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Show N 4 W S B4 • WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2007 Spanish Fork Penny Wars raise funds for kids Covering what matters most Josie Osborn SFHS Namon Bills / Spanish Fork News AIR TIME: Rachel Thomas performs a stunt at a football game. The cheerleaders recently competed at Weber. Cheer competes Shala Richards SFHS rivalries. Both the cheer and song leaders had an amazing night and all their hard work Last weekend the cheer- and their everyday practices leaders and song leaders did paid off. Spanish Fork High a terrific job at showing ev- School is pleased to have such eryone their talents at the a great squad. They make competition in Weber. All the our school proud. They give girls did amazing and proved their best efforts everyday at to themselves and everyone practice, at the games, and at their competitions. else that they are the best. The cheerleaders placed "Being on the squad is a second in their routines great experience and I enjoy with five different schools every minute of it," said Bradi competing in their division Jensen. "It is so much fun and and the song leaders received a blast to be able to compete first place, beating two other against other schools." Penny Wars began last Monday at Spanish Fork High School. The FCCLA Club conducted this fundraiser after attending a statewide FCCLA Conference in Provo. They were told at the conference that that the state high schools and junior high schools needed to raise $6,000 for the Feed the Children Foundation for Utah children. The idea of the Penny Wars was then started. Each day the FCCLA Club members at Spanish Fork High School would walk around to every class during one period and collect the money that students wished to donate. The sophomores, juniors and seniors competed to donate the mpst money. The amount of money donated was the amount of points earned. The catch was that in order to help their own classmates out, students would donate pennies to other classes to receive negative points and then donate silver coins and bills to their own class to receive positive points. After one week and a close race between juniors and seniors, the seniors took the victory. FCCLA officer, Brady Olsen said, "I was surprised at how much money we actually raised. We kind of set a school goal to reach a thousand dollars overall, and we ended up making over $1,400 dollars through the fundraiser. The next highest school total was $250.00. It was way good and cool that we went over our goal." Courtesy photo RAISING FUNDS: FCCLA officers Nataly Arce and Brady Olsen collect funds to help feed needy children. SFHS Guitar Club goes acoustic Steven NlcVey SFHS The Guitar Club provides a unique opportunity for students to perform and show their talents. "It's a wonderful club," said member Yesel Rodriguez. "We get to learn a lot, express our ideas, and there is also some great social interaction." The club is moving to more electric and percussion instruments. "It's not just acoustic any more. Mr. Kimball, our advisor, is letting us bring in drums and electric guitars," Yesel said. The club was able to .perform with the Boothe Brothers Band during Courtesy photo lunch on Friday, Nov. 30, JAMMIN' Members of the Guitar Club performed with the Boothe Brothers Band at SFHS. 2007. Videographer discusses his work Courtesy photo CLASSIC: Jennifer Stone shows off some of the awards the SFHS Drill Team won at the Utah Classic Invitational. Drill Team places Shala Richards SFHS in each other, and we take pride in what we do. I think that is what makes us such The Drill Team received a great team. We also have recognition once again after rhythm and are able to stay placing in all four dance on beat with one another and categories at the Utah Classic that is a major obsession with Invitation on Dec. I, 2007. the judges. You need to stay They placed first in dance, focused and in tune with each second in military, third in hip other and the music," said hop, and fourth in kick with Mckenzie Peterson. "Being over 20 schools competing. able to do what you love We were all thrilled to see such everyday with people you outstanding ability in our team love-is a great opportunity. this year. You learn to love everyone "The team has a lot of fun around you and work hard to" together, we have confidence be in tune with one another." Working with wood Shala Richards SFHS Matt Brown, a senior at Spanish Fork High School has been taking woodshop and drafting classes for much of his high school career, which led him to go one step further to be an intern for CR Doors. He began the internship in hopes of learning more about wood design and architecture so in the future he could own a business of his own. Matt Brown Matt said, "I really loved working in woodshop at more about how the business the high school and I've really works. I'm really glad I always liked building things, did because I like it a lot and especially out of wood. I I think it might be something decided to apply for this that I want to do for my own internship so that I could learn career." * Stephen Parry SFHS most important parts of the process is catching those "magical moments." On Monday, Dec. 3, When making a video, 2007 wedding videographer wedding videographers will Todd Chiniquy came to use up to eight cameras at Spanish Fork High School one time (including a crane) and talked to students about to capture footage of the cinematography. wedding. Often with civil Todd Chiniquy gradu- weddings, the film crew will ated from Brigham Young hook wireless microphones University with a degree in up to the bride and groom, Fine Arts in Film Produc- so that they can pick up the tion. He is now a CEO for audio on the actual wedding North By Northwest, which ceremony. is the largest wedding video Chiniquy also showed company in Utah. students how they can He told the students improve their own films. about all of the work that Using a package of sodas goes into making a wedding as a model for a camcorder, video, from the actual Chiniquy demonstrated to filming to the editing. He students excellent filming expressed that one of the techniques, v Courtesy photo ON CAMERA: Videographer Todd Chiniquy talks to SFHS students about creating wedding videos. Cross Country travels to California Shala Richards SFHS Last week, the cross country team went to California for the competition that the team members look forward to each year. The competition was not what they had expected. While practicing for the race, the team had been working hard on gaining skills to race on the mountains but after all the bad weather, the race was cancelled from the mountain but instead it was to be raced on road. But the team did not let that bring them down; they were able to deal with the differences and still do a fantastic job. The team ran the seeded race which is a qualification race and is one of the biggest and most important race for the members. Kirsten Sly came in 50th place out of 726 people and had a great experience on their trip. After all their efforts and hard work, the team was treated to a six hour trip to Disneyland. "I had an incredible time in the race and Disneyland was a big bonus. We all had a lot of fun and look forward to more upcoming races," said Kirsten Sly. EXTRA MILES: The cross country team traveled many miles to compete in California. Kirsten Sly, left, placed 50th overall. 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