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Show sC ummit N e w s o u nt y Vol. 79 No. 14 INSIDE THE NEWS THIS WEEK Summit Coalville, Utah 84017 April Fools Day Threat - This Joke May Be on The TMIS Student(s) Alternatives To May Clean-Up Program For Summit County Summit County Public Works Administrator Cleaning off the snow for the track meet with Juab - finally made it possible to go around the track by March 19! - first attempt on March 7 only gave them about 50 meters of track to run on! See last Saturday’s story with North Summit and Carbon Invitational in Price on Page B3 50¢ Friday, April 4, 2008 KEVIN CALLAHAN Kassidy Jones is a winner in the essay contest from the North Summit Elementary School. She wrote an essay for the Farm Bureau competition using the theme for the 2007 essay contest - “Celebrating Agriculture.” See other winners on Page A3 Formerly the Summit County Bee The County Commission has decided to eliminate unregulated public waste dumping at our landfills. This means that the public dumpster program which allowed free dumping at our landfills will not take place this year. We know that the program was a convenience to the public. However, its continuation would run counter to the Commission’s adopted solid waste goals of waste reduction, increased recycling and greater public responsibility. This year Summit County will provide new options for the disposal of municipal wastes at the Three Mile Canyon landfill. By April, we should have a new public drop-off center operational at Three Mile. This facility, which will be at the base of the landfill, will require residents to sort their wastes based on the type of material (wood, metals, green waste, tires etc) and put it into dumpsters. There will be a modest charge for this service but it will be more convenient and cleaner for the public to use. Most of the material brought in by self haulers will then be recycled or disposed of without burial in the landfill. This facility will help us save precious space in our landfill. We have also provided the community with a free drop-off site at Three Mile for household hazardous wastes (paints, oils, garden chemicals, batteries etc). This facility will be staffed by trained county employees and will be open during landfill hours (Monday-Saturday 8 a.m.4:30 p.m.) Based on current estimates, the capacity of the existing cell at the Three Mile Canyon landfill will be exhausted by 2016. We are in the process of completing a comprehensive 40 50 year plan for solid waste disposal and recycling. However, we need to protect the remaining solid waste capacity at Three Mile Canyon by implementing programs which reduce any unnecessary disposal of wastes at Three Mile. The Commission’s decision to cancel the free dumping program is a part of this effort. However, to help local communities and the public make the transition to a wiser set of programs, we have identified the following alternatives for disposal of various materials. We would ask that each city promotes these alternatives and assists Summit County in creating a more sustainable solid waste management program. Material, Disposal Option, Location. Contact: Household Hazardous Waste Disposal - 3 Mile Landfill 336-5297; Green waste at home Compost at home, learn how to at Recycle Utah (RU); Green waste at businesses Disposal - 3 Mile Landfill/or new facility; Electronics, Recycle at RU, 649-9698; Computers, Cell phones, batteries Appliances Reuse* RU, Park City, 649-9698; Appliances Recycle - RU, Park City; Refrigerators - Reuse* RU, Park City 649-9698; Broken Refrigerators - Dispose at 3 Mile Land- Schools have to take every precaution when a threat is made - whether in jest as an April Fool’s joke, or as a phone call for a bomb threat as in the case of the Wasatch Schools. Each case may be different, but in every case, lives must be protected and every effort to investigate the situation for safety of the children! Nearly 500 students in Park City’s Treasure Mountain International School missed classes on Tuesday, April 1. The April Fool’s joke was handled as serious when youth wrote in the boy’s bathroom last week places threatening messages against the students there that he was going to kill students on April 1. The threats were written early enough that the school officials sent a letter home to parents to let them know that they did not have to come to school on Tuesday - it was up to the parents. Out of the 700 enrolled students only about 200 came to the classrooms. Vice Principal Shawn Kuennen told officials that a student only intended to play a prank on CONTINUED ON PAGE A3 CONTINUED ON PAGE A3 Sterling Scholars Honored By Holcim - and The Nominees Are… Visual Arts: Tysen Merrill Johnson, Morgan and Alicia Smith, North Summit. Music: Crystal Hardman, Morgan and Aaron Beenfield, North Summit. Dance: Samantha Watt, Morgan and Heather Moore, North Summit. General: Kami Mecham, Today H52 L34 Partly Cloudy Morgan and Britnee Wiberg, North Summit. Each nominee received a framed certificate from Holcim, a gift card, and the book “7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens” by: Sean Covey, donated by Franklin Covey Institute. Dancers Place 5th in World Competition Saturday H45 L29 Mostly Cloudy Sunday H49 L30 Partly Cloudy Monday H51 L32 Mostly Cloudy Tuesday H40 L25 Rain/Snow Showers TYLER ROWSER SCN Staff Wednesday H37 L26 Snow Shower Thursday H44 L29 Snow Shower Inside The Summit County News 2 Sections 16 Pages Classifieds B6-8 Happenings A6 Obituaries -Movies A6 Opinion A2 Public Notices B4 School News B2-3 The 2008 Sterling Scholar Nominees of both the Morgan and North Summit High Schools attended a recognition dinner in honor of all their hard work on Thursday, March 27. The recognition dinner was sponsored by Holcim (US.) Inc. of Devil’s Slide. The nominees and their parents were invited along with their superintendents, principles, counselors and sterling scholar advisors from each school to attend this banquet at Larry’s Spring Chicken Inn in Morgan. This was the third annual recognition dinner that Holcim has sponsored. Plant Manager Keith Krugh spoke of the importance that Holcim puts on the education and achievements of the youth, “…we are investing in our future with these students” said Krugh. Holcim (US) Inc. nationally awards scholarships to chil- dren of Holcim employees. The Gygi and von Wyss Foundation scholarships is competitive scholarship providing $8,000 per year renewable for four years pending the student’s academic achievements. This year, Kami Mecham, General Sterling scholar from Morgan High School was awarded this scholarship. Kami is the daughter of Matt and Julie Mecham. The Devil’ Slide facility will also present both Morgan and North Summit School Districts with scholarship funds to be used at the discretion of each district. Holcim has been generous in supporting the community, and they feel that it is an honor to recognize the academic achievements of students in the local schools with hosting this banquet for the Sterling Scholars. The community also would like to thank them for these contributions. We, at the Summit County News, along with their family and friends, would like to congratulate the nominees for all their hard work. The 2008 Sterling Scholars nominees are: English: MaryCeleste Lewis, Morgan and Ashlin Olsen, North Summit. Mathematics: Skyler David Drennen, Morgan and Adam Horie, North Summit. Social Science: Jenna Camille Colvin, Morgan and Wesley Collins, North Summit. Science: L. Jansen Bennett, Morgan and Nathan Fowles, North Summit. Foreign Language: Carolina Rosema. Computer Technology; Rondy Lyn Butters, Morgan and Stephen Dearden, North Summit. Trade and Technical: Travis Thurston, Morgan and Chase Black, North Summit. Family and Consumer Science: Kortnee Lake, Morgan. Business and Marketing; Trevor J. Siebert, Morgan. Speech and Drama: Danielle Follett, Morgan and Amanda Hanson, North Summit. Photo by Cheryl Ovard/SCN Editor HollyAnn (Ovard) and Sam Fisher, Place 5th Overall in the World Professional Smooth Dance Championships® in Las Vegas at the Arthur Murray International, Inc.® World Dance-ORama®. See Page A6 for the full story! |