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The Student News Site of Gretna High School

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The Student News Site of Gretna High School

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Kalei Renner

Kalei Renner, Yearbook Business & Advertising Manager

Kalei Renner is a senior at GHS and is in her first year on The Dragon staff; she serves as the Business and Advertising Manager. Prior to entering The Dragon, Kalei served three years on The Voice as both a Photo Editor and reporter. She is involved in journalism because she enjoys meeting and talking to new people who help develop her multi-perspective on the world. Additionally, journalism allows her to advocate for events that generally go unnoticed by the public eye. Her favorite pieces to write are news and feature stories. Outside of journalism, Kalei enjoys both adventuring throughout the city of Omaha and surrounding cities with her friends and family as well as participating in service programs that allow her to contribute to her community.

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Staying Organized: At 3:00 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 12, Matthew McKinney (21) and Sarah Turpen (21) walked around the school to collect, count and tally up how many socks were in each first-hour sock box. "I am the president of the student council, so that is why I was involved in the sock drive," Turpen said. "My job was to advertise to fellow students as well as collect socks." The donated socks will be evenly distributed between Open Door Mission locations in Lincoln and Omaha.

Battling for Breakfast

Kalei Renner, Photo Editor
February 23, 2021
Future Business Leader: Member of FBLA (Future Business Leaders of America), Karlee Lobsiger (21), wears a shirt featuring the club's name wrapped around an American flag. "In March, we go to a state tournament and compete by taking a test," Lobsiger said. "We also do fundraising such as flower and butter braid sales." Each month, FBLA club members come together to discuss business and leadership opportunities.

Dragon Activity Shirts

Kalei Renner, Photo Editor
December 17, 2020
Case Updates: A bar graph created by GPS publicly displays the current number of active and recovered COVID-19 cases there are throughout the district. "We follow the Sarpy/Cass Health Department's directive measures and requirements for screening, exclusion and re-admittance of ill students, nurse Mrs.Bridgett Plathe said. "This has changed several times since the start of school and will most likely continue to change as new research and date is collected on the novel virus." In total, GHS has 13 active cases (green) with 170 recovered cases of COVID-19 (yellow).

Wrapping-Up Semester One

Kalei Renner, Photo Editor
December 17, 2020
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Flavor Frenzy: A quantity of six doughnuts features flavors bananas foster, fruity pebbles, Nutella dream, original glazed, apple pie and funnel cake. In addition to six, The Dapper Doughnut also sells doughnuts in quantities of 12, 24 and 48. Through the duration of the winter season, The Dapper Doughnut will have maple joe, apple cider cinnamon and peppermint vanilla doughnuts available to customers.

The Dapper Doughnut

Kalei Renner, Photo Editor
December 11, 2020
Step 1: Check Temperatures
In the triage center, students are required to maintain six feet of space from one another while waiting to get their temperature checked by either of the two school nurses. If their temperature is higher than normal and/or they are experiencing multiple symptoms of COVID-19, they are required to wait in the "secondary health office." (behind the door pictured)

Admin Reports Rise In Cases

Kalei Renner, Photo Editor
September 24, 2020
Life as a Barista: Kaleigh Zollman (22) poses for a photo in her Scooter's uniform before heading to work. "Since I started work in May, I had to wear a mask for six to seven hours," Zollman said. "This made coming back to school a lot easier because I am used to wearing a mask now." This school year, Zollman plans on continuing to work at Scooters and hopes that it will not conflict with her busy schedule of newspaper and show choir.

Overcoming Obstacles

Kalei Renner, Photo Editor
August 24, 2020
Searching for Caches: Hailey Wojtas (22) is searching for a geocache on the back side of Salon DeMarco Suites. "Sometimes finding a geocache can be really difficult," Wojtas said. "When they're small, they're often placed in hard to reach areas such as in trees, gutters and bushes." When searching for a geocache, participants must be very observant in the area(s) they are searching for the cache in so that they do not miss out on discovering it.

Real-Life Treasure Hunting

Kalei Renner, Staff Reporter
May 16, 2020
Staying Healthy: At Zorinsky lake, a sign towards the entrance of the lake shows a list of social distancing guidelines in both the Spanish and English language. In order to be practicing proper social distancing, lake users must avoid gathering in groups of 10, using the public playground and being in another person's 6 feet of space.

Easing Restrictions

Kalei Renner, Staff Reporter
May 8, 2020
At the Xcel Energy Center in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Miranda Parkinson (21) is  attending a Harry Styles concert. "I was planning on going to another Harry Styles concert in July at the Xcel Energy Center," Parkinson said. "I'm worried that if it is postponed, it will be rescheduled to a time that I can't go." As of right now, Harry Styles is still planning on preforming at the Xcel Energy Center on July 19.

Music Catastrophe

Kalei Renner, Staff Reporter
May 4, 2020
Staying Protected: When interacting with customers, Hailey Wojtas (22) keeps herself protected by wearing gloves and a mask. "Everyone must wear gloves and a mask when working in drive-thru," Wojtas said. "Honestly, I feel safer when I wear this equipment. I feel like I am able to keep both the customers and myself safe. All drive-thru employees across that state have been wearing this equipment to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

Fighting to Stay Open

Kalei Renner, Staff Reporter
April 20, 2020
Joey Witt (22) is attempting to steal the ball from Joe Burns (22) during an after school soccer practice.

Summer Sports Not an Option

Kalei Renner, Staff Reporter
April 20, 2020
When browsing the web or uploading content, user privacy is neither guaranteed nor insured. Laws across the nation have been enforced to spread awareness of this message, especially in public schools and private facilities where personal privacy is at a higher risk.

Laws in Action

Kalei Renner, Staff Reporter
April 3, 2020
Healthy Drinking: An iced green tea and a chocolate chip cookie dough shake sit at one of the many texturized tables inside 402 Nutrition. These two drinks are what are included inside the combo meal. The shake serves as a meal replacement, and the tea acts as a drink for the meal.

402 Nutrition

Kalei Renner, Staff Reporter
February 13, 2020
On Saturday, Nov. 16, 2019, food service director Sharon Schaefer hosted a training that provided high school students with the opportunity to learn more about production cooking.

Turkey Time

Kalei Renner, Staff Reporter
December 17, 2019
The idea of the share tray originated from the Culinary Advisory Board and is implemented to help reduce the amount of waste in the lunchroom.

That Is Not Trash, Share Tray

Kalei Renner, Staff Reporter
December 17, 2019
Working Hard: During third hour in Welding I, Cadance Rohrer (22) is found in one of the shop classes’ many welding booths working on one of her projects. “To me, welding is very easy-going as long as you handle the equipment right,” Rohrer said. “That is one of the reasons why we wear masks; people can blind themselves from the light produced by the flames. Along with that, we have to wear gloves so that we don’t burn ourselves while holding hot materials.” Rohrer is currently enrolled in Welding I and is expected to take Welding II either next semester or next year.

Melting the Boundaries

Kalei Renner, Staff Reporter
November 10, 2019
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