Ralph & Ava's

Staff Reporter Rowan Gast-Bray
There is a homey hole in the wall sandwich place that has slipped under the radar of too many people. Ralph and Ava’s is a small restaurant located on Main Street in downtown Mooresville, just two shops down from Tri County Sports. When walking in, your first impression is that you have stumbled into a stranger’s living room by accident. Once you push on, the room is adorned with local art and mismatched chairs and tables. However, you are welcomed by a competent staff. You are presented a menu with a wide array of wraps, soups and sandwiches, all for under eight dollars. There are many vegetarian offerings in addition to the carnivorous sandwiches piled high with lunch meat. I chose the pretzel melt, a buttery pretzel bread concoction with your choice of cheese and meat. That was undeniably scrumptious and brought out in less than ten minutes. In short, Ralph and Ava’s has great food, great atmosphere and terrific prices. This place does not deserve to be passed by and would be a great after-school hangout. Try them out on Thursdays for trivia night. Test your knowledge for prizes. Ralph & Ava's

Spanish Cafe

This year's Spanish Cafe was held in the gym lobby.

The Spanish IV class put in hours of planning and preparation. Senior Erica Tharp, whose favorite Spanish word is montequilla de cacahuates, believes "planning and team work are very important" in staging the cafe.

Sophomore Cody Hunter thought "the chips and salsa are great."

Senora Dilley said, "Setting up is very stressful, so the day of the cafe is probably my favorite part."

Poll Results

Fetch readers will be busy this weekend going to costume parties and watching scary movies. Vote on our new poll.

Basement of Memories

Staff Reporter Ethan Rupert

Monrovia’s John Bennett spoke with us about his “new age rock band” called Basement of Memories. While John plays many instruments, he specializes in guitar, drums, and trumpet. The band has four members and mostly plays originals, but they have also covered Nirvana. John has played music for nine years. He said most of his inspiration has come from local bands. John does not want to play music as a full-time career, but he does plan on going to school for music production.

Listen to Give Up

Halloween Costume Contest

Send us a picture of your Halloween costume and you might win a $25 Visa gift card. We welcome submissions from all ages, alumni, current students and our community.
Contest Guidelines
1.  All entries must be submitted in digital format by Tuesday, November 4 to thebulldogfetch@gmail.com 
2. Include a title for the photo and the names of any people in the photo (if known). 
3. Photos must be school appropriate and will be displayed on our website. 
4. The winner will be announced Friday, November 7. 

SADD Club Safe Halloween

   

  Scare Up a Spooktacular Costume and Haunt Our Halls

at the 3^nd Annual Monrovia High School

Safe Halloween Trick-or-Treat Event

Benefiting the MHS SADD Club &

 The Morgan County Humane Society

Poll Results

Fetch readers want recipes. Luckily, Fetch staff loves to cook. Try out this Halloween cheese ball. It looks great and tastes even better. For more clever and easy Halloween treat ideas, visit forkful. Send us your favorite recipes for Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Directions:
With a mixer, blend 16 ounces room-temperature cream cheese with 1 1/2 cups shredded cheddar, 3 tablespoons minced onion, 2 tablespoons salsa, 2 teaspoons ground cumin and 1 teaspoon minced jalapeno. Scoop onto plastic wrap and use the wrap to form the mixture into a 5-inch pumpkin-shaped ball; chill at least 2 hours. To serve, unwrap, roll in crushed nacho-flavored tortilla chips and press a bell pepper stem into the top.
Photograph by Sam Kaplan
Recipe courtesy Michelle Buffardi for Cooking Channel

Poll Results

The Fetch staff had a fabulous Fall Break. Although we spent our time reading Russian novels, the poll-winning activity for our readers was sleeping.

Poll Results

If Monrovia ever decides to retire the bulldog mascot, Fetch readers have chosen a dinosaur as the replacement. Check out the new poll. You have two weeks to cast your vote. Fetch reporters are headed to the beach.

Brain Game

MHS Quiz Bowl members, bottom row left to right: Zach Woodley, Zach Stevens, Nick Stevens, Ian Bray
Watch the Brain Game on Saturday, October 11 on WTHR at 7:00.

Quiz Bowl team celebrates post-filming.

Junior Film Series

Contributing Reporter Allysen Brown

The MHS English 11 Honors and the Advanced Placement US History classes work in conjunction with one another. Mrs. Phillips and Mr. Reeder have put together a movie series that reflects what is being taught in the classes. There is a movie night for these students each nine weeks.

The first movie that the classes watched was The Last of the Mohicans. This movie complemented the assigned class book, The Deerslayer. The next movie, to be shown at the end of October, will be The Dead Poets Society. This film will be shown to highlight transcendentalism. A total of 40 out of 55 students came to the first movie night.

Mrs. Phillips was very pleased with how many students gave up their night to come together as a class to watch the movie. Mrs. Phillips said, “ Mr. Reeder and I thought movie night was a perfect way to make lecture and written word come to life.”

Mr. Reeder was glad that he was doing a movie night again, and thought that it went very well. He also feels that having a movie night is good because it can cover material that they would not have time to explore in depth in class. Mr. Reeder said, “ This shows the benefits of interdisciplinary learning.”

Students were also asked their feelings on the movie night. Trevor Eisenhut said, “It was fun and an overall good experience.” Zach Boles felt the same, but said “It was a hassle getting here from practice and then getting home late.” Gabi Ritter thought that the movie night was cute because everyone was together and said, “The movie helped put a face to what I was reading.”

Overall, the first movie night was a success. There were some scheduling issues and differing opinions on whether or not it helped to understand the reading. However, everyone enjoyed the experience and is looking forward to the next film.

Senior Lady Bulldogs Soccer

Left to right: Betsy McCrary, Kallie Manley, Alaina Longere, Sierra Catellier
Sectionals start tonight at Park Tudor.

Enjoy a Lunar Eclipse

The Monrovia High School Science Department will be watching the lunar eclipse tomorrow morning on their way to school. The pre-dawn eclipse should be visible as the moon sets. Visit Sky & Telescope for more information.

Marching Bulldog Brigade

2014 Director & Staff Poll - Week #4  Voted On September 29, 2014 ISSMA Class D ----------------------- 1) Forest Park - 150 (P-10) 2) Springs Valley - 140 3) Monrovia - 127 4) South Spencer - 117 5) Clay City - 107 6) Taylor - 98 7) Orleans - 96 8) Paoli - 78 9) Adams Central - 61 10) Triton Central - 54 The Fetch looks for marching band results on indianamarching.com.

Bulldog Football

New Indiana state football rankings list our Monrovia Bulldogs as fifth in the state in our class. The Fetch follows maxpreps.com (a CBSSports.com site) for state rankings. The Bulldogs have two more regular season games, both at home.

Boys Soccer

Senior Bulldog soccer players, left to right: Evan Burgess, Garrett Riffel, Matt Steinke, Rowan Gast-Bray.
Boys soccer sectionals start Monday, October 6 at Speedway.

Monrovia Writers Group

Visit the website for more details: monroviawritersgroup.blogspot.com

Yearbook Staff

The yearbook staff attended a workshop at IUPUI. left to right:
Erica Smith, Zach Woodley, Elaine Giza, Elaina Antonetty, Makayla Rice, Leah Blank

School Board Agenda

October 9, 2014

Executive Session at 6:00 p.m.

                           Regular Board Meeting at 6:30 p.m.

  

            Executive Session:  5-14-1.5-6.1(b)(9)

            (9)  To discuss job performance evaluation of individual employees

Pledge

1.         Call to Order

2.         Consideration of Minutes

                        Budget Hearing & Regular Meeting          September 8, 2014

                                               

3.         Consideration of Claims

4.         Consideration of Personnel Recommendations    

5.         Public Comments on Agenda Items

6.         Adoption of 2015 Budget, CPF Plan and Bus Replacement Plan plus the following Resolutions:

                                Pension Bond Levy Reduction

                                Capital Projects Fund Interest Transfer to General Fund

                                Form #3-Line #1 Reductions if necessary

                                Form #3-Line #2 Reductions if necessary

                                Adoption of Capital Projects Plan

                                Adoption of Bus Replacement Plan

                                General & Rainy Day Funds Additional Appropriations

7.         Consideration of Ag Science Partnership with Mooresville Consolidated Schools

8.         Consideration of New and Updated School Board Policies

9.         Consideration of 2015-2016 School Calendar

10.        Consideration of Change Orders for Construction

11.        Consideration of Additional Bus Route

12.        Consideration of Foreign Language Trip to Europe

13.        Consideration of Donation to Monrovia Elementary

14.        Adjournment     

This meeting is a meeting of the School Board in public for the purpose of conducting the School Corporation’s business and is not to be considered a public community meeting.   There will be time for public participation as indicated by agenda item.

Next Board Meeting will be held on November 10, 2014 at 6:30 p.m. in the Monroe-Gregg Administration Center. 

Poll Results

The poll results may have been skewed by one passionate voter, but The Fetch poll suggests that My Generation by The Who should be queued up on your car stereo. Tired of our Bulldog mascot? Looking for a change? Check out this week's poll.