Show ' T Serving Utah's Great Pahvant Valley Single $75 December Vol 88 No 23 USPS Copy 17 1998 Female juvenile detention facility may locate in Delta motel Derin Phelps The Spring Creek Youth Ranch of Smithneld wants to set up a female juvenile detention facility for girls ages 12 8 on the upper level of the Budthrough By in Delta get Motel Project Director Craig met with Delta Mayor Dale Applegate Millard County Commission Chairman John Henrie (center) signs 1999 Lana Moon is on the left and Commiscounty budget Commissioner sioner Tony Dearden is on the right I i Derin Phelps After an uneventful Millard public Commission County hearing the adopted the county’s budget for 1999 in the amount of $1 5534600 Next year’s budget is down from 1998 by $176065 The General Fund totaled $ 2096295 before transfers in the amount of $3249905 were deducted The deduction brought the 1999 General Fund to $8846390 The budget includes $ 89460 for the commission That’s up from $ 83 05 this year District court $102037 The Public budget is $170000 lotted Public reported for the Millard totaled $1716515 The budget for West Des Deputy Sheriff came to $77620 A special sheriff's budget was set up in the amount of $10000 The cohol and drug budget totaled $ 2800 and the jail budget came to $1223 109 Land- County Auditor John Hansen that 1998 is the final year for This year the county sharing will pay 25 of the original amount to cities and towns in the county That will total $1 10000 this year The commisvoted to pay 100 of the amount the end of the year Commissioner get County thorized to Tony Dearden Commissioner Monday's county budget Lana Moon said could Nov Applegate was told the approve or disapprove not The Budget Motel Zoning Commission is not zoned properly for such a facility Jeffery said Spring Creek tried to file an appl ication for a license but forgot to sign it She sent the application back for a sig- The matter has not been placed on and Zoning Commission agenda nature a Planning The next Planning and Zoning be at 7:30 pm Jan 13 meeting will Applegate said he plans to start the on the upper level of the motel He Creek will use a separate trance from motel customers and there will cility said Spring no adjoining doors As the facility he plans to turn the entire motel juvenile detention facility He said was approached about the idea by Martin Anderson owner of the Budget be was enter adjustments on the 1998 budget if any are needed The commission also approved amendments to the 1998 general ledger and budget journals during before the City Council facility Applegate was told to file an for a business license and then application use request a zone change or a conditional and permit from the Delta City Planning revenue before Defender’s was wrapped up in five The ShcrilTCEM bud- safety budgets separate Millard Dekker the fill sion was Dekker council Other budgets include $2652840 for class B roads $434 60 for debt service $30000 for emergency phone service and $508500 Robert City Recorder Dorothy Jeffery Karen last Johnson and Miriam Waddingham month to discuss the facility Applegate then appeared 4 County Commission adopts Final 1999 Budget By City Councilman Roper announced budget hearing that the is in the black this year grows into a he Motel in September If the Planning and Zoning Commission approves Spring Creek’s plans Applegate 16 girls who are plans to start housing Musicians invited to join community band Derin Phelps By musicians All right all you aspiring get Band to join the Delta Community under the direction of Robert Schmidt of Delta Schmidt the band director at Delta Middle School said any adult who wants to be involved may join There is no sign ready up fee and music will be provided Rehearsals will be held once a week in just try to put on a couple year” Schmidt said “We’re conlook- ing for flute oboe clarinet saxophones baritone French Horn trombone trumpet tuba percussion” Anyone with any Schmidt skills skill level is wanted will help players brush up on their The two annual concerts will likely be held and Christmas around the 4th of July “We’ve got the 23rd Army Band comand we thought ing to Delta in March about possibly playing a number or two them along with Schmidt or on the same concert" said Currently Schmidt is working with Cindy Staples and Terry Jensen They need more people to help organize the names band The three have a list of of people who play instruments they will be contacting Delta Middle School Robert Schmidt for the community band Inspiration comes from lessons school children are taught Schmidt tells his students that playing an instrument should be a lifetime thing Many times he says students stop playing after high school Sometimes they continue into college and then quit A community band will give students an opportunity to keep playing Schmidt plays in the Oak City Dance Band and sees people in their 60s and 70s still tooting their horns Schmidt attended a conference in Phoenix last spring at which a community band played “They talked about the organization of it and talked about the things that they do" Schmidt kind “So that of got me moving plained band director bit more also toward getting this started” The main instrument Schmidt plays is trumpet He had to learn how to play all band instruments to teach them Schmidt tries to keep up on them all by and playing with his students practicing No dates have been set yet to start the a little the band but Schmidt to hold a meeting ary Music will be distributed at that time two later the first practice sesband will The community different types of music Aweek-o-r sion will Staples and Jensen plan around the end of Janu- be held play many To join the band call after 6 pm Cindy to 6 pm at am Schmidt at Staples from or Terry 10 Jensen at Derin Phelps It looks problems like Douglas are not behind F Turner’s legal him as he thought they were last year The man was charged with a class misdemeanor count of negligent homi- Sutherland A class C misdemeanor count of driving left of the center line after his pickup and trailer hit and killed CaliDonald A Dimmick of Milpitas cide and a fornia The accident occurred at 10:07 pm 16 1997 on a sharp curve on US Highway 50 at the Oak City junction Turner was westbound and Dimmick was eastbound Utah Highway Patrol Trooper Gordon Mortensen reported that Turner’s vehicle crossed the center line while he stated that was in the curve Mortensen as the two drivers saw each other the April pickup moved further to the left and ran off the side of the highway Dimmick who was driving a Honda Goldwing motorcycle hit the mirror on the right side of the pickup and then hit the trailer He was girls will be in a of the girls will be allowed problems Spring the parents who over to the facil- contracted None state situation to socialize behavior “We want to do a lot of working with parents” Applegate said As part of the work with parents Spring Creek will hold high impact seminars with parents and children Both parents and children will be taught skills so they will get will also be along better Similar seminars by good offered to the community Applegate is attracted at large to Delta because it He said the girls need to get “I just don’t their environments like the big city myself personally” Applegate said All of the girls will come from western He plans to list his services states on the Internet Applegate has been working ward this project for the past four years He is a small away town from has worked for similar facilities but has never set one up foster parent Applegate has a love for children He wanted to address their bigger scale than just being a foster parent He has started two alternative schools in Tuba City Arizona and Ely Necertified school teacher vada He is a who is working on a master's degree in psychological therapy Applegate also has as an overseer of an ’ - pension program for troubled children The proposed facility will be different than a regular juvenile detention facility Applegate plans to not only offer therapy but also educational and job skills as well as college credit Job training will be provided actually As a needs on a BYU and Life Skills classes perpetrators or are considered by the POOR COPY Delta Area high the scene Neither Jacqueline a passenger in the pickup was injured Turner pleaded guilty to the class C misdemeanor charge May 8 1997 and was sentenced on the charge June 19 1997 He pleaded innocent to the class A misdemeanor count Chief Deputy dead at pronounced Turner nor his wife Millard County son objected to ing predicting Michael Esplin Attorney Dexter Anderthe pleas and to sentencthat Turner’s attorney would take advantage of the guilty plea on the lesser charge to argue double jeopardy if prosecution on the class A misdemeanor count were pursued Fourth District Judge Anthony Schofield accepted the pleas despite the objections When Judge Donald Eyre sentenced him Anderson brought up the but Eyre went ahead with same argument sentencing As it turned out Esplin double jeopardy in Judge Gary D Stott a written did argue motion Stott then dismissed to class the A misdemeanor count on Dec 19 1997 Last Thursday the Utah Court of ApStott's dismissal of the peals overturned class A misdemeanor The court also set aside Turner’s guilty plea on the class C as well as the sentence he already served Anderson doesn’t know if he will still have to stand trial on the class misdemeanor C misdemeanor “I’m going to argue that the Court of set aside the guilty plea on the Appeals class C misdemeanor and that we’re going to have a trial on both counts” Anderson “After that if he’s found guilty of both the court will sentence him on whatever he’s found guilty on” Anderson thinks if Turner is convicted of the class C misdemeanor he will probably get credit for any time already served and any fine he has already paid said one or A fore Stott conference to will be held set a new trial date Chamber of Commerce The Budget Motel in Delta may soon detention facility looking for teachers therapists and trackers Trackers stay with girls 24 hours a day They make sure they go to class and perform the tasks they are assigned to do tracker Each will be responsible for girls problems will be handled by Discipline assigning offenders written reports loss of privileges therapy peer pressure and group therapy If necessary girls with discipline problems will be placed in lation but Applegate does not anticipate problems rising to that level Millard intendent County School District SuperDr Kenneth Topham said the district is very concerned about the project He sees a movement in Utah to take students having problems in the ies and move them to rural areas The ing has been that such a move will resolve their problems “Our experience has been that it doesn’t” Topham said “In fact we have more difficulty tional youth in dealing with dysfuncthat move into the area than we do with our own From his experience and of other Utah school districts Topham doesn’t think it’s good for a community or a school district to have this type of facility in a school district Unless the Millard County School District finds out more about the project or discovers there is a misunderstanding posed facility the experience district its purpose Topham said the school will not be in favor of the project at all “We think it will tax the facilities of our district" cilities said “When Topham say we think it will tax money It will the drain resources personnelwise and of the district moneywise” with a girls juvenile If Spring Creek provides its own teachers and staff the Millard County School District will be required to apprograms the prove the educational cility offers If Spring Creek does not provide its own teachers and staff the school district will be required to protaxvide them This will be especially ing if there are girls with special educational needs In either case the school district and the local Families locate sign in Delta “I don’t both first-clas- and Agen- (FACT) Comoff on their desire to T ogether cies Coming mittee must think that that means they approve it but they have to at least be recognized as an agency to deal with” Topham said have to If the proposed facility is started and falls apart Topham is afraid the girls end up as the responsibility of the Millard County School District would district is required to provide He’s especially them with an education concerned because many children in since the such facilities youth” Topham has only had one conversation with Spring Creek representatives They did not go over specific plans for the pro- about be combined have special needs district is limited on the of money it gets for certain programs For example if there's a special education program the school district can’t claim more than 2 of its entire student body for those funds If the district has to claim more students that would take money away from students enrolled in the district currently “We’re willing to do as a school district everything possible to help our local students within our district” Topham said “I think we feel that the other school district if it be a city or whatever that they should do the same thing and not send down to us or to a private firm students that are not functioning properly in their school systems" The school amount s Tanner recognized as year teacher by school board first Derin Phelps Becky Tanner a Special Education Teacher at Delta Middle School was recognized last Thursday by the Millard County School Board for her nomination as a first class first year teacher Although she did not receive the award the American Association of School Administrators By and Sally Mae which issue the award to one teacher in every state sent her a certifi- her nomination Utah’s winner was a Farmington teacher who won a $1000 scholarship This is the first year Delta Middle School Principal Dr Eleanor Dalton has seen a certificate issued to anyone other than a state winner “She felt that was very close in the running for that position because of the cate for certificate Tanner said and the recognition" Tanner who teaches students in 6 7 and 8 grades was surprised when she found out Dalton had nominated her for the award In her job she works with students on all skills including social and life skills This involves teaching students how to survive in the real world Tanner teaches all acasubjects like math science history demic English and spelling She sees between twice as hard as the other students do It’s neat to see when they succeed at something and watch them grow" Tanner said she watches many students increase their average grades from Cs to As “I love working with them" she said “I love watching them succeed like to help and be part of their lives" Bom in Payson 14 Tanner has lived in Delta spent most of her life in the Spanish Fork and Salem areas T attended Southern Utah University the years She Payson School Board President Brent Olson (right) presents Becky Tanner with commendation for her nomination as first year teacher as Dr Kenneth Topham (left) and Delta Middle School Superintendent Principal Dr Eleanor Dalton watch of Utah Utah State UniverUniversity She earned teachsity and Snow College ing certificates in Elementary Education and Resource in 1992 This is Tanner's year as a teacher The nomination was for last year Before she started teaching Tanner worked as an instructional second students every day “It’s very rewarding" Tanner said “These kids struggle Usually everything and have to work they do they struggle 00 Chsrstmas Cash Party & Draiffn Sponsored with any local residents or their friends They will have to earn the right to visit their parents are sexual Turner to again face charge of negligent homicide in vehicle accident By Creek risk When and if the facility opens Applegate will have approximately eight employees That will expand to about 40 when the facility expands to house 60 girls He will be band instruments “We’ll of girls with discipline will contract with will turn legal guardianship ity They along with the ents Girls who have displayed positive behavior will be allowed to go camping horseback riding and on other outings They will be fully supervised said he will not admit girls who Applegate DcltaMiddle School Band Room is looking for any and all band instruments Strings and pianos are not certs a systo 60 girls He will contract with the stale for the first 16 girls The rest will come from par- over the Internet the new Schmidt considered currently in the Utah Juvenile Court tem He eventually plans to house up sistant and operated the Delta Middle School Planning Colter Tanner appreciates the faculty and ministration at Delta Middle School She said Dalton and the Millard County School District are great to work for Tanner also her instructional assistants for praised their many talents In nominating Tanner for the award Dalton wrote four essays about Tanner’s instructional skills her interaction with students her communication skills and distinguishing characteristics “Mrs Tanner is truly concerned about how students learn” Dalton wrote “She knows that students cannot leam if they are not focused She has tried various motivation techniques such as their knowing students’ backgrounds interests and their needs" Dalton wrote that Tanner has excellent communication skills and is a people person who respects others whether they are children parents faculty staff or members of the community Other teachers request their struggling students be placed with Tanner as a resource teacher is a mother a daughter a “Becky wife a new grandma a sister a colleague and a new teacher” Dalton ported “She mixes her roles well and the blend is a teacher who is dedicated to children and to the school" SATURDAY DEC 19 11:30TO 2:30 PM DROUBAY CHEVROLET SHOWROOM BROADCAST ON KNAK RADIO 1 - |