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Show Pace 14 - February 9. 1999 EDUCATION' Uintah Basin Standard Name change in store for Roosevelt Middle School Palmer & Park compete for Miss SUU title Two Duchesne County residents will be among 2 1 young women from four states to compete for the title of Miss Southern Utah University at the Miss SUU Pageant Feb. 10. Melody Park, a Tabiona High graduate, and Cherie Palmer, who graduated from Union High in Roosevelt will vie against 19 others for the pageant title this week. This is relatively a very large number of contestants competing, DEI Beatty, coordinator of the SUIT Talent Bureau and pageant director, said. The variety of the talent numbers is exceptional. We will have several types of vocal solos, plus different kinds of dances, monologues, piano numbers, viola and flute solos, plus saber and flag routines. About half of our contestants have competed in previous pageants in various locales. The pageant will start at 7 p.m. in the SUU Auditorium. Admission is $5, and all seats will be sold on a reserved basis. Tickets may be reserved by contacting the SUU theater arts box office (435) The Miss SUU Pageant is a Miss America preliminary competition with the winner advancing directly to Miss Utah competition in June. She will also serve as the 1999 SUU homecoming queen and will reign over SUUe Thunderweek activities during The currently reigning Miss SUU, Annie Lee Griffith, West Valley City, will serve as one of three pageant hosts. In addition to con- Ita not that Roosevelt Middle will be provided by Acclamation, SUlTs traveling showchoir. Candidates for Miss SUU (including high school, previous college): Chandice Albrecht. Perry (Ohio) and PTA leaden don't like the name of their school, it's just that, well ... its been causing a lot of confusion and missed opportunities for apecial funding. The name middle school" typically implies that the etudente are in the 5th, 6th and 7th gradea. While that was true when the middle school opened 13 years ago, it's not the case now. About two yean after the middle school opened in 1986, the old Roosevelt Elementary waa condemned, and Duchesne County School District officials found themselves forced to make a lot of changes with limited facilities. They School officials 5S6-787- 6. testant talent, entertainment Lnltt E. Whiting By Cherie Palmer - Union Melody Park - Tabiona HS; Jessica Ellen Barney, North Sevier HS, Snow College South: High Adrienne Lowe,Hillciest High; Olivia Lowry, Wasatch High; Ashley Marie McKell, Emery High; Cherie Palmer, Union High; Melody Lynn Park, Tabiona High; Melissa Ann Rugg, Taylorsville High; Kari Ann Sewell, Hurricane High, Dixie College; CriataLee Sorensen, North Sanpete High; Misty Lyn Walker, Payson High; Nicole Westwood, Piute High, Dixie College; Regina Marie Woolsey, Parowan High. MaryAnna Billings, Olympus HS; Sharon Adele Blake, Bear River HS; Amy Michelle Boulter, Wasatch HS, Snow College; Alysa Thorley Bringhurst, Chatfleld (Littleton, Colo.) HS; Cassandra Caswell, Bish- op Gorman (Las Vegas, Nev.) HS; Bridget Elizabeth Gauthier, West Jordan HS; Shalona Hatch, Pleasant Grove High; Kristen Kemerer, Hillcrest East Eleturned the newly-buimentary into a school for through 3rd grade, put 4th to 6th graders in the middle school, and moved 7th grade to junior high. bers of the PTA end Parents Advisory Committee say a name change is in order to more accurately reflect the fact that the school serves children. PTA officials aay they feel they lost a good shot at becoming a "Centennial School and thereby being eligible for increased funding, because their "middle school application was considered with other aplevel plications at the junior-higand not at the elementary school level The same thing is true for other opportunities, said Parent h -- Advisory Committee member Lynn Eckels. Ite affected touring performance groups who only go to elementary schools; they thought we were a middle school with older etudente. One name change being consid- lt kinder-garte- n The 9th grade was eventually moved from junior high to the high school. Now, to prevent confiuion with outside agencies and even within the community, middle school principal Dennis Manning and mem ered is Roosevelt Intermediate School. There's also the possibility that a contest may be held to choose a new name. Middle school representatives will approach the school board with plana to change the name during the board'! monthly meeting, Feb. 16 in Altamont SLOC Promotion Short Sport travels to Roosevelt & Vernal SLOCa Short Sport program will be in Roosevelt and Vernal this week. In yean leading up to the 2002 Games, the Short Sport program will provide classroom instruction to junior and middle school students in the history, technology and training on a variety of winter chance to see ports along with REFLECTING ON WINNING PTA Council Reflections contest winners in the middle division are pictured left to right: Kassie Luck. Roosevelt Middle School - visual arts; Jalise Hinton. Duchesne Elementary - music (two awards): Jeanna Hinton. Duchesne Elementary -music and photography; and Christopher Eckels. Roosevelt Mi Jdle School - music. J S '3 Jb r Professional Storyteller F, : Thursday, Feb. 11 at 7 p.m., the Roosevelt Middle School Media Center, Title One will sponsor a professional storyteller, Debbie Richan. Daytime assembly will be Harriet Tubman and the night time performance on Family Folklore. We encourage families to attend that evening. Title Qne students who attend tiat evening will receive a free book. Refreshments will be served. i w K rid handle the actual sport equipment As pert of the day's physical education classes, st udents will participate in e variety of sport simulations end activities including freestyle skiing and snowboard halfpipe aerials using a bungee sys 3 .tt SLOCs Short Sport comes to Roosevelt SLOCs Short Sport program will be in Roosevelt and Vernal this week. Dawn Allinger, SLOC Youth Sport Coordinator and 1996 U.S. team handball Olympian, will appear at the Roosevelt Junior High School on Tuesday, Feb. 9 all day and at the Vernal Middle School on Wednesday, Feb. 10 all day. For more information contact Caroline ShaworFrankZang at SLOC Communications and Media Relations, (801) 212-200- 2. Powerschool Information System Union High School announces the addition ofa phone line allowing access to the Powerschool Student Information System. It will be possible for parents and students to access information about grades and attendance 2 and providing the students phone ID number. You by calling can get this information by calling Union High School and asking for your student's phone ID number or haveyour student get the information from the office at Union. 722-833- J KEEPING CLEAN IS THE THING TO in the 3rd grade class at Myton Elementary were instructed on personal hygiene by Tri County Health Department nurse Cris Sorenson during a unit on the Human Body, Picturecflcft to right 'are Cathy Rasmussen. Cris Sorenson and Ashley Crippen. tem, and bobsleigh and luge using sleds on wheels. Plus there will be sessions on speed skating, biathlon, curling and sledge hockey for disabled etudente. Dawn Allinger, SLOC Youth Sport Coordinator and 1996 US. team handball Olympian will be at the Roosevelt Junior High School on Tuesday, Feb. 9 all day and at the Vernal Middle School on Wednesday, Feb. 10 all day. For more information contact Caroline Shaw or Frank Zang in SLOC Communications and Media Relations at (801) 212-200- 2. DO-Siud- enls Fall Semester ' Deans at SUU, a student must complete at least 15 semester hours of academic List recognizes work for which a letter grade is awarded. The student must also SUU earn a grade point average of at r The Southern Utah leaat 3.60 for that work. A 3.60 University deans list based on se- grade point average ia roughly letter equivalent to an mester grades haa been released. Students from 15 states and two grade average. A grade point averforeign countries are included on age of 4.0 represents all A grades. Historically, about 10 percent the list which recognizee students for their academic work during the ofour etudente qualify for the dean's just completed fall 1998 semester. list, Sterling R. Church, SUU vice Prior to last foils conversion to se- president for atudent services, said. For fall semester that percentage mesters, SUU utilized a quarter was a little lower than normal 8.7 system. To be included on the deans list percent. Our enrollment was 5,725, and 496 students qualified for the deans list. the combination of grade point average and the minimum work load make being included on the dean's list e significant achievement, Church said. Those who earn thia recognition have demonstrated that they are willing to work hard and that they have a commit- students first-eve- , - ate-- 5 Condie and Miss Fish's class are able to see and learn SNOW FUN-M- is about dog sleds as Gerald Cooper, left, guides Miss Condie and students through the snow. 15-ho- ur donates Teaching Your Teens to Drive kits to Utah AAA Graduated Drivers Licensing is before the legislature thia year and ia a topic of discussion in homes with young soon-to-b- e driven. Graduated Driver Licensing is a system which limits the exposure of new young driven to unsafe driving situations. AAA has been proponent of Graduated Driver Licensing throughout the country. In each state when it haa been enacted, the number of crashes and deaths of ment to educational excellence." The fall semester, 1998-9- 9, dean's list, according to permanent residence information provided by the students nt the time they registered: Altamont, Stephanie Bingham; Bluebell, Rachel Tew; Roosevelt, Julie Sima, Jennifer Werry. nd Vernal, Annalee Bassett, Crystal! Excell, David Horrocka, Michelle Moore. LET US INSTALL THE WORLDS FINEST SAFEST STEEL SECTIONAL DOOR! A FINGER SHIELD MARTIN DOOR rices Slashec for every service in the Salon 16xnSLOWAS$579 1 00 Safe, strong, built to last, dependable Available in colors Computer engineered, long-lif- e galvanized torsion springs galvanized, prevents rust Beautiful, blends with any style home Lid. Lifetime Warranty - residential doors. Call Valentine Gift Certificates Available 722-392- 6 OFFER ENDS FEBRUARY 28. 1999 Jones PAINT & GLASS )CHPffeljnORCRS WEAVES vfesday - Friday j50 MAMOURES 9-- 8, Saturday S. 200 E. Roosevelt. 722-0- 7 lW young drivers haa decreased. Motor vehicle crashes are the number one cause of death and injury for people between the ages of 15 to 20. In 1996, more than 6,300 teen died in motor vehicle crashes. The combination of youth and inexperience make teens very vulnerable behind the wheel. A mqjor part of Graduated Driver Licensing is the number of hours of practice required by a new driver with a licensed adult driver. To assist with this instruction, AAA Utah is donating their "Teaching Your Teens to Drive instructional video end handbook to each of the 104 public high schools in Utah. "With the increased awareness of the risk to young driven, parents have expressed concern for their teens, said Rolayne Fairdnugh, spokeswoman for AAA Utah. "These parents would like information on the best way to help their children become safe driven. AAA Utah hopes schools will lend these videos to parents to assist them as they work with their new driven." Kelvin Clayton, President of the Utah Driver and Traffic Safety Educators Association says, It ia wonderful to be in a partnership with parents in teaching their student to be a safe, competent driver. We an appreciative of AAA end their support of drivers education not only in Utah but nalionwida." The "Teaching Your Teens to Driv video and handbook will also be available to check out at the local AAA Utah offices. The offices are located in Ogden, Bountiful, Salt Lake City, Draper, Orem and St. George. , AAA Utah serves more than 100,000 members with an array of automotive, travel insurance and ..... financial services. , Poo |