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Show t The DbIIt Dtak nomiaj, March s. 199 duMldc frost pijc 2 Robin Gierhart said students were always shortchanged when she attended Wendover High School When another school, closer to the Tooele headquarters, burned down and was replaced, "We got Grantsvillc's burned books" Gierhart said. "We were like a lilUlilioffiU II It- AMI KHA I ttAK ! AVllrK.I MUlllWJV I'Mlt.lUM. stepchild." Indeed, the American Civil Liberties Union is considering a lawsuit against the Tooele district on behalf of school children in Wendover, 70 percent of whom arc Hispanic. "We're trying to evaluate vii 242 v"JM American Heart Association f r I how much of this is just blatant discrimination, said Carol Gnade, the Utah ACLU director. The talk about annexation stems from the impending split of the schools Nevada kids to stay in Nevada and Utah kids in Utah. "Nothing else is sparking it," said Larry Herron, chief executive officer of the State Line and Silver Smith casinos and hotels. all elemenSince the tary students have gone to school on have the Nevada side. Grades school the Utah the on gone to high side. The respective school districts paid tuition to the other. But as West Wendover, incorporated in 1991, grew flush with the rise of mid-1980- s, 2 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS FOR PUBLICATIONS MONIES AVAILABLE the gambling trade, it poured millions into streets and city services for the thousands of people who moved to the new town. and Floral-carpete- d neon-signe- d line Wendover casinos now Boulevard, two of the biggest just feet from the Utah border. They're a beacon to gamblers from Utah's population center just two hours away and from as far as Mexico. to With the new wealth, Elko School district, headquartered 110 miles to the west, built a $9.9 million high school due to open this fall in West Wendover, not far from the Tbana Vista golf course ringed by homes. upper middle-claslko and Tooele officials were 220 miles. and thousands of dollars apart when it came time to talk about how much Tooele would pay to have West Wendover schools educate the Utah children. Elko spends more per student and Tooele said it couldn't afford the price. So, much to the chagrin of residents on both sides of the line, the schools are being severed. . "Even if we have an explosion of population, it still doesn't justify having two school systems in a town this size," said Herron. will stay in the Utah's grades school surrounded by decades-olhomes and haphazard The trailers. elementary students will be housed in modular classrooms on a vacant lot while the Tooele School District asks voters to approve a $4.4 million bond for a new school. Wendover residents fear the school board will not promote the bond, it will fail and their children will be stuck in trailers. "It will be a school of " the haves and a school of the said Herron. Wendover Mayor Brcnda Morgan is one of those talking about annexation as a solution, and most agree there is support for it on both sides of the border. As West Wendover resident job-seeke- c s 2 ld d is available for publications during Funding 7 1996-9academic year. Applications for the are available from University Union fundingRm. 245 during business hours. 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The Utah side has been losing population to Nevada, and now has about 1,400 to the Nevada side's 3,600 residents. Even Gierhart, who grew up in Wendover but moved across the border when she married, is cool to the idea. "It's nothing against the people," she said. "We'd be willing to take over Wendover, Utah, if $10 million came with it." And many, such as Tripp, suggest that all the talk of annexation will sabotage the bond election for a new Wendover school. "As long as this annexation is hanging over our heads, Tooele County is not going to give us our school," she said. Utah Gov. Mike Lcavitt dispatched an aide to Wendover for a town meeting recently, and the message on annexation was clear: If the inhabitants want it, Leavitt will work with Nevada Gov. Bob Miller toward that goal. But Herron called the idea "ludicrous." Annexation would take years and innumerable lawyers, and the costs would far exceed those of solving Wcndovcr's education needs, he said. "If two governors can follow a preposterous plan of annexation even if just talking about it preliminarily -common sense tells me they ought to be able to get together and solve the education problem in Wendover." - KRISTEN MOULTON Associated Press Writer Clark Pest Control 1906 Pay Scale Sales Pay 80 20 $6,400 100 25 $8,400 120 30. $10,400 150 $14400 200 $20,400 300 $32,000 400 $44,000 500 $56,000 substantialy summer than any David Nimbley Open Major Canada paid every two weeks and on time. fft r-- Computer Sci. - , Kf ID David Gardner "It really came down to two things making the most money possible and freedom. Hands down. Clark pays the most. 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