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Show WEEKLY REFLEX-DAV- IS NEWS JOURNAL, OCTOBER 13, 1977 (BsuddH By ROSELYN KIRK MR. AUSTAD said the decision to cancel the fire in- Faced with a flat refusal by Davis County Commissioners surance to the Smedley warehousing development to allow him to incorporate his own city, Dale Smedley agreed to a meeting with the Layton City Council, the Davis County commissioners and other property owners from the area in Layton that he is seeking to have rezoned. THE property in question is located on the north side of State Road 193 and east of the main runway of Hill Air Force Base. The 17 acres that Mr. Smedley wants rezoned from agriculture to commercial use have provided a conflict that surfaced in March and has not yet been resolved. Tuesday Mr. Smedley said that if the area could not be rezoned, he would like to incorporate his own city. In addition to the 17 acres requested for commercial development, Mr. Smedley owns several hundred acres which he plans for residential development. INCREASE ART SKILLS BOTH Commissioners Glen Flint and C.E. Moss said the commission doesnt want another town built there. Students measure parts of the face to learn proportions, one of the art concepts included in a Davis County School art guide, which as also been accepted as an art guide by the Utah Department of Education. By ROSELYN KIRK All young children draw pictures of people, houses, trees and animals, and Ivan Comia, art specialist for the Davis County Schools says these drawings can be used as a guide to determine the position of children in their development in art. MR. C0RN1A said the art sequential guide, as developed by Charles Stubbs, Utah State Education art specialist and Nathan Winters, state education specialist, over a period of nine years, helps to identify the relative position of children in the development of their art skills. The guide set up a sequential plan for teaching the skills necessary in all the 32 disciplines on art that have been identified. The art guide, which has also been adopted by the State Department of Education, as well as the Davis County Schools, will attempt to show elementary teachers with little art background, how to teach art concepts. Mr. Cornia says that the study over the last nine years has shown that 83 percent of the art taught is taught by someone that has no background. WE DETERMINED that since every how to teach, we could provide them with the what if they knew If students were taught the the how. 206 art concepts that were identified in the teacher knew study, then fewer students would be illiterate in art areas. Mr. Cornia said that a study showed that out of 500 students tested at the University of Utah, it was determ ined that the average student in the study had reached only a fourth grade level in art. THE ART curriculum guide attempts to take the 206 concepts and experiences in the art and put them in sequences, using disciplines such as drawing, ad design, lithography and stitchery to reinforce the teaching of these concepts. Mr. Cornia pointed out that the idea behind the art guide is not for every student to become a professional artist, but for each student to do something of value to increase his skill in the art field. Mr. Comia said that art skills are helpful children and children in the to who can learn better grades primary d coordination through art activities. This coordination will ultimately result in better handwriting skills. Im pre-scho- eye-han- not saying a person who is good in art will be better in handwriting, but he will be ready to do specific things for handwriting. THE ART guide is not currently being taught in the Davis County Schools until workshops are provided to help 750 teachers understand the art program. But over the last several years such teachers as Berta Lemke, sixth grade teacher at the Muir Elementary School in Bountiful, have been teaching from a preliminary ceptual art guide that preceded the present guide published as a book by Brigham Young University. Mrs. Lemke, along with instructor Pam Wing, worked with sixth grade students Monday aftermoon to help them identify and learn four concepts in color. The students pulled up chairs around tables or pushed their desks together to form a table and listened while Mrs. Lemke explained how a color wheel could be made by students and would illustrate such art concepts as the difference between elementary and complementary colors. THE STUDENTS were given a paper plate with big daubs of paint in all the primary shades, blue, red and yellow. In addition, blue and white paint was added in separate circles on the paper plate. Mrs. Lemke had told students the colors could be made more or less intense based on the proportion of white or black that was added to the primary color. The lesson progressed, each student working on his individual color wheel. Some made mistakes and had to start over. Others seemed to have little trouble in working out the color wheel. When the recess bell rang 45 minutes later, most students had mastered the concept of the combination of colors. MRS. LEMKE said the sixth grade students are given the concept of color early in the year. They first see a film demonstrating the concept of color then work on creating their own color wheels. Tests are given early in the year to determine what art concepts each student has mastered. The next Monday students in the class at Muir School worked on another art concept. They measured each others faces to determine that some people have bigger eyes than others. Some have bigger noses. After they went through the measuring process, they drew a portrait of a fellow student. Mr. Comia says, If you want expression, students must have the knowledge to separate art lesexpress. Twenty-fiv- e sons are planned for each year. Students are placed in one of the phases based on their level of expertise. Mr. Cornia explained this process by a demonstrat- flklt Hanutil IHlMimeifi! T IlMWMratl You havent got enough area for a city. There would be no tax base, Commissioner Flint said. Mr. Smedley was also faced with the notification that Layton City Council had voted unanimously to withdraw fire protection from any industrial development outside the city. Robert Austad, Layton city councilman, said although the fire protection was cancelled on October 6, that the city is required to give 60 days notice prior to the ending. tained, the art guide indicates what art concept he needs to learn next. This plan attempts to place each child on his individual level. Some of the same art concepts may be and other businesses in that area, was based on the lack of control as to what is stored in the buildings. He said one fire Hopes Fade For Sub Area Health Planning Council By ROSELYN KIRK Davis has County ap- parently lost its bid for a health planning sub-are- a council, at least momentarily, according to Willie Washington, a member of the Davis County Mental Health Board as well as the Health Systems Agency council. (HSA) planning MR. WASHINGTON said, based on administrative and councils decisions, the matter of the a council would be held in abeyance, perhaps sub-are- due to indefinitely between disagreements Wasatch Front counties as to how the organization should be set up. He said the present organizational plan calls for an area-wid- e committee, but a not a council in each sub-are- county. IT HAD BEEN announced earlier that the counties along the Wasatch Front would a have to form two councils, with Davis County sub-are- being given the option of joining with either Salt Lake and Tooele counties or with Weber and Morgan Counties. Davis County health directors rejected this organization and suggested that the county be a allowed to have a council of its own. This plan appeared not to receive the from either the HSA administration or from either the HSA Governing Board or the council. The concept of the sub- sub-are- go-ahe- area council had been initiated as a sounding board to channel county level planning into the state organization. Based on the new organizational plan, any county information will be fed to the state planning councils through the four Davis County representatives on the HSA Governing Board and the HSA Council. MR. WASHINGTON said the HSA, which will design a health plan for Utah, must have that plan developed by April 1, 1978. This plan will be presented to the public over a 90 day period and will be ready for Health, Education and Welfare approval on July had resulted when five gallons of gas had exploded, causing a fire. There was disagreement over the wishes of other residents in the area. Mr. Smedley said none of the 15 to 20 residents wanted annexation, but Mr. Austad disagreed and said at the present time the council is processing some requests for annexation received from residents in the area. Mr. Austad said Layton is proposing annexing the area because want the building to in an orderly manner. we progress THE PEOPLE on the west side of Fairfield Road have expressed their desire to annex to the city, Mr. Austad structed water and sewerage lines that provide his own services in the area. MR. AUSTAD suggestion. said. Faced with the alternatives, Mr. Smedley said he would consider negotiations with Layton if the city would agree to reimburse him for some of his expenses. He has con THERE WAS a meeting with the Layton City Council in an effort to solve the rezoning problem. He said the staff is just beginning to write an overall mental health plan for Utah. TRUCK Dr. Russell Williams said that the Utah Mental Health organization is anxious to have input into that planning and would like permission from the administrative Oil INSTALLED agency to select two people to work on the mental health plan. SUIHT MUFFLERS MR. WASHINGTON said the staff will contact experts in each medical field before setting up the final plan. The purpose of the HSA is to look Silrnt ICnigtit into such problems as the number of hospitals and the number of physicians available for the state as a whole and see that facilities are adequate to meet the health needs of people in the specific areas. 5349 South 1900 West in Roy Ogden, Utah 773-640- 0 mosaics or sculpture. Once learned, these concepts may be useful to students who are attempting to learn different art dis- ciplines from jewelry making to stage design. MRS. LEMKE illustrated the procedure. She taught the concept of primary and complementary colors. Youll need to know about color so that you can work on the masks well be making next week, she said. She believes that art is important in all areas. The first week of school, I tell the students that Ill give them a prize if they can figure out what is the most important word for the artist to know. They win the prize if they discover that word is observe. Mr. Cornia points out that art is im- portant to the young child because it provides a way for him to communicate. He said that children begin to drop out of art at about the third grade. He said the new art guide is designed, aimed at skill and taught, aimed at awareness. ART EDUCATION should do three things, Mr. Cornia believes. It should teach the person to know what beauty is and help him to attempt to create that beauty. Second, art education should provide an acceptable way to communicate ideas. Third, the program should make the student aware of art by making available prints of the masters. Ninety prints are available in the school district to allow teachers to integrate art appreciation into the art curriculum in Davis District, Mr. Comia said. ion. SINCE ART in the public schools is a public system, instructors have no right to dictate what experience in art will be taught. You never know if youll have a Rembrant or a Frank Lloyd Wright in your classes, so you make sure that all the art concepts are taught. If students Candidates Named For Council In Kaysville Food Restaurant Gerald Purdy, Carol Page and Mike Timothy were nominated to run for Kaysville City Council on the citizens party at the convention held Thursday, Oct. 6. MR. 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D D agreement between the county commissioners and Mr. Smedley that Mr. Austad should spearhead necessary in puppetry as well as in HE TOOK houses drawn by one third grade class aod began to place them in three piles, based on the childs knowledge of perception and drawing. Although all the drawings could be placed in three piles, he then demonstrated that within each pile, each student was on a slightly different level. Once the student is identified as to knowledge already at- - suggested that the city could call for several appraisals to deterhow much mine the improvements are worth. Mr. Smedley argued that bev should be reimbursed. I hate to put out $180,000 and then turn it all over to the city. Suggested as another alternative by Mr. Smedley was a plan to have the area annexed to either Clearfield or South Weber. Earlier he had said he would check into the possibility of having Clearfield provide fire protection to the area, but said he had not followed through on that D . you! 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