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Show Uintah Basin Standard Thursday, October 30, 1980 School lunch management to receive tougher standards School employees association blasts Initiatives A and B A lot of Utahns dont realise it, but they could vote an end to school busing for more than 100,000 students in Utah public schools, an official of the Utah School Employees Association said today. G. Ray Holt, Executive Director of the organization, said passage of Initiatives A and B in the Nov. 4 general election could mean elimination of, school busing in the Beehive State. In California, where Proposition 13 is just beginning to have an impact, 85 school districts totally eliminated bus service last year, at least 20 more have abolished busing of students since then, Holt said. In addition, 40 California school districts sold their bus fleets and are contracting bus service from the public transystems, and hundreds of districts are planning to charge fees to students' parents for busing service," he added. 'Holt said angry parents in Utah have thrown up picket lines, marched on school district offices, and protest-- . ed to legislators about dangerous routes their children walk to school "That's the situation with present funding, but we'd have a real firestorm of public protests if the passage of Propositions A and B forced a shutdown of all school busing in Utah, Holt said. "Think what the situation would be like if many of the 108,000 students now being bused to school each day were forced to walk, he stated. "We'd have kids walking past and ditches irrigation dangerous canals, alongside and across superbusy streets and highways, and in areas that don't have sidewalks, Holt said. "It's impossible to imagine all the dangers kids would face if they suddenly stopped riding buses. Present Utah laws state that school districts shall provide busing to all elementary students who live more than a mile and a half from school and to all junior and senior high students who live more than two miles from school v&!sSv Senior Citizen Him nrm Besides the danger to students, the expense and inconvenience to parents, and the inevitable problems of bad weather, there's also the waste of energy to consider, Holt said. He said many school buses transport 70-8- 0 students to and from school each day. Think how many parents would be driving cars to school if the school buses are eliminated, the Association leader said. He explained that many handicap, ped students get to school each day on special buses from each student's doorsteps. Aides help some of these students on and off the bus, and accompany them on the ride to school and help them in school "These kids need and deserve the same education experience that other young people reeeive-b- ut they cannot get that experience if we cut services to them, Holt declared. If Initiatives A and B are passed, continued school lunches ' for Utah students would be threatened in two ways, he said. Besides lack of funds for continued operation, he said, school administrations might be forced to look at converting school cafeterias into classrooms. A quarter-millio- n Utah students eat in school lunch rooms. "Passage of Initiatives A and B would put a clamp on school building in a decade when student population in public schools is going to increase about 20,000 students a year," he said. "If that happens, were talking about double sessions and schools downhill for lack of repairs," Hold asserted. HosptinllVotes 722-429- 738-243- which serves is designed to carry water from the lower portions of the lot out onto the street and into a proper drainage ditch. Burdick Paving was contracted to dig the ditch. When completed the project will help to solve the ice and water problems which have plagued the parking lot since its construction. Busch Development of Salt Lake City owns the property and prothe lot following the installation of the mises to drainage system. "All our efforts, all our accomplishments would be erased if Initiatives A and B were passed Nov. 4. That's why the Utah School Employees Association strongly and vociferously opposes passage of those two measures. 5 722-460- 1. That has been dug In the parking lot Sprouse Reitz, Richards Ice Creem, Taco Time DRAINAGE DITCH ren. Dance to the Basinaire Band again Saturday, Nov. 1 at 9 p.m. It will be at the old elementary school as a courtesy of the Community School ti J lias program; v Adults-- of all ages' are i) f i invited. Admission is $1 per person. We have a good crowd signed up to -go on our bus trip to Park City Nov. 8. is bad If the weather the trip will be cancelled, so keep in touch with the Births Senior Citizen Center. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Brinkerhoff, We, as Senior Citizens, are a vital Altamont a girl Oct 14. part of our community. Let's all get Mr. and Mrs. Paul Rasmussen, out and vote for the things we want Roosevelt a boy, Oct 15. Nov. 4. If you need a ride to the voting Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Tipton, 6 or Lillian polls call Clista at Vernal a girl Oct 19. 7 or at Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Mitchell Are you following the Senior Citizen Ballard, a boy, Oct 19. exercise program? Nothing contributes to a happy life more than being physically fit. Awards will be presented for your accomplishments. If you want to know more about the Corrosion program, call the Center or ask about U.S. industry is waging an expensit Tuesday when you come to dinner at ive wsr against corrosion that is the center in Roosevelt Ask to hear metal goods at the rate of away eating the Sunshine Exercise tape. If youd $75 billion a year, according to a like one for your exercise program, national bureau. sign up and pay $1 and we will carder Local safety council -- participates Bob Ingersoll manager of tiie Utah Safety Council says the theme of the 68th annual Natidnal Safety Congress and Exposition, "The Program That Brings It AD Together," tells event held the story of the Oct. 20-2- re-stri- pe niques. Six hundred speakers addressed over 200 separate sessions concerning a variety of safety topics, the latest in safety equipment, and professional development seminars. The meeting was planned under the direction of the Executive Committee of the Conference of State and Local Safety Organizations. Also included in this year's program was a first in the field of water safetjl and water survival with a Wataj Safety Awareness program. . u wilderness review evaluating 3Q00 comments 3 in Chicago. The annual event brought together .over 15,000 safety professionals from around the world for exchanges in accident prevention ideas and tech- on-sit- , one for you. Some people think you join the Senior Citizens when you're too old to do anything else. Not so. If you're 55 or older, join now and stay young. With all our activities, we doirt have time to get old and were having a balL If youd like to sign up call Lillian Elder at the Center in Duchesne, or Clista Angus in Roosevelt sibilities. Currently, 27 million children receive meals in 95,000 schools through the national school lunch program at a federal cost of $3 billion a year. Schools and states file claims for federal money based on the number of free, reduced price and paid meals they serve that meet federal on-sit- He said, "Our organization has worked long and hard to improve facilities, provide safe conditions and provide nourishing lunches for Utah's childmost precious possessions-o- ur . parents, emphasized .differences in problems ana resources from state to state. An additional $4 million in federal fends are being provided to states to offset expenses for monitoring respon- A comprehensive management system for identifying and correcting problems in fool school feeding programs will take effect Jan. 1, 1981, according to Carol Tucker Foreman, assistant secretary for the U.8. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Regulations Issued by USDA establish new requirements for state reviews of lunch programs, actions to remedy problems found by reviewers and plans for recovering federal fends misspent in the program. "This new system is designed both to improve administration cl the ' make and certain that all program required components of school meals to children, are being served Foreman said. Audits conducted by USDA and the General Accounting Office in recent years revealed weaknesses in state and focal management of school lunch programs. Some of the deficiencies cited were inadequate procedures for review! student applications for free reduced price meals; errors in counting, claiming, and costing of mods served; and lack of compliance . with federal standards regarding meal components. The new regulations require states to monitor school lunch programs by e reviews to deterconducting mine compliance with national standards. States- may select one of three systems for monitoring the lunch program under the new rules. The three options include an audit system, a review system, or a combination of audits and reviews. Each system e evaluations of school requires However, requirements programs. vary with each system regarding frequency of visits and actions taken regarding deficiencies.. In providing three options for states, we are attempting to provide them flexibility to do the beat possible job, said Foreman. This flexibility is' provided to states a result of comments received on proposed regulations issued last year. Commentors, representing focal and state officials, school administrators, school food service workers and BLM The Bureau of Land Management is reviewing and evaluating mine than 3,000 comments received from the iblic nationwide concerning the lu's proposed wilderness study areas in Utah. , According to Kent Biddulph,' wilderness coordinator for BLM , in Utah, these comments are 'being evaluated by BLM district personnel. Following evaluation, the five district managers in Utah will make their recommendations to BLM Utah State Director Gary J. Wicks, who will announce his decisions publicly in November. Biddulph pointed out that the timetable for completing this phase of the wilderness review was recently extended from Sept. 80, 1980, to to ensure adequate funds from fiscal year 1981 appropriations for printing and distributing decision documents to the publie. Fiscal year 1981 begins Oct 1. Mr. Wicks said he plans to announce on Nov. 14 his decisions on which areas will become wilderness study areas and which will be dropped from further wilderness consideration. On April 1, Wicks announced his proposy als and started a publie comment period. He proposed to the ttnhlir that out of the total areas in Utah intensively inventoried by BLM, approximately 1,700 ,000 acres had . . wilderness characteristics and should be identified for further wilderness study, and that 800,000 acres should be drooped from the program. BLM started the wilderness review in Dec. 1978, on approximately 22 million acres in Utah. Since1 then, a 4 total of 2,400,000; acres in Utah- have been .proposed for wilderness study (including the 1.7 million acres announced in April) are designated as ; WSAs through special inventories. Alter areas are formally identified .'as wilderness study areas, their natural resources and all possible land uses will be studied through BLMs land use planning system to see which areas should be recommended for designation as wilderness areas. The recommendations will be forwarded to the Secretary of the Interior and then to the President The President must submit his recommendations to Con- Uinta Theatre Opens At 7:00 P.M. .. , gress by Oct 21, 1993. Only. Congress can designate a wilderness area. In Utah, BLM plans to complete the wilderness study phase as quickly as possible, so that land users can make future plans at the earliest possible date. 90-da- October 29 'f ,t I? i A ; ' Nov. 4 rk, - . . ..-- ( w "Octagon" Roosevelt Theatre Opens At 7:00 P.M. 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