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Show 8A Sun Advocate. Price. Utah - Tuesday. Mav 13. 1997 Sunnyside seeking new mayor Applications will be accepted until May 22 at 4 p.m. by Polly BvMELONEY RIGBY Staff writer Last Monday, the Sunnyside council approved the motion to advertise for candidates to fill an interim appointment as the citys mayor. Qualifications for the interim mayor position include the following: Applicants must have been residents of Sunnyside for more than six months. Applicants must be legally registered voters in the Sanderson, Sunnyside city treasurer. Applications for the interim mayor appointment may be submitted to Sanderson at Sunnyside City Hall, 701 Market Councilman Mark McDonald on the passing of his father, Mayor Grant McDonald. Reappointed Dennis Lake, Mary Howell, Jim Fivecoat, Paul Marquez and Jeff Hunt to serve various terms on the board of adjustments. Street. Set the city beautification 1. cleanup for May A public meeting at the City During the cleanup, the city will Hall has been scheduled for May make available a dump truck for 28, beginning promptly at 6:30 hauling off debris. 19-Ju- p.m. In other action at the May 5 meeting, Sunnyside officials: Expressed sympathy to velations, driver license hicle registration compliance. The Utah Highway Patrol is planning an administrative checkpoint in connection with All American Buckle Up Week 7 in Wellington. May We are doing this to encourage drivers to wear seatbelts and to have all occupants in restraints, said UHP Sgt. Don Kelly. This is a national program in all 50 states to increase the usage of seatbelts and child Officers will also be watching for drivers who are driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs. The American Safety Counsays that the most common form of child abuse and leading killer of children in America isnt cancer or multiple Sclerosis or any disease at all. Its adults who neglect children by either letting them ride unprotected in a car, said Kelly. restraints. The leading child killer in Besides watching for seatbelt America is also the most curand child restraint law compliance, officers will be watching able. The cure is your hands. Buckle up, its more than the for vehicle safety equipment vio 19-2- cil C .p' jf Ji I X I- - yv j seat you L p S. Oe 7UV w j V a life saver. The 1997 Utah Legislature made it mandatory for child through the age of 10 to be in a child restraint while riding in a motor vehicle. Children under the age of two must be in an approved car safety seat. The fines for not complying with seatbelt, child restraint and child safety seat laws has been raised from $20 to $75. law? UHP officials did not release the dates for the administrative checkpoint but did say the two-da- y traffic enforcement event will be conducted in Wellington sometime between May 15 and May 30. Creekview students learn about bike safety rules of bicycle riding. A station was also set up for youngsters to register the serial n umbers of each bike with the local police d epartment. Creekview Elementary PTA and State Farm Insurance sponsored a bike rodeo last Thursday in the playground of the school. Over 120 students were taught the safety Environmental coalition appeals open-pi- t mine Lynn Jackson, the U.S. Bureau of Land Managements project coordinator in Moab, debelieves the cision is sound and will weather any appeal. With the open pit copper operation, the BLM makes the same mistakes that precipitated the Summitville Mine disaster, maintains Roger Flynn, a Boulder, Colo., attorney for the coalition. Summitville was a gold mine in southwestern Colorado that contaminated a mqjor stream in the early 1990s. Insufficient bonding left federal taxpayers to foot the $120 million cleanup bill after the mining company declared bank- A coalition of citizeins and environmental groups h ias filed an administrative appeal designed fxrhalt the "p tarts for open-pcopper mining in S.an Juan mine-approv- it County. ;t snip lU pczr lines . oVe -- c, Mow and tW Be cartful yf?eft yoa snip d on 'ill - D wi r taf-- U rj L. r; --'vl-- Sunnyside residents must call the city hall and request that the truck pick up the debris. Utah Highway Patrol announces belt, traffic checkpointand Mayits19-2- 7 BvLAYNE MILLER Staff writer f Sum mo Corfour has proposed poration Denver-base- d open pits in Lisbon Valley. The Colorado companys proposed open pit copper mining site is located approximately 25 miles northeast of Mon ticello. The group Protect Our Resources Coalition has as ked the United States Interior Departments board of land appeals to halt the project: The U.S. Bureau of Land Debra careful for ihe M Jcr. Management approved the open pit copper mining development project in March. As a basis for filing it he appeal with the federal agen cy, the al ruptcy. The coalitions appeal raises concerns that the open pit mining project will deplete 3.5 billion gallons of water from the Navqjo aquifer. coalition alleges that the open pit copper mining project will pollute groundwater sources and that the BLM did not follow the law in granting Su .mmo a permit to proceed. The diverted water then could become contaminated by antimony, arsenic, cadmium, copper, uranium and other metals and solids. Jackson disputes the Summitville comparison, indicating the major difference is that nobody uses the groundwater in Lisbon Valley. What (the coalition) failed to say is that nobody is using this water and nobodys projected to use it, pointed out Jackson. Its in the middle of nowhere and the water already is of bad quality. contributed by Debra, age According to Flynn, the Protect Our Resources Coalition members plan to pursue the groups appeal in federal court if the action fails to halt the project with the U.S. Interior 6 Congratulations Class utdoor electric safety is important to all of us especially this time of when we spend more of our time year outside. Here are a few important things to remember: Dont trim trees near power lines. Watch for overhead power lines when moving irrigation pipe or operating heavy equipment. Assume all downed power lines are energized and stay away from them. Dont climb trees near power lines. Stay away from substations or anything marked Danger. High Voltage. Never install rooftop antennas or satellite dishes near overhead power lines. 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