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Show HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER FOR SAN JUAN COUNTY, UTAH CELEBRATING OUR DIAMOND JUBILEE March 3, 1993 30 cents Vol 75 No 5 Aneth residents met with Mobil Oil Co. officials on explosions About 50 residents of some residents have serious Aneth visited the Cortez of- concerns about several isfices of Mobil Oil Company sues. Lee Jones said he atlast Friday to discuss safety tributes his health problems and other issues. Mobils district manager, to the oil operation there. Jimmy Smith, sat down Annie Oldman and others with the residents, along asked for compensation for concerns and with Mobils Glen Cox, for a personal constant exposure to smell, couple of hours in the foyer traffic and pollution. of the offices. Several of the residents Smith repeatedly told the voiced concerns about the group Mobil is willing to smell and safety of the Mobil operation in their com- pay for actual damage which occurred from the munity. smoke or During the month of explosions, fire, February two explosions spills . We spend lots of money have occurred at the facilon safety and we make it as ity, sending a couple of men safe as we can make it, he one serito the hospital also told the group. ously injured. As for the smell, Cox told While no formal reports the residents there are op- have been forthcoming from the company or Tribal erations all over the country and the smell is just part EPA officials, it was mentioned at that meeting that of the industry. - - SPRINGTIME? Spring must be just around the corner with the tops of spring flowers sprouting up in the warming flowerbeds, like this one at Wayside Inn on East Central in Monticello. (Staff Photo) At the board meeting for San Juan Health Care Dis- trict last Thursday even- - to expand it for community use. City Attorney Craig Halls and councilmember Don Palmer.. .both repre- City Council. Members of council Wednesday evening voted to install Perkins to replace Keele Johnson, who resigned to devote his time to his State Legislative position. Perkins is of the Gofer Convenience Store and the Kampark R.V. and Trailer Park in Blanding. Perkins was a very close fourth in the last City Council election in which there were three council seats up owner-opera-t- the recreation senting district will pursue that possibility. Hosier told the City Council of plans by the City Planning and Zoning Commission to hold a Training or for election. Other Business In other Blanding City Council news, city engineer Phil Palmer reports that in a meeting with the Bland- Board an ing Irrigation agreement has been reached in which both the city and irrigation company will bill each of them in the future for work performed and water that is sold. Palmer also reported that state officials in a recent letter indicated refusal to allow the city fill the Third Reservoir. Palmer says hell communicate with the state agency again indicating the storage need, the city has. Blanding city planner. Seminar on Planning and Zoning March 18th. Officials and Attorneys from the Utah League of Cities and Towns will conduct the training session. ceptual architectural drawings for the new National Guard Armory. Hosier the proposed design says show a southwestern, adobe type facade... similar to the First Western Bank building in Blanding. Council discussed the possibility of getting involved in the design of the structure Lou Councilmember Mueller reported that the city will show its land pro- posed for the new Blanding Medical Center to the San Juan County Health Care Board Thursday evening. The city also will discuss with the Health Care District Board turning some of that land over to the board. D.O.E. cleanup plan released Department of Energy (DOE) has released the pre- Five-Yea- Plan for fiscal years 1994-199The plan will be available for a y public comment period, and will be followed by the issuance of the final plan in late Spring 1993. 8. 60-da- Copies of the preliminary Plan have been placed in the DOE Public Reading Room at the Bluff Library. Five-ye- liminary Environmental Restoration and Waste r Management Cyrus Begay asked the group What are we doing here? He suggested they should be meeting nearer to the site of the actual facility and not going into Colorado for the meeting. We are Utahns," he told them, and we should be meeting in Utah, either in Aneth or Salt Lake City but not here." Smith was given a resolution from the Aneth chapter government and mentioned other meetings could and possibly would be held in the near future to discuss this and other issues concerning the Aneth oil and gas operation. Health Care Board accepts land, hears clinics proposal Blanding Council replaces Johnson Blanding businessman Stan Perkins is the newest member of the Blanding he and his company may disagree with some of the residents opinions they were not disrespectful of their views. Cox also said because ar Plan conThe 1994-199- 8 sists of three volumes. The plan is designed to report the issues affecting DOEs Environmental and Waste Management ing, Feb. 25, a couple of interesting topics were discussed. Representatives of Blanding City Council presented the board with 22 acres for a new proposed medical facility. While the board did not approve any action re- garding the land, slightly aggravating the representatives, they did tour the par- cel. Board President Rayburn Jack said they will have to wait until the Space Diagnostics study is finalized (perhaps as early as later this week) and a detailed look at district finances is completed (later this month) before any action can be taken. Good News While the board was not overly enthusiastic about the financial picture of a new facility, etc., they did get some good news from Larry Issacs, executive di rector of the Utah Navajo Trust. He told the board of a pro- posal to form three districts in the Utah Navajo Strip area. One would be formed around Montezuma Creek Clinic, one for Oljato and one for Navajo Mountain. Via a government to gov- ernment agreement the first district would be administered by San Juan Health Care and the Bland- ing Physicians Group. The second would be administered by Monument Valley Hospital, including the Kayenta clinic. The third would be open for bid and left to Indian Health Services, if bids were found to be insufficient, to administer from Inscription House. Board President Jack said it was the most positive plan Ive heard. Our primary interest has always been Montezuma Creek Clinic (of the three). Isaacs said it was the most logical and practical plan proposed to date. He also said he expects it to be all set up and running by July 1st. Larry Isaacs has done a yeoman job pulling all this together, Putnam told the board. They all concurred and prised Isaacs for his diligence. $350,000 loan The board discussed fi- nancial arrangements centering around the $350,000 loan the CIB has promised for the hospital remodeling project. County commissioners decided last Monday to give the district a $350,000 grant to buy a bond to guarantee repayment of the loan. The interest earned from the bond and unused principle part of a trust by board action will become fund, Thursday evening. Other business In other matters, the board discussed reappointment of the board, elected the same officers to run the board another year, reports from the medical staff, EMTs, hospital administrator as well as other topics. |