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Show V WEEKLY REFLEX DAVIS NEWS JOURNAL JULY 1 7. 1 980 Heins Students By TOM BUSSELBERG - KAYSVILLE Getting that first job can be rough, even if you know what looking for. youre THE DAVIS Area Vocational Center is offering a new program to augment the instruction it provides leading, it is hoped, to career opportunities. Called employability assessment, it works with stu- dents to help them choose which types of jobs they should pursue and provides help in finding that job. Coordinator Wendy Marsell emphasizes her progam doesn t try to find you a job that is done through Job Service but instead stresses aiding students in acquiring proper skills to find not only that first job but capture future opportunities. ITS AN extension of those skills students learn in preshe explains. employment, Under that week-lon- g program, students are given help in interview techniques and students and advisors shown in front of the Colosseum in Rome during their tour of Europe. Twelve students and advisors were from the Davis County area. They were joined by 31 more students and advisors from the Texas and New Mexico area. A group of 45 STUDENTS VISIT ROME On June 14 a group of 12 students and two advisors from Davis High School left from the Salt Lake Airport for a 3 'h week tour of Europe. LISA HANSEN, Kim Nance, Michele Wanner, Misty McKinlay, Christine Winters, Simeon Feldstein, Dalene Nies, Gina Jones, June Lee, Tami Lee, Laurie Green- - well and Melanie Pusey and advisors Vivian Beattie and Kathy Skinner made up the group. They were joined by 31 other students and advisors from Texas and New Mexico. They landed in Frankfurt, Germany and drove through the countryside of Germany and Austria until they reached a small alpine village near Innsbruck, which was their first THE NEXT country was Italy, where they stayed in Rome and Florence. They moved on to Munich, Germany and later to Paris, France. Amsterdam and Holland were visited and they ended their travels in London, England.' The group traveled by plane, bus, train and boat. They saw many things they had read about in books or dreamed about, and now they were actually seeing them. AMONG THE interesting and inspirational were the green Alps with their deep slopes; Michelangelos works including David, Pieta, The Horned Moses" and the ceiling of the Sistme Chapel along with many of the Roman ancient ruins. stop. Time pases by fast. It seems like only yesterday I came to Kaysville, but iit is a year ago. SATURDAY morning I will leave Utah, and after ten days on the west coast I will be back in Norway. It is wath a sad feeling inside, I leave something that has become bery dear to me. I will never again go to any football game at Davis. I will never again enter the old halls of Davis High to go to class. And, Worst of all, I will leave all my friends behind. BACK IN Norway, they told me that the Americans were a friendly people. After being her a year, all I can say is, Yes, you are! How the people were to me will be my best memory of the United States. the people are nice and this place has very few of the problems a foreigner finds in the United States. In Utah the air is clean, the drug problem is still small (at least in Kaysville), and there is room enough for people to live. Even if Utah, and Kaysville, may not be the hotspots of this country, I'm giad AFS sent me here instead of any other place. Utah is unique and Im glad I got to know this state. I will use this opportunity to thank everyone I got to meet this year. The students and teachers at Davis and the other people I got to know. ESPECIALLY I want to s thank my family, the of Fruit Heights, for Beck-strom- adopting me for this year. During the year I traveled a lot. I have been in California twice and I got to see the southern states. Every place I have been has its own beauty. Through my travels I have learned a lot (hopefully), and I have had the opportunity to compare Utah to the rest of the states I have visited. IN MY opinion, Utah is one of the better places to be. The PROPONENTS of the change claim that the amended article will retain necessary safeguards while providing the flexibility that the Legislature requires to develop a tax policy which will meet the future needs of the state. They charge that the existing tax article has been amended on so many occasions that it has become extremely difficult to read and understand. Opponents, on the other hand, contend that the proposed amendment would eliminate many of the safeguards contained in the present constitution and would place too much power in the hands of the Legislature. THEY ALSO object to the fact that all of the changes are submitted in a single package, - forcing the voters either to approve or reject all of the changes at one time. According to the Foundation, the major changes that would be made by the prop- osed revision of the tax article are as follows: 1. MODIFY local tax exemption provisions to allow the taxation of property owned by cities, towns, special districts, etc., if such property is located outside the geographic boundaries of the local unit. 2. Broaden the nonprofit exemption to include property which is used for religious, charitable, educational, employee representation, or welfare purposes. 3. EXEMPT Livestock held in the state. 4. Clarify the exemption for irrigation. 5. ALLOW the Legislature to exempt or abate taxes on primary residences (either or rented preowner-occupi- mises) and on tangible personal property in whole or in part. Also would give the Legislature power to reimburse local units for the revenue lost from such exemption or abatement. 6. Remove the present $3,000 limitation on the exemption provided to disabled veterans. 7. ALLOW local governments to share their tax revenue with other local units. famous windmills and dikes. England was their longest stop and most of their time was spent in London where they attended several plays including a live performance of Yule Bryner in The King And I. The comment from the group was, We had a wonderful time and the trip was a tremendous learning experience, but most of all they learned to appreciate the United States and the freedom and standard of living which it offers us. MRS. BEATTIE is the humanities instructor and Mrs. Skinner teaches French, np WE WILL work closely with the employers where there is a need to improve our curriculum. Well give feedback to the instructors and see if they should identify an area where a lot are not trained, we can then identify it and provide it," Ms. Marsell says. Another major facet of the program involves keeping close contact with area employers. That helps assure feedback on what is actually being performed in the market L. jobs really quickly while others take longer. We want to make sure theyre registered (with Job Service) and getting the proper help. STRESSING the service is available only to center students, she says similar help is available through Layton and Bountiful Job Service offices. Chavez Performs With BYU Group LeRoy Chavez of Layton is currently performing with the Lamanite Generation from BYU on its first-evtour of three East European countries of Romania, Hungary and Po- dents such as Arise, and Rose. Go My Son, Blossom as a er land. A SON of Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy is a THE LAMANITE Geration was founded in 1971 by Miss Thompson to give students an opportunity to learn and perform cultural songs and dances Boyd D. Sullivan, from their native countries. and has performed with the troupe for four years. He graduated from Since that time, the troupe has performed throughout the United States, Canada, Central and South America, the Orient and Scandinavia. singer-danc- Layton High School and is majoring in communications and Spanish at BYU. He served a mission to Puerto Rico for the LDS Chruch. The troupe has already performed one week in Romania and will spend four days (May in Hungary before clik tour maxing their with shows in major cities in Poland. The returned to Provo on May 25. four-wee- DIRECTOR Janie Thompson said the variety show is entitled The First Americans, Yesterday and Today. The troupe is performing in leading theaters as well as making television appearances. The show features traditional and contemporary songs and dances from the cultures of American Indians, Polyne- -' sians and Latin Americans. SPECIAL NUMBERS include the dance by Indian students, a medley of Hawaiian dances and the Samoan slap dance, and the lively La Negra dance from Mexico. Many of the songs in the contemporary section include original compositions by stu The show has been per- formed on dozens of reservations across the United States and on many reserves in Canada, taking a message of love and encouragement to the In- dians. The show has been given rave reviews in the press throughout the world. Class Of 75 Reunion Set The Layton High School class of 1975 reunion will be held Aug. 2 at the Layton High School cafeteria from 6 to 1 1 p.m. A dinner and dance are) scheduled for part of the? nights activities. TICKETS, $15 couple, $8 single, can be obtained by sending your check to Pat Martinez Graham, 652 West 550 North, Clearfield, Utah 84015. It is requested that members of the class desiring tickets have their money in by July 25. For more information, call Pat at 825-233- 8. has something to give to who can scenery is beautiful forget the Rainbow Bridge), everyone. I had the opportunity to come here and learn about your culture. I also tried to inform others about what things are like in Norway. When I get back to Norway, I will tell people about the American way of living. FOR THIS reason, having an foreign exchange student come over, enriches two counties and the work for international understanding will go one step further. Controversy Between now and November, considerable debate and controversy will surround a proposed amendment which would make some extensive changes in the revenue and taxation article of the state constitution. This was the opinion of Utah Foundation, the private research organization in an analysis of the proposed overhaul of the tax article, which will be voted on by the electorate at the 1980 general elections. IN HOLLAND the group enjoyed a collection of Rembrandts works as well as the BUT WE help them identify where their skills are and where they want to go, helping them set specific goals. A lot of kids have a few skills and shoot too high. If we can get them to apply the right things that makes it easier, she says. We act as a support, Ms. Marsell says, not only for the young worker entering the job market for the first time, but for the homemaker, for example who is going back to work after many years. FOR THOSE students who go through the week of preemployment and dont land a job, there is help, as well. We help students identify where they want to go. Like if its someone trained in keypunch we help direct them to job classifications in that area. And after they get that first job w e can work with the student and the employer so the student gets a clear understanding of how to do his job. I feel every student will need some support. Some get AS SOME of you might know, I am or was an AFS foreign exchange student. The AFS program at Davis has been going on since the 60s. To me, and many others, it is a very good program because it Taxation Article Revision Stirs Debate And In Munich they visited the Olympic V illage and tower and in Germany the somber site of Dachau, the first German concentration camp. In France they toured the Louvre, Versailles and of course the Eifel Tower. other tips to make finding that first job out of the classroom a little easier. They wont stay with that initial job (generally), she says, and this program is to help them develop skills they can use over and over again in life. We dont help them find we work with Job Serjobs vice. place at this moment. We can identify their (employer) needs and change our instruction if need be, she says. 8. Eliminate the present 75 percent limitation on the proportion of the school program that could be financed by the state. 9. OTHER changes de- signed to clarify meanings, eliminate outdated material etc., thus making the tax article easier to read and understand. Foundation analysts indicate that even if this tax article is approved by the voters this November, there probably would be very little additional tax relief on residential property in the years immediately ahead. THEY NOTE that approximately 59 percent of the property in Utah currently is levied for local school purposes. School costs are expected to increase dramatically in the decade ahead because of a projected rise in school enrollments. At the same time, future revenues in the state are being threatened by a proposed initiative which would eliminate the sales tax on food (expected $60 million per year), cost by possible elimination of federal revenue sharing to state government (expected cost $14 million per year) and by another initiative proposal which would limit the property tax to one percent of an artificially defined market value. Next year, there will not be a AFS student at Davis. There are several reasons for this, but the main one is lack of interest at the school and in the community. The persons responsible for AFS in school and community chapter have decided to cool the program for a year. By doing this, the interest for AFS will hopefully be greater next time someone promotes AFS. IF THE response to any kind of promotion comes next year, there will be a new AFS student here in the fall of 1981 , but if people in Kaysville completely forget AFS, there will never be another AFS student here. If this happens, I think Davis High and Kaysville will lose more than just a new face to look at. You will lose the touch of something foreign. You will not get whatever an outsider might contribute to the society. WHAT I ask you, the people of Kaysville to do, is to think it over what a foreign exchange student might do for you and your community. If what you can think of is something positive, why not give it a try and support AFS whenever you have a chance. Thank you for letting me stay in Kaysville this year. Goodbye! Endre Stiansen, AFS Student, Norway. Weber County may have a taller municipal building and look the part of the bigger brother, but its southern neighbor has shot up strong and steady over the past DAVIS TOPS WEBER decade, surpassing it in population. Census projections show Davis County edging out Weber with a population of 143,221 compared to 142,223, or a difference of 998. Davis bounded forward at a rate of 44.6 percent while Weber took a more leisurely climb of 12.6 percent. |