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Show free not for sale salt lake volume one june 15, 1972 number forty-thre- e Agency Renews Commitment or is not a resident. Persons who The Administration of the Model Cities Agency has renewed its commitment to upgrade and reverse the blight cycle of the live close to the model neighborhood, but not within the boundaries, may be considered e basis residents on using the criteria of income level, education level, housing level and other factors that characterize case-by-cas- Model Neighborhood through an affirmative statement on resident employment. Mel Darton, Ruth Ross serves as Resident Employment Specialist for Model Cities. by Kirk Terry You won't have to stand in the rain anymore if your bus stop is one of the several to have new shelters constructed over them, it was disclosed at the Transportation and Highways Task Force meeting, June 12, in the CityCounty Commission Chambers. Stanley Pace, task force heavy volume of Bountiful commuters using the Beck Street access to the city would have The shelter construction project came out of the task street's possible force's Public Transit Facilities Assit Project. Funds for this segment of that project have been contracted with the Utah Transit Authority with workers from the Youth Work and Training Project (Manpower and Economi. Development Task Force) assisting in the construction. Labor costs paid to the construction assistants will be appropriated from the Training Project. Pace asked Pete another route on which to travel. The railroad track that intersects that street, the task force noted, is another hazard that might be considered in planning 300 West improvements. The task force is continuing discussions on the Department to inquire if neighborhood as a whole. Mrs. Ruth Ross, Resident Employment Specialist and the Model Cities Resident Employment Council will render final determination and approval on such applicants. Volunteer in School Program School Volunteers don't replace the teacher but augment the Naomi Evans directs School Volunteer Program. Bea Valdez, task force assistant, was asked to contact the county's new Highway model Minority Parents Stanley Pace, Chairman, talks about new bus shelters. complete funding is not the case. The director said that some projects have had a substantial amount of funding in terms of that particular project, but only in the cases where the project benefited the community as a whole and not just the residents of a particular street where the construction takes place. The chairman said that if 300 West was extended north the chairman, read the approval of the shelter construction and gave the locations where the bus stops will be: SE corner of 700 South 800 West; SE corner of 400 South 800 West; NW corner of 900 West 200 North; NE corner of 500 South 200 East; NE corner of 1000 East 200 South; NE corner of 1 00 South 500 East. the Deputy Director of the Agency, announced that effective June 7, 1972, only model neighborhood residents will be considered for employment within the agency. The statement outlined the factors to be considered in determining whether a person is by Kirk Terry the teacher's curriculum. Volunteers perform tasks the teacher would otherwise have to do which would take them away from the individual time spent with pupils. Volunteers, moreover, free the teachers from tasks such as grading tests to supervising recess activities. The program has stressed the minority involvement because of the obvious factor of ethnic background and language. The minority assistant plays the part of educative liason between the student and the trained, qualified teacher. As with other volunteers, the minority assistant is not paid, but volunteers report to the principal, PTA and program director on a regular basis. At present, said Mrs. Evans, there are five minority supervisors in the program. The minority volunteer, as do the others in the program, assist the teacher in four general areas: Clerical 2. General assistance 1 . 3. Tutoring 4. Enrichment Two recruiters concentrate on minority involvement enlisting their support in the classroom. The recruiters approach minority parents in the has home and the met with a good deal of success, Mrs. Evans advised. When the minority parent or sub-progra- m a The School Volunteer representative to the task force meetings. A letter has been sent to the county regarding the representative. The task force was reminded that new project proposals were needed for action by July and the members agreed to meet weekly in order to make the deadline. The task force will meet at 7:00 Program, where residents and receives small hourly resident comes into the parents volunteer their time in is a highly the classroom, successful teacher aid project in Salt Lake City. Naomi Evans, director of the program, said that minority volunteers are an integral part of that system. They bring to classrooms, she said, invaluable experience, talent and bridge the cultural and ethnic barriers that can limit a young student's educative experience. Mrs. Evans stressed that compensation while attending 10 week training seminar. After the seminar the volunteers are sent to the schools and classes requesting their assistance. Some 47 city schools have volunteers. All four high schools send students as volunteers, said Mrs. Evans, and the younger students relate exceptionally well classroom, said the director, they bring to the whole class, not only general assistance, but first hand learning experience the student can identify with, no matter what their individual background. The minority volunteers add their knowledge and experience to the class so that students can more to their young volunteer ethnic worlds they will come in contact with for the rest of their department could send Grundfossen, Model Cities p.m. on June 19 at the director, if the agency funds the entire cost of street constuction projects. Grundfossen said that CityCounty Commission Chambers in the City and County Building. a a instructors. In each school supervising fully understand the different lives. |