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Virtual Enterprise, Continued.

March 16^th, the QHS VE company Custom Cruisers celebrated their grand opening.  The event offered community members, teachers, and students the chance to see the yearlong efforts of the class and go on a “Virtual Shopping Spree”.  Over 40 guests visited the classroom and talked with the company’s “employees,” enjoyed refreshments and spent virtual bucks.
                Next year’s Virtual Enterprise class will get to decide on a new and different business.  This spring the VE class will be inviting students to participate in a spending spree and orientation of the class to educate students about this unique opportunity.
                Congratulations to QHS’s Virtual Enterprise team!

All Fools Day

By Jacob Daniel Walke

            April Fools Day, a seemingly useless holiday, has no exact date of origin. Some Quincy High students believe that April Fools Day was thought up by a bunch of idiotic jesters from the early renaissance as a way to pull harmless pranks without repercussion. Although this idea is comical, it is not entirely true. The closest pinpointed year of origin is around 1582, in France. The year prior to that New Years was celebrated for eight days starting on the 20^th or 21^st of March. They held the feast of annunciation on the 25^th of March, the vernal equinox. April 1^st, being the highlight of these festivities was continued as a celebration.
            April 1^st is celebrated as a holiday for the simple fact that Charles IX introduced the Gregorian calendar to his public on that day in 1582. The Gregorian calendar moved the first day of every year following to the 1^st of January. In those days the only mode of transportation was by foot, making an official announcement take many years of hearsay and gossip to be as well known as it is. The people who ostracized themselves by continuing to celebrate the New Year on April 1^st were automatically labeled as “fools” (hence the name April fools day).
            Mexico actually has a counter-holiday that was celebrated on the 28^th of December. This celebration once had a somber feeling in regard and remembrance of the slaughtering of guiltless children by King Herod. Eventually this memorial holiday changed into a zenatocious[1] holiday filled with humorous practical jokes followed by the occasional ejaculation of “APRIL FOOL”.
            Pranks are now a national past time. Ranging from pranks as simple as “Your shoe’s untied” to pretend puke or dog poo (not recommended). Whatever the prank, it can always be justified with the words…APRIL FOOLS.

1.zenatocious (ly)- v. adj. n. SUPER
Someone or something with a cool
laid back aura and/or appearance.
Invented by Jared Dwayne West 

St. Patrick’s day facts

By Kenzie Davis

ST. PATRICK

• St. Patrick was born into a wealthy family, but then slave raiders from Ireland attacked his village and he was captured. He was sent to the (at the time) Pagan Island with other slaves. While living a life of tending sheep for a king, St. Patrick turned his life to god. After Six years of being in captivity he was set free. He returned to his homeland of Ireland and started preaching the word of god. During his thirty years back in Ireland, St. Patrick founded around 300 churches and baptized over 120,000 people. St. Patrick escaped 12 attempted deaths and died of a natural cause on March 17, 461.
• The first St. Patrick’s day was publicly celebrated in Boston, in the year 1737.

FUN FACTS

• Leprechauns are sly sneaky creatures who make the fairies’ shoes. They tend to get into a lot of trouble. If you ever catch one you get its gold; but beware- if you look away from it, it can run away from you with its treasure.
• The color green is important this time of year to Ireland because it is the color of the shamrock, Ireland, and spring. Irish school children pinch those who do not wear the color on St. Patrick’s Day.
• Shamrocks are a symbol of St. Patrick’s Day because he used a three-leafed shamrock to represent how the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, are of one body.

Information came from: www.abitblarney.com
http://wilstar.com/holidays/patrick.htm
And www.cleveland.com

Trojan Times Staff

Top from right: Brittney Burkhead, Cory Franklin, Ebonie Hill, Paige Connell, Kinderlin Mannies, and Editor Kayli Vallely. Bottom from right: Jake Walke, Natalie Feinblum, Jessica Wright, and Kenzie Davis

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