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Show Utah Press Association Box 1327 Salt Lake 31 WEDNESDAY, JULY 21. 1 1 ml Walkway route changed to north side of roadway way route. The proposal that the walkway from the Castle Gate subdivision be built along the wash has been The property where the walkway is now proposed to be built is owned by Oil Company and an easement must be sought from them before anything can be done. Boyd Harvey, Braztah of vice president operations, said McCulloch officials should be more than happy to work with Helper City in constructing the walkway. He said he could see no reason the request for an easement would not be granted. scrapped and the county has agreed to build the walkway about 50 feet above the roadway along the sidehill north of the road. County Commissioner James Simone said the reluctance of city officials to ask Clayton Cowbell for easements more has prompted city and counjy officials to look at the sidehill as the other walk 4 W;f- n -- T- - 13T' the closing of the families walkway will be constructed approximately where the dotted line is. master plan for future built by that Edwards and Daniels and Associates architects of Salt Lake. should De planned Tate presented the plan which included a study of population concentration in noted. The proposed northeast the county and the bus routes which would be Price elementary school needed to handle the influx was the first of five preof people and the new recommendations building future may bring. sented to the board by Tate said according to his Tate. The next area which will of population studies growth, the district will have expanded growth is need to build a new school in the Spring Glen area, Tate the Sagewood, Wood Hills said. That area is prime area of Northeast Price. He area for expansion and a Superintendent 'it. - 7 .It J r i J 111 ,fe . - A -y. " AX Class size by 1980 would average from 38 to 45 students if nothing is done to build new schools, Tate said. He noted that if a new school is built in the near future and others planned for as needed in the future, the class load by 1980 wil be about This is the master plan for the Carbon County School district as presented by Edwards and Daniels architects. The plans cull for a new school in Price and possibly a new grade school in Spring Glen. 28 . students per classroom. Tate said most of the growth will be in the elementary area and that the secondary schools as they are now can handle the growth. management. '.- - i v? . in living lA c'aj '3P' m m to .i.Wl I I J ' $ i " That he says, the year, Kenilworth store did $350,000 in business. But now, the work is just a little to hard on both Cal and Viola who say they regretfully have to close the store. Viola said she is worried about the people who live in Kenilworth and depend on the store. There Cal Jewkes takes inventory of goods in Kenilworth Merc in preparation for the store closing. The effort to keep the store open is just too much on his wife's health, Cal says. The Kenilworth Merc is the only business of its kind there and with its closing, the store is gone for the people of Kenilworth and for the children, the source for buying penny candy and several widows who do drive living in Kenilworth, Cal says and are not they depend heavily on the store. "I just don't know what is going to happen to them." popsicles has dried up. " What of the future? Cal says he and Viola are just going to relax and enjoy life, and worry just a little about those who need the service. Water official says M ountain development threatens water supply Dennis. Nelson to look into the possibility of obtaining land in the Sagewood, Wood Hills area for a school. Nelson said some of the land in that area is state land and can be obtained for schools for little or nothing. Tate said the last recommendation by him was that the master plan be updated every six months to take care of growth, both projected and current. He an said that way, examination of the need for schools in other areas of the county could be made and still have time to build the schools. r- " his :jn, ryes stores; one in Castle Gate and one in Clear Creek, and all were under binding. Tate noted that the elementary school in the board, including chairman Spring Glen area would Al Brezneck said he did not ease some of the bussing think there would be that problems in the area betmuch expansion in that ween Helper and Price. recomThe third area. Tate said the master plan calls for an update mendation made by Tate every six months and the was that additional land be Spring Glen proposal could acquired for expansion of be examined later. schools, both elementary and junior high. He said Tate said the northeastern Price location is need- there will come a time when ed right now but other areas a new junior high school will in the county had time for be needed in the area. The fourth point of examination before any concrete decision should be recommendation was that the board should imemmade. Breznick that the mediately begin to look into master phasized plan presented was just a the funding of the schools recommendation and those which will be needed in the recommendations were not future. According to Tate, the proposals of acquiring land and building two schools would be in the neighborhood of $4 million. He said the two elementary schools will cost approximately $1.75 million each and a land and planning would take up the other $500,000 to make the $4 million. The board authorized there, he commented. Members of the school I0 Coke owned three one in Kenilworth, . The proposed school in area would accomodate the elementary students expected in the N.E. Price area. It would provide a comfortable class room load of students, Tate growth for the district by John Tate, a representative of 1977. school comes the Kenilworth, but, Cal says Viola's health is not good enough to continue, so the store is being closed. Cal has been involved in the grocery business for most of his life, and that involvement has rubbed off on Viola. She prompted him to let her run the store the past 10 years. Cal began as a miner and shortly-- , after that, went to work in the company store. By 1948, Cal says Independant Coal and School expansion plans include Spring Glen site said the current expansion Merc end of an era of stores dating back to the time the mines owned the store and supplied the groceries for the miners. Cal and Viola Jewkes have run the Kenilworth Merc for the past 10 years or so and it has been a convenience for the 109 j"". in that area warranted a new grade school- - being Post Office as the Market Basket closes its doors. all that will remain in this Kenilworth Merc building will be the U.S. About A' County 29 - 47 Carbon NUMBER CENTS 70 K'worth Merc closes With The 10 End of an era marked Kenilworth change of plans by Helper City and the county have prompted the change in the Castle Gate walkway. The VOLUME 197G 671 conThe walkway struction will be done by county crews and will definitely be completed school before starts, Ghirardelli said. Braztah still owns 33 acres above the present Castle Gate subdivision and plans call for future expansion of that area, and the walkway will be needed for that development also. 2W A HELPER. UTAII-472-5- way would go along the roadway above the road and would curve around and enter the back of Sally Mauro schoolground. Simone said the cost of the walkway will be shared by Helper, and County and the school district. Simone said the county would pay for the construction, but Helper City would be responsible for obtaining the easements. Helper City Mayor Chuck Ghirardelli said the requests for the easement from McCulloch had been send to offices in California and the city is just waiting for a reply before anything can be done. Ghirardelli said the walk- - : School Board was presented Thursday night with a City, Ut 84110 A major development near Gooseberry Reservoir above Huntington which serious cause could pollution to the water shed in Carbon County was one of the main topics of concern expressed at South Eastern of Utah Association Governments waste water management quality (208) committee meeting July 14 in Helper. The committee met to discuss their findings so far and major concerns were the that expressed Gooseberry development, which includes over 100 lots, would end up having a negative effect on the water quality coming from the mountains above tington. The development Hun- is in Sanpete county, so the SEUAOG has no input on the development. According to members of the board from Carbon Emery, and Grand counties, if the development was in one of those counties it could be controlled. Cortney Brewer, 208 project manager, said the the with development is that the sewage disposal systems may not be adequate and the sewage will get into the problem natural cleared up. Simone said all of the land around Scofield Reservoir are privately owned which makes it difficult to control the land use. water system ' Dr. Vaughn Hansen, a 208 flowing into Carbon and consultant said his samEmery Counties. pling process has noted a Rod Despain, consulting engineer for the project said Sanpete County is an area which historically has not concentration of mercury in some areas of Emery County. He said fish were being sampled to see if the developments. "Sanpete County is the dumping concentrations. controlled ground of mountain mountain developments," he com- mented. One of the other problems reported on by the committee was the Scofield area. Carbon County Commissioner James Simone said there was good cooperation with the owners of cabins around the lake in clearing up the sewage problem. He said most owners realize that the reservoir could get as bad as Strawberry Reservoir and are making an honest effort to get the problems flesh had any mercury coal companies and Utah Power and Light Co. in attempts to clear up pollution. Craig Johansen, facilities engineer for the project, said there were some problems in the three county area, including the sewage plant at Green River which has broken down and may take six months to repair. Johansen said the sewage treatHansen said the mercury ment plant is in good shape is a naturally occuring for the present time, but element and the sampling may have to be updated tests have proved that it before 1980. He said the is from a natural origin, plant was built to standards and not man caused. He no- set by the EPA for 1977 and ted that further sampling is it is meeting those stanbeing done to see if a dards, but the 1980 stanspecific source can be dards are more strict and found. something may have to be Hansen said research is done in the near future. Rod Despain, land use completed in testing ground water in the three counties planning consultant for the and that the water is of little project, reported that use and all work that can be population projections for done to clean it up has the three county area have remained near the actual been done. He noted that he has had growth and no change need good cooperation from the to be made to the estimates. Wellington |