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Show Price safety study results in painting red curbs around college UDOT, College of Eastern Utah students have been hired to paint the curbs on roadways surrounding the school campus red. The curb painting effort is the culmination of a student safety project spearheaded by Utah Department of Transportation director Cleston Laws and UDOT's Dale Stapley in cooperation with Price city and the college. The designation of where the red curb Eastern Utah students as well as guests to the college campus are strongly encouraged to observe pedestrian Safety by using the crosswalk. It is interesting to note that UDOT traf- fic counts showed as much traffic on 300 East between 600 North and 400 North as there is going through Price Canyon, point out officials. Curbside parking is still available along 500 North and along any curb which is not painted red on 300 East. In addition, the college has designated 80 spaces for campus and public parking in the area north of the physical plant building and on the west side of Aaron zones have been placed adjacent to the Price campus is the result of safety studies and traffic counts along 300 East in Price. The red no parking zones added in front of the new college center, the physical plant facility and the art building are designed to make it easier for vehicular traffic to clearly Jones resident hall. see pedestrians. Guests visiting CEU are also encouraged There is only one designated crosswalk to use the parking area located on the east in the immediate vicinity. All College of side of campus. non-perm- it Global climate negotiations adjourn, participants adopt course of action Negotiations in Buenos Aires, Argentina, aimed at implementing the 1997 Kyoto protocol on global climate change adjourned with participants adopting a plan of action. According to the National Mining Association, the plan is supposed to speed work on the climate change convention and pave the way for industrialized countries to take future action two-ye- ar under the 1997 protocol. meetDuring the ing, the United States became the 60th country to sign the two-wee- k 1997 protocol. The global climate agreement will become legally binding when at least 55 countries, including developed nations that account for 55 percent of the 1990 carbon dioxide emissions, have signed and ratified the protocol, if ratification is necessary. The plan of action contains the following elements, each of which is hoped to be concluded by late 2000: Working out operational details of emission trading and other market-relate- d mecha- nisms such as the clean development mechanism (CDM). Determining what rules need to be developed under a working group to encourage compliance and discourage e. Addressing the issue of giving emission reduction credits, under an expert workshop process created in Buenos Aires for land use and forestry activities that sequester carbon caremissions - the bon sinks. The elements are not the only issues to be resolved by late 2000, indicated the Whats New In Town? Na- tional Mining Association. The other issues in question include reviewing pilot emission offset projects in developing countries that were sponsored by public or private entities in industrialized countries, creating a fund from proceeds of CDM projects to aid devel- oping countries, studying whether oil exporting countries should be compensated if other nations cut petroleum con- sumption and how to decide if a country is out of compliance. The next conference of the parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is slated for late 1999 at a site to be determined. In the meantime, COP subsidiary bodies will meet next June in Bonn, Germany. During the recently consession in cluded two-wee- k Buenos Aires, some 150 non governmental organizations representing business and environmental interests participated. Papers from the conference are available from the NMA by calling 4. Walk through to inspect referenced items prior to finalizing home purchases When purchasing a home, Carbon County consumers need to be aware of their obligation regarding a walk through inspection prior to taking possession of the house they are buying. According to real estate company Mansell & Associates, sec- 11 of the home buyers contract States: Before settlement, buyer may, upon reasonable notice and at a reasonable time, conduct a walk through inspection of the property to determine only that the property is as represented." Basically, the clause means that the items referenced for replacement or repair are respec- tion r i & 3SP t i.yji W.Li Castle Country Canyonlands Phone Directory with the Special munity Features has completed delivery. The 1995-9- 9 Com- Phone Directories Compan y would like to thank all of the Postal Services and the Local Chambers of Commerce for helping to make a complete delivery of your Castle Country Canyonlands Directory to every household and business in the service you did not receive your directory or if you need additional directories, please contact your local Chamber of Commerce or Phone Directories Company at able home inspector to scrutinize the home before finalizing a sale, explained Mary Bishop, manager of the Mansells office in Price. If the buyer wants a home inspection, a real estate agent can give the buyer a referral. The home inspector looks at several items including, but not limited to, electrical, roofing (outside as well as the structure from the attic), layers of shingles, basement (furnace and hot water heater), holes in siding or stucco, and plumbing. Buyers are often embarrassed to open cabinets or test faucets, said Bishop. A home inor spector can easily and comforttively present, repaired changed as agreed, and in the ably handle those items that warranted condition. may be awkward to a prospecIf the items are not as reptive buyer. After an offer on a home has resented, the seller will prior to settlement replace, correct or been made and accepted, the repair the items or with the inspector is called and the findof the buyer and the ings are reported to the buyer lender if applicable or escrow and the seller. an amount of settlement to proThe seller is obligated in vide for the same. Section 10.2 of the contract to The failure to conduct a walk make sure the items are in through inspection or to claim working order, noted Bishop. The seller warrants the home that an item is not as represented shall not constitute a until time of possession. waiver by buyer of the right to Bishops final recommendation to Carbon County home receive, on the date of possession, the items as represented. buyers is that they ask their real The courts have indicated estate agent to set up an apthat responsibility to observe pointment with the seller to do patent and discoverable latent a final walk through to make defects falls upon the buyer of sure everything is in order. con-se- r the home and is usually accomplished by hiring a knowledge- nt Farm Bureau office clarification An article in last Tuesday's Sun Advocate apparently created confusion for local Farm Bureau clients and staff members. Ray Richens, a 1975 Carbon High School graduate, has relocated his operation base from the Price area to Castle Dale. Other Farm Bureau personnel will continue to provide services from the company's office in Price. The Sun Advocate regrets any confusion or concern the article may have caused the newspapers' readers. If Special Features of your New Castle Country Canyonlands Directory include: We A are proud to provide these features for you, the public, consumer, businessperson and tourists to our area. special thanks to all of the grade school students for their drawings (what Castle Country Means to Me) that are features throughout the yellow pages section. Thanks to the teachers and the schools for participating. Next years Castle Country Canyonlands Pules & Theme coming soon to your school. DRUGS TURN IN A PUSHER The information gathered as a result of the following is confidential and will not be divulged to anyone outside the Carbon Emery Drug Task Force. Any information, even partial descriptions, will be evaluated and placed into a composite file. Action will be taken on every submission. Name of suspected drug dealer: Nickname: Ht. Description: Wt. Age Address: Home: ' Business Make Motor Vehicle: Year Associates of Dealer Hair Eyes , Sex SS Color License Method of dealing: Location of dealing Drug(s) being dealt: Amount: Price: Main purchasers: (i.e. school kids, truckers, etc.) List any other suspected illegal activities: Code name you wish to be known by May we contact you? YES If yes, how: by mail or by phone When NO Please mail to: TIPS Sun Advocate Box 870, Price, Utah 84501 i 1 |