![MORE THAN A GAME. With two diving catches in the outfield, the Lions showed up defensively, aiding in their victory over the Pacers. One catch was made by Atwood, and the other by McGraw. Throughout the game, the Lions knew that it wasn’t just about their victory today. “I think [playing for cancer] makes it bigger than just a game,” McGraw said. “Knowing that you have a bigger impact in this world than just who you are as one person.”](https://wlhsnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/I70A1454-1-1200x800.jpg)
![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)
StoryCorps: life, encouragement and weird carpet stains
Over Thanksgiving, I sat down with my father Geoffrey Gill to get some more information on his life as part of StoryCorps Great Thanksgiving Listen. In the interview, I finally learned how he truly met my mother, more about his childhood as a sports-obsessed bare minimum student, and about the door-to-door salesman who had a fight with his friend’s most stubborn carpet stain in college (see 4:44 for that part).
StoryCorps is a non-profit challenging people to capture their families’ histories. If you want to join the challenge, download the Story Corps mobile app then share your story with us!
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Still yearning for more experience as a journalist, Ethan Gill, Junior, is back and ready to write.
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