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Show i THE SAN JUAN RECORD Voter registration rolls updated Gail Johnson, county clerk, told commissioners that she has made a routine check of years (two general elections) have been removed from the rolls. Voters may reregister to continue on the rolls. Johnson indicated if the rolls are not periodically updated, voter registrations. In accordance with state law, voters who have not voted in four Garfield County exchanges land On December 21, Patric Spurgin, director of the Division of State Lands and Forestry, approved the exchange of state school trust lands within the Capitol Reef National Park for lands offered by Garfield County. The school land to be exchanged includes the switchback portion of the Burr Trail. Garfield County is offering the state 320 acres near Bryce Canyon airport, 60 acres near Widtsoe Junction and 3.03 acres in the Richfield Industrial Park. Spurgin says, In light of our trust management responsibil-itite- s to the State School Fund, we are required to consider options for the state owned sections within Capitol Reef National Park. The exchange trust lands. The Board ofState Lands and Forestry unanimously approved the exchange in concept at its September board meeting in Moab. At that meeting, the board received verbal and written comments from the public on the proposed exchange. After verification of title, the state will issue they soon include many names of people who have died, moved, or are not interested in voting. In addition to verifying residence in order to vote, the rolls are used to determine jury duty. Annual beer license renewals were taken care of as a routine matter. All applications were for license renewal. In reference to beer licensing, com- cemetery for Bluff by asking for a survey and platting of ownership of the existing cemetery. The land is privately owned by several people. Some of the owners have offered to give the land to the county. Bluff residents have expressed an interest in setting up a cemetery district and taking over the maintenance of same. minors in the county. They will ask the sheriff to maintain an ongoing program of investigations into licensees who sell beer without requiring identi- Parents want interschool athletics for ARL Middle School students patent to Garfield fication. Clerk Johnson warned of a state law setting July 1 as a deadline for people who sell beer to complete training in the law and procedures for complying. If they fail to get the training, their licenses can be revoked. Commissioner Ken Bailey said it will cost as much as $10,000 to repair and clean a caterpillar that was sabotaged with sand while on site near Hovenweep Monument. Commissioners took the next step in setting up a community D-- 7 M0NTICELL0 MERC INVENTORY Christmas cards, bows, wrapping paper, wreaths, gift boxes, tree decorations, lights, tree skirts, ornaments, ornament hangers, garlands, icycles. OFF SWEATERS WINTER HATS for the AND GLOVES entire family 20 20 OFF Deer Foam MOON Slippers SAVE OFF B00TS $399 lL $2 reg $4.99 SAVE A small but vocal group of parents from Albert R. Lyman Middle School met with San Juan School Board Monday, December 21. The parents took advantage of the Blanding meeting site to ask for increased interschool athletics for their middle school students. Citing the interschool experience that 7th and 8th graders in other parts of the district have, the parents requested a kind of parity that would allow them to bus their 7th and 8th graders to nearby schools for wrestling meets and other athletic events. The middle school has been operating on the philosophy that children in the middle grades thrive best academically and physically in an accepting atmosphere with limited competition. The school has had an athletic extensive intra-murinvolved has program which nearly every student in the school but has not participated in athletic competition with other 'schools. Parents attending expressed concern that their young people were being handicapped for the time when they get into the more demanding and competitive atmosphere of high school athletics. After considerable discussion, the group referred to the Junior High School Athletics section of the district policy manual, paragraph 6351, which states, After a quality physical education and intramural program are a reality, schools may want to consider al All Ot0n 6, 1988 - Page 3 In other business, commis- sioners voted to purchase an Astrovan ($12,089) and a Celebrity ($10,596) from Mike Young Chevrolet and to post- pone any further major purchases; and heard a report from Lester Lansing of Utah Navajo Develoment Council that their budget for 1988 will be cut by about 25 percent. missioners expressed their concern that beer is still sold to does not interfere with other major exchange options with the federal government, according to the Secretary of the Interior. Therefore, the exchange is clearly beneficial to the state school trust because it enhances economic potential and improves manageability of exchange County. cum;5? . Wednesday January 3 PUNKY BREWSTER AND G.l. JOE SUPPERS SQ99 V reg $6.99 WATCH FOR OUR GIGANTIC CLEARANCE SALE COMING SOON ! M0NTICELL0 MERC offering limited, well-supervise- d, and highly controlled programs of interschool competitions for the physically gifted or talented students. Since this paragraph clearly provides for interschool competition, the board told the parents that busses could be provided for ARL students to attend athletic competitions outside their school. The discussion called to light various disparities in athletic opportunities being offered to students in the middle grades throughout the district. The board and the district staff indicated they would take a closer look at both the district policy for middle grade athletics and at the actual programs in the schools. The board reviewed current status of AIDS education in Utah. It was the consensus of the board that the district will be involved in AIDS education sooner or later and that staff members should be investigating education programs as well as looking at a philosophy which would fairly represent local standards. The board Hal gave Superintendent Jensen the go ahead to assign staff to work on this problem. With an otherwise light agenda, the board took the opportunity to review the Outcome Based Education and Elements of Effective Instruct- ion programs in the district and to review legislative problems. In an effort to keep better informed and to insure rural school input at the state legislature, the board voted $500 to participate in a fund with other rural districts to hire a legislative lobbyist. In other business, the board: granted Blanding Elementary School a monthly early closure to provide additional planning time for teachers: reviewed policy on employees time off for union duties: approved Blanding Lions Club request to add to buildings on the Blanding softball complex: excused a student from the compulsory attendance law: and granted one familys request to educate their child at ld home. Funeral service Funeral services for Richard Hyde Pehrson will be held Thursday, January 7 at 12:30 p.m. at the Monticello Stake Center. Mr. Pherson passed away J anuary 2 at the VA Hospital in Grand Junction. Toll-Fre- e Helpful Numbers National Health Information Clearinghouse Heartlife for cardiovascular information Second Surgical Opinion Program |
