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Show Most races to be decided by primary Few contested races in state and local elections There will be a number of familiar names and a few new names on the ballots for upcoming elections. Most of the action in the few contested races will take place either at the party conventions or the Primary Election, as only three of eleven races feature candidates from both Republican and Democratic parties. The race gaining the most number of entrants is for the Utah State House of Repr- This old barn on Main Streeet in Monticello will be renovated in coming months to house a Smithsonian Institute exhibit and eventually, the Monticello Museum. Staff photo The San Juan Record HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER FOR SAN JUAN COUNTY, UTAH Vol 82 No 26 50 SINCE 1915 March 25, 1998 cents Barn Again: Celebrating an American Icon Smithsonian exhibit to visit area this summer A Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibition Barn Again! Celebrating an American Icon will mark the second year of its nak tional tour with a Monticello run in beginning in July. six-wee- The exhibit will be housed in a renovated barn at the center of Monticello, near 200 South and Main Street. In the next several months, the barn - originally a warehouse for the L.H. Redd store - will be renovated. Visitors to the barn will be shocked to see the beautiful wood interior of the structure, explained Di- anne Nielson, who is coor- dinating the restoration effort. The renovated barn will include floor space for exhibits, a museum office, and eventually, bathrooms, an elevator, and storage space. The Monticello exhibit will be unique for a number of reasons, explained Brian Crockett, of the Utah Arts Council and Smithsonian Institution. First, the exhibit on barns will be housed inside a beautiful barn. Secondly, San Juan County has unique barns: Anasazi granaries. The Smithsonian exhibit will be supplemented with an exhibit on local barns, which is expected to highlight various barns in San Juan County, including Anasazi structures, Mor- mon pioneer barns, Homesteader barns, cowboy barns, and barns in sandstone canyon walls. seum Committee have raised funds to begin the renovation of the new home Fund for the museum. exhibit. Help is needed in a raising efforts during the variety of areas, from fund exhibit are also expected to help. raising, to the development We are excited about the of the local exhibit, to to timing of the Barn Again building renovation, All exhibit, said Boyle. guides. For more information or to volunteer, call .three summer celebrations - including the San Juan Bill Boyle at After the exhibit, the barn County Fair, Pioneer Days, will become the permanent and Frontier Days - are exhome of the Monticello Mupected to have Barn related themes. For instance, the The museum reseum. cently marked 30 years of San Juan County Fair g existence under the able theme is Have a Good In Time. of Nell Dalton, guidance who was named tempoaddition, Blue Mountain is planning a barn Shadows Dur1968. curator in rary of the historical periissue ing its 30 year history, the museum has been housed in odical. The open house and dedithe basement of the San Juan County Library and is cation of the new Monticello currently on the top floor of LDS Temple is expected to take place at the same time the library building. as the Smithsonian exhibit. The Monticello Museum There will take on a new name may be tens of thouk sands of visitors to Montiand a new look after the Smithsonian exhibit. cello this summer. San Juan County is not the The Frontier Museum will tell the story of the setonly area excited about the tlement of the San Juan Barn Again exhibit. Utah Governor Mike Leavitt refrontier. There is not a museum cently declared 1998 as The Year of the Barn. Events retells the in the area that will take place throughout markable story of the setthe state to celebrate the role of said this tlement area, of the simple bam in our soBoyle of the Monticello ciety. The Barn Again exFoundation, which is coorwill also stop in Heber hibit dinating the barn project. The Frontier Museum will City, Ephraim, and Wells-'villUtah. honor the pioneers of San Barn Again! looks at Juan County, from the Dominguez-Escalant- e the party origin and fate of the to the pioneers in the 1990s. barn in its various roles as The Monticello Foundawarehouse, factory and tion and Monticello Mu Organizers are seeking volunteers to help with the 435-587-227- 7. Barn-Stormin- six-wee- e, Incumbent esentatives. Keele Johnson of Blanding will be challenged within the Republican party by Manuel T. Torres and James E. Salmon, both of Moab. The Republican candidate, to be determined either at the state convention or the Primary election, will face Democrat Robert R. Valerio of Monticello in the General Election. The only other local race that will be contested in the November election is for San Juan County Sheriff, where incumbent Republican Mike Lacy will be challenged by the Blanding Chief of Police, Democrat Mike Halliday. In other county races, a series of incumbents, including Commissioner Bill Redd, Assessor Bruce Bunker, Attorney Craig Halls, Clerk Gail Northern, Recorder Louise Jones and Treasurer Paul Barr, will be unopposed in the election. Incumbent commissioner Mark Maryboy will be challenged by Democrat Bill Todachennie for the third district commission seat in San Juan County. Maryboy will seek his fourth term. Todachennie most recently served on the San Juan School Board. There are two available positions on the San Juan School Board. Three candi- dates will seek the seat currently held by Todachen- nie: Manuel Morgan, Dennis L. Kaniatobe and Roger Atcitty. Neal Crank and incumbent Francis Paul Shorty will vie for the other open position on the San Juan School Board. County Judge Lyon W. Hazleton II will be on the November ballot in an uncontested Judge Retention Election. Republican Representa- tive Chris Cannon, who is completing his first term in the U.S. House of Representatives, will not be challenged by a Democratic op- ponent in the upcoming Cannon will face Jeremy Friedbaum of Provo for the Republican nomination. In the General Election, Libertarian Kitty Burton and Independent American Will Christensen will seek Cannons seat. Republican Senator Bob Bennett will be challenged by Hartley Anderson of Ogden in the Republican convention. Other challengers are Democrat Scott Leck-maIndependent Lamont election. n, Harris and Independent American Gary VanHorn. Precinct caucus meetings were held March 24 for the Republican party and are scheduled for Thursday, March 26 at 7 p.m. for the Democratic party. A list of Democratic caucus loca- tions is on page four of this issue of the San Juan Record. Ceremonies to mark start of water treatment plant project Dignitaries from throughout the area will gather for groundbreaking ceremonies for the new water treatment plant in Mon- ticello on April 1. The-$1.million plant, located at West Abajo Drive, Monticello, is expected to be complete by the end of 1998. Dignitaries invited will Communities which have already participated in the project have found it has raised public awareness and support for the facilities that are so often the cultural backbone of small towns. The exhibitions have greatly increased resident involvement, leaving lasting legacies in the commu- - include representatives of the Permanent Community Impact Board, Board of Water Resources, Rural Development, Sunrise Engineering, Southwest Contracting of Cortez, and local officials. The public is cordially invited to attend the ceremony, scheduled for 11 a.m. nities that host them. Bam Again! Celebrating an American Icon was organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhi- bition Services (SITES) and the National Building Museum, in association with the Utah Humanities |