Dallas Smith, student at Spanish Fork High School, interns with the police department in Spanish Fork. “Learning the laws and getting to pull people over is a lot of fun,” says Smith. Smith also gets to learn how to process papers and other things at the police station. Dallas gets to work with the City Attorney sitting through court trials. He wants to continue his education at Dixie State College.

On March 16th, Spanish Fork High School’s Band and Orchestra’s will be holding a Benefit Concert for the Red Cross. The Band Presidency, with senior Taylor Allred as President, decided to have a benefit concert to donate to others around the world, especially in light of the many disasters recently, settling on the Red Cross as the recipient of any money collected. Playing their festival pieces, performances will include the Jazz Band, Concert Band, Chamber Orchestra, Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Symphonic Orchestra.

Spanish Fork High School may have lost some of its numbers with the building of two new schools, but that doesn’t mean it lost any generosity or caring for others. When the massive earthquake hit Haiti, the National Honor Society of SFHS took charge of a fundraiser to send some Spanish Fork Don support to Haiti. The whole school took part by donating money, personal care items, and writing letters for the Haitian people. Not long after, news spread about another earthquake, in Chile.

Spanish Fork High School’s choir, Singers, went to two of the elementary schools in the Spanish Fork area and performed some of their musical selections for them. They went to Brockbank Elementary on February 26, 2010 and to Riverview Elementary on February 19, 2010. They also performed at Spanish Fork Jr. High on February 16th, 2010. When asked why they did this, Shea Bradshaw the teacher said, “We wanted to give our elementary schools a great free assembly.

February 16-21, Spanish Fork Las Chalitas got the chance to go to Florida to perform in Downtown Disney located in Disneyworld. They performed Thursday February 18 on a stage inside Downtown Disney. Their performance included many of their dances including camp and competition routines. They also had solo's performed by Kambri Shenk and Katelyn Swenson. After their performances they were awarded with a Mickey Mouse trophy to put in their school for a wonderful performance to share with the people in Disneyworld. They enjoyed their trip and loved the warm weather for a week.

This past week at SFHS the Spanish Fork FFA chapter, along with every other chapter of the National Club, celebrated National FFA week. Spanish Fork Mayor Anderson signed a document declaring it FFA week in Spanish Fork. The Spanish Fork FFA officers were present to watch as Mayor Anderson signed the document and then shook each of the Spanish Fork FFA chapter officers’ hands; the officers were very pleased that the mayor would be willing to sign the document. President Obama signed a similar document that declared it nationally FFA week across the nation.

On Saturday, February 20, 2010, the Spanish Fork Debate teams had the opportunity to compete for Region at Payson High School. The students had prepared to compete for several weeks before the competition. In the different types of debate, two teams from Spanish Fork went undefeated. Many other teams did well and were the top teams of at the competition. The Spanish Fork team came in second over-all and will compete for state in March. It looks like the team has more preparation ahead of them.

Katie Cable is an eighteen year old student intern at two junior high schools. She aids Mr. Olsen in correcting tests and in helping students that need extra help at Diamond Fork Junior High. At Spanish Fork Junior High, Katie helps Ms. Holley in her “Introduction to Drama” class. She takes role and plays games with the students and teaches them how to act. Out of the two, she likes the drama one the most because she gets to teach and be with the kids more. The teachers like having her there to help with the kids and Katie enjoys it. She says, “I love it!

“We've got spirit, yes we do! We've got spirit, how 'bout you?” Spanish Fork High School showed off their spirit at their last home game on Tuesday, February 16, 2010. It was Senior Night for all the seniors at their last basketball home game. So many students showed up in school colors to show their spirit, and cheered the teams on. The score was close throughout the whole game. Spanish Fork managed to win, with the help of all the spirit from the students.