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Show Pace 2 - September 26. 1995 Editorial Uintah Basin Standard Everyone has a Right to be Safe Utah Attorney General Jan Graham is a strong advocate for protection of children from physical and sexual abuse. That advocacy carries into her commitment to victims of family violence. Thats a good thing, because victims of domestic violence need more people on their side. Many of us have succumbed to myths of domestic violence that keep us from getting involved. Here are some examples. Myth: Violence within a family is a private matter. Reality: Its a crime. Myth: Its the victims fault for provoking anger. Reality: Victims dont cause violence, perpetrators of violence do. Myth: The victim else would must not mind the violence-w- hy often remain in Victims they stay? Reality: an abusive relationship because of fear (for themselves or family members), economic dependency, or lack of someone to help. Myth: Battering is caused by an inability to express anger or handle stress. Reality: Though domestic violence is related to anger, studies indicate that anger is not the cause of the violence; rather, the violence is an attempt to control and dominate. There are many more myths, and many suffering people because those myths are allowed to continue. The fact is, domestic violence is an insidious crime against the individual victim, but its, also a crime against society. The fabric of a moral community is in jeopardy when its citizens turn their heads in the face of domestic violence. Yet its also true that violence within a family is often kept hidden by family members themselves, even frequently the victims. How can we stop this plague if we only suspect a problem? How can we take action without stepping too far into other peoples private lives? How can we con EDITOR'S NOTE: The Uintah Basin Standard and welcomes encourages opinions from readers int he form of letters to the editor. Letters may be utilized to express opinions or comments, to highlight outstanding service individual of an or organization, or any other worthwhile purpose. Letters may not'be used to replace Cards of Thanks, or to list sponsors, participants or contributors to a particular event or purpose. LETTERS MUST CONTAIN 400 WORDS OR LESS. BE TYPED OR WRITTEN LEGIBLY, SIGNED, AND INCLUDE NAME, ADDRESS AND PHONE NUMBER OF THE AUTHOR. Letters will be published unless they contain libelous or defamatory statements. We reserve the right to withould a name by request if the nature of the letter is positive, and to edit letters. Letters may be submitted to the Standard office at 268 S. 200 E., 84066 by the Roosevelt, Utah, deadline published (normally Thursdays at 3:00 p.m.) All letters become property of the Uintah Basin Standard. Huntingtons Disease Support Group vince victims that they must get away from the situation, before irreversible violence is committed? .. . Showthatyoucare. Askquestions. Dont be afraid to ask what happened when some- one you care about has unexplained injuries. Remember that abusive behavior destroys families and destroys lives, and nothing you do to stop it will be worse than continued violence. Whether you are a victim or a family member, friend or teacher of a victim,, you can call the police when you know someone has been battered. Calling the police will not send someone to jail, but it can begin the r process of ending the violence. After all, the perpetrator needs help too. Victims of domestic violence can also gain protection or immediate assistance at a shelter or safehouse. (The nearest one in the Basin is the Vernal Womens Crisis Center, 0 or a battered phone also male can get help there.) A statewide phone number puts referrals for counseling, shelter and other services a mere phone call away; that phone number is Counseling and treatment for abusers can be reached at the same number. Attorney General Graham has developed a public awareness program called Safe at Home. The one-hoprogram can be presented anywhere, in any work place or setting, and is aimed at helping all Utahns understand the need to be involved. For or information, call . 781-425- . 790-756- 4; residents for warm welcome (754-3752- (225-786- 1) (292-1276- Con Amore school thanks those who helped with By Lezlee E. Whiting Rooeevelt City officials eay they with the terms outlined in new fire protection agreement drafted fay Duchesne County, but still have questions which need answered before they will sign the document Ife been over a year since the county and dtiee nave had an official fire protection service agreement in piece. County commissioners have spent the poet few months working on a uniform contract outlining this amount they will pay to cities and firefighters PRODUCTION: OBSERVE THE Writers; Karla Cox, Aldon Radicle, and Cheryl Mecham. Production; Colette Ashby, Bonnie Parrish. Robin Taylor, Michelle Roberts, Kaelyn Meyers WARNING SIGNS. CORRESPONDENTS: Subscription Rates: In the Uintah Basin - J I I : - or Check ' Shoahoni using Browns Park as a Zip4 only, Sony No Charges T) , " the mild winters in Browns Park, cattle drives sought shelter there. Ranchers and homesteaders eventually settled into the quiet valley. Visitors today can see many remains of old log cabins, corrals, and wagon roads. By the turn of the century, Jarvie Ranch had replaced old Sort Davy Crockett as the economic and social center of the Browns Park . successful in obtaining these urgently needed ffands to improve this chronically road." The $5,333,888 in federal from the funding was allocat under-maintain- . Park-a-hide-o- ut . fire-relat- Uintah Co. man arrested in sexual assault y - j J ' state-of-the-- 26-ye- ar If you have chest pain lasting two minutes or more, see a doctor. American Heart Association . . 36-ye- ar Yr. $20 2 Yr. $32 I Out of the Uintah Basin I 2 Yr. $52 I 1 Yr. $32 1 Name. Address. I. City d panning the river bed. It is called Indian Crossing. The Indiana were to have constructed across the river fay placing on winter ice. A shallow trail was the result after the stones sunk in the Spring thaw. Browns Park served as a contact point between native tribes and mountain men fur traders. It became an important rendezvous visited by Mexican, location, French, English, and American traders. By 1837, Fort Davy Crockett was being operated as an important trading depot. The remains of the old fort were di Beavered a few years ago along the Green River, just across the state line in Colorado. Many colorful characters of the early west were associated with the fort, including Kit Carson, who sms employed as a hunter to keep the traders in provisions. The fur trade, however, was in decline at this titati arid Tty 1844,'Fort DavV jsnd thef' The cattle ranching eri rise to what many people remember most about Browns for notorious Department of Transportation's outlaws. Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch heieted banka, (DOT) Public Lende Highway Fundi. The project will be a dynamited railroad care, and continuation of the 1992 and 1994 rustled cattle. Browns Park folks recall him as being a "Robin Hood" prqjecta in Wasatch and Duchesna Counties. Construction has of the rid West; taking from the included grading to improve the rich and redistributing to poor horizontal and vertical alignment local homesteaders. One of the mysteries along the widening the travelled way and placing culverts to improve river is the rock saloon legend. drainage. In 1994, the Utah Only the foundation of the saloon remains today on the south river Deportment of bonk. So the story goes, the rock (UDOT) identified Pass Road ae their highest priority saloon had gun slita instead of for the use of Utah's enure of windows eo that a gun could aa&ly Public Lendl Highway Fundi. be fired within. Another murder by "Not only will this funding Jesse Ewing supposedly happened improve travel between the Uintah there in a dispute over a card Bakin end the Wasatch Front but game, end the victim buried it will also improve access to the1 nearby. The complete story of the Uintah National Forest for rock saloon will probably never be hunting, camping, and fishing known. Visitors come away from a while also providing better accese who respond to blazea to grazing lands, timber harvest Green River trip with a sense of areas. unincorporated sites, and energy development personal discovery. As an ongoing Rooeevelt (Sty had maintained Bureau of Land the county wasn't paying their fair areas," Orton continued. "Again, it effort, the continues to interpret rural to Management see is Utah encouraging hare when it came to the patchwork Browne Park foir share receive of its public their boundaries within expenses for the increasing visitors. and had sought a new agreement lands highway ffanding," Orton history A river float or a nearby canyon Uity administrator Bred stated. hike is an adventure with the Hancock eayi the fire protection colorful lore of the area. Boating agreement currently under and camping along tin river gives consideration plecee tne county costs to their doee todays visitors the same sense of paying "fairly discovery that the John Wesley on a per run bane," but dty Powell expedition had ' over a council members eay they want century ago. more information before Most boaters use dories or rafts committing to the contract. They instructed fire chief Robert Yack to on the river. However, canoeists meet with county emergency find a safe, but exhilarating float management director, Georg through several riffles from Bridge Hollow Campground to the Lower Adams, to discuss their concerns. Rooeevelt City officials would Swallow Canyon take out ramp. like to see a "escape clause" The Bureau of Lend Uintah County man was A included in the agreement to arrested Management manages 21 primitive Roosevelt by City police from the 'Little Hole coincide on on annuel beria with 23, outside of a campsites Sunday, Boat Launch to the Colorado State budgets. They also went payment Roosevelt Sept apartment complex and line. Most, of these campsites for future equipment acquisitions with a first degree count of contain iron fin charged with payment addressed, along rings, picnic consideration for fin rune which aggravated sexual assault , tables, and tent pads end are The old suspect was accessible only by boat. In are cancelled. Rooeevelt also wants to bo eure a service area "head arraigned in 8th District Court addition, there era two developed count" for which they will be Monday. He was arrested without campgrounds with boat rampe that will accommodate trailers, nidge reimbursed by the county on the incident after the victim approached basis of population is accurate. some neighbors and asked than to Hollow Campground has been ' to pay call the recently upgraded and Indian police. Rooeevelt per fire run into to chief Cedi Croering Campground is currently According police being brought up to unincorporated areas. They had Gurr, it appears the old previously paid $250 per run. They victim may have been acquainted ; standards. The BLM is currently will also pay firefighters $6 per with her constructing a riverside trail alleged attackfcr. for hikers end fishermen, hour for all fine in the county, was A more adventurous hikers, where they had previously paid $6 however weapon victim recovered, the was not nearby West Cold biaxes only. Springs per hour on wildland in the wounded assault Wilderness Study Arse offers back be also will compensated Firemen is held the in The two suspect bring country challenges end by the county for attending Duchesne County jaiL outstanding vistas of Browne Park. training meetings each month. 30-da- ALTAMONT -- ; BLUEBELL - Shana Lee ROOSEVELT - Tresa Haimston 722-251- 8; 7; LAPOINT- - Mariene McClure HANNA - Tracy Roberts Loeitscher 454-397- 6; 247-237- 5; MYTON -- : TRIDELL - Loma McKee MONTWELL - Note Nelson 353-454247-235- 0; WHITEROCKS - Virginia Ferguson 353-458- 4; NEOLA - Zola Spencer 353-452- 8; DUCHESNE - Orinda Gee 738-263- 4. . still exist But theres much more to see and do in this interesting area. The Green River in Browns Perk has been the hub of some of Utahs most fascinating historical activity. The Bureau of Land Management has been recording local traditions in order to interpret them to the general nublic. Browns Perk in Utah is a 11 mile long, mountain-rimmevalley where the Green River meanders between low hills. Browns Perk, formerly called "Browns Hole", probably got its name from an early French fur Trader. This isolated mountain valley was a favorite winter retreat and rendezvous for mountain men during the early 1800s fur trade. Long before,' several Indian Fire agreement concerns to be discussed with county era pleased Second Class pottage paid at Rooieveluiid Duchesne, Utah (USPS 646-90Published weekly at 268 S. 200 E, Roosevelt, Utah 84066-310- 9 POSTMASTER: Send address changes to the Uintah Basin Standard at 268 S. 200 E, Roosevelt. Utah 84066-- 3 109 OFFICE HOURS: 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Monday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Tuesday thro Friday. Fax: 722-41Phone DEADLINES: For all News. Legal Notices, Classifieds A Advertising, the Deadline is Thursday at 5 p.m. EDITOR: Lezlee E Whiting PUBLISHER: Craig Ashby OFFICE MANAGER: Tracy Womack ADVERTISING: Craig Ashby Uintah Basin Standard 268 S. 200 E. Roosevelt, Utah 84066-310- 9 One of Utahs best kept secrets is the historic Browns Park Green (D-U- - from Jarvie ifiEdui a diagonal. straight L., . River recreation Orton announces funding for Wolf Creek Pass Road Newcomer thanks winter enhances Green BLM . Fishing Day Clip and Send to: . River from the little Hale boat launch below Flaming Gog Dam, to the Colorado state line. This quiet section of the river is managed by the Bureau of Land Management in Vemal.Over the last few yean the Bureau has been upgrading campsites and boat ramj and building back country trails. You can intervene without being consid- .The focus of public interest ered a nosey neighbor or family member. along this stretch or river has long been the old Jarvie Ranch Historic You may be someones only hope. And Site. The Bureau of Land Management has reconstructed everyone has a right to be safe. this important pioneer community. The ranch contains a general storepost office, waterwheel, ferry identified the Huntingtons Disease demonstrated at the third annual undershotblacksmith landing, shop, and Con Amor Fishing day, we era (HD) gene. At the 1994 convention , Duildings associated with we learned that Ve are not our very eucceesffal as a community .Tt other outlaw trail history. Four original HD we are not families, can not thank you enough nor tell disability, structures, each over a century old, we an families affected by HD you what it means to Con Amore not "AT RISK", we an students to spend a day with their "AT RISK" or sons and special buddies. I am particularly, of people with HD, we thankful to our sponsors. are not HD patients, we are Without the support of the patients with HD." We are people Uintah Basin, it would not be first That there is help out there possible to provide this special and that were not alone and that event! ' John Osborne being together can be one of the most important things we can do. Con Amore Principal j Rep. Bill Orton The Utah Huntingtons Disease announced today that the Federal Awareness Groups quarterly Highway Administration (FHwA) meeting will be held in the Weber awarded a $5,333,888 contract has County Library, 2464 Jefferson for the improvement of Wolf Creek (take 24th off ramp) Ogden Utah, Pass (State Route 35). The project 1:00 p.m. October 21st 1996.- Dr. consists of grading, drainage, and Karen Christenson, Child asphalt suturing an the 9 miles of Physiologist will be the main Dear Editor. Wolf Creek Pass that connects speaker. Anyone interested in HD I would like to take this Woodland and Hanna. is invited to attend. For (farther Orton initiated his effort opportunity to thank the town of to Rep. ), information call Clara Goudy secure this round iff federal In Roosevelt making familys my or Shauna Ewing 1st year here very warm and funding in 1994. "The ). Jim Stringfellow wonderful. improvements planned for this Thank Yi road will improve access to the look forward to sharing the I Merla Uintah National Forest, promote with others like you happiness tourism and provide for a vastly shared with us. improved link between the Uintah Thanks Again, Basin and the Wasatch Front, The Lagerquist family Orton said. "I am excited that we Uintah Basin Standard Inc. . ; ur Dear Editor. Dear Editor, It is said that it takes a After nearly 10 of effort a community to raise a child. Based team of scientists by Dr. on the outpouring of love and James Gusella has successfully support tne Uintah Basin . . art |