Emmie Baca, Staff Reporter
Emmie Baca, freshman, is starting her first year on journalism staff in the Print Committee. Baca’s love for content creation started with her Tumblr account and YouTube channel, where she tested the waters through posting weekly vlogs and nightly digital diaries. Her favorite things to do are write and read, listen to new music, go shopping for CDs, and try new makeup looks. She hopes to be on journalism staff for the entirety of her high school career, and improve with the modeling and guidance of her upperclassmen.
![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)
