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Show Ths Tlmss-lndspsndsn- Thursday, Juns 25, 1987 t, B1 Services held in Oklahoma for 7(Jedi ut Warren Ivy IQzviecv Road plan still under fire Heber ... City Although the first phase of the widening of Provo Canyon Highway has been completed and the second phase has begun, protest groups continue to object to the alignment as it is designed. Phase II was halted by a lawsuit challenging the Environmental Impact Statement, almost as soon as it was started last September. But preliminary, restricted construction has been allowed including clearing out trees, relocation of the Salt Lake Aqueduct, and a new river channel, projects that will have to be completed, whatever the final design of the road. Plaintiffs in the pending lawsuit claim that what the Department of Transportation rails two lanes with continous passing lanes is highway actually a four-lan- e e without the safeguards of a highway. They rlsinn some con ditions have changed since the original impact statement was completed in 1978 and, in addition, that it didnt address all the issues. four-l;an- ... bill heads for House Funding Colo. million A bill for the Cortez, appropriating $6,155 Plata Water Project, the full amount sought for the coming fiscal year, was presented before the full U. S. House of Representatives June 24, a jubilant Congressman Ben Nighthorse Campbell reported last week. Colorados Third District Congressman said that the measure was approved last week by the Interior Committee with the full $6 million requested by the Colorado delegation. Any less than that to begin the $320 million first phase of the project in Southwestern Colorado would mean that the construction time limit could not be met, he said. Animas-L- a 12-ye- ar Fulltime assault on lake . . . Brigham City The West Desert pumping project is fully operational on the Great Salt Lake. Following final detail work at a pumping station built at Hogup Ridge 10 miles west of Lakeside in Box Eler county, the projects three massive pumps have started a fulltime assault on costly flooding problems of the Great Salt Lake. Pumps and engines will generally operate 24 hours a day. Project contraction started last June after $60 million was appropriated by the second special session of the 1986 State legislature. The projects first two pumps, operating at a combined rate of nearly a million gallons a minute during May, have already removed more than of water from the lake to the desert area west of the 150,000 acre-feNewfoundland mountains. The third pump has boosted water flow another 500,000 gallons a minute. et of water in storage . . . Plenty Vernal runoff is well below the annual norAlthough spring mal in many parts of the West, storage in Bureau of Reclamation projects will ensure an adequate supply of water for most areas, according to C. Dale Duvall, Commissioner of Reclamation. This is a year when storage in Reclamation reservoirs is particularly significant due to unusual precipitation patterns. Generally, we will have an adequate supply for all cities and projects in the 17 western states served by the Bureau. The situation, however, points out again that without the storage reservoirs, some areas would undoubtedly experience severe water shortages, Duvall said. Prison officials visited ' ... Monticello As of 9 a.m. on June 12, Monticello is number one on our list of prospective sites for a regional prison, Nick Morgan said last week. He than qualified his remark. Of course, over 30 sites have been proposed by 12 counties. You are our first site to visit today. Morgan, a member of the Site Selection Committee of the Utah Department of Corrections, made the remarks during a meeting in Monticello prior to a site inspection tour. State Rep. David Adams told the visiting officials, Southeastern Utah has been making a tremendous effort to revitalize its depressed economy, often with little success. It needs a shot in the arm such as the prison project would provide. He continued, I am not making this pitch for Monticello just because I represent this area. I sincerely believe the Monticello site and proposal are the best. Over 100 felony charges A three . . . Salina month undercover investigation in Sevier County came to a head early last Friday morning as more than 60 law enforcement officers staged one of the largest drag busts in the tys history. The investigation had been instigated by the Salina Police Department, and utilized two narcotics agents from out of the area. During the early morning raid, 28 alleged drag distributors were apprehended, resulting in nearly 100 felony charges. Thirty arrest warrants had been issued. Utes finally answer Colo. A revised . . . Cortez, proposal on reaching an agreement over use and development of the tribes land on Soda Point adjacent to Mesa Verde National Park was received last Monday by the National Park Service from the Ute Mountain Indian Tribe. An angry letter had been sent June 4 to Tribal Chairman Ernest House by NPS Rocky Mountain Regional Director Lorraine Mintzmyer demanding to know why there had been no correspondence on negotiations between the Utes and the federal agency in nearly two months. She said the .inaction seemed clearly to demonstrate a determination to proceed unilaterally without regard to legal or procedural obligations. Accordingly, she said that if no answer was received by last Monday, June 15, the Park Service would suspend any further negotiations. NPS and Ute officials are seeking to develop a program which will mutually protect Mesa Verde National Park and equally the Ute Mountain Tribal Park while allowing for economic development on the Indian lands. Access to the Cliff Palace and Balcony House ruins in Mesa Verde National Park is on a road which travels about a quarter of a mile on Ute lands. Doing a good job . As we think Funeral Serives were held Tues., June 16 in Bristow, OK for Warren Allen Ivy, former Moab resident. Mr. Ivy was bom Feb. 18, 1920 to Larry B. and Bertha Dixon Ivy at Foster, Okla. He graduated from Cox City High School in 1938 and started a lifetime association with the oil industry. On March 9, 1951 he married Frances Earlene Hoffman in Ark. He worked for various oil companies before forming his own company in 1959. Warren and Earlene spent the next 21 years in the Rocky Mountain Area and always considered Moab home. In 1980 they moved to Bristow, Okla'. Survivors include the widow of the Ben-tonvil- home, one son Robert Dale Ivy, Bristow, parents, and two brothers, Caraezz Jack and Huey B. of Tulsa, Okla., one sister, Mrs. Robert (Pauline) Franklin, Lanark Village, Fla. and three granddaughters of Bristow. Memorial gifts may be made to the School Book Fund in Moab or the Charity of your choice. Burial was at Ozark Memorial Park, Joplin, MO. Canyonlands Wildlife Federation members Dave Bierschied and Gary Lawley and Bureau of Land Managments Grand Resource Area Manager Pete Christensen adjust float valve in water control box. while Joe Cresto, Grand Resource Area biologist, cleans wildlife drinking basin. Photos by Mary plumb Local student receives WWC Local Wildlife group to assist BLM in maintaining water holes scholarship Karen Mallory, a former Moab resident attending Walla Walla College, College Place, Wash., has been awarded a scholarship at the college. Mallory, the daughter of Dail and Marlene Magee of Moab, received a $1,000 award from the Walla Walla College and anonymous donors fund. This years awards represented an 80 percent increase over gifts of last year. More than $99,000 were given to approximately 200 students at the school. Walla Walla College is a four-yeprivate college located in southeastern Washington state. Owned and operated by the Seventh-da- y Adventist Church, it was established in 1892 and has an enrollment of approximately 1,400 students. ar Republicans held meeting on June 17 -- A special meeting of the Grand County Republican Central Committee was held on June 17, 1987. Party officers as well as state delegates were in attendance. The slate of candidates for the state offices was discussed as well as attendance at the State Convention held June 20, 1987 in Salt Lake City. The new State Republican Officers are: Chairman, Craig Moody, Vice Chairman, Donna Dahl, Secretary, Jack Roberts and The Canyonlands Wildlife Federation has recently signed a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) cooperative agreement which will authorize members of its club to maintain and monitor twenty five wildlife water catchments scattered throughout the Grand Resource Area. Pete Christensen, Area Manager for the Grand Resource Area, explained that currently we are severe budget reexperiencing strictions and it looks like none of the wildlife projects we had planned will be completed this fiscal year. What we do have in mind though, is a program of wildlife guzzler maintenance and monitoring which we feel our organization might be interested in. Canyonlands Wildlife Federation Club President Randy Davis response was positive. As a newly formed wildlife organization, we appreciate the opportunity to assist you in any wildlife related projects. The program will allow the club to maintain and monitor guzzlers used by antelope, desert bighorn sheep, mule deer and chukar partridge. Each winter the guzzlers must be turned off in order to keep the system from freezing and to keep livestock from using them and drinking the limited water supply which is stored. Then each spring the system must be cleaned out and turned back on. Adopt-A-Guzzl- Treasurer, '' , - v. : ' V:- , ' - ., . ' V .1- ' - 'fev". 'N v . BLM RETURNED HOME Mrs. Verna Randall has returned from an extensive stay in California and Texas where she had been visting members of her family. VISITED FROM COLORADO Mr. and Mrs. Jim (Evelyn) Jones were happy to have their daughter, Janene Willett and two children here for a few days visit from their home in Alamosa, CO. purchase and install additional guzzlers, contact Pete Christensen, Grand Resource Area Manager, P.O. Box M, Moab, Utah 84532, or call 259-819- 3. Canyonlands Wildlife Federation members Gary Lawley and Dave Bierschied, inspect parabolic water collection and storage unit with Bureau of Land Managements Grand Resource Area Manager Pete Christensen. (Photos by Mary Plumb) Johanna Bliss joined Girl Scout Council staff Former Moab resident Johanna Bliss recently joined the staff at the Utah Girl Scout Council in Salt Lake City as the Council's new ac- countant. In Moab, Ms. Bliss worked as a consultant for Texas gulf Potash Employees Credit Union, an accountant and office manager for Minerals West, Inc., and has taught mathematics and business courses as a substitute teacher for the Grand County School District. She is a graduate of Utah State University where she received a B.S. in Accounting. Ms. Bliss is the daughter of Tom and Aleen Nielson, about the growth of Job Corps in Kaysville this country, it has to be the most fantastic success story we have of education in our nation. Those words, from former U. S. Secretary of Education Dr. T. H. Bell, summed up his views of the Job Corps program as he delivered a speech to a special Job Corps breakfast in Salt Lake City last week. Dr. Bell was asked to address the breakfast held in commemoration with Job Corps Week in Utah. The native Utahns address highlighted not only the importance he feels Job Corps plays, but discussed his ongoing battle with others in the Reagan admdnsitration on keeping the nations centers open. ... Cortez, Colo. Cortez area business people and other residents were outgraged last week when they received their new Mountain Bell telephone directories only to find the entire white page section was listed under Durango. Many argued that the listing of the numbers of telephone subscribers in all five counties in the San Juan Basin under the Durango heading creates the wrong impression for people who are looking for goods or services, that all business is in Durango. Others also argued that the new heading cuts deep into community individuality. The previous books listed each of the communities under their own heading, r would continue to supply equipment and funds for any major guzzler repair should one break down. Christensen went on to state we feel this effort on the part of the Canyonlands Wildlife Federation would save the government substantial time and money, while providing members of the club with a very useful project. If there are any other groups or organizations that would like to enter into a similar agreement or would like to contribute funds to . . Slow burn in Cortez w- er Christensen stated that Michael Jones and Adrien Taylor was as the Third District Chairman. The next meeting of the Central t Committee is scheduled for July 6, 1987 at noon at the LaHacienda Restaurant. All interested persons are welcome to attend. . Cvv I'-- ,, Hole in One ... 'Vfr ''' P ' o' V $ Local golfer Bill Blue had the thrill of a lifetime when he got a hole in one on the Par 4 First Hole at the San Juan Golf Course on Sunday, June 21. The hole measures 265 yards and Bill hit a 3 wood. He was participating in the San Juan 2 Man Best Ball tournament at the time. Shown with him is his playing partner, Keith Miller, left, and the team of Bill Hewett and Bill Lee from Aztec, N.M. Moab. The council also welcomed three other new office staff employees. The new employees will help current staff serve the 14,000 girl and adult members who belong to the local branch of the national non-prof-it organization. The Utah Girl Scout Council serves all of Utah and Fredonia, AZ. Vicki Patterson, Director of Business Services, came to the Council from Mountain West Business Col lege, where she served as head of the Administrative Office Education Department. There she taught courses in word processing, office procedures, supervision, and business math, among others. Ms. Patterson received her B.A. in Business and Speech Communication from Brigham Young University. Public Relations Manager Rewas most rek becca cently the public relations assistant for the Utah Public Employees Association (UPEA). Prior to working for the UPEA, she was a reporterphotographer for the Uinta County Herald in Evanston, Wyo. k received her Ms. B.A. in Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of Utah. Chavez-Houc- Chavez-Houc- Office Assistant Julie Omer is a graduate of Mountain West Business College. She has a certificate in Office Administration and was previously employed as a cashier for Dans Foods. |