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Show WEEKLY REFLEX DAVIS NEWS JOURNAL. MAY 10. 1979 tUBTnms ME DSDDOTME Children & Because it is International Year of the Child, and your summer is approaching, I believe it is now tipie to respond to your article concerning swimming training at the Clearfield Municipal Pool which involves alleged water familiarization and swimming for infants. (111). back P.S. Could you please invite your readers to write to me, outlining their experiences (good, or bad) of and so on? I would welcome correspondence from operators also. This would help me considerably in my further research of the matter. any program parents which they would not have welcomed as babies, themselves. Children will survive' infancy without drowning by the tried and proven method of effective supervision and then, when they are about years old, they will be able to learn how to look after themselves sensibly in water. This, babies cannot do. by-pa- ss baby-swimmi- 4--5 - obviously tense, unhappy and unsure of him- May Jones 29 Knox Parents need to understand that research in your country and anywhere else where water-safet- y and other forms of early aquatic training are promoted, indicates that: Street Noble Park. 3174 May Jones Researcher of Aquatic Training for the very young. self. Victoria, Australia Nominating Form Has Restrictions -- THERE ARE no controls over who may or may not set up such classes and there are no examination for authors, operators, or their assistants who profess to be experts in this delicate area of water education. These people are not, therefore, qualified by any recognized standards in suitable learning theory and ijs application for the very jioung in water. 5 are often predisposed to serious illness The nomination form for people who were dedicated, unselfish volunteers but could not qualify under the above rule. Many volunteers serve without expecting any concrete reward. Very few of these people are appointed to a committee or serve on a board. nominating the 1979 Davis County Outstanding Senior Citizen award has certain restrictive rules. The award will be made by the Davis County Council on Board of Directors. Aging A POSSIBLE score of 125 is quoted. The five listed categories add up to 100. This must be one of those clerical errors. Category No. 1 for 50 points is not attainable for the majority of the top, dedicated volunteers. This section is listed as County Services for Elderly (committees and boards). stressful fallowing Swimming reasonable to suggest that month old EIGHTEEN Ryan Coop looks anything but safe as he floats on his experiences during Straining and many succumb to acute middle ear inwith severe fections complications. i hers -- TODDLERS drown, while survive in their parents pools These are the true deserving people who have never been noticed except perhaps at an award dinner where they receive a scrap of paper as recognition for enumerable volunteer hours. LETS GIVE this award as recognition to a person who truly deserves recognition: The forgotten volunteer. DURING DISCUSSIONS the group chly because they receive intensive care in hospitals for (toys on and after being pulled mentioned Halley Thomas many Senior Citizen Housing Planned ffom the water clinically i m dead. In fact, it is no secret tjiat in 1972, the YMCA vfarned, in one of its newsletters that: "Infant drownings Ijave been known to occur vOithin six weeks of learning tp swim. From the foregoing, responsible parents will be able tA deduce that babies and tots aye not sufficiently developed (fliysically, mentally, emoto tionally or immunity-wis- e b able to cope adequately training which Jith aquatic not have the clear of accredited child qpre and safety, and health Apartments. For Fall Of 1981 Two senior citizens housing has applied for federal funds to build 60 units for senior citizens in Kaysville. These will be garden apartments. complexes are being planned for Davis County. They will both be ready for occupancy by the fall of 1981. THE DAVIS County Housing Authority has received approval to build a 48 unit housing complex for senior citizens in Bountiful. A private poration, the UNTIL SUCH endorsement can be given, it is more than Management non-prof- INTERESTED senior citizens should contact the Davis County .Council on Ag- ingi CourthOu, Farmington, Utah 84025. The cost of living in one of these housing complexes will be 25 percent of your income for rent and ; cor- it Episcopal Corporation, utilities, dmg Miss Layton Contest Applications are now being accepted for the Miss Layton Layton Pageant. girls between the ages of 17 and 26 who are school high graduates or will be by 1980 are eligible to enter the pageant and may pick up an application from Anns East Gentile. ON MAY 15th an orientation tea will be held at the home of Mrs. Ann Harris, 517 West 2475 North at 7:30 p.m. Fabric Loft, 21 " Contestants and other interested girls along with their mothers are invited to attend. Entry deadline for the pageant is May 18th. For further information phone 376-591- Property Tax Refund If you are a senior citizen and your annual income is under $7,000, you should apply for a refund on your 1978 property tax. You may also be entitled to a rebate if you rent or are living in a nursing home. THE DEADLINE for applying for this refund has been extended to Oct. 15. Assistance in filling out the AWARD ANDY application for a refund is available Monday through The Farmington Elementary School PTA is this years recipient of the Andy Award for highest percentage of PTA membership. Presenting the award is Andy Anderson, council president, to Marda Dillree, PTA president, Tami Mullins, membership chairman, and Principal George Marchant. Friday at each Senior Citizens Center and at the Council on Aging Office in Farmington each weekday morning except for Thursday morning, dmg Cystic Fibrosis Set Bike-A-Th- on Fred Jolley, president of the Colorado Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation announced today that Mrs. Paula Allen of Davis County has been selected as the 1979 Breath of Life Campaign for Cystic Chairperson Fibrosis in the Kaysville drive. THE DATE for the May is May 19, Bike-A-Th- at 9 a.m. n will help The educate every parent, grandparent and prospective parent about the symptoms of cystic fibrosis and similar lungdamaging diseases, at the same time providing an opportunity to support the work of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Bike-A-Tho- IT IS not commonly known that about one in twenty per sons carries the genetic trait for cystic fibrosis. This would mean that there could be approximately ten million carriers in the nation. Mr. Jolley, who is a cystic fibrosis parent, underscored his remarks by explaining, Little more than a decade ago, the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation was working to keep Children with CF alive long enough to start school. Now, were trying to help some of these patients, who have grown to young adulthood, enter college and find jobs. LONGEVITY increased year by Jolley continued has year," MrT and we have hope that scientists will find a control or cure for the disease. The major purpose of this CF Foundation is to conquer this tragic inherited disease which occurs in every 1500 live births in the United States. Through research and health education programs parents can be public alerted to the symptoms of this disease and seek treatment which can improve their childrens lives. WHEN A cystic fibrosis, Breath of Life volunteer asks for your pledge, please give generously. At least three children die each day from cystic fibrosis, so children with diseases truly need support of this Foundation. Kaysville citizens who wish to volunteer to help in the campaign or anyone interested in riding in the n Bike-A-Tho- are asked Allen, 376-160- 1 to call Paula np To Be So Looooong As a newspaper reporter, I spehd what sometimes seems like half my life in meetings. CITY COUNCIL, health, mental health, housing authority, and on and on. Some of the meetings are for things many people probably havent even heard of. Fortunately, Im one of those rare breeds, I guess, who enjoys meetings, at least to a point. Its the to a point that I want to discuss, however. and the council gets in, does its business, and gets out. I SAT DOWN with their mayor, Elmer Barlow, to find out his secret, and make it public knowledge so perhaps other cities (hint, hint) could incorporate some of it into their own activities. I think the main reason is that we have an efficient staff that is well prepared. Other communities dont have a fulltime city manager, attorney, planner or engineer so they have to rely on discussion. e WITH A staff headed up by a city manager overseeing business on a full-tim- DURING MY time as a reporter, Ive covered more city councils than any other type of meeting, everywhere from little Sugar City, Idaho, population about 800, to Bountiful, a city about 50 times that size. You might think a little town like Sugar wouldnt have much to talk about and, as a result, their meetings wouldnt be too lengthy. Conversely, Bountifuls would have to be filled with agenda items and go on forever. YOUD ONLY be right to an extent. I have found that the smaller the town, the longer the meeting can go proportionate to the number of items on the agenda and their inherent discussion value. The smaller towns usually feature councilmen all knowing nearly everyone in town and bringing in this and that non-cit- y council item, all taking up time. course, that personal touch, supposedly, is one of the attractions to Of small-tow- n living. THE CITY officials in Sugar City were very cooperative, good people to work neighwith. They were your down-homborly type who probably would do anything they could to help a person in need. But they knew everyone in town and sometimes let their meetings go on to rather late hours, as a result. Bountiful, on the other hand, may have a agenda and finish its business Its meetings within an e, day-to-da- basis, many matters can y receive greater attention before meetings are held, meaning less time has to be taken for discussion during the meeting itself. In Bountiful, a refining process e requiring cooperation between staff and elected officials has been going on for quite some time, lending to shorter meetings than might otherwise be possifull-tim- ble. But he doesnt give license to smaller cities lacking a city manager to have I longer matings for that reason, alone. move can the think very definitely mayor things along. One of the first things I did as mayor was to do away with reading of the minutes. Sometimes we spent a half hour reading the minutes and I said No way. MAYOR BARLOW is fortunate in that e on the he can spend nearly his Donal So is Townley part-tim- e Mayor job. of Clearfield. Other mayors must assume e those responsibilities on top of full-tim- full-tim- employment. The different department heads work with the mayor and we have time to talk things over, Mayor Barlow said. But a fullcity doesn't run only on a mayor or which council the time employees. Its actually takes positions and makes decisions. he continued. was on the council I wanted the agenda two days ahead of time and I checked each item from the city officials point of view and from the citizen's side if it was controversial. I think if the council will do that, it will move things along. That makes sense. But apparently some council members, whether they study the issues ahead of time or not, like to hear themselves talk. There are some who invariably wish to comment on every issue, When I if to only show their supposed intelligence. Now I know thats human nature, but time is precious and if that individual wants to talk, let him do it on his own time. hearings, Mayor Barlow said he has only received one complaint from a man who felt he was cut off. Thats a pretty fair track record, all things considered. MANY TIMES, a meeting wears on, not because of any council or mayor conversation, but due to a lack thereof. Ive at- Granted, in the smaller cities a mayor and council may not have the time to study issues to the extent possible for Mayor Barlow. But then too, they shouldn't be faced with as many issues, being smaller to begin with. And yes, Bountiful meets each week compared to twice a month or monthly for other cities and groups. So their meetings should be shorter, right? tended innumerable public hearings where it didnt matter if there were three or twenty people, everyone has to be heard. To say the least, it gets a little too much. Mayor Barlow thinks so, too. You have to limit the amount of people you can hear, or it gets to be just repetition. I try at the start of a public hearing to find out how many are there for that purpose and, if its a rezoning, for instance, may ask that a spokesman be appointed for each group while the developer is making his presentation. THE NIGHT before I talked to him, Mayor Barlow said a public hearing had drawn enough people to fill the council chambers for the first time ever. That meant 148 filled seats. But it didn't become chaotic, even though a rezoning, often a very touchy issue, was the matter at hand. "I asked everyone to raise their hands if they were for or against. And then because of time, I asked if several could be chosen to speak. We had three (speaking) for and three against." ten-ite- are generally businesslike, I THINK in d most cases the council is and does its homework," WERE THE people satisfied? He said four people called to tell him how IN ALL OF his public ACCORDING TO Davis County Mental Health Director Russell Williams, a need exists for such facilities in both north and south ends of Davis County. Such facilities would treat some residents now sent to the Utah State Hospital because of lack of hours of work sessions? THINK IN too many meetings, people have no idea what they are going to discuss and how. Everybody should do his homework, Mayor Barlow said. Meetings are necessary, yes. But lets do a good job in the least amount of time so we can spend the rest of life doing the things we decided in the meetings. I Although opposition existed to such a facility elsewhere in treatment ability within the the state, initially, now people dont even know its there, Dr. Williams said. county. Those involved wouldnt include acute care patients and would include youth as well as men and women. Dr, Williams said. At present, 13 patients from the county are receiving treatment at the State Hospital and fully half could be treated in d cottage-typ- e facilities after minimal hospitalization if such a place were available, he added. WE NEED a 20 to facility and need space for youngsters, adults, men and women where there would be separate quarters housing each group, he said. Pointing to what he called was a real need for such facilities Dr. Williams said, Of 215 patients admitted to the USP last year we (Davis County) admitted 52 of that. It should have averaged about 22 (based on county popula- . COMMENTING on the need for mental health care and facilities in general he added, I still get asked if there is really a need in the county. The average center serves 133,000 people and has 84 staff and we serve 144,000 and have 52 staff. I dont see how you can read the paper and not see a need. tb d DIXON P. REISBECK Farmers Insurance Group Is your house tion). less than Arrives For Duty eight years old? You may qualify for real savings on your home insurance with Farmers New Homes discount, ranging from 2 for a d house to a big 12 for a home constructed this year. U.S. Air Force Captain Gary L. Lechtenberg, son of Mr. and Mrs. Eldon R. Lechtenberg of 174 Sycamore Circle, Clearfield, has arrived for duty at Lakenheath RAF Station, England. CAPTAIN Lechtenberg, an seven-year-ol- aircraft commandeT F-l- ll 376-427- 9 with a unit of the U.S. Air Forces in Europe, previously served at Cannon AFB, N.M. 197 N. Main Layton Give Mother the Best on her day See our Special Selection NOT NECESSARILY, the mayor said. Its not nearly as bad (to meet more often) and you get things out of the way and dont drag them on. The agenda is current and makes it a lot easier to solve problems just like when you have to talk to somebody about something but dont want to. The longer you put it off, the harder it gets. What about the majority of readers who dont attend governmental meetings regularly but are saddled with civic and church responsibilities requiring many SITES ARE being studied near both Lakeview Hospital and Davis North Medical Center in Layton but an existing building could also be utilized, he said. In the interim, well try to use a nursing home. There would be no more danger (in housing mental health patients vs. nursing home patients), and they are really (like) people who live next door anyway. The make a transitional care facility one of its top priorities for the coming year. impressed they were with the efficiency and smoothness of city government and how quickly the council came to a decision. You can make the people satisfied without letting the nuts and bolts into it, he explained. After everything is heard, its up to the council. I don't decide. I try to bring it to a head and open it to questions from the council. 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