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Show S, - avi,' .. n 'If." N fy .cn f,r f y v- - & - '1. N DAVIS COUNTY M Congratulations Fifty Cents May 30, 1997 Volume 106 Number 33 Construction brings out worst in drivers Poorly educated males are most driver. 1 was leasing Kaysville for work at four in the morning. As I came down the street of the subdivision, some guy was y so I let pulling out. I had the him w ait for me to go by. W hen got on the freeway, he rode my bumper, it seemed like just inches behind me. If I changed lanes, he changed lanes. When I got off at Centerville to drop my little girl off at my mothers, he got off too and followed me up Parrish Lane, almost to the Mam Street light before he turned around and went back towards the freeway. I was scared because my little girl was sleeping in the car. Later, someone suggested that I should have called the police from my car phone. Next time someone pulls a stunt like that 1 will. Sometimes people get so enraged over a minor driving incident that they become violent, sometimes violent enough to kill or injure another driver. Across the county, aggressive dm ing has increased on the average of seven percent a year since 1990, according to a special study sponsored by the AAA. The study looked at 10,037 police reports and newspaper stories about traffic incidents that led to v lolence between January 1, 1990 and September 1, 1996. Like the examples above, the events that trigger violent incidents between drivers are often trivial. In some parts of the county people have been shot for driving too slow see DRIVERS pg. A2 right-of-wa- aggressive drivers 1 Cherie Huber Contributing Writer It appears that anyone who drives could at some point become either an aggressive driver or the victim of an aggressive driver. That is especially true, if you drive several times a day and if you have to drive in congested areas of tangled traffic. There are some things that happen when youre driving that are very annoying. For example, sometimes when traffic is bached up, as it often is with accidents on the freeway and construction, certain people drive down the emergency lane and then cut back in at the front of the line. And that makes me really mad, said one man who drives to a construction site every morning. Or how about the driver behind you on p the freeway who pulls out around you and blocks you as you try to merge. These kinds of situations can make some drivers. hot under the collar. Then sometimes, in retaliation, they become aggressive drivers, too. Other times, youre the victim of an aggressive driver. A Lakeview Hospital nurse had an experience with an aggressive road work delays continue with closures 1- -15 Road work continues to affect traffic through Davis County, at times bringing it to a standstill. Reconstruction and widening continues on two miles of between the interchange in North Salt Lake and 2600 South in Woods Cross, according to the Utah Department of Transportation. traffic is being diverted Southbound onto the median, and crews are working on the regular southbound lanes. Starting at 2600 South, the southbound outside lane is separated with concrete barriers to motorists exiting to The two inside lanes conwestbound tinue southbound to Beck Street and into Salt Lake City. Signs and painted messages in the lanes alert southbound motorists they must commit early to the lanes heading to or proceed south on Crews have tentatively scheduled to close Center Street in North Salt Lake on June It will remain closed for the day as crews set beams. Periodic one lane closures affect northbound weekdays between midnight and Two lanes will be closed (except during peak hours) are in effect on northbound throughout the weekend. Expected completion date will be in November. newly-construct- 1 . Another project will be the construction and installation of ramp meters on the northp bound Beck Street Lane to restrictions are in effect along Beck Street during working hours, particularly on the ramp. However, there will be no full ramp closures. Work will be done during daylight hours, seven days a week. It should be completed in June. Also, crews continue rotomillmg and resurfacing six miles of State Road 106 Bountiful and Centerville. through Significant lane restrictions affect northbound and southbound traffic during working hours. Watch for signs and barricades and expect slight to moderate delays. Work will be done days, Monday through Friday and should be done by July. Farther north, concrete paving rehabilitation continues on six miles of between Layton and Clearfield. Two lanes are open each direction weekdays between 6 and 9 a.m. and 3 and 6 p.m. One lane is open each direction weekdays during the hours. Crews will also work at night, depending on the nature of the work. Motorists are advised to expect delays. Work will be done Monday through Friday during the day and should be finished by July. off-pea- k Events that trigger violent incidents between drivers are often trivial people have been shot for driving too slow or for playing the radio too loud Photo by Cathy Linford WATCH OUT FOR ROAD RAGE: leaders with district changes FARMINGTON As happens each spring, new appointments have been made for administrators in the Davis School District. Named area directors are Marilyn Oberg and Paul Waite. They will join Dale Barnett in serving in that position. Area Director Verlan Terry has retired. Oberg is principal of Kaysvilles Morgan Elementary School. She served the past few months as an interim area director. She holds a bachelor of science degree from the University of Utah and a master of educa- - Waite has most recently served as principal of Davis High. He also served as Viewmont High's principal. He holds a bachelor ol science degree Irom Weber State University and a master of arts in education fiom administration Young Brigham University. Waite was named secondary principal of the year in 1995. During his years at Viewmont, SAT and Advanced Placement scores rose from the bottom of the district to the top. He saw the installation of computer see SCHOOLS pg. A2 Aim SCOTT GREENWELL Angry Farmington property owners dont want creek to become trickle FARMINGTON Whats the proper procedure when changing the water flow in an historical creek or moving a flood plain? Farmington city residents recently found out that their back yard babbling brook could disappear or become a small trickle if developers and Sid Smith of the Countys Public Works Department have their way. Old county Mdlinda Williams In addition to changing the flow of the creek, the developers of a subdivision called Creekside on Glovers Lane and 200 East are looking into the possibilities of moving the flood plain in the area. The Davis Creek LLC and Tulley Design assured us many times that they would preserve the creek and vegetation, said residents Mark and Sharon Adams in a letter to the city council. Now they are going against the conditional zoning approved by the city council. Changing the creek flow would drastically alter the vege tation such as trees and natural plants as well as encroaching on the rights of all others who live on this stream." My reason for supporting the change is the culvert," said Paul Hirst, city engineer, is the development going on. A greater flow would be life threatening." You put a culvert there and it will be see CREEK pg. A2 courthouse gets facelift Staff Writer Photo by Cathy Linford tion from Utah State University. Oberg taught elementary school from 1961 to 1987 in schools in Utah and California, before being appointed principal of Holbrook Elementary in 1987. She has been honored with several the Utah National awards, including and the Distinguished Principal for 1996-9- 7 Davis Elementary Principal of the Year for a member She is 1996. of the Utah Alliance Board of Ouelessebougou Directors and is a member of the League of Women voters. PAUL WAITE Conti ibuting Writer class. some parts of the county Davis County Schools get new Susan Tanner Holmes Senior class presidents from Bountiful, Robilyn Daniels, Viewmont Charlotte Asay and Woods Cross Allison Volk will graduate Friday along with 2,000 other South Davis High School seniors. See graduation section in this issue for more on this years graduating In FARMINGTON Swatches of dirty orange carpet were the first thing seen by those attending a recent open house at the Davis County Courthouse. This shows how far weve come, said County Commissioner Carol Page. The open house was held to show off renovations and decorating done to the courthouse over the past year and to give Davis County artists a chance to display their work. The facelift given the 141 courthouse included year-ol- d replacement of the roof, expansion of the motor vehicle office, replacement of the carpet and fire alarms, replacement of the boiler, renovation of the flag pole plaza, a new employee lounge, elec upgrades, rest room renovation to With the Americans with Disabilities Act, replacement of the chiller, replacement of the ceiling, work on the masonry, an update to the fire sprinkler sys trical comply tem, the restoration of the lobby, two additional conference rooms and new furniture.-Thiis not the first facelift the courthouse has received. The building was originally y constructed in 1856 for $6,000. It was a adobe building, 35x45 feet with seven rxmx. It was built on a knoll north of the and present courthouse extended into what is now the The North street. Cottonwood Ward (now the Farmington Ward) of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints, gave $1,200 towards the building construction for the privilege of using the house. Back then, the building was used to conduct county and court business, ward meetings and to display fair exhibits. The second courthouse was built in 1889 for s two-stor- see v i COURTHOUSE pg A2 |