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Show jn Tf Page Cl iin jwmgtfmffrumup 1ffltmgg-(31nftgpgn&e- yngpr ryrTfi Hgtrvi0nj0mpmif0i rapr-pyr Thursday, March 18, 1999 nt Film Traverse at the Portal Commission Tyrolean Area-Wid- e Week in Review Climbers Chris and Items from regional newspapers 'sells1 Moab Lee Kelly made a tyrolean traverse of the Moab Spire Fence committee disbands ... to L.A. March. 1. According committee formed to decide whether Roosevelt An should be responsible for fenccattle owners or owners private property to deadlock cattle has on the issue. The question is disbanded due a ing whether the cattle should be fenced in or fenced out, and who owes who when property or livestock are damaged. The committee, comprised of farmers and ranchers, land developers and private property owners, was formed last year to review a proposed ordinance. The group split down the middle on most issues, but was able to agree on a portion of the ordinance addressing right to farm provisions. The Uintah Basin Standard to the climbing duo it is the first such traverse of the prominent feature in the Portal near Moab. It took them two days and several hikes up the eight-memb- er The Moab to Monument ValCommission may not be Film ley in the real estate business, but it just sold southeastern Utah to Hollywood. Having just returned from the prestigious Locations 99 Trade Show in Los Angeles, Moab managed to stand out portal trail to rig up the safety equipment necessary to make the crossing. Photo courtesy Prison location to be decided ... Delta More than 300 Millard County residents turned out for a pubhearing on the hotly debated topic of locating a private prison in Filmore. Concerns were raised about the County Commission and Filmore City havreferendum which resulted in a majority voting ing ignored a against the prison. Four companies are competing for the contract; March 16 was the final deadline for submitting bids. Those arriving at the meeting n were greeted by an picket line. Millard County Progress lic Wingate Video. non-bindi- USU V.P. says institutional anti-priso- Mill dodges political bullet ... 'turf wars' serve no one wrangling by State Sen. Blanding Some crucial eleventh-hou- r Mike Dmitrich, along with State Rep. Keele Johnson and others, helped defeat a controversial bill in the Utah House that would have given further regulatory control of Blandings White Mesa Mill to the State. HB 324 passed the House Feb. 26 by a 63-- vote and was sent to the Senate for approval. According to Dmitrich, a letter from International Uranium Corporation, owners of the mill, helped sway sentiment away from the hill. In the letter, IUC agreed to allow the state to participate in "split sampling of ground water tests at the mill. Johnson explained that a lot of the work to get the bill killed went on behind the scenes. The Blue Mountain Panorama 3 Monticello At the March 8 meeting of the San Juan County Commission, commissioners informed the Bureau of Land Management Area Manager Kent Walker that the county intends to ask the sheriff to remove barriers from roads that have been blocked by the BLM. Walter said it is in the best interest of the land'to leave the roads that have been closed as they are. Commissioners said that if the county feels a road needs to be closed, then the county will close the road. Walter said the BLM is asserting their rights to roads that are under their responsibility. The San Juan Record State tightens annexation laws ... State The on the final of Park City Utah Legislature day this years session tightened laws that govern citizens rights to challenge Good Samaritan is a suspect... Tooele Transcript-Bulleti- cent controversy over what model of higher education will best serve Moab-are- a residents. Gilliland said turf wars between Utah State University and the College of Eastern Utah is not new to Moab, having reached what he thought was a crescendo in 1993. Old wounds have apparently surfaced with a vengeance, he said, as Moab prepares a budgetary wish list for construction of a new higher education facility south of town. I came to Utah State University in 1992, and was assigned to work with the College of Eastern Utah to try to resolve some of the conflicts that had developed between the two institutions, Gilliland said He called the frustrations institutional turf wars, and said they didnt serve anyones purpose. Gilliland whittled current frustrations down to two areas of concern: 1) Whether or not USU was dictating the courses CEU could offer n to local students by way of needing certain courses to serve the graduate degrees being offered by USU; andr21 whether CEU can offer courses to feed those graduate programs in a timely manner. I dont see these problems in Price or in Monticello, Gilliland said, and we have a similar arrangement in those communities with CEU. lower-divisio- upper-divisio- n -- n Suspects held in Ute Mt. murder. .. Cortez Federal authorities and tribal police are investigating man whose body was discovered the suspicious deaih.of.3-Tlwaolate March 3 in a remote forested area on the Ute Mountain TJte c -- lower-divisio- n think the reason is that the courses are easier to offer in Price and Monticello than they are in Moab. But the frustrations may also be as simple as I A Grantsville resident trying to be a Good Samaritan Tooele became a suspected child abductor earlier this week but police say everyone did the right thing and the situation worked out fine. A girl walking to the elementary school early last week was frightened by a dog. A man passing by stopped to help. The girl didnt know the man, ran back to the house to tell her dad what happened, and he called the police. Her description of the mans car matched that of a suspicious car reported at the elementary school a few days before. That car had been traced to Nevada and was registered to a suspected child molester. When media reports surfaced, the man called police and explained what had happened. Police still praised the girl for her stranger danger response which she had learned in school. On March 8, Gilliland apologized to members of the Higher Education Council, a body created by the Board of Regents for the express purpose of helping guide higher education goals and policies in Moab, for what he said amounted to an administrator of USU overstepping his boundaries. Hawks preceded Gillilands comments with an apology of his own for not consulting with the Higher Education Council first. My training for the last 10 years has been as a university professor, Hawks told Council members Monday. When I get an idea, I put together a presentation. The problem with this presentation was that I was an administrator of higher education and not a professor, and what I did was not in accordance with the mandate of the Board of Regents. Ultimately, Gilliland concurred, the Board of Regents is where the community should go to advocate for one particular form of higher education or another, rather than administrators of one institution or another. Rivalry in rural areas gets in the way of building hospitals, roads and a lot ofother projects that are best done cooperatively, he added. Theres been a lot of hurt over this, and Im not going to minimize that. But I hope we can overcome what has happened and rebuild the trust i We ought to be working together. USU was Assigned ta serve southeastern Utah in 1967, Gilliland said, and until the early 1980s, courses to provided both upper- - and area residents. When CEU began offering programs in southeastern Utah, including vocational programs, conflicts tgan to arise. After much discussion at the state level, the Board of Regents in 1993 mandated the current arrangement whereby CEU offers n n the courses and USU provides courses for graduate and undergraduate degrees. The Board also mandates collaboration, cooperation and sharing of services area facilities. Currently both institutions share space at the Higher Education Center, on 200 South in Moab. Plans to construct a larger facility on property donated by the Holyoak family trust have thus far proceeded with this articulation agreement in mind. The next meeting of Higher Education Council will be held on Monday, April 5 at 4 p.m. Higher Education Council Chair Adrien Taylor said that on the agenda is an invitation to all of those who are interested to share their ideas for higher education, to come to a better understanding of the various points of view that have surfaced in recent weeks. Utah State University Vice President Robert Gilliland addressed a larger than usual meeting of the Moab Higher Education Council on Monday afternoon, March 8, in an effort to diffuse re- County may open closed roads ... municipal annexations. HB 129, which passed 26-- 1 in the Senate and 66-- 5 in the House, increases the number of signatures necessary on a petition to put an annexation to a referendum. In smaller cities, the new bill requires 35 percent of the number of voters in the last gubernatorial election as the minimum number of signatures. The previous benchmark was 20 percent. The Park Record in advance about the purpose of the meeting. by Carrie MoSsien staff writer lower-divisio- n lower-divisio- access to a copy machine, he added. Unfortunately, when (USU Regional Director) Steve Hawks made a presentation to the community, it dredged up the old 1993 battle, Gilliland said. Hawks held a meeting last month in order to explore the possibility of turning the higher education facility proposal into a proposal for a four-yecollege, with USU pron courses. Curviding both upper- - and n rently, CEU, a community college, provides courses in an articulation agreement with USU that strives to meet the needs of students seeking four-yedegrees. Members of the Higher Education Council received an llth-hou- r invitation to the were not briefed was and the it held, meeting day ar lower-divisio- lower-divisio- ar Reservation. Ritchie Clark, 28, a Ute Mountain Ute tribal member, was found dead four miles north of Towaoc after a tip from a tribal official prompted an y search. The case is being investigated as a homicide by the FBI, the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Towaoc Police. BIA investigators say three suspects have been arrested on unrelated, outstanding local charges and are being held in the Montezuma County Jail. Cortez Sentinel upper-divisio- Courtesy of the Dan O-Lau- 259-638- 8. dinner e pre-rac- fundraising e din- Care-A-Va- n Half-Maratho- n. The spaghetti dinner with meat and vegetarian sauces, salad, breads and desserts is to raise money for the program designed to transport the elderly and disabled to physician and medical appointments. Since its inception in 1996, Care-A-Va- n volunteers have , donated approximately 1,700 hours and driven over 40,000 miles. New clients request the services of the organization on a regular basis. The dinner will be jointly hosted by the Moab Senior Center, and the Grand County Home Health Agency Tickets will be available at the Race Registration Desk, at the Care-A-Va- n, Moabs second hotel Price I at 5-- Public comments on Lila Canyon ... J on-goi- will be held Friday, March 19 from 9 p.m. at the Civic Center, 450 East 100 North, prior to the Canyonlands The cost is $6 for adults, $3 for children under 12, and $20 for an entire family reCounty joined Book Cliffs be an area in to that the turned tribal jurisdicquesting tion. The area is located in southwestern Uintah County, known as the Navel Oil Shale Reserve II. It is completely surrounded by tribal lands. Currently the property is administered by the BLM and included in the Tabyago Canyon unit of the Citizens Wilderness Proposal. The property was also included in the new BLM inventory. Vernal Express -- mission is planning the celebration for the 50th anniversary Fifty Golden Years of Filming of the Moab to Monument Valley Film Commission. This is such a huge accomplishment for Moab to have the longest film commission in the world; the amount of press time we are receiving from this is astronomical and is sure to have to exciting results, said Murphy. "If you have any ideas that you would like to share with the commission on the celebration, please feel free to attend the film commission meetings on the second Wednesday of the month at 7 p.m. t the film commission offices," said Murphy, or call her ner to support n I have the most impact in our area, says Murphy. In other film news, the com- A for turning land to tribe ... Support Uintah has Vernal with the Ute Tribe in POOR COPY di- well-earn- ed Museum rie has family members and shooting Tooele and that neighbors angry City Police discharged a fireoutraged arm in a residential community before using an alternative method to solve an animal problem. The father of the dogs owner wrote a letter to city officials that the shooting was unnecessary and that neighbors and their families were at great risk of personal injury or death. But Police Chief Ron Kirby stands behind his officers action. The officer was investigating a neighbors report that the pit bull had broken out of its fenced yard and chased two children into the back of a pick up. When the dog allegedly started at the officer after a warning shot failed to intimidate him, the officer shot and killed the dog. Sun Advocate According to Kari Murphy, rector of the Moab commission, is Our success at Locations important for southeastern Utah because location filming makes a significant contribution to our local economy. Production companies hire our local crews and talent, rent equipment and automobiles from our local vendors, work out of local offices, buy local gasoline, stay in local hotels and guest accommodations, eat at local restaurants, and buy a myriad of other goods and services required for filming. And all that money stays in our area. This year the commission put a heavier emphasis on bringing commercials to southeastern Utah because commercials represent the largest part of the production pie. While features and TV series and specials are certainly always welcome, it is the commercials that usually Care-A-Va- n a pit A public scoping meeting was held March 2 to receive community input on the Lila Canyon coal mine development project in Emery County. The Bureau of Land Management and Utah American Energy Inc. joined third party consultants, Department of Transportation officials and private property owners to discuss the proposal. professionals attended this years show. supports A LOOK BACK IN TIME Residents upset after dog killed ... Tooele The recent of bull Transcript-Bulleti- one-on-o- Pre-rac- all-da- Tooele among some 350 film commissions and production service exhibitors from all around the globe. The Locations Trade Show, sponsored by the Association of Film Commissioners International, is a great opportuwith pronity to talk ducers, directors and location managers about bringing their next production to our area. Preliminary figures indicate that over 5,000 key industry . . . The Darrow House was built in the late 1880s by Mark Darrow and run by g Ma Darrow." The Darrow Hose also served as a jail from time to time. The building was a private home for many years and then served as a hotel again. It was torn down in the early 1970s to make way for construction of the Greenwell Motel on the corner of 100 South and Main. Dan O'Laurie Museum photo from the Isabella Provonsha collection comcob-pipe-smokin- ' door, or in advance by calling 259-916- 2, 259-662- 3, 259-719- 1 ext. 251, at Parriott's Hair Salon at 43 E. Center, and at Daves Corner Market. L. |