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Show Remember, school starts this week! Be aware of school cross- ing zones, and children running to and from school and home! i I 4 ! I Teachers to meet today at institute Salina, Utah 84654 Volume 78 Number 33 50 cents Wednesday, August 25, 1999 Annexation, construction fills Council session by Emily Harwood Editorial Staff added, they should have requested the change Reed Shaw for the ATV Jamboree. Warren w as orderearlier. asking for acontribution to the "Newspapers in Rick Roberts from Kimball and Roberts Education program which donates papers to CPAs, presented the council with their yearly local schools. Sixteen of 43 teachers at Salina ments about the proposed annexation, the coun- auditing report. Roberts perused the report Elementary use the program. by Mavanee Loftus cil decided to make property owned by Pat M. with the council, briefly explaining the details According to Shaw, the jamboree attracts Sevier School District and Teresa Robins, as well as the Herberts, part and giving some small recommendations. He riders from across the country and parts of Sevier teachers earning a masters degree of the town. This property is located to the expressed confidence that the citys financial Canada. Last year, he added. Salina brought in during the past year will be honored in front of statements are stable, and requested a one-honorthwest of prior city boundaries. $40,000 from the event. Shaw said the event is some 240 of their peers today, August 25, work session with the council next year. in need of volunteers. In other business from the August 7 meetduring the annual opening institute at Richfield At Members of the Sevier County The council voted 1 (Council Member ing, John Chartier of Sunrise Engineering preHigh School. sented the council with a change order from Your Service group presented the city with Newell Hales was excused) to support both The following wi be honored: Janet Curtis, Johansen Construction. This order, said $1,228.36 to go toward the purchase of the organizations. Council Member Rex Gridley Salina Preschool; Kerry Burr, North Sevier told Warren he would gladly give a personal Chartier, would extend the completion date of Presbyterian church. Middle School; Carolyn Washburn, president "I think this is gioi ious. just glorious," said contribution, but did not feel good ab .it do the water project to SepU mlcr 30. of the Sevier Board of Lduculion, and Rod wviiniv iho mo'- -Mjivor Fvolvn NIun Seeing that many mv wu-- t Hinck, Speech Specialist for the District the Pent efforts. the Zane of Sunrise of to were attached additions lions and other group's Engineering w ,e very proud Sevier superintendent of schools Dr. Brent I (X) were solicited both Main the of $ Street ro id n. Donations discuss the to are contractors Chartier said, justiby present M. Thorne along with hoard president Carolyn project, and 'vYant.ii the On tro ' Biuv. lion i he Kiumcid Rcdei for the Slate extension. in Street fied However, provement project. asking Washburn will address educators. Following a public hearing, the Salina City Council voted to annex property into the city. Seeing that there were no negative com- ur 1 4-- 3-- 11 - A break will be held, then elementary teachers will reconvene at Pahvant Elementary School, middle school teachers will gather at Red Hills Middle School and high school teachers will remain at Richfield High School. Varied relevant educational topics will be presented and discussed at the elementary, middle school, and secondary levels. School begins for students of Sevier School District on Thursday, August 26. Fall Arts Festival near The Sevier County Fall Arts and Heritage Festival welcomes Fiddlesticks, a family musical group that performs folk songs and traditional tunes from Great Britain and America. Fiddlesticks will be featured Friday, September 10, from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Festival to be held at fidcompositions by the groups dler, Kathryn. The show includes story songs, as well as Mormon pioneer music, and the lively Klezmer tunes from Jewish culture. Fiddlesticks includes Elizabeth, a seventh grader, who plays cello, and Rebecca, a sophomore at BYU, who plays flute, whistles and recorders. Theirdad, Mark Davis, who runs an international trade firm and teaches part time at BYU, plays the guitar and bodhran Celtic drum in the group. Local talent, including a salute to Broadway, is also the order of the day at the festival. The musical Bye Bye Birdie will begin at 7 p.m. Admission to the Fiddlesticks concert is $5 ($3 for children and seniors), which buys a wrist-ban- d to atthat allows the concert-goe- r tend all the entertainment that day. Friday is Senior Citizen day at the festival. Ethnic food, craft booths, a quilt show, and an art walk will be part of the festival, which concludes on Saturday. Entertainment for that day will be the Utah Scots Pipe B..nd, a folk group called Fire on the Mountain, another performance of Bye Bye Birdie, and Polynesian Fire Dancers. Drug bust in Salina On August 7, 999, a search warrant was executed in Salina on a 1986 Cadillac, by the Central Utah Narcotics Task Force and the SevierCounty Sheriff s Office. The vehicle was owned by James A. Flinn; passenger in the vehicle was William V. Willis. Found in the vehicle was approximately 1, 000 hits of LSD. Suspect James A. Flinn, age 40, from Aberdeen, SD, was arrested for Possession of a Controlled Substance with Intent to Distribute LSD. Suspect William V. Willis, age 24, from Montero, CA, was arrested for Possession of a Controlled Substance with Intent to Distribute LSD. Both suspects have lergthy criminal records. DEA was contacted in regards to suspects transporting large quantities of LSD across the United Slates. The suspects will be prosecuted in Federal Court. copy ot walks. The con tractors will have to maintain temporary construction easements from each of the property ow ners along Main Street. Pent said, and added that that four feet of property must be acquired along 100 South to Main Street on the west side. This property is needed for road expansion. Dave Willden. who attended the public hearing in May, wondered if the concerns of the ihe contractors lie piiMn moan! nnvthin- said this plan puts traffic about seven feet closer to people backing out on the road. Pentz said they did listen o ihe concerns of the citizens and allowed for parking space along the road. Danny Washburn of UDOT mentioned that he gave some faulty information at the hearing. Prior to the public meeting, Washburn was told that the turning lane was not a necessity. Two days later, however, he found out that representatives from the state were looking at a different part of the road. Lateron, twosources highly recommended the turning lane. The council opted to patch Sunnybrook and Meadow brook roads. At the last council meeting, it was proposed that the roads be entirely rebuilt. Chartier presented an estimate of $ 50.1XX) to the council, w hich is more than one years worth of B&C road funds. That would take every thing for more than a year, and nobody else would get anything, Nielsen said. Chartier discussed the sidewalks on Sunnybrook and Meadow brook, and gave the counci a price of $3 .(XX) for sidewalk construc-tioHe will look into other bids and get a unit price per square foot. When bids have been received, the council w ill look at the costs and decide how to proceed, starting w ith the worst areas. They also discussed vacation pay for Ray Anderson-a- n issue discussed at the previous I the Richfield City Park. The group, comprised of a father and three teenage daughters who play at least seven instruments, got started in the Washington, D.C. area in 99 , and ha ve performed for Western audiences since moving to Utah in 1996. Their music is a mix of traditional Celtic and English dance music, as well as some original South to I (X) North, there will be a turning lane and two lanes of traffic on both sides. From 00 North to 500 North, the project allowsTer a turning lane and one lane of faffic each way, sideplus nine feet of parking and four-fo- North Sevier Middle School has gone through a major transition since last spring. Not only is the old building torn down, cleaned up and hauled away, but some beautiful landscaping has transormed the campus into a bright spot in town. One might find it hard to believe in looking at the beautiful, lush lawn that only a month ago there was merely dirt as the workers were finishing up the sprinkling system. The campus was hydroseeded and lawn was sprouting in less than a week. NSMS receives 20 computers from Gunnison UCI inmates well-equipp- meeting. Pol ice Chic f B i Pierce stated that the department has gone through the official records, and upon comparing them with the records kept by Anderson, all but 76 hours have been reconciled. Pierce recommended that the city go ahead and pay Anderson for all vacation time, including the $ .026 for these 76 hours. Council Member Kim Robinson presented the board w ith a paper prepared in 986, w hich a former city recorder had in her personnel records. The paper gave some guidelines on vacation and sick pay and stuff, but the city is if those policies were adopted. The council tabled the issue once again and will continue to research the situation. The council amended a proposed resolution which called for a $15 charge for returned checks. They approved the resolution but increased the service charge to $20. 1 e byJoLynCamp Staff Writer North Sevier Middle School is the bene factor of a pi ugiuu. which Utah State inmates build computers in the Computers for Schools program. Through the program, NSMS was able to purchase 20pcntium computers equipped with Windows 95, a laser jet printer, and a bubble jet printer for the nominal price of $2,200. Dave Puett of the Utah State Correctional Facility in Gunnison has overseen the project for the prison. He is the Captain of Utah Corrections Industries (UCI) and production manager. His role is to oversee tin: whole program from receivingdonations, building the computers, and getting them to the schools. Puett also shops around the computer industry for the components to build the computers--everythin- g from memory to CD ROMS-th- en the savings onto the schools.We passing want to be the store for the schools," says Puett, we can save them three times what the schools pay for computers through the state computer vendors. The inmates get older computers donated to the program from individuals, businesses, etc. From there they put in components and programs to upgrade and make those computers usable in the schools. There is a flat charge of $ 100 which includes and delivery of the computers and pick-u- p UCIs overhead inmates are paid 80 cents per hour. If the schools need other components in the computer, they currently only pay half of the cost due to subsidy from legislative funding which was discontinued in 1999. The computers the middle school got were Puett comments. They a really good deal, were pentium computers donated by Zions Bank. Ordinarily, Sevier School District only has MACINTOSH computers w here these are IBM ompatible, but the middle school paid for the computers out of their own funds to make la that they otherwise would a n. (See Council on Page 2) Redmond candidates to face off Dave Puett presents computers to the North Sevier Middle School. Volunteerserv ice in networking the computers to the printers is being given by Robert Daughtie of Salma. Puett w ill also be assisting in the networkingand hassupplicsavailable for the school. According to Puett, These inmates who build the computers will get out of prison w ith a viable skill will allow them to stay out of prison." He added that taxpayers knew how teaching the inmates these vocational skills enabled them to make it in the world once they are out of prison, they would demand that every inmate had ajob. The odds of going back Payne. The students will learn Computer-Aide- d Drafting (CAD), virtual exposure to to prison after gaining a skill are 20 perscent bridgebuilding and construction, and some versus 70 or 80 percent w ithoul a skill. The program is a winw in situation all the desktop publishing, says Payne. Before the purchase, the TLC lab only had way around," says Puett, the inmates get a eight computers. They now have 28 which will skill, the schools get computers at a great be enough for one to each student most years. savings." have to had waited for two or three years to get. Jim Torgerson, NSMS resident computer guru, has been getting the computers programmed with Claris Works and other programs the school uses. Before the school bought the PCS, Torgerson took a sample home to make sure it would run the necessary programs. After working with one, Torgerson was pleased with it and recommended that the school go ahead with the purchase. The computers will be used in the taught by Tom Redmond has three candidates registered for the city counci I elect ions this fall. Lori Dumas, Pry ce Hales and Marie Haw kins have filed for the two open positions. Each council scat is a four-yea- r term. Salina council candidates set Six Salina residents w ill be on this falls city council ballot. Deborah Poulson. Derek Andreason, Mark Larsen, Rex Gridley, Marilyn Anderson and Dav id Willden have filed for candidacy Three ol theseciticns will fill the council scats available this fall. Salma citizens can cast their votes on November 2. . |
