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Show wv r Standard-Examine- INSIDE Helping hands Hospital volunteer helps teens help others.2 COMMUNITY Wonderful windows Shutters add charm to ordinary windows.9 EE?1 S&i, APRIL 21, 1998 ' V yX Whites will account for 90 of graduating seniors through 2012 By JaNAE FRANCIS Standard Examiner Davis Bureau With 6 percent of this years graduating class in Davis County being minority students, the county is just one example of a lower minority graduating class throughout Utah as compared with other western states. According to projections by the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education and high-scho- ol DAVIS COUNTYS COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER the College Board, within a decade, racial minorities for the first time will combine to comprise more than half of the graduating high school seniors in the West. But that demographic trend will not hold true in Utah, where whites will continue to account for more than 90 percent of graduating seniors through at least 2012, according to those same projections. However, Richard Gomez, coordinator of the states education equity, believes that with the See MINOR1TY3 Minority enrollment Davis County School District Enrollment by RaceEthmcity and Sex. American Indian or Alaskan Native: Male 131, Female 1 08 Hispanic: Male 865, Female 866 Asian: Male 41 0, Female 391 Pacific Islander: Male 78, Female 70 Black: Male 264, Female 296 White: Male 28,350, Female 27,006 Total: 58,835 Source Utah State Office of Education, Finance and Statistics School Cultural understanding key to communicating in the classroom Teachers who really care about their students may find themselves getting close enough to touch them. Some may even occasionally pat their students in efforts to reach out to them. But should these teachers touch a Vietnamese student on the head, they'll send a message of insubordination. Teachers who get the idea that Asian parents who dont speak at conferences don't parent-teach- VOL care about their children also have the wrong idea, according to Mauvia Christensen, a parent liaison with the districts English as a Second Language program. The liaison explained that the Asian culture teaches people not to talk back to authority figures. She said that often the difference between a teacher communicating with his or her minority students and offending them are small, cultural idiosyncracics. She said she believes if all teachers come to understand some of these idiosyncrasies, the educa- See er CULTURE3 Gala benefits Davis schools Bountiful plans new assisted living center r a resolution setting parameters for bonds which would provide up to $6.5 million to build the i Paragon Assisted Living Facility. Dave Stevens, bond counsel for the facility, said that the Industrial Development and Facilities act authorizes the issuance of bonds for public interest purposes, one category being assisted living facilities. These are special obligation bonds, payable only by revenues from Paragon, Stevens said. The full faith and credit of the city would not be pledged to these bonds. d The facility will be built just east of the South Davis Community Hospital, at 401 S. 400 East. ' Gordon Bennett, administrator for the hospital, said the facil- See CENTER6 - ! r 4 - f 'm!- ,.v iV - pager services, as well as handle other corporate responsibilities. Hirst was night manager with the Bowmans store in Farmington and lead agent for Teltrust while he continued his studies at Weber State University. His expertise includes business and customer service. issue " j , C L- - ..yx of "Successful ... Linda Zeeman, a teacher at Sunset Junior High, has been awarded a fellowship by the National Endowment for the Humanities, a federal grantmaking agency, to participate in this year's program of Summer Seminars for School Teachers. She will be an NEH Summer N s Fellow in a four-wee- k seminar rV. JOHN KENNEDY Standard Examiner Members of the Davis High School Dance Company perform for the audience at the Davis School Distnct Foundation annual gala held at the Doubletree Hotel in Salt Lake City on Friday. AT THE GALA: Family chooses occasion to honor Standard Examiner Davis Bureau ALT LAKE CITY -- It was a night destined for greatness with giant col-orstreamers, huge balloon arches, clowns, music and a host of performers. North Salt Lake resident IVon Wall and his family celebrated in grand sty le at the Davis School District Foundation annual gala held at the Double-tre- e Hotel. Surrounded by four of his five children and their spouses, he purchased a host of items at both the silent and public auctions. But the event, which this year celebrated the theme, Carnival Capers 98, had a meaning for the Wall family much more valuable than the autographed Sieve Young football he purchased there. The retired CPA, who still may be found on Saturday in ed the office, said his attendance at the gala is one of the ways his family chooses to remember and honor Janice Wall, his late wife of more than 43 years. Janice n had been a teacher in the Davis district for 25 cars, most recently at Reading Llementary School. This is our annual outing in honor of our mother, said daughter Stephanie Hess. She n was the greatest teacher m the worlJ, added special-educatio- special-educatio- Wall. Even though she had cancer, Janice taught school up until two weeks before her death in March of 1995. The family said few were aware of their mothers terminal disease until just before her death. She would get her chemotherapy on I ndavs so shed be ready for school on Monday morning, said daughter Jennifer See GALAS wife, mother, teacher Enormous event wont fit in Davis, so district looks to Sait Lake City LAKE CITY -- A to hold this years School Distnct I oundation annual gala here was based on the lack of adequate facilities in Davis County. SALT Shcrjl Allen, foundation executive director, said she would have preferred to have been able to hold the event within the county. However, she had planned an enormous event, the sic of which would not fit into any available Davis County fa cility. The Grand Ballroom at the Doubletree Hold, where the event was held, is a huge facility capable of holding more than 500 people and all the accom modations for an elegant dinner as well as a large stage and nur mcrous displays of items for auction. Allen, who also is a Republican legislator representing Bountiful, said she was grateful this year when the Legislature appropriated some $500,000 for a new building that would accommodate such gatherings. . Plans arc being developed to build the facility in Layton. Im hoping they've got a nice, big banquet room (in the plans), she said. V e do have some nice buildings in Davis County, but not for a large program that seals 500. Grant gives Clearfield three more police officers By BRYON SAXTON Standard Examiner . . . Pagers Plus of Bountiful recently named lifelong Farmington resident James Hirst as vice president. He will oversee Internet sales and service program, the national Fellowship awarded 62-be- 776-4951- president named h - this weeks teen section, senior Sarah Thompson from Roy High School considers the big birthdays in a teen's life and what that means for the parents who discipline them in the Speaking Out column. And Jake Parkinson, a senior at Bountiful High School, tackles an interesting question for music lovers in Sound Waves: Why bands are out there. Is it to make money or to do something they love? Well, both but . . . youll have to read his article to find out what comes next. The TX. mystery moderator will host the regular chat room for teens at 8 p m. Wednesday. To get teens thinking about where they live and how to make it better, this weeks topic is Earth Day Is it worth it? Earth Day is Wednesday. Join the mystery moderator at www standard net to voice your opinions, gripes and ideas. Or try the TX. prom survey at www standard nettx. IX. (T een Examiner) is published every Thursday in the Lakeside Review. For more information on how to get a copy, call Vice 776-495- 1 Farming" magazine of Des Moines, Iowa, for his work on rehabilitating a dairy oam built by his grandfather in 1900. He was one of five named as a recognition award winner by the 1998 Barn Again" program. He also received a $250 check. Layton raises alfalfa, onions, barley and wheal on the Utah Century Farm founded by his in the 1870s. BOUNTIFUL The Bountiful city council recently approved In submit an item for To Neighbors, call weekdays. . . . Layton farmer Ron Layton was featured in the correspondent Whats coming inTX. Neighbors Farmer featured By CATHY MCKITRICK Standard-Examine- NO. 273 17, Davis Bureau CLEARI IILD - First, a new $10.5 million public safety building, and now news of three more police officers to help fill it. The Clearfield City Police Department continues to grow in keeping pace with the community, which has increased in population by 3,000 since 1990. Clearfield will receive three more police officers with the help of a $225,000 grant from the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services. The grant was announced by Vice President Ai Gore and the ColS program in Washington on Thursday. COPS is the Clinton administrations initiative to adJ 100.000 community policy officers. Clearfield's grant is part of $37 million that will help agencies in 39 states hire 640 new police officers. There are plenty of opportunities out there," said Police Chief Morton Sparks of where the new staffing can be used. Sparks said he plans to use the officers to give his department a closer association with Clearfield High School. He said for the last three years the city has been using officers at the high school. off-dut- y He said the other officers' will be used to augment what policing is needed in their community. Sparks in six years as chief has watched the department grow from 22 to what wili be 30 swom-officcr- s. Sparks said this is staffing he is excited to have, especially where the city intends to make room for his department by building within the next 18 months a $10.5 miladministration lion. 60.000 square-foo- t building just west of City Hall at 140 L. Center Street. The police department's share of that total would be about 23,000 square feet, while the courts and administration offices make up the rest. We don't have any more room to house any more people." lie said of the cramped conditions his department is now under in sharing with those same departments a City Hall with less than 20,(XX) square feet. The new administration building is ex pected to be completed within 18 months. With more space and more staff, Sparks said his next concern will be to figure out a way to budget in the new officers and keep them with the department m the future. Under COPS Universal Hiring Program, state or local agencies pay 25 percent of each officer's cost and the grants pay the remaining 75 percent. Sparks said city officials within the next few months will prepare budgets in paying their share, and then inure out a way to keep the additional slafl on once the grant money in three years has run dry "Sometimes that becomes the lenge." he said chal- entitled "Mozart: The Man, His Music, and His Vienna in Vienna, Austria. Each of the 15 participants selected nationally for the program will receive a stipend to cover transportation, housing and meal costs during the seminar. There was an exceptionally high number of applicants for the Mozart seminar," said director Richard Benedum of the University of Dayton. "Thus it is a real credit to the high quality of Davis County schools and specifically to Zeeman." PET OF WEEK adorable An femaie blackwhite lab cross puppy is available from the Davis County Animal Shelter for a $60 adoption fee, plus a 10. license fee. Adoption hours a from p m. weekdays and f a m. to 1 pm. on Saturdays 2-- 4 Call 544-835- Ext. 2. Coming Thursday Saving the mustangs Students at Samuel Morgan Elementary in Kaysville get an answer to their petition. Read about it in the next Lakeside Review. Best Quote In some ways it means bringing Davis County politics back to the political middle. Greg Sanders, who received the Democratic nomination Saturday to vie for Craig Taylor s District 22 seat. Taylor withdrew from the race |