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Show Messenger-Enterpris- Thursday, e, January Page 6 12, 1995 other financial aide information. MHS By Parents interested in meeting with the counselor and their student please contact the office. In our assessment survey one of the students wrote, College can be an unattainable goal for the average student Find scholarships. Those interested can start Counselor's Corner Natasha Madsen gram at Snow College on January 31st. This will be held in the Applied Science Gallery (north side of the cafeteria) at 6 p.m. Following this, at 7 p.m. there is a meeting for 1 1 th and 1 2th graders and their parents to clarify financial aide information. A survey of senior and junior students indicate they are interested in attending a $15.00 ACT Prep workshop. They counseling department is arranging for time, place, and instructors. We would like to see this in place before the February testing date. Counselors will be meeting with small groups and individual senior students to insure graduation requirements are being met and to assist with scholarship and The first semester at MHS ends January 20th. Students are preparing for tests and completing final assignments. Add this to college and financial aid application deadlines, many are finding the need to organize and budget their time. Seniors met on Jan. 5 and received their federal Financial Aid applications and information on the upcoming orientation with Snow College representatives. They will be at MHS on Jan. 24 between 2 and 4:30 p.m. to discuss scholarships for qualifying seniors. Students will need their transcripts for this meeting. Our ninth and tenth graders, and their parents, are encouraged to attend the Early Awareness pro in the computer lab in the Choices program. Also, please remember, besides academic scholarships, there are scholarships for leadership, art, drama, math, music, and such. Be sure to consider areas of employment both parent and student. Look at club and other organizations. Stop by the office and pick up the MHS scholarship booklet. Remember, a diamond is a chunk of coal that made good under pressure. Rodney Cox, Natasha Madsen, and Diane Rogers Manti High School Activities By Amy Ockey Students had to "digest" their work had to eat after it stood bylitsclf for one minute. The lesson was a culmination of a science unit on structures, strength and problem solving, under the direction of Tim Black and Eldon Bishop. Students whose tower designs It was somewhat of a cross between the Towering Inferno and the Tower of Babel, as Ephraim Middle School science students competed in a tower building contest last Friday. Students were retower quired to build a meter-hig- h out of edible materials, which they were successful and who were able to fully digest their work will get to participate in the physics day at Lagoon. For some of them it will be back to the drawing boards, but that happened to Thomas Edison a number of times too, so theyre in good company. Free eye Missionary Farewells care available to poor A program to provide free examinations to eye workers and their families in Utah gets underway in January. low-inco- Part of a nationwide by members of the Utah Wm. Daylc Jarvis, son of Jon M. and Clara Jarvis, of Sterling, has been called to serve a proselyting mission for the LDS Church. He will serve in the West Virginia Charleston Mission. A missionary farewell for Elder Jarvis will be held Sunday, January 22, 1995 at 10:40 a.m. in the Sterling Ward chapel. From 12:30 to 2 p.m. that same day, family and friends arc invited to an open house at the home of his uncle and aunt, Calvin and Julie Strickland, 90 West Center, Sterling. Elder Jarvis will enter the Missionary Training Center January 25. Optomctric Association who are donating their services to hep those in need. Applicants can be screened for eligibility from January 3rd to the 31st, 1995 by calling according to T T 1 P ttr k Wm. Dayle Jarvis Elder Thomas Robert Trythall EldcrThomas RobcrtTrythall has been called to serve in the Alabama Birmingham Mission. His farewell will be January 15, 1995 in the Ephraim Stake Center at 12:15. He will be entering the MTC on January 1 8 for five weeks before leaving for Alabama. Tom is the son of Bob and Debbie Trythall of Ephraim. Scott Kowallis, O.D., Roosevelt, Utah, the VISION USA Coordinator for Utah. Phone lines will be open weekdays from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. (CST). People can also apply by mail. Application forms are available from VISION USA, 243 N. Lindbergh Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63141. Completed forms must be postmarked by January 25th, 1995. To qualify for the free eye care, persons must: have a job or live in a household where there is one working member, have no health insurance of any kind; have income below an established level based on household size; and have had no eye examination within two years. The comprehensive eye exams will be given in optometrists offices in March, coinciding with the celebration of Save Your Vision ' Week, Man jth-llth. Low income, uninsured workers and their families often dont qualify for government Robert Trythall health care programs and cant afford to pay for health care services like eye care, Dr. Kowallis said. "Yet they need eye care ji"t as much as other people. le nine ten out of added that pet pic examined in the 1994 VISION USA program had eye health or vision problems. Dr. Kowallis urged people who think they qualify for the free eye care to apply even if they dont think they have a vision problem. Many eye health problems dont have noticeable early symptoms, he said. Even with common vision problems like near' Elder G. Patrick Condos Elder G. Patrick Condos, son of Gcriy and Clyde Nielson of Manti, and Scott and Phyllis Condos of Las Vegas, has accepted a call to serve in the Manti Philippines LDS Mission. His farewell will be held on .Sunday, January 15 at the Rain-:boWard, Las Vegas, Nevada at 2 p.m. Elder Condos enters the Missionary Training Center on Jan. w sightedness, farsightedness, or astigmatism, you can become so :i8. rr I G. Patrick Condos In An Emergency Dial "911" 9-1- school year. The sophomore-sponsore- Teachers will have Career Ladder Day on Monday, January 16. This is a special institute for teachers. There will be no school for MHS students this day. The PTA will be hosting an assembly Tuesday, Jaa 17 during school. The assembly is entitled Arc You In Your Right Mind? It will be on drugs and abuse of drugs. The semester will end Friday, Jan. 20. Semester finals will be held Wednesday, Jan. 18 and Friday, Jaa 20. All final semester tests will be given these two days. This semester final exam schedule will be a first for Manti High School. Tuesday, Jan. 17, the girls basketball team will play Wasatch Academy at Manti High School. On Thursday, Jan. 19, the girls will play South Summit at South Summit. All game times will be as follows: freshman will play at 4 p.m., Jr. Varsity will play at 5:30 p.m. and Varsity will play at 7 p.m. The boys wrestling team will have a match against North Summit at North Summit on Wednesday, January 11. The boys wrestling will also have a match on Wednesday, January 18 against Grantsville at Grantsville. Match times: Jr. Varsity 6 p.m., and Varsity at 7 p.m. 4. d dance was held last Friday night because of a conflict with basketball. There will be a boys basketball game at Grantsville on Friday, Jan. 13. The freshman sophomore game will begin at 3:30 p.m., Jr. Varsity will begin playing at 5:30 p.m. and Varsity will begin playing at 7 p.m. The girls basketball team will play Grantsville at Manti High School on Thursday, Jan. 12. On pro- gram called VISION USA, the effort is being sponsored in Utah Elder Wm. Dale Jarvis It is Sophomore Week at Manti High School January Each high school grade is honored for one week during the entire accustomed to the way you see tilings that you dont realize you are not seeing as well as you could be. Based on the results of the first four cars of the VISION USA program, Dr. Kowallis said it is ob- ious th it i.my people in ,r dies are being held down I .uaC they cant sec well cnougl to do their jobs or to learn in sc ol. We w?' to by giv-'- n cess t ese pc ye low-i.ico- Local pigeon fancier gamers major awards at SLC show Matthew Tibbs, Manti, local pigeon raiser, brought home all the honors from the Salt Lake Premiere Pigeon Show, sponsored by the Utah Pigeon Club the first ( '' . . ,n ; week of December. His birds placed first, second and third in the black splash class. 57 breeds were shown and the number of entries totaled more than 1200. The Premiere Show, held at the Expomait, is one of the top shows in the country each year. Matthews little yellow splash hen, going against all splash color class winners, took best young hen and best splash overall. Matthews old ash red hen took best ash red hen and his black self (i.e. all one color) old cock entry took best black overall. Meanwhile, his father, Roberts, entries did well, placing second in three categories. In judging a pigeon show, the birds are divided up into color classes for each breed. Winners are placed first, second, third, for cocks (males and hens (females). Old hens are then judged against each other to select the best hen and the same is done for the older cocks. Young hens and young cocks are also judged in the same way. In the finals, the best specimen for the breed is selected from the four remaining finalists, the winner being champion and the other becoming the best opposite sex or reserve champion. With the yellow splash young hen, Matthew took the best bird trophy bred by Matthew Tibbs displays trophies he won at recent mier Pigeon Show in Salt Lake City. a junior. Matthews little yellow splash hen was not only best young hen, but also best West of England in the entire show. In the junior competition, Matthews yellow hen also won a plaque for Best Junior Sporting class winner. Next year Utah will play host to the Premiere Show and also the NPA Grand National. 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