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Show IB THE GREEN SHEET Thursday, September Geared To Valley, State - Students To Help Develop Questions For New Game . fun for the family. Everyone loves share should be used in their own Trivial Pursuit, and this is the same school, explained Mrs. Brantner. Region 5 officers include Carol thing, with unique local overtones, she added. Voorhies, director; Shauna Reed, The 36 outer squares on the game Florene Simmons, associate direcboard are being offered to local mer- tors; Karen Anderson, assistant dichants who may have advertising rector. Mrs. Brantner, is also working inner placed on them. A circle is also available and any pa- with council presidents Jody Lougy, tron or member of the community Caryl Jensen, Sterla Hansen, Sunny and may have their name on a square by Reinhold, Terrell Colmere is the Bob Ridd. Burningham to the a donation Joyce project. making The project is receiving support Henco representative for the profrom the district administration and ject. The game board is handsomely the School Board. We anticipate a minimum of designed in bright colors and would make a nice addition to any familys $200,000 profit, which will be adminPTA game collection and a great Christistered by the PTA. Each local concluded. organization will decide how their mas gift, Mrs. Brantner by Olga Milius Green Sheet Staff Writer GRANITE PARK. What is there that you always wanted to know about Utah but were afraid to ask? Chances are the answers will soon be available in a trivia game which will be released through Region 5 of the Utah PTA Council. The game is part of a service project which the council Is sponsoring throughout Granite School District. Students in junior high and elementary schools throughout the district will be involved in developing questions and answers for the game boards, which will be released in limited numbers and are expected to become a collectors item, according to Nancy Brantner, chairman of the project. Questions will include five categories, she explained. Geography and history, science, entertainment and the arts will be included, but it is the last category - Etc. whch will be unique. All questions (and answers) used in that category will have been submitted by students, teachers or patrons of Granite district and they "Everyone loves Trivial Pursuit, and this is the same thing, with unique local overtones." "We are hoping to receive at least 400 questions from the schools in the district . . ." -Nancy Brantner will focus on Utah and the Salt Lake Valley history and local trivia, said Mrs. Brantner. We are hoping to receive at least 400 questions from the schools in the district which includes 14 junior high schools and 65 elementary schools, and hope to have every school represented, she said. The project in the schools will begin Immediately. Each school is being asked to choose a week this month during which students, teachers or parents may submit their questions. All the questions are to be turned iii to the council by Sept. 27, when games may be ordered, with delivery anticipated early in December, in time for Christmas. The game board will be made by Henco, Inc., which has already handled the project for schools in Nevada and Tennessee, said Mrs. Brantner. Council members heard about the project during the National PTA convention held in Washington, D. C., she said. We feel this is a truly unique educational project. We hope every PTA will purchase a game to place in their schools media center, where teachers can check them out for classroom use. They would also be ' ( Heart Group Is Boosting 'Slim' Course SALT LAKE. Wendys has a new lite menu and Arbys advertises its multi-grai- n sandwiches. The Sugar Board, Beef Council and the makers of NutraSweet all spend millions each year to tell us how low calorie their product is. Who should weight conscious consumers believe? 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