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Show , I All must be involved in solution JL- - t in " 1 conference at BYU pointed out that if Provo's Universit & nue was equipped with an adequate, computerized traffif ''r) trol system, CO levels near the EPA s testing areas 2 reduced by 50 percent. , and the Department of Provo City Transportation are Q$ ine on the problem, and they have been ever since We$ testing our automobiles. But don t look for the systemji installed until this fall -- or later. Fact 4. Clean air is everybody s problem, and we are apj r of the solution. Every resident of this valley can help preserve ourairt driving less or sharing rides, burning wood less or m0ret 1 ciently looking for ways to stop polluting our environment I Government agencies must act. Industry must responds X tively. And most of all, all ofus must care about the quality I' sir I We can have both prosperity and a beautiful, valley, but only if we all work together, instead of tearing other down. And only ifwe work in a spirit of coopeation ratk, j than competition. j rf the pollution could look at this study and then dismiss it. this valley is no worse than in other urban areas' the other air is unhealthy, too. That is unacceptaDie both tor Fact 2. Utah Valley air violates EPA standards particulate pollution, largely due to Geneva, ana monoxide, largely due to the amount of automobile iw unless something is done, the valley stands to tace sa from the federal government. art of the Fact 3. Local and state government bear a large responsibility for cleaning up our air. Geneva Steel ao have to meet federal particuate standards until tne develops an Implementation Plan that will spell out what trie steel plant must do to clean up its emmissions. Until there i plan, there will be no compliance That is not an indictment of the steel maker, simply an acknowledgement of standard corporate policy. The state is in the driver's seat when it comes to Geneva's pollution Local residents have done their share to help bring down trie CO levels in our valley by complying with the emissions testing which was forced on us two years ago. The result has been a dramatic reduction in local CO levels. The past two weeks of turmoil in Utah Valley may, in the long run, produce greater health, physically and economically, for all of Utah Valley. But not if individuals persist in viewing the air pollution problem as an issue with the pro-Gene- forces on one side and the anti-pollutio- n forces on the other. What must happen, instead, is a community effort that will create clean air without endangering the livelihoods of county residents. That is going to require a less combative attitude among some individuals on both sides of the crucial issue. Here are some of the facts that Utah Valley residents must face: Fact 1. Utah Valley air is unhealthy. A d study on the effects of local air pollution shows that twice as many local children go to the hospital for respiratory ailments when Geneva is operating as did when the plant was shut down. More adults get sick, too, but not as many as the children. The study looks at all other factors and concludes that the increased pollution from Geneva is responsible for the increase in illnesses. It is hard to believe that an area that so values its children Group wants Lindon water system Verlin Nicholes represented a citizens' group from Lindon and met with the City Council last week in an effort to revive the pressurized water system proposal. The group met with the North Union Irrigation Company and discussed problems with going to a pressurized system. The citizens hope to work out the problems with the irrigation company. The company forsees a number of problems if they go with the pressurized water system. The citizens group plans to go door-to-do- in a campaign with information for every home. If 80 percent were to vote in Ia, ? state would help fund the I The citizens group J should be solutions to then,,, L They want to find out if the tp Tyle of residents are in faor;! system. The city would be ,iC0 support the system if they r citizens want it, the councillor cl The coucnil spent somTchc discussing the emer ' SI preparedness program preicM the last City Council meetit: H( council asked City AdmimtVikir Ray Brown to attend the lter Command meeting for Ur'rtudf on Feb. 24 and 25. iwar Dignity maintained even though we won By MARCELLA WALKER Saturday night was the annual awards presentation for the Utah Press Association at its convention in Salt Lake City. I always look forward to this event because it is fun to receive awards for your past year's accom-plishments. There is also a certain amount of trepidation as you fear that you might not receive any awards at all. It was gratifying to receive a first place award for Best News Story for the reporting of the Mur-doc- k Canal break last spring. I wished that Jack Hill could be there to receive the first place award for Best Sports Column. He really deserved it. It would h ave been nice if Mark Bezzant could have been there to get his third place award for Best Feature Column. Incidently, someone recently sent a letter to Mark Bezzant at the newspaper with him addressed as editor. Mark is a columnist, not an editor. The writer may have had him confused with Brett Bezzant, publisher of the Pleasant Grove Review. We also received a third place award for my series on Emergency Preparedness and a second place for promotion. When some awards were an- - nounced the staffs of those newspa-pers went bananas and whistled and yelled and clapped. We from the Newtah Newspa-pers, Pleasant Grove Review, American Fork Citizen, and Lehi Free Press, tried to use decorum and did not holler out. Our publisher, Brett, came down to us later and asked us where our cheers and enthusiasm was. I don't know but I do know that each one of us was proud, especially American Fork who won the General Excellence Award. Brett will be president of the Utah Press Association for the coming year. That is a pretty pres-tigious honor and we are very proud of him. Between sessions at the conven-tion, my husband and I decided to go out to the Valley Fair Mall and see what all was new. It is one of my favorite malls anyway and it has been remodeled. We saw some of the most out-landish outfits on some of the young men that I have ever seen. A couple of kids had on jeans which had been ripped and torn in so m any places on the legs th at only tiny threads were holding some of the slits to each other. One had holes in the backside so that you could see the bottom of the boy's shorts underneath. I guess I should just be glad that he at least had some on underneath. It could have been worse. I think the boys were a bit self conscious about there attire by the way they acted but they were deter-mined to not let it faze them and they went on their way. I found a nice pair of dress shoes on sale, too. That was an extra bonus. Parking was near impossible. Saturday is always bad at any mall but it was worse than ever because the snow piles took up so much room and left only narrow lanes to drive through and when you parked your car stuck so far out that you were afraid it would get bumped. Salt Lake is getting worse and worse for traffic all the time. I hardly know a soul that likes to leave good old P.G. and go up there to do anything other than drive through on the freeway. We haven't been to shop in downtown Salt Lake for so long that it would all be like a brand new experience to us if we went. It is hard to find a parking place at the University Mall sometimes and once in a while you cannot even find a parking place in downtown Pleasant Grove, but I'll take it all any day over a trip to Salt Lake. Have you ever tried to find a drinking fountain in a hotel? While we were waiting for a seminar to begin on Saturday I was thir sty . I m ade a complete circuit of the ground floor at the hotel and never did find a fountain. I finally got brave and went into an empty room that had been set up for a seminar which had a water dispenser on a table along with fine glassware. I helped myself. It was fine and quenched my thirst, but Salt Lake water is sure not as good as Pleasant Grove water. That is for sure. So I had my annual trip to the big city and it may be some time before we get up there again. In fact, the newspaper convention will be in St. George next year (they alternate between Salt Lake and St. George) and so it may be even longer before I get to the metropo-lis. It is funny, but nearly every trip we have made to Salt Lake this past year has been to the Salt Pal-ace. We go straight there and come straight home. We don't dilly dally in town at all. I think I have been to two or three weddings at the Salt Lake Temple an d to the Salt Pal ace to see the Globetrotters and the Festival of Trees all within the past year. p Think spring! PL Grove City Council items'6 ' dinner for them and their wives, the council suggested. The Public Works Director will be responsible for this event. Councilman Bill West said he had noticed that Spanish Fork City had banned parking dur-ing the winter. He was curious about what Pleasant Grove was doing about this. He was told that warnings were issued by the police department at the first of the winter. But ifthe city were to impound the cars, where would they put them all? They said the ordinance was very difficult to enforce. Mayor Holdaway said fc .an I city will be doing a study toW all businesses have bacldMati tection. He said it is impett H the city that they have this;01ub tion. PEL Councilman Dale discussed the condition of :heF North street. He said thattkervf is full of chuckholes, especiume: the county side of the street cts The council wondered ih Je could get thecounty to cooper.Iayc repaying the entire road, iresi the street is in the city andh'GH the county. iem It was also noted that bec!:'ian the cold temperatures fte -- ment is popping out inmanj:. around town. The city has trying to fill the worst ones gravel butitisimpossibletopis 1 materials to fill them y:'a E until spring. The council was inforae:11' Insight Cable TV will extes: the north part of the citjj 8 spring. PGHS announces 1989 Sterling Scholar candidates Sterling Scholar candidates from Pleasant Grove High School this year include Russell Van Dyke, general scholarship; Sherrie Pace, social science; Adam Holda-way, music; Craig Douglas Maloney, science; Angie Little, business education; Tyler Ped-erse- English; Jon Weeks, visual arts; Heidi Lula Henriksen, home economics; Jeff Grace, speech and drama; Lonnie Washburn, foreign language; and Angela Humble, mathematics. Russell is the son of Larell and Margaret Van Dyke. He is an avid sports enthusiast and has partici-pated in varsity football and bas-ketball. He also enjoys golfing and play-ing tennis. He is a two-tim- e mem-ber of the Academic All-Sta- team in football. Russell served as sophomore class president and is currently serving as senior class president. He is a member of the National Honor Society and has a 3.95 GPA. He is a member of Key Club and A Cappella Choir, His future plans include an LDS mission and attending college where he plans to major in physical therapy. Sherrie is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carl A. Pace, Jr. She has participated in debate and was enrolled in the Advanced Place-ment American History Class. She passed the A. P. exam and earned college credit for the course. Sherrie has been on the honor roll every term throughout junior and senior high. She plans to at-- ; tend the University of Utah and hopes to enter either the teaching or engineering field. She has been involved in many community services projects and has been a candy striper at Ameri-can Fork Hospital. She also volun-teered to participate in a Sub for Santa Fair sponsored by Signetics Corporation. Sherrie is involved in various clubs in high school and is cur-rently of the French Club. She is a member of the Na-tional Honor Society. She partici-pates in the Science Club, Key Club and Future Homemakers of Amer-ica. Sherrie is also active in the LDS Church and is serving as first coun-selor in her Laurel Class. Adam is the son of David and Regula Holdaway. He has been a member of the marching band, the symphonic band, the jazz band and the orches-tra while attendingPleasant Grove High School. This past marchingband season he was the section leader for the drum line and is currently serving as orchestra president. He plays several instruments, including the percussion group, the bass guitar and the double bass. Last year he received an "Excel-lent" rating for his marimba solo at the State Festival. Adam has played in the pit or-chestra for community and high school musicaf plays. He has also performed with the Civic Sym-phony. He has been on the high school stage crew and is currently a disk jockey on KPGR Radio. Adam is an Eagle Scout. Craig is the son of Michael and Cindy Maloney. He plans to attend the University of Chicago in the fall. Craig has really enjoyed science and has successfully passed biol-ogy, physics, chemistry, A. P. Chemistry and is now taking A. P. Biology and Advanced Health Oc-cupations (physiology and psycholo-gy)- He previously completed a sci-ence project involving the adapta-tion of fruit flies to insecticide and is now working on a evaluation of the methods used to determine loci in probability analysis. In college Craig hopes to gain a BA-M- S in biochemistry- - molecular biology and then receive his DVM in Veterinary Science. Angie is the daughter ofDouglas and Marilee Little. She has been both Viking of the Month and Busi-ness Student of the Month. Angie has held many leadership positions in both church and school. She has been PTSA studentbody representative, and FBLA Chamber of Commerce rep-resentative. She is currently serv-ing as FBLA secretary and is DECA t. Last summer Angie attended Utah Business Week where her company took top honors. She was also a of the Lindon Stake Youth Conference which consisted of three days of service rendered to the community of Fairview, Utah. Though she was selected to at-tend Girls State, she was unable to participate due to getting a job at Bratt Landscape where she is pres-ently employed. Angie has successfully com pleted many business courses and enjoys both the classes and the teachers. She plans to attend Utah State University in the fall and major in Business Administration and-o- r accounting. Tyler is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Elray L. Pedersen. He is very interested in the outdoors and enjoys hiking, raft-ing, backpacking, and anything outdoors. He was junior class president and is currently serving on the Seminary Council. He is also an Eagle Scout and is on the high school varsity basket-ball team. Tyler enjoys all types of sports and has played soccer, baseball, and basketball for many years. He plans to go to college and receive an M.D. or Ph.D. in either medicine or some type of scientific research. Jon has a 3.98 GPA and is listed in "Who's Who Among American High School Students", "Outstand-ing High School Students of Amer-ica," and has been nominated to be a Congressional Scholar. He is a senior justice in the stu-dent government and has been a member of FBLA National Honor Society, and Key Club. He is the first assistant in his Priest Quorum. Jon works at a print shop as a press operator and graphic artist. He loves sports and has been involved in football, basketball and cross country. He enjoys fine art as well as every other kind of art as a hobby but does not plan to make a living by being an artist. Jon plans to attend BYU, U of U, or USU. He has not decided on a career yet, but is a and ambitious person and plans to succeed in everything he does. Heidi is the daughter of A. LaMont and Lula Marie Hen-rikse- She has consistently been on the honor roll since seventh grade and has a 3.996 GPA. She has participated in leader-ship positions at PGHS in drill team, Orchesis, A Cappella Choir, student government, Seminary Council, seminary class and in her LDS Church classes. Her talents and accomplish- ments center mainly around music and dance. She has been organist for her LDS ward for three years and she has been an accompanist m $ltasant (Smut fituitu Jsh 1SSNNO.I7SMTO ,jv USPS.NoUK Published weekly ew( (or Thinkural IT ( ndChriJlmisbyNeuAlK. llSoalhMib PImum Grave. UtiklW (( Tetepheae Numben gn Advertism4CircuUlion.l News Publisher Brell R BemJ f Editors MircHlddoi MirctUiWlH Subscnptionpricefl9"Pry,ir Second class postage paW at Pleasant Grove. M Policy . Baugh said one thing he and Farnsworth have discussed was the fact that many times teachers meet with students in other areas than school such as church groups, 4-- groups, scout groups, etc. He said the "scope of employ-men- t policy sets policy within the parameters of employment only and doesn't involve other areas Continued from front page Dr. Steven Baugh, district superintendent, said teachers should feel confident district ad-ministrators will stand behind them if problems do arise. Baugh said he recognized Mr. Farnsworth's concern about a teacher maybe getting into a situ-ation where poor judgement was used, but if it does happen, "the district is not going to abandon you. "I tried to indicate that is not how we feel about our employees. "If teachers act in reasonable and prudent matter their welfare will be upheld and the children will be safe." "We're loyal to our employees. We appreciate them, and we sup port them. The children are also important. We want to be in a posi-tion where their safety and welfare is foremost in our eyes. I think it's an excellent policy." Board members echoed Baugh 's feelings about the policy. Linda Campbell, a board mem-ber and a teacher in another dis-trict, said some incidents that have occurred elsewhere thathavemade her "aware how unique our district is in trying to set policy. "This really does help so ques-tions don't have to be asked after the fact." Board president Richard' Gappmayer said the intent of the policy was to help employees un-derstand their roles. "That's what this policy does." A Don t be disappointedGuarantee yourself delW on a new 1990 Polaris by reserving it now. 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