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Show B4 Wednesday, June 25, 2008 Vernal Express 1 f A veJ )) 1,1 ft. V- -,f-" i : p--i r 1 " h -- X : fa 1 ' r PS ' Tarik Nickolai Jones Jones returns from Russia Elder Tarik Nickolai Jones, son of Barton and Julie Jones, has returned form the Russia Rostov-Na-Danu LDS Mission. He will be speaking in Maeser 5th Ward, at the Maeser Stake Center on June 29 at 1 p.m. I ' ' . . t ' s s - - - Ah ' " f m ' -i. . j V s .a a " . ' v"4;i ; rA ; fA ' !''! V Ai W, a 1 ! Kalen Kohl Williams Williams receives Eagle award Kalen Kohl Williams received his Eagle Scout Award on June 21 at the Maeser Stake Center. He is the son of Gregg and Amber Williams. He is part of Troop 627 of the Maeser 7th Ward, formally of Vernal 8th Ward Troop 243. His leaders have included Van Hadlock, Gregg Williams, Scott Ruppe, Scott Sowards, Chad Perry, Jim Bryson, Scott Merkley Bruce Jones and Sam Taylor. In conjunction with Ashley National Forest, Kalen built a fence around the Historic String-ham String-ham Cabin Site to help keep vandals out and grazing cows from damaging the structure. 0 ' It ' ". ' ' 1 J - " J I : I , -:t; mint- -I ,'.- .-(WH Jj Jp i fill niV! BMHT EiUVm TOYOTA OESIST0HE 'I I ' i H l H Hi i i II) I BMHJ CUm. GHHYSIEB, JKP, 08001 MB NOW TORS, UM001N & IIWZVM T. M'MM J il'M-Mil fOll INHEDIHE RELEASE: Brtnt Brown, owntr of Bruit Brown Automotive Group plant to hold a on-da sales (vent on Saturday, June 21, 2008. This tale will take place at 2 location!. The All-New Brent Brown Toyota Hegaitore located at 1400 South Sandhill Bd. in Orem (I block touth of the UVU Brent Brown ballpark) and the Brent Brown Aulomill located at I99S North Univertity Parkway in Provo (just 3 mild east ol the UVU Brent Brown ballpark.) Brown nates that due to current economic conditions and its effect on sales, they find the dealerships critically overstocked with used vehicle trade-ins. "Quite frankly, we've never seen anything like these last few months. We're in i position where we have to liquidate these , vehicles in a hurry to bnn out inventories back in line." Brown continues, "We're going to hold this unusual 99 Sales Event when every used vehicle will be drastically reduced. Some lo only $99! To move these vehicles we'll be pricing used cars that could tell for sin to nine thousand dollars at the four to six thousand dollar range." This event promises to be exciting. "If you've never seen this type of disposal before..make sure you arrive early," says Brown. To timplily the sale they will pre-mark every used vehicle, The sales lots at I99S North University Parkway in Provo and 1400 South Sandhill H. in Orem will open lor preview at 9:30 am Salunhy. All vehicles will be open lor inspection at that lime. Joshua Reasch Cottrell Cottrell called to Portugal Joshua Reasch Cottrell has been called to serve a two-year mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Portugal Lisbon Mission, entering enter-ing the Missionary Training Center July 2. He is the son of Dale Cottrell of Cody, Wyo., and Joleen Cottrell of Vernal. He will be speaking June 29 at the Vernal 6th Ward, 850 W. 100 North, at 10 a.m. Long-time UBATC employee retires This week a 20-year employee of the Uintah Basin Applied Technology College will empty her desk and say goodbye to coworkers co-workers and clients. Custom Fit Representative Judy (Hadden) Smith, who has worked at the college longer than all but one other employee will retire this month to pursue other interests. S mith began working at the UBATC Roosevelt campus in 1989 as a secretary in the telecom tele-com department while still a student at Union High School. Her enthusiasm, intelligence, professionalism, and technical skills have provided several opportunities op-portunities for job advancement at the college. Smith is currently the lead Custom Fit representative for the Uintah Basin region. She has been instrumental in developing successful training partnerships and in coordinating quality customized cus-tomized training for hundreds of companies within the region. She has been working in the Custom Fit program since the spring of 2000. Smith is greatly respected by both her co-workers and her Custom Fit clients and will be missed. She plans to continue her activities as an avid traveler, marathon runner, photographer, humanitarian, and volunteer missionary for her church following fol-lowing her retirement. An open house to acknowledge Smith's retirement will be held Thursday from 3-5 p.m. at the Vernal UBATC building. The public is welcome. i y 1 . I Ul : hi -v;;' 'jtii;i At 9:45 am, the slasher will begin slashing prices to th lowest possible price. Whoever is sitting behind the wheel of any used vehicle will be given first opportunity to purchase the vehicle at the posted sale price in the windshield. No haggle, no hassle. Used car buyers will be available to bid on trade-ins during the sale hours of 9:45 am and 9:00 pm. Lenders will be there to arrange low-cost financing for virtually every level of credit history. Brown states, "Please be advised this is a one-day-only sales event. Because of the size of (he discounts being offered, when our inventories have been reduced to the desired level the sales tags will be removed and all vehicles will return to normal pricing." "This inventory situation has been very difficult on us, but it will certainly be an opportunity for the consumers who participate. We'd rather give our local customers the chance to purchase these vehicles than to send them to the auctions in Salt bke City," says Brown. Questions regarding this sale, call: I-80I-373-9S00, 1-80 1 -224-1 320. 1-801-373 2570, 1-801-229-3600. VIN numbers available at dealership. Visit Ui at www.brentbrownauto.corn Dale and Marilyn Thacker Thackers celebrate 60th anniversary Dale and Marilyn Thacker celebrated their 60th wedding wed-ding anniversary with a family gathering at the home of their daughter, Susan, in Alpine. They were married June 23, 1948 in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. Dale owned 'Ye Olde Shoe Shoppe' a shoe repair shop in Vernal and Marilyn worked at the Uintah County Hospital as an RN0 and as a public health nurse for Uintah County. They were temple workers at the Vernal LDS Temple. UBTA-UBET discusses By Geoff Lisik Uintah Basin News Service UBTA-UBET Communications Communica-tions held its 55th Annual Meeting Meet-ing on Thursday at Roosevelt Junior High School, where the cooperative's leaders reported another profitable year and talked about ongoing efforts to improve service and technology-Ashley Shiner, who represents the Altamont District on the UBTA-UBET Board and serves as secretary and treasurer, told members and customers that the telecommunications company had increased its equity from 21 percent in 2006 to 25 percent in 2007. "In reviewing the audited financial summary for 2007, it makes us very happy to say '' A , "I .1 A t- i : rA ' i Lj L, UBATC employee Judy Smith will retire after 20 years of service. 7 j ,yi?) A Their children are Acel (Pam) Thacker, Fort Grant, Ariz.; Nancy (Wally) Goddard, Little Rock, Ark.; Susan (Ed) Ham, Alpine; Alan (Wendy) Thacker, Ogden; and Lori (Phil) Her-mansen, Her-mansen, Cedar City. They have 20 grandchildren and 23 greatgrandchildren great-grandchildren with two on the way. Dale and Marilyn are now living in Odgen at 4481 Harrison Har-rison Blvd. Apt 318, Odgen, UT 84403. there's nothing but good news," Shiner said. Shiner said the cooperative has used its profits to continue to expand its DSL network, while still controlling costs and maintaining main-taining "system stability." As for UBTA-UBET's outstanding debt, Shiner said lower interest rates have allowed the company to refinance that debt to save money. "That is going to be a great benefit to our company in the months and years to come," she said. Board President Greg Garff said UBTA-UBET is facing challenges from national and international in-ternational telecommunications corporations that are seeking to take over services in the Uintah Basin and western Colorado. "Today we are in a very competitive com-petitive environment," Garff said. "We have obstacles continually continu-ally coming to us - not from the area where we live, not from the terrain - but we have it from Washington, D.C., and from Salt Lake with those who regulate and control our industry." Garff noted that the company is in the process of laying a second fiber-optic line out of the Basin to provide redundancy should the primary line through Wasatch County be severed. "I think that will be great for our area," he said. General Manager and CEO Bruce H. Todd also addressed the meeting, echoing some of Garff s comments, but speaking about the company's experience over the past year and the outlook for its immediate future. Todd told members and customers cus-tomers about UBTA-UBET's involvement in providing com Tired of being turned down for a home, call 801-975-7781 and get pre-approved over the phone Clayton Homes 3768 So Redwood Rd West Valley Utah Fax: 801-975-7782 Phone: 801-975-7781 VACA1 VAN Tricounty Health Department's Radiation Vacation Van service has expanded service to include transportation to any of the medical treatment facilities at the University of Utah such as the Moran Eye Center, Primary Children's Hospital, Huntsman Cancer Institute, Utah Diabetes Center, etc. Any individual seeking transportation to the University of Utah for medical treatment should call Natalie Feltch, Tricounty Health Department at 781-5468 781-5468 or 1-866-275-0246 to make arrangements. Parents will recieve y a discounted rate when riding with TRICOUNTY N pediatric patients. Jo & Jerry Romane Romanes celebrate 50th anniversary Jo & Jerry Romane were married mar-ried on June 28, 1958 in Eugene, Ore. They are having a private family barbecue. Jo retired from the Lamplighter Lamp-lighter as a cook. She loves to read and solve jigsaw puzzles. future technologies munications services for the National Type I Incident Management Man-agement Team responsible for battling last summer's Neola North Fire. Company crews moved a cellular-on-wheels or COW unit to Neola to address the dramatic increase in cell phone use. They also equipped Neola Elementary School with high-speed Internet lines and additional landline telephone connections to accommodate the Type I team's needs. "We believe you went way above the norm, doing more than was expected," Todd said, reading from a letter from Kim Martin, leader of the Type I team. "Your services were essential to our efficient operations supporting support-ing the suppression of the Neola North wildfire." Todd said last summer's disaster has reinforced UBTA-UBET's UBTA-UBET's understanding of the importance of communications during emergencies. The general manager said the company's future lies with broadband and wireless technologies. tech-nologies. UBTA-UBET currently operates over 59 broadband loop carriers that provide high-speed data services to the Basin. There are plans to build 26 more in 2008, which will further expand broadband service throughout the region. Once this year's projects are complete, UBTA-UBET should be able to provide 86 percent of the Basin with a DSL package. The company is also working to improve its wireless services, Todd said. Evolution-Data Optimized Opti-mized or EV-DO technology will allow the cooperative to provide DSL-like speeds to anyone in the region on their wireless device. A' HON ION HEALTH DEPARTMENT A Jerry is self-employed. His hobbies include fishing, hunting and bowling. They are the parents of Howard and Tim. They have eight grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. Another piece of the wireless wire-less puzzle is adding more cell phone coverage in the remote parts of Duchesne and Uintah counties where rapid oil and gas development are taking place. UBTA-UBET crews have already places some CO Ws in the oil fields to boost service and are planning to construct more cell towers throughout the Basin. The company is also planning to offer additional services to their existing cell phone packages, pack-ages, including stronger parental controls that will allow parents to turn their children's phones on or off through their computer or monitor use. "In a world of competition where sometimes price and offerings of-ferings are the only criteria in the selection of a telecommunications telecommunica-tions provider, there's more that we need to do in order to satisfy those issues," Todd said. The meeting came to a close a short time later after Clark All-red, All-red, the cooperative's attorney, announced the results of voting for directors in the Duchesne, Flattop, Fruitland, and Lapoint districts. All four districts were carried by the incumbents - Greg Garff (Duchesne), Bill Fausett (Flattop), Kent Peatross (Fruitland), and Jerry Goodrich (Lapoint). Thursday night's election for the Duchesne District marked the final round of voting for the three telephone exchanges acquired from Qwest in 2001 by UBET, which finalized its merger with UBTA in 2006. The other two districts - Roosevelt and Vernal - elected directors at the 2006 and 2007 annual meetings, respectively. Call 789-3511 A |