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Show Page 4 Thursday, March 27, 2008 AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN notesj NEWS AND IDEAS FROM CLASSROOMS AND EDUCATORS 1 ARUP employee Jennifer Fisher prepares Tumi Curtis to have hew High school blood drive Sherilyn Frost NORTH COUNTY STAFF The American Fork High School chapter of HOSA (Health Occupations Students of America) sponsored its second blood drive of the year Monday from 1 to 7 p.m. and was rewarded by generous community and school support collecting 93 unifs of blood. Conducted by ARUP Blood Services, the blood drive was held to benefit local patients in need of blood and blood products. Children and adults undergoing bone marrow transplants or suffering from cancer, burns, trauma, surgery, sur-gery, or illness count on ARUP to have an ongoing supply of blood for their treatment. In addition, ARUP provides blood to the only children's hospitals in Utah. Also, many people are not aware that blood for many babies must be less than five days old, which ProStart takes second in state competition Rarhara Thrictianran "nTmTit!Fl!'!'nmm!!mmmm'mmmmm Barbara Christiansen NORTH COUNTY STAFF They came, they saw, they cooked and they conquered. A team of future chefs from American Fork High School captured second place in the state in a competition March 13, in which 40 schools from across the state participated. Alina Rea, Janessa Davidson, David-son, Ashlee Evans and Cas-sidy Cas-sidy Budge were on the team, preparing gourmet food for the panel of judges. The team members said they were very close to taking first in the state. "We lost by having a cup," Alina said. She said there was a mixup in the directions they were given about what items would be supplied and what the schools would have to provide. pro-vide. She said American Fork was marked down slightly for not having the right type of goblet for a presentation. Without that, they would have scored enough points to take first place, she said. The dishes had exotic sounding sound-ing names. For the appetizer, they served Berry Blue Salad with Maple Dressing and Candied Can-died Almonds. The main dish was Carrot and Potato Mash, French Green Beans with a Mushroom and Shallot Saute and Cranberry Pork Tenderloin. Tender-loin. For dessert, the offering was a Passion Fruit Panna Cot-ta Cot-ta with a Coconut Lace Cookie and an Quenelle of White Chant illy Cream. Alina explained some of the terms. The berry blue salad ' had blueberries, blue cheese, candied almonds and apples with a maple vinaigrette dressing. dress-ing. The passion fruit panna cotta is an Italian custard pudding. It was served with a raspberry sauce (coulie). The students are part of the ProStart group, a school-to-career program created by the National Restaurant Association Associa-tion Educational Foundation. It is designed to give students V X creates a continual need for donations. Club advisor Brenda Casper said the drive was a success. "The past two drives we have had have been overwhelmingly over-whelmingly successful," she said. "It seemed fitting to do a second one this year. So many patrons and students arrived to donate blood that additional blood services staff and stations sta-tions would have cut the wait time in half the first time we sponsored a blood drive. Since our first drive, ARUP Blood Services has been prepared for the outpouring of individuals willing to donate by increasing their blood staff and donor stations. sta-tions. The students in the club have really been involved with all the blood drives and were anxious to complete their third drive in the first 12 months of the club's organization at AFHS." "This is our chance to really make a difference," she said. S n VV" ?A V 1 - " ( - v ..l - I . I , -v V ! ine American tor nign scnool rrobtart team which took second Rea, Ashlee Evans, Janessa Davidson and Cassidy Budge, real skills and knowledge to help them prepare for real jobs. Preparing for the contest had its own challenges. Janessa said the students in the class tried out for positions on the team and the four were put together in January. "They had us prepare a meal in two separate teams," she said. "They chose us for our skills. Then we started preparing pre-paring with these menus. We were here almost every single day, hours at a time, to cook the whole menu." Cassidy agreed. "We were here until 1 or 2 a.m. the night before," she said. "We had about three months of practice." Alina said there were actually actu-ally two months of choosing the recipes, then one month of hard work practicing, Ashlee said it was a group i f il 1 ; . 'is W L blood drawn at the American Fork High School blood drive. benefits local patients "Statistics show that one in three of us will need donated blood in our lifetime. We would like to encourage parents to come and donate with their student what a great thing to share." Club members have been highly involved in planning and organizing the blood drives, she said. "Most of these students, like club president Megan Frost, are very interested in the medical field and many plan to pursue a career in the medical medi-cal field," she said. "It gives the students an opportunity to get a taste of something that interests them and helps them know if it is something they want to continue to pursue." Club members encouraged students to sign up during their English classes. ARUP Blood Services statistics statis-tics say that approximately 75 pints of blood are needed for patients in our hospitals each effort. "We tried out recipes, and had the group choose which ones tasted the best," she said. Getting to prepare and taste the food did have its drawbacks, draw-backs, however. "Our hands smelled like onions on-ions for months," Alina said. They were judged on their knife skills, taste, organization, sanitation and presentation. "We chopped potatoes and carrots," Janessa said. "They had a template and judged what we did against that. They told us what we could work on." Alina gave an example. "When you chop something julienne style, it should be matchstick size," she said. "It had to measure up on all sides." Cassidy said the experience was a good one. "I am really glad I did it," she said. "It was a great experience." .; Li' BARBARA CHRISTIANSENNorth County day. Sixty percent of the U.S. population is eligible to donate blood but less than five percent does. One of the focuses of the HOSA club is to create awareness aware-ness among AFHS students and parents of how easy and quick it is to help save a life. "AFHS' involvement in sponsoring spon-soring the blood drives has increased awareness among the student body, faculty and staff and has increased the dialogue between students and the adults in their lives," Casper said. Participants must always present picture ID and are asked to eat well and drink plenty of fluids prior to donating. donat-ing. All student donors must be at least 17 and must have parental permission. "While appointments were available and donors were encouraged to sign up for a slot, walk-ins were eagerly welcomed and appreciated," Casper said. BARBARA CHRISTIANSENNorth CountJ at a state competition- Alina She is considering going into me proiession. "I would like to be a professional profes-sional chef," she said. "They say it is like the fastest growing grow-ing business in the world." Janessa wasn't as committed, commit-ted, but she said she would be able to use the skills she learned even if she didn't do it professionally. "I wouldn't mind looking into it," she said. "I love cooking. cook-ing. When I am cooking for my family it will be a help in the future." Alina said she was planning on a degree in theater, but would follow up with attending culinary scnool. ProStart also teaches concepts con-cepts related to the food industry, indus-try, in addition to the cooking itself. They include customer relations, accounting, food cost controls and marketing, said teacher Kristi Belliston. American Fork High SchOOl PTSA meeting Parents are invited to attend a general gen-eral PTSA parent meeting sponsored by the high school PTSA. The meeting theme will be "Protecting Our Youth from Societal Problems" and will be held at the high school in the old writing lab located near the front doors from 6-7 p.m. The speakers include Steve Graharn from Standard of Liberty and his topic will be "Same Gender Attraction" (www.standardofliberty.com) and John Gunter, Jr. from Citizens for Families speaking speak-ing on "Pornography" (www. strengthenthefamily.net). The public is invited to attend. Play continues The drama department opened "Les Miserables" last night. The play will continue nightly through Wednesday at 7 in the school's auditorium. Tickets Tick-ets are available at the door for $7 adults, $6 students with an activity card or $35 for a family pass. Junior drill camp The Ca- vettes drill team is sponsoring a junior drill camp April 8-9 from 6 to 8 p.m. Girls ages 3-12 3-12 may register for $20 from any Cavette or at the high school student finance office. Attendees will learn a routine, receive a Cavette T-shirt and will perform at the Cavette showcase on April 10 at 7 p.m. Locks of Love haircuts offered of-fered The Paul Mitchell hair school will offer free haircuts to anyone willing to donate their hair to "Locks of Love" April 9 during lunch. For more information, call Vanessa Van-essa at 644-5624. Senior party tickets Senior Se-nior party tickets to Boondocks Boon-docks are on sale at the student finance office for $35. The party will be May 29 from 9:30 p.m. to 2:30 a.m. All students who plan to attend must ride the bus. American Fork Junior High School Freshman celebration The third quarter freshman celebration cel-ebration will be Friday. Qualifying Quali-fying students will participate in a game of Bingo. Panoramic picture The ninth-grade panoramic picture pic-ture will be April 4. Picture packets will be available for caveman Andy Cottrell In this week's article, I am going to be focusing on the blood drive that was recently held at our school. The blood drive is put on by a group in our school called H.O.S.A which stands for -Health Occupation Students of America. They arrange for people to come in to our school and take the students blood if they are over seventeen seven-teen and want to donate. I am going to tell you about my experience that I had at the blood drive. When you get there, you have to wait in a line that took quite a while to get through, but as long as you have a friend with you to talk to, it's OK. They have to check your ID and your permission slip before they let you answer a bunch of questions ques-tions that are really weird. It is kind of sad that people have to worry if people have done some of those things. saSSS5j552?. of.hepidure. Forbes Elementary School Play to conclude The school play, "The Glass Slipper" Slip-per" will conclude Friday at 7 p.m. Tickets are available at the door for $4 for adults or $10 for families. No children under 5 will be admitted. Report cards Report cards will be sent home with students Friday. Reading program ends BEAR reading ends tomorrow. tomor-row. Students are reminded to turn in their March reading forms. The BEAR reading parties will be in April. More information will be sent home with students. Walk-a-Thon The PTA walk-a-thon will be next Wednesday. All students are encourage to participate. Driving cautions Parents are reminded to be courteous when dropping off or picking up students. Principal Larry Dean suggested that following a few simple rules will help to keep all children safe and drivers' tempers down: t Do not double park in the drop off zone on the north side of the school or in the street on 200 East I Do not pick up students in the bus zone I Do not park in or block the bus zone Yearbook available The PTA is offering a 2008 Forbes Patriot yearbook this year. The yearbook will be paperback pa-perback and in color. Order forms were sent home with students. The cost is $17 for non-PTA members and $15 for PTA members. Orders will accepted through April 5. Track requests Track requests will begin Monday and be accepted through April 4 from 8-1 1:30 a.m. and then again from 1:30 -3:30 p.m. Only track requests will be considered, teacher requests will not be considered. For more information, call the office of-fice at 75(5-8531. Greenwood Elementary School Field trip The first-grade classes will go on a field trip Friday. Well, I passed the test with flying colors so they took me into the lunchroom where they had little cubicle things where they pricked your finger and asked you more weird questions. When the guy pricked my finger however, how-ever, it hurt really bad. He grabbed onto my pinky and kept trying to squeeze blood out of it and it just wasn't coming fast enough, I guess, because he pushed harder and harder. Oh well. I'm a big boy and got over it. After they check your blood pressure and everything every-thing they take you out to draw your blood. I had the pleasure of sitting next to my A.P. Language teacher, Mr. Weyand, and we had a race to see who could bleed out more blood faster. I, being young and chipper, soundly beat Mr. Weyand by a good 30 seconds. After that I had some apple juice and a little pack of delicious deli-cious cookies. It was a wonderful experience expe-rience and I would like to personally thank H.O.S.A. for doing all these wonderful things in our school. n L ' 1 " v n y " - """"" """" --MlSZZZ? il 1 i 4-4 |