A great opportunity in our area for the community. Rural Resources is hosting a community event that will include the following: Second Harvest will be on site to distribute food boxes for up to 250 families. There are no income verification criteria. If people show up, they will be served. DSHS will be on site with their mobile unit. The SNAP (food stamp) income eligibility threshold has recently been updated and more people will qualify for food assistance. If people need help applying for the first time, or need assistance updating their information, this is the perfect opportunity to have a real, live person help! This service only happens 2-3 times per year in Lincoln County. People can also get assistance to replace lost SNAP cards, get help applying for low or no cost health insurance, and many other services. Other services are offered for Veterans, those who need assistance with housing, or who may need help from the Lincoln County Health Department.
It's time to plan and see who can come up with the best outfits for Spirit Week that is happening next month! It's Homecoming Week October 14th- 18th for our WC High School. Each day there will be a theme. Dress up and support your class. **Please dress appropriately or you will be asked to change** The Homecoming Dance will also be Saturday October 19th starting at 8pm at the WC High School. Tickets will be available at the HS office (Couple $20 / Single $12). This year's theme is Midnight Masquerade.
Thursday is Wear Orange Day at Wilbur Schools🧡
There will also be a Native American Day Assembly at 1:30pm
After hanging for over 40 years in the Creston School, artist Bill Elston stopped by to see the painting he created in 1983. The setting was on Ermina Avenue in Spokane and he lived one block away from this setting. This artwork was placed in Creston by the Washington State Arts Commission. We are proud to have it and it has a new story after meeting Mr. Elston. Washington State Arts Commission
Reminder: Coffee & Conversation with Mrs Chrisman will be this Wednesday from 2-2:45pm at the Wilbur School in the Cat Cave located on the High School side. Please check in at the office first. Hope to see you there!
Monday Message: 'Tis the season for coughs and runny noses. So when do I keep my student home, if there is a fever of 99.8 or higher. For everyone's health and safety please keep your student home. Call the school office and we will get your student excused for the day(s). Any questions please call the schools to clarify. More information is also available in the student handbooks located on our website. https://www.wcsd.wednet.edu/
We made the local news. Representing our Wildcat Pride in small town USA 🐾
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The Varsity High School Wildcat girls volleyball team will play against Oakesdale today at noon at WC High School. Come pack the gym and show your Wildcat pride 🐾
Friday Night Memories Keep Flooding in!
"Many of today’s athletes may not remember a time when there weren’t even lights to play under at the football field on Friday nights. However, during the first two and a half years of my Wildcat high school football career we started our games around 2:30pm. We had to cut out of school early to get suited up and warmed up before kickoff so we could make sure we had enough daylight to finish the games.
Our halftime locker room was the big utility shed stuffed with lawn mowers, weed eaters, and other landscaping items for keeping up the fields. We were fortunate to have an old classroom chalkboard to review plays and discuss second half strategy. As the season progressed we brought in propane space heaters to stay warm. The opposing team’s locker room used to be the same bus they rode in on.
Players on the sidelines would get cold late into October and November with freezing temps and often snow on the fields. One of the parents organized a donation drive to source enough money to buy materials to make the team jackets by hand that were large enough to go over our pads and helmets. (They might be the ones still in use today?)
I recall everyone’s excitement as we saw the beginning construction for the field’s lights, and finally got a date midway through the season for our first actual Friday Night Lights game. Because we weren’t even used to playing under lights on our home field, we held evening practices to get used to the lights and shadows when running plays.
Many teams around the country may take for granted playing under bright lights in huge stadiums with covered bleachers, large locker rooms, and an amazing sound systems for announcers. But for a small rural school like ours, the community had to pull together to make even the modern conveniences we have today a possibility.
I’m proud to say I’m a Wildcat alumni, and I cherish the memories made on the football field - before and after we truly had Friday Night Lights.
Josh Cairns
Wildcat Jr. High and High School football player from ‘93-‘99
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Friday Night Lights is happening tonight down at Emerson Field, kickoff at 7pm. Come on down and cheer on our WCK HS Football team while they go against Garfield-Palouse. #FN5GL #Sweepstakes @TMobile
Friday Night Lights, Spotlight is on Coach Reppe!
'It's hard to put 13 seasons into a single post, but Friday nights are a family event for us. From our grandkids, kids, parents, grandparents, family and friends, every fall we concentrate on the football team. Everyone in these communities lives for the excitement of Friday Night Lights.
Each week with the team dinners, the cookies, the hugs and love shared by the boys and their fans, it is truly an event.
We've been so blessed to have had so many exceptional young men go through the football program. Each year as they graduate, we are sad, but they come back to the sidelines and cheer on the next generation of Wildcats, and sneak a cookie or two. They bring their girlfriends, who become their wives, and then they are there with their children. They grow into fine young men who return to their roots, never forgetting the towns and fans that supported them along the way.
Sports in a small town is part of the foundation that these young men will forever base their life choices on. It teaches patience, hard work, team building skills, the ability to win while staying humble, and lose with grace. The game under the lights on a Friday night is so much more than a sporting event. It builds the character that we expect out of the men they will become. No matter where these young men travel to in their life, they can always return home to their fans, the field, and the love that surrounds them, no matter their age.'
Submitted by Coach and Yvonne Reppe.
Thank you Coach and thank you Yvonne, being the coaches wife is one of the toughest and most wonderful jobs there is on Friday Night, under the lights!
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Don't forget that today is Picture Day at Wilbur and Creston Schools. Can't wait to see all those smiling faces!
Order forms were sent home last week, if you need an order form still please contact the schools.
And today is also our first Early Release Friday of the year. Students will be dismissed at 12:30pm.
Check our calendar for all the upcoming Early Release Days.
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Those Friday Night Memories often start on Late Thursday afternoons. Like so many other rural schools, Thursday nights are for Junior High at the local stadiums. Nurturing coaching and teaching fundamentals to our younger players leads to full teams of passionate and skilled high school players that transform over time into not just friends but fine young men on the field. Photos courtesy Michele Rosman.
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Thursday Night Lights tonight at Emerson Field for our Junior High Wildcat Football team! Let's cheer them on while they go against ACH tonight at 5pm. Our HS Volleyball girls are headed to Wellpinit today to represent our Wildcat Pride. #boysoffall #FN5GL #sweepstakes @TMobile
Friday Night Lights, Memories Keep pouring in!
What is in a number?
A whole lot and maybe even some traditions! Introduction to a story about #33!
'In 2004, the Wildcat football team made school history by making it to the State Quarterfinals. This is my oldest son, Evan, giving his Uncle Nate a "good luck" head rub before the game. Nate wore #33. Fast forward about 15 years and Uncle Nate stands with Evan at his first high school football game, proudly wearing his uncle's jersey number. Jump forward a few more years, and my youngest son Gavin was sporting that #33 jersey. And then to finish his high school football career, Gavin got to wear that #33 jersey at Husky Stadium in the State Championship, right next to Coach Peyton Michel. '
Friday Night Lights do not happen without effort Monday through Friday during the Day! Meet Jon Ritchey and Travis Angstrom, the men behind the facilities that keep things running, properly prepared and ready for the next event. It takes several hours and a case of paint to line the field for an event. We take pride in the care of the playing surface and keeping the right attention to ensuring our kids have a safe and awesome place to play.
Our Team Rooms are a very significant source of community pride. The Lions and Booster Clubs have donated over $400,000 to making this upgrade for our community. Countless hours of volunteer time in both raising funds and in construction and set up of the facility. To be sure, there is more than enough Wildcat Pride to go around and everywhere we look, you community shows us, that it Really is a Great Day to Be a Wildcat.
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Come cheer on our JH Wildcat Volleyball team tonight in Creston starting at 4pm! Let's pack the gym and show our Wildcat Pride.
Reminder: Tonight is the first workshop of the year for Wilbur Creston High School seniors & their parents/guardians. This meeting will be held in the Multi Purpose Room at 6pm. Workshop #1: Graduation Requirements, Post-HS Planning & Costs, & Sr. Year Fundraising See you tonight!
Friday Night Lights:
When people ask about my favorite high school football memory it’s hard to come up with one in particular. It started for me as a little kid going to games playing tackle in the endzone pretending your out there. I remember thinking how cool it was and how much we looked up to the kids on the field as they were pros to us. The time where we all got to play under the lights in front of the town couldn’t come soon enough.
What comes to mind for me is all the great people and coaches I got to play with along the way. We might not have been a team that was playing to win a state title, but to be honest non of that matters now. What matters the most is getting the opportunity to play with your friends and be apart of a school that supported you, and to have coaches that believed in you as not only an athlete but as a person.
Coach Grigsby and coach Jones were my coaches all 4 years. They as a duo made a great team and put together a fun atmosphere. Most might think that after a loss those bus rides should have not have been fun, but I always remember shaking off the loss really quick with that group and on to the next. The bus rides together were always fun time, win or lose.
The thing thats hard not to think about is the friends that we got to play with along the way and the brotherhood through sports not only football, but there is something special about Friday night lights getting to run out with your team to represent your school and all the people supporting you. No words can explain the emotions we all had before the games, and All the sports I played throughout school and college I was never as nervous as I was before every Friday night game. You don’t see guys throwing up before a game being nervous in many other situations or sports, but seemed to be a Friday night thing.
I still remember hearing the 4th quarter buzzer go off at home on the last game I ever got to play. I remember just dropping to my knees and crying. I’m not sure why it hurt so bad but that should explain how much Friday nights meant to all of us.
One thing we all don’t realize when you’re in the moment or that young during sports is how important it is to embrace the moments and never take them for granted.
There are some teammates no longer with us anymore and it’s hard to explain to kids in high school right now how important it is to enjoy every second of every down, every team huddle, every practice, every game, every teammate, every coach, and everyone supporting you.
Losing friends or teammates at any point in your life hurts. Cody Robertson was a brother to me when he passed it was hard not to always bring back the memories of playing sports together. We were friends starting at a young age but it wasn’t until sports and football in particular where the friendship turned into a brotherhood. We both loved football more then anything. We would always talk about how much fun it was trying to hit people as hard as you can or running people over when you were running the ball.
Cody was our running back he was a very physical running back never afraid to go right through guys. He was never scared of anyone or anything. It was fun to get to block for him and watch him as he had a special talent navigating through the lineman and getting around the secondary. The way he would bounce off guys or make guys miss was so much fun to watch.
He was also an animal on defense. He played next to me at linebacker and all I can remember is having the most fun I ever had in a football season his senior year. I was a junior when he was a senior but man we would laugh and get so excited over when we would get the “big hit”. And will never forget hit dad Tom yelling on the sidelines “cmon 32 hit somebody”
Cody was a special teammate to everyone. He never would put anyone down, if someone missed a block and he got hammered, he would pop up, help the guy up that just hammered him and run back to the huddle and say let’s get the next one. That was the way Cody went about not only sports but life. I miss that guy more than anything but I’m so thankful to have the memories on and off the field with him.
I got to play other sports with Cody my whole life but the first and best memories I can think of are on that football field, whether it was practice or especially when those Friday night lights come on.
I can’t explain to people that didn’t get the experience or opportunity to play on a Friday night with your buddies in front of a crowd on the football field. Nothing got me more jacked up then Friday nights and Cody was the same way.
What we don’t realize is when the last buzzer goes off on your last game what will be missed. If I had one wish in life I honestly feel like I would want one more game under the lights with Cody and all the other teammates/coaches.
Thank you Josh Sherwood for sharing the memories and Krysta Llewellyn for the photos!
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A view of last Friday Night under the Lights!
Thank you Donovan Colvin our Creston School District Drone Pilot for the images.
There is something so special about playing at home, and doing so on our very own field of dreams!
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