OCR Text |
Show 1?A E mory County Progress Wednesday, December 22, 1982 Final at $6452155 igh school junior seeks early graduation approval by Elizabeth Hanson The class of 1983 will be the first to graduate on the stage of the new Emery along the way has made A grades in the highest forms of mathematics. In fact, she consistently makes the honor roll. She wants to be studying calculus and preparing for a position in office management. For the past two summers, she has worked as a bookkeeper and payroll clerk for Jelco where she picked up an error in the cumputer system unnoticed for eight years. She gained extra credits from completing adult education courses as well. I humbly ask you to consider my case individually and ask to be allowed to graduate with the class of 1983 in cap and gown. When your mind is eager to learn and to move forward and you are not encouraged to do this, you tend to take a defeatist attitude, she wrote. Principal Bob Swinburne favors giving her the diploma but whether she is allowed to receive it at commencement exercises will be the decision of the board in January. Angie could still enroll in college and return to graduate with the class of 1984, but she High auditorium. The plush, impressive setting will be perfect for the solemn march of the capped and gowned graduates, the program, and acceptance of the coveted diploma. The tears and laughter, the snapshots, the congratulations gifts and and the satisfaction of accomplishment climaxes the years of schooling. This year there will be seats for as many guests as each graduate cares to invite. Angela Rhodes, 17, wants to be a part of the happiness. She will have earned 24.4 credits by the dose of the school year, sufficient for graduation. She has ordered senior pictures, been accepted at Dixie College, is making plans to meet calculus head on. She was born with a mathematical brain and frankly is bored with the high curriculum. She celebrated her 17th birthday in school November, but she is only a junior. That fact poses the Angela Rhodes problem. According to the Emery District handbook, students must have six semesters in the upper three grades to go through the graduation line unless the case is appealed to the board and a precedent set. The appeal was recently filed by means of a letter Angie wrote to the board. She said she planned for early graduation from childhood and A GIFT 4k 9 8 n 9 m YOUR US? WERYONE 4 AT 9 1 3 4 9 m TOES ACTION 9 1 9 9 3 honors English, biology, algebra II (for the sixth time), biology and marriage and family management. Angie dislikes physical education. Angie has not chosen to participate in extra curricular activities except for the rodeo club. She and her younger Karen, have horses stabled near their Huntington sister, home and love to ride. A gifted singer, she harmonizes with her mother, Jean, in country western music. Jean says her first born has always been an unusually gifted child. At Angie learned braille and sign language and aspired to being a teacher for the deaf. Angies IQ measured at 4 years. Jean and Dusty and the girls arrived in Huntington in 1972. They feel the girls have been fortunate to be reared in a rural area and plan to remain here. Angie may decide on CEU for college at first. 180 4 which was The county is expecting just $157,750 this year. Also, she noted that while the years payment Larry W. Davis Progress Editor $335,637. budget of $6,452,155.15 was approved by the Emery County Commission on Dec. 15 following several marathon sessions throughout the first two weeks of December. The budget did not come without its cuts, though, as the commissioners A eliminated several for the sale of receiving the medical facility, the actual total was $250,000. $300,000 This loss of anticipated revenue forced the commissioners to make some reductions in nearly all areas of the budget. Eliminated were others altogether. The 1983 budget, which is down from the 1982 budget, was closed out by the commission on AcDec. 15 at $6,966,877.80. cording to County Auditor Norma Fox, the reduction in county funds for 1983 is due to a loss of $500,000 collected in business license fees which had to be reimbursed following a court ruling, fewer Federal dollars coming to the county as funds paid in lieu of taxes for Federal holdings in the county, and overbudgeting on the sale of the medical clinic in Castle Dale. Fox said that the Federal money coming to Emery County will be only 47 percent of last had anticipated county four positions W TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THESE GREAT HOLIDAY SAVINGS! 9 3 i 9 4 4 4 4 a 4 4 4 a 99 well as for correction, $235,075.17 $42,065 for detention, and processing budget which was approved at $135,300.76. The Sheriffs Department will have $44,000 to purchase four new cars although six had been requested. A new $25,000 dump truck will also be purchased by the Road Department. While all budget requests were reduced, some were eliminated altogether. The those for a 94 4 4 9 9 9 1 a a 94 4 4 4 a 94 of which amounts to $166,876, and considering transferring $119,032 which was earmarked for a recreational complex to the road fund. However, since both fundings have been approved by ordinance, only approval by voters can transfer the money. It is expected that the new commission, which takes office in January, will review the approved budget and make some adjustments. Fox pointed out that while there are still several loose ends to be taken care of, the budget has been approved, and the present commission is apparently finished with it. are 1 a proposed allocated remodeling 9 9 1 eliminated for the the County Building to the general fund 9 9 99 as $1,134,330.38 remodeling of county Senior Citizen Centers and buildings for the fairgrounds and the stock show. Commissioners are also mulling the idea of transferring funds left over from a 4 4 4 4 receive will Department commissioners 94 a Road the clerks office, one half position in the treasurers office, and one position in the Sheriffs Department. The cut to the sheriffs staff will be handled through attrition however. In addition to these cuts, the commissioners eliminated a cost of living pay increase to county employees of 5 percent although workers will still receive a 3.4 percent step increase in many cases. Commissioners took a hard stand on the purchase of new equipment, saying that no new purchases will be made for equipment nor money allotted for projects unless absolutely necessary. Receiving the biggest slice of the county budget in 1983 will be the Road Department which has $1,160,564 appropriated for Class B roads and $1,331,471.49 for highways. The Sheriffs funding 94 the receiving a new computer system to link onto the present system although funding for that comes from the data 9 9 9 9 in Department, one position in the auditors office, one position in $155,644.44 for communications. That department will also be 3 a feels she has earned the honor now and coming next year would be a let down. She is currently taking world history, Commissioners oh lean 83 budget CITEK 25 COLOR CONSOLE TV with Electronic Tuning 890 CITEK 1 2" Black & $94.00 White, ACDC TV 4 4 4 a GE 94 4 PORTABLE VCR 4 4 a 94 4 3 MODEL 1C VP2020X 1 $(P)(o)00 Rabbits are rarely found deep in forests. They prefer places where bushes or clumps of tall grass are available for hiding. l I 4 4 a4 4 4 a a a 94 4 4 ATARI GAME CONSOLES CARTRIDGES STARTING 124.95 AT 8.95 jS--th- PLUS 4 a a 4 4 4 a a 94 a SANTA WILL DELIVER YOUR GIFTS IN PERSON 94 4 4 4 a 9 a, CHRISTMAS EVE! want to take this opportunity to thank all my friends, customers and accounts for their business year. A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS and HAPPY I " NEW YEAR. May we continue with a healthy and prosper-ou- s future! Mary Lue Bentley Your Advertising Representative Emery County Progress v. ' |