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Show ygi frj iThf Page 07 imrg-3nhfpmh- Thursday, February 15,2001 mt More money requires more decisions to be made Moab Poets & Writers by legislators in light of $697 million surplus plan conference to be ak held next November Participants to attend City Arts Festival next week More money does not guarantee happiness just any -- recent lottery winner. While Utah hasnt exactly won the lottery, an estimated $697.2 million in newly available funds this ses- sion has lawmakers realizing additional dollars mean additional decisions. Senate Majority Leader Steve Poulton, said, We are fortunate our economy has grown well enough to give our state the ability to meet its financial needs. However, we must make sure our budgeting issues, said Blackham. Committees cautiously weigh funding requests and decisions to spend taxpayer dollars are made after careful consideration and debate Poulton noted the Senate Caucus has recommended funding the following. $23.7 million for textbooks, $5 million for teacher supplies, $6.1 million for board and voted leeway, $10 million for capital outlay, $7 million for applied technology education and $10 million to choices reflect the will snd needs of Utah citizens. Executive Appropriations Chair Leonard Blackham, noted the Executive Appropriations Committee, comprised of Senate and House leaders from both parties, have approved the allocation of nearly an and onemillion in time funds to Joint Appropriations Subcommittees. $ 199 g Our committee members have been working diligently the past four w eeks to determine state repair state parks. Fully funding textbooks agency needs and study legislative needs and providing additional monies for education are goals Republican senators are committed to achieve this session," said Poulton. The Republican Majority Leader also noted considerable budget debates will continue before agreement is reached on issues including tax cuts and the creation of an Education Protection Fund" to set aside money to meet future education needs. DELTA SALES YARD Market Report February 8, 2001 We had a fantastic sale this week, loads and loads of high quality cattle. 1 292 head sold for 1 20 consignors. Market fully steady to higher on feeder cattle. Butcher cows and bulls steady. Bred cows old and pairs - Better kind $800-$90average quality $650-$75$200-$30-0 or thin cows $500-$60head. beef calves Baby per Lambs higher at .80-.8thin ewes .30 - down, fat top ewes .37-.4bucks up to .36 1.05-1.1- 8 .90-1.0- 5 Steers 300-40- 0 Heifers 300-40- 0 .90-1.0400-506 5 0 Steers 400-50- 0 Heifers .87-.9500-60500-602 0 7 0 Steers Heifers .80-.8600-70600-707 0 0 0 Heifers Steers .84-.9- 0 ,78-.8- 3 Heifers 700-80- 0 Steers 700-80-0 .74-.7- 7 J8-.8- 5 Steers 800-90-0 Heifers 800-90- 0 0, 0. 5, 3, .97-1.1- Under the Senate Republican proposal, Blackham said almost and one$427 million of time funds still remain for budget consideration of items including compensation. State Capitol renovation, museums, rural airports, libraries, the engineering initiag tive, fisheries, local provider COLAs, jail reimbursement, USU Extension, tounsm, Silicon Valley initiative, high- - nsk youth programs, readOlympic-supporte- d ing programs. Highway Patrol salary equity, drug courts, mental health and the disabled waiting list. Blackham said this is not an list because many other items are still included in budget deliberations. Blackham noted the estimated $687.2 million breaks dow n into about $371 million in funds and around $316 e million in monies. on-goi- one-tim- About $494.7 million i3 uniform school money and around $192.5 million is general fund money. at tAe deaAOK .92-1.1- .89-1.0- (vee&ertd! Big Heiferettes .45-.6- 0 Light Heiferettes .65-.7- 7 .65-.8Bulls Top Cows .40-.4- 5 Cutting of Medium Flesh Cows .35-.4- 0 Butcher Bulls .45-.5- 2 .55 top n Low Yielding Cows Next Sale: Feb. 15 - Buetler Char. Bull Sale - Good dispositions and low birth weights. These bulls will work in any herd - come down and look! Also 1 5 bred Shorthorn running age cows, expecthead. March 1 - Colorao ing our regular dock run of 300-50-0 Assoc. Bull Sale. Saturday, March 3 - Western CO ApHC Stud Service Auction with our Special Horse Sale. Call Jim Ryan 92 for more info. March 8 - Carsten Simmental Bulls and Feeder Sale featuring Harold Brandstadt, Berthod, and Special Miller cattle. Another good sale for consignors. March 1 5 - Hill Simm. Bulls - Collbran, CO. April 12 - All Breeds Bull Sale. Call us - we will work for you! 96-1-9 Ui. G MOABS KYWAY .35-dow- Sim-ment- ENIC CHAIRLIFT al Turn at McDonald's, drive one mile on Kane Creek Blvd. 970-835-- First rid up i Last rids up at 4:30 Last rtde down art 5 p m.m Being your bikcfTOinetay tffcd or 874 - 3605 evenings pteniu.l nw n iT w jv w jr vi ji w ww Moab's "Best Seller" Features a Cast of Thousands. (Including YOU if you hurry!) t, non-profi- Us Go To Press Without You! Right now, we're taking orders for businesses to advertise in the 2001 Citizens Telephone Directory. As Moab's ONLY Official Yellow Pages, it truly is a "best seller" when it comes to increasing your sales! Feature important information about your business: Locations Telephone Numbers Web Addresses Fax Hours of Operation 15-1- 8 shops by Terry Tempest Williams, Sam Hamill, David Kranes, TR. Ritchie and Mary Sojourner. In ad- p.m. on Wednes- call your Citizens Yellow Pages representative The project began as an h .id 21 Hughes will leading i local writ i - al In 1922, the Grand County Public Library had a total budget of $2,500 and was open 16 hours per week. In 1999, the total budget was $198,000 and wa open 59 hours per week. . k. Computer Ease of Moab it now... MacEze Your Local Mac t Speiiahtti Providing Apple Macintoth (Mac) eupport & lervi'cci for the Moab area tince 1993 Plut... Full Service Web Page Detign Development Call today and receive FREE set-u- p month's internet access Service & FREE i includes 56k unlim.'od access. $195month. et' savings fl 13101 ' 7 A uV-- H t' 1 r K ? . ' - ' V v f VVOPID CLASS INTERNET ACCESS A til - ;ry J y 'IO - I i -- 4- 7Y.- i U kp til i i i ty -- c year contract required - -- 2001, SO GET CONNECTED! p ! - Mu.il-communi- Trr - I COPY ! On Feb Clark i tracted artists of every stripe. They have come to find refuge in the solitude of open spaces, and many of them regard themselves as exiles of one sort or another. The name of the conference and its theme, Voluntary Exile, is an essential part of why so many of us are here, and also why we 1 n t ii i n x.V.W-- H n t nity For lm il w riters I Exile. Like Taos, Big Sur and Port Townsend, Moab has for years at- dial-u- r i . Tempest Williams said in her foreword to the book that the poems have a wider arc of understanding in their humanity, a sacred rage and yearning that calls for conscience and consciousness rooted in place." It is that place that pushes them on. Were out in the middle of nowhere, largely by choice, said Fox, and we decided that if we couldnt go to the mountain, wed bring the mountain to us." The project has organized readings by writers such as Craig Arnold, set up workshops and community events, and continued to hold its monthly Now they are climbing their biggest mountain yet: preparing the writers conference, Voluntary Otter exp, re. m vs L- read along with Fox, Clark at. Hughes, each performing tions from their own work Sounding out influ nces ranging from Whitman and Du km-u- n to Zen haiku, French surn.ili-Anne Sexton and Amu i l u d the poetry of the group intuu it the motley charact r of ii of voluntarv and calls back to its origin- - m Eklectica. This is just the liegi lining " said Clarke, taking a break from the relentless hour- - of work spent pulling togethr r the i ord r ence. The comrnumtv lishing itself, we ju- -t riei to keep doing what we're doing V " just need to keep writing open-micropho- IT'S ' ! -- ham, Diane Foots, Karim Fouad and Roy Sc ranton will infor- pot-luc- M.i I Salt Lak (it, do a ( it or reading for Citv Arts John it mal monthly potluck, but founders Clark, Julie Fox and Deborah Hughes were hungry for more. Last year they published Glyphs, an anthology of local poetry, under the aegis of their own River Road Press. Terry at the Berry Company. Morth ithe local Monette Clark notebook at the Eklectica cafe four years ago, the Moab Poets & Writers Project has grown by leaps and bounds. We wanted to create a community," said founding member Monette Clark, to make a place for local writers to gather and share their work. We wanted to open up literary opportunities in Moab." f first of all doing it lor in Moab. beginnings as a few po- ems scratched in a l i dow n," said "hut hot) i their work. We wanted to open up literary opportunities humble i people to gather and share day, Feb. 21, at the Salt Lake City Main Library as part of the City Arts Festival. From its a quite We wanted to create a community, to make a place for local writers to dition, some of Moabs best poets will be reading their work at 7 $ To place your Yellow Pages advertising today, please . organizing its first writers conference, titled Voluntary Exile, The conference is planned for Nov. and will feature work- open-micropho- Don't Let write," said Clark Inaddti tne farultv, the project exp quite a few other exiles tu i into Moab for the conftr n Word is alreadv passing thre the grapevine of the sm.ill 'I- town, and local entrtpn are looking forward to tf v t season business p The Moab Poets & Writers Project, a grassroots literary organization, is at work I i' V - |