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Show Home of: Christmas j ! Messages The Mormon Miracle Pageant 1998 Attendance: 94,800 VOLUME 113 50 CENTS NUMBER 23 MANTI, UTAH from area j church leaders, - see page n j 3 8 f THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1998 Commissioners make plans for Sesquicentennial celebrations they could donate. Mr. Keeler also told the Com- other business: 1999 Budget is passed; GPS will help firefighters In $ Bv Shirley Bahlmann The Sanpete County Commission began the December 5 meeting with a 1999 Budget Hearing, which was attended by representatives from various county ofTices and a few interested citizens. After the budget was reviewed, a few questions were ashed and an1 swered, and the budget was adopted. Budget details will be published in next week's edition. Manti City Recorder Bill Michclson dropped off a proposed agenda of acti ities for Manti City and Sanpete Counts's Sesquicentennial anniversary celebration. Then he left Sesquicentennial Committee John mission that the Mormon Tabernacle Choir is scheduled to come to Manti duiing the Mormon Keeler to expound on some of the Miracle Pageant in June. 1 here are activities planned. also song and creative writing conThe big event for 1999 is a tests. v ideo presentations, cowboy planned wagon trek from Nephi to poetry, along w ith vai ious parades Manti along Salt Creek Canyon and other activities planned for and the old road at the base of W est 1999. F red Mountains into Wales and southJohnson. Kelly Allen, ward. This is planned for July 20-2- and Barry Bradley demonstrated Mr. Keeler also asked for a the working of the Global Positiondonation toward the construction ing Satellite (GPS) System in reof a monument on the northeast lation to mapping the county for corner of Manti next to the hill fire and emergency services. Mr. where the pioneers may have spent Allen said that this would be intheir first winter. The committee valuable in the event of a Hie or would also like to construct a dug-o- other emergency that would resimilar to the ones the pioneers quire rescue vehicles to go into the area. The maps also include informay have used. The Commissioners stated mation about locations of gates, their intent to look into their bud- bridges, water storage, combusget and let Mr. Keeler know what tible material, and safety Ames where people could go during an emergency or disaster. It was stated that this sy stem would also be useful to the building inspectors in w ill now reap the benefit of the assigning addresses to county information explosion of the past properties. few years. Data on the Internet Commissioner Eddie Cox is up to date and comprchensiv e asked how this program would in a way that information school work local fire departments. with children in rural areas can access There a couple of options were sometimes is not." 1 he departments could presented. Rural Utah fared extremely hard have copies of the areas that well by receiving 89 of total within their are jurisdiction, or they state funding. Seventeen schools could be informed by phone w here and libraries qualified for to go for the emergency, or both S29 1. 606.00 in assistance in rumethods could be employed. ral Utah. The Commissioners encournotifications will the continuance of mapping aged continue through January. The the county within the budget program is administered by the framewoik. Schools and Libraries CorporaThe Commission approved the tion, set up by the federal Com1999 Wildlands l ire Budget with munications Commission. an extra S500 ov er the 98 budget. 4. ut boon for rural Utah E-ra- te Moie rural schools in Utah will be connected to the Internet thanks to S24 million in new federal assistance being offered under the program. established as part of Telecommunications Act of 1996, pro-- v ides schools and libraries w ith d discounts to purchase Internet access, internal w iring. and telecommunications ser-- v high-spee- ices. he will greatly enhance the quality of life in rural Utah." said James D. Harvey. ll.S. Department of Agriculture' Rural Development Utah State Director. We expect that about 10.000 school children in Utah I This young sledder was finally able to enjoy a day on the drifts thanks to a generous snowstorm over the weekend. Temperatures dropped to sub-zerbut even that couldnt put a damper on the fun. o, Appointment of Nuisance Inspector seen as top priority for Manti City on lease space and planned use In Manti City, this price is consult i ably higher than originally aniui pated. 1 he Recorder stated lli.u iIk only options he could see weie to cither scale back on the buildmi' or subsidize building debt sei v m pending additional lease spate The Recorder was instructed by the council to contact other govern ment agencies regaiding then pio jected needs and to woik w ith the financial consultant to dcleimmt other possibilities Public Woiks Direcloi Dale Nielson requested a raise loi a pai I The most promising option: hire a person from County Sheriffs Dept By Karen IE Buchanan At the Manti City Council meeting December 16th. the issue of appointment of a City Nuisance Inspectorwasoneofthe first items for discussion. Would it be a paid or volunteer position? Should it be a local citicn? Hie conclusion was that the best choice might be someone from the Slici iff s office. 1 hat person would most likely be considered less biased and appear to have more credibility than a local citien hired for the job. I le could follow through w ith these duties as only two or three assignments a month) and be paid accordingly by the city in addition to his regular Sheriff's office duties. The council will pursue this possibility with the Sher- required (probably iff City Recorder Bill Mickelsen reported that, after a meeting w ith Naylor Wentworth Architects, lie was advised that the price of 1.6 million dollars for the new city building is now env isioned. Based (Sec Manti City" on page 6) Yule candles presented to area residents Two outstanding citizens were presented traditional Yule Candles in the Adams Commons of Ephraim Middle School Thursday, Dec. 17. The recognition is given annually by the school to two recipients, area one from the Manti-Sterlin- g and the other from Ephraim. Recipients are selected by the EMS faculty from nominations submitted to them. Receiving the accolade this year were Ruth King of Ephraim and Erma Young of Sterling. The awards were made by two exceptional students at the school, Jake Gottfredson and Nicholas Peterson. The EMS band, chorus and orchestra, furnished appropriate music for the occasion. Ruth King lias given service to many people in the community in her own quiet way. Most of her 78 years have been spent making beautiful things and then giving them to others. She works hard to continue making items for civic groups, the sick and needy, friends, neighbors, and her family. Ruth was born and grew up in Spanish Fork, Utah. She married Arthur King 58 years ago when they moved to Ephraim. She is the mother of four daughters, the grandmother of 15, and great years as a teacher for the South Sanpete School District She taught home study for students who have had to remain home periods due to ill health. Shelias served with love and compassion, and gone the extra mile tot these students, sometimes taking her own food to these families who have been in need. Asa special reading teachci at Gunnison Elementary, her lust concern was alway s lo lov e hci stu dents. While teaching home economics at Manti High School, it was common for her to stay altei hours to help students with projects. She would drive many miles to give her students the opportunity to participate in extia v ities. She has tutored special reading students through the summer so they would not lose the skills they obtained through the Pictured are Clive Young, Erma Young, Nicholas Peterson, Jake Gottfredson, Ruth King and Arthur King. Erma Young school year. and Ruth King were honored at Ephraim Middle School's Candelight ceremony last week. Erma has spent years involved to work hard and to sacrifice. She in 1 1 and taught many summer grandmother of 18. She has sup- Conservation Agriculture in the by teaching her skills to others. in v husband ser-her her will know donated the classroom. never She even comported Many many ways graduated from Utah State Univer- classes. She has judged ices Ruth King has icndered be- sity which she attended on a petitions and county fairs. She has over their 59 years of marriage. quilts to the needy in Russia. Besides being a wonderful homeThroughout Ruth's life, she cause she has done them in such a Danforth Scholarship. Erma been involved with the American maker, she has plowed the fields, has taken gifts and food to the sick, quiet, unpretentious way. Because Young married Keith Young 52 Legion and promoted patriotism to milked cows (some even by hand), to families with a new baby and to of her dedicated and untiring ser- years ago. They are the parents of her family and others. She is a wonderful, caring helped deliver calves and worked friends and neighbors. Whenever vice to the community, she is an seven children but she also considin many other ways on their farm. Ruth finds a need, she tries to help outstanding choice to receive the ers her Lamanite placement chil-die- n neighbor who is always ready to Mrs. King has donated her by sharing her time, talents or Yule Candle. as her children. Erma has 3 drive a friend somewhere, tend a handmade articles to several orgaErma Young grew up on a grandchildren and seven great- child, cook a meal or be there w ith money. nizations for fundi aisers. Most rea listening ear. She is an example She has sliaied her know ledge farm in Mai ian. Utah. One of nine grandchildren. Mrs. Young has woiked many of a serving peison. cently she donated to the Utah Soil of sewing, gardening and cooking children in the home she learned ac-ti- 4-- 4-- 1 |