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Show MOAB, UTAH WEATHER Moab secures FORECAST Thursday. Partly Cloudy High 33 Low 19 IMU-Sno- w Showers High 35 Low 22 yL tv Saturday Partly Cloudy High 31 Low 16 Sunday Best in tournament last week's annual Richfield Classic In wrestling news, several mat men won matches at duals in Colorado. See Sports Outdoors. & B1-- 8 Sterling Scholars GCHS has announced a full list of Sterling Scholar nominees who will compete at competition in the spring. A8 To warm the winter Members of the Red Rock Stars dance studio collected more than 50 coats to be distributed to people in the Moab community who need them this winter. B4 Seeing stars Look inside for The Extra! nt You'll find weekly events, a TV guide, crossword, calendar, real estate listings, classifieds and even a horoscope. Inside The T imes Business Directory: B7 Dining & Lodging: B3 Editorials, Letters: A 7 Historic Photo: A2 6-- Notices: B6 Obituaries: A4 Region Review: B5 Sports: B1-- 8 To subscribe to The Times- call subscribemoabtimes.com The nt This news-pap- is CIB approves no-intere- st er 7X) D printed on recycled paper and is recyclable. Thursday, December 13, 2001 County polls public on plan by Lisa Church staff writer The Grand County Genera! Plan will be updated, but the process has been put on hold until January, says county Planning Secretary Mary Hofhine. The Grand County Planning Commission, which oversees the project, decided to postpone the gen- eral plan update so that new com The Utah Community Impact Board (CIB) last week approved a $1.5 million loajVgrant. for a higher education facility in Moab, and local fundraising has s begun to build on the project. who is Anyone considering making a donation to support the College of Eastern Utah and Utah State University in Moab may do so and take the deduction on this years taxes. Leading the parade were Alta Lodge owners Bill and Mimi Levitt who own a home in Moab with a $1,000 donation, followed by J. J. Wang, Sophie Wang and Adrien Taylor, with $500 donations each. Checks can be made out to Moab Higher Education Fund," and donors may specify if they want their money to go to some particular aspect of the project. The project was the first on the list the planning comnii"-siot- i and several other county hoards during its Dec. 17 mel ting On Jail. 17 and L count planning consultant Richard Gnu will hold public meetings to solicit comments and suggestions for changes to the general plan, the document that serves as a guide lor Continued on Page A2 (N)intments to missioners could U involved in the pro ces from the I ginning, she said. The terms for two current commissioners Judy Carmichael and Ned SEE OUESTTONNAWE Dalton - vull INSIDE TheT-- I expire I)ec. 31. Carmichael is seeking reappointment. Out Dalton has decided to retire. The Grand County Council will make ap-- cum-nuimt- - He came to town! bare-bone- The 6CHS Boys Basketball Team took first place tournament. funding for high ed. center loan to purchase building Partly Cloudy High 33 Low 14 in wwv.moabtimes.com Volume 108 Number 50 50 of requests considered by the CIB at the meeting, held Dec. 6 in the State Capitol Building. State Treasurer Ed Alter was chair pro-teof the meeting, and noted that this, and a project from the Uintah Basin, would require m legislative approval before the money could be allocated. CEU President Thomas Ryan responded on behalf of the Moab project. He said he would be to show able legislators that no state money would be used to repay the loan, which is for $1.4 million at no interest for 30 years. A grant of $100,000 will also be part of the CIB package. The money will be used to purchase the current site at 125 West 200 South, which has been leased jointly by CEU and USU for several years. Monies in hand following the legislative session will cover the cost of buying three buildings, plus some needed renovations. Private donations are needed for a variety of other enhancements. These include a lab, a library, more student facilities, redesign of grounds, program development, distance teaching equipment, scholarships, etc. Anyone who has Donations can be sent questions may call to the above address, and a receipt for tax purposes will be sent back to the donor. At the same CIB meeting an $18,000 grant was approved for a study on senior citizen facilities in Grand County. 259-725- 7. Crowds of people braved the cold weather Saturday evening and lined both sides of Main Street as the annual Moab Electric Light Christmas Parade made its way from Swanny City Park to City Market. The parade, which featured more than 30 dazzling entries, was the biggest and best ever, according to organizers from the Moab Area Chamber of Commerce. There were many noteworthy entries, including the Big Horn Lodges new gingerbread house (at right), the Veterans of Foreign Wars' airplane pulling a U.S. flag in lights, the Youth Garden Project's "Peas on Earth," the Grand County School District's "Reindeer Academy" school bus, the Red Rock Stars dance team's ballerina, and of course, the brightly lit fire engine the brought up the rear with jolly old Saint Nicholas aboard (above). Outgoing Moab Mayor Karla Hancock served as the grand marshall. Photos by Jared Smith Fate of Atlas pile is unclear Midnight search leads to locals stuck on mountain by Franklin Seal staff writer Two Moab men and two chil- dren became stuck on an isoroad near lated. the La Sal Mountains during a heavy snowstorm Monday evening, Dec. 10. Searchers found them at 2 a m. Tuesday snow-covere- d by Lisa Church staff writer Representatives from the U.S. Dept, of Energy (DOE) said Tuesday night that the process is underway to determine how to clean up the Atlas Mill Tailings site north of town. About 45 area residents attended Tuesdays public meeting at Star Hall. The DOE submitted a preliminary plan outlining possible cleanup scenarios for the Moab Project, the new official title of the cleanup effort, to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) on Oct. 30, and must now wait for the academy to review alternatives for how to clean up the 10.5 million ton tailings site. Congress passed legislation in October 2000 transferring control of the site to the Continued on Page A2 morning, warm and in good con- dition inside the stranded ve- hicle Making a merry holiday Local children enjoyed creating Christmas presents during last week's "Make One, Take One" event at the Moab Higher Education Center. The second annual event is organized by Grand County 4-- and Prevent Child Abuse organizations, members of which would like to thank the public for donating items and volunteer time to making the event a success. Additional thanks goes to CEU for donating the space to hold it. Pictured above are (left to right) Jessica Hines, Jessica Smith and Kasie Lynn Bussard, busy making presents for their families. Photo by Jared Smith H At 4 p.m. Monday afternoon. Michael Brandenburg. 22. and his friend Ole Hougen, 25, left Moab with Brandenburgs two boys ages three and one, for a quick drive up to Geyser Pass in the La Sal Mountains. According to Grand County Sheriff's Steve Brownell, Brandenburg said they intended Deputy to make it a quit k trip. They had to be back at 6.30 p.m. to bring Brandenburg's wife, Heather, her dinner at work. After reaching Geyser Pass via the southern end of the La Sal Mountain Loop Road, they drove their 1993 Ford Aerostar van north, then began to descend west toward Moab on the- Sand Flats Road. The road is snowplowed by Grand County crews to Cougar Canyon but is not plowed beyond that point, Brownell said. The van made it about a mile past that point, but became stuck in snow with a broken drive train on a steep hill as the road drops toward Porcupine - Rim. At 6.57 p.m with her husband and children overdue, Heather Brandenburg called 911 from work at the south Maverik . convenience store. Deputies were dispatched within minutes to search the mountain roads as weather on the mountain wors- - Continued on Page A2 |