Center Grove Middle School North
Volume I, Issue 2
The North Star
Obama Sworn In
“I stand here today hum-
Inside this issue:
bled by the task before
us, grateful for the trust
Favorite Lunch Food 2
you have bestowed,
Global Warming 3 mindful of the sacrifices
born by our ancestors. I
Club Corner 3
thank president Bush
American Idol 4
for his service to our
nation, as well as the
generosity and coopera-
Movie Reviews 4
tion he has shown
This Month in History 5
throughout this transi-
Valentines Day Facts 6 tion.”
Those were the President Barack Obama was sworn in on January
20,2009 in front of millions of people.
first few lines of
Barack Obama’s
Special points
inaugural address. On
of interest:
the afternoon of Thurs-
day, January 20 Barack
th
Obama was sworn in as
our 44th president of the
United States of Amer-
ica. His wife, Michelle,
and two daughters, Ma-
Tony Dungy, the coach
of the Indianapolis
Colts, retired on Janu-
ary 12, 2009. This was
his 7th year as the
coach of the team. He
finished with a record
of 85 wins and 27
loses and lead the Colts
lia and Sasha, were by
his side as he was
sworn in. They became
the first family of the
United States of Amer-
ica.
Some say it wasn’t quite
to Super Bowl XLI which
ended in a 29 to 17 win.
One of Dungy’s main
achievements, that does not
have to do with football, was
in August 2007 when George
W. Bush appointed him as a
member of the President’s
Council of Service and Civic
official until the next
day. The oath was actu-
ally spoken wrong the
first time by the Su-
preme Court Justice. It
was rehearsed all the
way through the next
day just to be sure.
Senator Edward Ken-
nedy, 76, collapsed dur-
ing the inaugural lunch
for Obama, and the new
US leader ac-
knowledges
there are con-
cerns about the
health of the veteran
senator from Massachu-
setts. Kennedy, a pivotal
Obama supporter, is
suffering from brain can-
cer.
(Continued on page 3)
Participation. Another event
that happened to Dungy
was he released two books.
One of those books was
about his life called Quiet
Strength which was re-
leased on July 10, 2007
and reached New York
(Continued on page 5)
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Favorite School Lunch?

We’ve got results!

You’ve heard
CGMSN Favorite Lunch Foods
horror stories
about school
30
lunches, but
are they really 25
that bad? Stu- 20
dents we sur- 15
veyed didn’t 10
think so. Find 5
out what came 0
out on top.

Fast Food Choices

Arby's Subway Chick-fil-a Dominos

14%
26%

21%

39%
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After the swearing in, the festivities were far from
over. Barack and Michelle watched from the capi-
tol as the inaugural parade got underway. Then
Obama family entered their limo and began mak-
ing their way to the White House. About in the
middle of the parade Barack and Michelle got out
to walk a few yards. About ten minutes later they
got right back out and walked again.
After they arrived at the White House, they walked
across the lawn into a reviewing booth from which
they watched the rest of the parade.
The Obamas had ten inaugural balls to attend.
While Barack and Michelle were going from ball to
ball, Malia and Sasha were at the kids’ ball. Guest
performances included the Jonas brothers and
Bow Wow.
Even though the President and his wife stayed up
until 2:30 dancing, the next day he went straight
to work by getting up at 7 am.
Club Corner
As you know there are many clubs at CGMSN. The North Star is here to tell you about what is going on
in them.
Previously, in Newspaper, “We have been doing
the best we can to make-up ideas,” said Sam,
who is in 7th grade. I have to agree with Sam, we
have been working hard to impress our readers.
“I think the staff has much enthusiasm, and you
all have lots of fun,” Miss Kelley comments, the
staff leader and 7th grade Red team language
arts teacher.
Lights….camera….ACTION! Drama Club is working on
bringing CGMSN a great taste of theater. “We learn
about the stage and can meet a lot of new people,”
Olive Grose, 6th grade, comments. Drama Club is for
students who have an interest in acting or being part
of stage crew. This year they are putting on a musical,
Annie Jr. The show dates will be April 24 and 25.
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Kelsey Kamman
A big world? I’d say! But have you ever thought about
what happens in it? Global Warming, that’s what. Presi-
dent Barrack Obama, newly elected, says he cares about
Global Warming and wants to do something about it, but
the questions, will he really try to prevent this? Nobody
knows.
Do you remember when you were young and always
got told… “You’re too little?” Think about it, are we really
too little? Too little to ponder how we could prevent
global warming and maybe even do something about it?
There are many ways to preclude this situation. One
idea might be to write a letter to the president. Try to
persuade him into doing something about Global Warm-
ing. I am sure that many kids our age have already tried
to lecture the president and complain, but that is not the
way to handle this. Do you want your letter to be in the
garbage within the first couple sentences he has even
read? I don’t think so. If President Barrack Obama
wants to make a change, I believe this is the change that
needs done!
Katie Huntzinger
Book Club have starting reading Don’t You Dare Read This Mrs.
Dunphery!, a book by Margaret P. Haddix. A book about a girl who’s
life is a wreck. She tells you all about it in her Journal. “We read part
of the book and then comprehend what we just read, while eating
popcorn,” Gaia, 8th grade, reports.
As you know the end of the year is rolling to an end, so that
means yearbooks are coming out. Here at CGMSN students get
to create their own yearbook in the Yearbook Club.
Yellow, Green, Blue, and Purple are all colors they use in Art
Club. Last Newsletter that the school sent, there was a re-
quest for Art supplies for this club that does Art. There were
some interesting things in there, I wonder what they are do-
ing. “We would make mugs for the teachers so that they
could buy them,”6th grade, Jackie Rizzi, informs us. Wow!
Mugs made so teacher could buy them, amazing!
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Reality Show Update: February Birthdays
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By
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American Idol By Matthew Zagaros

Of course, as most of us know, American Idol’s 2-7-1812 Charles Dickens

2-11-1847 Thomas Edison
season 8 opened up its doors in Phoenix, Arizona. It 2-8-1935 Elvis Presley
started out with thousands of people waiting forever and 2-17-1963 Michael Jordan
ever out in the sweltering heat. American Idol also has a 2-11-1963 Sheryl Crow
2-11-1964 Sarah Palin
new judge, Kara, who works with other singers she is not 2-1-1968 Lisa Marie Presley
all that popular though. Out of all those people, there are 2-11-1969 Jennifer Aniston
three I would like to talk about. First the guy who can hit 2-7-1978 Ashton Kutcher
those bass notes no problem. he did not go to Hollywood
because he was trying to hit those high notes. Second
the guy with severe tunnel vision (who could play the pi-
ano very well) was able to get that golden ticket to Holly-
wood. And of course the girl we all talk about was the
one who picked a fight with the new judge,
Kara. They were getting in an argument about
who does the best imitation of a singer. She
also got that fabulous golden ticket.

Now Playing…
Movie Reviews
Conor Marley Elliott Gray

PAUL BLART City of Ember

Mall Cop
This is one of the funniest movies I have seen in a
long time. In the movie the main character, Paul Blart,
is a goofy guy training to be a police officer but can’t
pass the test, so he settles for a mall cop. In the
movie, the Segway-riding nut meets the love of his
life, a wig seller named Amy. Black Friday is coming
up, and a new shifty looking mall cop named Vick
Sims joins the squad. On Black Friday, in the middle
of all the hustle and bustle, the “workers” setting up
the Get Your Picture Taken With Santa pull out guns
and demand everyone leaves the mall. Will Paul save
the day? Find out when you see this hilarious movie.
The City of Ember is an adventure story about
an underground city that was made because of a giant
war and all mankind was being destroyed. The builders
left instructions on how to get out of Ember and locked
them in a box that would not open until 200 years later.
The box was passed on from mayor to mayor until it was
picked up by a mayor’s daughter and was hid away until
it silently opened. Some years later the city was falling
apart until a young girl and boy find the box. As they
follow the instructions on how to get out they learn
things they had never known before. While the genera-
tor that is keeping them alive keeps breaking down
more and more they desperately try to find a way out of
Ember to save everyone in the city. Will they escape or
will they not make it out before the generator dies for
good?
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This Month in History Matthew Zagaros

Throughout history, the month
of February has been filled with many
intriguing events. It has seen the birth
of many American Presidents, such
as, George Washington in 1732, Abe
Lincoln in 1809, and Ronald Reagan
in 1911. Several popular childhood
toys were also introduced in February.
The Teddy Bear, named after Presi-
dent Teddy Roosevelt, was first sold in
1903 in a small toy store in Brooklyn,
New York. The first Barbie was shown
at the American Toy Fair in February
of 1959 and was soon followed by the
introduction of the GI Joe, which stood
for Government Issued Joe, on Febru-
ary 2, 1964. The tragedies as well as
the victories that have occurred in the
month of February have helped shape
the way people continue to live their
lives today.
1789: George Wash-
ington was elected
as first U.S. Presi-
dent.
1827: New Orleans,
Louisiana, holds its
first Mardi Gras
celebration.
1887: 1st Groundhog Day cele-
bration in Punxsutawney, Penn-
sylvania.
1896: Leo Hirshfield introduces
the Tootsie Roll.
1909: American Carl Fisher in-
corporates the Indianapolis Mo-
tor Speedway Corp. founding
“The Brickyard”. The Indy 500
would become the world’s larg-
est single-day sporting event.
1936: Babe Ruth was elected
into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1952: The first “Don’t Walk” sign
was installed in New York city in
response to the growing number
of pedestrian deaths.
1959:Cuban revolutionary Fidel
Castro is sworn in as Prime Min-
ister of Cuba.
1964: The Beatle’s arrive in the
U.S. for the first time and appear
on the Ed Sullivan Show causing
the start of Beatle mania.
1964:American boxer Cassius
Clay shocked the world by de-
feating the heavyweight champ
Sonny Liston in a 7 round techni-
cal knockout. He predicted his
victory by saying he could,
“float like a butterfly and sting
like a bee”. He changed his
name to Muhammad Ali two
weeks later.
1978:Texas Instrument pat-
ented the first microchip.
1980:In one of the most dra-
matic upsets in Olympic history,
the underdog U.S. Hockey team
defeats the defending cham-
pion Soviet team at the XIII
Olympic Winter Games in Lake
Placid, New York.
2000:The last original Peanuts
comic strip appears as a signed
farewell from its originator, car-
toonist Charles Schulz, who
had died the day before of co-
lon cancer.
2001:Stock-car racing legend
Dale Earnhardt died in a crash
on the last lap of the Daytona
500.
2003:The Space Shuttle Co-
lumbia breaks up on re-entry
into the Earth’s atmosphere
and all 7 astronauts die leaving
the world in shock and disbe-
lief.

(Continued from page 1)
Times hardcover No. 1 on August
5, 2007. He also released a 24
page children’s book called You
Can Do It.
Something that hurt Dungy
and may have helped his decision
to retire was one of his son’s com-
mitted suicide during the 2005
season when the Colts were fa-
vored to win the Super Bowl that
year. The team lost in the second
round of the playoffs against the
Pittsburgh Steelers at the RCA
Dome on a missed field goal. The
next year Dungy would make his-
tory.
Going into the playoffs the Colts
were last in run defense and nobody was
picking the Colts for the Super Bowl. First
the Colts had to beat the Chiefs at the RCA
Dome which they did while holding one of
the leagues premiere running backs Larry
Johnson to 24 yards on the ground, but still
nobody was convinced the Colts could win
the Super Bowl. Dungy got his team ready,
and they beat the Ravens and the Patriots
to get to Super Bowl XLI. Dungy and the
Colts beat Lovie Smith and the Bears and,
Dungy was the first African American to win
the Super Bowl. The next two years ended
in Disappointment when the Colts lost to
the Chargers two years straight. Then
Dungy retired from the Colts and the
NFL.
As announced before the be-
ginning of last season, Jim Caldwell
took over as head coach of the Indian-
apolis Colts after Dungy retired. Some
changes have already been made.
Caldwell has fired the special teams
coach and the defensive coordinator
resigned. The hunt is still on for a de-
fensive coordinator. The future is look-
ing bright for the Colts, but we will all
miss the best coach in the team’s his-
tory and arguably the best coach in
NFL history.
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202 N. Morgantown Rd.

Greenwood, IN 46142
Phone: (317) 885-8800

Principal: Mr. Matthew Kaiser

Assistant Principal: Mr. Matthew Taylor
Dean of Students: Mrs. Julie Lawson
Faculty Advisor of the North Star: Miss
Kathleen Kelley

-Emily Morrow
How many of you look forward to going to the cafete-
ria every day and eating lunch? If so, keep reading.
We all know that there is a group of people that cook
our lunch every day, but no one really pays any at-
tention to them, but really if it was not for them we
would go through the day starving. The one who
keeps everything in order and makes sure the food is
properly prepared in the kitchen is the head cook,
Mrs. Jan Etter. Mrs. Etter has been employed here
for 7 years as a cook and has two boys. She loves
her job and has no dislikes about it except for one
school lunch that she does not like to make: burritos.
However, she enjoys making chili. She and the rest
of the cooks quote, “It’s all about the kids!”
-Rachel Gravens
February 14th. A day for
lovers. Still celebrated today Valentine ’s
Day has become a day of love, cards, dia-
monds, roses, and chocolate. About 180
million roses to be exact and 14 billion
dollars go into this day. Schools, work-
places, and lovers alike celebrate this day
of romance and history. CGMSN is no
exception. This year you can send a
Mountain Dew to a friend or staff. There
will also be a Valentine’s Dance Friday
the 6th.
Valentine’s Day has been cele-
brated since the early Romans. It was ac-
tually a day to celebrate the god of fertil-
ity. A sacrifice was made, then the skins
where cut into strips and used to slap the
young women to give them fertility for the
year to come. It was later made into a
holiday by Pope Gelasius in hopes of
making it more Christian.
Happy Valentine’s Day