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Show Elementary PTA tacks Channel 1 plan Neplfoo The Nephi Elementary School PTA does not want Juab School District to install the Channel 1 news service at the districts middle and high schools. The organization made the objection at the recent meeting of the Juab School District Board of Education. Alice Ricks, a member of the PTA board and past president of the organization, spoke for the group. The high school and middle school do not belong to y the PTA, but have councils at their schools. The Channel 1 company recently offered to install a television system in the middle and high schools free of charge. In exchange for the equipment, students', would watch a short news program each day. The program would contain commercials produced by the company. Although we recognize that Channel 1 is being proposed for the middle nd high schools, the PTAs charter is to be an advocate for all children, said Ricks. The decision will affect elementary students as they move into the higher grade, and in addition, she said, many PTA board members currently have students in the middle and high schools. "After reviewing the available information, the PTA board voted 10 to two not to support the Channel 1 program, said Ricks. We ask that you con-- , sider our reasons in your decision-makin- g process. Ricks said the national and state PTAs, as well as many national associations like the National Education Assodatoin, the National Schools Board irtltwill E)(P. 11V9 AsbOCIATlON AH PFifcSS 467 tftbl JW bUUlH U4111 bttLl LW'k LI II, Ul U Ricks. Obviously, companies would not be willing to put millions of dollars into the program unless they know the offered nor the dollars would flow back from programs their commercials, free of she conhardware availability are really the issue. The real tinued. The only option for parents issue, said Ricks, is whether the district shoud allow commer- not wanting their students to cialism in the schools. Even view the commercials at school though the word free always would be to ask students to sounds good, someone ultimate- leave the classroom while the news programs were shown. ly pays a price, she said. The price for using Channel 1 Neither parents nor students the year, it comes to over one day of class time. The PTA board does not think that either the quality of the should have to have this type of pressure at school, Ricks said. . Watching the news is not, in and of itself, educational, said Ricks. Is every teacher willing to take the time each day to discuss what is happening and i Live! Serving East Juab County A Nice Place the effect of current events? Ricks said that while the PTA October 24, 1990 board agrees students need to be aware of current events, they do not think commercials should be forced on students in the name of education. Cable News Network also provides news programs for schools, said Ricks. Their program does not contain commercials and does not provide equipment, though they encourage cable systems to provide the ser- ; An independent auditing firm commission decided to bring the chronological log with the vice free of charge. In addition, has examined the procedures, auditors in to check the sheriffs status of assets tracked beginnCNN does not require its pro- records, and practices of the records, formal procedures for ing with the seizure and ending grams to be shown 92 percent of 'Juab County Sheriffs Office handling such assets were still with the final disposition. Documentation for changes in the time, as does the Channel I with regard to the handling of in evolution. durseized should be attached to the Sheriff was in cases status The assets Juab County drug proposal Instead, said Ricks, CNN en- ing the first six months of 1989, not alone in its quest to case-fil- e copy. When substances are released courages teachers to use the pro- and has found no evidence of establish formal procedures. e d the state crime lab or other large-scalmisconduct. to of The seizure gram more as an educational ! outside attento came our is assets that party, a receipt should Nothing something Please turn to page 4 tion to indicate inappropriate has been happening only in the be obtained and kept in the 'handling of the related assets, last couple of years, and pro- evidence locker and entered on I said Denton Alexander, of the cedures for the log, the auditor said. in of have entire firm state the They also recommended that agencies public accounting Hawkins, Borup, and Cloward. . kind of evolved, said Alex- - when controlled substances are destroyed, records make specific I The Provo company handles the ander fire-fighti- ng reference conseto the substances beThe firm, yearly, accounting countys Association, the National secaudit. ing destroyed and to the cases in quently, reviewed various Association of Secondary which we each law the asset For tions of state selected, The Juab County Commission they were involved. The concerning School Principals, and others, of these substances destruction assets of seizure and of forfeiture found documentation proper do not support Channel 1. Those has approved a budget for next - should be attested to controlled-substanc- e violafrom we or wildland ser by a least physically disposition facts should lend some credence year's communica-Wev- e two officers at the and was still asset verified the that tions, vices present and has in through the shal Bosh Gordon signto the concerns of the local PTA county agreed, Alex- - tion with the state department destruction. held the connew fire a ed county, fires a by had lot of being said Ricks. suppression board, The county sheriff periodicalof public safety, determined ap- Ricks said that when the com- tract with the Utah State Divi- this year not big ones but a j ander continued. , over firm no controls while internal found But the ' ly should make surprise audits lot of propriate ones, he said. mercial time is added up over sion of Forestry. evidence of misconduct, there the assets. They also reviewed of the officers evidence logs and The budget for 1991 is Any leftover funds in the fire were several areas in which the current policies and procedures document the results, the about 5 percent more $14,815 sheriffs- - office could improve,- - that various county offices use - auditors suggested. . than last years figure, said Bar- - control budget will be used The auditor also said proofs of more in taking custody of and accounsaid Alexander, bara Gardner, representing the purchase Gardner. said for assets. before such the publication should be secured state. gear, county ting Actually, The auditors made recommen- when assets are advertised for The budget takes care- of dations for the handling of con- sale. Proofs of publication are d of the cost of about trolled substances, currency, legal forms supplied by the in fires wildland the fighting Members of the Nephi LDS area. State and federal agencies vehicles, and other property newspaper in which the adverseized by area law enforcement tising is placed. They attest to Stake ages 12 to 20 are being pay for the costs of fighting the fact that the advertisement officers. to choir a in lands. on their fires sought participate ran. The absence of auditors One the scheduled to sing at the January actually this suggestion During years season, . made was that the sheriffs such proofs, however, does not stake conference. June 1 through Oct. 30, fire supadverPractices will be held at 7 p.m. pression cost $47,657.79 in the , A Nephi man, Arredondo allegedly physically records be more detailed. They necessarily mean the be run. not forms did tisements that in special has been abused the baby Thursday, Oct. suggested Sundays the 1st, 2nd, and 7th county and fires burned vegeta- Jose Several of the items sugwards buildings tion on 1,559.4 acres of land, arrested by the Nephi Police 18. Following the discovery of used to keep track of the assets trail. audit clear a and informore already are being done, gested Gardner. said and the provide with Anyone wanting Department problem by the authorities, charged mation on the choir should conEven though conditions were the second-degre- e murder of Ar- the baby was taken to Central The forms should have three said Alexander. The recommendations sugtact Cindy Howard at Valley Medical Center in Nephi copies: one each for the officer, relatively dry, the fire season thur Beason, five months old. sefor a and case for the file, Laurel Roth at gested by the auditors were acwas comparatively trouble free Nephi Chief of Police B. and later was transferred to file seizures. of Gibson cepted by the commissioners at as compared to other years. Wayne Hoaldridge said Parra- Primary Childrens Medical quential Sonya The information from each and will be implemented by the Center in Salt Lake City, where it died Monday morning. Fol- form should be entered in a county offices involved. lowing the babys death, its 12th North sidewalk, city body was taken to the state medical examiners office for an autopsy. The results of the autopsy have not yet been released. is being held At their recent meeting, the sidewalk project on 12th North. ing and compacting work had in the Juab Jail on County Mayor Bob Steele said several already been done, and that 100 $10,000 bail while the investigaNephi City Council: Drama class members will do Want to be scared to death? Voted to proceed with plans people in the dty had said they feet of sidewalk already had tion is continuing. blood to have their Just d very best to scare the itching your to demolish the thought other projects would be been finished, it would be best cold hair stand have run or the I , pants off of you Monday home at the municipal airport, used more than the 12th North to finish the whole project. Had q I neck back on the of decidcondicouncil in been sidewalk through Wednesday of next the your up lO sidewalk, but the The house is in such poor planning from 8 to 10:30 p.m. at 255 week from work not had or fright? since had the the much ed that r tion and it would take so stages only, project Main Street in Nephi. The North on haunted house off been could have by deemthe contractor it is put rebuild not it to MODG OT it that put begun, already begun, SGDl All School rooms are based on drama the Juab High ed practical to do so. doing the work had declined in lieu of doing could modem horror movies, such as be department just right Decided to finish a dty other jobs to finish it, that level- needed projects, for you. Nightmare on Elm Street, decided. Shocker, Friday the 13th, Spoke to Bud Phillipsen, The studepts at Mona EleHalloween, and others. who said he had not been get- mentary School will present a The cost is $3 for adults, $2.50 ting many wrecker calls from program entitled Hope of for students with activity cards, the city police department America Thursday, Oct. 25. $1.50 for children under 12 and council He to asked the recently. A matinee performance will when accompanied by adults. check into the method by which begin at 12:30 p.m., and an evenwreckers are dispatched. Nephi ing presentation will start at 7 The Juab County Commission were deteriorating and parts of Chief of Police Wayne p.m. wants to develop a camping area them may fall and hurt some- Hoaldridge said those needing The public is invited to wrecker service are asked if they on U.S. Forest Service land at one. ProThe county and forest service have a preference whose wrecker Andrews Canyon and has in. vited Don T. Nebeker, super- worked together to reopen the is called. If they have no 1 visor of the Uinta National campground. Forest service per- preference, the county sheriffs DE3.C GSS3l7 Forest, to come to Nephi to sonnel trimmed the trees and dispatcher calls the wrecker . i A special presentation of the discuss the proposal Alll nppVD county employees graveled the next on rotation. Mayor Steele would the check with said he Volunteers produced movie enThe plan is the direct result of roads. helped plant The Son will titled was see to Prodigal that that an agreement reached last year evergreen trees at the site. plan county Oct. shown be in followed. The campground was reopenSunday, Nephi between the county and the being 28. Heard reports from city adRehearsals for the community forest service. ed last year. There is no fee for The movie is being brought to ministrator Randy McKnight chorus production of The A committee appointed by the its use. area over the LDS Churchs the will Messiah now convarious on the Now the county wants to begin Thursday, dty projects county commission had asked satellite said Oct. Lorraine works. in similar Wallace, a the 25, to the service struct forest system. The Nephi at the says McKnight campground reopen LDS Stake will present the Cottonwood Campground, to Andrews Canyon. Though the asphalt work on 12th North now director. allow ramping for extended forest service wants to make its is done and the asphalt crew is The first rehearsal will be held Sider Bradley A. Kenison, son movie at the stake center and will periods along the roadways in own campground at Andrews working on paving the electric in the chorus room at the Juab of Alan and Sheree Kenison of the Nephi Neath LDS Stake 4th-5tit the show at 7:15 Middle School home this conin was From at will the future, it return Nephi Levan, there, Salt Creek Canyon, and to department yard. Canyon pjn. struct a campground at An- agreed that the county could they will do 3rd East from 7th Those who are interested in week from LDS missionary ser- LDS Ward church. Both build a camp area with the to 8th South. He also said work singing but cannot attend the vice hi Sydney, Australia. Elder meetings will begin at 6 p.m. drews Canyon. All members of the church Cottonwood Campground had understanding that it could be on the industrial park road is go- first rehearsal should contact Kenison will speak to members are interested and Mrs. Wallace Oct. has welL of the Levan Ward Sunday, Curb and gutter at been closed because forest ser- used only until the forest service ing invited 23. to work been The will laid Hie sdy at own and concrete attend, vice personnel were concerned was ready to impliment its performance tentatively begin meeting has been scheduled for Dec. 9. spokesmen from the twoatakes. 100 that the aging cottonwood trees plans. parent-advisor- is using more than a day of school for other than educational purposes, exerting more pressure on students to purchase certain items, and allowing commercialism to get its foot in the door. Ricks said one board member said she did not send her children to school to watch Twinkie and Nike commercials. They get enough of that everywhere else, she said. No matter how much you rationalize and justify, it is just plain wrong to allow these types of things in our schools, said Ricks. Once the commecialism door is open, where do you draw the line, she asked. For example, what would happen if a textbook company approached the district and offered books free with the only string attached that there were five pages of advertisements in each one. We believe that Channel ultimate goal is to line their pockets with dollars at the expense of our students, said to t Sheriffs audit founds no evidence of misconduct ls drug-relate- Commission OKs nt budget state-mandat-ed , fire-fighti- s - . Members sought for conference choir fire-fightin- g - one-thir- Nephite charged with child's murder ld Parra-Arredond- 623-022- o, 4, 623-008- 7, 623-039- 0. Airport home, projects Nephi City Council news briefs Let JHS drama de- Parra-Arredond- partment scare you o city-owne- Pl6 jCllOOl County seeks to build campground set showing of The LDS digal Son' yf l,V'a LDS-Churc- h h 623-083- non-membe- rs 9. 4 |