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Show J ! t 4 j I I i I i Music Festival will I i be held The Salina 4th Ward will present its Music Festival, Thursday, March 2, at 7 p.m. in the Salina Stake Center. Theme is Music from Yesterday, Today, and Tomor- row. Come join us for fun and great entertainment! Senior Citizens Pot Luck Dinner The North Sevier area will hold their monthly Potluck Dinner Thursday, February 23, beginning at 6 Senior Citizens I p.m J The advisory council will furnish oven fried chicken, baked potatoes and hot French Bread. Those attending are asked to bring vegetable dishes or a dessert. A program will be presented following the dinner. 1 i 3 4-- H Riding Club Anyone interested in join- ing the Riding Club is urged to attend a meeting to be held today, Wednesday, February 22, at 7:30 p.m. in the Old Town Hall for sign up and to introduce the program.. For more informaiton, 4-- H i contact Bonnie Andreasssn, or Tammy Johnson, 529-705- 6, 529-755- 2. will present Showstopper Uniques The North Sevier High School Drill Team, the Uniques, will present a preShow Stopper, competition Tuesday, evening, February 28, at 7 p.m. at NS High. The program will consist of all the drills the Uniques will be presenting the following day at State competition to be held in Beaver. Also performing during the evening will be the Wind walkers, local gymnasts who have won many local, state and national awards, with Diane Chivers as advisor. The popular SunShine Cloggers, coached by Bella Christensen will perform, and there will be other great enter- tainment The event will be a fund raiser to hep the Uniques earn money for their planned trip Hawaii later this Spring for tional competition. na- Meeting for Miss North Sevier Officials meet to determine trail grooming needs Snowmobile trail grooming, the art of knocking the moguls or mounds of snow out of snowmobile trails, received a shot in the arm as an investigation to the feasibility of grooming trails in the Salina Creek to Fish Lake areas took place last week. Ron Cowden, Recreation Specialist for the State Parks and Recreation department from the Cedar City area visited this area last week to make a determination of wether a network of trails connecting the Gooseberry area to the Sand Cliffs area to the Fish Lake area could be groomed by the state on a regular basis of facilitate entry to some of Utahs best snowmobiling areas in the state. Right now I feel as though it is very feasible as the areas all interconnect with favorable trails and roads, said Cowden. He was joined last Thursday with Drew Keeitzer of the Otter Creek and Piute Reservoir park and Dave Lucchesi of the Freemont Indian State Park to help determine this areas trail grooming needs. Also Kay Peterson, Salina and Clair Robinson, Richfield were on hand to help guide the state officials through the area to help determine the best route for the grooming equipment to proceed. One of the problems hindering the states efforts to groom trails is that they only have a 1967 Thiokal Sprite Snowcat that has been altered and customized to trail groom ing specifications. New models have blades on the front that smoothes out trails before the hacks pack a smooth trail behind. This front blade does about 80 percent of the work. Other than this snow cat, that has been stationed in the Cedar City area the state is very limited on equipment in this region to provide snowmobilers much service. One of the reasons for the grooming assessment by the state is the amount of tickets being written to area snowmobile enthusiasts for not registering their machines and obtaining the necessary licenses from the state. The slate has received complaints to the effect that if they are going to demand license fees then the citizens paying these fees can demand services and trail grooming is one of the most mentioned services that is lacking in this area. From those state employees present on the ride, they talked of an appropriations bill that was suppose to be in the present state legislature that would appropriate enough money to purchase three new snow cats that would come equipped for trail grooming. This purchase has been talked about for about three years but this is as close as they have come to seeing its realization. Even if the money is set aside for this purpose there is no Continued on Page 2 CHECKING POSSIBILITIES: Recreation specialists from several state parks in Utah visited the area around the Sand Ledges to Seven Mile, and also the Gooseberry to Seven Mile area, as well as areas around Fish Lake, to determine if using heavier equipment to groom the snowmobile trails would be effective and efficient. Some say that increased tourism and use of the trails would result if the trails were kept groomed and opened throughout the winter season. Pictured are, from Left:Dave Lucchesi, Fremont State Park; Clair Robinson, of Richfield; Drew Kreitzer, Otter Creek; and Jerry Hover, chief of Operations. Doves owe more than $5 million in sales tax; Area stores closing Theres not too much to smile about these days at Doves Happy Service Markets, including the one in Gunnison which started a closeout sale last week. The Utah County attorneys office has confirmed that an investigation is under way to determine whether $5 million in sales taxes owed by the bankrupt grocery store chain is a result of criminal conduct. We are evaluating business records, County Attorney Steve Killpack said as quoted in the Butatthepresenttime, we are not prepared to indicate whether or not charges will be filed. Killpack said representatives from the State Tax Commission met last month with criminal investiga tors trom his office. The tax commission provided bankruptcy records and other documents related to allegations of unpaid or underpaid taxes by Doves between 1983 and 1988. Doves Happy Service Markets, a chain of 10 Utah grocery stores owned by Deon Dove of Springville has accrued rripre than $20 million in debt. The chain celebrated its 20th anniversary last month by going bankrupt Dove filed for Chapter 1 1 reorganization two years ago but continued to run seven of his stores in an attempt to make enough money to pay off creditors. The chain, however, was losing so much money that its remaining assets were being depleted. In January, Dove filed Chapter 7 bankruptcy, which is a liquidation procedure to pay off creditors. I think the total debt is between $21 million and $22 million said R. Kimball at a minimum, trustee for Moisier, Doves estate, who asked the U.S. Bankruptcy Court to change the Chapter 1 1 to a Chapter 7 liquidation in January. Secured creditors have claims totaling $16.4 million, according to court records. Assets will be divided among those creditors first, Mosier said, leaving little if any for the State Tax Commission. Unsecured creditors wont get anything, Mosier said and this will leave many local vendors who court-appoint- candidates A meeting will be held for all girls who are interested in entering the Miss North Sevier Pageant. Mothers of the girls are also asked to attend. The meeting will inform the contestants what to expect during the contest, how judging will be done, and other informaion that will help them during the have provided product and services to the local Gunnison store empty handed. One local vender stated that he felt bad that this situation has been allowed to go on for so long without being noticed by the courts chapter 1 1 was first taken out two years ago. I dont mind doing busi- ness with anyone who is trying but in this case I feel now after receiving the facts, that it was a no win situ- ation where Mr. Dove abused the system and there were a lot of losers will affect the local economy for a long time to come, said one busi- nessman serving the Gunnison area, According to a Fleming Foods representative, the grocery wholesale company that has been supplying grocery products to the Doves chain, they are interested in six of the eleven stores, are only one interested buyer in They the Gunnison store as several offers have been made for the Gunnison site. Fleming Foods would not operate the stores but rather stay strictly in the wholesale business and resell the stores to other interested buyers after building leases are negotiated and set and thus secured for the new company that would buy the proper-whe- n ties from Flemming, Interested buyers are hop- ing that the final arrangements can be made within in the next couple of weeks. The bankruptcy will close both the Gunnison, Richfield and Mt. Pleasant stores in this area. To date offers have been made on the Gunni-tha- t son and Mt. Pleasant locations with limited interest being shown about the Richfield location at present. Obtaining workable leases 0n the buildings seems to be one of the major problems by interested buyers as they try to keep set costs as low as possible as future pricing tures depend on these negotiations. Renton the stores in this valley have run from $12,000 and up a month in prior lease agreements. County clarifies emergency number contest The meeting will be held at Shaheen's at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 2, 1989. It has come to the attention them. This would end any unneces-o- f the Sevier COunty Sheriff s Of- - sary delays if an emergency situ-ficthat there is confusion as to what phone number to use in case of ation should arise, a medical emergency in this area. Sheriff Meacham and other The State of Utah has an community leaders are working to emergency management system in have a 911 emergency system with dispatch centers located throughout the State. These dis- - stalled in this area. This system patch centers are staffed with per- - would reduce any confusion about sonnel who have specialized train- - what number to use, and the Entering to meet the needs of the public as gency Management would be better able to serve the public. well as ambulance personnel. The Emergency Management System number serving Sevier, Wayne and Piute Counties is e, Deadlines Deadlines for the SUN: All written material should be in our office Friday to be included in the following weeks publication. We will accept photos and classified ads until Noon on Mondays. City Council The next meeting of the Salina City Council will be held Monday, March 6, 1989 beginning at 7 p.m Anyone with questions or concerns is urged to attend. Price 35 Cents Wednesday, February 22, 1989 Volume 67 Number 8 Salina has long been called a crossroads, as roads from every direction center here. Recent arrests show that there are drug traffickers, evaders of justice, just plain crooks, as well as Mr. and Mrs. Average American passing through our streets every day. Last Sunday, four large trucks were parked at a local restaurant while their drivers caught a snack. Their loads were titled radioactive'. NOTHING LIKE BEING A CROSSROADS: Sevier County Sheriffs Office would urge you to post this and numbers of local police and fire departments near your phone, and to be sure that all members of the family know the numbers and how to use |