Leila Kohn, Senior Staff Writer
• October 23, 2020
Creativity is still alive at Oak Park High School, although the classes may look different. Distance learning has forced the visual arts programs, including drawing and painting, 3D design, photography...
Emily Francis, Graduated Editor-in-Chief
• October 23, 2020
A blueprint for the return to on-campus learning with a hybrid model was approved by the Oak Park Unified School District Board of Education on Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020. Ventura County is now located in...
It’s that time of year again. The moon rises in painful deliberation, barely hiding behind that shadowed tree. Just faintly, in a distance, a wolf lets out a small cry from its lips. It rings louder...
Charlotte Nicks, Graduated Senior Staff Writer
• October 23, 2020
A positive COVID-19 test for an Oak Park High School athlete has been confirmed. The last day the student who tested positive was at practice was Oct. 8, 2020. This is one of the four OPHS-related confirmed...
Bailey Andera, Graduated Editor-in-Chief
• October 23, 2020
Instead of the usual Luc Bodden Day, the week of Sept. 14 through Sept. 18 was deemed Luc Bodden Week, and was hosted by the LucStrong Foundation.
Bodden was born with sickle cell anemia and later received...
Sign ups for the Dual Enrollment program through Moorpark College (beginning in the Spring of 2021) begin now. High school students can elect to take Intro to Race and Ethnicity or Intro to Nutritional...
Hayden Brown, Graduated Digital Media Manager
• October 23, 2020
With the current shift to online learning, the Oak Park High School Associated Student Body has had to adapt their events with the times. While large gatherings and in-person events are still off the table,...
Under normal circumstances, the Associated Student Body would hold various fundraisers that would help fund school activities such as dances and senior activities. However, due to the distance learning...
Sabrina Thi, Graduated Senior Staff Writer
• October 23, 2020
It took centuries for the Indigenous peoples across all of North America to be finally recognized and celebrated by the American population, Indigenous Peoples Day was not proposed as a holiday until 1977....
Daisy Calderon, Graduated Photo Editor
• October 23, 2020
Though the Diversity and Equity Task Force formed in January of this year, a turning point, for the country and the district, came with the death of George Floyd on May 25, 2020.
“Since then, [the...
The results for the 2020 Oak Park High School Homecoming Court have been announced. Although COVID-19 restricted most traditional homecoming events, such as the annual
homecoming dance and the homecoming...
J. R. Servais, Senior Staff Writer
• October 21, 2020
As researchers come closer to finding the vaccine for COVID-19, there are questions of whether we will need a vaccine to return to normality. According to a recent Gallup poll, only 65% of the population...
