Brooke Sanborn, Staff Reporter
Brooke Sanborn, junior, is a Staff Reporter for wlhsNOW, and a member of the Awards Committee. She enjoys writing reviews on books, plays, movies and TV shows. Brooke is also passionate about the environment and animal rights. In her free time she enjoys reading, attending concerts, hiking, backpacking and hanging out with her dog, Hazel. In the future, Brooke aspires to work with books in the publishing industry. You can check out more of her work in her portfolio.
![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)
