Whether you know how to ice skate or not, Legacy Church brought Legacy Youth together to go ice skating on January 18th, 2025 at L.A KING ICELAND from 11:45 a.m. to 1:45 p.m. With arrivals coming, many line up to purchase before receiving their skates. Waiting with excitement, the youth group sits as they try on their skates. Afterward, many entered the ice rink, some knew how to skate while others had trouble ice skating. Some held onto something or someone laughing a lot trying not to fall as others practiced with a slide board, taking turns to sit down as others practiced gliding, eventually going faster and faster. One of the youth leaders, Laura Magallanes, shares how she as well as other youth leaders prepared for this event. “I prepared to have the youth ice skating event by discussing it with other leaders to figure out when we can do it.” Magallanes states, “We had our whole calendar in front of us, deciding when we wanted to place each event for the youth group, and then we decided that the ice skating event last year was fun for you guys, so we decided to do it again”. As youth students are ice skating, Laura Magallanes shares her experience seeing them ice skating. “I think the youth group had fun, definitely some scared skaters but everyone who went gave it a try and had fun” Magallanes states, “I saw a lot of my youth students helping each other which was nice to see, so looks like everyone had a good time”. “Besides falling, just falling and being nervous was just a little funny,” she continues. Seeing funny moments and how ice skating went, Jolissa V., 9, shares her experience of ice skating. “It was very fun, it was a learning process but I got better as time went on”, Jolissa states, “When I first got on the ice, I was like gripping onto the railing because I did not want to fall. My friends were ahead of me and I stayed back and I was laughing”. “I witnessed people falling but you know I tried to not laugh because I didn’t want them to feel bad.” she continues. “What made me laugh was that my friends went ahead of me.” Students continuing to ice skate, are encouraged and helped by other people with different skill levels in ice skating. As the month of February is coming up, Laurage Mallagnes shares upcoming youth events. Our upcoming event for the youth group for February is a Valentine’s Day party”, Magallanes states, “both on the Sunday before and the Wednesday before, that is the next soonest upcoming event that we’re having”.
Legacy Ice Skating
February 12, 2025
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Nadia Phutsorn, Illustrator
Starting her first year on the Downey Legend as an Illustrator, Nadia Phutsorn,11, hopes to make connections here at newspaper as well as get back into art. Although she doesn’t know where she would like to attend college yet, she wants to major in oncology. When she’s not in school Phutsorn likes to draw and play the piano, both of which she has been doing since 6th grade. Despite describing herself as an introvert Phutsorn wants to use Newspaper to help her step out of her comfort zone and be a part of a bigger community.
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For her first year in Newspaper, Lisa Torres, 12, joins this year’s crew as a photographer/writer. Torres hopes to achieve good grades this year, she also wants to have fun adventures and learn new things. Torres has plans of graduating from Downey with good grades and then going to Cerritos to then transfer to Cal State Long Beach to pursue a career in the medical field. With the free time that Torres has, she likes to Dance, Listen to music and sing, she also likes photography and visiting nature. Torres also enjoys spending time with her family and friends. Her favorite animal is a dolphin but has a dream pet which is a fat and chubby bulldog.
Torres was excited to join newspaper this year, after being in photojournalism last year and recommended by the teacher, “I am really excited to explore the creative side of newspaper, having new experiences to photograph and write about” Torres stated “it’s really something I’ve always been curious about and ready to begin new chapters in my life.”