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Welcome students and staff.

Today is Tuesday, September 9, 2014.

Please stand for the pledge to the flag: "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." Please remain standing for a moment of silence. Thank you, please be seated.

 There will be a mandatory meeting of all class representatives and this years’ homecoming court in room 5-104 immediately after school today. The meeting will take about 15 minutes.

Any questions please see Mr. Carmickle in room 5-105

GUIDANCE

 “Attention All “Help Our Planet Earth” or HOPE Club members and future members: Officer elections will be held Thursday at 2:45 in Mrs. Farner’s room. If you would like your name on the ballot, please see Mrs. Farner a.s.a.p. It is a mandatory meeting, especially if you are running for an officer position. Don’t forget to vote this coming Thursday for this year’s officers.

 There will be a Best Buddies meeting today after school in Ms. Vineyard's room.

 First meeting of the art/photography club will be Thursday from 2:45 to 3:30 in the art room. Come join the fun; everyone is welcome.

 The first meeting of the Hi-Q Club will be Friday Sept 19th at 2:45 in Mr. Hilding’s room Building 6 room 112. We will elect officers and make decisions about practices and matches so if you want to have input or run for office you need to be in attendance. SENIORS

 Any Senior wishing to pay their $15 class dues can do so to either Mr. Glass or Mrs. Watkins. Make sure to get them paid asap!

JUNIORS

 There will be a homecoming junior class meeting for all interested juniors in Mrs. Newman’s room this Thursday after school.

ATHLETICS

 Both the boys' and girls' bowling teams bowled against Mount Dora yesterday. Tavares boys won 3-0. The boys’ high scores were Blake Wilbanks with a score of 203 and Ben Lowe with a score of 201. The girls’ high scores were Stephanie Moorhead with a score of 149 and Ansley Bender Dowell with a score of 140.

Volunteer Opportunities

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490 B.C. - The Battle of Marathon took place between the invading Persian army and the Athenian Army. The marathon race was derived from the events that occurred surrounding this battle.

1776 - The second Continental Congress officially made the term "United States", replacing the previous term "United Colonies."

1836 - Abraham Lincoln received his license to practice law.

1850 - California became the 31st state to join the union.

1898 - In Omaha, NE, Tommy Fleming of Eau Claire, WI won the first logrolling championship.

1893 - U.S. President Grover Cleveland's wife, Frances Cleveland, gave birth to a daughter, Esther. It was the first time a president's child was born in the White House.

1904 - Mounted police were used for the first time in the City of New York.

1911 - Italy declared war on the Ottoman Turks and annexed Libya, Tripolitania, and Cyrenaica in North Africa.

1919 - The majority of Boston's police force went on strike. The force was made up of 1,500 men.

1919 - Alexander Graham Bell and Casey Baldwin's HD-4, a hydrofoil craft, set a world marine speed record.

1926 - The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) was created by the Radio Corporation of America (RCA).

1942 - Japan dropped incendiaries over NE in an attempt to set fire to the forests in Oregon and Washington. The forest did not ignite.

1943 - During World War II Allied forces landed at Taranto and Salerno.

1946 - Ben Alexander hosted "Heart’s Desire" for the first time on the Mutual Broadcasting System.

1948 - North Korea became the People's Democratic Republic of Korea.

1950 - Sal Maglie (New York Giants) pitched a fourth consecutive shutout. Only four other pitchers in the National League had ever accomplished this feat.

1957 - The first civil rights bill to pass Congress since Reconstruction was signed into law by U.S. President Eisenhower.

1965 - French President Charles de Gaulle announced that France was withdrawing from NATO to protest the domination of the U.S. in the organization.

1965 - Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers pitched the eighth perfect game in major league baseball history.

1971 - Gordie Howe of the Detroit Red Wings retired from the National Hockey League (NHL).

1979 - Tracy Austin, at 16, became the youngest player to win the U.S. Open women’s tennis title.

1981 - Nicaragua declared a state of economic emergency and banned strikes. 1983 - The Soviet Union announced that the Korean jetliner the was shot down on September 1, 1983 was not an accident or an error.

1984 - Walter Payton of the Chicago Bears broke Jim Brown’s combined yardage record when he reached 15,517 yards.

1986 - Frank Reed was taken hostage in Lebanon by pro-Iranian kidnappers. The director of a private school in Lebanon was released 44 months later.

1986 - Ted Turner presented the first of his colorized films on WTBS in Atlanta, GA.

1986 - Gennadiy Zakharov was indicted by a New York jury on espionage charges. Zakharov was a Soviet United Nations employee.

1987 - Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer aired for the last time on CBS.

1993 - Israeli and PLO leaders agreed to recognize each other.

1994 - The U.S. agreed to accept about 20,000 Cuban immigrants a year. This was in return for Cuba's promise to halt the flight of refugees.

1994 - The space shuttle Discovery blasted off on an 11-day mission.

1995 - Amtrak's Broadway Limited service made its final run between New York City, NY and Chicago, IL.

1997 - Sinn Fein, the IRA's political ally, formally renounced violence as it took its place in talks on Northern Ireland's future.

1998 - Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr delivered to the U.S. Congress 36 boxes of material concerning his investigation of U.S. President Clinton.

1998 - Four tourists who had paid $32,500 each were taken in submarine to view the wreckage of the Titanic. The ship is 2 miles below the Atlantic off Newfoundland.

1999 - The Sega Dreamcast game system went on sale. By 1:00pm all Toys R Us locations in the U.S. had sold out.

2008 - The iTunes Music Store reached 100 million applications downloaded.

2009 - The iTunes Music Store reached 1.8 billion applications downloaded.