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Show Tigers Topple Flyers JV P.O. Box 224 Milford, UT 84751 P. O. Box 224 OCTOBER 9, 1997 L'tah Press Association 307 West 300 South Suite 5005 Sa,tLcity 19-- 6 1101-121- Standard Rata USPoataga Paid Mtford. UT. 84751 Perm No. 15 2 Milford, Utah 84751 VOL. VII NO. 41 Primary Election Results Week In Review School Enrollment: Official head count as of October 1, 1997 was 1,487 students in district. This is the figure which determines funding for H ,V 1997-9the 8 school year. The total number is down 29 students from October 1st of last year. The district receives approximately $1,800 for each student. This translates to a decrease of about $52,200 from last year's ; : vf i i funding. Official district enrollment peaked last at 1,516, but dropped to 1,491 students year the school year. by ending date of the 1996-9- 7 The district has shown a modest, but steady increase since the 1990-9- 1 school year, with the only previous decrease being 2 students in the 1993-9- 4 year. Enrollment by school: Belknap Elementary -414; Milford Elementary - 241; Minersville Ray Rowley (left) and Deputy Maycock (right) discuss a 167; Beaver High - 471; Milford High 194. trespass complaint that Rowley wants action on. According to Assistant Superintendent Donald Willden, the English as a Second Language (ESL) program at Beaver High served 1 1 students last year. This year, to date, there are no students in the Beaver ESL To call Ray Rowley's yard untidy is a gross program. Crossin'the County Line: Circle Four Farms' understatement. It's downright junky. Folks just plain don't like expansion into Iron County is on that county's h. Milford residents have complained to the city that it is a poor agenda for October 14th at 11:30 A.M. Item south entrance to town. With the property located outside the is listed as "approval of agreement." The city limits, it is up to the county to inspire Rowley to haul away mega hog production company has been busy the years of accumulated salvage surrounding his home. I with a public relations campaign to dispel fears Rowley says he is working on it. "I'm in I said. resulted citation as as a fast used A move he of underground water pollution and other don't to," environmental concerns. Aside from one on court order to clean up the property within a specified time -- one contact with public officials, company period. The grace period has expired. Because of his age and have he isn't especially extolled the advantages of medical condition.... Rowley is a diabetic representatives crossing the county line on talk radio and at concerned about being jailed for contempt of court. Some county various civic club meetings. officials agree. It just isn't practical to lock him up and assume Meanwhile, opponents are just as busy his medical bills. with their push for public awareness. They are Rowley says his energy is now somewhat diverted from a the the Iron cleanup effort to looking for legal steps to protect his private circulating petition asking County land-usordinances e Commission to amend to property rights. With construction of the feed mill road near his define "Hog Farm" and "Hog Farming" to be home, he is concerned that developers who own other land in the defined as operations consisting of less than area may be interested in his property. He is afraid that, unless he 200 animals, wholly owned and operated by is vigilant, the district court will order a clean-u- p with the cost residents of Iron County. They want an levied against his home. A bill that he couldn't pay would put the additional ordinance specifying that any property up for grabs to the highest bidder. His acreage, south of Milford, is fenced and posted concentrated "agricultural operation" that not produces over 10,000 animals each year in any only with "no trespassing" signs, but with a judicial notice one centralized location to be treated as an declaring that anyone crossing his fence line will be prosecuted "Industrial Concern". They have scheduled an for criminal trespass. The gate is locked. information meeting for Sunday, October 12, About three weeks ago, when Rowley returned home, he at 7:00 P.M. in the Alpine Lanes Bowling found survey markers inside his fence. He immediately called the sheriff to file a trespass complaint. Rowley doesn't know Alley just north of Cedar City. Wastewater System Ordinance: Southwest whether the complaint has been served. The sheriff was not Utah Public Health will conduct a public hearing on available for comment. October 16, at 6:00 P.M. in the Beaver County Kerry Monroe, Jones and DeMille Engineering, says the Commission Chamber regarding a model ordinance markers were probably reference stakes placed about 5' inside the for subdivision wastewater management. fence line. "There are some questions about county rights," he Ordinance guidelines include: 1. Developers said. State and county officials affirm that Rowley's complaint required to conduct soil tests on each lot that will has n of SR 21 construction. nothing to do with the have a septic tank system. Under old rules, tests his With regard to junk, Rowley says he is not the only were done on every three acres or every other lot in He has been busy taking pictures of one who needs a clean-ularger developments. 2. Health department and sites around the other county. Ironically, one of those sites is the planning commissions work together, meaning trailer park at north entrance to Milford. Milford residents agree. developers would no longer have to go back and if forth between the two regulatory agencies. 3. One, in fact, went further: "It's not safe. All of those weeds the trailers be would a like someone lot disclose the Sellers must results of to dropped match, buyers gone just wastewater absorption tests. This is a counterpart that (she snapped her fingers)." of a drinking water ordinance which was passed W A' " Milford: Rhoda Browner-10Nolan Davis-17William Easton- - 12; Doug Garrett - 106; David Lake - i 0, Cynthia Webb - 107. Easton and Lake are out of the race. The remaining four candidates will be on the November 4th ballot. Mayor Mary Wiseman is unopposed. Minersville: Douglas Albrecht - 62, Todd McMullin - 74, and incumbent Howard Pryor - 86. Although the county was close, Albrecht was eleminated. One will be eliminated. Council candidates Robert Craw (incumbent), Laura Gatten, Peter M. Jones and Paul Marshall are competing for two positions; outcome to be decided in November. Beaver Mayor's race: Joseph Brennan - 45; Roger Murdock - 245; and incumbent Mayor James Robinson - 526. Murdock and Robinson will proceed to the general election. Council race: Marsha Dalton - 54, Lynn Mclnelly - 1 66; Joseph White - 20 ; Gregory Gurr 1 66; Kelley Bradshaw 1 97; Bob Beal -76; Clarence Pollard 1 53; Ann Marshall (incumbent) - 292; Robin Bradshaw (incumbent) - 261. Incumbents Ann Marshall and Robin Bradshaw will be challenged by Joseph White and Kelly Bradshaw in November. 2; 1 2, -- -- -- -- Well Kept Lawns Are A Source Of -- - .laWAt . ... ... . Pride , Private Properly Rights shut-dow- p. earlier this year. Public hearings will be held throughout the Five County area, with one in Iron County set for October 29 at 6:00 P.M. According to Scott Hacking, DEQ, hearing andor information meeting related to Circle Four's groundwater discharge permit is tentatively scheduled the immediately following subdivision hearing on the 29th. Iron County groundwater protection advocate True Ott sees a touch of disparity in the scheduling. His analogy: "Let 's just pretend that Jama rich humanitarian, and I want to spend a few million dollars helping the homeless. Let 's say I would like to build homes for about 1 0, 000 of them out in the Escalante Valley, where they would be away from everybody and wouldn 't hurt a thing. What kind of a sewer system would be required? And... .hogs producing waste equivalent to two million people are no problem? " .i V 1 ' 'f . I 7 Milford County? s- - - ' P '" 1 I WmjmmmmmmKflajmmmmmmmBmamimmmmmmKMmummimmmWmvwmmmmmmm This view down Milford "s Main Street is a good example. Utah State University Extension Service is always ready to offer good advise and help for lawn care. See page 6 for some tips on how to prepare your lawn for winter. History Stops Progress With both the calendar and impending weather threatening the end of the road construction season, every day counts. In an unwelcome twist, work to widen SR 21 to accommodate turn lanes for the Circle Four Farms feed mill road has been halted for 10 days to two weeks. According to Scott Snow, an environmental UDOT, permit JBR clearance is the reason. conducted a Consultants Archaeological site inventory last August at the request of Jones & DeMille Engineering. The report was submitted to Susan Miller in UDOT's environmental office, and authorized for approval last Friday. or Prehistoric, aboriginal, artifacts from an unknown period were found in a 90 X 75 meter area just outside the highway access. Such access is defined as 150' on each side of the center line of a state highway. Lorna Bilat, JBR Consultants archaeologist, said they found about 120 Obsidian flakes on the east side of SR 21, just across from, the welding shop. No tools, points or scrapers were found on the surface. "It could turn out to be nothing, but it might also be an 'eligible' site because it has the potential to provide information about local history,"" Bilat said. She added that the drainage that cuts through the site may have covered a cultural surface with silt. Any significant prehistoric finds would have to be carbon dated to determine age. The survey also revealed historic items from the late 1800's and early 1900's. Items include cans, shell buttons, plate fragments, and bottles. Most of the historic items can be dated by trade marks. JBR's job was to determine only whether work done by Jones & DeMille will impact the site. Bilat says the report shows that it will not. While the state and county have an obligation to protect an historical site especially when public funds are used in a 42BE1571 is the private project owners number assigned property can do as they by Miller choose. Smithsonian said ninety-nin- e Institute. Utah such of is identified percent by sites on private the number 42. the are property destroyed J i m 1571 signifies the number of sites in Beaver Dykmann, SHIPO County. archeologist who's release signature is necessary before permit clearance is official, received the report on Monday. He explained that there is probably nothing at the site to halt road construction on a long-terbasis. Rule of thumb is that asphalt projects should be completed by October The construction 15th in this area. shutdown is for SR 21 only, and does not affect the county's portion of the feed mill road. Commissioner Chad Johnson said Tuesday that the delay should have very little impact of the construction. 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