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Show Emery County ll,limlilTir!l!llirTIT'lll,ll'ITII,,l!lil'll'il,lll,T,!ll in A1I0 SXY1 I1VS s oo6e a ust noiivioossy esaaa mnn ?0LZ 8I0XI0I8 OEHYIfl. T0ST-JT- 8 oox iOZZLO 61 Home Grown News Since 1900 Tuesday, July 13, 2004 Castle Dale, Utah Volume 104 Economic Development Council Plans Summit Number 28 50t "i INSIDE By PATSY STODDARD, Editor The Emery County Economic Development Council is busy making plans for their first economic summit. The summit will be held on Sept. 14 at the Museum of the San Rafael and the county office building. PacifiCorp is the major sponsor of the summit. Information about the summit is being sent out to each business in the county and will be distributed within the week. Deb Dull from PacifiCorp said the economic summit is a wonderful opportunity and she suggested gleaning ideas from previous summits. She described the planned breakout sessions as appealing to various interests. She said a lot of effort has been put forth so far in developing the summit and she looks forward to a successful summit. Dull was also approved by the economic council as an advisory member. Bob King who works out of the Salt Lake office and is the Vice President of Innerwest Mining will be the morning motivational speaker. Breakout sessions will include information on agriculture, recreation and customer service. Topics include: new markets for agriculture products, making silk purses from sowts ears. People and resources to help make your dreams come true. Is there money to be made in your backyard? Keys to and partnerships. customer awesome sendee. ExTotally our opportunities. panding Jon Huntsman Jr., republican candidate for governor will give the keynote address after lunch. success-resourc- es Continued on PAGE 3A. Commissioners Discuss Range Creek Road Closures By COREY BLUEMEL Staff Writer The BLM has requested a closure of the roads into the Range Creek area. Due to national exposure of the areas and its archeaological value, they want access more restricted. At this point, the commissioners have refused to close any roads and more meetings are scheduled. Sheriff Lamar Guymon stated that officers have already been to the Range Creek area investigating theft of artifacts. The BLM is requesting additional patrols of the area also. Steve Barton addressed the commissioners with the suggestion that the county treasurers office begin to make paying property taxes available for use with electronic checks. Barton explained that the sendee would cost the payer $3 a check to pay their taxes this Fire and Smoke Around the county 10 A. The survivors take their victory lap to begin the relay. Annual Fundraising Event for the Cancer Society Held in Castle Dale By PATSY STODDARD, Editor The annual Relay for Life wras at the Emery High held on July 9-- Track. Event organizer, Cathy Sitterud, and cochair, Debbie Wil i son said they more than exceeded them goal of $20,000 for research for a cure for cancer. Teams raised more than $24,000 at the event. Survivors were honored at a ceremony and they took to the track for their survivors lap to begin the relay. RPs Diner donated a spaghetti dinner for the participants. The luminary ceremony was held at dusk and Dana Olsen read a poem about honoring those lost to cancer. Relay Reflections am tired. I smell. My feet hurt. My eyes feel like grit, and my head is pounding from lack of sleep.. .but I am grateful. I have all of my body parts with which I was born. I have I I i t K Chris Rowley and Julie Johansen were approved to seive on the Emery County Planning Commission in the capacity of voting members. For the past several years, the two members have served, but in the nonvoting ca- - all of my hair. I se sage-grous- e, didnt lose my break- fast in a bucket. I can hold my children. My house is a wreck. My car is full of junk. My children are exhausted, hungry and dirty...but I am grateful. I can clean my house and my car. I can bathe my children and feed them supper. I can read them a book and rock them to sleep while filling myself up with their clean little smells and my arms with warmth. I will collapse in my bed tonight and pray for all the people we raised money for through Relay for Life. And, I will cry for all the people we were too late to help. I will give thanks for eveiy minute of my life and for all the blessings in it. I never ask myself wrhy I wear myself out raising money for cancer sage-grous- sage-grous- The nursing home team raised over $2,000 and received the traveling trophy. because I know why. Its not for mom, who is a cancer survivor, or for friends who have died from cancer, or even my husband and children. I do it beeause...I can. Kay Horton, Carroll County, Ga. tion. UNYElLiNG THE 16 HET Part II of a Series on the Wilcox Acquisition in Range Creek By PATSY STODDARD, Editor Anyone wishing to submit information regarding the greater e may do so by writto Field the Supervisor, ing Wyoming Ecological Services Office, Suite 4000, Airport Parksage-grous- way, Cheyenne, Wyoming, 82001 or by electronic mail to fw6sagegrousefws.gov . This status review will determine whether the greater warrants a subsequent Service proposal to list the species as threatened or endangered. To ensure this status resage-grou- The archaeological finds at the Range Creek Wilcox Acquisition are in remarkably good condition for being thousands of years old. The Wilcox family who kept the archaeological treasures protected for more than 50 years did an outstanding job maintaining everything as it was found. As Waldo Wilcox pointed out he was always busy ' with the cattle and didnt have time to be concerned with the remnants left behind by an Kevin Jones, Utah State archaeologist describes the reporters. Contmued on PAGE 3A. sage-grou- th ment. In addition to satisfying the criteria for the statute, moving the lagoons will enable many homes that have been outside of the hook up area, to be able to hook onto the sewer line as it goes past the homes. This move will also eliminate the pumping of waste up from the Molen area. Public hearing for this request was scheduled from Aug. 3 at 5 p.m. in the commission chambers. 1 The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced it will publish a notice in the Federal Register tomorrow to extend the deadline for submitting information and comments regarding the status of the greater until July 30. Information and comments related to this status review previously provided need not be resubmitted. The Service determined in a positive y finding released 16 three that April petitions to list the species provided sub- stantial biological information exwarrantinga more amination of the status of and this greater review is now underway. e are found Greater in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, eastern California, Nevada, Utah, western Colorado, South Dakota and Wyoming. They are also found in the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan. A key part of this status review is gathering the best available scientific information related to the status of the greater e and its habitat, said Fish and Wildlife Service Director Steve Williams. We are taking this step today in an effort to provide as much opportunity for public input as possible wiiile at the same time allowing us to meet our statutory deadline for making a final decision on the petitions. We will continue to monitor the situa90-da- w7ay. The commissioners next considered a request for a level III conditional use permit for wastewater treatment lagoons and outfall lines for Ferron City. Commissioner Drew Sitterud explained that the sewer lagoons for the Ferron project will be moved approximately four miles. Present lagoons will be used for storm water retention. By state statute, sewer lagoons must be a certain distance from residences. Moving the lagoons will satisfy the require- Photos by Patsy Stoddard BRIEFLY FWS extends Comment Period on Sage Grouse life of the Fremont to Continued on PAGE 2A. Photos by Patsy Stoddard view is comprehensive, the Ser- vice is soliciting information from state and federal natural resource agencies and all inter- ested parties regarding the e and its greater sage-grous- sagebrush habitat. For more in- formation about the sage-grous- H L& i l e and this finding, please visit the Services web site at sagegrouse. 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