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Show i wy'w wf eSm yij iijii Ky.yiiy.,l yurt- - ' y wy1 w w wrs-y-v wii"r 6A The Summit County Bee Coalville, UT 84017 Friday, December 28, 1984 Red Cross Offers Storm Tips The first line of protection is to keep posted on weather conditions in the surrounding area through television, radio, NOAA weather radio, and newspapers. A few hours warning of an approaching storm can be the key to avoid being caught in it, or at least to be better prepared to cope with it. What if your family should get isolated in your home by a winter storm? If you live in a rural area, make sure you could survive at home for a week or two in case the severity of a storm makes in impossible for you to leave. Winter storms in the form of blizzards, heavy snow, ice storms, freezing rain, or sleet can be serious hazards to people in many parts of the country. A heavy snow warning usually means an expected snowfall of four inches or more in a period, or six inches or more in a period. Warnings of snow flurries, snow squalls, or blowing and drifting snow are important mainly because visibility may be reduced and roads may become slippery or blocked. What precautions can be taken by families in winter-storprone areas? 12-ho- ur 24-ho- ur Dr. John P. Glcave Optomcry Thorough Eye Examination Eye Health Check-U- p e Bifocal Special Tints Large Frame Selection: Including Designer Frames Sunglasses & Ski Goggles: Vuamet - Ray Ban - Carrera No-Lin- . 160 South 100 West Heber Gty, Utah 84032 Telephone 634-186- 3 toads Melp Cine, Stock up on supplies like food, water, fuel, flashlights, candles, and spare batteries. Have a portable radio handy. If a power failure occurs, use a fireplace or a camp .stove (with proper ventilation for heat). If necessary. conserve fuel by keeping the house cooler than usual, or by closing off some rooms temporarily. What if you must go outside? g Dress in lightweight, layered clothing. Beware of hidden ice and fallen trees, branches, and wires. - Avoid overexertion from walking, pushing cars, or shoveling snow. , What if you have to drive your car? Travel only in an emergency. Keep your gas tank full. Use chains or snow tires and travel only on the main roads. Notify someone of your destination and estimated arrival time. If your car becomes disabled, stay in the car and wait for help. Run your engine and heater sparingly and open a window a bit for ventilation. Keep blankets, flares, a first aid kit, and emergency food (nonperishable) in the trunk of your car. By Kristine Mecham Toy land Joyland! Did Santa unload his sleigh at your house? Now the big question is where to put all those new toys. Should you dump them into the toy chest along with all those ghosts of Christmas past? Shove them under the bed? Stack them in the corner? Or stick them out of sight in the back of the closet? If you do, you'll probably soon find yourself wondering why the kids have lost interest in them so quickly. Children enjoy and play with their toys most if they are neatly organized and easy to get at. I know youre probably thinking, "With all I have to do, the last thing I have time to is organize toys! But trust me, it can be easy and enjoyable and save you many hours in the long run and much frustration. Are you excited about organizing? Well, get ready, get set, go! The biggest help youll find is loose-fittin- . 654-20- shelves. These can be anything from lovely wooden shelves to an old book case from the second hand store to boards stacked on cinder blocks. The next and probably most important item is plastic dishpans or other heavy rectangular containers. Plastic ice cream buckets also work, but like all round containers, they waste space. Toys neatly arranged look so cute on Jrs. shelves, but how long do they stay that way? By putting therti into the dishpans its easy for Jr. to get a toy set down, play with it and put it all back in the pan and on the shelf. I've never seen a kid yet that will arrange the little truck and farm animals neatly on the shelf the way Mommy had them. While running a preschool in my home I found that children were much more willing to put the toys away if they could toss them into a dishpan rather than trying to get all those Lincoln Logs to jam back into that round can. On only a few shelves you can have a dishpan for almost every toy in your house. I have a pan for the following items: Small cars, lincoln logs, legos, guns and cowboy gear, dolls and accessories, building blocks, action figures (G.I. Joe, Star Wars, etc.), puzzles (Rubiks cube, pocket games, etc.) dress up clothes, electronic items, smaller containers hold things like little animals, little plastic soldiers, dominoes, art items, etc. Get the idea? Because of my preschool, I had to organize our toys so they were all in one general area, easy to get at, and most of all easy to put away and keep in order. I tried cloth bags but found that the kids had to dump the entire bag to find one the bags was item, and for little hands. The biggest reward for me was the way my own children reacted to the newly organized toys. Having all the pieces to a particular toy together was like having a brand new toy! Toys that had hibernated for years in the bottom of the toy box were finally earning their keep. Also, having all the toys in one area eliminated a lot of clutter in the kids bedroom. Only a few special in remain the favorites bedrooms. If you don't have room for a place just for toys, a shelf along one wall of your childs room with several brightly colored dish pans on it will still look better than toys all over the room and your children will enjoy, their toys much more. ng very-difficul- - t .i Dear Readers: With the hustle and bustle of Christmas behind us, I look forward to hearing from more of you. Let's make 1985 a year full of fun and love. Happy New Year! Send your ideas, tips and solutions for child rearing to Parents' Help Line, 250 North' 500 West, Heber City, UT 84032 or call 654-204- 8. Utah Foundation Reports: Elementary Glasses to Decline t wfi air. i . 5fM- - 'IO i I t tr i1 4 '! !g I :i rt - j? V- "!- V II f ill is in marked contrast to the experience of the 1970s and early 1980s when Utah' experienced the largest of population in its history. s . 6rgAhiiatiUnIl in 'theiif latest'' 'A third factor accounting for an enrollment growth slowdown analysis of school enrollment trends. during the past couple of years Although fall enrollments in: was a change made by the 1982 Utah Legislature in prescribing a Utah public schools rose' by uniform entrance date for new 11,933 pupils in 1984, this increase is far below what had kindergarten pupils. The study indicates that the change had the been expected. School operating 1984-8in for effect of reducing the number of appropriations example, were based on the kindergarten pupils last year by assumption that there would be approximately 4,000. There also 15,674 additional students in the is evidence that the change may Utah school system this year. A have had some carry-oveffect few years ago, it had been in 1984., Instead of the 39,800 anticipated that the growth in kindergarten pupils that had Utah school enrollment might been expected, only 37,600 new average 18,000 to 20,000 new kindergarten pupils actually entered the public schools this year. pupils' each year by the The Foundation study estimatSchool enrollment in the es that school enrollments in .Wasatch' School District totaled Utah will grow by 15.200 or 3.9 2,563 pupils at the beginning of next year, but that this growth the 1984-8- 5 school year. This rate will decline sharply over the represented an increase of 77 next decade. By the mid, 1990s, from the 2,275 the annual enrollment growth pupils or 3.1 rate in Utah is projected by the pupils enrolled a year earlier. Foundation analysts anticipate Foundation to be less than that the rate of future enrollment The report emphasizes that these projections are based on growth in Utah will slow down for the following reasons: First, continuation of the average trend Utah's high birth rate has peaked experienced over the past three out and now is declining. It is years. This trend, includes a expected that the number of live slight during the births in Utah during 1984 will first year and total about 37,700. This is down during the second and third significantly from the 39,441 live years of the three-yea- r period. If biriiiif recorded in 1983 and is the trend of the past year were well below the peak of 41,786 used instead of the three-yea- r births reported in 1980. average, tjie enrollment projectAnother factor in the slowions could be much lower. On down in the enrollment growth the other, hand, if the present rate is the apparent trend reverses itself and Utah ion of population from the state again begins to experience an This during the past of population to the t state, the enrollment projections would be higher. Most of the enrollment growth in Utah currently is being AII experienced in the school districts along the Wasatch Front. In (.Call Anytime fact, four districts (Jordan, 783-240- 4 Granite, Davis, and Alpine) accounted for more than 61 erf DELIVERY the total enrollment increases SUMMIT FLORAL recorded during 1984. Nine of Colleen the Utah school districts actually Kamas. Ut Crawford reported enrollment declines for the year. . Enrollment growth in Utah public schools is beginning to slow down. This is the conclusion reached by Utah ' Foundation; the private research 'T Lo 5, er . mid-1980- s. 0.3. out-migra- t-. two-year- s. For g Occasions! 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