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Show e tmss-nitepmh- mt ECREATION, Sport OMMUNITY Red Devil boys defeated both North and South Summit on home floor Thursday, February 3, 2005 Area-Wid- e Week in Review Items from regional newspapers by Jeff Richards Nine Mile road improvements . . . contributing writer Price Improvements to the road through Nine Mile Canyon have been under discussion for a long time. But in the last few years, the talk has become more specific. Improving the road without destroying the canyon is the question on the minds of people involved in the Nine Mile advisory committee. The advisory panel was formed a few months ago to help officials from Carbon and Duchesne Counties plan and develop an improved road in the canyon. I think to begin with, we need to prioritize the areas that need the most help on the road and work on those, pointed out Carbon Commissioner Bill Krompel. We need to look for solutions and approaches to move forward on this. Starting from U. S. Highway 40 in Myton to U.S. Highway 6 in Wellington, the road stretches more than 60 miles. Only about h of the road is paved. Sun Advocate The Grand County High boys basketball team won both of its home games last week end in decisive fashion, defeat2 on ing North Summit Friday and South Summit 5 68-4- 58-4- on Saturday. Grands Andrew Dalton, games, and Tanner Brown contributed 25. In the North Summit game, Grand outscored the Braves in the first quar- 9 32-1- 9 half- time lead. The Red Devils then went on a 22-- run in the third quarter to go ahead by as many as 30. Tony Dalton led all scorers with 18 points, while Brown had 17 and Andrew Dalton had 14. The offense was a balanced attack, with nine different Red Devil players scoring. The following night, 4 . . Brigham City About 50 searchers from Box Elder and Cache counties were called to Rocky Dugway, above Mantua to locate three scout leaders and eight scouts reportedly stranded, about 8:30 p.m. on Jan. 14 in the area. The scouts, all 10 to 15 years of age, had snowshoed in with their leaders and became stranded about six and a half miles southeast of Mantua. The group was from the Bountiful and Centerville area. Search and rescue units from both counties followed GPS coordinates given out by the stranded snowshoers and were able to locate them on snowmobiles. All were brought out safely and they were off the mountain by 2 a.m. Box Elder News Journal against South Summit, Grand opened the game with a 1 lead in the first quarter and never looked back. Andrew Dalton led the team with 14 points, while Tony Dalton scored 11 and Brown had 8. 17-1- The Devils shot from the free throw line during the game, while the Wildcats were only With the pair of victories, the GCHS boys improved their (9-Region 14 record to overall). They play their final two home games of the season 2-- 4 8 this weekend. Fridays game against Juab will start at 7 p.m., and the Red Devils will then face Rowland Hall-St- . Marks on Saturday at 5:30 p.m. Valley Voices offering Singing Valentines for February 14 event Mexican nationals injured Bluff and units from Anthony Croasmun rebounding for the boys Red Devil basketball team during their 5 victory over South Summit last Saturday Photo by Tom Taylor night. . . . 58-4- Blanding Emergency Blanding, helicopters were dispatched Kayenta, along with three last Tuesday afternoon after a van carrying nine illegal Mexican nationals crashed near Mexican Hat. According to the Utah was headed northHighway Patrol, the 1991 Toyota mini-va- n bound on U.S. 163, when the driver apparently fell asleep around 2:45 p.m. The van failed to negotiate a curve in the road and went into the sand, traveling about 200 feet before running into a ditch. Caring for the injured required two ambulance crews from Blanding, one from Bluff and one more from Kayenta. The Bluff fire department also responded and had to extricate one of the passengers. The three most seriously injured were to San Juan Regional Medical Center in Farmington, life-flig- 20-- ter en route to a one-fift- Scouts , leaders stranded . who had missed the previous two games because of an ankle injury, came back to score a combined total of 27 points last weekend. Teammate Tony Dalton added 29 over the two ht February 14th would not the same to Moab folks if it werent for the Singing Valenbe tines rendered by the Valley Voices womens barbershop chorus. Every year at this time, the sound of their songs resonates throughout the valley, filling all requests for these tokens of affection to be delivered to loved ones, whether family members, friends, neighbors or even life-flight- ed musical numbers, a fragrant carnation and a personal handwritten note make up the Valentine package being offered by this group of ladies on Monday, February 14 between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. To send a Singing Valentine, please call Mary 7 or Mayberry at The Terby Barnes at earlier the call, the better assurance of receiving a desired Two 259-576- 259-670- 0. time slot. N.M. Blue Mountain Panorama car . . . Caught: one police Mutual aid between Farmington Farmington and Centerville police departments usually works pretty well. Last week, though, it went awry. A Farmington police officer attempted to pull a suspect over for a violation last Wednesday. The driver refused to stop, even though he continued traveling d at posted speeds, with police following. The chase continued into Centerville where police deployed spikes which only managed to flatten the tires of the Farmington police car. The driver of the other car was apprehended and booked for suspicion of driving under the influence. Davis County Clipper Avalanche class members on training day in the La Sal Mountains. Photo by Bego Gerhardt slow-spee- in avalanche training session in Moab 15 involved Litmus test in Richfield . . . The Manti-L- a Sal Avalanche Center hosted its 3rd annual Level 1 avalanche class this past weekend. The class was a huge success, with 15 participants who hailed from Moab, Castle Valley, Mt. Pleasant, even Carbondale and Nucla, Colorado. The three-da- y course started out on Friday night at the Grand County Search and Rescue Shed, and went through until Sunday evening. The local Avalanche Forecasters for the Manti-L- a Sal Avalanche Center, Max Forgensi and Evan Stevens, were aided by their new volunteer Andy Anderson in the instruction of the class. Time was split between lectures in the classroom and ski tours out in the La Sal Mountains. A fun time was had by all, with most participants learning more than they ever expected, and getting a few turns in the powder as well. Proceeds from the course benefit the Friends of the Manti-L- a Richfield Members of the group Sevier County Citizens for Clean Air and Water voiced their apprehension over the appointment of Newell Hales to the county planning commission during a recent meeting. We feel like he has a serious conflict of interest, said Thann Hanchett, a member of the group. It looks like youre stacking the deck. The main concern the group has about Hales appointment to the commission is that he has made public statements supporting the concept of a power plant to Sevier County. The Sevier Citizens representatives said they felt that the power plant issue may have been used as a litmus test for Hales. The Richfield Reaper hits snag . . . Development to 311 acres of The Tooele Boyer Companys plan develop property near Stansbury Park into a grand housing development has not exactly been a walk in the park. After two hours of discussion and the county planning and zoning commission and 25 concerned residents the developer was told to come back again in two weeks with yet another updated concept plan. The company wants to build 950 homes and have open space areas of 10 to 15 percent of the land. It was also told to meet with the Stansbury Park Service Agency to discuss park and trail system plans. Tooele Transcript Bulletin $10 million job in limbo . . . The Cortez Sanitation District will hire a cores samples of concrete from the new 23 test to contractor to whether the samples meet specidetermine site sewage plant fications outlined in the contract between the district and RMCI, contractor that walked off the site in the Albuquerque-base- d filed by both parties. District Chairlawsuits amid September man Bob Diederich said the testing will take approximately three months and if the concrete does not meet contract requirements, the district will have to find a contractor to repair or replace it at the sites aeration basin and two clarifiers. And district officials are not sure how long it would take to repair or replace the concrete if its found inadequate. The concrete previously was tested during the course of construction and did not meet specifications. The testing and coring repair of the concrete will cost the district approximately $50,000. ' Cortez Journal Cortez, Colo. New courthouse considered . the latest in snow and avalanche conditions by calling or going to 259-SNO- www.avalanche.orglsafc the web. Wrestlers head to tourney . . at 140 Freshman Conner seconds before . Kay pounds pinning his Monticello opponent. The Devils lost 28-4The team will travel to Kamas this Saturday where South Summit will host the regional tournament. Photo by Tom Taylor 8. on fTS A Look Back in Time W Historic pictures of Moab and Grand County For digital l files: http:www.lib.utah.edudigitalunews T-- Have a picture you would like to share? Submit it to The Times-lndepende- Sal Avalanche Center, which directly supports the daily operations of the Avalanche Center. Conditions could not have been better for the course, as the snow has piled up in the La Sal and Abajo mountains in the last few weeks. Currently, the La Sals snowpack is at 105 percent of normal while the Abajos snowpack is a staggering 272 percent of normal! The deep and plentiful snow has provided generally safer avalanche conditions, now that the last two weeks of warm weather has settled out some of the snowpacks instabilities. Remember you can always get . . Carbon County Courthouse was the main discussion at a recent commission meeting. The building housing most of the county offices as well as the justice court was constructed in 1958 and is showing signs of age. The roof is failing in several places, infrastructure systems are wearing out, the courthouse is not set up to handle technology and the building is too small. The commission voted to ask the Community Impact Board for planning money. Sun Advocate Price The t Lonely little grave . . . East of Onion Creek along the Utah Highway 128 is Hittles Bottom. Along the side of the road is forlorn little grave. It has been fenced in and cared for by Good Samaritans, probably the state road crew. The grave belongs to a Miss Wanch. Nearby, under cottonwood trees, is an old cellar and the remains of an old cabin, along with the put-in- " for Moab Daily Raft Trips. The old cellar was built by a Mr. Kitson. A Mr. Hittle was the next owner. He tried farming but found it too difficult to irrigate his crops with river water. He moved on to make a home somewhere else, but his name remains as a reminder. The area is known as Hittles Bottom. Photo, Grand Memories, Utah Daghters of Pineers A |