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Show A2 Wednesday, March 5, 2008 Low interest rates help funding of new UBATCUSU building The Uintah Impact Mitigation Mitiga-tion Special Service District earmarked $4.6 million to pay for the Uintah Basin Applied Technology CollegeUSU-Uintah Basin building last week. The funds are in the form of mineral lease bonds locked in at an interest inter-est rate of just over 3 percent last week. This action finalized the needed paperwork on financing the first building on the new Vernal campus. "The rates are so low right now and locking in this rate will benefit the project greatly," said Rob Behunin, district director. Construction began last fall on the ground improvements needed for the new building located lo-cated across from the high school on 500 North. Even though the winter has been long and cold, Behunin reported that crews are right on schedule in getting the geopiers installed and the VERNAL I (USPS 0892-1091) Periodical postage paid at Vernal, Utah Published weekly at 54 N. 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"We are right now playing the waiting game with Mother Nature before we start forming the footers and foundation and then people will start seeing more of the actual building, " said Behunin. Be-hunin. "Even though there has been a lot of sub-surface work going on this winter, it is always better when you start seeing the actual building above ground and that should be soon." Specifications detailing the underpass that will be constructed construct-ed to connect the high school campus with the new higher ed campus will be put out to bid soon. Behunin explained that all the project specifications have been compiled and prepared for bid. This work will be done so that major road closures or single lane construction periods will happen in the summer when the high school is not in session. In the Uintah Basin 1 Yr. $26 -- 2 Yr. $48 J Out of the Uintah Basin lYr.$42-2Yrs.$70 I of State -1 Yr. $46 2 Yrs. $80 I II Zip4 I Sorry No Charges r-' 1- -'i . ' ' 111 ! 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"We will use this information to help guide some of the things we do around here in the future concerning public lands use, trails, recreation areas, agriculture, agricul-ture, industry and residential," said Behunin. "This plan should give us a better idea on how to segment the valley for appropriate appropri-ate uses, taking in everybody's interests." The plan will begin in May and will take a year to complete. A Uintah County socioeconomic socioeco-nomic study was also funded by the board. Community development develop-ment funds totaling $40,000 in will be used to develop a plan that explains the needs of people as they are impacted by the current economy. The plan will better If you want to make farm life less taxing, talk to your people at H&R Block. Our people can answer questions about things like fuel credit, farm income averaging, and casualty losses. Call 1-800-HRBLOCK or visit hrblock.com H&R Block 1607 West Hwy40 Vernal, UT 84078 435-789-3335 2006 H&R Block Services, Inc. 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' UBATC President Paul Hacking Hack-ing addressed the meeting by thanking the board for their support of education in the Valley, especially for their support of the scholarship program available for Uintah County students to use in furthering their education in both vocational and educational educa-tional pursuits, hanked the board for their support - scholarships - thanks. In other actions by the board, transient room tax dollars were approved for the following events: PDQ Team Penning event, $3,000 Split Mountain Archers event, $3,000 H&R Block 865 E. 200 N. Roosevelt, UT 84066 435-722-3335 H&R BLOCK You got people LG Scoop" '49 99 after $50 mail-in rebate with 2-yr. service agreement. Chat-style text messaging IM preloaded Camera with video Bluetooth Available In citrus orange, slate gray and turquoise blue. HTC Touch 199 99 after $100 mail-In rebate with 2-yr. service agreement. 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Scholarship Continued from Al have parasites," said Goddard. "And we just tried helping out with some of them with the rubber rub-ber boots." Russell Perry stated that the group also dispersed medical supplies to the village. "We went to enrich their lives and when we were finished we noticed that it was totally the other way around. They enriched ours," said Perry. His wife Cindy Perry explained ex-plained that they taught English classes as well as lessons on doing the "Hokey Pokey" and "Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes" as they taught English. "One thing about Rotary Humanitarian Hu-manitarian projects-100 percent of the money donated to the club Fire District Continued from Al needs to be added or changed, all the entities have to meet and agree on the change." Issues addressed in the agreement, agree-ment, include insurance, hiring of new employees and equipment usage. "The fire district is leasing from the cities and the county all the fire equipment for the year," said Raymond. "After 25 years, if the district is still functioning, all the equipment - whether city or county - will belong to the district," Eventually, the firefighters from each of the districts will be 'B8'20DB"BA Wednesday, March 1 2th &Thursday, March 13th 1 To be held in Rock Springs, Wyoming at the L . Holiday Inn -1675 Sunset Drive (Off 1-80 Exit 102) . L- , , . , f mEmiSSMF0MLLFREED00mi2ES ISA - The Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation Society i This event is sponsored by the Southwestern Wyoming ISA Section and Produced in cooperation with Sweetwater County Joint Travel and Tourism Board i . - ...J -miiWI f m Wjjff C? fjjj. WW 435-789-3511 "It is a balancing act," explains ex-plains Stringer, who will leave to direct the minerals division in the Cheyenne, Wyo., BLM regional office. "What we are trying to do is to permit development of domestic do-mestic energy resources while at the same time avoid irreversible damage to the environment." The PEIS is available in electronic elec-tronic form (PDF) on the project Web site, http:ostseis.anl.gov or or at the BLM Field Office in Vernal, Ver-nal, 170 S. 500 East. Comments can be provided electronically and written comments may be mailed to: BLM Oil Shale and Tar Sands Resources Draft Programmatic Pro-grammatic EIS Comments, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Argonne IL 60439. Questions about submitting submit-ting comments should be sent to ostseiswebmasteranl.gov or call (630)252-6182. goes to the project - there is no overhead taken out," explained Perry. And the donations didn't stop with just getting to Peru and accomplishing ac-complishing what was planned. Perry told of a boy with a broken leg that was diagnosed by one of the medical staff with rotary. The boy was taken to the hospital while rotary members "passed the hat" and faised the necessary $1,500 to pay for the surgery. "We are a small club here, but we pull together and work hard to make things happen," stated local club president Randy Harding. Har-ding. He also expressed thanks for the donated items from local businesses that were used in the auction to fund their scholarship program this year. Last year the auction funded eight scholarships. scholar-ships. district employees. "Anyone that will be hired in any station after Oct. 1 will be a district employee - whether county or city," explained Raymond. Ray-mond. Currently only county firefighters are district employees. employ-ees. The others are still employed through the cities. " The agreement covered the main point as far as fire protection, protec-tion, firemen and equipment," Raymond said. With the interlocal agreement approved and in place, the fire district will now begin to work with each of the cities to create separate agreements for the lease of their fire stations, which wasn't covered in the interlocal agreement. mm from 9:00 a.m. till 7:00 p.m. from 9:00 a.m. till 3:00 p.m. SWEETWATER COUNTY "! -nnm i 54 North Vernal Avenue C? Vernal, Utah www.vernal.com 1 |