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Show THE OGDEN VALLEY NEWS Page 10 Volume II, Issue VIII 15 April 2000 Beth Porter is one of our ‘12 Who Care’ roof, and how it had been leaking for years. Buckets were placed strategically around the room to catch the dripping water. They out of comparing the maintenance per- formed at other schools with Valley Elementary. “I was extremely persistent,” she says. “I told (the district), ‘I’m not going away. You’re not getting rid of me.”” She went to budget meetings, read the district budget manual page by page and, beginning a year later, she and her partners 1n the effort —Joyce Schmittling, and Doug and Michelle Roskelley-started getting what they wanted-what they felt the school needed and by Shanna Francis Ashley of Marv Eden, Bembenek, and Elise White, ston. The event bathrooms, new paint and “It was absolutely worth 1t,” she says. “The conditions were unacceptable.” Now the school has three portables, Beth Porter were such fixtures in the classroom that the children could maneuver around them or them without even looking. “I want remembers, over to know,” Porter “whether there was a five-year plan” for the building’s maintenance. She discovered there was not, so she worked with the new principal and her associates in the PTA to investigate what could be done about getting a new roof, among other things. a little new carpeting and workers are currently installing new screens and blinds on the windows. It was the dream of Beth Porter and her husband to move from their Salt Lake City home to a more rural setting in which to raise their children. They did that, and have committed to intention of making the school the best it can be. “We leaving,” have no she says. “We’re here to stay.” No doubt the parents of students at Valley Elementary are glad this advocate for their children is sticking around. The Eden Generd Store WINATRIPTO THE CARRIBEAN ON BURT oo for details come visit the store. Bovd’s Bears & Hares 30 %0 OFF Products Buy 1get 1 FREE og Cand’ Fillers Paskonet a Stick, Easter -Soap -Eqygs flunnws fl?uzz[es -Animal Pens -Mom & Dad stuff too -Jumbo Coloring Books -Paper Dolls Kites & MORE at on growing plants. To find out, the students m 1 x e d crushed Ashley Bembenek vitamins— vitamin C, E, ginseng, soy protein, calcium, sodium, zinc, and multi-vitamins, and combined a table- spoon of each supplement with 1/8 cup of water and poured it into 1individual pots that contained Y2 cup of potting soil and Sweet They William watered seeds the The students hypothesized that the plants that used vitamin E, vitamin C, and ginseng would do the in plants each. every best because, and ginseng vitamin E has been proven to increase hair and mnail growth, vitamin C because i1t 1s derived from a plant, Jr. High students asked what affects vitamins would have increases energy. because it At the end of the experiment, Ashley and Elise found that that they were only partially cor- rect. The plants that were given ginseng had the b e s t growth speed, g although the control plants that Elise White were just g 1 vV € n water and no supplement had the lowest death rate of all the plants. The plants that were given ginseng also sprouted the quickest. Student Accepted to Distinguished BYU Folkdance Team a freshman at Brigham Young University, has been accepted to the BYU Folkdance Team. Abbiis a 1999 graduate of Edwardsville Senior High School and a forAbbi Dunnagan, merresident of the Edwardsville area. her dard-Examiner is being reprintof held T h e Snowcrest Note: This article which was originally printed in the Staned courtesy Standard-Examiner. was Weber State University. tains, some new lighting, a new gymnasium floor, a couple of new doors. of daughter of Charles and Trina White of Huntsville, recently placed third in the State High School Science Fair in the Botany Divi- deserved: a new roof, a new intercom system, new stage cur- new daughter and Betty Bembenek other day with the prescribed vitamin/water mixture. A control plant was only given water. i discus- a leaking sight, ¥ the of - around out she says. And so she doing her homework, !1*1 1. i meeting, was ‘._E: that revolved school mind,” started Two Local Students Take 3rd at the State High School Science Fair Hfil At sion “The more I got to looking into 1t, the more I thought our .;“__1: The Ogden Valley resident has worked relentlessly to upgrade Valley Elementary’s physical facilities. Two years ago, Beth Porter was sitting in a Valley Elementary PTA meeting. She’s lived in the Ogden Valley for two years, and was hoping to contribute to her twin girls’ educational experience by becoming involved. Little did she know just how consumed she would become. Student News aunts and uncles Joyce and Jim tling, reside 1in Huntsville, Utah, and and Al Ladeau, reside in Roy, Utah. the Bon]our / Port French hs “Pro” been ing them Gloria Washington, Rasmussen, the have my mom classes give arround to help! many thanks to vow- months, many words other through colors, seasons, days, and fun activities. M r s Rasmussen lived in France for a few years, meet- | ing people eating the and] won- derful foods! When she arrived in back home French Our Mrs. Rasmmussen for spending time in our rooms! Thanks again, and we have had a lot of French fun! teach- els, she French and have been very fortunate to Mrs. Evans’s and Mrs. Hogge’s 6th grade classes have had the honor of Ilearning Mrs. Schmit- brought her fabulous French vocabulary with her! 1 have been learning By Elle Rasmussen French! Townsend, Locally, “Pro, "Mrs. Rasmussen with students. |