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Show ommunity lews A2 • WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 2007 - N E W S - Spanish Fork 280 North Main St. Spanish Fork, UT 84660 Lane Henderson Steve Hardman Namon Bills, Publisher Editor Assoc. Editor The Spanish Fork News is published each Wednesday for $37.50 per year in area and $41.50 out of area by J-Mart, 280 North Main St., Spanish Fork Utah 84660. Email stories to edi to r @spfo rknews .com Email ads to ads@spforkncws.com Call us at 794-4964 POSTMASTER Send address changes to Spanish Fork News 280 North Main St. Spanish Fork, Utah 84660 The entire content of this newspaper is Copyright© 2007 Spanish Fork News. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form without the written permission of the editor or publisher. EARLY DEADLINE FOR THE JULY 25 EDITION \\VilJini;s .iiniivi.rs.irk-.. mi1.Mnnarik.1!.. 1M l)inhJay>, .iniJe.s. pliniu.s, lt.Tti.rs [[] lilt. oJifnr Thursday, 12 p.m. I~Ji-.pl.iv j i K c r u M n ^ . i n j d - i i s i h c J Thursday, 12 p.m. Covering what matters most It's time to have fun Time: 30-45 minutes famous for. Now the cards are shuffled and round Time's Up! is a game in which teams of two two begins. In this round partners can only use one Bored? Games! compete to guess the names of famous people word to describe the person on the card, and their Bob Stutz written on the game cards. partner only gets one guess per card. This round is To begin, 40 cards are divided out between all the fast and furious and passing is allowed. When all players. The cards all have famous people's names the names have been guessed, count the cards again Time's up! I get to say that more often than most on them. There is a wide range of names listed from and note the points for each team. people since I'm an elementary school teacher. We actual people to characters from popular movies. Now for round three. Lay out all 40 cards again practice the basic facts for several minutes and the Some names you might encounter are John Wayne, (still the same ones) and review names as needed. students work to see how many problems they can Tarzan, Nadia Comaneci, Steve Jobs, Godzilla, Then shuffle and resume play, only this time no do before I call out, "Time's up!" You remember the or Aunt Jemima. Players look at their set of cards words may be used, only actions (think charades.) feeling when you took the SAT or ACT test and you and get to throw out two and replace them with This is the part that is especially hilarious as you worked furiously to get as many problems complete two new cards. watch a hand as you could before the proctor announced, "Time's This is a way to being made up." weed out names into a bird and So here's a little timed quiz today. Quick! Think that might be pecking at of as many games as you can that use a sand timer. really obscure invisibles seeds Tick, tick, tick, tick. Okay ten more seconds. Tick, for your group. on the table tick, tick, tick, time's up! Did you come up with Now you for "Gregory three or four? Thefirstone I thought of was Boggle. take those final Peck." Again A fun game, but one I'm not very good at. If you 40 cards and score one point got three or four then you beat me. In the time it play begins. for each correct took me to write this paragraph I only came up with Each team guess made, two. takes a turn that then total up the points earned in Time limits in a game can add excitement. They lasts 30 seconds (here is where all three rounds can also keep the game moving along at a decent to determine the pace. They can increase the urgency of completing the sand timer into winning team. the task at hand, and raise the level of competition. comes Image used with permission by Iain Cheyne I just played Most importantly they can make a game fun(ny). play.) One player For example in charades when your team is so describes the person on the card while their partner Time's Up! for the first time a couple of weeks ago close to the answer and you know the time is about tries to guess the name. If they guess the name and had a great time. It's not a game for the young to expire. Some people will do just about anything correctly they keep that card. There is no passing, ones, but teenagers can catch on quickly, especially to push their team to the answer, and that can be so this can be tricky when the name is difficult, during the second and third rounds after they've had hilarious. (Insert Carla's favorite story about but cards that are not guessed correctly go back in some exposure to all 40 cards in play. I think this is a Guesstures here) the deck and come up again and again. When 30 particularly good game to use when you invite some This week's game has a sand timer and is fast seconds is up, play passes to the next team and so couples over for gaming at your house. Time's Up! is paced and will bring you a lot of laughs. It's Time's on around the table. After a few times through the available from a newer game outlet in Provo called Up! deck, all the names will be guessed and one point is Boardgame Revolution. You need to call and order, Title: Time's Up! scored for each team for each card they collected. then arrange to pick up your games. They can be Publisher: R & R Games But we're not through yet. Now those same 40 reached at 400-3965. They hope to have a permanent Type: Party Game cards are laid out on the table and each name is store up and running by August. So pick up a copy of Ages: 12-99 reviewed and discussed so that every player has Time's Up! It'll have you wishing you had more time # of Players: 2-6 Teams some exposure to who they are and what they are for gaming! Letter to the Editor Maolebvk Sincere thanks As Chairman of the awarded with the Hope Miss. Finally two years Finance Committee for of America award and ago, after being away for the Spanish Fork Kiwanis three high school students twenty, we revived and Club, I would like to are honored as recipients proudly sponsor our local take this opportunity to of scholarships to the chapter of the Key Club thank the community for universitiesoftheirchoice. at Spanish Fork High the support shown to our Recognition is also given School. organization every year to the outstanding Boy As you see, Spanish at the annual Fiesta Days Scout troop in each area Fork Kiwanis does a lot Rodeo. For many years of the scouting program. for our community. None now, the Kiwanis Club In May, the Spanish Fork of what we do would be has literally served the Kiwanis sponsors a dinner possible without your community "one burger for all of the participating support. All profit gained at a time." youth and their families goes directly back to the As Fiesta Days is once who are exhibitors in or programs we sponsor. again upon us, I would local Junior Livestock This profit comes from like folks to know what Show. Annually, we honor four nights of operating happens to the money a Citizen of the Year. our concession stand at that is made by choosing Spanish Fork Kiwanis the Fiesta Days Rodeo. to let our organization works closely with the Please, if you are serve you. Annually, the local Head Start program. so inclined, come and Spanish Fork Kiwanis We provide books to support us so that we Club provides awards young children who are may in turn, continue to and honors to two fifth just learning to read. provide and support the grade students in each of Kiwanis sponsors two programs that we do. The our elementary schools sophomores each year to Kiwanis motto is "We though the Terrific Kids participate in the Hugh Serve." Spanish Fork Award program. Twelve O'Brian Youth Leadership Kiwanis is proud to serve. students are honored from training. In years past we Thank you. the seventh grade with have also helped send Chad Bunn the Award of Excellence. youth to Boys and Girls Chairman, Spanish Twelve students in the State and sponsored Fork Kiwanis Club ninth grade are also young ladies in Junior Finance Committee /? and 0/7 our- /yianu avai aj/ Qood a/ld Makin' a list, checkin' it twice ! Meal Deal Coupon "\ i.Buy one meal and 2 drinks and getaj ! second meal free (up to $ 7:00 value). < ' Not good with any other coupons, offers, or gift ' ^certificates. Good at all locations. One time use only.' 310 North Main, Spanish Fork 801-798-8700 All That Jazz Jazlyn Crandall There is something about the way an Avon magazine smells. It's riveting and pulls you in like a fish on a hook. As soon as I see my mom's laying on the doorstep, I grab it and shuttle off to my room to look through its pages. There I lay for almost a half hour, figuring out which eye shadow and mascara would best suit me. Eventually I choose my make-up and pour over the perfume and make to-do lists for the next cologne section. My favorite couple days. I don't follow part is rubbing the scented them very often. I don't know pages on my wrist, especially why I do them. Lists just make the cologne ones. Haiku and me feel good. I think I have Black Suede are my definite made over five "What I Need favorites, and so I normally For College/My Apartment" circle and star those on the lists. I even make workout page, and move on to chap lists of which I'm never able stick. to follow. I'd rather sit on the After all these years of sofa and eat sunflower seeds. Anyway, I'm pretty smelling perfume and circling make-up, I've never bought excited because right as you are reading this, I'm probably some. I don't know why. I also like making lists. splashing in the waves in San Every Sunday I make a to-do Diego, Cali. Oh yeah! That's list for everyday of the week. right, I'm on vacation and And then during the week, I I'm loving it. |