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Show ' i.' u Special travel guide is filled with i i Lady Dinos whip Grizzlie- s- twice. Remember the Great Brain. Page 4A Page info for fun. Inside Firemen B Helper primes river proposal douse two fires By LAYNE Staff writer 1 JOHNSON By LYNNDA Staff writer MILLER Helper officials have finalized the citys approval on submitting an application for a $90,000 grant to help fund the costs of completing the first Price phase in a county-wid- e River enhancement project. The municipalitys redeve- trailer fire late Saturday night destroyed a trailer A located near Airport Road, the Wellington City Fire Department responded to an underground coal fire at the CV Spur and problems at the Helper substation cut the power to the entire county Thursday lopment agency previously approved the grant proposal. The agencys action authorized allocations of $2,000 each in matching funds from Helpers redevelopment and and again early Monday morning. fire almost totally destroyed a trailer home owned by Chad Meeks located at A com-muni- improvement districts. Proponents and opponents of the river enhancement project crowded into Helper City Hall to discuss the grant application at redevelopment and council meetings last Thursday. The matter was also included as an agenda item for final approval by the mayor and city council. During the redevelopment meeting, Lorraine Babcock served as spokesperson for a concerned citizens group opposing Helpers participa 887 South 2500 East. Price City Fire Department officials have not yet determined the cause of the blaze, but Chief Kent Boyack says the fire was extremely hot. It was so hot the firemen said they couldnt touch their helmets after they came out, Boyack said. The chief, said fires can reach 1,500 to 2,000 degrees near the ceiling of a home involved in a hot blaze. The fire apparently burned for several minutes before residents were able to get to a telephone and report it. The residents discovered the fire and tried to fight it with a blanket, Boyack said. The blanket caught on fire, as they do many times. They finally got the kids out and went for help. Wellingtons fire department responded to a coal fire located in an underground conveyor belt at the Castle Valley Spur on Ridge Road on Wednesday afternoon. The smoldering fire was contained in a small pile of coal near a conveyor belt and represented an explosive situation if the coal dust was ignited by the fires sparks. The fire was extinguished without any problems. ty tion in the project. Public response at five meetings involving county Aide rier enhancement was not favorable from where we were sitting, she said. She asked if the current plan constituted a revival of the parkway concept abandoned by the municipality several years ago. The group had been unware the grant application was included on the last redevelopment meetings agenda, Babcock claimed. Commercial means business, she added, and how can the city use improvement money to fund recreation on Helpers back street? Responding to Babcock, Mayor Mike Dalpiaz pointed out that the last redevelopment meeting had been publicized in the newspajfbr. Helper has been bantering the idea around for about five years and similarities do Ball practice By LAYNE Staff writer MILLER com-merici- exist between the river enhancement and parkway projects, he said. However, the parkway involved using money from Helpers general (Continued on Page 3A) gets scary fiscated a .22 caliber rifle and a pellet pistol from two ld local youth is lucky to be alive following an accidental shooting on a Price baseball A Wellington Fire Chief Paul Childs barks orders to one of the firemen responding to an under- fire at the Castle Vailey Spur on Ridge Road Wednesday afternoon. The potentially The two power outages occurred at the Helper substation located in Martin. UP&L spokesman Gene Hess said Thursdays outage was caused by a breaker failure. The failure caused an outage in the explosive fire occurred in a pile of coal located near a conveyor belt. The fire was guished with no problems. entire county. Crews are still assessing the problem causing the Monday morning failure. Helper firemen at the scene said sparks were arcing and fire was leaping from a transfor extin-groun- d mer at the substation when they arrived. Hess said Mondays outage was in the same area as the one Thursday. The power was out for about A 5 minutes Thursday and for about 10 minutes Monday. diamond last Wednesday night. , Jonathan Migliori, 10, was practicing with his WBBA team when a bullet struck him in the head, sending him to the hospital. Migliori was not seriously injured, but the attending doctor told his parents he was lucky to be alive after putting 15 stitches in the young boys forehead. Carbon County Sheriff Jim Robertson said deputies con male juveniles who said they were in the gen- eral area of the accident shooting bottles and things. One of the youths told officials the pair was not aware they had accidently shot someone. However, the other teen said they went down to see if the boy was all right, but he had already been taken to the hospital. The investigating officer believes the boy was hit by a ricocheting bullet from the .22 rifle. The boys have been referred to juvenile authorities. Demos elect candidates Mike Milovich and Richard Robinson have been selected by Carbon County Democrats to represent the party in the commission primary election this fall. The two candidates were chosen from a field of six at the county convention Friday evening. Art Martines withdrew from the race for health reasons, but promised to be back another year. Incumbent Emma Kuykendall, who was the first woman to hold a four-yea- r commission office in Carbon County, failed in her attempt to win the partys nomination for a second term. Other candidates were Betty Wheeler and Steve Christensen. Improved economic development figured prominently in the speeches from candidates, those who nominated them and seconded the nominations. Each acknowledged Carbon Countys high unemployment rate and the need to take steps to increase employment opportunities in the aiea. Milovich said that in the past Carbon County had rolled out the red carpet for but not for established businesses. He proposed utilizing the colleges expertise in deciding which businesses could use help and avoid giving money needlessly. Drawing on his experience as a Helper volunteer fireman, Milovich said money needed to be allocated for fire equipment and a larger county hazardous materials response team needed to be established. Finally, he called for cooperation between various government entities in the area and an end to competition and duplication of efforts. Robinson also sounded the cry to correct a faltering economy. He urged a solution to high unemployment and lack of jobs for youth and pledged to work towards building a strong economic base. He pointed to Wellingtons industrial park as an urgent problem that needed to be solved, saying the city would have to pay back $G0,000 if a tenant was not soon located in the park. new businesses, answers a question while Richard Robinson listens. Dennis Dooley he'p conduct the mt eling. Mike Milovich In front, party committee al members Gordon Parker and |