To add something new to this year’s calendar, the girls from the 2023 senior class participated in their first powder puff game Oct. 30.  While walking onto Carstens field wearing their powder puff shirts, the seniors got into their assigned teams before the first game began.  This returning event hasn’t happened since 2018, persuading 73 girls to sign up this year. The girls who originally organized this event, seniors Ellie Watts and Annie Flynn, were in charge of sending out information...

Thirty-three students from DGN went to Lyons Township High School for a West Suburban Leadership Conference (WSLC) field trip on Oct. 28. DGN students have been attending this field trip for a decade to help the student body become stronger leaders for the school. The retreat is sponsored by Core Training, who invited students from all over the West Suburban Conference schools. The WSLC used to be for just student athletes, but in recent years, they have been opening up to the general population...

Nov. 11, students packed an overnight bag and gathered on a bus to YMCA Camp Duncan for the biannual Operation Snowball retreat. Due to the pandemic, however, Operation Snowball has not been an overnight retreat since winter of 2020. Amidst the pandemic, the Snowball retreat still happened, it just looked slightly different. From Zoom small groups and social distanced gatherings in 2020 to a one day masked retreat in 2021, the program is excited to put together the first overnight retreat post-pandemic.  Senior...