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Show Emery County ' Tuesday, October 12, 2004 i JO 65? Home Grown News Since 1900 MJU1 . Castle Dale, Utah Volume 104 Number 41 50t JZZ Economic INSIDE Summit Part IV This concludes a four part series on the economic summit and its speakers and workshops. By PATSY STODDARD, Editor At the recent economic development summit a local session was held. Six local businesses gave a brief ievv of their business operations within the county and their plans for growth in the future. Scott Truman the director of the Utah Rural Development Council for the past 10 years holds a rural economic de elopment summit each year in Cedar City. le was in attendance at the Emery County Economic Summit and introduced the local session. He wTas born on the Bunderson Ranch on the Muddy Creek. Scott alw ays wanted to be a cowboy and still aspires to be one. For the past 0 y ears, he has been the executive director of the Utah Rural De elopment. He helped establish the Millsite Golf Course while a member of the Perron City Council. Truman w as also the economic development director for Emery County from 1984-8Truman said back when he was an economic de elopment director he undertook a project to bring more smokestacks into the county. He said he tried to bring together the workforce to get this done. But, the plant he w as trying for was a Saturn car factory which employed 20,000 people. This could have destroyed what Emery County is about. You have to be careful what you w ish for. Millard 1 County Football Teams play ball 5A The bomb squad from Utah County displays their automated equip- ment used to defuse explosives. Scouts ment. try on firefighter equip- Are you Prepared to 1 Hearing on TRT Tax Local scouts and youngsters try their hand at firefighting at the Emergency Fair. Staff Writer was present to make her quarterly report. Before Fish began. Commissioner Drew Sit terud expressed his appreciation to Fish for the work that she and her department had done on the Emery' County Rural Economic Summit held in September. Fish informed the commissioners that the DWS has published a new booklet called Utah Careers. This publication was put together to enable clients 70, Editor patch alerting them that an amo bulance w as needed at the in Green River. A male subject and throe children were in need of medical assistance. Their vehicle wrecked on and they hitched a ride into town with a truck driver. The four people were transported to Castleview Hospital in Price. When Utah Highway Patrol Trooper Edward Bentley went out to the scene of the accident, a number of suspicious items were found. Literature containing information on how to construct a bomb wras found at the scene. A bullet proof vest was also found and security guard uniforms, duty leather and a holster, but the man was not a security guard. Hidden at the scene in a wash was a 10 gauge shot gun. The gun was concealed in a package which looked like a seat cushion, and the package did not look like it concealed a weapon. The vehicle also contained information about the fault lines in California and vv here they lie and water line information concerning California. literature was also found as well as camouflage clothing. Gas-n-G- Public At the Oct. a meeting of the Emery County Commissioners, Helena Fish of the Department of Workforce Services 1-- A call came in at 6 a.m. on Oct. 6 to the Emery' County Dis- Continued on PAGE 3A. By COREY BLUEMEL, Accident on brings Homeland Security and FBI to Emery County By PATSY STODDARD, 9. upcoming BRIEFLY Continued on PAGE 4A. Photos b Corey Bluemel Ferron Hosts Open House at New Fire Station Continued on PAGE 2A. Drew Sitterud Named to BLM RAC Anti-Americ- an These suspicious items , brought the Homeland Security and the Federal Bureau of Inves- ligation to the scene for investigation into the matter. Det. Sgt. Robert Blackburn from the Emery County Sheriff's Office also aided in the search. Blackburn reported that the vehicle had originated in California and was traveling to Denver, Colo, at the time of the accident. The driver w'as Ruben Yepez Oseguera, 60, traveling with him were his two sons and a granddaughter. The driver did not speak English and the officers from the various agencies spoke with him through translators. Oseguera told officers that he Continued on PAGE 2A. Interior Secretary Gale Norton announced the appointments of new memResource bers to Utah's citizen-base- d the advises which Council Advisory Bureau of Land Management (BLM) on public land issues. We value the input that the Utah Resource Advisory Council provides in helping the BLM manage Americas public lands, Norton said. I w elcome our new members, thank them for their commitment, and look forward to their counsel as we work to improve the health and productivity of the public lands. The BLM's Resource Advisory Councils (RACs), composed of citizens chosen for their expertise in natural resource issues, help the agency carry out its stewardship of 201 million acres of public lands. The Bureau, w'hich manages more land than any other Federal agency, has 24 RACs across Continued on PAGE 2A. Emery County Progress This junior firefighter tries out the popcorn at the Open House. The Dalmation in the fire truck squirts visitors at the new station, On the evening of Oct. 8, the Ferron Fire Department hosted a grand open- ing at their newr fire station. Members of the Ere department were on hand to demonstrate the equipment. A fav orite of the children was the foam fire suppression machine. Castle Dale, Utah 84513 Sliding in the residual spray on the sidewalk was a great activity. A fire fighter sprayed the outer brick w all of the new building with the foam to demonstrate the suppression capability of the foam as opposed to water. The foam covers more completely Continued on PAGE 11 A. in. email editor(a ecprogress.com The new foam maker shoots foam on the building. Photos by Corey Bluemel Visit us on the World Wide Web wW.ecprofj nmcom |