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Show 12 SPRINGVILLE HERALD Thursday, March 10, 2005 jr. umu NEW . SPR1NVII!XE 1 pri iiiiijif ni t h iT -i- i ' A " Y J ; - ...T-ltw-.ir n -- 2l i tmJ ' Jk J, LmLi Congratulations to the Springville Jr. High Science Fair winners! The following students won awards at the Nebo District Science Fair. They will be participating in the Central Utah Science and Engineering Fair at BYU on March 31st There are some of the finest students in the nation at Springville Jr. High and everyone is proud of you! The winners are: Spencer Larson, Nathan Richey, Stephanie Richey, Andie Shields, Andrew Willmore, Emily Young, Lane Leishman, Bronson Woods, Maria Lowry, Ethan Pearson, Kathryn Sumsion, Samantha Sumsion, Danielle Gunn, Mary Lee Taylor, Eric Tingey and Devyn Woodfield. is I- ' W .Ml t j 1 4 V Mr. Merkley is shown here instructing students in his Law and Government Govern-ment class at the Jr. High. Teacher Spotlight Mr. Merkley Sarah McQueen JR. HIGH STAFF WRITER Clark Merkley, a teacher at Springville Jr. High School, is spotlighted this week. He teaches 8th grade Earth Science, and Law & Government, which, is both 8th and 9th grade students, mixed. One of his strategies in teaching is connecting current cur-rent events to what they are learning in class. Mr. Merkley graduated with a B.S. in Zoology from BYU, as well as a MBA and J.D. from University of Chicago. He has worked at a health insurance company in Wisconson, as an attorney attor-ney in Portland, Oregon, and now this is his second year teaching at Springville Buy Now & Complete Furnace & Central Air Systems j Green Sticker Service $79.00 ; j Furnace Tune-up $69.00 j I Combination Special $99.00 j Heating & Air "Quality Service At A Fair Price" f 1 as i Junior High School. Some of his hobbies include basketball, computers, comput-ers, hiking and spending time with his family of five kids and his wife. He is just one of the amazing teachers at our school. Girls softball team chosen The 9th Grade Softball Team has been selected. Congratulations to Danica Budge, Keeli Chalk, Brittny Christensen, Sarah Clark, Kami Evans, Danielle Gunn, Kandice Kirkham, Adrianna Tarin, Kelli Tobler and Anna Wheeler for making the high school softball team! We wish them the best of luck this upcoming season! Save!! Conditioning -a-. aa.jtAlrji Springville Jr. High Basketball Camp Jessica Pettersson JR. HIGH STAFF WRITER Last week from Feb.28 to Mar.3, Mr. Kindrick hosted a Girl's Basketball Camp here at the jr. high. The girls practiced basic shooting, shoot-ing, passing, dribbling and defensive drills in preparation prepara-tion for next year. They had a great turn out! We thank all of the girls who participated, and hope to have a big turn out for tryouts this fall! Everyone is different Sarah Benson and Samantha Krehbiel JR. HIGH STAFF WRITERS If everyone is different in their own way, then why don't we accept everyone? We interviewed Mr. Kelepo-lo, Kelepo-lo, the principal at Springville Jr. High, and this was his response. "I think diversity is an important im-portant part of growth. Different Dif-ferent opinions help us grow; we shouldn't be contentious or create anger towards differences. dif-ferences. The one kind comment com-ment or being able to help others makes a world of difference." dif-ference." We also interviewed Mrs. Thatcher, the Special Ed. teacher, and she shares her opinion on differences. "We are all different, and some kids at our school don't know how to deal with differences.... dif-ferences.... they might be embarrassed and scared." When we asked Mr. Kele-polo Kele-polo how we were doing with differences he replied, "I've always been impressed with how students treat others oth-ers in this school. . . That's why Peaceable Schools is so important." We all have handicaps and we are all different dif-ferent in our own way. We should treat everyone with the same respect since we are all different. BROOMBALL ICE-HOCKEY Yes! Believe-it-or-not. The newest craze has hit our town. No skates required. Just pure FUN! Broomball Ice-Hockey is for all ages. Call to schedule a game for your group! i 100 NORTH oui-ji i-oi 1 1 PROVO Stndent Spotlight Maria Lowry Abby Taylor JR. HIGH STAFF WRITER Last week, the school science sci-ence fair winners went to district finals for cience projects. pro-jects. We were happy that so many of our students at Springville Jr. High School got to go to the Brigham Young University regionals. Our spotlight this week is on one of the winners. ..Maria Lowry. I questioned her on her project and her thoughts on the future. fu-ture. I asked Maria what her project was, and she said the title was "Finding the Error Factors in Different GPS Software." When asked how long her project took, she said, "About two hours for data collection, and the mathematics math-ematics took about nine hours." I asked Maria if she expected ex-pected to make it this far, "I knew the project had merit, but I wasn't sure about the way I conducted it. I'm definitely defi-nitely excited to continue and better my project." I also asked her what she'd do if she makes it to nationals. nation-als. "I will re-conduct my froject to find the most error actors possible. I'm planning plan-ning on conducting this experiment ex-periment in the Grand Canyon, which is supposed to be the most accurately surveyed trail in the world, So to compare my data to that from the Grand Canyon would give it a hyper accurate accu-rate error factor," she said. Sounds complicated huh? We all hope you do well Maria. Maria Lowry Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you. - Horace Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative. - Maurice Chevalier Do not regret growing old-der. old-der. It is a priviloege denied to many. - Author Unknown a r ' - V A One in One Hundred Eileen Leavitt JR. HIGH STAFF WRITER Springville Jr. High school has been trying something new. It's something some-thing that only one other secondary school in our state has tried. It's been used for elementary schools around the nation, and it seems to be working. It's a plan called the Peaceable Schools' Program. About two years ago, BYU contacted the school to see if they would try something new. This new program was meant to create cre-ate a better environment at our school. Mr. Gerke, one of the hardworking counselors coun-selors at Springville Jr. High, believes that giving the students and their parents par-ents a voice is very important. impor-tant. This program has given them a little more say in what's happening in and around our school. It could j Oh! the books you can read on Dr. Seuss' birthday. Mrs. Roylance's second grade class read over 50 books to help celebrate Dr. Seuss' birthday on March 2nd at art City School. Hooray for a diffendoofer day! Baseball is starting be there All of you baseball fans out there, softball and baseball are just around the corner. Softball tryouts were on February Feb-ruary 28th while March 1 and 2 are dedicated to baseball base-ball tryouts. It is projected that nearly all of the former baseball players from last year will be on the team once again, the team having lost only one senior. se-nior. Last year the team did well, winning 21 games and losing 6. "This year though is going to be different," said baseball player Matt McCoy, "We are going to do much better this year." Can we expect any less with players like Mark Pawelek, Scott Pickering and McCoy leading the game. The players are excited for the upcoming season, and their coach is preparing for a great season. Coach Childs, the baseball head coach, believes be-lieves that the team will do even better than last year; the team has a lot of talent. He believes his team is ready to go out into the stadium with a bang. The team this year is going to be huge. The players are HI puTlP ""Mote5 eSrt Get in on a great career today! Contact or take incoming calls from current customers regarding a variety of products and services. If you have great customer service and sales skills, call us today! Sales & Service Representatives $8.00Hr or More to Start Flexible Morning, Afternpon & Evening Shifts 765-7300, ext. 424CE77 or, apply online at: www.convergys.greatjob.net Media Code: 424 Job Code: GE77 reduce the threat of bullies and the number of referrals to the office. So has it worked? The people in charge believe that it has. According to the statistics, the referrals to the office and kids in Early Morning Enrichment have reduced in number. So how exactly does this program work? Every week, a few mornings are used to teach kids one of the Peaceable School values. val-ues. There is a little clip illustrating il-lustrating the value for that week. The teacher then goes over the value and its assigned steps. The values include how to: Make a decision, de-cision, Resist peer pressure, Apologize, Follow instructions, instruc-tions, Get the teacher's attention, at-tention, Resolve conflicts, Show appreciation, Respond Re-spond to teasing and Listen. We are happy to have a plan in place to address these issues before it's too late. going to train hard and Mark Pawelek asserts that, "The team has gotten bigger, stronger and we are going to play much better this year. We are hungry to win." Let's hope so, and let's give the team all of our support. Color Guard takes first place The Sorineville High School Color Guard competed compet-ed at the Lone Peak High School Winter Guard Invitational Invita-tional on Saturday, Mar. 5 and won first place in the scholastic regional A "red" division. The color guard is under the direction of April Roberts and Bryan Tobler. They have worked hard this year and look forward to competing at Bonneville High School on March 12, American Fork High School on the 26th and then finals at Utah Valley State College April 2. MtMi Wide Variety of Positions Casual Work Environment Paid Training Included Converges Turn to the Experts! EOEMPMFDV |