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Local Parades Help Bring in the Holiday Season

Christmas is approaching quickly and holiday spirit is all around, if you know where to look! Festivities like ice skating, caroling, and tacky Christmas sweater parties seem so cliché. This year, why not start a tradition and attend a local parade? Full of yuletide music, generous giving, and community unity, you are sure to have a blast!
On Tuesday, December 10, the Spartanburg Christmas Parade took place for their 29th year anniversary. Celebrating the holiday season, downtown Spartanburg puts this parade on for all ages. It is the area’s largest night parade showcasing the lighted floats, multiple marching bands (even our own!), and much more. As you sit along the side walk wrapped in your blanket, cheering and waiting for Santa, you can buy fun toys from street merchants.
Another parade located right here in the Springs takes place each year, bringing our growing population together. Many businesses, churches, and organizations decorate floats and display their titles proudly. Some floats throw candy while wishing you a Merry Christmas! If you get hungry or thirsty during the parade, the restaurants that line Highway 9 (where the parade is held) are within walking distances. You are sure to run into someone you know. Spreading the joy is contagious, and is sure to get you in the spirit! With friends or family, don’t forget to scope out the local parades and have a Merry Christmas

Boys Basketball Plan for a Comeback

The 2013-2014 Bulldog Boys’ Basketball Team has started their season. After a record of 9-14 last season, Coach Browning, Boys’ Varsity Head Coach, says, "We have an experienced team to help us improve on last season’s record."

The Bulldogs have eight returning varsity players and seven out of eight started during the season last year. Their key players are Jared Wallace and Mason Sanders, both seniors, who were All-Region and leading scorers for the team last year.
Jared Wallace, returning senior point guard, says, "I plan on playing hard for my team, and helping them improve from last season."
The Boys’ Basketball team won against Northwestern (61-57) on Tuesday, December 3rd, to begin their season. Unfortunately, this win was followed by a rough patch, losing to Chapman, JL Mann, and Northwestern, the second time they met on the court.
Coach Browning is optimistic for the remainder of the season. "We plan to practice, practice, practice, and work on executing offense and better
defense."
This week, the Bulldogs will take on the Gaffney Indians and the Riverside Warriors. The Bulldogs will need your support to play on enemy territory, so don’t miss out on these games!

What’s the Reason Behind the Season?

During the Christmas season families come together to enjoy special activities. People from all over have special holiday traditions, like putting up a Christmas tree, hanging mistletoe, or handing out candy canes. However, not too many people really know where these traditions began.

  So why do people put up a Christmas tree and decorate it? Bringing a tree into the house and decorating it comes from the Germanic tribes in the 8th century who worshipped oak trees and decorated them for Winter Solstice.

People always hang mistletoe around the house or around Christmas parties, but who started this tradition? Mistletoe comes from the descendents of Ireland who thought mistletoe came from Heaven and grew from a tree that came from Earth, which symbolizes the joining of Heaven and Earth.

What about the people who hand out candy canes? Candy canes come from a group of scholars who believed that they were made to represent Jesus, hence it being in the shape of a "J." The white stripes symbolize purity and the red stripes symbolize the blood of Jesus Christ.

  There are many traditions around Christmas time, so enjoy the ongoing family time and keep in mind the historical reasons behind everything we do to celebrate the holiday season.

 

 

BSHS Bulldogs Have a Holly Jolly Christmas

Students at BSHS had a "holly jolly" time at the Christmas assembly on December 6th, truly bringing the meaning of Christmas to life for all the students. After the chorus, orchestra, and jazz band performed some favorite Christmas selections, two special guests offered their personal testimonies, explaining how even in the most difficult situations, Christmas is a time for giving.

 Trone Foster, a 13-year-old boy from Rainbow Lake Middle School, spoke of his struggles with Leukemia and expressed his sadness about how he never received a true Christmas at home. However, this year will be the first year that he will finally be able to do just that. Knowing how it feels not to celebrate a real Christmas at home for so long, Trone decided to take all the money that was donated to help pay his medical bills and instead, bought presents for children at the hospital who would not be able to spend their holidays at home.

Carsyn Bush, another special guest, spoke about his younger brother, who had recently passed away. He was full of sorrow, but told the student body that he wanted Christmas to be a special holiday to remember his brother and to be thankful for the time they had together.

Afterwards, BSHS students celebrated their way of sharing with others through the "Parade of Toys." First block classes had been collecting presents for Christmas Angels over several weeks and were proud to leave them under the brightly lit Christmas tree for the underprivileged boys and girls of the Boiling Springs community. Bulldog students know the true meaning of Christmas: "It is better to give than to receive."