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Show Wednesday, May 7, 2008 A9 Open house set for alternate truck route south of Vernal Vernal Express : ' - i " ,L ' is W V 1 A VJ v 1 i ' tJbuwf in Crews are busy forming and pouring footings at the new UBATCUSU building on 500 north in Vernal. Pours are made in 80- to 90-yard deliveries in a day and then forms are moved to accommodate accom-modate a second day of pouring concrete. In all there will be about 2,500 linear feet of foot poured for the first buildings. Footings poured at UBATCUSU By Kevin Ashby Express Publisher Pouring concrete is quite simple in nature for most housing hous-ing pours. But when you start putting together the trenches, rebar and forms totaling 2,500 linear feet of outside walls the project now becomes complex with tight pouring schedules. Concrete specialists from Steven's Construction have the bid for the footings for the new UBATCUSU building located on 500 North across from Uintah Uin-tah High School. They will dig trenches, tie rebar together for the footing, and connect the footing to the geo-piers already set in the ground on bedrock. Once forms are created for the footings, they will pour twice a week. Concrete is delivered from In-termountain In-termountain Concrete of Vernal. They deliver it in 80- to 100-yard batches twice a week. This will continue for several weeks as the crews, in ant-like maneuvering dig and stitch together the necessary neces-sary parts of the footer. "Now that the weather has warmed, we are cooking right along," said Larry Ramirez, project superintendent for D&D Construction. "In fact, we will start the masonry block walls sometime this week and then you'll be able to see what we have been working on all winter long." The geopeiers were designed to float the building's foundation founda-tion separate from the existing exist-ing ground and ground- water. Ramirez also stated the geo-piers geo-piers are doing what they were designed to do. "But I am so glad that winter is over," said Ramirez. "You have some pretty rough winters out here and now it is the wind which might keep us off the scaffolding if it is bad enough while we are building the walls." : mirt" -f-A Laj j 1 ., . Jt Uintah FFAmembers attending Utah FFAAssociation State Convention areAustin Huber, Amy Henline, Janessa Chew, Erica Davis, Angela Perry, Nicole Alonso, Kamil Chandler, Jessica Warren, Janeal Bartlett, Kirisa Chandler, Alesha Chandler, Cameron Cooper and FFA adviser David Wilson. excels Uintah at state convention Uintah FFA Chapter members mem-bers attended the Utah FFA Association State Convention at Southern Utah University in Cedar City on April 9 to 11. FFA members competed in the job interview contest, parliamentary procedure contest, prepared public pub-lic speaking, FFA Creed speaking, attended leadership workshops, listened to motivational speakers, speak-ers, the Utah State FFA officer presentations, received the Utah Superior Chapter Rating, and three Uintah members were awarded the Utah FFA Degree. Amy Henline won first place in the job interview career develop- A A A 1 mem event. Aarianne r rancisco placed 2nd in the prepared public speaking contest, Alesha Chandler Chan-dler placed in the top 10 in FFA Creed speaking, and the Uintah FFA parliamentary procedure team brought home a fourth place state finish. Henline will compete on the national level in job interview at the National FFA Convention in October in Indianapolis, In. Uintah FFA members awarded award-ed the Utah FFA Degree were Erica Davis, Shanae Jackson and Brittany Carling. This is the second-highest degree that can be earned in FFA and is earned by less then 2 percent of all FFA members. To earn this degree takes accurate and consistent record keeping, dedication and involvement in FFA. The degree recognizes them for their efforts in going above and beyond with their Supervised Agricultural Experience (SAE) program, FFA leadership and academics. Davis represented the Uintah FFA Chapter as a candidate for Utah FFA Association state office. of-fice. As a state officer candidate, she had to submit an application, transcript and recommendations , before the convention and then go through many rounds of interviews inter-views and team work scenarios while at the convention. Uintah FFA was one of only 10 chapters in Utah out of more than 60 chapters to receive the Five Star FFA Chapter honor, for having a well rounded, successful success-ful FFA Chapter that goes above and beyond. Uintah FFA was the sixth rankingchapter out of more than 60 for success in Utah FFA Career Development Events, i Uintah FFA members Nicole Alonso and Jessica Warren were selected to share their talents at the convention by performing a vocal solo, and ballet solo. Attendingthis year's convention were: Davis, Henline, Kamil Chandler, Alesha Chandler, Janeal Bartlett, Austin Huber, Kirisa Chandler, Angela Perry, Nicole Alonso, Jessica Warren, Janessa Chew, Adrianne Francisco Fran-cisco and Cameron Cooper, these students were accompanied by adviser David Wilson, and assistant as-sistant adviser Holly Wilson and member parent Pam Hansen. Quality care with a personal touch. Ashley Regional Medical Center will be offering: your out-of-pocket expenses if you schedule a Bone Density Test during the month of May. Call 789-3342, Ext. 222 to schedule your test, or ask your family doctor today! Ashley Regional MEDICAL CENTER nTW -1'' -'OvD' "Hi'V The Uintah Transportation Special Service District will present its recommendation for , a future alternate transportation corridor at a public open house Wednesday from 6:30-8 p.m. at Western Park. The public is encouraged to attend this open house and provide input on UTSSD's recommendation before it is sent to the Uintah County Commission for final approval. Based on public comments received at an open house held in November, a UTSSD steering committee selected three routes for further evaluation to assist them in determining the recommended alternate route. UTSSD will now present what was heard from the public at the last open house as well as their evaluation summary that resulted in the recommended corridor. "The public made it clear that transportation is very important to Uintah County's development and growth," said UTSSD Chairman Mike Slaugh. "Based on what we heard from the public, and on further engineering studies, we are recommending a corridor that both reflects what the public had to say and meets our future transportation needs." A UTSSD stakeholder committee comprised of elected officials from Uintah County and the cities of Vernal, Naples and Ballard, as well as state and city transportation, public safety and economic development officials reviewed more than 200 written comments from the public regarding the preservation of a future transportation corridor. Based on these comments, the committee focused their evaluation on three routes and applied the following criteria: roadway construction costs, right-of-way costs based on land ownership, roadway costs for side street connector improvements and travel times. From this evaluation, the committee selected the recommended route and is no w asking for public input before it is sent to the Uintah County commissioners for a final decision. "We would like thank the public for their comments and encourage them to attend the next open house," said UTSSD Executive Director Cheri McCurdy. "We want to hear from the public one last time before we send our final recommendation to the county commissioners." For further information on the alternate truck route study, including corridor maps, please visit UTSSD's Web site at www. utssd.utah.gov. Saturday morning at the Scenic Overlook on U.S. Highway 40 south of Vernal was the scene of the Vernal Stake's highway clean up effort. "G&H Garbage donated a trash dumpster," said organizer Greg Cochran, "which we filled within 20 minutes. This kind of grassroots clean up shows both pride and respect for our the community." Three crews on the west side of the highway filled two containers and between 1 50 and 1 80 orange trash bags. This intensive effort is all part of the Community Clean Up Days, including "free landfill access on May 9,1 0, 1 6 and 1 7," said Uintah County Commissioner Mike McKee. "Remember, state law and county ordinance requires you to tarp your load." Find all Uintah County listings on one site! www.kyleashworth.com Motivated Sellers 4 Bedroom 2 bath Fully Remodeled Home Large .30 acre lot S Priced below ; $220,000 , ASPEN BROOK REALTY INC. Great Home in Tridell) Over 2 acres of land ?!KAalSW,900 Ony3yearsold. New Listing Home is less than 1 year old! Rare single level home in Split Mountain Village Two Bedroom, Two Bath, Two Car Garage. Fireplace, Appliances included. Priced at $184,000 "Expect the Best" h r) i", s Bi 111111 I I T rirl Kyle Ashworth 435-790-2544 wrww.kyleashworth.com 1340 West Highway 40, Vernal, UT 84078 Office: (435) 789-7555 Fax: 781-2913 Today's Weather r Wed 57 7244 Slight chance of a thunderstorm. Sunrise Sunset 6:09 AM 8:18 PM Thu 58 6542 Mix of sun and clouds. Highs in the mid 60s and lows in the low 40s. Sunrise Sunset 6:08 AM 8:19PM' Fri 59 6340 Partly cloudy. Highs in the low 60s and lows in the low 40s. Sunrise Sunset 6 07 AM 8:20 PM Sat 510 6336 Times of sun and clouds. Highs In the low 60s and lows in the mid 30s. Sunrise Sunset 6 06 AM 8:21 PM Sun 511 6941 Plenty of sun. Highs in the upper 60s and lows in the low 40s. Sunrise Sunset 6:05 AM 8:22 PM We Celebrate Hometown Life Stones for and about hometowns just like yours. Look for us each week in this paper. Utah At A Glance Logan 6439' C Ogden Wi 6442 Salt Lake City V fct44 I Provo tb4fc Vernal 7244 Cedar City 7138 J Moon Phases . New First May 5 May 12 o o Full Last May 20 May 28 UV Index Wed 57 8 Very High Thu 58 8 very High Fri 59 7 High Sat 510 8 Very High Sun 511 9 Very High The UV Index is measured on a 0-1 1 number scale wilh a higher UV Index showing the need for greater skin protection pro-tection O 1 1 Area Cities Beaver 69 38 t-storm GianU Jet, CO ii 62 t-sloim Price i)d ja t-stoirn Blanding 77 47 mst sunny Green River 78 49 t-storm Provo 66 46 t-storm BrighamCity 66 42 t-storm HeberCity 55 34 t-storm Richfield 69 39 t-storm Cedar City 71 38 mst sunny Kanab 72 42 t-storm Roosevelt 61 38 t-storm Delta 70 42 t-storm Logan 64 39 t-storm Salt Lake City 66 44 t-storm Elko. NV 63 34 t-storm Moab . 79 49 t-storm Sandy 65 46 t-storm Evanston, WY 52 32 t-storm Mt. Pleasant 65 39 t-storm St. George 83 57 sunny Farmington, NM 77 42 mst sunny Ogden 64 42 t-storm Tooele 61 43 t-storm Fillmore 71 43 t-storm Park City 52 35 t-storm .Vernal 72 44 t-storm Flagstaff, AZ 61 30 mst sunny Preston, ID 63 37 t-storm Wendover 67 44 t-storm National Cities Atlanta 02 61 pt sunny Houston 8b 72 t-storm Phoenix bi b2 sunny Boston 68 54 rain Los Angeles 66 54 pt sunny San Francisco 71 49 pt sunny Chicago 68 46 t-storm Miami 83 75 mst sunny Seattle 55 43 pt sunny Dallas 81 62 t-storm Minneapolis 61 44 pt sunny St. Louis 75 59 t-storm Denver 64 44 rain New York 75 59 pt sunny Washington, DC 83 65 pt sunny 2005 American Profile Hometown Content Service |
