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Show PRESS ASSOCIATION UTAH 467 Board Is Hunting Input - SALT EAST 300 SOUTH LAKE CITY 84111 UTAH Action Postponed On Nanning New School GRANITE PARK. A flap over naming of a new junior high in Hunter occupied the Granite Board of Education for an extended period of time Tuesday night. The issue remains unresolved. An administrative recommendation that the school be named West Valley junior high met with opposition from several members of the community, as well as from the West Valley City Council. The name West Valley, a letter from Mayor Gerald Maloney said, should be reserved for a high school Through County that will be built in Hunter about 10 years from now. Linda White, representing a group of citizens, echoed those sentiments and explained reasons why the citizens wanted the name Hunter applied to the junior high, scheduled to be constructed during the next three years, telling of the community roots. Adding the opinion that use of the name West Valley would best suit a high school was Darlyne Aguilar, who said that possible naming of a high school Hunter would further split the community into Granger and Hunter, while the name West Valley would have a unifying effect. Students from the area that is traditionally called Granger will also attend the new high school, while the junior high is projected to serve the Hunter area only. The district had left the name Hunter off ballots that were distributed through feeder schools, hoping to avoid duplication of names. There is a Hunter elementary. Dr. Loren Burton said that similar names for schools causes some administrative problems. - Granite district has a Bennion elementary and Bennion junior high, Kearns high, Kearns junior, West Kearns and South Kearns elemen-tarieCottonwood elementary and Cottonwood high, Taylorsville elementary and Taylorsville high, Granger elementary and Granger That seems to be as objectionable as duplicating the name Hunter. Mrs. Aguilar, Mrs. White and at least two board members were also critical of the method that is used in the naming of schools. Joyce Higashi said that the community as a whole should have more input - adults not just children. J. Dale Christensen agreed with that and said that since the board has ultimate responsibility, some of the suggestions for names should come from board members. Miriam Farnsworth, who resides high. With Hunter left off the ballots, West Valley junior high topped the list of choices, with Valley View coming in second and West Point third. There is a Valley junior high in Granger, argued Mrs. Aguilar. Two Sections -- The Oaken Bucket Restaurant, 3535 W. 3500 South, received conditional use approval to sell minibottles and wine. The restaurant received preliminary approval from the City Planning Commission three weeks ago. Developers of the Teasel Downs subdivision were given permission to subdivide more land in order to expand the project. A plan to direct future floodwaters onto an absorption field next to the project was approved following discussion among council members about whether or not the floodwaters would stay there. The council also voted to forbid any further development of Teasel Downs until an alternate means of disposal for the water is discovered. The council voted to change the zoning of a strip of land in the Circle Tree subdivision from 7 ro The strip was inadvertently left out of a zoning change made Sept. 22. The vote was taken to correct the clerical error. A $17,708 sidewalk contract for 3500 So. 6000 West was awarded to Staker Paving Co. The sidewalk, which will run in front of Whittier elementary and an LDS ward, will be paid for with a grant from the Safe Sidewalk program. A $24,750 street improvement contract was awarded to the Z. P. Smith Co. for a stretch along 3500 South from 6400 West to Chatterleigh St. The improvement was originally planned to run all the way to 6000 West, but was cut short when several residents in the area expressed displeasure with the citys sidewalk plan. Public Works Director Glen Weaver said the residents, who are all related, may agree to the project if an individual sidewalk plan is drawn up for each of them. The residents have also expressed concern about having their road torn up during the winter, he said. A $114,670 street improvement project was approved for a stretch of 6400 West south of 3500 South. The project will be paid for with Community Development block grant funds. An $80,704 drainage system was approved for a section of Market Street from 3650 to 3780 South. The project will be partially funded ($30,000) with county flood control funds. WEST VALLEY. The City Council here voted Thursday to allow developers of a proposed low income housing project to obtain funding through the County Housing Authority- Paul Morris of the City Attorneys office explained that the developers of the proposed Summer Tree multifamily complex, planned at 2200 W. 3800 South, are seeking an industrial revenue bond through the county to help meet costs of the project. He said only low cost housing can qualify for an IRB which is usually reserved for commercial building ventures. The council approved the funding plan for the project two months ago under the name Spring Hollow but developers had to resubmit the request after discovering the name was already in use. In other matters, the council voted to install four-wastop signs at the intersection of 6885 W. 3555 South. City Manager John Newman recommended the four stop signs over a lesser number on the grounds that four would be less confusing and more effective. The developers, Holmes and Perry, received conditional use approval for the project from the City Planning Commission last April. Nothing was disclosed at that time, however, about its source of funding, said a representative of the Department of Community Development. The County Housing Authority approved a $6 million bond for the project in August. - 24 Pages R-l-- 4. y 240-un- it Hercules' Future, Effects On Area On CofC Agenda TAYLORSVILLE. The effects an expanded work force and construction of new facilities at Hercules will have on the west side of the valley will be explored during a presentation here today (Thursday). Addressing members of the West Valley Area Chamber of Commerce on that subject will be Jack He is special assistant to the vice president and general manager of Hercules Aerospace Division. The firm is about to launch a program of new construction that will lead to creation of hundreds of new jobs. The luncheon session being held at Both Sold Fast! Those dont-want- s around your for house are probably someone else - and theyll turn into ready cash if you advertise em in Green Sheet classifieds! Ask David Blanchard, 2598 Shar-ro- n Dr., what happened when he did that. We sold both bikes the first time the ad ran, hell tell you. ts the 4150 So. Redwood Road, will get under way at 12:15, according to Dave Harvey, Chuck-A-Ram- 20" GIRLS blcycls; 12"boy bika with Chamber president. DeMann, with Hercules for 22 years, is serving his first term in the Utah Legislature (representing the Murray area), having previously been a member of the Murray City Commission three terms and on the City Council another term. The UofU grad, a former reporter with the Deseret News, has been involved in a number of civic roles ac tivities, including Junior Achievement, Red Cross, Cancer Society, Boy Scouts and as an officer in youth athletic programs. tlra. The Bennion man learned, as thousands of other classified users have, that ads in the Green Sheet deliver results - in a hurry and at low cost. Green Fact is, Sheet classifieds reach more people for the cost than any other form of advertising you can use. to place your ad. Dial Save money by paying before it runs. Ask us how. hard -- dollar-for-dolla- 262-668- 2 here's a point In the course of ordinary living, we all hear many talks by people in varied walks of life. You cant get through a political campaign without hear-- i n g theof rhetoric dozens of voices. When r, you attend the church of your choice, theres little chance you wont be given a philosophical dissertation. Be present at the opening of something or other and youll hear a dedicatory talk. Go to burial services and youll hear a eulogy. If youre a member of a civic club, a service organization or a professional group, its almost a certainty youre going to be given Thursday, Oct. 20, 1983 All departments 262 6682 Vote Planners Approve Complex proposed 437-un- it apartment complex pegged for Redwood Road took a big step toward reality here Thursday, when a controversial rezoning request was narrowly approved by the City Planning Commission. The requested zone change, from l (agricultural) and 2 (commercial) to R-(high density residential), must now go before the City Council for final approval. on the The commission split issue, with Edgar Todd, Budd Rich and Gerald Larson voting against the change. Todd told colleagues he had nothing against the proposed apartment complex, but he would like to see it built somewhere else. I dont see why we should put another high density project (27 units per acre) in an area thats already load- ed with multi-famildwellings, he said. Larson agreed with Todd adding, There are plenty of other R-zones around that arent being used. There is to reason to overcrowd that 4000 So. A-- n. C-- 4-- 3 area. Janice Fisher, one who voted in favor of the zoning change, said the proposed apartment complex would be an asset to the city. It will become a standard of excellence for future developments, she predicted. Area residents submitted an petition against the proposed complex at a public hearing two weeks ago. A spokesman for the residents cited the potential for increased traffic problems as the main reason for their opposition to the project. Several commission members and local residents flew to Phoenix recently, at the developers expense, to view a similar project there. If the zoning change passes in the council, developers will have to return to the Planning Commission for conditional use approval before construction can begin. A public hearing was held on a rezoning request which would allow the expansion of a shopping center at 4100 W. 4500 South. Armond Johansen told the commission his company plans to buy 11 acres of land and use two acres of that for the shopping center. The rest would be used for a future housing development, Johansen explained. A road providing area subdivisions with access to 4000 West has also been proposed by the developer. The commission passed a motion limiting input into future study sessions to planning staff members. chairman Carrol Elford complained the public and developers were turning the sessions into public hearings which is not the purpose of a study session. The commission also voted to limit special meetings in the future to emergencies. The audit, which took about five months to complete, showed that Garrett in his estimates came within $200,000 of being right on the nose in a $150 million combined budget projection. What the audit showed was that the district was forced to dip further into its reserves to get through the 1982-8school year. Expenditures exceeded income by about $1.27 million, which ate into a fund balance from the previous year, making the current years beginning fund balance $2.8 million. Garrett had predicted it would be $2.6 million when the current budget was built. What that means, commented Superintendent John Reed Call, is that if the state calls for a cut in the amount of monies schools will be paid this year, as has been threatened, Granite will be forced to cut programs - at a time when a large amount of the money has already been either expended or committed to salaries and other fixed costs. (See Page 4, Co!. 2) 3 y Commission GRANITE PARK. Passing marks an A - was received by Granite School District accountants in an independent audit of the districts books, the Board of Education learned here Tuesday night. The audit, required by law, failed to turn up any weaknesses in the accounting system and showed that budget projections in the district came within a gnats eyelash of being right on the nose, despite budgets being prepared far ahead of their actual implementation. The districts three-ma- n accounting staff and chief budget officer Bryant Badger were commended for their efforts, along with David Garrett, who is largely responsible for preparing the budgets. The accounting staff also includes Ernest Gourley, James Loewy and Von Hor-ti- - actually Volume 29, Number 40 A may do Passing Marks 656-38- WEST VALLEY. subject Accountants Get Published weekly at 155 E. 4905 South, Salt Lake City, UT 84107. Second class postage paid at Salt Lake City, UT 84119. Subscription rate S12. 00 per year. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to West Valley View, Box 7187, Salt LaxeCity, UT 84107. 4-- 3 However, patrons who would like The input will be recorded and tabulated for board members. On the ballots under a column marked Other, Hunter junior high received 39 votes of about 1,300 that were cast. Mrs. White contended that that was not a fair assessment, since many people didnt like any of the choices and declined to vote. UTAH By school. 268-851- THE voice OF WEST VALLEY CITY USPS The matter was tabled when board members said they would like more time to consider the matter. Superintendent John Reed Call warned the board not to become involved in a popularity contest among names, or it would be forced to give up its right to name the to give input on the so by calling Bond Will Fund Apartment Project in Hunter, made a motion to approve the name Hunter for the school, but made it clear that the board could in no way commit to the naming of the high school. -- SUBDIVISION . . . Alice Steiner, principal with West Park Industrial Associates, requests subdivision approval at City Planning Commission meeting. Thursday Meeting - Planners Rule On Center WEST VALLEY. A conditional use application for construction of a shopping center on the northwest corner of 3500 South and 5600 West was approved by the City Planning Commission here Thursday. The application, filed by GFI LTD. II, was continued two weeks ago after the commission cited flaws in the developments proposed parking plan. In approving the application Thursday, the commission be stipulated that the parking plan correvised to include a north-soutridor to improve traffic flow through the lot. Planning staff member Kevin Hooper explained the initial parking design would have forced traffic to maneuver back and forth around groups of parked cars, while the corridor will provide a more direct route through the lot. The commission made other revisions in the proposed parking plan, including elimination of one access point (entrance drive) on 5600 West. Though the developer argued that each of the shopping centers four h major tenants will require its own entrance, the commission dropped one, stating the three access points will result in a more orderly traffic flow in and out of the shopping center. The developer will also be responsible for providing a quality landscaping design for the strip of land along 3500 South. Other decisions affecting property in West Valley City were made for the following locations: - 1300 W. 2200 South, F. C. Stangl received conditional use approval for construction of seven office and research buildings on a parcel. The new buildings, two of which will be three stories in height, will be the second phase of the Metro Business Park constructed last year. Phase one extends west from the future development along 2100 South to Redwood Road. Approval was granted subject to several recommendations including the construction of a block wall along the new project's boundary. The wall will spare residents (south of the project) an unpleasant view while construction is under way, the commission said. The commission also instructed the developer to determine if area residents want the projects proposed sidewalk continued along 2320 South into their neighborhood. - 2100 So. 4000 West, West Park Industrial Associates received permission to subdivide a parcel into three lots for development of an industrial park. A preliminary proposal for the development calls for several high image office structures to be constructed along the highway, with lower image industrial structures further South. - 4037 Boothill Dr., conditional use approval was given to Peter and Janet Stephan for the operation of a computer school in their home. The Stephans request to sell computers to students on a limited basis was approved. - 1525 W. 3940 South, conditional use approval was given to the LDS church Granger stake for construction of a stake center. 90-ac- -- N by Jim Cornwell a speech at every meeting. And if youre a newspaper reporter, you can add to all those opportunities to hear speakers several dozen others in the course of a given year. We enjoy listening to a good speaker and have vast admiration for those who literally hold an audience in the palm of their hand. Were envious of the speaker who disdains notes, yet delivers a throught-provokin- g message in which theres scarcely an inter- ruption to collect his thoughts. An absence of notes, though, doesnt always mean you'll hear a good speaker. Some ramble aimlessly, not infrequently repeating themselves because they have neither a mental pattern nor a written text. Some seem to think length is Important, and we agree - but for a different reason. If they havent made their point in 30 minutes, we doubt they will in an hour and 30 minutes. And if youre skeptical an important subject can be covered with brevity, consider Lincolns timeless remarks at Gettysburg. History rarely points out that the president was a addition to the ceremonies which dedicated the military cemetery on the Civil War battlefield in Pennsylvania. Edward Everett, of Massachusetts, former Ambassador to Britain e and president of Harvard, had been scheduled two months in advance to deliver the principal speech. Lincoln was asked as an afterthought, only two weeks before the ceremony. As a schoolchild, were you ever called upon to recite a talk which began, Overlooking these broad fields now reposing from the labors of the wandering year, the mighty Alleghenies dimly towering before us, the graves of our brethren beneath our feet ... last-minu- one-tim- Chances are you never even read Everetts talk, which began in the foregoing language. Said the Chicago Times, The cheek of every American must tingle with shame as he reads the y uttersilly, flat and ances of the man who has to be pointed out as the President of the United States. A visitor from abroad wrote in the London Times, "Anything more dull and commonplace it would not be easy to produce. dish-water- But who ever emerged from an American schoolroom without at some time hearing, reading or repeating, Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation. . ." Mr. Everetts talk lacked only three minutes of consuming two hours. Mr. Lincolns 10 sentences were spoken in five minutes. A photographer preparing to take a picture of the President while he was speaking waited too long - it was over. Critics blunder, the Gettysburg Address proves. A Harrisburg newspaper reported, The President acted without sense and without constraint; we pass over his silly remarks. We are willing that the veil of oblivion shall be dropped over them and that they shall no more be repeated or thought of. Fortunately, some newsmen carefully dissecting what had been said and realizing theyd heard a masterful treatise. saw it differently, The dedicatory remarks of President Lincoln will live among the annals of man, said the Chicago Tribune. Added Harpers Weekly, The few words of the President were from the heart to the heart. They cannot be read, even, without kindling emotion. A controversial figure in that day, Lincoln probably shed the li criticism without complaint. In fact, he said enroute back to Washington, That speech was a flat failure and the people are disappointed. The adage reads, It takes one to know one. And Edward Everett, the acknowledged master of the spoken word, knew what he had heard. He wrote the President, I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion in two hours as you did in two minutes. Everett was one of many who realized government of the people, by the people, for the people" would be a timeless phrase. And so, indeed, its what is said, not how long it takes or with what eloquence its delivered that determines the worth of a speech. A minute percentage will ever deliver a Gettysburg Address to those of us who listen. Probably an even smaller percentage would recognize it if they heard one. |