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Show gar- Profile B3 From the Trenches B4 Church Life B5 Television B6 Calendar B7 YouthEducation B8 MiBgaS nmM sumr i . to,.- - B1 Thursday, October 14, 1999 m- g k - i ' i y Clipper's web site is off and running As I mentioned two weeks ago. this is the week that we launch our new Clipper web site. Our webmaster. Adam Olson, has been working hard to work out the kinks and bugs in our system to get the information online. Nick Rose, our top graphics person, has been d with Adam to adjust our web working functional for this week's rollit and make page design out. Brad Millard, our networking expert, has spent considerable time with U.S. West ironing out bugs that surfaced last week in our special DSL modem. So. hand-in-han- barring any disabling power surges or crippling computer problems, our web site should be up and running by the time you read BY BOB MKXELSON Clipper Today Staff Writer this. If you'd like to try it, you can connect to our web page at the following address: We hae There are BOUNTIFUL undoubtedly a lot of people out there who wonder how it is a particular neighbor has such a beautiful lawn and gaiden so early in the spring. While you're out there shov eling. tilling and planting, they're already enjoying the first blooms of the season. Well, there's no real secret about it. Any garden expert at any area nursery will tell time spent working in your garden you during the fall months will make a big dif- www.clip-pertoday.co- chosen this address because it combines the names of our two leading publications, the Clipper and Clipper Today. Once youe logged on, you'll find a welcome screen to get you started, plus a row of buttons across the top to get you to the pages you are looking for. We hae decided that some of our content applies all across Dais County such as our entertainment listings, editorial page and sports, etc You'll find the buttons for these items on the welcome screen, and you can go to them directly. The calendar, for example, is the same for both ends of the county because we have long opted to include all possible Davis County events on this page so that our readers can draw from the widest possible choices of activities. If there's a musical production in Layton, there's a good chance that people in North Salt Lake might be interested in attending, for example. And the same goes for events in South Dav is that would interest those m North Davis, especially when the events are designed for a county-wid- e audience in include we And information cases, anyway. many events that we feel would interabout top state-wid- e est everyone in Davis County. Although we customize our newspaper sports coverage for each end of Davis County, so many of the key games and matchups involve teams from North and South Davis competing against each other that weve opted to make Sports a county wide section on our web page. This, for example, avoids us having to place an article about a game between Bountiful and nearfield high schools twice, once for our North Davis audience and again for our South Davis readers. Instead. you'll find all the sports coverage you're used to m our Sports section, plus a few stories that may have run in one of our papers and not in the other. For general news content, however, we have separate buttons for North Davis and South Davis. This will help make it easy to pick which stories you'd like to find. Also, if you live in North Davis and have already read v our copy of Clipper Today you'll be able to check what's happening in South Davis without having to wade through a lot of stones you already know about. There are a lot of other features on our web site, so we encourage you to look around and see how it works. As you try it out. you may come up with some ideas to make it better or more user friendly. If so. we'd like to hear your ideas, and you can send them to us at address: newmximdippertoday.com. our Meanw hile. as we began dev eloping our online edition, literally dozens of ideas came to us about new features that we can add to make it even more interesting and useful to our readers. Some we'll be able to implement in the near future, while others will take a little time. But I'll be telling you about these added features as we develop them and get them ready for your inspection. So even though there's a lot on our new web site, there will be a lot more interesting features in store in the coming weeks. Fantasy basketball Are you confident that this year's Utah Jazz will make it to the NBA finals? Are you worried about the roster, age of our players, unforeseen circumstances, etc? Then why not try your hand at our new feature for this fall: NBA fantasy basketball. You'll be able to see if you ran build a better team than Jerry Sloan and outthink the best minds at the Jazz. Under the rules of the fantasy basketball program you'll be able to build your own NBA team and follow how each player did by checking our weekly updates in the Clipper and Clipper Today. If your NBA games) combination of players (m their real-lif- e do better than everyone vise's combination, you'll be on your way to the top. But watch out! There's a salary rap of $450 per team, and Larry Miller won't be there to bail you out. Top players such as Karl Malone command salanes of around $60 per year, while newer players may cost in 0 the range. Although you'd probably like to build a team with Karl Malone.Tim Duncan. Shaquille O'Neal and others, you'll run out of money in a hurry. So your challenge will be to build the best team you can within your allotted cash and sit back and watch how well you did each week. Check this Thursday's Clipper and Clipper Today for all the details. If you're interested in making your mark in the sports world, we hope this provides a lot of fun. $25-$3- R. COPY - ference this coming spring. So the Clipper went to some of these experts Vaughan Nielsen, manager of J&J Nursery and Garden Center in Layton: Diane Ashby at J&L Garden Center and Gift Shop in Bountiful; and Shauna Owens, master gardener at USU's Davis County Home and to find out Garden Office in Farmington what they would advise. According to Owens, many of the preparations can continue through the end of October, the entire month of November and even into December. All three of our experts agree on one thing: October should be considered the clean-u- p month. While waste from your yard from the summer'fall garden can be used for compost, any diseased material should be thrown out with the trash or burned. And get rid of w eeds. A single plant can produce up to 10.000 seeds. Quoting Ashby. One year's worth of weeds equals 10 y ears' worth of seeds. Other garden infestations, the kind, can also be delivered a major blow in the fall. Tilling the garden area now will bring insect eggs to the surface where fall frosts will kill them. This is an excellent time to prepare spring planting beds. In fact, it's the only time of the year vou can dig partially composted manure into v our beds. After the top two inches of soil freezes, spread compost or other mulches ov er the beds that contain bulbs, perennials, perennial vegetables and straw berries. After the fust frost. "dead-head- " flowering perennials. Don't cut perennials severely. Leave stem and leaves for a stronger root ball next vear. You will have a little more clean-uin the spring, but it really helps the plants overwinter. Protect v oung trees from sun and wind bum by wrapping them with protective tree wmp. Continue to water ornamental shrubs and newly planted trees and shrubs. It p keeps roots from drying and dying during long, hard freezes. Make sure that y ou flush and drain irrigation sv stems before the soil freezes. Disconnect hoses and bnng them in for the winter. Feed the lawn with one to pounds of nitrogen per 1.000 square feet to make the grass more raid hardy and promote more greening next spring. For gardens that are subject to heavy winter winds, as is the case in Davis County: it's a good idea to thin tall trees in November to allow the wind to pass through. Place small limbs on beds that need more frost protection If you have tree roses, surround them with wire meshing, anchored at the bottom, and fill it with leaves and straw. Wrap the rest of the main stem with burlap. Tor climbing roses, protect the canes by propping evergreen branches in front of them. Clean and sharpen all gardening tools before storing them for winter. Rub steel blades with a little oil and wood PoBSce I3esii: It is hard to believ e. but it has been more than three months since 1 was sworn in as the new police chief for Layton City. Being a longtime resident of Layton. I was excited when the opportunity to work for this great city presented itself. My career in law enforcement began in 1974 with the Gearfield City Police Department. Since that time 1 have worked with the Davis County Sheriff's Office, Salt Lake County Sheriff's Office and most recently with the West Valley City Police where I worked for approxDepartment imately 19 years. Dunng my time w ith West Valley City. 1 worked my way up through the ranks from patrol officer to police chief. Great things arc hapjxmmg at the Layton Police Department. Since July: our department has received two federal grants that will allow us to hire eight additional police officers this year, bringing the total number of officers to 66. The more significant of these two grants is called the Safe Schools Program Tins grant will allow us to expand our School Resource Officer program to the en handles with linseed oil. In December, and the rest of the winter, heavy snow fall can break or disfigure trees and shrubs. Cleaning off the snow will prevent this. December is also the slowest month of the year for greenhouse growers. Order at this time for the best bargains and the spring date you would like your order to arrive, thus avoiding the spring rush. CLEANING UP gardens, removing weeds, feeding lawns, and preparing flower beds, and other fall garden rituals will make a world of difference in your yard come next spring. Above, Layton residents Kim Corbeil and daughter Jenny Harter plant tulip bulbs in their flower garden. Great things happening in Layton Another benefit of this junior high schools and elementary schools on a fullprogram will be the ability of time basis. our officers to further impleBy expanding our School Resource Officer ment community oriented program, we will be able to policing strategies, not only better interact with school at the schools but in the surage youth from elementary rounding neighborhoods as school through high school well. Hie resource officers This will allow our officers to will handle traffic enforceestablish positive relationment in and around each of our schools crosswalks and ships with our young citizens and help them prepare to schixil zones. become adult members of This will allow the Police our society Department to address the Our School Resource speeding in school zones Officers will continue to problem that concerns many teach the D A R.E. program of the parents and teachers at TERRY KEEFE and now other law enforceschools. our elementary Police Chief ment related classes may be Layton Other problems that deal with youth will be coordinattaught by the officers ed according to the various schixil attenassigned to specific schools on a full time basis The presence of police officers m our dance boundaries. schools will add a level of security to the Additionally, m an effort to break the scinx'ls. helping to foster a safe school cycle of domestic violence, each officer will receiv e training m counseling and mentor ing Coordination will take place between school resource officers and patrol officers who investigate domestic violence cases m which schixil age children were present. The schixil resource officer will then work with schixil counselors to help these children leam skills so that they do not continue the cycle of domestic violence later m life. Furthermore. better tracking and inves- tigation of rases involving runaways will be implemented for each schixil Every effort will be made to solve the core problem that made the child run away m the first place. The men and women of the Layton City Police Department are committed to providing you. our customers, with the best possible police service. If you have comments or concerns about the police department or would like to share suggestions with me. please feel free to call 0 me at or me at tkeefiip sisna a nn. Working together w e can all make Layton City an even tx.'tter place to 497-830- live. |