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Show On Kane Spring Road Bullets fly, residents protest -The commission agreed to pay $10,496 in indigent health care bills presented by Gloria Taylor of the Valley View Medical Center. -The commission approved an ordinance requiring that water supply and waste water disposal systems be approved by the Southwest Health District before a building permit can be issued by the county. -Commissioners discussed jobs in the county such as cleaning up the courthouse grounds and patching the Lund Highway, which workers through the BLM Youth Program could be hired for this summer. The funding for the program is available through the federal . government's Youth Conservation Corps. -Marilyn Perry was appointed to the county's Parks and Recreation Committee. "We'd like to have a little law enforcement en-forcement out there. It's a serious thing to me personally when bullets are coming through my yard shoulder high," stated a Parowan Valley resident who asked not to be identified. His description of the destructive evening shooting on Coal Spring Rd. during warm weather was supported by three other residents of the area who prefer to remain anonymous. The residents presented their complaints to the Iron County Commission last Wed. Personal property including irrigation sprinklers and county road signs have been damaged on the road but the main concern in the discussion centered on the safety of the people living there. "Those bullets have been so close that I could hear them go by and they are both large and small caliber," continued the concerned resident. He said that the situation had been reported to the sheriff's office last summer, but all of the residents were reluctant to say that they would sign a complaint. Commissioners Dee Cowan and Grant Seaman assured the men that the sheriff's office would patrol the area more heavily and that the problem would be brought under control. ' Leonard Norman and several other residents of the Fifetown subdivision in Cedar Valley, requested that the county help them to improve their roads. "We have the possibility of getting gravel if we had a way to get it on the roads," stated Noman who said that he thought that the residents in the area would be willing to pay fuel costs for any county equipment used to upgrade the roads. "This was an illegal subdivision but the statute of limitations has run out. We can't make the developer improve the roads but the county does not have title to the roads. The county has a problem spending money on roads which it does not own," state County Attorney James Shumate. Shumate and the commissioners felt that a cooperative agreement between the residents and the county might be worked out. They will hold a meeting at the subdivision on May 8 at 7 p.m. Other Business -The commission approved payment of $10,800 for the county's share of a newly constructed metal building to be used as a fire station in Paragonah. |