Welcome to Spanish Fork High School

Spanish Fork has recently started a Youth City Council for this year. The council is for students who are interested in government and learning more about it. There are about 32 students in the council ranging from 9th to 12th grade. The students help with the mayor and city councilmen to help problems in our community that teens are worried about.

This week’s intern highlight is Sami Meinhart, who interns at the Nursing Rehab Center in Spanish Fork. She helps take care of elderly people who are in rehab there. Meinhart helps feed the patients, do laundry, and care and provide for the patients. Meinhart has fun with her internship. “It’s hard work to care for old people! But I still enjoy it,” she said. Meinhart wants to go into a career in nursing or rehabilitation so the experience she is gaining now will help her in the future

Youth Court is a program in Spanish Fork where first time offenders of small crimes can go and find ways to make up their debt to society. When kids 14 to 18 commit a crime like stealing, vandalism, and other small offenses, they can attend Youth Court and work with the kids involved in the program to get their crime erased from their record. “Kids can do stuff like write essays, clean up the mess they made, do community service, and other simple things that help them realize what they did wrong,” says Karianne Nelson, who is in the group of students that help find solutions.

Spanish Fork High School’s Utah Community Based Transition students have had the opportunity to get on the job training with several community businesses and organizations, including Outer Beauty, Hollywood Video, Spanish Fork Ambulance, East Meadows Elementary, Brockbank Elementary, Larson Elementary, Magleby’s, One Man Band, Jaxies, and Joannes. They do things like bus tables, be teacher’s aides, and clean, wash towels, put videos back, and lots of other helpful jobs. Each of the students has two Job sites that they work at. “The kids are doing a great job.

Spanish Fork’s Marching Band has been competing in several competitions so far this year, and attended the Mt. Timpanogos Competition on October 24th in which Mr. Smith, the band teacher at the high school said, “They did reasonably well. The judges generally liked their performance.” Lori Swain, the student drum major, said, “It’s a challenge, but it’s very rewarding. It’s very cool to see all the hard work come out and turn into something amazing, and to see how everyone works together to succeed.” November 6th and 7th the Marching Band played at Red Rocks Competition.