The Eagle’s Nest • Halloween Edition • October 2006
Woodshop provides valuable support By RILEY BREWER RILEY@RHEACOUNTYEAGLESNEST.ORG
The students in the vocational department are starting the year off right, with hard work and a productive mindset. This dedication and efficiency is helping the entire school and many community mem-
AUTUMN from Page 1 program will be held at the church, and due to past turn out, it is recommended that any larger parties should make reservations to attend. The presentation is free. However, there is a sugested donation of two dollars. Haunted houses not your style? There are still several other activities going on around here: On Saturday October twentyeighth, Walnut Grove Full Gospel Church is hosting a fall festival with a hay ride. Food will be available as well as “trunk-or-treat” for anyone searching for an alternative to trick-or-treating. The hay ride will take off around dark. The church is located in Dayton, next to the Medical Center. Other area churches often host similar events. On October thirty-first, All Hallows Eve, the Dayton Merchants are sponsoring the first annual Pumpkin Festival held downtown. The festivities are scheduled to kick off at three in the afternoon and expected to run until ten in the evening. Scheduled events are face painting, hay rides, a coloring contest, a pumpkin carving contest, a costume contest, Merchant Treating from three until eight, and a movie in Centennial Park. Merchant “Treating” is a safe alternative to trick-or-treating from the downtown merchant shops. Music will be performed by multiple artists, inflatables will be set up, and there will be areas for skateboarding. Food and game booths will also be open on the Court House Lawn. With all of this local activity, no one has an excuse to stay at home with the, ‘There is nothing happening worth going to’ line. So get out and enjoy all the area has to offer!
bers out in various ways, from graphic arts helping the basketball players show their school spirit with brand new sweatshirts to woodworking classes providing teachers with a good place to store a few of their many books. Mr. Heath’s woodshop projects so far this year have included a pine chest and two end tables for Mrs. Davis, nine lockers for the freshman girl’s basketball team, wall files for teachers, and four podiums for Meigs County teachers. Additionally, RCHS students will be
able to spot some of woodshop’s handiwork in the upcoming school plays. Woodshop built a round table, platforms, stairs, and many other items for Theater Arts and also supervised the cutting of wood and general prop formation. Ms. Ballentine gushed that they “love woodshop” for all of their help. People with a piece they would like built should contact the school and provide Mr. Heath with dimensions for the object and/or a picture. The fee is only the cost of materials plus 15% to help pay for other wood-
AUTUMN EVENTS GUIDE The Haunted Forest Spring City, Veteran’s Park October 27–31; 7–10 Haunted walk sponsored by the RCHS Baseball Team
Terror on the Mountain Walden’s Ridge School October 27, 28, 30, 31; “dark-thirty”–11:00; $5 Haunted house
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shop costs. Another busy vocational class is Mr. Webb’s hydroponics class. These students have worked to build a specialized hydroponics watering system for their plants. The system would allow students to grow their plants with nutrient water instead of soil, and the class has been constructing the system themselves without any outside assistance. Mr. Carder’s Culinary Arts III class has also started a student-run project. The Culinary Arts III students plan to record a Food Network-style instructional video on how to cook certain foods. The video will feature and be directed by the students themselves, and it will be shown to the beginning classes as a way to help the newer students learn and let the more experienced students refine their skills through self-critique. All of the vocational students and teachers hope that this fantastic work ethic is maintained throughout the school year.
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Oblivion X
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Cleveland October 27–31; $10 http://www.oblivion-x.com Haunted house
lack of classes centered around government and politics there are no student organizations which focus on politics. This is more disturbing when one is aware of the fact that there used to be chapters of the Young Republicans and Young Democrats at this school. The good news is, it seems that more students are taking an active interest in voting and politics. Christine Morton, who has already voted in this year’s election, had this to say, “There’s nothing that you can do after you turn eighteen that outweighs the ability to vote. I’ve waited to vote for years and now that I can, it’s awesome.” The Philosophy Club has spent two weeks discussing younger people who don’t vote and what can be done to change it. It also seems that more and more students are opposed to those who don’t vote. Bethany Henderson said this, “Listen, if you’re old enough to vote and you don’t, then you don’t have any right to complain about the government.”
The Haunted Cavern Ruby Falls October 27–29, 31; 8:00–until; $20 Haunted walk through caves! http://www.hauntedcavern.com
Theatre of Blood The Encore Theatre (Brainerd road, near the tunnel) October 27–31; 7:30–until; $12 Skit-based haunted house http://www.thelittlehouseofhorror.com
Judgement House First Baptist Church, Dayton October 28–31; 5:00–10:00 weekend, 7:00–9:00 weekdays; $2 donation http://firstbaptistdayton.org/
Walnut Grove Fall Festival Walnut Grove Full Gospel Church, Dayton (near the hospital) October 28; free Food, hayrides, activities
City of Dayton Pumpkin Festival October 31; 3:00–10:00; free Music, food, inflatables, skateboarding, vendor booths