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Show r' CHEERLEADERS! i? ' - 1 "Hi. II.. I.. i i ii 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 I, I,, I, ,,l,ll II,,,, , . II. .1.1. . I l , UTAH PRESS ASSOCIATION 1521 E 3900 S SALT T.ATfR PTTV Tim o vi i . . EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS Simplot tour shows first hand preparedness 11 5th Year No. 36 Vernal, Utah 84078 50 CENTS ZZ7 I y j vnrjf i Fn Sat 95 96 79 48 83 48 Sunny. H'ghs Sunsh'pe. ji ihc upper H ghi n the Os and lows low (sOs and n the upper low n the upper 40s. AM'l-.N BROOK RrAlTY, INC. SeeA7 GROUND BREAKING HELD ' ' www.vernal.conj Wednesday Septet 3, 2C08 Your Hometown Newspaper apomt to re fii ceiv e new e station by Kevin Ashby Express Publisher "At last!" was the comment at the Aug. 27 groundbreaking ceremony for the new Lapoint fire station. The three-bay station sta-tion will be built on 1.5 acres just west of Lapoint and is expected to cost about $539,000. The land was purchased from Gerald and Ledee Christensen. Current Fire Chief Rick Perry told to crowd that when he was appointed chief he came to the table with three goals: training, getting a good, reliable engine, and constructing a facility that would adequately house that engine and offer a room for firemen fire-men training. The department did obtain an engine, in 2004, he said, and now would see the completion of a fire station complete com-plete with a training room. "This one (the new station) took the longest, but we are at last getting a good home for our engine and firemen," he said. "We have some of the most dedicated dedi-cated firefighters anywhere, and although we are few in numbers we do prepare ourselves to fight fires." Perry told the group of 50 at the groundbreaking ceremony that the Lapoint Fire Department Depart-ment was organized in January 1979 by Ernest Ahlborn, who was able to find a fire truck and bring it to Lapoint. Perry's interest in establishing establish-ing a fire department happened after he moved to Tridell and his house caught fire. There was no engine in the area, but there was a wash about 100 yards away from his burning home. Community members showed up, formed a bucket brigade, and put out the fire before the Vernal Fire Department arrived. District boar d member Robert Hall told the group that while the district had engines in the area, it really had no place to park them. "We need more than that for the U ft f t " "- - I X . v,..,,. T z'A - - y - -. Board member Joann Cowan expresses her frustration during a heated debate about busing issues at the school board meetinn The recent school board meeting was packed with residents from the Quailbrook community who expressed' of bus service from the neighborhood to Discovery Elementary is causing safety issues for students Uintah School Board reinstates bus service to two subdivisions SEE FIRE STATION on A2 By TABATHA DeaMS Naples high-density housing plan fails by Mary Bernard Express Writer Blue Mountain Vista development devel-opment association's request for a r'ezone from CI to R2 with overlay reduction and concept plan was rejected by the Naples City Council Thursday. By unanimous vote, the council rejected Blue Mountain Moun-tain Vista's proposal to build a 188-unit, high-density housing project on a 30-acre parcel at 2359 South 1800 East near the 7-Eleven in Naples. The vote came after Dale Peterson, representative of the Naples Planning and Zoning Commission, told the council, "The commission rejected the request on Tuesday, Aug. 26, because we felt it was not in the best interest of the master plan for commercial development in the downtown area. Downtown should remain commercial, for public safety, " he added. "There's a concern for the overflow traffic and the lack of a traffic light at 2500 South 1500 East." A Utah Department of Transportation Trans-portation traffic study completed recently stated a traffic light at that intersection was not warranted. war-ranted. The intersection is a busy crossroad, particularly during the school year. The issue of traffic overflow from 2500 South onto the highway high-way brought public outcry as SEE NAPLES HOUSING on A2 Express Reporter The Uintah School Board and members of the community engaged in a heated debated for more than an hour last Tuesday about whether to reinstate bus service to student'' in the Quail-brook Quail-brook and Sunburst Terrace subdivisions. The district discontinued bus service to both areas this year when it began utilizing a "com munity school" model. State regulations prohibit funding bus routes for students living less than l'A miles away from an elementary school, but the school board voted to reinstate rein-state service to the two communities commu-nities and have the district fund it. The emotional session began with school board member Perry Taylor presenting a proposal to the board to provide bus service to the two communities. Taylor admitted that he "has a personal interest in the proposal, because I live there." He said there are 66 students in the Quailbrook community who must make what he called "the dangerous trek" of nearly 1.5 miles to school. The normally empty board room was packed with parents who took turns expressing their concerns over the safety of their children walking- to Discovery Elementary School. David Stone, a parent, said the community should have been more involved when the initial decision to stop bus service was made. He said parents "wanted to take the price tag off our children's head." "This is not about 'money," Stone said. "It would cost an extra $50 per child, per year to " This bur' children, " He added that the second greatest cause of death in children chil-dren under 14 is auto-pedestrian SEE SCHOOL BUSSING on A2 Airport unveils land use guidelines by May Bernard Express Writer The Vernal Regional Airport layout plan was presented to the joint session of the city and county Aug. 22 by commissioner Mike McKee and airport manager man-ager Kelly Harvey. "The restrictions have been there for a long time," says Harvey. Har-vey. "But now, there's so much new construction that we need to get a handle on building in the airport area." Harvey was talking about the private and commercial lands around the airport runway where land uses and height restrictions are set forth in the county land-use land-use ordinance. These are the airport transitional tran-sitional surfaces defined by distance from the runway. The airport manager explains the surfaces as "extending outward and upward at right angles from the runway at a slope of 7 to 1. Or, every 7-foot out, you can go 1-foot up." "We cannot endanger pilots, passengers and the people on the ground," Harvey explains. "The Federal AviationAdministration will not allow new construction that will compromise safety." "This doesn't restrict the overall uses of buildings on the landscape, just the height of buildings, transmission lines, or other structural hazards," he adds. SEE VERNAL AIRPORT on A2 S ! 4 ; . 1 f .' t 1 I f I 1 '' , I f , I J 1 ! 1 u l U U Li Vj i. 'hi jr-r i i 1 S - --Ji 1: )'iu v V If mi i lit uduk-5' " i: r n" .'i r I f : Ashley Regional holds open house by Kevin Ashby ir- -CVea .. ..,. -;-::--TT V" T-ZL ZZr.L v - JBT r jfc..-' iwia. ; 1 Hospital administrator Si Hutt speaks at the ribbon cutting for the new 22,000-square foot expansion at Ashley Regional Medical Center. He thanks the patients as well as the staff and physicians for putting up with the construction for the past eight months. Express Publisher Crews finished work "right on time"on the new 22,000-square foot medical office building, entrance and registration area at Ashley Regional Medical Center. The construction project also included the renovation of another 3,000-square feet that houses a larger kitchen area and cafeteria, and space for new MRI equipment. Hospital administrator Si Hutt told those attending the Aug. 28 open house that progress prog-ress like this comes from great community support as well as hard-working employees and physicians. "We know that this construction construc-tion period has been an inconvenience inconve-nience for the patients, staff and physicians," said Hutt. "They all had to work around the noise and disruptions making it harder to heal, but this is an exciting event for the hospital and the community." The new wing will be designated desig-nated as the South Office building. build-ing. Officials said the new registration regis-tration area, located just inside the main entrance, will provide better privacy for patients. A-financial A-financial counselor will also be available to assist patients. Just down from the registration registra-tion area there is an expanded gift shop for the Pink Ladies volunteer auxiliary. 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