![Students in the National Art Honor Society work on the Mount Hood mural on the window of SouthLake Church. The students brought a variety of paints and mixed their own custom colors. “Instead of brushstrokes, we’re doing more dabbing, because it gives [a] better impression of tree foliage, rather than looking like actual brush strokes, because if we’re painting trees, we need it to look like trees,” Crawford said.](https://wlhsnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/IMG_2397-1200x900.jpg)
![Main Street said farewell to summer on Aug. 30 through the second annual Chalk Walk Art Festival. Ruth Offer, Chalk Walk organizer, brought this tradition from Wyoming in an attempt to make use of the renovated sidewalks of Willamette Falls Dr. “[This is] a community event for the kids,” Offer said.](https://wlhsnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/image-12-1200x803.png)
Paws permissible and eyeblacks endorsed
Eyeblacks and paw prints are acceptable at games this fall, but paint that covers the entire face poses a safety issue
Last week, the rumor that administration had placed restrictions on facial decorations and decals worn to football games and other sporting events circulated. The facts are somewhat different.
“If [students] have a small yellow paw print on their cheek, then it’s not going to be an issue,” Kevin Mills, assistant principal, said. “Anytime we have games with facepaint, we don’t want it to cover the whole face and make it so we can’t recognize who the student is.”
Also rumored was that the new regulations apply exclusively to black face paint– this is not the case.
“It’s really not just because it’s black face paint,” Mills said. “Really any type of face paint –whether it’s black, whether it’s green, whether it’s yellow– when it’s covering your whole face, is more a safety issue. Our new arrangements help us with supervision.”
Administration still supports and upholds the student body’s spirit for sports teams and is thankful for students’ compliance with new rules.
“We appreciate the flexibility you guys have with some of our limitations we put on, and you guys always find ways to be supportive even though we have some of those limitations,” Mills said.
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During eighth grade, young Camille Collier, senior, was in her language arts class taught by Graeme Sandell at Rosemont Ridge Middle School. While many...
