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Show Vernal Express Wednesday, November 16, 1994 3 Utahns urged to express centennial pride in state s, - M It A In the belief that all citizens of Utah should be a part of the 1996 Centennial celebration, Utah State University's Utah Humanities Council is proposing a project which will involve all Utahns in an introspective search of what it means to live in this beautiful state. All of Utah is encouraged to sometime during the day on January 4, 1995 write a personal essay, produce pro-duce a picture, take a photograph, or find some other way to express themselves on the topic: "What it means to be a Utahn and how the land and culture have shaped my life." This will be the first phase of a three-phased project, which will include in-clude a collection of essays, preserving pre-serving documents and public education. edu-cation. The essays pictures or photographs pho-tographs from Uintah County will be collected at the Centennial Hootenany to be held Jan. 7, 1995. Director Nila Jean Riding accepts awards of excellence given to Community Employment Placement Program. Members of the Can Do crew are Rennie Hall, Shane Murray, Nola Fortine, Monica Mott, Tricia Hadlock and Matthew Hansen. Others present are Marlin Johnson, Special Education Director and Marsha Larson, Director of Transition. Placement program receives honors by Kathleen Irving Staff Writer Their slogan: "Reaching for the Stars - Upward and Onward." And that's just what the Community Employment Placement Program (CEPP) and its director, Nila Jean Riding, have done. Last week, Riding accepted two prestigious awards for excellence. excel-lence. Mountain Plains Information Exchange, a program affiliated with the National Institute on Disability "wiouuiwuun Kesearcn, award ed the CEPP an Exemplary Practice Award for Excellence for their "transition from school to work" program. Only three such awards were made in a six state region. The advisory board of the Information Exchange also chose to honor Riding and the CEPP with a first-ever Regional Vision Award, which acknowledges the program's vision for the future. The CEPP is a program of the Uintah School District. Its' purpose is to help disabled young people between be-tween the ages of 18 and 22 "reach Rep. Seitz listens to Naples concerns for the stars they want most in their life." The program is designed to help the youth gain job skills, find independent inde-pendent jobs and offers transportation transporta-tion to participants. It is also the home of the locally well-known Can Do Crew. In addition to award plaques, the CEPP also received $1200. Part of that money has already been spent to put signs on their building and vans and to purchase T-Shirts for CEPP members. Fishing Doris Burton, county historian Burton receives award for Humanities Doris Karren Burton was presented present-ed Governor Michael O. Leavitt's award for Friends of Humanities in a ceremony Nov. 4 at the University of Utah's new Red Butte Visitor Center. Mrs. Burton has been an avid worker in the field of humanities since the 1970s. She is the director the Uintah County Library Regional History Room and Outlaw Trail History Center. She is the Uintah County historian. She is a local poet, author of four books and other historical writings. She is currently writing the Uintah County History Book for the Utah Centennial in 1996. pi Thank You! Over the past six months, someW people listened, some madeH suggestions, some put up signs, some distributed flyers and many,0 many talked to their friends. To eachg and every one of you, I thank your! most sincerely for all the hard workfcj you did to make my election possible. H rl Fran Harding 1 H by Kathleen Irving Staff Writer Newly elected state representative Jack Scitz took notes while Naples City officials voiced their concerns about state and federal government last week. He pledged not only to listen and act on those concerns as he serves in the legislature, but also to keep the lines of communication open between his temporary Salt Lake office and the people he represents. repre-sents. Naples city councilors asked Scitz to find out why the State is keeping an increasingly larger percentage of sales tax revenue before making allocations al-locations to cities and towns. City recorder Connie Mou called the state's action a "very harmful" burden bur-den for smaller municipalities. "We're having to pay a larger proportionate pro-portionate share (than big cities, h isn't fair," she said. Mayor John Mjihis said he was concerned that Gov. Lcaviu seemed 10 be consolidating the State's power pow-er over cities and counties, while fighting for states' rights against the federal government. -The governor forms advisory committees without any real pow-cr," pow-cr," he complained. "l don't know what you can do about it, though." Seitz said he would also look into the way mineral lease monies are returned to areas from which they arc derived; ask about the legality of the Division of Wildlife Resources owning property; determine deter-mine whether the State can fight against federal Bureau of Land Management road closures, and find out whether the State plans to oppose national conversion to the metric system within the next two years. Maihis also asked Scitz to check out the possibility of a State Senate reorganization. "Having the Senate scats based on population rather than having one Senator per county has left rural areas without equal representation even though they control so much land," Maihis said. "Could it ever be changed?" Sciu promised 10 take all of Naples' questions into the first legislative leg-islative session of 1995. He said he will ask for the concerns of other governing en lilies in the county within the next few weeks and hopes to hold at least one public meeting before the session begins in January. Continued from page 2 What it all boils down to is that this road has been closed since June, and the public has been denied access to part of a State Park and a favorite fishing spot. And since when does it become the responsibility of the commissioners to enforce a little law which the Sheriffs Department could have taken care of in two or three hours back in July and all would have been done and forgotten by now? LADDIE RICHARDS Vemal Safety... Continued from page 1 Postal concerns... 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Although school employees are not generally allowed to inflict corporal cor-poral punishment upon students, the new policy permits the use of force, but no "deadly force," when a teacher or administrator reasonably reason-ably believes the fore is ncceswry to further the purpose of education or 10 maintain discipline in a group." Ii alvo allocs the ue of "rcawn-able "rcawn-able and neeary" ph)ical restraint la several inancc: U obtain pMeMon of a weapon or danf crous object conirolled by a child; 10 rvet the child or another anoth-er pcrtofl from phyMcal injury; la remove a vkiJeni or disruptive UmW from a siiuaiion; a protect property from beirif Umfc4 or in self defense. .Steele called the approved p"Jty "a uA to clean up DwJfe Gty " "We don't use 11 fc hwe is," he mI. Fires... Continued from Dg 1 tfeU f"t) lf hrt, Tto lire MM m- oUrt than 10 rv rWv! m4. Aisruhrf (1 t(vm4 law tfe trW ew4 I7 tttiUm tM f h Cjw4 & ht ttirt ff itwUrt' ft BspmtfiJ M H F)5! 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