Washington High School - Hatchet Yearbook (Kansas City, KS)

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O? Q RAN ff 2 4' KC welcomes soccer lndoor soccer is relatively new, but not for long, since the Kansas City Comets have began to make their stan here. The team was formally the San Francisco Fog and before that, The Detroit Lightening, but that's considering the Major Indoor Soccer League has been around for only four short years. The game is played indoors, of course, on a carpeted hockey rink, within the plexiglass. There are no penalties fOr kicking the ball off the sides of the walls or the plexiglass. lfthe ball flies into the stands, there is no penalty, unless, it was deliberate. KCMO will have shown eight of the firstgames ontelevision. All,earlyinthe season. Other games were broadcasted on KCMOam. The game was created with the idea of television in mind, this way, there won't be any problems when it comes to reworking the game for tevelivision viewers. While working on the advertisement for the new club in Kansas City, they wanted something that would practicallygrabtheviewers at home. So, they first chose the color of the carpet, bright green was chosen. Then they needed something to keep the viewers eyes on the ball, no matter how fast it wastraveling. Abrightorangeorfire red made a spalsh on the screen when taped, so it was chosen. Now, ifyou wantto see another soccer game, you don't have to watch Soccer Made in Germany , you can go down to Kemper Arena and get yourself a ticket for a game sometime. To get the people acquainted with the idea of indoor soccer, players went out to the community and held clinics. Several players came to the Kansas City Kansas Community College and helped kids of every age improve their abilities in soccer. Some even came to practices and gave some pointers in exercises to improve skills. This sport has not yet caught on completely in outschool district, but this has not stopped students from finding a place thev could participate in the dame. faxaxam 3

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Above Demonstrating an exercise for some soccer players who attend WHS is a Kansas City Comet. Center Right Going for the goal is the Kansas City Chiefs' symbolg the arrowhead. Far Right Keeping time around the Kemper arena is full time job. Left Banners for the Comets were popular at all home games. Top Left: Royals Fever t-shirts were popular, even though, there was a baseball strike during the season.

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Below' Wally and the Beaver ' d Below: Getting a bite to eat at the zoo, ' . S'9ne can beasight forallofthechildren at the autographs to me fans of mm' ShO,W5 ZOO. while acting in a play at Trffany's Attic. Sights seen in cit When do you ever get to see the beauty in our city, and surrounding area, unless you go to prom and then your date and yourself to to some fancy restaurant. Well, it needn't be that way and you needn't feel that it has to be that way either. Even if you can't afford to goto the top of the crown, you can always go to the Plaza around Christmas and enjoy the world famous lights. You don't have to attend the lighting ceremony and vear the chilly wind to see the spectacular sight, but you can go down anytime between Thanksgiving and the day after Christmas. Literally hundreds of people turn out to see the ceremony and get a glimpse of the celebrity helping out at the ceremony with Santa Claus, if you still believe in him. Other sights that can be seen any other time of year are all of he artwork and displays at the Nelson An Gallery and Museum. There are, for those who prefer it that way, the traditional look in the Arts. Or for the liberals in the crowd, modern artwork, such as a juicy looking corn cob dripping with butter. There you can watch little kids go up to it and see if it is an actualcorn cob. 4 ln Topeka, the zoo club is trying to raise enough money, so as to buy more animals for their grownng zoo. lt is a relatively new zpo, but it isjust as interesting, if not more. lt hasa tropical rain forest, were these animals actually do roam aboutwithoutanyconfimnents. There a few exceptions, such as the alligators. Here, mich run around in the underbrush and monkeys hand in the trees. There is a sloth that slowly creeps parst the visitors as they walk the widewalks. Awaterfall runsinthe center of the enclosed rain forest and it has an area where the visitors are able to stand and look down on the babitation and look out for flying birds f xv it