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Show ORE M TIMES Thursday, September 25, 2008 Page 6 NEWS AND IDEAS Scout beautifies his Reva Bowen NCW'H CO :!.'' '.'AF As an f'.agle Scout candidate, candi-date, Tyler Weenig, I I, a former for-mer Northridge F.lementary School student, has completed a project that not only beautifies beauti-fies the school grounds, hut also adds to the legacy of what is known at Northridge as the "inspiration garden." Northridge principal Kim-herly Kim-herly Hird said Weenig and his team created a beautiful rock pathway, pulled dead trees, and planted new ones for the garden. "Our inspiration garden was an idea developed last year for the leaving sixth grade students to work on as a gift' to the school before they moved on to the junior high." said Hird. "Last year, over .r(l() bulbs were planted, and two stone benches were added." Hird said that since July, Weenig has made the garden "an eye-catcher," and "a place for students and teachers to journey just outside of the classroom and into a learning garden." 'The name came from an idea of capturing students' and teachers' inspiration for writing, reading, and arl," Hird explained. "Gardens have a way of attracting inspira- tiger Nate Howell My friends, the article you read now almost cost me my life. My tale is one of courage, persistence, and many other admirable characteristics. As I was dutifully gathering information about the upcom -.i i: 6-4 fill IlKtib 8tr.Utl v. tmt,.srn, .mtiVMl r r Willi 'tVK Willi tilsi.itit - G tUl Hil tilfciHtiU u tlitlirsttitt$t?1i tftu gt 'hut. u m ,,,, (i ,iL ,,. , FROM CLASSROOMS AND EDUCATORS rLv-v weenig ramny A group of volunteers under the direction of Tyler Weenig, prepares u pathway for Northridge Elementary's inspiration garden. Tyler organized the event as part of his Eagle Scout project. tion." Karl Weenig, Tyler's dad, said. "One of our sons benefitted benefit-ted greatly from the reading program at Northridge, and we were hoping to give something some-thing back. This seemed like a good fit." Tyler's mother, Polly Weenig, one of Nort bridge's co-IT A presidents, said the inspiration garden encourages students to sit outside and read. Tyler Weenig said the plan ing Night of Shakespeare from the drama teacher, I witnessed a rather startling conversation. The phone rang in the middle of my interview with her. and as most people do, she answered it. Up to this point I had gotten the idea that she was somewhat annoyed with me, but I didn't know how bad it really was. This is roughly what I heard: "Yes, I did call you, and I was wondering, do you have any broadswords?" This is where I felt things K . - la vm tal IrcJflfh r ' : former Elem. School ii vast- ning for his Eagle project "took a long time" and was challenging, because his Scout leaders "wanted a lot of detail." de-tail." Twenty-seven people helped with the project, donating donat-ing a total of 254 hours. Weenig spent more than 53 hours on the project personally personal-ly much of that time in contacting con-tacting businesses and making arrangements for donations of trees and other materials. Northridge contributed money toward the effort, as did the were going drastically awry. I had gotten on people's nerves before, but never enough to provoke them into using medieval me-dieval weaponry to dispose of me. And wouldn't you know it, it was the one day I forgot to wear my chain mail under my clothes to school. However, How-ever, I bravely decided to stay in the room in case there was some confusion. Oh. and how wrong I was! These wicked blades were not meant for me! They were, in fact, to be used in the play I i ( A Weenigs and Tyler himself from money he earned mowing mow-ing lawns. With the team effort, most of the landscaping work was accomplished in one day. The crew began work at 8 a.m. and continued until 5 p.m. for some, and until 8 p.m. and later for others. "They were pretty good sports," Polly Weenig said of the volunteers. "I was surprised sur-prised most of them stayed . that long. One stayed for 13 hours. I thought we'd lose most of them around lunch time, but they hung on." Asked what he learned from his project, Weenig said he learned how to be a better leader, how to take on "a really re-ally big project", and how to do landscaping. The project is written up and ready for submission. sub-mission. Next, the Oak Canyon Can-yon Junior High student plans to try out for the basketball team and to continue to learn how to play the guitar. "This is even better than I could picture in my mind," wrote Principal Bird in a thank you note to Tyler. "Thank you for your hard work and dedication. You've beautified a wonderful study area for all of the students to enjoy this year and many years to come." "Macbeth," w hich would be performed on the very Night of Shakespeare I had been interviewing in-terviewing her for. Night of Shakespeare is a performance by the Timpanogos students that will be competing in the prestigious presti-gious USFSUU Shakespeare Competition coming up. It includes in-cludes three monologues, performed per-formed by Mary Broberg, Al-ana Al-ana Smith, and Cody Brown, duo and trio scenes performed by Jake Chamberlain, Rose Liddle, Shannon Murphy, with an apythis high, we're surprised this didn't make the front page. INTRODUCING MyRATE CHECKING (Patent Pending BancVue, Ltd.) 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Orem Jr. High Parent-teacher conferences Parent-teacher conferences conferenc-es are today from 4 to 8 p.m. SCCPTSA meeting A School Community Council and PTSA meeting will be Wednesday at 3 p.m. in the media center. Band and orchestra concert A band and orchestra concert con-cert will be Oct. 8 at 6:30 p.m. Pictures make-up day School pictures make-up day will be Oct. 9. Bonneville Elem. Testing Iowa Basic Testing Test-ing continues until Oct. 3. Reflections kick-off Monday Mon-day will be the Reflections kick-off for Bonneville. Parent-teacher conferences (SEPs) A book fair will be held in conjunction with parent-teacher conferences Oct. 1 and 2. Appointments are made online; call the school for more information. Utah Symphony Fourth and fifth grade classes will attend a performance of the Utah Symphony at Mountain View High School Oct. 7. Red RibbonSafety Week A combination Red Ribbon and Safety Week will be held Oct. 13-15 Chris Vest, and Cory Horton, and an ensemble performance. The ensemble performance will be the aforementioned "Macbeth", starring Cory Horton Hor-ton as Macbeth and Parker Sorenson as McDuff . There will also be a dance section performed by our very own Timpanogos Dance Team, or TDT. TDT is coming off of a first place finish in the division last year and the drama students took second in theirs. This is especially impressive im-pressive when it's taken into (SraiM&IE) Northridge Elem. IOWA testing IOWA test ing, now through Oct. 3. Book fair A book fair will be held during the week of Oct. 6-10. Parent-teacher conferences Parent-teacher conferences are Oct. 8 and 9. Orchard Elem. Parent-teacher conferences Parent-teacher conferences conferenc-es are Oct. 8 and 9. Sign up in the office. STAR and CROSS-AGE tutoring tu-toring programs Orchard will be implementing the STAR (Student Tutoring Achievement for Reading) and CROSS-AGE (upper grades tutor lower grades) programs. The STAR program pro-gram requires one tutor per child, and tutors are engaged strictly on a volunteer basis. Volunteers from participating participat-ing businesses, plus retirees, grandparents, or others who could dedicate one or two hours per week are needed. The program begins Oct. 14, and tutors are needed between be-tween 8-9 a.m. and 2:15-3:15 p.m. Contact Lani Sitake at Orchard at 227-8723, ext. 152. Windsor Elem. Parent-teacher conferences Parent -teacher conferences conferenc-es will be Oct. 8 and 9 from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. both nights. Book fair The week of Oct. 7-10 will be the book fair. Red Ribbon Week Red Ribbon Week will be Oct. 13-15. account that schools from all over Utah, California, and Nevada Ne-vada compete. It will be held on Sept. 30 at 7 p.m. at Timpanogos High School. It's the same as you'd see at the bigger competition, just on a smaller stage. As the great bard himself would say, it is "such stuff that dreams are made on," so be sure to come and witness its greatness. great-ness. Just watch out for people with broadswords. |