Erica Copeland

Erica Copeland, Staff Writer

Erica is a senior this year at NCHS, where she is involved in Theatre. This is her first year on The Inkspot staff where she is a staff writer.

My biggest pet peeve is slow walkers.

My slogan to live by is “Just keep rolling with the punches.”

My favorite movie is The Conjuring (2013).

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Cartoon cooking

After months of binging television and binging food, an amateur cook decided to combine her two pandemic past-times by cooking some of the iconic dishes she saw animated on screen

Erica Copeland, Staff Writer • May 4, 2021

Since the start of the pandemic, we all have been looking for a recipe to keep us connected and keep us sane. During quarantine, my own life was dedicated to two activities - logging in to Google Meets and watching childhood throwbacks. "The Aristocats" and it’s posh counterpart "Lady and the...

Inkspot’s most adoptable fictional “spots”

Nayonika Banerjee, Mahnoor Shaheen, Kennedy Coe, Dylan Wehmeyer, Victoria Wilson, Jonah Kramer, Emma Conover, Lauren Hirsch, Max Roth, Natalie Maloy, Lauren Cutler, Myra Saulat, Norah Wagoner and Erica Copeland • Mar 24, 2021

As stay-at-home orders were issued across the U.S. last year, animal welfare organizations saw pet adoptions spike during the second half of March. Industry data from PetPoint estimates that the national adoption rate of 58% at the beginning of March 2020 jumped to 85% by the month’s end. But...

Local business restrictions impact NCHS students

Erica Copeland, Natalie Maloy and Dylan Wehmeyer • Dec 13, 2020

With Illinois reverting to Phase 3 of the ‘Restore Illinois Resurgence Mitigation Plan’ on Friday, Nov. 20 for the unforeseeable future, small businesses face another round of mitigation requirements. The requirements, coming as a new wave of COVID-19 surged statewide, “aims to limit gatherings...

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