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Show SOUTHERN UTAH NEWS MONDAY NOVEMBER 26, 1990 News Program of the Job Training Partnership Act will be swing-ingint- o action, she said. Ameet-in- g Continued from page 1 will be held on Wednesday, do Nov. on later the reclamation at 28, to plan for workshops to be held for Energy Fuels emHermit Mine. In no way are we leaving the ployees the following week We want to give alternatives area, she stressed. Were not to these and people who will really closing up shop going away. be needing it, Alvey said. We However, Shouldis said the will try to put them into other company expects the mine to be to come. Since starting its mining op- types of work or schooling and on standby for at least six months. She said Energy Fuels erations in Arizona in 1981, do whatever we can do to help. The workshops will be for will be monitoring the market Energy Fuels has mined in exon a daily basis. Well see if it cess of 20 million pounds of ura- employees and spouses and will indicates we can reopen, and, if nium. In addition to the Kanab explore all the alternatives. The North Mine beingdeveloped, the program also offers a range of we can, we will, she said. The current price ofuranium company has two other fully financial support, including at $8.35 per pound is an e developed mines that are on utility and mortgage assistance, low price, Grandey said in the standby PinenutMine near the as well as relocation funds up to press release. While Energy Grand Canyon, and Canyon $500. People are helped to get Fuels production cost is among Mine on the south side of the unemployment insurance. Rethe lowest in the world, it exceeds Grand Canyon. training funds are available. When the market shows signs the current spot market price. Help in writing resumes and Shouldis pointed out that of rebounding, we can be mining retraining are offered. We will help in all the areas Energy Fuels has been one of tomorrow, Shouldis said. we The public relations reprethe few survivors during the can, Alvey said. The latest Energy Fuels cutgradual decline in the uranium sentative said the standby stafollows other recent moves would back market over the past eightyears tus and resulting layoffs and is the largest producer in not come as a complete surprise to tighten the operation. In the industry. The price has de- to employees because of the ob- September the company laid off clined from a high of $44 per vious market conditions. The six Fredonia employees in the minershave been askingus what explorations division, and last pound in 1979. Weve survived the slide, we were going to do and how we month it closed the Shouldis said, explaining that could continue to mine, she said. operation, which put about 50 the Fredonia operation em- Theyve been waiting for the contracted people out of work. ployed over 200 when she started other shoe to drop. in 1982 and has gradually deHowever, several people said since time. creased that they were surprised that the Production costs a lot more action came so fast and expected Continued from Page 1 than the price now, she said. if it happened, it would occur Businesses generously doIts unrealistic for us to keep after the first of the year. The people who will be laid off nated products, items, equipmining right now. Grandey also affirmed in the will be receiving help through ment, services, and rime to the press release that Energy Fuels Job Service, according to Karen auction. The people of Kanab, is committed to remaining in Alvey, manager of the Kanab Fredonia, and the Valley dotheuranium mining and milling office. The Rapid Response nated crafts, furniture, guns, baked goods, and more to the bazaar and bake sale. Then they turned around and attended the event and bought it all back. Operation Bandaid was asked by the Hospital Board to again would like to thank the following join together this year to organize a second annual fundraiser businessesfortheirsupportofthe for the hospital. annual Hospital Fundraiser by The game plan for the fall of their generous contributions to the 1990 is to encourage the comauction munity to j oin togeth er and have fun supporting a worthy cause, Fredonia Chevron explained committee member, Archway Beauty Center Susan Hammon. The atmoRobin Button Glovers sphere this year is lighter and more relaxed, encouraging all Kaibab Industies Sue Jones ages to come out and participate in the planned events. Bright Angel Laundry Bonhams Kanab Tire & Quick Lube The youth of Kanab and & Kanab Taxi Delivery Fredonia are busy planning and Junction creating a Festival ofTrees to Chick n Things May Cram be auctioned. The Ladies Auxiliary has been busy expanding First Stop Colemans Exxon th e Auxiliarys Thrift Shop in its new location and encouraging Nicks Shell Lindas Beauty Salon people to support it, then turnGifts Galore Vie Mognet & Molly, Patty, & Linda ing all profits over to the hospital. Norma Jean The businesses have once again been generous with their OPERATION BANDAID also wishes to thank this weeks time, money, services, and donations for the bazaar and auccontributors of cash: tion, Hammon said. The comButton Feed, $100 munity is busy making craft Intermountain Refinery, $50 items and quilts to sell and auction for the benefit All in all DONATED: MONEY NEW TOTAL the unity this community shows $1,540 is admirable and appreciated by the Operation Bandaid comAlso a special thanks to the youth who mittee members and the Hosdecorated Christmas trees. pital Board business. Layoff The exceptional quality ofthese unique northern Arizona ore depositshas enabled us to become the countrys largest producer of uranium, despite the depressed state of the market, he said. We firmly believe that nuclear power will continue to be one of the major sources of energy in the decades Hospital hires financial officer Vegas, received a BS degree in accountingfrom Brigham Young University in 1981. He worked for a CPA firm in St. George for a year, then started at Dixie Medical Center. He began as staff accountant in 1982 and ended as controller in July, 1 987. He then spent nearly a year as assistant administrator of finance at Hartselle Medical Center in Hartselle, Ala., and 2 12 all-tim- job-sear- ch ore-hauli- Bandaid OPERATION BAN DAI D ng 6 Mike Miller A Certified Public Accountant with eight years experience in the medical care field was hired recently to the new position of chief financial officer for Kane County Hospital. Mike Miller, 36, who worked for five years at Dixie Medical Center in St. George before spending the last three years in Alabama and Georgia, assumed the position on Oct. 22. Miller started a week before the new hospital administrator, Greg Metcalf, arrived from Connecticut to take his post. The Hospital Board decided it needed someone with accounting and financial expertise, so decided to combine the collections position recently vacated by Steve Cottam together with a vacant clerks position into the new CFO job. We were able to fill this position because we reduced staff in other areas, said Board member, Joe Houston. We are pleased to get this caliber of person. Miller, who grew up in Las Water Big Continued from Page 1 elections. The Olsons said they are concerned about the possibility of improper voting, especially because requests have been put in for 100 absentee ballots. They said they requested that the state Attorney Generals Office monitor the election. Kane County ClerkAuditor Kathy Chamberlain confirmed at last weeks County Commission meeting that the Attorney Generals Office will have watchers at the election. They wont do anything theyll just monitor it, she said. Chamberlain was responding to a question from Earl Tucker, another Big Water resident who is working for disincorporation. We have people voting who dont live there, Tucker said. How do we get it monitored? Chamberlain explained that she cant take voters off the registration list unless they doivt vote for four years or she receives notice that they are registered elsewhere. Residence is a state of mind if you havent registered someplace else, she said. She pointed out that stu years as controller with a large physicians group in Macon, Ga. He decided he wanted to come back west, and, since both his and his wifes family were in St. George, he returned and started his own physician practice management company in August, 1990. Heheard about the Kanab job, applied for it, and was selected. Millers wife is Patrice, and the couple have seven children ranging from 17 to 6 years old. Millers family is still living in St. George, and he is commuting, waiting to sell his house in Macon before he moves to Kanab. Miller said he found Kanab attractive because he likes small towns and likes the red rock scenery here. He said his family likes outdoor activities, including hunting, hiking, and skiing. He said he is impressed with the friendliness of the hospital staff and the way they have made him feel so comfortable and part of them from the very beginning. In a small hospital you can see everyone working together to bring about a goal and make the services as good as possible, he remarks. Miller says he also is impressed with Kanabites in general. The people are down to earth, and I enjoy that, he says. dents and people in the military are examples of legitimate ab- sentee voters. The clerk also noted that either another voter or an election judge can challenge voters at the polls. When challenged, a voter has to take an oath that he is a legal voter, she said. Tucker also questioned the commission about how much county support the Big Water area would get with its roads ifit does disincorporate. If it reverts to the county, we will maintain the roads, stated Commission Chairman Vince Underwood. However, he went on to explain that the county might accept certain roads but not others until they are brought up to county standards. The county probably would accept the roads that were county roads before the town incorporated, but roads built later might have to be improved at residents expense before they would be accepted, he said. The roads havent been maintained since the city in- corporated, Tucker said. Big Water was incorporated in December, 1983, following the collection of 87 signatures on an incorporation petition, which represented the required majority of the registered voters. |