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Show Excellent service at Montezuma Well Service by Leo Platero If you drive through the Montezuma Creek - Aneth area, you probably see oil fields, pumping equipment and trucks hauling water or oil. time was well servicing and drilling on the Reservation. In 1992 MWS purchased Hay Hot Oil, a roustabout service. They were incorporated into the company. MWS is a certified, 100 percent Navajo-ownefirm which provides professional services in spe- d This part of the Four Corners - San Juan basin is rich in oil, gas and other petroleum related resources. Most of the big oil companies are present in the area. Some have been bought out and others converge into one big company. Two big oil companies -- ExxonMobil and Chevron Texaco - are the principal em- ployers in the Montezuma area. These two companies provide jobs for the local supplier companies and they decide who gets what jobs. They try to be fair and give out equal amounts of work. Sometimes a big job comes up and the little companies have to bid on these. The latest big job went to JR Construction, a Five year contract Creek-Anet- h to haul pipes. JR Construction, Lansing Construction, Lees Trucking, Whitehorse Construction, Maryboy Construction and Montezuma Well Service. Montezuma Well Service (MWS) was established because of the Navajo Business Preference Act that was initiated by the Navajo Tribe and incorporated in June of 1986. The main line of work at that cialized areas utilizing vacuum trucks, hot oil trucks, belly dumps, roustabout crews, heavy equipment, and a disposal pit. Montezuma Well Services believes in safety and height- THE SAN JL'AX RECORD are from local areas, and the other three come in from Dove Creek, CO and Blanding. Earl Martinez is owner president, Eugene Guerito is Operation Manager, Cordell Wright is Human Resources and Safety Manager and Tina Chief is Secretary for the staff in the office. Tina makes sure that MWS pays its three percent tax to the Navajo Tribe. The roustabout crew provides manual labor, operates heavy equipment, and hauls materials. The trucking de- ens the meaning among their partment provides hot oil services, hauls fresh brine and employees in all applicable areas. That means they have salt water, and also provides monthly meetings. Safety is hauling services. The shop emphasized as a top priority maintains and services the for the wellness and health of equipment and vehicles. With the many services as a the employees as well as proto local oil compaand the communities contractor tecting the environment. The com- nies, MWS has gained a repany works with OSHA safety spectful working relationship standards, the Department of with other locally owned busiTransportation, and the nesses as well as others in the Four Corners area. MWS has customers safety policies. MWS currently has 22 emcontributed countless hours of ployees (about eight have come community sendees that are in from Whitehorse High School ). the best interest of the local The management office has and surrounding communities. Montezuma Well Service is four employees, the roustabout crew consists of one supervisor optimistic about the future of and five laborers, and the their business, despite how trucking department has one much of a toll has been taken supervisor overseeing six with the decrease in the oilfield activities and its ecotruck drivers. The shop foreman oversees nomic environment. MWS three shop hands (one of them continues to be committed and focused on the safety of all the is a girl), and one employee stockholders and the quality of operates the disposal site. Nineteen Native Americans environmental standard. How often have you heard someone cynically claim, Political parties are all the same. It doesnt matter who gets elected? Does that mean that Democrats are just as likely as Republicans to limit government spending? To follow the Constitutional limits of government? To keep regulations minimal and sensible? To cut tax rates? To foster economic growth for all? To stand up for public lands for multiple uses? To foster the sensible development of natural resources? You can see, really, Wodni-hday- , March 17, 2001 4 - Monticello is safe, say statistics Adair reports that he tracks The City of Monticello 50 categories annually and the remains a pretty safe place to items in the report are the live, according to 2003 crime major items that we feel like statistics as reported by the we have some control over or Monticello Police Department effect on, through education, in an annual report by Police patrolling and prosecution. Chief Kent Adair to the The report tracks each Monticello City Council. category all the way back to Adair reported some 1986. Over the past 18 years, encouraging developments, the city has seen a dramatic with declines in crime in 12 of decrease in alcohol problems the 13 areas tracked by the city (630) , animal complaints by Anna Thayn (810), criminal mischief (670), domestic disputes police. The exception is a rise in domestic disputes, which rose from 9 to 13. Adair said he is pleased with (750), DUI (740), and theft (600). Juvenile problems remain nearly the same ev'ery year, with some increase during the that local police can affect by patrolling, prosecuting and a decrease in incidents being proactive: incidents such as burglary, theft, vandalism, alcohol problems, and animal Traffic period from 1991-200citations have nearly doubled, complaints. In 2003, the amount of fines collected from them. collected was $58,233. This is down from the years 2001 and 2002, when the fines averaged a decrease in traffic through town for the year. He reports that the drop in traffic was also business owners and clerks. "The business owners education of their employees and the compliance of the clerks is excellent right now. Police have not made a buy using undercover buyers of either alcohol or tobacco in the past two years. 'file police department also continues to teach the DARE experienced by the county and seems to have been a trend in programs to fifth grade students and are now holding 0. as have the fines that are Chief Adair also praised $95,265 each year. Fine income, which comes mostly from traffic citations, had been on the rise since 1986. Adair attributes the drop to an annual tenth grade safety Significant declines were day teaching auto safety and seen in assaults, which went alcohol and drug awareness. from 24 to 12 and theft, which Recently the city received a went from 37 to 20. Only 31 federal Technology Transfer traffic accidents occurred in Program grant for $17,000 of the city for the year, a drop high technology equipment used for the detection of from 50 in 2001-0In the area of drugs and transportation of narcotics. Adair recently attended a alcohol, police handled 27 alcohol arrests, 13 drug training program to learn how arrests, and 8 DUIs. There to use the equipment and will were no reported burglaries in train another officer in his 2003 and only three t lie ft department. The equipment cases. Nine instances of will be used in the city as well as assisting other agencies criminal mischief (vandalism were reported and 36 juvenile throughout the county referrals. Animal complaints Things are going very well in the department and Adair were down to 14 in 2003. City officers issued 702 said, "We are honored to be traffic citations and handled able to provide a service to the citizens of this community. 934 calls for the vear. the area. 2. ) . mp j2S$gnHi0 Republican Caucus Meetings WILL BE HELD AT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS March 23 7:00 pm gg rut, Jinl I dLi ii 1 U Take Care Of Your Calf Crop! Prevent scours Calf guard Scour boluses Calf nutrition and health ... Colostrx Calf manna Vaccines Suckle milk replenisher Remember, you must be registered with the County Clerk as a Republican to You may regvote in these meetings or be elected to Republican party offices. at the caucus meeting. ister or See You There Because.... re-regis- ter ....IT DOES MATTER! Winter Hours Open Monday through Friday 8:oo a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Saturdays 8:00 a.m. to Noon CARHART FEED & SEED 281 N. Guyrene For our Utah customers, our Dove Creek toll-fre- e 6772233 number is |