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Show 'i:'' Two .Tin SprinvilK' ll.-nild (USPS 513-060) Published Weekly by Art City Publishing Co., Inc. 161 South Main Street Springville, Utah 84663 Phone 489-5651 !0 Publisher . Editor . Entered as second class matter at the Post Office Springville, Utah 84663 under the Act of Congress, March 3, 1897. Subscriptions in Advance per year $18.00 Out of County Subscriptions per year $21.00 Per copy 50'. Delivered by carfier, per month $1.80 Member Utah Press Association EDITORIAL What do all those state school board employees do to help us? Each week stacks of news releases and all kinds of materials come to the office of this newspaper. And each week each piece is opened and looked over so as not to miss anything of importance. There is a whole lot of junk amid all that mail, and there is a whole lot of waste in postage. One of the prize pieces of nothingness and waste came to us this past week from the Utah State Office of Education. . Appearing in an 8 by 10 envelope with a $1.21 in postage metered across it, the contents were in the form of a 1991-92 School Calendar, covering September 1991-August 1992, and received in November 1991. The calendar is a spiral bound piece with each month on a separate sheet It is addressed to members of the media saying it was developed to help them and educators to keep track of special meetings, days and conferences. Also included are holidays, historical events and dates of special recognition. It is an attractive, nice calendar. But that is all. We are still trying to figure out what to do with it except toss it in the garbage with the stacks of others useless stuff that comes every week. If we keep it and use it for reference, we will have such a stack of information at our fingertips as appears this week. We find that Monday, November 11, is Veterans Day and Friday, November 15, is Arts Networking Conference. The upcoming weekend will bring the National Alliance of Black School Educators together. This is also National Children's Book Week and Youth Appreciation Week. These are all nice things to know but not important We can see that this calendar is of little use to us and probably not to any other media. And what about educators? It would seem that they each have their own calendar already, given out at the start of the school year. And if there are any conferences or meetings that they need to remember, our bet is that they will receive notice in the mail anyway before those events. With teachers crying for more money for students and higher wages for themselves, it occurs to us that our taxes could be better spent on something besides a cute little calendar that we will never use. Can we really afford to pay someone at the State School Board Office to spend time to make calendars, looking up all kinds of useful information like the anniversary of the Gettysburg Address on Monday, November 19? IHlapleton to start program of recycling glass The City of Mapleton has found that they are picking up many more tons of refuse than they had projected under the new garbage system. In an effort to reduce the amount of garbage Free seminar for senior seekers Job seekers, age 55 and over, are invited to attend a free seminar semi-nar aimed at helping them obtain suitable employment. Topics to be discussed include: resources for employment and training, overcoming over-coming age barriers to employment, employ-ment, job seeking skills, and the need for a carefully planned job search. The - seminar will be held Thurs., Nov. 14 from 10:30 a.m. to 12 Noon at the Career Guidance Guid-ance Center, 60 North 300 West, Provo. The Career Guidance Center, under the sponsorship of JTPA (Job Training Partnership Act), provides a wide variety of job training and placement services including skills assessment, skills training - both classroom and on-the-job and job seeking workshops for eligible clients age 16 and up. For additional information on the free seminar, for JTPA services servic-es and eligibility, call 377-7476. There is no charge or obligation. - NovhuIht 13. 1991 Martin W. Conover .Patricia Conover delivered to the compactor and comply with EPA guidelines for recycling, a recycling committee has been formed and are initiating programs to help the situation. The first program planned will be a glass collection on Saturday, December 14, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Residents might wonder why glass was chosen to be collected in Mapleton. The city is starting with glass because it is one of the heavier products that is dumped into the landfills. Starting todays residents are asked to save all glass jars instead of tossing them out Save mayonnaise mayon-naise jars, ketchup bottles, cider jugs or other glass for recycling. There is no need to remove the labels, just rinse out the glass containers. Also save the lids. There will be a separate box for those in December. Glass never wears out, so it can be recycled forever. Citizens will be notified of the collection location closer to December De-cember 14. Watch for future articles arti-cles and posters on the new Mapleton Map-leton recycling program. Due to the excessive tonage collected over the projected ton-age ton-age for this year, a cost adjustment adjust-ment will be necessary in February Febru-ary of 1992. The Arc De Triomphe in Paris was ordered built by Napoleon and took three decades to complete. com-plete. It's equivalent to a 16-story building. Thanhs and The tax burden by Howard Stephenson November is the month when property taxes come due and we become more keenly aware of Utah's tax burden. It's also the month in which Americans give thanks. So what do we have to be thankful for? Frankly, quite a lot We should be very thankful that we still have a Truth-in-Taxation law which prevented statewide property tax revenues from increasing more than 6 this year amid the Amax property tax shift I am convinced that if we hadn't prevented local governments from repealing the law this year, taxing entities would have kept their tax rates at last year's levels and reaped huge tax windfalls from the Amax valuation increases. Instead of a 6 increase in-crease in tax revenues, the increase in-crease could have been closer to 15 or 20 percent. ... I'm grateful for the positive working relationship. The Taxpayers Taxpay-ers Association has with school boards, county commissions, and j city councils around the state. ". This spirit of communication and cooperation in working together to solve problems instead of simply sim-ply locking horns, has prevented millions of dollars of unnecessary tax increases and has resulted in a greater understanding of local government by Utah citizens. I'm also thankful for an approachable, ap-proachable, reasonable legislature which is not overwhelmed with partisan politics. In the 15 years that I have worked for the Taxpayers Tax-payers Association I have never seen a more rational group of citizen-legislators than we have right now. Utahns should be thankful for . the international recognition and respect our state has received for its quality of life; for its well-trained, well-trained, ethical work force; for its attractiveness as a place to do business; and for its desirability as a place to vacation year round. Most of all, as a taxpayer, I am thankful for the thousands of dedicated taxpayers and businesses business-es who continue to support the important work of the Taxpayers Association. Without you, Utahns would not have so much to be thankful for. Police report Springville investigated 124 calls this past week including 23 animal related. Mapleton police had 22 calls. Rick L Smith, 1150 S. 142 W., Payson, was charged with theft from JRJ Wrecking. Billy G. Jr. Zufelt, 68 Brook-side Brook-side Dr., Springville, was charged with unlawful sexual intercourse. Mountain Springs Restaurant have two counts of trespassing this last week. Wendall J. Hathaway, Hatha-way, PO Box 123, Spanish Fork, was arrested for trespassing and possession of concealed weapons. Brothers residing at 785 E. 1050 S., Springville, Allen Kirk was charged with trespassing Rodney L Kirk was charged for interfering interfer-ing with an officer. Two warrant service arrests included Shauna D. Christensen, 110 S. 400 E., Spanish Fork, and Samuel J. Romero, 111 S. 1000 E., Provo Thefts included a vehi-cle;purse; vehi-cle;purse; hood ornaments off of cars; redwood decking materials. A 15-year-old boy is charged with theft of a firearm. A 15-year-old boy is arrested for possession of drug paraphernalia. A 14-year-old male is arrested for disorderly conduct after a family dispute. Illegal shootings include pheasant phea-sant hunters shooting within the city limits. Springvile's Progressive Party THANKS EVERYONE WHO SUPPORTED THEM IN THE RECENT ELECTION LOREN PHILLIPS BUD SCHARDINE CHRIS SORENSEN The California Police Summer Games 25th Anniversary was held recently In Oakland. Over 7,000 sworn officers competed in the week-long events. Seven officers representing Fontana, California Police Department were in attendance. atten-dance. One of them was Kelly George Binks who earned a Silver Medal in the pole vault, a Bronze Medal in the decathlon, and a Bronze Medal in the team pentathlon. pen-tathlon. Kelly is the son of former SpringvilleMapleton residents Dean and Kathleen Wilson Binks who now reside in Fontana. Local students enrolled at Utah State Enrollment of students from Utah County-like total enrollment-reached record numbers at Utah State University this fall. Official USU enrollment statistics statis-tics released by Dr. Richard Jacobs, Ja-cobs, director of institutional research re-search and budgets, show that 754 Utah County students, more than ever before, are registered at USU. Total enrollment at USU is 16, 291, an increase of about 10 percent per-cent over a year ago and 20 percent per-cent over two years ago. USU President -Stanford Ca-zier Ca-zier pointed out that the 2,468 student increase on the Logan campus since fall of 1989 is about the equivalent of the total enrollment enroll-ment of some of the state's two-year two-year community colleges. " In 1989 there were 488 Utah County students enrolled at USU and last year there were 603. This year there are 668 undergraduates and 86 graduate students. USU's enrollment comes from every county in Utah and from most of the states Football team says thanks! Dear Editor: We would lie to thank the residents of Springville and Mapleton Map-leton for the outstanding support you have given to the Springville High School football program this season. We appreciate it very much. It is through the great . community support that the football foot-ball tradition here at SHS continues contin-ues to grow. A special thanks to Mountain Springs and the Silver Rush Restaurants Res-taurants for donating the awards each week for our outstanding football players. Thank you very much, SHS coaches & players Springville Jr. High School requests parent support to strategic Recently, a group representing those interested in the present , and future of Springville Junior High school, met for two days to , work on some very important long-range planning. This type of planning is referred to as "Strategic "Strate-gic Planning". . : During these meetings, a group of teachers, parents, students and community leaders identified strengths and weaknesses of the school, the greatest threats to the school and objectives for the school. The group also formulated a mission statement, some overall objectives and six strategies that need to be addressed. These six strategies are: 1. Develop a plan to renovate or replace the facility to meet the objectives of the school and the mission statement. 2. Provide alternatives for failing students. 3. Redirect the inservice program pro-gram to meet the objectives arid mission statement. 4. Implement better communication communi-cation and involvement between home and school. 5. Provide adequate staff and reduce studentteacher ratio to meet the academic, vocational and life skill needs of all students. 6. Update technological opportunities. oppor-tunities. Nebo District Superintendent WestsideElementary is excited about their new IBM Computer Lab." members of the Parent Advisory team were invited to come and. learn through the use of computers. Steve Shultz (pictured), one' such "computer whiz" on the Parent Advisory team, had the' opportunity to try out the new lab. He and the other members got a taste of what Westside students are accomplishing with these new tools for educatioa i' Him S PETEETNEET Academy of the Arts presents v? 1 CLASSIC NOVEMBER 23 Mat ince 2:00 p.m. $5.00 Evening 7:30 p.m. $6.00 Family Discount Available Payson High ScItooI Theatre 1050 South Main, Payson TICKETS AVAILABLE AT: Will-Lo Hobby Shop ' 5 1 South Main, Payson, 465-9133 ; ;: Jacqueline Colledge School of Ballet 88 North 350 West, , : American Fork, 756-8091 At door one hour prior to Performances A non-profit public benefit planning Dennis Poulsen states that, "Stra---; tegic Planning is a proactive ap- O proach to the achievement of our desired future, rather than reacts ing td crisis situations and supi ports our philosophy bf ' looking 1 for ways to improve our ability to l serve students." , '' - On Nov. 13 at 7 p.m., there-;? will be a short meeting in the jri high auditorium for all those who. are interested in helping Spring-" ville Junior High formulate plans. 1 to deal with the above mentioned' -f strategies. They encourage all parents to come to this meeting prepared to work on the action ' team of their choosing. Aerobics beat .'i More than 23.3 million Ameri- cans still do aerobics, a drop of more than 2.8 percent since the ! exercise peak of 1985-90, but still : a significant amount of popula forms of aerobic fitness, according' to American Fitness magazine? -Well, "Step Exercise" (doine moves and stepping up and down: off a small stool) is hot, as is "Funk" ("street dancing. African' moves or the latest MTV-inspired routines). .Q '4 'a 1- |