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Banquet highlights poverty BY LORI SCHAFER staff writer
The Students Together Ending Poverty club spon-� sored this year’s annual Hunger Banquet in the TSC Ballroom. STEP sponsors a different country to help every year, and this year’s proceeds are going to a Sustainable Cambodia proj-� ect. “Water in Cambodia is one and a half to three miles away,� said Paul Stringham, Keynote Speaker and organiz-� er for Sustainable Cambodia. “It has bugs in it and one of five kids there die from dis-� eases they get from drinking the water. Everything we do in Cambodia has to be sustain-� able. Otherwise, these people won’t keep it after we leave.� The night was designed to portray poverty to the people in attendance. Coming through the doors, attendees drew a ticket from a bowl and were instructed to sit at the table, in a chair or on the floor. Eight people were able to sit at the table and were fed a full
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DONNA DILLINGHAM-EVANS
Donna Dillingham-Evans Tooele Regional Campus
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eagerly look forward to joining the excellent team at USU’s Tooele Regional Campus to begin our future together.�
Tooele Regional Campus picks up new Dean STUDENTS DISH UP at the Hunger Banquet on Wednesday. The event highlighted the wealth and poverty differences in the world. Proceeds went to helping Cambodia charities. DELAYNE LOCKE photo
Hard News Cafe
PROVIDENCE — More than 25 citizens and commu-� nity members turned out for a recent City Council meet-� ing, referred to by several as “a heated exchange.� Public attention was set on the coun-� cil’s discussion regarding removal of the cul-�de-�sac at the western end of 100 South,
which would create a pub-� licly accessible through road between 200 West and 400 West. “What is unclear to me is why we’re having this discus-� sion,� said Kent Dunkley, a resident who has lived on the street for 20 years. “What’s bringing it to the agenda after being put to bed for the third or fourth time since we’ve lived on the street?� The closed street is some-�
Makes Music guinea pig and “the ambas-� sador band,� were performing their 215th Tuesday morning concert and are currently on an 80-�school, “Music is Sick� tour. The band visits each school with a full agenda: a morning assembly, lunch with the kids and class time with teachers. They reinforce their message in all three set-� tings, and involve the students by asking what music means to them. The whole pur-� pose of this program is to “educate, moti-� vate and inspire tomorrow’s musicians.� And the foundation claims they are on to something good. The Music Makes Music website says: “The unique MMM School Events deliver positive messages in a format that teens admire, relate to, and become involved with. Through the MMM Social Networking program, teens have a safe and positive place to spend their Facebook/ MySpace time while reinforcing the core messages we deliver. Our Community Concerts give teens and parents the oppor-� tunity to experience wholesome and enter-� taining live music shows.� Having traveled from Las Vegas to Logan, and before heading on to Idaho Falls, the Going Second band members agreed that it does not matter how big or small or urban or rural a school is—the kids generally react the same. “No exag-� geration either,� said film producer David Adams, who is documenting the tour, “they lose their minds.� And, as the Spring Creek students “lost their minds,� the music went on. One song lead to another and soon audi-� ence members were recognizing covers of Lady Gaga and Carly Rae Jepsen material.
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thing that has gone unre-� solved for years, Dunkley said. There have been many discussions between past city councils and the public in the past, most recently in 2006 when the council passed a resolution agreeing to build the 120-�foot cul-�de-�sac in exchange for a 50-�foot right of way to be used for insertion of new sewer and water lines. Street residents dedicated the property at no charge to the
city under the condition they would be compensated if the dead-�end road was opened up and a through street was cre-� ated. “There’s a long history of legal activity on that road,� said Mark Thompson, a resi-� dent who has lived at the end of the road for 20 years. “I have a whole file folder full of litigation that went on con-�
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Schoolhouse rocks music assembly BY JESSICA SONDEREGGER Hard News Cafe
PROVIDENCE — Spring Creek Middle School students crowded the gymnasium to attend what was scheduled to be just another school assembly. There was a dull chatter among peers and any effort to quiet the hum was ineffective. As the students organized themselves into tidy rows, each took a seat as they had done hundreds of times before. For all they knew, this was nothing more than yet another attempt to discourage drug use, encourage school attendance and promote a bully-�free campus. But those expectations were quickly abandoned as their “lecturers� invited them to rush the stage and properly enjoy the upcoming, full-�production rock con-� cert. By 10:05 Tuesday morning, that middle school gym was less about dodge ball and more about neon lights, thumping bass and squealing teens. “Make sure you thank your principal,� said Going Second’s lead vocalist Ferril Trevor, as the crowd cheered and the band concluded their first song. Going Second is a Salt Lake City-�based pop-�punk band on tour with the Music Makes Music foundation, a nonprofit orga-� nization advocating drug-�free lifestyles and education. The band travels from school to school sharing an important message in an important way. “Do I have some musicians in this place?� guitarist Mike Crowder asked the audience. The students screamed their answer as they collectively celebrated the school band, orchestra and choir programs.
GOING SECOND, A SALT LAKE CITY BAND performs during a Spring Creek Middle School assembly Tuesday. JESSICA SONDEREGGER photo, Hard News Cafe
Trevor and Crowder told the kids their had it good at Spring Creek, because many schools are going without any music pro-� grams. The band members took every opportu-� nity between songs to educate and motivate their audience. Their main objectives were music education, higher education and avoiding drugs and alcohol. Going Second, deemed as both the Music
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Donna Dillingham-�Evans has been named dean of the USU Tooele Regional Campus and will start her new position in March. Raymond T. Coward, USU execu-� tive vice president and provost, is confident Dillingham-�Evans will have a positive impact at the fast-� growing regional campus. “Donna has a strong background and skill set well-�suited to the chal-� lenges and opportunities at our Tooele campus,� Coward said. “Her extensive experience and noteworthy achievements in higher education in southern Utah will prove invaluable to Utah State University as it moves forward to provide greater educa-� tional opportunities at our Tooele Regional Campus.� Dillingham-�Evans was most recently the executive vice president and vice president of academic ser-� vices at Dixie State University, where she had been employed for the last 30 years. She spent 23 of those years in college administration, includ-� ing being the founding chair of the mathematics department. Dillingham-�Evans is excited about the appointment and the opportu-� nity to share her expertise in a fast-� paced, dynamic environment. “I am grateful to Utah State University and the community of Tooele for their engaged commit-� ment to increase local access to higher education,� Dillingham-� Evans said. “I eagerly look forward to joining the excellent team at USU’s Tooele Regional Campus to begin our future together.� Local education officials are eager to take advantage of Dillingham-� Evans administrative experience and knowledge. “Donna understands how USU Tooele is a great asset to our valley through the education of people to meet the needs of job creation and economic development,� said Scott Wardle, chairman of the Tooele Regional Campus Advisory Board. “We look forward to her vision for creating research opportunities for our professors and students as well as her leadership in the continuing growth of this marvelous campus.� Dillingham-�Evans has a Ph.D. in educational leadership from Northern Arizona University, a Master’s degree in secondary, post-� secondary and vocational education from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and a Bachelor’s degree in chemistry and mathematics from Austin Peay State University. She has
Changing the streets in Providence BY PAUL CHRISTIANSEN
BY ANDY PIERUCCI