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Show Don 't bus VHS students Our Headers Vrite Thanks for recycling effort Dear Editor: Recently in a public meeting Dr. Reed Call recommended that West Bountiful students be bused to Bountiful High in order for south Farmington students to replace us at Viewmont. His reasoning he didn't want to segregate south Farmington Far-mington from their Centerville neighbors! This reasoning doesn't hold water! What about West Boun-tiful's Boun-tiful's ties to Centerville? We have had ties with our Centerville neighbors as much as Farmington has. Many of our kids attend Centerville Elementary and Centerville Junior High. We play on the same ball teams because the district for most little league sports runs with the high school boundaries. boun-daries. We patronize more busi nesses in Centerville than we do Bountiful, including grocery stores, gas stations, fast foods, banks, video stores and convenience stores, thus adding to the sales tax revenue. It seems that our ties are as great as Farmington's! You have already divided up our community by sending sen-ding our elementary students to two schools and also our junior high students to two schools. Using the excuse that West Bountiful is a contingent con-tingent community is a hoax because we have been divided because of the school board boundaries boun-daries for many years. It is our opinion that Dr. Call was hired by the school board to "take the heat" off Mr. Kendall and the board. We have already spent enough unnecessary money to pay him for his time. Let's not spend anymore by busing kids to school who can walk! A Citizen of West Bountiful and organizations to recycle their trash and arrange for volunteer groups to help Celestia with the daily dai-ly maintenance efforts. Throw-away Throw-away trash and land fills are no longer viable solutions to solid waste problems. Alice L. Griffith Mary Lou Bean Lynette Wilson Bountiful residents Worried about Bountiful High Dear Editor We would like to offer a public congratulations and thank you to Bountiful resident Celestia Brunsdale. She is single-handedly responsible for Bountiful City's much needed recycling program. Through her efforts, the city provides pro-vides space near the city hall for recycling bins. She has also arranged arrang-ed for additional bins at two commercial com-mercial parking lots. Celestia, with part-time assistance from two or three noble volunteers, spends about two and a-half a-half hours daily resorting recyclable materials, cleaning dump sites and contacting recycling companies as needed. The money from these companies com-panies is deposited directly into a Bountiful Beaut ification Fund and the Golden Years Senior Citizens Center. In 10 months of operation, four percent of Bountiful 's solid waste has been reclaimed. It is our understanding that the EPA will require re-quire 25 percent of community waste to be recycled by 1992-one environmentally conscious citizen will no longer be able to recycle this huge volume of the city's waste products. We call upon Bountiful City to lend greater support to Celestia' s effort s--perhaps by long-range planning for curbside sorted pickups and community compost heaps. We ask Bountiful residents j 9 Dear Editor: Over the past few weeks a number of negative letters have been published about our education system especially Bountiful High School This concerns me greatly, because I have two children that go to that school I asked them if the letters were correct I was totally shocked by their response. There appears to be some major problems. Example: The football program, according to my children. 1. There are five starters on the team that don't live in Bountiful High boundaries. 2. One player was arrested for stealing at a BYU football camp. That was covered up. No corrective action was taken. 3. Steroid use is totally ignored. 4. Grades have been adjusted to make ineligible players eligible. 5. One player got his girlfriend pregnant. She was removed from her extra curricular activities. Nothing happened to the football player. 6. The language used by some of the coaches is worse than what I heard in the Marine Corps. My son plays on this team. Athletics is supposed to teach sportsmanship, sport-smanship, fair play, honesty and self-worth from hard work and a job well done. I see the message being sent that anything is all right as long as you win. This is not what I want my children to learn. I have been told that if parents complain their kids are benched. What can be done? Please do not print my name, my son would never play again. Name withheld |