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Show Vernal Express Wednesday, October 8, 2008 C3 ltiaj?iX'35ii. : Benefit race to be held at Speed way on October 1 1 ' . .'" " "T--v, " ': " . s-z.y-- '. 1 . . i . : - - - -T- -.-.- . . ... - , ; : '. . . " ,' . ,. V . .".'. - : .. " . -- ' ..' '.'. - - ' k . - : ' Mi r-'.S-'T'1 i ft" V 7 ' "" -1 ' . WIDE LOADS ON SWITCHBACKS Wide loads are becoming a common site on the switchbacks on Flaming Gorge and on down into Manila. Because they are traveling travel-ing slower, drivers are cautioned to be careful when passing and remain patient for those ahead when they are trying to find room to pass. . 16 and under junior rodeo results The Cow Country Junior Rodeo Series, under the direction of Raymond and Mindy Terry, ended in Manilla. First-place winners were awarded belt buckles. Second-place Second-place finishers received saddle pads, and third-place finishers received sweatshirts. In pee-wee barrel racing, first place went to Rylee Jo White, second sec-ond place to Keturah Cowan, and third place to Shaylee Terry. In pole bending, first place went to Keturah Cowan, second place to Shaylee Terry and third place to Rylee Jo White. In junior calf riding, first place went to Chance Anderson, second place to Tanner Anderson and third place to Burke Pallesen. Junior Division year-end award winners In barrel racing, first place UBATCUSU Industrial Technology Center seeking artists interested in creating site-specific public art SALT LAKE CITY The. Utah Arts Council Public Art Program and Utah Division of Facilities Construction and Management Man-agement announce a public art opportunity at the Uintah Basin Applied Technology College and Utah State University-Uintah Basin campus. The structure, under construction, is located across the street from Uintah High School on 30 acres of a 138-acre site donated by lifelong Vernal resident and local entrepreneur entre-preneur Bob Williams. The facility is scheduled for completion in July of 2009. "The buzz about the new campus had already started when the Utah Arts Council visited the Uintah Basin last year. The people we spoke with in the Uintah Basin region were eager for the new learning and employment opportunities that the new facilities will provide. Between the community support, sup-port, generous donors, interest in education, cultural and artistic heritage, passion for innovation, . and beauty of Utah's natural landscape, artists should find that there is quite a lot of material for inspiration surrounding t his LDS temple planned By Jennifer Dobker Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Mormon Mor-mon church president Thomas S. Monson said Saturday the church will build a temple in Rome, the home of the Roman Catholic Church. The Rome temple is one of five new temples planned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Others will be in Calgary, Canada; Cordoba, Argentina; Philadelphia and in the greater Kansas City, Mo. area. Temples play an important role in the lives of Latter-day Saints. Only members in good standing may enter temples, which are used for sacred religious re-ligious ceremonies, including proxy baptisms and wedding ceremonies known as sealings. Monson's announcement came as the church opened its two-day semiannual General Conference. The event draws more than 100,000 to downtown Salt Lake City, puckingthe faith's 21,000-seat conference center at each of five sessions. The 13 million-member Utah-bused Utah-bused church currently bus 128 operating temples worldwide. Construction or plans for another 12 were already in the works before be-fore Saturday's announcement. went to Madi Gines, second to Harlee Reynolds and third to AnnaMarie Henry. In pole bending, first place went to Bailee Gross, second to Gavin Winn, and to Madi Gines. For the goat-tying event, first place went to Jaden Burnett, second to JD Slagowski and third place to Gavin Winn. In steer riding, first place went to Jason Lux, second place to Austin Anderson, and third place to Stevie Lux. In breakaway roping, first place went to JD Slagowski, second place to Jaden Burnett and third place to Gavin Winn. In the team roping header competition, first place went to Tanner Pallesen, second place to JD Slagowski and third to Rust Burnside. In the team roping heeler competition, first place went to project," said "Margaret Hun, director of the Division of Arts and Museums. In a statement released by the project's selection committee, the unique character of the site, the community, the demand for energy-development technologies, technolo-gies, and the unique institutional collaboration were among the elements artists were asked to keep in mind in preparation for the project. Additionally, two exterior areas were identified as possible Editor's Note: The Utah Arts Council's Public Art Program was created through the Percent-for-Art Act passed by the Utah State Legislature Leg-islature in 1985, which allows for 1 percent of the construction costs associated with the building-of-new or renovation-of-ex-isting state facilities to be applied toward the commission or acquisition of site-specific art. The Utah Arts Council 's goal is to promote the growth, innovation, and success of the arts in Utah. The Utah Arts Council provides arts funding, education, and technical services to individuals and organizations throughout the state so that all Utahns regardless of race, gender, ethnicity ethnic-ity or economic status can access, understand, and receive the benefits of the arts. In 2007, the Utah Arts Council paired with the Office of Museum Services to create the Division of Arts and Museums, which is part of the Utah Department of Community and Culture. The locations selected for new temples reflect the growth of the Mormon church. There are currently 11 Mormon Mor-mon temples in Europe, but none are in the Mediterranean region. Mormons have had a presence in Italy since 1850, although its missionaries have not always been allowed to r roselytize there, according to information on a church Web site. Currently the church has more than 22,600 members in Italy. In May, the Vatican's Congregation for Clergy issued an order to Catholic dioceses worldwide to withhold member registries from Mormons. Officials Offi-cials said the step would prevent Mormons from posthumously baptizingby proxy their Catholic ancestors. A Kansas City-area temple should hold great significance for Mormons. In the 1830s church founder Joseph Smith led an early Mormon migration to Independence, Inde-pendence, Mo., and declared the area would be the center of Zion and the New Jerusalem. Now a Kansus City suburb, many Mormons Mor-mons also believe the area was the original site of the Garden of Eden. Worldwide temple building is a legacy from 15th church president presi-dent Gordon B. Hinckley, who began the effort so thut members Jaden Burnett, second place to Rusty Burnside and third place to Gavin Winn. Senior Division year-end award winners In barrel racing, first place went to Kaycee Kennedy, second to Lacie Potter and third to Kay-lee Kay-lee Burnett. In pole bending, first place went to Kaylee Burnett, second to Kaycee Kennedy and third to Megan Matsura. In goat tying, first place went to Kaycee Kennedy, second to Kaylee Burnett and third to Wyatt Slagowski. In the breakaway roping competition, first place went to Wyatt Slagowski, second to Luke Slagowski and third place to Kaycee Kennedy. In the team roping header f sites for the art work: the exterior 'plaza and the center island of the circular drive drop-off area; the commission is, however, open to other locations indicated by artists applying for the artwork commission. A budget of $81,000 is available avail-able for all commission-related expenses, including, but not limited to, artist fees, fabrication, fabrica-tion, insurance, shipping, travel, installation and documentation. Interested artists andor artist teams are encouraged to submit for Rome of the church outside the United States could more easily access the buildings to perform their religious rituals. The Calgary temple will increase in-crease the number of temples in Canada, where the church has more than 170,00 members, to eight. The Cordoba temple will be the second in Argentina and bring the total number of temples in Latin America to 34. Argentina has more than 363,000 Latter-day Latter-day Saints. There are 51 temples in the United States, according to a data on a church Web site. The Kansas City-area temple will be Missouri's second. The Philadelphia Philadel-phia temple is Pennsylvania's first. MM A. at ...are worth the time in the... xpress 54 North Vernal Avenue Vernal, Utah -435-789-35 11 www.vernal.com contest, first place went to Scott Anderson, second to Kaycee Kennedy and third to Bryell Wakely. In the team roping heeler event, first place went to Luke Slagowski, second to Dalton Critton, and third to Kaycee Kennedy. Year-end saddles were presented pre-sented to the all-around winner of each event. In the PeeWee division the saddle went to Rylee Jo White of Vernal, and was donated by WR Crawford of Mt View, Wyo. In the Junior Divison, the saddle went to JD Slagowski of Farson, Wyo., and was donated by DJ Terry of Vernal. In the Senior Division, the saddle went to Kaycee Kennedy, and was donated by Greene's Energy Service of Rock Springs, Wyo. a letter of interest and qualifications qualifica-tions to Jim Glenn, Utah Public Art Program, Attention: UBATC, Utah Arts Council, 617 East South Temple, Salt Lake City, UT 84102. Submission deadline is 5 p.m., Oct. 30. Note: This is not a postmark deadline. The complete selection-committee selection-committee statement, site information, submission requirements, re-quirements, and other project-related project-related materials are available on the Utah Arts Council web site, www.utahpublicart.org. or by calling the Public Art Program office at 801-533-3586 or 801-533-3585. J '.1 I I J J J i Lo iLJL , , ,n ip.ii ii ii um mm .' ij.ipiiii wiitTiHTTnurnniffi. trpn '. it eMmnmwwwa ni The regular season at Diamond Dia-mond Mountain Speedway closed Sept. 27 with a bang: great track, excellent weather and awards and dinner banquet provide by concessionaires Rick and Jody Maxwell and speedway employees. employ-ees. The top five season point standing winners in the dwarf class are: Wayne Simper, Shane Simper, Toby Gilroy, Allen Hacking Hack-ing and Jim Slaugh. This class had an average of 20-plus cars in any given night and 40 registered drivers over all. Gilroy was also renominated as class representative representa-tive for the 2009 season. In the Mini Stock division, top honors went to Dustin Dahms, Gene Hunting, Joe Christensen, Dave Davis and Jeremiah Tix. Mini stock ended the season with 10 registered drivers with Hunting reclaiming the mini-representative mini-representative next season Pure stock closed the season with 33 drivers attending the DMS track in 2008. Top five went to Adam Christensen, Chris-tensen, Scott Bradford, Mike Baker, Jake Richens and Terrie White. Clint Richens was class representative in 2008 and held his own for re-election in 2009. Street Stock has come a long way in 2008, almost doubling in size. Competition was very tight as 19 drivers attended races. Grady Martin, Chad Hall, Aaron Eaton. Luke Voltz and Dillion Hatch rounded out the top five Utah State wins grant for bio-fuels research LOGAN (AP) - Utah State University and Montana State University will share a $900,000 government research grant for bio-fuel production. The schools will work together to grow species of algae that thrive in geothermal vents and the Great Salt Lake in a test of their oil content. USU energy lab director Jeff Muha says algag that can withstand saline environments are useful because they could possibly be used to produce fuels usingplentiful ocean water, sparing spar-ing more valuable fresh water. Algae accustomed to high temperatures could be used in conjunction with power plants to produce bio-fuel and algae that consumes carbon dioxide could use the carbon from power plants' waste gases to produce oils for conversion into fuel. The research is one of six bio-fuel bio-fuel projects around the country funded by the U.S. Department of Energy. 1 : f in points. Grady Martin was nominated as class representative representa-tive for 2009 Modifieds closed out the action ' with Levi Pummell, Kelly Smith, Tony Hardinger, Rod White and Jon Stringfellow nabbing the top five honors. Fifty seven modified drivers attended DMS thanks to the Wild West Modified Tour who helped kick off the 2008 season. Don Hardinger will remain the class representative next year. DMS announces one more race has been added to t he schedule sched-ule at 1 p.m., Oct. 11, a benefit race for the Pure Stock 01 and 02 Rowley family. All classes are scheduled to race. A short meeting will be held directly after race in the pit area to start discussions on 200920 1 0 rules in mini, pure and street stock classes. All drivers and interested in-terested drivers are encouraged to attend. Spectator ticket s will be $5 for adults and $2 for children ages 5-12. Children under 5 are free. All proceeds go to the Rowley family who lost their son last weekend. 2009 committee members were also elected Sept. 27. Allen Al-len Hacking, president; Shane Simper, vice president; Heidi Morris, track secretary; Lyn-nette Lyn-nette Hunting, treasurer; Terrie White, track promotions; Orlan Anderson, Uintah County Representative; Rep-resentative; and Steve Gray, Late Model Representative. The aim of the research is to find a form of renewable fuel that's dependable and economically economi-cally viable. Algae represents the third generation of bio-fuel research, Muhs said. The first involved the use of corn to create ethanol, an option that raises food costs. The second generation involved in-volved things like wood chips aad switch grass, which don't compete com-pete with food needs. Yet turning those items into fuel requires a huge amount of energy. Algae may overcome those problems and prove a viable fuel source. Unlike corn and other crops, producing algae doesn't require good soil, which means it could be produced in deserts, leaving farm land for food production, pro-duction, Muhs said. Any technological advances discovered by researchers are likely several years away, he said. epiakvansji tlJ - jTf' - C i C?lI-$' |