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Show 4 UTAH BESS ASSXIATICN ft . 467 EAST 300 SOUTH. SALT LAKE CITY UT 84111 them Utah Volume 51 Number 29 Thursday, February 18, 1982 Kanab, Utah GIVS sometfiingTbr Eveline Single Copy 25c 84741 Small Big Band To Perform In Kanab For an evening of the real thing, jazz that is, join Kane County Arts Council on Saturday, Feb. 27, at 7:30 at Kanab Elementary School to hear Lou Rovners Small Big Band. The Small Big Band will bring to you the vital sounds of jazz, with traditional selections as well as original compositions by two of the members. Lou Rovners background ranges from writing musical scores for shows in Las Vegas to writing commercial jingles in Salt Lake. His degree in music is from the Berklee School of Music in Boston where, members of bands as Doc such Severinsens "Tonight Show orchestra and Buddy Richs band have studied. Rovners band has nine musicians each of whom can and does play more than one instrument over the course of the concert. The band members all have professional jazz careers and chose to work together as a rehearsal for the excitement of playing with friends and good musicians. They are also committed to sharing the excitement with their audience, as noted by enthusiastic reviews over the past three years. As Lou Rovner said, after a teaching residency with the band at Park City High School in 1981, "Somewhere along the way people stop looking at music as fun. When you first think about trying an instrument you imagine how fun it will be to play it. You need to return that fun feeling to music. The Small Big Band will be brought to Kanab by Kane County Arts Council with support from the Utah Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts and State Bank of Southern Utah. well-know- n f t f ' Rovners Small Big Band, pictured here, will perform in Kanab on Saturday, Feb. 27, at the Kanab Elementary School. The popular musical group is being Lou sponsored here by the Kane County Arts Council and the Utah Arts Council. Local jazz lovers should note that date, for this will be a unique opportunity. Service Commission Decision Called Kind of Victory by SUPF Members of the Southwest Utah Cooperative Power Federation are hailing as kind of a victory the Public Service Commissions decision to let them collectively buy their electric systems. We feel really good about it, said SUPC Agency Chairman Frank Staheli. Though it has yet to sign an official order, the PSC decided late Thursday to allow the 19 southern Utah cities and towns in the federation to join together as a group to bond or otherwise finance the purchase of individual CP National electrical systems now in the hands of Utah Power and Light. Barbara Starr, president of the Southwestern Utah Cooperative Power Federation, said the decision was a "major victory for municipal power in southern Utah. A federation committee made up of local city officials, including Staheli, Rudger McArthur of St. George, Barbara Starr from Cedar City and Leon Bowler of Enterprise, had been negotiating with UP&L to buy the systems under an earlier PSC order that said cities should have the right to own the CPN systems within their boundaries. I feel this will turn out to be one of the greatest things for southern Utah, said federation member Doran Fox With all the of Central. entities working together, weve got a lot of good things ahead. Utah Power and Light company had told the PSC that each city should have to individually purchase their systems, worth approximately $7 million in total. Staheli said negotiations between the federation and Utah Power were pretty well resolved, except for three things. They wanted us to hold a bond election within a certain time to purchase the systems, and if it failed, the option agreement (to buy) would no longer be in force. Utah Power officials earlier had warned that if the cities were to finance the purchase as a group, that would be a transfer of title, negating the sale, Staheli said. Utah Power a firm power also wanted contract before they would exercise the option, he said. Outlining the PSCs decision, he added They indicat ed whatever method we wanted to bond was okay, but they would prefer it be done individually. But by having one group (the federation) hire one bond attorney, and one fiscal agent, we feel, will be quite a savings, Staheli said. The more we have involved, the better bond rating we would have. Starr attended the public service commission hearing as a member of the team negotiating the purchase of Cedar Citys distribution system. Cedar City had previously been selected as the first municipality for which negotiations would take place. The other two members of the municipalities negotiating team are Frank Staheli, chairman of the SUCP Agency; and George Fadel, legal counsel for the Federation and Agency. The major item which we consider a victory was the decision regarding wholesale power supply, Starr continued. We hadnt been able to come up with a reasonable time in which we could purchase wholesale power from UP&L while looking for another power source. UP&L wanted to provide us with wholesale power only until 1986, when IPP power would become available. They felt we should purchase that power, which would have been so expensive that it would have prohibited the whole idea of municipal power. We wanted the right to purchase it from UP&L, indefinitely. The PSC had said before that it wouldnt agree to that, and it refused to reconsider it at the hearing. However, it set a date of 1990. The length of this contract will take us past the reallocation time for the Colorado River Storage Project power, giving us an opportunity to tie up an allocation of power through the CRSP, whose new contracts go out in 1989. A negative aspect of this decision, as far as we're she continued, concerned, is the stipulation that if after 1990 we ever ask to buy wholesale power from UP&L it will have the right to buy the system back from us. We would have preferred that to d but the PSC be didnt agree. open-ende- Special Stake Fireside Set A special Kanab Utah Stake Fireside is being planned for Sunday, Feb. 28, 1982. It will be held at the Kanab Stake Center at 7 p.m. and will feature J. Ballard Washburn as guest speaker. Pres. Washburn is a former Kanab Stake President and presently is serving as a Regional Representative for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints. He is to the people in this stake as the former stake president and also as a doctor who practiced here for several years while also practicing in Page. The fireside is being sponsored by the Kanab Stake Seventies Quorum and promises to be an outstanding evening. well-know- n Students Carry Learning A right and Duff Pugh were among the Sons of Pioneers who decked out for last weekend's Sweetheart Ball. That doesn't look like the Duff Pugh I know! Al Hlgley Coming Garkane Election Important to Future the Cooperatives eight Dis- in the land and water rights on tricts. Rising electrical costs the property optioned with the and recent charges of manloan; failing to require a title the search; and in expending by agement irregularities Utah Public Service Commislarge sums of money without sion have stirred new interest determining whether a power in this consumer owned utility plant as contemplated in the relative to property to Johnson which first brought electricity making of the loan was Canyon and inasmuch as these to some rural areas in necessary or feasible. The Commission ordered elections are upcoming and Southern Utah in 1939. Since investigation by the Garkane to inform its memwill be of utmost importance bers of the findings by as far as local power users are Commission found that Garkane failed to act in a publishing the Report and concerned, the following artOrders in newspapers of icle, written by Caroline reasonable and purdent manloan a in of be ner should general circulation in the area, of making Lippincott, interest to local members of $96,626.15 to a local rancher, but compliance has been that association prior to the its management practices delayed by an appeal by elections. Almost all of the have been under fire. The Garkane. The Board of Directors is local area, except Kanab and Cooperative is criticized for Fredonia are involved in this failing to show the loan on its responsible for policy making records, but instead, including which directs and controls the company. it as an expenditure. Garkane Power Associmanagement and operation of The Commission also found the Cooperative. The interests ations annual meeting in Orderville on March 25 irregularity in the Coopera- and welfare of the memberpromises to be a lively one, tive's being advised in the ship are to be reflected in the transaction by attorneys who it decisions and actions of the focusing on election of Directors for its Board in three of knew to have a part ownershit) (Continued on Page 2) Garkane Power Association will be holding elections during March and nominating meetings earlier. Recently Garkane has come under fire from the Utah Public Commission for certain activities Commissioner Talks To Chamber About Unity 6 Cooperation, unity and communication. These three important ingredients were suggested to the Kane County Chamber of Commerce Tuesday at noon by Kane County Commissioner Calvin Johnson. About thirty Chamber members met at the Country Kitchen to listen to Commissioner Johnson and also to hear committee reports. Johnson Commissioner traced his own background in the Kane County area explaining that he lived here when all the streets were only dirt and has grown up with the area. Touching on tourism, he said that so often "we havent taken time to talk with people if they dont patronize us. He of the principles Learning if a business banking in a high school class suggested that has proved a detriment to doesnt have what the patron three high school students in wants that we should refer Kanab. them to someone else in town Two local banks, State Bank who does have it, not send of Southern Utah and Zions them on to the next communFirst National Bank have been ity. He suggested the same teaching classes on banking at attitude in the cooperative Kanab High School for about two weeks. The classes motels, and was pleased with simulate as closely as possible a report that such has been the the setting up of a business case in that local industry. Be competitive with each and the banking needs that go with it, such as making other, he suggested, but be deposits, setting up books and united. writing checks. He talked of respect for After learning to write checks, some decided to try private property, of the and use them and were differences which should be successful. . . .for a while. The used to advantage between checks were printed with "I old timers which he referrAm Student in the place ed to as old mossbacks (he where the name of the person and "newcomers. owning the account is found. being one) The students in question took Also discussed were roads a check into a local business and their importance to this and cashed it during a busy hour. The checks were made area. It was pointed out that out properly and signed, I several years ago a network of roads were proposed for this Am Student. At this time, however, the area, but that nothing had yet students have been charged come of them. Among these by Kanab City Police and were a road from Glen Canyon completion of the charges are City to Bullfrog and one from pending. Alton into Bryce Canyon It bears out the saving. "A National Park. little learning can be a Disposition of the old Kane dangerous thing. County Courthouse was a topic for discussion. Commissioner Johnson said his personal feelings on the matter were that it was far too expensive to renovate and he could see better uses for the money. However, he did say that his feelings were that the 9 people would have the say on that matter on the ballot. Most of those present seemed to echo his feelings on the courthouse, although some did suggest preserving it as it is and wait to see if there were not some way to rebuild and use it in the future. Little Too Far five to eTght inch NOT QUITE PICNIC WEATHER-T- he snow that fell in Southern Utah a week ago certainly did not herald picnic time as this picnic table will attest. Now a week later, the snow is about all gone except for where it was piled high and where the sun has not hit. Kane County Commissioner Calvin Johnson spoke to the Kane County Area Chamber of Commerce Tuesday. He talked with members about cooperation, unity and also the disposition of the old courthouse In Kanab. |