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Show 7 50 expires i7i 1 nn WflG & SONS BOOKBINDERY INr 127 RAILROAD STREET K 3PR INGPORT MI 492(34 13 Datl Vol. 11, No. 8 Thursday, February 23, 1989 50 cents a single copy PG City Council makes offer on shop Pleasant Grove City Council noted Tuesday night that it had made an offer on the old Pleasant Grove Junior High School shop area located at 100 E. 100 South. The council said that they had not received a firm response yet from the Alpine School District. At the last council meeting the decision was made to offer up to $40,000 for the structure but the price is being negotiated, Mayor David Holdaway said. The city would like to use the building for a fire and ambulance facility. The structure is large enough to hold the fire trucks and ambulances. The council approved the hiring of Kent Walker as architect and will ask him to prepare a plan of the building and the minimum re-quired to bring it up to code. The council does not want to spend a fortune making the build-ing look fancy but said it will need to have the asbestos removed from the heating ducts and it must be made structurally sound. In the meantime, the city will await an answer from the school district. In other matters, the council discussed at length the value of hiring a full time custodian for the city. The councilmembers said that with the mechanical systems in the new library, city hall, public safety building and community center, the city could use the services of a skilled person. At present the city has part-tim- e people who clean each build-ing. When the library was nearing completion the city council dis-cussed this question and decided for financial reasons to stay with the part-tim- e system and take another look at it later. Preliminary figures indicate that it would cost the city about $500 more per month to have a fulltime person because of the benefits that would go with the job. The person would be asked to work a shift from noon until 8 p.m. most days so that office cleaning could be done in the evenings when they are empty. During the daytime hours main-tenance work on heating and cool-ing systems, fire alarm system, etc. could be done. It would also provide someone to supervise when areas such as the Senior Citizen Center are rented out. The council felt that if they should decide to hire a fulltime person it would take place at the beginning of the next fiscal year on July 1. They said they would take into account the quality of work this would provide and the better pres-ervation of the buildings in making this decision. The council decided to table a resolution to borrow money from the Utah League of Cities and Towns Cooperative II fund. The council would have had to submit the resolution right away and they felt that they would like to look into it further and not be rushed. In addition, since the money would have been used to finance the renovation oftheold junior high shops which the city has made an offer to purchase, the council wanted to see if they could pay as they go on remodeling the building rather than going into debt. The council approved sending a letter of appreciation and a Com-munity Achievement Certificate to the PGHS Wrestling Team for winning the state championship and bringing recognition to the community. Public Works employees who have had to spend countless extra hours working this winter because of the snow and cold temperatures should- - be given an appreciation See City Council Page 3 "4 r-- J ' TN : I ' . r ' - vt - W, -- - II jErin Walker was critically injured Wednesday morning when this car struck a telephone pole and ricocheted into an orchard. Cedar Hills woman critically injured An Erin Walker, Cedar Hills, was OF critically injured Wednesday 2Qft morning in an accident on 2600 North in Pleasant Grove. 2d- A Pleasant Grove Junior High OH (( School student, Erin received se-vere head injuries when the car in which she was riding went out of tlZGF: control and hit a telephone pole no , before bouncing offinto an orchard. 4 According to Pleasant Grove 3l Police Detective Bert Bean, the car was driven by Erin's mother, Deann. In his report he stated that Mrs. Walker was eastbound when she swerved to miss a chuckhole in the road. ; This put the car into the west- - WS4 bound lane of traffic and a car was coming so she turned the car back to the right and it went out of control and went through some snow, hit the pole, went down an embankment and into the orchard. Mrs. Walker and another daughter in the car, Andrea, were not seriously injured. Erin was taken to American Fork Hospital and transported by Air Med to the University Medical Center where she was undergoing treatment at press time on Wednesday. Det. Bean estimated the dam-age to the Walker vehicle at $3,000. The accident occurred at 8:26 a.m. near 471 W. 2600 North. In other police matters, Officer Jim Taufer is investigating a report of criminal mischief at Freds Lounge in Lindon on Saturday. He said that the owners re-ported a man had broken pitchers, glasses and a door window at the establishment. The man had left the premises before police arrived. Tony Brereton told police that 26 cassette tapes and a case, total value $350, was taken from his car while it was parked in front of Pleasant Grove High School. There are no suspects. An employee at Adventureland Video in Lindon reported that a man came to the front door and exposed himself to her before flee-ing south on foot. She said the man had on a coat and nothing else. The incident happened at about 7:50 p.m. on Feb. 7. Bobbi Deere, Provo, reported that her purse was stolen from her locked car while she was attending a party in Lindon. Her purse contained a payroll check, cash, cards and other items with a total value of $1,122. There C are no suspects, according to Offi-cer Jeff Wilson. New policy outlines teacher-studen-t interaction Members of the Alpine School District Board of t Education unanimously approved a "scope of employ-"ment- " policy during their Feb. 14 business meeting. The policy, which outlines student-teache- r inter ac- - tion, was passed after having undergone discussion gland revision by district officials and board members over the past two months. 0 The approved policy includes an addition to the q, original policy which states that "The Alpine School iDistrict Board of Education supports the professional .;code of ethics governing personnel who work for the (school district and expects its employees to act within jthese parameters." jj And "further supports federal, state and local laws which prescribe and prohibit inappropriate actions 9 between students and teachers." The policy goes on that "employees of Alpine School District shall cooperate fully in implementing" the policy guidelines. It states that instruction, counseling, and adminis-trative tasks relating to students which require the presence of students, should be accomplished on school premises within the regularly scheduled time of activities. Approval of the school principal will be required whenever it becomes necessary for a district employee to meet with a student or students outside the regular school day, or outside of the school premises. The policy also says that district employees shall avoid traveling alone with an individual student and shall avoid being alone at any time with an individual student unless it is necessary in the performance of professional duties within the scope of employment, i.e. counseling, disciplining, instructing, and adminis-trative tasks. One concern of district teachers, according to Bart Farnsworth, Alpine Education Association president, is that the policy doesn't specifically say how it would be determined what activities were "necessary." Teachers were worried, he said, that if the board determined certain activities were unnecessary, teachers would be left on their own to deal with lawsuits or other problems. "They (the teachers) worry about cases where a teacher might misjudge a situation and then be left out on a limb (by the district)," Farnsworth said. He said he was "quite surprised" when he read in one of the daily papers where he had said teachers were threatening a lawsuit if the policy passed be-cause they felt the "policy would limit the liability of the school district and leave teachers out on a limb if anything happened." He has, he said, worked closely with the district in considering revisions to the original policy and feels the teacher concerns have been answered. "There are still a couple of minor ones (concerns), but the main concerns have been taken care of." Farnsworth said he felt additions to the policy since it was first proposed are excellent additions. See POLICY on page 2 Dry summer pumping costs send electrical bill soaring Extended pumping hours at the city's water wells because of the dry summer sent 1988 city electrical costs soaring in Pleasant Grove, according to the annual water re-port just released. Frank Mills, Public Works Di-rector, said that a comparatively dry year in 1988 meant less "free water" from the springs in k Canyon, and the city had to resort to pumping the wells much more than it usually does. Costs were double what they were the year before, he stated. Mills noted that in 1988 the Battlecreek Springs produced 257 million gallons of water. In 1987 those same springs produced 395 million gallons of water. He said the difference was ac-counted for during January through May when there was a real drop in the flow out of the springs because of lack of moisture and the very cold weather up high last year. The springs usually get rejuve-nated in March and April and this just did not happen last year, he said. Wade Springs produced 287 million gallons of water in 1988. This was just a bit different from 1987 when 289 million gallons were produced. Mills pointed out that Wade Springs is not affected by the mois-ture and temperatures like Bat-tlecreek is. "Wade Springs must be fed by deeper aquifers than Bat-tlecreek," Mills noted. "It is more consistent," he added. These two springs provide the only "free water" that the city gets. These two sources do not have to be pumped. "Pumping is what costs the city money," Mills explained. The Monson Well pumped 332 million gallons during 1988 and 309 million gallons in 1987. In June and July of 1988 it cost $5,000 per month to pump this well. The Battlecreek Well is the one that really costs, Mills noted. It cost $10,000 per month in June and July last year to pump this well, he added. In 1988 the Battlecreek Well pumped 308 million gallons and in 1987 it pumped 187 million gal-lons. In 1987 the city pumped the Battlecreek Well nine out of the 12 months. In 1988 the well had to be pumped every month. Anderson Well pumped 77 mil-lion gallons and was pumped six months in 1988 and in 1987 it was pumped only five months and pro-duced 61 million gallons. During June and July it cost $3,400 to pump this well. The Grovecreek Well was pumped seven months in 1988 and produced 66 million gallons of water. The previous year it was pumped three months and pro-duced 37 million gallons. The cost to pump on this well was $5,500 in June and July, 1988. From all other water sources the city produced about another one million gallons of water, Mills ex-plained. The city has budgeted more money in 1989 to cover the costs of pumping, Mills stated. He said that the city measures the "draw down" on the wells. This is to determine the amountof water being taken from the underground reservoirs. The Battlecreek Well is staying pretty constant. The Anderson Well was down about 100 feet after being pumped a long time. (Water was found 100 feet farther down in the ground than usual.) There was only about 20 feet difference in the Grovecreek Well after it was pumped and allowed to come back. Mills said he feels the moisture that has fallen in the mountains this year will restore water to the aquifers to what it was before. "Right now the Battlecreek Springs are not flowing 200 gallons a minute," Mills added. During the summer these springs flow about 1,200 gallons per minute. Mills explained that the city would like to get a grant to put a water tank in the northeast part of town, similar to the new two mil-lion gallon tank at th e Monson Well site. The Battlecreek System has one tank that stores one million gallons of water and there is a smaller tank that holds 750,000 gallonsof water. At the Monson Well there is also a small tank that holds one-ha- lf million gallons of water. Mills added that during the winter months the Battlecreek pump is running about six out of every 24 hours while the Monson pump is working about 10 out of every 48 hours because it is a smaller pump and there is a larger storage capacity. Review publisher to preside over Utah Press Assn. ,'v: ff;, ' yk Brett Bezzant, publisher of Newtah News Group, was elected President of Utah Press Associa-tion during the 1989 annual con-vention held last weekend in Salt Lake City. The press association is in its 97th year representing some 50 weekly newspapers in Utah. Of-fices are located in Salt Lake City and, in addition to member news-paper services, the association provides publicity and advertising services to clients throughout the state. Bezzant has served on the board of directors since 1982 as director, treasurer and secretary. Retiring president is Adrien Taylor, pub-lisher of the Moab Times-Independen- t. Other officers newly elected thisyear are Vice President Ken Adams, publisher of the Mor-gan County News and Secretary Brent Sumner, publisher of the Orem-Genev- a Times. Bezzant began his newspaper career in 1980 with Newtah News Group when it was owned by West-ern World Newspapers headquar-tered in California. After being promoted to publisher in 1981, he negotiated the purchase of the business effective Jan. 1, 1982. Since that time he has been an active member of the press associa-tion as well as other trade and service groups. He is a BYU graduate holding a BA degree in communications with an emphasis in advertising. His Brett Bezzant . . . . . . new UPA president work for Utah Press Association has included a major promotional campaign with audio cassette and print advertising touting the bene-fits of advertising in Utah's com-munity newspapers. He has also authored changes in the associa-tion bylaws and presented work-shops on effective newspaper ad-vertising. He is the father of five children and lives with his wife Kelly in American Fork. I lis parents, W. Mark and Dena T. Bezzant of Pleasant Grove own a minority interest in the company. fi Basketball Bulletin; PGHS defeated j Payson yesterday 8 1-- 74 ; in overtime, They play "JT Skyview today (Thurs.) 'J at3:10p,m,attheBYU Marriott Center, fiCanal break a story earns dtop honors 3 O, When the Murdock Canal bank wpollapsed last May it created a big news story for the press and the ijeasant Grove Review has won a Oirst place award for Best News Jtory of the Year for reporting this Invent. The award was presented at the innual winter convention of the jijJtah Press Association held last H veek in Salt Lake City. j The winning news story was written by Marcella Walker. Other awards presented to The Review included another first place or Jack Hill's sports column, .Viewpoint"; a third place in Best - y; eature Column for one of E. Mark k Jezzant's columns, "People, Poli- - : ics and Policy"; a third place for If 'est News Series, a three-par- t rticle by Marcella Walker on mergency preparedness; and a ,econd place for Best Amotion. The Pleasant Grove Review is rJ ldged in Group Two newspapers JiUtah. The American Fork Citizen won Crst place in General Excellence J r Group Two newspapers. Lehi ree Press came in third for Gen- - 0l0'a Excellence. 00 |