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Crossing Guards FINALLY coming to local South Jordan Elementary Schools! |
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Written by Scoop
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Thursday, 01 October 2009 09:14 |
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   As some of you have read in the first S.A.F.E. program articles (found on the 2nd or 3rd news page)  three of the local elementary schools have been in need and have been asking the City of South Jordan for crossing guards and have been consistently denied due to funding issues. Well I have read the City budget since I am a candidate for the South Jordan City Council this year and there is plenty of room to find funding for budget for the crossing guards and I expressed this with the current South Jordan City Manager, whom I suspect is more concerned with infrastructure growth and building the tax base than he is of the safety of the children of South Jordan (yes I told him that directly). Now I do think that the growth of infrastructure and building the tax base of South Jordan are extremely important to the future of South Jordan, however I believe that safety for all of the residents of the City of South Jordan (not just the children) is the more important… .     So since the S.A.F.E. program was published the City of South Jordan has scrambled and found the funding to get the needed crossing guards for Daybreak Elementary, Early Light Academy, & Eastlake Academy, so now all of the schools will have 2 crossing guards total to ensure the safety of the children of South Jordan are safe going to and leaving school every day. I just spoke to the Chief of Police of South Jordan this morning and the crossing guards should be in place in about 4 weeks! . If you’re current elected officials were doing their job this should have never been an issue!!! . Joe Ross~ |
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Last Updated on Thursday, 01 October 2009 09:21 |
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Daybreak Children's Academy coming spring 2010 |
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Written by Scoop
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Tuesday, 13 October 2009 12:34 |
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  Finally, Daybreak will have its very own child care center, and like pretty much everything else in Daybreak—it will have its own special twist. Daybreak Children's Academy (DCA) will be a place where the whole family can get involved in art and music. The core program is a “daycare alternative†for working parents who need child care, but who don’t want to send their child to a “babysitting†type center. At DCA children as young as 6 months to 3 years will receive age-appropriate music prep courses designed to prepare them for Suzuki violin instruction and piano lessons by the time they turn four at the center. Toddlers on up will also be receiving professional art instruction, art history lessons, and language instruction (with the option of enrolling your child in a Spanish immersion class, where a native speaking instructor will speak only Spanish with the students for half of each day). All of this is included in the standard tuition and is built-in to their daily curriculum. . For more information please visit: http://daybreakacademy.com/ |
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 13 October 2009 12:40 |
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South Jordan Schools will start recycling again Late 2009 |
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Written by Scoop
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Sunday, 27 September 2009 00:00 |
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    As soon as the South Jordan School District comes back from the Fall break in Jan 2009, the South Jordan School District will work on getting all the recycling bins back to all the Schools in South Jordan. In August 2007 the City of South Jordan code enforcement told the South Jordan School District that the recycling bins needed to be removed if the Schools District were not able to have fencing or an enclosures put up around the recycling bins. The School District was unable to taking what little budget it had away from the children’s educational needs to build these enclosures being requested so almost all the recycling bins were taken from the South Jordan Schools at that time. .
  I have been trying to find a resolution to fix this situation for a month or two and was actually working on getting a waiver or variance to the code for the South Jordan School District. However last week a friend of mine who happens to be an Attorney for the City of South Jordan was able to dig up some information on the State Code of Municipality 10-9A-305 sub 4a, which exempts the all public Schools from the code enclosure requirement. .
Anyways thanks to everyone who gave their support in helping me and my efforts to get the South Jordan School District Recycling Program back to our Schools!  . And a BIG thank you to Mr. Aaron Osmond and Kennecott Land for dontating the funds to pay for the recycling bin at Daybreak Elementary for the 2009-2010 school year!  . Happy Holidays Joe Ross~ |
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Last Updated on Thursday, 01 October 2009 08:41 |
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Come get your Pumpkins!!! |
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Written by Scoop
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Monday, 10 October 2011 13:01 |
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   Come start a fun family tradition of picking your own pumpkins at the Petersen Family Farm.  They have a free small corn maze and plenty of fun photo ops. While there you can get any of your harvest decorating items: gourds- multiple styles and colors, squash of all colors that are delicious to eat as well, Indian corn, corn stalks, straw bales, and more! . They are conveniently located at 11887 S 4000 W in Riverton.   |
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Last Updated on Monday, 10 October 2011 12:02 |
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S.A.F.E.: Crosswalks at Early Light Academy |
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Written by Elly
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Saturday, 19 September 2009 15:32 |
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If you have enjoyed the first round of the S.A.F.E. Program please us know your thouhgts by posting the in forums, thanks for your support and the next S.A.F.E articles will be up in a few weeks. Thanks and remeber to VOTE for Joe Ross on Nov 3rd for South Jordan City Council As most of you know, Daybreak welcomed a brand new elementary school this year: Early Light Academy. Along with hiring teachers, planning curriculum, and ordering desks, the school board at ELA has prepared for its first school year by giving consideration to its students’ daily commute to and from its doors. Working with the South Jordan Police Department, the school established a Safe Walk Route (every school in Utah has one) which shows families the safest ways to walk to school from the surrounding neighborhood. Unfortunately, when significant roads have to be crossed without crosswalks or crossing guards, “safe†becomes a relative term.  For the kids who walk to Early Light Academy, there are two considerably dangerous roads to cross. A crosswalk on the east side of the school is the major entrance and exit to the school grounds, and it runs through a street which, while empty throughout the day, becomes overrun by parent’s vehicles before and after school. But after the kids walk past some weedy empty ground and down a short side-street, they come to Grandville, a wide, hilly, curving thoroughfare (as far as Daybreak streets go). And across the street these kids go—several sidewalks emptying in several places up and down the street, no designated crosswalk, and definitely no crossing guard. There are usually about 100 children streaming across Grandville every day, and at least five or six cars, if not more, zooming up the hill in that half-hour after school. It’s chaos. The Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices—or MUTCD, which outlines the federal guidelines for traffic safety—states, “For safety, students need to wait for a gap in traffic that is of sufficient duration to permit reasonably safe crossing. When the delay between the occurrence of adequate gaps becomes excessive, students might become impatient and endanger themselves by attempting to cross the street during an inadequate gap.†(7A.03) In plain old English, this means that kids get bored waiting for cars to pass and just go charging out across the street. Basically, according to the MUTCD, crossing guards are for creating long-enough gaps in traffic so kids can cross the street safely. They must carry a “STOP paddle†(7E.05) and “wear high-visibility retroreflective safety apparel†(7E.04).  At the other schools in Daybreak, when parents are concerned about the streets their children have to cross, they accompany them to school. But at both street crossings at Early Light Academy, a few parents and teachers have taken it upon themselves to shepherd children across with no school-zone signs, no hand-held stop sign, and no reflective safety jacket. They’re taking their lives in their own hands, as well as the lives of the children they help across the street. While this may be commendable, it’s really dangerous—not just for their safety but the liability, if anything were to happen, would be pretty formidable.
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