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Show Orem Jr. High to celebrate 25th Anniversary May 13, other activities held Orem Junior High is having it's 25th anniversary this year. We are having a jubilee to celebrate our school. On May 13 we are having a jubilee that involves sack races, dunking tanks, fish ponds, sponge tosses, and lots of fun. Lately Orem Junior High has been involved in dances, assemblies, lip syncs and concerts. We had our first ninth grade night dance on January 31. Our theme was "Forever Young." The colors were red, black, white, and silver. The dance was decorated with ballons, stars, and sparklers. Everyone had lots of fun. On Martin Luther King Day we had an assembly to celebrate the occasion. oc-casion. We built our assembly with the themem "In The Name of Love." This was a great assembly set off with Orem Jr. High features teacher Orem Jr. High School is featuring these teachers this week. AUSTIN MACNAUGHTON by Kyle Allman Mr. MacNaughton was born in Heber City, Utah. He was raised in Utah, California, New Mexico, and England. He went to school for 12 years and has been teaching at OJH for the past 12 years. He teaches P.E., history and Study Skills. His favorite color is blue and his hobbies include woodworking, fishing, sports and farming. His favorite food is outdoor cooking. Something Mr. MacNaughton can not stand is to see people using drugs and substances that hurt their body. He has four great kids, Celeste 14, Kirk 12, Tina 10, and Kimberly 6, and a beautiful wife, Claudia. MINA RICHINS by Amiee Sumner Mina Richins is a resource, math, and reading teacher at Orem Junior High School. She was born in a Salt Lake City, Utah hospital. She was raised in Nephi, Utah, with her parents and family. Mina Richins has been teaching teach-ing at O.J.H. for six years. She likes to read, ride horses, and do creative writing. Her favorite color is yellow and she loves frozen yogurt. Mrs. Richins favorite past ime UVCC student says "I loved" internship with Utah senator The Office Administration and Secretarial Technology Department (OAST) of Utah Valley Community College (UVCC) has established an on-going internship program with Senator Jake Garn in Washington D.C. UVCC sends one student per quarter to work for Senator Garn. "There are some lessons which are learned on the job that are next to impossible im-possible to repeat in a classroom setting," set-ting," said Fred Guyman, an Office Administration instructor. "Many students, after graduation have told me that co-op was the best part of their education." Valori Christensen, a Business Management student from Orem, spent all of last quarter working for Senator Garn. "I loved it, every minute of it," she said. Job training exceeds for 3rd year Mountainland Job Training Partnership Part-nership Act ( JTPA) has exceeded all seven State mandated performance standards for the third successive year, this year serving 1,141 participants par-ticipants in JTPA programs plus 621 Summer Youth participants. JTPA programs include on-the-job training, classroom training, dislocated workers, single head-of-household, AFDC and youth. Actual performance statistics With t 1 NrN Saturday March 4th 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Please join us for quality orafis and fun things to buy Admission: 504 donation for the schools PTA More Cathi Mitchell 224-3247 speeches, music, and slides. We also enjoyed the presence of presidents and Martin Luther King. We had a lip sync contest in February with a grand prize of $150. The grand prize winners were "The Monster Mash." This was an excellent ex-cellent performance. We were very priviledged to have "The Edge" at tour school. They performed per-formed in an assembly and in a night performance. This is a show everyone will remember. Our girls basketball team took third place in the season and tournament. Orem Junior High is a school of pride and we hope it can serve another an-other twenty-five years. Chelsea Rowe OJH News Reporter hours are spent reading and watching plays. She is married, and has four children, Kenny 16, Esther 14, Cheryl 10 and Rachelle 5. Something that she cannot stand is disrespect shown by students stu-dents to each other, or to teachers. MARYDRESBACH by Baron Rohbock Mary Dresbach was born and raised in Pleasant Grove and attended at-tended school there, later she became be-came a student at BYU. This is her first year as a teacher but she spent half of last year being a student teacher for Miss Jenson. This year she teaches 7th grade life science and 9th grade applied life science. Her favorite hobbies are sewing, camping, cooking treats, and embroidery. Her favorite pastimes pas-times are yard work, watching MASH and playing NINTENDO. NIN-TENDO. She also likes pizza and cookies. Her most embarrassing moment mo-ment was having to ask her chemistry teacher where the log button was on her calculator during a test. Her pet peeve is when students do not want to learn. She recently married and she has six children, Robyn 9th grade, Darrin 7th grade, Doug 5th grade, Devan 2nd grade, Rachel 5-years-old and Rebekka 3-years-old. Christensen served as the receptionist recep-tionist for Garn's Washington office and was able to deal with many constituents, con-stituents, lobbyists, and other government govern-ment officials. "I was able to see the workings of a small part of the government; it was definitely a good all-around experience," she said. "One of the highlights of my internship in-ternship was being able to meet the crew of the space shuttle Discovery," Christensen said. "Others should definitely try to get an internship position; posi-tion; it is really worth it." The OAST Department presently has 60 students involved in internships intern-ships throughout Utah and other western states. Approximately 800 students participate in the cooperative Education program annually an-nually at UVCC. program compared to State mandated performance perfor-mance show Mountainland JTPA served more people at less cost and higher placement wage than the standard. The Job Training Partnership Act of 1982 was passed by Congress to assist the economically disadvantaged disadvantag-ed to become self-sustaining. Locally, JTPA is overseen and monitored by the Mountainland Private Industry Council (PIC). A flomesDun 1 Boutique Orem Elementary 450 West 400 South Orem, Utah Parking i available at the Eaat entrance "Most Photogenic Child" photo contest begins today to help raise funds for new Chamber building. Photo contest to raise money for new Chamber A local photographer is holding hold-ing a contest which will help raise money for a new Chamber of Commerce building. Glen Ricks Photo Studio and the ProvoOrem Chamber of Commerce are sponsoring a "Most Photogenic child" contest beginning March 1. A portion of each entry fee will go toward the building of new headquarters for the Chamber, said Ricks. The contest, which will run the first three weeks of March, is open to all children age six months to 12 years. Boy and girl winners will be chosen in two age categories: six months to six years and seven to 12 years. "We hope to be able to make a good contribution for a much-needed much-needed Chamber building," Ricks explained. "At the same time we will be providing beautiful portraits of children at a very low cost." Births at UVRMC to Orem parents February 7 Boy to Warren and Robyn Macafee Glenn Boy to Steven and Claire McCoy Boy to Curtis and Alisa Terry Boy to John and Kaylene Jackson Sheets February 8 Boy to Roy and LaVay Talk Boy to James and Judith Sehlmeirer Girl to Dee and Lisa Mayo Merryweather Boy to Kevin and Rhonda Bales Girl to Jay and Karen Mitchelle February 9 Girl to Charles and Gretchen Hoefer Terry Girl to Samuel and Christin Killian Allen February 10 Girl to Martin and Lisa Garn Girl to Tadd and Amanda Giles Boy to Franklin and Nadine Morrison Moore February 11 Girl to James and Rachel Williams Wil-liams Boy to Charles and Darrellyn Bates February 12 Boy to Randy and Jennifer Nelson Touch A 1 If 1 The $15 entry fee covers the sitting and a European miniature portrait. Prizes will be provided by local merchants. For more information about the contest, call Ricks at 224-2561. Free lecture on women, depression set Utah Valley Regional Medical Center's Behavioral Medicine Department has scheduled a free public lecture for Wednesday, February 22 at 7 p.m. in the Clark Auditorium titled, "Women and Depression: Myths and Reality." Speakers will include Marian S. Bergin L.C.S.W., at UVRMC and Allen E. Bergin, Ph.D., a member of Brigham Young University's faculty. The lecture is open to both men and women of all ages. Refreshments will be served following the discussion. For additional information call The Depression Center at 379-7250. It QZ a. Am fl Your One TNw a Printing ( Service S Give Orem-Geneva Times Wednesday, March 1, 1989 Page 9 Artists to display skills at Very Special Arts Festival To pay tribute to both the handicapped artists and those who appreciate their work, Very Special Arts of Utah County celebrate the arts with two festivals fes-tivals beginning March 7 and 8 at Canyon Crest Elementary, 4664 Canyon Rd. in Provo, and Dan Petersen School on March 9 and 10. The Petersen school is located at 169 North 1100 East, American Fork. Three artists will provide instruction in-struction from the Utah Arts Council. Tom Kehoe will provide instruction in music at both sites. Lynn Topvski will provide dance at Dan Petersen and Amy McDonald Mc-Donald will instruct in the medium of clay at both sites. VSA Festival 89 Chairman Cheryl Hostetter says, "Art is for all people; one of our greatest challenges is to provide the means to unleash the independent inde-pendent spirit in each of us. The children's participation just illustrates il-lustrates the power of creativity Sponsors sought for arts ed project grants and artist residencies Schools or community organizations organiza-tions interested in sponsoring artists in residence or in designing Arts Education Projects may apply for matching funds through the Utah Arts Council. Applications for matching funds will be accepted through March 20 for artist residencies at schools or in community settings. Under newly established criteria, matching Utah Arts Council funds also are offered to those proposing Arts Education Projects Pro-jects for Fiscal Year 1989-90. To receive a program guidelines brochure, artist bank brochure and applications, call the Arts in Education Educa-tion Program at 533-5895, or write to The AIE Program, Utah Arts Council, 617 E. South Temple, Salt Lake City, UT 84102. Artists in residence provide workshops, work-shops, demonstations, performances, seminars, teacher in-service training, parent-child workshops, local arts events and a variety of other mutually agreed-upon services. An artist's residence can bring a community together to define its identity-through identity-through such activities as a mural project, a musical production, a photography workshop, exploratory movement classes, etc. The Council selects quality pro and- Large Stock of WEDDING INVITATIONS Full Color Picture Standard Invitations Picture Wedding Invitations 3-Part Self Mailers Temple Ss Th IF Us A Chance To Serve You Utah Valley Publishing Co. Publishers of Orem-Geneva Times 546 South State - Orem 225-1340 over physical and mental challenges." challen-ges." Sponsoring organizations include in-clude the General Federation of Women's Clubs of Utah, Brigham Young University special Education Educa-tion Volunteers, Canyon Crest Elementary School Faculty and Staff, Oakridge Students, Dan Petersen School Faculty and Staff, and the Alpine and Provo School Districts. The Festival 89 is a noncompetitive noncom-petitive program for disabled children and youth to celebrate, participate in, and display their accomplishments in the arts. Very Special Arts is an educational educa-tional affiliate of the John F. Kennedy Ken-nedy Center for the Performing Arts, and is a private, non-profit organization designed to en- . courage the use of the arts as a learning tool while building self esteem, communication, socialization social-ization skills and fostering artistic artis-tic expression of handicapped persons. fessional artists in music, dance, theater, visual and literary arts for an Artists Bank, from which sponsors may choose a resident artist. An AIE conference in Salt Lake City June 8-9 will introduce artists to sponsors. Arts Education Projects are as varied arid unique as the applicants. This past year an Arts Education Project Pro-ject Grant was awarded to Ririe-Woodbury Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company to assist in field testing teaching materials to accompany a videotape on improvisation. improvisa-tion. Pilot projects which would further fur-ther arts education in Utah are actively active-ly sought. To be eligible for an artist residency or an Arts Education Project Pro-ject Grant, an organization must have non-profit status or apply under the umbrella of a non-profit organization. Schools of course, qualify. The Utah Arts CouncU will match sponsor funds at a ratio of 65 percent sponsor35 percent per-cent UAC. In addition.the UAC pays per diem and mileage for artist residencies. The Arts in Education Program is funded by the State Legislature through the Utah Arts Council, a division divi-sion of the Utah Department of Community Com-munity and Economic Devleopment, and through a grant from the National Na-tional Endowment for the Arts. lorn ate! ! Announcements Marriage Designs - .nl Yam I nrrtc X Napkins Best Quality f r |