Ogden School District

OGDEN -- Weber-Morgan Health Department will visit schools through the end of April to offer sixth-graders the whooping cough vaccine.

OGDEN — An Ogden charter school was evacuated Wednesday after a student brought an inert grenade to the campus.

OGDEN -- Five schools in the Ogden School District are using approximately $7 million in federal grants to help bring them up to a higher level and keep them out of danger of being shut down because of poor performance.

Dee, Madison and Odyssey elementary schools are in the second year of a three-year, $5 million School Improvement Grant. Ogden and Washington high schools are in the first year of a three-year, approximately $2 million similar federal grant to assist struggling schools, said Greg Lewis, the district's director of Elementary Education and Testing.

Most Ogden District schools last year did not meet Adequate Yearly Progress goals set by the federal No Child Left Behind program. The entire district was placed in a school improvement category by the state because of its AYP scores.

William "Bill" Arthur Cragun Jr., born in Ogden on Aug. 1, 1944, died Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2011, in Rexburg, Idaho. A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, Dec. 30, at the Rexburg South Stake, 2041 W. 5200 South, Lyman, Idaho. See the complete obituary in the Standard-Examiner's e-edition.

OGDEN -- Morgan School District is the first in this area to adopt a new cybersafety program to educate teachers and students about positive Internet guidelines and ethics.

The program is Generation Safe, and nicknamed iKeepSafe. Former Utah first lady Jaclyn Leavitt, who is championing the program, spoke Wednesday at Morgan Middle School, first to school administrators about program features, then to a seventh-grade class, to whom she taught a digital lesson plan about philanthropy.

"It's about the safe and healthy use of technology," Leavitt told administrators. "Our children need to have these computer skills. If they don't, it will hurt them with future employers. But we also need to protect them, detect inappropriate use of the Internet and intervene when there is a problem."

Thursday: Sliced ham, turkey wrap, au gratin potatoes, green beans, cinnamon apples, fruit cocktail, wheat roll, Little Debbie cake

Sybil Mary Doxey Olsen, 92, died Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2011, at her son’s home. Services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 10, at Lindquist’s Ogden Mortuary, 3408 Washington Blvd. Friends may visit family from 9:45 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. Saturday at the mortuary. Interment, Ogden City Cemetery. Post condolences at www.lindquistmortuary.com. See the complete obituary in the Standard-Examiner's e-edition.