March 2010

PHS Students Learn African Drumming

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 03/26/2010 - 11:04
Anyone else love ethnical music? If so this African Drumming class, taught by Connie Ericson (my favorite band lady), Acrama Cofie, and Clit Crawford, is something for you! Just finding out taught the class made me have to go, no matter what, nothing was stopping me. I showed up Wednesday night at 8:00 at Payson Jr. High, ready to do some stellar drumming, dragging Jonathan Bird along with me. After setting up the drums Connie sat in front of the class and started drumming, inviting us to join in.

PHS Close Up Visits State Legislature

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 03/26/2010 - 11:02
This year some of the Close-Up students got an amazing opportunity to go up to the state legislator. On February 25, 2010, the students arrived at the State Capitol to listen to a senate and house session, tour the Capitol building, and talk to some of the representatives. Katelyn Rowley said, “The atmosphere there at the State Capitol was laid back at first, we went and listened to some debates.

Payson Youth Council Goes to Leadership Conferece

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 03/26/2010 - 11:00
Payson Youth City Council members Marianne Carpenter, Corinna Michaelis, Sarah Webber, Teal Penrod, Kaitlyn Thomas, Stephanie Dimond, Kevin Saunders, Nikki, Chase Michaelis, and their Amazing Advisor Wendy Dimond attended the Annual Youth City Council Leadership Institute held at Utah State University march 18-20th. They spent an inspiring weekend learning what it takes to be a great effective leader, and growing together to become a better-serving Payson Youth Council. At their conference there was the world renowned keynote speaker Dan Clark who talked about the power of influence one has to

PHS HOSA First in State

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With their Stethoscopes in hand Payson HOSA went up to Layton to compete in the HOSA state convention the 18th and 19th of March. Payson’s HOSA placed so much! Who would have thought that there so many events to compete in?! “You can compete in Nursing, First aid events, speaking, presentations, Medical Assisting and Medical Photography. There are so many events you can compete in, it’s awesome” said Ashley Byington. Speaking of the Devil, Ashley took second in her Extemporaneous Speaking event!

PHS Student Organizes Shoe Drive for African Villiage

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 03/12/2010 - 14:58
  By: Rachelle Whatcott This year I had the chance to run for Miss Payson. I decided to choose helping out a third world country as my platform and my catch phrase, “Every SOLE worth saving”. So I’m putting on a shoe drive to help the people in Ethiopia. About three years ago my parents made it possible for my whole family to go back to Ethiopia and visit where we came from. One thing I noticed was that no one had shoes and they would be running on sharp rocks and hard surfaces and it made me feel bad. I thought to myself, one day I want to help out over there.

Nicolas Ramon Solis Graffiti Art Featured Springville Art Museum

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Nicolas Ramon Solis Graffiti Art Featured Springville Art Museum By Sarah Rose Webber Nicolas Solis recently had his graffiti drawing “Ominous” featured in the Springville’s Annual Art Show. This is a very prestigious achievement, of the 936 entries received from 93 high schools across the state; only 313 were selected for the exhibit. Nicolas was the only Payson High School student to get into the art show this year. He paints because “I like to use my talents and express myself”. He drew “Ominous” because he “thought it was really cool.

Lion’s Roar Triumphs at Journalism Conference

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Lion’s Roar Triumphs at Journalism Conference By: Audrey Miller On February 18th, The Lion’s Roar Newspaper staff joined 12 schools at the Deseret News Journalism conference held at Utah Valley University. This year, they came home with two major awards.  The Lion’s Roar took third place in Front Page Design. Layout editors, Kari Haskell and Zachary Quist were extremely happy that all of her long hours working on making the paper great paid off, “Whoo!