Picturing the flood: Before it strikes

A photo gallery of the flood before the river reaches it’s crest

Jack Weaver, Digital Media Editor|May 2, 2017

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Flood Coverage

In 2017, floodwaters from the rising Meramec River blocked off Eureka High School from Highway 109.

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Floodwaters cover the Eureka High School parking lot, blocking off Highway 109, May 3, 2017.

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Photos

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The poster for Guitar Olympics hangs over the whiteboard in the guitar teacher Traci Boltons classroom. Although this was the first year of the event, Bolton said the idea started last year. We were stacking our footrests, and we thought we should make it a competition. Then we thought, what else could we do? We could do cable wrapping and getting picks out of the guitar. We started thinking about all the things we do in class, so we started making events, Bolton said.

Guitar Ensemble brings Olympic spirit to Fine Arts

Sophomore Ezra Leslie stands and plays Petes Groove on the trombone at the Rockwood Jazz Festival in front of other bands and parents. Leslie has enjoyed being in the jazz band because of the unique style of music he has been exposed to. “The articulations and patterns are just fun to play [on the trombone],” Leslie said.

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Later in the night, junior Kaitlyn Helm sings and plays her original song, Find Me. In her first run of the song, Helms microphone was off and she needed to start the song over. I feel like the first time weirdly gave me a way to get comfortable in the space. I’m definitely someone who has struggled on stage with nerves in the past and on that second try I got to go in a lot more confident. I know what I’m doing, I know what things I want to tweak and I was one of the only people who could’ve heard it, Helm said.

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Wadsworth, the butler, played by junior Micah Bounds, explains to the rest of the characters how he believed the evenings events resulted in mutliple murders. His first accusation was that the character Mrs. Peacock had committed the murders.

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