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Show Mount Mahogany Walk-a-thon a Success -j 1; v , - r' by Angle Walker The weather cooperated for the annual Mount Mahogany Walk-a-thon held on Friday, October 8. The fund raiser is sponsored by the PTA, who is hoping to raise $6,000 to pay for PTA sponsored activities for the school year. Prior' to the event, students obtained pledges or flat donations dona-tions from family and friends. Every student from kindergarten to sixth grade participated. The students were provided with sunglasses donated by Pugs Mount Mahogany Walk-a-thon is a fund raiser sponsored by the PTA. Photo courtesy of Timpanogos Times Gear, a lap card to keep track of their laps, and a popsicle at the conclusion of the event. Christie Stevenson urged students on as music was played and she read "shout outs" to keep the enthusiasm high. The faculty, parents and students could purchase a "shout out" for 50 cents a piece. Many of the students as well as teachers participated. For example, one "shout out" was from Mr. "D" to his fifth grade class, "You're awesome!" Another one from Mrs. Anderson to her class said, "Good luck! You're the best class ever!" "I Love You," "You Rock," "You're the Best!" and "Have Fun" are just some of the "shout outs" given. Parent volunteers from each class helped mark the students stu-dents lap cards each time they completed a lap. After an hour of walking, a list was used to record the number of laps each child did. Principal Scot Westover said, "This is five or six continuous contin-uous years for the walk-a-thon. It is our major fund raiser for the year sponsored by the PTA. We have great support and great participation. Parents get involved in-volved with it and the bottom line is we have a great time and a lot of fun doing it." Kristie Ballantyne, the PTA member over the event, also commented. "It's been really exciting. I like to help out at the school and in my kids' classes. I think the walk-a-thon is a great fund raiser for the school. It's easy for the kids without selling products to raise money and to get out and exercise. I like emphasizing em-phasizing that they can get out, exercise and be healthy." All the students had a great time. Josh Bishop, a fourth grader, said he did 17 laps. Josh rode his bike about a mile after school every day to prepare for the event. Madeline Morris, a sixth grader, made a plan to jog around the whole time so she and her friends wouldn't burn out. Her favorite part was the walking and popsicles after. The top donation prizes were an Ipod Nano 6th Generation, Gen-eration, 24 PG Pool admission tickets, Water Gardens Family Movie Pack which consisted of six tickets plus popcorn and slushies, 4 Cornbelly's Passes, and a Pirate Cove gift pack worth $60. The top three classes with the most donations received a rootbeer float party and students, stu-dents, who collected the most donations per class, received an ice cream certificate as well as a kid's meal certificate from a community sponsor. The top three lap winners per track received a 2010 medal. med-al. Track one consisted of the 1st, 3rd, and 5th grades while track two was 2nd, 4th, and 6th grade. Each morning and afternoon kindergarten class also had students receive medals. med-als. A certificate and free ice cream certificate went to students stu-dents who had the most laps per class as well. |