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Show I s r Standard-Examine- r INSIDE Dust settling West Point residents dont like construction dust.2 COMMUNITY One last barbecue Celebrate end of summer with something from the grill.7 Neighbors fume over graffiti problem Expanding development offers more opportunities for tagging By AMY PRAY Standard-Examine- ' Davis Bureau r - J.W. LAYTON Smith expected it in rundown parts of big cities. letters and symbols But scrawled on new shopping center walls, curbs, construction trailers and utility boxes near her neighborhood had Smith fumd spray-painte- ing. She often walks the area around the center and said the gang vandalism called tagging - seemed to grow worse over the past few months as devel - VOL 17, NO. 102 DAVIS COUNTYS COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER AUGUST 25, 1998 opment expanded. Every day, theres more. Its started to look like L.A. around here, she said. With the proposed multimillion-dolla- r Davis Conference Center to be built along the developments Heritage Park Boulevard, Smith wondered how visitors would react to the mess. Smith knows how it affected the neighbors. Its ruined my walk every day, seeing all this, she said. I dont know what rock these people crawled out from under, but I wish theyd go back. Police Capt. Dave Nance acknowledged that the area had been hit with some graffiti recently but said it didnt seem any worse than usual. Shopping centers can be prime canvases for these illegal artists, Nance said, because they have many large smooth surfaces that are easy to spray paint. And graffitis one of the toughest crimes to fight, he said. Its usually kids walking through late at night, no ones around and they do it, then theyre gone, he said. There were 467 documented graffiti cases last year in Layton. Two community-oriente- d policing, or COP, officers, have been assigned to deal with gang graffiti cases. Nance said the number of graffiti reports actually had gone down in recent months. in Layton The best success in catching taggers, Nance said, has come from resource officers working in schools. They notice graffiti symbols on school books and compare them to ones seen in town. Sometimes, the two have a connection. Graffiti is a form of property destruction and considered a class B misdemeanor, punishable with up to six months in jail and $1,000 fine, Nance said. We still dont arrest a lot of kids for it, he said. Its been property owners who get punished. According to a city ordinance, any- See GRAFFITI2 Schools break with tradition Design of three new elementaries will offer something different By CYNTHIA E. THOMAS NEIGHBORS To submit an item for 1 Neighbors, call weekdays. 776-495- First place ' . . . Davis High School graduate Chet Hovey won first place in a national contest to d turbine design a system. The contest, in water-powere- conjunction with HydroVision 98, a hydroengineering " conference, was held in July in Reno. A senior in the civil and environmental engineering program at the University of ' Utah, he the son of Sam and Kathleen Hovey of Kaysville. Hovey and a fellow student teamed up to win the annual Hydro Power contest for designing the most efficient system. Contestants were required to construct a water turbine that gravity-fewould lift a weight, either in the shortest period of time or using the least amount of water. Theirs used the least amount of water. Hovey and his teammate received a $400 first prize along with a $250 design award. The pair will also split a $1 ,000 scholarship from the Department of Energy. d Standard-Examine- Davis Bureau r d patterns, SYRACUSE-Bol- light, open space and a lot of glass will make up the characteristics of three new elementary schools in the Davis School District. ' These features will be a departure from tradition, but thats just what district officials wanted in the buildings they started to construct in the spring. Earlier this month, the National Education Association released a plea for all youngsters to learn in modem, sparkling classrooms, siting improved opportunities for learning in such places. Architects and Davis School District officials say they are striving for just such an advantage in three new elementary schools currently under construction in the county. How refreshing it was to have a client come to us and say We dont want you to repeat the old plan design 20 years ago; education has changed with technology, computers and schools. We want you year-roun- d to come out and create a new design for the 21st century, said Boyd McAllister of Valcntiner and Crane Architects. Valcntiner and Crane Architects designed new schools in West Point and Kaysville and Naylor Wentworth Architects are overseeing the Syracuse school. The district desires to develop a good school. Theyve been involved in a lot of stuff. Its been fun to really be a part of that team, said Ross Wentof Naylor worth, Wentworth Architects. In all three schools, media centers - round and glassy -will be focal entry points. District officials also have said they wanted the buildings designed with public usage in mind, so that the community will have access to the media center even after school hours. Part of the districts agenda was Lets gel community pride back in this building. This process is going to help this to happen. We need to get parents to start getting more involved in using the building at night, McAllister said. The schools will be spacious and rely heavily on natural daylight. One of the unique features of See SCHOOLS2 part-own- ' Law graduate . . . Dirk Ray Gardner, formerly of South Weber, has graduated from Washington University School of Law in St. Louis. Gardner was awarded the juris doctoris degree and was inducted into The Order of the Coif, BRIAN NICHOLSON SYRACUSE SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION: David Loveless of Paul Snyder Masonry checks a level while working on will be separate sites to pick up and drop off kindergarten students. the new elementary school in Syracuse. MIRROR IMAGES: In the twin schools of West Point (left) and Kaysville, architects are the design and colors. At the West Point school, the stucco will be dusty jade with terra cotta window frames, and a dusty jade media center... selected for academic excellence from the top 10 percent of the graduating class. The son of Sterling and Annette Ray Gardner of South Weber, he is married to Kari Tingey of Caldwell, Idaho. They are the parents of two children. He will be employed by the firm of Louis, Rice and Fingersh . in St. Louis. Pet of week Buddy, a border collie, is calm, gentle and loves to work. He is available from the Davis County Animal Shelter for a $60 adoption fee, plus a $10 license fee. Adoption hours are from p.m. weekdays and 9 a m. to 1 p.m. on Saturdays. For more information call or visit their Web site at www.co.davis.ut.us. 2-- 4 . . . while at the Kaysville school (nght), the stucco will be terra cotta, and the window frames will be dusty jade. The media center will be terra cotta. Media centers will be focal entry points in all three of the new schools. Whats coming inTX. fashion scene in this Check out the TX. take on the weeks issue, coming out Thursday. Jennifer Smith, a recent hit graduate of Bonneville High School, scanned the latest mags and the malls to find out just what was hot this fall. Also coming Thursday, recent Davis High graduate Daniel Widdison laments the fact that the soundtracks teens buy at the CD store dont necessarily reflect the movie they supposedly come from - you may go to the movie, but you probably wont hear a single song ' from the soundtrack. What is the world coming to? And Lori Eggleston, a recent graduate of Northndge High School, did some scouting for the bookworms out there. Three of the major You can read the results Thursday. bookstores got a once-oveTX. about story ideas or articles you see published at txstandard.net, or join the chat room Wednesday nights at 8 p m. at www. standard net for a teen chat. TX. is published every Thursday in the Lakeside 1. Review. For more information on how to get a copy, call 776-49- )OR COPY Standard-Examine- One unique feature of the new school er back-to-scho- r. 5 i ' i - 444-220- 0 COMING THURSDAY Sewer dilemma West Point City Council votes on plan it hopes will solve problems. Read about it in the next Lakeside Review. Overnight parking ordinance protested Sunset residents want to be able to park on city streets By JaNAE FRANCIS Standard Examiner Davrs Bureau g SUNSET - A Sunset ordinance that outlaws overnight parking on city streets d is garnering protest from some city residents. Thursday the planning commission met before a packed-i- n crowd of home owners who want to rid the city of limits of one- long-standin- year-roun- hour street parking between the hours of 2 a.m. and 7 a.m. At least during summer months. Dean Sharp presented the commission with a petition signed by more than 200 residents supporting the change. We as residents of the city actually own the road through taxes, Sharp told the commission. He suggested looking at ordinances of surrounding commu- nities and coming into compliance with them, banning overnight parking only from about October to April to allow for snowplows. Sharp said many residents in the city have lower incomes and smaller homes that dont provide ample parking spaces. He said the law was an inconvenience to many. I usually have to get up in the middle of the night to move my vehicles. he said. My shoes aint on. Im in my underwear. lie said having company and teenagers were two reasons why many needed the street parking. See PARK1NG2 BEST QUOTE dont think the cares about us. Theyre about-thaI city really only worried big new (Davis) t Conference Center. Business owner Sherri Tatton, who wonders if the boom of new Layton means bust for the old. ! |