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Show Volume XXV Issue IX The Ogden Valley news Page 13 June 1, 2019 Valley Students Win Honors at District What Feels like the End, is Often the Beginning know.” Let’s embrace not having everything By McKenna Best, figured out. Art can be messy. But that’s what 2019 Weber High School graduate & and Ritchey Science Fairs makes it so beautiful. Your canvas is limitless, Masters Award. Wyatt Cummens won Third Commencement speaker place in Social Behavioral, Tanner Warnes won Third place in Microbiology, Haley Davenport won Second Place in Physics, and Lillie-Kate Davenport received a Third Place honor in Zoology. Additionally, six of the eight students who went to the Award Ceremony went on to the Ritchey Science Fair. There, these six students competed against students from most of the school districts in the state! Carter Shriber won Excellence in Medical/Health, Sophie Riggs won Honorable Mention in Medical/ Health, Rylee Matheson won Honorable Mention in Social Behavioral, Tanner Warnes won Honorable Mention in Microbiology, Haley Davenport won Second Place in Physics, and Lillie-Kate Davenport won Excellence in Zoology. Today marks the end of our journey. But the end of this journey signals the start of an even greater one. Today is the first day of the By Valley Elementary sixth-grade student reporter rest of our lives. Right now we are standing on Sophie Riggs the brink of our futures, leaving behind Friday Twelve sixth-grade students moved on to night football games, fighting the administrathe Weber School District Junior S.T.E.M. tion on parking tickets, and Mrs. Barney’s Fair. Eight of those twelve were invited to Motivational Mondays, but leaving with powgo to the Special Awards Ceremony. Carter erful friendships. The past three years have Shriber won First Place in the Medical/Health taught us to stand our ground, that it’s okay to category with a project titled “Does Exercise be unique, that no matter how fast you walk Improve Memory Function,” Sophie Riggs past his class room, Mr. Newbold will find you, won Third Place in the category Medical/ and above all, that the grass on the football Health, and Kira Thomas received the Second field is sacred. But just as that blessed lawn is Place award for Medical/Health, as well as a being pulled from our football field, we too are Naval Science Award and a Broadcom Masters being pulled from Weber High. This is all comAward. Rylee Matheson won Second Place in ing to end with a switch of a tassel. “What feels the Social Behavioral category and a Broadcom like the end is often the beginning.” Our lives are now a blank canvas just waiting for us to pick up a brush and paint. Over the past three years our teachers, parents, and fellow students have imbedded in us the tools and techniques necessary to create this future, and now, as this journey has come to an end, we stand alone with a paintbrush, an endless supply of color, and a world waiting for us to design our masterpiece. We talk about stories from a beginning to an end, but in reality, stories go from a beginning to another beginning. Edgar Degas was a famous French painter who is regarded as one of the founders of impressionism. His portraits were painted from an entirely new perspective and his paintings were displayed at every French impressionist exhibit from 1874 to 1886. Unfortunately, by the time he was 36, Degas had become blind at the hands of a degenerative disease. His life and career as an artist was seemingly over. Impressionism is based off of seeing something in real life and turning it into an even more emotional and meaningful piece of art. When he lost his sight, he lost his ability to transcribe that, as well as his ability to get to the heart of impressionism. But then he found sculpting. Pierre-Auguste Renoir said that if Degas had died before losing his eyesight, “he Back Row: (left to right) Lillie-Kate Davenport, Tanner Warnes, Kole Sanders, Haley Davenport, would have been remembered as a good, competent artist, nothing more.” But now, Degas Kira Thomas, and Sophie Riggs will be remembered as one of the most versatile Middle Row: Jane Dunyon, Rylee Matheson, Gabe Waldrip, and Carter Shriber and gifted artists of the 19th century. What had Front Row: Wyatt Cummens, and Crew Phelps seemed like the end for Degas, was actually just the start of something greater. As high school was once a terrifying beginning for many of us, so is this moment right now. We, after 18 years, are finally free to do Community Foundation organization. anything. We are no longer restricted by bell of Ogden Valley (CFOV) Here is one of the winning essays. Additional schedules. However, it’s important to know recently sponsored their essays will be printed in future issues of The that even though we’re about to graduate high annual sixth-grade essay Ogden Valley news. school, we’re still allowed to say “I don’t contest in conjunction with Ogden Valley’s event of the year—the CFOV How I Can Be a Part of Community OVerDRIVE community celebration and funFoundation for Ogden Valley & draising activities that will be held later this How I Benefit by Donating My summer. The themes for this year’s essay conMoney or Time—or both—to Help test was, “How I Can Be a Part of Community Others through CFOV Foundation of Ogden Valley” or “Here’s How I Benefit by Donating My Money or Time—or By Valley sixth-grade student Lucy Hyatt both—to Help Others through CFOV.” CFOV benefits the entire Valley, and also The Community Foundation of Ogden those who visit and recreate here. Examples include multiple and varied valley-wide Valley (CFOV) is an organization for the improvements—from building tennis courts people, by the people, and of the people of and trails, to bettering our local schools and Ogden Valley. Because I live here, that also community parks, and multiple efforts in makes me a part of CFOV too. I can help by between, no matter the way, CFOV is commit- donating my money and my time to helping this valley and its people. I can pick up garbage ted to Ogden Valley. The contest was open to all Valley scattered along the sides of pathways, I can Elementary students, and cash awards of $25 donate money to the OVERT (Ogden Valley each were awarded to the ten students with Emergency Response Team). I feel safe knowthe ten best essays, as judged and evaluated ing that we are prepared should an earthquake by Valley Elementary teachers. In addition, a or something like that should occur. At the end Mountain Maggie check for an additional $25 of the sixth-grade year, my grade is going on was distributed to the students with the winning a hike along the trails to pick up garbage and essays so they can then donate it to their favor- clear off the brush. I am proud to call myself a ite Ogden Valley CFOV-sanctioned nonprofit citizen of Ogden Valley and a helper to CFOV. Sixth-grade CFOV Winning Essays Selected so make it special; make it ridiculously incredible. Just don’t make it on the football field. So tomorrow, and the day after that, wake up, grab that paintbrush and welcome all the colors that we choose to paint with, as well as embracing the lines that life chooses to paint for us. Congratulations for making it three years with worst air conditioning system Weber School District has ever seen. Congratulations to the Weber High School Class of 2019, this is only the beginning. Shown above are 2019 Weber High School (WHS) graduate and commencement speaker McKenna Best, far right, with her mother Kim, twin sister Ruby, and father Scott—all of Eden. McKenna spoke at this year’s graduation ceremony held at Weber State University’s Dee Event Center Tuesday, May 21 as the student speaker selected by the English teachers at WHS. At Weber she served as President of the WHS Debate Team, Co-president of Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA), and Co-President of DECA (Distributive Education Clubs of America). She also participated in a leadership role on the WHS Model United Nations Team. McKenna says she plans to attend the College of the Holy Cross in Boston on an academic scholarship this fall. Congratulations to McKenna and Ruby, the other 537 students who graduated from Weber High this spring, and all graduates who made the effort and succeeded in obtaining their academic degrees and were able to transfer their tassels from one side of their caps to the other this year. You are the future! High Altitude Kids Summer Tumbling June 3rd – August 16th Summer Tumbling Classes, Beginning to Advanced Monday thru Friday, 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Sign up today…space is limited! For more information visit www. hakutah.com for class days and times. |
