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Show B10 Wednesday, March 26, 2008 Vernal Express i 1 i i i ' 4 Utah to receive more MSHA training funds Utah will receive a $166,113 grant from the U.S. Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration as part of $8.2 million in health and safety training grants for fiscal year 2008. The grant package, which increased from $7.9 million in FY2007, includes funding not only for Utah but also for Colorado, $203,175; Montana, Mon-tana, $132,736; North Dakota, $56,532; South Dakota,$57,275; and Wyoming, $186,808. "These grants are part of MSHA's ongoing commitment to advance miner safety and health through funding training programs," pro-grams," said Richard E. Stickler, acting assistant secretary of Labor La-bor for Mine Safety and Health. "The mining community as a whole will benefit from enhanced skills and competency levels of our nation's miners." Grantees will use the funds to provide federally-mandated training to miners. The grants cover training and retraining of miners working at surface and underground coal, metal and nonmetal mines, including miners min-ers engaged in shell dredging or employed at surface stone, sand and gravel mining operations. Training grant funds are being be-ing awarded to 49 states and the Navajo Nation. States applied for the grants, which are administered adminis-tered by state mine inspectors' offices, state departments of labor, la-bor, and state-supported colleges and universities. Each grant recipient is expected ex-pected to tailor its program to its miners' individual needs and provides technical assistance. The grants are given to states upon receipt and approval of their applications. V' SUNSURST TLRRACH Two new floor plans now starting at only $144,950 100 Financing!! No closing costs!! 6 Fixed rate 30 year loan!! Why rent? Monthly payments from only $1,000!! Open Monday - Friday - and Saturday 10 - 4 ! 4-Ftirnished-Models- Family Oriented Community 3 Parks with Playground 9 Floorplans to Choose From Quick Delivery Available 3-4 Bedrooms 2 Full Baths 2 Car Garage Landscaped Lot Directions to Sales Center and Model Homes: From Main Street (Hwy 40), go South on 500 West approximately 2 miles, then turn left into Sunburst Terrace. rate in effect as of 032108 and subject to market change. APR equals 6.25 Photography contest deadline extended to April 11 Sponsored by Vernal Express & Inkley's After the huge success of their last photography pho-tography contest, the Vernal Express and Inkley's staff announced a wintertime photography contest for Basin residents. "This gives our neighbors here in the Basin time to pull out their favorite wintertime photographs and show them off," stated publisher, Kevin Ashby."I am amazed of the quality of photographs pho-tographs that everyone around here take and this gives us an opportunity to showcase some of these as a newspaper." The contest is a little different this time. The newspaper will not only accept 8x10 inch prints, but will also welcome digital pictures from those who don't want to go to the expense of making mak-ing prints for the contest. All photographs need to have a wintertime theme and taken locally, in the basin, between the months of November and March of whatever year they were taken. There will be three categories - sports or activities, scenery, and wildlife. Over $300 worth of equipment and gift certificates will be given to all first place winners and other prizes to those who place and receive honorable mentions. Deadline for the contest will be April 1 1 with a limit of five entries per person. Photos can be emailed to the Vernal Express office at kashbyvernal.com or they can be brought in to the office located at 54 North Vernal Ver-nal Avenue, Vernal. Po(o(yD (Suite) 3l Cam it be done? It's ALREADY being dome! The Price field office of the Bureau of Land Management is currently taking public comments on its draft Environmental Impact Statement for the West Tavaputs Plateau Natural Gas Full Field Development proposal. Increasing production of natural gas resources in Carbon County is helping keep Utah's residential natural gas costs lower than any other state in the lower 48, no small consideration where 80 of the homes are heated with natural gas (the highest percentage in America). In a state where nearly a third of its population is at or below the U.S. poverty line, keeping energy costs low equates to real dollars in family budgets. With half the gas consumed in Utah today coming from wells drilled in the last two years, any interruption will have immediate effects on prices. In these recessionary times, what sense does that make? Yet there are those who say that the company's prospects for continuing to operate can only come at the expense of damage to cultural artifacts found along the Civil War era Nine Mile Canyon Road. This is a false choice. Development of badly needed energy supplies and protection of local heritage are not mutually exclusive ideals. FACT: Bill Barrett Corporation has spent $2 million along 9 Mile Canyon Road to protect artifacts through a cultural resource inventory and avoidance, along with improving the road's safety and dust suppression. FACT: The project has already generated millions of dollars for state and local coffers through royalties and taxes. FACT: Emotions tend to result in poor decisions. Learn the facts about the West Tavaputs Natural Gas Full Field Development proposal (and the extensive protection measures proposed for cultural artifacts) at http:www.blm.govutstenfopriceenergyOiLGas.html. Dill Darrctt Corporation |
