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Show Utah 'sfoci3tir.il Ins. 67 last 3 Soytn loi7 0Gi)(3EQ C0dDO mm Volume 53 Number 46 -Thursday, November 17, 1983 PRICE TWENTY FIVE-CENTS Eliza Boolittle, played by LeAnne Ellwood, gets lesson in elocution from Professor Henry Higgins (Scott Claflin) now playing in "My Fair Lady ' ' at Mountain View High School. E)iiQSd Gvoras Awarded 'FrzoRdoff Education1 Donald E. Evans was named the "Friend of Education" for 1983 by the Alpine Education Association, November 15, at a breakfast held at the Heritage House to honor community, com-munity, civic, and educational leaders for their support of education in Alpine School District. Don Tittle, member of toe American Education Committee, presented the award to Mr. Evans. "Because of the dedication of its staff, Alpine School District has been able to offer quality education in spite of its limited resources over the years." If this statement came from any self-appointed expert or from any recently named evaluation committee, commit-tee, it could be taken with a grain of salt. But when a man has been raised rais-ed and educated within the district, has raised his children in the district, and served the district as an elected board member, it must be taken seriously. It is no surprise that such a man would be named this year's "Friend of Education" by the AEA. Mr. Evans was raised and educated in Lehi, Utah. After graduating from BYU, he went into business in Provo. He and his wife, Laura, established their home in Orem where they raised four children. Don and Laura, were always involved with their children as they attended school. Teachers of their children can tell how they were always ready to help, whether on some special event or furnishing transportation for a field trip. They always supported the children's school activities. Mr. Evans feels his children received an excellent education in Alpine District, mainly because of teachers who were willing to do more than was expected, including spending spen-ding their own money for things needed need-ed in their programs. After a long career in the retail grocery business, Mr. Evans retired a few years ago, partly so he could serve in ways not possible before. With the encouragement of friends, he won a seat on the Alpine District Board of Education in 1978. He constantly con-stantly reminded his fellow board members that the District could not accomplish what it does without the loyal dedication of its staff members. Although some improvements were made in salaries, he never felt that teachers were adequately compensated compen-sated for what they do. In 1982 when the Board voting districts were realigned, he graciously gracious-ly decided not to run again since two members had ended up in the same district and the other one had two Lioness Cfob To Hold Annual fcke-Crcft Sde On November 18, the Orem Lioness Club will hold their annual Bake, Craft and "Hot" chili sale in .the Multi-purpose room at the Orem City Center. Shop for Christmas in a leisurely atmosphere. "Hot" chili, hot homemade bread and homemade pies will be served for lunch. The time is 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. x , years to serve. His friends thought this was a real loss to the district. Besides an always busy schedule in his work and in community affairs, Mr. Evans had time for church service. ser-vice. He served in two LDS bishoprics and for ten years as counselor in a stake presidency. For the last eight years, he has been president of the Orem Stake. Mr. Evans may be officially retired, but his efforts for education have not ceased. He is willing to speak up any time for what he calls the "special type of people", the teachers, who make education succeed suc-ceed in Alpine District. Christmas Tree Permits "Rppinnine November 21, 800 Christmas tree cutting permits will be available to the public," announced announ-ced Roy Daniels, District Ranger for the Heber Ranger uisinci, vmi oi irnrpst According to iiatauua w Daniels, each permit will cost $2 and will be issuea on a ursi-come, mot-daman mot-daman hasis with the limit of one l V """"J per family. "We will have no permits per-mits available for commercial dealers. The permits we have are intended in-tended for use by individual families," said Daniels. Permits will be for alpine fir trees only in the Nobletts area 10 miles east of Woodland and the Strawberry Valley area south of Main Canyon near Daniels Pass. Q Donald N. Evans, receives plaque and a pat on the shoulder for his many years of service to education, from friend and educator Don Tittle, representative of Alpine Education Association. Evans was named "Friend of Education" for 1983. ; 1ct In County ."y Fr.f? Lcy" Opens at LTVUS "My Fair Lady" opens tonight at Mountain View High School.. Tha classic production is under the direction of Charles Lynn Frost with Robert Bird as music director, Pamela MusilL choreographer and Rosanna Ungermann as vocal director. direc-tor. Cast in the leading role of Professor Henry Higgins is Scott Claflin who has appeared in Guys and Dolls, Star Spangled Girl, and took superior ratings in the one-act play at the State 3-A Drama Tournament Tour-nament in 1983. Leanne Ellwood makes her theatrical debut in the title role of Eliza Doolittle. She demonstrates a convincing portrayal of the cockney flower girl. In the role of Alfred Dootlittle is Paul Warnett, who also brings experience ex-perience from Guys and Dolls and many other roles. Other roles include Reid Barker as Colonel Pickering, and Larrv Wampler as Freddy Eynsford Hill. The production starts at 7:30 p.m. in the Mountain View High School auditorium. Tickets are $10 for a family, or $3 for students and adults, and $2.50 for children. Tickets may be purchased at the door. Sharon School Craft Fcir Sot Sharon Elementary School, 525 N. 400 E., will hold a Christmas Craft Fair Friday, Nov, 18, from 4 to ; 8 p.m. for students and patrons of the school as well as the gene. nl public. . - "r:;, , . v Featured will be an array of handmade hand-made articles and baked goods suitable tor gifting. Dolls, wood items, cross stitching, etc. will be available. "Maps of these areas and cutting regulations will be provided at the time of permit purchase," said Daniels. Permits must be picked up in person at the Heber Ranger District Office, 125 East 100 North, Heber City, between the hours of 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday. Ranger Daniels advises that, "Roads will be snowpacked and are not plowed in winter months; therefore snowshoes, cross-country skis, or snowmobiles will be needed to reach the cutting areas." nanger Daniels also advises that cutters should be prepared for the cold weather. "1 A plan for housing rehabilitation and loan repayment developed by City Ci-ty Grants Coordinator Jonnie Wilkinson Wilkin-son received plaudits at Orem City Council Meeting Tuesday night. Developed over the last two months, the plan includes a residency residen-cy requirement eligibility and repayment repay-ment on all loan portions at three percent per-cent interest. Housing loans would be prioritized to those with lowest income in-come first based on a scale of $6,050 for a household of one to $21,650 for a household of eight. Repayment would be based on 50 percent of the loan with a stipulation that the home could not be sold for 10 years without a penalty. Eligible applicants must have been residents of Orem for at least 30 days and meet one of several criteria : unemployed, handicapped or elderly, a single female head of household, etc. While councilmembers agreed the plan is good in theory, some questioned ques-tioned the ability to establish an applicant's ap-plicant's income. "Have the applicant bring in last year's income tax . report," suggested Blaine Willes. He pointed out that he has had dealing with some who have low income (cash flow) but much in assets. Another councilman questioned if they would run out of monev this year Committee Seeks Ideas Pop Spending Grant Fund Orem City's Block Grant Citizens Committee are seeking suggestions for ways to spend community com-munity development block grant funds. "The funds have not been allocated yet," says Grants Director Jonnie Wilkinson, "but last year it amounted to $646,000." The funds were used for various improvement projects including distribution of smoke detectors, removal of ar-chitecturial ar-chitecturial barriors to handicapped (ramps on State Street), establishment establish-ment of PERC (Parent Education Resource Center) at city library, and improvement of blighted areas in the community. Wilkinson said the funds cannot be used for general conduct of government, buildings, equipment, maintainance, or political activities of any kind. In order to qualify for a grants block project, the proposed project must meet one of three criteria, said Wilkinson. The project must benefit low and moderate income residents, prevent or eliminate or improve slums or blighted area, or the Spencer School Teacher Warned 'Teacher of Year' Mary T. Hardy was named the "Teacher of the Year" by Alpine Education Association, November 15, at the Heritage House during a breakfast held to honor educators and community and civic leaders for their contributions to the educational program pro-gram in Alpine School District. Mrs. Hardy was presented the award by Stan V. Harward, President of the Association. Mrs. Hardy has taught school for 18 years, and much of her success as a teacher comes from her desire to make parents part of the educational process. "Parental involvement is the key to a child's success in school." Her goal is to keep the parents informed in-formed about the curriculum and where their children are in it. This way the home and the school can support sup-port one another. When Mrs. Hardy taught first grade, she wrote "A Parent's Guide to First Grade Learning" and developed a workshop using the Guide for parents to help her fulfill this goal. She instructed parents in each area of the curriculum and gave them suggestions on how they could reinforce the concepts their children were being taught at school. Currently, Current-ly, she is teaching kindergarten at Spencer School and has a similar workshop for her student's parents. t Mrs. Hardy loves children. She states, "I believe that children must love to come to school, must have a teacher they can depend on to set limits, encourage, laugh with them often and be aware they are in the classroom. A great deal of my time is spent helping children feel adequate ade-quate to the tasks they must accomplish; ac-complish; then I can teach them! I use a positive approach at all times, throw in a healthy portion of 'active listening,' lots of praise, and as many hugs as we can exchange in a day." Another reason for Mrs. Hardy's success is that she loves to read and passes on that love to her students. She feels that if a student reads well he will have little difficulty in school. She says, "Reading is a kind of magic. After all the teaching and preparation, like magic, the students are reading. It is exciting to be a part of it." Mrs. Hardy co-authored "Mini-Books "Mini-Books for Beginning Readers," a four volume set for first grade readers. as more requests come in. Wilkinson showed how the revolving loan repayment repay-ment plan would replenish the limited funds. The - resolution passed unanimously with some refining suggested sug-gested and a request that the plan be advertised to low income families. Wilkinson agreed to seek out eligible families. Discussion of Orchard School traffic and safety of children involved involv-ed much discussion culminating in the decision to take the crossing guard from the 800 East 800 North intersection, intersec-tion, which now has a semaphore, and place that guard at 800 East directly across from the Orchard School rather than fund $2,500 for an additional addi-tional guard. While 400 families send children to Orchard School, it was shown through survey that only two children actually use the 800 East 800 North crossing. Others are bussed. PTA President Rose Marie Chapman said that situation was not a permanent one and those two families were making mak-ing arrangements for transporation. When the junior high school, now under construction adjacent to the Orchard Or-chard Elementary School, opens in project must meet an urgent community com-munity development need. Persons with ideas and suggestions may call Wilkinson at 224-7115 or mail the suggestion to Block Grant Citizens Committee, care of Jonnie Wilkinson, 56 N. State, Orem. Other members of the committee commit-tee include Lynn Lowry, Wendy Moody, Beverly Johansen, Carl Carlson, Keith Stevensen, Nad Aikau, Charles Morgan, and Glen Miller. Notice To 0-GT Readers A special holiday edition of the Orem-Geneva Times -will -be pub-.., lished Monday, November 21, as well as the regular issue on Thursday, Thur-sday, Nov. 24. Carriers will make the Thanksgiving delivery to homes. News items should be in the O GT office by Friday for Nov. 21 publication and Monday for the Thanksgiving issue. She also wrote "Mini-Books for Kindergarten Children" and co-authored co-authored "Phonics Fun with Paper Bag Puppets" to help her students in her current assignment. Mrs. Hardy is married to Dr. Kenneth F. Hardy. They have six children and one foster daughter. Mrs. Hardy began her college preparation to be a teacher when she was thirty-four years old and completed com-pleted it when she was forty. She began her teaching career in 1966. After teaching first grade for 13 years, she took a sabbatical leave to get a M. Ed as a reading specialist. Since then, she has taught kindergarten. Mrs. Hardy's success as a teacher can be found best in her own words: "I can truthfully say that I taught one month for the money and the rest of the time because I love children; I love to see them grow and develop; I love to see them learn; I love to see the light in their eyes as they discover how much joy comes from accomplishment after many attempts." r Mary T. Hardy displays "Teacher of the Year" Award presented by Josephine Wentz of Alpine Education Association at an AEA breakfast held Tuesday. Hardy teaches at Spencer School in Orem and is known for her loving and innovative teaching methods. the fall there will be further study. Councilmember Stella Welsh strongly emphasized the need for better bet-ter planning of school sites in the future. Councilmember Glen Zimmerman Zim-merman pointed out that those decisions deci-sions are made by the school board. In other action the council approved ap-proved final plat plans for Que's subdivision sub-division at 800 West and 800 South, and also set a public hearing for Dec. 6, 1983 at 7:30 p.m. for establishing Industrial In-dustrial Revenue Bond for S.D.W.& K. Investments. A request was approved for a public hearing on Jan. 10, 1984 to discuss an amendment to the Land Use Plan to establish a mobile home park on 65 acres of land on the northwest nor-thwest corner of 400 South and Geneva Road. Developers Merrill Gappmayer and Martin Dodge made the request for hearing. Preliminary plat approval was given to Churchill Estates P.R.D. for a 12 unit twin home development at 945 West 680 North. At the same time a former plan, Winslow Heights, a duplex plan at the same site, was vacated. Orem Community Hospital was given the green light to place a modular unit at 331 North 400 West to be used temporarily for an educational educa-tional facility for not more than five years until an expansion can be added add-ed to the hospital. Orem High School To Host Parent; Day Nov. 22 Orem High School will host the first semester parent visiting day Tuesday, November 22 from 12:30 to 4:00 p.m. The first quarter ended Friday, November 4; students will receive their report card at school on Friday, November 18. Visiting day presents an excellent opportunity for parents to reveiw students' progress with teachers, counselors andor administrators. A letter and an appointment form were mailed to each student's home. Students should make appointments witMheirrespectweteachersprior to November 18. Telephone appointments appoint-ments can be made beginning Mon- . day, November 21; however those making appointments early will receive the preferred times. Parents and guardians are welcome to attend without appointments, appoint-ments, but in such cases they will be able to see staff members on unscheduled times only. Teachers and administrators encourage parents to visit each of the student's teachers and not limit visits to teachers of classes where the students may be doing poorly. Students will attend classes from 8:15 to 11:15 a.m. No school lunch will be served. Busses will make their regular runs at 11:15. Special Play To Be Presented At City Library Extra performances of the stage presentation "Nothing Very Important," Impor-tant," based on Bela Petsco's poignant book of short stories about LDS missionary life, will be presented presen-ted November 18 and 19 at Orem City Library, 56 North State in .Orem. Performances begin at 8 p.m. There is no charge and the public is welcome. Dave Cameron, a BYU senior from Hamilton, Canada, has been directing performances this past week at BYU. The play is presented by 14 students of BYU theater and drama, the Hyde Park Club. -jAt .mJ ;:,Jr I - jfc- J ,V |