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Show ft k Notice More front page news can be found on page 8 IUSPS f LVaV rfCY"fW MILLARD COUNTY AV vFOUNDED IN 1894 446-74- 0 25 CENTS MILLARD COUNTY'S FIRST NEWSPAPER Assoc a' on - F jursed 1$&5 MEMI1R Of THi Volume 88, Number 16 Millard County Progress, Fillmore, Utah 84631 , Friday, April 16, 1982 Fillmore Civic Arts Council receives grant The Utah Arts Council, a state agency of the Department of Community and Economic Development, today announced its community outreach grant A awards for fiscal year total of S38.924, to be matched by grantees on a combination cash and basis, was granted to 28 arts organizations throughout Utah. The Fillmore Gvic Arts Council was awarded $425 at the April 2 Board meeting. This sum was allocated under the Councils Community Outreach grant program, and represents full funding for two grant requests: one to sponsor an arts in the park project, and one to provide a childrens dramatic workshop in conjunction with the Chief Kanosh pageant. The Utah Arts Council awards community outreach grants for community arts development. Awards are given in amounts of $3,000 or less with the exception of technical assistance grants, in which the funding level is $1,000 or less. The funds are for projects beginning after May 1 and completed prior to December 31, 1982. 1981-198- in-ki- g I j jt k semi-annual- ly Paul Burgess of Jones Glass A Insulation marks prize winning egg for e Chamber of Commerce and Lions youngster at the East Club sponsored Easter Egg Hunt. LeNor Warby of First Security Bank fcenter I checks another tot s Easter basket for more prize eggs. Millard-FlUmor- Children find prize eggs at Easter Hunt children were paid Easter egg they found during the East MiHard-FuliiiutChamber of Commerce and Lions Club sponsored Easter Egg Hunt at the MHS football field Saturday. "And all the prize eggs were found, too," said Paul Burgess, C. of C. member. "We only colored 80 eggs green and all the prizes even for a squashed were claimed green egg that somebody had stepped on. M The Lions Club and Chamber of Commerce boiled and colored 70 dozen Eighty wide-eye- d SCt for each green v' - EDITORIAL Bridge to be replaced A project to replace an obsolete wooden bridge over the Central Utah Canal was the object of a bid opening today by the Utah department of TransThe bridge is located on State eggs for the annual Easter Egg Hunt portation. 132 Route approximately ten miles and also hid 3,000 candy eggs for the Utah the by Department of Trans- todty to aIt liiiiuteii find. From the iuvti oi The low bid of $68,655 was apparent the football field Saturday, there were BAHK Ltd. of American submitted by almost as many children hunting them Fork and was well below UDOTs as there were eggs hidden, official engineers estimate of $94,186. eggs hidden. The existing wooden bridge will be Burgess said the Chamber of Commerce paid for the eggs and also for removed and a concrete box culvert the prizes claimed by the winning will be constructed in its place. The sleuthes in the Chamber sponsored contractor will build a bypass channel Easter Treasure Hunt last week. The to divert the water while the culvert Lions Gub helped boil the eggs and is being constructed. State Route 132 will be completely closed to through-traffi- c hide them. from Lynndyl to Jericho Jet. and traffic will be detoured over local roads to US-Detour signs will be placed at appropriate locations before work gets underway in the near future. The contractor will have 55 calendar days to complete the project. 6. Sunshine Law petition being circulated in Fillmore By Marge Barton A petition, called "Right to Know Law Initiative Petition," is being cir- "Thats why youre invited to sign a petition to put a law to correct this situation on the ballot Nov. 2. If adopted then, it will open all party caucus meetings and all sessions of legislative culated in Fillmore and the East Millard County area by some concerned citizens. The petition calls for a change in the Open Meeting Law, popularly called committees to the public, to the media the Sunshine Law. The citizens are and to the light of day. Thats why we call it the RIGHT TO concerned that the State Legislature has written into the law excepting them- KNOW LAW. The Millard County Progress urges selves from the open meetings. Their every citizen to sign this petition! petition reads: Why YOU should sign the RIGHT Americans must be vigilant at every TO KNOW LAW Initiative Petition: moment to keep our freedoms and Meetings of city councils, school boards rights from being eroded, and signing and other public agencies must be open this petition is one way of regaining one to the public. Its the law. But the of our lost rights. The Progress only Legislature, which made that law, wishes the petition went one step exempted its own meetings where some further, and put some teeth into the of the most important decisions are Sunshine Laws we do have. A recent bill made. Decisions on taxes, budgets and to do just that provide a penalty for spending bills are often made in secret violations of the Sunshine Law, which was do not exist at the present time party caucuses. "This is the people's business. We voted down by the same State Legishave a right to know how and why lature this petition is aimed at. We laws are made that effect our pocket-book- s claim that a law without a penalty is no law at all and our lives. - ND NATIONAL SUPERWALK, SATURDAY, APRIL 24 TO PREVENT Castle & Cooke donates to ambulance team vised by the Sheriffs Posse and other law enforcement offices. The Walk will start at 9:00 a.m. at the courthouse and will conclude at 5:00 p.m. There will be refreshments at noon. The Grand Prize will be a 10 speed bike for the person collecting the most money. If the weather is bad the Walk will be shortened, but will still be held. The second annual Walk America (March of Dimes) will be held on April 24th, Saturday. You can pick up pledge forms from representatives at the NOTE: We encourage adults to walk Elementary School, High School, or from LeGrande Davies at the Fust with their children to collect pledges Security Bank. "Safety will be super- - and accompany them in the walk itself. Prenatal Classes to begin A four foot tall wedding cake is not grew up. The temple replica with the cake adorning the center was on display your ordinary cake, but when it's surrounded by the Salt Lake Temple it is at the reception, but the couple declined to cut the cake until the following really extraordinary. And this remarkable wedding cake is exactly the one weekend at an Open House which will that graced the table at the reception be held Saturday, April 17th, in Flagheld in honor of newlyweds Roy Chrisstaff, Arizona, the grooms hometown. tensen and the former Ramiel Purcell. Sheet cakes were provided to the guests Ramiels mother is Florence Purcell at the reception in the wedding cakes's of Fillmore. Florence wanted something stead. Mrs. Purcell said it took 11,600 cubes special for her daughters wedding, (54 pounds) to complete the temple. She something Ramiel could tell her grandchildren about. So, shortly before said all the walls were double rows of Valentines Day Florence set to work sugar cubes reinforced with popsicle building a 28i high replica of the Salt sticks. The sugar cubes "bricks" were Lake Temple out of sugar cubes to stuck together with icing "mortar." surround the new Mrs. Christensen's Cake icing also finished off the windows wedding cake. With the cake in the and doors and topped each cupola on center the total height reached four which silver icing decorations were feet. Ramiel and Roy were married placed. The round cupolas also were Friday morning, April 9, 1982 in the carved from sugar cubes. An "icing Salt Lake Temple (the real one). A Angel Moroni atop the tallest spire and reception was held for them Saturday in a gold foil plaque completed the temple. Henderson, Nevada, where the bride Two strings of miniature Christmas Castle A Cooke Foods, Fillmore Mushroom Farm Division, donated $50 to the Fillmore Ambulance Team on Tuesday. Their accompanying letter said the donation was to show the companys appreciation for the service the Ambulance Team performed for the community. The company regularly donates various amounts to volunteer groups in the area. Raun Child, president of the by Vance Wilson Ambulance Team, said the team Continental Lime Inc., has been hit appreciates the donation and will put the money to good use. It will be used with an unfair labor practices charge for to purchase needed equipment for the its alleged unfair firing of a ambulances. Mr. Child said he sent a employee in the latest of increasingly letter to Howard Andrews, Mushroom fervent organized labor activities in Farm Manager, thanking Castle & Millard County. The charge came on the heels of the Cooke Foods for the donation. United Cement, Lime, Gypsum and Allied Workers International Union's failure to gamer the support of Continentals 27 employees when they voted e in a down unionization election. February So far, organized labor has not made many inroads in the basically rural area although union organization has been stepped up there with the entry of the Intermountain Power Project and other heavy new industry. Organized labor's only acceptance in the county has been the organization of a vocational training program involving the AFL GO Apprenticeship Council Clean-U- p and the Building and Construction trades Council. To date, the Operating Engineers Union Local No. 3 has tried and was A special clean-uweek for Fillmore unsuccessful in organizing Brown and will be April 26-3Announcement will Lambrechts operators equipment be made next week of the p on site preparation for IPP and working schedule for various parts of town by the Cement Workers failure at Conti- the city truck. The city council urges all citizens to Congratulations are in order to many home owners in Fillmore for the pride put forth an extra effort to clean up, they are showing in taking care of their fix up and paint up. Especially we urge property to make their homes places you to rid our streets of all abandoned of beauty. cars and other unsightly debris. ding cake was placed inside the temple" for the marriage of a Fillmore woman s daughter. tree lights inside the replica let just enough light filter through the paper windows to lend authenticity. Florence said she had some help from friends in building the sugar cube temple, but did most of the work herself. Ramie) and Roy will have exceptional memories of their beautiful wedding, reception, and open house thanks to the endless hours Florence spent in building at least one of those memories. The bride's father is Roy Purcell, a former Fillmore resident now living in Henderson, Nevada. Her grandmother is Ella Purcell and she is a grandniece of Beulah Berry, both Fillmore residents. The groom is the son of John and Roberta Oiristensen of Flagstaff, Arizona. The couple plan to make their home in Flagstaff. Millard County plant slapped with labor charge after union loses vote pro-unio- Week to begin in Fillmore n nentals fairly new plant near Delta. Suspected to be next on the list by industry sources for a unionization drive is Martin Mariettas new cement plant located in the area which employs more than 100 workers. The cement plant is the only one of nine Martin Marietta operates which is not union represented, according to the company. It had earlier drawn fire from labor leaders and local officials because the contractor building the plant, S&W Construction, brought in Tennessee workers for the job. Accompanying the elections have been numerous unfair labor practice charges filed by the unions claiming the companies violated federal labor law. The charge against Continental and Lynndyl-Leaming-to- n charges filed by the Operating Engineers alleging Brown and Lambrecht used unfair tactics m campaigning against the union prior to the election last December are still under investigation by the National Labor Relations Board. More union activity is expected as more contractors begin work on the giant 1PP. AFL CIO The Apprenticeship Council and the Building Construction Trades Council have also been working with Millard School District to set up a vocational training program there, bu' that project has been stalled by the State Board of Education in a jurisdictional dispute, according to a local source. Building Inspector selected for Millard County p trash-pick-u- the mother would like to have with her during childbirth. Gasses provide information about pregnancy, diet, labor and delivery breathing, relaxation, the labor and delivery process, breast feeding, films on and breast labor and delivery, an icing" Angel Moroni and a gold foil plaque were added after photo was taken. A wed- - Temple replica built from sugar cubes for daughters wedding cake two-to-on- BIRTH DEFECTS, A seven-wee- k Prepared Childbirth class for expectant parents will begin April 21 at the Fillmore Ginic at 7:30 p.m. Each class period is two hours long divided between lecture and exercises. The course is designed for instruction of both parents or another coach that It took 11,600 sugar cubes to build this replica of the Salt Lake Temple. Finishing touches of The Millard County Commissioners selected Rodney J. Capel of Orem, Utah to be the new Building Inspector for Millard County during their regularly held Commission Meeting on Wednesday, April 7, 1982. The preliminary decision was to hire Mr. Capel on a part time basis, utilizing him only when there is work to be done. In other business before the Commission, it was decided to work out some sort of agreement with Fillmore City for utility hook-up- s to the new Public Safety Building Through an oversight these utilities had not been negotiated for the building, and no funds promised for it. They agreed that this was the Countys obligation. |