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Show xx.5.',u, b hh,; 4 1ll WhSI! RN MICROGRAPHIC 4555 Salina Lions SALT 1 C0 15 COMM1RCK DR SIR 200 LAKE Cl I Y IT 84107-37- 75 Lions Monthly Paper Pickup Members of the Salina Lions Club will be canvassing the streets of the North Sevier area to pickup bundled newspapers for their recycling project this Saturday, April 5, at 9 a.m. The members of the club urge that citizens support this program by having tightlytied newspapers on the curbside early Saturday. Volume 76 Number 13 Salina, Utah 84654 Wednesday, April 2, 1997 50 cents Spring into ...Spring! Spring forward into Daylight Savings Time! This Sunday morning at 2 a m time springs forward an hour. It is recommended that everyone change their clocks a head one hour before they go to bed on Saturday. April 5. Runwalk to benefit special Olympics A Special Olympics Benefit Run is scheduled in Sevier County for Saturday, April 5, hosted by the new Road Warriors Fitness Club. Registration for the Benefit Run begins at 7 a m. at Lifetime Fitness Health Club, (80 East MOO North) in Richfield. A walk and kids run begin at 8 a.m., followed at 8.30 by a 5K run for all ages. Registration is SI 5 for the 5K run and walk, including a Special Olympics or hat. Additional registrants in immediate family are $5. Kids run free. Proceeds will be used to benefit the local Special Olympics one-mi- le one-mi- le program. ' The Benefit Run is sponsored by the Law Enforcement Torch Run for Special Olympics, with these local merchants: Lifetime Fitness Center, Robinson Transport, PepsiCola of Salina, Richfield IGA, Rosco Weston InnMarshalls Grill, Garys Shoes, JBs Family Restaurant, Jorgensens Lanes, Ace Hardware, Alvey Lumber, Sportkeeper, The Shirt Stop, Reel Theatre, McDonalds, and the Richfield City Recreation Department. For more information, call Tom Jensen, 896-260- 8, or Marty Abrams, 528-620- 0. Family conference set for April 12 in Richfield A unique family conference, based on the old adage that it really does take a community to raise a child, will be held in Richfield on Saturday morning, April 12. According to County Commissioner, Peggy Mason, who is helping plan the event, good families dont just happen. Every community needs to provide an organized, effective network of support. She said the main goal of this conference is not just to talk about problems, It is to come up with an action plan to solve them, and just as importantly, to prevent them in our community. She encourages the public to participate, as all input and ideas for strategy are welcome. f The conference, entitled Family; Hope for scheduled for 8:45 a.m. to noon building at the Sevier Valley Applied Technology Center, 800 West, (hfe Future, is (n the new conference 00 South, Richfield. The program features a panel of local lead ers, who will guide the audience in a discus- - sion of support networks in our community. Panel members include County Deputy Phil Barney, Ronnie Grimlie from Family Services, Lynda Whitlock from New Horizons Crisis Center, and Emery Polelonema, fiom the Sand Clan Hopi Tribe. The moderator is Kathy Johnson of the Richfield Communications Center. The program also includes a video of Governor M ike Leavitt and renowned author Steven Covey, who will share tips fi om his latest book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Families. A $5 per person charge will cover materials and production costs. The conference is sponsored by the Governors Initiative on Families Today. Local planners are Ruth Jackson of the University Center, Brandon Burr of 1SAT, and Commissioner Peggy Mason. Reservations are encouraged. Call Ruth Rock or Brandon Burr at the I SAT office, 896-528- 4. Public comment sways decision Fee system for Fishlake Forest nixed T ishlake National Forest Officials have deForest Supervisor Rob Mrowka stated, In cided not to implement a fee system to charge February we asked the public for comments, for recreational use in the Fish Lake Basin. we listened to their concerns, and have adThe proposal would have been part of the justed our plans. As a result we decided not to "Recreation Fee Demonstration Program, a continue to develop a proposal for a user fee at three-yeFish Lake Basin. Officials on the Fishlake pilot piogram authorized by Con-ess to test the effectiveness of collecting fees National Forest had been considering chargat specific national recreation sites. These fees ing users within the Fish Lake Basin for would have been used to develop, improve, certain recreation services. All of the money and maintain facilities and programs at the generated from the program would have been collection site where the money is generated. used for project development within the BaThe progiam is currently being implemented sin. Some projects being considered as a result at many National Forest Service and National Paik Service locations throughout the nation. What made this program particularly attractive to the Fishlake National Forest is the fact that 80 percent or more of the funds generated from this recreation use fee remain at the collection site. Under the old system only 15 Redmond will be forming a Lions Club to percent of funds generated by Forest programs remain on the Forest. The remainder goes help organize community events. The Lions directly to the Federal Treasury as national Club will help the community with service revenue. including: street projects, and clean-u- p projects and signs, planting trees, other related activities. Redmond needs 20 members to begin the charter. Dues will be $30 per person. After the charter, the club may the annual dues. Anyone 8 years old or older that may be interested in becoming part of the Redmonds Lion Club should call the Redmond Town Hall, Redmond also held its annual town Easter outing. The activities were held in the canyon just east of town. The morning was filled with ar gi and interpretative trails. The forest has also been considering an overnight camping fee of $3 at LaBaron Reservoir on the Beaver Ranger District in conjunction with this Congiessional progiam. District Ranger Dayle Flanigan stated, "Camping fees collected would be used to help pay for replacement ofthe restroom at LaBaron, which is in very poor condition. This would mean that the restroom would be replaced within (Continued on Page 2) Redmond to enlist volunteers to patrol streets on weekends fund-raise- rs i of this program were accessible fishing piers 1 re-s- et 529-332- 7. festivities for all ages. Kids enjoyed an Easter egg hunt and races, w'hile others just enjoyed visiting. Most families brought a picnic and made a day of the activities. During the monthly town board meeting, held on March 12, 1997, both Trinton Laws and Giegg Bosshardt presented their Eagle Scout project ideas to the Board. T rinton plans fence around the baseball to build a home-ru- n field behind North Sevier igh School. T rinton told the Board that the total cost would be $3,700. Redmond Town decided to donate $100 to the completion of the pioject. Bosshardt discussed the idea of lepairing 1 1 (Continued on Page 2) Deadline approaches for festival exhibitors V Wfc. SSAvw' I n These riders are warming up their horses in the out- floor grounds area ofthe Blackhawk Arena in Salina. y More than 1,000 teams participated in the two-da- event. Qualifiers at this meet, the USTRC Grass Roots Team Roping, will participate in the National Championship in Guthrie, Oklahoma April 7 is the deadline to reserve a booth at a new Natural Resource Festival, scheduled for April 25 and 26 in Richfield. The festival is entitled The Great Outdoors: Were All In It Together. Organizers say it is planned as a fun event to infonn children and the community about the role natural resources play in our lives, and to teach respect for our land, our trees and vegetation, our air, our water, and our wildlife. Expected at the festival are booths that target wildlife education, recreation, land ethics, and safety, as well as ecology, biology, zoology, geology, astronomy, history and ar (POOR COPY chaeology. Exhibits must be informative in nature, focusing on respect for our natural resources and wildlife, and should be easily understood and enjoyed by both children and adults. No political agendas, please. Nearly two dozen organizations and agencies are involved in the planning of the Festival, which combines annual celebrations like Arbor Day, Earth Day, Wildlife Week Migratory Bird Week and Wetlands Week. For more information, contact Rick Fike at Sheri Lynn Ramsay at the BLM, or the Sevier the Forest Service, 2 Ext. Events Office, County Special 257. 896-151- 6; 896-923- 3; 896-926- |