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Show Oil County employees: Pay raise policy crazy v Joe Pyrah DAILY HERALD The county's roughly 900 employees will be getting an average 7 percent pay raise in early July. That's good news for people like Sgt. David Farley. What Farley and some others are having a hard time figuring out is what they say amounts to the county delaying other potential raises that w ill cost t hem perhaps thousands of dollars. On top of the July raises, which are based on a market study, the county has also increased the maximum amount that some employees can make. Those increases are tied to evalu- ation dates (and outcomes) over the course of the year but are also available beginning in July. But by tying them to evaluation dates, Farley contends that he and others who have been "maxed out" for years but have evaluations in the first part of the year will miss out on potentially thousands of dollars. It works like this: If "maxed out" Employee A was hired after July 1 and receives good marks on the evaluation, the employee is eligible for an increase from the previous maximum. "Maxed out" Employee B, who was hired before July and already received a favorable evaluation, will have to wait until the next year's evaluation date rolls around for the raise while Employee A is already earning the extra money. Compounding the problems is that the cycle will repeat for the next three years until the new maximum is fully in place. Using this scenario, Employee A could make thousands of dollars more than Employee B until they are all making the same amount in three TOWNS SECTION &ailg&KrraU FRIDAY, JUNE 20. METRO EDITOR Amie Rose - 344-253- 2008 aroseheraldextra.com Man sentenced for IdlliM friend Jeremy Duda DAILY Holguin-Albpleaded guilty to one count of manslaughter in May. A report from Adult Probation and would likely Parole indicated that Holguin-Albspend about six years in prison, including the two years he has already served at the Utah County Jail since being arrested for the 2006 killing. Once his sentence is complete, Holguin-Albo- , an illegal alien who hails from the Mexican state of Chihuahua, will be turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement and deported to Mexico. Brook Sessions, Holguin-Albo'- s attorney, urged o HERALD has proFor years, Jesus Manuel Holguin-Alb- o vided for his family in Mexico by working in the United States. He wants to get back to his two children and five siblings so he can continue to do so. But first, he may have to wait up to 15 years until he gets out of prison. On Thursday in Provo's 4th District Court, sentence Holguin-Alb29, was given a for the stabbing death of his friend, Raul Caza- - o probation for his client, and disputed whether the APP report should have enhanced the sentencing guidelines because a weapon was used in the crime. While acknowledging that Holguin-Albwill likely suffer for the rest of his life knowing that he killed his friend. Judge Gary Stott saw no reason to go against APP's recommendation of years in the Utah State Prison. "I have watched the defendant over the course of many, many months as he's been coming in and o See B4 SENTENCE, Mutton Busitn' in Pleasant Grove v. ' it.- , V. , i T ;.A':.'vsr l ' n1t - - '.V Sis, years. Personnel director Lana Jensen, who created the plan, says there's no easy way to raise the maximum. She went with the evaluation process because it's already in place and making raises retroactive is tricky. "Believe me, that creates a whole different set of problems," she said. "Anything you do you're going to have somebody thinking 'It's not fair to me.' " Farley and others like Deputy Doug Atwood t whose sent tion dates are before July 1 to the personnel multiple department airing their concerns. What they got back wasn't helpful, they say. "They just basically, very sarcastically told us 'That's the way it is, be glad,'" Atwood said. Atwood, an employee, has been maxed out in his corrections position for four years. His concern is that employees with seniority will be making less than others simply because of when they're evaluated. "Just to take it away from us is crazy," he said. "If there's money available to us, we should get it." CELIA TOBINDaily Herald m vler Taylor loses a shoe and slips from the back of a sheep during the children's ucgniiiiiig uic 1 uucu m r icaDcuii I part of the city's Strawberry Days. r iviuiLuii uuouni ikj ji u v cuu Liiuioua ao Pioneer folk wisdom written in snow Caleb Warnock '. DAILY HBRALD the moun- TT"n north UtahigLu tains have a story to tell. For years, farmers and those 1 who rely on irrigation water have turned to the mountains fl for information about the summer's water outlook. , These the meaning of this pioneer folk wisdom is beginning to fade into history as fewer and fewer people can agree on just said the exactly what the stories of the mountains meant. The most feature is the Sleigh Runner, a downward expanse of snow on the face of Box Elder Peak east of Alpine that is among the last to melt from the mountaintop each year. ."I look at it all the time. It is easy to look at from home," said Tim e resident of Chadwick, a American Fork. "If there is snow on Sleigh Runner on the sixth of June, you will have water all summer -- I I days,-though- East Shore graduation takes a personal turn Reva Bower NORTH COUNTY Remarks at the commencement exercises for East Shore High School and Mountainland Regional Learning Center took a personal turn Thursday night at the Mountain View High School auditorium, as the student speakers shared openly some of the feelings, struggles, and experiences that had brought them to the milestone in their lives. Jessica Eden paid tribute to parents, teachers, and other caring individuals who encouraged her and literally refused to let her "hide" or give up in her quest to graduate. "Graduation is a great thing to be celebrating," Eden said. "I'm so very excited for all of us" I'm sure it has been a journey for everyone. I know that for me, this journey was worth walking. I learned to believe in myself. I realized that regardless of what is thrown in my path, it's e just a bump in the road-SeEAST SHORE, B4 well-know- n fong-tim- "long." This wisdom dates back to time when there were only 3,000 people in American Fork, compared to nearly 30,000 now, he said. Other Alpine residents place the date at July 24. Dorothy Loveridge, a resident of Alpine, remembers yet another date. "If there is still snow in Sleigh Runner at the first of August, you don't have to worry about water," she said. "Sometimes we get people moving in from California and they say it looks like a or something and we say no, it is a sleigh runner." Rulon McDaniel, who at 76 years old is a Alpiner, says that for decades he has noted in his journal each year when the last snow melts from Sleigh Runner. "I look at it with a telescope to - long-tim- e make sure it really is the last snow," he said. "I also write down the first snow in the fall." McDaniel's family has a long history with Sleigh Runner. "The snow drifts up there in winter are 30 or 40 feet deep," he said. "I am acquainted with that area because my family always had a cabin up there until 1990 when it was destroyed by .COM' 'I Photo Illustration by CRAIG DILGERDaily Herald red outline highlights the snow formation identified as turkey in the side of Utah's mountains that served as marker for pioneer folk wisdom to determine the amount of remaining irrigation water from run off. A GUI 3 fire. It was built in 1931." The legend around Sleigh Runner and what it may have meant to the pioneers is hogwash, he said. "Some people say that when it melts it is an indication of the wa- ter we will have, but the never referred to it like that, that is the newcomers," he said. "I never much heard that until the last 25 or TO S:JB3Cni:E a 30 years. It might be some kind of indicator, but there are no farmers left here to worry about it." Paul Strong, who works for the American Fork Post Office, says there is another legend written briefthe ly on the mountain each year image of a turkey. See FOLK, B4 W' 1 |