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Show Standard-Examin- er INSIDE Dust may be settling Situation has improved at construction site.2 COMMUNITY Knock-Knoc- k New principal wants to meet every resident in her area.6 muiwpxuniiLwi. mpif SEPTEMBER 8, 1998 DAVIS COUNTYS COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER reach several thousand dollars. The tipping fee for construction and demolition materials is $25 a ton. Because the district did not have a policy in place, the district board passed a resolution setting guidelines for how fee waivers can be considered. It gives the district director the authority to waive or set reduced rates for waste caused by or resulting from isolated natural disasters or other acts of God if payment of regular rates would cause a hardship. Before the waiver or reduced rate is official, it must be approved by the full board. The intent is not that it would be used on a monthly or even yearly basis. It addresses an extreme and unique situation, he said, such as the apparent fill dirt fail By AMY PRAY Standard-Examine- Davis Bureau r FARMINGTON - A condemned house sliding off a Layton hillside and the financial hardship it created prompted the Davis County waste management district to evaluate its policy on waiving landfill disposal fees. Layton officials requested that the trict consider waiving or reducing fees for the tons of waste created when the house at 1851 E. Sunset Drive was demolished last Wednesday. District Director LeGrand Bitter said the district had not added up the total price but expected the disposal cost could dis- Back Will year 2000 bring fluoride? ure that caused a slide and severe damage to Sunset Drive property. This is the only time weve ever been solicited for something like this. We dont expect it to occur very often. The requests would only be considered, Bitter said, in cases where neither the Federal Emergency Management Agency nor insurance policies would cover the costs. Bitter said concern about the costs was raised by board Chairman Jerry Stevenson, who is also Laytons mayor, but he emphasized that there was no pressure or influence at all, forcing the issue because the slide was in Stevensons city. Layton officials said the city planned to pick up the tab for the homes demolition, which was expected to cost about $10,000. Passing the resolution Wednesday did not approve waiving fees in any specific cases. The board is expected to consider the Sunset Drive situation at its October meeting. Farmington Councilman Larry Haugen was critical of waiving or reducing fees in the Layton case or any similar situation, suggesting those involved exhaust all other options before requesting a break from the district. There arent that many hardship cases around, but I think other avenues must be pursued to find money, whether its the church or the city or somewhere else, Haugen said. I think the city should be responsible. The city shouldn't have allowed houses to be built where they could slide. If Whats coming , Listen up, guys: In this weeks issue o( TX.. recent Bountiful High graduate Candice Hunsaker offers a lesson on how to wnte the proper love letter. But don't worry, there's also an article from Tyler Eastabrook, who homeschools in Clinton, about love from a guy's perspective and the point of love letters. Also coming up, recent Roy High graduate Sarah Thompson lists the pros and cons of graduating from high school -just in case, after one week of a new school year, you are ready to quit. And Stefame Warr. a sophomore at Clearfield High School, comments on the idea that kids who bring guns to school and kill their fellow students are just too young to know that they did something wrong Should they be punished as severely as an adult would be? Find out what Stefame thinks on Thursday. Want to share your opinion, TX. at too? tx(a'standard not, or join the TX chat room Wednesdays at 8 p m. at www standard net. TX ( Teen Crammer) is published every Thursday in the Lakeside Review For more information on how to get a copy, call 776-495- 1 I Business award ... Ed Pattillo of Clearfield, a disaster recovery analyst for the Internal Revenue Service, has earned the designation of Certified Business Continuity Professional. Candidates must pass a comprehensive examination, attain a minimum of verifiable missions and goals in the face of disastrous events," says Jay Bender, executive director of the Disaster Recovery Institute International. The Disaster Recovery Institute was founded in 1988 by a group of visionary leaders along with Washington University in St. Louis. Today, the Disaster Recovery Institute represents over 1 ,700 business continuity and disaster recovery planners worldwide. Scholarship recipient . . . Cathy Winchester of Layton received a $1,500 Legacy of Learning Scholarship from Workers Fund of Utah during its annual luncheon in August in Salt Lake City. She is among 65 students who received scholarships given to qualified spouses and children of workers who died in industrial accidents covered by WCF. Winchester will use her scholarship to continue pursuing a degree in business management. WATERWORKS: Guests at the I want to tcU him thank Layton Surf N Swim enjoy a day of swimming you, ohiousfy. He was the guardian angel looking out for him (Aspen)- - Ectyonc said it was his (Razees) swift thinking and actions that sa'cd my son. It could who helped save a little boy from drowning recently. At left, Razee helps haw been much worse. ClanssaTaggert practice her Hammer of Ogden, after lifeguard Devan Razee saved her son -- Jennifer kicks. BRIAN NICHOLSON Lifeguard at Layton Surf N Swim helps save By LORETTA PARK Standard Drammer corresponded! LAYTON Spotty is neutered, This was his first summer working as a life guard. His supervisor, Kate Neilscn, told him to do Razee took the unconscious hoy to the shallow end, dumped all the fluids out of his h while mouth and started waiting for emergency personnel to show up. They said the paramedics were there within a few minutes. But to me, it felt longer, Razee said. Aspen's (Payton) heart never stopped, said Monte Gieen, the city's aquatic manager. Green said the swimming pool staff and lifeguards do drills every month for this exact type of accident. We arc glad it turned out for the best. You read so many times how it turns out for the worse, Green said. There were about 40 to 50 people in the pool. Razee said, and three lifeguards, including himself, on duly. Payton was there with the Teddy Bear Daycare front Ogden for the end of the year party, said his mother, Jennifer Hammer of Ogden. Green said too many times adults believe that because there is a lifeguard at the pool their children will be safe. mouth-to-moul- Payton, 5, wants to again despite nearly recently at Laton Surf N h. mouth-to-moul- Swim. As far as Paton asleep m the pool. 1 hat is when I feci asleep in the pool. I didn't sec him because I was asleep in the pool, said Payton, who does not know how to swim. Who Pas ton didn't see was the lifeguard who saw him. He had sunk to the bottom and it was the quick thinking of lifeguard Devin Raec that woke the boy up. I know what happened to me. I drowneded. I didn't go all the way to the bottom. I drowneded for one nunule," Pay-to- n said. Razee, 18, said he spotted the young boy swimming toward the deep end. He wasn't struggling. But then I noticed he went under. I watched him for a minute and I saw all the air go out of his lungs, said the Davis High School senior. With no second thoughts Razee dove into the water, reached down, grabbed the preschooler and pulled him up. is concerned, he fell 5-year-- boy old Parents and adults need to watch the children. as well as the lifeguards. Hammer was at Mattrix Marketing, where she works, when she received the phone call from the Layton City Fire Department saying her only son had drowned and paramedics were doing cardiopulmonary resuscitation. A offered to drive her to Lay-ton. er I couldnt help it. I kept thinking the worst, Hammer said. Ln route to Layton, she received another phone call from the fire department on her cell phone saving her son was awake and being flown to Primary Children's Medical Center in Salt Lake City. little When she arrived her brown-eyeboy looked at her and said, Mom, you forgot to bring towels. By then Jammer called a neighbor to go get her y car-ol- d daughter, Aysha Pay ion. who was at the swimming pool with the rest of the daycare children. Hammer and her two children visited the daycare the day after the accident. There they received a warm welcome back and many gifts. Razee was told he could take a few days See SWIM, 2 d and very loving, good with kids and other animals. He is is available from the Davis County Animal Shelter for a $25 adoption fee, plus a $10 license lee. Adoption hours are from p m. weekdays and 9 am, to 1 p m. on Saturdays. For more information call 444 2200 or visit their Web site at www co davis ut us. 2-- 4 Stnrxldrd Dammor - Aspen Pet of Week under the watchful eye of lifeguard Devan Razee (above), J )OR COPY 776-495- 1 continuity of organizational fluor- in TX. submit an item for The certification By BRYON SAXTON - To Neighbors, call weekdays. distinguishes Mr. Pattillo as part of an elite group of planning professionals that address the Standard Examiner Davis Bureau FARMINGTON Neighbors experience in specific areas of business continuity planning, and pass the evaluation of a certification board. 776-495- 1. Health director wants to extend efforts to fluoridate water idated water comes to Davis County, it will arrive the same year the country gets a new president. Not that President Clinton has anything to do with making the call on whether there will be fluoride in Davis cities drinking water. But local health officials say a proposal to put fluoride in the drinking water is a decision that needs to be made by as many people as possible where Davis cities are mainly the owners and operators of the drinking water systems. ' Davis Health Director Dr. )amcs Saunders said that is why he is recommending the health boards cITort to introduce fluoride to the countys drinking water be extended to the year 2000, the ear of the next presidential election. That is when it should go to the ballot, he said. Saunders said that way they get 60 percent of the registered voters vs. the 30 percent who cast ballots in the off years. Besides, he figures, the stale of Utah has waited 150 years for fluoridated water, whats two more years going to hurt? In May the Board of Health , adopted a resolution that was sent to the 30 water providers in the county, asking them to con- See WATER2 7 AVIS LIVES two-yea- Contact reporter Amy Pray at the swim in mi !;-- VOL 17, NO. 108 Demolished house raises landfill fee concerns Waste management district sets harship policy on waivers n Coming Thursday Greater understanding Davis School District has coordinated a training package for families and students who speak English as a second language. Read about it in the next Lakeside Review. Pest Quote Lets give the president the benefit of the doubt ... I get weary that everywhere I go, its Lets lynch this man. 1 6-- w Jim Hansen in a speech to the North Davis Chamber of Commerce Rep I |