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Show K'lfr; ; m - Focus: Durrant closes doors oo -- U) 1 0 IS I or f 1NO01 z.Hl S3y,i J rts: CHS honors athletes, gives awards. Page 4 L 0 Thursday May 26, 1994 103rd Year - No. 42 50 Cents Price, Utah District authorizes rescued Teenager participation fees By ANN KAY MARSING Staff writer After receiving feedback from secondary principals, Carbon County Board of Education members passed a modified fee structure which will include a participation fee for junior high and high school students beginning next school year. The action came at the regular meeting on May 18. The board determined a participation fee, rather than a uniform fee, would be more equitable because it involves paying to participate in activities regardless of whether a uniform is worn. Fees on the junior high level and at East Carbon High School will be $15 per activity next year, while Carbon High students will pay $20 per activity. If a student participates in more than two activities, he or she will only pay for two. Rationale behind the monetary cap was that many students participate in several activities, especially at ECHS because it is such a small school. Paying for each activity could become burdensome for a family if there were more than one child in school who was active in several organizations. The same would hold true at both high schools as well as the junior highs throughout the district. Board concensus was that due to the East Carbon area being so economically depressed plus having fewer resources and students involved, its fees were set the same as the junior high schools. The only exceptions to the designated activity fees are cheerleading and drill team By SCOTT NIENDORF Staff writer uniforms. Students involved in those two activities will still have to pay for the cost of a cheerleading uniform or the rental fee for drill team attire. Collected fees will be divided between the number of activities a particular student is involved in. For example, if a Carbon High student plays football, basketball, is a debater and in the choir, he would pay $40 not $20 for each activity and the $40 would be divided between the four programs. Junior high or ECHS students would pay a total of $30 if they were involved in two or more activities. Eugene Crocco, supervisor of secondary programs, commented that what the district is initiating by adding a participation fee is just a fraction of what it costs to administer any particular activity. Fees will go back into respective programs to help defray costs of uniforms andor other expenses 20-fo- related to the activity. with Crocco, Superintendent Val Bush pointed out participation fees were just the tip of the iceberg in actual costs, but they were one way to supplement programs so the district can keep them going and Agreeing available at schools. In other board of education business, CHS head coaches Don Gressmen and Kelly Newbold expressed concerns regarding the decision to limit ninth-grad- e athletic particion the high school level pation to only certain sports. Gress-ma- n coaches girls basketball and softball at Carbon; New-bol- d coaches boys basketball, track and field. Both coaches indicated (Continued on Page An afternoon hike for five Price area teenagers turned into a nightmare when a hiker was injured and had to be rescued high on a Spring Canyon ledge west of Helper Tuesday afternoon. A Price teenager sustained a compound fracture to her left ankle shortly after noon when a small ledge holding two teenagers collapsed. Rachel Maxfield, 17, and Mark Hoyt, also 17, were standing on the ledge when it gave out sending the two on a fall, said Carbon County Sheriffs Chief Deputy Mike Martinez. Hoyt sustained a few cuts and abrasions, but Maxfield was unable to move. Two males and three female teens, four from Price and one from Miller Creek, were hiking high upon a canyon wall approximately two miles west of Helper when the accident occurred. One of the teens reportedly had to walk out of Spring Canyon to call for help, said Carbon County Sheriff Jim Robertson at the scene. Helpers Rescue 3, Martinez and Carbon County Sheriff Search and Rescue personnel responded and hiked up to the scene to stabilize the girl and immobilize her leg. They strapped her into a stretcher and lowered her down the side of the mountain to a waiting Carbon County ambulance crew. Loose rocks and dirt hampered rescue efforts as the girl was slowly lowered down the mountain. Rescue personnel had to continually watch for falling rocks and small boulders as they moved down to the road. The rescue would not have gone as smoothly as it did without (the volunteers) help, Martinez said. Several volunteer personnel responded to the accident on their own time to assist with the rescue efforts. After the girl was stabilized in the ambulance, she was taken out of the canyon and trans ported to Castleview Hospi- . ot tal for treatment. Coincidentally, the teen had been climbing in the canyon with a temporary cast on her right leg after she had reportedly injured her right ankle in a recent sports event. Above, rescue personnel ease a Price teen down a steep section of Spring Canyon Tuesday after she suffered a broken ankle in a fall. Below, emergency crews carry Rachel Maxfield toward ambulance after rescue efforts. 7A) Juveniles arrested on felony charges By SCOTT NIENDORF Staff writer One Price teenager was in detention and two others were released to their parents following an investigation into extensive vandalism and a stolen vehicle from an area coal loadout facility Sunday, according to the Carbon Coun- ty Sheriffs Office. Sheriff Jim Robertson said extensive damage to several buildings at the Genwal Coal loadout facility was reported Monday morning as well as a stolen pickup truck which had been parked at the site. Two juveniles were arrested Monday afternoon in connection with the vandalism and stolen vehicle, while a third was referred to the 7th District Juvenile Court and released' to his parents, Robertson said. of the juveniles arrested was held in detention, while the other was referred to the juvenile court and later released to his parents. Their names were not released because of their juvenile status. One4? Robertson explained that the two youths who were arrested reportedly walked out to the Genwal facility Sunday and entered the premises. Bolt cutters were used to gain access to several buildings at the site, where windows were broken and other damage done to the facility, he said. The sheriff said a locomotive stationed at the site had windows smashed out as well. A pickup truck parked inside a locked garage was started and the suspects allegedly drove it through the garage door when the door apparently could not be opened, Robertson said. The vehicle was hidden Sunday evening and purportedly taken to a local school by the two youths Monday morning. The two reportedly left the school and picked up a friend and were stopped for an unknown reason on Ridge Road south of Price near the Genwal facility when they were observed with the vehicle by a Genwal security officer, Robertson said. The officer notified authori- (Continued on Page fi A) Range reform public hearings scheduled The United States Department of the Interiors Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Department of Agricultures Forest Service will accept oral comments on proposals to reform the management of federal rangelands at formal public hearings on June 8. Rangeland Reform 94 would affect approximately 1,500 BLM grazing permittees and 2,300 U.S. Forest Service grazing permittees in Utah, requiring ranchers to meet standards and guidelines when grazing livestock on public lands. The proposals outline fee increases and changes to range administrative procedures. In addition, the BLM proposal calls for establishment of multiple resource advisory councils to increase local participation in decisions affecting public lands. The BLM and U.S. Forest Service have prepared a joint draft environmental impact statement (EIS) documenting the ecologic, economic and social impacts that would result from reforming federal rangeland management. The hearings will be conducted at the Holiday Inn, Cedar City; Uintah County High School, Vernal; Sevier courthouse, RichStar Hall, Moab; and the County field; Salt Lake City Public Library. Public testimony will be taken from 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. and 7 to 10 p.m. or until all speakers have been heard. Persons wishing to testify should register at the hearing sites between 8 a.m. and 9 p.m. Speakers will be heard in the order in which they register. The hearings will be preceded by an informal general information session beginning at 8 a.m. BLM and U.S. Forest Service personnel will provide technical information on key elements of the proposal and answer questions so that anyone wishing to testify at the hearings will understand the proposal. Written comments on the proposed rules for both the BLM and U.S. Forest Service will be accepted through July 28. The comment period on the draft EIS ends Aug. 11. All written comments should be sent to Rangeland Reform 94, PO Box 66300, Washington, DC, 20035-630- 0. assist the public in preparing written comments or oral testimony, the BLM will To conduct open houses in May and early June. |