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Show Wednesday, December 6, 2006 A9 iNllHlili VfTI-'i Vernal Express 14) Roosevelt, Utah 84066 Clark B Allred ClarkA. McCIellan Attorneys for Petitioner 72 North 300 East (123-14) (123-14) Roosevelt, Utah 84066 Published in the Vernal Express Dec. 6, 13, 20, 2006. tions during the following period of time: From 8:00 A.M., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2006 until 5:00 P.M., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2006 at TRUST LANDS ADMINISTRATION, 675 East, 500 South, Suite 500, Salt Lake City, Utah 84102-2818. phone (801) 538-5100. Reference No. SULA 1512. The Trust Lands Administration reserves the right to reject any application or subsequent subse-quent bids. For additional information, please contact con-tact Mr. Kurt M. Higgins at 801-538-5100. . Published in the Vernal Express December 6, 13 and 20, 2006. LEGAL NOTICE A meeting of the Uintah Economic Development Special Service District will be held on the 7th day of December 2006 at 3:00 PM in the north conference confer-ence room of the Uintah County Building located at 152 East 100 North, Vernal, Utah. This meet ing is open to the public. In Compliance with ADA, anyone needing special accommodations may contact Michael McKee at 435-781-0770. Published in the Vernal Express on Wednesday, December 6, 2006. NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Don William Preece, deceased Probate No. 063800057 EI Notice is hereby given that Wanda Lou Lemke has been appointed as the Personal Representative of the above estate. All persons having claims against the above estate are required to present them to the undersigned under-signed or to the Clerk of the Court Eighth District Court, 920 East Hwy. 40, Vernal, Utah 84078, within three (3) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims shall be forever barred. Wanda Lou Lemke 72 North 300 East (123- NOTICE Due to the recount of the Daggett County Commissioner (A) Race an audit of the voting machines, as required, will be conducted on Friday, Dec. 15, 2006 at 1 p.m. Published in the Vernal Express Dec. 6, 2006 NOTICE A joint public hearing will be held by Daggett County and the Town of Manila on Thursday, December 28, 2006, at 1 p.m. to obtain comments from residents regarding expanding the boundaries boundar-ies of the Daggett County Road and Transportation Special Service District to include the Town of Manila. Published in the Vernal Express Dec. 6, 2006. William "Bill" Luckinbill, left, and his friends, Minnie and Porter Long in 1949. After living a very secretive and solitary life in the Vernal area, Bill finally confided to his friend, Porter, about his past which resulted in Ms going home to his family in for over 55 years Iowa. UINTAH BASIN MEDIC AL CENTER BASIN CARE AND REHABILITATION CENTER Requests for Qualifications -General, Mechanical and Electrical Contractors 1. Introduction & Invitation Uintah Basin Medical Center, Roosevelt, Utah requests contractors to submit qualifications for the construction of the Basin Care and Rehabilitation Center (BCRC). The BCRC is a skilled nursing facility with 90 beds. Services include rehabilitation, skilled nursing care and dementia care. Qualifications are due no later than 2:00 pm (MOT), Monday, December, is, 2006 and are to be delivered toVCBO Architecture located at 524 South 600 East Salt Lake City, Utah 84102, Attention Molli Kiser, AIA. 2. Description of the Work 2.1 Description The Basin Care and Rehabilitation project is approximately 47,600 SF with an additional 14,600 SF of support space located in a basement. The project will be located on the site of the Roosevelt Junior High School located at 265 North 300 West The site will be abated and cleared under separate contracts. This building will be commissioned. Contracts will be based on the AIA documents. The architectural systems include wood frame structure with metal plate connected wood trusses, hardi-plank siding and synthetic stone finishes' interior construction gypsum board walls with paint, tile and.cwerii ceramic tile, linoleum, carpet, and resilient floor tile. Millwork includes casework, hand rails and interior architectural woodwork. Ceilings included suspended gypsum board and acoustical tile. Roofing and insulation includes asphalt shingles, bituminous damp proofing, waterproofing, building insulation, through penetration fire stop systems and joint sealants. Food service equipment and hydraulic elevators are included. Accessories include horizontal blinds, floor mats, manufactured casework, cubicles and curtains, impact resistant wall protection, signs, metal lockers fire protection specialties, special-ties, and toilet accessories. Mechanical systems include plumbing piping fixtures, water softeners, water heaters, packaged HVAC units, snow melt systems, fire sprinkler system, energy recovery exchangers, heat exchangers, water source heat pumps, humidifiers, facility management controls, ductwork and accessories and associated equipment The electrical systems include raceways, conductors and cables, boxed and fittings, wiring devices, motor starters, variable frequency drives, panelboards, disconnect switches, overcurrent protective devices, switchboards, motor control centers, TVSS, service entrance grounding, interior and building lighting, emergency lighting, exterior area lighting and emergency electrical system, fire alarm and detection systems, telephone, television and nurse call systems. Site improvements include fire water system, potable water systems, storm drainage sanitary sewer, asphalt paving, cement concrete pavement, geothermal Loop Heat Exchanger, landscaping and irrigation systems in the construction contract. 2.2 Project Schedule -The project schedule is to begin February 22, 2007 and will coincide with the completion of the demolition contract. It is anticipated that drawings will be ready for bidding the first week of January 2007 with a three or four week bid period. 3. Required Qualification Information The contractor will provide the following information 3.1 History of the Firm -This should include background information explaining the firm's history and the strength it brings to the project. 3 1 general Experience -This section should demonstrate the Contractor's skill by providing examples of what the firm considers to be their best work. (Text and Photographs) 3.3 Specific Project Personnel - Please provide information describing the experience of each of the individuals assigned by the firm to this project The individual assigned to the project by name with a description of the assignment and responsibilities to be performed. Provide a list of projects in which the individual has functioned in similar capacity. Previous project experience on other projects that the firm has done. Additional information that will help the evaluation team in reviewing the information. 3.4 Specific Project Experience - Please provide information regarding experience with large retail projects and warehouse facilities. 3.5 References - Please provide references for individual projects including contact names and phone numbers for the Owner, the Project Type, and Construction Costs. 3.6 Deadline for Submissions - Four copies of the Qualifications must be received by 2:00 pm (MST), Monday, December 1 5, 2006. Qualifications received after that time will not be i 4. Questions and Clarifications Questions should be directed to Molli Kiser, VCBO Architecture (801) 575-8800 telephone, (801) 531-9850 fax, or mkiservcbo.com. The Owner requests not to be contacted. Thank you for respecting that desire. The Owner reserw the right to waive any or all of these requirements should it be deemed in their best ., . , . 3abm 1 s-j (MemcalJ Men of Mystery -... V !. Bill' by George Long Note: The following story is about a man who for over 55 years lived a life which was one of a solitary and lonely existence. Williams "Bill" Luckinbill was his name and nearly everyone referred to him as "old Bill. "lean remember him as far back as about 1930 and to me he was an old man then. It is believed that he was born about 1865. William T. Luckinbill came west from Iowa sometime in the early 1890s and first spent time in Wyoming. Later he made his way into the Browns Park and Diamond Mountain area where he eventually homesteaded. He was a tall rawboned individual and in his younger years was known to be able to take care of .him-,:i self, whatever the situation, and was considered a top hatod in handling livestock and was-am' expert bronc rider. He worked a lot of the ranches ranch-es in the area and as a rule owned several good horses. One of his trademarks was a crooked stem pipe, in which he smoked the strongest tobacco he could come by. Bill knew most of the men who were involved with the Wild Bunch. He at times sold or traded horses with some of them and he gained their respect as to his knowledge of good horse flesh. I'm sure that more than once that some of these men stayed at his cabin and he probably stayed at their places as well. Besides Butch Cassidy, he was well acquainted with Matt Warner and Eliza Lay. Bill was always very secretive about his early life in Iowa and if it came up, he would change the subject. Before many years he and my father, ,t Power Long, struck up a lasting friendship. My dad had come from Iowa in 1905, so they shared something in common. We had a neighbor that had a farm next to us, who was also from Iowa, by the name of Deek Gartrell. He had a spare log cabin and at times Bill would come and stay awhile and they would swap stories about this and that, but Bill would never say much about his years back east. ' ' About the first time I can remember him, was when he came to our place with a strange looking look-ing box. Inside was a fiddle and you could see that it hadn't been used for a long time. Some of the strings were missing and the bridge was broken. The box or case was something that had been homemade. Bill told my dad that he wanted want-ed him to take it and string it up and play it as this was what it needed, and to keep it as long as he wanted to. He knew my dad had a fiddle and played at several of the old time dances in the area. Later as my dad got to looking down inside the fiddle, he could make out that it was made in Germany in 1880, just a year older then he was, as he had been born in 1881. I'm not sure what the name of it was, but dad said that it had the best tone of any fiddle he had ever heard and he used it for several years. ''- ' . Bill continued to live the life of a bachelor and for years lived in a small cabin, at first along 1 Ashley Creek and later at Brig Brush Creek, between the Shiner and DeJournette ranches. He worked a lot for DeJournettes and also some for the Shiners, helping them with their sheep outfits. During cold weather he always wore two pair of overalls over his long Johns aud it's doubtful if he ever washed them. He was one of the first to get a battery operated radio, when these new sources of entertainment came put, and I've heard Deloy Shiner tell of when they'd go down to Bill's to listen to some of the prize . fights. This man lived a frugal life, and I've heard some say that Old Bill was as tough as shoe : leather and he certainly proved so. He, as a rule, . drank water either out of a ditch or one of the creeks and sometimes an old well, whichever was the handiest One time he came down with typhoid fever and nearly died, but he overcame it and was soon up and doing okay again. f Another time he got Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever and this really hit him hard, but again be survived, even though this infection, caused by ticks, claimed the lives of several men. With one of these diseases, Bill came to our place and my dad and Deek Gartrell fixed up an old cabin and had the doctor come and see him. They didn't give him much hope, as his fever was so high and he wouldn't go to the hospital. The doctor doc-tor had a country nurse, who I think was Aunt Jane Murray, come out every day and check on him. One of the first things she did was give him a bath, which he didn't want, but she gave it to him anyway, as in his weakened condition there wasn't much he could do about it, only cuss a little. lit-tle. Living alone like he did for so long, he hadn't been much for bathing. Bill recovered and in time went back to his cabin on the creek. Throughout his life, Bill did a lot of prospecting prospect-ing and looking for buried loot that he figured some of the Wild Bunch may have hidden. One time my grandfather, William S. Powell and his sdnf-Johrmey found cached in a cave oruBirUsh Creek Mountain several items including foipick and shovel, a wheelbarrow, a real nice saddle along with a rifle and several cooking utensils. When Bill heard about this, he took a pack outfit and spent a long time going over the area. If he found anything more, he never told anyone, but he spent a long time doing things of this kind. Something else that Bill was certainly well adept at, was trapping, He did a lot of trapping and most likely made quite a bit of money as the price of hides and furs stayed pretty good, even during the Great Depression. He trapped about anything that had a fur on it, including skunks. Not only did a nice prize skunk fur bring a good price, but Bill would render its fat and make a grease in which to rub on his boots, saddles and harnesses. It was appropriately called skunk oil. One day he brought a jar of it to our place and gave it to my dad. When mother heard about it, she said that in no way was it to be brought into the house or used on our shoes as she figured it would have the skunk smell. Well she had to change her mind as it didn't smell any different from' other greases used on leather, in fact just as Old Bill said, it did a better job. In later years, as Bill started getting feeble and to the point where he wasn't doing well, my father had a long talk with him about his past. Bill told him that he was from a little town not far from Des Moines in Iowa, called Coon Rapids. He said that he had been married and had three small children, two boys and a girl and that he and hjs wife had some very serious problems, so serious in fact that he left and never went back or got in touch with them again. He then got on the train and headed west. My father, along with White and Vera Ainge, got in touch at the Post Office here in Vernal and they sent word to the courthouse in Coon Rapids where one of Bill's sons, Arlie Luckinbill, happened hap-pened to be or else was working there, and he was notified. How shocked this man was to hear that his father who had been gone nearly 60 years was still alive. Arlie and his wife wasted no time in coming to Vernal to get his father and whdt a wonderful reunion it was. Bill had thought that his family wouldn't want him, but they were filled with joy beyond their wildest dreams. As soon as they could make arrangements, of which Dick, DeJournette helped, as Bill worked for them a long time, they left for their home in Iowa. Yes, back to the same little town where Bill left so long ago. The year was 1949. They kept in touch with my folks and one day a letter came and they asked about the old fiddle that Bill had let my father have and if it was all right with him, would he send it to them as they didnt have much that represented all the years their father had lived away. My father fixed up the old box and with the fiddle and bow packed securely inside, sent it to them. He told us what a good feeling it gave him to do this for the family of bis long time friend. Soon another letter came, thanking my dad for the instrument, all he had done to help their father in his failing years, and for getting in touch with them. A couple years later, Old Bill passed away and he was no doubt a happy man. He was in his late 80s. Now William T. Luckinbill or "Old Bill" as many called him, lived a life unlike anyone today and he for sure is deserving to be called a man of mystery. AtCKlTICtliai 1. A |
