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Show Wednesday, August 26, 1992 The Daily Herald Leal Red Cross Ho ready respond! ! &k v i' I tN Cleanup crews needed in South . By SHEILA SANCHEZ Herald Staff Writer fiscal year 1991-9- 2 the disaster budget saw more expenditures it Chapter of the American Red than ever has in the past. The agency has already spent Cross announced Tuesday it is prethan more $15,000 in local disasFloriparing to send volunteers to da or New Orleans to help victims ters, compared to previous disaster 0 budgets that would not exceed of Hurricane Andrew. said. he to a $4,000 year, Corry Tanner, executive director of the ARC Central Utah Chap- "The brush fires and the chemical ter, said officials from the National spills have contributed to our exAmerican Red Cross have asked penditures. It's been a very busy the local chapter to send volunteers summer and that's just on the local to both areas. In special need are level," Tanner said. The national ARC is facing simresidents of the Miami area struck ilar woes because of Hurricane by the most powerful hurricane in and other disasters which Andrew the last 60 years. have funds, he said. volundepleted had a for "We've request Tanner also said during his three teers to be sent to the area," Tanner said. "They desperately need years as executive director of the assistance with the clean-u- p opera- local ARC chapter, he has never seen so many disasters strike the tion." Tanner said the National ARC area. "This is probably the heaviest asked the local chapter for a list of disaster year we've had in memorvolunteers Monday. Volunteers would remain in the affected areas y-" Nationwide, he said, the last for three weeks. three years also have represented "We're currently working with the heaviest disaster activity in the how our volunteers to see many 100 history of the ARC. can go." Tanner said the local ARC chapTanner said a decision will be has had to dip into other reter made by the ARC Central Utah serves to pay for local disasters. the end the of week. Chapter by kind of hanging on and "We're the Yucca recent Valley During the best. for in hoping the local California, earthquake Those interested in helping the chapter sent three volunteers to the area to help with clean-u- p efforts. local ARC chapter can send a doThe local team travelled to the nation in the form of a check or area in its emergency response vemoney order to: The Central Utah hicle, Tanner said. County Chapter of the American "Right now, we're primarily Red Cross, Disaster Relief Fund, trying to find out how many can go 865 N. Freedom Blvd., Provo, Ut. and then give out the assign 84601. PROVO iI l-- Herald PhotoPatrick J. Krohn U.S. West employee Ron Copp, left, lifts power lines off a front end loader that accidentally knocked the lines down in west Provo Tuesday, while crew members repair a street light pole. Power was out in the Westgate subdivision for over four hours. Truck accident causes Provo power outage Power in west Provo was out approximately four hours Tuesday after the driver of a didn't realize his cargo had caught telephone wires, eventually dragging down three power poles. Calvin Christensen, distribution manager at the Provo City Energy Department, said no injuries were reported during the 2: 15 p.m. incident. Homes which lost power in- semi-trail- phone service was not cut off. Ma- Lt. Ron Fernstedt. which snapped at ground level, EXPLOSION Payson Police 3 at responded p.m. Tuesday to Dixon's Meats, 95 S. Main, following the explosion of a pressurized lard cooker, said a police spokesperson. The explosion blew out all of the windows on three sides of the building but no one was hurt. terials to replace three poles, er eluded the area along, and west of, Geneva Road to Boat Harbor Drive. Christensen said the driver, employed at Dunex Construction, reported he didn't know his cargo had caught the wires. The tele and labor costs will be reimbursed. Utah County SherDEATH iffs deputies responded to Hobble Creek Canyon Monday after the Springville body of a man was found. Alma Blaine Wheeler, 74, apparently died of a gunshot wound, said self-inflict- ed - The Central Utah $3,-00- I k ments. ' At the same time. Tanner announced the local chapter is facing one of its worst economic years ever. Tanner said during the ARC's - Pay-so- n, team makes crossing into Tibet Nebo District's migrant program gets high marks Everest By LEANN MOODY Herald Correspondent - Nebo SPANISH FORK School District officials are pleased with the glowing reports from state and federal auditors on their summer migrant program. Auditors commended migrant school officials for their program and for the fact that those working in the program are bilingual. Some 170 students participated in the program on a regular ba sis. The program provides summer class work for migrants on the elementary and secondary levels. Payson Junior High principal Lynn Jones oversees the program. "We passed through the audits with flying colors," Jones said. Jones is proud of the program and what it has been able to accomplish, but said more of his pride comes from watching the students involved learn and grow. He said each year a meeting with parents helps set the goals and di- - Juab bans school prayer By MYRNA TRAUNTVEIN Herald Correspondent NEPHI There will be no more prayers at Juab High School graduation ceremonies. Juab School District board members were told the prayers will now be considered illegal. Superintendent Kirk Wright, said the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision makes such prayers illegal. "There was a lot of controversy and some quite bitter comments made by some of the justices." said Wright, "but there will be no more graduation prayers." The ban breaks the longstanding tradition at Juab High School graduations to have two of the top 10 students offer an opening and a closing prayer at the ceremonies. The students prayed according to the dictates of their own religions. It has also been a custom to play Taps and Reveille. Now, however, the school will have to find some other way for the two honor students to participate at graduation other than offer prayer. More than graduation prayer has been affected in the district's schools. Teams often pray before performances. Wright said school teams could no longer pray under the direction of the coach or adviser. "The coach can provide a space for the team to pray if they come to him and ask him if they can pray," said board president Leon Pexton. rection for the program. Some of those requests have provided a bilingual bus driver along with a lunch room worker and a staff that is bilingual. Nebo was one of three districts in the state that were audited by the federal government which provides funding for the program through the state. The district is also the first to have a student participating in the PASS program, developed in Washington state to allows high school students to do class work on a "portable" basis with the help of a teacher. Students have a packet for each subject which provides the text and workbook materials and when completed they can pass a test that gives them high school credit in that subject. Jones says the program will help students to graduate who before might not have had enough class time because of work schedules to complete a diploma. He said some of the PASS courses are offered in Spanish and many are at a seventh grade reading level. Courses include health, science , Enligh, math and social science. UVCC campus comes alive as students return By KAYLENE NELSEN Herald Senior Reporter It was back to school OREM this morning for Utah Valley Community College students. As of 5 p.m. Tuesday, 8,485 students had registered for fall classes. According to Derek Hall. UVCC college relations, that number is ahead of last year's registration figure. Many students showed up to register this morning, hoping to get the classes they want, he said. p deadline last After the had enrolled UVCC 8,777 year, students. Officials are already predicting that this fall's final figure will be between 9,500 and 0.000. add-dro- 1 The college has an open ment policy but the unavailability of classes puts an unofficial cap on enrollment. Students who can't get into the classes they want go elsewhere or don't go to school at all. enroll- Hall said morning classes on campus are essentially full with just a few openings. Students will find space in afternoon and evening classes, however. UVCC President Kerry Romes-bur- g has said colleges and universities across the state will turn students this away 5.000-7,00- 0 7,000-9,00- 0 next year. and year The Utah Legislature funded only 28 percent of the growth this year at the colleges and universities. By PAT CHRISTIAN Herald Staff Writer He said after a traditional meal, all except team physician Keith Hooker, an emergency room doctor at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center, had minor intestinal distress. Ne-pale- se - Four KATHMANDU, Nepal members of Utahns on Everest have crossed the Nepal border into Tibet, while the final climber was to arrive in Kathmandu, Nepal today. Utahns on Everest are a group of Utah mountaineers intent on reaching the summit of the world's highest mountain. The last climber, Howard Chuntz, a Provo attorney, was expected to arrive in Kathmandu today after an airline layover in Bangkok, Thailand. He had been delayed by court litigation in southern California. Chuntz was to meet with Sherpas and accompany them to advanced base camp in Tibet where they will join the ad- vance party. In a fax communique before they crossed into Tibet, Pleasant Grove resident Doug Hansen, leader of Utahns on Everest, said the oxygen they will use near Everest's summit had arrived by commercial aircraft and arrangments to get it through Chinese customs had been finalized before they crossed the border this past weekend. "We have bought most of our base and advance base camp food here (Kathmandu) and some miscellaneous climbing gear,"Hansen Ne-pale- se said. Others in the advance team include, Craig Bishop, a Hinckley trilobite miner, and Stan Smith, a Salt Lake City podiatrist. "We met Elizabeth Hawley, a historian who keeps track of expeditions on Everest and she told us that on the Tibetian side only 18 out of 100 expeditions have been successful, compared with 96 out of 154 on the Nepal side," Hansen said. He said Hawley told him that only 1 1 people have ever made it up the north face, the route the Utah teams intends on pursuing to the 29,028-foo- t summitt. "We have our work cut out for us, but if, it was easy, why try?" Hansen said. Hansen said the Utahns had by chance met with a group of Spaniards who are climbing Xi'Xap-angm- a in Tibet and are sharing transportation expenses through Tibet. Traveling with the Utahns are a hired cook and two Sherpas. Chuntz will follow with the remaining Sherpas. Hansen's wife Ruthann, said in a later phone conversation this week, that Hansen sounded in high spirits and said the team is under its expected budget so far. BYU's sick leave policy gives alternative for seriously ill By SHEILA SANCHEZ Herald Staff Writer A year-ol- d sick PROVO at leave policy Brigham Young University allowing employees to donate hours, days and even weeks of work time for sick coworkers is getting positive reviews. According to Carolyn P. Lloyd, BYU's assistant administrative vice president for human resource services, the policy helps employees with long-terillnesses who need to take time off when they have already exhausted their sick and annual work leave. work time in order for the long term disability to become effec- tive. Dissability insurance doesn't kick in until 45 days from the time of the reported illness, Lloyd explained. A young mother, for instance, who needed a kidney transplant, received 12 days. Another employee who had cancer surgery received 22 days. During the program's first year, Lloyd estimated university staff donated nearly 200 days to about 6 employees. Sick leave builds up at a rate of one day per month for staff and administrative employees at BYU, but an extended illness or The policy is especially helpful severe accident can use up that to employees who need extra time quickly. m 1 The state of Utah, where Lloyd worked before joining BYU, has a similar program in place for work, "We try to start donating our own area, but anybody can with-ha- d in "It's a way for our employees to help their fellow workers without expense." out-of-poc- ket Carolyn P. Lloyd, BYU's Human Resource Services about five years. Other private organizations are using it, as well. The plan allows university supervisors to request donated work to help the time from sick employees take time off from donate time," Lloyd said. "They can donate days or hours of their accumulated vacation time." Lloyd said employees cannot, however, contribute time from their sick leave because "that's like contributing their health in surance. "They actually lose vacation time to help someone in need," Lloyd said. "It's a way for our employees to help their fellow workers without expense. It's sacrifice and it's been wonderful." Lloyd said the sick employee's supervisor will write a memo to his workers asking them to donate lime. She said that saves the sick employee from having to do any soliciting. "No one feels obligated because they are not facing the sick employee," Lloyd said. "The employee can know who gave sick leave so they can thank them, but they don't know how many days each one gave. It monitors et itself." If an employee, for instance, has been abusing his or her sick leave and then gets sick, fewer employees are willing to donate time for that person, Lloyd said. Utah Valley Community College also has implemented a similar program, Lloyd said. However, BYU's sick leave policy differs from UVCC since the school, as well as the state, deposits donated sick leave time money into a special bank fund. "Under their plan, the sick employees would try to get money from the bank, but at BYU we set up a bank for each individual employee calculating how much leave they will need and if we get more donated than what wc need." |