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Westside Wildcats, mark your calendars! (Do we need some graphics for this part?) I can bring a big flip calendar to flip through or make an exaggerated check mark on. (Bonnie) Yes, bring the calendar. I have some star-shaped post it notes that we can stick on the spaces. (jane)

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(several voices) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: rgb(227, 108, 10); font-size: 88%;">Wake Up With The Wildcats! <span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80); font-size: 11pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">(Both Anchors) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">Thanks for Waking Up with the Westside Wildcats, and goooooood morning!We're here with Miss Merry Sunshine <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">and Mr. Brighton McEarly <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> and we've got a lot of news on the horizon. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">But first. The Pledge and a Moment of Silence <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> ( <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: rgb(0, 176, 80);">show Pledge sign for 3 secs. then MOS sign for 3 secs)

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">and Now with the week's events --- Calendar Girl!<span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80);"> <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-size: 10px;">(alarm clock music clip, sign) <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-size: 90%;">(Pledge sign and MOS sign) ||
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: rgb(227, 108, 10);">(several voices) Wake Up the Calendar! <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">alarm clock music clip, sign) || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: rgb(218, 0, 255);">(Calendar Girl): Good morning Wildcats! This week --- <span style="color: rgb(218, 0, 255);"> 1. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Monday, April 20th at 7pm, The Academic Awards Banquet will be in the Cafeteria to highlight our dazzling academic superstars. 2. Thursday, April 23rd at 8pm, the Wildcats PTSA will meet in the auditorium to make brilliant plans for the year-end festival. 3 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">. Friday, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">April 24th immediately after homeroom, the 1st Brigade Combat Team will recognize our school’s participation with the Pen Pals for Soldiers program, wrapping up the week with a bang, (<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">flip chart calendar with big stars on M, TH, F) || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(218, 0, 255);">(Calendar Girl) Remember: Three Bright Spots this week are Monday, Thursday, and Friday! Back to you, Merry Sunshine (and/or) Brighton McEarly! (<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">flip chart calendar with big stars on M, TH, F) ||
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80); font-size: 10pt;">(show logo sign; play theme music) <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">alarm clock music clip, sign) || (Anchors) Several Wildcat Clubs are shining this morning. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">First, the Kids Care Club voted to have <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">a quack at one last rubber duck sale to raise money for the anti-malaria mosquito nets they are sending to Africa.  || (Anchors) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">Members of the club spent yesterday afternoon making posters to advertise this exciting event. <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: red; font-size: 10pt;">(photo of students) || (Anchors) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">You, Wildcats, can get your "Duck for a Buck." beginning today during lunch. Choose from a wide assortment including Hawaiian duck, army duck, hippie duck, and sailor duck.
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: red;">(picture of ducks) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> || (Anchors) All profits from the sale of the ducks will go to help fight malaria that harms so many around the world. || (Anchors) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">Thank you, Kids Care Club, for your stellar effort to help make life better for the world's children. || (Anchors) Next. . . Another Wildcat Club in full swing is the sports clubs offered by your athletic and buff P.E. coaches. || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">The Sports Club meets <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">at the crack of dawn and offers a wide variety of supervised, recreational sports like basketball and wall ball.(Good! (<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">props -- depending on the image<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> ) || (Anchors) The coaches invite all Wildcats to join in the fun, but ask that you BE ON TIME. || (Anchors) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">The coaches close the gym doors at 7:15 a.m. and will not let people in past that time. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">
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(big learning clock with hands set at 7:15) || (Anchors) Finally, Wildcats, have you been craving some thoughtful competition in a game that requires strategy and skill? || (Anchors) The chess club invites you to join them on Monday afternoons in the reference room of the Media Center. || (Anchors) There you will learn basic elements of chess and stealthy strategies that will put the competition's lights out! || (Anchors) The Wildcats Chess Club has brought in some of the leaders of the game, so you can rest assured that you are learning from the best. The Chess Club says, "//Make your move// to join us on Mondays!" || (Anchors): <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">Now on to our final segment this morning ||
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80); font-size: 10pt;">(show logo sign; play theme music) <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">alarm clock music clip, sign) || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 110%;">(Anchor): <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-size: 110%;">At the recent annual Cane Creek cleanup, Mr. Ninas' bird dogs, Goldie and Jake, nosed their way to 1st place in the category "Most Trash Picked Up With Your Teeth." || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">(Anchor) The dogs sniffed and grabbed their way in, through, and around the creek to haul in more than six pounds of litter, outpacing their toughest competition by four pounds. //<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">(video clip of Mr. Ninas' dogs or photo mounted on poster board) // <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">  || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 110%;">(Anchor) Mr. Ninas proudly attributes the dogs' success to their tag team tactics. //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-size: 11pt;">( <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-size: 9.9pt;">same clip or photo of dogs) // <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 110%;">(Anchor) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-size: 110%;">Thanks, Goldie and Jake, for making the creek, and ultimately West Point Lake, a more beautiful and safe place. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">//<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-size: 90%;">(picture of dogs with Mr. Ninas, maybe with trophy or big rawhide bone) // || Two teachers who certainly appreciate the efforts of the Cane Creek Clean-up are Lindsey Aasen and Jessica Holstun. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 110%;"> // <span style="color: rgb(0, 128, 0);">(back to sports anchor ) // <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;"> || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-size: 99%;">//(video clip or photo of Cypress Garden-style ski show)// || <span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80); font-size: 90%;">(camera on Lindsey and Jessica with trophies, waving) ||
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 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;"> || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 110%;">(Anchor) T <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: rgb(255, 0, 255); font-size: 110%;">hese two "aquabats" splashed their way into the world of competitive water-skiing, winning 1st place at this summer's West Point Lake Water Skiing Championship, Show Division. Although these ladies had never skied, they were drawn to the sport b/c of math: the taut ski rope lines, parallel position of the skis, geometric shapes of the stunts, and physics of wave and force.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;"> || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 110%;">(Anchor) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: rgb(255, 0, 255); font-size: 110%;">Once they donned their life vests, their daredevil maneuvers on the water quickly earned them the names, "Acrobatic" Aasen and "Hotshot" Holstun. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 110%;">Congratulations, Ladies!
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;"> || (Anchors) <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">And <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 110%;">That's it for today's Wake up with the Wild Cats! <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 110%;">(Everybody) Go Cats! ||

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