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Show - Index Classified Home Living 9B .' 4A Obituaries SchoolChurch 9B ........ ,7B IB, 2B, 4B Sports Vol. 1 Serving 3 1,500 Families From Roy Through Centerville No. 5 WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 1981 s : " By I mrlin stum the lakeside Review ANTELOPE ISLAND Just after noon Friday, lightning from a passing thundercloud apparently struck ground on the south end of Antelope Island, igniting the extremely dry brush, sage and cheat-stat- e Special to I grass there Forestry offi- - cials said. By the ti le state and local fire crews broui it the blaze under Itrol 24 houri 9,000 acres had been charr It was the islands worst fire since 1976 when most of Antelopes 3,470 acres burned in a i con-late- r, : ize. firefighters from the State Part and Recreation fsion, and I Syracuse, Layton, psville and Farmington volunteer re departments battled the blaze in strong winds. I I hearg reports of gusts to 45 miles per hour, said Deputy State I Forester Ralph Miles, spokesman at the Interagency Fire Center in Salt Lake City. There was no con- secutive direction; the winds were very unpredictable, and this made three-da- y Nearly f 60 I ithe firefighting effort quite I i ! difficult. As Antdlope Island burned out of control early Saturday, the Nation- al Weather Service issued a red ling for much of the state, lag warning denotes a set ions where fire danger is explained Miles, and usu- ally includes tinder-dr-y brush, low relative humidity, and warm, dry winds. Friday the main body the fire was racing toward the lake oh the eastern slope of the island,! yet less than an hour later, the fir? was raging across he west-er- n of By 7 jp.m. slopes, and thick, white smoke choked the canyons there. As' crews and tanker trucks scrambled to relocate, the shifting cud smoke greatly reduced visibility and further hampered firefighting strategy. Rugged cliffs in the area also limited access to fire lines. The southern portion of the island, purchased for $4.7 million from Anschutz Corporation in April, has been closed to the public, and is likely to remain so for several years. A large factor in the closure,' according to Antelope Island State -, Park Superintendent Mitch Larsen, is the recurrent fire danger which threatens the island each summer. We have to figure out how to keep the public from burning the island up, said Larsen. This is the third fire of the season on the island. Early in June, several hundred acres were scorched in Buffalo Scaffold Canyon, on the southwest side, resulting in stricter control measures governing access by all persons, including the press and state employees. On July 10, a second fire ignited on the eastern slope near the existBLAZE on Antelope Island fills sky with smoke as thousands of acres were blackened after lightning struck dry grass on the island . ing 2,300 acre state park, and burn- WEEKEND ed approximately 100 acres before a maintenance road and Park Ser- vice employees broke its progress. Neither of those fires was started by lightning. There were no injuries reported in connection with this weekends Events rang- ables, fruit, needlework, clothing, tee members and the executive FARMINGTON fire. Though much of the area board. Later, it will be the people around an old adobe ranch house ing from horse races to pie eating home arts, crafts and hobbies, chilwho participate whether they enter for beef a from cattle, unpoultry, contests, dairy cattle, barnyard was structure that burned, events or just attend. dren to a program for senior citi- sheep, swine, rabbits and horses. damaged, according to Miles. We think special events plus zens are part of the 1981 Davis The City Council KAYSVILLE Special events will include a. Sunday afternoon, park personjunior rodeo, a tractor driving conspecial people will make the 1981 will apply for a $70,000 federal nel were still mopping up hot spots County Fair scheduled for Aug. Davis County Fair a big success! test, a barbership quartet contest, grant to continue development of throughout the blackened region, Fair premium books soon will be Kaysville s Mountain Park east of Dick Taylor, fair manager, said Farm Bureau Talent Contest, and there was no official estimate the 1981 show will have something horse shows, watermelon eating rolling off the presses and distribu- U.S. 89. of the cost of dousing the fire. Mr. Taylor said. Improvements began at the park Threatening thunderstorms con- for everyone regardless of age or contests, dives for dollars, cow tion will begin, not contest If on the mailing list four years ago with a jogging trail, and hide and races. interest. games youre to special across roll tinued the valley But its people who make the and you want a copy of the fair picnic areas, campgrounds and Exhibits at the Davis County most of the weekend, and numerbook, call the Davis County Fair hiking trails, the council said last fires were Fairgrounds at Lagoon will include fi?,,,the manager declared. ous lightning-sparke- d he week. Council members said they cannOffice in Farmington and the workers baked fair now, its acRight art, photography, reported throughout the state, added. wanted to continue improvements cording to the Interagency Fire ed goods, field crops and veget departmental heads and commit in the area to accommodate needs Center. . uimif Fiir Flam Se9 Kaysville To Seek Park Grant 20-2- 2. 451-254- 5, that will arise as continuous Afr Qualify Sfudlies Aic Mlutfiion By MAGGI HOLMES Raviaw Staff Air pollution, a for everyone, is recorded n ind studied at a monitoring at the Roy Junior High chool by the Ogden Health Department. The station records informa-do- n about two types of pollution, zone and particulate, plus wind ROY con-er- sta-to- n Utah. The intent of the new site in Roy, constructed March 24, is to pick up ozone levels that might have drifted from Ogden. Because of the time lag betn ween production and its subsequent conversion to The electronic and mechanic- al air quality control equipment at the station are checked daily to insure they record precise in- - formation. Information is sent every six minutes to the Salt Lake City gathering station. The state also checks the monitor weekly, Olsen said. The people checking the station are rotated so that the station is not checked by the same person twice in a row. Some people do things differently than others and this affects the readings, he said. At the end of the year all of the calculations will be gathered into a report that will allow comparisons. So far the levels in Roy have not surpassed the standards set up by the EPA. The information is used to control the types and placement of industries and roads to prevent pollution from building up to hazardous levels. Another monitoring station will be placed in Ogden along Washington Blvd. this fall to see if anybody is getting hurt right where the pollution is, he said. The Ogden Health Department has several programs for pollution control. This year they worked with car dealerships to keep an eye on the emissions of cars entering the area. Dick Schwartz, Ogden Health Department, said that new regulations were in the works. They may soon regulate visibility, he said. There is also a movement to require all cars to have a yearly pollution check-uThe Roy station was funded by the federal government through the state. There is thought in the department that the station program will be dropped from the budget. It is one of ten Na-tion- al - Air Monitoring Network stations (NAM) in the Wasatch Front area, which collect data for the EPAs national reports. 4 public-ow- Farr Given Prison Term By Court FARMINGTON Farr, convicted ing a Steven Scott of sexually molest- girl in Syracuse earlier this year, was sentenced to Utah State Prison for no longer than five years in First District Court July 21. Last June, Farr, 27, 4829 Knoll-woo- d Drive, Ogden, was convicted of sexually abusing a young girl he met in the church of the Syracuse 3rd, 5th and 7th LDS Wards on Feb. 1. During the court proceedings earlier this month, Farrs attorney asked that Farr be ordered to undergo treatment rather than serve a jail sentence. Steven C. Vanderlinden, deputy Davis County attorney said that in light of Farrs previous record he should be jailed. Farr has been in treatment three times before because of earlier convictions. Judge Douglas Cornaby told Farr at the time of sentencing he would give Farr a letter recommending that he be put in the prisons sexual offenders program at Utah State Hospital. Fire Damages Layton Garage LAYTON p. DICK SCHWARTS, Ogden Health Department, explains the construction of airborne particle collector equipment as he examines the device during one of the daily quality control rounds done by his office. The equipment is on top of the air quality monitoring station located at the Roy Junior High School. growth impacts the area. In response to citizen questions, Councilman Clair E. Snow said the park was remote and presently had limited use. He said the park had limitless value to the city and that through development the citizens would become aware of and use the park. The plot is the only ned access to the national foret land in the area. A Bureau of Outdoor Recreation-gran- t to help fund a community swimming pool has not yet been applied for, Snow said. The application, for $20,000, is pending a response from the private Kaysville Swimming Pool Committee. 184-ac- re breathed. hydro-carbo- ' w' ozone, the gas can be carried by the wind out of the area before it can be measured, Olsen said. It is necessary to measure levels outside of the city. He said that Roy was chosen as the station site instead of an unpopulated area so they could study what is actually being patterns, said Neal Olsen, air quality specialist for the state of x' 7. r . A fire caused $20,000 to $25,000 damage to a garage belonging to Larry Hatch, 525 S. Fort Lane last Wednesday, Assistant ' A MASS of wires, poles, and electronic machinery, the air station near the Roy Junior High is highly quality monitoring technical. Information about the pollution conditions in the Roy area is sent every six minutes to an information collection station in Salt Lake City. h Chief Cort Galbraith reported. The fire department responded to a call at 11:55 a.m. and had the fire controlled within 10 minutes. The cause of the fire, which started in the garage, is still under investigation. No injuries were reported, Galbraith said. .4 |