' 1521 B. JVUU 3. sunc Salt Lake City, UT 84124 Check out all the 4th of July fun in Valley Views-page 8! GUNNISON VALLEY azette Presorted Standard U.S. Postage PAID Permit No. 11 Gunnison, UT Copy Price • 75 cents Friday, July 7, 2006 Hometown Patriot Days cise equipment, motorcycle helmets and so on. The auction's proceeds will go to the Lions Club to help finish Hometown Patriot Days, projects in the park. The fireworks came next this year's fourth of July celebration in Gunnison, and they didn't disappoint. turned out to be a great suc- You could hear oohs and aahs all around. The firecess. The festivities began men always put on a great Sunday evening with a pa- show. Just as the fireworks triotic fireside in the Stake Center. The speakers were were ending it began to Lt. Gary Bartholomew and sprinkle, but despite the his wife Ami. Gary is the rain, the youth dance at the son of Keith and Delene park went as planned. The Bartholomew of Fayette, kids didn't mind a little rain and he has just returned and seemed to have a great from an 18 month deploy- time. The American. Legion ment in Iraq. While in Iraq, Bartholomew helped orga- Breakfast began at 6 a.m. nize project crayon which the next morning and went brought school supplies and until 9. For just twelve doltoys to many of the chil- lars a family, you could eat your fill of pancakes, ham, dren. The roast beef dinner eggs, milk and juice. At 7 a.m. the fiag cerebegan at 5:30 this year instead of 6, giving a little mony took place at the giant more time for the auction at flag pole. There were about 7:30. In between the dinner twenty five people at the and the auction the Jaycees ceremony. The parade began at announced their annual distinguished service award 9 a.m. and lasted over an winners. This year the out- hour with over fifty entries standing youth awards were this year. It was the largest Jake Childs and Nicole An- Gunnison parade in several derson. The distinguished years. It featured everything Young Woman award went from a National Guard tank, to Jeana James, and the Dis- to Beauty Queens, to a reintinguished Service award deer. The kids went home with large sacks of candy went to Kevin Hansen. The auction came next and the cloud cover kept and it was quite a lively af- things nice and cool. fair. There were no shortagThe park festivities es on bidders and there was were fantastic as always. no shortage on items to be There were games, volleyauctioned. Some of the items ball, horseshoes, a bounce Members of our local National Guard. included a swing set, a rifle See PATRIOT DAYS, from Christensen Arms, a Page 5 truck, several quilts, exerBy MARK HENLINE Editor Adrian Harward/Courtesy Ffwto Jaycees carry on DSA tradition Then in 1983 the Jaycees once again added to the awards, the outstanding young woman award was given that first year to Sixty years ago, the Gunnison Valley Jeanette Anderson. Jaycees began a tradition of recognizing a This year the DSA awards were given member of the community for the service out at the park just before the auction. they render. This tradition has been carThe youth winners for this year were ried on every year since 1946. ThefirstDSA Jake Childs and Nicole Anderson. Jake is winner in our valley was Woodrow Beck. the son of Larry and Kristal Childs and In 1968, the Jaycees began to recognize Nicole is the daughter of Mark and Deah lark Henune/Guntuson Valley Gazette an outstanding youth in the community. Anderson. Both of these youth were very Members of the Planning and Zoning Committee discuss zone changes. From left to right: Steven That first year Ardella Taylor was recogSee DSA AWARDS, Page 4 Higgins, Stella Hill, Elise Bown; Chairman, Rod Taylor and Kent Worthington. nized as the valleys outstanding youth. By MARK HENLINE Zone change receives a no vote By MARK HENLINE Editor The Gunnison City Planning and zoning committee held their regularly scheduled meeting on Wednesday June 28th. The meeting was well attended as there were several issues on the agenda. The Agenda item that most in attendance were concerned with was the proposed zoning change at 425 North 100 West. The proposed zone change was made by Jerry and Martha Larsen. They would like a change from A-l to a R-47500 zone. This would allow the Larsen's to develop a low income duplex housing project on their 3 acres. This project would consist of nine manufactured duplex's on the property. Martha Larsen stated that "There is a real need in the area for low income liousing." She also said that rents would be from $400-450 per month and each unit would be handicapped accessible. Families could make up to $50,000 annually and still qualify to live in the homes. Larsen also stated that there would be an extensive credit and criminal background check on each applicant. After Larsen presented the zone change request the meeting was opened for discussion. It was apparent that most in attendance were in opposition to the zone change. Gunnison resident, Neil Schauers presented the board with a petition signed by many residents in the area opposing the project. Mr. Schauers stated that "Anytime you cluster low income housing lark Henline/Gunntson Valley Gazette you run into problems. Everything about this project DSA committee members Nona and Cody Dyreng with award recipients Jeana James and Jake • See ZONING, Page 5 Childs. Heather and Jared Anderson along with Carl Cox, Jaycee President, also serve on the committee. »-