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DECEMBER 14 - 20, 2018
LOCAL
VOLUME 3 ISSUE 50
SPORTS
ENTERTAINMENT Holiday Gift Guide ....see page 11
West Valley woman presented state agriculture award ....see page 3
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Goodridge makes SGI history with 1,000th point in loss to Starpoint ....see page 10
SGI high school staff grow out for Movember By Elyana Schosek Student Reporter Several male staff members in the Springville-Griffith Institute school district took to sporting mustaches and other facial hair last month for a good cause. An annual event to raise awareness of various men’s health issues by growing mustaches, Movember takes place across the country each year. The Movember Foundation is the top global organization regarding their mission to promote men’s health. This year, the Sports and Entertainment Marketing class at Springville-Griffith High School was in charge of planning the fundraisers associated with Movember. With the help of their teacher, Eric Holler, a business teacher at the high school, they were able to successfully plan the event. Thirteen teachers and staff members throughout the district who participated in the event. Each participant was “motivated by donations from students and other teachers,” Grace Zabawa, a student in the Sports Marketing class said. Participants included Mark Vogel, Nils Wikman, Bob Parsons, Chris Mathewson, Eric Holler, Dave Broom, James Bialasik, Greg Miller, Chris Scarpine, James Velasquez, Rob Valenti and Dave Yates. The top fundraiser was Bob Parsons, who raised a total of $1,070. In total, the event raised $2,565 online and $760 through in school and community fundraising. “The money was raised by donations,
Submitted photo Teachers and staff members at Springville-Griffith High School have their facial hair shaved off by barbers from JP’s Barber Shop at the end of November’s Movember fundraising event.
Movember T-shirt sales and mustache cookie sales,” Zabawa said. The Sports Marketing class, specifically Eric Pruitt, designed the Movember T-shirt sales. At the beginning of the month, the participants shaved their faces clean for the month-long event. When the beginning
of December came around, JP’s Barber Shop, in Springville, volunteered their time for the shave off. “Main Street Pizzeria, Dilly Dallies and Jake’s Greenhouse donated prizes for the top fundraiser,” said Zabawa. The Movember Foundation has been in
operation since 2004. Overall, the purpose of the foundation is to increase early cancer detection, diagnosis and effective treatments, thus, reducing the number of overall preventable deaths. The Movember Foundation encourages men to maintain a healthy lifestyle and know their family’s history of cancer. The students in the Sports Marketing class had been planning and organizing all aspects of the Movember fundraising since about the beginning of October. Throughout their planning, the students had to call different companies to see if they would be interested in helping out or participating in the fundraiser. They also had to create posters and make videos to “spread the news about Movember to teachers and students,” Pruitt added. As November got closer, they began to get more people involved. At the start of the process, the same assignment was given to everyone in the class, but as time went on, they began to work together to accomplish specific tasks. “To set up for Movember, we had to go through the Movember Foundation and create a fundraising team,” said Max Schwabel, a student in the Sports Marketing class. Grace Turner, another student in the class, said, “We created a big data sheet to keep track of how much people raised and throughout the month we had to look at the amount people had donated online or even just cash students brought in, then we’d update the sheet.” See Movember page 3
$15K raised for SGI music department
Springville Health & Fitness under new ownership
Submitted photo Members of the Springville-Griffith Community Education Foundation present a check for $15,000 to the SGI Board of Education to be used for buying a piano for the music department.
Submitted Photo New owner Tyler Siddle officially took the helm of Springville Health & Fitness Nov. 2. Members will soon have “24/7 ACCESS” to the facility giving them the freedom to choose the hours they work out. The circuit area features the Rig that is designed with the purpose of improving all areas of fitness such as cardiovascular, strength, flexibility, coordination, and agility.
By Elyana Schosek Student Reporter Throughout the month of November, fundraisers are
commonplace in most towns and cities. Springville is no exception to this. In the Springville community, a fundraiser
A Look Back:
Remember the Grange BY JOLENE HAWKINS
Looking back into our past, what happened after the Civil War? Families were trying to reunite and go on with their lives, but so many traumas had happened not only to the people themselves but also to the land. Oliver H. Kelley, an employee of the Federal Bureau of Agriculture, and six other men, mostly government clerks, were concerned with the plight of small farmers. These men, who were part of the Masons or Odd Fellows, thought a Fraternal Secret Society designed for farmers would provide a framework for cooperative action and mutual aid. In 1867, the Grange, also known as the Patrons of Husbandry, was created. They assisted the farmers with difficulties that could arise, such as swarms of grasshoppers destroying the crop, extravagant railroad fares to ship crops, expensive farming machinery, high interest and
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mortgage rates, the high cost to store grain in silos along with the falling prices and provide information to the farmer. Rather than each farmer needing to own his or her farm equipment, the Grange members would pool together their money and purchase the equipment and share it among the members. The halls that were built for the group provided a place for the farmers to meet and also served for a place to have dances, quilting bees and other social activities, providing relief form the isolation of farm life. A feature that set it apart from most other fraternal orders at the time was that men and women were on an equal basis, allowing women to hold every office. They See A Look Back page 4
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