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Show NSHS Parent Teacher Conference UUlJUUuti IIDIilltlll North Sevier High School Parent .0B fl Teacher Conference will be held Thursday, October 22, 998 from 2 to 4 p m. at the high school. 1 Enrollment Volume 77 Number 42 declines by Mavanee Loftus less students are enrolled in Eighty-nin- e Sevier School District this year than at the same time last year. Enrollment in grades one through 12 totals 4,733. Preschool enrollment is up 60 students from the same time last year with 62 students. Only two schools have higher enrollment this year than last year. Pahvant Elementary School , is up 22 students from 309 students last year to 331 this year. Salina Elementary School's enrollment is 528 which is 30 more students; this year compared to last year. 1 District Accountant Patrick Wilson told the board of education at a meeting held Oct. 5 at Ashman Elementary School that enrollment is down and is expected to also decline next year. He anticipates enrollment will increase in two 1 years. We may need another Reduction In Force (RIF) this spring, said Superintendent Brent e Btttttmtttttttmwi-Dic.i- l Salina, Utah 84654 8P 13010HH9 HCmHIC KESTEFN 4555 COPMshCE SALT LMB CITY CP. UT JL STE 208 84107-430- 2 50 cents Wednesday. October 21. 1998 School board given money from AHEC for health education program by Mavanee Loftus Students at Richfield High School have a better idea of health care career possibilities thanks to the efforts of teacher Gloria Robertson. She was presented $3,000 from Russ Pierson, director of the Area Health Education Center, during the Sevier School District board of education meeting held Oct. 15 at Ashman Elementary School. Robertson said the funds will be used to buy models of a skeleton, brain, and eye. Funds received from Pierson last year were used for a microscope, software and several field trips. was a teachers assistant, playground superviRobertson was praised by Assistant Superintendent Duane Bresee who said she is creatsor, and secretary for five principals and a school nurse. health care careers the ing the platform for The board of education and administration forward. carried be to program I thanks to Keisel for her dedicated Sevier Sevier South and extended North encourage in and this extended best wishes for her fuinvolved become schools to service, prohigh gram that is taught at Sevier Valley Applied ture endeavors. The faculty and staff of Salina Elementary held a retirement party on Sept. 5 Technology Center, said Pierson. to honor her. She was presented with a knife Former Salina Elementary School secretary, Margaret Kiesel, was presented a school made by Lee Christensen and a pair of earbell by the board of education and administrarings. Board members Linda Ogden and Jerold tion. The bell is a token of appreciation for her 30 years of service to Sevier School District. Johnson have been recognized by the National During those years Keisel drove school bus, School Boards Association for outstanding 1 Thome. Posse drawing winners posted service and commitment to public education. The award is for making a significant contribution to the advancement of public education at and beyond the local level. Ogden currently serves as second vice president of the Utah School Boards Association and, if successful in maintaining her local school board seat in the upcoming November election, will become President of that Association in the year 2000. Ashman Elementary School Principal Will Jol ley reported 624 students are enrolled at the school with attendance. The faculty consists of 25 teachers, one Title One . teacher, one speech therapist, three resource special education teachers, 15 instructional assistants, and six kindergarten assistants. Jolley says hed like the board and administration to look into making the attendance policy stronger. He says attendance has dropped three percent in the last few years at the school. Board PresidentCarolyn Washburn said shed like to see if attendance policies could be consistent throughout the district at theelementarv. middle school, and hieh school levels. Superintendent Brent Thome said he would speak with the principals about consistency of attendance policies. President Washburn presented Principal Jolley a book to go in the school library titled, Chicken Socks, by Brod Bagert. She read a poem from the book. The Centennial Schools project at Ashman includes $1,1 20 in each classroom for reading by Annie Veater Wednesday, October 14, 1998, the North Sevier Sheriffs Posse held their annual Deer Hunters drawing. The winner of the Brown6 rifle was Gary Demarco of ing Bar California. The winner of the custoRiverside, m-made knife hunting by Lee Christensen was Cody Mickelsen of Redmond, Utah; and the winner of the cooler combo was Abby Robinson of Salina, Utah. Demarco has family in the area and has been coming here to hunt for several years. The Posse would like to thank everyone for their donations and support. 30-0- books, family resource nights, reading portfolios and Character Connection. The district provided $800 to every elementary teacher in the district for books. Jolley said goals for reading th isyear include distribution of bumper stickers, school reading library, and the PTA has a goal to place ,000 books in the school Fall Classic set for 1 Blackhawk by Annie Veater The 4th annual Fall Classic Barrel Race is set for October 23, 24, and 25, 1998 at the Blackhawk Arena in Salina. This years entries total more than 200 from several western states. For the last two years this has been Utahs largest Open 3D barrel race. The Holiday Boutique at the Blackhawk is set for October 23 and 24, 998 from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. in conjunction with the Fall Classic Barrel Race. There is a large variety of crafts, food, clothing, and other merchandise available. Its a great way to get ajump start on your Christmas shopping. 1 Ready for Halloween Halloween is second only to Christmas for decorating, and here in Salina it shows. Take time to drive around (in the daylight) to view yards that have ghosts, witches bumping into trees, scary characters and faces and cobwebs in windows. It is a colorful and fun time, even if tombstones are inviting you in. The Cprn Maze, just north of Richfield is an interesting experience, if you enjoy being lost in the dark and feeling Take time to enjoy the activities sort of stupid when you find yourself lost and being led out by some season. offered this year, and youll enjoy the three-year-ol- d. and homes. Ashman teachers Sue Douglas and Karen Chynoweth explained a classic literature program theyve started. It will enable students of the Richfield attendance area to read classic literature during elementary, middle school and h igh school so that by the time they graduate, students will have an extensive background in classic literature. Ashman teacher Roma Knight showed her Character Connection fl ipbook that shes distributed to schools. A positive character trait for the day is visible to students and staff and reminds them to work on that positive character trait for the day. (See School Board on Page 2) Service proposing Forest landmark Nite Salina was Cafe and early Day controlled burn in Fishlake by Maxine Monroe It is always nice to see a new business open up in town and we welcome them with a d dollar, and wish them picture, a I feel we should but well, pay homage to a business that was here for 57 years. The Day and Nite Cafe closed its doors December 24, 1995. The business began in 1938 as the Day and Nite Inn, opened by Ray Jensen. In 1947, Issas and Lucille Harding bought the cafe, then sold it to Joe and Elaine Deaton in 1960. The cafe seated 28 and was open 24 hours a day until the last fifteen years when the hours decreased to 6 a.m. to 0 p.m. and the last five years to 6 a.m. to 4 p.m. with Joe and Elaine as The six National Forests in Utah believe fire is needed to restore the health of forests and rangelands where it is part of the natural cycle. They have announced plans to work together on a proposal to amend the si forest plan- swhich provide goals and set standards for resource management activities on a National Forest to allow a greatly increased prescribed fire program, and theyre asking the public for their concerns about it. first-earne- 1 cook and waiter. The Deatons bought the cafe for $15,000 and had it paid off in three years with enough profit to even buy a new car. The cafe business was good to the Deatons, but they were good to their customers, too. The back door was left open on Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years for the truckers who were on the long, lonely road something to tide them over and the deer hunt with a full course turkey dinner and desserts was a nightmare. Over 200 employees worked there in the prepared and left in the oven for them. They Deatons time, employing as many as 17 at cleaned truckers after tell me the up always time. For 30 years, Grace Martin cooked one kindtook of their never and advantage eating breakfasts and lunch, and Mabel Jensen cooked ness. The cafe was a stopover for the truck drivers dinners for eleven years. Denna DeLayne was from their begintraveling US89, a place to go to eat after the a waitress with the Deatons for and remained many years. HalfWay House closed; the place to go for a ning The cafe was closed for a short time due to hamburger through those high school years and later on, where to go at 6 a.m. for the best an illness. It reopened without any advertiscoffee and breakfast any farmer could want. It ing. Theyjust turned on the lights one morning was the place for the best burger and malt, but and all the steady customers returned. The most sold menu item was a hot hamburger they never did serve french fries. Fanners with com chowder and chili close seconds. irrigating at night had a place to go to get ar s&y i Mill TheNational Forestsare proposing to amend their plans to allow the prescribed burning of up to 725,000 acres of National Forest land over the next five years. Prescribed burning involves setting fires to achieve specific resource objectives when weather and vegetative conditions are right. Lightning caused fires may also be allowed to continue burning, under management, if conditions are right. The current forest plans were produced in the early to late 1980s, when less was understood about the role of fire in maintaining the casseroles, healthy ecosystems. They dont permit the People still tell them they miss scale of prescribed burning that new scientific tacos and hamburgers. information shows is needed. They address The Deatons miss the people, but are enjoyfire on only thousands of acres, not with their the using many things family ing doing that they couldnt while owning the Day and hundreds of thousands. That may sound like a lot of acres to folks, Nite. but weve got a big problem to deal w ith, says One former employee remarked, I worked Karen school and Joe and Elaine Ogle, fire ecologist and a team leader there during high for the for. work project. Much of the National Forest were good to They became our in land Utah depends on occasional low-an- d looked times the other friends and many way fires to stay healthy. Weve while we did the teenage stuff we did and moderate-intensit- y for so many decades fires out so it. with were effectively put we getting away thought The building will remain as another new that weve created severe problems by removbusiness, but the good ol days for the Day and ing fire from the landscape. Let me give you a couple of examples. Nite are gone . . . forever. Weve learned that aspen forests are regenerated by fire. It stimulates aspen clones (networks of roots) to sprout new growth. Many of Utahs aspen forests have grown old and decadent in the absence of fire. They arent producing new sprouts, and conifer trees are invading. Eventually conifers could replace aspen altogether in these forests. Another example, Ogle says, is sagebrush-grassland- s. They need to bum occasionally to keep pinyon and juniper trees from invading. Early settlers describe the wide grasslands they encountered. Without fire, many have woodland. been lost to pinyon-junipThe proposed goals of the prescribed fire program also include reducing risks to human life and property ,Ogle says. Fuels have built up in the absence of fire. Weve got dense forests, lots of dead trees on the ground. If a wildfire starts these days, it can become an inferno that threatens people as well as resources. Weve got to reduce fuels to reduce er risk. She acknowledges that smoke is a concern for many people. Maintaining desired air quality conditions is another goal we intend to incorporate in the forest plans. Conducting burning under appropriate conditions will help us limit smoke. If we dont bum, Mother Nature will eventually do it for us, and well get a lot more smoke. The Forest Service is beginningthescoping in which they ask the public to process, provide their concerns about the proposal. Ogle says people can leam more about the proposal by requesting a copy of the scoping (See Burn on Page 2) |