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Show t I 4 r,.i v Li r; r. :- : i'...: --- x v , v VOLUME EIGHTY NUMBER FOURTEEN THURSDAY, JUNC 22. 1978 w- 3''. sponders to the scene give whatever aid they can to By ROSELYN KIRK r ARMINGTON Paramedic service to the Davis County area from Farmington south to North Salt Lake began at 8 a m. Monday, making that service available and seven days a week. 24-ho- stabilize the person until the paramedics arrive. THE STATE Paramedic Council has Advisory more specified that three be paramedics must trained by December 1978 if the county is to meet the final 16 for specifications when the paramedics program is fully implement- ed, Tebbs said. Sime Lt. Davis County Commissioners have said they will plate the paramedic issue on the ballot Stan ACCORDING TO Lt. paramedics who graduated this month, wall increase the team to make possible the staffing of the two vehicles, one on patrol m the north and the other in the south. The paramedic vehicles are manned by sheriffs deputies, trained as paramedics, who carry out law enforcement duties when not responding to p. emergencies. THREE Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs) presently fill out the staff of the paramedic crew. By December 1978 the State I? Taramedic Council has said that the vehicles must be staffed - ; g . ' . . 1, 1 IA C' xvarraiwwM T, w,, f,, '". I ' A S ',n - ''twaiMMi - Lvt, " " . rjwprf n, ,av. i. K V" ' e-- VVs! rCrt1),,. - If theres one LAYTON thing to ruin a vacation, its to be told that your expensive home tn Layton has been destroyed by fire. BUT THERES nothing more relieving than to find out that your children (and no one else) was seriously hurt in the fire and that at least some of your valuable antiques were saved in the blaze. These were the mixed emotions that greeted Mr. and Mrs. Don R. Zaring, 801 East 900 North, Layton, last Friday evening. THE COUPLE was vacationing with some of their children in Lava Hot Springs, Idaho, when they got word that their expensive home had been badly damaged by fire. My first thoughts were of our two children at home and their safety, said Mrs. Zaring. But these thoughts were quickly squelched when we talked to the kids and found out they were okay. SHE SAID they were told that much of the home had been badly damaged by the fire, smoke and water. The worst possible thoughts went through my said Mrs. Zaring. head, Not only of the home and contents, but of the many valuables and antiques that we have including the dress my grandmother wore at the inaugural ball when my grandfather was sworn in as State Senator of Idaho. BUT ONCE back home, Mrs. Zaring was comforted to find that the dress she so cherished was still hanging in a back bedroom closet, completely unharmed. Also to her relief, a very valuable antique light fixture which is more than 100 was hanging unyears old damaged in the living room. BUT I found out later that one of the boys protected that estimated at $'15,000 with an additional $10,000 loss to furnishings, clothing, etc. RELL BE two or three months getting the house four-minu- seven refinished chairs worth more than $100 each. Layton firemen were atconventending a three-da- y tion in Park City at the time of the blaze but Fire Chief said Adams John were previously made with neighboring cities to assist each other in the event of a major fire. KAYSVILLE responded with one fire truck and several firemen and Clearfield sent two trucks and several volunteers to assist Layton's two trucks and a standby crew of volunteers. There were two minor injuries to neighbors assisting the Zarmgs with getting contents out of the house. The two, both unidentified, had pieces of glass embedded in their foot and arm when several windows shattered from the intense heat, ac- cording to Chief Adams. OUR KIDS (Mark 18 and Eric 16) and the neighbors were just great in getting the animals (dogs and cats) out of the house and also in saving as much furniture as posaid Mrs. Zaring. ssible, But we still lost a lot of our belongings. We were pretty well wiped out. But with a smile on her face, she added: WHAT WE lost can be replaced; it could have been much worse. Im just thankful for all that we have. Damage to the home was back in order and all the repairs made, she said. Do you know of anyone with a house to rent for a few months? te Lt. Tebbs said that paramedic teams will work with other EMTs from fire and police departments in the south end of the county, as they have in the north,respecifying that first Commissioners With Minorilty BLT THE Zarmgs did lose some of their valuable antiques, among them being arrangements ' The Don Zaring home at 801 E. 900 North, Layton, was severely damaged by fire last weekend, but children and neighbors managed to save some valuable properties. fixture with his life, well almost, when he made certain firenx-did not spray water on the antique and the firemen made a special effort to keep the blaze away from the area of the fixture, said Mrs Zaring She noted that the light fixture was taken from the Old Freemont Hotel in Idaho many years ago and is a family heirloom. Tebbs, over the last ten months to about 100 medical emergencies a month. In May they answered 94 calls. Although average response time in the north has averaged from 4l2 to 5 minutes, the goal is to reestablish a sponse time in the south. This should be possible since the area is not so widely separated. - By GARY R. BLODGETT for replacement. ACCORDING TO Lt. , FIRE DAMAGES HOME has authorized the purchase of another paramedic vehicle paramedics have responded ,&? rfrcr' j&mm" exclusively by In addition to the two vehicles on the road, the Davis County Commission paramedics. - By R08ELYN KIRK - Davis administrators said FARMINGTON County that a meeting between Davis and officials County representatives of ethnic ended minority groups without further threat of a lawsuit challenging Davis County hiring policies. County Personnel Director Earl King said there was a better understanding after the session. THE MEETING, called by Davis County commissioners, was the first meeting since John Medina, who was at that time Utah State Hispanic Ombudsman, and Manuel Fernandez, Governors Council on Hispanic Affairs, first met with county commiss- ioners two months ago to demand that more Hispanic people be hired by the county in positions. commissioners threatening suit unless positions were made available in the Davis County Mental Health Department. Since that time Davis County mental health Later received a letter a class action officials have met with Mr. Medina and Mr. Fernandez in an attempt to get qualified Hispanic people on the mental health hiring rosters. COMMISSIONER Zaugg said during Wendell the recent meeting that discrimination, hiring policies, the county affirmative action plan and the hiring of G Hispanic people in middle management positions was also discussed. According to Richard Nel- son, social services coordinator, the group, which included several county officials, in addition to Curt Jackson representative of the Utah Native American Consortium, discussed what progress was being made in hiring practices. He said the outcome of the meeting was roups in a different position, Lt. Tebbs said. But he anticipates the department will meet the scheduled goal as contracted with the state, anticipating that the public will vote .to approve the program. SGfsiOEl By ROSELYN FARMINGTON KIRK - An or- dinance governing septic tanks and waste water disposal and recomprepared Davis County by the Department, was hashed over in a hearing set by the Davis County Commismended Health sion but Tuesday not con Pro and resolved. 20 opinions from about and people, including county state health officials, and West Farmington residents were heard. AFTER THE hearing, Davis County Commissioners said they would postpone the decision on the adoption of the proposal, indicating a rapid decision should not be expected. Richard Harvey, environ- mental health administrator, said the ordinance would make it unlawful to install a waste water system unless the bottom of the trench was at least four feet above the maximum anticipated ground water level. The proposed ordinance also prohibits consystem structing a septic tank 100 feet where water is within of an area where surface runoff water is known to accumulate and pond. COUNTY HEALTH officials say that high water tables west of in Woods Cross, West Bountiful, West Point, Hooper and west of Centerville, Kaysville and Syracuse is resulting in a health problem where human wastes are surfacing. Dr. Richard Johns, administrator of the Davis County Health Department said very real health hazard is resulting which is a clear and present danger to the health of the EEO plan which is two years old and outdated. THE committee will review policy statements included in the plan, he said. Officials from the state EEO office are committed to provide training sessions on how to develop a resource manual and how to develop an updated affirmative action plan, he said. this puts the sissies Tebbs of the Davis County Sheriffs Office, the four from Weber State College in November, sheriff's department He people. said the health depart- ment is concerned since that department is to the promotion and protection of the health of people in Davis County. RESIDENTS IN most cases from the West Farmington area, questioned whether a sewer system would be available m that area in the near future. Joe Jensen said the county was adding "insult to injury by penalizing people on the west side of the. valley for water generated on the east side. I would like to build so I can watch over my farm, he said, indicating that farm houses should be allowed to use septic tanks for sewage disposal. to county According planner Albert Cole, prospective builders are claiming that a one acre plot of ground is a farm and are using that same excuse to construct homes without' connecting to a sewer. He said small sub- division proposals are coming to the planning commission with even further requests for subdivision. MR. COLE read a from planning letter director Joseph Moore supporting the waste water resolution. He said the major reason the planning commission has turned down subdivisions requesting development without connecting to sewer system is that the policy of the county is that limiting development within the corporate limits of the city. Dean Swanner, and Hap Robinson, both prospective developers in the West Farmington area, said they are not getting cooperation from the sewer district and other government entities. Mr. Robinson asked why land owners have to pay the costs of the sewer. Sewer Commission, said there is no way to put sewer pipes into the unincorporated area. He was pessimistic that some homes in that large area could ever be connected to the sewer system since its too costly to provide sewage service to areas where one house is located on TO Mr. Har- vey, the land is worth about $15,000 an acre and will support the cost of hooking onto the sewer. Developers should be required to hook onto the sewer before development. He said, in addition to the health hazard, that a study by Soil Conservation experts, just completed m West Point, indicated that septic tanks have a low survival rate and 60 percent of them are failing. FARMINGTON Mayor Gordon Van Fleet, who also serves on the Central Davis acres. water quality study, said, although Davis County has some of the best sewers in the state, built mainly with federal funds, that no money is available for new plants or sewer collection systems. MR. SWANNER suggested that members of the unincorporated West Farmington community need to be represented on the sewer board. County Commissioners said he should make application since the county has no control over the sewer districts. According to Mr. Harvey, the sewer could become pos- sible if everyone in the area cooperated, but people had not responded to a move to provide sewers to the area. LETTER of approving the A ordinance was presented to Davis County commissioners by Marvin Reed, Utah Division of Health. He said that ACCORDING 10 suggested that a building moratorium was a better answer until the problem could be resolved, but with the low tax base he was not optimistic that the area could be sewered. Dr. Michael Miner, director of the 208 He all requirements sug- gested in the Davis County ordinance will be included in a state ordinance which is now being drawn up. Utah is the only state where the separation between the waste disposal system and the ground water level is only one bacteria can travel foot, through the soil and is aided by water. The ordinance was no assurance that the problem can be eliminated he said, but septic tanks compound the problem. We regard this as a step in the right direction and endorse it. an agreement to work with minority leaders to fill county positions. one sur- ACCORDING TO vey four percent of the people in Davis County are Hispanic. Minority representatives had argued that an equal percentage of county slots be filled with Hispanic people. Mr. King said the willing to work with county is minority does not believe groups, but that just one segment of the county minorities, the Hispanic, should be represented in lobbying for county positHe said there to be no basis for the ions. appears suit. who also personnel director, at least 11 minority persons are on the county payroll. Donna Sato, of Asian descent, was recently hired as the CETA Manpower Director. According to Mr. Nelson, the Equal Economic Opportunity Committee which has been selected and approved will begin work to rewrite the MR. NELSON, acts as assistant By ROSELYN KIRK - FARMINGTON Davis Commissioners County denied a proposal to rezone f acres of land six and in the Val Verda unincorpone-hal- orated area from R-- l A to R-- 3 to allow for the construction of 84 units of four-ple- x housing requested by Keith East, 2329 South 200 West. LAST WEEK over IOO residents from the area had packed county commission chambers to protest the rezoning during a public hearing which had been recommended by the Davis County Planning Commission. A citizens group headed by James A. Rasmussen had protested that the area was becoming impacted and said more multiple housing would overload roads, danger to existing resulting in a children attending schools. DAVIS County Commis sioners did not comment as they denied the rezoning, but said earlier they would take the views of the residents of the area into consideration when making their decision. At the hearing only three people, including Mr. East and Mrs. East appeared to favor the proposal. Inanot her matter pertaining to a request to move the Community Action Program (CAP) Offices from their present location at 43 South Mam, to the site of the Adult Probation and Parole at 37 North Main, Farmington, county commissioners ad- vised that further consideration of the funding would be necessary before reaching a decision. COMMISSIONER C. E. asked CAP representative Janet Johnson to invesMoss tigate the possibility of using an additonal $3,000 which has been allocated for the agency to pay the $1675 in additional rent which the building would cost. Ms. Johnson had presented figures to the commission, indicating that the building would be available for $500 if the commission acts to rent by July 1. agencies are scheduled to move into the new courthouse addition. Commissioners are not sure if there will be room for the CAP agency in the new building Commissioner Moss suggested that Ms. Johnson consult with CAP director Carl SHE SAID if Outreach offices in Bountiful and Layton were closed and the staff were moved to the Farmington office at an additional $274 would be available to pay rental costs. Funds from other CAP programs could also be used for the rent: including CETA funds, $34.50, Weatherization Funds, $34 50 and Emergency Food Funds, $17.25. to determine Chappell whether additional money from the federal grant could be used for rental. MS. JOHNSON said the agency has a lease on the Second Claaa Postage Paid At Layton, Utah Layton building until Jan. 1, which would have to be considered in the cost of the arrangements. The CAP proposal is to rent the new building from July 1978 to July 1979. At that time county THE WEEKLY REFLEX 197 B" North Main St.. Layton Phone 376-91- 33 Published Weekly by CUPPER PUBUSHING CO. John SteMe. Jr.. 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