|
Beehives and Buffalo Chips 4/26 |
|
|
|
Daily Herald
|
|
Beehive to the more than 70 volunteers who spent Saturday morning planting big-tooth maples, Ponderosa pines and Douglas firs by the Diamond Fork Group Campground in Spanish Fork Canyon. For example, Dave Jones and David Settle led a group of Boy Scouts from Nephi in planting more than 30 trees, shoveling holes in the rocky, hard ground. Their work will shade people for decades. Buffalo Chip to the federal government for again rejecting Utah's request to meet the requirements of No Child Left Behind by using the state's own system for measuring school success, U-PASS. The NCLB program has laudable goals, but since it demands that states set the standards, why can't the states actually set the standards? This kind of pointless interference from Washington has sullied the reputation of this ambitious program and even threatened its future. That's probably a good thing.
Beehive to the more than 300 teachers and administrators from elementary schools in Utah County who are taking part in Walk the Walk, an effort to fight childhood obesity. With pedometers, participants track the number of steps they take every day. The goal is to set an example of physical activity for children. That's timely: the Utah Department of Health just released an ugly study showing that kids are spending way too much time in front of the television and drinking sodas. Buffalo Chip to Sprint for failing to manage a change to a new computer system correctly. Sprint inadvertently sent thousands of customers collection demand for crazy amounts of money -- for example, a demand for $33,042 on an account whose $150 balance had just been paid. Ooops, the company said, a computer glitch: The decimal places were misaligned. We're just wondering if anyone actually paid the bill. |
No Comments.
