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Show 8 Vernal Express Wednesday. October 1, 1997 Glen Curtis, president of Utah Association of Local Boards of Health, along with Joseph Shaffer, TriCounty Health Department, present Steve Evans, president of the Vernal Rotary Club, with Outstanding Public Service Award. Rotary receives service award The Vernal Rotary Club received the Outstanding Public Service Award sponsored by the Utah State Department of Health. The Rotary was nominated for the award by Joseph Shaffer, director of the Tri-County Health Department. The Rotary participated participat-ed in the development of a dental clinic for children who otherwise would not receive dental care. The Ask a specialist Where is the Answer by Sherm Thomson, Utah State University Extension plant pathologist If you've driven through the canyons recently hoping for a visual visu-al feast, you may be disappointed. Because of higher than normal precipitation pre-cipitation this year causing fungal growth and infections, there are several epidemic foliar diseases that will reduce the brilliant fall colors in some stands of trees. Some aspen trees are almost completely defoliated by aspen leaf spot. The fungus that causes it spreads rampantly during rains when the spores are splashed to new leaves. Dark spots develop and kill part of the leaf, causing it to drop prematurely. Consequently, there are no bright yellow leaves on many of the' aspen stands in the i ',;V,' IF YOUR COMPANY IS UTAH POWER, THE REASON IS SIMPLE. club also helped with an immunization immuniza-tion drive. Members of the Vernal Rotary Club raised $5,000 for the dental clinic. Steve Evans, this year's Rotary president, accepted the award in Park City. The Rotary plans to be involved in the immunization drive again this year. color? mountains and valleys. This disease is usually not fatal to the trees. However, it does weaken them and repeated infections year after year will eventually kill the trees. Maple trees also have similar leaf spots caused by two different fungi: anthracnose and maple leaf blister. These arc present on both the big tooth maple and the Rocky Mountain maple. The leaf spots cause premature leaf drop and will dim the normal bright red color in the fall. Many scrub oak trees along the Wasatch Front have become infected infect-ed with oak leaf blister, which causes a large puckered gray spot on the leaves. It is usually not serious, seri-ous, but may also cause premature leaf drop. ., mwr A .'l, - " -! ?.-., , I , i I ' I II 1 1 l I 1 1 ,' : V 'U. ; Temple... Continued from page 1 by the archways under the north and south doors. These archways helped with the excavation for the baptismal bap-tismal font and lower floor in the original building. The excavators planned on removing the dirt through the old building's east side while removing dirt for the new addition. Seeing the actual size of the archways changed their plans. Park said. Archways under doors were common com-mon during the late 1800s and early 1900s as a way to save on supplies for the foundation, he said. The size of the tabernacle's archways made it possible to drive a front-end loader, a track excavator and a backhoe into the original building. This "miracle" saved the excavators time and was more convenient because the excavation exca-vation of the addition was not hampered ham-pered by the excavation of the old building. Park said. The next "miracle" was the demolition demo-lition of the inside of the outside walls. Park said. The engineers and architects planned on removing 10-foot 10-foot strips of brick from the inside from the ground up. It was then to be reinforced with steel and replaced with shotcrete blown onto the walls. Park said. After studying the plans and several sev-eral discussions. Park chose to start at the top and reinforce the wall above the balcony with the steel and shotcrete before proceeding downward. down-ward. "It proved to be a wise decision. The interior wall was filled with a modge-podge of what was leftover at the end of a day's work," he said. This was a common practice because the pioneers did not want to waste any materials, he said. If he followed the original plans, the outer walls might have crumbled before the shotcrete was sprayed on, he said. It seemed as if Park was constantly constant-ly dealing with challenges. Next came the removal of the original tower. The day came and no one knew exactly what would happen. Park tells of being inside the tower hooking the cable through the center to a pipe so a 150-ton crane could lift it off. The walls were reinforced with plywood to make it sturdier for its llight to the ground. Three of his employees were inside the tower with him, when they heard a loud "pop." Park checked the cable, asked for a wrench and discovered he was I n fx - tin ! ( . r. , o --( - !.' ' ; , I a y ! alone. "Everyone had scattered. Scattered all the way outside." he said. The cable had groaned under pressure, pres-sure, he said, but the others thought the tower was collapsing. When the two new towers came into town a day early. Park was not ready for them. But the community was. Hess and Park were amazed at the cooperation and volunteerism they received from the local law enforcement officers, who voluntarily voluntar-ily escorted the towers into town and then volunteered their services to protect the towers from vandalism vandal-ism until Park was ready for them. The community's response to the setting of the towers and statue of the Angel Moroni surprised Park. The church officials decided to forego their own specifications in giving a 30-day notice before setting set-ting the statue. Instead they decided on the arrival day of the towers to set the angel, too. Park said. Matt Foley, a Vernal resident and friend of the Jorgensens, donated his trailer, trail-er, so Arlain Long, a McCullough employee, could get the statue from Salt Lake City. He left at 5:30 a.m. Park worked on setting the towers in the morning while Long was gone. By the time Long returned and everything was in place to set the angel, more than 5,000 people crowded the three streets surrounding surround-ing the temple. The announcement came by word of mouth, Park said. "I was amazed," he said. Park rode in the basket with the eight-foot angel with two other men: James R. McCullough, Park's boss; and Chad Munns, the builder of the towers. It was exciting, yet stressful, for Park because the angel could not be marred, he said. Park took the eyebolt out of the angel's head and replaced it with the lightening rod. That is when the tabernacle began looking more like a temple to Park. Park knew it was a temple on the inside when the carpet was laid and decorative painting was put on the walls and ceiling. Park is only one of 300 men and women who worked on the temple for the past 28 months. He knows more people, especially those in Vernal and in surrounding areas, wanted to give of their time and talents. tal-ents. Because of church policy and the laws of the land, all workers had nit ' ti,. I ' I I I I I k I i . I '1,1.1 ; ; . ft J! . . i . 1 1 to be hired. Some of the local people peo-ple who worked on the temple included Diane Spackman, who did a lot of the cleaning and any little project Park asked her to do; Kathleen Williams, who came once a week and took minutes at the meetings and filed his paperwork; Dave Ahrnsbrak. who took many photographs and did paintings for the temple; and Mark Helco and Spencer Aries, who worked as laborers for Park. Hess echos Park's own words, when he said. "This community is the most cooperative bunch of people peo-ple I've ever worked with. They only get mad when we don't ask them for help." EDITOR 'S NOTE: Loretla Park is the wife of Rod Park. She writes for the Lakeside-ReviewlStandard-Examanier in Davis County where she, her husband, their five children and two grandchildren live. BUILDING PURCHASE Uintah & Daggett Counties Children's Justice Center Donations Received Donations Needed WE WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE FOLLOWING FOR THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS CON-TRIBUTIONS AND DONATIONS TO THE UINTAH & DAGGETT COUNTIES CHILDREN'S JUSTICE CENTER: American Mother, Inc. Ashley Valley Medical Center Amber, Krista, Kelsy, & Matthew Hauer PepsiBirrell Bottling Peaco Properties - AJ & Susan Pease Questar Corporation Showalter Motor Co. The Restored Uintah County The Uintah & Daggett Children's Justice Center will serve the physically andor sexually abused children by concentrating on providing a comfortable, safe place for abused children to come where a single interview can be conducted in an effort to decrease the secondary trauma often experienced by these children chil-dren caused by a "system" meant to protect them. If you or your organization would like to help make the Uintah & Daggett Counties Children's Justice Center a reality, tax deductible contributions contri-butions may be forwarded to: Friends of the UintahDaggett CJC co Wesley Baden, Attorney-at-Law 418 East Main, 2nd Floor Vernal, UT 84078 , i II I 1 . 1 1 - '7 ii ' ii j i i I , I I ( , I , '.j ' ' . - . f Health officials to meet The Tri-County Health Department, UBAOG, Utah Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) and the Environmental Protection Agency will be meeting with local officials on Thursday, Oct. 2 to discuss local environmental issues. The project is called "Partnership for the Environment". The meeting is scheduled from 9 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. at the Weston Plaza in Vernal. If you need more information, please call Stephanie Bernkopf (DEQ) at 536-4479 or Joseph Shaffer (Tri-County Health Department) at 781-5475. Vernal Express Vemal Counseling Services, Dennis Stevens VTV Channel 6 Ron Carpenter Stewart Machine , ; . 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