Show 3The Gunnison Valiev News Wed June 26 1991 School Board is looking for two more teachers The South Sanpete School Board is still looking for two teachers Mullins Superintendent said: a teacher of agriculturcbiology at Manti High School and an English teacher at Gunnison Valley High School But there are still a few vacancies in classified positions Superintendent Mullins added The school board approved the at last following appointments week's meeting: Lisa Crane as a half time business teacher at Gunnison Valley High School Laura Busdicker to teach music at Ephraim Middle School and Gunnison Valley High School Tom Cranmcr as an Englishdrama teacher at Gunnison Valley High School Dale as a part time custoHenningson dian at Manti High School Foiled Patty Westenskow and Mitzi Olsen (part time) cooks at Gunnison Valley High School and Rowllend Lantz as a part time aide at Ephraim Middle School Also approved was the advancement of Betty Woodside to cook installation of a new $250000 satellite uplink dish at the USU telecommunications building Cazier said that USU has won national distinction as being one of only six universities nationwide to receive this uplink capability under a new agriculture satellite network called AGSAT — Agricultural Satellite Corporation The network links USU with at least 33 other land grant universities and their agricultural programs across the country wide A newly installed satellite dish will give the university the capability of originating and teaching courses broadcasts Students will owners and ma f t in Central Primarily a mapping to compile drill hole and other geologic geophysical information n the Permian Kaibab Formation in Eastern Utah to construct a model for oil exploration 047 to study date and map $ rocks in the older Precambrian $9500 Farmington District Canyon Complex San Juan County into one report to study the PrecamFormation brian Big Cottonwood $3826 via satellite to schools nationwide according to Roger McEvoy USU Extension communication specialist Six Utah counties including Sevier San Juan Millard Washington and Utah will be equipped with satellite receiving dishes over the next few months Once these are in place these counties will be able to receive transmissions from USU and from AGSAT universities nationwide This presents “a whole new horizon where the latest newest is availand best in information able AGSAT classes will begin this fall Because the course will have full audio hookup students taking the class in Pennsylvania and in Richfield Utah will be able to communicate directly with the USU instructor anytime during the broadcast lecture as in a normal classroom setting even net analysis and calculate present value using spreadsheets and charts The seminar is designed for business owners managers office managers and accounting managers who work for retail businesses service companies farm and ranch operations and manufacturing firms Registration fee is $30 and each participant will receive a computer disk containing practice files and business templates and a lessons workbook will receive trainParticipants ing in word processing spreadsheets database systems accounts receivable and accounts payable etc Previous experience with computers is not necessary Contact the Utah Small Business Development Center office in Ephraim or Snow College for more details This is the only tug your heart should feel It’s never too late to quit smoking Cal £ t y - ! rT“ k-- Pf' HHl Wz11 — I -I- Jfr i v Also at the meeting the board extended Superintendent Mullins contact for another two years project rf f ? mi percent That means a beginning teacher with a bachelors degree will start out at SI 87 17 If he or she gets to th e top of the masters degree schedule the salary comes to $30334 if a doctorate $32600 South Sanpete is 14th from the top among the state’s 40 school district in starting salaries but is not far from the bottom at the other end of the schedule Superintendent Mullins said Other employees will also get increases ranging between 49 and 672 percent depending on the classification be able to speak to manto learn to use personal computers to improve their management skills can attend special seminars planned in five Utah communities this summer The Association of Small BusiCenters and ness Development Microsoft Inc developed the curriculum and will sponsor the seminars A Seminar will be held July fill at Snow College Ephraim The six hour course will help leam how to track participants accounts payable accounts receivable and payroll how to generate management reports how to work with financial statements and compute cash flow and financial ratios how to combine a customer data baselist and form letter for collection letters or promotional letters and how to observe break- - ''' I School inThe board also approved creases in the basic salary schedules For teachers and administrators the increases come at four instructors all over the country Utah business agers who want ? K at Manti Elementary manager School and the transfer of English from teacher Andria MacFarlane Middle Gunnison to Ephraim Business people invited to computer course at Snow When Utah State University looks to the future it looks up to where satellites orbiL These communication tools are higher education’s ‘forerunner of tomorrow’ said Stanford Cazier USU president He spoke recently during an inaugural ceremony celebrating the p fT' mf 4 Where does tax money go? Tax money put to use Where does your federal tax money go? are six scientific Following proposals approved for funding by the Utah Geological and Mineral Survey Board $7778 to study an active fault and investigate earthquake hazards in Cache County $8745 to study aspects of how and when the Mercur gold deposit in Tooele was formed $2900 to gather extensive infrom White Canyon formation 3 ' X GVHS PROJECT IS GOING STRONG: The walls are started at the new addition to the Gunnison Valley High They will complete masonary work in approximately six weeks The constructon is scheduled to School be completed in November of 1 991 however they three weeks behind at present but some parts of project will go a lot faster than planned are the Kids worry about a lot of things says PhD Thomas R Lee PhD College of Family Life Utah State University Knowing what kid worry about gives us insight into their stressors Stress is a reaction to what we perceive as a threat Kids’ worries tend to be about things that are close to them in their everyday environment — the things they confront every day at home or at school They do worry about nuclear war but they feel conmore stress over immediate crete concerns such as giving a report in class Each child is different but there are some worries that arc fairly typical of all children in a particuFor preschoolers lar age group common worries include having an accident and wetting their pants getting separated from parents in a crowd not being understood when they are trying to say something and getting in trouble Elementary age children are most worried about not being able to do in school getting in assignments trouble in school being left out in games at recess not having someone to sit by and not having the ‘right’ kind of school supplies or clothes are worried Early adolescents about changes in their body and being ‘normal’ It is typical for to feel that young adolescents is looking at them ‘everybody’ talking about them or making fun of them if they do anything out of the ordinary at all Worry over being pressured to use drugs or get sexually involved as a way to fit in is especially during early pronounced ence-ages In later adolescence adolesc- r people worry about preparing fora career and gelling into college or career training They feel a lot of pressure about w hether they will be able to succeed in what seems like and highly a rapidiy changing competitive world They may feel to that they arc being pressured make decisions about their future that they aren’t ready to make At each of these stages kids’ worries are characterized by two important needs that people of all the need to feel in ages have: and the control and need to belong and be accepted Parents can help fill those needs in children so that they arc moie able to handle the worries and stresses they will have Help children learn to make decisions The creases our sense of mastery steps of identifying the problem outlining possible solutions hoosing the can be outcome most desirable taught children Parents can guide through the steps while leaving the ultimate choices up to them Parents can discuss how they made a decision and the things they considered in doing so Help each child feel a sense of Accept belonging in the family each child’s differences emphaand contribusizing cooperation and tions rather than comparison achievements Treat our children's worries with Remember to them their problems are real Saving “I can understand why this is difficult for you” shows respect and leaves children more inclined to talk with you bout their concerns and to turn to sou when they need help young Postal service servicemen More than 500000 veterans of the Desert Shield and Desert S torm operations int he Persian gulf soon will be honored with a commemorative postage stamp “We are proud to pay tribute to those who answered our country’s call to duty in the Persian Gulf — including more tan 2500 postal Service employees and especially those Gunnison Valley residents said Gunnison Postmaster Irma Swenson “These courageous men and women served to preserve the freedom American’s cherish to dearly” The stamp feature the Southwest Asia Service Medal authorized by an Executive Order in March 1991 Four hundred million stamps will be printed and will be available in 50 stamp sheets and 20 stamp booklets in early July will with honor stamp The US Postal Ser kC placd a strategic role in Desert Shield and Desert Storm the largest international mail operations in ns hisWithin the first month of tory volume mail Shield Desert amounted to more than fit X' jxHjnJs a day During the holiday season the daily mail volumes rose to By war’s end 60') 000 pounds American fighung forces had received nearly 60 million pounds of mail from home for Operations Mail service Down Shield and Desert Storm w us a joint effort belw cen the Postal of Service and he Department Postal employees in the Defense United Stales collected sorted and processed the mail and turned it over the military for delivery to units in the Persian Gulf The lee or sheltered side of a ship comes from an word referring to the side of a shed that was out of the wind where a laborer would take his lunch Brothers return and leave for missions Gordon and Kevin Rosenlund son of Dale and Sharlecn Rosenlund former Gunnison residents will be and combining their homecoming farewell in a special sacrament meeting on July 21 1991 in the Olathe LDS Want Chapel in Olathe Kansas Elder Gordon was released from serving int he California Ventura Mission on June 19 1991 Prior to his mission he was attending school at Brigham Young University and he will continue his education there jin this fall to Elder Kevin has been called to the Idaho Boise Mission and will enter the Missionary Training Center in Provo on July 25 Kevin has completed a year of schooling at Ricks College in Rexburg Idaho Gordon and Kevin are the grandsons of Aubrey and Virginia Rosenlund of Gunnison Friends can write to Kevin at the Idaho Boise following address: Mission 2710 Sunrise Rim Road Suite 220 Boise Idaho 83705 Drivers still need to be cautious school zones in Although most schools in Utah arc in the summer vacation mode drivers still need to be cautious in warns the Utah school zones Department of Transportation There arc several schools in the schedstate that arc on a ule so students will be attending summer schools those during months Many schools have sumChildren use mer school classes playground facilities in the school yard even when classes aren’t in session Summertime is not a lime to be lax in school zone safety It docsn ’t take a lot to figure out how to drive safely in a school zone notes Sgt Gary Whitney of of Public the Utah Department Safety “The most obv ious thing to do is slow down and be alert The signs arc there Drivers must slow down" The most important thing to do to pay atcnnon to your driving and watch lor uu!drcn Kids can do the u n c x pec ted and dad out in to traf fic at any time Whitney w ams Parents must teach their children to have respcc t for cars and to be alert Blaine H Beckstrom safety patrol advisor of Granger said that students need Elementary to take responsibility for themselves and exercise caution Kids should be taught to face traffic when they walkand to cross only where there are crossing guards Beckstrom noted There are now more bike riders on the streets and both drivers and riders need to keep safety at the top of their list Bikers need to use hand signals when they turn have and walk bikes bicycles inspected across busy intersections he added “We may not be able to go in and put up a stoplight at every crosswalk in the state but if we can get drivers to slow down and be alert and get kids to be more aware of safety it will reduce the number of school zone accidents” said Kim Morris UDOT Community Relations Director In 1989 there were 1998 accidents in Utah’s school zones noted Rick Julio UDOT’s Traffic and Safety 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