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Show "feil tVTK Volume 60 Number 38 (iTui Wednesday, September 19, 1990 I L ..fn.iTiMYriKiiM Alpine District reach tentative The Alpine School District and the local teacher's association associa-tion have reached a tentative contract con-tract agreement Ratification of the contract is now required by both the teachers association and the Alpine Board of Education.' The teachers will be given an - i' MIWJJJ Bill Fairbanks of Homebuilders Association presents dona tion to Boyd Adams, chairman of Kids on the Move to help spur construction of a pre-school facility for handicapped children. City keeps pledge to Kids on the Move, Homebuilders Association donates By Jeanne Thayne A check for $100,000 from Community Development Block Grant funds was given to Kids on the Move Tuesday night at the City Council meeting to help begin construction of a pre-school and early intervention program for handicapped toddlers up to three years of age. Later in the week Homebuilders Association also contributed $9,500 to the program. When KOTM board president Boyd Adams accepted the check from Orem City Mayor Blaine Willes, he told himhe also wanted to keep the giant placard pledge received earlier. KOTM Director Karen Hahne said she had a special place in mind to display the pledge in their new building. Adams and Hahne jointly presented City Mayor Blaine Willes Wil-les with a plaque of appreciation to the City for their donation. "It shows the City really cares about all of its citizens," said Hahne. She also presented each Democrats host fundraiser dinner tonight The Utah County Democratic Party will host a Spaghetti Supper on Wednesday, Wednes-day, September 19. It will be at the Labor Hall on Columbia Colum-bia Lane and will begin at 6 p.m. Tickets are $5 per plate and may be purchased from voting district chairmen. They also will be available at the door the night of the supper. sup-per. The 15 county candidates will be special guests. and teachers agreement opportunity to vote on the contract con-tract this week while the Board of Education is expected to act on the matter during its September 25 public input session. Details of the agreement will not be released until after ratification. member of the City Council with brightly colored Kids on the Move T-shirts. Keeping a pledge to provide land if funds could be raised, In-termountain In-termountain Health Care notified Kids on the Move officials last week that the one acre land needed is theirs. Directors of the program will , meet IHC officials very soon to select the exact site for the 7,000 square foot pre-school to be built near the Orem Community Hospital. ALL HEART Last Thursday, Homebuilders Association representative Bill Fairbanks presented Boyd Adams with for $9,500. Adams said when the fund drive first began, the owner of a title company told him to contact the Homebuilders Association. As-sociation. 'They don't have a lot of money but they're all heart," the person said. "And they are," said Adams. He said the money will help buy miracles for lots of lads. "And miracles do happen in the early intervention program," Adams said, his eyes tearing up. They could happen to your kids, or to mine or to our neighbor child." Adams said the needed $470 to begin the construction has been raised but the group is still 'seeking funding to furnish the facility, about $60,000 more. "We want to go into the building build-ing debt free," says Hahne. She said the school will begin this fall with 40 children and expects have 65 enrolled by December! At present Kids on theMove is located on the Provo campus of Utah Valley Community College. Expansion of the college is forcing the pre-school to move again, hopefully not until they have the building completed, and it will be for the last time. KOHS Radio awaits FCC permission to return to air after location move By Steve Blackwell If you've turned on the radio to 91.7 FM on one of the last Friday nights hoping to hear the broadcast of the Orem High football foot-ball games, you've no doubt found that not only is there no game, but no 91.7 FM as well. This is because be-cause of aTecent station move from the fiorth wing of the high school toLhe shop building. i According to station manager Ken Seastrand, this is to accommodate accom-modate both Orem High custodians cus-todians and faculty. "We stay on the air way past the time the school remains pini-to pini-to student use. At times, Orem High didn't want to leave the school open. This has been a problem prob-lem in the past and we hope the move will resolve this. "The move also makes sense because E-17 (the former KOHS location) is piped with gas, water, and electricity for science purposes pur-poses and will now be used as a science classroom." Another reason that promotes the move according to Seastrand is that KOHS will now be on it's own circuit. Occasionally in the past, the physics room up the hall has conducted an experiment using excess power tripping the breaker and causing the station to go off the air. Voter turnout better than expected Last Tuesday's election brought 22.34 percent of the voters to the polls, somewhat better bet-ter than expected, Utah County election officials said. While some races were close, i others captured a decided victory. Karl Snow ousted candidate John L. Harmer by better than double the votes. Snow received 14,171 votes for U.S. Representative District Dis-trict No. 3 while Harmer took in 6,695. Snow, a Republican, will face Democrat Bill Orton in the General Election November 6. The race for the two Utah County Commission seats were very close. Incumbent Malcolm H. Beck won after a see-saw battle bat-tle with Von R. Brockbank. Unof- t ficial tally gives Beck 9,800 votes Chamber opposes food tax removal The Government Review Council of the ProvoOrem Chamber Cham-ber of Commerce recently unanimously unani-mously passed a motion to oppose the bill that would remove sales tax on food if passed by Utah voters in November's general election, said Council Chairman DickChappel. "The council opposes the bill because the tax structure is such that removing sales tax on food would be devastating to education, educa-tion, as well as cities and towns that rely on sales tax revenue, and it is the one tax that everyone pays," explained Chappel. "We suggested at the same time that the state should look at ways to reduce spending as part of a tax'initiative. , The move does bring up a problem in itself, however. The FCC allows a transmitter move up to 300 feet without having to go through formalities of checking check-ing overlapof frequencies; thatis, to be sure that they aren't walking walk-ing on any other station's broadcasting broad-casting area. KOHS has moved roughly 700 feet. At first, a decision was made to leave the transmitter in E-17 and run cable to the shop where the station would be located. The problem arose when it was determined deter-mined that a student would have -to trek to E-17 every hour to take an FCC required meter reading for their operating logs. The administration ad-ministration didn't like the idea of having a radio student interrupting inter-rupting a science class every hour. The other problem posted was that of the antenna that also needed to be moved. Utah Power and Light solved that problem when they donated a 110 foot pole to put the antenna on. Brad Whi taker of UP&L arranged to put the pole in along with Dean Flygare, Smokey Griswald, Larry Nicol, and Ted McQuivey under no charge. Orem City then came to help as well. The Fire Department sent over a truck to put station and Brockbank 9,296 votes. For the second seat, Richard A. Johnson garnered 9,912 votes beating out candidate Kevin H. Steadman who had 8,597 votes. In the Republican race for State Representative in District 60, Pat Nix lost her bid for re-election to challenger Norman L. Nielsen. Nix received 888 votes while Nielsen took in 1,506. Nielsen will face Democrat candidate Helen Weeks, and Libertarian Neil D. Skousen in the General Election. In State House Dist. 62, Republican Jeff Alexander had 1,553 votes and Gregory B. Had-ley Had-ley garnered 816 votes even though he withdrew shortly before the election. His name already al-ready was printed on the ballot. Orem may be considered for state half-way house The State Department of Corrections Cor-rections is seeking locations for a half-way house and has asked Orem officials to identify sites within the city and provide information infor-mation to the state. . City Manager Daryl Berlin told city council members last Tuesday that currently there is not a zone is the city that will permit a half-way house. Councilman Keith Hunt asked, "Will Orem have a say in the matter mat-ter or will the State just do it" Berlin said the state is just seeking input at this time. He said they are looking at several areas. A half-way house, administered ad-ministered by the Department of Corrections, provides housing for newly released inmates and probationers to help them read f 83-831204. 00 Utah Press Assoc. ! 467 East 300 South Salt Lake City, UT 84111 KOHS Program Director Terry Blackwell and General Manager Ken Seastrand work to re-wire the station's mixing board during the station's move early this week. Wednesday, September 19, 1990 engineer Dale Jarvis on the pole to attach the antenna and lightning lightn-ing rod. Chief Gary Weiss coordinated coor-dinated the service from the city. - Jarvis ended up on the pole from 7:30 A.M. to 4:30 P.M. and while he was up, lost circulation to one of his legs. Two days and a hospital visit later, Jarvis regained feeling in his leg. Seastrand and his crew are now finishing up the move and say they are capable of going on the air at any time. They are now waiting for the FCC to review the case and grant permission for KOHS to go on the air..; r . "It has been very frustrating," notes Seastrand, "we've been in here until midnights some nights and the kids (radio students) are ready to get going." Seastrand further added that they are lucky to be as close as they are to being ready. "With all of the construction going on here, some teachers in the shops aren't even in their classrooms yet. We had to really push to even be in here on time." KOHS staff hopes to be on the air this Friday for the game against Provo, but is going to be pushing for the big game against Mountain View next Friday at Cougar Stadium. KOHS Program Director Alexander will face Democrat Mike Marchant in the final election. elec-tion. AMERICAN PARTY American Party candidates Will Christensen and Shawn W. Hurst for State Senate Dist. 15 had 57 and 28 votes respectively. Christensen will face Republican incumbent LeRay L. McAllister and Independent party candidate Ronald Hathcock in the General Election. For State Representative District Dis-trict No. 58 Alan K Hunter had 14 votes and Robert A. Schoen, 10. For State Representative Dist. 64 Wilma L. Ray had 22 votes and Vincent R. Newmeyer 21. Ray will face Republican in just to society. The half-way house being considered would house inmates from the southern portion of the state. Hunt pointed out that "we're putting our share up there (Utah State prison) and so we ought to take our share back into a half-way house to help rehabilitate them." Mayor Blaine Willes said there should be some consideration considera-tion to the fact that the house would be covering half the state. One council member suggested some smaller cities like Gunnison or Fillmore. However, half-way houses generally are placed in larger communities because of better opportunities for employment, employ-ment, it was pointed out. Mayor Willes suggested the council study the issue and look Terry Blackwell said that the station's programming will be much like it has in the past. "We will stick to our format of alternative musicfor the 18-25 year old target audience. We will change a couple of things, however. Since KJQ (another alternative station) is now available in Utah Valley, we will chuck all the techno-pop did-dies did-dies that you might hear there, but we don't think an alternative station sta-tion should play." Blackwell also states that the station will be on air till 9:00 P.M. this year - a half hour longer than ' last year. . . . Blackwell will be joined by Brian Whittaker for play-by-play of Orem High sports, but the pair will only broadcast region and state games because of the cut of their budget. Because KOHS is a non-commercial station and relies on sponsors and donations for their livelihood, Ken Seastrand welcomes any monetary help. "We can't advertise for a business, busi-ness, but if they were to make a donation, we can mention them on air as a sponsor of Orem High sports." If anyone would like to donate to the KOHS fund, please contact Dr. John Childs at 227-8765, or Ken Seastrand at 224-9236. cumbent Byron L. Harward and Democrat James Pettersson in November. For State Representative Dist. 65, Kelvin Smith had 20 votes and Logan M. Wright 18. Smith will face Republican J. Brent Haymond and Democrat Kenneth Creer in November. Dist. No. 66 gave Florence G. Bale 31 votes and Craig L. Williams Wil-liams 18. Bale will challenge Democratic incumbent Tim Moran and Republican Charlie Bates in the General Election. For Dist. 67 O. Dean Pendleton had 55 votes and Sher-win Sher-win Massey 51. Pendleton will face GOP incumbent Bill Wright and Democrat Drew Daniels in the final bid. around the community to see if there is a place they might want a half-way house. If the state chooses to locate such a home in Orem, the situation situa-tion could become hotly contested. con-tested. Residents and neighbors to a group home established on 800 North in Orem became vocally vocal-ly upset when a retarded resident in the home, formerly a patient at the Utah State Hospital,' reportedly repor-tedly had been involved in a sexual abuse of a child and also the death of a retarded woman in a sexual abuse case. The resident, Bernt Murphy, has since been removed from the home. He remains in jail after violating parole on a charge of theft and trespassing until a place can be found for him. 4 '(' |