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Show Page Eight - The Springville :.V . i mi. i Jt L, tWftn vi m'i SHS senior Ben Grover, left, and SHS Web Page Design teacher Carey Montierth, accepted a check for $400 from Les Johnson of Triple T Heating & Cooling of Spanish Fork. Gardner was chosen to design and update a web page for the company. Triple T is one of many businesses that the class is designing for. Nebo students stay fit thanks to grant money ;by Christi C. Babbitt Staff Writer ;Nebo School District has reoeived $174,020 in grant money to get students more physically active in school and at home, with more mtjney expected to come next year. Through a partnership with Brigham Young University Uni-versity and local communities, communi-ties, the district received a Carol M. White Physical Education Program Grant. Th grants are federal money made available to educational and community-based organizations organi-zations to help begin, improve im-prove or expand physical education programs. The district requested the money to fund its new Get FiC program, which will implement Utah's new physical physi-cal education standards for schools. These standards include a requirement for students to spend 50 percent ojf their time in "physical education classes doing some kind of physical activity, said tied Davies, curriculum specialist for health and physical education at Nebo School District. s Get Fit will also include T obtaining quality equipment 5 fer schools, increasing students' stu-dents' physical activity after school and providing training for' P.E. teachers. Spring-vjfle, Spring-vjfle, Spanish Fork and Payson junior high schools and Landmark High School will be directly involved with Get fit this year, with. 28 oiher elementary and secondary second-ary schools indirectly affected. affect-ed. ; "The ultimate goal of this program is to increase students' stu-dents' activity time during P. K. .classes and then to convince con-vince them to stay active aftej school hours," Davies sftid. ; Davies said the district was informed that it had been approved to receive its total requested grant amount--$321,798-- but to this point has been given access to $174,020 of that money. Davies said the district has been told the remaining funds will be made available in 2004. . Some of the grant money has already been used to buy weight-training and other exercise equipment for Springville Sprin-gville Junior High, Spanish Fork Junior High and Landmark Land-mark High. Payson Junior High is waiting for school llwhtM Tim 595 Main - Springville 491-9505 Herald - November 27, 2003 board approval to buy its equipment, Davies said. Davies said quality equipment equip-ment was purchased because the district has partnered with community recreation programs pro-grams in Springville, Spanish Fork and Payson to make the equipment available to adults after school hours. "That's why we wanted to buy the higher-end equipment, equip-ment, because we're aware of the amount of use and abuse if the kids were using it during the day and the adults had access to it in the evenings," Davies said. Grant money will also be used to buy equipment such as basketballs and volleyballs so every student has access to equipment, allowing them to participate and not sit back and watch. In January, BYU faculty will begin studying the program's pro-gram's progress. Students in the four participating schools will be wearing pedometers-also pedometers-also paid for with the grant-periodically grant-periodically through the last half of the school year, with teachers keeping track of the data, said Todd Pennington, assistant professor in - the BYU; department of physical education. ' Pedometers measure mea-sure steps taken and time spent in activity. Researchers can then evaluate if the students' stud-ents' activity levels have increased. "There's a need for more activity," Pennington said. According 'to 2002 statistics from the Utah Department of Health, more than 25 percent of Utah students in kindergarten kinder-garten through eighth grades are at an unhealthy weight, Pennington said. "12 percent of that 25 (percent) are considered con-sidered obese, which is about 15 percent higher than what is' expected from national figures," he said. Davies said the district hopes to apply for the grant again next year for Nebo's three high schools. Aameriqljest CLMORTCACIi COMPANY Need a loan? Credit Problems? WE CAN HELP! Bad Credit Bankmpt No Credit New Immigrants NO APPLICATION IS REFUSED! 1st, 2nd Mortgage CreditLine Personal Loan Debt Consolidation First Time Home Buyers Pay As Little As 50 or $5000 Down! Call us today for FAST APPROVAL! 1-888-229-2786 or 1-647-885-9728 Tiros Company donates to SHS class Triple T Heating and Cooling of Spanish Fork donated $400 to Mrs. Monti-erth's Monti-erth's Advanced Web Page Design class at Springville High School in thanks for the partnership she and her students have had with the local business in designing and uploading their website: In the spring of 2003, Les Johnson, sales manager at Triple T, heard about a program at SHS where students stu-dents design websites for local businesses in conjunction conjunc-tion with their regular classroom class-room work. All of the students enrolled en-rolled in the Advanced Page Design class worked on new design and content for the website. A senior, Ben Grover, was chosen by Triple T to finalize the design and update a new website for the local company. Throughout the remainder of this school year, Ben will continue to update Triple T's website as part of his assigned school work in Montierth's class. Their generous donation was used to purchase a new digital camera for the web students to use at the school. pringvllle man Chris Laird of Springville had a dream. He wanted to make movies. On Thursday, Dec. 4, Laird will see that dream come true when his first film debuts at 7 p.m. at the Spanish. 8 Theatres in Spanish Fork. Laird, the son of Kenneth and Lori Laird, has been playing some baseball in California, but his movie dreams kept coming up and so he came back to Utah to fulfill them. He has spent the 'past six months working on his own independent movie, "Lairdville." "Lairdville" is about a cop (Kenny Michaels), whose partner is being held for a ransom of one million dollars. dol-lars. Michaels has 24 hours to deliver the money and save his partner. The film was written, edited, filmed and acted by Laird himself. Remarkably, Laird delivers an amazing performance while playing the roles of 24 different characters. "My dream is to become a great professional actor and this movie will be my golden ticket to get there," said Laird. "I just want to thank everyone who has helped with the movie-friends and CFGoodrich t r I Lm i iJl,rQ ' - Shannan Holloway, a math teacher at Springville High School, is shown here getting her hair cut on the Make-A-Wish assembly. She donated her locks to Locks of Love to be used for cancer patients. Chautenette Ladies concert The Chauntenette Ladies' Chorus invites the public to enjoy a delightful evening of song as they present their annual Christmas concert, "Has Anybody Seen Christmas." Christ-mas." The concert will be held Wednesday,. Dec. 3, at 7 p.m. in the Canyon View Jr. High School auditorium, 950 N. 700 East. This is their first public appearance with their new director, Marlene Ledet. . especially my family for being so supportive. You are appreciated; this movie is for you." 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