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Show Review - Wednesday, November 10. 1982 - Paee 12 Alpine Involvement Council to hold first meet Nov. 16 The area council contact, council and they can formation directly rektli dividual neighborhoods'- - to "People upset or whn k ideas can suggest them tn on the local boardofstrangersrsS. At the the upcoming publi: final draft for th DmeeH volvement Council is to be interested ? taken until the reguLr board meeting one wSa; So, if people come and hL and have a suggestion won't be too late to inJji saysTaggart, "We are any good ideas yet Tf schedules for instance" 0tafit The November 16 6:00 in the district boa& room. ""iiij The brainchild of the thirteen-memb- er district Task Force is ready to be introduced to Alpine School District patrons this Nov. 16, and committee members are highly optomistic about its ability to per-form. Tagged the "Alpine District Public Involvement Council," the system of communicating information between local people and the board of education has been since September "in the womb." Task Force member Sally Taggart says it can work and work very well if given the chance. She says "theoretically every patron in the district will have access to the board without eliminating the direct access process." "The Public Involvement Council is to be a three level structure, with district, area and local council operating. Local councils can be made up of neighborhood representatives, or of people chosen by individual school PTAs and principals. Area councils will seat a representative from each school council from each of the four block areas; American Fork, Lehi, Orem and Pleasant Grove. The District Council then will consist of an appointed member from each of the five precincts - each board member will call one - plus two at large members called by their councilmates, an administrative person, a teacher representative, classified employee rep and a district staff liason. The regional PTA president will also be included," says Taggart. Taggart emphasizes that this Council is not designed to usurp PTAs power or responsibilities, and an-swers charges that the Council may duplicate jobs with the PTA by giving specific examples of what matters the Council may take up. "For instance, the Productivity Study last year would have been such a matter. Gifted needs, busing problems, the issues will be ones completely different from the kind of things PTAs handle," she explains. Taggart notes that the Public In-volvement Council can use men and their resources more readily than PTAs, since time structure can fit more easily into business schedules. Jan Lewis, regional PTA President, also defended the plan at its board meeting introduction last month. She said "It's my personal hope that we as a PTA give the council system a chance to work and encourage broad community input." Board reception to the council system idea was warm, says Taggart. "They've been extremely com-mitted to using a public council since the beginning. There is just no way they can reach everyone as it is, the district is too big and the problems are too complex. This system can give them feedback they can use." "For example, if they want to know how northeast Orem feels about their new school, they go to that area council and give them their questions. "" ' ! i ... ' ... . "' '- ;-- ' ..."""" V " 'v,' VJ1 ' '' i " . , " ' f . 7, - . f t - - , .y . --V, 'V' & ;rv 1; V - - J SHERRI ATYVOOD, left, Officer Tom Paul, and Dee Ekins act out a scene for one of author David George's books on children's safety. Sherri attempts to escape after trying to induce some children at the park to come with them. Filming now underway in PG for books on safety Filming involving Pleasant Grove children and adults has already begun for a group of books that hopes to put messages of safety across to the nation's children. The project got enthusiastic endorsement from the Pleasant Grove PTA Council at the meeting of that group held at Valley View Elementary last Thursday. Author David Lester George of Orem plans a total of six books in the series including one on water, fire, use of medicine, and kidnapping. The writer told the PTA group he conceived of the idea for the books following the tragedy of Rachel Runyan. He said he does not want the message of the dangers that exist to children to be lost when the sen-sationalism of the story dies down. "We want to keep the message right out there," he said. - ' Some of the titles for the books might be "Strangers Can Be Very Strange," "Water's Fun, But...," "Pills for Ills - Ills from Pills". He wants to design books to be one-thir- d adventure and two-thir-safety. George said the books should be a com.nunity project and indicated to the PTA that he will give the city full distribution rights to the books which he suggests could bring in as much as $240,000 for the city to use for teaching aids, computers, etc. In addition, production of the books here in the city would produce from 14-2- 0 new jobs, said the writer. The author has been out with Pleasant Grove Police Officer Tom Paul during the past week filming shots for one of the books. In that story, which puts across the message to beware of strangers, George used local backdrops such as Wasatch Bank and the park. Paul and one of his children will be part of that book. The narrator of the stories is a police car. He sees things going on that aren't quite right and alerts his driver to them. Sandy Hughes, a Provo artist will be doing the overlays of the car for the books. George hopes to keep the publications as realistic as possible, so the children will know the message is real. The author is trying to get the backing of a major automobile cor-poration for production and promotion of the book. He estimates the cost to buy the entire series will be no more than. $3.00, if the books are bound with a soft cover. George said the people of Pleasant Grove have been very cooperative in getting the project going. Lindon Clinjt : open house Area residents are reminded open house scheduled at the? Lindon Clinic on Nov. li fro: p.m. Clinic physicians will be avato I to answer any questions about kH care available at the facility " Pocket first aid kits will be () the first 100 families attending " open house and refreshments lit, served. lit Letter to the Editor Excited about production Editor: I'm so excited about the Pleasant Grove High School upcoming pro-duction of "The Sound of Music." (Nov. 11th, 12th and 13th.) Our daughter has the opportunity of being a member of the Von Trapp family and they asked if some mothers would like to participate in the nun chorus along with the drama students. I decided to avail myself of that opportunity and it has been such an uplifting experience to see and feel the great spirit of our tremendous young people and their directors and administrators. Its great also to be involved in such an inspiring play where this courageous family armed with faith and beautiful music overcome tremendous odds and escape the forces of tyranny. We've probably all been inspired by the screen version many times but this is a different, equally inspiring, version and "" nothing can beat the talents and enthusiasm of our own youth and directors. I understand the royalties are very high on this play and unless they have a lot of community support they'll go in the red. I feel sure there'll be no chance of that and the problem will be no tickets available beause of sell-ou- t crowds. My husband and I are members of a committee formed by Mayor Holdaway and the Pleasant Grove City Council to investigate the problems of indecent and harmful materials entering our community. While In know this is a necessary work to try and suppress the unwholesome, how much more positive and uplifting - also necessary it is to promote and encourage the good. I know all will want to avail themselves and families of this inspiring experience. Thelma M. 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