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Show 1 -- Sun Wednesdav.November 29 i989 Three local students Deadline for 'crash courses' Dec. 21 place of interest Crash courses arc 3 hour onetime classes taught by experts on 96 Elementary 896-821- attend conferences er poster contest winners received awards from Governor Norman Bangerter at a November 18 banquet. Kathy Lyne Jones, a fifth grade teacher from Discovery Elementary, Vernal, was named the 1989 Outstanding Educator for water education. Three of the nine winners for the statewide poster contests for elementary schools were from Salina Elementary School. They were: First grade: Sydney Preston; Third grade: KayCee Nielsen; Sixth grade: Jared Nielsen, NS a wedding, giving childrens parties, organizing a kitchen, dutch oven cookery, and wild game meat preparation. Anyone interested in these classes 4 should call to enroll. Tuition is $ 1 0 for most classes, but may be higher depending on the topic and materials that may be needed for the class. Parent-Teach- er Salina Elementary Principal Will Jolley reports he is very pleased with the recent Parent-TeachConferences. We had 569 parents out of a possible 593 come to our school to visit with their childrens teachers, said Mr. Jolley. Thats an impressive 96 attendance at the conference. The students from Salina Elementary will be presenting their annual Lights On program atZions Bank on December 6. Everyone is invited to attend throughout the day to see the students perform and help the Christmas spirit get off to a good start The annual Christmas Programs will be held on Decem An outstanding teacher and nine specific topics. Interest has been expressed in subjects of interior decorating, horseshoeing, planning of parents ber 18, 19, and 20th. On Monday, December 18th, the Kindergarten and First Grades will sing at the High School at 6 p.m. On Tuesday December 19, the 2nd and 3rd grades will sing at 6 p.m, alsoatNSHS. On Wednesday, December 20, the 4th and 5th grades will perform at NSMS at 6 p.m. Everyone is invited to attend these performances. The performances have been exceptional in the past, said Mr. Jolley, and we expect the same type of performance this year. ITSA GREAT PROGRAM, SAY EDUCATORS Sydney Preston, KayCee Nielsen and Jared Nielsen were recent winners in the Water Education poster contest. (Not pictured is Jared Nielsen). Three of the 9 winners for the statewide poster contests came from Salina Elementary School. WINNERS: new programs going on at Elementary Lots of Many exciting things are going on at Salina Elementary concerning the Positive Action program and growing Each class has students who are part of the Friendship patrol. They are friendly, and responsible children who help out on the playground. They are easily recognized by the blue banners they wear. There is a new member at the Elementary! Not just an ordinary classmate - but a Behavior Bear! Classes can earn the bear (a giant stuffed one) in their room for their good behavior. The Positive Action program has been studying healthy bodies self-estee- Students are earning college credit while in high school High school principals ana counselors in Sevier School District met last week with Keith Stcck, state director of Advanced Placement (AP) programs, to evaluate the status of college credit classes available to local students. Mr. Sleek reviewed for these leaders the profile of AP classes and concurrent enrollment programs, as well as laws governing each. The State Board of Regents and the State School Board have agreed that all state institutions must accept concurrent enrollment credit Duane Bresee, district special services director, notes that there are two ways college bound students may earn college credits while still in high school - Advanced Placement or AP classes, and concurrent enrollment At a time when money for education is tight in public and personal budgets, said Mr. Bresee, and when the governor has asked educators to eliminate the equivalent of one year of education costs, this is certainly an advantageous option. He said greater attention will be paid in the future to programs that will give college credit to high school students in the district while they are still living at home. Math, languages, social studies, and chemistry have been the main areas of focus in the past, and will continue in this role. Mr. Bresee said that principals in neighboring districts report that over 50 of their seniors are earning college credit, and that the academic environment of their high schools has been greatly enhanced. Some students have only a few required classes to take during their senior year at school, and sometimes this makes the senior year a playyear. By offering AP classes and concurrent enrollment, the senior year becomes more intellectually challenging and specifically focused, Mr. Bresee added. With college level assignments during the last year in high school, the transition from high school to college becomes easier and the senior year can be an important preparation period for the time when the students leave home to attend college. Furthermore, Mr. Bresee sees earning college credit while still in high school as having psychological advantage as well. Students who arrive on campus with college credit already on their records, are Coastal Corp. reports profits continue to rise The Coastal Corporation reports that its coal segment reported an operating profit of $53.3 million for the first nine months of 1989. This compares with the $48.6 million of one year ago. Third quarter operating profit for coal increased to $19.3 million from $16.0 million in 1988. Coal sales through the first three quarter of the year totaled 11.8 million tons, up from the 10 million of one $14 million textbooks year ago. The Coastal Corporation is the parent of Southern Utah Fuel Company, (SUFCo) which is located about 20 miles from Salina. Coastal has $8 billion in assets and operations in natural gas transmission and storage, oil and gas exploration and production, refining and marketing, coal and chemicals, trucking and independent power production. needed in Utah Textbooks are bullets in the war on ignorance, according to UEA President Jim Campbell. THE Utah Education Associations proposal to the Legislature urges appropriation of about $14 million for textbooks and supplies for Utah schools. Utahs public schools have more than 430,000 students - and each student needs five to six textbooks. The average cost of a textbook is $25 - those in elementary schools are less than those in secondary schools, the Utah State office of Education notes. for The governor promised us at the UEA Convention that every child will have all the textbooks and supplies needed, Campbell said. Thats a big promise, and I intend to hold him to it. We see students who cant take textbooks home with them to do homework because of the shortWe see students age, he said. sharing textbooks in class because teachers dont have enough of them to go around. Sometimes teachers cart sets of textbooks from one classroom to another because schools dont have enough of them, Campbell concluded. poster contest RECEIVE AWARD FROM GOV. BANGERTER WILL DROP CLASS IF 12 DON'T SIGN UP December 21 is the deadline for enrolling in Sevier School District Crash Courses. Classes that do ont have at least 1 2 people enrolled by that time will be cancelled. Once it has been determined that a class will carry, times and dates for the class will be announced. The Gingerbread house workshop which had been set for Nov. 30, has already been cancelled, due to lack in more likely to complete their full four-yeprogram, rather than becoming discouraged and quitting school. AP and concurrent enrollment programs also provide financial incentive for schools. Every student in an AP class means $95 for the department which generated that students, and each one in conar current enrollment generates $75. Both North Sevier and South Sevier High Schools presently have both AP classes and concurrent enrollment for their students. SuperintendentBrentRock said he also supports both programs. Our mission is to accommodate student preparation for the future, he said, but we will also do all we can to help offset the costs of higher education for our students and graduates. Fruitcake the 'Old' way The holiday season is a great time for preparing those special treats for family and friends. Skip Webb, of the Utah Statewide Archaeological Society has done some research, and has come up with several recipes that were likely used by the prehistoric hunter-gatherpeople who once inhabited Utah. One of the holiday specialties is the traditional fruit cake made with dried fruits and nuts. Following is a recipe for desert fruit cake based on knowledge and study of the th er Indians ways: Desert Fruit Cake 1 bushel Mormon crickets or grasshoppers, sun dried in nets 1 bowl pine nuts, shelled and dried in the sun, or roasted 2 bowls wild service berries, wild currants, both black and red, and some squaw berries and choke-cherrie- s. 4 ladles of honey (optional) Pull off wings and legs of hoppers and crickets. Grind bodies on a metate. Set aside the resulting flour. Grind pine nuts on a metate. Set this aside. Crush berries and place the resulting jam in a very large bowl. Add nuts, hopper and cricket flour and honey. Mix with hands and shape into loaves. Dig a hole about 1 8 inches deep and bury the loaves. Leave for one month. Remove and cut into slices. Store unused portion in a granary. Webb says that this is one you should try before you make up your mind for certain that you dont like and healthy minds. Students are also learning about the 8 gifts to a happy life. They are gifts everyone has and using them properly makes us happy. Another new program is the ICU (I See you Doing Something Positive) boxes. Students and teachers look for the positive in their classrooms, outdoors and in the lunch room. When they see someone doing something positive they write it on a note and put it in the box. Each month, as many of the notes as possible are printed showing that everyone is looking for good actions everywhere. Middle School. Among prizes to contest winners were personal trophies and traveling trophies to be on display at their schools. Governor Bangerter praised teachers in Utah who stress the importance of water conservation for their classrooms. He said the availability of water for mun icipal, industrial and recreational purposes is key to future grow th in Utah. The annual poster contest and water education conference is sponsored by the International Office for Water Education and the Utah Division of Water Resources. Honor Roll named at Salina Seminary The following students were named to the Honor Roll for the first term at Salina Seminary. Congratulations to: Brooke Anderson, Tiffany Foote, Rushel Holt, Robyn Keisel, Melissa Larsen, Amber Wilson, Rachel Heath, Janson Henrie, Racquel Mason, Brian Bown, Lacy Anderson, Kerry Baker, Alisa Bastian, Lisa Brown, Amanda Christensen, Jacoy Crane, Patrick Coons, and Amber Erdei. Also, Jennie Jensen, Candice Mason, Rick Nelson, Kristy Nielson, Patrick Shields, Heather Willden, Espan Strand, Aaron Mason, Robby Shaw, Emily Wilson, Cody Foote, Hilary Crane, Tyler Anderson, Cameron Holt. Also, Scott Anderson, Jill Atwood, Vcrlene DeMille, Angela Freeman, Scott Mickclsen, Natalie Tidlund, Courtney Christensen, Heidi Reese, McKay Mickclsen, Cassidic Rasmussen, Gaylene Hansen. Also Travis Honeycutt, Lance Mickclsen, Ryan Roberts, Jamie Crane, Kim Fillmore, Brady Huntsman, Ben McBride, Crisdy Peterson, Dcllilt Wilson, Linda Bowers, Mary JewlyAnn DeMille, Roger King and Malt Smith. Shaw, Matthew Ba-gle- y, Emergency Number for Salina Area 3 or 896-643- $20 million request will provide 1 computer for every six kids The Utah Education Associations legislative package calls for $20 for technology, and UEA President Jim Campbell said the money would be used to establish the nations lowest ratio in Utah schools. Campbell said the funds would be part of a business-educatio- n partnership to provide one computer for each six Utah students. This would mean that every student in Utah public schools would have access to a computer for an hour every day. student-to-comput- er Notice Notice is hereby given that the Central Utah District Health Laboratory will be closed for the Christmas holidays beginning December 20, 1989 through January 2, 1990. We encourage all water system operators to get their community water samples in early to avoid any problems. Utah schools could then gradu- ate classes of students with valuable job skills that would attract clean industries to our state, Campbell said. He added that businesses are investing in the project to showcase the need for computers in schools. The Legislature will consider spending $20 million of surplus funds each year for three years. Business would foot the rest of the $200 million total costs. Currendy, Wyoming schools are believed to have the lowest ratio -with one computer for every 17 students. Campbell said IBM has already committed $20 million for in servicing teachers on the uses of computers. Besides computers for students, UEA is also advocating computers and printers for each teacher and electronic blackboards for each classroom. Technology could free up teachers from all those h non-teac- ing duties that prevent us from doing what we want to do teach our students, Campbell said. The UEA president said he thinks the computer acquisition project may open the door to the greatest single advancement in education this country has known. - NS High Kami Mickelsen Its back to school again after a long and stuffing weekend. We were out for Thanksgiving all day Thursday and Friday. Its the first game for the boys basketball team and it will be ai North Sevier High tonight, Wednesday, November 29. Everyone is invited to come out and support the team! Also tonight is the Girls Basketball game against RHS in Richfield. Good luck to both teams! |