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Show s!jhoxo0 80 years later Cmions M finds hidden By MARK EDDINGTON (toys to tow to mahe grade? federal education commissions Staff Writer FARMINGTON Education takes time, and state and local school officials fully agree with a assessment that the 180 days per year American students spend in class is not enough time to learn the basics. Utah public school students, like their peers across the nation, spend between 20 and 25 percent less time in class than their counterparts in much of Europe and in Asia. While local students continue to adhere to a 180-da- y calendar year some critics call a throwback to a more agrarian era. Germans students are in class 225 days; Japanese students, 230 days. In addition, American students spend only half the amount of time tup'' i DIMSWiV Its certainly not new information." said Davis County School District Supei mtendeni Richard Kendell. adding that a more thorough report leleased by the National Institute ol Education in 1980 drew the same conclusions Furthermoie. Kendell and othei state and local education officials voice little disagieement with the findings, particularly when it comes to extending the calendar year So why after all these yeais does I tali and rest of the nation insist on clinging to an antiquated calendat year some critics insist should be relegated to a museum Money, is the answer according to Scott Bean, state superintendent lor Public Instruction. Up tiont costs lor extending the school year tiom 80 to 220 days would be about 5200 And that's just million annually for schools along the Wasatch Front. Bean doubts ruial schools would go along. But Bean said a longei school year would produce a long-tercost savings that would cancel out 1 the additional expendituies BAG THE CAT: pageA2 GANG PATROL: Officers hired page A3 SPORTS STATE AHEAD: Athletes chase gold page B1 GOOD SHOWING: 'Cats swing to win page B2 180-da- Woods Cross City teens Sara Stromness, Danielle Kopenhefer, and Becky Stromness joined thousands of Davis County residents Saturday in an "Take Pride in Utah" day was celebrated thoughout the county and resuslted in tons of trash effort to beautify their cities. The state-wid- e from vacant lots. being gathered Clipper photoRoger Tuttle see IKleaito A5 TOUGH TALK: From 2nd grader, page A7 CHERIE HUBER Contributing Writer is run through the DATC. By When the life flight helicopter landed at Lakeview Hospital on Wednesday, it had an unusual mission. This time Life Flight was there to expand the minds of an intense group of highly motivated Davis County students. The students are all involved in a program called Health Occupations which not only helps them chart their career courses in the medical fields but also gives them a head start on college at the same time. Their Health Occupation classes are part of a state wide program. Here in Davis County the program Most school districts have some sort of program but we think Davis County has the best program across the state, commended Shirley Noble, one of the teachers in the program. There are now seven teachers involved in the program. They are at Woods Cross High, Bountiful High and Viewmont. Theie is one teacher at the DATC and also one in the portable behind Humana Hospital in Layton for Clearfield and Layton students. Northridge High in Layton also has a full program. Some of the classes are taught in the building behind The hospital is donating the use of the building to the program. Health Occupations has been a statewide program for $30 15 years though it is fairly new to DATC. One great thing is that the teachers are paid by the DATC. We don't have to have a teaching certificate. Instead, the DATC likes to hire people from the medical fields. Allyn Rogers is a respiratory therapist; Wendy at Woods Cross is a nurse. I was head of the lab at Lakeview for 15 years. Weve been there. We can tell the students about things that really happened, Noble said. There are about 650 students in Bountiful Community Hospital. see HEALTH" pg. A4 FUTURE IN TRAINING: High school students acted the part of doctors, nurses and other health care professionals Wednesday when Life Flight carried out a simulated mission at Lakeview Hospital The students are part of the Health Occupations classes being offered at area high schools. million reserve fund not illegal claims Bountiful City Council By PAUL CHALLIS News Editor A foe of Bountifuls $30 million plus BOUNTIFUL cash reserves pleaded with the city council to reduce the franchise tax and give residents a break in taxation following a recent review of the general fund of the proposed 1994-9- 5 fiscal budget. You have plenty of money in reserves to do it, David Piggott said. Piggott has campaigned against Bountifuls reserves fund for the last seven years and ran last year for mayor in a losing cause using it as his platform. I think you should reduce the franchise tax and give some money back to the people." Bountiful anticipates $1.3 million in franchise taxes in revenues for the next fiscal budget. Franchise taxes are charged to residents of the city using utilities such as electricity and natural gas. Piggott also blasted Bountiful's use of the lesuves fund " calling it illegal and simply a slush fund He claimed that State Auditor Tom L.Allen supports his allegations dial Bountiful is funneling off money to the reserves fund illegally, a charge fervently denied by Bountiful officials State officials also deny those allegations I resent very much your charge that we have done It anything illegal, City Manager Tom Hardy said see RESERVES " pg. A4 'Befuddled Fadel pleads no contest to defamation UFE By MARK EDDINGTON Centerville police contend Mi Tadcl mailed letters to ft lends and business Ann Fadel. accusing competitors of his her of sexually molesting a student at Mountain High School and engaging in other immoral practices. Ms. Fadel teaches English pail time at the school and is also a Farmers Group Insurance Agent. Centerville Sgt Neal Woisley said the allegations in the letter weie gtoundlcss Photocopies of the defamatoiy letters were sent to MHS principal Betty Brand. Davis School Superintendent Richard Kendell and 39 insurance agents affiliated with Farmers Group Insurance. More copies were mailed to neighbors and membeis of the victims new LDS ward. It was like being bombed." Ms 100 unsigned Staff Writer CHURCH e, BOUNTIFUL MISSIONARIES, Volunteer. page C4 CLASSIFIEDS DAVIS COUNTY'S BEST consumer marketplace. page WEATHER B4 Woods Cross High School claimed its third consecutive state boys track and field championship Saturday at BYU The Wildcats, who dominated the relay events, are coached by Marv Magalei. For a complete wrap on the state meets see Sports Cupper phetuTom Harpldsen A North Salt Lake insurance agent who allegedly engaged in a letter writing campaign last January to tarnish his reputation with friends and business associates pleaded no contest to one count of criminal defamation Friday. M K. Fadel entered the plea before Judge S. Mark Johnson in Bountiful Second Circuit Court. In exchange for the Farmers Group Insurance agent's plea, 38 additional criminal defamation charges were dismissed. When asked by Judge Johnson if he understood that his plea would relieve the prosecutor from the burden of proving his guilt, Mr. Fadel replied. The whole system befuddles me, your Honor. He then said that he did. ex-wif- Partly cloudy with chance of showers HI: 75 LO: 40 pg. A3 swanks to to rescue BUSINESSES WHINE: page SCHOOL " Role playing opinion Away health care Students on the 220-dacalendai would finish school in 10. rather than the 12 years required by the y model current So the actual cost would be almost identical. he said Proponents ot the longer school year maintain accelerating the public school experience would enable students to enter vocational programs or universities eailiei. eventually resulting in an earlier entry into the woik lorce a teal productivity boost in Utah, which y HEWS Cougar loose. such as English, math, histoiy and science. Thats the findings ol the National Education Commission on Time and Learning, which last week called (or lengthening the amount of time kids spend Icainum the core curriculum By CHERIE HUBER Contributing Writer see TREASURE" pg. A3 in studying core academic courses school year and doubling the treasure Morgan Sawatzki, age 5, of Centerville, likes to dress up in a costume his mother made for him and pretend hes a pirate. Maybe thats the reason he was able to spot a real historic treasure hidden in the basement of his Centerville home. While his parents were doing some remodeling work, Morgan played in the support beams and crawl spaces in the basement of their home and discovered a collection of papers probably stored there in 1915. I thought it was just an old piece of paper hanging on a nail, Morgan said of his discovery. I pulled it down and I saw all kinds of papers fall out. Then he added I thought it was just old papers, papers from the past. He showed some of the pieces to his dad, Robert Sawatzki. He said Good work, Morgan recalled. I was excited. I like old things. I saw lots of little tiny pieces of paper fall out, Morgan said. Only a few were worn. Everything was still tied with string, Morgans mother, Joelle Sawatzki, said. She called Clara Gowdy of the Centerville Historical Society. The papers were apparently placed there back in 1915 by Fred Rich who was the first treasurer for Centerville City when it was incorporates in 1915. Rich lived in the home for many years and apparently placed the papers in the crawl space for safe keeping. Goudy calls the collection of papers a true treasure of Centervilles history. Among the papers are some of the first voting materials from Centervilles first election. There is an official register of everyone who was registered to vote and a poll book with the signatures of everyone who actually did vote. There were 38 people who voted in the fall of 1915. They were voting for a president of the town board (similar to a mayor) and members of the town board (city council). Centerville had been incorporated in May and the county appointed town board members to serve until the fall election. their international peers do see FADEL" pg. A4 |