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Show entinel Guardian of Your Community News WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2009 • B3 SFJournalism Courtesy p/ioto ART APPRECIATION: SFHS students consider a painting on their art field trip. Connecting with art Emily McKinney SFHS eral other exhibits there. Their next- stop was the University Mall for a On Oct. 6,2009 the hu- photography exhibit that manities, art and photog- featured photographs of a raphy students of SFHS group of Chinese monks went on a field trip to sev- and a fantasy art exhibit. eral nearby art exhibits to The trip finished with a learn more about different visit to the Springville types and styles of art. Art Museum. They first visited the Karianne Nelson, a phoBYU Museum of Art to tography student at SFHS, see an exhibit of art from greatly enjoyed going to the Victorian era and sev- the exhibits and especially enjoyed the Springville Art Museum. "It was way fun! 1 saw a lot of beautiful art and made friends with statues," she said. This field trip was a great educational experience for the SFHS art students and gave them the chance to make personal connections with what they were learning in school. Courtesy photo INSIDE SCOOP: Namon Bills, the editor for The Sentinel, visited Spanish Fork High School's AP Literature class to help teach students how to write newspaper articles. He gave many hints for newspaper writing. Christina Heywood said this about her experience, "It was really cool to get an inside look on how newspapers are put together. I never realized how much work it takes. It was great to learn how to write newspaper articles." By Evan Anderson. Band Boosters Meeting A Spanish Fork band boosters meeting will be held Thursday, Oct. 22 a f / p.m. in the band room. Please coma out and support the band. Thank you for yourvtime and support. Intramural sports at DFJH Chandler Johns and Chandler Hatch DFJH Diamond Fork Junior High is kicking off the new school year with an intramural sports program. Intramurals allow students to organize their own teams and play against other student teams within the school. David Trevort, vice principal in charge of the intramural program said, "Our intramural sports program is an ex- tra curricular activity for any student who wishes to participate. Our goal is to have fun, and make friends." Intramural teams are formed in soccer, basketball, volleyball, flag football, dodge ball, badminton and weight lifting. There is a 7th grade intramural league that plays Tuesdays and Fridays, and an 8th and 9th grade combined league which plays on Mondays and Thursdays. Games start right after school and end no later than 3:30 p.m. Eighth grade team member Bailey Bates said, "Intramurals are fun and competitive at the same time." Team member Dakota Fraizer said, "Intramurals are really fun and competitive, but not to the point where everyone is fighting and mad at each other." The intramural sports program is. a way for students to play the sports they love while spending productive time with their friends. SFJH Spirit Week Courtesy photo SEARCH AND RESCUE: Chris Reid spoke with students about his experience doing search and rescue in Utah County. Window on the workplace Evan Anderson SFHS Spanish Fork High School has a unique opportunity to hear from people in various jobs. This week they had somebody from Utah County Sheriff's Search Rescue Explorer Post come and talk about what they do for their job and what happens. Cooper Urmston said, "Chris Reid talked about how fun of a job it was, and he also told a story about a guy who didn't like search and rescue, but then he got in a bad situation and search and rescue saved him, and so now he has a lot of respect for them. It was really fun to go and learn about the things people do in everyday life." Reid also talked about how you can volunteer for search and rescue if you would like to help. The sheriff's department has training for medical skills to help out people. They also meet the second and fourth Thursdays each month at the sheriff's office. Canyon Courtesy photo GOT SPIRIT: Spanish Fork Jr. High recently celebrated Spirit Week with a week full of fun activities to show school spirit. Students were invited to dress up each day according to a variety of different themes. One student said, "It was a fun way to show your school spirit and enthusiasm!" Lunch-time activities included a whipped cream bubble gum blowing contest, a soda chugging contest and The Wheel of Fortune game. Students enjoyed participating and watching. The school was filled with enthusiasm and energy that could be felt as students participated in activities and showed their school spirit throughout the week. A big thank you goes to the student council for planning and taking care of the events for this week. Pictured, left to right, Josie Clayson, Macady orgensen, and Steven Watson show school spirit by dressing up as "nerds" as part of Spanish Fork Jr. High's Spirit Week celebration. Nebo Youth Philharmonic Courtesy photo STUDENT GOVERNMENT: Pictured Canyon Elementary recently elected a new student council. The council members for the 2009-10 school year are Ashley Chidester, Kelsie Richards, Max Clayton, Creed Sermersheim and Jacob Warnock; bottom, Makyla Wride, Brianne Olsen, Lexie Jex, McKenzie Branch and Robbie Dixon. | The Nebo Youth Philharmonic will be presenting their Fall Concert on Oct. 28, at 7 p.m. at Maple Mountain High School located 51 North 2550 East in Spanish Fork.* The orchestra is comprised of outstanding music students from throughout Nebo •:: District High Schools. This year's program will feature highlights from the Broadway ..; musical "Wicked," Michael Jackson's Thriller," "The Corpse Bride," "Band of Broth- '• ers" and more, Admission is free to the public,- t |