Show sry w P? a &&: Serving Utah’s Great Pahvant Valley Delta Utah $1200 In out of county-- months - j y ' ' s‘ $700 and li (In Advance) USPS Copy 25$ J f i 1 ’ii I loan group that has been performing in the area for about ten years and the last five years they have had a benefit Christmas Concert They start practicing in September for this event The program Chairman this year is Sharon Clark with conductor Nadine Smith and accompanist Ruth Talbot and Costume director Choral Clark putting a lot of time in to make this event one of excellence Some of the songs this year will be “Sleigh Ride” “It’s the Most Wonderful time of the year” and “Go tell it on the Mountain” There will be barbershop singing trios duets and solos coming from the members of the group the special performing favorites of Christmas The Blue Notes will also be performing for the Extended Care Wing the Senior Citizens and numerous clubs during the holiday season sharing the music of Christmas High School regions may once again be realigned Delta and Millard High Schools may no longer travel to St George Cedar City or Hurricane for athletic competition if a proposed realignment of sports regions is approved December 13 by the Utah High School Athletic Association (UHSAA) The UHSAA will once again shuffle the deck and try to come up with a reasonable alignment of schools in an attempt to cut “time out of school” caused by traveling time and to cut travel costs according to UHSAA Assistant Executive Director David Wilkey Under the proposal regions will now be placed in geographical zones The result will be a mix of classifications in some regions Wilkey said but will also cut down on travel time For example Delta and Millard High School will under the new plan be placed in Zone 2 Region 10 However Region 10 will contain not only 2A teams such as Delta and Millard but A teams as well North Sevier for ample will be a A team which will be in Region 10 Under this scheme North Sevier like other teams in mixed regions will compete for playoffs on records the basis Perhaps the change most significant to Millard County will be the proposed alignment of the southwest Utah schools in a region by themselves This region will have Cedar City (once again AZ Dixie a 3A team) Page These teams Pineview and Hurricane have in the past "been regualr opponents for Millard schools but under the new idea they will only meet Millard teams if both make it to playoffs at Mr Jay Richman Principal Millard High School has participated on the committee which drew up the He recently new alignment proposal attended a meeting of the county school board and encouraged members to attend the next board meeting of the UHSAA so they can voice opinion on the subject Breathing a collective sigh of relief county and Delta City officials announced this week they have been successful in converting a $119000 state loan to a grant which will not have to be repaid The loan (which is nearly a quarter more than the entire amount Delta City collects in property taxes each year) was originally granted to Delta City in 1979 by the state Community Impact Board (CIB) to fund a planning office jlnd staff in one of the first efforts to "prepare for the predicted social and economic impacts of IPP and MX Later in 1981 Millard County accepted full responsibility for IPP imof the pacts including repayment $119000 loan Delta Recently Mayor Grant Nielson City Administrator Jim Allan and County Administrator Robyn the Pearson began investigating possibility of restructuring the loan and found that under the state Natural Resources Community Impact Act of 1977 the CIB can forgive all or part of a city’s liability to repay loans under extenuating circumstances Nielson Allan and Pearson argued before the board that the entire county would benefit from a restructuring of the loan as the entire county and some surrounding areas had benefited from the planning process it paid for They also added that IPP would likely have to bear a large protion of the loan repayment putting the power in the position of essentially paying twice for impact mitigation Many which the $119000 loan positions generated such as county planner and administrator were later funded as permanent positions under IPP Impact with the Mitigation Agreements county Funds for the loan came from the of Natural Resources Department which the state legislature appropriated to help Utah communities cope with the effects of rapid energy development County dropped as wrongful dismissal defendant Millard County has been dropped as a defendant in the wrongfull dismissal suit filed last April by former Millard County Alcohol and Drug Counselor Dennis Ashbrook Millard County was one of several governmental organizations named as defendants in the action Mr Ashbrook said the move to release the county from the suit is voluntarily being made prior to the trial proceedings “In determining responsible parties in the case prior to trial my attomies and I concluded that exclusion of Millard County as defendant was appropriate since the county is represented within Association of Governthe ments where Millard County commis- sioners Vol 75 No 22 December 6 1984 city O Blue notes annual Christmas concert The Blue Notes Fifth Annual Christmas Concert will be held on Wed December 12 at 7:30 pm in the The Delta High School Auditorium theme this year is “We wish you the Merriest Christmas” Suggested admission is $1 00 a person with all the proceeds being used to help needy families in the area to have a Merry Christmas The group works with the social Services each year to help families The Blue Notes is a ladies singing 0 State County reveals forgives diminished Six-- £ Vv 5 t It $800 are board members" Ashbrook said The plaintiff is demanding at least $40000 and retirement benefits from state and county agencies based on allegations that he was “wrongfully discharged” from the position in 1982 Other defendants named at the time of filing in Federal District Court at Salt Lake City are the Association Utah of Governments State Department of Social Services Division of Alcohol and Drugs and Leland Robinson The order dismissing Millard County as a defendant in the case includes the stipulation that “plaintiff reserves all claims which he may have against the remaining defendants and other (legal entities cluding but not limited to the Millard County School District” According to the suit Ashbrook’s constitutional rights were repeatedly violated by his supervisor Leland Robinson prior to his allegedly being fired without cause in August of 1982 The document states that during an employment interview Robinson asked Ashbrook of his religious affiliation and later requested he produce a copy of his marriage certificate Both actions are alleged to violate the plaintiffs constitutional rights Ashbrook states that in August of Commis1982 defendant sioners Organization “dismissed plaintiff as an employee without notice or hearing" Artist brothers stage Fillmore exhibit Left: Doc and Jolley Rkhard Those who attended the Open House last Saturday a enjoyed treat AH three of the special exhibking artists were present Don Jolley from Centerville and Richard and Docg from Fillmore stayed the Open House and throughout visited wrh the guests Works in oils acrylic watercolor and ink were attractively presented Subject matter ranged from portraits and landscapes included (which several ink drawings of temples) to An still life and animal paintings added feature was the opportunity to list on individual ballots the viewers’ choice of paintings A price list for those interested in It is not buying was also provided the policy of the Library to present works for sale only but guests have always had the option of talking with the individual artists about any work in which they are interested Our goal is to present quality exhibits for enjoyment and learning and to give with an exposure to local artists occasional exhibiting are taking Many families guest of the chance to bring advantage their chidlren to all the shows to help them get acquainted with the world of painting in a setting which is comfortable and sometimes instructive The Show continues until Dec IS and is open during Library hours or by appointment with Mrs Hunter The Library Board wishes to thank the following members of the East Millard Fine Arts Guild for their help House: with the Open Cathryn Nielsen Gwen Evans Diane Turner Rita Giles and Edna McBride They furnished and the refreshments served as hostesses County funding budget Millard County officials said last week they will stay with the Association of Governments despite a decison to cut funding to various facets of the organizaion “We want to retain our membership in the AOG while we scale down our dependence upon administration” Millard County Commission Chairman Mike Styler said in dated November a letter to 27 1984 Commissioner Styler said the county would recognize its committment to through the current budget year and will honor the budgets presently in place until June 30 1985 But county budgeting for fiscal 1985 will have come changes most notably in funding for Panoramaland the tourist promotion arm of “We recently made the decision to withdraw all but $1000 per year funas of July ding for Panoramaland 1985 In previous years Millard County has paid has much as ?????????? towards the group As it now stands Millard County will as follows: pay towards Administration: $1000 Mental Health: $17304 Public Health $1000 EDA $36846 Panoramaland zero and Aging zero As a footnote to the announcement Commissioner Styler said that in the county's transitional status it will seek to trade Chairmanship of the organiztion with Piaute County for which has the Vic Chairmanship 1985 Clear Lake road goes under as water rises an inch a day Rapidly rising waters have forced the closing of the road east from Highway 257 to the Clear Lake Waterfowl Management Area Water in Clear Lake’s west side marshes is rising an inch a day according to Millard County Road Supervisor Lee Roper County Crews previously built up some of the road in the affected area But as water gradually encroached Monday morning a makeshift dike set up to stem the tide and save the road failed to hold back the flow and the road went under several inches in several places The amount of water flooding the area is so great that it is not yet known when the road will be opened “It is so wet we haven’t been able to even get out into the area to salvage the road and that is why we officially closed it” Mr Roper said The road’s closing will hamper efforts by waterfowl hunters trying to access one of the state’s better hunting areas But while many hunters will be inconvenienced several workers at the Continental Lime plant south of Deseret are now cut off from direct access to work At least six employees of the lime plant are east county residents With the road out they must drive many miles out of their way through Deseret to get to work Though the Clear Lake area has seen bountiful flows of water in recent years the current build up in the west marshes is unprecedented and has officials somewhat baffled This is because the lakes and marshes of the area are fed by underground springs whose origins have only been guessed at Roper said that it is believed most of the water at Clear Lake is supplied by the so called Sinks Lake below the ancient volcanoes west of Fillmore Unwet years doubtedly the have fed the Sinks Lake and consequently the springs at Clear Lake In addition the collapse of the Corn Creek Dam last spring added thousands of gallons to the surplus drain off in the area But why the water has risen so in the past few months and why so much at Clear Lake’s west is yet unexplained Cora Creek Irrigation! reconstruction costs double Because of an attempt to use the “fast track system” to get flood repairs on Corn Crrek Irrigation Company diversion structures near Kanosh the Board of Water Resources committed funding to the project while design was still in process according to a report in the Salt Lake City resource publication Utah Waterline The original estimate submitted by Sunrise Engineering of Fillmore was $170000 That estimate has now gone to $326000 according to the resource publication “The project hasn’t changed The real costs are just greater than anticipated” Larry Anderson assistant director for the Division of Water Resources told Utah Waterline The Board of Water Resources committed $46000 to the project in September The Agricultural Stabilization and conservation Service committed another $124000 Because Sunrise Engineering now estimates the project will cost $326000 the board was asked to increase its loan by $85000 to cover the additional expense ASCS funding is now $194700 The Water Resources board approv ed the increase and the Corn Creek company will repay the loan over a period at zero percent interest in yearly payments of $6600 Funds are from the Revolving Construction Fund Anderson said the seriousness of the Corn Creek situation resulted in the higher cost “Last year’s crops were There are 2000 lost from flooding acres in jeopardy and if they don't get this project going they’re going to lose another season” Anderson said it has been difficult to get an accurate funding picture put together because of federal involvement “We really didn’t know what we were dealing with until about a month ago when they decided that four of five structures are not eligible for federal funding" The project has been divided into three parts two of which involved the main diversion structure the concrete ditch and the ditch realignment The third part includes the field diversion structure and three headgate structures The Soil Conservation Service is acting as consultant to the project |