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Show -- f : : . : i ; THE SAN JUAN RECORD Wednesday December 30, 1987 ' - Page 10 among those gathered to pay their respects. County commissioners approved a $4.7 million budget for 1988. The budget includes a four percent projected one-steof cost living pay raise for county employees, including elected officials. Paid environmentalists in Utah increased to 10 with the move to Salt Lake City of national staff members of the Sierra Club and The Wilderness Society. The battle over wilderness in Utah is expected to begin in the summer of 1988 when the BLM makes its final p wilderness recommendations. Almost 380,000 acres of land in San Juan County were recommended for wilderness designation in a BLM draft environmental impact statement released in February of 1986. The Department of Energy announced that work will begin July of 1990 on phase II and III in of uranium tailings clean-uMexican Hat. December 23 The Blanding Health Care Board was disbanded by a four to one vote of the Blanding City Council. The vote came after a heated discussion over whether or not the board should be allowed to continue to function as an advisory board for health related issues in Blanding. Utah to enter into a long-terlease with the San Juan m Foundation for Higher Education. Tim Workman, a senior at San Juan High School, was nominated to the United States Military Academy at West Point. A Blanding man was fatally wounded while talking with a retired police chief. The stepson of the victim was jailed and charged with murder. I Nov. 4, 1987: Riders in OUR COMMUNITY Christie Howell, 1987 Rodeo Queen. Frank Morrell photo A dormitory complex at CEU-SaJuan Center moved closer n 1987 headline news (Continued from page 9) ulance Service received a $500 donation from Texaco. November 25 Beginning in December, the San Juan School Board will alternate meeting places between all area schools. Differences in tax evaluation between the state and county will be studied by the Utah State Tax Commission. County officials contend that the state fails to take depressed economy into consideration when they set evaluations. Approximately 300 people attended dedication ceremonies of a new community at Whiterock Point, about 10 miles southwest of Bluff. A Monticello family escaped injury but lost most of their belongings when their home was gutted by fire in the early morning hours of November 19. A new LDS chapel was dedicated at White Mesa. December 2 Dr. Martin J. MacNeil and Dr. K. R. Kelly Nicholes will practice medicine in Blanding, as announced by the Blanding Health Care Board. The first edition of Blue Mountain Shadows, a local history magazine, is selling 23-ho- well. Monticello High School won the 1987 Academic Decathlon. However, Patrice Webb of San Juan High took first overall for individual students. Michelle Adams, Monticello, accepted an invitation to represent San Juan County in the 1988 Miss Utah Scholarship Pageant to be held June 14 in VACUUM REPAIR BUSINESS All makes Specializing In Kirby SALES 422 SERVICE CO BARBER DRY WALL Handyman Remodeling Painting Westing houseApgliances SfiarpTEfectron Dhllco Carpentry to reality when the Utah State Board of Regents gave approval to the College of Eastern FREE ESTIMATES (303) 562-428- 9 Northern Electric 678-241- 5 Licensed Electrical Contractor Residential Commercial Electric Heating Hotpoint Appliances investigators speculate the men -- may have been shot and transported before their vans Have plane to job ' Will fly were torched. Small Trencher For Rent Federal Judge Aldon J. Anderson ruled that Garfield David Johnson 678-237- 6 County may grade, widen and improve the Burr Trail road. The ruling elated Garfield County officials and won the approval of other southern 61 w. 300 N. Blanding (Z&zzm (19-1- Bruce Johnson 678-249- 8 0) screen iflSSEW Milan Utah counties. New Mexico and Colorado were Street E. Main Cortez, Orem. The charred December 9 bodies of two Navajo policemen were found in a burned police van in Copper Canyon near Piute Farm Marina on the San Juaii arm of Lake Powell. Police County commissioners said they would pursue every available avenue to keep the Dark Canyon road open. Environmentalists are asking that the road be closed. KUTA radio in Blanding announced a new program, San Juan High School Chatter. The program will be aired each Thursday at 3:30 p.m. by student announcers. December 16 Hundreds sat, hundreds stood, and hundreds gathered outside at memorial services at the Kayenta field house for slain Navajo Police Officers Andy Begay and Roy Stanley. Dignitaries and police officers from the Navajo Nation and the states of Utah, Arizona, 4-- H horse show. p June 24, 1987: State cum August 5, 1987: Pony Express rider Eric Grover also celebrated his 18th birthday. t Zaa Commercial Appliance & Refrigeration & Residential Repair Serving San Juan County & The Four Corners" (801) 672-227- 1 Gary Sosa, owner Bluff, Utah |