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San Antonio Moving Forward with Highway Changes
Pick any day of the week and the San Pedro Avenue light at 281 and 1604 is at a standstill in rush hour from a combination of the popular Northwood’s shopping center and commuting cars being forced to exit to change highways. However, some congestion should be alleviated in the next two to three years...
281 Super Street
Move a little. Stop. Thirty minutes later. Move a little. Stop. That is what US Highway 281 is like at rush hour. This is a problem faced by San Antonio Christian Schools (SACS) students daily, but it may be resolved soon with the construction of a super-street. A super-street is an intersection that...
Christian Teen Changing the Face of the Pro-Life Movement
Live Action. No, it’s not the name for an instant sports replay, but rather a group of high school and college students and young professionals taking action on one of the biggest issues today, abortion. This non-profit group is getting down and dirty, exposing what really happens in abortion clinics....
Water to Wine Quenches Worldwide Thirst
Fifteen seconds, thirty seconds, forty-five seconds, sixty seconds. In the amount of time it took you to read this sentence, four children have died from a water related disease. Without food a human can survive for weeks, but without water his chances of living are limited to a couple of days. It is...
Small Town USA
In a world of mega-malls it’s sometimes easy to forget about the self-run boutiques carrying independent designers and their clothing. Luckily, neighboring towns like Fredericksburg keep it real by making the restaurant and retail chains stay small and scattered. Located about an hour north of San...
H1N1 Vaccine Raises Concerns
From the time of its discovery during the spring of this past year, the swine flu virus has quickly emerged into one of the most infamous pandemics of the decade. Ardently searching for a remedy, medical researchers and scientists have worked aggressively to provide the general American public with a...
Staying Off the Streets
Gandhi once said, “I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ”. This speaks for itself. Youth Alternatives Inc, a homeless shelter in San Antonio, stated, “A bulk of homeless people are kids and teenagers”. So what do homeless teenagers and Gandhi’s...
Teens Underestimate Cyberbullying Effects
“It got to point that we were dropping curse words and fighting it out with people we didn’t even know. It was just completely ridiculous. I mean there’s no rhyme or reason to it, you could just have a debate but there’s really no purpose in just being that mean over it.” That quote is an excerpt...
Finding Hope in the Center of God's Will
A three-room home with dirt floors and ninety people living inside was the sight Dave Philips, founder of the Children’s Hunger Fund (CHF), encountered while visiting Honduras in 1987. Philips came back to the United States convinced that he would go back to help those in need. Little did he know that...
Plagiarism Plagues High School Students
SACS English teacher Dr. Dinah Richard once asked her students, “Would you like to be driving over bridges in San Antonio that were built by civil engineers who cheated their way through college? Would you like a loved one having brain surgery performed by a doctor who cheated his way through medical...