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Show ir pr-f- ipn r SERVING MOAB AND UTAH SINCE SOUTHEASTERN Chamber of Commerce Awards Banquet Nov. 19 1896 Moab, Grand County, Utah 84532 Call 259-753- for reservations 1 Ufttwjg-J- ii 500 Volume 100 Number 45 Visits to Arches now approach new record rs By Ken Davey The Grand County Council has called for a December 14 public hearing for comments on a proposal to Winter running event coming on Dec. 4th Only 25 more days arc left to sign up for this years Winter Sun 10K run on Saturday, Dec. 4. Runners planning on participating in this years race need to get their entry forms in now. Locally, race forms arc available at Rim Cyclcry. Each registered participant will reA speceive a cial award will be given to the overall male and female winner and ribbons will be awarded through third place in each age division. The race starts at 10:30 a.m. at the Moab Golf Course and finishes at Moab City Park. For more information, call Be there or be a couch potato! Canyonlands National Park showed a 12 increase for the first ten months of the year, with annual visitation to date standing at 412,047, compared to 367,628 a year ago. Over half of the total Canyonlands visitation was logged in the Island in the Sky District. That popular section, located between the Green and Colorado Elks Citizen of the Year. Moab veteran avid of for up of National Bridges long-sleev- various geology classes through Utah State University over the years, and up to the present. He was first elected to the Moab City Council in 1956, and will complete 32 years of service to Moab City at the end of his present term in 1995, as mayor and as city councilman. The award was presented to Bill by Kenneth Robbins, Exalted Ruler 1992. Natural . . City Councilman, golfer and dedicated member of the BPOE Moab Lodge No. 2021 was recently presented a plaque naming him as "Citizen of the Year" for the Moab Lodge. Bom in Texas, Bill graduated from Grand County High School and earned B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of Utah. He established his own consulting firm, Geological Services, in 1956 and has taught Rivers, was 224,260. The Needles section Canyonlands showed visitation the first ten months of 168,581, 15.9 over the first ten months Monument showed October visitation at 14,830, bringing totals for the year to 147,829, up 11.9 for the year to date. 259-502- Parent-teache- of the Moab Elks Lodge. Members of Grand Countys d Higher Education Committee met Monday with Dr. Michael Peterson, president of the College of Eastern Utah. He presented a preliminary plan sorfinancial aid advisor. The Grand newly-forme- ar CEUs activities in Moab. He emphasized the CEU is committed to developing and delivering three types of programs to students in Moab. These include short-terprograms, applied technology and lower division degrees. He presented a table including projections for the next five years for program, faculty and facility needs. In the year 1994-9he projects program offerings in the above areas, job-relat- ed 5, classes through the statewide Ed Net system. upper-- This program would serve 40 (FIE) students, with staff to include local Director Lorraine ulty Guild-Smit- h, one FTE and one academic ar division fac- advi- - aid concerns, continued at the Following the Grand Opening ot the Grand County High Technology Center October 7th, use of the Center continues to expand. In the most recent development, the Center will be the home of a Community School. The Community School was the brain child of Jolene Morris, Grand County School Technology Director. The school will offer independent Dan Nelson, USU Extension Agent and also handling -- USU SUCCE Center in Moab, was asked to prepare a listing of class areas, student loads, and historic budgets, for the group. Adrien Taylor, who courses in Beginning Computer Literacy, Introduction to Word Processing, Introduction to Spread sheets and Beginning Word study Perfect. If these courses are successful other courses will be offered on request. Those requests might be anything from desk top publishing District's , The possibility of forming a private foundation for support of higher education was discussed. Since the Grand Education Foundation already exists, it was decided that the Mrs. Taylor should meet with that group and discuss aims before any move is made to form another organization. The next meeting will be Nov. 22 at 3 p.m. in the High School Ed Net room. graphics to Anyone in the community is 1993 MS-DO- S. wel- come. Another aspect of the Community School is that people who need to sue a computer to write a paper, for example, may pay the minimum fee and have access to the center's equipment without registering for a particular class. The community school concept works well in other areas such as to help expand the Community School concept when he returns next school year. The school should be self supporting after the initial start up with all expenses covered by the registration agreed fee. The Technology Center is also attracting educators for meetings. The Educational Network Consortium will hold their November meeting at the Center. e The Consortium is a organization which usually meets in the Provo-Orearea to discuss and state-wid- m City Corporation from the Workers Compensation Fund. It is based on premiums paid and losses incurred during 1992 and only customers with good safety records during 1992 are receiving a dividend. Pictured from Left to Right (top) are Brittany Sheain, Bill Snyder, Eric Torgerson (Claims Supervisor), Linda Thomas (Marketing Customer Service Rep.), (bottom) Sandy Beauregard, Tom Stocks, and Maggie Snyder. m a plan for computer networking around the state. The larger districts have a networking person or technical support person employed by the district. Smaller districts such as Grand contract out what networking needs they have. Larry Price, Principal at GCHS, was pleased with the additional use of the center saying, "This is what we want" make recalling county council members more difficult in the future. Council members discussed an amendment to the change of government plan approved by voters one year ago. The amendment would increase the number of signatures of registered voters needed to initiate a recall election from 15 percent of the voters who participated in the most recent governors election up to 30 percent. The amendment would also prohibit recall elections within one year following an unsuccessful recall effort of the same council member, and would not allow the recall of more than two council members at any one time. Right now, council members can be recalled after six months in office. The amendment would increase that lime period to one year. The current county government plan has no limits on the length of time recall petitions can be circulated before being submitted for ballot certification. The amendment would require petitions be filed within sixty days of the date of the first signatures. The amendment would also permit people who sign petitions but later change their minds to have their names removed from the petition before the petition is certified. The changes were endorsed by Norm Shrewsbury, a leader of the group that drafted the change of government plan in 1992. Shrewsbury said his group supported the changes. He told the council that the people I spoke to said, when arc they going to change it, and I hope its soon, Shrewsbury added that the recent recall effort against six members of the council certainly wasnt used in ihc spirit or intention it was written, and that he would not disagree that the recall provision is unworkable the way its presently written. Council member Bill Hcddcn said he believed the recall effort that look place has a positive side. They had their say and they were far less than a majority, Hcddcn concluded. Now we have some breathing room to do county business. In other business, the council also agreed to hold a public hearing in two months to consider a change in omng enforcement to allow building inspectors to issue citations for violations. The new plan would set a minimum S 1 00 fine for violations, which would go through Justice Court, rather than the current system that requires the county attorney to pursue violations through District Court. This puts some teeth into the omng ordinances, stated council member John Maynard. Maynard said that right now there arc serious violations that arc going uncharged. The problem isnt just a lunkcr car in the yard its real health issues, real fire dangers. The council also approved a lease with Alpine Airlines that will allow the company to construct a hanger and business office at the airport. 30-yc- ar The lease, beginning at about $500 per year and allowing for 20 percent increases every 3 years, gives Alpine the right to cither move their building at the end of 30 years, or sell it to the county at market value. Weather Senate filibuster stalled grazing reform for now Western public land ranchers this week won a temporary reprieve from higher grazing fees and other sweeping changes proposed by the Clinton administration and its Interior Secretary, Bruce Babbitt Western state senators, including Utahs Bob Bennett and Orrin Hatch, k were successful in a on the Senate floor in blocking a conference committee recommendation that grazing fees be raised to nearly double their current rate. two-wee- Florida where Michael Aaron, former worked before coming to Grand County High. He has Workers Compensation Fund. . . and Eddie McStiff's received a dividend Moab p.m. and Friday morning November 12 from 8 a.m. to 12 noon. Students were given notices as to when the individual conferences are - scheduled, please ask your students information or contact the ()r high school office. Grand County Middle School will hold Parent Teacher Conferences in classrooms. Report cards are with teacher or Thursday, Student's November 11 from 1:30 - 3:15 and from p.m. and on Friday, November 12 from 8 a.m. to 12 noon. se accepted the temporary chairmanship of the local committee, said this information would be crucial in planning for the future of higher education in Grand County. to presentation con- ferences will be held Thursday evening November 11 from 5 to 8 meeting. Community School will find home in Technology Center r High School Parent Teacher forefront Higher Education Committee had, in earlier meetings, identified the position of academic advisorfinancial aid advi- -' sor, as the number one priority for higher education in Grand County. It had been discussing the possibility of a shared staff person paid jointly by CEU and Utah State University. Pres. Peterson projects 120 FTE students in five years time, supported by 8 FTE staff in Moab with an annual budget of about $350,000. He described the development of the San Juan Center campus of CEU in Blanding, and it was decided to arrange a campus visit for the committee in the near future. USU will continue to offer classes leading to four-yecollege degrees, The importance of tracking students through classes in both schobls, including financial for including County 0. conferences set this week Grand County Higher Education Committee planning for future five-ye- 11, Changes to recall law will be discussed at special County hearing of a million Nearly had visited Arches National people Park by the end of October, according to figures released this week by the National Park Service. October travel of 60,523 brought the total to date for Arches to 746,499, compared to 678,628 for the same ten months of 1992. October travel, however, was down slightly from the same month a year ago. The figures indicate an increase of 10 for the first ten months of 1993 from the previous years record visitation. three-quarte- Thursday, November Following the two-wee- k talk-a-th- fili- buster, Secretary Babbitt Tuesday withdrew the proposed increases from his departments appropriations bill. Following the withdrawal, Babbitt pledged, however, to proceed with sweeping range reforms on administrative orders issued by his department, despite a failure of Congress to endorse such changes. We intend to move forward with a regulatory proposal to bring about range reform, Babbitt said. We remain committed to the principles of range reform. We retain our focus on the need to restore and protect the great, productive American range. Hatch promised to fight on. The administration wanted to shove its vicious treatment of the west on Congress, but now its up to Babbitt. If he wants to do this horrendous thing to the west, hell have to do it himself. Were going to try to talk sense to him. Thats pretty tough. Hatch went on to defend the wests public land ranchers: Theyre hard working people who barely eke out a living. They love the outdoors, they love their ranches, they love their animals. Its ridiculous to treat them like this. An optimistic note was sounded by Utahs Senator Bob Bennett. He expects Babbitt to increase grazing fees but to hold off on his range reform proposals until they arc heard by the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, of which Bennett is a member. We will make it possible for Western governors and others to be heard. Once we do that, I believe well get more reasonable legislation, he said. Bennett believes the Interior Secretary has exceeded his authority. There is a possibility many of the things the secretary wants will come to pass. But if we have an honest day in court, I believe we can make our case, he said. Babbitts plan to involve a wider spectrum of western voices in the grazing fee decision is now taking him on a whirlwind trip through the west to drum up support. On that trip he plans to include more people in the process: elected officials, ranchers and environmentalists, who have hailed Babbitts stand as long overdue. By winning the filibuster fight on Tuesday of this week. Western senators have not yet won the war. It promises to be a long winter season for traditional users of the public range. Watch for reams of rhetoric from both sides as the issue progresses to finalization. Lions convention planned in Moab this Friday, Saturday The District 28T Lions Convention will be held in Moab at the Moab Valley Inn Convention Center on Friday and Saturday, November 12 and 13. Dr. Carlos Justiniano, Lions International Director from Puerto Rico will be the keynote speaker at the District Governor's Banquet Saturday Dr. Justiniano will be challenging the Utah Lions to continue the pursuit to eradicate preventable and reversible blindness and will offer ways for members to better serve their local communities. A Lion since 1979, Director Justiniano is a member of the Mayaguez Lions Club. He has held many offices within the association including club president district governor and council chairman. He has also served as a discussion leader at the USACanada Lions Leadership Forum and is a SightFirst district coordinator. Justiniano was elected to serve a two-yeterm as a director of the International Association of evening. Lions President Noel Poe says the Moab Club expects to host approximately 150 Lions from communities throughout southern Utah. The convention date was selected to miss Moab's busy season and yet take advantage of the area's beautiful fall season. The last Lions convention to be held in Moab was in 1977, sixteen year ago. ar Lions Clubs at the 76th International Convention in July 1993. Dr. Carlos Justiniano |