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Show Monte Vista Will Honor Volunteers s300,000 Fluke Aids Davis School Funds - FARMINGTON Thanks to a fluke by the seemingly infallible IRS, the Davis School Districts going to be able to get 5300,000 by borrowing more money. IN THE WORLD of finance, that possibility can often happen, thanks to banking the money and obtaining more interest w hei e theres more principal. The district had planned on borrowing $7.9 million for its annual tax anticipation note sale. Instead, itll be a $14 million sale. That added mileage will allow for an additional $300,000, says Roger Glines, business manager for the dis- trict. THE $7.9 million was previously the limit the district could borrow based on its deposits and next years expenditures formula. A new regulation allows for the change, at least for this year. The bids will be received until June 7 when they will be opened at the district head quarters - FARMINGTON Friday, May 20, will be Volunteer Appreciation Day at Monte Vista School when the school will recognize the volunteers w ho have spent many hours in serv ice to the school. in Farmington at noon. IN ANOTHER moneysaving measure the board has recently been alerted to, the district will receive an additional $777,000 from the recent bond refinancing due to a change in interest rates available, explained Larry Denhan, vice president of bonding firm Prudential Bache Securities. And when Board Pres. Sheryl Allen expressed thanks for the gift loud applause came from the audience of more than 100. tb Water District Studies Request For Subsidy LAYTON Weber Basin Water Conservation District has taken under advisement for more study a request by Centers ille officials for the district to subsidize a secondary watei system in the city. DISTRICT Manager Keith G. Jensen told the district's board of directors that not only would the subsidy cost the district several thousand dollars annually, it could open the door to requiring the district to subsidize at least two other secondary systems within the district-o- ne in Bountiful and another one in Centerville. The request, approved about a month ago by the Center MEMORIAL! w us e QQ8D(flEEm ville City Council, asks the district to absorb the additional cost of $5 per customer by the operation and maintenance fee assessed to the city on the alloted to the proposed Centerville district. 1,300-acre-fe- EARLIER, customers of the proposed district refused to pay the additional $5 per cus- tomer charge. The charge would be in addition to the $12 turnout fee the district receives from each water customer. Centerville could take over operation of the privately developed system. Earlier, council members tentatively agreed to have Weber Basin operate and maintain the new district if the cost was about the same or less than the cost to have the city operate the district. MEANWHILE, Centerville Mayor Neil Blackburn emphasized that the decision to build the water system is up to the citizens within the proposed water district. We on the council are trying to sort out in our minds the problems we face and decide whether or not we should approach the residents (within the district) about the project realizing that there will be increased costs if Weber Basin doesnt rebate th $5 charge to the city, the mayor said. Signup Time For Summer Reading Registration for the summer reading program at the Davis County Library will begin on May 23. THE PROGRAM will run from June 14 to July 20, with programs on Tuesdays at the North Branch and on Wednesdays at the Headquarters Library in Farmington and at the South Branch. This years program will center on a specially written booklet titled Danger-MazThe weekly program will include visits from storybook characters, storytelling, over-siz- e games, and work with discovery boxes. Children between the ages of six and eleven are welcome, as are their parents. FOR MORE information contact Gladys Smith at North 2 Branch, Marilyn Getts, South Branch, or Pete Giacoma at Headquarters, 825-666- 295-873- MONTE VISTA is a school for the hand- icapped. Volunteers have come from a variety of resources, including Child Development classes at Davis and Clearfield High Schools, Career Explorations at Bountiful High, the 8th grade at St. Olaf s School, and parent and community volunteers. The festivities will begin at 12:30 p.m. with a luncheon sponsored by the PTA. At 1:30 there will be an awards ceremony with certificates and ceramics made by students and staff presented to the volunteers by W. Lee Glad, Principal. THE AWARDS ceremony will be followed by the song I Have A Dream sung by the secondary students at this years graduates of Monte Vista. Hughes To Represent PERC At National Education Confab - FARMINGTON The Parent Education Resource Center of the Davis School District has been invited to send a representative to participate in a national education conference to be held at Yale University in New Haven, Conn, that concludes today. Approximately 80 innovative family support programs from across the country have been invited to participate. THE CONFERENCE, entitled Family Support Programs: The State of the Art will provide a forum for a select group of policymakers, national leaders, program developers, research and evaluation experts, and foundation the implementation and substance of the PERC program. She took a variety of materials with her to be distributed to other program leaders as well as a video cassette which tells representatives to address issues related to the current and future development of programs and policies to strengthen families. The conference is jointly sponsored by the Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy at Yale University and by the Department of Health and Human Services. the REPRESENTING PERC program is Center director, Mary Hughes, who participated as a workshop panel member and told about Mrs. Hughes reported on the six years that the Center has been providing a check-ou- t facility for books, toys and filmstrips, day and evening parent education classes, in addition to the counseling services and other helps that are offered by PERC. By TOM BUSSELBERG North County Editor FARMINGTON - It took FARMINGTON 1'h hours to do it, but Layton still is out of the money when it comes to this years community block grant applications. THE RECOUNT last Wednesday showed no major changes, says County Planner Wilf Sommerkorn. In fact, the gap between Kaysville, the eighth and final grant to get funding, and Layton, number nine, widened. And all the rankings of other city projects remained un- changed, he says, although the point difference berween Kaysville and Layton was increased By 1 Vi points after the ballots were recounted as compiled by those attending the Feb. 16 council of governments meeting. . IT WAS LN that session that mayors and a city councilman from North Salt Lake tallied economic development. Attending from Layton were Mayor Lewis G. Shields, Councilwoman Ann Harris and Clark Adams, downtown redevelopment association president. Kaysville Mayor Gerald Purdy, also Wasatch Front Regional Council chairman, also attended. SEVERAL corrections in addition were made during the recount but Mr. Sommerkorn said he was directed to present the revised figures with the rankings for approval by the abatement district just doesn't have the time or manpower to KAYSVILLE -- What is the most annoying insect around? Most people would probably answer that it is the mosquito. Well, most of Utah can expect to be annoyed even more than usual by the blood thirstly little bugs this year. find and treat all standing "THE PUBLIC can expect more mosquitos than usual, according to Rex Passey. Dasis County Mosquito Abatement District director. The problem stems from the unusually high groundwater table and the extended runoff season expected this year. Were finding more standing pools than in normal years." he said. Mosquitos breed in water and develop through their life cycle anywhere from 5 to 21 days (depending on the temperature) to become flying adult insects. ONLY THE female mosquitos bite and suck blood. The blood aids in the development of eggs. Only after a few days, the adult mosquito will lay more eggs and a new generation will be on its way to torment innocent outdoor lovers. Mr. Passey explained that the longer the pools of water are around, the more generations of mosquitos there are to contend with. The mosquito become adults the problem gets bigger because a mosquito may travel a mile in one evening. pools. MOSQUITO larvae can be found anyplace where water stands for even three days; in old tires, children's wading pools, cow tracks, rain gutters, tin cans, swimming pool covers that have been rained on, anything that will hold water. We've gotten calls from people complaining that we are not doing our job. When we go out to their property to check things out though, we'll often find something like a livestock watering tank that is just black with mosquito larvae," said Mr. Passey. USUALLY mosquitos dont breed in briny water but this year, mosquito abatement personnel have found scattered larvae along the edge of the Great Salt Lake south of the Antelop Island causeway. "If we get a real hot spell and the lake starts evaporating quickly, it could leave large areas of salt grass marshes, Mr. Passey said. That could cause an added problem requiring more hand treatments than usual. WE TRY to get them while they are still in the larval stage," he said. Once they If mosquito populations become particularly heavy in an area, abatement personnel may turn to aerial applications of pesticides to combat them. MR. PASSEY said that 18 different species of mosquitos have been identified in Davis County. Different methods and different poisons are used to irradicate them. In some species we are noticing some pesticide resistance in areas that are frequently treated, he said. Were very selective with the use of toxic chemicals. Some are used only in marshes or irrigated pastures. In or near residential areas we treat the water with a light mineral oil that is very safe and effective but also very expensive, he added. BUG BOON Well be seeing and probably, feeling more of these this year. Though mosquito abatement personnel are working daily to stem the tide, high groundwater and longer runoff periods will probably mean mosquitos will be breeding longer than in past years. THIS YEAR mosquito abatement district is also experimenting with a bacterial agent that is a natural substance found in nature. It seems to be a natural predator of mosquitos. The surprising thing is that it doesnt harm non-tox- ic - Key staff members as well as members of the Davis Board of Education arent letting the ntly-released report, A Nation At Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform rece- In Grant Funds points from 18 grant proposals with those results used to rank each proposal. Some $850,000 has been appropriated for dispersal in the county although actual payment is on hold while the state determines financing for the Thistle Lake disaster. The count was supervised by Chris Beck, a local government consultant with the department of community and solve problems that have basis; arisen on a with their children. day-to-d- Report F ails To Aid Layton Recommit By TOM BUSSELBERG The PERC program is wide-- ly used by parents in the Davis School District and has provided preventive assistance to parents as well as helping them School Board Absorbs about the many happenings and the broad scope of the program of the Center. gather dust. IN FACT, staff meetings were being held at the COG in this afternoons meeting. Layton had sought nearly $400,000 for downtown redevelopment, including street reapir, from 2nd North-3r- d South and Main. This was their second unsuccessful attempt. PROJECTS that did receive sufficient ranking for funding include: Davis Housing Authority rehabilitation, $85,000; Farmington public saifety complex, $200,000; West Bountiful weekend as the district began exploring how the report, that calls for stiffer curriculum offerings and proposes a longer school year or day, could be implemented among the districts 41 ,000 stu- dents. Supt. Lawrence Welling and Board Pres. Sheryl, Allen were water drainage system, $145,000; Syracuse secondary water system, $160,000; Cen- terville water system, $69,200; Kaysville water project, and Clearfield flood control, $40,500. Mayors voted in their April meeting $91,500 in funds rejected for the Davis County telecommunications system by the state should be allocated to Kaysville for their ter project since only partial funding was available due to the $850,000 limit. ' Throughout history quitos have been estimated to have killed more people than all wars combined. Though most disease carrying mosquitos have been controlled in the United States there is still some concern over one species in Utah identified as a carrier of Western Equine Encephal- itis. HORSES are most often infected with the disease and there hasnt been a human case since 1958. However, three years ago in Duchesne County, several horses died from the virus traced to mosquito bites. We monitor the populations of the different types of mosquitos with light traps, said Mr. Passey. If there are too many of the potential disease carriers in an area, we will adulticide (poison the adult insects) aerially and from the ground. HE SUGGESTED that county residents can keep mosquito populations down by patrolling and being aware of standing water around their property. Any water that will stand for even two days should be drained or treated, he said. WE SHOULD continue the historic committment to execocellence and quality--th- e nomic and political security of this nation is closely linked to education, Dr. Morgan explained, noting it involves the individual, schools and society in general. Indicating conditions out- AS HAS BEEN widely reported in the media, including THE BEST education (is one you) can do for employers highly favored such a program who hire high, this newspaper, previously, the report was asked to assess quality of teaching and learning in the nation's public and private schools, colleges and universities; compare U.S. schools with those of other advanced nations; study relationship between college admissions requirements and student achievement in high schools; identify educational resulting in notable success in college; assessing degree where major social and mos- 10-3- 0 lined in the report generally applied to Utah, he said the risk of overall underinvolvement or investing wrongly is one of the central themes emphasizing that doesnt necessarily mean pouring all funds into a programs anything but the mosquitos, said Mr. Passey. sive advertising campaign to draw attention to the report. The 1980s may well be remembered as the decade of foDr. ment over curriculum, Morgan told the group assembled at the University of Utah Panorama Room. Currently there are major studies" he said, noting many have been prepared over the years, usually laid aside to gather dust. among several dozen Utah educators attending a seminar last week where the report was briefly explained by Dr. Anthony Morgan, executive assistant to University of Utah Pres. David Gardner, chairman of the committee who prereport. pared the $66,800 More Mmqmtm JLihdw By MARK FOTHER1NGHAM THE PRESENT PERC program was one of three pilot programs established by the State Office of Education, and has been actively supportive of additional programs within the state as they have been educational changes have affected student achievement in the last 25 years and defining problems that must be faced and overcome if the course of excellence in education is to successfully be pursued. In a question-answe- r period after Dr. Morgans report review, Mrs. Allen asked how teachers can be retained or qualified individuals brought into education with Dr. Nor-ga- n Until we can responding, work with the salary (adjusting it) we wont attract qualified teachers on a regular basis. HE NOTED AN increase in the average grade point average from 2.7 for recent graduto 3.1 ates, or about a for current enrollees, or about a B average. Theres been a significant decline in the school of education (applicants quality) and thats one area where we can control access. We have to make the classes intellectually challenging and exciting. We need to explore alternative teacher edu- cation programs such as a fifth year program for graduate students entering education who are already in other fields, he said. SUPT. WELLINGS question as to how the report might gain implementation brought response announcing a mas preparation prog- ram, for instance. life-m- any ' school graduates and that' means not necessarily ealeu- lus but three years of math" training, he added. While it appears we do a better job than the nation in educating teachers, Dr. Morgan said, teacher education is not very selective-i- ts often and said open enrollment market sensitivity should be considered for teacher: salaries. While thats not a ' popular notion among many, . he said plainly, life isnt fair under a market system. THATS WHY an engineer- ing professor may earn 50 per-- ! cent higher than one in huma-- 1 nities and an assistant law pro- - fessor more, he two-thir- added. Implementing an 11 month1 school program would cost the state $110 million extra, Dr. Morgan continued, emphasizUtah probing the -- lem" of continued fast-pace- d growth, compounding efforts at increasing educational programs. CONTINUING the theme for better teacher salaries and education, Cecil Miskel, department of educational administration dean-eleat the U, ct said will fundamental changes be required. Even large in- fluxes of money will not help if teacher education and salaries are not adjusted and boards (of education) dont show initiative. State Board of Education Member Margaret R. Nelson placed the burden of legislaI think legislators stating, tors must show leadership suggesting relationship between pay and performance while Fred W. Worlton, principal at Alta High School, said a schools patrons have a large say in what is taught. Mwildiwgf mmdk Q0(S)dsMwtooo By TOM BUSSELBERG FARMINGTON - There are two friends with this great idea. THEYLL build their houses methods with on land they already own. at the end of this long, quiet private road with plenty of farm acreage to grow most of their food. On top of that, sewer and water are nearby and theyll install fire sprinklers in their houses to meet those needs. solar-efficie- Good as it sounds, even to the Davis County Planning Commission, there are some problems that need to be worked out. osal but that land could some- "there are some other cases day see development as a where it would be more difficult to reach (developed there are no such plans, though. y wide road A has been obtained but the countys normal is 60 and its minimum is 50 feet. For now, Mr. McEntire says he cant afford to pave the road. Several similar private situations have been approved in the past, Planning Com. Chairman Charles Black noted, but Planner Barry Burton reminded the commission 30-fo- ot JOHN McENTIRE and a friend want to build their houses on a 4 acre parcel mile at the end of a long private road in west Farmington off of 100 North between Burke and Clark 13-1- one-quart- er lanes. land adjoining the road is owned by relatives who've approved the two men's prop right-ot-wa- right-of-w- lots)." IM SURE there are many similar situations (possible), Mr. Burton continued, asking, are there enough of this type that could destroy or hamper future development by not being able to put a road in as they should be? The countys master plan covers only major thoroughfares, not residential streets, he explained. TO MAKE matters more interesting, Mr. McEntire indicated an undedicated county road sits on the comer of his property but is, for all intents and purposes, a pasture. The project is commendable, County Com. Harold Tippetts said, but it has some He ennumerated problems. the current county statute that a (as that would be) can not go longer than feet while this would be the equivalent of two city blocks or at least 1 ,000 feet. A "PRIMITIVE, private road" is involved, and raises the question of some agricultural parcels located nearby on 650 West. A number of people owning agricultural parcels are anxious to build-theon a road. The county has maintained the lane over the years. Negotiations are underway to widen that to the minimum but the question of utilities and road surfacing has yet to be answered. THEYRE not (landown yre 20-fo- ot 50-fo- ers) willing to pave it. Theyre honest and sincere in what they want but tomorrow they may be gone. New people would go out (buyers) under the concept it (road) was properly maintained. Many bought land and wanted to plant pasture, etc.-n- ow they want to live there but cant afford the road-- we cant issue a building permit, Mr. Tippetts, the former county planning director, continued. WERE NOT adverse to (making it) a county road if there are enough people (fronting on it) but theres no way its economically feasible for two people (to pave it), Mr. McEntosh said. Were the county to foot the bill it would mean using all county taxpayers money to help just a few, it was noted. A LEGAL opinion will be sought before the next planning commission meeting set for June 2 while Mr. Burton said he would further study the issue. j i ; |