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Washington Terrace East Stake volunteers give the gift of literacy

Last updated Friday, October 5, 2012 - 7:36pm

OGDEN — Sometimes the mighty power in God’s hand can be seen in small and simple acts of service.

That seemed to be true last school year in a reading program in which about 60 members of the Washington Terrace East Stake of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints volunteered to tutor 80 students at Odyssey Elementary School.

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Tabitha Wakefield, 10, and other students get excited as confetti falls on their heads during the "Movin' On Up" celebration event at Ogden School District in Ogden on Monday, September 17, 2012. (KERA WILLIAMS/ Standard-Examiner)

Reading success in Ogden School District celebrated at party

Rachel J. Trotter Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, September 17, 2012 - 9:15pm

OGDEN — Hundreds of students and their families — along with teachers, volunteers and administrators — celebrated reading success Monday night at the Ogden School District campus with free food, dancing, games, awards and prizes.

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Harrisville Hastings offers summer reading program

Staff Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, May 17, 2012 - 11:24pm

HARRISVILLE — Young readers have a chance to win computers for themselves as well as their school during Hastings Summer Reading Program.

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Summer reading program adding attractions to boost membership

Bryon Saxton Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, May 9, 2012 - 10:36pm

FARMINGTON — Rather than a carrot, lizards and professional puppeteers will be used to entice children to read throughout the summer.

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Weber County Library hosts annual children's day event

Jesus Lopez Jr. Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, April 19, 2012 - 9:16pm

OGDEN -- For the past 15 years, the Weber County Library has honored its younger patrons with an annual children's day event.

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A Kaysville resident uses a computer at the Davis County Library to do research on the internet. The library system is updating its resources so it can offer more e-books, online learning games for children and online resources for adults, such as car repair manuals and language learning courses. (Standard-Examiner file photo)

Davis libraries boosting technology, resources for users

April Hale Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, April 5, 2012 - 7:08pm

FARMINGTON — As library patrons increasingly use electronic media to access information, Davis County Library is working to meet their demands.

Libraries have historically been a major source of knowledge, traditionally in the form of paper books. However, with the increased use of technology, libraries are beginning to expand their resources.

Davis County Library is working to enhance its technology assets by purchasing more e-books, offering online learning games and tools for children and providing access to online car repair manuals, genealogy databases and foreign language courses.

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Two Davis district students earn perfect ACT score

Dana Rimington Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, March 24, 2012 - 4:45pm

FARMINGTON — In the last year, nearly 3,000 students in Davis School District took the ACT, a standards-based test used to assess college readiness.

Two of those students — Helena Ma, a junior at Davis High School in Kaysville, and Landon Willey, a senior at Viewmont High School in Bountiful — achieved a score of 36, the highest score possible.

The Utah ACT State Organization Council honored the two students at a luncheon in Sandy this week.

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Author Brandon Mull speaks to students at Mound Fort Junior High School in Ogden on Thursday. Mull, of Highland, is the author of the "Fablehaven" series of fantasy books.(MATTHEW ARDEN HATFIELD/Standard-Examiner)

'Fablehaven' authors taps into Ogden students' creativity

Rachel J. Trotter Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, March 15, 2012 - 8:53pm

OGDEN — It felt a little like “The Price is Right” at Mound Fort Junior High School on Thursday morning, as best-selling young-adult author Brandon Mull took answers from the audience on creative ways a character could travel to another world.

Three students lined up in the front of the auditorium as he showed examples of how to create a story. Students took suggestions from their peers amid laughter and giggles at some of the ideas.

“A shower!” one student yelled.

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Garrison Clark competes at the Utah Regional Braille Competition in Salt Lake City on Friday. Forty students from around the state, including 14 from the Top of Utah, gathered Friday at the Utah State Division of Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired for the annual event.(NICHOLAS DRANEY/Standard-Examiner)

Visually impaired students use right touch at braille competition

Dana Rimington Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, March 3, 2012 - 7:48am

SALT LAKE CITY — Sixteen-year-old Ellie Price, of Logan, can take a reading test with her eyes closed, and she’s not the only one.

Forty students from around the state, including 14 from the Top of Utah, gathered Friday at the Utah State Division of Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired for the annual Utah Regional Braille Competition.

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Knowlton Elementary School students Sierra Yerman (left) and Abby Harding read with Sandie Buckley at Apple Village Assisted Living in Layton on Wednesday. The first-grade students spend time reading with the residents every week. (ERIN HOOLEY/Standard-Examiner)

Senior citizens in Layton help first-graders build reading skills

Dana Rimington Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, February 29, 2012 - 7:06pm

LAYTON — First-graders need all the practice they can get reading aloud to adults, says the reading coach at Knowlton Elementary.

Residents at Apple Village Assisted Living in Layton have the time and willingness to sit and listen to students read, she added.

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WSU to host talk on slavery, Constitution

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Sunday, February 5, 2012 - 11:35pm

OGDEN — Weber State University will host a talk, “Weber Reads: Slavery and the Constitution,” at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Stewart Library Hetzel-Hoellein Room.

This free presentation will feature Adrienne Gillespie, WSU’s Center for Diversity & Unity coordinator.

Call 801-626-7613 for information.

Weber State is at 3848 Harrison Blvd.

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This winter reading list may inspire survival in hard times

Charles F. Trentelman Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, January 16, 2012 - 11:26pm

An apology: My Sunday column said Sen. Orrin Hatch was one of many prominent people who have written U.S. District Judge Dee Benson on behalf of Brigham City Dr. Dewey MacKay, asking that MacKay receive a lenient sentence for his drug convictions.

As far as I know, Sen. Hatch is not among those who have written to Judge Benson on MacKay's behalf. I should not have included him in that column. I did so in error.

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'Making Sense of the Civil War' schedule

J. Michael Call Standard-Examiner

Last updated Sunday, January 15, 2012 - 8:39am

"Let's Talk About It: Making Sense of the American Civil War" is a free reading discussion series that will be held at 7 p.m. Wednesdays in six sessions between Feb. 18 and April 25 at Pleasant Valley Library, 5568 Adams Ave., Washington Terrace.

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Ogden High School senior Anail Martinon reads to students at Dee Elementary School in Ogden as part of the Read for the Record Day Jumpstart on Thursday. The goal of the program was to have 2 million people read “Llama Llama Red Pajama” by Anna Dewdney to students in elementary schools.

'Llama Llama Red Pajama' reading helps with world record

Rachel J. Trotter Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, October 6, 2011 - 11:36pm

OGDEN -- Three thousand students in Ogden and Weber school districts did their part to set a world record Thursday, and all they had to do was listen.

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Newly appointed Weber School District Superintendent Jeff Stephens sits among the students of Carolee Pickett’s sixth-grade class Friday at MarLon Hills Elementary School in Ogden.

Weber School District officials tout importance of reading

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Sunday, September 11, 2011 - 10:49pm

OGDEN -- Jeff Stephens dropped by MarLon Hills Elementary School on Friday to share a story about a lone piece of rice.

Stephens, the superintendent of Weber School District, stopped by teacher Carolee Pickett's sixth-grade class to award certificates for students who completed the summer reading program and to read the children's book "One Grain of Rice: a Mathematical Folk Tale," by singled-named author Demi.

In the story, set in India, a young girl tricks the raja into giving her a grain of rice, and doubling the amount every day for a month. After a month of daily doubling, she has enough rice to sustain her village through the famine.

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