NYA LOPEZ and TAYLOR STOPPELLO

October 27, 2019

 Recently, bins have been strategically grouped in the Harvest quad with posters.  Steps are being taken to educate staff and students regarding sorting waste into trash, compost, and recycle. Why it’s important to pick up trash? People think it’s important to pick up trash because they want to help the world and keep the school clean. It is also important to pick up trash around the community because if we don't take care of our earth it won't be here anymore. Why do people litter? People litter because they don’t care about the earth and the community. Other people try...

KATHERINE HOSKINS and DIEGO CEJA

October 27, 2019

School or I should say cafeteria food, has been around for a very long time. It was invented in the 1790s in Germany. We asked kids and teachers at harvest middle school what foods they like.   Things Harvest Middle School has for breakfast is yogurt parfait, cereal, and breakfast bars. For lunch, they give out pizza, nachos, spaghetti, and rice but school lunches have to follow school food guidelines Mr. Meeks a teacher said´´in the last 3 or 4 years that the food has gotten better.´   Dahlia from Harvest Middle School said  ”My favorite school food is the potato...

NATY GUTIERREZ and GRACE EXUM

August 31, 2019

This year at Harvest Middle School, we have two rules that are being firmly enforced. This new focus on cellphones and hoodies are leaving some students a bit annoyed. "Why?" students are asking.  But the truth is, these rules have been in place for a while. This year teachers and staff are taking them a lot more seriously, for many good reasons.     Cellphones "We are so addicted to our cellphones. Having a stricter policy keeps us away from our phone," said Cristal Aguayo.  However, students should know that this policy is affecting not only Harvest but all the public schools...

QUINLIN GALLAGHER, Editor

October 5, 2019

Going to Fox Landing is an unforgettable experience that I will cherish for the rest of my life. After spending hours traveling from Napa to Long Beach, finally making it to camp is something you'll never forget. However, before we arrived at Fox Landing, we spent a night at the Queen Mary. We had...

ALYSSA COBURN, Staff Writer

October 20, 2019

We all have social media, right? Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and more. Social media is a group of online communication channels dedicated to community-based input, cooperation, content-sharing, and collaboration. Like all things, social media has negative and positive effects. It just depends on how you view it. Some people view social media as a good thing, like Parker Rutherford, an 8th grader...

PARKER RUTHERFORD, Staff Writer

October 4, 2019

You begin the night by climbing in your nice warm bed, under the blankets, and you at once go through your social media. Afterward, you go to YouTube to check out a few hilarious and relaxing videos. Then you realize it’s 2 am. So how does this occur? Blue Light screens, those screens we have on all of our phones. It is known that artificial Blue Light leads to eyestrain, laziness, headaches,...

ALINA CEJA-DELGADO, ADAM DROZDOWICZ, HUNTER ANDERSEN, and VALERIA DOMINGUEZ

September 22, 2019

Dress codes have been around for a while, they have been used to tell students, employees, waiters, and more what the requirements are for what they have to wear going into the workplace.  In schools, it sometimes seems that dress codes have been more specifically focused on what girls have to wear to meet school standards; they have included things like the length of shorts, skirts, dresses, showing...

TAYLOR STOPPELLO and NYA LOPEZ

September 18, 2019

Kids at Harvest Middle School should be able to have after school clubs.     Students should have something to do after school, whether it's doing something they enjoy or something to entertain them while waiting for their parents to pick them up. This benefits the staff because they don't have to wait for all the kids to leave to go home, they will be supervised.   Would you want...

QUINLIN GALLAGHER, Editor

September 18, 2019

On average, teenagers need an average of 9½ hours of sleep. However, most teens only get around 7 hours. According to a 2010 large-scale study published in The Journal of Adolescent Health, only 8% of teenagers get the recommended amount of sleep per night.  This is a big issue because mental illnesses such as depression and anxiety can be caused by sleep deprivation. Also, teens have noticed...

KATIE HOSKINS and DIEGO CEJA

September 18, 2019

Some of the kids at Harvest Middle school have a great sense of style, and it’s not just kids, it’s adults too! The thing people said was the biggest trend was VSCO girls or Vans. VSCO is a style that is based on an editing phone photo app that, and Vans are a brand of shoes. Most of the teachers or teacher assistants said that they weren’t the right person to ask the question things trending...

GRACE EXUM and CHARLOTTE FLUKEY

September 25, 2019

Around 9:40 this morning September 25th, Students at Harvest middle school walked out of their first period and smelled a familiar scent to us all: smoke.  This brought back memories of the fires in fall 2018  that destroyed many homes and caused a panic in the bay area.   The cause of the most recent fire was caused by a man who set out to steal copper from the inside of power poles on mare island. The fire was reported from what we could find at 3:07 a.m and was contained at 8:48 and...

JOCELYN GONZALEZ BARRAGAN, KARINA ALVAREZ LOPEZ, and DANIELA LOPEZ

September 19, 2019

 This year’s bell schedule has changed again! And this time most people hope the schedule will stay as it is. The schedule has changed four times in the last four years. Asked if the schedule will change again next year, Mrs. Franco stated, “I can’t say yes but there will be a possibility it will change." What makes this year’s schedule different is the fact that we now have seven periods instead of eight. The reason why we have one less period is because of budget problems that...

CHARLOTTE FLUKEY, Editor

August 31, 2019

In Napa, California, next to our very own Harvest Middle School lies a park used by countless kids. That park is named Playground Fantastico. This playground has been in Napa since 2002 and was built by "thousands of people children and adults working side by side over six days in the style of an old-fashioned barn-raising" (Gordon Huether), and had public art inside the park area. Unfortunately, the original park play structures were demolished in late 2018. Over the years, the wooden...