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SALES PRICES ARE AS FOLLOWS: ALl fAYMENTS ARE FOR INDICATED TERM WITH 10 PLUS TAX AND LICENSE DOWN, OAC SfTTw74'5 ISS1' 1994 TROOPER S6895 1996 GRAND PRIX S6979 2000 SUNFIRE $9495 2000 CAVALIER S8995 2mSsuSfIRE CONVERTIBLE I? ? BBi ?SS "cUSi'c5 2001 PRIZM SI 1495 2000 LUMINA SI 1895 2000 GRAND PRIX S12959 tmu JUNMKt IONVEKT1BLE 513,969 1999 BEETLE S13995 2000 SAFARI S15995 BODY SHOP 756-2277 SERVICE 756-9641 PARTS 756-3543 24 HR TOWING 763-9285 ?r?- v r "If It Has My Name On It, You Have Our Word On It. WE'LL BE THERE SIMILAR TO MODELS SHOWN. SUBJECT TO PRIOR SALE. FINANCING RATES DEPENDENT ON MODEL AND TERM. h m uiu uc LUW rINCANCINb RATES. NEW O.A.C. PRICES IN EFFECT THRU MAY 8, 2001. 2J 5Ci; TJi 5 0 0 EAST, Af.EHI C s 'A FORK, UTAH 7 5 6 - 35 4 J Readers sound off on bond electio More letters on Page 1 1 Favors bond Editor: I am in favor of the $200 million bond proposal and would like to lend some perspective per-spective on the' issue. Our family moved from Boston to Cedar Hills just last year, and chose this area specifically for the schools. After a lot- of research we moved here with our five children and have, for the most part, been pleasantly pleasant-ly surprised with the quality of education they receive from kindergarten to high school. However, after attending several high school boundary meetings and learning of the projected growth in northern Utah County, it is clear this Alpine School District is in crisis. Back east, our former district fought to keep elementary ele-mentary class size in the low 20's. At Cedar Ridge Elementary, my son's fifth grade core teacher has 71 students! stu-dents! Though my son's class has just 36, she deals with the rest in the afternoon. It is a credit to the personnel that this works at all. "Productivity" scheduling is surely a euphemism for "desperation" "des-peration" scheduling. Please vote "Yes" on May 8 so our children can have a fair chance to compete with the world outside of "Happy Valley." Carolyn Hamilton Cedar Hills Cast 'no' vote Editor: A few years ago there was a bond election in Utah County to raise property taxes in order to pay for staffing of the new jail. The bond did not pass and county officials found other ways to fund the jail. This Tuesday, May 8, there is another bond election in the northern part of Utah County. This time the Alpine School District wants us to raise our property taxes - enough to build about a dozen new schools. If we vote "NO" on the bond, then they will have to find other ways ( and I believe BETTER ways) to pay for school construction. Raising property taxes may be the easiest way for educators educa-tors to get more money, but it is not the best way. A vote "NO" on the bond is a "yes" vote to plan "B." Robert Higginson Received via e-mail Bond needed Editor: When Alpine School District began exploring the idea of a bond election, I had hoped the district would use some of the funds to build a new high school in Lehi. The district has carefully explored the options of building a new high school versus remodeling remodel-ing the present facility. After careful consideration they have chosen to do a $9 million remodel. I have heard a few individuals individ-uals state they would not support a bond election because a new high school is not presently included in the $200 million bond. This is misguided thinking. Tne issue is not a new building versus a remodeled one, but rather one of educational opportunity. There are two basic questions ques-tions that need to be asked. 1. Do the students at Lehi High School have equal educational education-al opportunities as other students stu-dents in the district, and, 2. Will a remodeled LHS provide pro-vide those opportunities? The first question is mainly main-ly a curriculum and school size issue. The more students, the greater the variety of classes that can be offered. Until LHS grows a couple hundred students we cannot offer the breadth of curriculum curricu-lum available at other high schools in the district. However, the superintendent has assured me that the district dis-trict will do .all it can vvithin their budget and resources to provide LHS students with as' many curriculum choices as possible until our school reaches the size that it can support a wider array of classes. Regarding the second question, the physical needs of a remodeled LHS were discussed dis-cussed with the district and its architect. Every concern and item on our "wish list" has been addressed in the proposed remodel plan. Although the actual plans have not been drawn up, we have been assured that a remodeled LHS will be comparable com-parable to other high schools in the district. If the bond does not pass, educational opportunity will be replaced with basic educa--tional survival. In order to offer more classes we must first have the physical space to accommodate those classes. class-es. As it is right now we are maxed out with little room to bring in more portable trailer units. We can "get by" for another two yeas. Beyond that we will be facing a critical criti-cal space shortage. It doesn't take a great imagination to understand what this means for LHS students, their parents, par-ents, and the community in general. Additionally, our elementary elemen-tary and junior high schools are bursting with students. We, at the high school, are concerned with students coming com-ing from large and overcrowded over-crowded feeder schools who may not be as educationally prepared entering high school as they could be. You can measure the strength of a community by how it values its children. I urge each individual to value the educational future of our children by voting YES to the bond on May 8. Sheldon Worthington Principal Lehi High School Where does it end? Editor: I would like to also respond to the tax increase we are to vote on May 8. istered goes to the pol votes against thi, increase. It seems that time we turn ar0uod thing raises th? , , the gas at the is it going to end? het People on a fixed in have a very difficult T Have you ever noticed!!' you get a raise (my it never comes o8?Mayfi school district needs money but there shoj? other means instead of a t increase. I realize they don't evtt know where aU this money' gorngtobespentTheschi are so elaborate.Why do? need to spend money on Zt elaborate schools? Jff to the polls and vote agaiS this tax increase on May 8 - Shirley Hatch Received via e-mail Bond needed Editor, Last November, in a meet-ing meet-ing to consider bonding fot schools, I addressed the school board with infbrma. tion and research regard! the impact of overcrowdiiip our schools. Conventional wisdom had been saying that bigger is better and cheaper. Recent research has shown just the opposite. Ever bigger schools translate into more violence, less accountability, and less involvement and participation participa-tion by both students and parents. Bigger schools increase costs of busing and family transportation. Neighborhood schools create cre-ate recreation areas and open space. They become community commu-nity centers. And there are many other benefits with smaller schools identified by the research. I asked the board, as they were considering consider-ing whether and when to bond, to do it and to do it as soon as they felt they could. This area is already way behind in the need. The board knew that too and decided not to wait until next November because the need is now. November would have been an easier time to pass the bond because more people would be voting then, but it would have put off building almost a full year. The board and administration administra-tion have gone to great effort to try to pass this bond now for our benefit. I hope we will not let them down by being too busy or too apathetic to vote on May 8. Everyone of us will benefit by building these schools. It will cost us less than a candy bar a day to get this great benefit, and in the end, it will save us money. If the bond does not pass it will increase the size of to next schools built by several hundred students more. This will cause more problems and cost more over the long haul. Let's make sure that we support our elected officials when they are doing whan right. Let's get out and All-vote All-vote next Tuesday. David N. 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