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Show wsm 3 The Elementary School news Sampler, The Swede my' house- - by Fiona and Gail McHardy March Mia. has been quite a hit on Dugway. Of course a new face is always welcome, but some more than others. Her charismatic personality has secured many friends for the "shy Swede. She always has a smile for everyone and somehow manages to find a good side of everything and everyone. She is 175 centimeters high, with big blue eyes, soft 15, 1984 brown hair and gets mostly As in school, ran cross country and played on the basketball team. She loves to laugh in English and in Swedish, and speaks the first nearly as well as her native language. Everybody in the high school knows her, but not many of the adults. Everybody who knows her likes her. So lets spread the good word around and let everybody know who Mia is. e Cecelia Bostrom, from Skovde in Mia is central Sweden. She celebrated her 17th birthday at Dugway with a lopsided cake, as her American family doesnt do cakes very well. Her parents are educators, her mother being a linguist and a librarian. Her father loves history and politics, and also grows lovely roses. She has an older brother, and a younger sister who is Korean by birth. Mia has traveled much in her young life, much of it when she was a small child. Her family has vacationed in Crete and Sicily in recent years and also has a summer house on the east coast of Sweden. She has also been to England. She loves to travel, and found the area around Moab, Utah especially fascinating. In order to come to the United States, she gave up her competitive swimming to take two part-tim- e jobs to earn the rather large amount required for the year here. Foster parents are only expected to provide room and board. Clothing, personal needs, and entertainment are the stuAnna-Mari- Spelling Contest Winners Kirsten Brush, (left), a sixth grade student, is the Dugway Elementary. School Spelling Champion and will represent the school at the district level spelling contest on March 23 at the Oquirrh Hills School in Tooele. Jennifer Byington (right) also a sixth grade student is the runner-u- p and will represent the school in the event that Kirsten is unable to attend. Following are the spelling winners by grade: 4th Grade - 1st Shane Jorgensen, 2nd Anne Marie Zakrzewski. 3rd Scott Teed and 3rd Kelly Dunn. 5th tirade - Ist Suzi Vastano, 2nd James Howard and 3rd Arthur Smith and Jenny Parks. 6th Grade - 1st Kirsten Brush, Jennifer Byington and 3rd Kim Swenson and Gina Teed: End of Grading Period The third grading period (quarter) ends on the 16th of March. Report cards will, be out on the Thursday follow' 1983-8- 4 i dents rsponsibility. . Studying to keep up her grades takes quite a bit of time, and she keepg up a volumnious correspondence with friends at home. She is very conscientious. She takes time to do a good job in her work, her studies and her appearance. Many times she has stayed home to study rather than difgoing out to have a good time. Because of the language school-work, finish a ference, it takes Mia little longer to but her grades show the extra effort she puts into it. She has had seven years of English. Her English is better than most Americans because she has studied the language and - to tell folks that I have an imported maid all the from Sweden, but for some reason Mia doesnt go way along with that idea. She is very helpful around the house and is always willing to do her share of the work and I like . more. I was apprensive about bringing a new sister into the house. After all, there is a very big change in a familys lifestyle to add a girl. However, I have found that it can be a very pleasant experience. Mia has been a 17-year-- ing, March 22. Future scientists compete in DES Science Fair peacemaker between my sister and I. Her laughter and good sense of humor have prevented many possible wars m the household. I have also found it is nice to have a live-i- n friend, ready to talk at all hours of the day or night. Mia came to America in August. In the beginning she was very shy. The first couple of weeks of her stay we spent lounging around the pool getting to know each other. Mia soon proved her swimming abilities. She was reluctant to show off her skills, but after some encouragement, she consistently beat everyone who dared to race her. Mia has found life here busy, interesting, and sometimes exciting. The young people have made her welcome, and have shown her a good time, exploring the surrounding areas, going tubing on the winter slopes, skiing in the mountains, even a bit of horseback riding. actually learned it rather than just picking it up like we do. Food is a major change for Mia. She misses some of her moms cooking, and Swedish delicacies that cant be found in America. But she has found compensation in certain American favorites. Before coming to America, Mia had . , Once again this year, our future scientists got to show their stuff in the annual District Science Fair. Many of the students participated. Mrs. Mathews was in charge of the competition which wrapped up last Tuesday. . ' never tasted peanut butter, chocolate chip cookies or cinnamon candies. The variety of candy bars and soda pop was also a surprise to her. Many here will miss Mia when she goes home in June. She has found a special place amongher American friends and family. We hope she will carry with her a good image of Dugway, Utah, and the United States, and that our friendship will bring her back for visits in the coming ; -- years. Dugway. Women's Club to sponsor Art Auction. Would you like to have the art auction. Sponsored by the Dugway Womens Club in conjunction with the Utah Artists Guild, this is traditionally one of the most well attended events of the club opportunity to spend an evening viewing beautifully framed original works of some of todays most talented and well known artists, including many from Utah? lithographs, drawings, oils, prints, and many other types of work. Prices paid ranged from $30.00 to $200.00. If you are really interested, you can also bid on a Dali or a Neiman for around $2,000. The Guild is also good about making any financial This years event will be Oasis Club following the speweekly cial in the dining room. held Friday, March 30 at the eat to attend Dugways annual' . arrangements one would water colors, serigraphs, year. Would you like a chance , to buy one or two at a fraction of the gallery price? If so, maybe you would like Tt is not ... is it? Daniel Morgan watches as fellow Dugway Elementary students try and figure out some of the optical illusions on his science project. The work shown covers a variety of medians. There are . want. In addition, 20 percent of the proceeds from this sale go to the Dugway Womens Club, and therefore back into the community. One of the pictures every year is given as a door prize. So, start saving your money now for a fun evening and possibly very worthwhile Kentucky Fried Chicken: We make clickin right Seatbelt wearers, heres your chance to save money at Kentucky Fried Chicken. KFC in Tooele will honor "Feed 4 for $6.44 coupons presented during periodic roadgate checks to seatbelt wearers only. So if seatbelt use isnt one of your habits yet make it one to livelast the rest of your life. Why? Because in an accident, its not the first collision that kills people. Its the second or "human collision after the car has stopped when occupants con- Janel Johnson won a blue ribbon for her project depicting the parts of a plant in the earth sciences category of the science fair competition. tinue at the same rate of speed until they slam intq something hard enough to stop them, i.e. a dashboard, steering wheel, pavement or even other passengers. Being thrown clear means that instead of hitting objects in the car, your body is thrown with the same force into objects outside of the car like trees, and concrete dividers and into paths of other vehicles. Why do you think motorcycle fatalities are so . , high? head injuries' are die major cause of vehicle accidents. Death caused by fire or submersion is rare, and the fear of being trapped Impact-cause- d .Dugway Postal employees honored for CFC contributions Keyworker Tom Green accepts a certificate from Dugway postmaster Coy K. Jensen recognizing the Dugway Post Of- n fice for a 75 percent increase to the Combined Federal recently. Looking on are carrier Steve Allen and customer service clerk Judy Christiansen. Cam-pnig- ' ' i ... j MAJOR CURTIS WHITE welcomes SgL Brenda Blanken- ship back into the Army. Brenda, who works in the Community Club, reenlisted for another three years and will depart Dugway in September for Germany. : : rT is no excuse for not wearing seatbelts because unbelted - -- victims are first seriously injured or knocked uncons- cious and are unable tp escape. Seatbelt use prevents the second "human collision restraining you inside the car. Thus, most of the force of impact will be absorbed by the body of the car. The remaining force is slowed down and spread out over a larger portion of the body, lessening the chance of injury. Even when driving at low speeds, seat-belt- s are necessary. Re- member, its not the speed of the vehicle that kills, its the stop at the end or the human' collision that kills. Deaths have occurred while traveling at just-1mph, so when on driving post dont assume a false sense of security because its not "that far or "that fast. Nobody is immune to accidents. So why the emphasis on seatbelt use because 2 nationwide, motor vehicle deaths are now in epidemic propprtions and the "cure is just a "click away. Isnt your life worth the seconds it takes to make it click7 |