A hidden hero
Xavier Martinez, Staff Reporter
March 30, 2017
Filed under Features, Showcase
The clock in the hallway reads three p.m., and a small red light clicks on in each classroom at Wenatchee High School. It is a cloudless Friday, and students disperse out the exits of the school, eager for a glimpse of the bright sun and a breath of fresh spring air. None of them have the past week in m...
A life of adventure
Moses Lurbur, Editor-in-Chief
February 3, 2017
Filed under Features, Showcase
It’s not every day that you meet someone who has roamed the streets of Kathmandu, trekked in the Himalayas, taught in the Land Down Under, and worked three seasons on an Alaskan cod fishing boat. But if you attend Wenatchee High School, she’s probably graded your biology lab. The first clue that Joy...
Behind the curtains of WHS
Bailey White, Staff Reporter
January 4, 2017
Filed under Features
The doors close, music begins to fill the room, and the opening scene begins. This year’s production of White Christmas lights up the stage, but have you ever wondered what goes on behind the curtain? Behind the song and dance is a group of people integral to the show; the backstage crew. They change se...
A vibrant way of life
Jessica Wierzbicki, Opinion Editor
December 5, 2016
Filed under Features, Showcase
Though the halls of Wenatchee High School walks a man with a bright beard and brighter personality, leaving passing students in wonder of just who he is. Today the mystery is put to an end. Meet the man behind the beard, Deandre Lester. The Beginning Lester was born and raised in Chicago, and wh...
Army of volunteers toil over production of “White Christmas”
Brooklyn Vickery, Staff Reporter
December 1, 2016
Filed under Features, Showcase
Late nights, little sleep, and long rehearsals. As the new White Christmas play production nears students and other contributors spend many long hours after school preparing for the performance. If you want to see the final production for yourself, White Christmas will be showing on Dec. 1-3 and 15-17 in ...
Students explore coronary career choice
Bailey White, Staff Reporter
November 4, 2016
Filed under Features, Showcase
Telford’s Chapel of the Valley is hidden behind the East Wenatchee Dutch Bros., but the excitement surrounding the Creepy Careers event was anything but concealed. The first event in a series of job shadows called Careers After School, available to middle school and high school students, was hoste...
Canned creations
Brooklyn Vickery, Staff Reporter
October 26, 2016
Filed under Features, Showcase
Art. It’s one of the most universal methods for expression and connecting. When you think of an artist, you immediately think of them using tools such as pencil, watercolor, or even acrylic paint to create their pieces. Lately, artists have been finding new ways to express their talent through different ...
Kicking through barriers
Bailey White & Megan McCallister, The Apple Leaf Staff
October 25, 2016
Filed under Features, Showcase
The room drums with energy, arms fly with assured direction, passion brims with every punch. Light spills in, illuminating the room, as the sharp aroma of sweat and wood swirls around arriving students. Ki Fighting Concepts pulses with intensity, hidden away in a mundane corner of downtown Wenatch...
To the beat of his own drum
Vivian Noyd and Xavier Martinez
October 17, 2016
Filed under Features, Showcase
At the top of the Apple Bowl bleachers, a cymbal in each hand, donned in his band uniform, a red-haired young man stands. He stares intently at the football game before him. As Wenatchee High School scores a touchdown, he begins playing the Wenatchee fight song with all the energy he can muster. His n...
HOMECOMING: Senior welcomes students to Panther family
Cameron Wood, Managing Features Editor
October 10, 2016
Filed under Features, Showcase
Among the oh-so enthusiastic fans and flag-wavers in the student section at Wenatchee High School’s Homecoming game on Oct. 6 you could see senior Edgar Apolinar standing towards the back of the mob, hands in pockets and eyes focused not on the field, but on his peers instead. Once he spotted...