Brooke Kramer, a student at Spanish fork High School, is interning at Oak Ridge Elementary and Larsen Elementary. She has been working with the special needs kids as well as resource students helping them read and learn just like everyone else.  Brooke was asked a few questions about herself and her internship, and this is what she said, “I love interning at the elementary schools. I love working with kids and helping them succeed.

Senior English classes are taking up service projects.  One group with Sarah Nulty, McKenzie Johnson, and Hayley Chandler is doing a project  called “Clothes for Kids.” The seniors had to come up with a service project, which needed to include a timeline, permission slips, talking to the administrators, and having everything planned out. They had to write an essay and be persuasive, give it to the principal and get permission to conduct their project.  The “Clothes for Kids” drive is being conducted with Mrs. Hillier’s English classes.

Throughout the year, FFA members, leaders, and parents work hard in the FFA. Members especially work hard on their SAE projects(Supervised Agricultural Experience). These projects are important for members because it helps them find others in their area of hobbies, as well as develop skills that will help them in future careers. Thursday night, the entire officer team and the three advisors awarded 98 Green Hand awards and 37 Chapter Degrees to members at Spanish Fork FFA. Many state degrees will be given out in April at State Convention also.

With October celebrated as national Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the Spanish Fork High School chapter of the Parent Teacher Student Association (PTSA,) hosted Think Pink Week at the high school this week. Think Pink week was officially set into motion Thursday October 21, 2010 with a special ceremony at half time of the final regular season football game, in which the Spanish Fork Football players used pink tape and wore a pink breast cancer ribbon on their helmets.

This past week the Spanish Fork FBLA (Future Business Leaders of America) participated in a field trip to 3 different businesses.  At each business they learned a few different aspects like how the company is run and what are the different things they encourage and value.   The 3 businesses they attended were Skull Candy, Zermatt and Rocky Mountain ATV.    At Skull Candy in Park City, they told the students of the history of the company and how they encourage their employees to be active and they do this by giving out ski passes and even have a half pip

The Lady Dons have had a perfect volleyball season. They went undefeated in region making the region record 10-0 and an over all record 12-2.. Now that region is over, all they need to do is win first in state. The spectacular aspect of the season is that no one thought SFHS would go very far at all. Some were sure that since they lost two big hitters from last year, Spanish Fork would not do well in region. The Lady Dons proved them wrong.