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Show DAVIS RbhLbX-JUonmM- wvtMDcM id, lyoo L, BRYANS PEOPLE An up close Layton sets peace lights - LAYTON The Layton City Council has joined other cities across the country in proclaiming Nov, 0 as Lights for Peace days. and personal look at interesting 19-2- in Davis County. people INITIATED by an Oregon senator, residents are asked to leave their front porch light or a candle burning from dusk to dawn both evenings as a symbol of Americas desire for world peace. The gesture coincides with the Purdys low key, friendly guy KAYSVILLE - As a second-termayor, Jerry Purdy reflects the mood of his city: Conservative -- and low-ke- m y. I DONT purposefully try to make waves and create controversy, says the mayor. I like concensus. Instead of blaring out differences to the news media, the City Council and I hammer out our differences between us, then move on to get the work done. Its a quiet way-b- ut its effective. soft-spok- ITS SO effective, HE DID in 1976-a- nd one year a veteran Kaysville City Council member, he ran for mayor. He lost.' He recalls, I didnt put a lot of effort into that race and 1 didnt later, as realize that politicking had changed. In the past a candidate could attend a few parties, pass out a few hundred flyers and still expect to win. But thats changed. In 1977 my opponent (Gar Elison) canvassed the area with pamphlets and campaigning. He door-to-do- simply outhustled served to win. me-a- he nd de- The Federal Women's Club ways and means luncheon will be held at the Little America Motor Lodge located between 5th and 6th South, Salt Lake City Saturday at 12:30 p.m. hosted by the board members. TALK OF the future brings up rumors that Jerry will soon retire as the vice principal at Davis. But Jerry says the stories are false. I PLEASE give your donated items of food, candy, white elephants and treasure chest items to any board member. 9 or Lula Jean For reservations call Dorothy Parks, Secrist for Salt Lake Area or Louise Taylor, 9 or Ruth Carper, for Ogden area. 355-581- 295-144- FOUR YEARS later Jerry out- - enjoy work The Layton Senior Citizens will hold a dance Saturday at the Layton Senior Citizen's Center, 4 0 Wasatch Drive, Layton. 1 challenger, but this opponent attended a City Council meeting and later announced he was satisfied with my performance and dropped out of the race. MUSIC WILL be by the Washington Terrace Senior Band from p.m. All persons 40 years and older are welcome. A donation of $2 is requested. There are Porcelain classes held Friday at 10 a.m., pinochle at 12:30 p.m. and ceramics class at p.m. SATISFACTION 1 spread to other Kaysville races, too. Incumbent Carol Page and , newcomer Reed Adams both ran unopposed in the City Council election. Im aware that every resident of Kaysville is not totally satisfied with the city or its officials, says Purdy. But 1 think the residents know that we work hard and study the perimeters of the issues before we take any action. In a community like this we listen to the people. I see the people at the grocery stores and the football games--an- d they tell me what they think. It would be foolish to disregard their opinions. EVEN THOUGH he ran e, coach, Purdy hated to lose--an- d he seldom did. JerAs head coach from 1959-6rys Dart teams had winning records nine of 10 years played in three State Championship games (beating Orem in 1965; losing to Highland and Skyline in 1963 and 1967) and, at one point, chalked up AS A 9, consecutive victories. THOSE YEARS as head coach were the best days of my life, he I graduated . from Davis muses. High and felt fortunate that I could return and coach at my own high school. He left coaching when his sons didnt entered the high school want to be in a position where I was coaching my own boys.) and Jerry accepted the position as vice (I principal at Clearfield High School. But the Dart winning tradioffense tion (and the double-win- g Purdy had reinstituted at the school) continued, along with Jerrys desire to return to Davis. t GERALD PURDY hustled Elison. And despite his filing, Purdy earned a solid victory. But with the position came a distinct challenge. Kaysville is no longer a sleepy little village, he says, and were unique in that we provide our own utilities and library service. Combined with these services is our rapid growth. The chief goal of our city administration is how to exlast-minu- te pand and grow without relin- quishing the unique character of our city and its people. Were not a city of just a city of people-we- re neighbors. AND THE last four years have, . in his view, been productive. The city will soon see the development of its sixth park (up from two parks 20 years ago), the construction of the new Main Street city office complex and nearby police station and the expansion of the city library. With the help of donations and volunteer help (two families contributed $150,000 to the library project), the new construction of city buildings will cost under $1 sum that million, a still staggers the mayor. cost-effecti- EARLIER the Commissioners had issued guidelines that would hold the increase in the county budget to within the 4.5 percent inflation factor. After studying the anticipated expenditures filed by the department heads, the auditor made four suggestions to help hold the No upgrades for any employees; 2. No new hires; 3. Reduction of operating expenses; 4. tion growth and legal actions. no-wi- n situation. The public will not be entirely happy, the departments will not be entirely happy and the employees will not be entirely happy. THE FINAL budget for 1986 must be adopted by Dec. 15. A ten- tative budget will be adopted on Nov. 27 and a public hearing will be COM. SAUNDERS said, At our request, the auditor has asked the held Monday, Dec. 9 at 3 p.m. At the same meeting, Ann Keller, president and Dee Burning-ham- , a director of the Davis Education Association presented a proclamation to the board asking them to make the week of Nov. 3 American Education Week in amounts from the budget. could be the toughest budget to balance in the past five years. The county auditor has slashed 1.5 mil Association also plans displays in the malls to make the public aware and appreciative of what education has done. budget: 1 . Reduction of equipment ases. purch- departments to cut various This e ber clinics, according to Franklin K. Brough, executive director. habit-chang- cessation and weight control are conducted three times each year by the Christmas Seal People. Reservations are now being accepted for the Salt Lake clinics Thursday, Nov. 21, in the Hilton Hotel. THE SMOKING cessation clinics will be held at 6:30 p.m. and weight control at 8:30 p.m. To register for the clinics, and for guaranteed seating, participants should send the $35 registration fee by check made payable to the American Lung Association of Utah, 1930 S. 1100 E., Salt Lake City, Utah 84016, says Brough. Participants may also register at the door if seating is available. WE HAVE had many requests to conduct these popular clinics for those who want to make lifestyle changes before the Christmas Holidays, Brough says. The singlesession, group hypnosis clinics are designed to help people change their unwanted habits through relaxation and hypnosis. John Greer, nationally known expert and hypnotherapist from Michigan will conduct the classes. work. IF HES pragmatic about his job, he was also pragmatic about his Heritage Center calendar The Heritage Center would like to thank Utah Power and Light and Lana Argyle for the Christmas demonstration. shaved that off after a few he smiles. One summer I had my grandchildren at my house and we went for ice cream. I learned a valuable lesson ice ram and beards dont mix! SPECIAL activities at the Heritage Center include: Nov. 14, special monthly luncheon. Guest speaker will be Mrs. Donna Gordon. She will discuss the upcoming charges in long distance calling and other issues concerning your telephone service. Lunch is served at 1:30 a.m. with the program to follow at 12:15 p.m. Call the center for lunch reservations, Nov. 19, we still have room on the Ramses II tour. This should be a fun day. The cost of the tour includes transportation, admission and lunch. Call the center for reservations or more information. NOV. 22, annual Christmas Bazaar. Come join us for the fun and a bit of shopping. V egas Holiday There is still room on the Mexican Cruise-La- s but the deadline is approaching. If you are interested or would like more information, please call the center REGULAR activities at the Heritage Center include classes in sewing, knitting, crocheting, handiwork,: ceramics, lapidary, china painting, oil painting, and bead work.' Lunch is served daily at 1:30 a.m. If you would like to come in but dont have transportation, our van will pick you up. Please call the day before for reservations. The Heritage Center is located at 562 S. 1000 E., Clearfield. The telephone number is years, BUT JERRY and Kaysville do. Kaysville is a traditional city interwoven with the tradition of Davis High. (The Bountiful-Davi- s game this fall drew more than 5,000 fans, probably the largest crowd of any high school game in Utah.) And Jerry is part of the Davis High tradition. Like Davis, hes rather conservative and low-ke..and, like Davis, hes also a winner. y. habit change. Brough says the clinics have a money back offer. The Lung Association will return the registration fee to those participants who after the first hypnosis feel that hypnosis will not help them and who return their tape and other materials. FOR FURTHER information about the Salt Lake clinics call 484-445- 6. TARA ALLSSANDRI has been selected as one of the outstanding high school science students by the Brigham Young Science Day Committee, dmg beard. I DURING EACH clinic, partici- pants will learn how to achieve deep relaxation by going through hypnosis three times with instruction periods in between. A cassette tape and literature will be provided for home use to reinforce the subconscious suggestions given for 1 773-706- 5. 773-706- 1 5. 5. Student named LAYTON -- Maij Vujcevic, son - of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Vujcevic, was named Student of the Month at North Layton Junior High School for October. MARK, A 9th grader, is a member of the Honor Society. He received an honorable mention last year in the Science Fair. He is a second year Spanish student and a student in the school journalism class. He enjoys all sports, dmg Honored given LAYTON - North Layton Junior Highs students of the -- month for October was Monica Evans, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William C. Evans. MONICA is a 9th grade student at North Layton. She is a member of the French Club and a student in the humanities program. She is on the school honor roll. Monica enjoys camping, hiking, hunting and many sports including softball and football, dmg at Hill AFB lion from the budget requests. We will be meeting with most department heads in budget meetings over the next week and a half. He added, This process is no fun. We are trying to stay abreast of the increased load from populaBasically it is a my retirement as a football coach--I- ll leave when I decide its time, when I can no longer contribute and find satisfaction in the job. At this point I still enjoy coming to New commander at proposed budget the Davis County Commissioners. 3. LAYTON Several Layton High School students have been recognized in recent weeks for outstanding achievement in many areas. ROBERT W. Lochner, Lance L. Logan, Dawn M. Hol-ze- n and Judy A. Van Orden have been designated Commended Students in the 1986 Merit Program. Lance Logan, a senior, was selected as the delegate for the Senate Youth Conference. He was chosen on the basis of a special Senate Youth Conference Test score. He participated in the State Conference held Oct. 24. DAWN MOLZEN and Robert Lochner received to attend BYU for a two week course on pascaf computer language. The course was funded by the advanced High School Students Program and sponsored by Layton High School teacher Michael Harris. Pascal computer language is used in the business world. Dawn and Robert were the only two students in Davis County selected to attend this course. 773-706- Davis commission takes long look Calling it a tentative, tentative budget, the Davis County Auditor Ludean Gibbons presented the first version of the 1986 budget to 546-985- scho-larshi- ps Public hearing Dec. 9 By CHERIE HUBER FORMORE information call Shirley Lynch at LHS students awarded un- head football coach. Any coach who sees his team lead throughout the game and then lose to a field goal in the final seconds knows the danger of he chuckles. tion is now open for their Novem- self-hel- p opposed this election, Jerry still, distributed flyers and erected signs. This refusal to become overconfident stems, he says, from his 10 years as Davis Highs 18 ; Senior square dance booked (Richard Stevenson) and a great group of students. Its much like As he tells it, he did have an early THIS 731-14- 6, 773-026- with an excellent principal in fact, that Jerry ran unopposed last week, coasting to a quiet but sure victory. Womens luncheon Sat. future. 1 summit. n The American Lung Association of Utah announced that registra- HYPNOSIS clinics for smoking Im just an old country boy, he laughs. Its hard to fathom a million dollars. But these projects were needed badly and if we had put them off wed end up spending even more money for them in the Why should I retire? those job immensely and Soviet-America- Smoking, fat clinics open 17-2- Davis County. The Education HILL AFB -- - Members of the 6545th Test Group here recently welcomed a new commander and said goodbye to their retiring com- mander and their deputy commander. COL. GLENN E. M esserli assumed command of the group from Col. John W. Hesterman, Jr., who retired from active Air Force duty. Deputy Commander, Col. Herbert Klein, left the group for an assignment at Brooks AFB, Tex., where he will be the base commander. As the new commander, Messer-l- i comes to the group from Arnold AFS, Tenn., where he was commander of the 4960th Air Base Squadron. A NATIVE of Alhambra, III., he graduated from Highland High School, Highland, III., in 1960. He earned a bachelor of arts degree in psychology and business from University, Decatur, III., and went on to earn a master of science degree in systems management from the University of Southern Mil-liki- n California. In November 1967, the squadron was sent to Thailand where he logged 1,065 hours of combat flying and earned 10 awards and medals, including the 13th Air Force Well Done Award for saving his crew and aircraft after a severe emergency. ELECTION NIGHT vey results of voting during elections last week. Sill, who has served as city mayor twice, was defeated by Richard McKenzie, 2959 to 1593, for the office. Two other incumbants also lost, as Sam Trujillo finished last in the race for two four-yecouncilman posts. Jerry Stevenson won one of those slots, garnering 2848 votes. He was followed by Gerald Nebeker with 2690 votes, and Ted Day with 1900 votes. Trujillo received 1245 votes. And in the race for a two-yecouncil seat, incumbant Don Crockett was bested by Dale Goede, who received 2351 votes to Crocketts 2158. ar BLUES ar |