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Show October 23, 1985 Council candidates gear for November election Mt. ficer of Sanpete Valley Hospital, is currently serving as president of the Mt. Pleasant Chamber of Com- Pleasant MT. PLEASAN- T- City council candidates in five Sanpete cities are gearing campaigns toward the municipal election Nov. 5. Candidates in two cities, Fountain Green and Moroni, are running unopposed. Candidates include: Mt. Pleasant, Chuck Colebrook, Carol Gundry, Glen Groves and Kelly Roseman. Chuck Colebrook Chuck Colebrook is the owner of a Mt. Pleasant building and grounds Work on the Moroni Senior Citizens center is progressing with both buildings standing and brick being placed on the outside. Thursday. Oct. 17, many workers came to work on the center. There will be sixteen apartments in the completed center. It was a beehive of activity last Thursday as many workers came to work on the new Senior Citizens building now under construction in Moroni. Candidates air views over citys needs MT. PLEASANT Candidates for mayor and city council shared their concerns about high taxes, industrial development, and priorities for the next four years at a Meet Your Candidate Night held Friday at the Senior Citizens Center. The event was sponsored by the Veterans of Foreign Wars. About 50 residents attended. ' Mayoral candidates included Frayne Christensen, Gerald Neh-m- er and incumbant Mayor Amoir Deuel. City council candidates Chuck and Carol Gundry Colebrook A prepared statements. prepared statement by candidate Kelly Roseman was read by commentator Lyle Klotz in his absence. Another candidate, Glen Groves, was unable to attend because of prior commitments. Frayne Christensen, chairman of Mt. Pleasants power board expressed concerns for holding down expenses, reducing the tax base, developing more industry and establishing an environment where business can survive. Christensen said he was conservative about building new buildings within the city when available space was there already. He also said the city should be careful about obtaining grant money, but noted as chairman of the power board, he had applied for two grants for a feasibility study on hydroplants. Gerald Nehmer stressed the need for a change in direction. Admitting he was a critic of the city hall and fire station building project, he also expressed concern about the handling of the citys pressurized sprinkler system, maintaining that differences between irrigation companies shouldd have been worked out before the system was installed so all could benefit from the sprinkler system. He also said that he was not in favor of a city administrator and expressed a desire that city government could go back the way it was before. Nehmer stressed working within the citys income, getting the community back together, and resolving situations together. Nehmer listed his previous community experiences with the Lions, keeping his home the way it was supposed to, and paying taxes. He felt a need for youth services but stressed any program needed money. Mayor Amoir Deuel reviewed me citys progress during the past four years and outlined her goals for the future. Among those things completed were a new program for street maintenance, establishing a youth recreation center, forming citizen advisory board to improve power, recreation, beautification and economy; pressurized irrigation and new drainage systems, flood repairs and prevention. She also helped I promote state legislation that will eventually triple the citys share of sales tax revenue. Future priorities included streets, completing a youth recreation program, swimming pool, economic development, improving the airport, and completing the hydroelectric project to keep power rates from climbing. She also noted the city has been able to pay past due bills in the amount of $250,000 and that city payable accounts are now up to date. She pledged to work toward lowering property taxes through increased efficiency, alternative sources of funds and attracting industry. Council candidate Chuck Colebrook stressed physical integrity. He said the city had a lot of programs that were moving it fomard, but it needed to have employment and a tax base. He supported youth projects, and offered his background as ways to help with extra funding. Colebrook complimented .Mayor Deuel on her accomplishments. His three main goals were to have proper city representation, prioritize needs, and to attract industry. Carol Gundry outlined her 16 years at Wasatch Academy as a training ground for talents that could be used in city government. She expressed a great regard for the community and a disire to learn. I have received a lot from the community, she said, and Id like to pay it back if I can. Student counselors attend conference SALT LAKE CIT- Y- Two student counselors from Sanpete County high schools attended a conference at the University of Utah last month. The conference, on Sept. 12, was an annual gathering of high school counselors and principals from Utah, Idaho, Wyoming and Nevada who received information about University policies and practices of interest to graduating seniors. Jay Comras of the National Association of Secondary School Principals spoke at the conference. He compared the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) with the American College Test (ACT), both of which are used by colleges to select freshman applicants. The ACT is given to students in Utah. W.H. Benge attended the conference from North Sanpete High School. Robert Moore attended from the Wasatch Academy. maintenance business. Colebrook moved to Utah with his wife, the former Sara D. May and seven children, in 1970. He studied business law and psychology at Riverside College and La Salle University and worked in three states, Nevada, California and Arizona, before coming to Utah. He owned his own dry cleaning and laundry establishment, worked as regional sales manager for a west coast auto accessory firm, managed a wholesale beverage firm, spent seven years in sales and public relations in the industrial chemical field and worked four years in mining and associated fields. He has lived in Mt. Pleasant for four years. Carol Gundry Carol Gundry has been a Mt. Pleasant resident for 16 years. She and her husband, Bill, and three sons moved from San Diego, CA. Their daughter, Lynn, was born in Mt. Pleasant in 1972. Carol is business manager at Wasatch Academy. Her areas of responsibility include food services, buildings and grounds, and personnel, as well as the business and financial management of the school. She is a member of the National Association of Independent Schools and School Independent Mangagement. She has been active in the Mt. Pleasant Chamber of Commerce and is presently serving on the Mt. Pleasant Power Board. Glen Groves Glen Groves, chief financial of- - Forensic teams take honors EPHRAIM Snow Colleges forensics and speech teams have garnered impressive wins since the beginning of school this fall. Under the tutelage of Coach Rick Wheeler, the speech team attended their first tournament in September in the University of Utah and came away with a fourth place win. Out of the 68 individual debating teams represented there. Snow was r one of only two colleges in attendance, and the Badgers competed against such teams as the University of California, Harvard, two-yea- UCLA and Brigham Young University. Alter preliminary rounds, only eight of the 68 teams remained unbeaten, and at the end of the final round. Snow had finished a close tourth behind Berkeley, Southern Utah State College and New Mexico. Snows top team consisted of returning sophomore debater Jim Thatcher, a Manti High graduate, and freshman Chris Rowley from Mountain View High School. The second meet, which has been tagged the largest debate tournament in the west, was held in Casper, WY with Snow being one of r only three colleges out of the 24 colleges participating were Air Force, B Y U , University of I'tah, University of Southern California, Berkeley, Arizona State and the University of Wyoming Snow won first place in the Junior Division Debate, and fourth place in Open Division (which included the lour-yea- r universities). "We lost the final round to a team trom B Y U , which had already beaten a Berkeley and an Air Force Team," Coach Wheeler commented. "In individual events, our six students were participants in 15 final rounds and were the top six students in the tournament, the coach said two-yea- Wheeler indicated that he was especially proud ol the fact that, although they took only four debate students (two teams) to the meet, one took first place and the other lourth place. "We took two individual eventists and four debaters at individual events, and all six Snow students were in the final rou ds, giving Snow Second Place with only B Y U Sweepstakes, ahead of them, Wheeler said. He indicated that the team Snow edged out for third place had 29 students entered in the contest. Coach Wheeler emphasized that Snows forensics team is made up entirely of freshman students (with exception of two) and expressed confidence that they will be ranked as the top junior division program in the nation when the ratings come out. Participating students were It would take a person twenty-nin- e years of twelve hour work days to count one billion dollars in one dollar bills. Jim Thatcher, Ephraim: Chris Rowley and Pam Hurst, Orem; Steve Burch, Provo; Mike Robinson, Fruit Heights, and Heather Treadway from Sandy. merce. A graduate of University of Utah where he majored in accounting and business management, he has also been affiliated with Alta View Hospital in West Jordan and Holy Cross Hospital in Salt Lake City where he served as staff assistant. Groves, his wife, Donna, and their two children have been Mt. Pleasant residents for two years. Kelly Roseman Kelly Roseman is the owner of Skyline Glass and Paint. He moved to Mt. Pleasant in 1978 to join his father in the business. Roseman graduated from Lehi High School and attended Utah State University for three years majoring in business administration. While there he worked for Millers Northern Utah Glass where he received his training in the glass industry. Roseman has served as vice president of the Mt. Pleasant Chamber of Commerce, coached the North Sanpete wrestling team for two years and for several years has been coach for the Mt. Pleasant Elementary wrestling program. He and his wife, Sherrie, are the parents of three children. Ephraim Council candidates in Ephraim include Democratic candidates, Keith Keisel and Craig Larsen and Republican candidates, Robert Stoddard and Mark Anderson. Keith Keisel Keith Keisel is a lifetime resident of Ephraim. He previously served four years as an Ephraim City Councilman from 1980 to 1984. A strong advocate of economic development, he is the operator of a successful coal and trucking business in Ephraim. He and his wife, Roxie, have three grown children and seven grandchildren. Craig M. Larsen Democratic candidate, Craig Larsen was bom and raised in Ephraim. He graduated from Manti High School and Snow College, where he was active in music, drama, speech, radio broadcasting and political science. He served an LDS Mission to the Southern States and is currently administrator of the Manti National Guard unit. He has been a guard-membsince 1967. He is a partner with his father and brother in a family cattle operation, and worked several years with his father in the livestock trucking business. Larsen is married to the former Sheron Mellor of Fayette and they have four daughters and three sons. He is Scoutmaster and Deacons advisor in the Ephraim Second LDS Ward. Mark Anderson native of Moroni Republican council candidate Mark Anderson is a graduate of Snow College and is presently serving at the college as Director of High School Relations. Mark has been actively involved in community events and served as precinct chairman and a delegate to the GOP state convention. He and his wife, Margie, were recently appointed as chairmen of the Central Utah Sterling Scholar Committee. Active in the LDS Church, he has held several A positions and was a seminary teacher in Vernal before moving back to Sanpete. He says he really enjoys Ephraim and believes in doing his part as a citizen to make it the kind of community people will want to live in and be proud of. He and Margie are the parents of three children. Robert Stoddard Dr. Robert Stoddard, Dean of Development at Snow College, is a former member of the council and was instrumental in the installation of the sewer and the upgrading of the citys water system. During his term the city was e active in cleanup camand paigns tearing down old buildings and cleaning up vacant lots. He believes in encouraging people to gain community pride and make Ephraim one of the nicest small communities in the state to city-wid- live in. His interest lies in economic development and believes that all communities in the county should join in an effort to attract new and various kinds of industry. His prior experience on the council has given him an understanding of the decision-makin- g process. He apd his wife, Dorothy, are the parents of four children. - The Pyramid - Page Three Spring City council accepts impact funds by Betty Robbins SPRING CITY At a special council meeting held Thursday, Oct. 18, the council members voted to accept the grant and assume the loan from the Community Impact Board. The money will be used to continue and complete the water project. The council felt there will be no need to raise the water rates. The city engineer presented the study of Phase II of the water project to the council. Phase II is from the storage tanks to Ox Spring. In the presentation, the amount of water expected from development, the springs needing development, pipe sizes and the esUmated costs of the project were discussed. J & S Plumbing and Excavating was awarded the job from the storage tank to Upper Well. The rest of the job from Upper well to Ox Spring will be put up for bid at a later date. $15,000 was allocated toward the purchase of a backhoe. Register to vote MT. PLEASAN- T- Its still not too late to register to vote in the Nov. 5 general election. Those who have not registered may do soeither Oct. 29 or 30 with their local registration agents. Those who must register to be able to vote in the Nov. 5 election are those who have moved since the last election; who have not previously voted or who did not vote the last general election. Prospective voters must be U.S. citizens, 18 and older, residents of Utah for the last 30 days prior to the election and reside in a specific voting district. FREE ; HALLOWEEN MOVIES MT. PLEASANT LIBRARY BASEMENT 2 p.m. SAT. OCT. 26 children ages 3-1- 2 Dear Citizens: Many of you had the opportunity to serve your community as part of our Community Progress Program and I am sure you shared the thrill I felt when we learned that Mt. Pleasant had been selected as the second most progressive community in Utah. One goal of the Community Progress Program was to identify the areas of city government which you, the citizens, would like to see emphasized The areas which you supported most strongly were economic development (which I discussed in last weeks article), recreation opportunities for our youth, the new hydroelectric plant, street improvements and community appearance. Another priority which would have been included if we had only been able to see into the future would surely have been flood control. I would like to briefly review several of the projects which we have undertaken in response to the Community Progress Program. We have taken major steps toward addressing your desires as well as many other necessary items Flood Control Streets Activities have included extensive repairs to the debris basin and the flood channel, construction of the Twin Creek Diversion Structure, upgrading the size of culverts and the establishment of an Emergency We have implemented a regular road maintenance program based on doing repairs Management Program. ment to meet our snow removal needs and repair of city bridges and continual repair of pot holes. right the first time so they will last, major repairs on 5th West including proper drainage, providing well maintained equip Water and Sewer Replacement of the Main Street Water Line, construction of a system to soften the city water, construction of two drainage systems, (one system at the cemetery, one on 500 West) construction of the sprinkler system, construction of the 9th South Sewer Outfall Line and extension of sewer lines to many areas not previously served including the Community Appearance camRegular clean-uArbor Celebration, Day paigns, p beautification of city grounds including parks, library and city hall, participation in state beautification programs (with the result of our community winning numerous awards) hospital and Brotherson Power Completion of a study for the hydroelectric plants, construction of a new penstock for our power plants, construction of a greatly improved power diversion structure, upgrades to power lines throughout town and construction of a small building in which to store valuable power supplies. Communityof Buildings City Hall, addition of fire station including area for police department, construction of nothern Sanpete County, and renovation of the old Armory as a site for a youth recreation Renovation dog pound center.' for Not only were we able to accomplish all of these programs, but we were able to do so using many grants which will not have to be paid back. I hope you will agree that we have come a long way together during the last four years. RE-ELE- CT AMOIR DEUEL Mayor, Mt Pleasant City Paid bv Cilwns for Mayor Amoir IK'ui! i I |