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Show SPRINGVILLE HERALD.Section 2 Thursday, August 24, 2006 Springville teen wins Alaska road race Seventeen-year-old Rex Shields of Springville was a winner in the third annual an-nual Unity Run held July . 8 in Alaska. Shields, a recent high school graduate and standout stand-out prep runner in Utah, has been working for his grandparents in the King Salmon restaurant and hotel ho-tel in Kenai, Alaska, during dur-ing the summer. Shields won the men's 10-mile race, covering the course in 58 minutes, 15.8 seconds. "It was fun. It went by pretty fast," Shields said in an interview with the Peninsula Pen-insula Clarion newspaper. ARTS High School opens in Springville ARTS High School, Utah's oldest High School for the Arts is now in Springville. School starts Wednesday, September 6th and registration is now open. Open since 1992, ARTS High accepts middle school, junior high school and senior high school students. stu-dents. Students erirollin'g into ARTS High School receive re-ceive instruction in arts and academics while receiving re-ceiving hands-on experience expe-rience in many fields of media and the arts. ARTS High students participate in cutting-edge educational educa-tional methodologies such as Flex-Scheduling and Flex-Curriculum which has been recognized by national education specialists. special-ists. The high school curriculum cur-riculum embraces the spectrum of traditional academic subjects as well as a full range of classes, workshops, and learning projects in most art disciplines. disci-plines. Besides working well with the gifted student, ARTS High education has a proven track record in changing the lives of at-risk at-risk students and helping them to become contributing contrib-uting citizens. Graduates are excepted at universities universi-ties around the country and are doing well in up "I ran the race two years ago and took fourth, so I wanted to do it again." Shields said he was able to pull away from his closest clos-est pursuers about seven miles into the race. A total of 42 runners competed in the 10-mile race. The race stretched from Kenai, Alaska, to Soldotna, Alaska, and was conducted by the Kenai and Soldotna Rotary Clubs. I Information for this story sto-ry was taken with permission permis-sion from a story by Will Morrow that ran in the July 9, 2006, edition of the Peninsula Clarion newspaper. per education, internships, andor the job market. ARTS High helps students stu-dents flourish and excel in an art-based academic atmosphere of respect and freedom. It also helps the creative student that might otherwise be lost in the accepted process of traditional education! Join the cutting edge in academic and artistic education edu-cation at ARTS High, a full time Arts High School for the creative and entrepreneurial entre-preneurial student. Schools that are at least 60 art-based are turning out the highest achievers in the world. As the U.S. public school arts programs pro-grams have diminished, the country has dropped to 17 in the world's technology tech-nology leaders. The number one college major being accepted to F I H H H ! 1 ISIIllI ' I ; si IFF i FREE Tire Rotation 1 with oil change. 1 Reg. $24.95: Sale Price $19.95 - - - -2----- Rex Shields, left, checks his time Saturday, July 8, 2006, while running with Mark Blanning on a hill along the 10-mile Rotary Unity Run between Kenai and Soldotna, Alaska. The two finished first and second, respectively. (M. Scott MoonPeninsula Clarion) Medical School is the Music Mu-sic Major. All of California's top engineers are practicing musicians. The arts connect the brain, making students whole thinkers. Upon observing ARTS High students, -John' Gatto -Three-time New York City Teacher of the Year said: "Drop any one of these students in the Mojave Desert for a year and when you come back, ?Car Service Made i'swS'i' WEEN Reg. $99.95; Sale Price $79.95 With $10 Mail-inrRebate Expires 123106 i "w 4 - - " you'll find a performing art center has sprung up!" ARTS High is a private school and tuition-based. Some scholarships and work-study available. For information call 801-722-8742. A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely com-pletely foolproof is to underestimate un-derestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. - - Douglas Adams I I Citizens are invited to a retirement open house for Pat Averett at the Springville City Hall on Thursday, Aug. 31, from 3 to 4 p.m. Averett has worked at the Springville City Library for many years as the Catalogue Librarian. T ass The UPS Store 224 South Main Street Springville, UT 84663 491-9744 M-F 9 to 7, Sat 9 to 5 6 Smarter" With Purchase of Emmissions Test Expires 123106 J www.SmartpriceautoS.com Artf wf tan iMnatsJfectfcmuf? Hiatal PKKf A wde wgr of tftfpfl( BfACfH :.,J - '. : 50 OFF i 801-806-9500 Service Hours: M-F 8am-6pm Appointment recommended but not required 1715 W. 500 S. Springville, UT 84663 |