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Show Thursday, April 26, 2007 Page 6 0 R E M TIMES ft 4 V M notes ! j y; ', j ! ; t r JAY 2 .,. I 4 MICHAEL RIGERTNorth County Kevin Ludwig, a sixth-grader f Jrrm l.leniciitury School, was one of !'.) exemplary students in Orem and Provo who received i iicttl Kids Awutds jiuni the l'mvt-( Hem ( 'hamher of Commerce ut a special April 11 banquet. Orem students celebrated through Great Kids Awards Mich.iel Rigert I HI il ;i If-w weeks ( lli'lll I lemenliii v Mtli-nr;il-r Kevin I ,ikK i; Ii;hI never heard of the ileal Kuls Avvai lis Vel on Apr il 1 1, he was one ol -III sinilenis I mm Orem and I'lovo schools ai i cpling Ihe an olade in Iron! ol his parents ami sihlins from Ihe hovo-( hovo-( )iem ( 'hamher ol ( oininen e. I ii aled toa dinner in the hallrooni of Ihe lYovo Library at Academy Square, honorees and I heir families participated in Ihe awaids ceremony and enjoyed a I VI ) presentation of snippets compiled f rom videotaped video-taped interviews with each of the children. "I was pretty shocked," l.ud-wij; l.ud-wij; said, of beinn selected for the honor, adding thai his fu-vonle fu-vonle part of the evening was walchmn the video. "Some of them were pretty funny," he said. ( iuests also heard brief remaiks from former BYU linebacker and current member mem-ber of the National f ootball League's Super Bowl-champion Indianapolis Colts Rob Morris, bruin So Spring Break is over. I hat 's not a good thing But Spring Break was. Looking South For Real Estate? 4 " Specializing in Juab County & South Utah County Real Estate f H 0 M CI A S 5 R 0 BYU football player Brett lXm-ney, lXm-ney, and Congressman Chris Cannon. Ludwig s least favorite moment, mo-ment, Orem l .lementary teacher teach-er Terry Hodson surmised, was probably when the boy's sister shouted with glee when his name was announced over Ihe I'A system. I or I lodson, giving Ludwig Ihe nod for the award was an easy call. "I le has excellent work hab-ils hab-ils in class, u fantastic attitude and is willing to participate in all activities whether he likes them or not," he said. Becky Rodeback, office manager lor the lYovo-Orem ( hamher of Commerce, said ( ireat Kids Awards, this year in its nth year, are a way for its members to recognize kids in the community who may not always be in the spotlight. Principals Prin-cipals from each school pick a sixth.-grade (and sometimes filth-grade) boy and girl from a list of teachers' nominees to accept the award. "It's not necessarily based on academics, who's the best at football, but just that they're good kids, good examples and As most of you know the band went on tour to California. Califor-nia. The tour was amazing, and you have to understand that amazing is the understatement understate-ment of the year. We had a blast recording Disney music in a professional studio, performing for the visitors visi-tors at Disneyland, and having fun riding the rides of course. 0 M S AND EDUCATORS good friends," Rodeback said. "And a lot of them ai e kids who are trying awfully hard." In one of the video interview segments, she recalled a young boy who when asked, said his father was his favorite hero. "He said 'I le married my mom and I needed a dad,'" Rodeback said. "Oh my gosh, that's the cutest thing I've ever heard." Boys received autographed foot balls from Morris and IX-nney and girls received bracelets from Losee Jewelers Jewel-ers thanks to donations from Chamber members. Nicole Nelson, )rem Llemen-tary's Llemen-tary's other Great Kids Award recipient, was nominated by her teacher Heather Stewart for being a standout student in the classroom. "Mainly it was just her initiative. ini-tiative. She always has a positive posi-tive attitude and she's a hard worker," Stewart said. Ludwig, who will turn 12 in two weeks, aspires to be a filmmaker, wants to reduce the amount of non-disposable waste discarded in society and enjoys reading adventure series se-ries such as I larry Potter and We also went to the Broadway musical "Wicked" in Los Angeles, Ange-les, and it was also amazing. At first, I didn't want to go, but now that I've seen it, I'm glad I did. On the way home we stopped in Vegas to do what we wanted for two hours. That was pretty fun, too. Back home, people did stuff, although I don't know Vt4fe j 1 mm AMtmm, o Easy Clean Feature Lifetime Guarantee Energy Efficient , Quality Installation NoPayment.., Empty Nest? m WEKNOWCONDOS :Z " n JkSt ' An Affordable RLL xornow aonouiant i 't k I Look Like It V j 1 pj ,, 830-2020 . I . jl Jf 'Wftp -..830-2030 sJ ' u lornows & Associates, Inc. I yy 7$28 I u Y?l4 WW.ltahBuerInfo.C0m I 1774 N. University Pkwy IjJ tDCT9lID fepM g U PrOVO (Biigham Ending) JVof mimasmtsBS, II rh&' fuo interest vvasatcn vinyi rroaucis Until mjJ'lWm i I ... I The City of Ember. His father is his hero because be-cause "he helps me with a lot of things," he said. Other Orem students receiving receiv-ing the Great Kids Award in the Mountain View High School area of schools included Jose Bonilla and Carlisha Zabriskie from Cherry Hill Elementary; El-ementary; Cristian Castaneda from Suncrest Elementary; Diana Quintana and Trevor Fairbanks from Vineyard Elementary; El-ementary; and Ashley Call and Kevin Sites from Westmore Elementary. Rodeback said the Chamber Cham-ber also assists local schools through education partnerships partner-ships with Resist Aggression Defense Kids (radKIDS) training train-ing and providing mentoring opportunities through members mem-bers businesses for high school students. Yet it's through the Great Kids Awards program that the Chamber can elicit the biggest smiles of all on kids' faces. "I honestly think it's one of the most rewarding things we do through the Chamber," she said. what because I wasn't there. I hear that it snowed. As for this week, it was Language Arts Testing, which is crazy because it means the end of the year is coming up. We also are having State Solo Ensemble on Saturday. Region Orchestra is today, and Region Large Choir was a few days ago. INSTALLED offer! - LIMITED TIME OFFER! r1 ... ' IE High Quality . LOW File!! i Mountain View High School I Senior Picture Day A panoramic senior class of 2007 picture will be taken today to-day at 10:30 a.m. I Academic Assembly An academic assembly will be held Friday, April 27, at 9 a.m. I PTSA Board Meeting The MVHS Parent-Teacher-Student Association Board will meet at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, April 2. No Child Left Behind core testing Student core testing test-ing in science and math for NCLB will be held Tuesday, April 1, through Friday, April 11. Lakeridge Junior High School I Model UN at University of Utah Model United Nations team members will participate partici-pate in a competition at the University of Utah on Thursday, Thurs-day, April 26. Midterm Friday, April 27, is midterm at Lakeridge JHS. I Alpine Days Track team members will participate par-ticipate in Alpine Days May 2-3 at Mountain View High School. I Choir and Guitar Concert The Lakeridge choir will perform a concert Thursday, May 3, at 6 p.m. I Spring Orchestra Concert The orchestra will perform Monday, May 7, at 7:30 p.m. I UHS Community Council Meeting The school's community com-munity council will hold a meeting Wednesday, May 9, from 12 to 2 p.m. I AP Spanish Testing Advanced Ad-vanced Placement testing for Spanish will be Wednesday, May 9. I Art Show An art show will be held the week of Monday, Mon-day, May 7. An open house viewing of the art will be held Thursday, May 10, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. I Talent Show Assembly A talent show assembly will be on Friday, May 11. Cherry Hill Upcoming events would be: more testing, (CRT and AP), Prom, a few more band concerts, and then the end of school. Its getting really close, people. So here's an update on my hermit crab. Remember how Kim King got me one to ask me to MORP? Well, he was getting lonely; so I decided to get him a ON ANY SPEC HOMES or CUSTOM BUILD HOMES DURING THE MONTH OF MARCH Murt nfifkxi ihi ud o Siciol f rton&ns (own ami town ftrouah MJk ny 01 Todd rl.w - Citywid Morteufp cali youo aescRT point Kim McKINLEY ft 1 N OUI.33.7JOJI ... . QUI. 336.4648 I J SlCWtTURE X' Si.' ,1. Elementary I State Core Testing The state core testing window is from April 23 to May 10. Orem Elementary I Core Testing End of year core testing will be administered ad-ministered April 23 through May 18. I First Annual Walk-a-thon Orem Elementary's first annual Walk-a-thon will be held Friday, April 27. Parents are invited to participate with their students. Suncrest Elementary I Kindergarten Field Trip Kindergarten students will be going on a field trip to Thanksgiving Point on Thursday, Thurs-day, May 26, from 9:15 a.m. to noon. ) PTA Walk-a-thon Students Stu-dents will participate in the PTA Walk-a-thon between 1 and 3 p.m. on the IHC track. Students have gotten pledges and will run or walk distances dis-tances to raise money for the school. I Camp Jeremiah Johnson Students in specified grade levels will make trips to Camp Jeremiah Johnson Cub Scout Camp in Springville between Tuesday, May 1, and Friday, May 4. Students will attend the day came and participate in team-building activities. I Fifth-grade Field Trip Fifth graders will travel to Camp Floyd in Fairfield during a field trip on Friday, May 4, from 9:15 a.m. to 2 p.m. I Core testing Core testing test-ing begins May 7 and runs through May 18. Westmore Elementary t Sixth-grade Etiquette Dinner Six graders will demonstrate proper forms of mealtime etiquette they've acquired at a meal served on Friday, April 27, at 11:30 a.m. I School carnival A school carnival will be held Tuesday, May 1, from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. really big tank some more toys and a friend. I think he's happy now. He's actually coming out of his shell now. Hermit crabs are actually really cool. Well, I'm running out of space so I'm going to wrap this one up. Have a sweet week Bruins. Stand up and stand out. Oh wait, that's last year's. Here it is: Live it up. 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