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Show Walkamerica to1 be held on April 25 WalkAmerica registration for teams and individuals will be held from 9 to 9:50 a.m., Saturday, April 25, at the starting line of the Snow College Practice Field. For more information contact Sanpete County Chairpersons Annena Bench at (435) or Debbie Hymas at (435) 6 or (801) WALK. The walk begins at 10 a.m. Cellular One and Snow College Phi Beta Lambda (PBL) are sponsors of the walk. There will be entertainment, prizes, certificate categories and a trophy to the team with the most donations. WalkAmerica helps the March of Dimes continue its track record of lifesaving breakthroughs for babies such as polio vaccine, intensive care nurseries and surfactant therapy to help critically ill babies breathe. Pledges, donated services andor teams participating are Central Utah Telephone, Inc., Walkers, Dr. Steven Bench, all of Fairview; Birdseye Group; The Pyramid, Mt. Pleasant; Subway, Marriot Catering, Fat Jacks Pizza, Snow College OfSnow fice Procedures class. College PBL, Snow College Intercollegiate Knights, all of Ephraim; and the LionsChamber of Commerce, Sterling. MP city council adopts CIB bond issue repayment EPHRAIM-- - 283-675- 0, 283-756- 2; 873-336- 60-ye- ar Snow College students are preparing for summer school courses offered on campus. This will be the last quarter session before the school changes to semesters in Fall 1998. Public hearing set for proposed Narrows project PROV- O- A public hearing, scheduled for 7 p.m., April 23, at the Mt. Pleasant City Hall, 115 West Main, will be held to receive comments from interested individuals and organizations on the environmental impacts of the proposed Narrows Project in Central Utah. The plan, which will provide culinary and irrigation water for northern Sanpete County is being opposed by water users in Carbon County. A public hearing will also be held April 22, at 7 p.m., at the Carbon County Courthouse, Commission Chambers, 120 E. Main, Price. The Bureau of Reclamation has prepared a Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) on the proposed Narrows Project which has faced and overcome numerous obstacles since it was first designed over 70 years ago. The DEIS describes and presents the environmental effects of three alternatives, including no action, for developing a supplemental agricultural and municipal-watesupply for use in northern Sanpete County. The preferred alternative involves construction of a dam and reservoir on Gooseberry Creek about nine miles east of Fairview. This project has been Copies of the DEIS are availproposed by the Sanpete Water Conservancy District and it has able for inspection at, or may be submitted an application for a requested from, the above adloan to construct the project dress. Public libraries in the area under provisions of the Small have copies. For further information and a Reclamation Projects Act. The DEIS was prepared in cooperasummary of the DEIS, contact: tion with the U.S. Forest Service Kerry Schwartz, Narrows Project and the U.S. Army Corps of EIS Coordinator, Provo Area Office at (801) Engineers. Organizations and individuals to present statements wishing should call the Bureau of Recla40-ye- ar mation at the Provo Area Office, (801) Requests should be received on or before the date of the hearing. MT. PLEASAN- T- ReservaSpeakers will be called on to tions can be made for the 1958 present their comments in the North Sanpete High School 40th order in which their requests year class reunion by calling were received. Requests to speak 4 or Terry Ames at (435) may also be made at each hearThe at work at ing; to be called after those who deadline is May 10. made advance requests have The reunion will be held spoken. Saturday, May 23, at the North Oral comments will be limited Sanpete Middle School, 655 East to five minutes per individual. 100 South, Moroni. Social hour Speakers are also requested to will be held from 6:30 to 7:30 provide a legible written copy of p.m. Dinner will be served at their remarks for the hearing 7:30 p.m. record. Members of the planning Written comments should be committee are Terry Ames; received by May 11 at the ReclaLinda .Aiken Allred (435) mations Provo Area Office, Helen Leuwellen Elsey Bruce C. Barrett, Area Manager, Betty Jean J. (408) Bureau of Reclamation, AttenShaMikkelson (435) tion: PRO-40302 East 1860 ron Staker Robinson (435) South, Provo, Utah 84606. by Murphy-Marti- n MT PLEASAN- T- City council members adopted the Community Impact Board (CIB) bond issue repayment to attach $1 to resident utility bills, and the 1998 Fire Contract, in an April 14 meeting. CIB grant Zion Bank representative, Preston Kerr, appeared before the council to report about the CIB grant. He reported that Zions Bank will be the impartial third party to hold the escrow account. He said the CIB Board is easy to work with since they make an honest effort to facilitate different municipalities. Kerr said the funds must remain in escrow so that CIB can track all expenditures. He said that city officials must first submit the construction contract before any funds can be released. He further stated that who will build the Senior Center must be very clear. Kerr continued saying that CIB wants to make sure that before money is loaned, the project will proceed with due diligence. A motion was approved after Kerr proceeded to give a presentation about refunding its 1991 Electric Revenue Bonds, which were secured at 8.3 percent. Kerr said that interest rates have trended down, they are at a low. 20-ye- ar In todays market 8.3 percent is considered a very high rate. He further explained that "refinancing a bond is not like refinancing a home mortgage. He said that in this process bonds are not able to be prepaid, so the city will have to match payments with investments and put payments on "autopilot". The refinance could be down in todays market to about 4.92 percent, not counting the cost of issuance, which could drop annual payments from $64,000 to $60,000, thus saving the city $4,000 for about 14 years or about $56,000. Mayor Christensen asked Kerr if citizens could buy these tax-frbonds. Kerr answered, yes and they are a good safe investment if they have $5,000 to $10,000 to invest. If anyone is interested, they may contact Mayor Christensen at City Hall. Planning commission Planning Commission recommendations which were accepted included setting a public hearing date of May 12 for Kathy Rasmussens request to turn her home into a dwelling. The property is located in the area of 300 South 400 West. The second recommendation from the Planning Commission was to exempt Cedar West Builders from having to place curb, gutter, sidewalks and drainage to one of their subdivisions. two-fami- ly 379-116- 7. 379-100- Class of 58 to hold reunion May 23 0. 462-275- . 462-213- 7; 997-056- 0; 445-336- 9; 5, 26, at the First Presbyterian Church, 91 South Public comment Heiden, Cedar West Construction asked about a zoning permit issued prior to July 1997. but not acted upon. Heiden was told there is no expiration date on zoning permits. The old impact fee would still apply. Financial report Karen Hansen, city treasurer, gave the quarterly financial report. She said the interest rate on investment funds is a little low, but more funds budgeted in interest earnings have been brought Doug in. Main Street Councilman Bona reported on Main Street Board elections. He said it has a good representation from all segments of the community. He said the board asked him to bring up two issues to the council. He stated that the board is concerned about the proliferation of junk cars appearing in the city. Mayor Christensen responded that the Chief of Police is writing citations to help stop the problem. The second issue was city Clean Up Day. The Main Street Board would like to work on a plan to have an ongoing beautification process not just one day. Bona reported that the Main Street Board is anxious to help. It was decided that since Council-woma- n Bigler is in charge of city beautification, she will meet with the Board to help develop a plan. |