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Show 2 Vernal Express Friday, January 6, 1984 Vernal officers graduate from Police Academy rf-- v ti, Stoneman assumes pastoral duties Pastor Herbert Stoneman recently was called to serve the First Baptist Church, 2100 West Highway 40 in Vernal, Ver-nal, as the Senior Pastor. He comes to Vernal from Grand Junction, Colo, where he served as an Associate Pastor of Central Baptist Church. There have been several in-terum in-terum pastors at First Baptist Church since the former pastor Howard Porter resigned in August. Stoneman began his official duties at the Church on Jan. 1. Pastor Stoneman is 43 and lives with his wife Jeanette and daughter Melissa in the parsonage. Melissa is a ninth grader and will attend Vernal Junior High. The Stonemans also have two other children. Their daughter Melodie, owns the Christian Women's Aerobic Center in Grand Junction and lives there with her husband Kevin Van Gundy. Their son Dennis is a sophomore at Grand Canyon College in Phoenix, Ariz. Stoneman pastored churches in Arizona for 15 years prior to moving to Grand Junction. His under graduate work was done at Grand Canyon College. Col-lege. Hobbies and special interests in- - ' M J I J ; ii , , - j , t I I . . j I i . " .mm. - . , ; , t , J . i x? x- n wr t j9mfKSKz. ssstrJ!i iWI ,f t NAPLES CITY recorder Marlene Stidham swears in City Council members and the Mayor. From left to right they are: Glen Fleener, Larris Hun Council members take The Naples City Council members back money in their next quarterly were sworn into office at the first check some time in March, meeting of 1984 on Wednesday. council members also voted to Four-year members of the council adopt a new fee schedule for the include: Larris Hunting, Glen Fleener building department. Marlene and Dennis Judd. Two-year term Stidham, the city recorder, explained members include: Donna Merrell and that previously there wasn't a fee Lynn McCarrell. Mayor Lawrence charge for the services listed below. Kay also took the oath of office. fee schedule is as follows: A A new redevelopment agency was conditional use permit will cost $25. A also formed. Members of the agency conditional use permit allows a corn-include corn-include all the city council members mercial business to function in a except for Dennis Judd. Other residential area. On such a permit members of the council include Elouise there are usually restrictions and a Turner and Lawrence Kay. Mr. Kay time period attached to the permit, is the non-voting chairman of the Board of Adjustment fee will group and only votes on issues in the cost 5. 7 Board acts as a hearing case of a tie. board for disputes between citizens In other business at the meeting the and the building inspector. The board council was able to resolve some of the can override a ruling of the inspector, problems they have had in collecting street sign repiacement will cost sales tax that is due to the city. $110 ms fee is based not only on Last year some of the sales tax was cost of the new sign but also on the cost improperly allocated to the county and of the pole and for the labor involved to Vernal City, therefore Naples did to install the sign, not receive all their allocated tax A rezone permit wm cost $210 A money. Naples should receive the rezone changes a residential ,.r area to a commercial area or vice ver- lfArVldl rV 1)1000 higher for the rezone is because of the f V 1 1 1 d I LA K I C a cost of mailing notices to citizens who (USPS 6580-8000) Published every Wednesday ond Friday for $14.00 per year in area and $20.00 per year out of area by the Vernal Express Publishing Company, 54 North Vernal Avenue, Vernal, Utah 84078. Second class postage paid at Ver- POSTMASTER: Send address changes to VER- NAL EXPRESS, P.O. Box 1010, Vernal, Utah 84078. Jack R. Wallis Editor and Publisher Steven R. Wallis News Editor Troci Menke Asst. News Editor Aldon Rachele Sports Editor JaneenCook Women's News Joyce Williams Advertising Phone 789-35 1 1 Member of Utah Press Association ond National Newspaper Association . , , Area correspondents: Juen7 " VeBro.Snew' Mon 0 f'oron Robrn'7flo1?S Naples Ada Openshaw, 789-3145 Tridell Lorno McKee, 247-2350 lapoint Paulo Huber, 247-2425 Maeser ..... Eloise Allen Parker, 789-2178 Ballord Tracy Phillips, 7Z2-4V.3 Whiterocks . . .Virginia rerguson, J5J-43B4 Glines Norma Damon, 789-1302 Ouray, Leota, Rondk...Sheila Bloxhom, 545-2327 ) LAlAL Pastor Stoneman elude athletics (particularly basketball) basket-ball) and music. When asked about his goals for First Baptist, he said "priority number one is growth accomplished by living and loving just as Jesus did, sacrifically." Stoneman said he would like to invite area residents to get involved in that life style at First Baptist. I I I . f I f- 111111 fllflT -T III 1 'W vl I SIVfllWIWI f . I tor DiioT s release Sen. Orrin G. Hatch said Wednesday that he is thankful that Lt. Robert O. Goodman Jr. was released from cap- tivity by the Syrians. Tne utah RepubHcan sent a telegram to the Rev. Jesse Jackson congratulating him on his success in freeing the U. S. Flier. Hatch said "It doesn't matter where you stand politically you have to be thankful Lt. Goodman is home." "I am grateful that President Assad honored Jackson's reauest " Kev" JacKson s request. m IfJUgm J fV ti Two officers from the Vernal City Police Department have fecently graduated from the Police Academy in Salt Lake City. Ryan Judd and Rick Hawkins , graduated from the academy on Dec. 23, 1983. Judge Mike Hutchinson of the 5th District Court was the keynote speaker at the 24th commencement exercise held at the Utah Police Academy. Both officers have been with the department for less than a year and will be eligable for certification about completion of their field training according ac-cording to Lt. Mike Hamner. Judd was hired on Sept 19, 1983 and Hawkins was , hired on July 6, 1983. Hamner explained that the police officers of-ficers begin their training prior to going go-ing to the academy and if there is any time left of the 12 week training period they must complete it. He said that after completing the training and attending at-tending the academy the officers are released to work on their own. Ryan Judd and his wife Leslie live in Vernal with their two children Sarah and Dane. Rick Hawkins and his wife Kathy also live in Vernal and have two sons. ting, Lawrence Kay, Donna Merrell, Dennis Judd and Lynn McCarrell. They were sworn into office on Jan. 4, at the city building. oath will be affected by the rezone permit. The permit for home occupation will cost $15 for under $10,000 of gross income in-come and will cost $30 for over $10,000 gross income. The city decided to charge a fee for these services because of the costs to the city for advertising the changes through public notices and because of mailing costs involved. Craig Blout, city building inspector,' said that the post office has complained complain-ed that the mail carriers are having trouble delivering the mail because they can't get close enough to the mailboxes. mail-boxes. Blout said that the city has been unable to plow close to the mailboxes because residents have been parking their vehicles in the streets. The city decided to place notices on cars parked on the street after a snow fall warning them that they have a certain cer-tain number of hours in which to move their vehicle so the snow plaws can get through. If residents fail to comply with the notices and move their vehicles, the city will tow their vehicles away. Naples also received the contract for the grant to purchase approximately 20 fire hydrants and fire equipment. In the telegram to Jackson, Hatch praised the U.S. soliders deployed in the Middle East, saying "they are performing per-forming an outstanding job in trying to restore peace in Lebanon. We are proud of them all and pray that no more will be subjected to the ordeal of Lt. Goodman." Hatch also sent a welcome home telegram to Lt. Goodman, and said he hoped that President Assad's action "is a sign the Syrians are ready to help end the conflict" in Lebanon through negotiations. (KEEPS pILINy I Jipjg (PEOPLE AINT $t)rWim GONNA NEED A fc-APDEfc ON THE fe "TO SHOVBU IT OFF Unemployment rises in Uintah County Unemployment in the Basin Area for the month of December is up slightly slight-ly from what it was in November. The unemployment rate in November was 7.7 and rose to 7.9 percent per-cent in December. The rate can be broken down for each county. Uintah County increased by one point going from 6.8 percent in November to 7.8 percent in December. Duchesne County's unemployment decreased slightly from 9.1 percent in November to 8.0 percent in December. Daggett County also showed a decrease, going from 7.2 percent in November to 5 percent in December. The state unemployment rate remained re-mained the same for December with Fund... Continued from page 1 gested thaf Superintendent Ellis develop a policy with district staff input in-put using the recommendations of the commmunity council as an outline. The staff recommendation will be presented at the next board meeting. The school board didn't have the same problems approving another policy for the districts purchase of vehicles. The board approved the first reading of a policy which will rotate the district purchase of vehicles among local dealers. Ted Taylor, transportation and maintenance supervisor, said that he had met with all the local car dealers and they like the program. In the past the district has awarded vehicle purchase pur-chase to the lowest bidder. The policy will be presented for final approval at the next board meeting. NEWS ITEMS call your Hometown Newspaper Vernal Express 789-3511 ARE PROUD TO PRESENT Jimericris morMiss Emphaxix on Excellence TO OET, 6.4 percent. The lowest unemployment rate in the state was in Rich County with 1.9 percent unemployment. The highest rate was in Grand County with 14.3 percent. According to Larris Hunting with Utah Job Service in Vernal, one reason for the increase in unemployment in Uintah County was because of the seasonal construction layoffs. He said while oil field employment is up slightly slight-ly it was not enough to offset the layoffs. Hunting said he does not expect the unemployment rate in the area to increase in-crease as drastically as it did last year. He didn't expect toe rate to go over nine percent this year. Smith... continued from page , Division of the Wildlife Resources Administration. Ad-ministration. During that time she worked mainly as an administrative assistant but was also responsible for all contracts in the office. Her duties as justice will include handling class B and C misdemeanors and infractions. For example she will handle DUI cases and traffic violations. The justice position is a part-time one and the amount of judicial hours and clerical hours required to fill the position depends on the case load of the individual city. Attorneys for the law firm do not feel that Mrs. Smith appointment as justice will conflict with her duties to the firm. Mrs. Smith said that because the firm is the procecuting body for Duchesne County, they do not handle defense cases which is what Mrs. Smith will handle as a justice. Mrs. Smith says she regards the appointment ap-pointment as a challenging position that she is looking forward to. She said that one of her main objectives as a justice will be to be fair and consistent in handling cases before the court. and 7w m m v m I Jul I I Ill mm Vernal Jr. Miss Scholarship Pageant January 14, 1984 7:30 p.m. Uintah High School auditorium Groups to meet for Upper Stillwater Dam Officials from Tyger Construction Co. of Spartanburg, S. C, the Bureau of Reclamation and representatives of the Ashley National Forest will meet Jan. 11 in Duchesne to discuss construction con-struction plans for the $62 million Upper Up-per Stillwater Dam. The dam will be built on Duchesne District of Ashley National Forest 40 miles northwest of Duchesne in Rock Creek Canyon. Contractors said they will begin set-up operations soon with actual construction to begin in the spring. The 2,700 foot long 275 foot high structure concrete gravity dam is the first of its kind to be built as a Bureau of Reclamation project. 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