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Show 7 I O u I' f.f V' -- CO l rtM .30 SAM L desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, what. then, is tin empty desk a sign ? of -- Albert Einstein If a cluttered 0 i;ntv AKt f A J ft1 olHlf CITY. IM 1 N ( - ?SCb t01 "U CooKing up a storm It takes more than just Jintah Basin 509 being a good cook to do the job just right Bev Gunn, the cook at the Crossroads Center also has to make sure her meals fulfill nutrition requirements, and stay within a very tight budget. Tuesday February 5, 2002 Roosevelt, Utah Vol. www.ubstandard.com 13 Seepage isic or 2001 RPD STATISTICS RELEASED Domestic violence theft on the rise, burglaries decline Going to court ByLezlee E.Whiting owner of a waste water disposal pond has filed documents in 8th District Court alleging that the Duchesne County Commission and the The Every 24 hours a Roosevelt police officer responds to 39 incidents. Almost once a week there is a burglary in Roosevelt and there's a theft reported every two days. A traffic accident occurs a little more than once every two days. Lust year Roosevelt police officers responded to a total of 14,332 incidents and made 1,219 arrests. An incident" includes everything from a call for help with a flat tire to a burglary or call of a man with a gun. Approximately 60 percent of those arrested by Roosevelt police last year were Roosevelt residents. county's Planning and Zoning Board acted illegally. See page 9 High death rate death rate for colorectal cancer is 0 percent higher than the death rate for the Wasatch Front. Find out what you can do to lower your odds. See page 2 The ty Statistics compiled by the IQ-2- Roosevelt Police Department show that incidents of domestic violence, felony theft and criminal mischief were up significantly last year. Although there have been shifting highs and lows when it comes to felony & j Last year therecorded department 1,219 arrests. That averages out to 118 l arrests per officer. theft and criminal mischief cases in the city, reported incidents of reported domestic violence have' climbed steadily for the past thre years. (See related chart on thispage.) Specific crimes included in the domestic violence category include family fights (82), child abuse (27), keep the peace (60), violations of a protective order (16), spouse abuse (7), neglect ofa child (3), and stalking (1). Roosevelt Police Chief Steve SEE RPD STATS on page 3 See Page Roosevelt Police Department Statistical Report 2001 Cats crush Uintah Utes It is uni ersally believed that INVENTION CONVENTION RECORD SETTERS record for having the most district the children set Ronda and Winteitons llynim children from one family participate in the Invention Convention. The four Winterton children enthusiastically presented their inventions to onlookers, and then quickly pointed with pride to their sibling's inventions. Inventing is in their blood, their grandfather Omni Winterton is the creator of many working inventions. Piclured left to right: Sharee, Dallin, Jenice, and Kristen. Union boy hoopsters jumped into a 14-- 0 lead andbeattheUtesby 13. The Lady Cats also whipped the 16-1- 7 By 30 PERCENT DROP Fewer juveniles got into trouble with the law in 2001 n By Susan Collier Last year 130 juveniles spent an average of just over one hour in the Duchesne County Receiving Center for minor offenses punishable in juvenile court. This is 57 less than the preceding year, or a 30$ decrease. The youths taken to the Receiving Center last year ranged in age frerm 8 to 17. Most were brought in law enforcement officers, although school administrators or guardians can also bring children to the center if they become uncontrollable. The Receiving Center allows law enforcement officers to quickly return to duty where they are needed most The idea is to move them on Last years statistics I indicate that most juvenile offenses Were y alcohol related. home, explained Wayne Potter, the sole employee of the Receiving Center. In foct the first thing Potter does when a juvenile is brought to the center is call their parents or guardians. In many esses the parents are at home worrying about the child, so immediate notification ia very im- portant. The children sit in Potters office where he talks with them until their Therena Morrill The recently released Stanford Achievement Test scores for schools within the Duchesne County School District showed a mixed bag of results. (See story in the Jan. 22 issue of the Uintah Basin Standard.) Tabkma Elementary, junior and senior high, the smallest school in the district, is the first echoed featured in a series of reports which will schools to boost future SAT scores or maintain current high scores. The Stanford Achievement Test is administered every October to stuand 11 dents in the 3", S, grades by mandate of the Utah Legislature. It is designed to test levels of retention over summer months in the areas of mathematics, reading, language, science, soda! science, and thinking skills. Tabiona students outsoored their peers in the district in almost every grade and every category. Tabiona has seven third-grade- 8, parents arrive. Often he recommends resources to help the family deal with the childs problem. Although the children are allowed to go home with their parents they will be brought before the juvenile court judge to SEE JUVENILES on page 3 rs TRUCK CRASHES INTO SUBWAY Duchesne Gateway storefront damaged In a freak accident on Friday, the i,?. j'" ,.Vi y Gateway 66 Convenience Store and Subway ia Duchesne was damaged by a truck that was driven through the front windows of the store. Shortly after noon on Feb. 1, old Roland Merkley ofDuchesne drove his 2000 Ford Ranger through the left front portion of the storefront, iijuring one customer who was eating lunch at one of the indoor tables. According to Utah State High way 74-ye- ar :r.w:lr Tfc. S y, , & liters I xz.J faff Patrol Trooper Randy Allred, Merkley had pulled into a perking space at the store and was attempt- ing to straighten his truck's position. He intended toreverse the truck, but inadvertently put the truck into the drive position. He accelerated and the truck crashed through (he two-fo- ot Customers at the Gateway 56 gas station and NOW A DRIVE THRU convenience store in Duchesne were shocked to see a pickup truck crash through Subway Sandwiches during the lunch hour last Friday. The accident could have been much worse, normally the store would have been packed with Duchesne High students at that time, but Friday was an early out day for the school. (Photo courtesy qf Kate Thomas.) 3 COPYl Over the next several weeks, the Uintah Basin Standard will take a school-byscholook at the results of recent Stanford Achievement Test scores. ol enrolled, and they had an overall battery median score of 6 7. meaning that when all seven of (he students' scores were plotted on a graph, the score exactly in the middle the median scene was 67. That is 17 points higher than the district average of 50. math score of 38, which was 30 points below the district median score of 68. The difference in scores between the eighth and eleventh grades is puzzling, considering that all students in grades 2 have had the same teacher for the last four years. Omar Gutoff is the math teacher and, according to Park, he runs a tight ship. "He IGutnfT! has a very structured. rigid program, Park said. His teaching technique is very methodological . For the most part. I m really pleased with the results he's been able to generate. Reading and language arts are areas where Tabiona students' scores were somewhat low in comparison to the national averages, but they still were higher than the district averscored 66in read ages. Third-grader- s Tabiona School has 14 enrolled and they beat the average district overall score of fifth-grade- rs 42 by 14 points, with By Therena Morrill w WINNERS scores for Tabby students have curious results K v for more . . . Invention Convention SAT math BRW! ...... 10 & 14 FIRST IN A SERIES Lady Utes. Seepage 88, Number 6 high front wall and three plate glass windows Dave Stitee cf Heber was Bitting at one ofthe tables with three other men inside the store when the accident occurred. He waa drug underneath the track for a shot distance. He was taken by ambulance to the Uintah Basin Medical Center where he was treated for a minor shoulder injury and facial exits, and was later released. The other men were net injured. . ; , "We called 911, and the girls working in Subway kept right on serving sandwiches." In addition to breaking the windows and foundation wall, the runaway truck sent tables and diairs scattering, pushed the counter used by the Subway Sandwich Shop at the west end erf the store back two feet, demolished a $6,000 computercash register, and smashed a trash can. According to Barbara Montoya, a clerk at the store who was an eyewitness, there were approximately 15 people in the store at the time of the accident. Everyone ran to pet out of the way, said Montoya. Then we celled fill, and the girls working in Subway kept right on serving sandwiches. Montoya said a customer whohad been sitting at one of the tables that was sent flying by the truck had just left the premises minutes before the accident. I don't know who he was but he is really lucky to be alive, she said. Merkley waa pretty shaken up, according to Montoya, but was not iiuured in the aoddent. an overall median score of 56. at Tabiona had an overEighth-grader- s allmedian score of 58, and they also beat the district average overall score for eighth-grader- s by eight points. Eleventh-grade- rs at Tabiona broke the trend, by flooring 42 overall, which was 1 3 points lower than the district. Tabiona Elementary must be doing something right with their math program because their third-grad- e students' median math score was 83, a frill 27 points higher than the district average of 56. Their median math score was 62, beating the district average of 44 fifth-grade- rs . Bonnie Roberts, a third and fourth grade teacher, said the school adopted the district SRA math program last year. She said it has worked well for them and is pleased with the SAT results. Principal Robert Park said he is pleased with the overall math scores at Tabiona that the 15 High earned. Their median score in math was 74, which was 18 points higher than the average math score eighth-grade- rs for the district. On the other hand, 1 lth-grad- er at Tabiona didn't do as well as their younger schoolmates. There are 15 11th --graders and they had a median ing and 43 in language, compared with the district average of 44. had a median score of 66, compared with the district average scored 48 in it 49. Eighth-grader- s reading and 50 in language arts, while the district scores were 46 and 43 respectively. Eleventh --graders in Tabiona scored 45 in reading and 41 in language arts, while the district scores were 55 and 4 1 respectively. Roberts attributed their higher scores to a strong phonics program in SEE TABBY SAT onpage 3 Fifth-grade- rs |