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Opportunity to decorate Kearns Mansion Christmas tree serves as civics lesson for Polk Elementary 4th grade class
OGDEN — When Amy Shirts' class of 24 Polk Elementary School fourth graders were decorating the Christmas tree in the library of the Utah Governor's Mansion — also known as the Kearns Mansion — alongside Utah Gov. Spencer Cox Monday, they were all smiles. But when Shirts announced this opportunity to her class months ago, not all of them were too sure about who Gov. Cox was or the importance of his residence. "When I first told them, some of them were like, 'Woah, we're going to be famous,'" she told the Standard-Examiner Tuesday. "There were others that were a bit ...
