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Show PageBS Week in Review Items from regional newspapers Youth bags bear ... Thursday, September 13,2001 Ti Case workers with the For Slade Ferkins big game hunting is becoming old hat, but he insists it isnt getting bonng. Perkins has already bagged a mountain lion in his first year as a legal hunter, and last week he addt d a bear to his trophy case. He shot the bear Aug, 31, shortly before dark in the area around Monticello Lake. Slade and his father, Decker, spotted the bear near a road, standing on its hind legs eating acorns from a tree about 70 yards ay. Slade said his first shot missed and the bear came down on all fours and started toward him. I was a little nervous then, he admitted, but the bear turned off into the bushes. Later, the father and son found the bear in the same spot and Slade brought him down v, ith a shot from his 30 06 nfle. The Blue Mountain Panorama Agencies pool effort ... Price Three local agencies are pooling their efforts to head off for adolescents in Carbon, Grand and Emery counproblems ties. Four Corners Mental Health (FCMH), the Seventh District Juvenile Court and the Utah Department of Child and Family Sendees have teamed up on the Frontier Project in order to respond to the need. The federally funded initiative is a tribute to the community's collaborative response, said Bob Greenberg, FCMH executive director. According to Southeastern Utah Health District reports, the region has the states highest rate of births td women younger than 20. Carbon and Grand counties have the highest rate of arrests of adults in connection with violent crimes, almost twice as high as the states average, according to the Harrison Archival Indicator Data, 1993. That indicates parental attitudes which are an important risk factor, according to local agencies. Sun Advocate at-ris- tTtmfe-3itbfpntb- Resource Center to assist claimants for energy employee compensation Area-Wid- e Blanding Die k Colo- p.m. Colorado Lframum Work- Com- ers Council Meeting Grand rado Energy Employees pensation Resource Center will be available in Grand Junction, 4 to assist Colo. Sept. claimants who may qualify un- Junction City Hall 250 North 5th Street, Grand Junction, Colo Call the office at to set up un with a case worker who has been trained to help 13-1- toll-fre- e der the Energy Employees nt Compensation Act of 2000 with filing claims. Case workers will assist Department of Energy employees, retirees, former workers. Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) qualified employees, surviving spouses and eligible dependents, who may qualify for an award under the Compensation Act of 2000. Locations and times for claims assistance in elude: Thursday, Sept. 13 and Friday, Sept. 14, 8:30 a m. - 5 p m., workers complete applications mid obtain medical and employment information. Workers or their families can also pick up application forms at Sen. Ben Nighthor&e Campbells office, 400 Rood Avenue, Suite 213, Grand Junction, Colo., (970) 241-663- The resource center where nuclear weapons workers can go for help filing claims for compensation under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act opened in Westminster on July 23, 2001. The center, sponsored Aspinall Federal Building (Basement leveD 400 Rood Avenue, Grand Junction, Colo., Thursday Set. 13, 6:30 - 8:30 jointly by the U.S Departments of Labor and Energy, is one of 10 throughout the country to help energy workers or their families file for compensation fiom the federal government The new law, which went into effect July 31, provides $150,000 tion and related medical expenses to workers who became seriously ill from exposure to radiation, beryllium or silica while working in the nuclear weapons industry. Compensation will also be available to some survivors of energy workers and to uranium workers who are eligible for benefits under Section Five of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Staff at the center have also been trained to assist DOE workers who have occupational illnesses that are not covered (r 1 i 259-581- cemetery plots and wondered why she had not been given a receipt. Wright was also charged with forging Uintah County Commissioners signatures on quit claim deeds for plots. He was charged with 99 counts including forgery, theft and misuse of public funds. Vernal Express ... power City Council gains vest with the a words, another taxWearing pink on the of back, former Cortez payer screwed by the City Cortez," printed told the board Denison Darlene council critic and city council member charter the be by passing a prolast week they would violating citys members unanimously passed the ordinance posed ordinance. But the council in question, which gives the sweeping powers to regulate behavand ior on public property thoroughfares by passing a simple resolution and posting signs, such as No skateboarding," and No dogs." Cortez Journal Cortex, Colo. to inmates for labor ... Agencies turn men cant beat. deal Roosevelt It's a that you just Able-bodie- d willing to work outdoors in all kinds of weather doing all types of labor for 25 to 50 cents an hour. 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UT 84532 I.nfw I toll-fre- e QIH0D0NT1CS We Fix non-prof- it Voluntary Exile Compensation Act available i or loll Free: (In Site Apptr Rock Point Cemetery sexton, who pocketed for cemetery plots, was sentenced to 90 days in jail and $7 ,000 payments restitution for funds he illegally took. Fredrick Louis Wright, 51 of Vernal, was arrested in November 2000, when a woman purchased several 1 Jllnt-s- s 1 re- Vernal The former -t- Apple Authorized Sales and Service provider illiams Ray Caution around bats ... Forjfier sexton gets 90 days ... - 6 Controversy over the newly installed asphalt plant located off State Road 189 may not reach the same temperatures as when it was first proposed more than one year ago. In a random sampling of residents living in areas most impacted by the asphalt plant owned by Construction Products Company (CPC), a subsidiary f Granite Construction, most peoples concerns centered on the plants smell. Other issues included the possibility of home devaluation, the number of trucks on S.R. 189 and the potential for illness from breathing asphalt fumes. The Wasatch Wane -i Energy Employees Occupa- tional ;Ron Alien Consulting1 Services, Inc. lleber cently in Cache County, the Logan Police Department and Bear River Health Department urge all northern Utah residents to be cautious of bats. A fourth bat suspected of having rabies is being tested. No one has been bitten by a rabid bat in Cache County, said Health Department spokesman Mike Weibel. But there have been six bats that tested positive for rabies in Utah, three in Cache County. The other three bats were in Davis, Weber and Uintah counties. Box Elder News Journal s. pensation program More information about the Act. Neighbors balk at smell ... Brigham City After three bats tested positive for rabies compensa- lump-su- m under the new law apply for benefits that may be available through the state workers com- I |
