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Show NEW HOME FOR EXPRESS The Vernal Express moves to new offices this week. lliiln.;iiliiillnlil.I..!.,.ll.l.l..l.l.!! i i i ,.".,,.,,,,J,J,"iiiiiiiiIH UTAH PRESS ASSOCIATION 7? f 1521 E 3900 S STE 100 ' SALT LAKE HTTV m qiio 11 5th Year No. 41 Vernal, Utah 84078 0 COOTS V I TENNIS SEASON OVER Girls tennis players Weather by I , ' l See A7 777 WEmmi LJ t , Vy 1 X T 'TN """ www.vernal.com ) ( ) if 1 Wednesday 1 J ( kSS jk October 8, 2003 Your Hometown NewsoaDer J Council hears Centennial highlights By Patrick Timothy Muumi Express Editor Vernal residents will be celebrating cel-ebrating their city's 100th anniversary anni-versary next year granted the festivities are running a full year behind with financial blessings of the Vernal City Council. And, should the proposed summer-long celebration get out of hand, extra police officers might be on board to restore law and order, if a new recruitment incentive package works for the police department. The Vernal City Council voted at its Oct. 1 meeting to appropriate $15,000 to the centennial cen-tennial committee for startup costs associated with the 100th anniversary of the city. "Actually we'll be celebrating a hundred-year hundred-year completion. We will have completed 100 years," Mayor Allan Mashburn clarified. Kathy Mashburn, wife of. Mayor Mashburn and chair of the centennial committee, unveiled the committee's plans for next summer. "We were planning to host Vernal for 100 days straight, excluding Sundays and Mondays, from April until August 2009." The centennial committee's plan, she says, is to include all Regional compact signed to reduce greenhouse gases By Mary Bernard Express Writer The State of Utah agreed to "design and implement market-based market-based mechanisms ,to reduce greenhouse gas emissions" through the application of cap-and-trade programs during the Sept. 25 meeting of The Western Climate Initiative in Salt Lake City. Utah's Department of Environmental Envi-ronmental Quality signed with other members of the Western Climate Initiative, an alliance among seven Western states and four Canadian provinces, making Utah a stakeholder in a pan-regional effort to reduce greenhouse gases. Dianne Nielson, energy adviser ad-viser to Gov. Jon M. Huntsman Jr., says "the Western Climate .j.,ll.,.iiii.ij. .!.. urn .ii i " ' ' 1 " " 'T-- ""p "'j Y """""T TfVT',M 1 r : ' ft U I ' - J V ' i ' V(r?h ' ; ' ' Iff: .-' '4 Jr Master Instructor Steven Wallenda, one of two fourth-degree black Mxit Realty Proi i:ssionals 1285 West Hwy 40 Vernal, Utah 84078 (435) 789-EXIT (3948) aspects of the Vernal community: commu-nity: energy, cows, the county, churches, square dancers, guns, and mountain men. "I want to commission a belt buckle, and I've already spoken with Sawtooth Saw-tooth Saddle, and they would do a saddle between $2,800 and $3,000, which we'll sell raffle tickets for." Mashburn said the committee also hopes to bring in a big name, someone like Randy Travis, to perform at the celebration's closing in August. She also suggested sug-gested naming the yet-be-built waterfall at Freestone Walking Park either Centennial Falls or Heritage Falls. Council members suggested that Mashburn check into corporate sponsorships of the celebration to offset costs. Finding, hiring and retaining qualified police officers is an ongoing on-going problem in Vernal, Police Chief Gary Jensen told council members. Currently, his department depart-ment is short 3.5 officers. "I don't think there are any secrets here among council members that hiring and maintaining main-taining a full-time police force is becoming more of a problem, " he said, laying out a recruitment-incentive recruitment-incentive packagethatjnadg SEE COUNCIL MEETS on A2 Initiative will give Utah a critical seat at the table to communicate our need for all energy resources and maintain our state's coal-powered coal-powered viability in a changing regional market." At issue, Nielson says, are the economic impacts of lowering C02 emissions while providing cost-effective energy to Utah residents. C02 emissions would be capped at 25,000 metric tons annually at each generating facility. facil-ity. Rick Sprott, Utah's Department Depart-ment of Environmental Quality director, has written that the "market-based approach can help achieve the reductions that are needed to meet Utah's goal of reducing our emissions to 2005 levels by 2020." To achieve this goal, DEQ has SEE GREENHOUSE on A2 n,'i v Back on Market! CottonWood Heights 5 bedroom, 3 bath home. S-ls . ') A... MzrSi ft SU; ,1 ' - r I f' 1 ' k ' I - Lk Veterans from the VFW Post 5560 stand as Ashley Elementary fifth-graders serenade them with the song "Thank You Military " during dur-ing the annual Utah PTA Road Trip. PTA itate oad Trip5 two By Tabatha Peaks Express Reporter Members of the Utah State PTA board visited Ashley Elementary El-ementary and Maeser Elementary, Elemen-tary, as part of the annual PTA Road Trip that brings state PTA officials to various schools to recognize the importance of PTA and honor PTA presidents and school principals. Officials travel the state for three days, presenting recogni By Kevin Asiiby Express Publisher A drop in projected state revenues rev-enues has had a negative impact on funds needed to complete the proposed Seep Ridge Road improvements im-provements in southern Uintah County. Earlier this year the State Department of Transportation was approached to fund the Environmental En-vironmental Impact Statement belts in the state .seller Will Tay Down & CLOSING FHA AVAILABLE Great Maeser home witn 4 bedrooms, 2 baths, 2 car garage. , representatives mane tion certificates and providing entertainment at each school they visit. Marilyn Simister, Utah PTA president, visited both schools. . "We come and celebrate their PTA and bring them a gift, " said Simister. This year, singerperformer John Canaan traveled to Vernal with the road trippers, and entertained enter-tained students with silly songs. He talked to students about the importance of doing the right (EIS) as relating to the Seep Ridge Road. Because of this turn of events, county leaders have opted to proceed with an asphalting asphalt-ing plan to resurface the existing Seep Ridge road and will prepare the required environmental assessment as-sessment documents to the BLM later this month. According to Senator Kevin VanTassell, state officials recently re-cently had to reduce the state's budget $365 million to come in Karate instructor earns his chops By Patrick Timothy Muuim Express Editor With his bald pate, body locked perfectly still in lotus position, eyes closed to the hectic outside world, Tang Soo Do Master Instructor Steven Wallenda, a fourth-degree black belt, certainly looks the part. But make no mistake; he has the chops to go with his newly minted title. He's also a direct descendant of the world-famous Flying Wallendas, known internationally inter-nationally for their expertise in the art of flying trapeze. Wallenda, 37, who owns and operates Vernal Martial Arts Center, 287 E. 100 S became a fourth-degree black belt this summer. With it comes the title of master instructor. Only one in 100 third-degree dans (step Three bedrooms, one bath. MOTIVATED SELLER! PILL' It- Vernal schools thing, eating healthy and having strong character. Simister spoke to students about this year's PTA theme, "Light the Way." "Lighthouses have been around a long time, and they have a certain purpose. They all look different, just like all of you do. But they help the boats find their way home, and we can all help each other just like the lighthouses do." Students at Ashley and line with projected revenues for the remainder of the year. Van-. Tassell said that because work on the Seep Ridge Road project had not begun, it was cut from the department's funding list. "This forces the county to go a different direction in funding the assessment and surfacing of the road," said VanTassell. "The Senate still supports the state's participation in the project, and we'll work on that in the or level) are ever considered for mastery in Tang Soo Do, a traditional Korean karate that's 2,000 years old. Wallenda is one of two people in the state to hold the master instructor title. "Since I started (karate), I knew I wanted to get my black belt and to be a master instructor," instruc-tor," he says from the office of his second-floor Vernal studio. There's just a hint of incense in the air, partly for mood and partly out of necessity, he says with a laugh. "To drive out the stench of the sweat," he says pointing to the studio. The studio is closed today, free from the "Hi-yaahs!" and stomping feet of young Ninja TurtlePower Ranger wannabes. Kids aren't his only students, however. His classes include Great Family Home with nice uptown location. Beautiful Two Story Home in Wonderful Family Ncighboihood. . i r t. 4 . r ( 1 V" 1 Maeser applauded in delight as Simister introduced the next guest, McGruff the Crime Dog. McGruff told students how important the PTA and PTA volunteers are to the schools. "The PTA are great people," he said. "They talk to important people, in Salt Lake and help make sure good decisions are made for the schools." Both schools were honored to be chosen by the Utah PTA SEE STATE PTA on A2 future." "We applied to UDOT for the $2 million environmental assessment for the Seep Ridge Road under the 2007 legislative session," said Uintah County Commissioner Mike McKee. "Even though this latest session took that money back, the EA is nearly complete. We will ask the legislature to restore the funding in the 2008 legislative session." SEE SEEP MDGEonA2 people of all ages, even a few grandmothers. Grandmothers? "Some people are worried about self-defense. Some people just want the exercise. Some people want adventure. Some people don't have a clue and just want to give something new a go," Wallenda says. TangSoo Do, which translates roughly to "Way of Life," is not to be taken lightly, he explains. His students train for self-defense skills, for better physical health and to be better people. "Character is very important to us, and we cling to the old idea of that," he says. 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