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Show Thursday, February 15, 2007 OREM TIMES Page 5 notes NEWS AND IDEAS Orchard Elementary Reva Bowen NORTH COUNTY STAFF At a school assembly just before be-fore the 2006 Christmas break. Orchard Elementary Principal Barry Bezzant gave a computerized com-puterized visual presentation introducing the school's soon-to-be-rebuilt playground as a gift to the students. "The gym erupted," Bezzant said. "There was a roar. The students are very excited. Not ' a day goes by that some of them don't ask, 'Now, when is this going to start?' " Thanks to the efforts of a Orchard teacher chosen for 'Teacher Feature' Reva Bowen NORTH COUNTY STAFF Orchard Elementary's David Rowe is in his first year of teaching at the Orem school, but a reputation for teaching excellence has followed him from a previous assignment teaching special education and resource at Sego Lily Elementary Elemen-tary in Lehi. The parent of one of Rowe's students in Lehi nominated Rowe for the KSL Radio and Zions Bank "Teacher Feature" recognition program, and he was selected by a panel of representatives rep-resentatives from the State Office Of-fice of Education and the local business community to receive the honor as an outstanding teacher. A feature on Rowe was broadcast on the radio station Feb. 6. Rowe's career as a resource and special education teacher has spanned 15 years. Currently, Cur-rently, he is the teacher in a small group classroom of 4th-6th 4th-6th graders from throughout Orem who are struggling below grade levels and receive extra help in core subjects. "David is doing a fantastic job," said Orchard Principal Barry Bezzant. "He is a very loving, kind individual, with a kind heart. He is a perfectionist, perfection-ist, and he really cares about the kids." The Lehi parent who nominated nomi-nated Rowe wrote that her son struggled with reading, which caused the child embarrassment embarrass-ment in school. "I remember one time he told me that he put his head on his desk and placed his backpack over his head to try to disappear because of his reading challenges. My heart broke for this child." The parent reported that as Rowe continued to work with t-wolf's WYATT FELT Hey. I wanted to start this column off with some things like "LOL", whatever those things are called. But, I just realized I don't really know any. This is perfect though because it illustrates exactly what I want to talk about. FAMILY FRIENDLY RADIO FOR UTAH VALLEY m RADIO Me Key 1450 rpicw- Web Site: www.keyy.com E-Mail: mailkeyy.com Complete program schedule and listener comment opportunity on our web site or phone us for a copy of our schedule! KEYY will not add your name to any mailing lists. Steven A. Barshun, General Manager 307 South 1600 West, Provo, UT 84601-3932 374-5210 !En Espanol! PROGRAMAS Y MUSICA PARA LA FAMILIA Los Sabados De Las 12:00 A Las 5:00 p.m. FROM CLASSROOMS AND EDUCATORS number of people, the dream of the new playground is set to become a reality much sooner than expected. Originally, there was a three-year plan to put together the funding for the $55,000 facility. A PTA-sponsored walk-a-thon last spring raised $10,000 from Orchard patrons. Alpine Al-pine School District officials Barry Graff and Kathy Porter worked to get and won district support for the new facilities, Bezzant said. Then, Jamie Christensen, the husband of Orchard first grade teacher Staci Christensen, stepped for David Rowe teaches English to her son, the boy developed not only his reading skills, but also his confidence, and grew in his desire to be a good reader. During the third year of working with Rowe, the student stu-dent reached a level where he no longer needed extra help. Seven months later, the child is doing well in class, makes frequent fre-quent trips to the library, and reads every night, according to his mother. Rowe's wife, Mindy, knew about the award for more than a week before her husband found out about the honor. I've become disconnected, technologically, from my own generation. This sounds like something and old geezer could be saying. You know, "Those kids, with their digital devices, they're just too smart for me." The bad part is I should know; I'm in the nerd club. Heck, I've been president of the nerd club. I'm a state officer offi-cer for the Technology Student Association, and I text message mes-sage without predictive text. I have an old Nokia phone I picked up when my mom got a new one, I've never used Blue 24 HOURS A DAY to life is Jesus Christ . Ii n to rebuild playground ward to donate the installation of the playground by his landscaping land-scaping company as a $7,000-$10,000 $7,000-$10,000 gift to the school. "The playground wouldn't be happening if it weren't for this donation," said Bezzant. "These are very generous people." Work began the first part of February, with the tearing out of the old playground. A ribbon-cutting is tentatively planned for the end of February, Febru-ary, Bezzant said, depending on how the weather affects concrete work and other aspects as-pects of construction. his class at Orchard Elementary. During a teacher's collaboration collabora-tion meeting, Mindy and the couple's three children Matt, 5); Mike, 3; and Brian, 6 months - came into the room, shortly followed by other family fam-ily members, all invited by Bezzant Bez-zant as a way to inform Rowe of the recognition coming his way. "It totally caught me by surprise," Rowe said. "I'm not one for attention. I don't seek the limelight at all. All of this is a little bit much, but it's nice, too." Rowe said he has "seen a tooth in my life and iTunes is like a foreign country. I've become be-come an outsider and a rookie in my own group. It's as if I'm a jock who failed to note who won the national championship. champion-ship. This has happened for two reasons: Stinginess and science. sci-ence. I hate spending money. I don't buy things unless their free or on some kind of irrefutable irrefut-able sale. So while the other nerds of my generation are out buying Razors and eating with their blueteeth, I'm fooling around with electronics that i r ! 6 . .. - ; ; .- ' 'ta ! . o ' " m i U If' 3Z. 1 1 "" -nimmmS $L Aspen Mor tga ge Your Home Loan Specialists WWW.ASPKXtm, ( OM Is Your ARM or Interest Only Loan About to Adjust or Recast? In the next year approx. 13 of all mortgages will either adjust or recast to a higher interest rate & higher payment. Fixed interest rates are at their lowest point this year so now may be a good time to refinance your mortgage. Call us today for free answers with no obligation. We make it easy! v Bert Wilson Bruce Henriksen HI.M Over 40 years combined lending experience. 250 west Main American Fork 756-7434 PurchaaeRefinance Bezzant also singled out Tom Mason, district purchaser, purchas-er, for Mason's work in having orders ready and performing timely preparation work and planning all efforts that have kept the playground construction con-struction on the fast track. A drawing of the new playground play-ground equipment, posted outside out-side the school offices, shows a "castle mountain" with climbing climb-ing walls, stairs, slides, and upper-body strength apparatuses appara-tuses that promises to engage Orchard students' imaginations as well as to help them get physical exercise. ff lit tf MARC HADDOCKNorth County wide variety of needs" in his work. He credits much of his success to a reading program that he was introduced to while working in Salt Lake City, and which he uses along with district dis-trict programs. The program teaches phonetics skills and "really helps the kids progress from one level to the next", he said, "not throwing too much at the students at once." Rowe said he enjoys spending spend-ing time with his family; following BYU football and basketball; playing sports; and reading and learning. aren't Y2K safe. I'm scared to go to some nerdy school and be the only kid who can't repair re-pair his hard-drive. The other problem is that I've sort of ignored technology. technol-ogy. I like science, a lot. And science is easy to be a local expert at; all you have to do is read about it. So I read about science. Technology, on the other hand, is best mastered by use. Unless I get the guts to go buy myself some technology, I'm bound to be a failed nerd. E-mail Me: wyattfeMgmail. com Timpanogos High School Solo & Ensemble Night Tonight is the Timpanogos Music Department's Solo & Ensemble Night, to be held at the school from 6 to about 8 or 8:30 p.m. Instrumental music director direc-tor Lance LeVar said that each student participating selects se-lects a solo or small ensemble (duet or trio) to perform in front of an audience and a judge. The judge gives a critique cri-tique of the performance and determines which students move on to perform at the region re-gion Solo & Ensemble. Those doing well at region have the opportunity to go to state. This year, LeVar said, the school's choirs are joining in with the instrumental music students in participating. "We will have about 200 students performing individual indi-vidual events throughout the school. We will be hiring eight different judges," said LeVar. "We invite the public to come and hear what the students at THS are doing on an individual basis, as the rest of our concerts are focused on the groups." I Benefit concert A special spe-cial benefit concert will be held in the Timpanogos High School auditorium Saturday at 7:30 p.m. The concei t is being be-ing sponsored by International Internation-al Aid Serving Kids (IASK), an Orem-based volunteer organization or-ganization for child advocacy and humanitarian aid, and the BYU Dancers' Company. All proceeds will go to help children in need, according accord-ing to Illens Dort, president of IASK. The Timpanogos Dance Theatre and Timpanogos Jazz Band will be special guests at the event. Tickets are $15. I Jazz festival The Timpanogos Jazz Band and Jazz Combo will perform Saturday Sat-urday at the BYU-Crescent Jazz Festival at BYU. The combo will perform at 12:30, and the jazz band at 2 p.m. The Jazz Combo is a group of musicians who make their own arrangements of music, and members include the section sec-tion leaders plus the rhythm section: Brady Bills, guitar; Kevin Judd, piano; Matt Wald, drums; Joshua Larsen, bass; Lauren Tyler, trombone; Garrett Burr, alto saxophone; and Andrew Bowns, trumpet. The All-State Jazz Band, consisting of the top 20 high school jazz musicians from around the state, will perform at the festival. Two THS students, stu-dents, Lauren Tyler and Garrett Gar-rett Burr, are also members of that group. I Timpanogos Ballroom Team The Timpanogos Ballroom Team competed in the Utah DanceSport Championships Cham-pionships at Thanksgiving Point recently and took second sec-ond place in the show dance division, according to Alison Wakefield, director of the team. I Safety drills In order to prepare for any type of emergency, emer-gency, Timpanogos High School will be scheduling more drills in the upcoming months to promote safety for the students and faculty, according ac-cording to Taunia Sloal of the counseling office. The drills are designed to help students and faculty to be aware and prepared for certain worst -case scenarios. Types of drills to be scheduled are a lock-down lock-down drill in which students and faculty are locked in the classroom until it is safe to leave, and an earthquake drill in which students and faculty silrr Won't Peel, Crack or Warp Outperforms oil Drop-in liners Great for Boats, Trailers, RVs Jeep', etc. Helps Keep your Gear from Sliding f WW Rhino Linings will evacuate the school to a pre-assigned area. Parents 'guardians will not Ix; able to check their st udents out of class during the scheduled sched-uled activities in order for school personnel to keep the drill as realistic as possible. Maeser Academy I Meeting for interested parents, students Maeser Mae-ser Preparatory Academy, a charter high school for grades !)T2. will he having a meeting for all interested students and parents today with a question and answer period will be held at 7 p.m. followed by a Hoard Meeting Meet-ing at 8:30 p.m. The Board Meeting is open to the public. The meetings will be held at Timpanogos Academy. 55 S. Titan Traill 10(1 last). Lindon. For more information call Kristin Raker al 1 13-401)0 13-401)0 or e-mail quest ions to info1" maeserprep.org. Aspen Elementary I Doughnut Date The Do-nut Do-nut Date for 1lie first giade, when parents come to share reading and a treat with their student, is scheduled for to morrow at ():.!( I a.m. I 5th grade at Clear Creek Aspen fifth gradei s will be al the Clear ( 'reek campground camp-ground I ebi u.ii y 2 2'-' I Trimester ends Second trimester ends I eb. 23 Geneva Elementary I Kindergarten and preschool pre-school registration Registration Registra-tion for new kindergarten and pre school students will be Feb. 26-27 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Northridge Elementary I Storytelling judging The in-school storytelling judging will be held tomorrow. tomor-row. Winners will perform in the. storytelling assembly February 23. I World Fair The sixth grade's World fair will be held during the school day February 22, and that evening from 7 to 8 p.m. t Kindergarten registration Kindergarten registration will be-l cbruan 26-27 fiom 8 a.m. to 3 p.m Orchard Elementary I Kindergarten registration Feb. 27-2H from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. are the dales and times for registration. Grades to be sent The trimester ends Feb. 23. with grades to be sent out the following fol-lowing week. Lincoln Academy I Students celebrate Presidents Presi-dents Day Students at Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove's Lincoln Academy will be celebrating Presidents Day with a pageant on " The Life and Tunes ol ( leorge Washington" on I i idav. The event will include an original play, a student art "mini-museum" and student essays. The second annual I 'residents 'resi-dents Pageant will ln.'gm at 5:30 p.m. with a dessert bar I ickets for reserve seating and the dessert bar at e available for $5 each through 1 be school. The event is free and open to the public at 7 p.m and the play starts at I '.'M p.m. The school is located at 1582 W. 3300 North, Pleasant Grove. 4s vw.. "W LIFETIME Zm,: "HPfRMANTlY PROTECTS AGAINST RUST AND CORROSION Resists Abrrjvon, '.-vi.-n under Heavy Use Nolo Paml lite roalir.q Sprays On up to i U" Thrk All Colors Available Copy Import HiwMfa Oiw |