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Show ?xw$$w- -y1, vcv --'.w v--' . r- Wednesday, Moy 2, 1984 Vemfll ExpfSSS Search and Rescue Patrol rummage sale Saturday TENN .TOPICS 3C The Uintah County Search and Rescue Unit will conduct their annual rummage sale May 5, at the search and rescue building, beginning at 9 a.m. and concluding at approximately approximate-ly 3 p.m. Numerous new and used items have K en donated for the sale by local businesses and residents. Some of the items donated include: refrigerators, stoves, washers and dryers, numerous pieces of furniture, beds and bed springs, televisions, small kitchen appliances ap-pliances and items of clothing ranging from swimming suits to three piece suits. One of the highlights of the sale will include an auction of new items donated by local businesses at 11 a.m. Auctioneer for the sale will be Woody Searle of Vernal. New items that are to be auctioned off include rubber rafts, tents, CB radios and other miscellaneous items. The money raised from the sale is used to maintain the Search and Rescue Unit, which is solely self supporting. sup-porting. The 33 men in the unit volunteer their time and vehicles, and in many cases provide the fuel for their vehicles when called out. This year, the money raised will be used towards the purchase of mountain moun-tain climbing, scuba, radio and first-aid first-aid equipment. Last year's sale netted just over $8,000 for the unit and members hope that this year's turnout goes as well. All donations to the unit either in the form of cash or saleable items are tax deductible. Anyone wishing to donate items may contact the sheriff's office at 789-2511. Fifteen thousand students at junior high and high schools throughout the country have been able to learn something about the fun, fitness and recreation recre-ation in the sport of tennis at a special school assembly program pro-gram sponsored by the nation's leading tennis organization. MEMBERS OF the Missionary Landmark Church spent Saturday cleaning lots surrounding the grounds of the church. Pictured here are Sue Hamerick (foreground), Sue Watts, Pastor Herbert Watts (behind Sue Watts) and Joyce Williams (background). By Doug Oavis J Residents begin task of cleaning up With the onset of cleanup week April 28, several area residents began the tedious tasks of cleaning their yards, garages and surrounding properties. Members of the Landmark Missionary Mis-sionary Baptist Church began the day of the 28th by cleaning the lots adjacent adja-cent to and behind the church grounds. , Several pounds of trash was collected from the areas where houses stand, but remain unoccupied. It took the group of four approximately approx-imately two hours to clean the two lots and they're waiting for permission from the owner of the remaining lot to clean it as well. Vernal City had four trucks on the south side of Main Street to pick up large articles that needed to be hauled haul-ed away. The trucks will be on the north side of Main Street to pick up articles ar-ticles when cleanup week officially ends May 5. Junk car bodies can be hauled away free of charge by local junk yards. Residents are encouraged to have their trash sacked or bundles for crews by 8 a.m. Saturday. The trucks will begin hauling away the trash at that time. Naples residents can take their bundles or bagged trash to the Naples Elementary School Saturday. City trucks will haul away trash for most of the day. Several area residents are also taking tak-ing advantage of the free use of the landfill, which will continue until Saturday. Lester Ellsworth, a watchman wat-chman at the landfill, reports that usage tripled on Saturday the 28th, and was about double that of normal use on Sunday and Monday of this week. Residents using the landfill are being be-ing requested to take their trash to the back of the landfill where it is being covered on a daily basis. Ellsworth also said that there have been less cases of violations of the landfill's use. "The people coming here are doing a real good job of dumping their trash correctly and not violating ordinances," or-dinances," said Ellsworth. Although cleanup week officially ends May 5, members of the committee commit-tee feel that the efforts to clean up should not be taken lightly and residents should continue the project throughout the entire year. General authority at Vernal Stake 'c'dififence' Visiting General Authority Yoshihiko Kikuchi, member of the first Quorum of Seventy, presided over the Vernal Utah Stake Conference held on April 28 and 29 at the Ashley Stake Center. Stake President, Mac W. Holmes conduced the Sunday session of the conference. A special choir organized for the production of "Zion" furnished the special music for the conference. The choir was conducted by Enola Montgomery and Jamie Weeks accompanied on the piano. The business of the conference "was conducted by Wade H. Slaugh, second counselor in the Stake Presidency. Janet Newbolt was released from the Stake Primary Board. Christine Thomas, Shari Calder and Judy Brighton were appointed to the Stake Primary Board. Leslie Hina Turner was appointed to the Stake Young Women's Board. Those advanced in the priesthood were Douglas G. Cook to High Priest, John W. Luthi to Seventy, Richard A. Carncs and John W. Luthi, Jr., to Elders. The first speaker was President Mac W. Holmes who spoke on the sacrcdness of the home. He stated that the home should be a place where beautiful and fond memories are made. He also said for a home to be sacred, everything of an evil nature must be eliminated. Kathy Laris, Stake Young Women's President, was the next speaker and she spoke of her desire to be of service, She spoke of the value of the home teachers and her parents and grand-mother grand-mother in her life. She challenged all members to be anxiously engaged in Hillman 's Bookkeeping & Tux Service "(hvr 3.1 yvnn rxpvrifttct: " Bookkeeping Timely Financial Statements Payroll & Payroll taxes All Types of Business Tax Reports All Personal Income Taxes l.mv ati;n 7M-Q976 12H7 If ", ISO So. vrnal, t tnh the work of the Lord and not hang back waiting to be told what to do. President Wade H. Slaugh was the next speaker. He spoke of the need for committed home teachers. He quoted from the Docturine and Covenants Section 84, Verses 33 and 34 on the oath and covenant of the priesthood. He said before we could realize all of our Father's blessings, we must faithfully faithful-ly discharge our obligations. Byron Merrell, first counselor in the Stake Presidency, was the next speaker. President Merrell spoke on ' the filth that fills the earth in the form of pornography, R-rated movies and degrading music. He said this filth weakens and destroys the fibers of eteranal life. He said we must remove this disaster from our homes and communities. com-munities. He said there are many places we can turn for help to strengthen us for this fight with evil. This help can come from home teachers, the bishop and from study of the scriptures. Elder Kikuchi took the remainder of the time. He called the wife of the stake president, Marion Holmes, to bear her testimony and also Sharalyn Slaugh to bear her testimony. He spoke of the payment of tithes, for the members to beware of overspending and said it was important to live within our means. He urged husbands to love and honor their wives and wives to love and sustain their husbands. He asked the young people of the church to listen to the counsel of their parents. A Saturday evening session was held with Ashley Stake. Speakers for this session were Stake Presidents, Mac W. Holmes and Nyle Bigelow. Patty Stewart was a speaker and the special choir furnished the numbers for this session. Elder Kikuchi was the concluding con-cluding speaker. The latest weapon against arson. Vernal City . Program Everyone's hitting the road these days. Hank Williams Jr., whose recent performance on the USS Constellation was taped for Showtime, is going to the Far East, Australia, Japan and Hawaii during May. The Bellamy Brothers are looking forward to this month's trip to Saudi Arabia where they will have little time to rest up before leaving for a tour of Ireland Ire-land in June. The Whites will soon embark on a government sponsored goodwill tour of Africa. Along with Dobro player play-er Jerry Douglas and drummer Neil Worf, Buck White will travel to Bangladesh, Bangla-desh, Tunisia, Oman and Qatar while entertaining citizens citi-zens and government officials. Before Douglas takes off for Africa he will be honored by Frets Magazine as "Best Dobro Player of 1983." This is the third consecutive year Douglas has earned this honor. The Whites have been cleaning clean-ing up the awards, too. They recently became the 59th act to be inducted into the Grand Old Opry. This honor followed a "Cashbox Magazine" award for tf.e No. 1 country vocal group for singles and albums. .Tie group has also just finished fin-ished filming a Ronnie Milsap special for Multimedia with Ray Charles, Gladys Knight and The Pips, Leon Russell, Jan-ie Jan-ie Fricke, and Bobby Jones and New Life. T.G. Sheppard has been doing his share of benefits, too. He headlined one recently for the National Kidney Foun- Li The show, the United States Tennis Association (USTA) High School Assembly As-sembly Program, proceeds with a series of demonstrations involving in-volving one or more students, faculty and administrative volunteers, vol-unteers, each proving that tennis ten-nis is a game almost anyone can enjoy. In the process, the audience audi-ence is introduced to a number of key tennis terms and concepts, con-cepts, all in the context of an entertaining variety show. The USTA has been supporting support-ing the growth of tennis as a means of recreation and physical physi-cal fitness for over 100 years. It considers the USTA High School Assembly Program to be one of the most successful projects proj-ects it has ever run. For more information, write USTA High School Assembly Program, USTA Education and Research Center, 729 Alexander Alex-ander Road, Princeton, NJ 08540. Hank Williams Jr. dation at the Opryland Hotel. T.G. along with Eddie Rabbitt and Janie Fricke hosted the New Faces Show at the Country Coun-try Radio Broadcasters Seminar. Semi-nar. The show was taped at the Opryland Hotel for future television broadcast and featured fea-tured Bandana, who performed per-formed its upcoming single "Better Our Hearts Should Bend Than Break." This is Bandana's premiere effort with producer Jim Ed Norman. What does an 8-year-old aspiring country singer from Oklahoma have in common with an established country star"? In the case of Danny Cooksey, the newest addition to the NBC hit sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes," and Johnny John-ny Lee, lots. Lee discovered Cooksey, who's been singing professionally since the ripe old age of 6, and has since added him to his billing with many other country greats. 1984 Com pulog Hello, Good Buys: WTwth you'r tn ttw I mrfc to buy or taJl cat. I houM, cycto, a boat, nttquM, houaahotd Itama . . . planning a garaga aata . . . ranting an apwrtmanl . you nava lo gat . 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He now serves in both the public and private sectors in such positions as: Chairman of the Utah Board of Regents, the f!overninn body of higher education Chairman of the Salt Like Airport Authority and Member of the Utah Air Travel Commission Co-Chairman of the Public and Higher Education Liaison Committee Member of the Board of Directors, lntermounrain I lealth Cire Chairman of the Utah Symphony Annual Giving Committee; Member of the Symphony Executive Committee; and Member of the Utah 0xt,i Company Board of Trustees Member of the Utah EJucation Reform Steering Gimmittec. General Partner of a major Utah firm which has completed multi-million multi-million dollar projects providing thousands of jobs for Utah. In these positions and others, Gardner has been instrumental in airport expansion, bringing clean new industries to Utah, providing jobs, initiating educational reforms and much more. Gardner is Utah's Kind of Governor Utah's next governor must be the kind of progressive leader wlv will build upon the tradition of excellence established by the Gil Rampton and Scott Matheson adntinistratioas. Gardner is a moderate who has attracted broad support from the business, education and cultural communities among others. Gardner is not a professional politician. I le is a self made, sutccvful businessman who has demonstrated the management skills nicv..iry to administer Utah's $2.5 billion budget. Gardner supports more money for teachcr-but only coupled with educational educa-tional reforms that affect teachers, students and parents alike, I le says. "VC'e need not be the most taxed to be the best educated," Gardner grew up in rural Oavis Gmntv, one of nine children of a school teacher father. I le is mamcd to the former Carolyn Barries. They have six children and reside in Salt Lake County. Kem umed K A. and J.D. degrees from the University of Utah. Kem -j yerchier for governor for Further Information Please Call 1-522- tVnH.tat. ,1 |