![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)
Boys Basketball tops Westview en route to a matchup against Grant
The West Linn Boys’ Varsity Basketball team improved its record to 8-4 on Friday Jan. 10 as they beat Westview (4-3) by a score of 76-61.
The Lions outscored the Wildcats in all but the second quarter. The Lions were down 34-39 at half but made an impressive rally to emerge victorious by 15 points. Payton Pritchard, sophomore, and Anthony Mathis, junior, led the team in scoring, with 30 and 20 points, respectively.
The team prepares now for a tough opponent in the Grant Generals (6-6), which will be a home game held Tuesday Jan. 14.
“We’re really trying to contain their best player, Dylan Leonard,” Ryan Shearmire, senior, said.
“We are all friends with him and look forward to the matchup,” Ty Cleland, senior, added.
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