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Show The Iron County Commission will sponsor an information meeting at 7:30 p.m. October 29th in the Starlight Room of the Shaman Smith Center on the S.U.U. Campus. Although time and place have been confirmed, agenda and list of speakers, which It will include groundwater protection and water right information, is anticipated that a formal public hearing to solicit comments on the Circle Four Project in Iron County will follow StandwdfWi has not yet been finalized. immediately. Paid MHord.UT. 64751 Pifmft No. 15 f -- OCTOBER 16, 1997 P. O. Box 224 nr McCoy Williams pw A VOL. VII NO. 42 Week In Review Milford&Milierslle Circle Special Crop 14: Commissioners County signing a development agreement with Circle Four Farms until the company obtains groundwater discharge permits from the state. The ruling was made w ith very little discussion. Warren Peterson, Circle Four told the attorney, commissioners that the company is trying to beat the weather, and that the development agreement specifies that they need to have all state permits in order. With regard to bonding, Peterson informed the commissioners that the company had contacted Fred A. Morton Co., supplier of the majority of Circle Four's insurance, for bonding He said they were quotes. informed that such bonds would be extremely difficult to write, and : A e vi aooui ivo wnen uiey are marketed to an underwriter. Peterson then directed responsibility to Iron County, saying that the county would be listed as loss payee, and would be required to agree to assume responsibility for any associated clean-uA public hearing is scheduled for October tentatively 29 at 7:00 P.M. Information and public input will be presented before the groundwater discharge (Continued on page 5) Little League Iron popular crop in the valley. Williams had Mr. additional acreage planted in seed. alfalfa and grain recollection of McCoy's early is the grain crop wind.. ..wind.. ..and more wind. "Some days the wind blew the dust so bad that I couldn't see the horses in front of me pulling the harrow," he said. McCoy and the other Williams children learned about farm work at an early in As an age. Gunnison he, along with his sister, Dee, and two brothers spent one summer thinning sugar beets. The four children worked from daylight to dark, and averaged 4 acres per day. "We didn't particularly think of it as hard work. We just did what needed to be done," he reminisced. Mr. Williams planted one crop of sugar beets in the Milford valley. That was the year that McCoy went to Montpelier, Idaho to live with his sister, and he doesn't know how well the crop did. Football tabled TSn.vV,-;- Jsifc mi i J - ..... T d II W -- - After twenty-fiv- e years of trying for a permit, Wayne Hardy finally drew out at Indian Peak. He downed this 6X6 bull elk on September 26th without a scope. When the trophy is mounted it will be almost as tall as Wayne making it a challenge to find a display location. After his serving in World War II, country McCoy returned to Milford with a new bride.... Jackie ... and purchased 240 acres from his father. "When the war was over I had an interview with President Harold B. Lee. I asked him if I should go on a mission. He looked at my receding hairline, and told me to go home; find a girl, arid get married that would be my mission in life," McCoy said. "It's been quite a mission." Wheat, Alpine winter "miracle" corn were all barley, secondary crops for Jackie and The crop that McCoy. brought outstanding joy and the greatest reward was their foster children. In addition to adopting two children, 35 foster children shared their home over the years. "There couldn't be a better place for kids than a farm. You just can't beat it for a family," McCoy said. Aside from having six foreign exchange students and two Indian placement students, hard-cothey welcomed foster children. In some cases it was the home of last resort if the kids couldn't make it with Jackie and McCoy, the next stop was detention. re 9 Jackie worked full-tievery afternoon that week but didn't know all of them at the hospital, and McCoy was busy farming. The kids we learned. When she got off the bus that Friday, her feet had chores and responsibilities around the house and on the hardly touched the ground. 'I did it.. I got 100,' she told farm "They did the chores me." willingly, even competing to McCoy applauds the see who could do the best and governor and state officials for quickest. It made them feel needed and loved, their efforts to enhance foster important they were part of a family," care. He would also like to They" share his testimony that life is McCoy explained. and that received very little financial full of miracles miracles smallest the of even help for the children. "You life around. a child's can turn have to have help from the related. Lord," McCoy When a new foster child was brought to the home, the first step was an interview to discuss the child's desires and expectations ... what they wanted out of life. McCoy remembered in particular on girl who was so beat down that she thought she couldn't do anything right. "She told me that she was so dumb she just couldn't learn. When she said he teacher had told her that, I had a hard time keeping myself from going to that teacher and telling her off," he said. He continued, "She came home from her first day of school and told me that she would have a test on the states and capitals the following Friday. The Milford Razor Backs in a practice session Monday evening. She thought she couldn't learn them. We studied together Scores for the Tuesday game were: Stallions 18 - Wolverines 6, Raiders 38 - Razor Backs 0. 1 1 . p. e Three years ago, when Principal Walt Schofield came to Milford High School, he saw little league sports as a farm system for sports in high school. First, it was girls basketball, then little league wrestling; and now with a lot of community support, little league football is a reality. Schofield went begging. Forty eight letters later, enough equipment had been donated by large schools along the Wasatch front for a good start at outfitting the local teams. Shoulder pads, jerseys, yard meters, "all kinds of stuff' became available to volunteers who hauled it home. Alta High School, Highland High, and Judge Memorial, in particular, were very generous. Helmets, however, were too big and heavy for the 1 1 to players. Dwight Potter organized donations to purchase 55 of the right size helmets. Schofield said it has been easy to find men who are interested in coaching, and the high school coaches have served as referees. Four teams have been formed: in Milford it's the Stallions, coached by Scott Williams and Travis Henderson, and the Razor Backs, coached by Mark Whitney and Jared Bridge. Minersville has the coached Wolverines, by Liddell Steve and Sterling Coleman, and the Raiders, coached by Thane Marshall. Teams are made up of some 5th graders, but mostly 6 th, 7th and 8th graders. For safety reasons, players who weight over 132 pounds can't be a running back they play line only. The cheerleaders Larry Barnes said he doesn't know who. ..or even if. ...anyone organized them. "They just showed up," he said. 1 I L ha Four - Iron County Saga: Tuesday, October McCoy came to the Milford Valley in from Gunnison with his father and mother, Orrin and Alice Murphy Williams, and six siblings in the fall of 1926. Two older sisters were already living away from home. The family traveled for several days in two covered wagons with all of their worldly possessions. They spent their first winter at the Hughes Apartments. The following summer into an old frame moved they shack on the flat by a good well, located near Robert Christiansen's farm, where the pig farm now stands. McCoy that the Utah recalls his asked Agricultural College father to plant a new variety of seed potatoes that first year. The family plowed up sage brush and planted the potatoes in the virgin soil. The crop yielded 400 bags to the about 15 to 20 years acre before potatoes became a i fm Milford, Utah 84751 pnj Milford Valley Farmer 'w west it tzrrzzi J f.r Minersville Wolverines Cheerleaders Back Row: Nakomi Marshall, Megan McMulUn, Janna Barton, Chandal Wood, Marisa Wood. Front: Nanette Albrecht, Bonnie Thompson, Amanda Evans, Jenny Pomeroy and Abby Thompson. Milford Stallions Cheerleaders Back Row: Macey Willden, Ashley Kinross, Monica Florence, Chelsie Hardy, Monica Wright, Amber Thompson. Front: Michelle Wiseman, Grace Schwab, and Ashley Kosmuch. Not pictured: Destri Jimenez. |