Tetlin Gold Project

By Annie Sanford

A recent gold, copper, silver project has arisen in one of the three government recognized Indian reservation areas of Alaska. The Tetlin gold, copper, and silver project, controlled by Contango ORE Inc., began sampling the area of Tetlin in 2009 and discovered significant amounts of gold, copper, and silver in 2012. Contango ORE has decided to hand over the project to a mining company who is more capable in starting a mine. In September 2014, Contango ORE has announced a Master Agreement with Royal Gold Inc. At this time, it's still unclear whether mining is confirmed for the future.  

When asked her opinion on if the mining begins, what do you think of the affects on Tok's economy will be, Michelle James replied,"There would be more people in Tok, and more job opportunities. Everywhere would get more business because more people would more to Tok and Tetlin to work."

This is great news for many residents and businesses of the community. If the project is executed, there would be no doubt that Tok's economy would greatly rise. Many of the small businesses will greatly benefit from the mining with the attraction of new workers and residents. More students would enroll in Tok school rising the demand of staff and school supplies. The sports teams will be able to expand with more players, with the possibility of new sports starting. The spark of this project may give a spurt of life to a seemingly dying community.

From Updating After to Updating Live

By Annie Sanford

Most recently, Tok school has been able to live stream sports games for sports fans all over the Internet. Through Ustream, a company that provides free video streaming services, it makes it possible for viewers anywhere to watch the sports games live. Ustream began with the idea of providing deployed soldiers another means of communication to their loved ones back home. U.S Army Officers John Ham and Brad Hunstable joined with Dr. Gyula Feher to eventually create Ustream in 2006.

Ustream not only provided a way of communicating with deployed soldiers, many people around the
world started frequently using the site. Ustream helps people from politicians, celebrities, to ordinary
citizens with broadcasting many types of videos.

Tok is one in millions of live broadcasters to use the site. "It's cool and I like the fact that my family and friends that can't be here can watch, but I don't like the fact that the people doing the Ustream just
randomly stop moving the camera. But it's a cool thing to do for people who want to watch but can't be
there to watch in person." Said Michelle James when asked her opinion on Ustream and being able to
broadcast sports games.

Thanks to Ustream, fans of traveling sports teams are able to tune in and watch their team play live from the comfort of their own home or anywhere that has wifi. Tok school has been using the site in the last couple of years to broadcast basketball and volleyball games. Can't watch a game live? No problem, after being broadcasted, you should be able to re-watch the video at any time before it gets taken down. This comes in handy for future reference.

Christmas Test

Have You Been Naughty or Nice this Year?

With Christmas coming up, find out if you have ended up on Santa's naughty or nice list.

You find out where your mother has hidden your presents. You _______

A) Open the presents

B) Cry

C) Wait until Christmas

D) Destroy them all

You see a person drop a five dollar bill on the floor. The first thing you do is ______

A) Tell them they dropped the bill

B) Take the bill

C) Rip the bill in half

D) Leave it there


You get home and you realize that you have a lot of homework. You _______

A) Procrastinate until the last minute

B) Ignore it

C) Do it correctly

D) Write random answers

Your friend is struggling to carry all of his books. You _______

A)Ignore him

B)Offer to help him

C)You knock them out of his hands

D) Pat him on the back and tell him to keep it up

It's Christmas Eve, and the cookies you made for Santa are so tempting. You ______

A)Just ignore it and wait

B)Take all of the cookies

C)Throw them at the wall

D)Eat them. No survivors

If you chose 1)C, 2)A,3) C, 4)B, and 5)A, then you will definitely make Santa's Nice list.

If you chose 1)B, 2)B, D, 3) A, 4)D, then you might have slipped by and made it into the nice list.

If you chose 1) A, or C, 2) C, 3) B, D 4) C, A, and 5) B, C, and D, you're going to make the naughty list.

Tok Volleyball Regionals

On December 5th the Tok Wolverines volleyball team traveled down to Glennallen for the Aurora Conference Volleyball Regionals. Their first game they played was against Glennallen. Then they played Kenny Lake and lost unfortunately with scores 19-25, 18-25 and with a mental block in the girls head 12-25. 

Then they dropped to the losers bracket and played Tri-Valley and took the game in 3 sets. After that they were in the championship game, against Kenny Lake. In the first set it was a close game but Kenny Lake ended up taking it. Then in the second set Tok won 25-15. The next set was a battle on the court, the score was always tied up or only one point ahead then once the teams got into the 20s Kenny lake won the set.

Kenny Lake had over half the people in the stands cheering for them and Tok only had a few of the girls parents who showed up. In the 4th set of the 5 both teams were ruthless, giving it there all and never giving up, the want of the win from the Lady Wolverines was indescribable.

Candy Therneau said that she has never seen her team want something so bad. The girls gave it there all and tried their hardest but ended up losing after a huge come back of 20-25.

 It was an emotional game, it was the last highschool volleyball game for Alexa Peet, Annaliese Therneau and Brittney Alsup. All three of our seniors got all tourney and finished great in the season.

 In the end the Tok Wolverines placed 2nd in their region so they are improving from 3rd place last year.

 Next year they are bound to take first with hard work and dedication they can accomplish anything. 

Christmas Tree Lane

It's the day that every class looks foreword to every year! In preparation for Christmas Tree Lane, every class spends large amounts of time to decorate their door. This door decoration has taken a large variety of themes over the year. This year the Freshman class had a Frozen theme, and 11th grade had a Nightmare Before Christmas theme. Other then that, they years Christmas Tree Lane had a surprising lack of any gimmicky doors, with most classes opting for a straightforward and classical take.

This year the winner of Christmas Tree Lane was seventh grade. This wasn't too much of a surprise, since their door had the most decoration pieces and looked very aesthetically pleasing. The use of an actual Christmas tree, though plastic, was also a nice touch. And of course, one can't mention their door without mentioning the miniature tree, completely decorated with projects made by Ms. Bloomquist's students. Along with the very nice wallpaper that they put up, the door was extremely good, and it's easy to see why it was chosen to win. Overall though, it was great Christmas Tree Lane, and I hope that it is even better next year.

High School Basketball Season

By Savannah Arnold

      The high school boys and girls basketball team's season has started. Practice began on the first of December, for the boys it goes from 3:30 to 5:45pm. For the girls team practice begins at 5:45 and goes until 7:30pm.
      The returning players for the two teams are Colton Peet, Roy Eskilida, Antwan Sanford, Brandon Nicolai, Josh Demit, Kody Salinas, Phillip Dale, Daniel Dompierre, Shelby Clark, Kiara Young, Annie Sanford, Michelle James, Katrice Thomas, Annaliese Thurneau, and Brittney Alsup. The boys team consists of Shawn Frank, Kody Salinas, Antwan Sanford, Roy Eskilida, Brandon Nicolai, Josh Demit, Daniel Dompierre, Colton Peet, Phillip Dale, Johnathan Pine, and Robert Deeter. The girls team consists of Kiara Nelson, Jessie Fix-Nelson, Kia Thomas, Marrin Peet, Juan Cook, Shelby Clark, Kiara Young, Annie Sanford, Michelle James, Katrice Thomas, Brittney Alsup, Annaliese Thurneau, and Saphire David.

Tok Rifle Loses to Delta

 By Savannah Arnold
 
   Delta won against the Tok Rifle team. Ariana got a new personal best of 490, Zach and Makinzi finished shooting first. They waited for the others to finish up, then they packed up, ate, and hit the road.
     The roads to and from Delta were snowy and icy. Before leaving to a match the team shoots their air rifle match at home and brings it to the small bore match. But this weekend will be different because it is Thanksgiving. The team will shoot both small bore and air at the Tok range instead of traveling to Lathrop in Fairbanks.