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Show 1 1 Volume 2, Number 38 Thursday, May Charter Summit Hospital - Psych i a trie Facility Opens MIDVALE. The valley's first psychiatric hospital opened here this week, with nationally-know- n guests scheduled to visit during its first two weeks of operation. Charter Summit Hospital, located just off M5 at 175 W. 7200 South, is an psychiatric facility owned by Charter Medical Corporation. Its new $8 million facility is one of 80 hospitals owned by CMC. During the hospital s opening ' ' s" ' 80-b- ed "','', dedication, which runs May 31 commented Nolan Kerr, the through June 13, guests will include hospital's administrator. "That Art Linkletter, who has been active in drug awareness activities since way," he continued, "patients pay treatment and not for the drug-relate- d deth of his for their own daughter. Also appearing will be all the expensive high-tec- h equipGregory Raiport, a former Soviet ment that goes Into a full service Olympic team sports psychologist medical center. who defected to the United States. The new facility provides pro"Charter's philosophy is to reduce grams for adults, adolescents and mental health care costs by prochildren, as well a detoxification and g viding hospitals," substance abuse. -. ' t- - . j m free-standin- ;." ; f .- mntlml Single Copy A Green Sheet Publication 29, 1986 Student Housing Om ions Discussed By SchoolBoard SANDY. The Jordan school board awarded a $179,250 contract to H. E. Davis for site preparation work at the Jordan Ridge elementary school site, 2636 W. 9800 South Tuesday night. Tacked on to the bid is an alter nate for an additional $16,000 to cover the cost of completing the second half of 9800 South, which, in negotiations with South Jordan City, has not yet been clarified. Superintendent Raymond told members of the board that, in the past, the district has only covered half the street improvement and then only along its school frontage. With negotiations with South Jordan still going on, the staff felt it better to include the $16,000 as an alternate item. Taking a major step toward helping defray school costs, the board officially approved the formation of the Jordan Education Foundation. The purpose of the foundation would, as stated by the district, be to "vigorously solicit funds, equipment and services through gifts, grants, bequests and etc. from individuals, businesses and other appropriate Whit-tenbu- sources." Flying High JUST BARLEY . . . Hillcrest's ScoH Brlggs slips the bar in 4A pole vault competition. Brlggs finished fourth In this event, while teammate Matt Snyder took second, helping the Huskies out-ovdistance second place Clearfield and repeat as bpyi state champs. See story Inside. er Mall Official Pleads For Chang;e In Sign Ordinance A l. r SANDY. One of the chief operating officers and owners of the new South Towne Mall at 10600 South made a plea to the City Council and Planning Commissloq.Tuesdday night for some loosening up of the city's sign ordinance, saying the mall will be less likely to attract other major anchors if the present sign ordinance is held to. Grant Marsh, meeting with members of the two bodies before Tuesday's City Council meeting, exa request that would allow plained seven signs along a .6 mile segment of State Street leading to the mall. , One sign per mall business would be erected, 450 feet apart. He explained that the current ordinances allowing only small tombstone signs and signs on the side of each business would not bring in the large amount of shoppers needed to keep the mall a success. Marsh explained that the mall will be opening with only a 50 to 60 percent occupancy and that ather major anchor, besides ZCMI, will be needed. Obtaining that anchor would likely because .the major businesses rely on large signs near the entrance and exits of mails to attract the shoppers, those who see the signs as they go by and decide to stop. If a major anchor and other nationally known stores refused to come to the mall, Marsh warned that, "the mall will begin to die and we will suffer, and Sandy will suffer as well." One of the possible major tenants Marsh told the council is Sacs 5th Avenue, which has Utah on its list to move to. He said the officials of that chain want a location that will attract one million people within a half-mil- e distance of the store. Downtown Salt Lake would have trouble housing such a store becuase of the current office space situation, but the South Town Mall is in a posi- be-4e- ss nt tion to attract the million people within a drive from Sandy.-' The new mail is one of the corner- th "Sandy City enter" area and proposed sign regulations call tor the prohibition of moving or flashing signs in this corridor. Exterior wall mounted floodlights are expressly prohibited, no sign will be allowed to extend above the roof line of any building, and signs will not be allowed to be painted on a building, but can be mounted on the side. It is these provisions that Marsh said would keep another major anchor and other minor anchors from moving into the new mall. Marsh added that the new mall is in Utah. The signs, he said, should also be and he was not asking for special privileges for the mall, but a exception. The matter has been taken under advisement by city officials. ' tonesf SANDY. Jordan School District's Homework Hotline service handled a total of 2,457 calls from October through April, according to program director Dr. Ralph Haws. Haws, speaking before the school board Tuesday, said that, though overall usage of the system during its first year of operation wasn't quite what district officials had hoped for, it did follow the same pattern as experienced in the Granite district during its ignaugaral year with the service. Haws also offered some suggestions on how the service could be improved and usage increased. The heaviest use of the system came during its first month, October, when 767 calls for assistance were taken. After that, the calls dropped off to an average of 281 per month, except in January, when calls for help jumped to 388. Jordan Ualleu Sentinel Published weekly by Diversified Suburban Newspapers, Inc. .155 E. 4905 South Murray, Utah 84107 0 USPS (ISSN 8750 4707) , 656-38- Second Class Postage Paid At Salt Lake City, Utah Postmaster: Send Address Changes GREEN , SHEET 155 East 4905 South Murray, Utah 84107 Subscription Rate: $12 Per Year TO Haws told board members that the heavy usage in October was to be expected because the service was new and the district had done a massive public relations job in notifying patrons and students. In January, he theorized, students were just coming back from Christmas vacations and needed help getting back into the flow of things. , Math easily outdistanced all other subject areas as the topic students needed the most help with. About 1,471 calls were taken on math subjects or about 60 percent of the total of 2,457. Langauge arts was next at 347 or 14 percent. Among his suggestions for improving the service,. Haws stated that the hotline should be in operation Monday through Thursday instead of Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. A major public relations effort needs to be made throughout the school year as well as prior to the opening of school. Another way to increase usage, said Haws, could come from teachers at elementary schools giving students an assignment that would require calling the hotline. Such a move would help break the ice for younger students, he felt. ; the Haws said that reasoning behind suggestion was based on the fact that calls always seem to drop off at the end of a semister, making it less practical to staff the phones. He did, however, appear willing to However, Haws suggestion tnat the service should be started during the second week of school and discontinued during the last three weeks of school drew some fire from - board member Don Carpenter. Carpenter felt that the last three weeks of school, with all its testing, were as important as any other time of the school year, if not more so. amend that proposal, if the board wished. Board president Jane Callister offered a suggestion of her own on the subject of increasing usage. She felt Funds acquired by the foundation will be used to support and enchance education activities and to purchase equipment and materials which cannot be funded from general revenue. The purpose of the foundation is to supplement and enich education not to replace services provided from tax revenues, according to Allan Nelson, who will head up the foundation. Though approval for the creation of the foundation was unamimous, board members Donald Carpenter and Maurine Jensen asked that the district continue to research the ' possibility of allowing donars to designate a particular school as the recipient of their gifts. A new middle school, expected to be ready for occupancy in the 1989-9- 0 school year, will be located on the district-ownePowell property at 10350 So. 2700 West. The board okayed the site recommendation following presentation by Dr.. Ci. Devon .Sanderson, administrator of planning and student services. Concerns about district liability for students trips taken during the summer months were voiced by board members Carpenter and Jensen during the superintendent's input portion of the agenda. Whitten-bur- g noted that district is liable even if the students have graduated from high school so long as any discussion or distribution of information takes place at the school during school hours. The superintendent added that the only way the district could get out from underneath that liability is to require teachers not to discus or pass out any information about those trips. But, because such activities have been permitted over the years, Whittenburg felt such a requirement would be "difficult to establish and police." An update on the busing of Jordan district students from Park Lane elementary students to Morningside ' elementary in Granite School District indicated that the Granite school will able to accommodate between 250 and 260 Park Lane students. Sign-up- s for the program are being finalized with Park Lane parents. Patrons who originally signed up for the option will be given priority, while other patrons will be placed on a waiting list on a first served basis. A transportation committee will now be formed to locate bus stops and coordinate information with parents. 0 The students figures out to about three bus loads, reported Dr. Whittenburg. School hours at Morningside will 9:15 a.m. to 3:45 D.m. ex first-com- e, 250-26- cept on Friday, when Granite schools close at 1:45 p.m. Members of the board appeared pleased with the busing program, as Mrs. Jensen put it, "we need their schools as much they need our students." Whittenburg added that with the taking away of that number of students, other housing options at Park Lane become more feasable. Students at Oquirrh, West Jordan, Willow Canyon and Quail Hollow elementaries will have the option of attending other nearby elementaries on a "space available" basis. Schools with enrollments under design capacity and not special education cluster school have been identified as companion schools for students who do not wish to take part or extended day year-roun- d Drgrams at their regular schools. In the West Area, students from Oquirrh and West Jordan will be able to attend Terra Linda as a first option or Southland as the second option; for Willow Canyon in the South Area, students could attend Lone Peak, the first option, or Alta View, Sprucewood or Bell View as other options; and Quail Hollow students would be directed to Cottonwood Heights. Patrons would have to provide their own transportation. TwoArea Youths Are Stopped On DUI Charge MIDVALE. Two boys, one from Midvale the other from Sandy, were arrested on auto theft charges after they were stopped by Midvale officers on suspicion of DUI early Friday morning. began following the 1978 Ford Ranchero after it was observed running a red light while traveling south on State Street. The vehicle, according to reports, continued to follow an erratic driving pattern, prompting the officers to pull it over near 40 E. 7800 South. After checking the registration the officers learned that the car had been missing since midnight. The owner of the car, who lives in Snady, however informed the officers that of keys to the vehicle had ed up missing about a month ago The owner later told investigating officers that he had suspected thefts of gasoline from the car while he was away on vacation, but now feels the car mayhave been used periodically, while he was out of town. turn-Office- rs d irhi i Midvale Slates Public Hearing On Budget MIDVALE. A public hearing has been set for 7 p.m. on Tuesday to discuss the tentative Midvale City budget for 1986-8Midvale mayor Everett Dahl reported Wednesday afternoon that he fully expects a good turnout of citizens for the hearing, which will cover expected revenues and expenditures for the coming fiscal year. Dahl added that there will be no tax increases in the budget, though the city was experiencing some difficulty in resolving funding for capital improvements, wage increases and other items. More information about the water, sewer and sanitation budgets will also be available at the hearing. ' I lr i umim-WVli ; 1 heir: "one-of-a-kin- Hotline Gets Passing Grade 25c ;lVv-- mm 7. phone numbers for the service should be permanantly listed in phonebooks. "If it's in the book," she explained, "they won't loose it." Haws agreed it was a good idea and promised to add that to the list. Resonse by patrons to the service and the accompanying tutoring program, have been very favorable, Haws reported. The tutoring program makes available a district recommended list of teacher tutors that parents can utilize as an additional educational resource. JSD Seniors Await Graduation See Page 14 39 Acres Rezoned For Homes In South Jordan SOUTH JORDAN.. The City Council here has approved a rezone of 39 acres of land at 9800 So. 2200 West from an agricultural designation to single family residential. d A subdivision with acre lots is being developed by Ron ' Thorne. In other action the council rejected a request by Ron Thorne for the city to finance a portion of a road through the subdivision. The council felt that the responsibility for road improvements should rest with the developer as "has been done in the one-thir- past." The council also approved a rezone on 7.38 acres near 350 W. 10200 South. The zone change to I (CommercialIndustrial) will accommodate future developmennt of a warehouse, office and research complex. The council gave final site plan ap C-- proval for the new Jordan Ridge elementary school to be built at 2636 W. 9800 South. The new school will be constructed in an "H" design, featuring totally classrooms. The school will be energy efficient, utilizing solar energy concepts. The facility's outside walls will be partially mounded with earth to help keep the building warmer in winter and cooler in summer. The new school is scheduled to open for the 1987-8- 8 school year. In further action the council agreed to "seriously consider" entering into a cooperative agreement sponsored by the Utah League of Cities and Towns that will enhance possibilities of gaining a lower interest rate on monies lent to municipalities. The council approved five business licenses and two subdivision bond releases. Head Hawks DESIGNATED . . . Incoming at studantbody leadership for 1986-8Alta high includes Nike Latham, secretary; Marci Smith, president; Helde Goertzen, public relations chairman; Mark Nelson, vice president; Dave Person, attorney general; Kurt Brian, historian; and Troy Hymas, financial chairman. 7 Midvale Beautification Awards Plan Revealed MIDVALE. The newly installed Beautification Committee in Midvale has decided to continue and even expand the city's Beautification Awards Program began last summer. Awards will presented each month for single family residences, multi-famil- y dwellings and area businesses. Further, in the single family home category only, the city will broken down in the four quadrants, one to be represented each month. Winners for June will be selected from the area of the city west of the freeway; in July from the area north of Center Street and east of the freeway; in August, south of Center and east of the freeway; and in September, east of State Street. Neighbors and other residents will make the nominations for each piece of property. Those nominations can be made any time up until the 15th of the particular month for that particular area. A selection committee will then have until the end of the month to make known the final selections. "With areas of the city west of the freeway scheduled to be addressed first," commented city planner Tricia Stevens, "residents of that quadrant will need to make known their nominations right away." Nomination forms can be obtained at city hall, 80 E. Center St., or from an ad placed in this week's issue of the Jordan Valley Sentinel. Awards for those selected will include a framed, color photograph of their residence or business plus dinner for two at a Midvale restaurant. Sorry! The Green Sheet's weekly TV log was not available for publication when press time arrived for the May 29 edition. The Green Sheet regrets the inconvenience this may cause readers, anticipating regular use of this feature in future editions. |