Friday, 04 November 2011 00:00

Written by Cliff McCollum - News Editor

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At Wednesday’s technical rehearsal for “Take the Repeat,” the Opelika High Theatre Society’s self- written one-act musical, the actors were all smiles and nervous energy as Theatre Society director Revel Gholston and Gholston’s proclaimed “make-up queen” Kelly Cox applied layers of white foundation to their faces.
The musical, a dream-like 1930s blues inspired tale written by Gholston and former student Wesley Ballew, will premiere this week in previews Thursday and Friday at 7 p.m. at the Opelika Center for the Performing Arts, for its ultimate arrival on the OPAC stage for the Trumbauer District Drama Festival. Opelika has hosted the district theatre competition since 2005.

While the actors seemed to exude no stress, Gholston said the difficulties of writing and directing a self- written musical were a bit of an unknown.

“There’s added pressures with having written it yourself,” Gholston said. “Good or bad, however it turns out in the end, everything can come back to you.”

Friday, 28 October 2011 11:11

Written by Opelika Observer

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Contributed by student writer Elizabeth Patton

In Mrs. Rickles’s fourth grade, students annually learn about birds and the mechanics of flight and take a trip to visit the Southeastern Raptor Center at Auburn University.

is year, however, Roy Crowe, the eagle consultant at the Raptor Center, brought the birds of prey to Trinity. ESPN, which plans to do a special on the Auburn University eagle in December, wanted footage of Crowe giving a presentation to students.

Crowe, who has two daughters at Trinity, asked if he could come to Trinity to do the fourth grade show. An ESPN cameraman arrived at Trinity and filmed the presentation of the raptors, which included the Auburn University eagle, the screech owl, the barn owl, the vulture and the peregrine falcon. Christin Frazier, the fourth grade teacher’s aide, noted that the students were much closer to the birds than they ever would have been at a regular Raptor Center show.

e experience was a special one for the fourth grade students and a proud moment for the entire Trinity family.

Trinity moves into second quarter

Mrs. Warmouth’s kindergarten celebrated the new season with their annual Pumpkin Day.

For Pumpkin Day, the students wore orange t-shirts and ate orange food. ey also participated in races and played games and helped to carve a pumpkin, getting their hands dirty as they cleaned out the inside and took out the seeds.

e highlight of the day was the special pumpkin hunt where each student hunted for a pumpkin to take home.

In Mrs. Ballew’s third grade, the students are working hard at everything from geography to history to literature. ey are reading Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White as well as working on projects about Ancient Egypt. e third graders have also been learning the countries of Africa and the Middle East, an impressive task for anyone to accomplish.

In Mrs. Carpenter’s fih grade history class, the students are learning about Medieval Europe. ey have constructed models of medieval castles,and soon they will build catapults to shoot marshmallows for “castle wars.”

roughout the grades at Trinity and even at a young age, students are able to both learn and apply what they know.