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Show SOUTHERN UTAH NEWS News CORE Continued from Page 1 the impact on families, communities schools, our children. Youve got to defend multiple use, and if it means appealing, intervening, and litigating, you must do it!" Liston urged that people subscribe to many of the new publications being put out by multiple use advocates to help you become educated and informed. Sharing the podium with Liston were Karen Alvey, CORE president, and Bill Grannell, executive director of the Western States Public Lands Coalition, headquartered in Pueblo, Colo. Weve sat around too damn long and allowed environmental groups to take our land inch by inch," said Alvey. We will no longer be the silent majority. We will be a voice to be reckoned with. Were calling ourselves responsible environmentalists because we do care. Alvey noted that CORE already has 175 dues-payin- g members. Grannell, who had been a state legislator and lobbyist before getting involved with the Western States Public Lands Coalition, described what he called truly a partnership that is growing bigger and broader as more and more multiple use group such as CORE get organized. WSPLC, which consists of multiple use groups and local government representatives, was organized about three years ago, he explained. However, he also described a new campaign of the Coalition, called People for the West!, which he brought to Kanab on an earlier visit here about a month ago. Termed A grassroots campaign in support of western communities, the movement started as a reaction to save mining when environmentalists started a push to Tepeal the mining law. The campaign has broadened to include protection of other economic uses on public land, Grannell explained. Grannell described a project MONDAY MARCH IE 1991 that will cost $1.2 million ayear, stand up and say including gathering signatures on petitions, amassing a huge data base of friends of the movement, and assembling a force of 100,000 minute men who can be called on to take whatever steps necessary to block or stop the preservationist agenda. The first goal is to gather one million names on People for the West petitions. The petitions will be delivered to Congress, with the aim to get politicians and media attention, according to Grannell. The group already has over 100,000 signatures in hand, anditisagrowingeffort , Grannell says. The petitions have been showing up in businesses and offices all over Kanab. We support the economic survival of the West," they herald, followed by a list of whereases including the contention that an elitist group of environmental leaders wants to make extreme changes in federal law to stop, forever, natural resource development on all public lands in the United States. The petition concludes with an enumeration of urgings to Congress, including to boldly stand strong in the face of these groups irrational appeal. Grannell said it is imperative that large numbers of people get involved and that money be raised for the effort because the 20 top environmental clubs spend about $750 million lobbying Congress. We need to do battle against the preservationist agenda, he urged. Their real agenda is to get people off from public lands and lock them up. Grannell cited areas where he said grassroots movements of signingpetitions, writingletters, making phone calls, and pressuring politicians have been successful, including protecting the timber industry in Oregon PAID ADVERTISEMENT just were not alone, she said. Im glad to know theres networking to draw our line in the sand, he said. Public lands and people are very important People and public lands belong together. And we are good stewards. Alvey concluded the meeting, saying she feels better knowing CORE is not going it alone. The thing I feel best about is that Honors Continued from page 1 tional Association of Conservation Districts Council. Carroll served as Lions Club president and as an Orderville City Councilman for 14 years.-Somof his current activities include memberships on the Kane County Planning Commission, the Kane County Farm Bureau Board of Directors, and the Bureau of Land Management Multiple-Us- e Advisory e Council. Center Street behind him, and ter Street that borders our south he may be forced to move unless property line. We have been he can get a compensating permitted to date by the city to use this street Without the use agreement from the city. do of this street or the street to our not officials say they City busito Brown move his want west, 300 West, we will not be ness, but they dont know if they able to carry on our production will be able to give him what he activities at our present adwants. dress. The problem is that Browns Brown said his second probbusiness is sitting in an island lem cannot be solved by the city. y for It is the between city cost of the extension ofCenter Street to having his production supplies the west and 300 West to the freighted into Kanab by truck south (if the curve were elimi- from the interstate highway by rights-of-wa- ever-increasi- 644-262- 1. A Clinical Audiologist ng secondaiy freight line companies. This adds thousands of dollars per year to his production costs. We love Kanab and have no desire to move our company or our families to a community on an interstate highway, he says. But if we are cut off from our present location and have to relocate, we will need to consider the cost saving of a location on an interstate highway. We are not necessarily opposed to the use ofCenter Street as an access from the Ranchos, but need to have use of 300 West to compensate for the loss of use of Center Street" City Manager Keith McAllister said the city is in the process of trying to repossess the lease Jim Carrico now controls and get that section of 300 West back, but he doesnt know if it will work, and also it may take time. I hate to see him do that, he said of Browns notice that he may have to relocate. But our hands may be tied. We may not be able to lease him the north-sout- h street. If the city is able to get the street back, McAllister said he our manufacturing facilities feels sure the City Council would here in Kanab. agree to lease or sell the street, right-of-wa- y, right-of-wa- 99-ye- Kanab The Kanab Library Board of and resources available to us. will hold its monthly Trustees Following the speeches, those attending were invited to visit meeting tonight, March 11, at 7 tables where they could get more at the library. The public is welinformation and offer to join the come to attend. Book Discussion Group fight in 14 different land use Come see the film, "The Jiltareas, includingtimber, mining, and grazing interests. ing of Granny Weatherall, and join in a discussion of the film with Jeanette Anderson, profesCarroll is a graduate ofValley sor of English at Snow College, High School and attended SUU. on March 20 at 7 p.m. at the The other Honor Medallion library. New Books recipients are H. La Veil ChamThe library now has over 100 berlain and Winona Hunter Cowan of Cedar City, Hilda Foy new books ready to be checked Gardner of Panguitch, Lloyd out Some of the authors repreLeon Jennings and Mary Morris sented are Danielle Steel, Larry Phoenix of St. George, Eugene McMurtry, Frederick Pohl, JoJensen of Gunnison, Quentin A. hanna Lindsey, Jackie Collins, Nisson of Washington, Hazel Peter Straub, Ruth Rendell, Jean Robinson of Paragonah, Martha Grimes, and Susan Bette L Stanton of Moab, Den- Isaacs. Patrons may check .out nis E. Stowell of Parowan, Dr. only three ofthe news books at a David A Symond, M.D., of time, so that others may have Milford, and Dr. Kenneth M. the chance to enjoy the new books as well. Topham of Delta. We are faced with two probKen Brown, owner of Gift City, Brown said. The first will be business his hurt lems, by says to we are growing and connect of the that anew being city plans access road from the Ranchos to need the use and access of Cen- y, Our Kanab Library News Road plans could force Gift City to relocate nated). The city is considering improving Center Street to the west behind Gift City to connect with a road angling across the and the mining industry in creek from the Ranchos. Montana. Brownhasbeenusiiigthe citys People do make a difference, Center Street right-of-wahe declared. Community coali- which is now just a dirt road tions are flexing their muscles. leading into Lopemans Frontier Its phenomenal how theyre Movie Town, as a loading area and a place to store rocks. He catching on. We as westerners need to said he needs the space, and, unless he can get some compensating space to his west in he the 300 West to have move. may Butthe300 West which includes where the old Carrico Arctic Circle building is sitting, is on a lease, which Carricos son, Jim, now controls, and the city does not know if it will be able to reposclinic will be sess the lease. Brown might be Monday, able to lease from Carrico, they March 18th say. from 2:00 to Brown recently warned that 5:00 p.m., decisions made at the Tuesday, March 12, City Council meeting Clinic. To concerning specific plans for the new Ranchos access road that make an would impact his use of the Center Street right-of-wa-y may call result in the closure and relocaKimball B. Forbes tion to another community of MCD, CCC-- Free Hearing Assessment Set in Kanab When you have a hearing problem, it is important to go to a Licensed Clinical Audiologist instead of a hearing aid salesman. Kimball B. Forbes, MCD, CCC-A- , is the only licensed Clinical Audiologist in southern Utah and is certified by the American Speech Association. Through the services of a specialist, you can have better hearing through the most advanced technology. The clinic is offered at No Charge. no more lie in the Persian Gulf, we need ar y, but it would be obligated to offer some to each adjoining property owner. Bob Hale owns the property on the west of the street That portion at the end of 300 West was leased to Carrico in the late 1940s, and the lease was for 99 years. Both Carricos died, and their son, Jim, now controls the lease. The City Council has talked about tearing down the old building and assessing a fee for the demolition, and possibly being able to use that amount to buy out the rest of the lease. McAllister said he recognizes that Brown is cramped for space and desperately needs property. However, he pointed out that Browns use of the Center Street property behind him has been without the citys permission. We havent stopped him, but he hasnt asked for permission, McAllister said. He needs to stop stacking his rocks in the street, said Bruce Judd, the councilman in charge ofroads. What we are planning to do will not restrict him at all. He will just have to use his property to unload and store his rocks. Judd said he also hoped something could be worked out so Brown can lease the 300 West property from either Carrico or the city. Judd said he has been trying to get the Utah Department of Transportation to meet with him, because the new road will be connecting with a state highway, 89. We want the blessings of the state because we will be in their right-of-wa- y, he said. If the required state permit for the creek crossing is received and UDOT can be consulted before Tuesdays council meeting, Judd said the council could approve final plans for the Ranchos access and the work could begin immediately. |