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Show u:; yr t,f y , . ., .o ,.. 4 t rJ. vwviT;' v , ? , i " ,v ' , v ' 7, ;?--' - rti 1 , . 4. ' Uft '4 wyrv , I .'. &s0kigu . QD SCHOOL EOS G"t yga'flifrs r to schools why their children cant ride a bus. He said the state of Utah, not the school district, has stated that only students living more than 1.5 miles from their elementary school or two miles from their secondary school are eligible to go on buses. The distance must be close measured from the i 5 - - V . Q JT, vt.y.k-- . '4 closest entrance of the school. ... tmsrrtwr Were trying to say were not busing inside up on some cold winter slick as glass. Yates morning when there said a car was stalled by arent 50 seats, Ferre the side of the road and a said, noting that there is wrecker was approacha spare bus which could ing it, apparently to tow be used if such an it away. emergency arose. Suddenly, Yates conAn effort is under way tinued, the wrecker to sort out students so "shot across the road buses dont have to and when Yates tried to travel, say, to the high stop the bus, it began to school and then to the slide. The two vehicles elementary school. That performed a sort of on the ice and is not always possible, in buses do meet but finally Yates said he was in and Levan order able to get the bus back Mona to exchange students in control and pointed in and get a more consist- the right direction while ent age group in each about 60 girls screamed dos-a-d- the city limits, Ferre said. Some parents have from behind. threatened to keep their bus. "Our specific job, children home from Otherwise, the Mona school if the school bus Ferre says, "is trying to driver said, driving the doesnt stop at their get kids to school and to bus has been uneventful and fairly enjoyable. front doors, but he said get them back home, there is nothing he can but he said the buses are Really, I cant comThese giant buses are part of the fleet that carries East Juab County students to do but used exto also and transport plain. Theres really been explain TNPhoto and from school every day. to a good bunch of kids. students activities plain again. Ferre says that if bus such as the state fair and Lana Warren said she has also established a routes were established sports competitions. inside Nephi, Wed be Driver Don Yates certain rapport with her talking about $200,000 remembers one such ac- charges. Ive just ento $300,000 more per tivity run only too well. joyed running these kids He said he was taking a back and forth, she year of the taxpayers load of girls to a game in said, though, last year money. handle the Mona con- all bus drivers receive by R. K. Jackson As it is, Ferre says, the Mt. Pleasant. It was when she was driving a and teachers tingent, and Mrs. War- proper training each Students buses are run- winter, the night was shuttle bus between the existing arent the only members ren does the honors in year. close to capacity, dark and the road was old and new campuses, ning of the the fields. Ferre, said the job of especially those coming crowd. The men and like Its keeping busing students is get- from the Mona area. One said ting more difficult since of women who drive the track of money, Ferres most vivid Bluebirds also have to be district clerk Sheri Ferre. more and more homes is that eliginightmares We could almost keep are being built in isolated on campus before the ble students who normalone peson busy keeping areas of the district. He first bell rings. drive their own cars Each morning of the track of buses. said it is often cheaper to ly show up at the bus stops school year, from as far If that sounds like an pay parents by the mile when the buses are full. south as Mills and as far overstatement, consider to bring their children to You hope you havent north as Rocky Ridge, that the state of Utah re- school than it would be 5(1 kids driving cars the big yellow buses quires that all bus routes to establish new bus got are that going to show come lumbering toward be measured to the near- routes. He noted, howthe three schools in est tenth of a mile, that a ever, that most children Nephi, collecting child- list of eligible students now live in the general OVERNIGHT ren as they come. When be maintained, that a vicinity of existing bus classwork is over for the total of summer miles, routes. FILM PROCESSING Ferre said one of his day, the kids pile back on activity miles, and and the trips are dead miles (when there biggest headaches right In by 5:30 p.m. are no students aboard) now is trying to explain repeated in reverse. Out by 10 a m. the Juab School District be figured out, and that to people who live too next day owns four Bluebird school buses, Why Wait a Week! along with several smaller Chevrolets and a mini-bu- s Kimo's which is used MARK IV PICTURES INCORPORATED to fetch students from PRESENTS homes in the west fields. Joyce Harward, James "Nephi's Family Theatre", ' MS. "Neilsen, Lana Warren, ... and there will be nd place to hide! L;We; Take the bus and leave the driving to Lana, Don! back-to-scho- . . Venice Theatre James Pay, Marion Wankier, Don Yates, and several faculty members are licensed to drive the buses. Wankier and Mrs. Harward ferry students from Mills and Levan, Neilsen, Pay, and Yates The 6 Times-New- s Nephi, Utah Sept. 4,1980 Kamera When Time Ran Out PC feature fast film' processing and 123 South Main 623-037- 6 Starring PATTY DUNNING Executive Producer RUSSELL S D0UGHTEN JR Screenplay JIM GRANT Produced and Directed by DONALD W THOMPSON A MARK IV PICTURES INCORPORATED PRODUCTION IN FULI COIOP . printing! Now Playing AThiefin the Wight Nephi Elementary School Tuesday , September 9th 7 p.m. - No Charge some of them used some really lousy language on me. She said she solved that problem in part by getting a radio and playing music during the graduation. All of those senior girls were just like my own, Mrs. Warren said. It was like I was a mother to them. 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