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Show T fid JULY7-HJ cik-q PtfSl g COW CUTTERS NEW SIGN on the east side of Vernal which promotes the Dinosaur Roundup Rodeo is allowing room for other community events to tag along on the bottom. The Elks Cow Cutter's event is the first to do so. Events wanting to be placed on the billboard should contact the Vernal Chamber of Commerce. I ' i -1 ft ill. s'cyr I" ' ' ' ' i f j :s : "'T - "' REAPPOINTED TO three year terms on the Uintah Water Conservancy District Board of Trustees are Barbara Lube and Dave Murray. New board member is Irvin Haw, left. Murray was also appointed board president and Lube was appointed first vice president. Minolta Maxxum 2xi 35mm SLR Body! mSP jf i I I I PROmaster 28-70mm Auto Focus Power VJ '.i-glT'T. Jir IJ'-- -j-r' ns! MIN07 ' HlSB MlMlli 0)(0) (595f Wtl flHf Sjf De-Vo-Ko N , yyl l t I lnterior $"999 Jinziili ""tjiiidh Interior f -f fir Vb I Latex Flat Gal ejS Jje-Vo-Kg Exterior $4 4 99 Minolta Maxxum 2xi features Include: Minolta 2x1 j? 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I " 'Multi-Segment Metering 'Auto Backlight AUtO rOCUS ffy' COMPLETE KITI WHlWH.W.f u!f J tl ;A KIT INCLUDES: ;Auto Wind . rm 'Camera "Case Film C 5 Gal. J n : fl QQ Rra, ' V Camera wRemote. Case Built-in Flash VftMiWfflp 'Lithium Battery X j'fafc s N 5 Gal- 'Lithium Battery "5-Year Warranty ; DX Coded vS&jVf 3 Year Warranly! . ' r . JL ral . WELCOME N.C.H.A. AKKIk iw 141 N. Vernal Ave, 789-8297 Celebrities to perform at Elks Cow Cuttin' Mr. Ed Ames of 'The Ames Brothers" singing group, is among the celebrities participating in this weekend's Vernal Elks World Champion Cow Cuttin' Competition. The celebrity cow cutting event is Saturday, April 17, at noon at the Western Park in Vernal. The regular cutting event will take place Friday, April 16, and Saturday, April 17, from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Western Park. Mr. Ames, born in 1927, started his singing career as a child. His successful recording career spanned the 1960s and 1970s, and his country coun-try albums included such hits as "Cool Water" and "Riders in the Sky." ( Mr. Ames was also a regular on the Daniel Boone television series. Since then, he has appeared as a special guest on several television programs, including "Murder She Wrote" and "Heat of the Night." Mr. Ames has also performed on Broadway in "The Man of LaMancha," 'Tiddler on the Roof," as well as many other Broadway productions. Mr. Ames owns a horse ranch in Coalville, Utah. Other celebrities participating Saturday include: Bob Evans, KUTV-Channel 2 anchor, Nancy Hobbs, Salt Lake Tribune reporter, Judy Fayhs, Salt Lake Tribune government gov-ernment reporter and Katie Clayton, Deseret News travel reporter. City Police calls increase Vernal City Police responded to 1,306 incidents over a three week period as the number of calls for service continues to increase. Of the incidents reported during the three weeks, March 23 to April 12, there were 61 arrests. Incidents which required police attention were four abandoned vehicles, vehi-cles, 14 ambulance assists, four attempted at-tempted burglaries, 17 bank escorts, es-corts, two business burglaries, two reported child neglects, 114 citizen requests for assistance, 12 civil problems, 16 criminal mischiefs, 19 criminal trespass, four cruelty to Vernal kv;-x -v w 1 ( -, 4 ' Ml' CENTRAL ELEMENTARY Student Council members watch as Mayor Leonard Heeney proclaims Vernal Arbor Day. Members of the council are Spencer Strode, Aaron Sharp, Amber Rasmussen, Dorothy Hatch, John Coyle, Janessa Petty and Brian Rust. Other members are Katherine Shakespeare, Jennifer Shakespeare and Crystal Wilkerson. Arbor Day Members of the Central Elementary Student Council presented pre-sented a proclamation to Mayor Leonard Heeney to designate April 30 as Arbor Day in Vernal. Mayor Heeney signed the proclamation procla-mation after the Vernal City Council approved it April 7. Planned activities for Arbor Day include tree planting, a poster contest con-test and Arbor Day play. Central school was awarded a $40 certificate from the state of Utah Department of Forestry for entering the state poster contest Posters animals, eight disorderly conducts, four dog bites, 29 dog nuisances, 6 DUIs, 19 calls for extra patrol or welfare check, 16 family fights, four felony thefts, 10 fire department assists, as-sists, 107 follow-up investigations, one forcible sexual abuse, eight funeral fu-neral escorts, four gas thefts, one hit and run, 12 intoxication, 18 keep the peace, 7 misdemeanors, 7 neigh Fl ft ; proclaimed by Mayor were designed by students in the school and winners were awarded tree books and tree seeds. The Central Student Council will be presenting "It's Arbor Day Charlie Brown" for the students of Central. Arbor Day originates from Nebraska. A visit to the state wouldn't disclose that it was once a treeless plain. The lack of trees in that state led to the founding of Arbor Day in the 1800s. Among pioneers moving into the Nebraska Territory in 1854 was J. borhood disputes, 20 noise disturbances, distur-bances, 8 public relations, four reckless reck-less driving, 6 residential burglary, 7 retail theft, 9 simple assaults, five spouse abuse, 55 stranded motorists, 55 stray cats or dogs, 77 suspicious personsvehicles or incidents, four telephone harassment and 252 traffic traf-fic offenses resulting in a warning or citation. um irs ivoTii Vernal Express Wednesday, April 14. 1993 13 j yUj WORTH JENSEN, 50-year resident of Vernal, holds strange looking carrot he planted last spring. Jensen covers his carrots with 6 inches inch-es of mulch so he can pick them year-round. Sterling Morton from Detroit He and his wife were lovers of nature, and the home they established in Nebraska was quickly planted with trees, shrubs and flowers. Morton was a journalist and soon became editor of Nebraska's first newspaper. He spread agricultural information and his enthusiasm for trees to an equally enthusiastic audience. audi-ence. Morton advocated tree planting by individuals in his articles and editorials, edito-rials, and also encouraged civic organizations or-ganizations and groups to join in. His prominence in the area increased, in-creased, and he became secretary of Nebraska Territory, which provided another opportunity to stress the value of trees. January 4, 1972 Morton first proposed pro-posed a tree-planting holiday to be called "Arbor Day" at a meeting of the State Board of Agriculture. The date was set for April 10, 1972. Prizes were offered to counties and ' individuals for planting properly the largest number of trees on that day. More than one million trees were planted in Nebraska on the first Arbor Day. bok:g nie:iT! |