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Show APRIL 2, 1986 Page Kryans PEOPLE Shades Of An interesting look nt people in Davis County Kelley Greene New Year celebrated in March Issues NORTH SALT LAKE - The Casa Melinda Restaurant was closed two Sundays ago for the DR. JEAN WHITE cameras and the traditional belly dancer. And there was food, much of it prepared by Davis Countys own Mel Melcomian who graced the buffet tables with gourmet sabzy (a mixture of a hearty vegetable-bee- f green spiced with salanta, green onions, parsley, lime and fenugreek). sheeved (rice with dill), n sheevrin polo (A blend filled with candied oranges, Dr. Jean White, professor of Political Science at Weber State College, has been chosen for the Distinguished Woman of the Year Award by the Kaysville Branch of the American Association of University Women according to Ruth Turner, chapter president. cin- namon and brown sugar), tea Irom a Russian samovar, barbari bread and two types of per dan can- THE distinguished professor, recipient of numerous awards as an outstanding teacher, began her career as a staff writer and a specialist writer in education for the Salt Lake Tribune while a student at the University of Utah. After dy pastries. THERE WERE also three gigantic salmons. The salmons came from Norway, the rice came from India and Mel, like most of the throng, came from Iran. "I came to this country, like many Persians, as a college said Mel. "America truly is a land of opportunity." stu-uent- ." the food. Davis County has accepted us well. AND accepted THE Persians also No Rouz in a celebratory fashion. Sponsored by the Persian Business Club of Utah, the banquet noted a celebration dating back into antiquity. The Iranian people are unique in celebrating the new year on the vernal equinox, said Saeed Habashi, a Bountiful insurance and financial planning representative. The new year is celebrated on the first day of spring, and traditionally Persians of all regions, religions and ethnic groups join in the holiday. A series of ritual celebrations that have ancient and often reminds obscure origins, Persians of the traditional qualities 13-d- No-Ro- associated with SAEED SAID many Persians have succeeded in American busi- ness. But like many ethnic groups, guage was an early handicap. lan- AHMAD Golchin. owner of Sha-hin- s Fine Foods in Layton, told of a family member leaving Iran to settle in the U.S. On the airplane, the flight attendant offered the woman the choice of tea or coffee. Confused, the woman asked for tea. When the attendant finished pouring the tea, the woman blurted out, Coffee, leaving the attendant as confused as the Persian. Ahmad chuckled, The problem is that the word coffee in the Farsi language means enough. The attendant thought she had taken the order wrong, whereas the woman was simply telling her she had poured enough tea. ..Many of us came to the U.S. knowing very few English words. Weve had to succeed through hard work." z OTHERS AT the celebration noted that Americans often misunderstand the Iranian culture. Mr. Melcomians second cousin, Archie McKirtich, explained that not all Iranian residents are Moslem, that he himself No-Rou- awakening, cleanliness, virtue and sensitivity." prophets, although the primary emphasis is on Mohammad. Most Americans also misunderstand the system of ayatollehs. The term is applied to any religious leader who receives a large following; its not a title or position applied by an official central church. There are other ayatollehs in Iran other than Khomeni. BUT KHOMENI is linked in the public mind to present-daIran ...and. although all of the celebrators focused on the gaity, not politics, one of the attendees spoke of current problems. Dr. Paul Mohevali, y No-Ro- vice-preside- was an Armenian raised in a multi- cultural village. Moslems are not either, he said. Moslems accept Jesus Christ as one of three A MEMBER of Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi national honor societies, she received a Soroptim-is- t scholarship for graduate study and was a Teaching Fellow at the University of California at Los Angeles. She is the author of numerous professional studies and a member and officer of several professional organizations in political science and history. Bountiful, t tah z BY 9:30 p.m. many of the gathering began trickling out of North Salt Lake, presumably heading home to watch the KSL news broadcast. It was a New Year-b- ut on Monday, they had businesses to open. Theres a time to celebrate. Theres a time to reflect. There's a time to earn a living. School volunteers: Serving or self-servin- DR. WHITE serves on many community and state boards and committees. She was named by Utah's governor to the task force studying State Tax Reform and the Governor's Commission on Law' and Citizenship. She is currently director of the internship program for Weber State College in the Utah State Legislature. Nominated by the Kaysville branch. Dr. White will be a candidate for the Distinguished Woman Award by the Utah State Division of the American Association of University Women. Service-oriente- ON TOP of that, potential for summer storms quickly pouring large torrents throughout Davis County concerns government officials. along with many landowners who've seen destruction from such storms before. Working to minimize those lems is Sid Smith, county flood control director, who met with north county mayors and city councilmcmbers. last week. The group of about two dozen got a look at areas in Clearfield, Syracuse and West Point where drainage projects are under first-han- d study. TWO MAJOR retention projects were reviewed: Steed Pond area in Clearfield at about I Ith West and 300 North, near UP&L transmission towers: also in Clearfield at about 200 South 15(H) West. Both will be designed to drain some irrigation storm watcr-a- nd water from parts ol Clearfield and much of Syracuse, Mr. Smith explains. The two will be connected, water collected at Steed Pond conveyed to the 2(H) South site. From there, water will be sent through a Salt major channel to the Great Lake. pond-draina- SOME $1.6 million is earmarked for those projects but Mr. Smith years before comstresses one-tw- o a while be means that and pletion IT TAKES many months to ac- quire necessary rights of way. "We will work with all involved to mini- mize impact on property owners." the flood control director stresses. That includes adjusting alignments where necessary and practicable. We will do our best to be considerate of property ow ners' needs." he adds. The project will be designed to carry water that a "100-yea- r storm" might generate, or sufficient to handle any anticipated storms, he savs. THE NEED for such drainage facilities was vividly demonstrated last week as the elected officials toured sites in West Point, Syracuse and Clearfield, noting many spots eroded by water that fills some yards, basements or pastures. Pointing to a joint Clinton-Sunsstorm detention project-parat 23(H) North as a positive example of what can be done. Mr. ct k Smith says both Steed Pond and the 2(H) South projects will also include parks on several acres. IN ADDITION to acquiring rights of way. determining exact alignments and related issues, deshould cisions on w hether run-of- f be piped in underground channels or carried in open ditches must be made. Stressing drains will be planned to run along property lines, not through the middle of someone's property. Mr. Smith says that w hile many might like drains to run under streets that isn't always possible. Not only may costs skyrocket. but feasibility of fitting necessary drains in with utility pipes under streets can make that option impossible. CIRCUMSTANCES determine if we carry the. water through buried or open, lined channels." he fences are aexplains. Chain-linbuilt adjoining any open lways channels in residential areas, he stresses. k Piped channels may seem like the optimum solution at first look. Mr. Smith says, but that hinders maintenance. And while pipes may function well for 20 years problems often escelate after forcing many major costs later on. he says. In addition, blockages are harder to pinpoint and alleviate with piped areas, he adds. FUNDS ARE available for both projects through the county's flood control levy and bond monies, he notes. That equals about 31: mills in tax dollars. Some $17 million has been spent in food control efforts across the county since 1983. That funding came from county and state disaster relief sources. "WERE WORKING as rapidly as we can to resolve the remaining hot spots," Mr. Smith adds. self-servin- g. As a parent of children enrolled in the public school sy stem over the past two decades. I've noticed an interesting phenomenon! occurring among the volunteer serv ices at work within the schools. Parent involvement used to be confined to a supporting role, with the principal and teachers carrying the main burden of both classroom discipline and teaching. It was the responsibility of the parent to send children to school with a background which had prepared them for learning. They then left the basic teaching of the 3 R's" up to the school, also expecting that the teacher and-o- r principal should demand certain standards of behavior bom the students, correcting them when such behavior lagged. Except for extreme cases of too severe punishment. parents were expected to support discipline by reinforcing correct principles of behavior at home. d For some years now . teachers have felt that too much has been demanded of them for too little in return. This has led. in part, to what I see as a problem existing in our schools today. In many situations, volunteer forces are vastly larger in number than is the teaching faculty and administrators. Teachers have welcomed the additional. Help, but have oftentimes expected more of a than is necessary or wise. This has flamed into an intrusion on the part of the volunteer into the territory of the teaching personnel. Both teachers and volunteers need to share the responsibility for the rise of this problem, each recognizing their own area of authority as well as that of the other. parent-volunte- er Most volunteers have a genuine desire to help, to make conditions better for both the teacher and the student. However, it has reached the point of taking a mile when only an inch is local, district and needed. Volunteers envelop every level state w ide. and the services rendered are not always beneficial. In some situations, it has almost been as if the teacher is the volunteer, existing to help only if called upon by parent officers. Many of them now even feel a need to take over some of the teaching load, shouldering special projects, programs and curriculum ideas. These volunteers include PTA presidents, boards, aides, etc. who wield unprecedented power over school affairs. These, for the most part, untrained parents, seem to feel a need to take over responsibilities formerly reserved for the schools, and trying to run the affairs of teachers and principals whom they are supposed to serve. s, Too much volunteer involvement has sometimes led to a rift between a principal and the teachers. Volunteers have become caught in taking sides" on an issue which simply needs to be worked out among school personnel. This leads to disharmony among the school faculty, with detrimental results for the students. KIM CARVER Dart cheerleader among states best - Kim Carver, KAYSVILLE daughter of Truman and Kathy Carver of Kaysville. has been in the Miss chosen first runner-uUtah Drill" competition. p KIM HAS served as Davis High School's assistant drill mistress and drill mistress, was Junior Miss Drill Utah Queen in 1980 and 1982. She was Miss Jazz Utah in 1982. has been a member of the drill team for two years along w'ith a USU Camp instructor. She has performed in various places, including the following: a back-u- p dancer for Osmonds, former Miss America Vanessa Williams. Sylvia Dancer. Disneyland Stage in California. Disneyland Stage in Florida, at half-tim- e performances in the Gator Bowl. Fiesta Bowl. Dallas Cowboys, All-Sta- te 49-er- s, Oakland Raiders and Pittsburg Steclers. SHE WAS head cheerleader at Kaysville Junior High School, has been a member of the Davis High Musical Production Company and a member of Nordstrom's Fashion Board, jw Another reason for the growth of this problem is that many adults have become justifiably jumpy as the sordid facts of e have surfaced, and statistics stagger us with their numbers. How ever, that too has gotten out of hand. Parents are " at what was once called good screaming discipline the spare the rode and spoil the child" philosophy. While there can be extremes on both ends, we need to be on guard that the pendulum doesn't swing so far in the other direction that we are spawning a generation of lawless children, raised by adults who unwittingly aid them in circumventing the law. child-abus- "child-abuse- - Children whose parents do not respect the rules and authority of the classroom, will not respect them either, nor will they be concerned about breaking such rules. Those w ho run home w ith talcs of teacher correction, and who arc assured that their parents will run to school to correct the teacher, will not long obey the rules of any situation, whether it be school, work, home, or the rules of society. School volunteers need to back off and let educators do what they were trained to do educate. Parents should send children to school prepared to respect rules, principals, teachers, and fellow students, and in the process, become educated. Human beings have a marvelous capacity to rise to the occasion when they have firm guidelines as to exactly w hat is expected of them. There is a tine line between being sufficiently involved and overextending our bounds onto those of another. The parts of any organization or business are able to run more efficiently with all parts functioning in their own area without overreaching to snag the gears of another. he ideal, of course, is for volunteers to work harmoniously with educators for the good md grow th of th students. In the long run. it is our society as a whole wi.n will reap the benefits. I 1 k d - Flood potential concerns county fore any sod is turned, as well. He stresses both projects will also collect some water from Clinton and Sunset-- as well as West Point areas. Syracuse and Clearfield cities will also participate in financing improvements to both flood control projects, he adds. g Volunteer workers come in many sizes and shapes, and for a groups have always variety of organizations. welcomed volunteers, and President Reagan stresses volunteer-isas a necessary ingredient in the American wav of life. Volunteering is a way to fill the need of being needed - of being a contributing member of the society in which we live. As I've watched people filling these roles in various groups. I've observed that they come in two main categories - those w ho are there for genuine service to others, and those w ho are genuinely The former are invaluable assets to w hate ver organization they serve, while the latter oftgentimes create more problems than they solve. room-mother- As the snow FARMINGTON melts and weather gets warmer, thoughts of spring snowmelt and water run-of- f gain momentum. H4DII) Send your questions today and watch for Kelley each week. school-administere- nt of Papa Pita Bakery, said the current leadership has dealt severely with members of his sect, the Bahais. I cannot go back to Iran to claim my photo finishing business in Tehran," he said, and many Bahai members are in jails due to their beliefs. At the same time, I am proud to be a Persian-a- nd equally proud to be operating a business in America. No-Rou- anti-Christi- spring-bir- th, graduating, she became an executive assistant to the editor-in-chiof Charm Magazine" in New York City. Married to Dr. John White, she e did work in research writing, editing, and public relations during the years her children were growing up. She was a teaching associate at the University of Utah while working for her Ph.D. degree in political science. free-lanc- en- Persians are quite social and the restaurant industry is a very social endeavor, he says. I could open up other restaurants, but it wouldn't be the same. At the Casa Melinda, I am always in control, usually here to greet customers and help with the preparation of H.O. Box 267 Attn.: Kelley Greene of Year by group rice-chicke- 1977. a uniquely Das is County Clipper Iuhlishing Co. Dr. Jean White named Woman complete with KSL Television GRADUATING in industrial - We welcome reader questions and hope to create forum herein. Send your ideas and question to: THIS DAVIS County city was the site of the statewide No Rouz" (New Day), attended by some 160 Persians and their friends, and the celebration was gineering, he worked at Ajax Presses before purchasing the Bountiful franchise for the Tampico Restaurant, an entry into Mexican food that led to his forming the popular Casa Melinda on March 2, Answers- Shadis of Kelly Green is !olh an issues and answers eolunin featured weekly in 'the Das is County Clipper and the Weekly Keflex. Kelley is happy to answer your questions, and will also contribute columns on issues and esenls found in our world and in v lising. celebration of the New Year.. .A very special New Year. carrots, almonds, dates, , 3 |