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Show 2A qt Sabbatical Lakeside Review South, Wednesday, Mar. 9, 1983 By KENT SOMERS Review Staff FARMINGTON Citing budget restrictions, the Davis County Board of Education denied three of six requests for sabbatical leave at its meeting last week. Assistant Superintendent Gayle Stevenson said the district had budgeted $40,000 for the program for the 1983-8school year, but granting six sabbatical leaves would cost ap4 proximately AT together another A WORKER FASTENS ascend through two large loops which will turn the riders upside down and then send them back around the track. section of track onto the new roller coaster at Lagoon. Riders on the new ride will . 9mm,j ji :V'C, , 'Colossus' Is Only Word For New Roller Coaster den, advertising manager for Lagoon, said. Indeed the roller coaster is The blue FARMINGTON steel track rises in a steady the most expensive ride ever climb. It passes under a put in at the large park. It also cora turns it then arch, brings the number of roller yellow ner before whisking passengers coasters at Lagoon to a grand up a golden yellow arch, turns total of three. That is if you them upside down, and then include the old wooden roller a spins the car out the other side. coaster and the Jet Star II While passengers scream, and metal roller coaster, And if you want to compare faces are contorted in excite-- 1 ment. price tags, the Jet Star II cost Sound like Knotts Berry round $800,000, Van Woerden a new said. The Tidal Wave Farm? Or maybe Magic Mounalso tain? How about Marriotts ride installed last year cost around $800,000. But the Great America? If you guessed any of the new coaster has a price tag of $2.5 million. above, guess again. How about size? The large blue and yellow metal roller coaster known as Each of the two loops on the Colossus is one of Lagoon Amnew coaster are 65 feet in usement Parks new features diameter. They each rise 90 feet for the coming year. This or ten stories. The highest point brings us in line with some of on the old wooden roller coaster the big parks, Ron Van Woer- - is 70 feet high, Van Woerden By RON KNOWLTON Review Staff 90-fo- ot 1 said. Three trains will run on the track on the new coaster and the ride can handle 1,600 people per hour. Each train can reach a speed of 60 miles per hour, Van Woerden said. The track is 2,850 feet long. On the old coaster there is 2,500 feet of track, Van Woerden said. The old coaster course took about two minutes to complete. The new coaster ride will last 1 minute and 45 seconds, Van Woerden said. The coaster also has about 10,000 lights that will light up the ride in the evening. Perhaps the nearest roller coaster in the West that compares to it is the coaster at Knotts Berry Farm. It has several smaller loops but they go into a corkscrew configuration, Van Woerden said. Theres a coaster at a park in tracks and loops make up the new $2.5 coaster at Lagoon Amusement Park in Farmington. The ride will last one minute and 45 seconds and will take riders as fast as 60 miles per hour. Geauga Lake in Ohio that also foundation in for the coaster, has a double loop. One of the Van Woerden said. roller coasters at the Marriotts Lagoon also had to rent a Great America in California has large crane for several days at a large cost to put the metal one large loop. Busch Gardens in Florida al- pieces of the coaster in place, so has a roller coaster similar to Van Woerden said. Workers the one at Lagoon, Van Woerden have been working on the ride since Feb. 28, when the metal said. Colossus also ran up some colpieces first started arriving in ossal bills for Lagoon. It cost Lagoons parking lot. It will $100,000 to ship the coaster from take two weeks to complete the ride. Germany, where it was manufactured. After it arrived in San FranThe $2.5 million price tag incisco by boat, the coaster parts cludes painting and putting the were then sent by train to Utah. A JUMBLE OF million roller , $62,000. Two board members, Dr. Raymond Briscoe and Bruce Parry, said they thought the extra $22,000 could be found in the budget. Briscoe said the sabbatical leave program was an important one, and one he had benefited from. After 13 or 14 years in the classroom, I needed a change, he said. I was worth twice as much to the district the year I came back. But Board Member Robert McIntosh, while agreeing with Briscoe on the programs merits, asked, Dose that mean we let anybody who wants a sabbatical leave get one, regardless of the budget? Briscoe made a motion to grant the leave to all six applic- ants. But that was defeated when Board President Sheryl Allen, board member Dee Forbes and McIntosh voted against it. McIntosh said he felt bad that the three people, Brenda d Mecham, James Wiley and Young, were denied sabbatical leaves, but said the budget didnt even allow the board to improve the student-teache- r Win-war- ratio. motion was then made to approve applications, based on seniority, of Barry Avery, Anita Helton and Heidi Hill. That motion passed by a 1 margin with Briscoe casting the dissenting A 4-- vote. If Bonding Fails i Other Alternatives for North Salt Lake If voters turn down a proposal for a city hall expansion in North Salt Lake, the city may need to look at several alternativeds. The most likely alternative is 'to expand the present building to the south and to do it a little at a time as we can afford it, jMayor Robert Palmquist said. City officials, though, are hoping voters will approve a general obligation bonding proposal which will likely be on the ballot in November so that the city can build a $600,000 expansion into the present city hall. The expansion is needed be- NORTH SALT LAKE . Bid Given For Golf , The present building was finished piecemeal, Palmquist said, as the city could afford it. Palmquist said the city had .determined an 11,000 square an engineer look at expanding 'foot expansion would be needed y south and east of the present the present building to a building, he added. The expanbuilding, but it was determined so much work would sion would bring the square have to be done to the foundafootage of the building to 17,000 tion (of the building) that it square feet, Palmquist said. would not be financially feasThe new city hall would not be ible, Palmquist said. as big as what Bountiful quite The city has hired a profeshas, Palmquist said, but would firm sional two-stor- Lloyd be more in line with the size of planning and Butler of Salt Lake City the new city hall, which did a study to determine he added. Farmington if a new building was needed The first in North Salt Lake and what size the building should be, Palmquist said. City hall was on the old highway The firm determined the new (Highway 91). The facility was building was needed, Palmquist purchased by the Utah Highway said. And as for size, it was 'Patrol Published weekly and distributed FREE by carrier every Wednesday morning from Roy through North Salt Lake. ; A Subsidiary of the Standard Corporation G. LAMAR BOTT MARILYN L. KARRAS EDITOR Utahns are safer on the sates highways now than in 1948, ac- cording to the latest figures from the Utah Highway Patrol. A highway fatality number commonly used for comparison of areas with different populaConBOUNTIFUL U.S. tions is the number of fatalities struction Inc. has been awarded the bid to build a $54,790 build- per 100 million vehicle miles 1982 ing and rock wall at the Bounti-- , (100 MVM) traveled. 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