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Show Thursday, September 27, 2007 SPRINGVILLE HERALD The Water Van comes to Sage Creek V VIS " ': ,1ft ; ' r. '";'".! Celebrate grandparents! That is The students started off with a short program by singing to the grandparents. After singing, each child visited with their grandparents. They were able to learn more about where their grandparent grew up, in what kind of house, if they had an animals, and lots of other information. Thank you to the students and the teachers who did such a wonderful iob on the oroaram. A BIG "thank vou" I goes to all the grandparents who Mike Hicks, principal at Brookside Elementary, was awarded the Service in Excellence Award from the SpringvilleMapleton PTA. Hicks has been a key player in many children's lives for over 40 years. He has five grandchildren who attend Brookside School. Congratulations Mike Hicks! Bishop-Hatch bill to increase education funds Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) (R-Utah) and Congressman Rob Bishop (R-Utah) have introduced legislation to help Utah and other Western West-ern states address chronic public education funding fund-ing shortages - shortages which are based in large part on vast federal land holdings in the West. The bill, the Action Plan for Public Land and Education Educa-tion (APPLE) Act of 2007, is based on the fact that Western states will never be able adequately to fund education as long as the federal government owns so much land in those states. States cannot tax public lands held by the federal government, and thus cannot produce revenue reve-nue off of them to support education. "Some say that the West's education funding deficit is due to a lack of commitment or effort by state governments, which is preposterous to anyone who knows how much Utahns value their children's chil-dren's schooling," Hatch said. "Property tax revenue, rev-enue, which funds education, educa-tion, is generated on private pri-vate lands - and 65 percent of Utah is federally owned, second only to Nevada with 83 percent - so it shouldn't be a surprise that Utah's Find New & Used Building Materials & More for a LOT LESS at our Home Improvement Outlet Factory demo Little Giant Ladders $100 off retail Never-installed Amsco & Aspen windows $6.50sq ft New range hoods still in boxes New wood and vinyl blinds-still in boxes New doors and door hardware Half price on all paint for rest of July Furniture, plumbing, cabinets and much much more. All proceeds go towards building homes for Utah Families Habitat for Humanity 626 N. Freedom Blvd., Provo just what the second araders did at attended. They appreciate all the school districts struggle with their budgets." The APPLE Act would allow Western states to select and take back control con-trol of 5 percent of federal public lands within their boundaries that have no specific federal designation. designa-tion. The revenue generated gener-ated from the sale or lease of these lands would be dedicated solely to public education. Certain existing areas would be excluded, such as National Parks, National Forests, Wilderness Wilder-ness Areas and military installations. "Utah should be commended com-mended for the resources it ; t . a. ; .r $j ;. Westside students and teachers enjoyed a performance of "Sleeping Beauty" by Ballet West dancers. Students especially enjoyed the opportunity to try out and learn a few moves of their own. Thank you to Ballet West and their sponsors for this wonderful opportunity! Call 3RESTOR (373-7867) Cherrv Creek on Fridav SeDt 21. support puts toward education, but our hands are tied as long as the feds have so much of our land locked up and off the tax rolls," Bishop said. "This APPLE initiative is simply an effort to right a longstanding wrong, and give our kids in the West a little more help. We need more control of our lands so we can use them to better bet-ter fund our education system." sys-tem." While Utah traditionally spends a higher percentage percent-age of its overall annual budget on education than almost every other state, it still struggles to fund education edu-cation needs in the state M f for questions 10-6 M-F, 9-3 Sat Jannelyse Allred, Baylynn Anderson, and Madisen Ontiveros On September 19, the Water Van workers from the Living Planet Aquarium Aquari-um came to Sage Creek Elementary. El-ementary. The Water Van group visits schools every day. Finally it was Sage Creek's turn. One of the models that they brought is the model to show how water is purified. pu-rified. On the model one of the presenters used Ga-torade. Ga-torade. He used purple for sewer water, and blue for ocean water. He pumped both in separate tubes. He also showed us what building build-ing the waters go through to be purified. He also showed us that electricity uses water too. Surprising, isn't it? He told us how water is used and where it goes after af-ter it has been purified. When the water van workers came to Sage Creek they brought models to show us how much water wa-ter we need and how much water we need and how much water we can save each day, and you don't realize re-alize how much water you use. When you get a drink or something, don't get a lot, so you don't use it. Second, Sec-ond, you also use water for electricity. After all the presentations presenta-tions were over the two workers had us sit down and talk to them about water. wa-ter. Afterwards they told us about a few animals they brought to show. The first one was the Bo sufficiently. The same is true in many other Western West-ern states where, Hatch and Bishop contend, the states lack the strong sales tax base necessary to dramatically dra-matically raise public education edu-cation funding because so much of their land 52 percent on average is owned by the Federal government. gov-ernment. The APPLE bill was introduced in-troduced simultaneously in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, where Hatch and Bishop announced their intention to immediately immedi-ately push for legislative hearings. ojniiAiirLnL home auto life business 1 TpRfbVa ira fi 1 STtd MUTJH-iikZJ real Toad. He told us a little bit of how it lives and breathes. The next animal was a type of Salamander. That was really interesting. The last one was a Garter Snake. He let us touch it if we would do it correctly, or in one direction. 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It was so much fun for all Sage Creek students and teachers. teach-ers. Thank you to the Water Wa-ter Van for coming, and also to Central Utah Water Conservancy District and the Division of Water Resources Re-sources for helping to support sup-port this program. v I . Karen Snow 25 East 200 South Springville, UT (801) 489-8000 SPANISH FORK fu Ft f 4 t |