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Show 4A Emery County Progress, Castle Dale, Utah Tuesday, May 4, 1999 Cemetery records are going online Whitney Saupan wins art contest Whitney Saupan, ond grade student at secCot- tonwood Elementary in Orangeville and daughter of Floro and Robyn Saupan, was selected as one of the top ten winners in grades K-- of the Utah Winter Games Cool Win3 ter Games TM art project. Whitneys artwork will be professional framed and placed in an exhibit that will travel the state of Utah for the next year. The ballots from 260 communityjudges. including students, have been counted revealing the top 10 pieces of Olympic-theme- d artwork in Utahs Cool Winter Games TM art project, sponsored by the Salt Lake Organizing Committee for the Olympic Winter Games of 2002 (SLOC). High School. Two categories existed for the art project with entries representing kindergarten through third grade and fourth through sixth grade. Participating schools were given the theme of Cool Courage of Olympic Athletes for the project. Students were able to use a variety of art forms including pencil, colored Cemeteries are a valuable part of a communitys announced in September of 99 and again in 2000 for a total of three different art projects. SLOC plans to use the artwork to decorate the athletes rooms in the Olympic Village at the University of Utah as well as other Olympic venues. will be tage. In fact, in some cases, the cemetery is the only physical reminder of a towns existence. Cemetery records are valuable too. Sexton records, when they are still intact, can provide a wealth of information about the people of an area. Besides basic information such as name, birth date, and death date, some records' include place of birth, parents names, parents nationality, spouses, children, cause of death, and occupation. Through the Utah Cemetery Inventory these records are being preserved in digital format. The goal of the project is to pencil, acrylic, watercolor, marker, colored paper, collage or ink. Schoolchildren submitted their work to their individual schools, and two entries were then selected and passed along to the Cottonwood project coordinators About 250 pieces will be selected for an Olympic exhibit that will travel throughout the state beginning in early locate and gather burial summer. records for every cemetery in the state. Next, the records are being coordinated and combined into the Utah State Historical Societys Burials Database. This searchable database is now online at http: history.utah.orgServices Icburials.html. Through the database, people can search for relatives, find out where they are buried, and get directions to the cemetery. About 288 of the 521 cemeteries known to exist in Utah have completed our survey form, and 58, so far, have the burial information accessible online. Names and dates for 90 more have already been collected and are being added to the online database on a weekly basis. Many of these records have been generously donated by cemetery enthusiasts from across the state. Records are also being received from the forty-eigcemeteries receiving grants from the state. Community and private cemeteries may receive matching grants of up to $10,000 to help in the comht puterization of their records and maps. Obviously, the project is an ongoing one! Surveys are still needed for more than 200 cemeteries, and many cemeteries are at risk as records and grave markers deteriorate. If you would like to help, or for more information, please contact at Tania Tully ttully(history.state.ut.us or (801 ) 533-352- Ferron Elementary kids keep busy The programs goal is to reach about 250,000 children ) in 500 public and pri- The judging of more than 1,000 submissions vate elementary schools originally took place on throughout the state. A new (K-6- March 26 at Cottonwood heri- theme for the annual project Whitney Saupan Many participate in Piano Festival The Emery County Piano Teachers Association had its Second Annual Piano Festival April 17 in Ferron. There were over 100 participants. Students performed solo, were evaluated a on sight reading, technique, and critical listening and did a theory test. Ten outstand- ing performers were selected and each was awarded a $10 gift certificate donated by Lees Music in Price. Those selected were Cadee Tuttle, Autumn Stream, Nicole Sanders, Meagan Rogers, Leslie Sanders, Jessica Tuttle (violin), Steven Gravley, Misty Heaton, Ashley Blake, and jedi Allred. The Emery County Piano Teachers Association would like to express appreciation to the judges and parents who donated their time and to Lees Music for donating the gift certificates It was greatly appreciated Gymnastics Six Ferron Elementary students recently we selected as grade level winners in the Utah Arbor Day Poster Contest. Sponsored by the Division of State Lands and Forestry, this state level contest is held in conjunction with the National Arbor Day Contest. Student posters are selected in each region of the state. Student posters from Ferron Elementary going on to state-levcompetition include Mika McFarlane, Brittany Gibbons, Rebecca Nielsen, Jill Housekeeper, Whitney Behling, and Chelsea Benson. el .. , .i. i met results Ferron Elementary sixth graders recently completed the Drug Abuse Resistance Education. Sponsored by the Emery County Sheriffs Office, students receive information and practice in refusal skills, harmful effects of drugs, and how to help their peers. Officer Doug Downard presented the curriculum over a ten week period. He also presented each student with a DARE and certificate of DARE graduation. LaRae Majors Studio Gym Spinners, SUTA State Gymnstics Meet Results: Adrienne Jones, 3rd place tumbling Marty Wingate, 3rd place tumbling, 1st place Double Mini tramp Challise Shirley, 1st place tumbling, 3rd place Double Mini Tramp Holly Damron, 6th place tumbling Allisa Chatwin, 1st place tumbling, 1st place Double mini tramp Megan Sorensen, 1st place tumbling Lisa Sorensen, 1st place tumbling Chelsie Mead, 3rd place tumbling, 5th place Double mini tramp The Studio Gym Spinners also won first place team trophy in level six. CEU 1999-200- 0 tuition and fees increase. The College has changed College feels that as a commuCEU student the tuition structure for the nity college we would better 1999-200- 0 academic year. The tuition for one credit hour has been reduced to $74, two credit hours to $117, three credit hours to. $160 and four credit hours to $203. acaDuring the 1998-9demic year, tuition was 9 $100.05, $137.70, $175.35, and $213 at the one, two, three and four credit hours. The administration at the fees have been serve the community by re- increased by 3 07 percent for ducing tuition at the lower the next fiscal year. The Price credit hours to make it more campus student body alloaffordable for community cated the fees to the new Stumembers to attend seminars dent Center to help fund opand update their skills at the eration and maintenance. part-tim- e The College requested an student level. The Legislature established additional $95,000 from the 1999 legislature to help fund O a three percent tuition increase for the College of East& M for the Student Center, ern Utah. Each state college however, the request was and university had a similar Ferron Elementary students whose exhibits placed at the school technology fair were invited to compete at the Regional History Fair at CEU. The History Fair is administered in Utah by Utah State University. Students who compete must prepare a written history, a multimedia presentation, or an exhibit. Each entry must be well documented with original and secondary research. Ferron students did very well taking 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place in both individual and group exhibits in the elementary divisions. Brandon Singleton, Ryan Jensen, and Weston Winn also placed 2nd in the intermediate division. As 6th graders, they were invited to attend the State History Fait at BYU. Students interested in competing in the history fair would do well to begin now w ith their research. Complete research made a big difference in how the judges placed the entries. |