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Show Serving East Juab County - A Nice Place Volume 101, No 18 To Live! Single Copy Price Wednesday, May 7, 2003 www.nephitimesnews.com Sheriff Orme reports on law enforcement activities during the Easter weekend By Myrna Trauntvein Times-New- s Correspondent Thanks to the help of several law enforcement agencies, there were a number of arrests made during Easter weekend at the Little Sahara Sand Dunes. Juab County Sheriff Alden Orme said there were 14 illegal open alcohol container citations made. In Utah, it is illegal for anyone to have an open contain- er of alcohol in a vehicle, he said. This year, there were 32 warnings issued for open container violation. The crowd was one of the largest in recent years with more than 35,000 people at the site during the Easter holiday, said Orme. But thanks to extra law enforceviolators were ment cited and problems were kept under control. There was one individual arrested for disorderly conduct, said Orme. There were 31 warnings issued for the same offense. There were 100 illegal consumption citations issued. It is against the law for anyone age 21 or less to consume alcohol in Utah. At Little Sahara Sand Dunes, it is against the law for anyone to have any sort of glass container on the sand. The potential of someone being seriously injured by broken glass hidden in the sand is high, Orme said. There were nine people who received tickets for that violation but there were 135 warnings issued to those who had glass containers on the sand. There were eight arrests made for illegal possession or consumption of drugs, he said. There were no warning citations for drugs. If anyone was man-powe- r, caught with drugs, they were arrested. Four speeding citations were written, 40 warnings were issued and another 60 citations were issued for traffic violations. There were nine warning tickets given for public lewdness. said Orme. One person was arrested for resisting a police officer. Thirty arrests were made for Driving Under the Influence (DUI) of Alcohol and two people were arrested for contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Three individuals were issued warning citations for contributing to the delinquency of a minor. One drug overdose was reported and that case required extensive medical attention. There was also one case of domestic abuse reported. One vehicle was reported stolen and one vehicle, stolen last year, was recovered this year. There were six equipment volitions and there were 25 warnings issued. Some of those violations which were given warnings were for things like missing warning flags on ATVs. We had Utah Highway Patrol Officers from all over the state who came to help us during the Easter weekend." said Orme. See Easter on tope 2 CLASS OF 2015 It's a bit early for the class of 2003 but these students at Nephi Elementary School will be graduating from Kindergarten this year The graduation program for students in Mrs. Christensens and Mrs. Worthington's classes will be held tonight. Students in Mrs. McKnight's and Mrs. Woods classes will have their program on Thursday; May 8th. We only hope that all these students are as cute in 2015 as they are nine! Payback of tax money spent years ago will cause hardship for county By Myrna Trauntvein Ti m Correspon dent es-Ne- Settlement agreements were accepted and signed by county commission chair Wm. Boyd Howarth. The first of those agreements allows the payback of taxes and the second allows the reduction of values for Intermountain Power Association properties. Eldridge, county attorney, told commissioners that he had done as they requested and had looked into the matter. He recommended the county sign the documents. Both Salt Lake County and Millard County have accepted the settlement agreement, he said. Howarth said that some years the county could have requested a judgement levy, but not this year. The opportunities were not there. If we do not agree, said Howarth, we could be worse off. He said, in the case of refusal, the state tax commission would simply make readjustments to values. I agree, we have no choice in the world, said Robert Steele, commissioner. Unless we do a judgement levy. Is that possible?" Pat Ingram, county clerk, said she would check with the state tax commission and find out if the settled figures could all be lumped together, then the county may qualify. Juab did qualify on the amount needed to have a judgement levy for the year 2001. The settlement agreement the vears 1999, 2000 and is for 2001. This will be hardest on the school district, said Howarth. They will have to payback the largest amount of the entities involved. Juab county will need to repay $7,172.77 with interest of $1,281.63 added for a total of a payback of $8,454.38. Juab School District, however, will be called upon to pa back $20,291.18 with interest of $3,395.27 for a total of $23,689.96. Other entities which will need to repay tax collected to I PA will be CUP and the fire district. CUP will need to repay $986.07 with interest of $170.25 for a total of $1,156.32 and the fire district will need to repay $663. 09 plus interest of $ 16.43 for a total of $709.52. Since standing alone to fight the return of the tax money would be impossible, the county has little choice but to repay the already spent tax money. The problem is that the pay- back of the taxes requires that we repay money we spent several years ago, said Howarth. The money is gone, it was used, and it figured into the budget that was set for that year. Then we are called upon to repay the money and we have to dig it up out of this years budget, which is also already set." The repayment of spent taxes created a hardship on counties, entities in the county, and the citizens of the county. Juab School District hires two new principles By Myrna Times-Xe- u Trauntvein s Correspondent Two new principals have been hired to manage schools in the Juab School District. Kandon C. Lawrence w ill serve as principal of the 7th&8th Grade Center and Steven Paulsen will work as the principal of the 5th 6th Grade Center. The two new principals replace Steve Olsen and his assistant principal. Raymond Nielsen. Olsen is retiring this spring but hopes to return to the district in a year to teach, said Kirk Wright, superintendent. The decision was made bv the board to hire two principals as they considered the concerns of the teaching staff at the two schools," said Wright. He said the teachers at the two schools did not think that the principala-itan- t program was working to the advantage of both schools. They expressed concerns to the school board that there were things that needed the attention of the principal and that each school needed its own principal. The process used to select the two principals involved a screening committee. The committee consisted of teachers from the middle school (the two centers), parents from the advisory lsurd at the school (the two centers), a board member, Delanie Hathaway, and I acted as facilitator." said Wright. A field of 14 candidates was narrowed to six. Of that number, four were interviewed bv the board. From those interviews, the board made the final selection, said Wright. Last wea k, the interviews were conducted by the board and the selection was made. However, the candidate were not actually hired until they had been contacted to make certain they still wanted the job. Three of the candidates were local educators," said Wright. None of them were selected for the positions. Both Lawrence and Paulsen have been working as principals as the God Star Nominee of the Year on the high school level. He was nominated for that honor by the Casper Star Tribune in Wyoming. Lawrence graduated from Southern Utah State College w ith a bachelor's degree. His major was Spanish. He also earned a in schools master's degree with and educaof Wyoming. of ive has tional endorsement from Southa Utah, Lawrence, nat of Utah ern as State College. the been working principal An active member of the Lander Valley Alternative High Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-daS hool in Lander, Wvonung. He received a nomination as Saints, he is married and is of the of five children. Teacher father th. Year, Wyoming Paulsen has been serving as ha leen a presenter at the National School Board Convention the principal of the Overland Elwhere he addressed ways and ementary Sc hool in Roc k Springs. mean of designing an alternaWyoming. tive high school curriculum. Wright said Paulsen had a As a member of the Army Nastrong background in curriculum tional Guard. Iawrence received and instruction which is a great the Army Achieveme nt Medal and. in 199. he was selected outstanding emplovee at Dixie See Hire on page 2 State College, and was sole ted y |