SJHS News

Kara Dunn
SJHS Staff Writer
Valentine’s Day is a holiday that is celebrated throughout the world. It has never been confirmed as to where this holiday originated, but there are, however, many speculations. The Catholic Church recognizes at least three different saints named Valentine that were martyred, but the real origin has never been confirmed.
Springville Junior High [...]

Hayde Blanco
SJHS Staff Writer
SJHS has a lot of hard working teachers. One of them is Mrs. Diane Bird, who teaches three classes: service learning, CTE, and sewing. She has been teaching here for one year and has loved it. Even though she is busy with school work she still has time for her family, pets [...]

Kara Dunn
SJHS Staff Writer
Christmas time is all about traditions, and one of the traditions held at Springville Junior High School is that the service learning class hosts a Christmas assembly. This year the assembly will be a Christmas Game Show.
“We’re going to have student council hosting, special judges, and people from the audience all interacting,” [...]

Spencer Duncan
SJHS Staff Writer
Springville Junior High just finished a food and clothing drive.  Natalie Shaw, Liz White, Taylor Martin, Shawnee Henderson, and Thalia Berriel, members of the service learning class, were in charge of the drive.
The drive went from Monday November 29 through Monday December 7.  The winning class gets a donut party from Reams [...]

Jacob Buhler, Oscar Portillo and Jace Hartman sold stars during lunch.
Katya Wagstaff
SJHS Staff Writer
The first wish granted by the Make-A-Wish Foundation was for Christopher James Greicius in Arizona.  Since that time, Make-A-Wish has grown to become a non-profit organization that has granted wishes all over the world.  Springville Junior High students have helped grant the [...]

Hayde Blanco
SJHS Staff Writer
The annual Make-a-Wish Carnival was held at Springville High School on Monday, November 9 from 6 to 8:30. This carnival helped raise money to make Jessenia’s wish come true. Jessenia has ALL Leukemia, and her wish is to go to Disneyworld and meet all of the Disney princesses.
This carnival had games like [...]

Jessie Wimmer, an eighth grader in Service Learning, works on a fleece blanket for the Children’s Justice Center.
Morgan Bowser
SJHS Staff Writer
Service Learning is a class offered at SJHS that allows students to do service within and outside of the school. Once a semester students are required to do some sort of project that helps others. [...]

Lily Girot busy working on the posters for the upcoming Halloween Dance.
Chelsea Ricks
SJHS Staff Writer
The Service Learning class is busy working on posters for the upcoming dance. The Halloween dance will be held on Thursday, October 29 at 7:00 p.m. The posters help make the dance more “colorful, make it sparkle and have the atmosphere,” [...]

Chelsea Ricks
SJHS Staff Writer
Last week at SJHS, the students showed their commitment to not getting involved with drugs. The Service Learning class gave out the dress up days and themes for the week.  Monday was spirit day, “Show your spirit by not doing drugs.” Students dressed up in their school colors to show their school [...]

SJHS students dressed up as their heroes. Left to right: Sky Kawai dressed as Superman, Brandon Chambers dressed as Dwight Schrute from the Office, Anenia Tuttle dressed as her mom, Andalyn Hall dressed as Peter Pan.
Kara Dunn
SJHS Staff Writer
During the week of October 5th – October 9th, students at Springville Junior High celebrated being drug [...]

Eighth graders Aleksandar Maccabee, Hunter Hamberlin, Jesse Martinsen, Tyler Sumsion, Deric Hardman and Duncan Hubbard dress up for Sports Day at SJHS.
Jacob DeRosia
SJHS staff writer
Last week was Red Ribbon Week here at Springville Junior High, and school spirit is busting at the seams. On Thursday, October 7, 2009 the students of SJHS dressed up [...]

Mr. Mikesell, Tanner Gervais, and Mrs. Gleave, believe it or not.
Jack Setzer
SJHS Staff Writer
Thursday was crazy at SJHS! Students dressed like teachers, and teachers like students! What’s going on? Why, it’s Swap Day, part of Red Ribbon Week. Swap Day represents “Swapping Drugs for Education.” On this day, students were SUPPOSED to wear what the [...]

Shawnee Henderson, Liz White, and Taylor Martin make a poster in Service Learning.
Jack Setzer
SJHS Staff Writer
Service Learning is a class that is all about doing service in the community and school.  Mrs. Diane Bird is the teacher. In a basement classroom at SJHS, the Service Learning class plans what to do and carry out their [...]

Jeremy Schanderl
SJHS Staff Writer
Springville Junior High has been helping out kids living in Guatelmala by buying and selling “Yuda Bands.” Yuda means to help, and each band is sold for $7. When students purchase Yuda bands, it helps raise money for a child who needs an education in Guatemala.  One hundred and fifty Yuda bands [...]

Kaydie Kerby
SJHS Staff Writer
The SJHS Service Learning class went on a field trip February 27 to the LDS Humanitarian Center. Humanitarian Center employees and volunteers put hygiene kits together for people all around the world. The students spent two and a half hours packing 3,000 sanitation kits. The kits had four toothbrushes, tube of tooth [...]