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Show I -- ! PAGE 2 i i - 1 , ! . : tho, rlnrina Timca nr 325-58- Issued each Thursday at 91 24 2 700 S., Magna, 84044. Second Class postage paid at Magna, Ut - UL , out-of-sta- J. HOWARD STAHLE Publisher M. GLEN ADAMS Assistant Publisher J. Howard Stahle Afton B. Cameron Editor Janice Holmes Hubbard Correspondent by Jim Russell This is one of those mornings that my creative talents have gone either into limbo or gone to sleep. I can't seem to come up with anything to expound upon as a lead-i- n paragraph, so Ill drop back on the old Pot Pourri format and just let my pen do its things. That little taste of spring we had a couple of days last week didnt do a thing toward preparing me for the cold this morning. I. ran over to Dyches Drug a few minutes ago without my overcoat, and thats just what I mean. I ran, and almost Reflections by Afton Cameron Granite School Board last week, in a reopening of minutes to rectify a violation of Roberts Rules of Order once again voted 2 not to renew the lease to Magna of its community 3-- center. Votes against the motion, this time made by Grant Linford, were cast by Miriam Farnsworth and Richard Andrus. Votes supporting the motion were made by Dawn Curtis and board president Larry Bradshaw. The decision by the Granite School Board not to renew the lease of the Magna Community Center is not a matter of room, a high Granite District official told representative Leon Reese Tuesday. Granite District has plenty of room, the official said! It is a matter of personal philosophies, he told Mr. Reese! Representative Reese repeated these statements to the group gathered for a public meeting Tuesday night at Brockbank auditorium. We call this outrageous! The fact that three elected officials can, because of personal philosophies wrench from a community a building renovated throujgh thousands of tax dollars and used by so many public groups providing so many public services is, we feel, a gross miscarriage of public trust. We strenuously object to thousands more of our tax dollars being spent for remodeling to provide room already available elsewhere in the District for the few students for which these Board members claim they want the building. We feel that personal philosophies have no place in carrying out the public business. We also feel that some Granite School Board member should make a concerted effort to become more sensitive to the needs of the communities which they serve. Free Blood Pressure Tests Given Free blood pressure tests will be available for the general public at Fashion Place Mall Friday evening April 13 and all day Saturday, April 14. Theyll also be offered Saturday, April 28 at Trolley ; i : , f Square and Valley Fair Mall. The tests will be provided as a public service of St. Marks Hospital College of Nursing at Westminster College. 1 I ( froze to will repair all small engines;! lawn mowers, snow. mobiles, tillers, and any other smhll engine you may have. The building is being remodeled now, but opening date has i, l not yet been set' We should know the first part of May, what is going to happen at Great Salt Lake. Terracor will finish its study and make a report on the now has ConTused about I Millet is now stationed in Magna and will be in- meeting. Craig Wirth and his featured on Channel 2 zeroed in on our own in spinnakers Washington D.C. the other night. They are there for the Cherry Blossom festival, and looked as if they were having a ball. If nothing else does, Shannon Coon and the Spinnakers keep Magna on the map. This weeks comment: The only people making house calls nowadays are plumbers and burglars. Have a good week. Found out I wasnt much of a guesser where a pile, of money is concerned. I was only over about a thousand dollars in my guess on the amount of money under the glass dome over at the First Security Bank. I went in Monday morning and helped count the money. There were 34 winners. There must have anyhow. Ive had my fill of winter this year already. Im not even going to complain about the heat this summer, if summer ever gets here. We have another new business opening soon in the Magna Hardware building Mr. Cecil Sellers will be opening his Four Season Engine Repair shop. He II troduced to the Magna Chamber members and guests at this weeks of feasibility varies projects in the area including the big project of bringing back a Saltair type theme park in the area. death a Sargent stationed , been several thousand guesses made, so mine wasnt the only wrong guess. The Sherriffs Department I lo home as of Magna and her son Sean prepare to take their toaster the prize for their lucky guess at the First Security Bank grand opening. ALICE MARQUISS request of the Magna Council, I put together a presentation that was read by Nick Sefakis, council president, to the Granite District Board. It Community To our understand feelings about keeping the old Magna Library as a community center, you first need to know a little about . the background of the structure and the impact it has had on improving the lifestyle of the whole community of Magna. It came into being as a library for the town of Garfield where it was utilized to the fullest extent. For a time it was the focal point of the area, but when KCC went out of the real estate business in the late 1950s the houses were tom down, some hauled away and the people began migrating to Magna. Because it was a relatively new building the library was one of the few buildings left standing. So since it was a library without furnace resulted in demnation that in provided building.. .not only for children but for adults as well., and we are extremely con- of the building and prompted the Magna Community Council to get site. Until Jan. 7, 1974, the red brick structure was again the focal point for children of three schools and adults within the community. And it was also the center of a bitter controversy, with scars that are yet unhealed, when Salt Lake County elected to move the library to Arbor Park Shopping Center. For a time the building stood empty. Hie lawn grew long and full of weeds, trees and shrubs died, rubbish collected in its corners. Although the building was locked, the unsavory appearance attracted equally read: definite need for the services began operating successful programs. However a faulty a town, and Magna was a town without a library, the building followed the people and was set up on its present Dear Editor, On March 20th, at the desirous of being allowed to involved. In Sept. 1976, the council moved their headquarters from a smaller less adequate building in the downtown area to this more centrally located area, and the center rapidly became the hub of the community that it had been before. The nursing division of the Salt Lake Health Department has four programs. We are all well aware that Granite District owns the building... but in essense are Granite District. We are not throwing down the gauntlet. We are not delivering any ultimatums. Instead we are simply saying that we believe we have a valid claim to remain in the building... since we say a dying structure and breathed new life into it at a we very effective programs operating which includes having the public health nurse in the office for counseling from 9 to 5 on Monday. In addition she drops in and out of the facility every day of the week to meet with families unsavory people to ti. Transients hung about in the shadows, young people ..stuffing school chose this as with health problems.' The WIC Program, a ,the site to smoke cigarettes ' and pot, and obscenities supplemental food program for low income families is were scribbled on the walls. It was at this point that featured every Wednesday the Granite Mentid Health from 9 to 5, with 600 people a and the Immunization Clinic month being processed from moved into the premises and this program alone. According to board of health figures the immunization clinic on Thursday from 12 noon to 3 ,j , a month. And the blood pressure clinic from 3 to 5 each Thursday offers ser- vices to between 80 to 100 people a month. Granite Mental Health gives therapy and counseling every Tuesday from 9 to 5 p.m. and processes at least 60 people a week through their program. In addition, the State Health Department ? cancer screening the Magna Community Councils activities are centered in the building during the same hours. The building is never idle. There is something going on there almost every night of the week. From a neighborhood eyesore it has evolved into a busy, ; productive, useful facility where a branch of Alcoholics Anonymous meets during the evening hours, as does a crime prevention group, the Oquirrh Community Fund, and the Pleasant Green Historical Society. The center also acts as an information center for the Magna Chamber of Commerce, not to mention the Your deposit of $10,000 in this short term, 26 week certificate receives the highest interest rate paid by any financial institution insured by an agency of the U.S. Government. Each depositors account is insured to $40,000. information dispensed to countless walk in and telephone clients each month who seek information and .referral to other social service agencies. It has been stated that Magna is no longer isolated because of the construction that has gone on between it and Salt Lake Gty. But geographically Magna has not changed. It is still located on the extreme western perimeter of Salt Lake County in an area that many people view as the end .) Federal regulations do not permit the compounding of interest on these certificates, and require a substantial interest penalty for early withdrawal. our with continue City-Coun- ty intsrast rates? fcxauDCz ' time when others would have torn the building down. We have no money to relocate elsewhere and have no other alternatives. The board of education does. We have more than one thousand people who derive benefit from our programs, " which are already operating, as compared to the possible 13 children who would be taken care of in the proposed But most program. im- portantly we do not want to lose the services we have fought so hard to obtain for the people of Magna. Essentially we are in the You are same business. dedicated to improving the minds of children and adults 10UIS VOSNOS won a $5 gift certificate for his guess of $1,900 under the dome at First Security's grand opening recently at Arbor Park. through your educational programs. We strive to improve their health, their lifestyle, and give them peace of mind. Both are important. Sponsors Open House that the think We BLM question here is a matter of principle and values... rather than just one of dollars and cents. We are not asking for a handout, we are simply appealing to your sense of fair play and The IrOffOG Resources over 3.2 All Utah b!ion dollars. banks members of KMC. First Security State Bank of Ogden First Security State Bank of Kaysville First Security Bank of Murray, First Security Bank of Logan, N A N A First Security Bank of Rock Springs, First Security Stale Bank of Helper Wyo. of the world. We believe that there is a Lake of Wilderness Program will also be available at the' open District, Land Management, will sponsor three open house sessions during a 90-da- y public review and comment period on BLMs findings during the initial wilderness inventory. The sessions are scheduled for April 17, in Tooele, at the Tooele County Court House from 1 1 a.m. to 9 p.m.;' April 18 in Brigham City, at generosity. So we are asking you to render a decision on the problem not because it is politically expedient, not because it is profitable, but because it is right. And hopefully both of us can continue to work for the benefit of the community as a whole. At the close of the session the board voted three to two in favor of taking the building away. Without a backward glance they closed out 1,300 people in favor of a small handful of youngsters that they could easily assimilate into the new school that they recently the Brigham City Com- munity Center from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. and April 19, in Salt Lake City, at the Salt Lake District, BLM Office from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. The public is encouraged to attend and review the initial inventory findings for the Salt Lake District, and comment on the proposed recommendations for areas that may undergo a more in- bought ground for. Apparently Sat Bureau they have tensive wilderness General ventory. formation about the short memories, or they operate on the theory what have you done for me because they inin-- , BLM b" houses. According to Frank Snell, Salt Lake District Manager, this is an important time for public involvement during the Wilderness 90-da- analyze the public comments and make a final decision as to which areas in the state will go on, tor intensive inventory study. Those areas that do. not; will return to multiplevpse management under, the administration of BLM;.?,: j . ; : overlooked the fret that we gave them a swimming pool and a skating rink that we raised the funds to build. Now when it is our turn to ask a favor they adopt the of attitude Ebenezer Scrooge, Simon Legree and Atilla the Hun by forcing us to vacate the building and losing all our health services as a result. LaReeH. Peterson completely iit. ' ' , - O j )ii. uri ni ..U Classified Make i - Cents... process. The public needs to review our initial findings and provide information or data that might supplement or verify those. They also have the opportunity at this time.o comment on the proposals being made for. areas that may go on for more intensive study, said Snell,- - T After the y comment period, which begins April 4, 1979, the State Director will lately, ' Ask for the current rate at your nearby Bank Salt Lake City. of Orem. N A f 'U-- Letter To The Editor clinics about every three .months where patients are scheduled every 10 minutes amounting to approximately 32 women a day receiving free pap smears and other information concerning the dread disease. Also operating in the building is the Community Action Program which is open daily from 8 to 5 p.m. to assist citizens with a variety of problems ranging from employment to housing, and First Security State First Security Bank v until permanent quarters can be readied for a substation here. Then we will have 24 hour coverage with the substation to be manned at all times. Sargent Bruce holds First Security Bank of Utah. N A First Security Bank of Idaho. N A '" in Magna from noon until 8 p.m. at the old substation, p.m. handles 250 people ? 74 ij. ' ; r'.'Mit f : I city-count- y nn THURSDAY. APRIL 12 Main Street Msnidenngs Mail subscription Payable in advance in $4 per year Utah - $5 All advertising must be in our office by noon Monday for Thursday publication, and preferably by 5 p.m. Friday. Area businesses wishing information about our rates may contact our office at 250-565- Managing Editor J 111 'V, 0) W. -- . t i, .$ I'J-- (USPS .,n THE MAGNA TIMES no . ''f i.. 250-565-6 3 The Magna Water Company, an 'Improvement Distric offers the following escribed property forsale. Hie proper; is located at 9150 West 3100 South, Magna; Salt Lake County , Utah, and more particularly described as frH0Ws: ' !i Commencing at a point 40.3 feet East; ef the dented of Section 30, Township 1 South, Range 2 West, Salt L&ke Base and Meridian (being the Southwest cotiferbf the intersection of First West and Fourth South Streefr'WighhtJtttM and thdhce running thence South 175 feet, thenb West 50 North 175 feet, thence East 50 feet to place 'if Bids will be received by the District at thdSft Magna Water company, an Improvement District', &940 2700 South, Magan, Utah, until 5:00 p.m. Maji,f,""1979l'Ji The District reserves the right to reject any and allbids. The purchase price must be paid by cash, certified dhdek or cashier check within five days after notice of acceptiftce J .. Ji.e. lira of bid. April 9, 1979. MAGNA WATER COMPANY, AN IMPROVEMENT - - i; L ilii'j COMPANY' by Brent Hernst Manager |