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(Courtesy photo) Cynthia Prueitt is an employee of the Ogden-Weber Applied Technology College. Her real passion is helping others in need by finding them opportunities through the Department of Workforce Services, judges, courts and various organizations.

OWATC worker finds opportunities for those in need

OGDEN -- Tending the grounds of Ogden-Weber Applied Technology College has been Cynthia Prueitt's job for more than 18 years, but her passion is helping the people who enter her life because of her job.

(ERIN HOOLEY/Standard-Examiner) Art teacher Brad Asay talks via video chat to students in Christian Fasy's art class at Mount Ogden Junior High from his classroom at Mound Fort on Monday.

Creativity, imagination churned out through teachers' 'machine'

OGDEN -- Fasy and Asay are their names; teaching creativity and developing imagination in art students is their game.

Christian Fasy, art teacher at Mount Ogden Junior High, and Brad Asay, art teacher at Mound Fort Junior High, were recently recognized with the "Focus on Excellence Award" by the Ogden City School District for their innovative efforts to create a technological bridge between the two schools' art programs.

(MATT MCKNIGHT/Standard-Examiner) Thomas Terry, 14, stands in his home for a portrait.

Racial slur controversy in Ogden

OGDEN -- The mother of a Mount Ogden Junior High student is not satisfied with the school's apology after a teacher directed a racial slur at her son in front of a class and is removing the boy from public school.

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(ERIN HOOLEY/Standard-Examiner) At Horace Mann Elementary School, Matthew Garcia hoists a heavy box of food to carry out to a truck destined for the Salvation Army on Friday.

Many schools holding food drives as part of holiday service projects

OGDEN -- Samantha Singerhoff scoped out one of the bigger boxes in the pile and flexed her muscles.

(MATT MCKNIGHT/Standard-Examiner) Kassie Hurtado, 15, paints a rocking horse at Roy High School on Tuesday.

Roy High students set up shop to help Santa make wooden toys

SLIDESHOW: Making Toys

ROY -- A new branch of Santa's elves has set up shop at Roy High School.

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WSU, USU grads get degrees under their belts

SLIDESHOW: Weber State University December graduation commencement

OGDEN -- A man receiving his fifth degree, a working mother of five and a trio of family graduates were among those participating in commencement exercises this weekend at Weber State and Utah State universities.

WSU, USU to hold commencement today

OGDEN — More than 1,300 students are expected to graduate from Weber State University today.

(MATTHEW HATFIELD/Standard-Examiner) Breeahna McMaster gets her hair cut by Sabrina Givan, a student at the Ogden-Weber Applied Technology College.

Students dole out complimentary styles, cuts

ROY -- Amid crying kids and pacing, watchful instructors, students laughed and joked with their clients as hair was cut, trimmed, shaved, shaped and styled all day long.

(BETH SCHLANKER/Standard-Examiner) Rebecca Jenks, 4 (left), shows the Santa Claus mask that she decorated to her mother, Laurie, during a "Snow Days" family event at the Kimball Visual Arts Center on the Weber State University campus in Ogden on Saturday.

Arts and crafts event keeps kids busy during cold winter months

OGDEN -- While snow blanketed the Weber State campus Saturday morning, children stayed warm inside the Kimball Visual Arts Building, coloring Christmas crafts and nibbling on doughnut holes while their parents watched with pride.

(BETH SCHLANKER/Standard-Examiner) An SUV belonging to Katie Kerttula sits on the side of northbound I-15  after she and her three children spun across three lanes of traffic and hit the 316 exit sign in Bountiful on Saturday. No one was injured in the accident.

The weather outside is frightful ... more on its way

Oh, the weather outside is going to be frightful, according to the weather experts.

(ERIN HOOLEY/Standard-Examiner) Christine Burnett, author of 'Critter Crew With Melody Lou: Alphabet Songs,' teaches songs to kindergarteners at Valley View Elementary School in Roy on Wednesday.

Valley View students get interactive songs with alphabet

ROY -- Learning the alphabet and letter sounds has never been so much fun.

Just ask the 90-plus kindergarten kids at Valley View Elementary, who hopped, wiggled, giggled and squirmed to the musical melody of "Horace the horse had some horrible hiccups."

(ERIN HOOLEY/Standard-Examiner) At Sand Ridge Junior High School in Roy on Wednesday, Samuel Tsosie talks about his life as a Navajo Code Talker in the U.S. Marine Corps.

Navajo Code Talker tells Roy students tales of World War II

ROY -- Students at Sand Ridge Junior High got a firsthand glimpse into a unique part of World War II history on Wednesday.

Samuel Tsosie, 84, was one of about 400 members of the Navajo Indian tribe who served as U.S. Marine communications specialists in the Pacific theater.

Weber district names new board member

OGDEN — Cheryl Ferrin has been selected by the Weber School Board to fill the vacancy left by the recent resignation of Buck Froerer.

Rendering of new Samuel H. and Marian K. Barker Family Health Technology Building.

Healthier future looms with new building

OGDEN -- Health care students and faculty at the Ogden-Weber Applied Technology College shivered and cheered in the cold as dirt was turned by golden shovels on Wednesday afternoon.

New UCAT president has familiar face

SALT LAKE CITY -- Robert Brems again has been chosen as president of Utah College of Applied Technology, but not without some controversy.

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