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Show -- p fit Hunflnglon Cleveland Bmo Castle Dote .Orangeville Ferron Emery Green fiiver Lawrence Clawson ; q 500 Price, Utah School district enters world-wid- e network on school computers able to communicate with CAD By Larry W. Davis services throughout the counProgress editor CASTLE DALE- - Members of try, gaining valuable informathe Emery County Board of tion and input for use in his Education got a lesson in worldown classes. He said, also, that wide communications at their soon the system will be linked Oct. 12 meeting at Emery High to county computers so that School. District computer techdrafting plans can be shared nician Willie Frisbie joined among the school programs EHS media specialist Kelly and county offices. Alton in making a presentaWade Peacock, an English tion on computer technology history teacher at EHS, said at the school. that he has joined a science After the presentation, the fiction group on the InterNet board agreed to begin taking system which allows him to necessary steps to not only exgive and receive computer mail pand the computer programs on subjects related to science within the schools, but to also fiction, a class he teaches at extend services into the comthe school. He has received inmunities. put from colleges, government In addition to programs on officals and individuals on varischool computers for such ous SciFi topics which he has things as research (InfoTrack), been able to use in his classes. career options (Choices), word "This technology has helped processing (WordPerfect) and me become a better teacher," preparing for the GED program he said. (GED 2000), the computer sysMr. Frisbie said that the e tems are now with InterNetprogram was initially comfunded by the government to InterNet, a world-wid- e munications network. help universities conduct reMr. Frisbie told the board that search. It has become much about 200 students and teachlarger than that, however, ers have signed on to the since not only are government InterNet program and are now agencies and universities using the system. One teacher linked for the exchange and who has used the stytem excollection of information, but is Mark the now schools and local governHansen, tensively Computer-Aide- d Drafting ments are being added to the (CAD) instructor at Emery system. A recent grant to the High. He said that he has been southeastern area of the state on-lin- Working at one of the computers in the Emery High media center is sophomore Nicole Nielson. Her life skills class has been using the computers on a number of projects. Emery High's computer system is becoming one of the best will allow the linking of local systems to each other, e.g. libraries. "It's the closest thing we have to a true electronic society," Mr. Frisbie said. To demonstrate the speed of the system, as well as it capabilities, Mr. Frisbie pushed a couple of keys on a school computer and was quickly into the BYU Library Card Catalogue. Mr. Alton told the board of the advantages of linking all Emery High have access to a system that few students in the state are receiving. "We have entered the information age hot and heavy in this district," he said. "We are light years ahead of other districts." Wes Curtis, representing Emery Telephone, told the board that the phone company is interested in working with the district in expanding the InterNet System into private libraries in the county to such system, making research faster, easier and more proa ductive. He encouraged the board to consider future funding of the system as opportunities for expansion are presented. Jordan Hansen, a student at Emery High School, told the board of some of his experiences in Davis with InterNet, and Mr. Frisbie added that students at the state. Photo by Larry homes. Such access would allow subscribers to have the same computer access through InterNet as is offered wdthin the high school. He said the company would like to install four lines now while adding others as needed, lie estimated the cost Ur the services at 2 cents per minute. Such a program would not result in of n over-extensio- (Cifntuun'il on Patfc 5A) County officials take steps to annex part of Grand County By Ken Davey Moab Time-Independe- nt MOAB- - Emery County officials want Grant County to agree to allow the Elgin por- tion of Green River to be annexed into Emery County. That proposal came from Emery Commissioner Kent Petersen, Sheriff Lamar Guy-mo- n and Attorney D avid Black-we- ll at the County Council meeting Monday (Oct. 6) evening. Right now, the EmeryGrand County line runs through the town, with most of the city's residents on the western or Emery side, but a number of businesses, including some of in Grand County. It's like ing in a foreign land." be- themajormotels, within Grand County. The Emery delegation said that they have been approached by Green River residents who would like the entire city situated in Emery. According to Sheriff Guymon, crimes and violations occurring on the Grand County side of the line must be prosecuted in Moab, and that increases his department's expenses. The $10,000 paid each year by Grand County to defray costs of law enforcement in the area comes "nowhere near" meeting those costs. Commissioner Petersen said, "I guess people may perceive that they get benefits from being in one county or another, and they want to get everybody the same. Attorney Blackwell said that the peopleinthe Grand County section of Green River could petition to put the question on the ballot, but that it would require passage in both Emery and Grand counties, and that the proposal would fail with- $127,000 per year in property taxes from the disputed area, with most of that going to the school district. Ofthe transient room tax received by Grand County, which now totals about $425,000 per year, council members estimated that of it comes from the Green River motels. There were no figures presented at the meeting about other economic details, including other taxes collected by Grand County, or the cost to the county of providing services to Green River. "Another thing is," continued say in the ordinances that are made County). According to Grand County officials, they receive about Council members said they understood the problem of trying to organize services and Guymon, "we have no out support here (Grand one-seven- th planning across county lines that they are facing some of the same problems at the south end of Spanish Valley, where new development that will rely on Grand County services is taking place in San Juan County. Council member Paul Menard said he would support a meeting of Emery, Grand and San Juan officals to discuss the problems, and the Emery officials supported that idea. Bill Hedden said he believed a major issue should be what the people in the Grand County section of Green River want, whether they wish things to remain as they are, or if they part of Emery. "If we're talking two years to look at all the issues," added Peter Haney, "and what the people want, I'd encourage would prefer to be that. The major opposition came from Ken Ballantyne. "We can't keep it off the ballot, he said, "but v e need to take a good hard look at it." "What u e wanted to do is start the process and start the discussion," concluded Petersen. "We didn't expect it to be an- swered tonight, certainly not at the first meeting." (This article, was reprinted by permission of The Time-Independe- nt of Moab.) Betty Bunderson City honors employee By Larry W. Davis Progress editor EMERY- - Long-tim- e Emery Town RecorderTreasurer Betty Bunderson was honored at the town council meeting Oct. 11, 1994, for her services to the community. Mrs. Bunderson served as recordertreasurer in Emery for 14 years before retiring recently. At the meeting last week, Mayor Gary Petty and the town council presented Mrs. Bunderson with a plaque of appreciation and an assortment of house plants. She was also given the old typewriter she used to do much ofher work. "I have appreciated working for the city," she said. "I don't think we ever had any hard feelings here." Mayor Petty pointed out how Mrs. Bunderson went beyond the call of duty as a city employee. "She has put in a lot of city-relat- ed extra hours and has worked above and beyond what was necessary." He personally thanked her for helping him out as mayor. Mrs. Bunderson stayed at the meeting long enough to enjoy some treats brought to the council by Jessica Graham and Ashley Riddle as part of Bake 'n Take Week. Also at the meeting, the council received a report from Emery County Centennial Commission representative Karen Huntsman. She was present to encourage the city to appoint a 4-- H representative to the countywide board and to get Emery Town involved with centennial The town officials were invited to send their centennial representative to the next meeting of the commission which is Tuesday, Oct. 18, at 7 p.m. in the museum. In that meeting, which has been billed at a Birthday centennial Bash, county-wid- e events will be planned. It was suggested that the Emery 24th of July celebration could beal come a centennial event. I v N ' tit In- for the centennial," Mrs. said. She said that Huntsman planning. Mrs. Huntsman said that the restoration of the Buck-hor- n Panel has already been Emery can plan activities town to and the desig- designated as a "Legacy unique nate such activities as "Cen- Project" for the celebration. tennial Events" which would In other business, Mayor be placed on a state-wid- e mas- Petty encouraged members of the council to attend the public ter calendar. . ' " ; ' X I Jerk '"'7 - I I formation was given to the town council for distribution to community members. "We don't want our county or any of the towns saying we didn't do anything to prepare V . w i ,, j l i f 4 :- - .jfry.'A Ty served 14 years working for the citizens of Emery Town employee, Betty is honored by Mayor Gary Petty Bunderson, left, Emery. Photo by Larry Davis for her service to the community. Mrs. Bunderson for Emery are grant from the county for hearing on Oct. 18at7:30p.m. projects planned the Castle Valley impressive and greatly needed, provements to the fire station. and he endorsed the Service County Commissioner Mark Special Service District Bond Election. Mayor Petty noted Districts proposals as well as Justice has informed the coun-tha- t cil that the request will be- the structuring of the the bond issue. The also mayor bonds will not result in a tax reported that come a consideration item for increase. He said that the the city has applied for a $5,000 the 1995 budget. Long-tim- e |
