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Show 1 480 UTAH PRESS flSSQCInor75 0130a9 47 EAST 300 sdiitw L 9LT LAKE CITY UT 641 U District outlines new sex Changes to the current district policy on sex education were discussed dis-cussed by members of the Alpine School District Board of Education at their Sept. 13 business meeting held at board headquarters in American Fork. The new policy sex education, if approved, will include guidelines on teaching about AIDS. Under the proposed changes, guidelines would be established for the implementation and teaching of family life and sex-related topics, according to Supt. Steven C. Baugh. No action will be taken on the policy until the October business meeting of the board, he said. Parents are invited to give their views on the policy during the Sept. 27 public input session of the board to be held at Manila Elementary School in Pleasant Grove. Dr. Baugh, in presenting the tentative policy to the board, explained ex-plained that it will not replace the rightful responsibility of parents to teach family life standards and sex education in the home, but will only supplement these principles. "Our curriculum will focus on the role of parents and family in this important educational proc Vol. 10, No. 38 District by U. S. Representative Dist. 3,Democratic Party 1 Robert W. Stringham 31 Craig S. Oliver 15 State Rep, Dist. 58, GOP Don LeBaron 46 Greg Hadley 37 (so?osm Table shows how voters in American Fork area voted district by district in last Tuesday's ' primary election. Totals are for all Utah County voters. . LeBaron wins primary A scant 13 percent of the voters from American Fork, Highland and Alpine turned out for last week's Primary Election. Local Democrats joined other Utah County voters in giving Robert W. Stringham the nomination nomina-tion over Craig Oliver to run against Howard Nielson in November's general election. And voters from Pleasant Grove, Alpine, Highland, American Ameri-can Fork and Lehi gave incumbent State Representative Donald LeBaron Le-Baron a 24-vote victory over first-time first-time challenger Greg Hadley. Hadley led LeBaron by a small margin throughout the election tallies until the final district was counted, giving LeBaron the win. LeBaron will now run against Democrat LaVon Laursen in the 3117 boats use renovated AF Harbor this summer Harbormaster Leo Wootton of the newly-renovated American Fork Boat Harbor has presented his report on the first season of operation to the City Council. "I think it has been a real successful suc-cessful year, especially for the first year," he said. Wootton noted that 3117 boats were launched, over 1000 vehicles were parked, 59 vehicles camped and 21 season passes were issued. "That is a lot of people down there," he continued. Nearly half of the launchings were from outside Utah Valley. Wootton also said that over $11,000 had been deposited in the Tax initiatives to be debated at meeting at Training School The proposed tax initiatives will be debated at a meeting to be held in the auditorium at the Utah State Training School on Wednesday Seat. 2B. Sponsored by the American Fork Eotary Club, the debate will begin at 7 pmu Mills Crenshaw will speak for the initiatives ini-tiatives while Larry Peterson, Utah Teacher of the Year and a representa ess," he said. The proposed policy says the goal of the district is to complement and supplement "those standards established in the home as they relate to the family life and sex education of their children, includ- "Our curriculum will focus on the role of parents and family in this important im-portant educational educa-tional process." ing the principle of morality." In doing so, it goes on, the district dis-trict "shall emphasize in its curriculum cur-riculum the aspects of growth and development of humans as they relate to knowledge and appreciation apprecia-tion of family relationships, scientific scien-tific physiological information and the helpingyouth to acquire a background back-ground of ideals, standards and attitudes which will be of value in their present and later life." According to Baugh, the new policy will provide general guide Wednesday, September 21 , 1988 district primary tallies Voting Districts Am. Fork 23456789 3 12 14 31 37 40 22 23 1 3 5 12 39 13 7 15 23 29 November general election. The race between LeBaron and Hadley generated intense interest in the towns where both men live. LeBaron lives in Highland and Hadley is a resident of Alpine. Alpine's second voter district boasted a 33 percent voter turnout one of the largest in the county. Voters from Highland's second district were close behind, with 27 percent of the registered voters coming to the polls. In many voting district, theonly race involved Democrats Stringham String-ham and Oliver, and so generated little interest among the Republi-cal Republi-cal voters. Many districts saw only four percent of the voters turnout. The election was the first in the county using voting machines. city accounts because of boat launchings. He made a few suggestions for next year's operation, mentioning that some of them could be accomplished accom-plished this fall. He would like to see some more docks repaired, construction of more picnic places with grass and tables, fixing up the campgrounds with fire rings and general cleanup of the area since the water has receded about three feet. Also mentioned were weed abatement, installation of sidewalks side-walks near the rest rooms, tree trimming, dredging of the river bed and installation of a sprinkler sys tive of the Taxpayers for Utah, will speak against the initiatives. The public is encouraged to attend to learn about both sides of the issue. The meeting is exnected to go from 7 to 9 p.m. with each side having 20 minutes to present their position and five minutes to respond. Discussion will then be opened for questions from the audience. lines "for the offering of well-planned well-planned programs designed to deal with areas such as birth, understanding under-standing of the male and female reproduction systems, birth defects, de-fects, genetics counseling, health issues during pregnancy, problems of illegitimacy, AIDS, venereal diseases, responsible parenthood, family roles, etc." Educators, according to the policy, pol-icy, are encouraged to offer well-planned well-planned programs. These must be "sensitively presented pre-sented and carefully and appropriately appropri-ately prepared for students relative rela-tive to their ages" and written parental consent must be obtained before any aspect on contraception is included in the curriculum. The policy also outlines the different dif-ferent types of materials which may be presented at the different educational levels: elementary, junior high, and high school. AIDS education is to be taught in the context of the Health Lifestyle Life-style Curriculum adopted by the Utah State Board of Education, Baugh said. "The basic approach to AIDS with this text is abstinence before marriage and fidelity after," he explained. 50 cents a single copy Alpine Highland 12 12 Total 4 4 11 5 2557 3 2 8 1334 54 84 95131 683 78124 65 44 659 Don LeBaron tem for the picnic area. Wootton said, "Right now we have the best boat harbor on the lake." He mentioned that a lot of people had not previously been aware of the harbor's reopening and were coming in for the first time. Mayor Kent Evans said, "We do appreciate you and the effort and what you have done down there." Councilman Don Hampton echoed ech-oed his sentiments, noting that Wootton has spent many extra hours on the job. "I think Leo is making about 37 cents an hour," he said. illliliftBftllpliftl :Jr j While high school students would be told that condom use can. prevent spread of the disease, contraception would not be discussed. dis-cussed. Third-graders would be taught that it is relatively difficult to contract AIDS and that scientists scien-tists are doing research in hopes of discovering a cure for the disease. Students in grades 9-12 would be told how AIDS in transmitted and how it can be treated and prevented. pre-vented. Dr. Baugh told board members the teaching of morality "is a necessary, neces-sary, important part of this (policy)." (pol-icy)." The AIDS education issue and the AIDS education curriculum that is being mandated by the state is the catalyst that's prompting the district to review its present policy on sex education, he said. "I think that as our community looks at it (the policy), there will be wide acceptance of the standards in this document," Dr. Baugh said. Dr. Blake Evans, a member of the board, said he felt the wording of the policy is a good indication that the policy was carefully put together. "I really like the language of the policy. I like how it involves the Serving American Fork, Alpine and Highland Alpine begins clean up of Fort Canyon damage By RACHEL C. MURDOCH The aftermath of the Fort Canyon Can-yon fire occupied the Alpine City Council at their Sept. 13 meeting. Councilman Dale Bentley took charge of a clean up job on the Fort Creek creek bed, for which he will enlist the help of the various Alpine LDS wards. Councilman Robert Smith said the creek bed is full of logs and brush. "If a flash flood or heavy rain hit the fire area, there will be a lot of runoff," he said. "We want to get it cleaned up so those logs won't pile up under the bridges and so on." If nothing else, Smith said, City, court agree on American Fork City has entered into a lease agreement with the Eighth Circuit Court for space provided the court at the city's Public Safety Building. Negotiations have been in process proc-ess for several months. The court occupied the facility prior to the start date of the lease originally offered, but that problem has been addressed by the offer of the court to pay for the additional two months. Much of the reason for expansion expan-sion came from the need of the Balloons fly high over USTS The skies over the Utah State Training School were filled with color recently as members of the Utah Aeronaut hot air balloon club lifted the round spheres from the campus grounds. The "ohs" and "ahs" of residents could be heard as they watched the gigantic balloons rise from a ground covering to giant circles filling fill-ing the air around them. Many were wide-eyed as the balloons took to the air, hovering above the ground on campus and in nearby fields. Ten balloons were brought to the school for the "fly-in," according to Petrea Kelly, whose husband Brian operates one of the large units. The balloonists came from Salt Lake and Utah Counties and from Park City, Mrs. Kelly said. The balloon owners get together often to fly together, one owner said, and, as training school officials offi-cials had previously asked to have a balloon come to the school, it was decided to have the Labor Day fly-in fly-in here. "Besides the air was clearer here than it was in Salt Lake County," one individual stated. Training School residents had to get up early in order to see the balloons, however, as most of the balloons were up and ready to take to the air by 8 a.m. ed. policy parents. I think that we're trying to involve the parents, and I think sometimes they feel left out," Dr. Evans said. "You can tell there's been a lot of research that's gone into this," he said. Linda Campbell, also a board member, said she feels it's important impor-tant that students begin getting AIDS information immediately. "The basic approach ap-proach to AIDS with this text is abstinence ab-stinence before marriage and fidelity fidel-ity after." Ahealth education instructor in another district, Mrs. Campbell said she would really like to see the board act quickly on the policy so teachers can get on with the curriculum. cur-riculum. "As a health education instructor, instruc-tor, I can't do anything until I get a policy," she said, noting the district she teaches in currently doesn't have such a policy. when spring runoff comes, there will be a need for the creek bed to be cleaned out. Bentley will work with the stake scout committee to assign each ward an area for clean up. Mayor Ronald Rasmussen reported re-ported on the fire, and said that the Alpine Fire Department was highly praised by the forest service. "They -really made a heroic stand when the fire first started and was going every which way," said Smith. "They saved those homes up in the canyon." The fire department and other organizations in town received let court for a larger facility and many of the improvements were designed de-signed specifically to accommodate its needs. Mayor Kent Evans pointed out that the expanded facility has been designed for a single user and that it is not immediately adaptable to others if the court should back out of the lease. Last year's lease agreement provided for a $7.30 per square foot rent. The original document proposed pro-posed by the court offered $7.75, Participants in "Fly-in" at Utah State Training School prepare to launch hot air balloon. She said teachers need to bo sure and keep track of permission slips from parents, however, "or it will come back on us." The policy says programs may be held separately for boys and girls, and, in the 7th and 8th grade programs, may include special speakers and films suitable for junior high school-age students. Junior high school administrators administra-tors would be encouraged to involve parents in the selection of qualified people to speak on the subject, and to attend and participate in the activities. In senior high schools, 9-12, sex education would be taught only in relationship to specific classes, including health, human biology, health occupations, physiology, parentinghomeliving, and vocational voca-tional agriculture. Parents would have the right to preview any information to be presented pre-sented and may elect to have their children removed from these units of the instructional program, it said. A copy of the tentative policy on sex education may be obtained from Michael Robinson, district Public Information Officer, 756-8460. ters from the forest service commending com-mending them for their efforts and cooperation in Fighting the fire. The council also reported that re-seeding has been completed in part of the fire area, and all the burned area will be reseeded within the next two to three wet ks. The council also considered a moratorium on subdivisions pending pend-ing water development. The moratorium mora-torium was written by the plan n i n g commission and considered by the council. Council members requested a few changes in the wording of the moratorium, and will reconsider it after the changes have been made. lease but that was unacceptable to the city since it had spent $267,001) on improvements to the building to accommodate the court. The approved revision to the lease offered the rental at the price of $8.60 per square foot. Evans pointed out that the lease can be renegotiated each year to get it up to a reasonable level. Councilman B. K. Hutch ings said the rent was very reasonable for a single-use space which was designed specifically for the court . ivItV If 1 rV -1 Vvj ;:r- ;rzzi-.-i Tr w . e-rr;i.; , - V f i . |