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Beth Stewart
Thomas Stiefel
John Stimmel
"' Amy Stork
Lori Sum
Debbie Summerside
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Sheri Sutton
Justin Suurvarik
Kelly Swallow
Theodore Tabaka
Kathy Takemura I
Forrest Taylor
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Pat Talley
Amber Thomas
Robert Thompson
Sean Thompson
Scott Thor
Shayne T obaben I

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Pat Tracy
Bob Trelles
Rob Tunink
Barb Turgeon
Travis Tyler

Jeff Vail
Steve Valentich
Dean Vance
Craig Vanecek
Rochelle VanOeveren

It's Just a Part of Life!

0 n the verge of o a snooze button on my alarm one. One that would last and
Sleep! If only there were not and on. but I wanted a real

breakdown. a massive heart clock. Each morning as my really work.
attack. and a tear filled mess, alarm went off I instinctively hit My search began. I decided
I looked at my stress-filled life the snooze button in my sleep. in the end that I needed to quit
and resolved to solve it. Al- This seemed to add to my stress my part-time job to allow extra
though I had very few ideas on as I ran around forty-five min - hours for homework and sleep.
how to, I decided to give it my utes later. trying to make it to It really worked. I still had some
best shot. school on time. The even big- stress , but a major burden had
The first step was to look at ger problem was that when I been lifted.
what was causing the stress was asleep I had no stress. It No matter who the person or
and try to change it. School was the sound of the alarm that what methods they used,
was a major factor. I seemed restarted my stress button. whether it be quitting a job.
to go for days with no assign- If I had a stress button. then cutting down on social activi-
ments in each class. and then maybe I had a pause button ties. or even exercising, the
unexpectedly all my teachers and a stop button. If I paused choice was theirs . The stress I
would assign major things all my life when there was no stress felt was changed and handled.
due on the same day. At first I and stopped it when I did have and so everyone else's could
could handle this, but then my stress. maybe that would solve have been too. It was all just a
brain slowly began to fry and my prob ... no. I needed real matter of looking for an answer
dissolve into nothing. The pres- answers and solutions . and accepting the one found.
sures at home were also con- Solutions? What were Stress went away and prob-
stantly tumbling down on me. they? I knew several temporary lems came and went. It was all
These pressures were begin- ones such as screaming, sleep- just a part of life.
ning to wear me down. ing, crying ... the list went on -Melinda Absher-
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