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Show UTAH PRESS ASSOCIATION 467 EAST 3RD SOTJTH SALT LAKE CITY, UT At Board Session yj Fox E-H- B4lll Project Is Discussed ills GRANITE PARK. A program to be instituted at Fox Hills school was highlighted during a report to the Granite Board of Education here Tuesday. The project, You Are In Charge, was selected by PTA leaders following a survey of concerns that was conducted in all Granite District elementary schools. It is a program of the State PTA and deals with helping children avoid sexual abuse. The program will be put into operation during the coming school year. Also gaining mention was a project being undertaken by the Jacklmg PTA involving cultures and nationalities. Students will be exposed to varying cultural programs designed to help them better understand their neighbors The Jackling PTA has also decided to seek action concerning films that are shown at Valley View Drive-i- n while Fox Hills will zero in on sidewalk construction. The major emphasis at C. S Smith school will be encouraging residents of that area to participate in vote processes on local and national levels. The projects were outlined in a report that was presented to the board by district PTA leaders following the first year of operation by the PTA of its commission on community education. The leaders expressed satisfaction with the effort, noting that a change in attitude among members of various communities was very satisfying. The districtwide survey taken earlier this year showed child abuse to be the number one concern throughout the district. In other matters, the board approved construction of a new elementary school in the Hunter area, moving up that project one year because of a mandated mill levy increase that will make the funds available for such construction. Board members are expected to recommend repeat of one of three plans used recently, that of Benmon elementary, the Fox plan Hills-Smit- h Serving Salt Lake County's West Valley Area or the Truman-Orcharplan The board also engaged in a lengthy discussion concerning putradios in buses that ting two-wahaul special education children The state is paying for the mandated prod y gram Board members previously reto put the radios in all buses, but it was hinted Tuesday that such action may become a state requirement Transportation director Ken Greiner outlined reasons why he feels the radios are important The districts budget, which will reincrease in quire a the mill levy, will be the topic of a June 17 public hearing The increase, except in the area concerning the building program, will not bring any additional dollars into the district It is part of a program designed to force all districts to levy at the same rate statewide jected a move state-mandate- d Granite's Hotline Offers Information Arthur Campbell, 93, shows watch that belonged to Melisa and Aimee Mitgrandfather to his chell, Robby McCraley. The watch will be among items displayed at Kearns LDS regional Heritage Arts Fair. ARTIFACT Published weekly a! . . . E 4905 155 his Saturday Night Thursday, June 5, 1980 Volume 26, GRANITE PARK Patrons of Granite district are being reminded that the district Information Line is a community service Anyone wishing to learn more about the districts educational program, opportunities for community input and participation, or calendar dates, district current events and South Salt Lake City Utah by Murray Printing Inc Second class postaqe paid at Salt Lake City Utah 04119 Subscription rate S4 00 per year Number USPS 22 negotiation 0 Questions, GRANGER. With the anticipated incorporation of West Valley City less than a month away, is the topic most prominent in the minds of city officials. e Elected officials of the disin-corporati- city-to-b- KEARNS. An LDS regional Heritage Arts Festival will be held from 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday in the Kearns North stake center. A feature attraction will be a n program beginning at 6 oclock and featuring talent from the five stakes in Kearns region. The program will include winning road show productions from the North and East stakes; a melodrama from Central stake, a quartet from South stake and square dancing from Kearns stake. Members of the Region Special Mutual will present a medley of songs from a musical play they will present in the fall. The region sesquicentennial band, under the direction of Glade Johnson, will perform Sousa marches and light music between acts. Jay Timpson will be master of ceremonies. Each stake will also present a with East stake demonstration, bar-bershi- p members presenting a performance by a group of Mountain Men who will demonstrate their buckskins, revolvers and blackpowder. Members of the North stake will show how to build and use handcarts. Central stake members will make homemade bread, butter and root beer, which will be sold at low heritage prices, along with honey. Members of Kearns stake will show beehives and methods of extracting honey from the hives. A quilting demonstration will be contributed by members of the South stake. Young Women from throughout the region will show stitchery items. Members from throughout the region will display artifacts of all kinds depicting the era from 1830 to 1900, along with handiv.ork and art work. Persons wishing to display items of interest are being asked to bring them to the North stake center between 8a.m. and 5:30 p m. Saturday. Southbound Leg Of 2700 West Is South, according to Ron Flynn, director of the Public Works highway division. Flynn still expects the road section to be open to traffic by mid-JulCrews will begin laying asphalt as soon as weather permits, he said. Work also remains at the intersection of 2700 West and 4700 South, BARRICADE . . . Flashing signs flanking a "Road Closed" 'sign give motorists notice that county a counterattack against disincorporation eforts, filing during the week a legal objection to petitions calling for an election to overturn the establishment of a municipality in Granger, Hunter and Redwood. The legal step taken by City Attorney-designat- e Ron Greenhalgh came near the middle of a week-lon- g effort by the County Elections Division office to verify the signatures on the disincorporation petitions. Employes of that office - along with additional personnel from other county departments - were checking to see whether the petitions bore the signatures of enough registered voters in the area to force a disincorporation election. Disincorporation supporters needed roughly 6,729 signatures, or 25 percent of the registered voters in the three community area, to force an election. But while those signatures were being verified, city officials challenged the legal standing of the petitions in an objection filed with 3rd District -- -- Disincorporation supporters, meanwhile, were facing deadlines. State law requires a judge to set a y petitions (verification was still continuing at press time) then Judge Banks is expected to hold a hearing later this week or early next to consider whether city officials have valid arguments against the petitions. Further delays would make - Programs disincorporation election between 45 and 60 days after petitions are submitted to the court. J. Lade Heaton, attorney for K. T. Magnusson and Citizens for Disincorporation, filed those papers in 3rd District Court on May 14. City opponents had hoped to hold an election on June 30, the 45th day after the petitions were submitted and the day before incorporation is expected to occur. But the lengthy process of verifying signatures dashed that hope. Heaton then said he would seek an election on July 8, which falls within the period required by law. The status of that possible election date is still uncertain If enough registered voters signed the disincorporation com- it dif- ficult for the judge to schedule an election within the y period, atnoted. have torneys In the meantime, city officials approved a $4.75 million budget for West Valleys first year of operations starting July 1. Library Beckons Children KEARNS The library here is inviting children to attend a series of summer programs to be held at 11:30 Wednesday mornings Opening the series Wednesday will be a program presented by a County Recreation Department magician The county Playmakers will present a program on June 18, Elaine will entertain Daniels, story-telleon June 25; a puppet show, Creepy will be presented by PiCastle, oneer Craft House on June 30. Next ir.ontn's programs will include a film festival on July 2; folkdancers, July 9, Roving Players, July 16; films on July 23 and a surprise ending on July 30 Children are also being invited to join the summer reading club, the Olympic Readers, which is now in session A program is available this year s who can earn records for for reading, commented childrens librarian Mildred Partridge. r, teen-ager- - Street Extension GRANGER. Poor weather conditions are the main hindrance to efforts to complete work on an extension of 2700 West, a County Public Works official said Tuesday. Continuously rainy weather has hampered efforts by county crews to lay gravel and grade a block-lon- g portion of 2700 West south of 4700 have launched Court Judge Jay E. Banks. Through Greenhalghs objection, the city contended the disincorporation petitions were invalid on three grounds. The document charged that: Signatures on the petitions were not those of residents of a municipality, but residents of the unincorporated county, since incorporation has not taken place yet. State law stipulates that to disincorporate, the signatures of 25 percent or moreof the registered voters of any municipality are needed on petitions. - Secondly, the question of dissolving a municipality cannot be placed before the voters more often than once every two years. City officials contend this would be violated if a disincorporation election were held in early July, only five months after the election setting up the city. - And thirdly, that irregularities occurred in the gathering of signatures for the petition. City officials contend disincorporation supporters falsely represented themselves and their cause in gaining the signatures. and on the tape Anyone wishing a response may leave their name and phone number, noted Dr. Patricia T. Gurr, who heads district community relations Disincorporation Bid Fought Kearns Region To Hold Arts Festival concerns ments may be left Court Action Is Likely - updates may call 268-815- 9 656-38- Delayed By Rainy, Uncooperative Weather where a gaping hole exists following a waterline break. That repair, which is part of the 4700 South project, is awaiting receipt of a part, Flynn said. The highway division director and Utah Department of Transportation officials inspected another portion of the 2700 West project on Tuesday, crews have not yet completed work on the extension of 2700 West south of 4700 South. viewing a site north of 5400 South. UDOT has been entertaining the idea of assuming responsibility for 200 feet of the work north from the intersection at 5400 South, Flynn said. He noted that state officials hope to receive federal funds for high hazard locations, but added that designs for the roadway have not ... been completed. Federal Highway Administration approval is needed once the designs are finished. At present, the county is expected to be responsible for y on the west side of the road north of the area being considered for high hazard funds, Flynn said. y installation on the right-of-wa- Right-of-wa- A piece of county grading EQUIPMENT equipment sits along 2700 West, which will carry east side of 2700 West is likely to be the responsibility of private firms that will be developing currently vacant property on that side of the projected road, he commented The highway official estimated that work on that section of 2700 West will be completed by mid-summ- 1981. traffic southbound from 4700 South once final tion of project Is completed. por- i 4. k. |
