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Show A2 Wednesday, April 30, 2008 Vernal Express Convention Continued from Al for state House District 54 and for the 2nd Congressional District, if the field is not narrowed at the state convention on May 10. For the Republicans, the state House race is being contested by David R. Labrum of Roosevelt, and Kraig Powell and Robert Wren, both of Heber City. Rep. Gordon Snow, R-Roosevelt, who represented District 54 for 10 Arson Charges Continued from Al him. The officer said he stopped Eldredge, advised him of his rights, and then asked if he still wanted to talk. "He said that he was upset over a girlfriend, " Davis wrote in his statement. "He said he broke into the salon because he needed money. ...He said he started the fire because he did not want to leave any evidence behind." Davis said Eldredge told him that after setting the fire in the salon he broke out the glass at Jiffy Pawn intending to enter the store to search for more money. Eldredge allegedly told the officer he changed his mind after spotting spot-ting his patrol car pulling into the parking lot. Eldredge was transported to Ashley Regional Medical Center by ambulance for stitches to his leg. He was then booked into the Uintah County Jail. An initial court appearance was scheduled for Monday, after press time. VERNAL i 11 (USPS 0892-1091) Periodical postage paid at Vernal, Utah Published weekly at 54 N. Vernal Ave., Vernal, UT 84078 POSTMASTER: Send address changes to the Vernal Express at 54 N. 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All Duchesne County voters - regardless of party affiliation - are also being asked to go to the polls on June 24 to cast their ballots on an increase in the voted leeway tax proposed by the Duchesne County School District. If the increase is passed, it would annually raise about $100,000 for schools in Duchesne Duch-esne County. And while uses for the money would be decided on a year-to-year basis, district officials have immediate plans to spend the money on salary increases for teachers and classified clas-sified employees. The last voted leeway tax increase in the Duchesne County School District was in 1993. On average, other school districts in Utah have implemented 45 percent more of the voted leeway program than the Duchesne district has. If approved, the voted leeway tax would be implemented over a nine-year period. At most, taxpayers tax-payers will only see a $5 increase per year on each $100,000 in home value. Contributing: Preston Mc-Conkie, Mc-Conkie, Lacey McMurray I I 1 Yr. $26 - 2 Yr. $48 Out of the Uintah Basin 1 Yr. $42 - 2 Yrs. $70 I I of State -1 Yr. $46 2 Yrs. $80 I I I Zip4 54 North Vernal Avenue Vernal, Utah 435-789-3511 www.vernal.com S At v ' Utah Lt. Gov. Gary Herbert addresses delegates at the Duchesne County Republican Convention on Wednesday night as other Republican Re-publican candidates for public office await their turn to speak. Herbert, who also spoke to Uintah County Republicans on Wednesday, and Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. are both seeking re-election this year. f ( The Deparment of Workforce Services held a career fair to give employer's the opportunity to meet were over fifty booths, and around a 100 potential new hires attended the event. Job fair is successful for job The Department of Workforce Services spearheaded a career fair held at the Western Part on Friday. Over fifty businesses set-up booths to talk to potential employee's. Around hundred candidates perused the booths and spoke with employers. "The people all looking for a job all the time," explained Marilyn Mari-lyn Wallis, business consultant to the DWS. "This gave employer's " ? i t tlHt'j e-1 1' i s f ! : Recycling - has it started By Kevin Ashby Vernal Express Publisher Word around Vernal is that the county's recyclingprogram of paper products is back on again. Actually, that statement is only half true. On the books there is an inter local agreement between Uintah County and Vernal City to provide funds to operate the basics of a recycling program beginning with newspapers and h. . .. V - i- AW. h Ji Jb - 1 b I -1" I " and potential employee's the opportunity to meet each other. We will probably have another similar event next year." Many of the businesses were able to hire a few new employee's while some found some potential candidates. For new businesses like Cased Hole Logging and Enercrest the fair gave them the opportunity to present their name to the public. card board. In fact, they put forth the funds to purchase a $6,500 paper shredder as well as three $9,300 portable recycling bins that will be placed around the area to collect the paper and card board. They also rented a building to house the program in Maeser at 2500 West and 500 North. The governmental leaders also renewed the contract with the School District's Can Do program to provide the labor for .. . . . Uintah County and Vernal City purchased three recycling bins to be placed around the county to collect cardboard and newspapers. Currently bins are located at the Maeser Corner, 2500 West and 500 North and in the east parking lot of Davis Jubilee. The third one will be placed somewhere in Naples. S i - TRUSTED SECURE RESPECTED Dale Van Pelt 800.838.1983 Cell: 970.640.8727 ' 604 25 Road PO Box 1509 Grand Junction, CO 81502-1509 V", - i ft' , c "It is a good thing to get your name out there in any new ar ea, " said Sara Koehn of Enercrest. Koehn like many of the recruiters re-cruiters traveled from outside of Vernal to attend the fair. Established businesses like Western Petroleum and Coke were also benefited by the event. Bill Kremin, of Western Petroleum commented that his company found a few potential the recycling program. And to this point, everything is working according to plan. Well, almost. According to Brian Baldwin, director of the Can Do program for the school district, things are not comingtogether quite as fast as expected by governmental leaders area residents. Baldwin explained that members mem-bers of the Can Do crew were able to put a recycling bin in Maeser at the corner of 2500 West and 500 North and another one in the Since 1907. Specialists in Oil and Gas field and Construction Insurance and Risk Management. Proud Representatives of the Travelers Insurance and Bituminous Insurance Companies. Vj Moody-Vdlley Insurance Agency, Inc. w a few potential employee's. There seekers applicants and hired one indi vidual. "There is such a shortage o driver's, you'd do anything to tint the workers," said Kremin. Wallis said the idea behind thi fair was to help alleviate somi of the challenges behind findinj solid employee's. Most of thi organizations in attendance wen able to find a few such people. or not? east parking lot of Davis Jubilee and they are receiving product at those two locations. But the problem is that the business who was going to purchase pur-chase the shredded paper product for use in an oil related field, is not able to use the product any more and so currently there is no market for the shredded paper. Now, they are left with having to truck the product out of the area and it is not cost effective according to Baldwin. "We just don't have an easy access to a recycling center here in Vernal so we are trying to start with paper and card products," explained city administrator Ken Bassett. "It is the right thing for us to do even if it is not as big as what is found in the urban areas." Bassett explained that for the short term, providing funding for the rent of the building and getting some basic equipment to get started was a good thing. "Long term, we need to develop an even broader plan, but we haven't done this yet." Baldwin agrees with the spirit of recycling, but explained that the Can Do participants have other things that they must do and that they can't do the recycling recy-cling program full-time. "My job is director of the Can Do program," explained Baldwin. "And the recycling responsibilities responsibili-ties should take about 10 percent of my time. Right now it is taking tak-ing about 50 percent of my time and so it is taking longer to get established." Baldwin explained that he has been meeting with area businesses busi-nesses to see if they can take the shredded product, and so far has not had any takers. In the end, the product will have to put into gaylord containers and shipped to Salt Lake to be recycled. Currently Cur-rently they are using the semi-truck semi-truck driving program of UBATC to provide some of transportation to Salt Lake. The rest is costly to do with the price of fuel. "Basically, we are a go with announcing to the community that we have the three bins that they can use with recycling newspaper and cardboard," said Baldwin. "But please be patient with us while we figure out what we are going to do with the collected col-lected product. For a little while we 'are going to have to pace ourselves." |