OCR Text |
Show Volume III, Issue II THE OGDEN VALLEY NEWS Page 13 November 15, 2000 Student News The Toyota Time Math Grant Influences Lives! A cherry red Toyota Celica pulls up to the sidewalk at Valley Elementary School. The gleaming paint is nothing compared to the bright faces of one hundred Valley School sixth graders! given to them from Tony DiVino Toyota Lincoln Mercury. In fact, Tony DiVino Toyota Lincoln Mercury is giving away eight fifty dollar savings bonds to the kids, and coupons for Mr. DiVino of Toyota Lincoln Mercury with the savings bond winners. completed at his service department! What’s this all about? The sixth grade team of teachers at Valley has received funding from The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Toyota Time Grant Award to Principal Larsen and Mr. DiVino next to the Celica limousine. be used for the was gracious enough to give coupons next two school years. The grant for the adult winners. Adult winners allows teaching of math principles in are to be chosen each quarter. Those the form of financial planning, budget- winners submit the best budgeting tip ing, exploration of needs versus wants, to be shared at our quarterly budgeting market value and a host of economic seminars. This is such great fun. ideas in the project called EconoMe. Partnerships add to projects like this Tony DiVino was glad to get involved immensely. in something that will have such a posIf you would like to help or join in itive effect on our community. He gave on the fun, call a sixth grade Valley Valley students the opportunity to vote teacher or talk to a sixth grader from on the car of their choice. He came up Valley Elementary—home of the with the idea of the savings bonds and money-wise Bulldogs! To the screams and cheers of their adults worth one hundred dollars off classmates, four students are called for- the best deal they could get from his ward from the crowd. They won sales personnel and fifty dollars off a because they submitted the best budg- two-hundred dollar or more repair eting entries for first quarter. The top four students are ushered to the waiting vehicle. They climb inside the Celica to be chauffeured around the block. Their classmates cheer, wave streamers, and hurrah because they know that budgeting and careful financing makes everybody a winner! The four wave back at the crowd and throw candy. They are now ready for the next part of the From left to right: Mr. DiVino, Craig Atkinson, Kailee Carter, Spencer Bowen, Barbara Liau, Mrs.Hogge, Principal Larsen and Mrs. Evans. award—savings bonds NOTICE GREENHILL WATER AND SEWER CO. ANNUAL MEETING NOVEMBER 30, 2000 7:00 P.M AT THE OGDEN VALLEY LIBRARYHUNTSVILLE deborah hegg Associate Broker - CRS “Simply the Best” www.deborahhegg.com 2555 N. Wolf Creek Drive Office: 801-745-0100 Cell: 801-745-1548 Eden, Utah 84310 |