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May 11, 2011
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Man is charged
with aggravated
sexual assault;
case pending
By Myrna Trauntvein
Times-News Correspondent
At approximately 4:17 a.m.
on April 20, 2011, Nephi City
Police were dispatched to the
Best Western Motel in Nephi for
a possible rape.
The suspect, William Schick
age 48, was taken into custody.
No further information was
available due to do the fact that
the case is still under investigation.
“I can’t tell you much information because this is a pending
case,” said Jared Eldridge, Juab
County Attorney.
“William Schick was charged
with Aggravated Sexual Assault
in this case which is a First Degree Felony,” he said.
The case is scheduled for preliminary hearing on Thursday at
3 p.m.
The victim’s name has not
been released.
“The suspect, William Schick,
was located at the Flying J Truck
Stop,” said Mike Morgan, Nephi
City Police Chief. “The suspect is
a truck driver/transient.”
Nephi Police Department officers arrested Schick and booked
him into the Juab County Jail
without incident.
Bad news for
splash pad at
pool; CIB grant
application was
denied
By Myrna Trauntvein
Times-News Correspondent
What is happening with the
splash pool?
Nephi City Council held a
public hearing to discuss the
possibility of obtaining funding
for the addition of a splash pool
to the municipal pool. The hearing was a requirement of the
Community Impact Board (CIB)
for all those applying for funding
from the board.
Since that time, the board
has received and rejected the
request.
Donald Ball, city resident,
asked Nephi City council mem-
See GRANT on page 3
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Mona recorder will be able to assist those who want
to apply for grants to help with sewer line costs
By Myrna Trauntvein
Times-News Correspondent
Lyla Spencer, city recorder in
Mona, will help residents who
want to apply for grants.
“I spoke to the Utah Rural Development Office,” said Gordon
Anderson, council member.
Rural Development helps improve the quality of life in rural
communities by providing those
communities, co-ops and nonprofits with the financing needed
to build or improve key economic
and civic infrastructure.
The organization helps local
leaders provide basic services
like safe, reliable water and
waste treatment by helping fund
improvements to civic facilities,
business infrastructure and for
public services like first responder, adult education, job training,
health care and leadership development.
“They would like to have someone locally to help residents fill
out forms,” said Anderson.
A public meeting will be held,
said Anderson, and those interested in obtaining a grant to help
with the cost of installation of the
sewer line from the house to the
main trunk line in the street will
be invited.
“Many of them will need help
filling out all of the forms,” said
Anderson.
Lyla
Spencer
would be the perfect person for
the job, he said.
Residents from the community,
said Anderson, who would like to
receive a grant will be invited
to city hall for a public meeting.
That date still needs to be selected.
“I would like to have the meeting when it can be held outside,”
said Anderson.
That would allow all of those
who wanted to attend the meeting to do so. The city offices are
small for such a large group to
meet.
“We could have the meeting at
Mona Elementary,” said Spencer.
“I could call and arrange for us to
meet there.”
Bill Mills, mayor, said he
agreed that the meeting should
be held outside and favored June
as the meeting month which
would likely be the best time for
the outdoor public meeting.
Juab Junior High is joining the technology age
and will be using iPods in classrooms next year
By Myrna Trauntvein
Times-News Correspondent
All seventh grade students
at Juab Junior High for the
2011-2012 school year could be
considered lucky.
The students will be using
iPods as a learning improvement
tool during the school year.
Ken Rowley, JJHS principal,
said he was excited about the
new technology available for
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students.
“Today, our students walk into
a classroom and they are back to
the 1980s,” said Rowley.
That educational era was not
the best choice for the students
of today. Seventh graders were a
great deal more visual than were
students back then. In addition,
they were prepared to learn
anytime and anywhere. That
was the power of technology, it
allowed mobile learning.
Homework could go home in
the pocket of the student.
“Each Seventh Grader will
receive an iPod touch next year,”
said Darin Clark, Juab School
District Business Administrator. ”The funding will come from
the regular technology and textbook budgets.”
Administrators and staff
have visited a school where this
program is in place and working
well.
The iPod, he said, was a wireless device that allowed mobility of learning and, in addition,
could store needed learning
materials.
The iPod touch is so small it
can fit in a pocket with media
functions, email, news, weather,
address book, learning functions
and Web browsing and can act as
a remote control for the iMac.
The thing that makes the
iPod touch so wonderful is its
portability. Students have been
able to get the same functions on
laptops for years.
“The iPod is very portable and
can be slipped into your back
pocket,” said Rowley.
It is a great learning tool.
There are e-book texts, for example, and as time goes by, there
will be more companies who will
access that way of communicating information.
However, there are still free
domain textbooks that could be
used. While not all of the textbook might be what was wanted,
there were enough that teachers
could pick a chapter from one
book and then pick a chapter
from another book.
Protections were being put on
the devices, Rowley said.
“On an iPod, you can shut it
down so that only the parents
know the password,” said Rowley. “Tony likes the idea that any
connection would be sent back
through our firewall.”
The way Kearns handles the
problem of students using the
device for the wrong reasons was
to bring into the office a number
of the electronic devices at a time
and examine them.
Granite also could call in one
of the devices at any time. They
would then review the history of
the iPod.
“You can see the apps (applications) they have on their device
and remove the unwanted ones,”
Rowley said.
Only one app store would be
approved.
In classrooms of the 1970s,
students needed to have access
to encyclopedias. Now the new
way to search for information
was to Google it.
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Just as textbooks are lost, it
is anticipated, that some of the
iPods could be lost. The loss will
be covered the same way lost
textbooks are.
In addition, there will be insurance on each.
Apple is good about delivering
quickly to the school and, therefore, getting a replacement for a
lost machine should arrive in a
timely manner.
“The ownership will belong to
the district,” said Rowley. “Like
textbooks, they will be turned
in in the summer months and
re-issued in the fall.”
The same person will get the
same iPod they had the year
before.
iPods also have cameras but
those will be turned off. The
iPods are not to be used as toys;
they are to be learning devices.
Some students might have their
own device. They may use it but
they will have to agree to obey the
rules applying to district-owned
iPods and they will still be locked
down just as are the iPods being
used by other students.
Tracy Olsen, board member,
said if there was abuse of the
device by one of the students,
the school could simply take
the machine. It could then be
cleaned and restored. The iPod
would be returned to the school.
The student wouldn’t be allowed
to use it.
See IPODS on page 3