woman,” Henning stated. Mrs. Henning’s life may not have been on the line during the time that she served, but she sure fought her own war and bravely stood up for her beliefs on womens’ rights. Because of people like Mrs. Henning, who proved that women are capable, women now have many more job and life opportunities than they did before.

The third Veteran that we heard from was Lieutenant Colonel Henning. Lieutenant Colonel Henning is the proud, decorated husband of Mrs. Marianne Henning. Lieutenant Colonel Henning works in the Army Cor. of Engineers and “builds things” for the soldiers. Unlike Mrs. Henning and Neil Hammond, he is still an active member of the Military. He explained that he was home for a short period of time when this event came along, and Mrs. Henning had him come in his full uniform with decorations for all of us to see. It was quite a sight as I have never seen anyone wearing a full, decorated uniform except for in movies. The patriotic feel of all of us, as a school, coming together to honor our Veterans like millions of other people were doing across the nation was a beautiful sight that I, and hopefully many others, will always remember.