| Show Delta Utah $2000 in ccuntv-$2- on mjtnf nountv-- months $13 00 (In Advance) Cody 50c Senior Citizens (65 and olderl S'IdDO change in the county master plan to prohibit hazardous waste disposal industry in Millard County still has not been implemented In iheNov cm bcrelection 79 percent of county voters chose the PROHIBIT over the PERMIT option in the referendum The final vole was 2626 to prohibit 686 to permit The ballot measure was legally nonbinding but county commissioners said it was politically binding and they had promised to change the county master plan to reflect the vole whatever the outcome Amendments to the master pi an must be approved by the County Planning and Zoning Commission County Commissioner Mike Stylcr met Dec 4 with P&Z in Delta to ask fur the change mandated by the vote P&Z Commission Chairman Leon Smith broke a split vote to deny the request There was one abstention P&Z Commissioner Rea Stan worth said the wording of the master plan amendment presented to P&Z by Stylcr was not in the best interests of the He said the proposed change county would “prohibit 100 percent any proposal brought forward on hazardous waste end of story" Instead he said P&Z commissioners preferred the language that would have been offered for inclusion into the master plan had voters chosen the PERMIT option That language would have created comprehensive hazardous waste disposal facility siting criteria more restrictive than now exists in the master plan but less restrictive than that mandated by the PROHIBIT vote "In my opinion that language was on the right track" Stanworth said “We listen to those proposjils that cbmt before us” ha said “and we have to try to make the best decision we can based on what’s there in front of us If a hazardous waste facility came with a proposal to the planning and zoning commission I would feel a lot more secure knowing that we have some language to at least listen to the proposal and look at it from the standpoint of whether or not it's in the best interests of the county" Stanworth said overly broad restrictive language could have adverse ecoOther nomic impact on the county businesses besides hazardous waste disposal companies may decide to look elsewhere he said “We may be chopping off our nose in spile of our face” The proposal presented to P&Z by Stylcr contained no definition of hazardous waste Stanworth said “That's and zoning said where planning 'Whoa' We may be shutting off an opportunity for this valley for the rest of its entire life" County Attorney Warren Peterson said he had been told the rejection came about because the issue presented to P&Z was a political one and P&Zdid not deal with political issues “Its job is to evaluate proposals based on physical criteria land use factors and policies tied specifically to land use facts" he said The issue brought to P&Z was not a land use problem Peterson said “It was presented to them as a political problem" At the time Stylcr said he wasn't sure what action to take next “I know the county commission can on our own override zoning issues over planning and zoning" he said It turns out Stylcr was wrong “Without a planning commission recommendation" Peterson said “under the current law the county commission is stalled" Peterson involved in a homicide trial in Provo from shortly after the November election until Dec 21 met with commissioners on the issue on three occasions after his return He said in the last meeting Tuesday Jan 16 commissioners Frank Baker and Jer’E Brinkerhoff deferred to Styler to handle the problem Peterson and Sty ler met Wednesday Jan 17 They looked at the law to determine whether the county commission could act independently to resolve the issue as Styler had w anted to do or whether they had to act through P&Z That's when Peterson determined that the planning commission could not be bypassed Alternatives were examined “We looked at various ways that the November vote could be implemented” Peterson said “Do we amend the whole master plan? Do we amend just that section? Would the planning commission reconsider those sorts of questions?” Changes in the master plan and in heavy industrial zoning ordinances are being studied Styler said current versions of both must be changed to meet the voter mandate The master plan outlines the county in broad development philosophy terms Those terms now allow hazard- ous waste industry to locate here “It's also a specific part of the heavy industrial zone to allow as a conditional use incineration or landfills for hazardous waste" Styler said “We also have to change that" Proposed zone changes must be advertised and public hearings must be held Peterson proposed the idea of making location of hazardous waste sites in See WASTE page 3 county $2Q00 Peterson supports death penalty alternative Hazardous waste prohibit law still pending A in Millard County Attorney Warren Peterson has testified on behalf of Sen Frances Farley’s bid to change the death penally law in Utah Farley failed earlier this month to get her colleagues in the stale legislature to go along with repealing the death penalty Her revised plan is getting a better ' reception Currently capital homicide jurors chose either the death sentence or life in prison with the possibility of parole Farley's bill would add a third alternative: life in prison without the possibility of parole Senate Bill 92 got unanimous enSenate dorsement from the Judiciary Committee when Farley offered it Thursday Jan 25 Farley said the bill was inspired by Peterson “I believe this is an appropriate intermediate step” he testified before the “I believe there would be committee fewer executions if jurors had another option" Peterson recently prosecuted Michael Anthony Archuleta few first degree murder Archuleta was sentenced to die Peterson told the committee it was difficult “going before a jury and asking them to sentence a man to death" He said he wished there were options in the Archuleta case “Seeking the death penalty is not a pleasant task for a prosecutor in any circumstance" he said Another capital homicide case in on Peterson’s agenda in late February Who's the man behind the blowtorch ? (Editor’s note: the following article and photographs first appeared In the Dec 21 1989 MoDel Story by Nicole Sumsion Photographs by Jill Finlinson) 0 Antiques arrowheads bear traps ring tailed cat and mountain lion heads over twenty blue ribbons and one hundred metal sculptures arc just a few of the things in Pizzy's house Bom and raised in Oak City old Mcrvyn "Pizzy" Alldrcdge is more than just a name in the phone book Most of Pizzy's schooling was in Oak City and he's been in and out of Oak City over the years But now Pizzy is there to stay In his younger years Pizzy his dad and his grandpa also ran the first steam engine for a sawmill His father went blind when Pizzy was young so he learned early that working hard was the only way to get ahead in life His daughter Sherry Finlinson said "While we were growing up Dad worked on the railroad Once when working in California he lost his fingers in a hand saw They had to graft his hands so now they're stiff But that’s never stopped him from doing what he likes best like playing the guitar the harmonica and welding He even knitted sock s for many years andllhinkhestill would be if he had any needles" Many of Pizzy’s welding creations can be seen all over Oak City ranging from Rudolph tlie Red Nosed Reindeer to nursery rhyme characters such as Old a slightly differMother th ent rhyme Pizzy says"01d Mother Hubbard went to her cupboard to find her young girl a dress When she got there the cupboard was bare and so was the girl I guess" “Almost everything he’s done has a story behind it a real meaning to he used to do as a kid or something that’s happened in his life" said Mrs Finlinson He’s been a widower for 21 years and has been welding for about twenty “He gets most of his metal from more trash piles than I can count" said Mrs Finlinson “Electric welding takes a lot of cussing and hard work The liulc ones (metal sculptures) usually take me five to ten I don’t hours and the big count how long the big ones take" said Pizzy It's just Pizzy his dog and his mountain lion heads which is another thing he has done - hunt mountain lions “He hunted mountain lions for a long time and loved it His main love now is his mine" said Mrs Finlinson “His vacation consists of a hundred dollars worth of dynamite and a trip up Oak City Canyon to his mine He’s dug over 100 feet in the mine by hand besides the dynamite and he's still going strong" Pizzy refers to himself as “not smart enough the oldest and going to the college of hard knocks" B ut he has another thing coming when Larue Alldrcdge describes him “Pizzy is a man full of mystery and riddles He always keeps us guessing and you never know what to expect" Which is also probably what Senator Jake Gam said to himself when a wire cage full of live crickets arrived on his desk in Washington DC straight from Pizzy in Oak City r QUt Of CQunlY VSPS 349S2Q YqL SQNq 29 FeSmsy f 1922 Deputies happy with new jobs Consolidation of the Delta police department into the Millard County Sheriffs Department seems to be working well “We feel it has" Sheriff Ed Phillips said “We feel it has worked exceptionThe ally well within the organization transition of those employees over to our office has been very smooth" The new deputies seem to be happy “Unless I’m getting mixed signals" Philips said “everybody seems pretty up- teer" he said “but it has nothing to do with law enforcement" Phillips said deputies m his department have been presenting similar programs for years throughout the county including Delta “It was this office that initiated all of those programs" he said “even those that Delta picked up and carried on there” Groups may request a speaker from the Sheriff s Department Phillips said beat" Former city patrolman Steve Allred now a county sheriffs deputy agrees “It seems to be working good" he said Allred said he thinks he’s operating more efficiently learning more and the result has been better service to Delta residents “I just think it’s a better program” he said Concern has been expressed that some programs in Delta would be discontinued for example the school crossing guard program “All of those details have been worked out between myself and Delta city council" Phillips said “There will be no break in any services previously provided by the Delta police department All those will be picked up and continued by the Sheriff s office” Some concern has also been expressed that the public information programs presented at schools church civic and other groups by Delta city patrolmen would be stopped “All those programs will continue" Phillips said “most likely with the same personnel who were doing them before will continue" include “Officer The programs Friendly” neighborhood watch“You’re in Charge" water safety (in conjunction with the USU Extension Service) and others Allred was in charge of those programs for the Delta City Police "I'll continue doing that guess" he said Allred will alsd continue to be involved in the hunter m education program “That’s just a public service I perform as a volun "Dad wanted him to see just how big they were and what they really looked The government wasn’t doing like anything to control them so Dad helped them along the way" said Mrs Finlinson “A few years later Senator Gam was speaking at a Farm Bureau seminar and the Senator still remembered him When the Senator finished dad talked to him The senator asked if the government had done anything about the control Dad has a really good way of making a point without saying much” Pizzy is a legend in himself He has made quite a name for himself and his posterity” said Jill Finlinson 0 o o Winds knock out power Millard county and all of southwestern Utah experienced a brief power outage Friday Jan 26 In a “salt storm” “It was salt and snow mixed” Utah Power and Light Delta district manager Vince Crawford said “The salt conducted at the Sigurd substation and tripped ail of southern Utah” The Sigurd station near Richfield serves all of southern Utah from Richfield to St George Including Millard county UP&L regional manager Jack Peck said a “salt storm” is when wind carries salt from the Great Salt Lake or the desert and deposits It on cond uctors often shorting them out High winds and moisture can accelerate the process he said “It wasn’t any equipment problems” Crawford said “It cleared itself like a National Weather Service meteorologist Brenda Graham said wind speeds Friday were clocked at 58 piph at Delta the highest in "Utah Only traces of moisture fell In southwestern Utah The incident occured at about 8 pm and lasted for nine minutes Crawford said |
