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Show ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NEWS It's "Back to School Night" at Grovecrest School, Thursday, Sept. 26 at 7:30 p.m. At the traditional affair, parents will be infomied regarding re-garding school policies. Parents may also visit individual teachers in their home rooms. Those who attend will be given a complimentary booklet containing contain-ing the calendar of school events for .the year. ESN A Studentbody Council to serve during September and October was elected at Grovecrest School Monday Mon-day morning. The council will meet each Monday at 9 a.m. "Fair Play" is the slogan of the group. Elected were Shana Lee Jensen, president; Roger Adams, vice president; pres-ident; Linda Banks, secretary and the following council members: Geraldine Monson, Carolyn Hansen, Han-sen, Shawna Boren, Janice Walker, Walk-er, Mary Woolley, Lois Boyer, Gail Lee Rasmussen, LuJean Huntsman and Kathleen Roundy. . ESN Three Grovecrest teachers will participate in the "Better Reading Read-ing Clinic" at Salt Lake City on Oct. 9 and 10. They are Edna Newman, Inez Meservy and Fred Prvor. ESN The first Central School PTA meeting of the current school year will be held Thursday, Sept. 26 at 7:30 p.m. in the school lunch room. Parents, both the fathers and mothers, are cordially invited to attend and participate in the "Back to School" program, which will be organized as a Parent-Teacher workshop. As a projeot for the-year the Central School PTA organization will provide a worthwhile educational educa-tional prize for the room having the highest percentage of, parents attending the PTA meetings thru-out thru-out the year. ESN Mr. Robert James, father of our classmate, Robert Adams James, came to the Sixth grade to talk to us on sugar beets, our social studies project. He told us how to prepare a firm seed bed by fertilizing, planting, discing and leveling. The seed is planted about one inch down and one inch apart by a beeit drill, rented from the West Jordan Sugar Sug-ar Factory. When the beets are a certain height they are thinned and cultivated. cul-tivated. Beets are irrigated sparingly spar-ingly in the spring but in the late summer they need a great deal of water. When the beets are mature a mechanical harvester digs and tops them and loads them on a truck. The beets are then hauled to the West Jordan sugar factory. Mr. James explained the different differ-ent stages of sugar beet growth, their size and weight. We learned that after the juice is squeezed out of the beets the pulp is left. Some farmers buy dried pulp and feed it to dairy cattle. Wet beet bulp is not very fragrant. We now know some of the fundamentals fund-amentals of raising sugar beets and how their growth helps soil conservation. Val Shields Grovecrest Sixth Grade |