Show r Volume 66 Number 2 Wednesday January 13 1988 PRICE 350 Sanpete working to COMMUNITY BULLETIN buy land for prison site Lady Bulldogs to meet alumni on January 16th back! The They’re coming Gunnison School Valley High Girls Alumni They will be takGirls Basketing on the ball team in a game on Saturday January 16th at 3:00 pm in the Gunnison High School gym Come and see this basketball spectacular never before attemAdmission is $1 and all pted proceeds go to the Girls Athle tics Please come and support it r ’(MW School Board 13 meeting January The South Sanpete School Board will hold their regular monthly meeting on W ednesday January 13 at 12:00 noon at the School Gunnison High Valley with President Diana Major Spencer conducting 7JM: l r a Friday forum '“'A f “' Senior Citizens start ceramic class in February Social Security Rep in Manti The Social Security representative will be at the Manti City Building at 50 South Main Suite 24 in Manti the first and third Tuesday of each month during 1988 from 10 a m to 2 pm you can For more information call toll free Water Conservancy meeting January HOMECOMING AT GVSH: Each class at Gunnison Valley High School is represented through paintings on store front windows 'on Gunnison's main street for the Homecoming and Alumni Week Many activities are planned for the week and everyone in THURSDAY JANUARY Arts film The Gunnison Valley Senior Citizens will have their pot luck dinner on Monday January 18th at 7 pm in the Gunnison Senior The Senior Citizens Center Citizens will furnish the turkey casserole Please bring something that will go with it such as rolls vegetables salads desserts and etc Please bring your own dishes is encouraged to Everyone come our and enjoy each others company and have a good time 14 The Board of Directors of the Central Utah W ater Conservancy District will hold a regular board at its offices at 355 meeting est 1300 South in Orem at 1:30 m on Thursday January 14 34 acres for 20 acres of public lands and moving its facilities to the new location Commission Sanpete County has included in its 1988 budget an initial payment of $38790 on the purchase of private lands Dr Wendell McGarry who is chairman of the Sanpete County said the land packCommission this be completed age should month Since Sevier and Juab counties are expected to share in the economic benefits of the prison county asked each to Sanpete contribute to the purchase price be Phase which should - wll by completed include a 700 bed facility and will provide employment for about 300 people Phase 2 of the facility will to 2000 the capacity expand as inmate population prisoners grows The site was selected from 35 sites by the State Building Board in August of 1987 Many criteria were considered including cation accessibility availability of land and unemployment rate was before the final decision made to assist processing plant Jerold Ottley Director of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir will be the speaker at Friday Forum on January 15 1988 at 12:00 noon at the Ephraim LDS Institute of Religion " The title of his Ditalk will be “The Spiritual mensions of Musical Experience' JoAnn wife of Jerold Ottley will in the Ottley participate Forum presentation The public is invited to attend Senior Citizens to hold pot luck dinner lands Sevier ol the private county has tentatively agreed however Juab county emphatically turned down the proposal (See related story elsewhere in this issue) of director Juan Benavidez public affairs for the Utah State of Corrections has told Dept the county officials that Gov Norman Bangerter has recommended $169 to approprating of Phase get the construction underway could begin This construction as early as March The $169 million would fund half of Phase UP&L speaker The Gunnison Senior Citizens are going to start a Ceramic Class in February They will be making things for Easter such as eggs baskets rabbits chicIf you kens and' other things would like to make these things please sign up at the Senior Citizens Center The green ware will be ordered by the third week in January These things will be on display at the pot luck dinner on January then or You can 18th anytime at the center Sanpete County is slowly assembling the pieces of land that will become the site of the new state prison to be located there In its bid for the prison site had pledged Sanpete County that it would provide the land for the facility - several hundred acres on Gunnison’s north side Gunnison City is contributing about 200 acres at the Industrial Park site and has agreed to donate 10 or more acres and to finance the purchase of 44 more acres of privately owned land The Gunnison Riding Club has trading its agreed to relocate “Cowgirls” the second film in the Gunnison Valley Arts Council January senes will be presented at the Gunnison Civic Library on Thursday January 14th at 7 pm leader following The discussion Larson the film is Manlyn of the Snow College Chairman English Department No admission will be charged and everyone is encouraged to attend Ms Larson taught at the of California at BerUniversity keley Eastern Illinois University and Wasatch Academy before joining the Snow College faculty She is currently six years ago Department Chairman and Director of the Honors Program at sne nas sponsored tour snow' for the HuUTah Endowment manities programs at Snow including last year’s She “Woman’s Place” frequently leads reading groups for the in the “Let’s Endowment The Endowment Humanities includes her on its official list of Humanities Scholars “Cowgirls” is a documentary exploring the lives of three generations of ranch who describe their exwomen periences as working ranchers an Norma Hapgood of Nevada energetic rancher in her sixties an optimistic outlook maintains In Wyoming on life Melody a cattle foreman in her Harding thirties prefers animals to people and works alone whenever she can Finally in Oregon two ranch daughters Cricket and Nondi Long ages 9 and 6 have the community is encouraged and welcome to attend Rose Beegay puts the finishing touches on the salute from the Juniors at GVHS toucnes ui u ie sdiuie rrom the Juniors at GVHS 14 series continues work to ao as ranch serious hands on their parents’ spread The film portrays women w ho function well in roles which may now be seen as but were probably everyday chores for many of our pioneer foremothers They all display great pride in their work though their reasons for ranching vary The film may ask us to examine our views of femininity “Cowgirls” is one of the many from the Utah films available for the Humanities Endowment Resource Center Any may use these resources for of the small handling charge $1000 The first film of the series “Quilts in Women’s Lives" was shown last Thursday night to an enthusiastic group of particip- Continued on Page 2 Former publisher of newspaper passes The owners and staff of the Gunnison Valley News were saddened to learn that Kent Crandall former publisher died January 5 1988 after a heroic battle with cancer Mr Crandall had purchased the Gunnison Valley News and the Salma Sun from previous owner H Wes Cherry in July of 1971 m was office The orginal Gunnison but Crandall moved to the business to Salina during the following In the year a fire 1970’s late in devastated the building Salina but Crandall had it remodeled and resumed his newspaper and job printing operation In the early 1980’s Crandall sold the two newspapers to the Richfield Reaper but continued Utah Power & Light Co has retained an economic analysis expert to assist in the drive to attract a food processing facility to the Richfield area Hill an industry leader who has done extensive work in the agriculture field has economic been hired to develop information that investors would need when deciding whether to construct a plant in central Utah Hill’s work will build upon other extensive studies that already have been undertaken of groups The drive by a variety in of a food processing plant has expanded from a Richfield effort two years ago to 15 an effort that now involves counties The processing plant envisioned could purchase agricultural products from the entire southern half Products of the state of Utah would be processed at the Richfield plant then quick freezed for further processing elsewhere In completing the economic is doUP&L essentially analysis or ing work that any investor company would have to do before The to build a plant deciding will set economic analysis price that will allow invesprojections tors to know what the cost of doing business in central Utah would be The analysis also will assess how well the plant could compete in the open market UP&L also is financing work by Peat Marwick Main& Co a natiofirm nally recognized accounting firm will compile The accounting financial statements prospective investors that potential could But company ofticials have decided not to wait for the consummation of the merger to begin in economic developcooperating has a ment matters PacifiCorp deveeconomic lopment program that includes ties to overseas industries Weather By Howard Norman study Whent he economic and financial studies are finished they can be maimed to a third study now being undertaken by Agn Devea lopment Corporation group that has been spearheading the drive for a food processing Agri Deveplant for two years has retained Webber lopment - his Valley Printing business The present publisher of the Kevin Ashby purnewspapers chased the newspapers in 1984 and moved into the Valley Printwhere in Salina ing Building Crandall continued his job printing work in the back quarters of his shop Upon learning of his illness Crandall sold most of his printing equipment and moved north to obtain treatment and other employment Kent Crandall loved the printand his family ing business notes that many of his fondest memories were of time spent in his business was well known Crandall throughout the area and will be missed by his many friends Smith - an engineering iirm that specializes in food processing facilities - to complete a preliminary design of the plant Taken together the studies would demonstrate an investment in a way businesses opportunity If the studies are used to seeing show a competitive facility can be built food processing existing or investors other companies would take the next step by obtaining money for construction and going into business Joining UP&L in this intensive project are economic development from experts PacifiCorp UP&L’s proposed merger partner from Portland Oregon Company officials have committed to decrease UP& L’s rates by 5 to 10 percent over the percent four years following the consumof the The mation merger proposed merger is now being reviewed by numerous state and federal utiltiy regulators t I The Gunnison Valley Elementary PTA will hold their teacher appreciation dunng the week of v i f tf'f 5 January '"'v t v Lb Kent Crandall Local PTA sponsors teacher and staff appreciation week - A The public and students are invited to send thank you notes to the school staff dunng the week for the efforts they make of the the education towards Valyoung people in Gunnison ley PTA representatives noted that the teachers and staff members at the elementary go the ‘extra mile’ to The PTA invites everyone and get invqlved January show thl teachers and staff at the Gunnison Elementary how much they are appreciated |