Garrett Arendt, Multimedia Editor
In his fourth and final year of high school journalism, Garrett Arendt, senior, is serving as the Multimedia Editor and Multimedia Committee Chair. Outside of journalism, Arendt enjoys collecting jerseys, playing sports and video games, and hanging out with friends. In journalism, Arendt loves all things multimedia, from making videos to interactive graphics to recording podcasts with the West Linn Weekly Wake Up. He also enjoys writing things of all kinds, with an emphasis on features and sports. By the end of the year, Arendt is hoping to leave off on a high note, grow his portfolio, and finish what he’s started.
![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)
![Becoming a group. Chamber Choir, composed of auditioned sopranos and altos performs [song] during the concert. Emerson Parker, senior, is a teacher aide for the choir and helped them prepare. “We've done a lot of group bonding activities. That's really important when you're singing in such big groups,” Parker said. “We do a lot of extra rehearsals, like during lunch, a lot of sectionals, which is just when all the altos are gonna get together and sing their one part, and all the sopranos are gonna get together and so on and so forth.”](https://wlhsnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Good-1-1200x801.jpg)
![Singing to the beat. Annie Kubitschek, choir teacher, directs the symphonic choir while Shannon Wianko, junior, plays percussion for the song “Muie Rendera.” On Oct. 21, all five of West Linn’s choir classes performed their first concert in the Performing Arts Center (PAC). One of the choirs was Symphonic Choir which was the last group to perform. Brody Olson, junior, sings Bass 2 in both Symphonic Choir and Fresh Pitch. “A lot of practice, tracks and sectionals [went into preparing],” Olson said. “There's a lot of discipline. Just constantly repeating, memorizing, [and] learning.”](https://wlhsnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/1Good-1200x801.jpg)
