“I stand here today hum-

bled by the task before

us, grateful for the trust

you have bestowed,

mindful of the sacrifices

born by our ancestors. I

thank president Bush

for his service to our

nation, as well as the

generosity and coopera-

tion he has shown

throughout this transi-

tion.”

Those were the

first few lines of

Barack Obama’s

inaugural address. On

the afternoon of Thurs-

day, January 20th Barack

Obama was sworn in as

our 44th president of the

United States of Amer-

ica. His wife, Michelle,

and two daughters, Ma-

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

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.

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President Barack Obama was sworn in on January

20,2009 in front of millions of people.

Obama Sworn In

Special points of interest:

The North Star

Center Grove Middle School North

Volume I, Issue 2

Favorite Lunch Food 2

Global Warming 3

Club Corner 3

American Idol 4

Movie Reviews 4

This Month in History 5

Valentines Day Facts 6

Inside this issue:

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

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

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

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Favorite School Lunch? We’ve got results!

You’ve heard

horror stories

about school

lunches, but

are they really

that bad? Stu-

dents we sur-

veyed didn’t

think so. Find

out what came

out on top.

14%

21%

39%

26%

Fast Food Choices

Arby's Subway Chick-fil-a Dominos

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CGMSN Favorite Lunch Foods

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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.

(Continued from page 1)

Club Corner Katie Huntzinger

As you know there are many clubs at CGMSN. The North Star is here to tell you about what is going on in them.

Kelsey Kamman

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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!

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PAUL BLART 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.

Now Playing…

Movie Reviews Conor Marley Elliott Gray

City of Ember 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?

Reality Show Update:

American Idol Of course, as most of us know, American Idol’s

season 8 opened up its doors in Phoenix, Arizona. It

started out with thousands of people waiting forever and

ever out in the sweltering heat. American Idol also has a

new judge, Kara, who works with other singers she is not

all that popular though. Out of all those people, there are

three I would like to talk about. First the guy who can hit

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.

February Birthdays By Matthew Zagaros

2-7-1812 Charles Dickens

2-11-1847 Thomas Edison

2-8-1935 Elvis Presley

2-17-1963 Michael Jordan

2-11-1963 Sheryl Crow

2-11-1964 Sarah Palin

2-1-1968 Lisa Marie Presley

2-11-1969 Jennifer Aniston

2-7-1978 Ashton Kutcher

By Vinny M

orrison

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.

This Month in History Matthew Zagaros

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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-

(Continued from page 1) 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.

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

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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!”

The North Star — Newspaper Staff

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

-Emily Morrow

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