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Show Thursday, October 26, 2006 SPRINGVILLE HERALD Westside students honor principal in surprise assembly I Christi C. Babbitt I SPRINGVILLE HERALD Susan Huff received a huge surprise Monday when she entered the West-side West-side Elementary School auditorium au-ditorium in Springville and was greeted by hundreds of schoolchildren showing their love and appreciation for her through deafening shouts and applause. Westside faculty and students had gathered, for the surprise assembly to congratulate Huff, who serves as Westside's principal, prin-cipal, for receiving Utah's National Distinguished Principal Award. Huff left on Wednesday Wednes-day for Washington, D.C., where she will represent Utah as the National Association As-sociation of Elementary School Principals honors National Distinguished Principals from each state. fears came to the principal's prin-cipal's eyes as she entered the auditorium and stood on a "red carpet" made of red poster paper and her ypung students erupted in cieers. The principal said her own children had come tj the school and taken her avay for ice cream while her students secretly assembled as-sembled in the auditorium. "In order to be a good pincipal, you have to mve great teacners ana awesome students and outstanding parents, so I want you to all give yourself your-self a big hand," Huff told the crowd. "I just wish . that every principal in the world could have this opportunity op-portunity to feel the love and support that I feel here today." The assembly included a movie featuring each class in the school sending their congratulations. The event culminated when, in the spirit of Hollywood's Hol-lywood's Walk of Fame, Huff placed imprints of her hands and signed her name in a block of wet cement. ce-ment. A brass star with her name on it will be added add-ed to the block, which will be installed in front of the school. Betsy Ferguson, a staff developer at Westside, said the event was organized orga-nized so Huff could be recognized locally for her achievement. "We wanted to send her off knowing how wonderful she is and how much we love her," Ferguson said. Nebo School District Superintendent Chris So-rensen So-rensen said Huff always has the best interests of students in mind. "Mrs. Huff is tremendously deserving de-serving of this award. She represents the best of the I z? 'WSJ;, ' y.yn 1 1 ' k -A' I n ir f i Tii i ii iiii In the spirit of Hollywood's Walk of Fame, Westside Elementary School Principal Susan Huff makes handprints in a wet cement block with the assistance of Betsy Ferguson, Westside staff developer, and Tom Worth, a parent of children that attend Westside. Huff also signed the block, which was created as part of a surprise assembly celebrating her receipt of Utah's National Distinguished Principal Award for 2006-07. best in Nebo School District," Dis-trict," Sorensen said. Huff was named Utah's National Distinguished Principal for 2006-07 by the Utah Association of Elementary School Principals Prin-cipals at that association's summer conference in Park City. This is her 27th year as an educator and her eighth year as principal princi-pal at Westside. With a passion for literacy, lit-eracy, Huff has worked to make Westside a model literacy school and was recognized in April with an Exemplary Reading Program Award from the International Reading Association. As-sociation. In 2004, she was named Nebo School District's Dis-trict's Reading Principal of the Year and was named Utah Elementary Reading Principal of the Year for 2004 by the Utah Council of the International Read ing Association. kebo Philharmonic off with a bang! Lindsay Szczesny The Spanish Fork Har vest Moon Hurrah on October Oc-tober 7th hosted the debut performance of the newly f ojmed Nebo Philharmonic Orchestra. Audience members mem-bers gave a standing ova-tioi ova-tioi following the patriotic soigs "The Star Spangled Banner," "Armed Forces Saute" and America's of fi-cia! fi-cia! march "The Stars and Stripes Forever,"complete witi a flawless piccolo solo by laudie Hill from Spanish Span-ish pork. One piece performed per-formed that night, "Barra Dorda March," was actually actu-ally composed by the con-ducjpr con-ducjpr himself, Benjamin K. Vankler. Miestro Winkler's phi-losojihy phi-losojihy is that great music mu-sic slould be fun, which is exactly what the Spanish Forkaudience discovered that light. Thj Nebo Philharmonic Orchestra was formed May2006 when violinist violin-ist Qrolyn Sorensen ap-proajhed ap-proajhed the Spanish Fork ArtsCouncil with the idea to stirt an orchestra. "I pnoved into the area in October 2005 and I felt that in o'der to make this my homi we needed an orchestra orches-tra ii the community." Tie Arts Council agreed to tb? proposition and even arranged for the rehearsal hall and start-up funds. They invited Prpvo resident resi-dent Benjamin K. Winkler to conduct the orchestra and auditions began this past summer. Instrumentalists from Spanish Fork, Payson, Springville and surrounding surround-ing cities have willingly set aside Tuesday evenings for rehearsals. Violinist and trumpet player Char-lene Char-lene and Roger Fjerstad said they "jumped at the chance" when they heard about auditions. Charlene, now the 2nd violin section leader, says, "An orchestra like this strengthens families by providing the community with quality music." Winkler agrees, "In addition ad-dition to the fact that it draws people to the community com-munity that will really contribute, con-tribute, it is a significant quality of life enhancement. enhance-ment. It's a major drawing card for people looking to relocate into this area." Off to the Hunt! Is the theme of the premiere concert con-cert on November 3 and 4. The Nebo Philharmonic will feature musical scenes of the hunt by Dvorak, Strauss Jr., Weber and Rossini's famous "William "Wil-liam Tell Overture" (often known as the Lone Ranger's Rang-er's theme song). the concert on Friday, Fri-day, Nov. 3, will be held at American Leadership Academy, 898 W. 1100 South, Spanish Fork at 7:32 p.m. The matinee on Saturday, Satur-day, Nov. 4, will be held at the Payson JHS Cafe-torium, Cafe-torium, 1025 S. Highway 6, Payson at 2:32 p.m. Clip and bring this article to receive re-ceive 2 for 1 admission to either performance. Those interested in participating par-ticipating in the orchestra orches-tra may call Sorensen, 787-5376, or Tifani Clark, 7944990, for more information. infor-mation. Or email Maestro Winkler himself at nebo-phil-harmoniccomcast. net. 0 p.p.a le. yriiim J urea flOe QanToke onu frnnal Wear utiOltoken ODodati ejng ?46 W. 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