The CHIEF November 2021

Marching Onward By: Sam Kelly

As the 2021 PTHS Marching Indians’ season comes to a close, many of the students in the senior class shed some tears and look back on all of the wonderful memories throughout their high school years. The Marching Indians gave their final performance at the University of Illinois 51st annual Marching Band competition. The Indians competed in class 2A and received 4th place out of eleven schools in the same class. This year has been very emotional for many of the students as the events of last year left a bad taste in everyone’s mouths, as many of the activities including marching band were not able to be held. Overall, the students agree that this was one of the best marching seasons that they have ever had. Mason Christianson states, “It was really fun and I believe that we really pulled through and made something great.” The students at PTHS will no longer be marching this semester, but are starting up their concert band season. The band and choir will hold a conjoined Christmas concert at the PTHS Auditorium on Sunday, December 12. Please come out and see what the PTHS bands and choir are putting together!

Random Facts W I T H B I G MAC By: Emma O'Lone

We’re back once again with random facts from Mr. McElwee! Have you ever wanted to become a citizen of Europe? Well with Mr. Mac’s wisdom, he can guide you in how to do so. Going through Portugal’s visa program, you can make a “small” investment of at least 400,000 euros in Portuguese property. Investing in property will upgrade you to a Golden Visa, which then grants you citizenship. Sounds pretty achievable to me… Next up, Mr. McElwee gave us a darker fact about William Shakespeare. He said that Shakespeare forcefully took a theater from an angry landlord who wanted his actors off of his property. Without permission, Shakespeare and some of his friends decided to tear down the theater and use its materials to rebuild the iconic Globe Theatre, where later his actors would perform some of his most famous plays. So as it turns out, Shakespeare was not as great of a man as history makes him out to be.