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Show V.i .1 I (?S.V -F ' ' III . r h r r I In What about handling of education funding? Mew principal at Sage Creek School pro- These students at the Springville Middle School earned the most points in the Accelerated Reader program for the second term. For the sixth grade, left to right: Caitlin Marett, Caroline Larson, Kirsten Madsen, Trevis Slagowski and Kent Farley. OBITUARIES Vivian H. Miguel Vivian Male Hachm-eister Hachm-eister Miguel, age 77, of Mapletnn. Utah, died January 19, 2001. She was born September 9, 1923. in Spiral Lake. Iowa, (o Edward and Kaiherine Mae Hachinei-ster. Hachinei-ster. She married Wave Miguel January 17. 1944. in Jackson, Minnesota. Min-nesota. She attended schools and graduated from high school in Iowa. She was a member of the LDS Church and had been involved in many positions. posi-tions. She was a member of the Mapleton Fire Department Auxiliary. And she was involved in the P.T.A., Riding Club and Jaycees Club. ' She managed the school lunch program at Springville Junior High and Grant School for over 30 years. She supported sup-ported iierhusband in all the youth activities in Springville and Maple-ton. Maple-ton. She lived to attend her grandchildren's ball games. She was their 1 fan! She was a very loving mother and grandmother grand-mother and soon to be great-grandmother. She is survived by her , husband. Wave Miguel, of Mapleton; two daughters: Toni (Blair) Ely of Mapleton: Donna (Kelly) Beardall of Spanish Fork; five grandchildren: Justin and Zac Ely; Brandon Vivian H. Miguel Hanks; and Sammy and Kasie Giles, children of Sam Giles; and one sister. Fern Houchins of " Iowa. She was preceded in death by one daughter, daugh-ter, Tammy Giles. , Funeral Services wil be held Tuesday, January Janu-ary 23, in Mapleton. Burial will be in the Springville Evergreen Cemetery. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to the Diabetes Foundation Founda-tion at the U'ah Valley Medical Region?.! Center. Stewart C. Whiting Stewart Cook Whiting Whit-ing died January 15, 2001 at Utah Valley Hospital from congestive heart failure. 11m Stewart C. Whiting He was born in Springville, Utah on November 11, 1920, to Howard Stewart and Mar'ha Cook Whiting. He served an LDS mission mis-sion in Texas. Upon his return, he served in the United States Navy during World War IL He married Genevieve Bird in the Salt Lake LDS Temple on September 19, 1946. After completing a degree in education at -"Brighairtf Young University, Univer-sity, he entered the teaching profession. He later completed a master's maste-r's degree and continued teaching in the Nebo School District until Ronnie Roberts Our beloved mother, grandmother, daughter. 1 11 1111 iiiMuum 3 Ronnie Roberts Springville Floral & GlftV 207 East 400 South, Springville 489-5647 Specializing in Funeral and Floral arrangements for all occasions. sister and aunt, Ronnie Roberts, 58, died January Janu-ary 8, 2001 of a brain tumor, at her daughter's home in Calabasas, California. Ronnie was a shining light on earth; she was able to see the best in people and loved everyone. every-one. She was an eternally eternal-ly optimistic person with a zest for life and full of vitality. 'She was the most festive person! Even with a debilitating brain tumor, she had absolutely no self-pity and never complained. She set a great example for all who knew her. She is survived by her loving daughter, Anne (John) Gettings, Calabasas, California; and son, Troy (Colleen) Lunceford, Salt Lake City; and her grandchildren, grandchil-dren, Alexandra, Stone and Francesca Gettings and Garrett and Taylor Lunceford; sister, Jan (Mike) Gronemin, Springville; Spri-ngville; brothers, Jeff Roberts, American Fork; Kirk (Cay) Roberts, Springville; and her mother, Margaret Welsh, Springville. Ronnie was preceded in death by her retirement. Stewart was also a farmer and rancher. He especially took pride in growing delicious sweet corn, which he supplied to local food markets. He loved outdoor activities activi-ties including fishing, hunting, camping - and riding horses.' He was active in the LDS Church and served as Bishop and on the High Council. For many years he also worked in genealogy gene-alogy name extraction anJ as an" ordinance worker in the Provo Temple. Stewart is survived by his wife, Genevieve Bird Whiting; four children: chil-dren: Craig (Joyce) Whiting; Bruce (Sherri) Whiting; Brenda (Ron) Price; and Nan (Larry) Murray; 17 grandchildren; grandchil-dren; 10 great-grandchildren; a sister. Marjorie Cox; and Marjorie's children: Kristine Fisher, Walter Cox and Martha Francis Simpson. Funeral services were held Thursday, January 18, in Mapleton. Burial with military honors, was jn the Springville Sprin-gville Evergreen Cemetery. father, James Stanley Roberts. Funeral services were held January 16 at the First Baptist Church in Salt Lake City. Internment Intern-ment was in the Springville Spring-ville Evergreen Cemetery. Ceme-tery. In lieu of flowers the family is requesting that donations be sent in Ronnie's name to: The City of Hope, Attention: Roy Forbes, 1055 Wilsh-ire Wilsh-ire Blvd., Twelfth Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90017. While mourning Ronnie's death, please tip your glass in celebration celebra-tion of her and the great life she chose to live! Cheers! LaJeanne Partridge will be the . new principal of Sage Creek Elementary in Springville, replacing replac-ing Steven Maughan. The Nebo Board of Education made the announcement at the January board meeting. "I am excited about the opportunity to work at a great school like Sage Creek," said Mrs. Partridge. Currently, Mrs. Partridge is the principal of Mt. Loafer Elementary in Salem. Mrs. Partridge has had 24 years of experience in education. cause some districts don't account for it properly. In fact, the audit revealed that despite an earlier audit in 1996 calling for standardization of reporting, the Utah State Office of Education has not enforced correction of this problem. The audit showed that one district reported $36,000 in cheerleader che-erleader and drill team uniforms as an instructional supply. Many districts were found to spend less of their own budget on textbooks in the years when the legislature appropriated supplemental monies to the districts for textbooks. In other words, the legislature's legislatur-e's attempts to provide more money for textbooks were actually actual-ly sabotaged by some of the districts. Apart from the textbook audit, the Taxpayers Association has received information from the Intermountain Textbook Depository Deposi-tory in Clearfield, which is the clearinghouse for most textbooks used in Utah schools, that schools are paying too much for books. It is reported that as many as one-fourth of textbooks acquired by Utah school districts cost about 10 more than they would if districts had ordered directly. When this occurs, districts often do not receive the low state negotiated price and they pay as much as 10 in shipping costs from the publishers. Both audits were critical of the State Office of Education for failing to provide districts with more direction and uniformity in rnnrtino tht n rf rvtlw-it anH TTt, 7 lu"cuucul u-class-size money: In the past, -Public Jnstruction report revenues State 0ffice of 0,, offiaIs and expenditures for every dis- said they don't want to be the trict by distinct spending catego- enforcer of state laws with the ries in an annual report, the -. districts. mtonnation is not always report- 1 ed in a consistent fashion. And because of this inconsistency, the data are much less, meaningful" than they should be. A few years ago this financial data used to be reported as part of the Superintendent's annual report, but now it's available only if equested-and few know how to request it. A few years, ago the State Office of Education also stopped keeping attendance counts, but the legislature has recently required it despite complaints com-plaints from school officials. The legislative audit on class-. size reduction spending showed that many of Utah's forth school districts are unable to account for. class-size expenditures. The legislature allocated over $344 million since 1990 to reduce class size among the various school districts. Because 59 of class-size money has been commingled with other funds, it is impossible to be sure school districts have spent the funds as intended, despite the fact that state law requires districts dis-tricts to account for the spending. The audit on textbook spending spend-ing showed that nobody knows for sure whether school districts are complying with the state requirement that 5.5 of school funding be spent for textbooks and instructional supplies, be- by Howard Stephenson Governor Leavitt has posed to increase public education educa-tion spending in Utah by a whop-" ping 14.8 this year. If the legislature approves an increase anywhere near this, even the most skeptical education leaders should be turning cartwheels. While student numbers have increase just 4.7 over the last ten years, with this increase, state funding for education will have more than doubled, increasing 104.2. While the education of our children and the positive impact that has on our future receives the attention it deserves, there's something disturbing about the way education money has been handled which should cause all Utahns to pause and wonder. I'm not talking about the diversion of precious tax dollars through Redevelopment Agencies (RDA's) which, as I've explained in this column before, allows city councils to take some of the funds we think are going to schools and use them to entice developers to build retail stores, office space and industrial facilities facili-ties in their communities. We have legislation to be considered in the upcoming legislative session ses-sion to end or seriously curtail this practice. No, this mishandling of current cur-rent school tax dollars that I'm' talking about has to do with what partly has been disclosed in recent audits by the Legislative Auditor General. These audits reviewed the massive amounts of money which have been appropriated appropri-ated by the legislature and local school boards for class size reduction re-duction and textbook purchases. The common problem which both audits uncovered is that when it comes to accounting for where the money goeswe really don't know. You see, despite the statutory requirement that all school districts dis-tricts comply with standard financial finan-cial reporting requirements and January 24, 2001 - The Springville Herald - Page Seven Thank you citizens! Editor. It has been a long time coming, com-ing, but we are excited to let you citizens know that the Mapleton and Springville Fire Departments have purchased the Thermal Imaging Cameras. We. as a community, should feel a sense of pride in all of the citizens and businesses that helped make this possible. Very few Fire Departments of our size are able to have this technology at their Fingertips. Many cities wait until there is a tragedy before realizing the benefits bene-fits that this camera has. but thanks again to the efforts of the communities involved, we were able to purchase the cameras. There were hundreds of donations dona-tions and to all of you we owe you a big THANK-YOU! You have made our community a safer place to live. A special thanks goes to Wal-Mart Wal-Mart for their matching funds program. Without them it wouldn't would-n't have been possible. Again thanks to everyone who helped in any way. Mapleton and Springville truly is a great place to live. Springville and Mapleton Fire Departments " --' - v. LaJeanne Partridge She had been a Teacher and Intern Facilitator at Taylor Elementary Ele-mentary and a Clinical Faculty Associate for Brigham Young University. She coaches softball, soccer, basketball and has been a Boy Scout Leader. Jeanne also enjoys reading, gardening and attending children's sporting events. Jeanne believes in the adage "others (including children) need to know you care before they care what you know." Mrs. Partridge has five children chil-dren and lives in Paysoni LaJeanne LaJe-anne is the daughter of Leah Walker of Spanish Fork. Steve Maughan, current principal prin-cipal of Sage Creek, will be the new principal of Spanish Oaks Elementary in Spanish Fork. Spanish Oaks is one of the new elementary schools in Nebo School District. The game of mahjongg was first played in China around 2,500 years ago. 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