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Ballroom dancers set to perform in free showcase Looking for something awesome to do this weekend? Come enjoy a free ballroom dance showcase featuring ballroom dancers from Brigham Young University, local ballroom dance workshop participants, and the Youth Leaders of America Ballroom Team.

These dancers have been working hard to prepare for this showcase, and you won’t want to miss it! The performance will be Saturday, May 21 at 5 p.m. at the North Stake Center in Mount Pleasant (461 N. 300 West, Mt. Pleasant).

This showcase was organized by Jennifer Boekweg, a former resident of Mount Pleasant. Jennifer was introduced to ballroom dance at the age of 13 and studied it for two years while attending a charter school in Provo.

After transferring to North Sanpete High School, she found that there were

Jennifer Boekweg and her partner Justin Strommen perform in a recent ballroom dance competition.

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Dixie State University honors 2022 graduates ST. GEORGE — Dixie State University recently celebrated the achievements of the institution’s largest-ever graduating class of 2,684 degree candidates at the university’s 111th Commencement Ceremony.

During the ceremony, held on May 6 in Greater Zion Stadium on the DSU campus, the university honored the Class of 2022, with 60%receiving bachelor’s degrees, 38% associate degrees and 2% master’s degrees. Candidates ranged from 16 to 79 years of age and included students from 49 states and 15 countries.

Of the graduates, 63 percent are female and 37 percent are male.

Local students among the Dixie State University graduating class included: Damen Maughan from Manti.

Payton Pehrson from Mt. Pleasant.

Mckelle Davis from Mt. Pleasant.

Aubree Whitman from Mt. Pleasant.

Nicole Mecham from Axtell.

Kolton Brailsford from Manti.

Cassidy Miller from Manti.

Maddisen Edwards from Gunnison.

Madison Cox from Manti.

Christy Sorensen.

Michael Nielson from Mt. Pleasant.

no local ballroom dance resources available to her. Rather than travel to Utah County, where ballroom dance is available in almost every high school, Jennifer decided, instead, to bring what she had learned to the Mount Pleasant community. She started with a simple ballroom team of three couples that performed as the opening number for a local girls show choir, and her program grew to include community classes, regular performances, and instruction at community events.

Many members of our community have been able to participate and benefit from Jennifer’s willingness to share her talent and enrich our community.

Since she began attending Brigham Young University, where she is studying ballroom dance as a minor, Jennifer has returned several times to Sanpete County to offer workshops and or-

ganize performances. The showcase performance on May 21 will be the culminating event for her most recent ballroom dance workshop she has been teaching in Mt. Pleasant. While there are still relatively few opportunities and resources available for ballroom dance in Sanpete County, Jennifer has found the demand is growing, and she plans to continue to bring opportunities to fill that need as frequently as she can. Jennifer tries to keep ballroom dance as affordable as possible so that all who want to participate are able to, often charging enough to cover the rental of the facility, but not a lot more. If you want to contribute toward building the ballroom dance program in Sanpete County, she accepts donations for costuming, building rental, performance venues, etc. You can Venmo her at @Jessica-Boekweg.

New exhibitions at Granary Arts Granary Arts is pleased to present new exhibitions:

Material Witness / Jorge Rojas Material Witness is a mid-career retrospective of Jorge Rojas’s abstract work drawing on over fifteen years of experimentation with materials and media. This exhibition presents an overview of 2D and 3D works from 2003 to the present, highlighting two periods of time when he lived in New York City—from 1993-1997 and again from 2002-2009. Importantly, these periods reflect the artist’s engagement with Minimalism, post-Minimalism, Color Field painting, Process Art, and Concrete Art—while infusing these influences with his Mexican roots and understanding of Mesoamerican art, materials, and cosmovision.

Rojas first left his native Mexico with his family when he was six, and his frequent wandering since has shaped his universal visual language as well as his experimental approach to materials and art. The Zen emphasis on purity of form plays a significant role in his work and results in patterns and grids that involve color, geometry, and through repetition generate rhythms, harmonies, and vibrations.

Working fluidly between painting and sculpture, Rojas uses tactile and sensory elements—including wax, layers of paint, sound, and found materials—to deconstruct materiality and discover new meanings.

Every-day objects and materials like sandpaper, record sleeves, and sink strainers are transformed into sculptural objects as he uses techniques of assemblage to create new

Jane Roberts DeGroff, Gifts of the Sanpete Land, Detail, 2022 forms. Rojas says, “I begin a piece with a feeling rather than an idea. It is in the act of making that meaning is revealed.”

About the artist Jorge Rojas (b. 1968, Cuautla, Morelos, Mexico; lives and works in Salt Lake City, UT) is a multidisciplinary artist, independent curator, and art educator. Rojas studied Art at the University of Utah and at Bellas Artes in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.

His work and curatorial projects have been exhibited nationally and internationally in galleries and museums including White Box, Museo del Barrio, and Queens Museum of Art

in New York; New World Museum and Project Row Houses in Houston; Diaspora Vibe Gallery in Miami; MACLA in San Jose; Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, and Woodbury Art Museum in Salt Lake City; Ex Convento del Carmen, Guadalajara; and FOFA Gallery at Concordia University, Montreal. His work is included in numerous private and public collections including The Mexican Museum, San Francisco; Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach; New Jersey State Museum, Trenton; and Salt Lake County. He has received grants and fellowships from National Performance Network, Ex-

perimental Television Center, West Chicago City Museum, Vermont Studio Center, Project Row Houses, Salt Lake Arts Council, and the Taft Nicholson Center. Rojas was named one of Utah’s Most Influential Artists in 2019 by Artists of Utah /15 Bytes and his art is included in the 2020 Immigrant Artist Biennial out of NYC. From 2015 to 2021, Rojas served as director of learning and engagement at Utah Museum of Fine Arts, where he oversaw education, community engagement, and adult programming initiatives for the Museum. Rojas is actively involved Please see EXHIBITIONS, Page A2

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Tristan Barrett from Manti.

Sheldon Shelley from Mt. Pleasant.

Nakiah Taylor from Mt. Pleasant.

Jonathan Baker.

Brittani Boorman from Manti.

Amy Nicholes.

Emilie Bradley.

Dalton Johnson from Mt. Pleasant.

“What a tremendous honor it is to celebrate the achievements of our graduating Trailblazers,” Dixie State University President Richard B. Williams said. “Thanks to the experience they have gained through our hands-on educational opportunities, the Class of 2022 is graduating career-ready and will continue to blaze their own trails and make a difference in the world for years to come.”

The featured speaker at the event was Carly Fiorina, founder and chairman of Carly Fiorina Enterprises and former CEO of Hewlett

Packard. From heading several philanthropic organizations, tackling global poverty and promoting female empowerment to leading Hewlett Packard to become the 11th largest company in the U.S. in the midst of the worst technology recession in 25 years and running for president in 2016, Fiorina is recognized as a passionate advocate for problem-solving, innovation and effective leadership.

Dixie State University is a premier open-enrollment teaching institution that offers more than 200 academic programs at one of the lowest tuition costs in the Western United States. With a commitment to its “active learning. active life.” approach to education, Dixie State provides personalized and engaged learning experiences that prepare students for rewarding careers and enriched lives. Outside of the classroom, students have the opportunity to enjoy the unparalleled opportunities for an active life that accompany DSU’s location in picturesque Southern Utah.

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in the Salt Lake community as an artist, educator, curator, and is a passionate advocate for advancing racial and cultural justice through the arts.

Chiasma / Laura Sharp Wilson, curated by Scotti Hill Chiasma explores the duality at the core of Laura Sharp Wilson’s work—organic elements in both human and botanical form as well as the visual tensions of converging patterns, chains, and bound knots. In biology, “chiasma” is the process through which paired chromosomes remain united throughout the first phase of meiosis before genetic material is exchanged.

This exhibition explores the chronology of Wilson’s process from her in-depth study of textile design, to later apprenticeships in the Fabric Workshop in Philadelphia, to her present practice. While Laura is known for her multimedia artistic process that ranges from public art, installation, and performance art, Chiasma highlights selections of her signature acrylic paintings on mulberry paper alongside never-before-exhibited works to tease the connections made throughout the artist’s multifaceted career.

About the artist Laura Sharp Wilson is a multimedia artist whose practice is focused primarily on painting, but also includes, sculpture, outdoor installation, public art, curation, and performance art. Wilson received a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University and an MFA from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

She also studied surface pattern design at North Carolina State University and served as an apprentice at the Fabric Workshop in Philadelphia. In 2018 she was a resident at the Golden Foundation in New Berlin, New York. Wilson was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico

Jorge Rojas, Quantum Grid, 2021 in 1965 and grew up in northern New Jersey and New York city, she currently lives and works in Salt Lake City, Utah.

About the curator Scotti Hill (she/her) is a Utah-based art critic, curator, and lawyer. In addition to teaching art history at Westminster College, she is a regular contributor to 15 Bytes: Utah’s Art Magazine and Southwest Contemporary and has written for Hyperallergic, Deseret News, New Art Examiner, and the Center for Art Law.

Gifts of the Sanpete Land / Jane Roberts DeGroff In creating her work, Jane Roberts DeGroff uses the traditional Japanese dying tech-

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nique, shibori along with locally harvested pigments from juniper, sagebrush, curly dock seeds, and organic indigo.

Gifts of the Sanpete Land is a wall hanging representing elements of life and land in Sanpete Valley. Gleaned from the beauty and natural resources of the region, sheep were created using the shibori techniques stitching and capping, trees were created using guntai and karamatsu stitching, the patterns on the side panels were created with stitching and binding, and the shibori panels at the top represent the beautiful mountains of the Sanpete Valley.

The panels along the bottom were created using arashi shibori, representing the tall grasses that once grew on the high elevation watersheds of the Wasatch Plateau in the late 1800s. At that time, the area was severely overgrazed by sheep eventually causing catastrophic flooding in the towns of Manti and Ephraim.

As a result, the residents of Sanpete petitioned the federal government to create a reserve area for research and study.

The scientific practice of range management officially began in Sanpete County, and in 1912 the Great Basin Research Station (now known as Great Basin Station) was established in Ephraim Canyon for the study of range and forest management.

An integral aspect of Jane

Roberts DeGroff’s work as a textile artist includes foraging in the landscape to collect plant matter. When collecting material from the plants, she strives to do it in such a way that no one would notice she had been there. This activity not only yields dyestuff, but is a reminder of her continual dependance on and connection with the earth — a sustaining belief that we have a responsibility to consider the needs of the land, and our gratitude for its generosity is an essential element in caring for it.

About the artist Jane Roberts DeGroff is a textile artist who specializes in shibori techniques and natural dyes. She grew up on a dairy farm near the small town of Etna Wyoming and attended Brigham Young University where she received a BFA. After college, Jane stayed in Utah and a longing for a rural life eventually brought her, with her husband and five children, to Spring City.

Nearly a decade ago Jane discovered shibori and began teaching herself the ancient art of manual resist dyeing.

She is passionate about creating patterns and images on cloth by manipulating fabric in a variety of ways to create resists before dyeing. Jane uses natural dyes on silk and cotton, including dyes made from plants harvested near her home.

Drought: Still, again, forever

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t looks like the drought is with us… still… again… seemingly forever. The reservoirs are low. Lake Powell, at a historic low level, is looking like a name change will be in order: “Pond Powell?” Lake Mead, which supplies water to about 25 million people, is also at a historic low.

People who understand the drought are concerned.

Some are scared. I know boat owners who are considering depression medication.

I bring up the subject of drought every once in a while here. It’s a situation that we all have to cope with.

I talked to a local rancher three or four years ago. He said that was the worst year for drought he’d seen. He said that he remembered back into the 1950s.

Some of his property at an 8,000-feet elevation was like walking on corn flakes where normally it would be green and lush.

I know this is a tired subject. I’m wondering whether to even plant much of a garden this year. I probably won’t be able to resist putting a few tomato plants in the ground, but I don’t know if it’s worth doing much else.

I’m afraid it’s going to be a long, hot summer.

We soon will enter the “dog days of summer.” The thermostat is turning up on us here in Sanpete. I gather that the Greeks and Romans watched for when the very bright star Sirius, the Dog Star, rose right about the same time as sunrise.

This event began the hottest, most sultry, days of summer – the “dog days.”

Many cultures, both ancient and modern, have different beliefs and traditions relating to the “dog days.”

In Sanpete, the tradition is that it’s just plain hot and dry. People here use two “D” words. Drought and Derby.

It seems to me that we use those words every summer of every year of the world.

Actually the Demolition Derby and Drought get talked about all year long.

I suppose that lack of water really shouldn’t be surprising to us though. After all, we do live in a desert.

At this time of year, everyone is working hard to keep their lawns and newly planted gardens from wilting and drying up and blowing away. Some of you have considered me to be an expert gardener and yard keeper. (That same group of people attract squirrels because you are nuts.)

I may have shared some of this here before, but in my “expert” capacity, I would like to now address some of the questions that Sanpeters have this time of year as they anticipate the extraordinarily hot and dry part of the summer. I’ll use the standard Question-and-Answer format.

Q: Merrill, is it normal for my lawn to be “crunchy” as I walk across it?

A: The short answer to that question for the hottest part of the year is “Yes.” This condition is the lawn’s normal response to the simple fact that it’s getting no wa-

ter. While this crunchiness of grass can be distressing to some, if the right attitude is used there is some fun to be had.

Those old enough to remember the long running ad campaign for “the only cereal that talks” will know what I’m referring to. Rice Krispies had three little cartoon characters named, Snap, Crackle and Pop who were in the television ads.

I think of them as I walk across my “talking” lawn.

Q: Could it be that our droughts in Sanpete are some sort of divine judgment from above and that we should be living better?

A: Umm – that’s not really a yard and garden question. But since you asked, I’ll give you my quick theological observations. Have you noticed the plagues of grasshoppers that routinely come upon us? Has anyone seen someone who resembles Moses, maybe a “Ten Commandments” Charleton Heston look alike, with a long white beard and a staff?

Somewhere in the good book it says that it “rains on the just and the unjust.”

Conversely, I would assume that it “doesn’t rain on the just and the unjust.” But to answer the last part of your question, yes – we should all be living better. But I don’t attribute drought to God. I place the blame where it rightfully belongs. As far as I’m concerned, that Kevin Eubank weather guy on Channel 5 is responsible. (I would never blame Alison Krogan from Fox13 for anything) Q: Last year I planted corn three times with no success.

I know that you’re known as the king of corn. What’s my problem?

A: There is symbolism in the fact that you’ve planted three times with no success.

It’s a baseball concept that applies here. The corn gods are saying, “Three strikes and you’re out!” Corn can be a tricky crop. Could it be that your problem is related to the two tons of “hot” turkey manure you applied or is it that pesky “no water” thing?

Q: My husband spends hours staring at the sunburned rose bushes while holding a garden hose, which has no water running from it. I’m a little worried about his mental health. Am I justified?

A: Don’t worry. His behavior is attributable to just plain old force of habit. It’s stronger than nicotine. It may be a bit non-productive, but hey — at least he’s home and not at the pool hall.

Q: I’m landscaping a new home here in Sanpete. Any suggestions?

A: Yes, I’m full of suggestions. Start with saguaros.

You know that tall cactus that Taco Time has for its logo and signs. They’re big and impressive. The rest of the yard can be done with prickly pear, barrel cactus, yucca and century plants.

Well folks, it’s time to wrap up this Q and A session. Enjoy your dog days of summer. Keep the lemonade supply high and the dog’s hair short. — Merrill

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“It’s imperative that we do all that we can to protect these national icons and other wildlife from the effects of drought and overpopulation,” said Stone-Manning. “Increasing the use of safe and humane fertility control methods to help stabilize herd growth is an important part of our plan to protect these animals and their habitat. Our goal is to ensure these animals can continue to survive and thrive on America’s public lands for generations to come.”

Though some animals can be darted with fertility control with the help of partners and volunteers, most animals need to be gathered for treatment due to the large and remote landscapes they inhabit.

All activities to manage wild horses and burros, including gather operations, must follow required handling standards to prioritize animal care and welfare. As a result of BLM’s commitment to humane treatment, wild horse and burro gathers have a very high success rate and serious injuries are exceedingly rare.

Contracts awarded under this solicitation will, under BLM supervision, perform wild horse and burro gathers using approved bait-trap and helicopter-assisted methods, apply an assigned fertility control treatment, provide any care/short-term holding that may be required, and then release the animals back to public lands. Contracts must be for a period of one year, with the possibility of four option years.

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SUNDAY DRIVE

Exhilarating first drive in the all-new 2023 Nissan ‘Z’

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ack in 2019, Nissan committed to bringing 10 newly-designed vehicles to market as part of the Nissan Next program. The company called this their “A-to-Z” program, and we were especially interested in the Z part of that equation.

Over the year, the Z car has become legendary.

CRAIG & DEANNE Craig has CONOVER memories of taking a 280Z to prom — way back in the day — and his sister Marci rebuilt a 280Z in the early ’90s from pretty much the ground up. There is a certain amount of family history in Nissan’s Z car.

An important distinction to make, though, is that there will be no numerical value associated with the seventh-generation Z. The letter says it all.

We first saw the new Z in August of last year, when Nissan invited us to attend ZCON in Colorado Springs.

They put one of three prototypes on display and allowed media members to sit in it and take pictures. About six weeks ago, when the invitation arrived to come to Denver and get some actual time driving in the new Z, it took us about a millisecond to answer. Of course we said yes!

The new design is fantastic. Nissan is going back to its roots and taking cues from the first line of Z cars. Echoes of the past have been combined with modern designs to make what one could consider a work of art.

In our opinion, it’s the best Z to date, and immensely better than the retiring generation. Nissan has upped its game under the hood by including a 3-liter V6 engine that produces a whopping 400 horsepower and 350 ft.-lbs. of torque. All this power and performance is coupled to the rear wheels, via a 6-speed manual or 8-speed automatic transmission.

After spending an hour climbing

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Craig and Deanne with a pair of new 2023 Nissan Z cars that they were able to drive in Boulder, Colo. up Boulder Canyon in Colorado, in each version of the transmission, it was hard to decide which version we liked best. Both were exhilarating to drive in their own ways.

The manual transmission gave us the thrill of shifting and maneuvering through the different gear sets.

The automatic with paddle shifters was also extremely engaging, but it was glad to take over at any moment if we wanted the coupe to do some heavy lifting.

Getting behind the wheel of the new Z was an experience in and of itself. The designers have created a

cabin that wraps itself around the driver, completely overtaking him and adding to the emotion of the drive. Everything is within reach and easy to understand.

The dashboard is now a 12.3-inch LED screen that can be configured to the driver’s preferences and a 9-inch, high-definition screen now takes up the center console. Going back to the car’s roots, there are three gauges (giving instant turbo boost, speed and vehicle voltage numbers) still located high in the center dash easily within the driver’s line of sight.

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The new Z will take anyone’s breath away, no matter what seat they’re in. It has an outstanding ap-

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This new coupe would need to be on top of anyone’s list for a new car.

This ride will set them apart and can’t be beat, especially for the price!

Both of the Z cars we drove were Performance trim levels and were pre-production vehicles. The difference in price is due to the different colors of paint.

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President Nelson, wife speak on individual’s identity as child of God

BY GENELLE PUGMIRE

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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ Conference Center in Salt Lake City was filled to capacity Sunday with young adults ages 18-30, both single and married, who had come to hear President Russell M. Nelson and his wife, Wendy W. Nelson, speak in a special devotional.

Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles conducted the meeting and was visibly taken aback, having to pause before speaking as he looked from the pulpit up into the filled room of more than 20,000. It would have been the first time the center was at capacity since the end of 2019.

The Nelsons spoke to the nature of who all men, women and children are and how they find joy in a world of chaos, war and pain.

Speaking of the timeline of eternity, Nelson indicated that this life is “hardly a nanosecond,” but added, “What a crucial nanosecond it is.” He noted that is because our earthly choices determine what kind of life one will live forever.

In speaking to who they are, Nelson told those listening in the Conference Center and around the world there are three absolute truths: 1.

Each person will die; 2. Because of Jesus Christ, all will be resurrected and become immortal; and 3. We will be judged for the choices we make now.

“Make no mistake about it: Your potential is divine.

With your diligent seeking, God will give you glimpses of who you may become.” Nelson said.

To help them live their best lives, the prophet encouraged those listening to follow three more fundamental truths:

Know who you are Nelson noted that among all the labels a person has, the most important one is a “child of God.” “For Latter-day Saints, the next most important are ‘child of the covenant’ and ‘disciple of Jesus Christ,’” Nelson added.

“Tonight, I plead with you not to replace these three paramount and unchanging identifiers with any others, because doing so could stymie your progress or pigeonhole you in a stereotype that could potentially thwart your eternal progression,” Nelson said.

The prophet noted that people tag themselves or others with a variety of labels. Nelson said all of these labels or descriptors are minor and can become divisive.

“The adversary rejoices in labels because they divide us and restrict the way we think

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President Russell M. Nelson speaks during a special young adult devotional Sunday. about ourselves and each other,” Nelson said. “How sad it is when we honor labels more than we honor each other. ... Any abuse or prejudice towards another because of nationality, race, sexual orientation, gender, educational degrees, culture or other significant identifiers is offensive to our maker.

Such mistreatment causes us to live beneath our stature as His covenant sons and daughters.”

Among the labels he included was being American — as he talked to a worldwide audience — and designating a difference between sexual orientation and gender.

However, these lesser labels used almost constantly should never replace or take priority over one’s true identity as a child of God, child of the covenant and disciple of Christ, Nelson told listeners.

“Make no mistake about it: Your potential is divine,” he said. “With your diligent seeking, God will give you glimpses of who you may become. ... As you embrace these truths, our Heavenly Father will help you reach your ultimate goal of living eternally in His holy presence.”

Know what Heavenly Father and His son have offered you “In short, they have offered you everything,” Nelson said.

“Heavenly Father’s plan for His children allows us to live where and how He lives and ultimately to become more and more like Him. His plan literally makes the richest blessings of all eternity available to us, including the potential for us to become ‘jointheirs with Christ.’”

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in all eternity,” Nelson said.

Know the truth related to your conversion Nelson said he wants everyone, particularly young adults, to own their spirituality and to have constant religious growth.

“If you have questions — and I hope you do — seek answers with the fervent desire to believe,” he said. “Learn all you can about the gospel and be sure to turn to truth-filled sources for guidance. We live in the dispensation when ‘nothing shall be withheld.’ Thus, in time, the Lord will answer all our questions.”

If young adults do these things, the prophet promised them “spiritual growth, free-

dom from fear and a confidence that question and to report that you can scarcely imagine their findings to her. now. You will have the strength She said the response was to have a positive influence far amazing and noted some of beyond your natural capacity.

And I promise that your future will be more exhilarating than anything you can presently believe.”

Prior to President Nelson’s address, his wife spoke about one question that can change your life.

Sister Nelson invited the audience to ask this question: “What would a holy young adult do?”

Answering that question can change lives, she said. In preparing for the devotional, she challenged 30 young adults from various places in the world to take three days and act upon

the examples of when just one thing a day was done as if they were a “holy young adult” changed perspectives and lives. “(It) can increase your confidence, decrease your anxiety, motivate you, lift your mood and your sights, increase your productivity, increase your focus and clarity of thinking, help you resist temptation, help you detect deception, increase your gratitude, decrease the stress in your life, increase your capacity to love and help you make better decisions,” she said.

Sister Nelson encouraged young adults to, as the Doctrine and Covenants teaches, “practice ... holiness before (God) continually.”

“As you live your life in crescendo, trying to be just a little more holy day by day — and quickly repenting when you mess up — you will find joy in this life and eternal life in the world to come. And you will begin to experience, in a most profound and unforgettable way, exactly what our savior Jesus Christ promised when He said, ‘I am able to make you holy.’”

NORTH SANPETE SCHOOL DISTRICT KINDERGARTEN REGISTRATION 2022-2023 SCHOOL YEAR We are excited to announce it is time for North Sanpete School District to begin registration for incoming Kindergarten children. Our district mission is “Creating conditions for learning, so ALL students can succeed”. We look forward to serving your student and providing opportunities for success.

It is important that North Sanpete School District obtains an accurate list of all children qualifying for Kindergarten for the 2022-2023 school year. If you have a child turning five years of age on or before September 1, 2022, he or she qualifies for next year’s kindergarten program. If your child qualifies, please contact your local school at the phone number listed below to make sure they are on the enrollment list.

The registration will be at your local school (see dates and times listed below). Your kindergarten child may accompany you for the registration process. Please do not bring other children, if possible.

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Fountain Green:

Monday, May 23rd, 8:30 am to 11:00 am

9:00 am to 11:00 am / 523FOUNTAIN

435-445-3316

Spring City:

Monday, May 23rd, 12:00 pm to 2:30 pm

12:00 pm to 2:00 pm / 523SPRING CITY

435-462-2169

Moroni:

Tuesday, May 24th, 11:00 am to 4:00 pm

11:00 am to 4:00 pm / 524MORONI

435-436-8291

Mt. Pleasant:

Wednesday, May 25th, 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm

3:00 pm to 5:00 pm / 525MTPLEASANT

435-462-2077

Fairview:

Thursday, May 26th, 8:30 am to 11:00 am

9:00 am to 11:00 am / 526 FAIRVIEW

435-427-9204

The school nurse will be at the school registration to review your child’s immunization records and

The school nurse will be you at themay school registration to required review your child’s immunization records andThe answer any answer any questions have regarding immunizations or exemptions.

Health questions you may have regarding required immunizations or exemptions. The Health Department will also be Department will also be available at each school for your convenience during the times listed. Please preavailable at each school for your during the times listed. Please pre-register for immunizations at: register for immunizations at: convenience https://patportal.cdpehs.com/ezEMRxPHR/html/login/mq8o06bVYl0tCbo6LXqh.htm https://patportal.cdpehs.com/ezEMRxPHR/html/login/mq8o06bVYl0tCbo6LXqh.htm (see codes above (see codes above with the immunization times). Please bring a copy of your insurance card.

If you do with not the immunization times).

Please bring a copy of your insurance card.

If you do not have insurance, cost is $15 per have insurance, cost is $15 per vaccine. vaccine.

Online registration forms can be completed prior to coming to registration or you can complete the forms registration at the school.

The documents must be your child’s enrollment: Online forms canfollowing be completed prior to coming to submitted registrationfor or you can complete the forms at the school.

The following documents be state submitted for your child’s enrollment: • Certified copy of your must child’s issued birth certificate: A certified copy must be presented upon enrollment of a student for the first time in a particular school (UCA 53G-6-603 Subsection • Certified copy of your state issuedcertificate birth certificate: certifiedWe copy must be presented 1). Please bring thechild’s official physical to the A school. will make a copy ofupon the enrollment of a student for the first time in a particular school (UCA 53G-6-603 Subsection 1). Please bring certified birth certificate at the school and give you the original for your records. Please note that the official physical certificate to the school. We will make a copy of the certified birth certificate at if you upload the birth certificate electronically to our online registration system, a certified the school and give you the original for your records. Please note that if you upload the birth certificate copy MUSTto still presented at thesystem, school.a certified copy MUST still be presented at the school. electronically ourbe online registration • Immunization record: Immunization exemption requirements listed on our district • Immunization record: Immunization and/orand/or exemption requirements are listed are on our district website website (www.nsanpete.org) under the Students & Parents/School Nurse Tab. (www.nsanpete.org) under the Students & Parents/School Nurse Tab. ProofofofResidence: Residence: Documentation showing your physical within our district boundaries • • Proof Documentation showing your physical addressaddress within our district boundaries (i.e., mortgage statement, rental agreement, utility bill, utility etc.). bill, etc.). (i.e., mortgage statement, rental agreement, • • Legal AnyAny legallegal documents outlining custodycustody or parenting plans, if applicable.

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