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Show FOJs xn 'JNia uno 0lW imu 1 oe u ly 0 smi Emery County 1 Tuesday November 28, 1995 , ' ' QrsofSeN r I XW ;t u y?M?' m V-:.- l -- , A jk;" v ' 95th Year - No. 48 Castle Dale, Utah Public hearing to look at gas project 500 Utah Centennial includes travel passport program SALT LAKE A program of travel, fun and prizes CITY- - awaits residents and visitors who participate in a new Statehood Centennial program. The Utah Statehood Centennial Commission and the Utah Travel Council announced recently details of the Utah Centennial Passport program which will run the entire Centennial year from Jan. 1, to Dec. 31, 1996. "The Centennial Passport program is an official Utah Statehood Centennial event run by the Utah Travel Council to motivate visitors and residents to visit each county in Utah during the Centennial year," said J. Spencer Kinard, assistant director of the Utah Travel Council. "Travelers can take their passports to designated locations of historical, cultural or recreational interest in each county and have their passport stamped with a unique, specially designed rubber stamp representing that county. In addition to having a great souvenir of the Centennial," Kinard said, "when travelers have been to 15 different counties, they can select one of six scenic posters by noted Utah photographer Tom Till." After visiting all 29 counties, they can receive a centennial video called Celebration of the Century, which is available only to program participants, as well as be eligible for discounts on selected Centennial merchandise. Every passport participant can enter a drawing for Utah vacation and recreation prizes to be given away each week beginning in June 1996. The 29 weekly prizes will include vacation packages to Utah's counties. The final drawing will be on Saturday, Jan. 4, 1997. Entries for the final drawing must be postmarked by Dec. 21, 1996. Anyone 18 years of age or older who completes and mails an official Centennial Passport Entry Card may enter. One entry per person. The only way to get a passport is to pick one up at any of more than 40 Best Western hotels in Utah, the Utah Travel Council at 300 North State Street, or any of the five inbound state welcome centers. Validation sites for each county are listed in the passport. Travel and validations inusfoccur during the Centennial year, Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, By Larry W. Davis Progress editor CASTLE DALE- - A public hearing has been scheduled by the Emery County Commission for the purpose of receiving input on a proposed natural gas collection system site plan on Buzzard Bench west of Orangeville. The hearing will also include a discussion of a separate issue related to the site plan, a proposed injection well. Emery County Planning and Zoning Administrator Bryant Anderson has been working with Texaco officials to determine if the development will be in compliance with county zoning ordinances. The site plan was brought before the county commission on Nov. 15 for consideration of final approval. The project includes five gas wells, a gathering pipeline, compressor, dehydrator, production lines and the injec- tion well. Although it was deemed that the injection well, a method of dealing with the saline water pumped along with the gas, would be a separate issue, the commission and several of those present expressed concerns. Questions were raised about the impact of the well on underground water and artisan wells. Also, concern was voiced regarding impact to the aquifers in the Navajo sandstone and the possible contamination of other wells in the area. Mr. Anderson told the county commission in that meeting 1996. Sponsors of the program include Best Western hotels, KSL TV Channel 5 and KSL Newsradio, Sinclair Oil, and several validation sites throughout the state. "The Utah Centennial Passport program is a fun, educational and entertaining way to celebrate our state's 100th birthday," said Kinard. "Besides the wonderful travel memories, you'll also have the passport as a personal legacy of the Utah Statehood Centennial. So, when you travel in Utah in 1996," he said, "don't forget to take your passport." Volunteers unload a truck load of donated food at the Emery County Food Bank and Clothing Exchange in Castle Dale. The food came from a campaign at Emery High School where two and a half tons of food were donated. In a competition among classes, the seniors donated 30,091.45 ounces to win the contest while the juniors contributed 22,251.8 ounces. The sophomores added 11,453.91 ounces. In advisory class competition, Neal Peacock's class tooktop honors with 16,469.37 ounces. This was the third year that the school has had the food drive. Photo by Larry Davis (Continued, on page 5) Local man joins national committee By Larry W. Davis Progress editor CASTLE DALE-Nothat his local work on the restoration of the Buckhorn Panel is complete, Reed Martin is giving his expertise to a national cause. The Castle Dale man has been appointed to the Volunteer Adjunct Team, a group charged by the Bureau of Land Management with coming up with ways of getting the public involved in assisting with federal projects. w In an October meeting in Boston, Mr. Martin met with other committee members where they discussed their vision statement: "In the decades to come, volunteers will be woven into the fabric of BLM, playing a key role in protecting the health of the public lands and providing better service to our publics. Volunteers will be vital stewards of the public lands by serving as BLM team members, providing innovative ideas and key resources, and Community theater plans annual show Perhaps the most perfect Christmas parable ever written is O. Henrys The gift of the Magi, published in 1906. Here in play version is the timeless story of Della and Jim (played by Janet and Larry Saling), a struggling young couple who seek to give the other the ideal Christmas gift. They barter their most valued possessions to purchase each others gift. Vicki Kinder and Val Jenkins play the couples friends, Fran and Peter. Watching over the whole group are heavenly angles (Jill Warner and Bobby Fairbanks) well-meani- ng who add humor and insight from above. Other roles are taken by Joann Arnold and Emery Jones This touching drama has been adapted by Mindy Starns Clark and is directed by Karen Truman and Florie Jenkins, the play is the third effort by the community theater to bring an early package of seasonal joy to the Emery County people. It can be seen at the Museum of the San Rafael on the evenings of Dec 4, 5 and 6 at 7 p.m. There will be a nominal charge of $1 for adults and 50 cents for children. serving as ambassadors in their local communities." The committee is small in numbers, just seven members and two representatives from the Environmental Education and Volunteers Team in Washington, D.C. Mr. Martin joins Jim Abbott, manager of the Caliente (California) BLM Resource Area, Terry Trevino, BLM state office volunteer co- ordinator for Wyoming, Lorrene Schardt, BLM state office volunteer coordinator for Montana, Nancy Lull, BLM field volunteer coordinator for Idaho, Carol Jacoby, BLM field volunteer coordinator for Arizona, and James Rathbun, a retired school teacher from Las Vegas. Mr. Martin and Mr. Rathbun are the only committee members not employed by the BLM. "We have been set up to de- fine and organize a national policy on how to use volunteers within the BLM," Mr. Martin said. He pointed out that while the BLM has used volunteers forvarious projects before, each resource area has been on its own. There has been no BLM policy for organizing and utilizing volunteers. "We want to look at all the best possibilities, suggest agency procedures, and encourage more people to volunteer," Mr. Mar tin said. He pointed out that with cutbacks in federal spending and the scaling down of bureaucracy, the funds are no longer available to do the things that need to be done on federal lands. "The choice then becomes either we don't do these projects or we use volunteers," he said. Mr. Martin was nominated to serve on the committee by local BLM officials based on his participation in the Buckhorn Panel Restoration Project. The work on the panel became a joint effort of several government agencies and volunteers, and Mr. Martin was project chairman. "The panel project is a good example of use of volunteers," Mr. Martin said. "Not only did it involve volunteer work, it also involved outside funding." At the recent meeting in Boston, the committee was divided into groups with each group assigned to address specific areas related to volunterism. Mr. Martin was assigned to a group dealing with "building partnerships." Their task is to seek out the best plans for utilizing volunteers by contacting agencies which deal with volunteers and federal projects. He said that the Utah Depart- (Continued on Page 3A) Reed Martin, shown above on the desert working on the Buckhorn Panel restoration, is now working with the BLM on establishing a policy to utilize volunteers on federal projects. File photo by Larry Davis |