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Show Srt in g the communities uf Kay mil, fruit Heights an J South Laton Mother Nature, truck join forces, to deliver blow to power lines 1 By Marl WwIumi Si, iff Writer Hume in the WOODS CROSS Wuud Cro area were without electricity for five hour Ihurwhiy afternoon, anJ i(H her Hind and rain Mother Nature Mottm wa not entirely to blame. Hie major outage came about 4.30 p m. when a mid-sidelivery truck heading couth bound on 500 Wcl in Wood Cro turned tight at 1000 South and magged an overhead cable TV line. At die truck lugged on the cable, a wooden power pole mapped and another pole wav bent. Power line tumbled and landed on thrubbery and a small truck parked in a nearby lot. Wood Cm police diverted and slowed traffic on 500 West until Utah Power & Light crew arrived on the scene at about 5 p.m. Power was restored to the Wood Cross area at about 8:30 p.m. Tom Stevenson, driving for USF RcdJaway, said he did not feel the cable when it snagged onto the comer of his trailer. e top-rig- looked in the mirror ami noticed a line hanging from my truck and then all heck broke loose, Stevenson said. He was not injured. He said he didn't see any spark. Stevenson wa on his way to make a delivery at f uture Concepts, lie passed the store at 850 South and was turning around on 1000 South when hi vehicle snagged the cable. I'tah Power & Light spokesman Dave Cskelsen said crew replaced one pole and repaired (lie other. He said many safety precautions must be taken in such a case. You have to make sure the power is out, because some power may still be in the lines even though they're down. You also have to make sure the line are grounded.' Power went off and on in south Davis County throughout the day Thursday. We had three or four feeder lines hit by lightning during the day, said Bountiful City Light & Power Director ClifT Michael!. Power was lost only momentarily on these instances because protection devices trip and then to reclose, automatically according see --POWER" pg. A2 Whos selling alcohol, tobacco to teen-ager- s Melinda Williams Stuff Writer FARMINGTON Over the next year, the Davis County Health Department will focus on educating teens about the dangers of tobacco and alcohol use as part of its tobaccoalcohol compliance program. Kevin Condra, in charge of health promotion for the department, gave the board of health a year-en- d summary of its compliance program, which sends under-ag- e decoys into stores to try and purchase tobacco and alcohol products. The health department conducts compliance tests in six of the county's 15 cities Sunset. Clearfield, KaysvillC, Farmington, West Bountiful and North Salt Lake. Bountiful and Woods Cross conduct similar . see --BEER" pg A2 THAT'S THE NIGHT THE LIGHTS WENT OUT.Power was out through most of Woods Cross Thursday evening after a delivery truck snagged a cable television line. As the truck continued, the line snapped one power pole in two and bent another. It was a tricky situation for power company personnel to repair and lights were out about five hours. Photo by Klatk Watson White says groups B- - report card for school district deserves F Melinda Williams Stuff Writer . Statistics used by the Utah Taxpayer's Association to figure the best and worst Utah school districts make as much sense as if they stood in the center of a lawn and counted dandelions, said Davis School ,. , Superintendent Darrell White. Tuesday, the association released its annual rating report card Utahs 40 school districts based on information obtained using the Stanford Achievement Test, which tests 5th, 8th and 1 1th grade students on a variety of academic subjects. Using their statistics, the Davis District received a B- - grade for 1996, and an only cumulative slightly better than average 1991-9for Rich, Daggett, average grade Kane, Piute and Wayne districts were ranked best among Utah's school districts, while San Juan, North Sanpete, Ogden, Garfield and Tintic ranked at the bottom of the list Look at all those districts, what do they have in common? Theyre all small, White said. Size makes the difference. A large sam -- C-t- 6. Astronauts launch United Way drive Kris Morton Contributing Writer KAYS V1LLE The United Way of Davis County officially kicked off its 1997-9- 8 The Power of U, fundraising campaign Sept. 10. The program featured as special guest speakers NASA astronauts Janice Voss and Roger Crouch and KUTV Channel 2 meteorologist Sterling Poulson. United Ways goal this year is to raise $ 1 ,0 0,000 for human services programs in Davis County. The chairman of the campaign is Jack Bippes, City Manager of Clearfield City and Larry Burdett is the President of United Way of Davis County. Money raised in the camit agencies paign benefits 46 local Among these are the American Red Cross, the Boy Scouts of Americas and the Davis County Food Bank. Astronaut Janice Voss, from Illinois, has 1 non-prof- k. bachelors and masters degrees in electrical engineering and a Ph.D. in aeronautics. She has flown on four space shuttle missions, including the most recent flight in July of this year to the MIR space station. Voss said that her mother taught her that volunteerism is the way to make things happen and Voss has always given to the United Way. On her first shuttle flight, looking back at earth she could see the solid rocket boosters built by Thiokol and realized all of the work by so many people that it took to get them into space. And in our own communities, it takes the work of many people to help those in need. Roger Crouch has been on two space flights. He spoke in a thick Tennessee accent explaining why space research is importance said from space the earth has no national boundaries, that we are all an extended family, were all in this together. Crouch said he believes in living life in a way that is good for people. In his life he has had to take many small steps to reach his goals. He was 55 years old when he was finally selected for the astronaut program. He said this is the way we can help people with many small steps that add up. Croch said space research is important for research. An providing direct and spin-oimportant example is the development of the semiconductor which made personal computers possible. for Poulson, meteorologist Sterling KUTV introduced the campaign video which was produced by Channel 2, which he also narrated. The video was made in consultation with United Way Marketing and Volunteer Coordinator, Karen Wilcox. Poulson is a Kaysville resident, so he has a direct concern for the welfare of the people in Davis County. see -- UNITED " pg. A2 ff NASA Astronaut Janice Vosst speaks to gathering at Joame's Restaurant in Kaysville, as for Davis Countys United Way fellow Astronaut Roger Crouch looks on at the kick-of- f of service. of the two The spoke importance campaign. 1 j was to determine the effectiveness of school districts and schools. The tests were also to be used to plan, measure and evaluate the effectiveness of programs in public schools. The range of expected scores is calculated by the Utah State Office of Education, using the percentage of students in each district receiving free lunch. The greater the percentage of students qualify"They make os much sense os if they stood in ing for free lunches, the lower the expected test range. In Davis the center of a lawn and counted dandelions. District, 13 percent of students receive free lunch. San Juan has Darrell Whitt, Superintendent the highest percentage at 52 percent, Park City the lowest with 3 data make sense? Whites claim is it doepercent. Utah students generally outperformed snt Utahs mandatory testing program began their national counterparts on the SAT in in 1990. According to the association, the leg1996. However, test performance varied islatures goal in passing the testing program see -- REPORT CARD" pg. A3 . ple (such as found in the large school districts like Davis) pros ides stable numbers. A smaller sampling is less stable, White said. He believes testing numbers should be stable, giving a clearer picture of how well a school district is doing. I was taught in my statistics classes to step back and look at, 'does this County condemns land, offers $120,000, owner has deal for $531,000 Max Kerr wants to FARMINGTON know why, if hes paying taxes his 14 acres is worth $500,000, but if the county condemns it, its value is just $120,000. Maxine Kerr, daughter of Max, said they received condemnation papers for her fathers Farmington property last week. They offered us $120,000, but when we paid our 1996 taxes it was on a value of about $500,000, Ken- said. She added that when she called the county about the discrepancy she was told there had been a mistake on the 1996 taxes and the property was in fact only worth the amount the county had offered. But no one called us and offered us a refund last year when we paid the $8,000 we were assessed, Kerr said. We know its Worth a lot more than theyre offering - because we have an offer on it right now. Richard Beauregard of Wardley Better Homes real estate in Bountiful agrees. I e offer of $531,000 for the have a property and were planning to close the deal in November, he said. The property located at 400 N. 1 100 W. and Hwy. 89, in Farmington, between is next to a new residential development being built by Prowswood. Prowswood offered Max that same amount of money ($120,000) to buy the property a couple of years ago. I think between the builder and the county they are trying to take advantage of Max, Beauregard said. Kerr has hired an attorney to represent her fathers interests in a hearing scheduled this week. full-pric- Conference center, hotel approved by commission By Mark Watson Staff Writer A conference center here LAYTON which will be owned by Davis County should be completed in the spring of 1998, according to Davis County Commissioner Gayle Stevenson. The commissioners approved a motion Monday to begin a process which will culminate next spring with construction of the center and a hotel. Davis County purchased 6.76 acres north of Layton Hills Mall to build the center, and a private developer has obtained POOR COPY an adjacent 6 acres for construction of a hotel. The commissioners would like to see both projects work in harmony, so on Monday they passed a motion to invite requests for qualifications from construe-- , tion companies who would like to be involved in designing the buildings, landscaping the area and constructing the build-- , ings. These requests must be submitted to the county commission by Sept. 30. They will be opened at a meeting on Oct. 1. Once the county has received this background information, it will then request see -- CENTER" pg. A3 |