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Show vlARCH 30, 1983 3Qt JL983 Volunteer Hours Pay Off For Sunset r(, - - - ... - SUNSET Because of many hours of volunteer labor contributed by members of the Sunset City Volunteer Fire Department, this North Davis County city has a brush fire fighting truck. good-as-ne- THE SUNSET fire department owned a pick-u- p truck equipped with a narrow bed, a rack and Indian tanks water tanks you can strap on your back). This was purchased and used from Roy City. The truck was inadequate. Estimates received on repair and remodeling work for the truck set the price at $1800. Like most municipalities, Sunset City officials just didnt feel like they could spend this amount of money on a 1965 truck. Aging is a gift of the 20th Century. Many of our parents generation died in childbirth or in the early years of their life from diseases such as polio or pneumonia. Actually, aging is a privilege for those who can learn to manage it for what it can be, says Dr. James E. Birren in an article entitled Weathering the Years. Chief Wallace says Sunset residents are reporting the same number of fires today as were reported 27 years ago. The population of Sunset has doubled in this length of time. People are fire conscious, the Chief explains. This year we went 130 days without a fire. 1965 Dodge ... , v - 7 ; FIRE DEPARTMENT members decided to Jo the work of remodeling and renovating themselves. The truck was taken to the city maintenance shops. The narrow bed was removed. About the first of February, volunteer firemen, working under the leadership of Larry Byington, Deputy Chief, started repairing the brush truck. Dents were pounded out, paint was removed, the interior of the cab was completely redone and a new wide bed was placed on the chasis. There is now a place for.shovels, pipes, water tanks and other fire fighting equipment inside the bed. Total cost for the project is between $400 and $500. . - r: :: - . THIS IS only one of many volunteer services the Sunset Fire Department is constantly supporting. On Saturday, April 2, the Auxiliary organization will sponsor an Easter egg hunt. The firemen contribute $100 a year to the Auxiliary to use for a charitable effort that directly benefits an individual or an organization within Sunset City. Members of the Auxiliary vote on the - .. charitable project they want to support. The Sunset Fire Department is a unique organization. It is the biggest single group in Sunset so the volunteers often help on community service projects and in emergency situations. ... , THE FIRE department volunteers were organized 27 years ago. Of the original 25 volunteer members, 4 are still members of the fire department. There are only 10 of the original 25 still living. Chief Arley J. Wallace was one of the original members of the volunteer fire de- partment. He has been the department chief for nearly one year. TODAY THERE are 28 volunteers on the Supget Fire Department and openings for twentnore. All the firemen are residents. of uhset. t THIS EXCEPTIONAL record has allowed Sunset City to receive the highest fire insurance rating a city with a volunteer department can have. A volunteer fireman in Sunset doesnt receive a high wage for the job. A new volunteer is paid minimum wage for the first three years. Top wage in the department is $5.35 an hour. Men are paid for fires and drills only. THE FIRE department members are paid once a year, at Christmas time. Twenty percent of the money earned goes back to department to be used for socials, sicknesses and contributions at time of death. The firemen have donated time and money to build and furnish an attractive day room for the y on and volunteers. The men do their own maintenance in this day room. A log is kept of volunteer hours contributed by department personnel. Besides fighting fires, the Sunset volunteers conduct fire inspections on businesses and homes, handle the city weed control program, help with home safety by identifying hazards for the home owner, show films to civic, church and school groups, give discussion programs and conduct tours of the fire station. ONE OF the important strategies of growing older is to conserve energy. "When I was 1 I young, there was nothing felt couldnt do. the big things is the Now I save myself for it. man put way one and comALSO, A sense of be seems an to important aspect of the petence aging strategy. By having an I know I can handle it attitude and by having a posture, the more likely you are to cope successfully with stressful situations. If you expect to be able to cope with stress, you are a long way toward being able to. Hope or optimism may also help you to mobilize your energies and increase your effectiveness in reacting to stress. In one hospital study those patients who were given hope in contrast to those who were not, reported less anxiety and depression and a greater relief of their symptoms. self-relia- nt A KEYS TO Healthy Aging program, dealing with the life concerns of elderly persons and personal and community resources to deal with these concerns, is available by request to any interested group in Davis County. The program has been designed to reinforce those areas of personal strength that help keep balance and health in the aging years. Developed by seniors for seniors, this program provides a way for seniors to look at some personal concerns about the changes experienced in the aging process and to focus on positive ways of dealing with those changes. It also provides a process for seniors to become involved w ith ot er seniors. For more information about the Keys toHealthy Aging program, please call Joanne at Davis County Mental Health Center at IF YOU can anticipate future crises and stress, the harshness of their impact on your life can be reduced. Whether you are anticipating a new occupation or retirement, marriage or divorce, open-heasurgery or a face lift, or in live with to your children, plan for it. moving Make up your mind to handle it. Maybe you rt 298-344- off-dut- A NEW program has just been started by Chief Wallace to have all members of the department certified as qualified fire fighters. The fire department members are technistudying from the basic ques manual Essentials of Fire Fighting. Classes are taught and study is done at home. When a fire fighter is ready, he can take the state fire marshall test and have the same certificate of professionalism as a fulltime fire department employee. Within three years, every member of the departhis skills will ment that wants to have the same knowledge as a professional, Chief Wallace states. Ourfiremen are high caliber individuals who are devoted to community service. We are professionals and a voluntary working on a part-tim- e basis. Residents of Sunset City receive 24 hour per day fire call service. From 8 a.m. until 4 p.m. city employees respond to fire calls. Three men are responsible for manning the basis, 365 city fire department on a four about works Each man a days year. hours a day with 20 hours on stand-bdmg up-gra- 24-ho- y. ., (Elementary Menus 30, 1983 ONE WAY of looking at events that happen as you grow up and grow old is to think of them as developmental tasks. As characteristic times in our lives, typical events happen. Adolescents have identity crises. Young adults have uncertainty over what marriage partners and careers to choose. Adults have children to raise, mortgage payments to make and older parents to look after. Older adults have retirement to face, grief to overcome, illness and death to accept. Developmental tasks are the life crises or the stressful life experiences that ask us to change and grow in wisdom and maturity. Change and stress both seem to pile up together in later life. Not only do you slow down, but losses in health, body energy and vigor generally occur with age. can find out about these changes from friends or others who have had experiences with the stressful situation you are soon to face. Finally, healthy aging is making the most of ones resources, whether personal, family, or community. Many resources are available in our community to help individuals and families weather the crises of the years. Why not take advantage of them? These services, open to everyone no matter what their age, can be located through a look at the local telephone directory or a call to an information and referral service. To have at least one close friend to share the details of your life also helps a person to endure the stresses of aging better. There will be an emotional cushioning if you have someone you can lean on in time of crisis or stress. Even the death of ones spouse is weathered better and the horrendous gap following death is more rapidly closed if you have a confidant. Lunch menus for the elementary schools for the r week of April P will include: 4-- Group Blasts Garbage Plant Several complex elements of the financing plan for the were questioned by the CLEARFIELD - An air of plant citizen's group. They claimed quiet caution brooded over the the financial risk for the plant Clearfield City Council meetwould be placed on taxpayers ing last Tuesday night. A rather than on the developers. capacity crowd filed into the council chambers to hear a reONE COMPLAINT, reiterport from the Opposition ated several times by the oppoForce concerning the propsition group, was that the timeosed Davis County Resource calls for for the table Recovery Plant; or as Jim cities to sign tjieplant contracts behead of the citizens Hurst, fore any firm costs are set. group called it, the garbage Mayor Neldon E. Hamblin dump in my front yard. assured the spectators, however, that no blank conwaited By MARK FOTHERLNGHAM THE SPECTATORS patiently as Police Chief Green plowed through his depart- ments statistical year-en- d re- port. Still they waited as engineers from Forsgren and Perkins waded through a water study on Clearfields water pressure problems. An hour passed before Mr. Hurst, Shirley Reed, and Hal Hallett, area residents, took the podium with a long list of reasons why Clearfield should oppose the building of the proposed burn Plant. ACCORDING to their report, even if the burn plant is put into operation, landfills will still be necessary. material (trash that wont bum) and ash from the plant will continue to fill space at Davis Countys two refuse dumps. The remaining service life for the Bay Area Refuse Dump (BARD) is estimated at about 14 more years; 37 years remain for the North Davis Refuse le THE REPORT explained that for the plant to be cost that similar plants in Europe are clean, quiet operations, the group was unconvinced there would be no added noise, smell or litter problems in the vicinity of the plant. The group noted that property values for residences adjacent to the site would plum-me- tt along with the potential for future development in the area. Add this to a 12 percent increase in area traffic (con- DESPITE earlier reports years at current population growth rates, however, before county residents will be dis- carding enough refuse to run the plant at capacity. The opposition group also discussed several environmental aspects of the burn plant. They voiced concern pared estimated operating costs for landfills with those of a resource recovery plant. They said that over the next 27 years, BARD and NDRD would cost approximately 1 over the fact that there had been on full EPA study on the effects of the plant. Only an assessment had been made, they said. efficient it would not only have to sell all of the steam and electricity it produced, but would have to run at capacity seven days per week, 24 hours per day. It will take at least five tracts would be signed and that all costs would have to be known before any action is taken. The opposition report com- $22. light of what Mrs. Reed called an electricity glut. The base is obligated by the Federal Government to buy the least expensive type of energy available, said Mr. Hurst. sisting mostly of garbage trucks) and the result is a lower quality of life for residents, they said. Easter Bake Sale Slated For Thurs, Hello, Jason million. This includes the cost of replacing the BARD site after its service life ex- A baby boy was bom to former Clearfield residents, Debra and Robert Ball, now residing in Harrisville. pires. THE BURN plant, however, about $125 million to operate, said the report. Even with the sale of steam to Hill Air Force Base, revenue will not even begin to offset operating and maintenance costs for seven years. HAFB has not yet signed any contracts to buy energy produced by the plant. The report questioned whether the base ever would buy steam in will cost THE GROUP also said that the site now under consideration (on Utah Department of Transportation land just north of Highway 193) was ranked fourth in a feasability study of five potential sties. The group concluded by asking the city council to abandon consideration of the bum plant due to the risks involved with financing uncertain revenue, and the unanswered questions of costs. THE MASS exodus of spectators after the presentation indicated that the crowd had heard enough. Several people complimented Mr. Hurst on the report on their way out, leaving three tired reporters and a handful of citizens to muddle through the remaining items on the council agenda. Jason Robert was born The public is invited to the Easter Bake Sale sponsored by the Volunteer Auxiliary of Humana Hospital Davis March 15 at the Davis North Hospital in Layton. He has a sister Jennifer. Grandparents art Mr. and Mrs. Allen Flint, Clearfield; Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy Ball, Willard. are Mrs. Josie Flint of Clearfield and Mrs. Betty J. Thompson of Sandy. North. THIS EVENT will be held Thursday, March 31, from 7 in the classromm adjacent to the hospital a.m. to 4 p.m. rear entrance. A selection of baked goods and candy will be available. Chairman is Mrs. Donna Buttars, vice president of the Auxiliary. Dump (NDRD). MONDAY, April 4, Easter vacation. pork and Tuesday, April 5, corn dogs salad turnover, tossed cherry beans, milk. Kindergarten snack, small cinnamon puff and milk. WEDNESDAY, April 6, Italian spaghetti, green chilsalad dressing, French roll led peaches and milk. Kindergarten snack, box of raisins and milk. -- Thursday, April 7, fried chicken, whipped potabuttered peas, crisp red apple wheels, toes butter cup, milk. Kindergarten cbmbread milk. and roll shack, small sauce, :'FRIDAY, April 8, bishburger cfeese slice, shredded lettuce, French fries half banana, peanut butter cookie and milk. ar j : THE OPPOSING group con- ceded that the burn plant would increase the service life of the dumps. However, it only postpones the inevitable need to establish new dump sites, they said. MARY ANN HOMER Spieech ' , ( ontest Secondary Menus Winner Lunch menus for the secondary schools for the week of April 8 will include: 4-- MONDAY, April 4, no school Easter holiday. Tuesday, April 5, pizzans, spring salad buttered corn, choice of fruit, chocolate chip cookie, milk. High schools have a choice each day of burger bar or salad line. Junior high choice, dessert and Hoagy sandwich, French fries milk. tater WEDNESDAY, April 6, comdog wheat cracked buttered green beans, gems milk. Junior roils cherry tarts rolls hot cherry tart, high choie, chef salad, fnilk. pota-Jd- s j Thursday, April 7, fried chicken, whipped buttered peas, carrot curwhite cake pineapple ls hot rolls milk. Junior high choice, Hambursauce and dill slice, French fries ger dessert and milk. Mary Ann Homer of Kays-vill- e has won the Air Force ROTC Speech Contest at Brigham Young University in Provo. MISS HOMER was one of the many contestants to part- icipate in the Ken Bacon Memorial Speech Contest, taking first place in the Angel Division held on March 17. She is a sophomore student at BYU and active in the Air Force Chorus Group. i (sandwich FRIDAY, April 8, Monte Cristo Special of dressing, fresh in a scone), tossed salad Junior high choice, fruit, raisin oatmeal cookie, milk. salad, dessert French fries cheeseburger, and milk. SHE IS a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Wendell Homer of 15 South 760 East, Kaysvil-le- . np RESERVATIONS should be milav, D. J. Guptill Participates In Exercise Every wage earner should have a retirement account! Army Pfc. Daniel J. Guptill, at our example. The 11 is used to illustrate the point. Actual interest may Look son of Irene J. Guptill of 126 W. 400 S., Kaysville, participated in Brim Frost 1983, a U.S. Readiness Command joint-servic- e vary. exercise held in Alaska. THE EXERCISE is designed to test and evaluate active and reserve component commanders in joint procedures and tactics. It also gauges their ability to function in an arctic environment. Exercise participants are personnel from Army and Air Force units already assigned to Alaska, a Canadian light infantry battalion, soldiers from Fort Lewis, Wash., and Fort Campbell, Ky., and reservists and national guardsmen from 14 different states. GUPTILL is a domolition specialist with the 172nd Infantry Brigade at Fort Richardson, Alaska. He is a 1981 graduate of Layton High School. Fed, Womens April Luncheon Planned The Federal Womens April luncheon will be held Saturday, April 9 at 12:30 at The Hearthside at Eden. Individual Metirement Accounts 825-115- taxisheltered retirement account and the compounded interest it earns are all tax deferred so your plan can grow to a very substantial amount in just a few years. Phone: 544-342- See us soon. 4 4ihisv i' (Kl r. by April 5, cancellations by April 6. Reservations made reservations paid. Call Mary Hansing, or Mary Mendez, Deposits to your 2 I ii' 5 liCS l 3350 ( If SI HONfi HANK IS MU K SECURITY. fcj i |