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Show Stoker Hearing Slated Thursday BOUNTIFUL A public hearing to air pros and cons to the possible closure of Bounti-ful's Bounti-ful's Stoker Elementary School has been set for Thursday Thurs-day at 7 p.m. THE DAMS Board of Education Edu-cation has received reports from district officials indicating indicat-ing the school's closure would bring savings in operational costs and eliminate other expenses ex-penses Deeded to meet building build-ing code requirements. The school has about 250 students, the lowest enrollment enroll-ment in the district. Bat a certain cer-tain level of staff is necessary to maintain all schools and that pushes the cost per pupil to the district's highest. The building is the oldest still in use in the district, as well. SPEAKING of the hearing School Boards President Lucile Reading said in a telephone tele-phone interview. "I think what we hope to accomplish is to let the people interested make whatever comments they feel are pertinent and be appraised of the reason for the hearing." Emphasizing no final decision deci-sion has been made and that none will be announced at the meeting she continued, "It is an informational meeting. I have an open mind." SHOULD THE school be closed district officials have indicated in-dicated students would be within walking distance of several sev-eral schools with adequate space available. A parental survey taken earlier in the year showed greatest parent concern con-cern was for children having to cross major intersections to reach other schools, lb |