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Show METRO STANDARD-EXAMINER SUNDAY, JUNE 5, 1994 METRO EDITOR: 625-4220 3B Fruit stands, farmers in tax collector sights NEWS y & 2 oD Panel taking close look at exemptions Ar D ALPH Three tax exemptions the commission is studying this month and in July could impact Utah's farmers. They are the exemptions On seasonal crop sales such as is done through the roadside fruit stands, plus ex- ara r WAKLEY In more than 50 years, there have been few problems with thestate sales tax exemption for roadside fruit stands and Perry’s Paul Sumida says there’s no real reason for the Slate lo Start taxing thosesales. “The system works good now,” said Sumida, who sells some ofthe apples, apricots, sweet cherries and peaches he grows at the fruit stand he operates with his brother, Moss. “And alot of people like being able to buy really fresh fruit.” The Governor's Tax Review Commission is in the second of a four-year program of looking through about three dozen sales tax exemptions, seeing if it can eliminate or re- duce enough ofthose to raise about $20 million yearly to finance needed school emptions on purchases of pesticides and other sprays, and on purchases of what is called tangible personal property, such as tractors. Rep. Haynes Fuller, D-Eden, said during a meeting of the tax review commission Fri- day. he believes farming should receive the same consideration as manufacturing, that the inputs should not be taxed, onlythe final product. Fuller is a member of the commission and What's new: The commission is currently considering eliminating exemptions on roadside fruit and vegetable stands, pesticides purchased by farmers and farm-related tangible personal property such as tractors What's next: The commission is meeting again to discuss the exemptions on July 8 at 3 p.m. in the State Capitol Building, Room 303 T typical retail outlets collect sales taxes on their fruit sales, Walters said, his survey of to the commission, said the panel first exemption is not an issue to them.” The next issue is whether the state can afford to make every farmer collect sales taxes on seasonal crop sales for the first time since when considering exemptions. And, when it comes to fairness, that creates a problem for exempting roadside fruit stands. However, while grocery stores and other construction projects. The issue: The Governor's Tax Review Commission is considering eliminating various sales tax exemptions also grows hay and seed oats on his 1 50-acre farm in Ogden Valley. Lawrence Walters, a Brigham Young University management professor and consultant should look at equity, fairness and balance BEAT a the food industry found “no serious concerns” fromthe retail stores. “Thefruit stand 1937, said Walters. “Collecting and auditing the tax would be extremely difficult,” he “My recommendation is that the exempion be amended to require vendors wit! moreor less permanent retai POULICLS Mutual support lect sales tax.” he those with family members in said But Rep. Judy Ann Buffmire, D-Murray said, “I don’t want to run them out ¢ t husiness. | don’t think it’s worth theeffort.” And Sen. Lyle Hillyard, R-Logan, said, “I would hate to burden these people.” Sumida said he is probably a typical farmer who sells most of his fruit to comme processors and only a minonty ofthe harvest at the roadside stand. If all the roadside sales were tz bring in $1 million to $1.7 mill in new revenues, said Walte rs, tions would beless if the Legislature agrees with his recommendation to exempt “truly occasional and incidental sales.” Walters recommended the exemption on farm purchases ofpesticides and other sprays be eliminated, bringing thestate an estimated $500,000 a year in newsales tax revenues. See TAX on 48 A local support group helps prison 6B AT A GLANCE Harrisville teen appearing on TV SALT LAKE CITY — Harrisville’s Erik Hall, critically njured in a skiing accident this past winter, will be one of the featured a patients Sunday on e Children’s Miracle Network ied on KSL-TVin Utah Hall, 19, is still hospitalized in the Primary Children’s Medical Center rehabilitation unit nearly three months after the March 15 accident at Northern Utah's Powder Mountain Ski Resort. Hall will appear on the national telethon at 3:15 p.m The Weber County teenager In these Classrooms, was in a coma for five weeks after the accident. His mother said he is just nowin the process of recovering his speech and motor skills They Police search for missing girl OGDEN — Police late Saturday were searching for a ‘mean business missing child. A police dispatcher said Courtney Jo Flemal, a 3-year-old white female, was last seen at Liberty Park, 701 21st St., about 4 p.m. Police said she was wearing a purple shirt with blue jeans socks but no shoes. She has curly blond hair Further details were not mmediately available from By LORI BONA HUNT Standard-Examiner staff police ducation is no longer onlythe responsibility of schools. At a time when education reform revolves around computers and the information super highway, learningis not limited to what can be taught in a classroom. Dry Central Utah has drought fears ‘iu uuafial) @ iniy WEST WEBER — McKenzie Barrow yanked a blondhair outof her head, and handed it to Neil Davis, a foreman and machinist at Great Salt Lake Minerals and Chemical Corp. He promised to show a group of West Weber Elementary School . TOM SZALAY/Standard-Examiner Buck Lozier, 15, a ninth-grader at Central Davis Junior High, is allowed to take home a telescope donated by lomega Corp. for nighttime stargazing. Luckily, he shares the responsibility with and schools. Now Warnick, vice president of Great Salt Lake Minerals & Chemical Corp., is helping teach 557 West Weber Elementary J = t oo - * Canyon closing for two days MANTUA — U.S. 89/91 between Brigham City and Wellsville will be closed Monday, Tuesday and Wednesdayfor construction on two phases of a project to widen the canyon highway to four lanes A spokeswoman for LeGrand Johnson Construction said the road will be closed between 8 a.m. and 3 p.m. both days Emergency vehicles, school buses and local traffic to Mantua will be escorted through the construction zone on a limited basis Sherwood Hills Resort Benefits to business and School students. Ken Warnick several years ago grewtired of hearing business owners complain about the skills and education of people entering the workforce, so he decided to do something about it. Warnick, chairman-elect of the Chamber Ogden/Weber, set up a committee to create watching it. community: Companies stopped complaining, got involved Standard-Examiner staff the water outiook. “We're not anxious yet, Dut we re @ A broadened base of expertise and students they can use math to measure By LORI BONA HUNT* rain, but that was about all said Price City Engineer Gary Sonntag, who keeps track of technical assistance for curricular programs. @ Additional resources to stretch often tight budgets. @ Amorerealistic image of public schools in the corporate community. everything from complicated machine parts ‘ to humanhairs. See PARTNERS on 58 PARTNERS IN EDUCATION @ An expanded personnel force that can give increased attention to students’ individual needs. @ Opportunities for students to experience models of success first-hand. M@ Better understanding of the world of work leading to better prepared students. classroom “Twoandthree-tenths of a thousandth. You beat the odds, usually blond hair is thinner,” Davis told McKenzie, comparing her hair to strands of black and red hair, = hold are fading this year No measurable rain fell on Price last month. That is not the kind of May Carbon County needed to recoup from a sligntly suDdpar winter “We did get a few drops of Benefits to schools: Beyond the businesses oO © Hopes that their luck would Education program Following are examples of what local business leaders and educators say they so far have accomplished by working together. between = he helps sixth-graders (from left) Robert Dial, Jayni Larsen and Melyssa LaRose. Businesses are recognizing they must do their share if they want to benefit from a well-prepared workforce. In Northern Utah, they are creating with schools partnerships that are aimed at helping children recognize how whatthey learn in school can be applied in the working world. Some companies are adopting schools, some are providing mentors and titors, and others are sponsoring programs. partnerships ae C JAY DROWNS/Standard-Examiner Roger Bunker sacrifices his lunch hour and commutes 12 miles to tutor youngsters at Farr West Elementary. Here, Rather, it takes commitmentfrom an entire communityto teach children, educatorssay. SALT LAKE CITY — Residents of southcentral Utah got little relief from six years of drought las a snowywinter cool summer i Some companies adopt schools, while others supply employee tutors and mentors, 360 other Great Salt Lake Minerals employees. The company adopted the school and provide internships or sponsor programs built a classroom at its work site. GSL brings students to the company for daylong educational trips. give something back to the community,” “Instead of doing so much complaining as businesses, we got ourselves involved and are seeing what we can doto help,” said Warnick. There are dozens of such partnerships between businesses and schools in the Weber and Ogden school districts. “It's a proactive program and a way to Warnick said “We're not trying to take over the schools, we want to be another resource.” The idea is for businesses to use their resources to help further children’s education, said Jim Urry, vice president and senior consumer loan officer at First Security Bank. Urry is the current chairman of the » See WARNICK on 5B remains open, Dut access to @ An opportunity to help schools produce a skilled work force that will the will be from the Logan side of the canyon only during the become good future employees. closure Motorists should plan on extended closure hours the @ Personal satisfaction from participation in productive projects and services that strengthen the economic next week, on June 14 and 15 health and stability of the community. @ Job enrichment experiences that boost employee morale, loyalty and productivity and decrease absenteeism. @ An enhanced public image and the when the canyon will be closed 12 hours eachday from 8 a.m to8p.m WHO’S NEWS opportunity to be recognized for making a contribution to the communtty This teacher fails no student @ The opportunity to help educators develop career awareness and vocational programs that are geared to Jane Martin of Pleasant View specific, local job market needs was honored as one of six state Source: The Chamber Ogden Weber winners of the Gol jen Apple Award which honors Standard-£ xaminer teachers who Bigfoot sighting traced to teenage monkey business f you see a big, hairy creature trudging along the Bountiful foothills, 1's probably not Bigfoot. Morelikely, police say, it's just someonein a gorila suit Bountiful police said the costumed person who appeared to be accompanied by a group of tecnagers, was spotted just after midnight Thursday near a pond at the Stone Ridge Subdivision waving at cars and passers-by Officers were dispatched to investigate the Odd sighting at 1300 South and Bountiful Boulevard near the city’s foothills, but found no sign of anybody impersonating a primate An officer then wrote in his report “failed ne me meee 4 me = REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK to locate Bigfoot.” STINKING TO HIGH HEAVEN: Bountiful’s new Mormon temple isn’t scheduled to open for months, bul it’s already getting visitors including a skunk that appears to havethe run of the place Police Lt, Bill Collard said the skunk has been spotted at least four times at the temple over the past six months and has tripped the building's alarm system a couple of mes “He must have lived there before the construction started Somehow, he just gets in,” Collard said of the skunk, adding that it hasn't sprayed the building or any construction workers Sull, when police have goneto the temple at the corner of Bountiful Boulevard and Temple View Drive, Collard said, the odor inside leaves no doubt as to the intruder’s fontit uent int hearing the issue was a prisoner's request to be let out of jail a few months carly on his one-year sentence Weber County Attorney Mark DeCana argued against it, saying the man still de served to do his full sentence, even thoug! he had “resubmitted himself to the ion urisdi teacher at North Ogden Listy /.j for lemency for his chent would be that he Junior High “resubmitted himself to the jurisdiction,’ What were these men saying?’ Do they ta School, where Martin she implemented a “No One this way at home? In the vernacular of the courtroom, meant the PLAIN ENGLISH; During a recent Ogden Martin is an English Then defense attorney John Caine said the samething, that oneof the factors allowing ‘The officers just leave him alone and he makes his way out,” Utah's schools > EDITOR'S NOTE:Following is a collec- tion of miscellaneous items picked up by reporters on their news rounds are making a difference in prisoner once fled the they area whil on release time from jail for therapy, but lat er thought the better of it and turned himself in, or “resubmitted” Ogden, As for the the judge Sh himself to also known as the authorities urisdichior man's request for early releas said } Fails” program. Instead of giving an “F" for low-grade performance, Martin gives students an incomplete fering tutoring and remediation to any student wh § interested in earning credit She received $1,000 and a omputer for the award. § spon i ) whict ¥ sored by KUED Channe { olfandard-Examiner staf? and wiré@ services |