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Show HAPPY THANKSGIVING! from these young kindergarten students at Westside Elementary School. They are, from left: Alyson Bate-man, Bate-man, Christian Vargas, Emily Leiva, Kayden Hopkins, Julie Sauvageau, Jentry Hendricks, Mariah White and Brooklyn Cruz. Volume One Hundred Seven RfflsiljDDsta to By working a special deal with a playground equipment company Mapleton City will be able to purchase needed items for three parks in the city it was disclosed in last Wednesday evening's city council meeting. meet-ing. The equipment will be placed in the Wing Pointe Park, North Park and the Ira Allen Sports Park. The city's portion for the needed equipment will be$40,000; The council also passed an ordinance establishing a Parks Board. Following the passage of the ordinance the mayor nominated and the council approved ap-proved Conrad Todd as chairman, chair-man, Cyril Thompson as vice chairman and Stacey Child as secretary of the new board. Others will be added to the board in the near future. Fire department In other actions the council voted to increase the compensation compen-sation extended to firemen and other emergency personnel in the city. Firemen will now be com etetefe wmm .si new Mad of & by Christi C. Babbitt Staff Writer Leaders of Utah County's three school districts and Utah Valley State College are working work-ing together on a proposal to create a new high school offering of-fering accelerated learning for students in math, science, engineering and technology. Provo School District Superintendent Su-perintendent Randall J. Merrill is heading up efforts to form a New Century High School in the county, a type of charter school for ninth through 12th grades and limited to 500 students. - The Springville Middle School PTA will host fceir annual Book Fair next wed on Wednesday, Dec. 3, from 7:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. sad on Thursday, Dec. 4, from 7:30 a.m. to 7 p.in. The Read Leaf Dock-store Dock-store in Springville will provide the books fcis ytav Airinistrators and tzzctzx lx9 fcc!ped wfch ;!:ra TLi PTA b txt': :i to provL'jrrrlr " r; ' j far ever;- ? t l .-- J. Frrits ;m....3 t:-; HaiillaalMiaiHajaiiaiMliaaiaaiaaia even SPRINGVILLE, UTAH 84663 - pensated at the rate of $8 per meeting during the year and $8 per hour for non-certified and $10 per hour for certified firemen appearing at a fire. In addition the fire chief will receive $1,200 per year, the assistant fire chief $600 per year, the truck captains $100 per year and the secretary $100 per year. Ambulance members will now be compensated at the rates as follows: Intermediate EMT's $1 per, basic EMT's $.75 per hour and untrained drivers at $.35 per hours. The ambulance run was increased from $5 to $30. Ambulance officers will now receive the following: director, $1,200 per year, assistant as-sistant director $600 pr year, secretary $300 per year and supply officer $500 per year. These rates were taken into consideration for this year budget and upon passage of the resolutions the rates will become effective. CDBG grant The council, after finishing Merrill said the idea for a New Century High School in Utah County came from the Utah governor's office. Merrill Mer-rill has been working with the superintendents of Alpine and Nebo districts as well as President Presi-dent William A. Sederburg of UVSC on the project and recently re-cently sent out a draft proposal for their consideration. "You have to see, is there enough interest to make this think fly?" Merrill said. Former Gov. Michael O. Leavitt proposed creating six of the new high schools dur- tend anytime, but rzzy find it convenient to visit the Book Fair during SEP Conferences Confer-ences on Thursday. ; The owner of the Read Leaf, Margy Layton, will be available to answer questions and cake recoxnmendariotis on Thursday evening. ' For your convenience, you tzzypsttzzs gift certifiers cer-tifiers n aivcrxe at &s Read Lesi t z yc J s&x to urs tl fcj Lxi Fcir b-izi b-izi ci czzh cr c!-xls. All proceed trra ; Ccck Fsir O'-jr- " --:; - cftl ' ...r- 1 l wmm a public hearing considering the request for a Community Development Block Grant to make a "VIP Special Needs League Playground Park" at Norm Park, passed the formal resolution which is needed to obtain the grant. The total amount of the grant requested is $85,000 and would require a match from the city of $37,500. Mapleton City has not requested a CDBG grant for several years. Re-zoning Following a very long and involved discussion with developers, devel-opers, the city attorney and the public works administrator, the council finally passed several technical re-zoning ordinances connected with the large development devel-opment which is happening on the "slant" road west of US 89 and Maple Street. The council has been working work-ing for several months on this project and finally felt comfortable comfort-able with the actions they took to protect the city's interests which includes infrastructure ing his 2002 State of the State Address. Current Gov. Olene Walker supports the schools as well, said Amanda Covington, spokeswomen for Walker. The first school , the Academy Acad-emy for Math, Engineering and Science, snares facilities with Cottonwood High School in Holladay and opened in August, Au-gust, said Darrell White, Utah governor's deputy for education. educa-tion. Two more of the schools will open next fall; one in partnership with Davis, Ogden and Weber school districts and Weber State University, and another in partnership with Jordan School District and Salt Lake Community College, White said. Students attending the schools will graduate having earned an associate degree or the equivalent of two years of college work, White said. "We are encouraging them in this field and accelerating their education," he said. One of Utah County's school districts would need to charter the school, though which one is undecided. Nebo School District Superintendent Su-perintendent Carl S. Nielson said Nebo district wouldn't charter the school because the school wouldn't be located in Nebo district; the school needs to be close to UVSC, he said. The exact location has not been determined. The drafted proposal now under consideration splits See DISTRICT. Page 2 am SLT November 27, 2003 and sewer connections with the Spanish Fork Sewer Treatment Plant. The council was also concerned con-cerned with how the development develop-ment will be constructed and which parts will be done first and how one part would need to reach a certain completion before a second part would be started. The city also accepted a "development agreement" titled "Mapleton West" which directs the development and spells out all of the necessary requirements on the part of the developer and the city. All of the items in the proposed pro-posed development have been gone over by the planning commission, com-mission, the city council, the developers and the city attorney to work out the best possible situations for all the parties concerned con-cerned including the citizens of Mapleton as a whole. iive thanks So ieoirge ; Americans don't know it and children aren't taught it, but George Washington is responsible for our Thanksgiving Thanks-giving holiday. It was our first president who led the charge to make this day of thanks a truly national event-not the Pilgrims and not Abraham Lincoln. On Oct. 3, 1789, George Washington issued his Thanksgiving Than-ksgiving Proclamation, designating desig-nating for "the People of the United States a day of public thanks-giving" to be held on "Thursday the 26th day of November, "1789, marking the first national celebration of a holiday that has become commonplace in today's households. house-holds. . While Subsequent presi "The Christmas Carol" opens Friday, Nov. 28, and plays through Dec. 22 every Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Monday at 7:30 p.m. at the Villa Playhouse Theatre in Springville. Scrooge is played by Bill Brown, Cockney girl by Kirsten Bezzant, Bob Cratchit by Jamie Gritton, Tiny Tim by Zac Harvey, Cockney woman by Michell Whitney, narrator by Dane Allred and "Dealer Joe" by Karl Hartman. . devour rAO 4J1 UTAH PRrQCAR-RT LOT LAKE cfrv E 46 If "A r 4 Price 500 Mapleton Fire Dept. receives grant to make improvements Senator Bob Bennett (R-Utah) (R-Utah) announced Friday that the Mapleton City Volunteer Fire Department will receive a grant from the U.S. Fire Administration Ad-ministration (USFA) to assist in the training of firefighting personnel and improving public pub-lic safety. "Utah families and communities com-munities depend greatly on our local departments for enhanced public safety," said Bennett, a member of the Senate Sen-ate Appropriations Committee. "Through these grants, the Mapleton Fire Department will receive the necessary training to carry out their fire safety mission. I commend these volunteer firefighters for their commitment and service." Derald Olsen, safety officer of-ficer for the Mapleton department, depart-ment, said, "Mapleton City Fire Department would like to thank President Bush and dents failed to maintain this tradition, it was Washington's original Proclamation that guided guid-ed Abraham Lincoln's 1863 Thanksgiving Proclamation. In fact, Lincoln issued his proclamation on the same day, Oct. 3, and marked the same Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, Nov. 26, as Washington, setting set-ting Thanksgiving as the last Thursday of November after our first president's example. The proclamation was printed in newspapers, including the Oct. 9, 1789 issue of the Pennsylvania Packet and Daily Advertiser. Washington first mentioned the possibility of a national Thanksgiving Day in a confidential confi-dential letter to Janes Madison , k -v m 1 (Qui 'l v(y . .v.. Numbi Number Forty-Eight FEMA for recognizing the need to assist the nation's fire departments with this type of federal funding. These types of federal and state grants provide the monies needed to smaller communities to keep their fire departments equipped to respond to the needs of their citizens." The $87,435 grant is part of the USFA Fire Operation and Firefighter Safety Program. The funds will enable Mapleton City Fire Department to obtain new equipment for each of its 25 volunteers. The department will also purchase a Self Contained Con-tained Breathing Apparatus (SCBA) airtank fill station, allowing firefighters to train using the SCBA equipment on a regular basis. Since June of this year, Utah fire departments have received nearly $2.7 million, in fire grants. . in Aug. 1789 (just months after taking office), asking for his advice ad-vice on approaching the Senate for their opinion on "a day of thanksgiving." By the end -of Sept. 1789, a resolution had been introduced to the House of Representatives requesting request-ing that "a joint committee of both houses be directed tp wait upon the President of die United States, to request thathe would recommend to the people of the United States a day -of public thanksgiving . " -; - The committee put the resolution before the president and Washington issued the first national Thanksgiving Proclamation Procla-mation within days . ; Washington knew the See THANKSGIVING, Page 14 3 4 11 V |