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Show UMMIT KT UNTY " EWS 50• Friday, April 17, 2015 Vol. 86 No. 16 INSIDE THE NEWS THIS WEEK Coalville, Utah 84017 S.S.H.S. sponsored their annual spring blood drive Yeah! It Snowed...Finally! STUDENT REPORTER: SKYLIER LEAVITT See who received pins for Henefer DUP Service Page A3 Are you prepared? See "Just a Thought" on Page A2. CHERYL OVARD SCN Editor Snow fell in Salt Lake, and surrounding cities, and by 6 am it dropped approximately 20% of the accountable snow Today H59 L34 Partly Cloudy SCN Editor H64 L35 Mostly Sunny Sunday H64 L35 Mostly Sunny Monday H68 L36 Sunny Tuesday H71 L39 N\ Sunny Wednesday H69 L40 Partly Cloudy Thursday H62 1_38 Mostly Cloudy Mountain Power that Tuesday evening in Coalville, 56 customers were without power from approximately 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. - wind due to wind, and in the Henefer area, 607 customers 10:21 p.m. to Wednesday morning at 4 a.m. due to a transmission line down in several locations. Ski resorts reported up to 22+ inches of snow, and it was still coming down on Wednesday. Records could be breaking once again on the slopes and many resorts were getting ready to or had already closed. Nearly 20 percent of all snow fall in Salt Lake City this winter and spring now totals a little over 12 inches. The bottom line is - it is in our favor for the low water table to get this snow, and all over Utah the weather change is being welcomed. The summer months ahead would be on lower water rations without this moisture. It is a storm all of Utah was in need of. N.S. students place in Mathematics Contest at Snow College CHERYL OVARD Saturday measured this winter! For a total of 2.3 inches by the morning hours on Wednesday, April 15, this snow total now is at 12.2 inches - counting the winter and spring months. The roads on Wednesday morning were treacherous, especially heading westbound on 1-80, and chains were required on all semis. There is a forecast of more snow continuing on Wednesday, which would break the record for the day - all accumulated. The date of record in 1995 was three inches. Traffic heading westbound on 1-80 was at a near standstill Wednesday morning, and was crawling then Westbound as they slowly made their way towards Salt Lake City. The power outage reached Summit County late in the evening on Tuesday night, and continued through until morning. Rocky Mountain Power workers were on top of the situation all during the evening and night hours, in hopes of restoring power quickly to homes throughout the area. Hundreds of homes awoke to no power and prepared with early commutes by flashlight and candle-ligh. It was reported by Rocky On Wednesday April 8, the Fauvines of South Summit High sponsored their Annual Spring Blood Drive. The drill girls look forward to this event and actively recruit veteran and first time donors. The Red Cross has made a real push for help in blood donations to aid with important research being done right now. Whilst donated blood still has the priority of getting to the necessary patients, research to protect blood supply and the safety of the donors is very important. Red Cross is currently the leader in research for development of tests and prevention material for many diseases such as HIV and West Nile Virus. Members of the community where definitely willing to do their part on this day. A hearty thanks can definitely go out to them, as well as the many students that stepped up and took part in the donation effort. For those who were first time donors, the Red Cross and drill team thank you and hope you make this a lifelong habit. The Red Cross acknowledged the drill team and community by stating that the blood drive collected 54 units of blood and as each unit can potentially save 3 lives the blood collected can save up 162 lives. The Red Cross looks forward to coming back in the fall and working with our Interact Club. The Snow College Mathematics Contest was started in 1977 by Bart Nelson and Ted Olson, and the Math Department has been sponsoring it ever since. The Natural Science Division joined in 2006 by helping to sponsor this worthwhile competition providing departmental tours and the luncheon. The Junior Division (grades 7-9) of the test was added in 2007. The Senior Division includes the grades 10-12, and the overall top Senior Division scorer receives a grand prize. Other prizes are awarded to senior team and individual winners in categories determined by school size (student body enrollment of 10-12 grade students). In each Senior Division category the first, second, and third place individual winners received a one-year full tuition scholarship to Snow College (worth $1800) and a Math Jock T-shirt. A team consists of the top five scorers from each school, and the team score is the sum of those top five scores. In each category the five members of the winning team and their Math instructor each received a Math Jock T-shirt. The Math team from North Summit Middle School and High School took 32 students to Snow College to participate in this contest. Students consisted of around six students per grade from grades 7 through 12. The teams were divided into two divisions, Junior (7th through 9th grades) and Senior (10th through 12th grades. The students took the test without a calculator! North Summit High School's Holden Jones placed 5th in the Senior Division with a score of 46. Category 2: (250-499 in grades 10-12) other students received a certificate and other door prizes. Junior division (grades 7-9) the top individual in each grade received a copy of Graphing Calculator(an easyto-use math visualization software which retails for $100), and a Math Jock Tshirt. In grade 7, Kylie Ovard placed 6th out of 10 winners! Congratulations to each of these North Summit students, on a job well done! A storm at last! Inside The Summit County News 1 Section 10 Pages Opinion Happenings A2 A5 Obituaries A9 School News A4 Public Notices A9 Classifieds A7-8 The winds came, the dirt covered the cars, houses, roads and knocked over garbage cans and picked up paper and sent it elsewhere! But...the reward was a little moisture in the air, and snow on the ground! Photo by Cheryl Ovard/SCN Editor |