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Show In Program At Gourley School - Dramatic Arts Skills Developed KEARNS. Students at David Gourley elementary are developing new skills in dramatic arts as they e join in classes with Florin Nielson, Mr. Nielson, who has been teaching dramatic arts at East high the past 22 years, will be at the Kearns school this week and next, working with teachers and students in classes taught by Devereaux and Steven Erickson. The program uses super learning, a process involving both the right and left brain and the entire artist-in-residenc- y body. By integrating improvisation drama with the regular curriculum, we hope the students and teachers will continue to utilize the techniques of super learning after the is gone, artist-in-residen- he ex- plained. We are hoping the program will help every student to discover his or her special talent while group ac- tivities develop interpersonal skills, said Mr. Dinwoodey. The visitor will work with the two teachers in their classes for one hour each day. Dinwoodey teaches third grade, Erickson has sixth graders. Mr. Nielson will spend one hour of the last day of his visit in each of the schools other classes. It is his hope and philosophy that the two teachers with whom he works more closely will become resource people to help other staff members and students, noted Dinwoodey. We found it possible to incorporate drama into most of the regular curriculum, including grammar and math, explained Mr. Dinwoodey. The group divided into groups of four, he explained, and were asked to put on a small play, using only their fingers. We hid behind a piano, so only our hands were seen, and acted out the Billy Goats Gruff and Robin Hood stories. We found it possible to use our hands as props. One person made the bridge, another the gruff, others the goats, he explained. The children will be asked to portray things relevant to the class activities, he said, using no elaborate details or costumes. They can act out grammatic interpretations, or math problems in mime, he noted, developing their imaginations, the conand cepts they are learning. Principal Morris Goates commented he hopes the program will offer students an opportunity to be exposed to the arts of drama and appreciate it more. I have heard that Mr. Nielson is expert in his field, and hope both I and my students can gain much knowledge from his time with us, said Mr. Erickson. I hope he can heighten our awareness of drama and how we can incorporate this art into our daily Mr. Dinwoodey curriculum, needed to correct hazardous intersections and street improvements into the downtown business district. Magna residents are fully aware that the intersection south of 2700 South on 8400 West is a high hazard area which has already cost the life of one of our prominent and active civic leaders, Mrs. Orlean Richardson. Our need for a community recreational center has been paramount for years, but whose project was scrapped in the budget crunch, even though money was invested in a building for that purpose? Flood control facilities here are primitive at best and virtually totally dependent on the Salt Lake and LETTERS (From Page 5A, Col. 6) ing record by Romney A. Stewart, associate director of Salt Lake County Public Works, that Magna is too dependent on its industrial tax base to be a city, is either crying wolf, or sour grapes, or both by the county, when you consider the loss of this plum from the tax rolls of the re- maining unincorporated county. Rather than this dependency weakening the new Magna Citys ability to bond for long term city improvements, as stated by Stewart in the hearing, it will instead more than likely adversely affect the bond rating of the remainder of Salt Lake County by its loss rather than Magnas which is presently at zero rating as an unincorporated community in the county. Issue is also taken with Stewarts double think statement to the commissioners, that a one mill decrease in Kennecotts and Hercules assessed value . . . would require a three-miincrease for other property to maintain the same revenue flow. Since when have the various kinds of assessed property valuations, which make up a citys diverse tax base (residential, commercial, industrial, agricultural), been taxed separately with different mill levies by any city fathers in formulating a citys revenue budget? The concept of the uniform tax law precludes such differential taxation and mandates mill levies to be applied uniformly across the board on all assessed property in a taxing district. On this basis, for Stewart to selectively trumpet economic hardship on one class of property owners over another in a taxing district is a falsehood. In practice, a hypothetical one mill decrease in Magnas industrial-base- d property assessed valuation would be only a pro rata decrease of the total taxable worth of Magna City and would require the city fathers to levy a new mill rate to maintain the same revenue flow, but it would be applied uniformly to all properties, including the 75 percent belonging to Kennecott and Hercules. As to the facts, of life about the nature of property evaluations in a taxing district, the truth is that they may fluctuate in a current year but not disappear as a taxing revenue source. Contrary to most peoples common perceptions about the inception of Magna as a town in 1908, (when the first housing subdivision was started by Frank Chambers to house 7 WEST VALLEY VIEW housing. Zoning enforcement is a 14 karat joke and buildings that were condemned 10 years ago are still standing. Listed contributions in the Magna incorporation study to Magna from Kennecott shows the need for a donation of $700 in 1983 for safe lighting at the intersections of 8400 West and 9200 West on 2400 South. It is precisely this neglected county position of Magna which belies our incorporation petition. It is our desire to break out of this syndrome of to the Salt neglected-dependency Utah Canal Companys irrigation system to control spring runoff. Funds for downtown redevelopment The new projects are four bay fire station in Magna was not built by the county, but by federal grant funds for Community Development, as were improvements to both Copper and Pleasant Green parks made by CD funds. Community Development funds were also used to replace bridges in Magna that had become so antiquated that they became hazardous, and the sidewalk improvement program, if you want to call it that, has for the past several years been funded strictly from federal Community Development grants, with the exception of Safe Sidewalk state money on t. 8400 West. In addition, for the past 10 years, Magna has fought a continuous battle against having a garbage dump located on our watershed; a feed mill located above the town; a fiber glass fabricating plant in the middle of the original business district; and saturation from low cost, low quality ll IMITATION . . . Gourley elementary students Heather Haws (left) and Amy Campbell attempt to mirror one anothers movements under the guidance of teacher Devereaux Dinwoodey. DISEASES & SURGERY OF THE FEET NEW LASER THERAPY MACHINE Callouses, corns and bunions Bone spurs and calcium deposits Arch problems Running injuries Inqorwn toenails Warts Foot pain and other problems involvinq feet and lower extremities. DR. RON BROWN Foot Poil ia is Spi'i inlist free I there's trouble a "Foot" When CALI US EXAMINATION By the Utah Appointment With This Coupon Only Expires January 31st, 1984 RAYS ARE EXTRA IF NE 967-333- 8 4370 So. Redwood All Insurances Accepted Copper Company's employees for the Magna Mill operations), it was not conceived as a town such as Garcompany-owne- d field, it was an entrepreneurial town in nature, supplying housing and a business district to the growing communitys resident workers. However, just as the copper mining industry grew in importance over the years to the states economy, so did Magna evolve from a strict entrepreneurial existence into a Kennecott-dominatepaternal, family-lik- e relationship that was once widely referred to by the company and residents alike. The first signs of a divorce, s however, surfaced in the when Kennecott announced the close out of Garfield and expansion plans to build the refinery on the Garfield site. At the same time they declared their intent to buy out Bingham Canyon and limit their involvement policy of monetary support and community development projects in the surrounding unincorporated county, including Magna. Indeed, in the past years as this policy has taken effect on the West Bench, Magna has been totally dependent for better or worse on Salt Lake County government, which in most instances turned a blind eye and a deaf ear in this direction. In the therefore, we of a became abruptly a divorce from our paternal, industrial-based auxiliary municipal type service support to the community. And, as a loyal, but patronized community for over 50 years, we were abandoned with no entrenched political constituency in the Salt Lake County government for support for municipal development projects in Magna. Regretably, we became an innocent victim of economies much like an unwanted child burden to the county, in spite of our excellent industrial-basetaxable worth contribution to the county over all these years. Herein lies the historical seeds in Magnas struggle in seeking adequate municipal type services and improvements from county government. Over the years we have primarily had only shared state and county revenue funds maintenance-typ- e too, which at best barely maintain our existing road system. We have received virtually no general county or state road improvement and development funds, which are sorely mid-Fiftie- 25-3- 0 mid-Fiftie- s, child-produ- TRAYS REG. TO $3.50 THIS AD EFFECTIVE TO CHECK MARQUEE Zj JAN. 26TH 1984 FOR OTHER DAILY SPECIALS d V I Thursday ,Jan. 19, 1984 t Lake County Public Works Department. There would be no public health services here without a donation from Kennecott, administered by the Magna Community Council. The Magna petition for incorporation has eloquently spoken out on behalf of our needs and economies. Moreover, the consultants analysis has verified that our proposed Magna City limits are economically feasible. Citizens For A Better Magna |