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Show I C12 Wednesday, June 11, 2008 Vernal Express Chamber banquet will honor business success f 1 1 -sfe. .JSf John Beaslin - Chamber Total Citizen of the Year The Vernal Chamber of Commerce Com-merce will host its 59th Annual Meeting and Awards Banquet on Thursday, June 12 under the theme "United We Stand." John Beaslin will be honored as the chamber's Total Citizen of the Year and five local businesses will be honored with awards. Beaslin was born on June 1, 1927 in Dragon. He married Sallie Congdon and had four children. John served his country in the U.S. Navy in World War II and in Korea. He graduated from the University of Utah Law School in 1955 where he served as president of the law school. After law school, he worked as a Grand Jury Investigator for the State of Utah. He started the law firm of Beaslin, Nygaard, Coke and Vincent in Salt Lake City before moving to Vernal in 1960 to practice law. Since moving to Vernal, John has been involved in numerous community and state activities. He is a past president of the Utah State Bar Association and served as the State Bar Commissioner for seven years. He is a member of the Mason's Lodge, El Kalah Shrine Club, York Rite, Scottish Rite, and Eastern Star. He is a past president of the Rotary Club and helped start the Elk's Club, where has was a trustee for five years. Beaslin has served on numerous numer-ous committees of the Dinosau-rland Dinosau-rland Travel Board and was a member of the board of directors for the Vernal Area Chamber of Commerce, Zions Bank, Ashley Regional Medical Center and many others. John helped start Dinosaur Advertising and served as president. John also served as the chamber president in 1988-89. He also served the state as a member of the Utah State Centennial Commission. He has also been involved with the Dinosaur Roundup Rodeo for many years. Salt Lake Tribune humor columnist Robert Kirby will be the featured guest speaker for the program on Thursday evening. He was raised in a military family. fam-ily. Following an LDS mission to South America, Kirby became a police officer. His law enforcement enforce-ment career was cut short in 1989 by the "idiotic notion" as he describes it of becoming a writer. Robert has written for the Tribune since 1994. His column appears every Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays. Kirby is the author of six humor hu-mor books, two novels, and a history his-tory book, "End of Watch: Utah's Murdered Police Officers," published pub-lished by the University of Utah Press in February 2004. He describes himself as a confused grandfather with three daughters and one wife. He lives with his long-suffering family in i r-i i ; D) (Mi r icn i Wn A Ynu RaI Mmwa 4T. .. L I H. m l ) , I ! I J L l" ' -S W - .. t ml wU - W - . . r "tats Mfc Pi ! ' I XaJ J mil V Wt Ext tz Ms, Krylsss, f .J V f t r ' V J n J t W J W 7 PONTIAC MOTORSPORTS More Listings At Murr3yM0t0r.com Herriman, where neighbors no longer speak to him. The chamber also recognizes successful businesses in the agriculture, government, manufacturingindustry, manu-facturingindustry, service and retailwholesale sectors. The following will be honored on Thursday evening: Billy Cook - Business of the Year - Agriculture " We ' ve always been in the livestock live-stock business," said Bill Cook. "I grew up on a farm where my parents, Floyd and Sarah Cook ran a successful sheep operation." opera-tion." He explained that they spent their summers on a ranch near Meeker, Colo., and winters in Vernal. Eventually, his father sold the Colorado property and in 1982 bought a sheep operation from Tom Anderson on Diamond Mountain. "That's when Jenette and I bought 100 head of cows and went into business with Dad, forming form-ing Cook Livestock," said Cook. "Since then we have continued to grow and we now run nearly 300 head on our private ground on Diamond Mountain, BLM and Ashley National Forest." The livestock and farming business has had its ups and downs. Over the years, in order to make ends meet, they had to obtain outside employment. For 16 years, Bill spent his days working as an electrician at the gilsonite mines and after work he ran the farm. After Floyd's death in 1991, a lot of the farm work fell to J enette and the boys. So with Jenette and the children tending to the cows, changing sprinklers and everything else that goes with the farm they have managed to keep the farm going. Five years ago. Billy quit his job at the mine to devote more time to the family farm. "We do our best to make our livestock business successful," explained Billy. "The love of the land and the love of working with livestock gets in your blood." Billy and Jenette are the parents of five children and are actively involved in the community commu-nity and their church. Uintah Recreation Special Service District - Government For decades, recreation has been a major component in Uintah Uin-tah County. The small Vernal city recreation department evolved into an association in 1993 with Vernal, Uintah County, Naples and Uintah School District contributing support and funding. fund-ing. The association became an independent special service district dis-trict in 1996 as local leaders saw the benefit of funneling mineral lease funds into local recreation programs and facilities. The district grew into a large department, managing and "" . ".S k) i ( ft ) Vi f 1 III if s y f I . 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Over the past few years, many changes have taken place, including includ-ing master planning of all the parks; new restroom facilities have been installed at the KOA soccer complex and Ballard City Park; 14 acres of property has been secured in Lapoint for the development of a new park; Dinaland Golf Course underwent a major renovation, including installation of pond liners, reconstruction recon-struction of holes 6 and 12 and a pro-shop remodel; construction started on a small indoor multipurpose multi-purpose building in Avalon; a new playground was installed in Jensen; the district assisted with the funding and construction of a new playground, three picnic shelters and a walking trail in Naples Park. In 2006, the district approached ap-proached the Utah Permanent Community Impact Board and received on of the largest awards granted by the board: $7 million was allocated in a long-term zero percent interest loan for the construction of a new indoor community center. The district board leveraged these funds with existing capital and began construction of a project that was 10 years in the making. The new Uintah Community Center - a 70,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art recreation center will open this month. The long awaited facility features two pools, indoor water slides, aerobic and cardiovascular rooms, an indoor walking track, climbing wall, on-site day care, party rooms and more. UBTA-UBET Communications-Industry Years ago, eight ranchers got together and started a little telephone company in the Uintah Basin because no one else wanted to service to homes that were so spread out. For the big phone companies, it was too remote and certainly wouldn't be profitable. profit-able. At that time telephone enthusiasts enthu-siasts in the Basin knew nothing about running a phone company; only that it had to be done - not for themselves but for their neighbors. That same spirit has guided the company ever since. Today, UBTA-UBET Communications Com-munications serves the entire Uintah Basin with the same quality phone service; however, they have never stopped listening to customers' needs. In addition to reliable phone service, UBTA-UBET UBTA-UBET offers the same cutting-edge technology including high-speed broadband Internet, satellite television and wireless phone service. In its 55th year of service, UBTA-UBET Communications now serves customers from L J f O u tl liiiL : Murray Leon Nielsen i Li - -;V ' V 1 t, V ' ' -i :fr 1 r 1 f F iii. ?t J7P.:". '. ':. DONATION TO DINALAND GOLF COURSE Uintah Basin Petroleum Days Committee presented a check on May 28 to Dinaland Golf Course. The donation will be used for the permanent scoreboard located behind holes 6 and 12 at the crossover. Dinaland Golf Course hopes to have the scoreboard up and running by June 20. Golf Pro Todd Meyer expressed Dinaland's sincere appreciation and gratitude of this great donation. Pictured left to right: Todd Meyer, Dan Rodgerson, Jay Orr, Dale Price and Gary Showalter. across the Basin, from the Colorado line to Daniels Summit, employing more than 160 Basin residents. In addition, UBTA-UBET UBTA-UBET Communications is owned by the members it serves, governed gov-erned by a locally elected board of directors representing each district in its service area. KVELKLCY-Service KVEL signed on the air the morning of Jan. 17, 1947, as KJAM Radio. This was quite an event as the Uintah Basin did not have a local radio station at that time. In October 1978, the first FM station signed on the air as KUIN which later became KLCY from the KVEL studios on N. Vernal Avenue. KVEL has enjoyed a long history of working together with the Vernal Area Chamber of Commerce Com-merce and other civic organizations organiza-tions toward the development and promotion of a variety of community events. Once such event was one of the chamber's "first Turkey Days atop the old J.C. Penney building on the corner of Main Streetand Vernal Avenue. Under the watchful eye of J.C. Penney manager Irv Haws the public listened "live" on the radio as live turkeys ,were released to the eager crowd below. Little did organizers know, domestic turkeys can't fly... Eventually this incident gained national attention when featured in an episode of the television sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati. In addition to Turkey Days, KVEL employees have worked closely with chamber members to represent events like the Hot Air Balloon Festival, Dinosaur Triathlon, and a hay lift in 1967 that brought hay to 32 ranches to help feel 8,000 sheep suffering due to extreme winter weather. In 1950, KVEL helped the chamber raise $3,500 to bring back the dinosaur bones from vth IrohiTpH fr.Tv""7"Ti f - , L ill t:. 'C7! lj Rob Reynolds Doug Murray the Carnegie Museum to be displayed dis-played at the local museum. The first sidewalk sales were in 1970. In 1985, station employees and chamber volunteers organized a fundraiser to purchase Christmas Christ-mas lights for Main Street. Currently, the staff at KVEL KLCY are heavily involved in chamber events such as the Radio Auction, Trees for Charity, Business Busi-ness Symposium, Healthbeat Health Fair, Golf Tournament and more. In addition the station sta-tion is responsible for the annual Home and Garden Show, Taste of Home CookingSchool, numerous traffic building retail promotions, promo-tions, MS Walk, Make-a-Wish and other charitable fundraising drives. Owner and General Manager Man-ager Steve Evans continues the station's rich heritage of community commu-nity service by encouraging each of the employees to get involved as a volunteer by investing time on and off the clock with.a public service effort or event. "Akeyelementof our business philosophy is to help build up this community which affords our employees and their families so many opportunities," stated Evans."Community service is a small way we can show our appreciation. ap-preciation. "Building a better community commu-nity helps to create a healthy environment in which to grow w-'"- " mm Vernal express Qievr on o) -r- ;i v -' s .y ly-JL - " ..- C3 v . - . - v, 1 ' '7 - a successful and prosperous business," said Evans. "Thecom-munity "Thecom-munity spirit found here is one reason why the Uintah Basin is a wonderful place to call home." Split Mountain Farms - RetailWholesale SplitMountain Garden Center in Jensen, is owned by Heather Cairfpbell and Day DeLaHunt. When they started their business with two small greenhouses in 1989 they sold their perennial plants on a wholesale basis. As the business grew, they started doing retail sales to local customers in 1995 and eventually phased out the wholesale sales. During the spring of 2000, they opened a new garden center on U.S. Highway 40. They now carry a wide variety vari-ety of perennials, herbs, annual flowers and vegetables, trees and shrubs. In addition to the garden center they also have a mail order business, "High Country Roses," which grows and ships 250 varieties of roses all over the United States. They have great long time staff members and have been fortunate to receive national mention of their roses in magazines including Sunset, Martha Stewart and Reader's Digest. Di-gest. Heather has been a chamber member since 1982 and has also served as chamber president. Wow! Such Specials found only in the... 54 North Vernal Avenue Vernal, Utah 435-789-3511 www.vernal.com irTvr? Gray, 17k Miles, 4x4,0-3487 nr mzz urn ZJ Now Available - i 2007 Vehicles .HA |