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Show rJebo School Board notes At the July 13 meeting of the Nebo School District, the board 'organized the Nebo District Foundation for Excellence, made major changes in the district Attendance Policy and Citizenship Citizen-ship Policy and voted to give a 4. 1 percent salary increase to the administrators as reported in last week's Springville Herald. In other action, they approved the purchase of property at Book-side Book-side Elementary School in Spr-ingville Spr-ingville known as the Given Property for $96,000, the property proper-ty at the , Springville Middle School known as the Rawl Property Prop-erty for $94,300 and the property at the Spanish Fork Intermediate School known as the Jones Property Prop-erty for $52,500. They also voted on a motion to write letters to the owners of four parcels of property prop-erty informing them action will be taken to condemn the property if a negotiated settlement cannot be reached in a resonable amount of time. Cary Bailey outlined to the board his duties and responsibilities responsibili-ties as Risk Manager for the Nebo School District. He stated the role of risk manager is to reduce the risk of liability and educate individuals about potential poten-tial problems before they happen. He mentioned that in the last ten years the number of liability claims in the state have risen by 285 percent. In the same period of time public schools have increased in-creased over 25 percent. He said that a great deal of his time in the past year has been spent with the American Disabiliby Act. He discussed plans for changes chang-es in the schools to assure they are fully accessible to the handicapped. handi-capped. He mentioned the Blood-borne Blood-borne Pathogen program the district had to enact. He talked about the Hazardous Material program and the education needed need-ed to make the employees aware of that program. He also talked about changes in the District Acident Investigation program. He mentioned the Confined Space Entry program, the Motor Vehicle Defensive Driving program, pro-gram, Playground Accident program pro-gram and the Employee Insurance Modification program. He also disucssed the meetings with district personnel covering sexual harassment. It was noted by the district business administrator that the district liability insurance had gone down over $19,000 in the last year and the workman's compensation for the last six months had gone down $27,300 as a result of the education that Mr. Bailey's department has been giving to the district. Mr. Robert Scutt discussed with the board a concern he has in returning prayer to public schools. He presented the board with a handout and went through it with them. Connie Barnes voiced her support for Mr. Scutt' s presentation. She quoted from an article in 1992 Reader's Digest. After some discussion, the board thanked Mr. Scutt and Ms. How to get a guaranteed income for a lifetime. And after. 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They contacted a local non-profit organization-ILP (International Language Programs) and applied for work in Russia. Both girls were accepted and are eagerly looking forward to leaving next week for St. Petersburg, Russia where they will teach English in the nursery school for four and one-half months. Their students will be five and six years olds. They will teach daily classes with a team of other volunteer teachers from all over the United States. Other schools involved in this program are located in Voronezh and Moscow. Tasha is the daughter of Kent and Carol Jacobsen of Springville and Heather is the daughter of Robert and Jennie Jones ' of Mapleton. Various supplies are being accumulated for the nursery school from paper, to paints, measuring cups, buttons, etc. If individuals, organiztions or business would like to help donate supplies for the children in these programs please call 489-8777 489-8777 or 489-6960. Potatoes were first planted in Ireland in 1596 by Sir Walter Raleigh. The nickname of the Air Force football team is "The Falcons." A cow's teeth are not equipped to bite the grass she eats. Instead, she tears the grass out of the ground by moving her head. Barnes for their presentations. A letter was given to the two citizens citi-zens addressed to Representative Tim Moran from Carol Lear, Specialist in School Law and Legislation at the Utah State Office of Education, oudining the position of the district regarding the question of prayer at high school graduations. It was noted that the Nebo School District does not have the funds sufficient to take this question to the courts. R.C. Colyar Agency "Call-yer Agency" 330 E. 400 S. 2 Springville, UT 489-8218 Heather Jones J flljjha Library tl Corner The 1994 Summer Reading Program "Start a Read Stampete at Your Library," held at the Springville Public Library, ended on Friday, July 22. More than 350 children and young adults participated in the activities. Overs a period of six weeks an enormous number of books were read. At our final party children played bingo and won their choice of books. Special prizes went to Deanna Pearson for reading more than 13,000 pages, to Shawn Edmunds for reading the most books reader category, to Kevin Sumsion for reading the most books pre-reader category (although he read many of the books himself), and to Dan Merrick" for reading almost 9,000 pages. In conjunction with the "Start a Read Stampede at Your Library" program. 1126 atended special events held at the library. During the month of August the library is displaying insect books. Drop in and see them. Storytimes will continue to be held every Wednesday at 1 1 a.m. Feeling sore Asprin or ibuprophen is a good idea, but acetaminophen (which is not an antiinflammatory) anti-inflammatory) is not. 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In his studies of parental disciplinary styles, Craig Hart, associate professor of family sciences, finds that "violence promotes violence." "What's going on with parenting," parent-ing," Hart says, "is carrying over into children when they play with their peers. " Hart's research has focused on two primary styles of parenting and their effects. Inductive parents par-ents explain rules and consequences con-sequences to their children, suing reason and logic as their whip. In contrast, power-assertive parents rely more on physical and verbal force as their disciplinary style. Each provides a mirror to the succeeding generation. Hart's studies of parents and children, done through interview and observation, show children of inductive parents, who display more "prosocial" behavior and become more popular with their peers. Children's social problem-solving problem-solving skills are also affected by disciplinary styles. Hart believes inductive parenting gives children practice in thinking through the consequences of their actions and develops better problem-solving skills. "In our studies" says Hart, "children of inductive parents have come up with many more friendly and adaptable solutions to problems than children of power-assertive parents. " Hart concedes that disiplinary styles aren't guaranteed predictors predic-tors of children's behavior. Yet physically-oriented discipline does seem to increase the probability proba-bility for antisocial behavior. "Parents will enhance the probability for success by being more inductive than by being more power assertive," Hart says. "That's what we're trying to doenhance the probability for success." Your Local Florida Tile 61 MerilDatt Dealer AMERICA'S CABINETMAKER' 45 E. 200 South July 27, 1994 - The Springville Herald - Page Three Spiritual experience helps teens, study shows Having a personal religious experience has a more positive effect on deterring teenage delinquency delin-quency than living in a religious area, attending church or even having religious beliefs, according accord-ing to two Brigham Young University Uni-versity professors. Bruce Chadwick, professor of sociology and director of the Center for Studies of the Family, and Brent Top, professor of religion, conducted their research among Mormon youth living in communities along the eastern seaboard of the United States. "Those young people who said 'I've felt the Holy Spirit in my life, I say my personal prayers, I read the scriptures myself,' those young people had much lower rates of delinquency," delinquen-cy," Chadwick said in a recent interview. While Chadwick and Top did their research with Mormon youth, Chadwick believes the findings woould apply to otner religions as well. "I think Catholic kids or Baptist kids or kids in any other faith who have a religious experience experi-ence will act in the same way," Chadwick said. That is evident, he pointed out, in a popular movement among those teens to make a public pledge for chastity or marriage. The study looked at 44 kinds of delinquent behavior, including hitting parents, fighting in a gang, shoplifting, smoking, drinking alcohol and engaging in premarital sex. The study also gauged the influence of peer pressure and the family, both of which were important to deterring deter-ring delinquent behavior. In a paper published last year in BYU Studies, the professors wrote that traditional approaches to what will prevent deliquency don't work. "Public religious behaviors such as attendance at various church meetings and family religious behaviors such as family prayer and scripture study were not significantly related to lower delinquency . rates among youth." Instead, parents and youth leaders should "consider personal religious experience as an important deterrent to delin :3 FLORIDA fr ; PORTFOLIO A new tradition in tile. Springville 489 - quency." The implications of this re-, search are obvious for parents and church leaders, Chadwick' said. "You want to maximize the opportunities for teens to have good spiritual experiences. " Less focus should be placed on the outward appearances such as attending church and more emphasis em-phasis should be placed on the inward experiences that internalize internal-ize religious values." "You can lead young people to religion by taking them to church, but the key is enticing them to partake of what's there, to have a practice of personal prayer, to have their own independent inde-pendent scripture reading. Those things then start to foster internalized inter-nalized values." Chadwick said the research also showed that regular church attendance does act as a deterrent for victimless offenses such as smoking and drinking. And religious integration - feeling they belonged to a group - also is important to teenage boys, more so than girls. Besides offering spiritual opportunities, Chadwick said parents need to have a warm, supportive relationship with their children and maintain a certain level of control. "Young people just need to know what is right or wrong. Parents who don't set standards are asking for trouble." This fall the two professors will continue their research, this time in the Pacific Northwest. There is no failure except in no longer trying. 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