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Show New Utah! - Wednesday, November 24. 1999 - Page 3 7a Spanish Fork brings back 'Festival of Lights' for a seventh season The Festival of Lights, Utah's only drive-thr- u lights festival, is celebrating its seventh year as a holiday delight for families. Spanish Fork's Canyon View Park is filled with bright and colorful lights. Lights cover trees, arch over the road, reflect in the lake and illuminate over 86 structures within the park. The displays can actually be seen glowing from a mile away due to the effect of so many lights. Festival of Lights brings with it the spirit of the holidays, with music filling the air for the drive around the park. New features are added each mmmm fr year. The event begins Thanksgiving evening and continues nightly through New Year's Day, with lights on at 6 p.m. and continuing until 10 p.m. The cost is $5 per carload or $25 per schooltour bus. To attend, take Southbound Interstate 15 to exit 261, travel southeast along Highway 214 for five miles. Turn right at Drive-I- n Acorn Little Restaurant. For more information, call 798-500- 0. . ((Utl C :vr Sir Introducing our NEW Central Bank Select1 Account with 20 FREE services! These dancing bears are two of the newest addition to Spanish Fork City's "Festival of Lights." Alpine Students reach reading goais Preliminary progress reports that Utah County students are meeting the challenge given by Healthy Utah Valley READS, this past summer to read one million books show the Million Book Challenge to encourage reading throughout Utah Valley among students September. Shelley Elementary School in American Fork read the most books with 15.5 books per student. Other elementary schools were: awards receiving Hillcrest, Scera Park, Suncrest and Aspen in Orem; Grovecrest in Pleasant Grove, Cedar Ridge in Cedar Hills, Barratt and Legacy in American Fork, and and families." In support of the program, a system of progress awards has ben initiated. Each elementary by May 2000. By the end of the first month school in the district has been of school, in fact, students in provided with an award banner to present to the winning classthe three county school districts of Alpine, Nebo and Provo room for the month. Individual Cedar Valley. had read a total of 114,206 students are also recognized. Each school in the program Each month the number of books well on their way books read per student, along promotes student success with toward the million book mark. The reading initiative is also with the total number of books its own unique program of and awards. spearheaded by the school dis- read in each school district and incentives tricts, Utah Valley State in the county are tallied. The Businesses such as Covenant Seagull College, local PTA groups, and program has its own Web site Communications, where students and families Book, Deseret Book, Media area business partners. "Reading is a skill or gift record their reading progress. Play, and Novell have also that will impact children's lives , In order to , meet the. million donated resources and person"forever," said Marilyn Kofford, book goal, each student in ihe nel to the challenge.' At the end " Alpine School District board of county will need to ready close of the year, winning schools will receive cash awards for their education president, "so as we to 23 books by May. " Kofford and Alpine School libraries. head into a new millennium, "The real reward for stuwe wanted to encourage and District superintendent recentto the awards should that top dents, however, is not the recogly presented reading emphasize nition but in the reading itself," be an important part of daily ten reading schools in the dismonth of concluded Kofford. life. 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