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Show 84101 EXP PRESS UTAH 307 SALT FIRM 111999 200 W S LAKE C005 ASSOCIATION STE 5005 CITY UT 84101-37- 68 Serving East Juab County - A Nice Place To Live! Volume 96, No 19 Two Wednesday, May 13, 1998 GEarpDDiD GaCi!ff soffilkaOD Five GS'B'cclcd after search a? r.liddlc School turns 0EaGui)l? up f.larijuana The Nephi City Police Department Canine found drugs in two student lockers at Juab Middle School. Nephi City Police Chief Chad Bowles said the dog, working with officers of the department, located two baggies of marijuana on May 2. School officials cooperated with police in conducting the search. Five arrests resulted,"' said Bowles. The oldest of the young people charged in the incident was 17 and the youngest was By Times-New- Myma Trauntvein s Correspondent The girls softball program, in Nephi, is given the worst of the playing schedule, in comparison with the boys baseball program, and the girls have as many, if not more, players and need time to perform their schedule as well. Karen Kramer, Cheri Chryst, and Tammy Bowles attended Nephi City Council meeting on Tuesday to ask for consideration for their program when the schedule of the fields is plotted for the coming summer season. Kramer, who was recently selected as president of the girls league, said she was a coach last year but understood that the girls and boys were going along as they had done in the past as far as scheduling was concerned. In the past, said Kramer, we have been given the mornings and late evenings to play ball. We are here to request equal playing time. This year, said Kramer, the girls league has 24 teams. The boys Little League, so far, has 20 teams. However, the boys teams play until the end of June and the girls teams play through , It was hoped, she said, that the small fee would encourage a return of the officials to future games. Another problem with the morning schedule was that in the summer, the temperature in the daytime, when the girls play, can be a problem. We had some girls, last year, pass out because of the heat, said Chryst. Jim Wilkey, council member, agreed that the heat could be a problem and was sympathetic to grabbing parents to serve as officials since it had happened to him when he went to watch his daughter play. There should be equal time on the fields for both programs, said Chad Brough, city council member. However, he said, Raymond Nielsen had been given he job of scheduling. Brough said he would talk to him about the schedule but the crunch was still on the fields this year. The citys planned ball field additions will not, in all likelihood, be ready for use this year. In order for the grass to be ready to take the abuse it will suffer during the season, it would have to be established. Various programs, discussed with Juab School District, had not seen the problem solved. Brough said the school program needs the existing grass behind the middle school, where part of the playing fields will be, 'for football practice this year because the new high school grass is just being planted. Kramer said she was trying to get basesome time on the church-owne- d ball complex fields but didnt yet know how consistent or how often it might be possible to use those fields, or if it would be possible. Another suggestion was that the small area northeast of the city fire station might once again be used for ball games for the youngest participants from both the boys and girls leagues. Last year the grass all died behind the fire station, said Chryst. We were unable to use the area. Brent Bowles, city council member, said he thought making the fields behind the fire station available for the younger teams to play was a good idea. Both the boys and the girls could use it, he said. The fields in that location are also used for the soccer teams programs which might not help with the baseball program without causing trouble for the soccer teams. Another problem the teams have, said Kramer, was that they owed the city then-fefor using the fields that past couple of years. We understand that it hasnt been paid, she said. The officers of the girls teams wants to make certain the use fee is July. Chryst said the girls team coaches had some problem last year getting officials for their games because they were played during the mornings when most mothers and fathers work. It isnt really fair to have a Dad, who shows up to watch his daughter play, have to be one of the officials. It isnt fair to the parents, she said. That would happen, at times, because it was so difficult to get officials during the mornings. Kramer said they planned to give officials some gratuity as thanks for their officiating. 11." Three of those arrested were females and two were males. All were referred to juvenile court on charges dealing with possession or distribution of marijuana. The oldest of the five was arrested and charged with distribution of a controlled substance, said Bowles. That male is 17 and is not a student at the middle school. All of the five young people were either implicated by witnesses or were inyolved directly in the incident, said Bowles. He said careful police work had been done prior to the arrests. Witnesses were interviewed, as were suspects, before the charges were made. Our department canine has been a big benefit to us in our fight against drug abuse in this, and other, cases, said Bowles. (ScunttcrfciO 0HO DdDDg pocsoc in (Souracfil GCCftpDomonOG NopCaS 23&y (SUgfli during By Myrna Trauntvein Several counterfeit $10 bills have been passed in the Nephi area in the past month and a half, said Bowles. They are pretty good replicas, he said. They are a little darker and the paper doesnt feel quite right, but you probably wouldnt know that you had just received one without giving it a closer look." Most business employees and owners have noticed the five bills that have been reported to police as they were doing their checkouts at the end of the day. As they are paying more attention to the bills when they are closing the tills, they notice the counterfeits, he said. The five bills reported to the Nephi City Police Department were turned over to the Secret Service, said Bowles. The bogus bills have turned up in Salt Lake, Utah and Juab Counties. See SECOND CROP Can the warm weather be far away when the area Dandelions have already gone to seedand a second crop is almost done as well? The weather for the end of the week should help you spread the Feed and Weed' on your crop as rain on Wednesday will be followed by warmer weather for the end of the week. Forecast on page 2. ofnJnGnaDDy Nephi Funny Money on page 2 Times-New- s Correspondent The week May 3 through May 9 was proclaimed as Municipal Clerks Week in Nephi even though the week was underway by the time the city council met to approve the proclamation. Chad Brough, mayor, with council approval, had not signed the document declaring the week Municipal Clerks Week but complimented the city clerk. Blair Painter, Nephis clerk, is an excellent employee, he said. I appreciate the work our clerk does. He is a great benefit to our community. The office of municipal clerk, according to the signed proclamation, is a time honored and vital part of local government throughout the world and the clerk is the oldest office among public servants. In addition, said Brough, the office provides the professional link between the citizens, the local governing bodies, and agencies of government at other levels and are neutral and impartial. The municipal clerk continually strives to improve the administration of the affairs of the office of the municipal clerk through participation in education programs, seminars, workshops, Thursday Friday Saturday "(SDgdli'c 17ooCi" and the annual meetings of their state, province, county and international professional organizations, said Brough. The clerk serves as the information center on functions of local government and community. Nephi City is beginning its budget discussions for the coming fiscal budget for 1998 and 1999. The budget year begins in July and all the work of the budget must be done by that time so it can be adopted by the city council and signed by the mayor prior to the end of June. State statute outlines how the schedt, uling must proceed, said Randy is a city administrator. Ours third class city and, .in our city classification, we must have a tentative budget by the first week in May. The city adopting the tentative budget, even though the bulk of the work remains to be done, meets the criteria of the state for cities of Nephis class. In the next few weeks we will address the budget further before adopting the final budget, said McKnight. For some cities of our classification, said McKnight, the May 1 date signaled the end ofthe process not the beginning. Corral will open in Lindas Nephi in the same location as a previbusiness. ous McK-nigh- the dream of the mayor and the city counfield getting a cil come true three-plexba- ll constructed. Chad Brough, mayor, said a committee had discussed the options available to the city for beginning to work on the complex so that it might be ready as soon as possible. One of those options, said Brough, would be to move the grass from the area where the Little League fields are going to be (by the middle school) and move it to the Juab girls field by the high school. Then the football teams could practice there to get ready for the year. It has to be ready for an August practice time, said Brough. Bret Bowles, city council member, pointed out that the area was 120-feby 120-feand would take a great deal of work. That would be 360 pallets of sod, said Randy McKnight, city administrator. The grass would have to be cut into sod and a machine or a sod cutting company would need to do the work. et e paid. Ibis year we have no money, said Tammy Bowles. None of the money collected in the past from the girls for playing was left for the beginning of this year, she said. Are your teams expanding so fast that the e is used up in just keeping up with equipment needs? asked Richard et Phil (Baker, parks superintendent,) wants to evaluate the project and consider it carefully before he makes a recommendation, said McKnight Richard Paxman, city council member, said the local wards of the IDS Church are going to participate in community improve-men- t projects again this year, as they did use-fe- Paxman, , dty council member. Kramer said the girls each paid $25 to play but from those fees a $5 gratuity fee for was paid per game to officials, pwh girl, trophies, and other items were purchased. For $75 a business can sponsor a team. That is pretty cheap for such good advertising, said Kramer. h town is responsible for its own teams pitying fields, said Kramer. She said that Levan and Mona teams, however, did Since those Corral will be owned by Lin- last Maybe we could get some help from play soma games in Nephi The do not have to pay for a field, the city teams da and James W. Garrett and will be locat- them, he said. donates the use, they might be willing to ed at 15 South Main Street contribute some to the use fee for Nephi McKnight said that it was too late, alCity Council members approved the busithe women to cocnue to Eroch ness license for the shop contingent upon ready, to hydroseed the area for any beneand ssid the council look iiass at dZinct the presentation, by Garretts, to city hall fit this year. In order for the grass to be fcH to would w2 1 of the Utah Stale Tax Number which has ready for an August practice season, it L 1 QZJ-Zzr z) been applied for but not yet received. would have had to been seed ad yestacy The school board has worked to make irt Four Day Weather Forecast Wednesday Single Copy Price 1 . in loeherc sections aed Partly Cloudy' S Highs SS-6- f Wa Highs SO to 70 Hlgs SO to 70 y sL t. r tin |
