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Show Tim Ingwell skies past the finish line Going ffoir gold The thrill of head-to-hcad competition compe-tition builds as you stand in a starting start-ing gate at the top of a snow skiing slalom course with a fellow competitor com-petitor standing just ten feet away. It is not a world ski competition, but with television cameras, numbered num-bered bibs and spectators, the Utah Winter Games for six Vernal residents resi-dents is a close simulation. Pete Sokolsky and five other Vernal residents, Shannon, Tim, Laura and Carl Ingwell, and Carol Kubly took the challenge at the Deer Valley Ski Resort, site of the Utah Winter Games recreational race, Jan. 21. Marked with numbered ski bibs, the group first attended a race clinic Utah... Continued from page 2 some combination of alternative taxes on large businesses, including utilities such as a slight increase in corporate income tax, increase in severance tax and gross proceeds tax. These taxes would be designed to pick up the amount saved by these companies in property taxes, but not increase their total tax bill. Small businesses and individual property taxpayers would benefit with lower overall taxes. As part of this package future tax increases to the state would be reduced by about $90 million and growth of state government would be limited to 5.5 . percent next year. "They say this would be in line with population growth and growth in die private sector economy," Sen. Myrin said. This proposal would leave the property tax as a tax for funding local government and basic school funding as well as the special dis- Rep. Seitz will hold a Town Meeting Saturday, Jan. 28, at 11 a.m. at the Uintah County Commissioners' Chambers. f; IfSY(M0Sl 390 West Main, Vernal 789-3335 . WEEKDW AM TP T PM. BAT. APPOINTMENT! AMWABUt BUT NOT NECESSARY during the Utah Winter Games. sponsored by the Deer Valley race department where tips for starting and running the gates were presented present-ed to small groups of competitors. Afterward it was time to compete; two runs, one each on the blue course and one on the red. The runs are named for the colored paneled gates, 16 in all. The skier passes alternately al-ternately to the left then right, down the hill. The already hard packed surface of the race course became faster and faster as the 93 skiers took their turn running the gates and skiing on a slope almost as steep as the Taylor Mountain road near 2500 north. "Waiting for your turn at the start you would pick-up conversations ' with fellow participants," Sokolsky said. Others in line are Tracey Straw who started skiing in high school and now skis in the masters circuit. Brent Pendleton is a para-skier, a combined parachuting and slalom racing specialist He is a gold medalist in that event held a few days before at Snowbird. Mike Allen, sportscaster with KTVX, is in line to run the course with a miniature helmet camera. The participants par-ticipants varied in age from 4 years old to over 66. The best times posted post-ed were by the experienced skiers in the 35-40 year old age group. Brett Pendleton had a time of 19.43 seconds. sec-onds. The day of racing and skiing culminated cul-minated with an awards ceremony. Stein Eriksen, former Olympic gold medalist and director of skiing at Deer Valley awarded medals to the top three places of each of the 22 men's and women's age groups and ribbons to all other competitors. . "It was truly exciting to be congratulated con-gratulated by Stein!" said Sokolsky. The final count for the group of six from Vernal, four bronze medals and two ribbons. There was also the excitement of seeing highlights from the competition competi-tion and the list of the medalists during the Winter Games Wrap-Up on KTVX the same day at 10:35 p.m. gjDirag waoveir approved ffoir UoGiitialh) County Uintah County will be able to better bet-ter serve its populations with the recent re-cent Federal approval of the home and Community-based Services Aging Waiver. The waiver provides . home and community-based services to individuals indi-viduals 65 years of age and older. Without such services, these persons per-sons would require nursing facility level of care for which the costs would be covered through the State Medicaid Program. The client's option op-tion to choose between continuing care at home or entering a nursing home is the key element of the Aging Waiver. There are two eligibility criteria which clients must meet: minimum nursing facility level of care and Medicaid financial eligibility. Clients may be eligible for services under the Aging Waiver who would not otherwise be eligible for Medicaid, due to somewhat different differ-ent financial guidelines. Waiver clients will be eligible for other Medicaid services. Current Medicaid clients are not automatically automati-cally eligible for the Aging Waiver services. Uintah County Areas Agency on Aging (AAA) located at the Golden Age Center, administers the Aging Waiver program with the State Division on Aging and Adult Services providing oversight. Russell Strode; AAA case manager, will provide screening and assess v ' ' r-i - hum - BV .I S -::. - Map shows the developments the Ute Tribe plans near Bottle Hollow. A is a Cultural Center, B is a service station. 2477... Continued from page 1 2477. The changes would give counties two years to provide verification that their roads qualify under the old law. In Uintah County there are about 900 miles of road that would fall under this classification. Little said that there is no question ques-tion that Class B roads, or those that the county maintains would come under RS 2477, but Class D roads which are not maintained by the county would be in question. The problem has been the lack of a process and standards for determining deter-mining when valid rights of way do exist. Little said that if a BLM Wildernees Bill is approved, it would remove that issue for the changes. Some counties want every road preserved to keep wilderness out of certain areas. Such is the Broken taillight leads to arrest A Vernal area resident was arrested arrest-ed for possession of a controlled substance Jan. 7, after he was pulled over because of a broken out tail-light. tail-light. Deputy Vance Norton pulled over the vehicle at 500 East 2200 South. Deputy Norton said he smclled alcohol al-cohol from the vehicle and requested request-ed consent to search the vehicle. After obtaining approval, a search of the vehicle turned up two containers con-tainers of suspected metham-phctamincs, metham-phctamincs, a small amount of marijuana mar-ijuana and drug paraphernalia. Nathan Adam Neil was arrested for driving under the influence, possession pos-session of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia. parapherna-lia. He was incarcerated in the Uintah County Jail. ment of clients to determine eligibility eligi-bility as well as monitoring the services ser-vices delivery to those clients. The medical evaluation will be provided by Tamara Wallis, Ashley Valley Medical Center Home Health R.N. The Aging Waiver is currently available in 15 of the 29 counties. Case management is provided for each client. Other Aging Waiver services available are: adult day care, in-home respite, home delivered deliv-ered meals, homemaker, non-medical transportation, emergency response re-sponse systems. Services provides under the Aging Waiver will be available to supplement existing services or fill the gaps where other programs end. Waiver services will be coordinated with other aging services ser-vices available within the AAA at the Golden Age Center. Anyone that is not eligible or may not desire to participate in the waiver waiv-er program, other programs are available through the Alternative or HomemakerPersonal Care Program. Services available through these programs are the same as provided pro-vided by the Aging Waiver along with personal care being the exception. excep-tion. Potential clients, their families, health care providers or others wishing wish-ing to refer someone for services should contact Russell Strode at 789-2169. case of two Wilderness Study Areas which are near one route for the now defuncted Seep Ridge Road. Jssfs W salt '. :;,S4l Vernal Express Wednesday, January 25, 1995 3 Writer joins Vernal Express staff A budding writing who was featured fea-tured in Expression last December, Deborah Cross, has joined the Vernal Express as a full-time staff member. She will be taking the position filled by Melanie Morrison. Ms. Morrison is still employed at the Express but has been moved to the 1 Circulation and Classified Ads Department. Cross is originally from Chicago where her first interest in writing was noticed by influential teachers and a family friend, who was the English department head at Purdue University, in Indiana. He encouraged encour-aged her to pursue her writing talent, tal-ent, and she later majored in broadcastjournalism broad-castjournalism at Brigham Young University. She was first published in college, writing a letter to the editor ed-itor about local pollution. She worked to gain experience, polishing her writing skills by writing writ-ing short stories, poetry, lyrics and music, children's books, magazine and journal articles and being a columnist and contributing writer for the Utah Home Educators Association newsletter. In addition, she has written for local businesses, organizations and individuals, where she lived, doing resumes, letters, correspondence, newsletters and "enormous amounts of editing!" she said. She taught several creativity seminars semi-nars for the Uintah County Library, last year, for adults and children. "We really appreciated her doing it and it really added to the library,'' Vernal City SECRET WITNESS Program 789-8888 C' I FOR ALL OF YOUR if Insurance needs yif x ' Commercial Auto Home tCp"- .4 'Life Health Disability Retirement Plans Bonds -f' Employee Benefit Plans 1 As your agent I will work as jl f hard for you as you haw 9-ii.i 9-ii.i ii ii i w for yourself. I Robb t!iCltt 789-1121 office 789-7343 residence 205 North Vernal Ave. r State Representative Jack A. Seitz will conduct a Town Rieetim on Tax Issues Saturday, Jan. 28 11 A.M. Uintah County District Court Room 1 This is also a chance for residents of Uintah and Daggett counties to ask questions about bills being presented in the Utah State Legislature general session. v ... ij . a A Deborah Cross said Evan Baker, library director. She will be a speaker for the UHEA convention, June 10, at Brigham Young University, for the second year. She will be teaching, Teaching Creative Writing: A Universal Approach. Cross is looking forward to her new position with the Express for the unique challenges and opportunity opportu-nity to be more involved in the community. Cross and her husband are the parents of seven sons and one daughter and have recently moved to the Vernal area. 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