The ballroom club had their first meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 16th. Students didn’t take the time to talk or do future planning. They just danced the waltz, cha cha, and little bit of country swing. There were about six boys and eight girls. Lucky for the boys, they got to dance with every girl. Since all of them had already had some ballroom background, it made the dancing more exciting. Annie Morris said, “It was fun to get to know the people in the club and dance for the first time with the club.” Everyone is hoping for more meetings like this one in the future.

The swim season for Spanish Fork High School is off to a good start. They participated in the annual Utah County Invitational. It was made up of all the schools in Utah County. They swam against 12 other teams, all of whom had many more swimmers. They held their own against the other teams. The boy’s team placed 7th overall and the girl’s team took 9th. They had many swimmers place high within their races. Jesse Roberts took first in most of his races. Colton Christensen placed high in his races as well.

5,4,3,2,1, Blast off! Ever wanted to build a rocket? Well in Mr. Bronson's Physics with Technology class, they do just that! For the past two weeks students have been making and launching bottle rockets, experimenting to figure out how to create the perfect rocket for maximum distance. When asked why he has the students do this exercise, Mr. Bronson responded with four reasons. First, it's a Physics with Technology class, which is a CTE course, and it emphasizes hands on learning. Second, the classes just learned about projectile motion, and now they can experience the real life application.

The Spanish Fork Cross Country team celebrated their fall season with awards, pizza, and games on Thursday, November 11, 2010. At the Spanish Fork High School, in Coach Amanda Merrill’s classroom, the SF Cross Country team gathered for a banquet, where awards were given, lots of pizza was eaten, and hilarious games were played. In honor of their coaches, Madison Hansen made Coaches Amanda Merrill and Reve Tortel, t-shirts with the team picture from the Region race at Maple Mountain on it. Every athlete signed the t-shirts for the coaches.

Spanish Fork High School honored the heroes of our country on Veteran’s Day with an inspirational assembly. It started off with a patriotic line-up of our Country’s flag to lead the student body into the auditorium, and then SFHS’s Choir sang the National Anthem. It continued with Spanish Fork’s own Combat Engineer veteran, Lucas Isley. Mr. Isley’s thoughts as he prepared for the assembly were that he wanted to speak about more than just what he did as a soldier.

November 3rd through November 9th Spanish Fork High School’s Debate Team attended the David Damus Tournament at the University Of Southern California. Debating started Friday the 5th, and ended Sunday the 7th. Several Lincoln Douglas Debaters broke- meaning they won enough rounds out of the six that they broke into the octa-finals. Debaters Lisie Dixon, Jake Muhlestein, and Wesley Curtin were these debaters.

Four students from Spanish Fork High School, Marlee Olsen, Brandi Horner, Marcee Clayson, and Tori Grange, got involved for their English service project. The four girls went to East Meadows Elementary School during the afternoon of November 8th and read to the first graders in the library. The librarian, who happens to be Marlee Olsen’s mom, enjoyed having them there as well as the 1st graders and 1st grade teachers. “We also played Simon says with them. They were so cute!” says Marlee, recalling her last Monday activity and completing her first semester project.

During “Red Ribbon Week” Spanish Fork High Students got a view of a few lives affected by drugs. Film producer, Ron Williams, known for his dramatic documentary, Happy Valley, a film showing the affect of drug addictions in the Utah County, spoke about his wife who got started on prescription drugs, and then left her life to chase illegal drugs. He also came with a guest from the documentary that was addicted to drugs and had her friend over-dose. They both urged students to avoid any addictions and to stay away from substances that can take over your life.