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Show DAILY HERALD M Helen Ring Minard Obituaries Our dear mother, grandmother and friend, Helen Ring Minard, passed away December 3, 2007, inOtympia, Washington, where she lived with her daughter, Kitty, for the associations and service there. I f past year. His genuine love for people often Helen was I i found him serving others by liftI the twelfth ing and comforting them with his cmidmatam- ' sense of humor. He was known f fly of sixteen (, on his mission as Elder Smiley children. She Nielson. His church service, inwas born on cluding home teaching and teachDecember ing primary, were important parts 30, 1918, in Baltimore, Maryland. of his life. He treasured time with Her parents, Frank and Barbara his wife, children, grandchildren, Ring, were immigrants from nieces and nephews. Zsambek, Hungary. Helen was He is survived by his wife raised on a farm and learned how Janis, his son Travis Nielson, to work hard. She didn't get a three stepchildren Leslie (Rich) lot of formal education but was Headrick, Eric (Kristi) Robinson, an avid reader and always prided Katie (Shane) Thacker and 8 herself on her ability to memorize step grandchildren; father-in-laand recite poems and scriptures. Neil Wirick, parents Gordon and She kept her mind active and was Sherel Nielson, his five brothers, mentally alert to the end. RusNielson, Stephen (Monique) Her love of reading was what sell (Lorene) Nielson, Brian (Joni) brought her from the East coast to Nielson, Jeffrey (Jana) Nielson, the West. She read a lot of Zane and David (Kaci) Nielson; grandGrey books and came west to mother Shirley Nielson. He was find her cowboy. Her "cowboy" his in brother death by preceded turned out to be a magazine salesMichael Nielson, grandparents man who came to the ranch in Wray and Alta Nelson and Shelwhere she was workWyoming Mardon Nielson, mother-in-laing. She married John Thomas ian Wirick. Minard on February 28, 1940, and Funeral services will be held were married for 57 years they 11 2007 at Saturday December 8, when John died in 1997. am, at the LDS Hobblecreek 5th Helen and John began their Ward building located at 1440 E married life in Denver, Colorado, 900 S in Springville. A viewing where three of their four children will be held Friday December 7th were born. When John learned at the same location from pm of job opportunities in Hanf ord, 1 and again at 10 am hour prior ; to the services. Interment will be at the Springville Evergreen . Douglas Gordon Nielson Douglas Gordon Nielson of Springville passed away peace- fully Wednesday, December 5, 2007 at his home following a courageous battle with cancer. He was born to Gordon and Sherel Nielson on December J fr 13, 1956 in Payson, Utah. He married Jeanie Johnston and they had one son, Travis Nielson. Doug later married Janis Wirick on September 2, 1994. He gracefully accepted being a father of 3 stepchildren and 8 grandchildren. They were blessed with many happy memories and experiences. Upon graduating from SpringviQe High School he served an IDS mission to Louisville, Kentucky and later attended Ricks College. He valued work and appreciated his employment associations and found particular satisfaction in marketing and sales, where he received recognition and awards. Doug loved being with his family and friends in the outdoors, golfing, gardening, camping, fishing at Payson Lakes, going on the deer hunt, attending the annual St. George family vacation and the Wirick reunion in West Yellowstone. He also enjoyed watching sports, especially the Utah Jazz and BYU football He had a tender place in his heart for his pets and enjoyed their com4 panionship. Doug was a retired member of the Springville Volunteer Fire Department and appreciated his Friday, December 7, . 6-- 8 Lynette Roundy Chynoweth Washington, at the Atomic Energy Plant, he moved his wife and three children there. They lived in Hanf ord for a short time and then in Richland, Washington, where their last child was born. In Richland, they joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and were sealed in the Logan Temple on September 29, 1954. They moved to Pasco, Washington, after their children were grown and then to Orem, Utah. Helen lived wtth her daughter, Darlene Mortensen, her last couple of years in Utah and then moved to live with her daughter, Kitty Towns, in Washington. Helen was a wonderful cook and loved everyone she met. She worked at a bakery where she taught herself how to decorate cakes. She even decorated wedding cakes. She obtained a CNA degree and worked at a nursing home which was her favorite job. She loved the people she cared for. Helen is survived by two sisters, Margaret Vroman and Anna Coffman in El Paso, TX; her children, Lee Minard (Mary Alice), Darlene Mortensen (Taylor), Kitty Towns (Ray) and Caramel Wood (Mark); 23 grandchildren; 60 and 2 Our dear Wife, Mother, Grandmother and Friend, passed away December 6, 2007, in her Orem, . UT home. Lynette was born on July 1 30, 1953, in Pleasant Grove, UT to and LeOra (Gordon) Roundy. Lynette graduated m from Pleasant Grove High School where she was a member of the Pep Chib and then married her High School sweetheart Brent L Chynoweth. They were sealed together in the Salt Lake Temple in 1971 and lovingly raised five children in Orem, UT. Lynette spent her life in obedience to the Lord by serving others. She served in many callings such as Relief Society President, Young mm- care, patience and devotion es- Wheeler Mortuary. pecially during Doug's extended illness. Online condolences may be submitted to www.serenicare.com. Herman Roy Andreassen, 49, died December 6, 2007, in Orem, Utah. Services are pending and will be announced by Walker Sanderson Funeral Home of Orem. Raul Gonzalez Montes, 49, of Provo, passed away on Wednesday, December 5, 2007. Services pending under the direction of Berg Mortuary, 185 East Center Street, Provo, UT. Theron Amos Bunker, 55, of Pleasant Grove passed away on Decem5, 2007. Funeral services are pending and will be announced by Olpin Family Mortuary, Pleasant Grove, Utah. ber Davis. In honor of her memory, funeral services will be held Monday, December 10, 2007, at 11 ajn. in the Windsor 4th Ward Chapel, 1875 North 280 West, Orem. Family and friends may visit Sunday from 8 p.m. at the church and 0 from am prior to the services at the church. Interment will be held in the Orem City Cemetery. Condolences may be sent to the family at: www.walkerf amflymor-tuary.co6-- 9:30-10:3- , ' Reed W. Petersen passed away ' 1951 in Elko, tend their heartfelt thanks to the management, nurses, and aids at Orchard Park Care Center for the ' wonderful and loving care given to Reed. Graveside services will be held Saturday, December 8, 2007, at 2:00 p.m., at the East Lawn Memorial Hills Cemetery, 4800 North 650 East, Provo. Family and friends may meet at the Berg Mortuary of Orem, 500 North State Street, Saturday, from IKK) p.m. to 1:30 p.m. At Reed's request, no Funeral will be held. Condolences may be sent to infobergmortuary.com. December 5, 2007, at the Orchard Park Care Center, in Funeral services will be held Orem. He was Saturday, December 8, 2007, 10:00 born August a.m., at the Sundberg Olpin Mor18, 1927 in tuary, 495 S. State Street, Orem, Utah Provo, UT. A viewing will be held at 9:00 to Preston a.m. prior to services. Interment will be at the Orem City Cemetery Westergaard and Christina immediately following the AninaOlesen i Petersen. He Shirmarried ley Nelson I on April 8, i Glenna Ostler Oldroyd, 77, of Springville, passed away Thursday, November 6, 2007. Services are pending and will be announced by Woman's President, and was honored to serve a seniors couples mission in Ukraine, for two years. She's loved by her children Annie (Adam) Dowd, Sicily (Todd) Orton, Sam (Holly) Chynoweth, Fawn and Lori Chynoweth, and her eleven grandchildren. She has two sisters, Dianne Hansen and Joye Visser, and two brothers Kent (deceased) and Jeff. Also a special thank you for two close friends Carol Walker and Jean Reed W. Petersen DEATH NOTICES Cemetery. A special thanks to Mike Neal for his many kind deeds and friendship and for Janis' loving 2007 Nevada. Reed i mmmmmmmmmm served his country in the Army during WWII, and later as a member of the American Legion, Fruitland Branch. Before suffering from the effects of a stroke, he had enjoyed hunting and fishing, and working in his garden. He loved spending time with his family, especially his grandchildren and He was a member of The Church of Jesus Saints. Christ of Latter-day He is survived by his wife Shirley of Orem; three daughters, Barbara Smith of Redford, MI; Kristine (Michael) Beasley of Saratoga Springs; and Denise Butler of Seatac, WA; six grandchildren; Cory, Jeremy, Melissa, Karea Jeff and Preston (PS), and eleven greatgrandchildren; three brothers, Glen of Euliss, TX; Leroy of Provo; and Blaine of Sandy. He was preceded in death by two brothers, Clint and Bud, a sister, Marge; and by two grandchildren, Duane Amacher and Kerflyn Butler. The family would like to ex- Harry Reid's gambit could block new coal plants Erica Werner THE Jon Porter and Dean Heller, Summers said: "If they want to champion the construction of dirty coal plants in Senate Majority Nevada, that's their choice." ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON is tryLeader Harry Reid, ing to slip language into a must-pas- s , spending bill that could block new coal plants in Nevada by boosting air quality requirements at Great Basin Reid's provision would designate Great Basin National Park, in eastern Nevada by the Utah border, as a Class I air quality protection area instead of Class 2, its cur- rent designatioa Class I is the most protective level d and would probably prevent plants from being built anywhere nearby. That would include two planned some 70 miles away near Ely: the Ely Energy Center by Sierra Pacific Resources and a project National Park. The gambit is running into opposition from fellow lawmakers, and as of Thursday afternoon it was not clear whether Reid's language would make it into the final version of the spending bill, which Congress is scrambling to complete before Christmas. Spokesman Jon Summers said that Reid who didn't alert fellow members of the Nevada delegation to his plan was just living up to his commitment to "do whatever he can to prevent the construction of dirty coal plants in Nevada." As for complaints from GOP Reps. behind-the-scen- coal-fire- 1,500-megaw- 1,600-megaw- by LS Power Group. d A third plant, a 750- megawatt project planned by Sithe Global Power for farther south near Mesquite, would probably not be affected. Reid is trying to get his language into a huge, omnibus package that coal-fire- T ... Behind this ear lies an engineering I in our schools! Here's how: 1. Call Hie Daily Herald at and 3 the customer service representative teO when you will be away on vacation. 2. Request that your undelivered pers be donated to newspa- a local school. 3. We wul automatically stop delivery while you are away and resume delivery automatically when undelivered you return home. The papers go to local schools during the current or ooming school year. j X Monuments .Large Selection of Colors & Styles . '7255outb 900 East Provo, ttah : 374-058- 0 ably become law. But despite his powerful position success is not certain, especially now that the maneuver has become public. Members of the House spending committee want to keep extraneous measures out of the bill to boost its chances of passage, and House Appropriations staffers tipped off Porter and Heller earlier this week to Reid's plan. Porter and Heller then wrote a letter to leaders of the Appropriations Committee to announce their opposition. "Unfortunately we did not know what was happening. We heard about it from the Appropriations Commit Sen. John Ensign, is opposing Reid's move and has raised the issue with Senate Minority Even Leader Mitch McConnell, Rep. Shelley Berkley, Reid's fellow Democrat in Nevada's congressional delegation, wasn't ready to support Reid's approach as of Thursday evening. Her spokesman David Cherry said Berkley learned of Reid's plan only after Nevada political commentator Jon Ralston circulated the language in his tip sheet Wednesday evening. Under the Clean Air Act, states can pursue the national park air quality Judith Kohler THE Help promote literacy NO OBLIGATION ROAD TEST tee," Porter said in an interview. .: 1 ill In their letter to the committee, Porter and Heller defended the plants as "cleaner than any in the West, perhaps the nation," and noted the one of the projects would provide new jobs. The Nevada delegation met Tuesday afternoon but Reid didn't raise the issue, Porter said. y. designations. Reid wrote to Republican Gov. Jim Gibbons in July asking him to pursue the designation change but received no response, Summers said. Roberto Denis, Sierra Pacific's senior vice president for energy supply, said the company disagreed with Reid's approach as well as the substance of what he was trying to achieve. "There's a legal means that's already in place, enacted by Con-- , gress, to achieve what he has in the budget resolution," said Denis. Sierra Pacific officials said they were concerned Reid's language would even block construction of d natural plants. The company recently announced it was moving up expansion of a natural gas fire plant 35 miles north of Las Vegas ahead of building the coal plant near Ely. Summers said it was unlikely the natural gas plant would be affected. gas-fire- BLM urges cooperation on Colo, energy masterpiece Open Ear Technology is the most revolutionary development in hearing care since the introduction of digital hearing aids. Come in for a FREE hearing evaluation and give them a try with our wraps together 11 of the 12 annual spending bills that fund the federal government. Although it faces a possible veto by President Bush depending on its final price tag, it's considered must-pas- s legislation. If Reid does succeed in getting language into the final bill that reaches the floor of the House and Senate it would prob- J IP ASSOCIATED PRESS LAKEWOOD, Colo. About 15 percent of Colorado's natural gas boom is playing out on federal land. It feels like 100 percent to Sally Wisely, the Bureau of Land Management's state director. In an interview with The Associated Press, Wisely said she understands and welcomes the public's keen interest in what happens to public lands but doesn't want the agency blamed for things it cannot control. "We should be held accountable for (public lands). It's our responsibility," Wisely said "But I don't want somebody to imply that we're responsible for things we actually have no involvement in." Wisely vented her frustration in an opinion piece released to the Colorado media. "Unfortunately, news reports too often give the impression that all energy development in Colorado is taking place on BLM managed public lands, when in fact, statewide less than 15 percent of new oil and gas weUs are on federal lands," she wrote. Of the state's 33,357 producing wells, 4,479 are on federal land, she wrote. Statewide, nearly 6,000 well permits were in approved last year and only about 700 were for federal wells. Steve Smith of the regional office of The Wilderness Society acknowledged that the bulk of activity is on private lands. "But I don't think that diminishes the importance of scrutinizing the decisions about leasing and drilling on federal land. Those lands are owned by everybody," Smith said. "And there are lots of other purposes these lands are supposed to serve in the public interest." Western Colorado, scene of some of the most intense development and debate, has a higher percentage of federal land than the eastern part. Nearly a quarter of the new wells on the Western Slope are on federal land. The area is home to some of the country's largest elk and deer herds and key habitat for sage grouse, whose numbers have plummeted across the West. The Western Slope has gone through energy booms before and is now becoming more diverse, depending more on revenue from tourism, recreation, hunting and retirees. There's concern that widespread energy development could hurt those parts of the economy. ii KjJ ifrtwiiattn mail. "It's a challenge," Wisely said with a smile. "We have to take into consideration all the resources, all their values, all their uses and try to meet the current future needs of the American people," she said. "How the heck do you do that?" One answer, she said, is a more "holistic" approach including both state and federal regulators. The BLM is required to conduct rigorous environmental analyses and faces strict regulations, she said, but the state doesn't have a comparable process, even though it is responsible for far more of the new wells. Because the impacts air and water quality know no boundaries, Wisely is urging state officials to work with the BLM. "I think we have a really good relationship with the state and we continually have an ongoing dialogue," Wisely said. The more comrtiunication and coordination the better, she said. Harris Sherman, executive director of the state Department of Natural Resources, agreed. ' "I think Sally's recommendations to build on the relationship and expand our ways of communicating with each other makes good sense," Sherman said. Sherman and Wisely met earlier this week to discuss ways to do that. Both say that intergovernmental agreements in such areas as minimizing development's impacts on wildlife are possible. Plans to drill for natural gas on BLM land in two western Colorado sites, the Roan Plateau and Vermillion Basin, have been especially contentious, prompting objections from environmentalists, state officials and some residents. Gov. Bill Ritter got more time to review BLM's plan to open some of the federal land on the Roan Plateau to drilling only after Sea Ken Salazar, DColo., held up the Senate confirmation of the James Caswell as the new director of the national BLM. Ritter will submit his the commits by Wisely said Ritter's request for more time went to the Inte- rior secretary, rather than her office. She declined to discuss the specifics of the BLM's management plan for the Roan Plateau except to say that her staff did a good job on the document that was seven years in the making. 20-ye- ar |