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Show Page Cl Week in Review Blanding San Juan Health Care Services Executive Director Craig Ambrosiani admitted last Tuesday that the current medical facilities in Blanding are not adequate for the community. The disclosure came during a discussion of the proposed $2.5 million Blanding Medical Center the district says it will build. Ambrosiani told the Health Care District board of directors there are several funding options, the most likely being a combination of grant and loans. The district is still seeking between five and 10 acres of land on which to build the facility, and has a funding proposal before the Community Impact Board. If the CIB approves the proposal at its May meeting, funding could be received as soon as j 3 i t i i J I ? i The Blue Mountain Panorama Board awards bids for projects ... The sounds of construction will be evident throughBlanding out San Juan County this summer after the San Juan School Board approved bids for a number of projects at a March 30 meeting. San Juan County voters approved the bonds to pay for the projects in a May 1997 election. Five projects, totaling nearly $6 million, were approved by the school board. They include: A permanent facility for the new Navajo Mountain High School, bid at approximately $3.4 million; new practice gym at Monticello Elementary School, $1.07 million; six new classrooms at Whitehorse High School in Montezuma Creek, $560,000; a library at Montezuma Valley High School, $464,000; and expanded vocational education facilities at San Juan High School in Blanding, $42,173. The San Juan Record molester: Plea was forced ... Alleged A former Dolores resident who is Cortez serving a sentence for child molesting and escape has been granted a new hearing by the Colorado Court of Appeals to determine if his guilty plea on those charges was coerced by inhumane treatment at Montezuma County Jail. Dennis James Kyler, 40, pleaded guilty in March 1993 to one count of sexual assault on a child and another of felony escape after fleeing twice from the infamously sieve-lik- e detention center, and being recptured. He was chained to his bunk for several days after he was brought back the second time. In a ruling on March 26 the court said the nature of the constraints and the timing of their removal clearly show they were not imposed to insure his continued presence in jail. Montezuma Valley Journal 20-ye- ar i j 2-- 1 Event to reconcile 1925 lynching ... A Kenilworth native has spearheaded an event Castle Gate designed to enable Carbon County residents to reconcile the 1925 lynching of Robert Marshall. Slated for April 4, the Day of Reconciliation began with a service and concluded with the placement of a headstone on Marshalls grave inscribed: Robert Marshall, lynched June 18, 1925, victim of intolerance, may God forgive. Marshall was accused of shooting and killing Deputy Sheriff J. Milton Bums on June 15, 1925 while the lawman was making his rounds as a watchman for Utah Fuel Company in Castle Gate. An apprehended Marshall and hung him withangry out a trial. Day of Reconciliation organizer, Matt Gilmour, said he was in high school when the event occurred and he looks forward to the opportunity to clear the air. Gilmours son, Ridge Gilmour, said Marshalls guilt or innocence of the deputys murder is irrelevant: The event will put closure to the lynching, he said. Or at least people can say the town tried to put closure to the matter. Sun Advocate crowd-tumed-mo- b ld Wild horses susceptible to disease... Uintah Wild horses now roaming Ute Tribe and Bureau of Land Management lands can carry equine infectious anemia, a disease that will kill one out of four infected and leave the other three to be carriers, according to Dr. Mike Marshall, Utah State Veterinarian. The disease was detected through testing wild horses removed from tribal lands and taken to Texas for slaughter. The results prompted Marshall to order that all wild horses undergo testing before they are sold to dealers or slaughtered. Dr. Marshall said it is the threat of infection to domestic horses that is the main concern. So far testing has revealed that only 14 out of 498 wild horses has tested positive for the disease. That's a small number, according to Dr. Marshall, but substantially larger than is found in domestic horses. Uintah Basin Standard Grant sought for youth center... Grantsville A youth center for Grantsville kids moved one closer to step becoming reality when city council members voted unanimously on March 18 to tentatively approve use of the metal building at the rodeo grounds to house a youth center. A Grantsville Volunteer Summit group must still come up with funding to improve the building and get plans off the ground. Tooele Transcript-Bulleti- IJi&iHfffeuitfliiirilllt honors for District still plans medical center,,. j Thursday, April 9, 1998 nt Bruce Hucko takes Items from regional newspapers i ffitmgg-nftgpmbg- Local artist, author receives national award Area-Wid- e 4 l9IJc 'Where There is No Name for Art' f Childrens art coach, artist and author Bruce Hucko has received a second national award, the 1998 Southwest Book Award, for his book, Where There is No Name for Art: The Art of Tewa Pueblo Children. The Border Regional Library Association gives this award to nine to 12 books annually for literary excellence and enrichment of the cultural heritage of the southwest. Now in their 17th year, no one on their staff could ever recall a book made by and with children receiving the award, Hucko said this week, returning to his Moab home-basbetween travels. As principal author Hucko was recently in El Paso to receive the award on behalf of himself Bruce Hucko's Where There is No bookstores. It is the recipient of two and the children he worked with in San Juan County to create the book. It was an honor for us and I think, too, that it was an honor for the Library Association, for in giving this award to us they saw e New airlines to fly to Denver... Durango, Colo. On May 31 an airline based in Wisconsin from six Durango to Denver, flying under the begins flights daily United Express label. May 31 is the last day of Farmington-base- d Mesa Air Groups contract with United Airlines to operate United Express flights between Durango and Denver. United Airlines has awarded the new contract to Air Wisconsin Airlines of Appleton, Wise., Domier 328 Turboprop planes. When an Iowa-base- d which will use Hucko dePhotographs by art and building sites in the ancient southwest are currently on display at the Anasazi Heritage Center in Dolores, Colorado (Highway 184) through May 31. Titled Images from an Untamed Land, Huckos large format black and white and color prints reflect his interest in the natural beauty found in the Four Corners area and in the relationship between built environments and the natural stone. This body of work is an extension of the photographers interest in the relationship between people and landscape. I see this presentation as a celebration of the continuum of human expression of the Colorado Plateau, Hucko says. Visiting and photographing these sites brings me closer to this landscape I call home. I hope viewers will gain an added appreciation of the amazing resources available to us here and will lend their voices to its protection. Since I dont disclose locations, I invite viewers to enjoy the images for what they are elements of line, design, light and texture set to paper The 50 16x20-incblack and white prints and large color prints are complemented by contemporary poems that fo picting rock silver-coate- d h cus on ancient of day-lon- g A number of writers, photogra- phers, publishers, archaeologists and land management agencies attended. Others who have an interest with this topic are welcome to contact Hucko at P.O. Box 201, Moab, 6, 84532. The MoabMonticello Ranger Sal NaDistrict of the Manti-Ltional Forest is proposing to implement a vegetation treatment project in the Elk Ridge area of the Monticello District in San Juan County. The proposal contains several actions designed to improve health of vegetation within the project area. The project is called the Maverick Point Vegetation Treatment Project. The specific activities proposed are to: 1) Thin, through timber sale contract, approxi- scribed fire following commercial thinning (harvest) on approxi- a mately 1,100 acres, utilizing ground fires; 3) implement prescribed fire treatments on an additional 5,800 acres using low severity ground fire to simulate a natural fire occurrence in the area to reduce live fuels by thinning dense seedling, sapling, and pole thickets and shrub areas, provide natural decomposition of fine and woody low-severi- ty materials for nutrient cycling, and provide site preparation for seedling establishment in openings or to stimulate sprouting of small aspen groups; and 4) utilize the existing transportation mately 1,100 acres of commer- cially valuable ponderosa pine trees to reduce tree numbers (density); 2) implement pre DR COPY1 Plan), old remnant logging roads and some additional temporary logging roads to implement harvest treatments. Post treatment road closures will be in conformance with the 1991 Forest Travel Management Plan decision. Compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requirements for this proposal are scheduled to be completed in the fall of 1998 with project implementation expected in late fall of 1998. To obtain additional information or provide comments on the proposal, contact Greg Montgomery by mail at MoabMonticello Ranger DisP.O. Box 820, 496 East Central, Monticello, UT 84535, or by or factelephone at To be simile at trict, 7. most effective, comments should be received by May 1, 1998. Comments submitted anonymously will be accepted and considered; however, those who submit anonymous comments will not have standing to appeal the subsequent decision under 36 CFR Parts 215 or 217. Alpine offers senior discount With its new schedule beginning April 1, Alpine Air will begin offering a senior citizen discount approximately 66 percent less than reserve-seatin- One-wa- Courtesy of the Dan Museum O-Lau- rie p 9. Higher Ed. Council hires designer The Moab Higher Education Council has hired Swaner Design, Inc., a Salt Lake City landscape architecture and planning firm, and Cooper Roberts Architects, AIA, to conduct a feasibility study and develop a master plan for an education, arts and conference center for Moab and ot rs system (1991 Forest Travel g air fares. Alpines lowest y reserve seating between Moab and Salt Lake City for customers 60 years or older will cost $54.50; round trip fares for senior citizens will be $109. Cancellations and changes will be assessed an additional fee of $67. Its taken a lot of time for us to come up with this rate, said Joe Estenson, director of marketing for Alpine Air. A lot of people in the community have been asking for this. Estenson estimates that 20 percent of Alpines ridership will qualify for the savings. Weve been talking about doing this for two or three years, he added. We finally decided to go with it with the new schedule. The new schedule will include four round-tri- p flights per day, Monday through Friday; and two round-trip- s flights per day on Saturdays and Sundays. This schedule will be in place through September, when Alpine will return to two round-triflights each weekday, and one each on Saturday and Sunday. To reserve seating on any of these flights call Mammoth project dominates talk... access to a of land-owne- While painting with her art coach, Bruce Hucko, Samantha closes her eyes and imagines the aroma of fresh-bake- d cookies floating through the air, filling her house with its delicious warmth. Photo by Bruce Hucko Forest Service proposes timber harvest in Elk Ridge rs 10-ac- re south- Simon Ortiz, Ann Walka and Penny Harter. Hucko has added short essays dealing with the ethics of visiting and publishing site information. Photographs inform and educate, he said. They also invite. As writers, photographers and publishers we must take great care in what we share. We should not want to be accessory to the crime of having an uninformed citizen visit and do damage to a site that our work has led them to. In conjunction with the exhibit, the Anasazi Heritage Center and Hucko codiscussion on the sponsored a ethics of sharing site information. Topics discussed included the responsibility of writers, photographers and publishers; agency policies about site disclosure and visitation; educating the public; working with land management agencies and others. 30-se- at Mesa Verde The question emergency proposed 170-lsubdivision near Mesa Verde National Park troubled members of the Montezuma County Planning Commission at a preliminary discussion March 26. However, the planning group saw no insurmountable obstacles for High Sage Ranches, the first stage of which would consist of 43 lots on 450 acres on the north side of U.S. Highway 160, across from the entrance to Mesa Verde. The Redstone Development Corp. is purchasing nearly 1,900 acres from three tracts. in order to create a single development of mostly Planning commission members voiced concern about the fact that the subdivision will apparently have just one entrance, off Highway 160 at the exit for the national park. Cortez Sentinel part-tim- west. Poets include Gary Snyder, airline takes over United Express operations in Farmington on May 31, passengers may not notice much of a change, except in Mesa Air uniforms. The airplanes will be the same type Group flies under the United Express label. Great Lakes Aviation has the new contract from Farmington, and the United Express contract for Cortez to Durango, which Mesa will relinquish on May 31. The Four Corners Business Journal nine-seate- children not as subjects or poten- tial book buyers, but as peer authors. Where There is No Name For Art received the 1997 Carey McWilliams Award last June Hucko photos are on display at Anasazi Heritage Center the Bruce cultures the A look back in time n Name for Art is available at local national book awards. 1997, given by the Multicultural Review Magazine as the best book on the U.S. experience of cultural diversity. Hucko said he hopes the book will serve as a model for others to create similar works with and for their children in diverse communities. The book portrays the lives of a group of Tewa youngsters through their drawings, paintings and words, as well as photographs of them at work and at play. The childrens vibrant art work is complemented by their humorous and thoughtful commentary about living in a changing culture. Presenting a personal view of what it means to be growing up Pueblo today, the young artists talk frankly about families, friends and favorite activities, and their feelings about their heritage. This is quite an accomplishment for a bunch of kids and e their art coach, Hucko said. I like to think its a reward for doing the right kind of work with the right kind of people for the right kind of purpose. Moabs famous Mastodon Grand County. Located down the Colorado River from Moab, this rock petroglyph is thought by many to resemble a mastodon, leading others to believe that it was created by people living in the Moab Valley during s the late Ice Age. Others interpret the panel as a picture of (rivers, canyons) that just happen to resemble an elephant. (Moab Museum photo from the Elaine Peterson collection). land-form- -- I - J Utah State University and the College of Eastern Utah already have a presence in Moab, said Soren Simonsen, CooperRoberts project architect, and they are interested in expanding their offerings in the area. The facility is expected to consist of classrooms, meeting spaces and, perhaps, a theater. Sumner Swaner, owner of Swaner Design, explains, The property is 220 acres and part of our responsibility is to look at multiple uses for the buildings and land. The study is expected to be complete by the end of June 1998. |