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Show 2 Stmt Exfrttt WfrWaov, April 22, PUBLIC FORUM LETTERS TO THE EDITOR What is your opinion? The Express welcomes letters from its readers concerning any subject pertinent to the Uintah Basin. There are no restrictions as to contents, it not libelous or vindictive vindic-tive and of reasonable length. Letters must be submitted exclusively to the Express and bear the writer's full name, signature, phone number and address. The name or names of those submitting letters must appear on all published letters. All tetters are subject to condensation. Cart before the horse Dear Editor: In reading the paper this week, I noticed that the school board seems bent on getting the cart before the horse; they have eliminated two posi- tions without any provision to fill the vacancy they themselves created. It also seems as if they have been ill advised. As a former elected official, I know they violated the open meetings act. It is permissible to have closed meetings only if no final binding decision deci-sion has been made and this is not the case here. Two of the board members were totally unaware of the decision which means there either had to be a meeting they were excluded from or all the facts were not given to them. This is illegal and leaves the others in a position of being sued. Under the law as passed in 1979, any elected official may be sued individually and as a body if they violate the trust of the public, accept any gifts leading to favortism, or are guilty of malfeasance in office, or collusion. Somewhere in this mess there is a lawsuit law-suit if anyone truly wants to pursue it, but it would be a much greater public service to just have the board operate within the law and within the rules of ethics. Board President Morrill is childish if he thinks someone should just step up and take over such a job out of the goodness of their heart. He must be kidding; here is a position worthy of paying a man $25,000 a year and he wants it done for nothing. The board members that were against this action should be commended com-mended for their stand. They didn't say no, they just said it was not the time and it needed studying. The rest may need recalling or at least close looking after. HAROLD N. CREGG Welcome vets Dear Editor: Every year I enjoy VernaVs parades. But every year Vernal honors the police, the firemen and everyone else. But Vernal has yet to welcome all the vets home from the wars. I Uiink we should honor the vets from WWII, Vietnam, Korea, and other wars. 1 think it is time. It is way past lime that we should welcome these wonderful wonder-ful men and women home and tell them thanks for a job well done. So let's welcome them home uith open arms and open minds and hearts. RODNEY WIT11EE Vernal Express t-M4 t w4-ut lSU&S r ft r tf -f V i f V I if I fti0 lm t i ! Sr J M 0 !W p. l. c i - " S -r - ri -71 a A J. THSSfOtMC ( l Vfrna! K'f M bpm J Dtnaftnd I Advrtlsr Recreation Dear Editor: In the last month, the Women's Softball Soft-ball Association has been on the city council agenda to discuss the upcom- ing season. Needless to say, we have not had any success or satisfaction and as concerned players and citizens, we would like to know why? We tried going go-ing through the proper channels and now would like to voice our results. The two meetings were scheduled at 12:30p.m. at the high school where the council members were eating school lunch as they discussed and conducted the meeting. The. women representatives represen-tatives in attendance felt the council (in between bites) were rude and had their minds made up before the meeting even started. The issue involved centers around the fact that the recreational budget cannot pay for any part of the lights, water or maintenance of the softball fields. Last year, 1986, the softball association (men, women, and church) paid approximately $8,200 for the use of the lights on the four diamonds. The cost of the lights were approximately $7,800. We would like to know where the difference between the two figures was applied. This year 1987, the city refuses to allow ANY funding towards our soft-ball soft-ball association. They say that there is no money in the recreational fund. The council stated if we were willing to pay for the lights, approximately $7,800, the water, approximately $3,900, and a maintenance fee of ap- proximately $5,330, then we could play as we ha vein the years past (under the lights) . . We would like to know where the money for maintenance goes? It seems to us that the city pays a salary to these people and then also wants to charge us for it again. Are we being asked to pay for the job of maintenance twice? At the council meeting on April 15, Heidi Morris asked ask-ed council members what would become of the diamonds and surrounding surroun-ding grounds if all men, women and children refused to play? Major Sam Snyder said that we, the women, should do as he did when he was young. Find a field, get four rocks (for bases we assume) and play there. The question was never properly answered. With the facilities that we have in Vernal being as they are, w hy should we have to resort to playing prehistoric baseball? It doesn't seem fair that we are asked to take off from work to go to a meeting in the middle of the day to fight for our rights to play softball on a complex that we as taxpayers tax-payers helped pay for. Not only are we writing as concerned concern-ed softball players, but as concerned taxpayers andcitiicns. If there is no money in the recreational fund then what are we paying a mrcatinnal director for? In the first place all liMttue officer!, men, women and childrm, lo all their own scheduling, finding of empires, finding of scorckerpers Md collecting of ( to turn over to the city. The sponsor fee at one t.me covered the cost of the soft-ball. soft-ball. twt now c buy iur n. We fan Mtn rr a mm that the city thut4 pay Kimif-it. to be j director that dK-n't gd involved in or f r the rights of the j-'ple he t rrj-forntirg. A jiin4'.kr-i-r i in tKnrt' of mainu.'ning the i.t ' U, not thcd.iw Inr. WTial f(r 4? Anjt a mi?!h SctpJi ?b radii). l!r d.fnrlor a Ml- lr ' A the M.n up frr He Pi)f 1 , itrTnroly rte ..Tl.easr IHfifvf t the fa-be tfaik-fl ft-.M him lof vp t!.e ftk'o ii !. Ju t V. ne tt! W h C;f the Irt'-K- IliP f rt$ttp tf k . ' irv. I fr,i::it r kpn " toby Ut ' - he do" t 'r1 rM 1- V m v:vji,:l mr tKl t pfmi.M g fT'" for. m . "tr-'i fcfcai h( J-i;r-i a A J-.t t-- n Vcr nal tiff SECRET WITNESS 789-8888 New ATV regulations enforced All ATV's or off-road vehicles (OHV's) are required to be registered for off road use. This includes in-cludes all three-wheelers, four-wheelers, four-wheelers, dirt bikes and other vehicles used strictly for off-road riding. If a machine is street-legal and is registered for the street then it can also be used off-road without being be-ing registered as an off-road machine. This OHV registration law has been in effect since 1971. The new law that is effective on April 22, 1987, requires that every OHV be registered, not only when being be-ing operated, but also when being transported. This means that an OHV owner can be cited not only when operating an unregistered OHV but also when transporting an unregistered one. The old law stated that the OHV user needed to be observed operating a non-registered OHV before a citation could be issued. This new registration law will allow law enforcement officers the ability to better enforce the registration registra-tion requirements. According to the OHV manufactures, manufac-tures, there are approximately 36,000 snowmobiles and 186,000 three-wheelers three-wheelers and four-wheelers in the state. Motor vehicles currently registers approximately 12,800 snowmobiles and 15,000 OHV's an- nually ; therefore, only a small percentage of users are helping to fund the OHV program. Another new regualation that was passed this spring and comes in effect ef-fect on the 22nd is the OHV helmet law. Many serious injuries and fatalities could have been avoided if the OHV user was wearing the proper safety equipment. The new law will require all OHV users under the age of 18 to wear a helmet unless they are operating an off -road machine that has a roll cage and seat belts. Another administrator contract not renewed , Unofficially, another ministrator in the Uintah ad-School ad-School District has been "let go." The contract of Dixie Allen, director direc-tor of elementary education, will not be renewed when it ends July 1. Mrs. Allen was informed last Tuesday that her contract would be terminated because "teachers and principals have lost confidence in the administrators ad-ministrators of the school district," she was told. In the first four months of office, the new Uintah School Board has eliminated the positions of or fiird five district administrators. Mrs. Allen said she was offered a poible teaching position in the district. The position of elementary director ha not been eliminated but will be awumed by Aclirg Superintendent Grant Drolltirr, Mrs, Allen laid ihe wailold, TclXGS. fct!rfuu ry tb cwhtjf ur trrvsni lhalt'-ulify. 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They are the grandchildren to Joseph Dodds whose father Captain Pardon Dodds was Ashley Valley's first permanent resident. Cap. Dodds homesteaded the first tract of ground and built the first cabin in the valley. He helped formulate for-mulate and lay out the area's first town, Post Office and county seat, Ashley. Mrs. Webster along with her parents, Marion and Lois Dodds Hall and her grandfather Joseph Dodds make their homes on the original homestead laid out by Capt. Dodds in 1873. The painting hangs on the north wall of the Post Office. THE VOICE OF BUSINESS Remember Archduke hy Hit hard I.. I.rbrr4 Jrrldrnl ("hambrr of t'omrtirrre lif t Ub t rilled Mlr In 114. 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ARTIST CAROL Webster stands by her painting of Freedom which hangs on the north wall of the Vernal Post Otlice. Webster is a part-time employee at the Post Office. "The Post Office needed a painting and she did an excellent job," said Lloyd Lemon, Vernal Post Office. Mrs. Webster said that it took her a lrtf tn aoiiiif: an rxMlatmnul the lf4 dif.putc. In irews. the t'S r. tiflH tttitice.t t J.fl biJlmn Wotlh f an4 wnkr, An outbreak 4 .;ti!n( iiri!,;-.!n tm.! 1 tlrtfy nnllnn ol join in thi rwmtry snd cut Amrtu sti" fTl i.". f t y 14 M jTffrtit. r $7.95 Portrait Special Vernal April 15 while to get the different ideas together. It took her about a year to do the painting. Ferdinand! Hsrfc were ever a tune lor iii!ji;il Ir.nicr on luih m!i f the I'aeifii In d-iitimtr.iie wiine c'l. thii it V.rii"t,- pa i4ntl !htfith)Hi W !. lint -tn : II lt I-, !! Ihe ltU!:!)f ftjiiiVrt'i til i. llie t MV 1)1,1- 1937 |