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Show TOs. Eta BULK RATE U.S. POSTAGE OGDEN, UTAH PERMIT NO. 78 Vol. 4 No. 3 Serving North Ogden, Pleasant View and Plain City that a commercial zone be established along Washington Blvd. on the west side, with manufacturing behind it. Mayor McColley said There are no other real areas in this town to build a commercial zone. We have to make some commitments to some areas. Councilman Don Colvin expressed a concern that the whole issue be the city stay away from spot zoning. Clint Scothern wants to move his plumbing business out of the residential zone where it is on 850 E. The North Ogden City Council annexed some property west of Washington Blvd. on 2550 N. at 166 W. at the regular meeting Tuesday evening. The property involves 2 homes and belongs to Owen J. Shaw. The 2 homes found themselves without water last summer and asked the city to provide service to them. They were given help with the understanding that they would apply for annexation. by Carol Shaw The North Ogden City Council is wrestling with the problem of where to establish zones for commercial and manufacturing. Considering the tax base may go against us, we just have to turn our attention to establishing a commercial base, asserted Mayor Eldon McCollev. He is very concerned that Ogden will go to the point of collection method of distribution of sales tax monies, as provided by Utah law. ' Riverdale has already done so, but the rest of Weber County have had an agreement to divide up the money collected within the county on a population basis. Ogden would realize a substantial gain, but the smaller, less commercial communities would be in serious financial difficulties. Mayor McColley said, It would be devastating to lose $140,000.00 out of our budget in sales tax. We have to find some way to recoup some of that. After a discussion of the problem , the council agreed to meet Wednesday afternoon for an on site inspection of the proposed area. It was suggested ly Public Hearings were set for next Tuesday at City Council Meeting. They will be: Amending Chapter 25, Debatorsdo w in tourney Section 3, II iw W ' " Weber Highs debaters have struck again! This past weekend, February 8, 9 and 10, the debate squad traveled to Cedar City to participate in the three-da- y Abe Lincoln Debate Tournament. Weber competed well in the competition, some 37 schools were being represented. In Debate, Robert Jusko and Robb Louk put together a 3 win and 1 loss record. That same record was matched by Lori Hansen and Lynn Rowley. There were over 220 entries from the state in Oratory. Of those, 18 were selected as Weber had three, Jenny Hale, Robyn Stein, and Cathy Hess. In Extemporaneous speaking, over 200 entered. From the 200, 6 were narrowed down as finalists and Weber had 2. They were Joni Berger who took third overall and Diane Hales who took sixth overall. The Debate Department is now preparing for the National Forensics League which will be in a Districtwide debate tournament. This featured tourney will be held at Timp View High School on February 23 and 24th. This tournament brings the top schools in the state together to choose semi-finalist- s. a representative in each competitive area to represent Utah in the National . Paragraph championship. Last year, Kathy Kendell of Weber High, won girls extemporaneous speaking and was the Utah District representative to the National tournament in Chicago. Weber debaters have also done well in other past tournaments, including the Golden Spike tourney at Ogden High on Jan. 26. At the Golden Spike meet, Robyn Stein placed seventh in Oratory and Cathy Hess placed fourth. In Boys extemp., Rulon Eames took a first place and on the Girls side, Joni Berger took a third place. Impromptu winners included Mark Brewer, Jenny Hale, and Vince De Garlars. Debate quarterfinalists were Lori Hansen and Lynn Rowley. In the Weber Invitational on1 January 29, five schools including Weber were involved in a tournament. Other schools included Ogden, Skyview, Box Elder and Davis. Top performers for Weber were Lonoy Child, Robyn Stein, Jenny Hale, Shay Holley, Diane Hales, Joni Berger, and Rulon Eames. Zoning Map Amendment - Eugene R-- 2 to 750 E. 2850 No. Barker R-3- A 6:20. Zoning Map Amendment R-l to Barker Property - Ward 6:25. Ray Shakula asked the City Council if they would consider annexing a piece of land along the west side of Washington Blvd. near the southern extremity of the city. He said the" property in question was about a block North of the Mountain Oil Co., adjacent to Harrisvilles border. ' The consensus was that it would be a good idea to look into annexing the land, as it would help to establish a southern and western border squaring up North Ogden City. Mr. Shankula was told to formally petition the city and that it would be sent through the channels. An agreement will be sought with Harrisville. wot recently the recipient of a brand new computer that will be used in a pilot program in the Weber County School District. Pausing for a minute as they work on computer is the Wahlquist instructor, Dave Lund -- stron and students, Don Cottdm, Tammy Billings and Natalie Schubert. WAHIQUIST JUNIOR NIGH We ought to annex in Muntain Oil, too, joked Mayor McColley. Get some commercial in here. Worries Junior High has officially entered the award . Craig Wames, son of Derek and Nada Warnes of Box 166, Eden, Utah, represented Weber High well in the recent district Economics Fair at Bonneville. Craig, a senior, won a Grand-Awar- d in the Research category. This entitled Craig to a prize donated by the Harrisville Kiwanis Club and a trip to California. While on his trip he will be able to visit major corporations in the Los Angeles area. Sponsoring the trip will be T.R. W. Engineering Systems and the Great Salt Lake Mineral and Chemical Company. The title of Craigs project was the of Economic Feasibility Minicomputers for Small Business. Craig pointed out the purpose of his project was to show applications and benefits of if used for a small business. It was also to Computer Age. Wahlquist became the first junior High in the Weber School District to obtain possession of a computer to help students better understand the uses and techniques of computers. Dave Lundstron, a Wahlquist science instructor, claimed the Apple computer will be a big plus in helping the Weber School District reach its goal of finding application of computers in future classrooms. Mr. Lundstron sees a few goals that he plans to meet with the computer. He expressed first that he would like to see the computer be implemented in all areas of instruction at the school and secondly he would like to see students given the opportunity to program and regularly use the computer. Mr. Lundstron, in his third year at Wahlquist, says the computer has now been at the school for four weeks and the students are enthused about its pressence. NoBoy, has policy District The Weber School District Board of Education has a certified birth certificate, to 1122 Student Services, policy of allowing children who meet certain Washington requirements, early en- Utah, Blvd., Ogdon, 84494. coun- A and orientation trance into kindergarten. seling request will have to be made by April 1, and a formal application wifi have set up and parents must then have the chfid evaluated by a licensed psychologist, physicaa and dntist at their A written to be completed and IL session with parents wifi be The computer will see five main uses at the school. First, all capable and interested students will have the opportunity to ' learn basic computer skills which will allow them to program and use the computer. Secondly, simulation programs and games are available which teach specific concepts. They will be made available to teachers and students. There is currently the access to programs which teach concepts in Science, Math, and Economics. News ones are planned to be developed. These programs can be for individual use or class demonstration. Thirdly, programs will be developed for teaching some of the basic skills such as addition, multiplication, punctuation, capitalizing, vocabulary, spelling, etc. These will be suitable for individual or class use. These types of programs will be suitable also for the Precision Teaching program. 4) Interested students in gifted and talented programs will have the opportunity to study and use the computer in depth and to develop programming skills. 5) Economic and Science Fair participants will be instructed as to how the computer can be used to help with projects. Mr. Lundstron reports the school is looking for a colored T.V. to help in the computer process. He says if anyone had an old color T.V., it could be donated to the school for the students to use. We eventually hope to get a great of students involved with number computers. Computers are becoming so important in our every day life and its important for the kids to have a practical knowledge, even on the junior high level," said Mr. Lund- stron. Mr. Lundstron is a resident of Plain City. He and his wife Jan are the parents of three children, Danette Marc 2, and Mandy 1. complete yearbook collection John Oliver, media coordinator at Weber High School, has recently announced the school is attempting to complete its yearbook collection. Fifty have yearbooks been and 1955 editions. We are asking that former graduates and people in the community to help us search for these past books so the collection can be compete," said Mr. Oliver, If one of these books are located, perhaps they could be donated to the library at Weber High. Were building toward 100 years of history someday, even though that may be a bit in the future," Maxine Williams, the Weber High librarian reports that all the past yearbooks the school now has, are in very good" condition. She also reports that the past yearbooks are available for people to look at, even though they cannot be checked out of the library. Craig Vamoi d tkw IV ia - r (hi Thursday, February IS at 1 p.m., Dr. LaVcrd John will be the guest apoaker at a specially sonsored PTA evenL Dr. John will speak on How to Build Ones All Students, parents, and teachers are Invited to attend. Officials have enrich lives. will i . - S. I f Self-Conce- Canalised an evening that 4, Wober High attempting to rs compare three minicomputers available in the area, showing their good and bad points. Besides putting together winning projects, Craig enjoys tennis, music, and snowmobiling as hobbies. The Weber student is planning a future in accounting while specializing in computer program- a CO published since Weber High School was first noticed as a high school. All of the past yearbooks, dating back to 1927 can be found at the high school, with the exception of the 1932, 1935, ly towhy, ftey Thursday, February 15, 1979 of Zoning Ordinance 1 ming. WSI KMT1 urfcaws hcWi, Betty Wafer, 15$ 6:15. Wahlquist 'j -- 0 looTDGiond 0 CliT3, imm C3. 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