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Show Ron Perry receives an award for his two years of service, as PIC Chairman from First Vice Chairman of the PIC Council, Dana O'Crowley. Percy ItoirDoiredl ffoir IPO chaw At the September meeting of the Private Industry Council (PIC), Ron Perry was honored for his service as the PIC chairman the past two years. Perry, administrator of Ashley Valley Medical Center, has been on the PIC board of directors for several sever-al years and served as chairman from July 1, 1993 to June 30, 1995. The award was presented by recently-elected PIC 1st Vice Chairman Dana O'Crowley. In accepting ac-cepting the award, Perry said the PIC has been through some challenging chal-lenging times during his tenure as National Guard renews contract with school by Kathleen Irving Staff Writer The Utah Army National Guard and Uintah School District have renewed re-newed an agreement allowing the Guard to use Vernal Middle School and its surrounding property as an alternate assembly area in the event the local armory is unavailable. The two-year agreement covers the Guard only in cases of "extreme emergency." According to Readiness NCO Sgt. Michael Vander Linden, such an emergency might exist if the Basin were to experience a severe natural disaster - an earthquake or flooding that destroyed the armory located on 500 East. In that event, the Middle School would provide an assembly area and housing for personnel; per-sonnel; the grounds would be used for assembly of the unit's equipment. equip-ment. The Vernal National Guard, an engineer combat battalion, employs "Reel Ectcts Ccrnsr" by Karen Price IS REFINANCING FOR YOU? If interest rates are falling and the rate on your mortgage is sitting at a high level, how do you decide when the cost of refinancing your mortgage is warranted? war-ranted? The rule of thumb says two percent. If your mortgage is at 12 percent and you have the opportunity to lower it to 10 percent and you intend to live at least another two years, in your home, do it. You will recoup the cost of the refinancing (points, fees, etc.) in approximately one and a half or two years. On a $100,000 mortgage, as an example, you will save $151 a month. In 20 months you'll make up the average cost of refinancing.0 Keren Price - Saiw Asnt Ccldwell Conker Aspen Crock Re-Ity She can be reached at 7C9-75S5 v an officer, buf he felt that the program pro-gram has been successful in serving the clients. He stated that the current cur-rent board members were providing good input and direction and the JTPA staff were doing a good job. The Private Industry Council is charged with providing administrative administra-tive oversight and coordination for the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) programs in the three-county areas. JTPA programs include adult and youth job training and education, ed-ucation, dislocated worker retraining retrain-ing school-to-work programs and summer youth employment. four people full-time and serves as the training center for another 42 part-time members who come from around Uintah Basin and as far away as Panguitch. Vander Linden says the unit is always al-ways recruiting new members, both men and women, and offers training, train-ing, a monthly paycheck and college col-lege tuition money in return for activity ac-tivity in the national defense organization. organi-zation. Guardsmen ai available for community com-munity service projects, Vander Linden says.' They annually help with the city clean up and were involved in-volved in the Take Pride in Utah projects last spring. The battalion will travel to Panama for two weeks next summer to build roads. Temperatures Date High Low Oct. 10 72 , 31 Oct. 11 78 34 Oct. 12 78 40 Oct. 13 61 25 Oct. 14 64 22 Oct. 15 71 27 Oct. 16 75 29 Courtesy of Sky West Airlines October 16, 1995 RE: Warren Draw Fire We wish to express our heartfelt thanks and gratitude to the following for their assistance with the fireby our cabin. All participants prevented a major catastrophe. We will not name individuals as we do not want to miss anyone: family and their friends and relatives; State of Utah Fire Marshall and crew; Vernal, Jensen, and Naples fire crews; BLM; Forest Service; the Search and Rescue; Uintah County Sheriff and department; and everyone else who may have helped. We also thank our friends and family for their concern. Many thanks again, Ken and Marty Kay Pi In defense... Continued from page 2 excuses. Instead of studying and discussing dis-cussing the suitablility of these areas in a open and moderated forum, our county commissioners chose to listen to their pals and their prejudices. What we got was a Nutters Hole proposal that makes no sense and which the commissioners commis-sioners knew would not be taken seriously. By recommending a part of Nutters Hole, no one could accuse them of being anti-wilderness, yet they needn't fear that wilderness would actually be designated desig-nated in the area. Why? Because their bogus "wilderness" proposal splits and isolates Ute tribal land and encompasses encom-passes most of the Naval Oil Shale Reserve, which isn't even BLM land. What the commissioners did was float the proposal as a straw man and let the Ute Business Committee and the Utah congressional congres-sional delegation knock it down. Is this dishonest? I think so. The UMC Nutters Hole proposal makes more sense and is smaller than either the Utah Wilderness Coalition proposal, or the commissioners' commis-sioners' proposal, and protects scenic and riparian values along the Green River corridor. The gas wells in Sections 27 and 29, the pipelines, the abandoned and shut-in shut-in wells, the "newly improved road leading from the east boundary to the west boundary," and other impacts described by Mr. Allred in his letter are not within the Uintah Mountain Club proposal. The UMC proposal includes a couple of roads, mostly unimproved. Could these be cherry-stemmed out of the wilderness and legally satisfy the Wilderness Act? Yes. Should they be? Perhaps. Could we have gotten a better Nutters Hole proposal than the Utah Wilderness Coalition's in H.R. 1745 if the county commissioners had worked with us? Certainly. It's this kind of disingenuous behavior that we have had to endure, year after year. Our elected officials seem to forget that all our citizens contribute something to Uintah County. They forget, too, that when they ignore the deeply-held deeply-held values and beliefs of some of their constituents, when they make some feer like outsiders, they are sowing division and discord rather than unity. They are also squandering a valuable valu-able human resource that could make our county stronger and more progressive. Mr. Allred' s images of unemployment, unem-ployment, starving children, and government oppression are touching, touch-ing, but close examination reveals how little substance there is. Show me one child who has ever starved in this country because of wilderness, wilder-ness, or, for that matter, one who has never gotten a good education or gone to college because some of our last, best wild lands were preserved. pre-served. How does stopping one gas well out of hundreds put anyone in the unemployment line? I will agree with Mr. Allred that the phosphate mine has done a very good job of reclaiming the land. Some of the reclamation sites are a textbook example of how to do it right. Sales Service Installation GAS, PELLET & WOOD STOVES 76 to 84 Overall Efficiency Open Mon-Sat 10am-6pm But his favorite nemesis the northern spotted owl is more like a red herring, For decades the largest timber companies overcut some would say "liquidated" their private pri-vate lands at a rate far beyond "sustained "sus-tained yield." When they turned to federal lands to make up the shortfall, short-fall, they found that this unwholesome unwhole-some business practice is also against the law on the public lands. Massive and widespread layoffs and mill closures have occurred in the Pacific northwest, most because of automation and mill redesign, and greater productivity from the individual worker (blame technology technolo-gy and increased efficiency, I guess). You can also blame the huge loss of jobs in value-added industries when companies found that they could ship raw logs by the millions to Japan from state and private pri-vate lands, for huge profits, without a blade or lathe ever being laid on them by an American worker. Economic disaster? Three years into the imposed restrictions on logging log-ging old growth forest, Oregon has posted its lowest unemployment rate in a generation just over 5 percent. Some rural counties show a rate of about 2 percent. Even the most timber-dependent counties in southern Oregon report rising property values and a net increase in jobs. The average wage throughout through-out Oregon has actually risen since the ban was placed on old-growth logging. And no net loss of jobs has occurred. Change is painful. But the only thing constant in our world is change. It's time to quit making wilderness a scapegoat for all the pain' and uncertainty in our world. .. It's time to replace fear and suspicion, suspi-cion, with understanding. I believe that our nation needs the remaining wild lands as a healing balm and antidote to the crazy, frenetic, frightening world we have creat-ed-j-monster-like--despite our best intentions. This is not unreasonable. ..This, finally, is a measure of sanity. If we work together, we can make wilderness a lasting, loving gift to our children, a tranquil and dependable depend-able island in a tumultuous sea of human affairs. This is not a socialist agenda, a blueprint for one-world government, govern-ment, or any of the popular pap that inflames and divides our citizens. It is an honest attempt to break through the misperceptions and prejudices that divide our people. WILLDURANT Vernal m ' imuum I V'S r A r r:"tl":i:'!KI":llrt3"'rlr w. I II Toughness AndTraction At It's Best cocv" Rll .. 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