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Show D AVI RN AL, NOVEMBER 17, 1987 Arts Week to be celebrated at BDAC By TOM HARALDSEN BOUNTIFUL Mayor Dean Stahle has joined with Utah Governor Norm Bangerter in putting the arts on center stage with a S. proclamation naming this as Bountiful Arts Week. The celebration coincides with National Arts and Utah Arts Week, Nov. The Mayor signed a proclamation last week which states that our identity as a people, a culture, and a nation is expressed through the arts, and... the performing arts, the visual arts, folk arts and literature are central to human expression. The declaration calls upon all citizens to observe such a designated week with appropriate programs and activities. Arts CenThe Bountiful-Davi- s it center arts the only ter, in Davis County, will help observe the week with a special preview soiree for the upcoming Christmas art exhibit, The Spirit of Christ-mu- s Present. The soiree will be held this Friday at 7 p.m. at the arts center, located at 2175 S. Main in Bountiful. The Dickens Carolers will provide a musical program featuring Olde English carols and readings from Dickens Christmas stories, followed by a light buffet and a chance for first choice selection on purchases of art from the exhibit. 15-2- 1. Council has compiled a list of 317 opportunities for Utahns to experience the arts during this one week alone. As part of Utah Arts Week, the council is bringing its Arts Town Meeting program of travel to the Wasatch Front. One such town meeting will be held at the BDAC tomorrow (Wednesday) evening at 7 p.m. The meetings allow council members to learn more about the joys and frustrations of creating arts events in the communities they visit. We are going to be setting longterm goals for the Council, Nixon said. She invites questions on the Council, its programs, and suggestions for improved service to be brought to the meeting, to which the public is invited. non-prof- PHOTO BY CARY BLODGETT Water levels along the shorelines of the Great Salt Lake have reached seasonal lows, allowing use of beaches that had been covered at other times. Those levels should rise again with winters advent. Dry autumn weather has meant season low for Great Salt Lake By GARY R. BLODGETT BeGREAT SALT LAKE cause of several months of drier than normal weather, the Great Salt Lake has reached its yearly at least for the time dry point being. Reservations are required for the by normal evaporation. drought response committee to immediate plans if the weathmake lake level the will water Usually, er trend did not change by begin to rise again in late SeptemThat idea has since ber or early October after reaching its seasonal low. But this didnt been abolished. In an average year, the airport happen this year. The lake level is still dropping receives 15.31 inches of precip durfrom Oct. 1 to because of an extremely dry Sep- ing the water-yetember, drier than normal October, Sept. 30. This year, the water-yea- r and very little precipitation during recorded only 10.71 inches a dethe first two weeks in November. ficit of 4.6 inches. In September, only 0.05 inches And because of the dry water and continued pumping of of rain fell at Salt Lake Internationyear al Airport during the entire month. the Great Salt Lake the water level has now reached a point of In October, 1.18 inches fell, comcausing lake officials some conpared to a normal of 1.14 inches. cern about the future of lake pumpAlso, the evaporation season which usually ends in September ing. The lake is already at a point that salt solution is creating minor was extended with the mean daily temperature 3.4 degrees above pumping problems caused by the normal, making it the fifth warmest low lake level, it was explained. The lake level is presently 2.40 October on record. feet But the (29 inches) lower than the temperature and spring peak of 4,2 1 .85, which tied precipitation during the long Indian summer the modern-da- y historic high set has finally reached an end with the the year before, and is 1 .5 feet lowheavy rainfall and snow last er than this same time last year. This calculates to a loss of 3.57 weekend. of water this seaOnly a couple of weeks ago there million acre-fewas thought of organizing a son, marking the largest recorded loss of water between May and November since 1889 when the t. volume loss was 3.14 million ar The lake has shrunk about 2.40 feet since its highest peak last March, and 1.2 feet since the first of October to reach a measurement at the Saltaire Marina recording station of 4,209.45 feet above sea level the lowest the lake has been since February 1986. Bill Alder, chief meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Salt Lake City, said about eight inches of the drop can be attributed to the gigantic pumping system on the west shore of the lake which has been lifting water out of the lake into the West Desert to evaporate. State officials say that the lakes pumping system has been in- strumental in reducing and in keeping the lakes water level lower, as well as the drop in the lake created above-norm- below-norm- al 1 al IHEOTI&IEpQra gtGKT.rajnp et contemporary Utah artists, each priced at $250 or less for gift giving. The centers gift gallery will be filled with handsome original items to decorate or give for the season. The exhibit will be open to the public with a reception this Sunday afternoon from 5 p.m., and will remain on display through Christmas Eve. Statewide, over 1300 artists will participate in more than 300 arts events this week. One of the earliest actions of Utahs Legislature was to advance the arts by creation of a state agency in 1899 with that mandate. This compares with the creation of most similar agencies in the 1960s in other states. The Utah Arts Council last summer put out a call to the arts community asking for a week-lon- g celebration of the arts, and the results have been gratifying, stated Carol Nixon, director of the arts council. Based on the responses we have received, the Utah Arts mm mm 2-- nagativa von daaign Add. $3.50forcopying''yourcoiorlbrbli S3 and wtvt print and making a naw nagativa Add $t50 par ordar from If daaign ia not aaiactad, "card wd b madajjaing DatigriNo 35J aid from aNdaa or print akghtty hig a(idaf Hull', iidw Ft. Lane Shopping Center, Layton - acre-fee- Vote analysis Despite passage of bond issue, not all communities in county approve of jail expansion plans By GARY R. BLODGETT FARMINGTON Although Davis Countys jail bond proposal was approved by a 53.7 to 46.3 percentage vote in the recent Municipal Election, not all of the countys 15 communities and unincorporated areas were in favor. all in north In fact, there were four of the 15 municipalities Davis County that had more votes opposing the jail bond issue than those that voted in favor of it, according to a breakdown of countywide vote tabulations. However, even in the cities where the vote was more against than in favor of the bond proposal, the margin of opposition was quite slim. Looking at the final vote tabulations, the votes in each city were very close. Only Clearfield, Syracuse, Layton, Sunset and the small unincorporated area voted against the bond proposal. In the final tabulations, there were 12,536 votes in favor of the bond proposition and 10,817 ballots against the sale of $18.5 million in general revenue bonds to be repaid over the lifespan of the bond. Davis County Commissioner Glen Saunders said the commission was pleasantly surprised and pleased with the result of the bond sale but knew there would be some opposition. He said bond analysts, headed by the countys bonding advisor, Larry Denham, have been studying the bond market and trying to establish marketing strategy. The recent decline in the stock market has not adversely affected the bond market, in fact it has provided a positive effect on bond interest and actually increased the market atmosphere, said Com. Saunders. Com. Saunders emphasized that Davis County has an AA bond rating the second highest in the state, next only to state agencies, and the bond interest should be very favorable. Mr. Denham said earlier that bonds for projects such as this have been hovering around eight percent. He noted that a close watch will be kept on the bond market and bonds will be sold at the most opportune time. Bonding money will be used to purchase 92 acres of undeveloped property in West Farmington. Utilities will have to be brought onto the site where a new county jail and court complex will be constructed south of Clark Lane (100 North) between 650 West and 1100 West, a sparsely populated area west of Interstate Highway 15. The proposal is to build a jail that would initially house nearly 300 prisoners and designed to accommodate a maximum of 400 inmates the number of beds that a feasibility study says will be needed by the year 2010. The proposed complex will also include three district courts and related courtrooms and offices as well as office space for the county clerks office that deals directly with the court system. The jail and court facilities presently located in downtown Farmington are overcrowded. The existing jail has bed space for 108 inmates but regularly houses between 120 and 150 inmates. When the jail is completed, probably late next year, the present jail complex will be renovated into office space. The property tax increase to all county property owners will begin at about $20 per year for the owner of a $70,000 home and will be gradually increased to a maximum of about $35 per year. 25-ye- ar I Weatherwise, the summer was moderate with the thermometer reaching 100 degrees only once (in June), compared to an average summer of five days of 100 or more degrees. There were 14 days of 95 degrees or higher, compared to an average of 23 ; and 44 days of 90 to 95 degrees, compared to an average of 54. School board honors Harris FARMINGTON The Davis County Board of Education Tuesday evening recognized Michael B. Harris, physics teacher at Layton High School for outstanding achievements in his field. Mr. Harris is a graduate of Weber State College with a bachelors degree and the University of Utah with a masters degree. He started teaching in 1969. Most of his career has been in the Davis County School system. For the past eight years, he has been teaching at Layton High School. While Mr. Harris has earned many state and national honors for his teaching techniques and abilities, his real strength is in the devotion and dedication he shows to his students in the classroom and through extra curricular assign- ments. At Layton High School, he adviser to the very active National Honor Society. He coaches the Academic Olympiad team that has received first place honors several times, he is an AP physics teacher and involved in the concurrent enrollment program. One of his most exciting programs is the annual bridge-buildin- g contest. This is held in the school auditorium and usually about 100 students participate. The level of competition and excitement rivals a football game. Layton students have performed well in this annual is an physics and engineering prac-ticu- Among his many honors is the designation as the Outstanding Science Teacher in math and science. He received this in 1984 from the U. of U . College of Engineering. It was an award created from student response to questions about teachers who did the most to motivate them into careers in math and science. Submit Church News By Wed. 4 P.M. 6 ! event. The Spirit of Christmas Present will feature works by over 60 itunlb Whl OtisxMD 376-347- 3 i |