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Brandon’s Biography
Brandon Lofton is a senior at PCHS. He is also a staff reporter for The Pekinois. He is making a big move to Colorado during the summer to attend Colorado Mesa University. There, he will race for their cycling team and possibly their tennis team. Brandon enjoys golf, tennis, swimming and traveling. He likes to fish and spend time outdoors. Brandon is a family guy and spends a lot of time with them. They also cycle together. Brandon is going to college to study construction management and hopes to become an architect later is his career. Brandon is a very hard worker and has a desire to conquer his dreams. He will be training hard to try out for the summer Olympics is 2014! Brandon has faith in his cycling and has faith that he is going to do as good as he can!
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Zach’s Biography
Zach VanDusen is a senior at Pekin Community High School. He is a staff reporter for The Pekinois. He was born on April 7, 1994 and is currently 17 years old. During his childhood, he grew up playing many sports including baseball, basketball, football, and soccer. He continued to play sports until the end of his freshman year. Now that he is no longer involved with school sports, he has been taking career-building classes to pursue a career in construction business.
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Brett’s Biography
Brett Allen is a senior at Pekin High School. He is 17 and is a staff reporter for The Pekinois. He participates in the school’s welding program and competes in competitions. His interests are cars, dirt bikes and four wheelers.
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Sydni’s Biography
Sydni McCoskey is a senior at PCHS. She is currently participating in the child care program here at Pekin High and is volunteering at Jefferson Grade School. She works at Bob Evans as a hostess. In her spare time, she enjoys shopping and hanging out with her friends. Other things she enjoys doing are spending time with family and traveling. Her favorite color is purple, and her plans after high school are to attend college and become a dental hygienist or go into message therapy.
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Markus’s Biography
Markus Fishel is a staff reporter for The Pekinois. Markus is a senior at PCHS. He plans on attending ICC then transferring to WIU to get his teaching degree. He works at Pizza Hut. He loves watching YouTube videos.
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Michael’s Biography
Michael Ashby is a senior at Pekin Community High School. He is a staff reporter for The Pekinois. Michael enjoys wrestling and made second team all-conference. He loves the paranormal activity movies and hanging out with his friends and his girlfriend. He also has a German shepherd named Katy. Michael plans to go to Harding University and then later become a fireman and a coach.
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Sara’s Biography
Sara Allen is a junior at Pekin Community High School. She works at YWCA where she is a lifeguard, swim instructor, and a Special Olympics coach. Sara is on the swim team at Pekin. She loves to swim and be a team leader. She is also on student council where she has chaired a few events. When she isn’t working, studying or swimming, she hangs out with her friends and family. Her boyfriend is her best friend, and her brothers are her super-heroes! Sara loves Illinois basketball and hopes to go to school at U of I where she will study broadcasting journalism. She enjoys music and watching TV, especially the show One Tree Hill. She loves to make new friends and have a good time even when times are rough. Sara hopes to make a fun contribution to The Pekinois.
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Jeffrey’s Biography
Jeffrey Jackson is a senior at PCHS where he is a staff reporter for The Pekinois. He is on the speech team and takes a major interest in generating short films. He thoroughly enjoys dramatic psychological films and prefers classical music. After high school, Jeffrey has high hopes of attending film school for a degree in directing and screenwriting in New York City – the city that never sleeps.
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Paul’s Biography
Paul Sims is a senior at PCHS and is the features editor for The Pekinois. He is also a member of the JROTC drill tem and marching band, jazz band, symphonic band, pep band, and stage crew for show choir. When he’s not at the school, he is either doing things involving Boy Scouts or is with his church. After high school he wants to join the United States Army National Guard for four years while going to college then becoming an officer in the Army.
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Darian’s Biography!
Senior Darian Saal is a staff reporter for The Pekinois newspaper. She co-coaches soccer and plays vollyball at the Boy’s and Girl’s Club. Her favorite books are the Hunger Games series and Thirteen Reasons Why. She wants to do Counseling Psychologist at NIU. She also wants to minor in sign language so she can counsel deaf teens.
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Cody’s Biography
Cody Krohn is a senior here at Pekin Community High School. Cody is a staff reporter for The Pekinois. He works on a horse ranch where he helps care for 18 horses. He enjoys fishing, hunting, and riding ATV’s and horses. Cody’s plans after high school include moving to Texas to work on a bigger ranch. Nothing puts a smile on Codys’ face like watching kids ride for the first time.
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Skyler’s Biography
Skyler Hernandez, known to many as Jose’, is a very outgoing and friendly person. He works at Steak n’ Shake and is a junior. He enjoys music of all kinds but mostly rap and metal. His favorite artist is Lil Wayne. He loves pizza, he is Mexican, and he is a very ballin’ individual.
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Kris’ Biography
Kris Brown is a senior at PCHS and is the Entertainment Editor on The Pekinois newspaper. He is currently employed at Steak n’ Shake. He usually spends his free time just chillin’ with friends. Also he is currently taking part in the drafting classes at PCHS and loves it! The class teaches you how to make floor plans, mechanical drawling, and much more. Another thing he likes to do is ride Mountain bikes, and play his PS3. He enjoys to go hiking, fishing, and loves to take care of his 55 gallon African Cichlid Aquarium. When hes not working, hanging out with his friends, or playing games, he is usually messing around with his ’98 Ford Mustang. So this kid is basically one cool cat! 
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Daniell’s Biography
Junior Daniell Bennett, opinion editor of The Pekinois, is in her third semester of journalism. She spends much of her time working at the Pekin Union Mission and the rest of it hanging out with friends and family. She enjoys being with her younger sister very much, and she spends a large amount of time having fun with her. Daniell tries very hard in school, but she is undecided in what she wants to do after high school. Although she has not chosen what she wants to pursue as an adult, she has an interest in social work and would really like to help make the lives of children who have been mistreated better. This desire to help children comes from the foster children her grandma has helped raised. She looks up to her grandma very much and aspires to be like her when she grows up. Even though she spends time working hard at school and trying to figure out what she wants to do with the rest of her life, she also has time to enjoy herself and have fun. Some things she likes to do are: watch movies, go on walks, and go camping with her friends. Her friends make her laugh a lot.
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Dan’s Biography
Senior Daniel Counterman acts as the eccentrically cynical editor-in-chief of The Pekinois. He is active in the PCHS scholastic bowl team. He likes rock music of all shapes and sizes, genres and eras. However, there is a special place in the wild expanse of his heart for classic rock, with his favorite bands being Bob Dylan, Alice Cooper, and Aerosmith. He enjoys reading, as well as other forms of entertainment be it television, cinema, or video games. The things that make him laugh are also the things that continue to push him into hopelessly uncompromising nihilism, namely the seemingly meaninglessness of events in life, both great and small. He hopes and aspires to be an extraordinarily successful writer, but he will probably use a pen name, so you won’t recognize him anyway. If he was an animal, he would probably be a very ominous looking crow, and if he had to choose his favorite superhero, it would undoubtedly be Batman. He also has an affinity for good science fiction.
