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Show THE SAN JUAN RECORD, Thursday, July 10, 1980 - Page 4 School retirees honored Two retiring employees of San Juan School District were honored by the district board of education at a meeting last week. Mrs, Nine S. Barton was presented with a plaque in ap- 4-- H club meets The Kraft Kids have begun 4--H club meetings, meeting each Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. Left to right: Board member Walter Atene, Dwight Laws, Reva Redd and Lisle Adams. is Their leader, Donna Jones, helping them to make dresser scarand rice - paper cards. do huck-weavi- ng ves Officers are: Trade Meyer, president; Colette Lyvice president; Amy man, Jones, secretary, and Kathryn Watkins, reporter. preciation for 24 years of as a dedicated service classroom teacher in the San Juan School District. Mrs. Barton has taught all of those years in the Monticello Elementary School but also taught three years elsewhere in the state before moving to Monticello. Mrs. Reva V. Redd was also for recognized her val-ab- le service to the school district. Mrs. Redd has been an employee of the school district for the past 29 years. During her teaching career, four and a half years ware spent in other schools in the state, making a total of 3 3 12 years of Twenty-si- x teaching service. years of service were spent as a teacher at San Juan High, during which time Mrs. Redd taught girls physical education, music, science, and reading. For the past three years Mrs. Redd has worked as reading specialist on the San Juan School District staff. She has presented to the district her personal library, at approximately valued $5,000, and also presented to the board an overview of the various reading publications and recommendations developed for the district. Mrs. Redd has served on the state reading committee and is recognized throughout the state and surrounding area as an expert in reading instruction. Her service to the San Juan School District has been invaluable, the board said. Left to right: Walter Atene, Dwight Laws, Nina Barton and Lisle Adams. They went thataway.,.1 think close encounters of the wrong kind, Monticello city volunteer firemen and policemen had to battle their way through groups of curious citizens, afoot and in cars, to reach the scene of a fire In of last week. on Wednesday Efforts of police and fire- men were further hampered by a false alarm turned in minutes after they extinguished a blaze at the Lariat Restaurant on highway 666 East. The first of three alarms sounded at dusk. Jerry Guthrie, dispatcher on duty, said incoming calls from curious citizens swamped the sheriffs office. Volunteer firemen calling in for information were unable to get through and in desperation turned to the radio station. combined to that could create have been directed by Mack Sennett of Keystone Cops All factors a scene fame. Fire engines and police vehicles racing through town were chased and surrounded bearing gleeful by autos riders. bicyclists Happy hurried to keep up. Breathless pedestrians brought up the rear, and the entire en- tourage rushed by groups of citizens excited gathered on the streets. Dogs barked and howled. John Himmelberger, volunteer fire chief, said the problem became so bad that his men were not able to get where they needed to be. first alarm for a fire at the Lariat Restaurant, closed and vacated for several months. the Chief 'Hifnmelberger-saiThe was sound- ed d blaze apparently was caused by faulty wiring in a neon sign. As firemen extinguished this blaze, a crowd gathered to watph. Before the fire fighters could return to the fire house, a second alarm sounded. It was at this time confusion that developed. not contact could Firemen the dispatcher. The only information they were able to sent them to Westerner Trailer Park, 290 South Main, where all was calm a false alarm. They were then misinformed that the fire at the Lariat had flared up. get Jockeying for position with their civilian escort party, fire and police officials put forth a valiant effort to return swiftly to the Lariat. The situation by this time had become so impossible that a smoke screen operation was effected. By order of the police and fire departments a false fire alarm was sounded. Citizens flocking to the scene of this second false alarm of the evening were cited for interfering and were issued tickets by the police. Although police and fire officials say they understand the natural curiousity a fire arouses, they feel that citizens should recognize the problems created by fire watchers. Fortunately, the incident last week, while frustrating, was free serious consequences. Citizen cooperation is Model NOW JUST g 9 LIMITED SUPPLY! NO RAIN CHECKS! o)(o) Regular $609 SAVE $ 1 00 ON AMANAS BEST SELLING RADARANGE! ONLY 4 LEFT!! PRICED TO SELL!! ONE WEEK ONLY!! 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