The Standard-Examiner Editorial Board hashes out the positions we take on the Opinion page. Here’s what members recommended last week for praise and criticism:

THUMBS UP: To Highland Junior High School in Ogden, where students, faculty, staff and administrators raised nearly $7,500 for children’s cancer research Friday, May 13.

How? By having their heads shaved.

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The St. Baldrick’s Foundation, based in Monrovia, Calif., funds children’s cancer research. Since 2000, almost 400,000 people have shaved their heads to raise money for St. Baldrick’s, the charity reports.

First-year engineering teacher Cory Ortiz, who organized the event, said he was overwhelmed by the students’ selflessness.

“This is a high-poverty school,” said Ortiz, a veteran of many St. Baldrick’s Day shearings. “Seeing how generous the students are is just amazing.”

We’re proud of you, Highland. You gave from your hearts — and your heads.

THUMBS DOWN: To city hall for allowing the Ogden Kayak Park to deteriorate for five years.

The park’s decline started during the spring floods of 2011, when debris piled up, surfing holes began disappearing, and banks started eroding.

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City officials say they don’t have the money for repairs, but Ogden continues to tout the park on its website as ”an Olympic Style Kayaking Experience!”

Not anymore.

City leaders had five years to secure grants or allocate funds to repair the kayak park. If we truly believe the course contributes to the quality of life in Ogden, find a way to fix it — before it becomes even more costly.

THUMBS UP: To the Weber State University softball team for winning its second straight Big Sky Conference championship.

WSU defeated Idaho State 4-2 Saturday in the tournament final. Senior first baseman Krystin Kubo hit a solo home run in her final plate appearance at Wildcat Softball Field to put the game away.

“It was just an incredible weekend,” WSU head coach Mary Kay Amicone told Brandon Garside, a sportswriter for the Standard-Examiner. “It’s the players. They wanted improvement, they wanted to be coached, they wanted to be better and better. It’s all about them.”

Good luck in the NCAA regionals, Wildcats.

THUMBS DOWN: To the tourists in Yellowstone National Park who put a bison calf in the back of their SUV last week and hauled it to a ranger station because they thought the animal was cold.

Park rangers promptly ticketed the father and son, according to eastidahonews.com, followed them to where they found the calf, and released it back into the wild.

The tourists were not from the United States, the website reported.

The National Park Service prohibits visitors from approaching wildlife and advises staying at least 25 yards away from bison.

The visitors were just lucky the calf’s mother didn’t intervene.