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Show I?. W- - MUjigi.lJINDlUmu North Sanpete High Schools drill team took first place in Region 8, competition on Jan. 23. The Spiriteers will now compete at a state level on Saturday, Jan. 31, at UVSC in Orem. This is the teams 11th straight year to win at region competition. 3-- A - v$s si w - -- iV U V.7. 1' ' r-- ;7H k vt , ".' rV!A - , la 4;;; I t - w v .v v? I f -- tvr ' V o r '1 n 9S Volume 106 MT. PLEASANT, UTAH 84647 - January 28, 1998 Price 500 Number Four Snowmobilers could face user fees with proposed USFS plan by Judy Zumwalt FAIRVIEW Its just a Manti question of when-nLaSal National Forest will begin charging a user fee under the National Recreational Fee Demonstration Program. Three U.S. Forest Service (USFS) representatives met with a local snowmobile club, Skyline s, last week to explain the National Recreational Fee Demonstration Program. Charles Janckiewicz, district ranger. Bill Broadbear, district recreation specialist, and Joe Gallagher, natural resource manager, described the area, their plans for implementing the fee demonstration and program, estimated revenues and costs as well as asking for input and comments from the winter users for about 150,000 acres of the Manti-L- a Sal Forest from the Fairview Trailhead parking lot south to Joes Valley and east to the forest boundary. USFS is seeking public comments on the fee demo program. They can be contacted at the Price office, Janette S. Kaiser, forest supervisor, 599 W. Price River Drive, Price, UT 84501. Based on traffic counts, their estimate of revenue is from $120-,00- 0 to $150,000 per year. Costs " if-t- ot Sno-Rider- of setting up and administering the program, including posting signs and providing collection stations, is about 15 percent of the gross revenue, or $20,ooo to $30,000. Proposed fees are $3 per day; $10 for four days; or $25 per season. Permits would be required to be displayed in vehicles from a rear view mirror. Permits would be transferable, but would not be replaced if lost, stolen or destroyed. All fees collected must be used on ground projects. Congressional legislation authorizing the fee collection program expires Sept. 30, 1999, so the Manti-L- a Sal program has two summers and one winter season in which to operate. Passes are not required for motorists passing through on Highways 29, 31 or 264, or for persons engaged in commercial businesses or landowners. Several public hearings on the proposed fees have been held, but the one in Ephraim attracted no private citizens. Snowmobilers pointed out they already pay for winter services, such as trailheads and snowplowing. "We pay a registration fee, gas taxes and property taxes for our snowmobiles," said Rich -- of Allred, Jr., "Now you Skyline' want us to pay another fee?" The gas tax issue needs to be resolved with the Utah Department of Transportation, which plows parking lots like Fairview, Glen Zumwalt, club member and president of Utah Snowmobile Association, remarked. nt Sno-Rider- s. "Right now, snowmobilers and d other users contribute one-ha- lf of one percent of the gas tax to a state fund," Zumwalt explained. "That contribution is capped at $600,000 maximum. In actuality, the OHV gas tax generated is over $1 million, and UDOT is already getting the extra $400,000 or so." off-roa- e y A and winter user task force has been set up to review snowplowing in winter parking areas and to propose a plan for long-terfunding for maintaining winter trailheads. This season Utah Parks began charging a parking fee at the Monte Cristo trailhead parking lot to pay for snowplowing when UDOT could not do it. state-wid- multi-agenc- Christmas party. (L to r): Beth Mikkelson, Public reaction, Zumwalt notes, was swift and loud. Accident victim improving collision following two-car MT. PLEASAN- T- A Fountain Green teen who had been critically injured in a two-ccrash west of Moroni last week had been released from intensive care and was recovering in the rehabilitation umt at Primary Childrens Hospital in Salt Lake City as of presstime Monday. Brad Jacobson, 15, was a passenger in an 85 Ford driven by Richard Irving, 16, of Fountain Green, that collided with a 93 Pontiac Jan. 20, at 3:20 p.m. on Highway 1 16 between Moroni and Mt. Pleasant. According to the accident, report filed by Highway Patrol Trooper Kevin Bradshaw the westbound Irving vehicle reportedly drifted left of center as the vehicle approached a curve and the driver overcorrected causing the vehicle to first leave the right side of the roadway and then slide crossway in the center of the road with the rear end traveling in the eastbound lane of traffic. The eastbound Pontiac, driven by Nina Dawn Bleckjiam, 31, Moroni, struck the rear of the oncoming Irving vehicle. Irvings vehicle rotated about 480 degrees and came to a stop facing east in the westbound lane of traffic. The Blackham vehicle rotated about ar Thun-derbir- Brad Jacobson, a passenger in this 1985 driven by Richard Irving, was seriously collision east of Moroni on injured in a two-cJan. 20. He was transported by ambulance to Thun-derbi- ar OR COPY ti rd Samaritan. m Sanpete Valley Hospital then lifeOighted to Primary Childrens Hospital. Jacobson, as of press time, was released from intensive care and moved to the rehabilitation unit. d, 160 degrees and stopped off the south side of the road. Two ambulances responded to the accident. Jacobson was transported to Sanpete Valley Hospital and then lifeflighted to Primary Childrens. Mrs. Blackham, and two passengers in the Blackham vehicle, Kylee, 6, and Curtis, 12, were all treated at Sanpete Valley Hospital and released. A third passenger in the Blackham vehicle, Colton, 10, was uninjured, according to the accident report. Jeremy Hams, 16, Fountain Green, was also riding in the Irving vehicle. Both vehicles sustained damages estimated at $8,000. Irving was cited for speed, improper lane travel, and no seatbelts. Blackham was cited for no child restraint and no seatbelts although the airbag did deploy in her vehicle. Spiriteers garner first in Region 8 MT. PLEASAN- T- North Sanpete High Schools drill team took first place in Region 8, competition for the 1 1th straight year. The team under the direction of Robyn Cox, Moroni, and Alesha Larsen, Spring City, showed the audience what lots of hard work can do. They took first place in military and dance and second place in prop. The team will now represent Region 8 in the State drill team championships on Saturday, Jan. 31, at Utah Valley State College in Orem and will compete at nationals in California in March. 3-- A Team members are: Jessica Peterson, Jenny Watson, Nichole Jacobson, Jeanine Christensen, Stacey Pypher, Melinda Daniels, April Chlarson, Carli Clawson, Brooke DeMill, Tiffany Fredrickson, Ariann Fry, Kristi Fry, Becca Hansen, Stephanie Howell, Shaylynn Johnson, Melanie Jorgensen, Brittany Kellet, Amber Madsen, Edi Rasmussen, Stacey Stewart, Lori Thomas and Jill Johnson. |