Bonanza High School - Golden Visions Yearbook (Las Vegas, NV)

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CURRE T EVENTS While BHS students were hard at work in classrooms during the school year of 1985-86, much was going on in the outside world. Even before the school year, in the summer of 1985, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and London, England hosts to a spectacular musical event. Live Aid raised over 70 Million dollars to help the famine problem in Africa. But, unfortunately, the bad outweighed the good by far this year in the news. Our students saw m catastrophes, including terrorist activities and commercial plane crashes, as well as private plane crashes, as was the case in the death of singer Rick Nelson. When our U,S, Navy ships, fortunately of Sidra, Libya became a irked and opened tire on ships, consequently missing quite a few of their targets. We, in turn, fought back. But the biggest castastrophe of all happened on the fateful day of January 28, 1986. That was the day seven American astronauts l The NlcDonald's All-American High School Band performs at various nlnr-on in tho Ilnitnrl Fltcatac

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l Waiting in line for piciures, Leesa Rexroad and Jason Reed watch ine live band during Sadie Hawkins. l David Junius, Lisa Dawson, and Leslie Dawson relive the Roaring Twenties! Student Life I Sadie Hawkins 81 G F2 39

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