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ROYALTY - Petersburg
High School eighth grader Madison
Shanholtz has been named Junior Royalty
Queen for this year's West Virginia
Strawberry Festival, May 17, in
Buckhannon. She is the daughter of
Rhonda and Faron Shanholtz, plus the
granddaughter of Buzz and Janet Hinkle,
Petersburg, and Gay Shanholtz and Helen
LaFollette. Shanholtz was last year's
festival runner-up. She is active in
basketball, soccer and
softball.
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CHAMPS
- Caleb Nazelrodt and Ashlee Mongold display
their trophies for longest rides on the
mechanical bull during the Petersburg High
School after prom party.
Michael Dayton joins American Angus
Association
Michael Dayton, Maysville, is a new
junior member of the American Angus Association, reports
John Crouch, chief executive officer of the national
organization with headquarters in Saint Joseph,
Mo.
Junior members of the association are
eligible to register cattle in the American Angus
Association, participate in programs conducted by the
National Junior Angus Association and take part in
association sponsored shows and other national and
regional events.
The American Angus Association is the
largest beef registry association in the world, with more
than 36,000 active adult and junior members.
PHS students win Eastern's Diversity Art
Contest
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TOP HONORS - Three
Petersburg High School students won top honors
in the 2008 Diversity Art Contest at Eastern
West Virginia Community and Technical College.
They were: Tina Hoggarth, second place with "The
Melting Pot"; Shaina Wichael, grand prize with
"Coexist" and Ashley Sites, third place. The
event celebrated American diversity and honored
the memory of Martin Luther King Jr.
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For her colorful and dynamic
collage portrait of a woman's face titled
"Coexist," Shaina Wichael, a junior at
Petersburg High School, won first place in the
2008 Diversity Art Contest at Eastern West
Virginia Community and Technical College.
Two other PHS students also
earned prizes for their artwork in the college's
event that celebrated American diversity,
honored the memory of Martin Luther King, Jr.
and invited all Potomac Highlands highschoolers
and home-schoolers of the same age to
participate.
"I went through all kinds of
magazines and cut out a bunch of letters and
body parts to make them all fit into one work,
one human face," Wichael said, "because that's
what diversity means to me." To compose the
portrait, she chose a great variety of elements,
features, textures and shades, seemingly
mismatched and clashing, yet at the same time
balanced in a layered harmony and startling
beauty.
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"We're all co-existing with each other, all kinds of
races and religions, but it really comes down to one
race, the human race," insisted Wichael, of Maysville,
whose future plans include college and a major in English
or political science. "And I wanted to embody that with
one face made out of all these different
components."
Petersburg's Tina Hoggarth, a senior
at the high school, used colored and regular pencils, oil
pastels and black ink to draw the image of "The Melting
Pot" that won second-place honors.
"In history class, we had gone over
how America used to be known as the melting pot," she
said, "and I thought that really embodied what diversity
meant." Her drawing shows a large open pot on a bed of
flames with faces of males and females of many ethnic
backgrounds all around it.
Hoggarth plans to attend college after
graduation as a pre-veterinary student. She's interested
in becoming a zoo vet and also in doing interior design.
"I have a lot of goals," she said - and diverse ones, it
seems.
The third place prize went to Ashley
Sites, a PHS sophomore from Cabins, for her untitled
pencil drawing of a young man and young woman from
evidently different ethnic backgrounds facing forward at
right angles to each other, and surrounded by hearts of
various shadings. Captions on the picture exhort viewers
to "All Come Together As 1,"and in a contemporary and
energetic exclamation remind them that "Diversity
Rocks."
"The idea just popped into my head,"
Sites noted. "Mom says I've been drawing since I've been
3 or 4 years old. And I've always done pencil
drawing."
Eastern has posted links to all of the
prize-winning artwork on its Web site at:
www.eastern.evnet.edu.
Alt, Watts earn scholarships
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 SCHOLARSHIP
PRESENTATIONS - Nancy Hardy, GMH Auxiliary
president, PHS seniors Kayla Watts and Jessica
Alt and Diana Simmons, AWVHA junior volunteer
chair.
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Jessica Alt and Kayla Watts,
Petersburg High School seniors, received
scholarships from the Auxiliary of West Virginia
Hospital Association, Inc., at the April Grant
Memorial Hospital Auxiliary meeting.
Diana Simmons, AWVHA junior
volunteer chairman, presented the scholarships.
She said that of the five 2008 scholarships to
be awarded by the AWVHA it was a real pleasure
to give two of the scholarships to these girls.
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"Of all the applications we received
these two girls had two of the best. I was very impressed
with their participation in the GMH/PHS Intern and
Volunteer Program, their grades and their community
involvement," Simmons said.
GMH Auxiliary president Nancy Hardy
said that the auxiliary sent in five applications to the
AWVHA for consideration. "I am so very proud and very
impressed with the outstanding applications that came
from our teen volunteers. It makes me very proud to have
two of those applicants chosen by the AWVHA."
This year, the GMH Auxiliary has
established their own scholarship program and will be
awarding a scholarship to some deserving senior later
this month. For additional information about or to join
the GMH Auxiliary, call (304) 257-5805.
VFW district dinner honors contest
winners
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 OFFICIAL
PHOTO - Posing with the district winner of the
Voice of Democracy were: Kitty Castiglione,
district chairman; George Lang, district
commander; Kayla Watts, district winner and
Marsha Saville, district president.
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The Veterans of Foreign Wars
and Ladies Auxiliary sponsored a dinner in
Martinsburg, April 13, to honor the district
winners of the Patriots Pen and Voice of
Democracy contests. Past state commander Gary
Miller was emcee for the event. Trophies and
cash awards were presented by district commander
George Lang and district president, Marsha
Saville.
Kayla Watts of Petersburg
High School, first-place winner in the Voice of
Democracy contest, gave her speech and received
a trophy plus $300 cash.
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Watts was accompanied by her parents, Sonny and Karen,
of Seneca Rocks.
She was sponsored by VFW Post 6454 and
Ladies Auxiliary and plans to attend Potomac State
College.
Attending from Petersburg were Stephen
and Jenny Rexrode, Donna Evick, Jack Harman, Regina
Weatherholtz, Eleanor Dawson and Maywood Dolly.
My role in honoring our
veterans
by Kayla Watts
There are many ways I can play a role
in honoring our veterans. The usual answers like honoring
the flag, voting, wearing yellow ribbons and
understanding that our freedom comes with a price, are
all very good ways of showing honor and respect. However,
if you want to honor the veterans in a deeper more
personal way, you should make it more a way of life and
not just words on paper.
I really didn't understand this
concept until I?recently spoke with the wife of a soldier
getting ready to leave for Iraq. She made me realize that
to honor the veterans I must engrain their experiences
into my own everyday life and always keep in mind that
they have sacrificed so we, as well as others, can live
with freedom and dignity.
On a daily basis, there are things I
need to remember in order to honor the veterans in a
personal way. For instance, when I argue with my friends,
I can remind myself that they may never see their friends
again. I may complain about the food at school, but they
may not get to eat a meal that day. I can wear designer
jeans and get my hair and nails done, but they may not be
able to change clothes, get a bath or brush their teeth
for days. While I am lying on a beach on vacation, they
are packing about 100 pounds of life-saving gear on their
backs in 120-degree temperatures. The next time I see
someone on television wearing an anti-war T-shirt, I need
to remind myself that someone's father, mother, brother,
sister, husband or wife died so that those people have
that freedom to march. When I get upset at my parents
because they wouldn't let me go to the movies or a ball
game with my friends, I will remind myself that a soldier
is sitting somewhere in a lonely part of the world and
has not seen his family for months. When I see a veteran
that has lost an arm or leg in war, I can have the
courage to go up and just say "Thank You, I appreciate
what you have sacrificed for me."
In conclusion, to honor someone means
to never forget what they have done and if I can practice
all of these things on a daily basis and share with
others these unselfish sacrifices, maybe we could step
into the boots of a veteran or soldier and finally grasp
the enormous work they really do.
Step Ahead 4-H report
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Members preparing whole wheat
mini Hawaiian pizzas are Chris Halterman, Jacob
Halterman, Megan Cook, Amberly Rohrbaugh, Trish
Halterman and Samantha Berrett.
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The Lahmansville Step Ahead
4-H club met April 8. Items on the agenda
included participation in the "Make It Shine"
clean-up program and the upcoming 4-H field day
in May.
Plans were discussed for
group trips to the Massanutten Water Park and
the Greenbank Observatory.
WIC dietitian Trish Halterman
led the group in a healthy snack workshop
promoting use of whole grains, fruits,
vegetables and low fat milk. Members made
individual Hawaiian pizzas and low fat vanilla
shakes.
Project books were
distributed. Members still needing books should
contact Rachel Martin at 257-1907. The next
meeting will be Tuesday, May 20, at 6:30 p.m.,
at the Forman Community Center.
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Student art exhibit
PHS art
students (front) Deloris Egnor, Brooklyn Swick and
Ashley Sites; (second row) Matt Alexander, Michael
Redman, Janalyn Rotruck, Tina Hoggarth, Noah Sites,
Moe Foley and Casey Shaw; and (back) Glenn Alt,
Tony Long, Shaina Wichael, Erika Feaster, Judy
Bland, Mila Alt and Whitney Kuhn.
On display through May 22, at the
Grant County Bank, are 20 self-portraits produced by
Petersburg High School Art II, III and IV students, as a
class project, titled "Self-Portraits with Dramatic
Effects."
The works are all in black and white,
graphite on paper, 11x14 inches, mounted under clear
glass. The portraits contain drawn objects or background
that say something about each student. Among the items
seen in the works are sports gear, books, familiar
landmarks, vegetation, stars and landscape features. The
students were allowed to pose themselves as they wished,
so some of the pictures show expressive poses and
gestures. The effect of the picture could be humorous or
serious.
PHS art teacher and fine arts
chairman, Michelle Hedrick, prepared her students for
this assignment by having them study German graphic
artist and sculptor Kathe Kollwitz (1867-1945), whose
simple, powerful lithographs, etchings and woodcuts have
inspired many later artists.
Producing a real likeness of their own
faces was a challenge for the art students, says Hedrick.
"The students used a mirror to study their own features.
They had to draw, not just a generic face, but their own
face, their own features, and get it as exact as they
could. These skills of observation and analysis will
serve our students, whether or not they go into an
arts-related field after graduation."
Adds Hedrick, "What they chose to add
to the picture for dramatic effect was a personal choice,
but, like in Kollwitz's works, it had to work within the
context of their picture."
Participating in this project and
displaying their works are
Art II students Matthew Alexander,
Glenn Alt, Mila Alt, Ethan Crites, Deloris Engor, Erika
Feaster, Morgan "Moe" Foley, Whitney Kuhn, Tony Long,
Janalyn Rotruck, Ashley Sites, Noah Sites, Dixie Twiddy,
Shaina Wichael; Art III students Regan Judy Bland, Tina
Hoggarth, Michael Redman, Casey Shaw, Brooklyn Swick; and
Art IV student Cynthia Collins.
