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Show t'c. v- - L'Th.h 2o. : ShLT c r TT f Serving East Juab County - A Nice Place To Live! Volume 92, No. 44 Wednesday, November 2, 1994 12 pages Single Copy Price 500 places for November 8th general election Voting District 1: Juab County Community Center , District 2: Nephi City Hall District 3: Juab County Center District 4: Juab High School , ' , if Mona: Mona Town Hall Levan: Levan Town Hall Eureka 1: Courthouse Eureka 2: Eureka City Hall Eureka 3: Eureka Elementary School "if Mammoth; Fire Station Callao 1: Road Shed Bunkhouse Callao 2: West Desert School, Partoun GETTING READY FOR THE ELECTION Juab County Clerk Pat Greenwood readies the election materials for next weeks general will have election. Greenwood has to deliver the material to all 12 voting precincts spread out from Nephi to Partoun. The Umes-New- s complete resujts in next Wednesdays, November 9th, edition. v -- f Juab School District is the biggest it has ever been By Myma Trauntvein Times-New- s Correspondent Juab School District is the biggest it has ever been even in the years when numbers of temporary employees constructing Intermountain Power Project and Ash Grove Cement Plant swelled the district. There are 1,735 students registered in the district," said Leon Pexton, board president. That is as big as the Juab School District has ever been." Mona Elementary has close to the same number of students the school had last year, said Superintendent Kirk Wright. Nephi Elementary, he said, had 529 students last year. The elementary age populaThere were 601 enrolled at the school when the year ended and tion is a lot higher than we had there were 628 enrolled at the projected. Abig graduating class beginning of the year this year, 10 years ago was 80 students. he said. Juab Middle School has in- creased to 420 students, he said. Last year they were between 380 and 389, said Wright. Juab High School has an increase of approximately 41 students over last years enrollment, said Wright. Last year there were just under 500 students, he said. This year there are 541. There was a big increase in the ninth grade, he said. In addition, said Wright, there were 52 home school students. In all, we have close to 1,800 students in our district this year, so far, said Wright. That no longer is true, said Wright. Of interest to me, said Pexton, is the large number of students in the high school. The district had planned for large classes to arrive at the school because of a population bulge in the census which had been in place for the last 10 years. However, growth was more than planned- - We are continuing to hold the population we had and we are continuing to grow, said Pexton. That growth will need to be taken into consideration when future plans are made, he said. COLD WEATHER IS HERE Blankets, coats, hats and anything else that was warm was the uniform of the day at the Juab High School Football game on Saturday. Juab lost the game 10-- 7 against Beaver. For the story turn to page 8 Nephi Elementary named a Centennial School By Myma Trauntvein Umes-New- s Correspondent Nephi Elementary School has just been named a Centennial School and has been selected to receive funding under Governor Mike Leavitts Centennial Schools program. Juab School District Superintendent, Kirk Wright, said the school was the third in the district to be so honored. Both Juab High School and Juab Middle School have also been named as Centennial Schools. Each Centennial School is s awarded $5,000 based amount plus $20 for each student as of the October 1, 1993, count as recorded at the Utah State Office of Education, said Wright. None of the special grant funds are to be retained by the district for indirect costs. The payments will be transferred to the school in nine payments through June This means, he said, that 1995. Nephi Elementary will have $16,580 coming. As of October 1, of last year, that was the count. If the money were to be figured on the number of students we have this October 1, we would do much better. The enrollment has increased significantly, said Wright. and The funds are can be used from the time of the grant as long as the school retains Centennial School status. non-lapsi- Nephi City Council declaring the week Domestic Violence Prevention and Education Week By Myma Trauntvein Times-New- s Correspondent We are going to have a kickoff celebration at the school, said Nephi City Council members Betty Mikkelson, principal of the signed a resolution declaring the school. We are looking at really week Domestic Violence Prevenbig projects and have high hopes tion and Education Week. for use of the money. Council members agreed with Mayor Robert Steele that it was important to stop such violence average in the state for the num- and to educate people so they ber of schools in our district who would be aware of the threat have been named Centennial such violence is to society. Schools, she said. The resolution declares that Ill bet we have the highest violence between family members has become a serious problem in the United States and in the State of Utah, and that every 15 seconds a woman is battered in the United States and that in the United States 30 percent of female homicide victims are murdered by their male partners; six percent of male homicide victims are murdered by their female partners. In Utah more than 60,000 women are assaulted each year by an intimate partner and in Utah 50 percent of children who witness abuse in the home also suffer from physical abuse. The city council of Nephi City recognizes that violence in the homes in our city disrupts the ability of all family members, especially children, to grow up and live in a safe, secure home environment, reads the resolution. The council, therefore, agreed See City on page 12 |