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Show '! '"V V 'Nr 'V ,,., tH.. i( , , , '' r,,- r .Hi' Page IB North Edition Lakeside Review Wednesday, May 16, 1984 : , Greenhouse Students Dig In SHELLEY KANCITIS Review Correspondent GREENHOUSE students r fill ROV Its the kind of class where you have to be willing to roll up your sleeves and dig in. But instead of digging in textbooks, the digging is done in piles of rich black soil. Listed on registration forms as 'Greenhouse, the agricultural science class is Roy High Schools newest addition to its curriculum. It is housed in a recently completed fiber glass and metal structure that represents a wish come true for agricultural scit ence instructor Claine Stenquist. Im excited. Were talking about things we didn't eveh dream about twenty years ago. Resembling a giant errector set, the $28,000 greenhouse arrived in a kit providing vocational classes with a unique building opportunity. Students from Roy Highs House Construction class assembled the facility using blueprints. It is located on the west end of the pots for planting. J.i high school next to the tennis courts. Maintained year around at a minimum 70 degree temperature, the greenhouse is heated by sunlight and two 225,000 BTU furnaces. A swamp cooler system operates in the summer. Electronically regulated shutters insure a steady temperature is maintained by letting in outside air when neded. We decided against using a computerized system because it misread the temperature at one school, opened the shutters too long and killed the plants, said Stenquist. Designed as a teaching greenhouse, rather than a commercial operation, its primary purpose is the same as all vocational programs, training students so they are employable. We had a basic soils and plant science class before, but it was a lecture format. This is much better. Now we can come out here and give our kids hands-o- n practice, said Sten- quist. wont melt ." The greenhouse curriculum is centered around vegetable and' ornamental horticulture with plants ranging from carrots to Creeping Charlies. Stenquist teaches the basics including transplanting, soil mixture, fer- -' tilization and charting growth. For students who are really interested, there is a two year reeral years. lated agricultural science pro- said As the students stand over gram at Utah State, of extension an box benches Its planter intently Stenquist. poking dozens of seedlings into what we learn here with a very their moist brown beds, Stenhigh percentage of placement af-- ; checkand down ter graduation. quist paces up As the class ends for the day, ing procedures. A d man with a Stenquist and his students crowd bushy red beard, Stenquist looks around their efforts. Theyve be doctored up. Theyre more like a football player than an agronomist. Alternately firing still too wet, says Stenquist. jokes and jabs at his students, he Twenty hands hurriedly begin inspires both affection and hard sprinkling more soil around the work. fragile looking seedlings. With a frown that threatens to Youre getting it too wet, Stenquist bellows. Throw some melt into a smile, Stenquist more dirt on it. Stir it in with sends his students home with a your little hands. It washes off. caution. Youre all fired if these Remember none of you are sug- - plants die tomorrow." Lctia Hancock, a Roy High ju- nior, knows all about hands on practice. Her bright red nails are outlined with black dirt as she uses a pencil to poke holes for inserting marigold seedlings. I like working with plants and seeing them grow. You have to be real tender with them, said Hancock who has worked in a commercial greenhouse for sev- - ar. You -' barrel-cheste- a ;V 5 mCi GUiPJinTBBD liba?d CSiJBY BACK: E L'S? 1C9K SATICFBD (V . fiu '"Ifi Full Cut jj norno ta om iltOiTDOr Family Pack H GROUND jjf onon, ,5. j . -- I Boneless RUMP ROAST $n w Boneless cROlWD STEAK csyo $ CHUCS0)(o)M Si Vn ( STEAK Varieties h TOTSBIOB PIZZA U 1 Sound Bone POT BOAST I 12 cx TZzliiya Ct BEANS... PORK 10 Lb. Pillsbury FLOUR $21(3 NJjJ y )0 dh 0e' (J itS (D) Cunp Off CO CZZZPJD3. V) 2V, SU, Vs ' - nninri V - . ill 24 oz. V SALAD or :VT ( vr) Ifnro ' . Ev New Red r or White POTATOES (D)(D) 4 shell Rom..&eJ ) VEGETABLES ,$! 19 Green CABBAGE. 02.1A California 12 Western U FRESH V BOLOGNA 1 Beef or Reg. 7) corn CANTALOUPES i 6l 49 tlfl 1 ; ! to IM Salad :a : Atoiiatoes............... . Y ts; .. A 'I'.'- I U t III Plus Deposit f ( ;. ( 'jf ( CZZZ1MD Green Giant Canned 16 02. COIIB DIET COKE or SPRITE CT ( CUTTn:l r-J- CHIP DIPS.. 12 ox. Western Family ORANGE JUICE K' 00 eeaeeeaeesee :;-: c3. Peter Pan Halley's Ilk . : r Sf I K v I- - c f;1' A 1C IU , ,Tt. J C u J t ft J 1 |