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Show 7 Thursday, May 17, 2007 0 R E M TIMES Page 7 notes NEWS AND IDEAS ; t ' JEREMY HARMONDaily Herald Younger students wave to Trayven Bull wearing red and yellow shorts and Andrew Zolinger wearing a cowboy hat as they and other fourth-graders leave Cherry Hill Elementary with a handcart during a Utah History activity in Orem on May 15. Cherry Hill fourth-graders re-enact handcart experience Michael Rigert NORTH COUNTY STAFF Pioneer children from Cherry Hill Elementary belted out frontier songs, took turns pulling their replica handcarts and counted wheel revolutions as they walked, and walked and walked during Tuesday's reenactment trek. A tradition in its eighth year at the school, the Utah pioneer handcart trek is the culminating culminat-ing activity for fourth graders as a reward for their year-long study of Beehive State history, said Shirlene Hill, one of two fourth-grade teachers organizing organiz-ing the event. "We just finished our testing last week and it's kind of a fun thing," she said. Girls in print dresses or skirts and head bonnets skipped along beside the hand Bruin senior student-athlete personifies endurance, dedication Michael Rigert NORTH COUNTY STAFF Mountain View High School senior Melissa Seipel likes school or at least she thinks missing classes is kind of lame. Seipel, who holds a 4.0 GPA, is the school's 2007 Sterling Scholar in English and is a member of the Bruin band's percussion corps, hasn't missed a day of school since the seventh sev-enth grade. She insists she's not impervious imper-vious to illnesses and health setbacks. "Mostly, the worse thing I have is a cold or really bad migraines, mi-graines, but they usually hit on the weekend," she said. "It just kind of worked out that way." An athlete on Mountain View's track and cross-country teams all three years, Seipel Sei-pel served as the captain of the girls track team this spring. The only time the 17-year old came close to missing a day of school was her junior year when she broke her leg at a cross-country meet, her father Mike Seipel said. . "It was about 150 meters from the finish line. She hobbled and she hopped and finished the race," he said. "She was on crutches and everything every-thing but she wanted to go to SATISFACTION I fillARANTFPn ipinl- fffl wwvgi wqhji 1 1 FROM CLASSROOMS AND EDUCATORS carts or helped the boys push while the boys manned the yoke of the cart in brimmed hats and vests. Eight students were assigned to each cart or "family" along with a parent chaperone for the one and half mile hike from the school to Strong Hollow encampment for a trail dinner and a day of pioneer activities. Rebecca Nottke, 10, appreciated ap-preciated learning about the hardships that Utah pioneers endured. "For every eight, one would die," she said. "They had so much faith and they were so religious, that's how they made it across the country." Suleyma Valencia, 9, said Tuesday's trek was important because she got to better understand un-derstand the sacrifices Utah's pioneers made. " ... We have food and wa school (on Monday)." After a while, the perfect attendance streak became a matter of pride for Seipel, who typically eschews any kind of attention. "After time, I didn't want to lose it, to see how far I could make it," she said. Seipel, who says her favorite subjects are history and the social sciences, said her time at Mountain View has been rewarding. She's not only become a confident in her abilities, but also developed a knack for leadership and gotten got-ten more comfortable working with teachers and coaches. David Carpenter, a social sciences faculty member at Mountain View, had Seipel in his U.S. history and AP world history classes. Though she wasn't overly vocal in class, he said, Seipel is a force to be reckoned with. "She has an iron discipline and work ethic," Carpenter said, adding she completed every ev-ery assignment at a high level of execution and thoughtful-ness. thoughtful-ness. "She's really made the most of her opportunities and done extremely well," he said. Seipel, when asked which Mountain View faculty or coaches had impacted her the COLL QN REPAIR ter," she said. "They didn't have the things we have now." The kids got to make candles, churn butter, build pioneer toys and dolls and try their hand at the hatchet-throwing hatchet-throwing contest. Students earned a colored bead for each activity they participated in and many even made their own "possible bag," a small pouch made from deer hide and hanging from a string around their necks, to store their treasures. During the trek to the hollow, hol-low, handcart companies experienced ex-perienced setbacks including mock injuries, getting stuck in the mud, or having members recruited by an U.S. Army officer into the Mormon Battalion Bat-talion for a war with Mexico. A historical reenactor played the part of Brigham Young at the camp and spoke to the I r I fJ COBB CONDIEDaily Herald Melissa Seipel, a standout student at Orem High, stands in front of her home in Orem on May 14. most, said she's had numerous influences. Carpenter, she said, could answer any question she posed, and took great efforts to make the learning about the people and places of history exciting, though he demanded each student's best effort. Jeanie Wilson, assistant principal prin-cipal at Mountain View, calls Seipel an amazing person with a bright future. "She's ... a wonderful role model and best of all, humble," Wilson said. www.martinscoIlisonreDairxom "utiU ti:, "'ftjftMiMHSi'i) ft 1 children. "We try to have as many things as we can for them to experience how it was," Hill said, adding that the students would record their experiences in a journal the next day and include them as part of their Utah books. Rebecca Wood, a parent who accompanied her son Joseph's handcart family, was impressed at the lengths to which the school went to help students understand state history. "I've lived in several states and never seen such a comprehensive compre-hensive history program for kids so young," she said. Nottke agreed that Tuesday's Tues-day's pioneer trek was special. "It's not every day that you get to dress in bonnet and skirt and walk three miles," she said. "I've been looking forward to this since third grade." If she wasn't busy enough, Seipel has also participated in the Model United Nations and National Honor Society in past years. Seipel will attend Brigham Young University this fall on a half -tuition scholarship. Though she's not sure what course of study she'll pursue, she's leaning toward an area in the social sciences. "I just like to challenge myself my-self to see what I can do," she says of her steely determination determina-tion to excel A VAX A. A V 0 I Cosmetology xnd Nail Pirorrczi Casaprecs ia All schools Last Day of School The last day of the school for students in the Alpine" School District is Thursday, May 31. Mountain View High School I No Child Left Behind core testing Student core testing test-ing in science and math for NCLB continues through Friday, Fri-day, May 11. State Large Choir Festival J- MVHS's A Cappella Choir will be among five Utah high school choirs competing in the State Large Choir Festival May 11-12 at Timpview High School in Provo. MVHS Junior Prom The Bruins' Junior Prom is Saturday, Sat-urday, May 12, at 8:30 p.m. in the ballroom of the Provo Library at Liberty SqUare. Choir Concert MVHS choirs will perform the final concert of the school year on Tuesday, May 15, at 7 p.m. I Band Concert The MVHS bands will perform its spring concert on Thursday, May 17, at 7 p.m. Lakeridge Junior High School I Art Show Open House An open house for the week's art show at the school will be held Thursday, May 10, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. I Spring Choir and Guitar Concert Will be held Thursday, Thurs-day, May 10. I Talent Show Assembly A talent show assembly will be on Friday, May 11. I Panoramic photo of ninth grade class The photo will be taken Tuesday, May 15. I Band concert The final school band concert of the school year will be Wednesday, Wednes-day, May 16. i PTA convention A PTA convention will be held at Brigham Young University on Thursday, May 17. I Ninth-grade Spring Formal The formal for ninth graders grad-ers will be Friday, May 18, from 7 to 10 p.m. I Honor society cleanup The Lakeridge Honor Society will be meeting on Saturday, May 19, at 9 a.m. for a clean bruin BRAYDEN SANIO The time is getting shorter and shorter, Bruins. Counting today, there are only 10 days left of school. That's pretty crazy. Seniors are gone this year, but juniors and sophomores sopho-mores get to stay and welcome wel-come the freshman in. But enough about that, let's talk about Prom. Prom was awesome for me, and it was actuary the best date in my life, ever, up to this point. I took Brittany Williams, Wil-liams, and she was beautiful. Here's how it went: The day activity was out at Discovery Park in Pleasant Grove. We basically played on the park for a bit, and then had lunch. My buddy works for the "Hawaiian Shave Ice" stand, and he managed to get the industrial quality shave ice machine. After eating two shave ices 801-363-S2C2 ,M " ' Sjr, ' Classes Cegln Jt:::o 3C! ' Sra Foil; :;;;! up service project. Cherry Hill Elementary I State Core Testing The state core testing continues through Thursday, May 10. i School Carnival Cherry Hill's school carnival will be Friday, May 11, beginning at 5 p.m. t Fourth-grade Handcart Trek Fourth graders will participate in the Handcart Trek with rented handcarts and dressed in pioneer garb on Tuesday, May 15. A culmination culmi-nation of their Utah history unit, the students will go to a nearby wooded area where they will prepare a Dutch oven meal and learn how the pioneers lived. Orem Elementary I Core Testing End of year core testing will be administered ad-ministered through May 18. I Teacher Appreciation Week Runs through Friday, Fri-day, May 11. Suncrest Elementary ' I Core testing Core testing test-ing runs through May 18. I Third-grade field trip Third graders will go to the Children's Museum in Salt Lake City on Friday, May 11. I Camp Jeremiah Johnson Kindergarten and first-grade students will attend Camp Jeremiah Johnson in Spring-ville Spring-ville on Friday, May 11. I Yearbook money due Fees for the digital yearbook, year-book, $3 per student, are due Friday, May 18. Westmore Elementary School I Neighborhood Carnival Sponsored by the PTA, the carnival will be held Tuesday, May 18, from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. I Drama club performance The final drama club performance per-formance will be Thursday, May 10, at 6:30 p.m. I Spirit Day Wear pajamas paja-mas for Spirit Day, Friday, May 18. each, we still had tons of ice left, so we had a snowball fight. That was awesome. We also played with some Diet Coke and Mentos. Try that one day, its really fun. After that we went home and got ready for the formal. We went to the school and got our pictures taken, and then went to dinner. Dinner was at Ottavios, a little restaurant in Provo, started by an actual Italian Immigrant, so it's a really unique experience. Everyone in our group loved it, but they especially loved the accordion player. After that we went to the dance, partied our energy out, and went home. Pretty fun if you ask me. So looking at the calendar of events coming up, we've got CRT Testing and finals. After two long weeks of that come the yearbook distribution distribu-tion and the senior trip to Lagoon. La-goon. Graduation comes next, and then school is out. That is really crazy. Well, I'm running out of space, so I'll leave it at this Bruins: Live it up. , ' . " -,x . 1 I I Hi: Xv;jlzz Fcl;, ibR Copy I |