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Show Volume 68 Number 19 American Legion sets Poppy Day Saturday, May 19, has been designated Poppy Day for Salina and Aurora by the American Legion Auxiliary Unit 36. Members and their volunteer helpers will be soliciting your support in their campaign. These poppies are assembled by Disabled AMerican veterans usually housed at our Veterans Hospitals. Proceeds form the sale of the poppies are used for child welfare projects in our areas. Some of these are glasses for needy children, food and toys at Christmas, and other worthwhile projects. Those who would volunteer to help should meet at the Legion Hall Saturday, May 9 at 9 a.m. to pick up the poppies. American Legion sets Spring Meet American Legion Post 36 will host the District 6 Spring Convention on May 19, at the Legion Hall. The agenda will be as follows: Social Hour - 6 p.m. Banquet - 7 p.m. Meetings - 8 p.m. The Banquet will be a roast beef dinner with all the trimmings prepared and served by the Ladies of the Auxiliary. We would ericourage all our Legion and Auxiliary members and their partners to join us at the Convention. Those candidates aspiring to department offices will be in attendance for both the Legion and Auxiliary. High School Rodeo action, May 11-1- 2 A statewide High School Rodeo will be held May 1 1 at 12th at the Wayne County Rodeo Grounds, in Loa. The Henry Mountain High School Rodeo Club is hosting the event that will welcome teams from many high schools throughout Utah. Rodeo time will be 6 p.m. on May 1 1; 2 pm. on May 12. Admission is $3 for those 6 and over. Everyone is invited to come out and see some fine high school rodeo action. Aurora Fire Dept, is now accepting applications The Aurora City Fire Department is accepting applications. If you are interested, you may obtain an application at Karrens Komer, or Terrys Total Service. Applications can be turned in to DeVere Sudweeks or Lamar Curtis. Applications must be received by May 15, 1990. Redmond town volunteers will clean cemetery Volunteers in Redmond are asked to go to the cemetery at 10 a.m. on Saturday, May 12, to help clean up the grounds. For more information call Kirk Rasmussen, 529-757- 0. Cholesterol Screening A Cholesterol Screening will be held at Utah Independent Bank in Salina on Thursday, May 17, from 2 to 5 p.m. Cholesterol and blood pressure will be checked. Fee is $10. Immunization Clinic is set An immunization clinic will be held in Salina, today. May 9, from 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at the American Legion building. An evening immunization clinic will be held at the Central Utah District Health Department, 201 East 500 North, Richfield, on Tuesday, May 22, from 5 to 6 p.m. Wednesday, May 9, Price 35 cents 1990 Changes made in storage of District student records Pam Williams Sevier School District For the first time since a school district was organized in Sevier County, student records will be housed at the district office, and a district records clerk appointed to manage these records. According to records clerk, Pam Williams.records have been sorted and all of the records of people bom in 1931 and earlier will be forwarded to the state archives for microfilming. The district has a legal custodial responsibility for these records, but space is limited, and the 193 1 date was based on the fact that transcripts of older records are less frequently requested. Those in that time frame who want information from their school records are welcome to come in and get a photocopy before we ship everything to the archives, Mrs. Williams, said. Getting the information will be more difficult after its microfilmed. Shipping plans are not definite, but nothing will be send from this district until after June 15, 1990. The district office is open from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Besides student records, from each teacher at each school during those same years will also be sent to the archives. When a request for a transcript is made, rollbooks are a secondary backup to the information on the student fCcofd Itself. Rollbooks are also stored at the district office facility. A new permanent record policy roll-boo- ks was recently approved by the school board. It sets rules governing the storage of records, requests for transcripts, destruction of confidential material after the required retention period, and disposition of moveouts and dropouts. S tudent records are stored at the high schools for five year, with the oldest class becoming history and being bumped along with corresponding rollbooks, over to the district office every year when another class graduates. It is legally required that health and counseling records are kept for five years, but after that they may be destroyed. Permanent records with a transcript of credits, and ACT scores must be retained. Previously, records were kept in the individual schools, but when new schools were build, dozens of boxes of old student records were sent to the warehouse at the maintcnanceNtransportation complex in Richfield for interim storage. Two years ago moveable suspension shelves were installed at the district office and all the old records were transferred there. Its easy to see while going through these old documents, Mrs. Williams indicated,that people in charge didnt always understand that these are historical documents intended to last She said record keeping methods varied from school to school and secretary to secretary Continued on Page 2 Chair State Board of Justice Court Judges One-hundr- ed Cancer continues to be a life threatening disease to all of us. Each year hundreds of thousands of women; mothers, sisters, daughters, friends, neighbors, die of this tragic disease. We need to all possible to prevent these cancer deaths. One of the things you can do is become knowledgeable of the preventative practices that will help reduce the risk of getting cancer. Also be aware of recommended guidelines for screening procedures such as the pap test, breast exam, and mammography. Early detection of breast and cervical cancer greatly increases the chance of successful treatment State cancer screening clinic provide you with the opportunity to become knowledgeable of preventive practices and have the following screening procedures done: breast exam, pelvic exam, pap test and mammogram referral cancer screening clinic does not do mammogram. Your blood pressure will be taken. Colorectal kits for a simple test done at home for detection of cancer of the bowel or rectum are available at $2 each. A minima fee is charged depending on size of family and in- he come. Minimum is $3 while maximum is $22. A proposal for a voted leeway before the residents of Sevier will go County in September, for a two-mi- ll tax increase. This will make possible a 13 matching funds from the state to begin a three year y plan, and to reduce class tech-4;Jog- sizes. The Board also approved a plan to increase student achievement time. positions, become aware of recent legislation, and elect new officers to the board of judges. The final day of the conference. Judge Nielsen received an award for his involvement in developing a small claims manual made available to the judges at the conference. Also, Judge Nielsen was elected chairman of the State Board of Justice Court Judges for the upcoming year. Cancer Screening be held in Salina Residents will be able to vote 'yea or nay' to school board's plea for tax levy without raising taxes for the upcoming school year. The District will take advantage of technology funding from the 1990 Legislature and address the class size reduction issue at the same Judge Kent Nielsen will Sevier County Justice Court Judge Kent Nielsen recently attended the Utah Justice Court judges annual conference in Salt Lake City. Theme this year was Education Our Key to the 1990s Judge Nielsen was on the committee which developed and coordinated the conference activities. and forty judges from around the state attended to further their education in their judicial The recent Commissioner's Art Show, held at the Sevier had a County Courthouse, large number of entrants - and winners - from the North Sevier area. NSMS students winnirg include Jared Hallows, Tyler Okerlund, Jeremy Gates, Sara Frame. Not pictured are Traek Malan, and Tressa Humphrey. ART SHOW WINNERS: will The Salina Cancer Clinic will be held Thursday, May 3 1 , from 1 0 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Salina Second-Thir- d Ward Building. For appointments call Bernice at or Margie, 529-339or Genevieve at or you may call the Central Utah District Health Department 896-545529-394- 5; 0; 529-731- 2, Taxes for capital outlay will be reduced by 2 mills, while the maintenance and operation taxes will be increased by two mills. This will not costtaxpayers additional funds, but will make available $57,000 in state funds that will be returned to the county. If approved by the voters, the proposed two mill increase would go into effect for the 1991-9- 2 school year, and would increase taxes on a $50,000 home by about 5 cents a day, or $18.25 per year. Recent decisions both at the state and local level, have grown out of the realization that todays basics must include computer literacy. And the fact that the vast majority of jobs in the future will require the knowledge of computers. Computer literacy is now a requirements for graduation from Utahs high schools. one year behind on highway construction schedule Utah is Utahs federal aid highway program, except for the Interstate segment, is a full year behind schedule because federal highway funds have not been released for use. Programs in other states appear to be in the same status, while at the same time the federal highway trust fund has a reserve of nearly $16 billion. These facts are reported by the Utah Foundation on the basis of published US Treasury reports and data from the Utah Department of Transportation. The highway trust fund surplus was $15,978 billion at the end of fiscal 1989, while total expendi tures from the fund during the year were $14.45 billion. The situation in the airport trust fund appears to be even more startling. The surplus in the airport fund at the nd of fiscal 1989 was $12.9 billion, more than 4.5 times the amount expended from the fund during the year. Attention has been focused over the last year on the use - or the misuse - of the federal governments trust funds in order to provide an offset to the budget deficit and mae it appear smaller, the Foundation notes. Critics charge that the true purpose of the trust funds is being subverted. 1. May meeting of Society set for May 12 MS The monthly meeting of the Central Utah M.S. Sciety will take place on May 12 at 4 p.m. at the Salina Senior Citizens Center. We will be setting up our organizations for the self help group; setting topics for discussions and meeting plans. For the month of June we will be having a teleconference with Dr. Steve Hansen from Massachusetts. His topic will be the Genetic Aspects of MS. This meeting will be held on June 15 at 10 a.m. at the Zion Bank Meeting Room, Salina. We invite any MS Client in the area who is interested in attending our meeting to contact Marsha at or Linda at 529-333529-768- 9, 5. The Sevier District Board of Education has established a three-yea- r plan for introducing computer literacy into the school curriculum. The first year, equipment will eo into one Salina, Monroe and Richfield Elementary. The second year, the other Richfield elementary and Koosharcm schools will be equipped. The third year, the middle school and high school labs will be completed or enhanced. The Board notes that to hire the additional personnel to work with these programs, the planned purchase of a new school bus will be delayed. The state is requiring that the old buses be replaced, and the bus will have to be purchased in the future. Most of the discussion has been turned to the surplus in the SOcial Security trust fund, largest of the governments more than 150 trust funds. More recently, attention has shifted to the smaller highway and airport trust funds. A major facet of the situation is clearly reflected in the status of the federal aid segment of Utahshigh-wa- y program, the Foundation notes. When any years federal highway appropriation is noted by Congress allocations are made to the stales according to distribution formulas of the several federal aid programs. However none of the money so allocated can be spent until specific obligaUon authority is given. In recent years the sum of Utahs obligation authorities has fallen far short of the states allocation of highway money. At the resent time, abut $89.6 million of federal highway money allocated to Utah is unavailable for use for lack of obligation authority, putting the state a year behind in all but the Interstate portion of its federal aid highway program. State highway planners have a list of 27 unprogrammed highway projects across the state, any of which could be undertaken with initial delay if funds were available. KEEP AT IT: This youngster is getting an early start on becoming a North Sevier area athlete. He kept trying out his legs on the NSHS T rack complex and his giggles let us know that he thought the whole thing was great. Utah highway officials say that no critically dangerous situations have been allowed to develop in the state, but points out that projects delayed through the freezing of federal allocated funds could result in greatly increased renovation costs when they are finally undertaken. Engineering studies have shown tat even comparatively short delays in needed highway repair and renovation can increase the cost of these operations by four to five times. |