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Show ! PGHS will play 4-A greatly decrease their gate receipts because of it being too far for the fans to travel. Li - . ' : ,: - - '-' :- i ,M I I. " iwi . ... -v v . . ' ' ; . - . :. - ........... . ! )..: ; j 1 Pleasant Grove High School will be a Class 4-A school beginning next fall, despite months of protest. The Utah High School Activities Association Legislative Council voted in favor of the proposal for sports realignment on Jan. 11. The proposal was vigorously protested by Pleasant Grove High School Principal Bill Delaney, Alpine Al-pine School Board members, and members of the Pleasant Grove High School Booster Club. Hundreds of local residents had signed petitions protesting the proposal as well. Pleasant Grove will be in Region Four with American Fork, Orem, Mt. View, Timpview and Provo High Schools. Pleasant Grove, Provo and Timpview have all been 3-A schools in Region 8. Mr. Delaney noted that Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove is the smallest of all these schools and there are 10 4-A high schools larger than PGHS. Other schools from the current Region 8 all remain 3-A. The realignment rea-lignment makes Region 7 with Darbon, Union, Uintah, Lehi, Emery and Wasatch. Region 8 will now include Dixie, Payson, Spanish Fork, Pineview, Springville and Cedar City. Principal Delaney said that Pleasant Grove High School has an inrollment of 1,075 right now. By 1993, they estimate theenrollment ;obe 1,251. At that time the school vould be large enough to be a 4-A ichool, according to the guidelines used by the Utah High School Activities Ac-tivities Association. Provo High School has an enroll-mentof enroll-mentof 1,152, Timpviewhas 1,066, American Fork has 1,465, Orem has 1,713 and Mountain View has 1,740. Both of the Orem schools will have over 2,100 students in 1993, Delaney noted. He had asked the legislative council to leave PGHS at 3-A until 1993. He said that when the school was big enough to meet the criteria for a 4-A school he would not make any objection but as it was he did not feel it was fair for the school to be made 4-A at this time. Sheri Atwood, president of the Pleasant Grove Booster Club, said that it was obvious to her that the legislative council was only interested inter-ested in what was convenient for the Salt Lake area schools. West and Jordan High Schools, both with larger enrollments than Pleasant Grove, will stay as 3-A schools, which was disturbing, Sheri said. She said that before the legislative legisla-tive council voted they had heard a financial report which stated that the schools had been getting more gate receipts for games and coming out better financially they way they were organized at the present time. Sheri added that the council then turned right around and voted to put Springville, Payson and Spanish Fork with the St. George and Cedar City schools which will A brand spanking new Savage front-end discharge cement mixer was on display Wednesday Wed-nesday when Mack Trucks, Inc. announced the purchase of Savage Manufacturing of Pleasant Grove. |