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Show Wed/Thurs/Fri, February 15-17, 2017 A-11 The Park Record Sprinting fast to a healthy lifestyle Your Cosmetic Dentist WELCOME Doctor Andrew Johnson! Snow Country Dental is excited to welcome Doctor Andrew Johnson. He and his family enjoy camping, hiking, fishing and tennis. (When he finds the time, Dr. Johnson also sneaks in a round or two of golf). Now accepting new patients! 435-575-3300 COURTESY OF REBECA GONZALEZ Golden Harper, middle, the founder of Altra Running, a Logan-based footwear company, recently spoke to 10th-grade students in the Park City School District’s Bright Futures program about the benefits of exercise and other health tips. Harper also provided free pairs of running shoes for the students. The Bright Futures program, which is in its first year, aims to help underserved Park City students find success in high school, then help them once they reach college. Continued From A-9 Start times start times for next school year or delay the move another year. The district has been exploring altering the start times for months in order to provide a better learning environment for high school students, whose learning is hampered when classes begin too early, according to research. In August, the school board inched closer to making the move official, voting to specify that, if school times are changed, the first bell at the high school will not ring before 8:30 a.m. and also creating an implementation team tasked with figuring out the details of how to make the change happen. Despite the educational ben- efits shifting the start times might bring, though, figuring out how to actually do it has proven challenging. Delaying the first bell at the high school, for instance, would cause a domino effect at the It’s hard to do that when everything is up in the air. … If you fundamentally change what buildings grades go into, I essentially have no transportation system and I have to build it from scratch.” Todd Hauber, Park City School District other schools -- whose times would also have to change -- and create a host of other considerations. Additionally, school officials have grappled with factors such as how the change would affect the high school’s athletic teams, which would often be forced to practice in the dark during the winter and would miss more class on game days. Transportation, though, remains perhaps the biggest puzzle. Solving it would go a long way toward allowing school officials to work through the other issues, Hauber said, but uncertainty around the district’s planned grade realignment has further complicated matters. If the district realigns grades for the 2017-2018 school year, it would potentially require moving fifth and sixth grades to Treasure Mountain Junior High School and putting eighth grade into Ecker Hill Middle School alongside seventh grade. Moving those grades into different schools would require significant changes to the district’s transportation system, making it impossible to determine for certain how transportation might take shape under new bell schedules until the school board makes a decision on realignment, Hauber said. The school board is expected to decide soon whether to move forward with realignment for next school year, though several board members indicated at the last public meeting that they are likely to support delaying the change. “It’s a scenario that’s not tested,” he said. “It’s hard to do that when everything is up in the air. … If you fundamentally change what buildings grades go into, I essentially have no transportation system and I have to build it from scratch. And building it from scratch is totally different than tweaking it a little this way or that way on times of day.” Don’t get buried in news you don’t need. Call 435–649–9014 to get the news you care about $59 EXAM, X-RAY & BASIC CLEANING! * New patients only, insurance will be billed if available. Offer expires 02/28/2017 Snow Country Dental Care 1729 Sidewinder Drive, Park City, UT 435.575.3300 | SnowCountryDentalCare.com |