Grants

NORTH OGDEN -- North Ogden Junior High School band students won't have to wonder if their instruments will play or if their instrument cases will break once they return from Thanksgiving Break thanks to a $1,000 grant to repair those instruments.

North Ogden Junior High along with two other schools in Weber School District received $3,500 in grants from the 100 percent For Kids Foundation. The Utah-based foundation is made up of area credit unions that offer hundreds of grants to school teachers across the state.

FARMINGTON -- Construction of a new park on the city's west side will move forward, even if it's not at the pace city officials had hoped it would be.

Development of Spring Creek Park, at approximately 950 North and 1175 West on a 2.3-acre parcel of land, could begin as early as this fall, said officials, who were updated on the development of the park at a recent city council.

ARLINGTON, VA — The Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) Educational Partnership awarded a $660,000 grant to the Davis School District through the FY 11 Grant Program.

OGDEN -- Ogden-Weber Applied Technology College has received $83,000 in new funding for its Student Success Center.

The Cross Charitable Foundation gave the college a $75,000 grant to provide support to the center. The funds will be used to hire a job skills instructor and a mentor.

OGDEN -- Ogden High School senior Jessica Stephens balanced herself ever so carefully on a thin rope elevated a foot or so off the ground Wednesday and held out her hand for sophomore Dallen Whitehead. After the two balanced across the rope, Stephens went back and helped other sophomores cross.

The exercise at the Weber State University ropes course seemed to be a metaphor for the week OHS seniors were having mentoring incoming high school sophomores. Students spent the morning doing team-building activities on the ropes course, many times with the seniors going first to show the younger students how to get it done.

Davis and Weber Counties Canal Company and the South Willard Water Company are receiving federal grants for studies from the Bureau of Reclamation.