Show 75e A5 P-- Marietta Henriod 1 and Lenor Simons ' VAv VOL 83 NUMBER 49 Wednesday 3727 Cloudy Christmas Memories GUNNISON Sanpete VALLEY ntV V ' Y EDITION MANTI WEDNESDAY UTAH CIB approves $200000 loan d— O Thursday - for river walkway 4423 Cloudy Friday - 4824 By Partly sunny Saturday - John Hales Staff writer 5024 SALT LAKE CITY— The Utah Community Impact Board (CIB) has given final approval on loan for a $200000 construction of the Sanpitch River Walkway along a stretch of the Sevier River in Gunnison Sunny Last Week’s Weather Reported by Lee J Anderson The CIB made the LLOYD CALL MESSENGER PHOTO Bruce Fuller herdsman at Yardley Dairy in Christianburg checks on dairy cows enjoying their new bedding Extraordinary measures are needed to help the cows endure record cold temperatures common in Sanpete O Most missionary military addresses on web site Cold snap hits Sanpete By Lloyd Missionary addresses for nearly all Sanpete County LDS stakes are now posted on wwwsanpetemessenpercom The Messenger will keep the addresses posted continually from this point on and will update them regularly We are still looking for military addresses of Sanpete soldiers If anyone has any information about residents who are on active duty contact us at or send addresses to us at: news sanpetemessesngercom Call Associate publisher It’s too cold for man or beast outside Just ask the dairymen — or the cows — at Yardley Dairy in Christianburg The last couple of weeks in Sanpete County temperatures have and they remain at plummeted subzero levels A record was set on Nov 30 at KMTI radio station west of Manti w here the thermometer recorded minus 8 degrees The usual cold spots in Utah are Cache and Summit counties in the north but so far this w inter they are warmer than Sanpete County Ted Olson operating the Snow College weather station since 1980 said that Ephraim made four low temperature records Dec cently: Nov 30 minus minus 7 Dec 2 minus 5 and Dec 3 minus 5 Previous records broken were mostly from 1989 Low' temperatures affect the sick and the elderly the hardest but not only people are suffering Gene Yardley of Yardley Dairy a dairyman said “Cows do pretty good from zero to 100 but colder titan zero or hotter than 100 is bad” Temperatures are hovering at minus 10 degrees most nights at the dairy Dairymen like herdsman Bruce Fuller keep crews working around the clock to protect the livestock “We are constantly throwing out new bedding for the animals and providing plenty of food to eat Water troughs have to be healed and we still have to break through some ice every day” he commented (See “Cold” on A2) an- on Friday Dec 3 nouncement when it released a list of recipients of nearly $78 million the CIB has awarded this year The proposed walkway would run east and west between West in Gunnison and would include an underpass under US 89 The project will also most 200 East and 200 to likely include modifications 200 East near the creek to make it safer for vehicles and pedestrian traffic including children who use the route to travel to and from school The federal government gives a share of the fees it collects on lands leased for mineral development to states The funds Suzanne Dean Publisher time to help others MANTI — The Sanpete There’s still time to help needy families this Christmas See page A 0 for a list of charitable programs and op- County Commission seemed to be breathing a little easier on T uesday than in past years as it adjusted figures in a proposed $107 million portunities to help others this holiday season county budget The commission was still crunching numbers at press time although most of the changes appeared to be small relative to the total budget The commission had planned to adopt the budget at pm but it appealed the vote to adopt would come in the late afternoon or early evening The proposed $107 million total was down about $2 million from 2(X)4 But the $2 million drop was almost entirely because the You said It! “ Personally I ’t think our kids are any smarter SEAN don is improv- ing test scores but not necessarily improving education ” — Kent Larsen Ephraim Middle School principal Centerfield OKs commercial building for mortgage office R Truitt A5 A8 A10 Holiday Sports Business Classifieds All A14 A15 Utah Press Association General Excellence J Wh winner PHOTO three other buildings: a 30 x 40 shop 40 x 40 shop and a 12 x 14 office Hartung told the council that he has a mortgage business wanting to rent the modular office already He also has plans to build a deck between the modular office and the other small office The deck will include a handicap access for both offices Both offices come writh three parking stalls The council placed another condition on the business: to change the w cost from home to commercial status which will cost Hartung about $22 more per month The council collaborated on a letter written to a resident who rents a mobile home to a family whose dogs are nuisances to neighbors Council member Kendra Sorensen said the resident requested an official letter to help ev ict the family living in the mobile home The letter states that the mobile home on the resident’s property has noncompliant residents living in it CENTERFIELD— The Centerfield City Council approved a modular office building took action regarding a property in noncompliance discussed snow removal and donated to Sub for Santa at its Dec 2 meeting With only a warning the council approved placing a 12 x 60 modular office building on commercial property across from the cemetery for local businessman Ray Hartung The council was concerned that the building is only one foot from a fence line but since Hartung owns that residential property also the council gave consent However the council members warned him that if he were to sell either the commercial or residential property the fence line would have to be changed to allow 10 feet between the fence and the office building or he would have to remove the building The commercial property on w hich the modular building sits is shared w ith 'A (See “Centerfield” on A14) counties that federal land have large tracts ol CIB money provides assistance to communities for the planning construction and maintenance of public facilities The CIB loan is offered at zero percent interest and can be timeframe repaid over a The city will receive the money sometime next spring The Utah Department ol UDOT) will also Transportation help pay for the walkway project UDOT has already granted and $240 )()() for the project Gunnison City Council member Lori Nay says that up to an additional $100 000 from UDOT is “highly probable” The entire project is estimated to cost $340000 to $440000 says Nay Nay said earlier that if Gunnison gets an $ 0000) from may elect to bonow only $100000 from the CIB additional UDOT it county budgeted $2 million last year for the Ephraim Canyon Road that it won’t be spending in 2(X)5 County auditor Ilene Roth says a more realistic way to view the county budget is to take out grants and "washes" (stale assistance the county receives but then is required to pay out to the Six County Association of Governments and in some cases the state itself for government services not provided locally) Counting only the revenue raised within Sanpete County the county expects to bring in $506 million next year compared to $488 million this year a difference of just $ 8 589 That translates to a revenue inctease of just 37 Nonetheless in putting together the 2(X)5 budget commissioners were not in the kind of squeeze they faced two or three years ago when revenues weren't covering costs In 2(X)I and 2(X)2 the county ran a deficit which n made up by spending surpluses from prior years In 2003 the county took $284(XX)out of a capital improve(See “Sanpete Budget" on A2) No child left behind helps scores but not education a Staff writer A4 MESSENGER Bubbles rockets robots Mars rovers hurricanes and electricity — all these plus many more science modules — arrived at Ephraim Elementary on Dec 1 Junior Engineering an outreach program from Utah State University provided students and minds-oparents with a hands-o- n experience with science By C Opinions Lifestyle School HALES Students excited about Junior Engineering program are designed to compensate slates for lands that are excluded from the property tax rolls The CIB’s role is to distribute Utah’s mineral lease fees to Commissioners busy crunching $ 1 07 million budget draft By There's still NCLB 8 2004 DECEMBER By John Hales Staff writer MANTI — North and South Sanpete School District test results are in for No Child Left Behind (NCLB) but those results may not mean much say officials from both districts As mandated by federal legislation states that participate in NCLB a system of accountability assessment and reporting for public schools Schools are evaluated on a yeaily basis to see whether they meet Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) standards The major indicator of AYP for Utah schools is how well students perform on Tests must establish (CRTs) which are tests that measure student performance against a specific standard (rather than in comparison to other students) CRTs are based on the core curriculum requirements established by the Utah State Office of Education and are given to students each year in October Results of tills year’s CRTs show that all but one of Sanpete schools — North Sanpete Middle School (NSMS) — made AYP(sec table on A8 And yet that same school made better progress over the previous year than any school from cither district except Ephraim Middle School (LMS) NSMS failed to make AYP because a subgroup of students did not show adequate attendance levels due to some students not coming to school enough The perplexity of NSMS missing AYP at the same time that it made good strides in actual test scores is explained by a statement from the North Sanpete School District released on Oct 27 “Tli ere may be schtxil results that scent confusing A school may be doing a good job as a whole but miss (See “NCLB” on A8) |