Max Schreiner
SJHS Staff Writer

Fridays at Springville Junior High are always fun because Friday is the day we spin the wheel at lunch. For most students, Friday is the day they get their awesome prizes such as iPods, chips, fifteen and five dollar gift cards to Wal-Mart, Yuda Bands, one dollar bills, and coming soon, Krispy Kreme Doughnut gift cards.

To spin the wheel students must get ten stickers from teachers and then they can spin. Teachers give out stickers to students for many reasons.  Students receive stickers for being effective communicators, responsible citizens, successful learners, having good attendance, and high test scores. Mr. Shaun Blakey, SJHS counselor, said, “Teachers can also give out stickers for whatever they feel students deserve them for.” When students receive stickers they can put them into their planner on the page marked for stickers, and after they receive ten stickers they can take their planner filled with stickers and spin the wheel.

The counselors and Mr. David Knudsen, assistant principal, are in charge of the wheel with little help from the student council. Students spin the prize wheel at lunch and then go to the front office and pick up their prizes after school. Kaitie Bair, a student at SJHS, said “I’ve only spun once and got a candy bar, but other kids get the big prizes like iPods and gift cards.”

So, just reminder students every Friday bring your planners and be ready to spin!

Students having fun at lunch.

Hayde Blanco
SJHS Staff Writer

Many Springville Junior High students remember the snack shack in the lunch room. Well, this year the snack shacks were closed district-wide by the Food Service Administration.

The Food Service Administration closed the snack shack down because they decided to make a new and healthier lunch line. This lunch line will serve things like apples, oranges, bananas, salad shakers, milk, nachos and breadsticks with marinara sauce. Meals are determined by the district, where they follow the guidelines set out by the Federal Government.

Mrs. Debbie Messick, Springville Junior High lunch clerk, said, “I enjoyed the options that we used to have in the room, but this will be a good thing.” Savannah Bowers, a student here at Springville Junior High, said, “I think it will be a great idea because students get more options to choose from.” The district is trying to make healthier choices available to students in the school.

Autumn Hathaway
SJHS Staff Writer

Sunshine, wind, laughter, and blue skies are what students at Springville Junior High look forward to hearing and seeing since they’re able to enjoy their lunches outside.  Announced last Friday at SJHS, students during the first lunch are now able to eat outside.  The cafeteria workers and lunch room supervisors decided that students were doing a pretty good job of cleaning up after themselves.

You may be wondering how this matter got brought up.  Well, here at SJHS we have a group called The Knights of the Round Table that meets every Monday to discuss the issues and things students want at our school, and then they act on it.

Amanda Wood, an eighth grader at SJHS and member of The Knights of the Round Table, stated, “It was really up to the staff to decide if the students could eat outside.”

According to Mr. David Knudsen, the vice principal at SJHS, the students who eat first lunch really earned their way into eating outside by showing they could clean up after themselves.  The students who eat first lunch will all enjoy the time that they have to be outside in the fresh sunshine and air while they’re all munching away at their lunches.

Corieshae Nunley
SJHS Staff Writer

Here at Springville Junior High School we have some awesome lunch ladies!
Some of our lunch ladies are: Bonnie Boel, Sherrane Busby, Pauline Edmunds,
Kathy Miner and Debbie Messick.

The majority of our lunch ladies chose this kind of career because it fits their  hours with having to have their kids to school and back home again.  I asked SJHS lunch ladies if they liked working here at the school… And they all said they “LOVED IT!!”

Kathy Miner is the manger of the kitchen. She does the ordering, the scheduling and makes sure the food is ready by the time the students get into the lunch room. Away from school Kathy miner likes to work in her yard and garden.

Debbie Messick is responsible for getting the lunch money in the accounts and the deposits to the bank. She likes to spend time with her grandchildren and she dislikes laziness and disrespectfulness.

Pauline Edmunds is responsible for doing the dishes and cleaning off the tables. She likes reading and playing with her grandchildren and being with her family.

Sherrane Busby Sells candy and drinks out of the Alacarte room (snack shack.) She likes almost everything to fishing, hunting, cooking and reading she dislikes being disrespected.

Bonnie Boel is the main cook and the number taker at the computers. She likes honesty, smiles and a good book.

So there you have it some of the SJHS lunch ladies!!!