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Show 'UTC"5-C.'i- f 41C1 T trr ah Pfitss ASCCOAn 30TW AX)S STE p j saltlas env ir I!..LI.,L,njI,(Mj,II(ifj)(ill Sera70 East Juab County Volume 102 No 26 June 3 www.nephitimesnews.com - A Nice 200 Place To J(jjj jjj Live! 1 Independence Day festivities planned for July 3rd On Saturday, July 3, Nephi will be celebrating Independence Day with all kinds of activities. Starting at 7:00 a.m. there will be a breakfast, complete with ham, eggs, hot cakes, milk and juice, all for just $4.00 a plate. A volleyball tournament begins at 8:00 a.m. as well as registration for the basketball tournament. A flag raising ceremony will begin at 8:30. At 9:00, the country store opens with goodies and homemade crafts. Attention kids: the ticket stand for games and rides will open at 9:30. A volleyball tournament will begin at 8:00 a.m. Cost is $25 per team (4 or 5 players per team. 20 Age categories: and older. Sign up before July 1 by calling Allynne Bailev at or or Elizabeth Reinhard at The basketball tournament starts at 10:00 along with the games and rides. -l 12-1- 15-1- 660-921- 3 623-112- 623-032- There will be a quilt auction at 11:00. Get there early, the quilts go fast. Entertainment will start at 1:00 and the musical and variety program starts at 2:00 p.m. Another auction will begin at 3:30 and go till 5:30. Dinner will be For $ 1.00 served from a plate you will be offered shredded pork, mashed potatogravy, vegetable, tossed salad, dinner roll, beverage and dessert. Come and join the fun going on all day. Concession items will also be available throughout the hot dogs, day such as and cotton hamburgers, pizza, candy. A Fireworks show will start at dusk and as of Tuesday is being planned to be held at the Juab High School Football field. The field has been torn up over the last few weeks and if the show is moved, Blair Painter. City Fireworks will again be center stage on Saturday night as Nephi ( 'it Iwlds its annual show This Recorder says Watch for the FIREWORKS year the event is being planned for the Juab High Si final Football field starting at dusk Sint e the fn Id has been sparklers. torn up for the past few weeks, if the show is moved City Recorder Blair Painh r sas, "Walt h for the sparklers. 5:30-6:3- sno-cone- New speed limits to be implemented in Mona By Myrna Trauntvein Correspondent Tiines-Neiv- s All of the streets in Mona, inside the city proper, will have new speed limits set. Juab County Sheriff Alden Orme and Deputy Jim Stephensen met with Mona City Council members to find out if they agreed that a speed limit of 25 mph was a good idea or not. Presently, the street leading to the freeway interchange is under the jurisdiction of the state since it is a state highway. Increased traffic, caused by the increased travel required for the construction of the power plant west of Mona, prompted concern from law enforcement, said Orme. He had met with officials from PacifiCorp and Utah Power to discuss the impact of the construction of the plant on the com- munity of Mona. The projections are that the construction phase will require 150 employees in the beginning to increase to 450 employees, said Orme. For a short period there may be 600 employees. In addition, he said, there would be very large loads trav- highway leading through Mona just to navigau- It should be pretty interesting eling through Mona. In fact, by the end of the month, it is prompted the new speed limit suggestion. Council members all agreed the new speed to go to the state and request that the speed limit be lowered on the limit would be a good idea and told Orme to do w hatever he needed to do to assure the The propi .1 lower speed area would encompass Mam Street north and south through thecom-muni- t and west to the railroad tracks. Tin roadwav east to the freeway, w here the state hasjunsdic-tion- , will also be requested to be allowed to be posted at 25 mph. It currently has a () mph speed limit. After the st u et s moe into the county once again, he speed limit will return to the 15 mph. Young's Dairy Farm will be the area where we would allow the speed to increase, said likely that one of two of the largest trucks in the United States safety of the will be used to residents of the community. It might haul some of the equipment from the rail- haul 50,000 in- convenient for esidents (to have the speed limit reduced 200-foo- pounds, said Harry Newell, little be a road spur south of Nephi to the plant site. t It is a trailer long with nine tandem axles and each axle can to 2 5 mp h throughout the communil but it will SPEED LIMIT much safer the young people of Mona. said Orme. He said the county has already approved. Orme said the sheriffs department w ill also take the initiative Juab County Sheriff Orme and Deputy Stephenson met with the Mona City Council to set new speed limits in Mona to 25 mph on all city streets. council member. He had attended the latest information meeting in behalf of the city. The truck is wide and will require most of the 18-fe- two-lan- e to see, said Orme. Three such loads are planned. Orme said the increased traffic traveling through Mona had y) be for streets win retina huvejunvlic-tio- Orme. The Sheriffs Department has posted extra officers to patrol the city and have made citizens aware of the speed limits. Our citation count is up. he said. Juab Middle School to see the largest increase of students By Myrna Trauntvein Correspondent Times-New- s , Next school year, the district is preparing for larger than usual fifth and sixth grade classes. It is projected that there will be 160 students in the fifth grade which makes it one of the largest classes in the district. There should also be 157 students in the sixth grade. We hired one new teacher midyear (in 2004) said Superintendent Kirk Wright, to help with the large number of students. r hire assisted The new with existing sections last year 2004-2005- mid-yea- but this year wdll have a classroom and students. In addition, one more teacher has been hired for a total of two new teachers. There will be six teachers for the fifth grade and six for the sixth. That gives us an overall pupil to teacher ratio of 26.42 students, said Wright. Because of the large class sizes, the ratio is the highest of any of the other schools. For example, the average ratio at Mona Elementary is 20.14; the average ratio at Nephi Elementary is 22.29; the average ratio at the Juab Junior High is 22.96; and at Juab High School is 25.95. The first grade, at the end of the fourth quarter, proved to be another large class with 179 stu- will be open for business as usual on Monday, July 5. Deadline for all advertisements and news items is (as always) Monday by 5 p.m. The Times-New- s 187 stu- - dents with 519 projected for the in the fall coming year. There will be 20 teachers at the school. dents enrolled. Those students are moving on to the second grade and the coming first grade has a projected size of 1 16 students. It is strange how much the class sizes go up and down from year to year, said Stacy Brooks, board member. In all, there were 236 students and 9.5 teachers at Mona at the end of the fourth quarter. At Nephi Elementary there were 580 students in Kindergarten through fourth grade and there were 27 teachers. Juab fifth and sixth grades had a total of 268 students with 317 students projected for the 2004-200year. The coming year those classes will have 12 teachers. Juab seventh and eighth grade classes had 27 1 students with 287 projected for the coming year. STAMPEDE IS COMING Nephi is getting ready to put its best foot forThere will be 12.5 teachers for the ward. The annual Ute is coming , July 15, 16, 17. Posters are Stampede school. going up all around town; Debbie Carter finds a prominent spot on the 4D r Juab High had an Plumbing and Builders Supply window on Main Street. 5 Holiday Schedule... student population of end-of-yea- n |