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Show S3 j ?-- ': -) F r?i " i Free Press - Thursday, April Keetch aims to open communication By MARC HADDOCK Gary Keetch, who was named acting superintendent of the Alpine School District last week when Dr. Max Welcker resigned, says he is taking steps to open channels of communication between all of the groups in the school district. "I feel we have made a good start," said Keetch, who has met with all of the administrators in small-grousessions with school board members. He said the sessions would be extended to Parent-Teacher- s Association leaders as well as classified employees and teachers' associations. "I wish we could have met with those groups before Monday night," Keetch said, "but now we will meet with them after." He said the sessions were helping to open communications between the different groups within the district. As part of that effort, he said the agenda for the school board's April 26 meeting at 6 p.m. in the Barratt Elementary would include an open discussion of the roles of the superintendent, the administration and the board of education. He said so far the board had been supportive of his actions. "They are very open with me. I feel confident they are going to let me be the superintendent of the schools and function in that capacity," Keetch said. "I think that p I. f ... I -- . v ' V GORDON WOFFINDEN sorts mail in Lehi I Post Office - a job that sometimes requires considerable intuitive skill. The much maligned mail carrier : their side of the story Postal workers are accused of reading post cards, leaving letters in the wrong boxes and sending local mail to foreign countries, but d wait a minute; here's the side of the worker's postal much-maligne- story. "We not only have to sort the we have to decipher bad handwriting, and find unorthodox addresses," said Gordon Woffinden, Lehi Post Office worker. "We had a letter addressed 'to the best family in Lehi.' We finally found out who the last departing missionary-was- , and sure enough, it was his family." Another letter was addressed "to the family across from the park and by the creek." "After scratching our heads and a lot of consideration, the right family received that letter," Gordon laughed. Sometimes, according to Melinda Seeley, postmistress, letters are addressed to grandma or grandpa. "All we can do is try to deliver them to the right places," she said. It's not surprising that mail carriers flub addresses on occasion. Betty Covington told about the morning she knocked on a door to get a patron to sign for a special delivery letter. "I knocked and knocked. Finally, after about ten minutes, an angry looking guy dressed in blue satin pajamas answered the door. It was just a trifle disconcerting," she smiled. You can't blame a postman for mixing up the mail when a drooling German Shepherd or a sharp-toothe- d terrier is nipping at his mail, ill zero heels, or when it's with a gale-forc- e wind adding to the frustration of having to put letters in an unprotected mail box. Viv Carter, veteran postal carrier, remembers delivering mail to a beer parlor on State Street. "As I walked in one hot afternoon in midsummer, the bar was crowded with customers wetting their whistles. The proprietor asked me to sit down and have a Coke. I was enjoying the cool drink when all of a sudden, the door opened and Don Peet, a fellow letter carrier wearing dark glasses and hat pulled down over his eyes, yelled 'What are you doin' here?' "He was talkin' to me, but those guys didn't know that and when I looked up, there wasn't a man left at the bar!" Sorting and delivering mail isn't the only service postal workers perform. They are often called upon to conduct tours of the post office; Last week 40 curious second graders from the Lehi Elementary School were shown through the post office. Gordon Woffinden escorted the children, explaining to them the different facets of postal work. Several days following their tour the children wrote letters of thanks to the post office. Seeley and Woffinden had no trouble understanding their mail, d even if it was written in After all, language. they're used to writing like that. They puzzle through bags of it every day. They shared some of the letters with us. Let's see how you do. ten-belo- w seven-year-ol- Dear Post office: how did you like us coming over yesterday it was interresting to see how it would be if we had that job it would be hard to do at first but once we got into it for a pretty long time it would probrably be easy far us to do it. it was fun walking down there to see how you do it but when it was time to go back to school it wasn't much to go back because my were tiered of walking but I didn't care because eny waze it was worth walking .that far over there from school. in the next couple of months we are going to be able to aright that ship which is upside down but still afloat, get it ready for a new skipper to set the course." Before accepting the appointment a acting superintendent, Keetch had been administrator of public services for the district, a position he held since last June. Before coming to the district offices, he was principal at American Fork Junior High School. He has also been an that's it." clarify that, "The have made have never been intended to be a broad He went on to we statements indictment of school employees. Any is that reference in wrong-doin- g which has been shared with us by the Fourth District Court through the Utah County Attorney's office. "Those problems are specific. They are strong. They are serious. They require action. But we want to be responsible in that action," he said. He also said the board has "not taken any action nor do we anticipate any personnel action." He reiterated the board's position that it can deal with only two the positions in the district assistant principal and teacher in the district since 1960. Dr. Richard Heaps, president of the Alpine District Board of Education, also expressed confidence in the steps Keetch is taking. "Mr. Keetch seems to be approaching things in a very responsible manner, with the goal of bridging communication gaps," Dr. Heaps said. "Those gaps are where rumors flourish." Heaps also clarified an interview reported in a local daily newspaper stating that the school board was offering "amnesty" to district employees. "Amnesty is not the term I would use or one I used," Dr. Heaps said. "I didn't use a term. That was the reporter's term." Heaps said the main thrust of that interview was something the district has been stating since it was formed in January. "We are just saying that we expect professionalism, and superintendent the clerk-treasure- ptxss U.S.P.S. No. 3500 32 West Main, Lehi, Utah 84043 Published weekly by Newtah, Inc. c i X ; Publisher Editors V W Dear Post office, Telephone Numbers Advertising & Circulation News : r 3 Brett R. 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