All this was achieved in a district whose student population was 95 percent minority, where 81 percent of elementary students qualified for federally subsidized school lunches, and where more than 75 percent of the students were classified as limited English proficient when they started school. Castruita has served on numerous panels and committees on the university, state and federal levels. The Bennion Lecture and Teachers' Workshop is sponsored by the Ione and Wayne Bennion Endowment for Democratic Principles and the Mountain West Center for Regional Studies. For more information call the center at 797-3630. Although there will be no dinner auction, there will be prizes awarded to the best decorated basket or box.
Visitors can then spread out blankets and eat their box dinners before the dance begins.
Family day or season passes are available. The dance, to be held under the stars, features the farm's long-time favorite band Loose Shoes from Salt Lake City. People don't need to know the dances and need not be afraid to try because the band's caller really helps and makes it fun. Games for children attending the dance are also planned. There will be gunnysack races and another game from the era, Graces.