https://thorntonco.cvlcollections.org/files/original/fc62999162250dcf328c4fe90cc36008.pdf 6295e8d399b81f2dfa7935f8e12dd14e PDF Text Text etter: MONTHLY NEWS FOR THORNTON CITY EMPLOYEES Vol. 10 No. 1 January 30~ 1981 DISCOUNT TICKETS AVAILABLE Rocky Hockey Avalanche Soccer Nuggets Dasketbal I Ice Skating ROCKY HOCKEY Discount tickets are available and transportation will be provided to the following Rocky Hockey games: ROCKIES VS. CHICAGO BLACKHAl~KS Saturday, February 14 - 7:35 p.m. (Ticket purchase deadline - Feb. 8) ROCKIES VS. NEW YORK ISLANDERS Friday, March 20 - 7:30 p.m. (Ticket purchase deadline - Mar. 15) Twenty .tickets must be purchased per game in order to.receive group rates. Sign up at the Recreation Center. Fees: $7.50 Mezzanine Level and $1.00_transportation fee. NUGGETS. VS. BOSTON CELTICS Sunday, February 15 - 2:05 p.m. (Ticket purchase deadline - Feb. 7) NUGGETS VS. LOS ANG_ELES LAKERS Wednesday, March 4 - 7:35 p.m. (Ticket purchase deadline - Feb. 25) NUGGETS VS. HOUSTON ROCKETS Sunday, March 15 - 2:05 p.m. (Ticket purchase deadline - Mar. 7) Fee: $8.25 (choice balcony seating) and $1.00 transportation fee. -- INDOOR SOCCER Discount tickets are available ·to Thornton employees and their families for the following D~nver Avalanche indoor soccer game: AVALANCHE VS. CLEVELAND FORCE Thursday, February 26 - 7:35 p.m. (Ticket purchase deadline - Feb. 18) Sign up for tickets at the Recreation Center. Fee: $6.60 Loge Seating plus $1.00 transportation fee. NUGGETS BASKETBALL Discount tickets to the following Denver Nuggets basketball games are available at the Thornton Recreation Center: ICE SKATING AT HYLAND HILLS ARENA Discount rates are also available to Thornton employees at Hyland Hills Ice Arena on the following days: Saturday, February 21 - 9:30-11 :30 a.m.(Sign up deadline February 16} Saturday, March 7 - 7:30-9:00 p.m. (Sign up deadline Maret 2) The van will leave the Recreation Center 30 minutes before scheduled skate time. Bring your whole family. Fee: $2.00, which includes skate rental. These tickets are offered as a service to Thornton residents and employees. We hope you will take advantage of them, since a minimum number of tickets must be purchased in order to obtain the discount rate, For further information, call the Recreation Center - extension 265. T.W. �Murphy's Law, Etc. MURPHY'S LAW: If anything can go wrong, it will. Corollaries: 1. Nothing is as easy as it looks. 2. Everything takes longer than you think. 3. If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong. 4. If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which a procedure can go wrong, and circumvent these, a fifth way will promptly develop. 5: Left t6 themselvei, things tend to go from bad to worse. . 6. Whenever you set out to do something, something else must be done first. 7. Every solution breeds new problems. 8. It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious. THE MURPHY PHILOSOPHY: Smile ... tomorrow will be worse. O'TOOLE'S COMMENTARY ON MURPHY'S LAW: Murphy was an optimist. HEI RARCHIOLOGY HELLER Is LAW: The first myth of management is that it exists. THE PETER PRINCIPLE: In a hei rarchy ,. every employee tends to rise to his level of. incompetence. Corall aries: l . . In ti me, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties. 2. Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence. 1 DETER S INVERSION: Internal consistency is valued more highly than efficient service. page 2 PETER'S OBSERVATION: Super-competence is more objectionable than incompetence. PETER'S PROGNOSIS: Spend sufficient time in confirming the need and the need will disappear. PETER'S PLACEBO: An ounce of image is worth a pound of performance. VAIL'S AXIOM: In any human enterprise, work seeks the lowest hierarchal level. JAY'S FIRST LAW OF LEADERSHIP: Changing things is central to leadership and changing them before anyone else is creativeness. WORKERS DILEMMA: l. No matter how much you do, you'll never do enough. 2. What you don't do is always more important that what you do do. JONES'S LAW The man who can_smile when things QO wrong has thought of someone he can blame it on. NEWS FROM: rnrn~rnrnffiIT□@~ "I was going to register. I just didn't get around to. t t ." "I really need the exercise. Is there anything you can do?" These are some of the responses from City employees who forgot to register for the NOON FITNESS program offered by Tho~nton Recreation. On Mondays and Wednesdays from 12:15 to 12:45, Pete has planned a good, hard work-out for you. On Tuesdays and Thursdays at the same time, Janet will have the volleyball nets set up and wil teach volleyba11 skills along with regular play.· On Fridays, the trampoline will be set out for exercise. As inflation has hit at the Recreation Center also, we are forced to charge a small fee for these classes. Those that meet twice a week cost $4.00, and the Friday class costs $2.00. Each class meets for six weeks. continued on page 3 �NEWS FROM: [PQOIB~O~ W@ffi~~ ~ EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH Congratulations go to our December Public Works Employee of the Month, John Smith, Maintenance Worker of the Streets Division. John was selected on the basis of the outstanding job he did helping to put out the fire in Building D" earlier in December. PUBLIC WORKS NOW A DEPARTMENT Public Works is proud to be known as a Department now. Within our Department, we have four Divisions--Administrative Services, Sanitation Services, Engineering Services, and Street Maintenance Operations. We have also been rearranging our area to fit everyone in. With a new Clerk II and Don and Howard moving up from the City Shops, we are going to be a bit cozy. EMPLOYEE OF THE YEAR Our Public Works Employee of the Year is Jay Hartman, Engineering Technician in the Engineering Services Division. Jay has been with Public Works for almost th~ee years, and is a definite asset t6 our Department. Jay and his wife, Annalee, will be taken out to dinner, and Jay will be presented with a plaque of .appreciation. Congratulations and thanks, Jay, for all your help. · NEW EMPLOYEES We have two Adams County Youth Employment people working in our Traffi~ section. They are Kelly Malvern and Patrick Vigil, who are helping Harlan Green, Traffic Engineering Technician, with traffic counts and accident reports. \.Je are happy to have them with us. HOLIDAY REFUSE COL~ECTION Just a reminder that the refuse collection crews will work the upcoming holidays, so there will be no interruption in the regular schedules. 11 R E M I N D E R CITY CHARTER ELECTION FEBRUARY 3., 1981 HAPPY BIRTHDAY Paul Schultz Jcones Karcher Johnny Gooden Carl Stanley Max Nicholls Richard Martin Paul Turner Charles· Maypole Jay Steele George Buck Patrick Croghan Robert Jordan James Gindelberger Jay Bailey David Peak Raymond Kirby Ralph Dopheide Jon Bower Amalia Lucero Carol Habas Lawrence Lil lo Jack Patton 2/1 2/2 2/4 2/5 2/5 2/6 2/6 2/11 2/14 2/17 2/17 2/18 2/20 2/22 2/22 2/23 2/23 2/24 2/25 2/26 2/27 2/28 Police Parks Fire Fire Thornton Plant Police Line Maintenance Utility Eng. Police Fire Wes tern Hills Western Hills Water Quality · Utiltiy Direct. Recreation Building Insp. Colwrbine Plant Fire Police Police Recreation Fire ·~"'i£<4t!>'al(,:~~(<;'·)'~-~ ~~·~•i NEWS FROM RECREATION {can't) The second session ~ill begin March 2, with registration held February 23 - 28 at the Recreation Center. If there are at least eight people who ar~ interested, we will hold a four-week, prorated session during February. Please call extension 265 and get your name on the list. (Proper gym attire 1s required for all of these exercise classes.) HIRE A TEEN is still a vital service offered by the Thornton Recreation Center. Karen Smith is th~ coordinator, and she is always looking for teens-to do odd jobs, and odd-jobs for teens to do. The file box on available teens has recently been updated; . In February, the American Red Cross course on baby~sitting will be offered. Kare·n also plans to help teens· learn telephone etiquette and interviewing skills. For more information on how to hire a teen or ~et a teen involved, call extension 265. 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