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Students and staff experience new building renovations

Dalton Gates, Morgan Flannery, Cordelia Portman, MaKenzi VerVaecke, Ari Clark, Angela Rowe, and Katelyn Fonkert

January 17, 2024

Over the last winter break Manitou Springs High School had many renovations, mostly to the hallways with new carpeting and lighting with the removal of past senior composites.

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Dalton Gates, Multi-Media Editor-in-Chief

Dalton Gates is a senior at Manitou Springs High School. He likes to write short scripts in his free time. His passions include film, writing and photography. Although, Gates hates The Breakfast Club. He is ecstatic to improve his writing and work collaboratively with others on The Prospector.

Morgan Flannery, Editor-in-Chief

Morgan Flannery is a senior at Manitou Springs High School. Flannery has been writing stories for the Prospector since her sophomore year. Flannery enjoys going out with friends, going to concerts and enjoying time outside skiing and hiking. She is very excited for senior year and writing about all of the fun that the 2024 senior class will have.

Cordelia Portman, Copy Editor

Cordelia Portman is currently a junior at MSHS. This is her third year on the Prospector staff. She has three cats and loves to meet new animals. She enjoys working, playing instruments, spending money, decorating and going to football games. Portman dislikes people who don't use their blinker, airports and wasps. She is excited to be the copy editor this year for the staff.

MaKenzi VerVaecke, Editor-in-Chief

MaKenzi VerVaecke is currently a senior at Manitou Springs High School. She helps to manage football in the fall. In her free time, she enjoys cooking and watching TV shows. One of VerVaecke’s favorite things is to go to MSHS games, specifically basketball and volleyball. However, she dislikes white chocolate and blue cheese. VerVaecke is excited to continue growing her journalistic career as Editor-In-Chief this year.

Ari Clark, Senior Reporter

Ari Clark is a junior at Manitou Springs High School. They enjoy drawing and playing Dungeons and Dragons with friends when they have time. Along with being a member of the Prospector Staff, they are involved with school theatre productions. Clark loves the arts and plans to study them in some capacity once they graduate. They look forward to contributing to The Prospector for the next two years in as many forms as possible.

Angela Rowe, Senior Reporter

Angela Rowe is a senior at Manitou Springs High School. Rowe is a fan of hiking, going to concerts and being outdoors. Rowe currently does not participate in a team, but she has loved softball her whole life. Rowe spends her nights after school and on the weekends working at Savelli’s. She highly dislikes blue cheese and seafood. Rowe is looking forward to expanding her writing ability this year in journalism.

Katelyn Fonkert, Senior Reporter

Katelyn Fonkert is a senior at Manitou Springs High School. In her free time, she enjoys skiing at Keystone and Breckenridge as well as reading and writing. Fonkert plans on pursuing a degree in English, and hopes to use this degree to write a book and teach English Language Arts at the high school level. Fonkert looks forward to building her writing skills and gaining knowledge that will help her pursue her writing career.