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Show Duchesne water jump after meter and system repairs Resident 4 the dty of Duchesne received their water bills this week and many were ahocked some even outraged at the increases in their bills. The bills were the first to go out after repairs to meters were completed and training on proper meter reading completed under the water study being conducted by Community Consultants. City admisistrator Kenneth Mitchell said the water Mils went up anywhere d to three times the from previous amount We anticipated this after the by Compreliminary investigation Mr. Mitchell munity Consultants, said. He added that after the fourth and fifth phases of the study it was learned that our system has been very, very bad." Water meters haven't worked in some, no, many cases for as many as three years, he said. "With only one exception, in all cases the city has not been collecting enough money for one-thir- water. In many eases water bills are going d higher again. In a few cases water bills will be three times higher than what they have been. This is particularly true of those who have two types of meters because the large meters have not been working at all," he added. In every case but one people have been undercharged. He said he expected the citizens to be upset People are going to rant and scream and rave, he said. Our phone is just going to burn our ears. But he said the residents must realize that their rates have not gone up, they simply have not been paying for the water they have used in the past We have been collecting mi to be one-thir- Bike-Hik- e about 35 per cent of our water, he said. He noted that the city has the legal right to go back and charge for past errors, which would allow the dty to collect about 160,000 for the past three years. However, he emphasized, the city council is not going to do that kind of thing. The reason for checking back was to find out just how bad we were," he said. In one case he cited he said over a period of six months their water bill McKeachnie seeks state House seat Gayle McKeachnie, Vernal attorney, has announced his candidacy for the Utah House of Representatives seat presently held by Speaker of the House Glade M. Sowards. Mr. Sowards has announced that he will seek election to Senate District 26 in this fall's election. Mr. mcKeachnie, a native of Vernal, served an L.D.S. mission and graduated from Southern Utah State College and the University of Utah Law School. After law School Mr. McKeachnie practiced law in Salt TjLp City and attended the University of Utah School of Business before returning to Vernal to practive law in 1972. The seat in the Utah House of Representatives to which Mr. seeks to be elded represents Uintah and Daggett Counties in the Utah Legislature. in three communities Bike-hik- e Bike-hik- e g event The Bike-hik- e is a for the Duchesne County Association for Retarded Citizens. AO hikers and bikers are to meet at starting points at 9 a.m. Saturday. The route in Duchesne and TaMona will follow the same route as last year. In Roosevelt the starting point is the old Roosevelt Stake center on route Lagoon Street and the six-miwill go down State Street and foOow Pole Line Road and the old Independence Road back to lagoon Street and the Stake Center. A preliminary bike ride for Union high school students who will be in Provo Saturday was held last Saturday, April 29, and Kathy Lemon, who held the state record for the most with 70 miles ridden in a Bike-hik- e fund-raisin- le Job Service in Duchesne Announcement was made this week that persons requiring the service of the Utah Job Service Office, can be acoemodated by calling at 58 South Center, in Duchesne. The office has been staffed to serve the people in that part of the county, and will be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.ni., Monday through Friday. Those applying for unemployment insurance, are asked to call at the office on Thursdays. McKay files re-electi- on to House In an announcement made last week in Ogden, Rep. Gunn McKay stated: I announce to you today that I am a candidate .for to the United States House of Representatives and commit to you I will continue to represent you the best way I know how. On behalf of my wife Donna and my family I express appreciation for your help and commitment in the past and look forward to vigorous campaign. Rep. Mckay, of Utahs First District, is .the senior member of Utahs . miles, broke her record resoundingly. She rode 103 miles and her sister, Susan, rode 72 miles. The pair have issued a challenge to other riders to ride farther to raise money to help retarded children. Floyd Hbrrocks, DCARC president, said Miss Lemon's record is an unofficial national record for a Bike-hik- meters Materials in some cases have doubled and some have tripled in cost in the past three years. now. TAlirryiiH clean-u- p The Duchesne Clean-u- p Committee met last week to draw up plans for this year's Clean-uWeek, set for May 13, through Saturday, May 20. A letter to city residents was prepared and included in the city water bill notices. The letter advised p citizens that the focus of this year program will be the Main Street area, including both business and private property, as well as the removal of abandoned vehicles from within the city limits. The letter also announced the continuation of last year's successful Improvement Awards competition. As in 1977, a plaque will be awarded to the owners of the business and private residence displaying the moat improvements at the end of Cleanup Week. Winners of last year's awards were Earl Fausett in the private category for removal of an old outbuilding and efforts and Gene general clean-uDavis, owner of Davis Garage, for general improvements to and painting of the structure. A new award will be included in the program for the first time this year. This third plaque will be presented at the end of May by the Clean-u- p Committee to show their appreciation to the group or individual volunteering the most time and effort to help make their program a success. Some area clubs have been contacted to assist in cleaning up the Duchesne Main Street (Highway 46) area and adjoining streets. The committee urges all residents to activities to target their clean-u- p begin on Kick-of- f day, May 13. According to committee members Kathy Harrison, Sherry Parker and Russell Cowan, the intent of the clean-ucommittee is to boost community pride by improving our outward appearance for ourselves and our seasonal visitors. The oemmiltee feels that this goal can be accomplished through the cooperation of all city residents, both privately and in civic groups and clubs, in efforts to bring property within the city limits up to ordinance p end of April hit 306 for the region, up 46 over the same time a year ago. Well completions in Utah are up also. So far 73 wells have been drilled compared to 56 during the same period in 1977. New wells scheduled include 24 in selected individual locations Uintah County by Gas Producing Enterprises, Inc., Belco Development Corp. Mapco Inc., Exxon Corp., CIG Exploration Co., and Flying Diamond the Natural Buttes, River Bend, Walker Hollow and Bluebell field area Oil corp. in p e. mini-moto- standards. collects the most in pledges in the The motorbike was donated by local merchatns. Second prize is a $25 savings bond, donated by Zion's First National Bank. The prizes will be awarded the first of June, following all Bike-hik- e events in the county. Duchesne dty administrator Kenneth Mitchell and the city council have pledged their full support to the e. The Bill Evans Seattle Dance Company will be in residence in Roosevelt Thursday (today) and will make a series of appearances in the schools and for the public, capped by a dance concert Friday at 8 p.m. at Union high school auditorium. The companys two-daresiliency in Roosevelt is sponsored by the Roosevelt Fine Arts Community Council through the Utah Rural Arts Consortium. They will begin their stay with a n at Todd Elementary school at 10 a.m. today and at 4 p.m. will conduct simultaneous workshops for school teachers and dancers. The workshop for educators, concentrating on teaching movement, will be held at the Union high school The masters class tor auditorium. dancers and gymnasts will be taught at the old Roosevlet elementary school gymnasium. Both classes will carry one hour of college credit through Utah State The future Homemakers of America at Union high school are sponsoring a Walk-a.Tho- n for the March of Dimes on Saturday, May 6. Participants are asked to meet at the high school parking lot at 9 a.m. n The route for the is from the Roosevelt Library to Neola and local CBers will be helping with Walk-a-Tho- y the project Area young people will be seeking sponsors to donate on the basis of miles walked. Those wishing to donate or to participate can get more 1 or information by calling lecture-demonstratio- 722-386- 722-247- in Roosevelt WS?. congressional delegation. He was sleeted to the House of Representatives in .1970 and is serving his fourth term He is a in Congress. member of the powerful House Appropriations Committee and in 1977 became the chairman of the Military Construction Subcommittee, the shortest tenured congressman then serving as chairman of a major committee or subcom- INS4 1 y ' .t - . mittee.' Rep. McKay holds additional subcommittee on the Interior Subcommittee, where he is the second ' ranking . " Demorcratic member, and the District of Columbia Shirley Jenkins, one of the dancers with the Bill Evans Dance Company, executes a leap during a performance. The professional modem dance troupe will appear in concert at 8 p.m. Friday at the Union high school auditorium after appearance in schools and giving workshops here Thursday. DANCE CONCERT CANDIDATE-Gu- nn Utah's Mckay, representative in . Congress, to seek on. : 1 The Building Inspector, Key begin conavaasing all within the dty limits week and the city following clean-u- p ordinance will be strictly enforced. A dty ordinance gives the city power to cause the removal or abatement of injurious and noxious weeds andor garbage, refuse or unsightly or deleterious objects or program. Stratton, property will University. The Friday night concert win spotlight a number of work choreographed by Mr. Evans and by company Gregg Lizenbery. Tickets are $2.60 for adults and $2 for students and can be purchased in advance at the Uintah Basin STAN- DARD or at the door. Mr. Evans, director of the dance company as well as Dance Theatre Seattle School and the Seattle Summer Institute of Dance, has been a ' recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship for choreography and a Choreographic Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts during the past two 'years. He has previously been swarded Choreographic Fellowship! from the - ' structures. The ordinance states that such weeds or trash are to be declared a nuisance when they create a fire hazard, a source of contamination or pollution of water, air or property, a danger to health, a breeding place or habitation for insects or rodents or other forms of life deleterious to human habitations, or are unsightly or deleterious to their surroundings. A new ordinance, passed in April, calls for the abatement of dangerous buildings in the community. Thao buildings are those determined to endanger the life, limb, health, morals, property, safety or welfare of the general public or their occupants. The ordinance empowers the dty to require that these buildings be repaired, rehabilitated, demolished or removed. Duchesne scouts plan family show Scout troop 268 of Duchesne wifi sponsor a special family L show on Saturday, May 13, at the Duchesne high school auditorium. The Lees, a family of nine, will perform at 7 p.m. A $1 donation is asked and the money will be used to boost the scout fund and to assist with the air conditioning system at the Duchesne LDS Stake Center, Tickets may be purchased from the Boy Scouts and Varsity Scouts from Troop 268 or from Mike Floyd at KoM'a, Duchesne Auto, First Security .... Bank and Zions First National Bank. For further information call 738-253- Dance company to give concert in Roosevelt Friday for March of Dimes Sat Walk-a-To- n 4, 1978 S Walk-a-tho- n This is the first 18-- May .SUHL Saturday, r Hie DCARC is offering a bike aa grand prize for the person who Bike-hik- ; May Drilling high, 24 more wells planned census. Carlton Stowe, minerals specialist, Utah Department of Natural Resources, says the count is four more than at this time a month ago. The active rotaries in Utah seem to be contributing heavily to the count of active rigs in the Rocky Mountian Region, where more work is being done than at any time since late 1959. The Hughes Tool count at the NUMBER j Q). We're short of pictures this week, and for that we apologize. But it wasn't that we didn't try. Lee Allred, who has gotten some tremendous pictures for us up Altamont way, sent in a roll of films of the track meet and other activities . . . and it was blank. We dont know why. Then our photographer covering the horse races came up with a big zip on his roll of film. It's going to be hard to win any photo awards on blank film. Active rotary rigs working in Utah hit a high level this week with 34 drilling wells in the state, according to the Hughes Tood Company latest I 66 SERVING ALL OP DUCHESNE COUNTY, PLUS WEST UINTAH COUNTY You Can't Win 'Em Alii Saturday Volunteers are being sought to walk for or ride bicycles in the retarded citizens which will be conducted Saturday, May 6, at Roosevelt, Duchesne and TaMona. Altamont's has been postponed untO Thursday, June 1. should have been an additional $2,000 per month because of the large meter on the high flow line was totally inoperative. He stated that the correct revenues from city water will increase the funds available to the city and when the final report is in from the water audit the city council will be asked to consider a reduction in the basic water rate. However, as city manager I would recommend against it, he said. It is too expensive to maintain water VOLUME National Endowment and other state and regional art agencies and his dances are in the active repertories of many professional ballet and modern this dance companies throughout country and Europe. He has performed and choreographed with the German Opera Ballet, the Ballet, the Atlanta Fairmount Dance Theatre in Cleveland, Harknesa House and the Utah Civic Ballet (now Ballet West) as well as dancing as a principal member of the Utah Repertory Dance Theatre for eight years. He has been on the dance faculty of the University of Utah, American Dance Festival Harvard University Dance Center, American University-Wol- f Trap Academy of Performing Arts and Virginia Tanners 8tudk of Creative Dance for Children. He is a movement specialist in the Arts Endowment's proArtist-in-schoo- ls gram.' ' Critics have greeted hie work him one of the gifted warmly, calling children of modern dance, and one of the beat choreographic forces to touch the whole American dance scene." The professional modern dance company will include six dancers, Mr. Evans, Mr. Lizenbery, Jim Coleman, Peggy Hackney, Regina DeCosse, Debbie Poulsen and Shirley Wiegman. Although the company has toured national in previous years, this was their first year as participants in the National Endowment for the Arts Dance Touring program. The tour, which began last August and concludes the end of May, took the troupe to 22 states from ain to California! and 88 communities from New York City to San Jose, Calif.. |