| Show DIU Utah $1800 In nut of eounty 6 month $1000 (to Advance) Copy Senior Citizens (65 and older) $1500 50c His dream continues by Dawn Carder Martin Luther King Jr the “Peaceful Warrior” was remembered in school programs speeches church services marches and other public gatherings across the United States on Monday January 18 Friday January 15 would have been his birthday Martin Luther King Jr following the example of Mahatma Gandhi preached passive resistance in his fight and for against racial discrimination equality for all regardless of race Leading a march on Washington in 1963 that was attended by more than 200000 and white- s- Dr King gave the words that remain with us still “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed ‘we hold these truths to be that all men are created equal’” Dr King continued to work in a nonviolent way until his untimely death on April 3 1968 when he was shot and killed by a rifle bullet fired by James Earl Ray For his work he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 In 1983 the United States Congress set up a federal holiday commemorating King’s life Each year the third Monday in January is set aside to in county $18 00 out of USPS County Vol 0 78 No 29 Jan 21 1988 Board of Ed recommends Voted Leeway Election honor Dr King and to remember how his leadership helped change the lives thousands of many many Americans The only other American with a federal holiday in his honr is George Washington Martin Luther King Jr was an spiration to many people around the world Changes have been made much remains to be done Still the dream lives on of by Dawn Carder Due to a projected large increase in funds from IPP taxes the Millard Board Education of is recomCounty mending a Voted Leeway Election 1988 is the target date for March voting The recommendation comes after tensive study and planning by the Board of Education and Dr Kenneth Topham Superintendent of Schools The Board has prepared a video presentation that will be made in a series of informative public meetings the According to Dr Topham assessed value of Millard The assessCounty was $303588520 ed value for with the addition of the Intermountain Power Project is to be $2000000000 expected Therefore the Millard County School District will receive a significant crease m funds The Board budget is divided into three categories: Maintenance and Operation Capital Outlay and State law allows a Board to lev Irotn to 10 mills in a Voted Leeway Election Dr Topham explained that the local Board is recommending 2 mills This will amount to approximately $800000 It is important to understand that this amount is strictly a transfer of funds There will be no additional taxes In fact with the assessed value at $2000000000 there will be a 19 percent tax reduction The following example ol tax sav ings is based on a home valued at $60000 198k 89 22 52 Savings-$The public information meetings will be followed by a vote If Noted Leewav passes a Public Hearing must be held Once in place decisions are made tirely by the Millard County Board ot Education If necessary the Board can reduce the mill rate An increase however must be taken back to the voters Board of Education is recommending taking portions of the increase from Capital Outlay and Transportation and putting those portions in Voted Leeway Voted Leeway is the only fund which gives school boards descretion in Transportation The M&O budget is regulated by the state and cannot be altered m any way on the local level The state standards require the Weighted Pupil Unit to be $1204 If the local district has more than this amount per pupil coming in the difference must be sent to the state In the event the district cannot meet this amount the state makes up the difference At this time Millard County is paying the state In either case the $1204 remains constant Revenue for Capital Outlay is the responsibility of the local district but funds which go strictTransportation students receives ly to transporting some state money At this time both of these areas have sufficient monies however strict guidelines dictate how the monies can be used The projected will provide increase for creased funds The Millard County expenditures The Millard School District has determined its Voted Leeway priorities transfer will Funds from the be used for the following: ratio 1) To reduce the in the schools 2) To pay for the purchase and updating of library and text books 3) To compete financially with other local districts for competent employees for the funds 4) To provide maintenance needs of our district ie painting ventilation carpentry work lighting landscaping and other related building repairs 5) To purchase computers and other media equipment Fillmore Chamber airs complaints about County Commissioners by Dawn Carder The Fillmore Chamber of Commerce held its regularly scheduled meeting at noon on Thursday January 14 at the Paradise Inn in Fillmore President Shari Ashworth addressed the main of the wrongdoings Millard County Commissioners-aa lengthy discussion ensued Chambei members had Initially considered writing a letter to David NVilkinson Utah Attorney General The letter was to be a request for vestigation into possible wrongdoings of the County Commissioners However after meeting with Judge Ron Hare Shari Ashworth stated that the legality of such a letter is questionable Speaking on the legality issued Fillmore Mayor Keith Gillins firmly stated that he wanted no part of the ac cusation for proof of illegal actions are needed “I don’t feel that any illegal action has been taken” the Mayor said “I think it’s a question of bias rather than illegality” Specific items of concern andor bias discussed at the Chamber meeting were: 1) unfairness to East Millard 2) lack of fair representation 3) ignoring needs of East Millard electors 4) violation of the Sunshine Law-agendas published nor minutes kept of meetings in Delta 5) County budget disportionately weighted in favor of West Millard 6) more road funds spent in West Millard than in East Millard Mayor Gillins reported on a Community Leadership meeting that had And the snow fel- l- port the already formed Citizens’ Committee in its investigation of the County budget fair representation and tention to ALL Millard Countv residents Other items of interest mentioned at the Chamber meeting came from Mayor Gillins His comments regarding the effects of Black Monday on this area apparently appeared in the New York Times As a result the Mayor was contacted recently by three different Wall Street firms concerning funds for the swimming pool Then "a friend from St George” is financiallv supporting other Fillmore civic projects Mayor Keith Gillins the Fillmore Chamber of Commerce members and the newly formed Citizens’ Committee are committed to obtaining equality for their city been held Wednesday night January 13 in the City Offices In attendance were 21 leaders from Scipio Meadow Holden Kanosh Flowed and Fillmore council members The purpose of the meeting was to disclose the new County budget and to look at inequities I his citizens’ committee has requested a one hour meeting with the County Commissioners to take place within the next thirty days Abe Johnson was the only County Commissioner present at the Chamber meeting He answered questions made suggestions and attempted to explain portions of the budget and certain actions of the commissioners the discussion the Following members of the Fillmore Chamber of Commerce decided that there was a need to objectively state needs and concerns They further determined to sup Mylene and Randy Memmott with little Katherine Katherine Memmott is New Year Baby! A big Welcome is extended to Katherine Marlene Memmott daughter of Randy and Mylene Memmott of Scipio Little Katherine Marlene won the New Year’s Baby Contest on Friday January 8 1988 at 3:36 pm She weighed in at 8 pounds even and is 22 inches long Katherine and her folks Tele-Learni- sv V sv I 4 £ v V went home with lots of goodies from our local merchants and others The Fillmore Community Medical Center congratulates Randy and Mylene on their new baby daughter and says You” to those who con“Thank tributed prizes to the New Year’s Baby week by adding several inches of new snow is coming to Millard School District ng compiled by Dawn Carder a distance learning will be implemented in technology Utah’s Great Basin which includes Other this spring Millard County districts involved in the Great Basin Region are Box Elder Tooe'e and instuction workshop A and was held Monday Tuesday Wednesday January 11 through 13 at the Delta High School A Great Basin Region Distance Brems Education Committee-RobMike Box Elder Superintendent Jacobsen Tooele Superintendent Fred Openshaw Tmtic and David Church with the Utah State Office of Education Dean Bradshaw Technical Consultant and Saul Rockman Technology Director for the Far West Laboratory in San Francisco California to develop a project plan for by the four local school approval boards is a distance cooperative mat helps rural educators tli ¥v sv s provide qualified instruction in the full range of courses students need for graduation or college entrance It is a program where teachers are shared “across schools districts and counties through an innovative form of distance education use of the Combining telephone computer and an electronic chalkboard it connects students in one school with a teacher in another located in very isolated areas The children attending these schools live in a rural environment with little chance to experience the opportunities given those who live in the city One principal reported that the only chance children have to experience use of money in purchasing goods in his community is to buy pop from the school vending machine Only a year ago did the last of these schools obtain the advantages of a telephone Some of the schools are not served by educational television Some have only one or two teachers to teach as many as eleven grade levels There are adequate high quality teacheis available in the larger towns and cities of the region to be able to enrich the curriculum to raise the and to life stuquality of instruction of dent performance and the all the children in the isolated areas potentially at a cost savings of presently budgeted funds by the four school districts The plan is to bring this about interactive creating classroom instruction" At the present time the Millara School District has an enrollment of about 4000 students All of these tend school in Delta and Fillmore— except thirteen These children live in the small farming area of Garrison close to the Nevada border (Eskdale operates a small private elementary school and a high school and the community has expressed an interest in participating in any distance education effort) Some vv thirteen small schools sx- sjsX’X are sw X'X X X V X VA v sy video a slow scan process that shows through distance education a single still picture every tew seconds was The approach and shares the same phone lines as the developed m southern Utah about four audio and computer graphics In addiyears ago by Henry Jolly and Todd tion facsimile transmission equipment Stubbs The way it works is to install will mean the teacher can surprise the a station at each site class with a quiz now and then and get volved The hardware includes a comthe papers back from the students in letter a a and monitor pen light puter their own handwriting several quality graphics printer shares Each of the participants a an audio mixer microphones responsibility for making the learning telephone and a modem In Garfield work The districts are cooperative were Stubbs and where Jolly County picking up the costs for the installation located a light pen was used to “draw ” and leasing of telephone lines the state on the monitor screen or computer will assist in acquiring the hardware graphic images were created using the and Far West Laboratory will help set These images then imkeyboard up the system and evaluate its progress mediately appeared on the monitor the year During the coming screens at the four high schools cooperative plans to expand the Students at each site in turn used their pilot effort to share such "longlight pen and keyboard as well as the or thirteen courses distance” among audio conferencing component more isolated secondary schools in the The schools in the Great Basin region It is a federally funded project Region are adding visual components Three teachers from the Millard that will increase the lessons’ appeal to County School District have been students The first provides w s x Xv X Xv X Xv Xv Xv X Xv Xv X X: Xv Xv X NX ft Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia “Peter and the Wolf” Jfcv ft ft West Millard Cultural Council selected to participate in the initial program this spring They are Lorraine French teacher a' Delta Peterson High Richard W illiams teacher of American History and Advanced Placement Government at DHb and Social Studies and Lloyd Brown Economics teacher at Millard High After assessing the needs a coordination of scheduling and materials will take place Millard High will be a receiver this time and Delta will be a sender This will allow MHS students and the course taught to take tench by Mr Williams Possibly the most important contribution that will result from the project is a move toward educational equity among schools m the region The addition of needed courses to the curriculum and the unproved quality of struction which will occur through the influence of the master extended teacher will help All this is provided in a cost effective and efficient manner X X Xv X xxx Delta High School January 26 at 7:00 PM $300 Adults - $200 Children ¥ ¥ x x- x xy 'xxV:: av' as''' |
