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Show Vernal Express Wednesday, January 1. A3 2003 Dr. Seagcr honored for exceptional service and achievement Dr. T.R. Seagcr was honored at annual governing BouidMcdical Staff Banquet at Ashley Valley Medical Center. Dr. Seagcr was given the Exceptional Service and Achievement Award" for his years of service to the community and to the hospital. He icccived a plaque that will hang in the hallway at Ashley Valley Medical Center along with the pre-iowinner of the award. Dr. Paul Stringham. Dr. Seager came to the Uintah Basin in 1946 at the invitation of Dr. Ray Spcndlove. He fell in love with the Uinta Mountains and the Basin and decided to stay. He operated on a table in the old Episcopal Church until the Uintah County Hospital was built in 1949. Even though he has passed his 90th .birthday, he can still remember the old" days when doctors made house calls and the hospital only had a couple of in patient beds. Dr. Seager has always taken his role in the community seriously and setved many civic areas. Recently he made a cash donation that pro the Dr. T.R. Seager was presented with the Exceptional Service and Achievement Award by Dr. Allen vided 230.(XX) children across the world with the polio vaccine. The award was given dining the annual banquet attended by members of the Governing Board and medical stall. Dr. James Allen, the senior member of the medical staff, presented the award on behalf of the hospital and the medical stall'. I learned much from Dr Seager and still use many of the surgical techniques he taught me yeats ago. I have wotked with many skilled sutgeons throughout the years but none belter than Dr. TR. Seager." Also at the banquet. Dr. Jon Hughes, who has been chief of staff in 2002. passed the gavel of leadership to Dr. David Petty who will set vc in 2003. Dt Ietry stated that he is looking tot ward to an exciting year and hopes to be able to serve as competently as Dr. Hughes. A gilt of appreciation was given to Di. Hughes for his service to the hospital Kathy Mashburn and Teddie Evans check over sacks filled with gifts while Lena Dieckmann, Carrie Stubblefield, Shannon Johnson and Marianne Bowden hll additional sacks. Samoas Community Effort serves 130 families Westport Resources completes Uintah County acquisition of El Paso Westport Resources Corporation the acquisition of natural gas properties and midstream gathering and compression assets located in Uintah County for approximately $510 million including certain purchase price adjustments. was funded The transaction 1.5 million of the issuance through shares of common stock in an underwritten public offering and the private placement of $300 million face amount of the Company's 8.25 percent Senior Subordinated Notes due 2011. The acquisition increases Westport's reserves by approximately 57 percent, or 603 Befe, and replaces over 465 percent of estimated 2002 production. Together w ith the recently completed Southeast Texas acquisition. has completed 1 these assets bring Westport's estimated total reserves as ol Sept. 30. 2002 to approximately .6 Tele. The acquisition of a focused legacy asset strategically positions Westport as a significant Rockies gas producer and combined with the recently completed offerings of debt and equity fuel the Company's commented growth into 2003, Don Wolf, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Westport. The acquisition adds over 1.500 opportunities to our exploitation drilling inventory which we believe will provide us with the ability to generate substantial cash Bow and future growth." The acquired assets have a reserve life index of approximately 21 years, extend Westport's resene life index from seven years to 1 By Virginia Harrington Express Feature Writer Mashburn and Teddie Evans have again this year taken on the mighty task of coordinating community efforts to provide Christmas gifts to children age 16 and under who would otherwise receive no gifts. They also provide food for impoverished families. Kathy 11 and years approximately increase the gas portion of both the Company's total proved reserves and its total production to 68 percent. Ihe acquired assets exited the thiid quarter producing approximately 80 MmdoM. Hie acquisition includes approximately 240.(8X1 net acres. Westport cxpei ts to dull an estimated 80 to lH) wells in 21X13 with plans to acceleiate the drilling program to approximately 120 to 150 wells in 2004 and beyond. Westport is an independent energy company engaged in oil and natural gas exploitation, acquisition and explot ation activities primarily in the Gulf of Mexico, the Rocky Mountains, Permian BasinMid-Conlineand the Gulf Coast. Mashburn and Evans said the coordination is not yet perfected hut is getting better each year with fewer families receiving from more than one agent while others receive nothing. They also emphasized that the community has been very generous with donations of cash, toys, clothing, food and time. Several volunteers have helped on a daily basis to sort through donated items and mark them for appro priate age and gendet Oilieis have spent many bouts shopping in local stoles using Santa Bucks." view. Information gleaned by journalists and troops from computers at a number of facilities in Afghanistan showed dial was actively seeking to obtain and develop a World News Exile for Saddam suggested by Arab leaders effort to avoid a war between Iraq and the U.S., it is rumored that a number of Arab leaders are hoping to pressure the renegade Iraqi president to step down and go into exile said a report by Salah NasTawi of the Associated Press. According to the report, most do not believe that such an offer would be rejected outright by Hussein unless he believes there is no other option available to him. There have been a number of reports that Saddam has been offered asylum by countries including Egypt, Libya, Cuba or even North Korea although no government has made such offers official. Sabah Salman, former press secretary' for the dictator, told N'asrawi that he is certain Saddam would never willingly bow out. Salman, who defected following the Gulf War. recounted a story about $ meeting between the Iraqi president In an and his top aides in !982. During discussion of a demand from the late Iranian leader. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, that Saddam should step down in exchange for peace, the then Minister of Health, Riyadh Husvein ventured the opinion that the offer should be considered for tactical reasons." Riyadh was subsequently taken into the next room and executed. One Arab diplomat said that many believe that the U.S. is "afteT Saddam and not after weapons of mass destruction., efforts should focus on how to persuade Saddam to leave. Jordanian analyst Nedal Mansour was quoted as saying that Saddarn could choose exile over losing everything if a way is found to allow hrm to leave with his family, close associates and The fortune he has gathered during the decades he has been in power pointed out baby blankets, hats and mittens made and donated by a No women. loc al stoiy stands out as p.utii tilai family vviih wanning seu'ial children came to help do the t l Mashburn said she and I vans take their stevvaidsh p of Ihe dona tions. be they cash or items, vciy seriously. It involves tuist." said Mashhuin and they do all they can. including careful bookkeeping, to deseive and retain that Must )ne heart shopping loi less fortunate children ll mi ni'il out dial the family quail lied to R'ceive gills through Santa's Community Unit but the children pieleiicd to lake part in the going rathei than receiving Evans said they are eiy giuielul to the many individuals, lannliex. agencies, oiganiations. businesses joy o I hey wauled to give the only thing they iod'x'ii tune. nt Nuclear scientist rejected bin Ladens appeal for help variety of potent and deadly weapons which included anthrax and other chemicals that could be used to make duty bombs". The capture of lieutenant Abu Zubaydah corroborated information about the terrorist nctw oiks' attempts to build duly bombs which is essentially a conventional bomb that would scatter radioactive material when detonated much less deadly than a nuclear explosion. Other sources said that bin Laden was prepared to spend $1.5 million in 1993 to buy uranium on the black market but could not confirm that such a purchase was ever made. At this time it is not know whether or not possesses any nuclear material though experts monitoring movements of the terrorist nctw'ork warned that the threat is clear. is delighted with the small wooden cais made by children in Split Mountain Youth Center She she The Santa Bucks are dated and signed by either Mashlunn ui Evans. On the hack ol the bucks aie listed the gendet and ages ol the children plus the amount that can lie spent pet child I ocal businesses accept the bucks liom the shoppus and are reimbursed with funds donated to Santa's Community Effort. World News Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood, under a gag order by his country's was intelligence community, approached by bin Laden prior to the devastating attacks on Sept. 11, said his son, Azim Mahmood dura recent interview with ing Associated Press reporters. live terrorist leader was interested in soliciting help in the creation of nuclear weapons but was rebuffed by the scientist who reportedly told bin laden: it is not child's play... to build a nuclear bomb. A number of conversations between the scientist and the al Qaida leader during meetings in 2000 and as late as July 2(X1! were reconstructed by the younger Mahmood during the inter- and school groups that have given so generously to the elloit She said Ire 10 It's Aled Look At iltr btqiwiv'i ol ilit. mv mar, wi wot Id liki to ixpitrss Ion qmiitult. ol yoiR Ion litis m ar. Wi liopt sippoRi Sheriffs ll out s.so yoiR liolidw Warrants wiilt joy, Warrants of arrest from 8th Di'tiiet Court as of Monday, Dec. 30. include the following individu- qoodwill will d tlivi I mis ll May 19. Collier, Kim who is wanted on a t60, warrant and a $5,000 war- S15,fXX1 Irtlivr, ol i r lo(j. Troy H-p- Nrw Tt r! rant. Donald Keith Critton, Kim July 27. 1955. who is wanted on a $2,026 warrant. Michael Gene Gardner, bom Oct. 12. 1973. wbo is wanted on a $10.0,10 waman.. Damn S. Matlock. Kvm Sept. 10. 1971. who is wanted on a 82.500 warrant. William Wade Shunlcff, bora Xi g 24. 1969. wbo is wanted on a $3.tXX1 w arrant Kayle D. Sivkiller, bom Feb. 17. 1977. who is wanted on a 82 tMO warrant Pei cons wiih mlormatton about tV hxwton of these individuals hii.ld coma 1 the Uintah Coumv 5hi.'i'c IVp.rrtriiT'L Ccnr-i- l or use JNspitch. .he Wi nes I me, 78 789-251- 1; v9-42- ( wmime 333 West Main (435) 789-381- 8 dm hr fillid als Daniel l Vernal |