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Show 4A Emery County Progress Tuesday, March 10, 1992 PERSPECTIVE Forum bulletin board Bulletin board policy The Emery County Progress welcomes your bulletin board items for publication. We will publish the item for three consecutive weeks. All entries must be of a nonprofit, charitable or community service nature. Please mail copy to the Progress at P.O. Box 589, Castle Dale, Utah 84513; or phone it in at Deadline is noon each Friday. 381-243- 1. Crisis line The Utah County Crisis Line is now operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week. They are there to listen, provide information and give referrals to community resources. The number is Emery County Chamber of Commerce will hold their meeting March 17 at 6 p.m. at the courthouse. The speaker will be candidate for governor Cook. The public is invited to meet the candidate. Castle Dale The Castle Dale Babe Ruth Bambino league will hold a meeting for all coaches and interested parents March 18 at 7 p.m. in the Castle Dale City Hall. They will also have a meeting March 25 at 7 p.m in the Museum of the San Rafael which parents and coaches should plan to attend. 226-443- 3. The Utah County Crisis Line offers a service called Phone Pal, a 24 hour childrens help line. Children age 13 and under can call Phone Pal when they are home alone, hurt, scared, lonely or need information. The Phone Pal number is 226-479- 5. Commodities Attention youth A Youth City Council is being formed under the direction of Utah State University. Students in the ninth, 10th and 1 1th grades who are interested should sign up at their respective schools. A mayor and five city councilpersons will be chosen for each mqjor town in the county. Check at your school or with Barbara for more McKell, information. 384-292- 3, Commodities will be distributed to persons in all groups who fit the income guidelines on Thursday, March 19, at the regular distribution locations. Green River residents who qualify should check at the Green River Senior Citizens Center for time and date of distribution. Ferron certificate with you to register. Spring boutique Basketball tournament The Castle Valley Association 1992 Basketball Tournament will be held at Canyon View Junior High March 10, 11 and 12. Game times are 5 and 7 p.m. Tickets are $1 for junior high students and $2 for high school students and adults. Disaster program deadline March 13, 1992, is the deadline for signing into the 1990-199- 1 Disaster Crop Loss Program. The Emery County ASCS office is open Monday through Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m in Castle Dale. The Carbon County ASCS office is each Wednesday from The first annual Spring open 9:30 to 3:30 There a.m. Fling Boutique craft fair will will be no extensionp.m. to the sigbe held on Saturday, April 4, date. from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Fer- nup ron City HalL Door prizes will be given every hour. Proceeds from table sales will be Huntington Little League Huntington Little League donated to help send girls to Baseball registration will be Girls State. held Tuesday, March 10, at Huntington Elementary gym. Registration will be from 5 to 8 Immunization clinic The Southeastern Utah p.m. Registration is $30 per District Health Department is child. A birth certificate is required at time of registraoffering a special immuniza6 tion clinic on Monday, April 6, tion. Ages are to 12. from 3 to 7 p.m. at the health department in Castle Dale. Auction All parents are encouraged to The Emery Rodeo Club will take advantage of these be holding their annual Farm extended hours and update and Miscellaneous Auction on their families immunizations. March 28 in Castle Dale. The The cost for most vaccines is club is now taking consign$3, but no one will be refused ments for the sell. For more immunizations due to their information call 6 or inability to pay. 381-277- 286-228- 1. The SEUDHD holds a weekly immunization clinic on Monday from 8:30 until 2 to 11:30 a.m. Call time. alternative arrange an 381-225- FHA parents night cancellation Due to a conflict in scheduling the FHA parents night will not be held Thursday, March 19. The new date will be announced. Centennial commission The Emery County Centen- nial Commission will be holding their monthly planning meeting on Tuesday, March 17, at 7 p.m. in the Museum of the San RafaeL Agenda items are presentation of by laws, discussion of projects and activities for the county centennial in 1996. If anyone or any group is interested in presenting an activity to the com- mission for consideration as part of the 1996 celebration, contact the commission at this meeting. The public is invited. the editor: As a life long resident of southeastern Utah, I have always supported economic development efforts for the Castle Valley area which enhance quality of life and promote long term economic viability for its residents. This is why, although I regret Utah Power & Lights displacement of local agriculture which I believe provide a solid underpinning to the local economy, I appreciate the stability UP&L has brought to our otherwise fluctuating mine economy and the jobs the power plants provide. Yet, it somehow escapes me why the people of Castle Valley continue to tolerate the air pollution which UP&Ls Hunter and Huntington power plants emit To This yellow-brow- haze n that shrouds the valley, espe- cially at times when high pressure dominates our weather, not only distracts from the quality of life, but it also runs counter to the considerable public and private efforts to enhance our growing tourist economy. A great deal of time and money will be wasted promoting tourism until our air quality is improved. Ferron Babe Ruth Little League, ages 9 to 12, will hold registration Thursday, March 12, from 5 to 7 p.m. at Ferron City HalL The fee is $30 which includes insurance, and you must have a copy of your birth Plants pollute Chamber of commerce SuperHost training Emery County will be sponsoring a SuperHost Training Class on March 24 at 9 a.m. in the courthouse. SuperHost Training is endorsed by the Utah Travel Council and is an seminar introductory to touch on some of designed the skills and information one must use in order to create feelings of hospitality in your business or work place. The cost for each participant is $7.50 and reservations need to be made with Leslie Bolinder There is a limit of at class size, however, other classes will be available. 381-211- 9. Sometimes I think that like people along the Wasatch Front, residents of Castle Valley have become accustomed to the murk and therefore are desensitized to how truly large an eye sore it really is. This smog is visible from much of southeastern Utah. And people wonder why winter-tim- e sulfur and nitrous particulates in Green River city are the highest anywhere on the Colorado Plateau. As an outfitter of daily and multi-da- y trips in the canyon for country nearly 20 years, I wish I had a dollar for every time a tourist has asked me, What is that brown over there against those splendid cliffs?" Tourists are repulsed by the smog regardless of the fact that Castle Valley is home to some of the most spectacular scenery and Indian rock art anywhere in the southwest, to say nothing of the escarpment of the Wasatch Plateau which is one of the most dynamic outside of the Grand Canyon. We are entering a new economic era when many area residents sense the importance of increasing tourisms mix in the blend with agriculture and mining to create a truly diversified economy which will carry us into the future. It is time UP&L brought their operations into line with the areas future development goals. The days are long past since Shirl McArthur and others lobbied us to sell our water and lower our class one air quality standards in order to entice UP&L into our area. If the truth be known, UP&L would have built without cheap water and lower air standards; state of Utah and corporate honchos had already decided on a course of action long before local officials were brought into the process; compelling evidence argues that we were initially duped in order to hold down UP&Ls costs for needed water, coal and tructure. The days are long past since the good neighbor policies of UP&L and Emery Mining Company justified our complacent attitudes. When was the last time UP&L bought a single animal at our Southeastern Utah Livestock Show? Compared to the Wasatch Front, what percentage of UP&Ls public service and The Castle Dale PTA is in the process of reactivating the McGruff safety program for children. This program spon- sors special presentations that teach children how to pro- tect their personal safety as (Continued on Page 5) blue-coll- charitable contribution budget is spent in Carbon and Emery counties? Wasnt it just a year ago when Emery County had to take legal action to recover millions of dollars of revenue UP&L owed and had tried to hide from the county? Doesnt our electricity actually go off more now than before the power plants? It is obvious to many of us who are concerned with the future of Castle Valley that failure to clean up our smog problem will hinder our ability to attract tourism and new business in todays competitive environment. The fact is that vacation travelers and businesses will choose locations with clean air when given the choice. What will be the benefit of requiring UP&L to run their ar n. Thanks for efforts To the editor: Therere not many people who would work hours above and beyond the call of duty like our own county attorney, Patricia Geary, and Detective Les Wilberg. My family and I cant thank you enough for all you have done for us in the case where our beloved Jimmie Lee was killed. We all know justice was not done, but our Lord has his reason and who are we to judge? I do not have to live with that decision, but others must. I pray no one will ever go through what my family has or dear little Deana has. Theres no words to describe our pain and suffering that this death has done to our family and friends. We want to thank these people from the bottom of our hearts: Patricia Geary, Les Wilberg, the Emery County Sheriffs Department and Sheriff Guy-moFor- Great support the editor: big thank you is in order for the coaching staff and supporters of the Emery High To A girls basketball team. The girls had an excellent year and played like the champions they were. The team had to settle for third place because the bracketing did not allow for them to be able to place sec- teams The were pitted against each other right at the start of the top-rank- pre-seaso- n, Gary George Hondoo River and Trails Ferron and Torrey ond. bad it happened that way. The team had already beaten second place Pineview twice in The girls the chance to the have to deserved be second. But to quote a coach from the University of Colorado who came to watch the girls play, Your team played like champions. You should be proud. Thanks again to everyone who came out to support them. Kathy Stilson Kyle Ekker, Floyd syth, Blake Gardner, Tom Harrison, my Goddaughter Billie and all of those who stood behind me through the court. May God bless all of my special friends who supported us through the death and trial of our very special, beloved Jimmie. We could not have made it without your love and support. We still need your love and support and prayers. We love each of you and thank you all for everything. ed tour-name- Faye Lee, nt. friends and Consequently, because of the bracketing, it was impossible for them to place second. It had to be either first or third. Its too family of Jimmie Lee County studies master plan (Continued from Page comprehensive 1) planning for federal, state and private lands in order to integrate community desires into the federal planning process, the report notes. The plan will be designed to promote economic and community development while also providing a "blueprint for counties to 1) direct legislative efforts; 2) prioritize expenditures for needed infrastructure; 3) promote necessary capital investment; and 4) provide a basis for the continued examination of land use planning, management and development. The blueprint is not just a manual for self determination," the report suggests, it defines and incorporates essential attributes necessary compiled and used. The process begins with scoping, which is designed to identify community issues and concerns. Sessions will be held with local and regional officials and then community citizens. At such workshops, the issues and concerns identified by local and regional officials will be presented with the goal of identifying additional issues, concerns and perspectives. Scoping is set to begin right away and continue through May 1992. The next phase is community interaction which will be designed to get the public involved in the planning through task forces, public meetings and media programs. Such efforts would begin immediately and continue throughout the entire for the community to preserve planning process. its heritage, promote economAnother immediate concern ic development, and identify would be the issues and goals and achieve, cooperatively, phase of the process. This is the communitys vision of the product of the local and tomorrow." regional efforts with input The process at arriving at through community forums. the plan will include compo- Such information would pronents such as important fea- vide a "mosaic of its past tures and characteristics, real blended with the present day factors. The economic futures, support and culture is custom requirements, implementacountys tion plans and public involvecritical in integrating federal, ment which will involve a state and private land use and broad-base- d and meaningful development, and is crucial in citizen participation program. creating a vision of the counAn inventory of human tys future. Data collection and analysresources, natural resources, land use, infrastructure, is, which would also begin demographic analysis and immediately, would involve economic base will also be gathering of information of socio-econom- McGruff houses infras- scrubbers full time instead of just part time? 1) Clean air and a higher quality of life for locals. 2) Additionaljobs for an established work force who already provide maintenance on the scrubbers during shut downs. 3) Pristine conditions to showcase: A The largest dinosaur quarry in the world; B. Indian rock art that is unequaled in North America; C. Our portion of the Colorado Plateau which is recognized world-wid- e for its spectacular and unique geology. 4) scenery Enhanced ability to compete with other areas seeking to attract both new businesses and businesses looking to relocate. The economic development that helped Castle Valley during the 1970s and 80s is behind us. UP&L and the local spinoff employers such as Industrial Electric and Nielson Construction are a welcome part of our economy; we should all be thankful many of our neighbors were able to step into good paying management and positions at the mines and plants. But it is now time to look to the future once again. Few would disagree that tourism should be part of that future. Lets do what it takes to improve our air quality. Castle Valleys portion of Utahs largest single industry, an industry which has tripled since 1980, is eluding us. ic county assets. This would include the use of existing information and personnel at all levels of government. The results of the analysis will be reviewed and compared with the goals and issues identified earlier. The preliminary and final plan development would get underway in early .1993. The alternatives will be formed into a preliminary plan which will be reviewed by the public. Based on an analysis of the public input, a final plan will be prepared for the countys formal consideration. Mr. Farrell said that the plan is geared to what the people of each area of the state want to see. Each county will have its own, unique plan," he said, adding that the plan is more than just a land-us- e plan. Its comprehensive, he said. The plan will allow counties more input on management of federal and state lands. Emery County Economic Development administrator and head of the Emery County Planning and Zoning Board, Bryant Anderson, asked what qualifications the engineering firm has to create such broad-range- d plans. Mr. Farrell said that the firm was just one of several to bid on the project and was the one which received the contract. Mr. Anderson also wanted to know how much incut the county planning and zoning commission would have in the development of the plan, and Mr. Farrell said that the firm is not looking to replace any of the local boards. We need that local contact, he said. It is your plan. The county commission is the body which will adopt the final plan. Mr. Anderson also asked about control of the budgeting of the study, and Mr. Farrell said that a budget will be created and followed. The funding of that budget is to come from each county, and it is hoped that a Community Impact Board grant will also help fund the project. Darrell Leamaster, administrator of the Castle Valley Special Service District, pointed out that the CVSSD is in the midst of creating a master plan for future water and street needs and that such a plan will fit in well with what the county is doing. Commissioner Dixie Thompson said that such a plan is needed to allow the county to work with federal agencies as they prepare master plans on Forest Service and BLM lands. Mrs. Thompson, along with Emery County Auditor Karen Truman, are representing the county on the committee charged with setting up the planning process. Does Your Heart Good. 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