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Nothing’s gonna stop us now (from graduating)

Posted in Graduation, tagged , , , , on June 7, 2021| 2 Comments »

Aria Bowen – the only CHS Class of 2021 grad who napped as a baby on the Videoville counter. (Photo courtesy Mekare Bowen)

Miss Bowen rocks designer eye-ware at a 2019 football game, while fellow grad-to-be Savannah Smith is faster than the camera. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Old-school Savannah and Aria. (Photo courtesy Konni Smith)

Can’t tell the graduates without a scorecard.

So here you go, ready to be laminated — the Coupeville High School Class of 2021.

Every name matters, but one stands above them all for me.

Aria Bowen is the final reminder of my 12-year run behind the counter at Videoville from 1994-2006.

The same counter where a lil’ Aria took naps in her carrier while I jabbered about movies, her older sister Mekare built modern art sculptures back at the block table, and their mom, Dea, served up Miriam’s Espresso drinks.

So she gets three photos and a lot of the rest of you grads-to-be maybe don’t get one in this story.

You’ll survive, and still graduate.

Then you can go build a time machine, travel back to when Videoville rented 500 VHS tapes on a Friday night in Cow Town, and plop your own baby tush on our counter.

And, having bent time and space, you can act all surprised when, magically, it’s suddenly you getting three photos in a 2021 graduation story.

Simple really.

Until then, Aria (and a bunch of people not named Aria) form the CHS Class of 2021:

 

Constance Armitage-Buckley
Knight Arndt
Mollie Bailey
Owen Barenburg
Megan Behan
Drake Borden
Aria Bowen
Anya Burns
Elisa Caroppo
Coral Caveness
Aurora Cernick
Autumn Cernick
Kylie Chernikoff
Alexis Czarnik
Sionna Darga
Sage Downes
Dakota Eck
Mark Fain
Emily Fiedler
Zac Gardner
Trinity Hill
Isabel Hucke
Thora Iverson
Alex Jimenez
Emma Kalweis
Eli Kastner
Mikaela Labrador
Michael Laska
Ivy Leedy
Catherine Lhamon
Marissa Malinowski
Jaimee Masters
Lacy McCraw-Shirron
Heidi Meyers
Daniel Olson
Cierra Otto
Desiree Otto
Kimberly Partida
Chelsea Prescott
Richard Rebischke-Smith
Jackie Reid
TJ Rickner
Silas Russell
Chandell Schoonover
Andrew Score
Ben Smith
Savannah Smith
Liem Solow
Jacob Thurston
Lilly Tornensis
Maddie Vondrak
Erik Webster
Brandon Whitaker
Marissa Williams
Genna Wright
Sam Wynn
Lily Zustiak

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Let’s get this season started

Posted in Football, tagged , , , , , , on September 7, 2019| Leave a Comment »

Sean Toomey-Stout had kick-off returns of 34 and 63 yards Friday in Coupeville’s first game of the season. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

Aria Bowen rocks designer specs while Savannah Smith remains a woman of mystery.

Andrew Martin, who led Coupeville’s ground game, churns for yardage.

Volleyball ace Emma Mathusek enjoys a flavor-packed hamburger while trapped in the middle of a sea of humanity.

A gentle prairie breeze ripples the flags on a warm, sunny night.

Gavin Straub (44) and Gavin Knoblich (33) wrap up a RedHawk runner, while Dominic Coffman (45) comes flying in to help.

“Yeah, boy!!!!! That tackle is almost as tasty as my gum!!! Almost…”

Prairie superstars (left to right) Mallory Kortuem, Zoe Trujillo, and Maya Toomey-Stout are ready to get loud in support of their classmates.

Fall sports have sprung, in all their photographic glory.

Coupeville High School’s football team kicked off the 2019-2020 school year Friday, hosting Port Townsend, and the event was big enough to convince John Fisken to drive down from the city to the North.

Cameras at the ready, the wanderin’ paparazzi clicked away through the pre-game action and the first half of play.

The pics above are courtesy him, but are not all that he shot on the night.

To see more, pop over to:

https://www.johnsphotos.net/Sports/Coupeville-Football-2019-2020/FB-2019-09-06-vs-Pt-Townsend/

If you purchase any prints while there, a percentage of each sale goes into a fund Fisken uses at the end of the year, when he hands out scholarships to two CHS senior student/athletes.

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One court, to rule them all!!

Posted in Homecoming, tagged , , , , on October 14, 2017| Leave a Comment »

   Coupeville High School senior princess Mckenzie Meyer, the pride of Videoville. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

The senior court for Homecoming practices their runway poses.

Payton Aparicio and Hunter Smith lead the parade.

   Senior princess Lauren Bayne gets love from soccer mates Lindsey Roberts (left) and Sage Renninger.

Videoville’s legacy lives on.

My home away from home for 13 years may be no more (psst … not too late for someone to bring it back and start paying me to watch movies again), but its alumni are still making news.

When Coupeville High School announced its 2017 Homecoming royalty Friday, two of the honorees had a connection back to video store life.

Senior princess Mckenzie Meyer is the granddaughter of my former bosses, Frank and Miriam Meyer.

And freshman princess Aria Bowen, though she might have forgotten about it at this point, used to hang out with me behind the video counter as a baby while mom Dea made drinks at Miriam’s Espresso.

The other royalty might not have that Videoville connection, but I guess we can mention their names here as well…

2017 CHS Homecoming royalty:

Queen:

Payton Aparicio

King:

Hunter Smith

Senior Prince and Princesses:

Lauren Bayne
Mckenzie Meyer
William Nelson
Lauren Rose
Cameron Toomey-Stout
Julian Welling

Junior Court:

Madison Krieg
Josh Robinson

Sophomore Court:

Jered Brown
Mica Shipley

Freshman Court:

Aria Bowen
Michael Laska

Duke and Duchess:

Chad Felgar
Ariana Nielsen

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