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Show 2 Vernal Erprm Wednesday, August 29, 1990 HOLD REAL STI LL ANO THEY WILL TU1MK YOUR A SIMULATOR ByJockWallis J&'XXv Labor Day Weekend The Labor Day weekend holiday is the last chance for many to climax the summer fun with a trip in the great outdoors or a visit with relatives and friends. But according to the Utah Safety Council, this last weekend holiday may result in seven vehicle fatalities. Last year, nine people died in Utah traffic crashes during dur-ing the 6:00 p.m. Friday to 11:59 p.m. Monday period. In an effort to help prevent motor vehicle accidents the Safety Council has offered several driving tips. First on the list is, don't drink and drive. Second is, don't speed. Allow plenty of travel time, it's better to arrive late than not at all Everyone wearing a safety belt is the next safety tip. Proper vehicle maintenance, recognizing driver fatigue fa-tigue and conditions that require reduced speed and extra ex-tra caution are important safety musts. Another Labor Day problem is its impact on land use. According to the Take Pride in Utah Committee, the Labor Day holiday means an onslaught of thousands thou-sands of land users, some of whom are not always as careful or conscientious as they should be about using public and private lands. Federal and state land managers claim there is no way they can keep up with the land use demand. One official states, 'There is no way we can do it on our own. We are under-staffed, under-funded, and facing a critical moral dilemma on how to meet the needs of the public, and still preserve the land. We have to get help from the public. Otherwise, the outdoors will be spoiled for everyone." Government officials say every year they depend more heavily on volunteer groups to help them clean and care for public and private lands. One of the newest, and most comprehensive volunteer volun-teer programs is the Take Pride in Utah campaign. This campaign is a partnership between state and federal land managers, aimed at improving outdoor ethics in Utah. A statewide list of holiday trouble spots has been compiled by the Take Pride committee. Information, contact people and the scope of the problem in our area can be obtained by calling 1-575-PRIDE. Traditionally, Labor Day was first instituted ?s a day Americans stopped working to give thanks for the opportunity op-portunity of having a job. Now it seems it is the time of the year to get in one more last fling before summer is over. Labor Day is a time to salute those who provide the jobs and those who perform their jobs well. But regardless of how we use the weekend, we hope that safety and wise use of public and private lands are observed. 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, if not libelous or vindictive. Letters will not be accepted over two (2) typed written double spaced pages. 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 letters are subject to condensation. Letters to the Editor express the opinion of the writer and are not necessarily the opinion of the Vernal Express or its staff. Care center Dear Editor: : One thing is certain and that is anytime a person tries to verify any county expense the commissioners, administrative assistant and other county employees will try every way to thwart your effort A case in point is the Uintah Care Center located at 510 South 500 West. This care center was built several years ago. The land according accord-ing to the auditor cost $90,000.00 and the building cost us $1238,629.70 with equipment extra. ex-tra. Now the auditor lists 57 employees employ-ees in the institution. However, when one tries to get an authentic report on the gross wages we come up with Five workers with a blank space on what should be the gross wages. Now the balance sheet for the prior seven months ending July 31, 1990 shows an operating loss of $115,023.57. This is a startling figure fig-ure when past years income and expenses ex-penses break almost even. In fact, last year if you eliminate depreciation, deprecia-tion, the care center showed a slight income over expenses. I wonder just why the auditor failed to come up with the gross wages of Gloria Beaks, Branda DUxlgctt, Tami I lather, Lorina Hodgkinson, Milinda Price and Cheryl Toney? Gloria Beaks is listed list-ed as a nurse assistant and so is Brcnda Blodgctt. While Tami I hither is listed as a nurse aid. Now Lorina Ikxhjkinson is listed as a registered nurse and so is Milinda JTicc. Cheryl Toney is listed as a nurse assistant. Bui there arc other problems that surface, Namely that wme of the people on the Care Center Board fJmuU be cxcuvJ due to a conflict of intercut No Dr. Prcintcnbach U a medical director receiving monthly month-ly payment fYf his KTvicca consequently conse-quently he sJundd noi he on a board overseeing ihc institution. Doctor Vernal Express pSSU 0652-1031) fo N-rn-xi t t: r i to " Nnr"Tj - 4"irt fa-m r4 1:1 r yot 0 wf i t-f f v ! p.A t,!"V l ;' M.t' rf . r vi . t -W . , 5 'V -m i. I " t ft e r twt - M 5t.- Spendlove likewise does medical work for the care center and his relative rel-ative Bryan Spendlove does the care center's dental services. These are only two I have singled out. However, if you look at the other consultants, you will find more conflicting con-flicting interests. The ' consultants are Dr. Breitenbach, Marlyn Ulmcr, Dave Emmitt, Vernal Drug, Bryan Spendlove, Mary Ann Murray, Martha Ham, Barbara Steenburg, Gene Marie Anderson and Helen Stevens. You can judge for yourself the merits of these consultants. The basic fact is the care center has had to draw upon the enterprise fund from day one to break even. Last year, I understand, they drew upon the fund to make up the depreciation depre-ciation even though cash receipts exceeded cash expenses. All other county buildings are not charged with depreciation. Nor is the explanation expla-nation that the care center was set up to make a profit sufficient You will note that Ardcn Stewart set up the jail complex to make a profit and we don't charge the tax payer taxes for its depreciation. Another disquictning note is the claim that the center has $183,(XX100 accounts receivables. Now we have been using the cash receipts and cash expenses accounting account-ing system. In that system receivables receiv-ables only show when they arc collected. col-lected. It wc drop back to the accrual accru-al system, wc would have a whole new system of bookkeeping. The basic fact is wc need a more accurate accounting of all cash receipts re-ceipts for the care center. Wc might aj.k what was the care center board doing when these accounts receivables receiv-ables accumulated? What is the Care center doing w collect these receivables? receiv-ables? Ju-4 how many of the listed receivables are bad debts? What was our medical records bookkeeper bookkeep-er and the ether txKskkeepas doing to let such a pile up of reccival les? With care centers all over the country representing an excellent investment just hy Can't Pur torn-mittioncn torn-mittioncn and the tare Center hoard iron put the hif.t and at least make the institution bte.ik even. Thu U erne facet of tuif county tu-.iw5i.Tney have f tied bureau on top of bureau and if they tt?rct a pn'Mcm. they hcc the prnMem by creating a new com mi v. ion. The ft li every problem that the care tenter fe bz Ucn aired by pie be fe the tomffir-utnciv Mini of them pn'Mrmt ctc dan to their attention three vtah 6r N't iVy pi aay jf f give t!e in t!iiij!!i aay. Whsl c wed i a tart tenter i;h smkri c ?e pou of a:-. ) an in-.iiiution tun m a ra--i hftc Ifn-y tan make a prcfit. AH of t'r f: pf'4'kmi y inw:d exit )ihmjt f?irg ihc fnuiiijtji-a Wl MIU,K.VMI By Stvn Wollli Expmi Nwt Editor Sportsmen Dear Editor, Most of us call ourselves sportsmen, sports-men, but some of us use hunting tactics that would embarrass a coyote. coy-ote. If hunting in Utah is to have a future, this must end. Anti-hunting groups wno wouia, u tney nave Qnce again, another story about their, way, stop you from hunting din0saurs and Dinosaurland. anything, are using dirty hunting by f ., sportsmen to justify their request to T one comes from Trailer stop hunting entirely. Alsoour deer fer one of the largest magazines herd is showing signs of such abuse "."S with travel jailers. The artt- all over the state. clc in .the September issue of the magazine describes the efforts of Book Cliff Sportsmen Group mc writerf William H. Bocklage, wants to reduce waste of our game fin, and his wife. Jeanne, to make a animals by encouraging sportsmen 24-day trip across the West interest-to interest-to organize and resist those who inff for mc;r ifj-vcar-old crandson. O ? Dinosaurs: once more OUR TOWN would leave unretrieved animals in the field. All too often hunters kill and then decide they don't want what they shot, so they just leave it to feed the magpies. To us, this is unacceptable. Our group will be actively ac-tively engaged in gathering information infor-mation on such people. We believe we must remove such people from our hunting area by Beau. The article, entitled "Closing the generation gap, a grand trailer tour of the West is a memorable experience experi-ence and a wonderful way to forge family tics," contends that travel and dinosaurs go well together. Like most youngsters Beau finds dinosaurs to be interesting. Terms iHpn.;r;n an cr, ihm such as diplodocus and ar- luvou. Mitt uuu vjvvuutit uiviilt it rf L We ask the hunting public's help in chacoptcryx easily roll off his this endeavor. Please re-examine tnSuc' your hunting methods and encour- "Dinosaur National Monument, age those around you to do the which straddles the Colorado-Utah same. Wc must all become caring and ethical sportsman if our sport it to survive border, had to be one of our destinations," destina-tions," Bocklage said. To make the trip more interesting, the Bocklages wrapped presents which their grandson could unwrap at various times during the trip. One of the presents was a kit stcgosaurus skeleton. "One day we drove into nearby Vernal, Utah , to view the exhibits at Dinosaur Natural History State Museum, notable specially for its Dinosaur Garden, which contains impressive, life-size representations of a variety of dinosaurs," Bocklage states. "We spent another day with other tourists on a rubber raft ride throuRh the four rapids of the Green River in the monument. For Beau, the raft ride counted as one of the highlights of his trip, what with a riverside stop for a picnic lunch, a briskly refreshing re-freshing dousing and the peaceful progression through the awesome chasms the river has carved." Although Dinosaur Monument only received a couple of paragraphs para-graphs in the three page article, all the pictures are of Dinosaur Monument and Dinosaur Museum. "Jeanne and I could not have been more pleased with the results of the trip, which ranks among our most memorable," concludes the article. "We grew closer to Beau and enjoyed en-joyed each other's company to the fullest" I cannot count the times I have been through Dinosaur Monument and Dinosaur Museum. It brings out the kid in everyone. That is why it is always exciting to take someone through who has never been there. One of the exciting things that is quietly taking place at the gardens is the raising of funding to build the world's largest dinosaur at Dinosaur Gardens. The project is a big one, but like the effort of bringing all the other dinosaurs to Vernal it will be well worth it and it is sure to impress im-press the grandkids. J.C. BREWER Western Park Dear Editor. The Uintah County Commissioners are in the process of approving the expenditure of $500,000 for additional scaling for the old rodeo grounds. This is nm grant money. They will use your county tax dollars. The wly event thai hat had a School finances Dear Editor, Concerned citizens of Uintah County, I am sure many of you have had the opportunity to look at the "report card" for the Uintah County School District; put out lo inform wc, the people of the progress of our district However, it looked more like a political poster for the school board. The scholarships, for example, did list the private companies compa-nies and, or the individuals that did, in fact, give tlicm but did not recognize recog-nize the student iliat received them. The gfaphs were ambiguous and very misleading regarding the SAT test. Uintah w below the national problem with the number of seats x,m, f y0tt examine the whole available is the Dinosaur Roundup frpnfi C4,4 W3, a flip j K3vC jt riH iivrs . ih j u a i.u.t iwu 80 ' accomplishments, that being holding hold-ing the yearbooks until the last day of school: not allowing time for the students and friends to sign them. How many limes have you, the parents, par-ents, looked at and laughed at the signatures in your yearbooks? I has-c. many limes. Is there a reason for this new rule? Oh, this board has many accomplishments accom-plishments that should and will be reviewed by both the citizens and, I am sure, the Attorney General's Office, because they arc servants of the people. Our present board accomplished anotlier first by completely turning llieir b-vks on the siudcrl body hen a young man presented a proposal pro-posal to change the dress code. I have never heard a more factual presentation in my life, nor more informative. in-formative. Yet the board did not have the courtesy to give this young man and his fellow students an answer. an-swer. The board went into closed session unul 1 1 p.m. and the young man waited. No response. And, as the Attorney General's Office said in their opinion on the recreational funds, while the board did not violate the letter of the law, clearly they did violate the intent of the law. You notice, I have referred to the present board because wc, the people, peo-ple, now have the opportunity to remove re-move these members: Campbell, Taylor and Snow. Get out and vote or wc arc in trouble with more of the same. R O B !'. RT H KN V I C K of money to spend for only three nights of use each year. The commissioners have Bf.ted to spend the money if the DKR i!l enter into a non binding aj-rremcnU Once the seating U built, DKR i free to juy th.it it no longer anu U) follow the agreement In tuhange U the SMn.rmo, DKR i!l do.tatc we third cf ' pnjfitt to the county instead of paying pay-ing a user fee rjual to ten pen en l ff total sa!ri, Tl tmjnty oti!d M'-dy end up i!h lei money i:h (hu agreement than if it treated t)RR the-wme the-wme a' all rthel groups iWiit are no giiarafiVr d. t'ii'R ha tv vhnn large pufit. in the. fa-t. n. a tAinsltwrn -i-njl.f uAan tre a k'. The Ouniy Cfvmmi;-.K"tii m 9'e r i tire in 1 f'h f they appro v thu rnrni tV: ay it is tu'rcnily n!tf n. t'a'l the tmty ti-Trim';:;i.n.;f I t il tV"i )ry trii to tV prr- dw nvnt i'.'t t'f t)rtKj,f f-(Hjn.!,;p '.! r-f't it is tii y.p. 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