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Show IBIdsftrillbelletlony EqUestrlan.centerlk See Volume 71 Story on page evierIRoyalty See Story on page 1 jSI 1 Price 50 Cents Wednesday, March 24, 1993 Number 12 Kindergarten registration set for March 25 Don't forget to register your child for Kindergarten on March 25. Those in the Aurora and Salina areas are to register from 10 a.m. top 10:45 a.m. Those in the Salina area will register from 1:30 to 2:15 p.m. While parents are busy getting the child registered, go into the kindergarten classrooms to see just what Kindergarten is all about. the future students will Salina Stake Music Festival The Salina Stake Music Festival will be held ThursMarch 25, at 7 p.m. in the Stake Center. Winners from previous competition in the individual wards wiii now compete on a stake basis. Everyone is invited to come out for an enjoyable evening and experience some of the great talent in our stake. day, Salina Public Miss North Sevier Royalty of 1992 Ten beautiful young women vied for the title of Miss North Sevier last Saturday night at North Sevier High School. When the pageant drew to a close the royalty was named as follows, from left: Katrina Rasmussen, 3rd runner up; Becky Hales, 1 st runner up; Deborah Johnson, Miss North Sevier of 1992; Candice Mason, 2nd runner up; Becky Mason 4th runner up. Library will close for renovation " The Salina Public Library will be closing April 2, for about four months while the city building and library are renovated. Residents may checkout books before that time, and Yvonne Jackson, Librarian, says she will publicize the date of reopening so that books can be returned at that time. No late charges will be charged, she added. Call Mrs. Jackson at the Libarary for more American Legion to hold annual Spring Convention The American Legion District Six will hold its 1993 Spring Convention Saturday, April 3, at the Millard County Fairground Exhibit building. Events planned include: Tour of the Intermountain Power Plant dinner Meeting - election of a 2nd vice commanded, reports from officers, etc. Entertainment The bus will leave the fairgrounds at 10:30 a.m. for the tour of IPP. Be sure to be there in time. There is no Turkey-stea- k charge. Cost of the dinner is $8 per plate. If you plan to attend contact Cec Sittre, at 529-738or Ronnie Torgerson, 529-762- be let on Equestrian Center soon; completion set for September Bids will The Salina Municipal Building Authority held a public meeting last week to receive input and answer questions for those attending concerning the new Equestrian Center Aren planned for Salina.. About 30 people attended, according to Danna Shaw, president of the committee. Shaw said that the master plan was explained, "...show. ing the complete scope of what we want to do," as well as gaining input from area residents. Plans include a 70,500 square foot building; an indoor riding arena; convention center, picnic grounds, animal stalls, outdoor arena, and parking areas. Until the bids are in, it will not be known how much of the project can be completed with the $1.2 million in funds available. Bids will be let, and construction is tentatively scheduled to begin on May 1. The project should be completed in September or early October. Shaw said a contest will be held to name the arena, and more information will be given on that subject later on. An outdoor arena is also planned if funding is ade quate, and it will be against the mountain, so that seating can be found, similar to the way it is done at the Salina Riding Club Grounds in the east section of Salina. The area planned for the project is the area just north of the Butch Cassidy campground, on Salina's south side. Other members of the Salma Municipal Building Authority include Greg Noyes, vice president; Betty Cowley, SecretaryTreasurer; Redge Hansen. Brent Robins, Kim Robinson, and Jeff Brewer. Fewer Utahns are out of work; jobs continue to grow at a rapid rate Utahs unemployment rate dropped of a U.S. like the total in rate. January just percentage point But unlike the U.S., Utahs rate registers 5.2 percent - a far cry from the national figure of 7.1 percent The good news? Roughly 42,700 Utahns were out of work during January about 1,700 fewer than the month before. Besides that, Utahs job picture continued to improve in January. Total nonfarm jobs rose 3.4 percent over the past 12 months for a gain of 25,300 positions. The state has seen slow but steady improvement in job growth in 1992 and the beginning of 1993 despite notable losses in defense related employment two-tent- hs 9; 9. Dwaine Burr named to serve as Salina City Councilman Dwaine Burr was named to fill the vacancy on the Salina City Council at the March 15, 1993 meeting. The vacancy had been created by the resignation of former councilman Roy Cooke. Burr will serve in this capacity for the remainder of 1993, according to Salina Mayor, Nyals Andreason. g citizen of Salina. He has Mr. Burr has been a served in many capacities. Recently he has been chairman of the city planning and zoning committee. "He has had a broad range of experience and has proven that he is a conscientious citizen. His attidependable, tude toward this appointment sums up the type of person he is," said the Mayor He answered the call to serve with the statement, I will do my best! life-lon- fair-minde- d, The bad news? The jobless rate still registers noticeably higher than the low January 1992 figure of 4.6 percent. And, cuts in defense spending are still taking their toll. Manufacturing continues to struggle in Utah as the only major industrial sector to lose employment over the past 12 months. Most of the industrys ills can be traced to cuts in defense spending and the Signetics shutdown. Of course, construction employment continues to boom in the Beehive state. Employment in the building trades is up and extraordinary 15.5. This 4,400 job addition follows on the heels of exceptional growth in both 1991 and 1992. Strong residential expansion and the addition of at least one major nonresidential project should keep construction employment no the upswing in 1993. The service industry continues to generate the largest number of new positions. Since January of 1992, serv 1 1 ,000 new jobs - 44 of U tah s total job growth. Cuts in federal jobs continue to keep growth in the public sector at a low level. Government employment has grown about 2 percent (2,700) jobs since January of 1992. Federal jobs are down by 1,000 positions while state and local government added 1,300 and 2,400 jobs respectively. Cuts in defense spending persist as Utahs main economic worry. Announced layoffs in defense related manufacturing as well as at federal defense installations will continue to burden Utahs economy. However, Utahs economy is now relatively strong, and an improv- ing national economy should help produce more Utah jobs. In other words, cuts will definitely hurt, but wont put a stranglehold on Utahs expansion. Lecia Parks Langston Chief Economist gets high marks from nation s top business writers Utah The nations top business writers and editors give Utah high marks as a place for business, comparing it favorably with neighboring states. They associate the state with tourism more than any other industry, think the states population is greater than what it actually, and see the state as having more diversity in religions that it actually has. A national survey of business media completed recently for The Economic Development Corporation of Utah included more than 150 editors and writers from media outlets across the nation. The response to this survey was nothing short of phenomenal, said Rob DeRocker of Development Counselors, which specializes in economic development and tourism marketing and public relations. Over the history of our firm weve worked for some 200 communities around the world and conducted surveys of this type. But never have we seen the kind of partici 33-ye- ar "We are most fortunate to have Dwaine Burr serving on the Salina City Council, Mayor Andreason concluded. ices has added pation this one for Utah has generated. Among the 12 questions on the survey was one asking writers to guess the population of Utah. Answers ranged from 280,000 to 15 million, with an average response of 2.97 million. The actual census figures show about 1.8 million. A related question asked writers to guess the percentage of the states population affiliated with the Mormon Church. The average guess was 52 with nearly three quarters of the respondents submitting guesses below the actual figure of 70. When writers were asked which words they thought applied to Utah, an impressive 53 of those surveyed described the state as growing while only 8 felt Utah was diverse. In other comparisons, 29 found Utah to A be provincial and 1 felt it to be cosmopolitan. full 91 of the writers associate Mormon with the state of Utah. |