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Grandma’s Apple Pie – TimefortheHolidays Ingredients: ½ cup sugar ½ cup packed brown sugar 3 tbsp all-purpose flour 1 tsp ground cinnamon ¼ tsp ground ginger ¼ tsp ground nutmeg 6 c. sliced peeled apples 1 tbsp lemon juice 1 – 9-inch pie crust 1 tbsp butter 1 egg white Instructions: Mix together the sugar, flour, and spices. Set bowl aside. In another bowl, mix apples with lemon juice Add the sugar mixture; and toss to coat. Line the bottom of a pie pan with the crust. Fill

Students, staff, and administration alike are often looking for time to have students make up work, get help from teachers, and host assemblies. The school has added a flex period once every month for these needs to be met. So far, there have been two flex periods, and the positive results are already evident. On days with a flex period, the school day runs much like a normal activity period schedule with the flex period coming right after first period. Students often express

Delaney Smith l Feature Editor Members of Cedar Crest’s Student Council will be traveling to a state conference in Boyertown Area from November 3 to the 5. The theme for this year’s conference is Mastering the Art of Leadership. This conference was held at Cedar Crest about three years ago. Council members are eager to interact with students from other schools and share ideas with them in hopes of improving the falcon nation. Council members have the option of picking five wo

Charles Robbins l Sports Editor The year 1999 was a long time ago. Bill Clinton was president, iPhones and social media had yet to be invented. Until last week, this was also the last time Cedar Crest won a Lancaster-Lebanon League title in golf. Last week, the golf team won the league tournament with a round of 300 at Fairview Golf Course. This was the team’s 11th overall title. “It’s great. It was an awesome feeling and an awesome day,” said head coach Drew Gates. “Everythi

Grace Tadajweski l Editor-In-Chief While it does not gain readership for its somber tone, the novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë reels in the reader through its incredibly dramatic and ongoing storyline. Wuthering Heights, a novel published in 1847, follows the lives of two households in the English moors: the Earnshaw’s and the Linton’s. As time progresses, family members come and go, change, and foster passionate feelings. Unlike many other popular books, Wuthering Hei

Ryan Glover l Digital Editor The Lebanon Valley Mountain Bike Team is a club that not many students or staff know exist, yet the team could be one of the most successful clubs, not by numbers but by strength. The club was only created last year and is open to both students from Cedar Crest and Lebanon. Alumnus Chase Balmer and a couple of adults were inspired to create the club because of their shared love for mountain biking. “The inspiration for creating the club came from

Charles Robbins l Sports Editor One of the more successful sports teams in the 2021-22 school year was girls’ soccer, who went 9-7-1 and earned a spot in district playoffs. Currently, they are doing even better than last year as they are sitting at 8-4 and ranked eighth in the district rankings. Maybe the biggest key to the team’s improvement this year has been senior Lily Young, who is the team’s leading scorer. Young had to sit out last year’s season due to suffering an ACL

Charles Robbins l Sports Editor Two years ago they had one, last year they had two, this year field hockey is sitting at two wins but they are feeling confident they are going to exceed last year’s win total. Statistically speaking, field hockey may not be the most successful team, but they may be one of the closest groups this year. “The seniors have done a great job getting us to be more comfortable with each other this year,” said junior Reese Arnold, who plays center back

Brendan Sheehan l Associate Editor The Little Mermaid Disney has always been known for its high production live-action remakes of classic animated films. One of Disney’s most accredited musical works, “The Little Mermaid,” has been long-awaited—and now it’s finally here. Directed by Rob Marshall, famous for his movie adaptations of the musicals “Chicago” and “Into the Woods,” has been known to interpret classic works into modern masterpieces. Alongside song writers Lin-Manuel

Grace Tadajweski l Editor-In-Chief Superman: a man striving for greatness, a man striving to be the best version of himself, a man aspiring of something more. The same can be said about color guard. With the football season well underway, color guard has had many shows prior to and during the games. For this outdoor season, the color guard’s show is founded on ‘A Hero Rises’ or the story of Superman as leaves Krypton to travel to Earth, where he fights to ensure Earth’s safet