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August 2008
Monroe plays Fenwick tonight
We’ll be at the Crosstown Challenge Game of the Week, Monroe versus Bishop Fenwick, taking your pictures and passing out freebies. We love the Monroe stadium and are excited to participate. Click here to find out how you can get high school football updates during and after the games. We can even provide messages to cell phones.
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Cheer uniform issue
Monroe Hornets cheerleaders on Friday, Aug. 22, were told during a pep rally that they would not be able to wear their uniforms to school because they violate the district’s dress code. The policy was clarified this year to require that the bottoms of shorts and skirts be no shorter than 3 inches above the knee.
The Monroe squad, parents and educators have had an influx of media attention as a number of national media outlets decided to pick up this story. School leaders announced yesterday the cheerleaders must follow the rules like everyone else and may wear the uniform tops with other types of appropriate bottom clothing in order to meet school requirements. They have other options of clothing that identify them as cheerleaders.
We had all kinds of comments on this issue yesterday. What are your thoughts on the outcome?
An update on this story will appear in the Friday, Aug. 29 issue of The Middletown Journal.
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A report on the former Lemon-Monroe High School
Earlier this summer, the Monroe Local Schools Board of Education hired a northern Ohio architect firm to conduct a facilities review of the former Lemon-Monroe High School to determine if the building can be renovated to house students. Dimaio Architects, an Ohio School Facilities Commission architecture firm, analyzed the entire building over three days. The firm was asked to report back to the board after addressing two questions: if the the building can be renovated, how much will it cost to make it an elementary building for 1,300 children and how much will it cost to make it into a middle school for 1,300 children. From 7 to 8:30 p.m. on Sept. 10, in the Monroe Jr/Sr High School Auditorium, the architects will present their findings from the review. After the meeting, the board plans to hold a series of focus group meetings to gather community input to determine how to address its continuing growth in the district. The district’s Yankee Road building is at capacity and Monroe Primary is near capacity now housing pre-K-2 graders. The board is encouraging district voters to attend the facilities review meeting and
at least one focus group meeting to voice your ideas and thoughts. Because district officials say they must make decisions about facilities within the next several months.
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New Monroe IGA
On Monday, Aug. 25, Munafo’s Jubilee Foods on S. Main Street in Monroe will end its reign as a community grocery store and will be replaced by a new family grocer. Tim Finke and his family will take over the Munafo Seven Inc. Jubilee store that has been a mainstay in Monroe for more than six years and open under new management as Finke’s Monroe IGA. The Finke family and their employees are planning to provide customers with a friendly hometown atmosphere, reasonable prices and quality service. Finke says he also has some new plans for the store, such as adding a bakery, which will feature in-house fresh baked bread and donuts, a key machine and a wider selection of meats. So, as a longtime Jubilee shopper, will you now shop at the new IGA or switch your loyalty and start visiting Kroger up the road on Heritage Green? Find out more about the store by reading next Thursday’s, Aug. 28, Monroe edition of The Pulse Journal.
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Hey Monroe — regular, or decaf?
Three youngsters who attend Lakota schools and live in Monroe have started a neighborhood coffee stand to make a little money and learn some business skills. We woke up at the crack of dawn to go meet these entrepreneurs and take a picture. Click here to read all about it.
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Pipeline hydrant to be installed
Monroe officials will be making an announcement about the Rockies Express Pipeline at 4 p.m. today. Click here to read more about it.
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Send us your photos
We would love to share your photos in print. The process for getting them to us is simple. E-mail communitynews@coxohio.com with the photo attached and information in the e-mail about who is in the photo, what event is taking place and when. You are also invited to post the photo online for direct publishing on our Web site at pulsejournal.com/yourphotos. Pictures will be selected based on print space and content. Please make sure the photo is large enough to be reprinted (at least 300k or higher).
Also, don’t forget for a small fee the Monroe Pulse-Journal can do reprints of photos that have been published. We also offer PDFs of news pages. For more information visit the Pulse-Journal Web site or e-mail communitynews@coxohio.com.
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Monroe’s Christmas on the Plaza
Even though it is August, Christmas is in the hearts and minds of some Monroe residents.
That’s because planning is beginning this week for Monroe’s second annual “Christmas on the Plaza, ” which is scheduled for Dec. 13, in front of the city’s administrative offices on Main Street.
The Optimist Club of the Monroe Area is holding its first meeting to begin planning the event at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 7, in the James Monroe Community Room at the city’s administrative offices, 233 Main Street.
The event, which is sponsored by the city of Monroe and the Optimist Club, is designed to provide a Christmas celebration in the community for the holiday season.
Cherie Gentry, the chairwoman of the event, said the club plans to contact a family that offered to donate a Christmas tree last year even though weather prohibited the top portion of the tree from being cut down.
Gentry said the club and city decided to get an early start on the event because plans call for it to be bigger and better this year.
Volunteers are being sought to help plan the event.
So if you have ideas on how to make the event better or want to get into the holiday spirit early or you would just like to help plan the holiday celebration, call Gentry at (513) 850-1954 or E-mail her at gentryca@bhg.org or call Darrel Basford at (513) 600-3528 or E-mail him at dbasford@cinci.rr.com. And remember, there are 142 days before Christmas!
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Back to school already?
In the newsroom, we get ready for things pretty early. (Not as early as the city of Monroe, which is already seeking someone to donate holiday trees for the winter festivities, but still … we’re fairly early on things.) Right now, we are in the midst of putting together content for our annual “Back To School” issue. On August 14, we will include stories about the growth of local schools, and how districts like Monroe are bursting at the seams, but officials are adjusting and doing their best to handle it.
Every week, we include a school news page. It typically includes “notes” (briefs about local school events) and “achievers” (briefs about the successes of area students). The community is invited to submit information for these two items. Simply e-mail communitynews@coxohio.com to reach the Monroe Pulse-Journal newsroom, or click here to submit a press release.
