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Show Page 3A North Edition Lakeside Review Wednesday, July 18, 1984 Editorial School Idea Deserves Close Attention Year-Roun- d Those concerned with minishing revenues and di- -t ev- -, d The idea of that the idea can also be supported for scholastic schools is not new to Davis indicate year-roun- school officials who have so far been convinced that the should maintain a disadvantages of the system watchful eye on Provo School outweigh the benefits. The alone Districts West Ridge Eleof the students en- cost of and be would rolled vacation will be on School high, problems the during mentary from the classroom, allowing and expenses associated with coming year. Students there have ended the school to accommodate .maintaining schools in constant use are substantial. their summer vacation early that many more students. this year and may have endHowever, rapidly growing The savings in school conenrollments in the Davis dised the tradition of a maintenance and trict and summer hiatus struction, is obvious. A improving accepoperation tance of the concept among from the classroom permabenefit of the sysnently. The Provo district has tem is that children are better parents and teachers should careful study of rebecome the first in the state able to retain what they have prompt the of sults to institute a program of learned program in Provo when they dont have officials. Those who local d school, and early the absence from the by long decision to try made the have indications are that students classroom. Also, teachers are the seem in Provo are accepting the idea with opsystem able to teach for 12 months with plans under enthusiasm. Teachers and timistic, and earn a salary. way to convert four other eleparents also are giving the Parents, for the most part, mentary schools and one concept high marks. The primary motivation seem perfectly willing to give middle school to the program for trying the program is ecoup the task of finding mean- in the next few years. The idea deserves serious nomic, but testing of students ingful activities for the their d children during the long three reconsideration by Davis, who attend school school officials. in other parts of the country months of summer. enrollments in the Davis County School Dis-tri- ct reasons. In 'Provo, students will attend school for 45 days vacaand then have a tion. At any one time, 15-d- " ay one-four- th i ' three-month-lo- ng us , year-roun- 12-mo- BROTHERS, Michael Medell, 8 (left), and Danny Medell, 11, were winners in a recent essay contest on Why We Celebrate the Fourth of July sponsored by the Golden Spike Country Music Association. Michael, a second grader year-roun- Viewpoint World Still Offers Much Good The TIm Lakciid Raviaw has asksd a number af community residents to servo as auest columnists for the newspaper. This week Bob Austad has written a guest column for the newspaper. -Austad grew up in Ogden and graduated from Bon Lomond High School in 1959. Ho attended Utah State University maioring in engineering. Ho is a graduate of Weber State CoHego in psychology and German with English and math minors.. Ho received a masters degree in educational counseling at Central Mississippi State Univorsity. He is night and department manager at Mervyns in the Layton HiHs Mad. He worked at the State Employment Service whore he retired after 15 years. Ho served on the Layton City Council for four years. ROBERT Q. AUSTAD Review Guest Columnist In an old time classical movie .called Pollyanna, a minister spent each Sunday preaching hell, fire and damnation," becoming known as a fire and brimstone preacher. Fortunately, a little girl named Pollyanna mentioned to him that there were more than 800 glad passages in the Bible. mens softball, archery or" away from fishing, hiking and hunting up the canyons? swiming or beautification committee or museum committee Anyone need great medical You can get it right here care? etc. etc., etc., A Public Service of This Newspaper & Thp Lakeside Review nity. ball or Where could you go and have And I should know, having taken a business offer to give the city advantage of them all, both ambulance and emergency services. trees for a main street face lift? I wish every citizen could see Isnt it neat to have a cannon the volunteer fire department go off on July 4th and a traditrain each week. If you have not tional breakfast? Did you know our police force checked with your insurance is not only one of the best educompany just remember here in cated forces in the state but has Layton you have one of the best had the highest rate of solved ratings that is given to a city for fire protection and that in turn crimes? Have you noticed the new gives you a break on your insurschools, the parks to play in, the ance coverage. In a nutshell, Ill bet there are mall to shop in, the new roads enmore who for than 800 glad passages those and in, going about living in Layton, and evjoy airplanes the visual and audio displays every 15 minutes? ery city in the area can probably Isnt it nice to be 15 minutes boast a good number of its own. Letter Policy encourages letters to the editor as a way of allowing citizens to speak but on issues 'that involve tie local commu- For Those Willing to Observe at Valley View Elementary School, won first place and received a $25 savings bond, a flag and certificate. Danny, a fifth grader, won third place and received a flag and certificate. Parents are William and Pat Medell of Roy. However, the Review is responsible for what is printed in the newspaper and will not publish letters which are Count On Classified deemed to be libelous or in bad taste. ' All letters must be signed by the author and accompanied by an address and phone -number. Address all letters to , For Fast Sales. Review Editor, Lakeside Re- -, view, 2146 N. Main, Layton, ,Utah 84041, or 145 N. Main, Bountiful, Utah 84010. 1 Advertising Council The point Pollyanna made with this preacher was that there is more to be positive about than negative. Here in Layton, as a former city councilman, I still receive . numerous calls from concerned citizens with reports that could provide a hay day for a fire and brimstone person. Just imagine: a public official borrowing public funds for a short time or another using the copy machine for private use, a drug user in the park, the roads, mudslides, gar- bage dump. A call a week ago came from a lady who took the I time to tell me about her hyster-- ? ectomy. Im going to take Pollyannas advice and see if there isnt a 1 , beautiful, bright and positive side to living in this little city of '32,000. Imagine, we have 735 girls and women playing softball in our great little city (and that means one in every 22 of the .female gender taking advantage of this one single sport). In Salt Lake City with a- population near of a million, they are allowed to have 200 partici-pat- e in any form of softball for women of any age. This means one woman in 187,500 is al-- 1 lowed to play. (These figures are ' based on the assumption that one-ha- lf the population is female.) This doesnt even take into account the soccer programs, base- -, in taking part in Utah's past during the Join usHeritage Festival July 1821 at the Layton Hills Mall. Actual vintage aircraft including an and Minuteman 1 Missile will be on display in the mall 0, three-quarte- rs parking lot as well as historic photos and relics inside the mall. Join us for nightly clogging, square dancing and . singing and take part in Utah's pastl Mall . CATCH ALL THE Lakeside Review lvry Wednesday Hours: Monday Friday, 10:00 am 9:00 pm Saturday. 10:00 am 6:00 pm 5:00 pm Sunday. Moon IMVON MILLS MALL SPORTS IN YOUR FRII T-3- 3 1 ited. Cross is cit you, |