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Show iii j r1 p'rrp' jririi'f,"l','ii irr 0 ijj nu jnf iji wr Ji n SERVING MOAB AND UTAH SINCE SOUTHEASTERN n r pewWrfp Bowi tire tress ssms ths 1896 84532 Utah Moab, Grand County, toms , ymr rrfifrigw nil full Anatuixm torn. nil full fflltmeH-Jn&iesraliie- ift 50C Recall effort rejected by county voters All members of the Grand County Council who faced recall action on tal vote in the last governors election. Tuesdays ballots, safely survived Council members cannot be recalled during the first 6 months and the action, with strong support from the voters. Six of the council members were on the ballot. All will continue to serve out their terms. (See details, election story). In a meeting the night before they were all retained in office by county voters. Grand County Council members decided Monday evening to delay making any changes in the recall provisions of the county government plan until they receive public input on the question. Grand County is the only location in the state that gives voters the power to recall elected officials. Council members here can be subject to a recall election if opponents can gather signatures of registered voters equalling 15 percent of the to- - Stocks, Seibert, Lambla won in City, hospital support issue failed the last 6 months of their terms. But the county plan does allow residents to initiate recall efforts at any other time, and some opponents of the council have said they will immedi- ately launch another recall drive against at least some of the council members. Some supporters of the council have said they believe the number of. signatures required for a recall Mayor Tom Stocks Will Begin 4th Term vole should be increased, and that it might be a good idea to limit the number of council members who can be recalled at any time. There has also been a suggestion to prohibit a second recall vote until 6 months or a year after an unsuccessful effort. But council members said it would be better to wait and hear from the public before changing the plan. right-of-wa- now would mean losing that money. But council member Bill Hedden said that any right-of-wa- y request carries with it a diligence requirement, which means if the county applies for it, they are expected to begin road construction within 2 to 5 years. Hedden said that is a commitment the council will not make. Hedden also said that according to a 1985 agreement with the Bureau of Land Management, Grand County althrough Hay ready has a right-of-wand East Canyons, the major poray tions of the proposed highway through Grand County. He added that y for the pursuing another future is therefore unnecessary. right-of-wa- ANNUAL CARNIVAL The St. Pius X Youth Group will once again hold their annual Carnival. The carnival will be held on Saturday Nov. 13, 1993, in the church hall, from 1 1 a.m. to 3 p.m. There will be games, prizes, food, fun and more. The public is invited to enjoy the fun. We appreciate the support of the entire community. If you have questions prior to the date of the carnival call Marian at by Adrien Taylor Councilman in the Moab area Hepatitis A is caused by a virus which is transmitted by the fecal oral route. Hepatitis A may be spread by food prepared or handled by an infected person who does not wash carefully after using the restroom fa- cilities. All residents are urged to practice good handwashing before eating, preparingKxls and after using bathroom facilities. Food handlers and Weather Re-elect- member John Hartley. In further business, the council heard from Bob Greenberg, chairman of the airport board, who recommended approving a lease at Canyonlands Airfield for Alpine Air. Alpine runs the daily flights from Moab to Salt Lake City and Grand Junction. They hope to sign a lease that will allow them to build their own terminal and facilities. Currently, Alpine shares the cramped main terminal building with Rcdtail Aviation. Greenberg said the lease could usher in a new era of development at the airport. These arc the first people who have actually shown up at the airport willing to invest their own money, 30-ye- ar not ours, stated Greenberg. The board is desirous of having private investment out there. The council approved a request from Sheriff Jim Nyland to spend up to $2,300 for a cooling system for the jails main control room. The money will come from drug seizure funds returned to the county. And finally, the council agreed to meet with the city council to discuss ways to belter share the existing tax revenues coming to the county, by increasing services needed by residents without increasing the tax burden. Confirmed Hepatitis A cases reported in Moab The Southeastern Utah District Health Department is investigating, two confirmed cases of Hepatitis A people preparing group meals are to wash hands thoroughly with warm water and soap prior to preparing food, after using the restroom and before eating. Hot foods are less likely to transmit the Hepatitis A virus. Cold foods such as salads, cheeses, sliced cold cuts, deboned chicken and le- mons for drinks are higher risk items. Minimize use of hands in preparing high risk foods for group meals or foods served to the public. For example, use disposable vinyl gloves, scoops or tongs. Scoops or tongs should be used for ice in drinks. Use individually wrapped commercially prepared items when possible. Persons who are exposed to Hepatitis A may benefit from immune globulin. If received within 14 days of exposure. Immune 0 Globulin is percent effective in preventing Hepatitis A symptoms. The cost is $8. 80-9- Council District One, which includes the central part of Moab, Chairman Charlie Peterson had 203 people vote to turn him out of office and 314 voles to retain him. District Three member Paul Menard had 280 votes for the recall and 382 votes against. The strongest showing of support was for Bill Hedden, whose district comprises parts of Spanish Valley and the towns of Castle Valley, Thompson and Elgin. Hedden won by an almost 1 margin, with 216 people voting to remove him and 422 saying he should stay in office. 2-- The closest vote was in District Five, where John Maynard polled 215 votes for the recall and 281 votes against. On the question of implementing a one percent sales tax to fund the hospital and allied health services, county voters came out strongly against the proposal, rejecting it by a 63.37 percent margin. The vote totals were 992 votes in favor and 1,712 votes against. Moab City voters chose Tom Stocks for a fourth term as Moab mayor. He defeated Jackie Johnson by an 866-71- 5 margin. In the race for two scats on the city council, current council member Paul Seibert received 1,059 votes, with city planning commission member Jeanne Lambla garnering 912 votes. Both will take their scats in January. The third place finisher was Maris Allen with 776 votes, and Art Gruscnsky finished fourth with 334 votes. Veteran councilman David Sakrison chose not to run for a third term. Subcontractors claims of shipping radioactive parts from Atlas mill under investigation said they had already examined earlier this year when they withdrew support for the road. We did everything we needed to do by the letter of the agreements, council at-lar- In Uintah officials said they were considering legal action against Grand County for pulling out of the project, a threat council members asserted By Ken Davey Grand County voters decided to retain all 6 members of the county council up for a recall vote, and decisively rejected a proposed one percent sales tax to fund future health care. And Moab City voters chose to return Tom Stocks to a fourth term as Moab mayor, and elected Paul Seibert and Jeanne Lambla to seats on the city council. In a voter turnout that exceeded 60 percent of registered voters, county residents voted against recalling county council members Peter Haney and John Hartley by 2 margins. Haney had 1,091 votes in favor of the recall and 1,630 against. The Hartley recall effort garnered 1,113 votes for and 1 ,586 votes againsL 3-- Grand County held out on Book Cliffs Road in meetings By Ken Davey The Grand County Council Monday discussed a meeting with members of the Uintah County Commission and the Uintah Special Service Road District on the controversial Bode Cliffs Road project. Uintah leaders said they wanted their reGrand County to y for the proquest for a posed road, saying that the two counties have already spent over $600,000 on the effort, and to stop Thursday, November 4, 1993 Number 44 Volume 100 Elected to Council Trio of local artists featured at Museum Two local photographers, Todd Campbell and Jon Fuller, will exhibit their work upstairs at the Dan O'Laurie Museum. Joe Pachak from Bluff will have his wood carving n for downstairs. Joe is his sculptured figures based on Anasazi rock art that are part of the well-know- landscape of Edge-of-the-Ced- Museum in Blanding. Todd Campbell is a large-formphotographer. Through the use of composite images, his works attempt to display naturally-occurin- g irony. Monuments such as the Golden Gate Bridge, Chaco Canyon and Mount Rushmore are parodied and embellished upon. Dr.. Fuller is a dentist by profession, having served in the U.S. Air Force for many years. His Air Force career afforded him the opportunity to live all over the world and, in his travel free time, work as a free-lanand wildlife photographer. He has lived in four different countries and visited 34 more in North and South at America, Europe, Asia, and the Pacific Basin over the past several years. Says Dr. Fuller, "I've had the opportunity to see a lot of the world, but my favorite places on earth are in the deserts and sandstone of the Southwest" His photography has been featured in numerous publications world- wide, including National Geographic Magazine. His work has also been used by a major television network in Great Britain. He is currently represented by stock photo agencies in London and Tokyo. A native of west Texas, Dr. Fuller now makes his home in Utah, with his wife and four children. The public in invited to the reception and refreshments at the museum on Friday, November 5th, from 7 to 9. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is investigating allegations that radioactive scrap materials were smuggled out of the Moab Atlas Mill site demolition project and shipped to various points in other states in recent months. - In a report aired by KSL television in Salt Lake City Sunday, Bob Hopper, owner of H&W Enterprises, which had a contract on the dismantling project, claimed responsibility. According to the Associated Press, Hopper said it was not difficult to sneak tons of the material past the NRCs sole inspector in Moab. He said he systematically buried radioactive scrap metal in the middle of tons of iron and steel to make it hard for the NRC inspector to detect. He also claimed this was done with the knowledge of American Reclamation, the subcontractor hired by Atlas Minerals Corp. This is refuted by Robert Mori, president of American Reclamation and Dismantling of Stateline, NV, which was contracted by Atlas to perform the decommissioning and Help on heating bills available dismantling of the Moab mill facilities. He said that Hopper had recently demanded more money, equipment or scrap metal he could sell to offset financial problems. Mori said he flatly rejected the request and terminated the working agreement with Hopper. According to the Salt Lake Tribune 's account, Hopper then threatened to bring in the news media, and did so. Raymond Hall, the NRCs regional director in Denver, said his agency will aggressively investigate the allegations and send inspectors to Moab. He emphasized, however, that NRC has had not indications of any problems with the handling of radioactive scrap at the Atlas Mill pro- ject. Hopper had said some of the scrap was shipped from Moab to Chicago, Denver, Southern California and Spokane, Wash. There was no immediate information available on specific amounts of scrap shipped. One shipment involved materials sent to a scrap yard in Denver which was rejected and returned to the Moab site. This was confirmed by Jake Jacobi, of the Colorado Division of Radiation Control, who said that a truck from the mill arrived in Denver, Aug. 27 and was returned to the Atlas Mill in Moab. A news release from Atlas Denver office said the load was returned because of the detection of low level radiation. These reading were well below the NRC standards but exceeded the purchasers company policy. Atlas asserts the allegations by Hopper that he removed large amounts of highly contaminated materials from the site without the companys knowledge are untrue and malicious. Bill Sinclair, director of the Division of Radiation Control for the Utah Department of Environmental Quality, told the that a letter calling for investigation was going from his Times-lndepende- department to the NRC. He stated, We dont have authority for this part of the program (mill demolitionreclamation). Thats an NRC function. He indicated the state would be exercising a general oversight of the investigation until matters included in the allegations are resolved to our satisfaction. The Department of Human Services will open the H.E.A.T. (Home Energy Assistance Target) Program on November 1st to the elderly and disabled. The general public will have access on November 15th. The program assists low income individuals in paying fuel bills. Federally funded, the program is designed to assist eligible house- holds in meeting the rising cost of winter home heating. An eligible household can apply for only one H.E.A.T. payment per winter season. The amount paid is based on location, type of fuel used, household size and family income. Information is available at most Senior Citizen Centers, Utility Companies and community service agencies. Individuals should call their local Human Services office for an appointment or more information. Home visits are available for senior citizens who are homebound. Applicants will need to bring to the appointment: personal identification, social security cards for everyone 18 years and older in the household, their most recent utility bills, proof of income during the past calendar month for all household members and proof of medical bills paid during the last month. According to Sherm Roquiero, H.E.A.T. Coordinator, "We have a 1994 budget of $10.5 million dollars. We anticipate receiving 38,000 applicants this winter, especially if the winter is anything like last year. We will keep the program open until March 31st or until we run out of money, whichever oqe comes first." Mr. Reflector . . . This year's Fat Tire Festival Halloween Costume Contest resulted in some spectacular entries. Winning the "Most Bicycle" category was Mr. Reflector, an apparition reminiscent of the medieval knight in shining armor, swathed head to toe in bicycle reflectors. The party was the culmination of a week of perfect biking weather. |