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Show COMMUNITY NEWS FOR ROY AND NORTH DAVIS COUNTY State finals fever A summary of the stories from the weeks top local news Standard-Examine- r. School district loses $1 million in funds A Davis School FARMINGTON District spokesman said that officials have lost $1 million in building funds because of a state policy that denies funds to districts that don't have extreme debt obligations Bonnie Durrance-DovlDavis district spokesman, said officials are wore. ried the funding loss will delay several expansion projects planned for Syra- cuse, Farmington and Centerville junior high schools Officials weren't aware they wouldn't receive the money until after it had already been budgeted, she said We're really up a creek without a We're more paddle, Doyle said pressed by growth than any other district in Utah, and now we've lost a way to fund it. Funding for special education sought A Davis school FARMINGTON board member says requiring school districts to provide federally mandated n programs without sending them the funding is like giving someone $5 and ordering them to go to the store to buy 100 pounds of sugspecial-educatio- ar. August MillerLakeside turned it for a touchdown at the state football semifinals against Brighton. Davis Davis High pep club members react after Kasey Cullimore intercepted a pass and re- - 4-- A Review won 36 to 32. Davis plays Kearns Friday at Rice Stadium to decide the championship. Clearfie By BRYON SAXTON such as a lugebobsled run, ski jumps g oval. and a I was a little bit surprised, said Clearfield City Recorder Richard Waite on the citys vote. Clearfield residents opposed funding the Olympics with any tax dollars by 1,622 votes to 1,391. In October, the city council also went on record as opposing the Olympics referendum by 4 to 1, saying not enough information was made available as to what the Games would cost the taxpayer. The Clearfield council was the only council in the county to take such an action. It (the vote) gives the city council a confirmation of its earlier vote, Waite said. That vote made them look awful ly good. Waite said he believes the Olympics failed in Clearfield because it is a tax speed-skatin- Its simple. Clearfield and Sunset city officials dont know why the majority of voters in their cities opposed the Olympics referendum last Tuesday. But thats not saying some city offi- cials didnt expect it. Clearfield and Sunset are the only cities in north Davis County whose majority of voters opposed the referendum which passed statewide by a 57-4- 3 percent margin. mil- lion in sales tax money to help subsidize the states efforts to win the 1998 Winter Olympics bid. ' The money would be used to con- struct facilities for the Winter Games House monument to Haight issue. The tax initiatives carried here, Waite said referring to last years vote when three tax initiatives were defeated by the rest of the state by a 60 to 70 percent margin of victory. It goes back to people want everything, but theyre reluctant to pay for it," he said. "Governments do not run on faith, hope, good looks and aspirations; they run on tax revenues, Waite said. "Personally, I would like to see the Olympics come in, but the Clearfield citizens said no, he said. Councilman James Hurst said he had anticipated that Clearfield residents would come out and oppose the referendum because Clearfield went for the initiatives. They will not go for taxes here. There are a lot of federal retirees living in this city, he said. Hurst said the older voters in the city do not want change. "My own feeling is that the Olympics would have been the greatest thing for this state if not for the use of the tax money, he said. Sunset voters also turned back the referendum vote by a 791 to 612 margin, while the Sunset city council took no official stand. See OLYMPICS on page 2 t 7, , xxf fr By VALERIE PHILLIPS - Built in 1857, FARMINGTON Farmingtons Union Hotel was considered the local Sheraton of its time. Today, as the home of Clair and Ella Rose DeLong, the building has been restored to reflect its former glory and has a spot on the National Register of Historic Places. 11 t - iS, j V, , Robert ReganLakeside Review Making their home in what was once the Union Justin sit on Hotel, Ember DeLong and from Salt Lake City and mid-poibetween Salt Lake and Ogden. nt The DeLongs son, Lon, points out a bed stored upstairs with a tall wood- en carved headboard,' in which Brigham Young was said to have slept during one of his stays. Ever since weve moved here, its been called the Brigham Young bed, DeLong said. He and his family are staying in the house while his parents fill an LDS mission in San AntoniO, Texas. . He added that the hotel housed many of the entertainers performing at the Lagoon Ampscment Park. .They had a lqt of circus people, including a lion tarper, he said. She supposedly lost her head at Lagoon. At least, she never came back to get her clothes.' The building also has the distinction the stairs that are graced by a walnut bannister. The home was built by Farmingtons founder. of being the first house with an and play jokes on him. They would take ropes and tie the door knobs and then tie them to the large posts (of the alumi- num siding exterior to be placed on the national register. The siding was applied in the late 1950s. They (the historical officials) decid- . store). He would try to get out by jerking ed the aluminum siding was a protecdnd pulling hard. The door knobs tion for such an old house, .DeLong would fall off and out would come said. Without it, the adobe walls, ,,Fred shouting, I know every dumb which are 18 inches to 2 feet thick, I'one of you, and dont you come would have crumbled apart. back.: In 1881, Fred and Elizabeth' CoombS also owned and operated a Coombs bought the home. Coombs molasses mill,' and had an jnterest in was born in Gloucestershire, England, mill. Folks in town dried fruit, a grist in 1860s. the and came to Farmington and Coombs shipped it in Near the house he ran a cooperative lots to other locations. r store, which at one time boasted the Hess a)so' mentioned n titer book towns only telephone.' In her book, that dufmg a 4th of July celebration My Farmington, y on the. llaight Bench, Coombs Hess the recalls that Steed Margaret ..som'Tohn, became tpst for boys in town loved Uncle, Fred ' ' three da)S ' Coombs and the candy he gave them, but the older boys used to tease him HOME on'page 2 V ( 100-pou- f ji 4-- -- ear-ol- d, r k-Se- r V , , s - a former ex-wi- fe 1 V1, r Brett Bullock, Crenshaw asked Bullock to tell his story, and directed his audience to make its own judgment. Bullock and his two daughters neither identified by name or age recounted Bullock's side of the story, saying his conviction on three counts each of sodomy and child sexual abuse resulted from accusations prompted and reinforced by by an angry j? p two-stor- -- Convicted molester airs case on radio shaw said. LLILSJJ ff special-educatio- Trials are not just the artifact of another era and another century. Cren- V M Historic homes For example, Kendell said, federal funds account for only 7 percent of n funds currently available to the district I think we need to realize that the threat of lawsuits stemming from this problem is great. Downs said 3-- 7. c h grams. Arden ij 4 Thats because federal law requires that school districts provide minimum students, but services to special-need- s neither the federal government nor the state Legislature is willing to provide the money to fully fund those pro- Bountiful resident who now resides in talk Murray, went onto a three-hou- r show with two of his daughters and his attorney, Craig S. Cook. Quoting one of the justices who dissented m the Supreme Court's 2 decision on Oct. 19 that threw out Bullock's appeal. The Salem W itch v , 4 ty. Radio. i Lakeside Review .Is, Richard Kendell said t the dilemma may be Downs more critical in the Davis district than in smaller districts, but he said the problem is not unique to Davis Coun- A conWEST VALLEY CITY victed child molester petitioning the Utah Supreme Court for a rehearing of his appeal took his campaign to the airwaves last Thursday by appearing as Mills Crenshaw's guest on KTKK 1,C. ", EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the eleventh in a series of stones highlighting older homes in the area. Readers with ideas on homes that cpuld be featured should call their local correspondents. The hotel was built by Hector Caleb Haight, who is considered the founding father of both Kaysville and Farmington. Haight crossed the plains in 1847 with his wife, Julia Van Orden. The Haights and their five children first settled on what is now called' Haight Bench, near Farmingtons Oakridge subdivision and Kaysvilles Hess Farms subdivision. Then in 1857, he moved his family closer to the foot of the mountains y adobe house and built the on 200 North and Main Street. It was Farmington's first hotel. Haight lived in the house until his death in 1879. During his life, Haight was a soldier, a .farmer, stockman, hotel proprietor, and' filled an LDS mission to Scandinavia, He also served as sheriff of Davis County and was a probate judge for many" years. for The hotel was a popular stop-oLDS Church prophets and general au-- v t(ionties as it was a days journey Downs Superintendent Lakeside Review The referendum requested $56 Louenda joined her colleagues and other Davis district officials last Tuesday in lobbying for more special education funding. They say the current allocation is inadequate. j r ' ' 1 4 ' t frvTT't"r a meddling social worker. A Davis County jury found Bullock all of counts six in December guilty 1986, and Judge Rodney S. Page sentenced him to a mandatory prison term. He served a year of the sentence before he was released in 1987 pending the outcome of his appeal. 15-ye- ar Bullock contended that evidence against him was incorrectly admitted to trial, that that same evidence was coerced from witnesses and contaminated and that his attorney was incompetent. Best quota 'They sent three of them and said to give them to I the three admit I'm No. 3 best-lookin- g. Mayor Gerald Purdy, when asked by councilman a why only the mayor and two councilwomen got Olympics |