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For his act, the juvenile gunman "suffered" a two-week suspension from school, the same consequence meted out for possession of tobacco. In addition, Juvenile Court sentenced sen-tenced the unnamed young man to one week of community service and one year of probation. The Uffords do not believe justice has been served, nor do they feel an appropriate message has been sent to other young people in the community. com-munity. "Two weeks off as a naughty boy isn't enough," said Kathy Ufford. "We need stricter controls. Serious consequences should follow a serious seri-ous incident" Ufford suggested the board make a policy of mandatory, unannounced locker searches, require school personnel per-sonnel to patrol halls and institute punishments beyond suspension for serious violations. She said that punishment might include supervised, super-vised, after school janitorial work, which would provide a benefit to the entire school, and violators being be-ing isolated from other students in school following a suspension peri- Basin business climate fertile "Business is vibrant in the Uintah Basin," said Scott Bigler, Uintah Basin Small Business Development Center director. Since being formed almost a year ago, Bigler said that UBSBDC has had over 100 clients. The center provides one-on-one counseling for those wanting to start a new business busi-ness or help with the expansion of a mature business. The center is not the Small Business Administration nor does it have in-house funding for businesses, but what it can offer is training, research and customized business counseling. Their offices are at the Applied Technology Center in Vernal and Roosevelt Bigler said his offices offer 100 - 1 " i THE FRAMEWORK for the deck to the new River. Construction on the bridget is expected Jensen Bridge spans the length of the Green to continue through the summer. Ufford also expressed dismay that the shooting incident involving her son was not publicized adequately by the school. "I feel parents should have been notified that this had happened in their school," said Ufford. "If they were more aware of what kind of things were going on, maybe they could talk with their kids or watch them leave for school." Board member Brian Spendlove told Ufford that deciding on restrictions restric-tions is "a dilemma" for the board. "But mere suspension could be a holiday for kids," he said. Board president Dennis Judd said he was "not certain" the school district dis-trict is allowed by law to make punitive policies. "Our options are limited," he said, "We may have to go through Juvenile Court for incidents inci-dents such as these. I don't know if forced labor is an option for us." Judd also noted that if the district made a policy of requiring serious offenders to do after school janitorial janitori-al woric, they would be responsible to adequately supervise the worker and to provide transportation home. He asked district administrators to investigate the policies of other state schools and report back to them. Mr. McKeachnie urged the board to focus on prevention of further similar incidents. "We're lucky we don't have what big cities have we need to keep it that way," he said. "And you need to have a caring car-ing attitude in dealing with these parents," he told board members. The Uintah School District currently cur-rently has a policy prohibiting any weapons in its schools. The Uffords are asking for stricter consequences for violating that policy. percent confidentiality. Of the 100 clients that sought the center's assistance, assis-tance, 34 were mature companies. The 100 companies represent 331 employees and $11 million in business. busi-ness. The center is using the same financial fi-nancial analysis program that is used by financial institutions so that when the business seeks a loan, those issuing the loan are familiar with the program. All services are provided at no cost except market information. There is an on-line fee of $50. The on-line data retrieval research service ser-vice accesses over 400 databases. The service provides financial information infor-mation and analyst on U.S. and foreign for-eign companies, articles from indus m mmu ' mmA ' iiii li m II f v t 'n.iit mm t mm ; --r ml m m irt- . - r i - : 1 1 1 VI'IIH 3! -"vt-' I If a f1 FISHERMEN COMPETE with river runners, float tubes and other New regulations could limit access to some portions of the river fishermen for a fishing spot on the Green River near Little Hole. next year. Proposal under consideration to cut crowds on Green River The U.S. Forest Service, which manages the popular Green River below Flaming Gorge Dam, believes be-lieves too many people are using the river and some changes need to be made. "We are loving this river to death," comments Fred Houston supervising su-pervising forester for U.S. Forest Service on the Flaming Gorge IBoairdl setis pairtiDcipatiDoira The Uintah School Board accepted accept-ed a tentative participation fee schedule for secondary schools, an addition to the district's established regular fee schedule, during its bi-, monthly meeting last Tuesday. " Fees will be charged for students in grades 9-12 who choose to participate partic-ipate in sports, debate, vocal andor instrumental music programs, as well as several outside classroom activities which have not yet been specified. try and general audience publications, publica-tions, industry studies, forecasts, abstracts ab-stracts and other market research. "A lot of manufacturing in the Uintah Basin is not making it to market," Bigler said. The reason most do not is the lack of know-how. "What we do is to bring financial reality to entrepreneurial en-trepreneurial emotion." Other services provided by the UBSBDC are: needs assessment, business planning, market research and market strategy, financial statements, state-ments, cash flow analysis and financial finan-cial projections, debt and equity funding development valuation methods, strategic planning and management issues. Not all of Bigler's clients have District New regulations being proposed by the Forest Service would divide the year into three seasons: Fishing No. 1, Dec. 1 to June 15; Floating, June 16 to Aug. 13; Fishing No. 2, Aug 14 to Nov. 31. The river would also be divided into three sections: section A, 7.5 miles from the dam to Little Hole; The tentative schedule shows a charge of $50 per student for participation partic-ipation in each major athletic sport, with a $100 limit per student Students involved in debate, march-, ing band, and minor sports will be charged $35 per activity. Participation in other unspecified activities will cost parents $20 each. Both board members and district officials agree the fees are necessary to offset the rising costs of running worked out for the best of the Uintah Basin. A company wanting to move a branch office to the Uintah Basin found that sale of their product was good, but after a market mar-ket analysis by the UBSBDC with every possible customer buying from the company, a move to the Uintah Basin would cost the company compa-ny $80,000 a year. "The company decided not to open a branch office." of-fice." "Our main goal is to improve the statistic that 80 percent of new businesses busi-nesses fail in the first five years," Bigler said. "I think we are making progress." Grazing The Clinton Administration, Monday, announced sweeping reforms re-forms in the Federal government's policy for grazing on public lands, making clear its intentions to bring Federal grazing fees closer to market mar-ket value and announcing measures aimed at improving the long-term health of America's rangelends. "This proposal delivers on President Clinton's promise that taxpayers will be treated fairly when it comes to the use of their natural resources," said Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt "But our plan also recognizes that the public lands grazing issue is more about the condition of the land than it is about fees." "We've found a reasonable balance," bal-ance," said Secretary Babbitt, "between "be-tween the need to sustain the health of rangeland ecosystems and the need to sustain the economic health of rural Western areas." The announcement came in the form of draft proposals for range-land range-land reform, concurrently published by the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management and the Department of Agriculture's U.S. Forest Service. The two agencies agen-cies are responsible for managing section B, 8 miles from Little Hole to Indian Crossing; section C, 8.5 miles from Indian Crossing to the Colorado border. i Quotas will be established for' each section and season. Currently: the Forest Service is considering: During Fishing No. 1, 600 people peo-ple allowed on section A, 400 on section B and use on section C will extracurricular programs. They hope to eliminate the need for the fees when the District pulls its Meteors to put on show tonight If clear skies prevail, skywatchers could be in for a show tonight. The Perseid meteor shower could be impressive if the earth passes through dust from Comet Swift-Tuttle, Swift-Tuttle, which reappeared in the solar so-lar system last year for the first time since 1862. Skywatchers are expecting a show. On the Wasatch Front interested inter-ested individuals will meet at Little Mountain in Immigration Canyon to view the event There is not a formal gathering place in Vernal to watch the event Anywhere with a clear dark sky will work, advise personnel at the Hansen Planetarium. Last year the Uintah Mountain Club planned an event to watch the meteor show, but no event has been planned for this year. A meteor shower is caused by the glow 'of comet dust entering Earth's atmosphere. fees to double more than 260 million acres of Federal grazing lands. "The Forest Service is deeply committed to conserving and sustaining sus-taining healthy rangeland ecosystems ecosys-tems on National Forests and Grasslands for shared use and multiple mul-tiple values," said Jim Lyons, Agriculture's Assistant Secretary for Natural Resources and the Environment. "These new rules benefit both the permittees who leased these public lands and the public which owns them." With their proposals, the two Departments would replace the existing ex-isting grazing fee formula. They selected se-lected an "appropriate range" of fees, ranging from $3.51 to $5.05 per animal unit month (AUM). The midpoint of this range, $4.28, has been settled on as the basis for the proposal. The current level of Federal grazing fees is $1.86 per AUM. (An AUM is the amount of forage need to sustain a cow and her calf, or five sheep, for one month.) The Administration intends to phase in the fee over a three-year period, a move intended to lessen the impact of fee increases on ranchers. After the phase-in period, annual adjustments to the fee would be unlimited, but monitored. During Floating Season, 750 people will be allowed in section A, 400 in section B and use in section C will be unlimited, but monitored. During Fishing No. 2, 350 people peo-ple will be allowed in section A, 400 in section B and use in section C will be unlimited, but monitored. fees $125,000 annual funding from the Uintah Recreation Association next See Participation page 2 The Perseid shower usually has 60 meteors an hour streaking across the sky for an period of several hours. During a storm, the count can reach hundreds per minute. Vernal Middle School Science teacher, Steven Borton, said that many times meteors can be seen the day before or after an event He reported re-ported seeing a meteor earlier this week. If the display is a storm, it would be only the third one seen from Earth this century and the first since 1966. There is no danger on the ground, but NASA delayed the launch of the space shuttle Discovery until Thursday and will aim the Hubble Space Telescope away from the meteors. me-teors. Meteors can be seen anywhere in the sky, but the shower will originate origi-nate from the Perseid constellation in the northeast sky about half way up. be limited to no more than a 25 percent per-cent variation of the previous year's fee. Assuming the Forage Value Index (a figure used to calculate grazing fees) remained constant, the grazing fee in the first year of implementation im-plementation would be $2.76. The grazing fee for the second year would be $3.52. "Ranching is a difficult enterprise, one that rarely leads to huge profits," prof-its," said Secretary Babbitt "We recognized this while drafting our proposal, and came down right in the middle of a range of reasonable fee options. This proposed fee level will ensure that ranching families continue to make a living off the public's lands, thus preserving an important part of the Western economy econ-omy and Western culture." "These proposals respond to the concerns that Secretary Babbitt and I heard during our recent field hearings hear-ings in the West," said Assistant Secretary Lyons. 'There is clear agreement that the condition of the Nation's rangclands needs improvement improve-ment And, clearly, there remains strong disagreement over the fees that should be paid for public grazing. graz-ing. This proposal should focus the Sm Grazing fees page 4 1 |