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Show By Bountiful City Council Store's beer license suspended months at two of three local stores. "It looks like a cover-up or a sham to me," he said. "We were very lenient le-nient with Hardy's at the last hearing.' hear-ing.' Attorney George Diumenti, representing rep-resenting Four Star and Hardy's, fired back at Gramoll that it wasn't a cover-up at all, that nothing could be farther from the truth. "The action ac-tion to form a corporation happened months before the violation in question. ques-tion. This corporation was formed for financial purposes not to avoid Bountiful sanctions. It was part of an ownership change in three states." Councilman C. Harold Sh after withdrew his first motion to suspend sus-pend the beer license for 30 days and made a new motion to compromise com-promise on the situation and table any action until the next council meeting, the first Wednesday in February. The motion unanimously carried. Circle K, at 500 S. and 500 West, had its hearing cancelled, as the store has gone out of business. By PAUL CHALLIS BOUNTIFUL A Winegar's convenience store Class A beer license was suspended Wednesday for 30 days by the Bountiful City Council for selling alcoholic beverages to a minor. The Winegar's at 900 North and 400 East received the license suspension following a public hearing. hear-ing. Store employees had been caught twice selling beer to under-aged under-aged persons during three quarterly checks by decoy police employees, authorities said. Winegar's could have had its , license permanently revoked. ; Bountiful City Prosecutor Russell Mahan told the council that the two buys were on July 9 and Dec. 10 at the convenience store. The third attempt to purchase beer was made on Sept 10., when no buy transpired. Bountiful City's ordinance or-dinance calls for a suspension hearing hear-ing if two of three checks to purchase pur-chase beer are successful by teenage teen-age decoys. Mahan sent a letter to Winegar's owner Rocky Winegar on Dec. 28 asking him to appear at the hearing to show cause on the alleged violation. viola-tion. In other action, the council tabled for Hardy Enterprise until Feb. 6 its hearing before die council to show cause for selling beer to a minor at the 390 N. 500 West store. On Jan. 1, all three Hardy's stores in Bountiful Boun-tiful became the property of Four Star Enterprises. Mahan recommended recom-mended to the council that since the store was under new ownership and Four Star had applied for a new beer license at the same location at the first of the year, the offense of selling beer to a minor should be dropped. ' 1 ' "The penalty would have been 30 days for Hardy's and it has nearly near-ly been that long any way. I don't feel we would have legal ground to deal with it any other way," Mahan Mahan added that city officials and the police department had checked into the ownership change and came to the conclusion that papers to form the corporation had been started in August and Hardy's wasn't trying to dodge the alleged beer license violation by changing ownership. Councilman Robert Gramoll said it appeared that Hardy's was trying to get away without any reprimand for the violation, the second in three |