| HS Section V Football Kicks Off
Last season Marshall stopped Churchville in the Class AA Section 5 final 12-7. The rematch took place on the opening Saturday of high school football. Churchville, making its case as the top large school team in Section 5 this year, traveled to defending Class AA champion Marshall. The Jurists strike first. Freshman Quarterback Ashton Broyld with the play action keeper for a 30-yard touchdown. The Saints cut the 6-0 lead in half on a 44-yard field goal from Matt Szczupakowski. He can throw the ball, too. The sideline pass to Brandon Litteer, who gets to the one yard line, where Averin Collier handled it from there. The first of his three touchdowns and the Saints avenge their last loss of 2006. GREECE ATHENA HOSTS FAIRPORT Saturday afternoon, Greece Athena hosted Fairport.
Workers prep to feed hordes of hungry kids
SEGUIN � Lucy Saldana is ready for her kids to return.
�I call them my kids,� Saldana, a Seguin High School cook and cashier, said of her young diners. �I don�t have kids in school anymore, so I call these ones mine.�
Only a few days before the start of school, Saldana and her co-workers were prepping the cafeteria for Monday�s mob of hungry students and reminiscing about those who have grown up and gone.
Rose Campos, who has spent 15 years as a food service worker at the high school, said her job has made her recognizable to many graduates and their children.
�I�ll see them at the grocery store and they want to know what�s for lunch tomorrow,� she said with a smile.
Hamburgers will be the special of the day on Monday.
Tech center to close, but that's a sign of progress
One of the Clark County School District's popular vocational programs will soon cease to exist, arguably a victim of its own success. The Area Trade Technical Center in North Las Vegas, which offers vocational training and career programs to juniors and seniors enrolled at comprehensive high schools elsewhere in the district, will close at the end off the 2008-09 academic year. The program's final crop of juniors began classes this week. Next year, only seniors will be enrolled. Kathleen Frosini, director of career and technical education for the district, said Clark County students will ultimately have a longer list of career and technical programs to choose from at more convenient locations. "We're expanding the options, not narrowing them," said Frosini, who opened the center as its principal in 1982.
Leave your worries behind
Dori Kaufman started planning what she hoped would be a trip of a lifetime -- an African safari -- nine months in advance. She worked with a travel agent well versed in safaris to craft the perfect itinerary. "I was really excited, until about one month prior to leaving," says Kaufman, of San Diego. "Then I looked at a map and saw that one place we were staying in Zambia was right across the river from Zimbabwe." Zimbabwe's acute economic unrest was just the first item on what became a laundry list of concerns. "I began to worry about cleanliness, whether I'd find scorpions in my shoes or be trampled by wild elephants, what we would eat and drink." She and her husband also became apprehensive for their 14-year-old daughter's safety, leading to a last-minute rush to draft wills.
City tops 100,000 people
WEST JORDAN - In the past few decades, this Salt Lake County suburb has mushroomed from a small farming community into a major metropolitan area - the fourth largest city in the state.
This week, West Jordan will celebrate its arrival as a "first-class" city - a status, with some privileges, that is conferred by the state when a burg balloons to 100,000 people.
Although the U.S. Census Bureau - the ultimate numbers authority - pegs West Jordan's latest population at 94,309, the city isn't letting that dampen its festivities.
City officials insist the suburb hit 100,000 last year and now has topped 101,000. They plan to file a census challenge this month to prove it.
Regardless of how you parse the numbers, West Jordan has grown up, providing a home to vast numbers of people with diverse experiences - from a young family striking out in the city's sprawling west-side suburbs to an 89-year-old community activist, and from pioneer descendants fighting to hold onto their 100-year-old farm to a Mexican immigrant who, after years of poverty, has found success in West Jordan.
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