Hays High School's Official Student Newspaper

The Guidon Online

Hays High School's Official Student Newspaper

The Guidon Online

Hays High School's Official Student Newspaper

The Guidon Online

Interesting Facts

Sylina Zhang, Staff Reporter March 27, 2014

1. USGA regulation golf balls have 336 dimples which add turbulence for more distance. 2. The Mona Lisa doesn’t have eyebrows or eyelashes. 3. Honey is the only food that doesn’t spoil. To make...

Interesting Facts

Brianna Mathias, Staff reporter March 14, 2014

1. Refrigerators in the U.S. consume about the same energy as 25 large power plants produce each year. 2. More than 20 million people in the United States suffer from depression in a given year. 3....

Interesting Facts

Brianna Mathias, Staff reporter February 20, 2014

1. John Lennon was the first person to be featured on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine 2. Domino’s has marketed a reindeer sausage pizza in Iceland 3. The only active diamond mine in the United...

Interesting facts

Elizabeth Arthur, Staff reporter December 16, 2013

On average, Americans’ favorite smell is banana. If one spells out numbers, they would have to count to One Thousand before coming across the letter “A”. Honey is the only food which does...

In this scene from Hays Community Theatres A Christmas Carol, the Cratchit family welcomes home their father Bob and brother Tiny Tim.

Community theatre to bring classic story to life

Nicole Feyerherm, Staff Reporter December 13, 2013

Christmas time is filled with special concerts and events to get people in the Christmas spirit. One of these events is Hays Community Theatre’s production of “A Christmas Carol,” a play based on...

Spring Play cast selected

Sylina Zhang, Staff Reporter December 12, 2013

The cast has been selected for this year’s Spring Play “Ask Any Girl”. The cast includes a total of 18 people comprised of five guys and 13 girls. The students will start preparing for their parts...

Interesting facts

Elizabeth Arthur, Staff reporter December 10, 2013

Each year there is one ton of cement poured for each man, woman and child in the world. The giant red star Betelgeuse has a diameter larger than that of the Earth’s orbit around the sun. Pound...

Student writes own music

Student writes own music

Sylina Zhang, Staff Reporter December 2, 2013

Talents comes in many forms; creating art, playing sports, telling jokes, writing, dancing, singing and many more but Freshman Hannah Norris has a peculiar talent. Not only can she sing and play the guitar,...

Interesting facts

Elizabeth Arthur, Staff reporter December 2, 2013

Hummingbirds are the only animal that can fly backwards. A cat’s jaw cannot move sideways. The name Wendy was made up for the book “Peter Pan.” Barbie’s full name is Barbara Millicent...

Interesting facts

Elizabeth Arthur, Staff reporter November 19, 2013

Butterflies taste with their feet. Elephants are the only mammals that can’t jump. Starfish don’t have brains. Polar bears are left handed. Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating. The...

Interesting facts

Elizabeth Arthur, Staff reporter November 11, 2013

Pinocchio is Italian for “pine head.” When possums are playing ‘possum’, they are not playing. They actually pass out from sheer terror. Most lipstick contains fish scales. There are more...

Interesting facts

Elizabeth Arthur, Staff reporter November 5, 2013

You'll eat about 35,000 cookies in a lifetime. You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206. You're more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day than in any...

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