Show ( Serving Utah’s Great Pahvant Valley (£)(& v GO & V ac9t Dtlta Utah 11500 In out ot county-- months $500 and $900 (In Advance) Vol USPS Copy 50c 76 No 50 June 19 1986 WVBWYBMMIUMlimWWWt'IIMiWW! mowMSMMwwawawa IPP workers celebrate THE DELTA ROCKY MT C LOGGERS won top honors in their first appearance at the Rocky Mt and Western United States Area Clogging Championships at Lagoon Utah last week JenThe doggers are front row: Sonja Rowley nifer Draper Melanie Beckstrom Second row: Justin Carroll Tirstin Nickle Joleen Wright Sherri Bennett Jeanette Morrill Shawn Rowley Back row: Shannan Rowley Lisa Head Shelly Draper Christa Christensen Randi Johansen Stephanie Christensen Angela Allred Jonquil Bibee Jenny Mortensen Jennifer Crute Not pictured is Cally Griffiths Cloggers take top awards The Delta Rocky Mt Cloggers structed by Sydney Rowley and Jill Carroll attended the Rocky Mt and Western United States Area Clogging in Lagoon held June Championships 1986 The first day of the three day competition began with individuals and teams competing in freestyle duet and team events Delta was represented by three teams One team entered for each of the age divisions offered Twenty Delta cloggers joined in dancing competition championship held at Lagoon last week and came away with a 1st place trophy and ribbons by the Senior Team “Topaz Mt Tappers” Mt The Junior Team "Cricket Clickers” came away with a second place trophy The Pee Wee team “Sugarloaf Mt Express” comprised of three little girls placed 5th place As a result or their fine performance the Delta Rocky Mt Cloggers were personally invited to perform an exibition at the Scera Shell in Orem during the Freedom Fesitval on July 3rd “For their first time in competition these teams made an impression at Lagoon and brought an awareness of the Delta Area Cloggers” said Ms Rowley hour and a halt years alter the start of construction the first unit of the $55 billion Intermountain Power Project began generating power commercially last week The 750 megawatt generating unit was declared commercially operable at 12:01 am Tuesday June 10 — three said Ann weeks ahead of schedule for the InterGarrett spokeswoman mountain Power Agency The early completion date will produce an additional $20 million in fiscal revenue for 1PA in its on the project year Construction began in October 1981 1PA a group of Utah municipal utilities is the owner of the IPP Construction of the second unit also is ahead of its scheduled July 1987 completion date Ms Garrett said Each generating unit will provide enough electricity for 375000 residences The IPP has 36 participants in Utah and California The Utah participants include 23 municipal utilities six rural electric cooperatives and Utah Power & Light Co The majority of the power produced by the power plant however will be used primarily by the California participants and UP&L during the first several years Ms Garrett said The California utilities participating in the project are Burbank Anaheim Pasadena Riverside Glendale and Los Angeles The first generating unit was turned Power Service over to Intermountain the organization in charge of Corp last week Ms permanent operations Garrett said The corporation now has about 500 employees and will have up to 590 when the second unit is completed IPP has been testing the power plant since February — which Ms Garrett said “went extremely well” This is the crucial phase during Jr Stockshow winners honored with many buyers J more winners page 'Al STEER: NEIL CLAYTON of Delta Buyers are GRAND CHAMPION Bill Nelson Jim Nelson (majority buyers) left to right: Jack Nelson Robert Auto Art Jeffery-IGand Glen Swalberg-DeltBank s Verl Tolbert-CitFertilizer Cafe Dave Insurance Buyers not pictured are Chef's Palace Too and Lynndyl General Market I jr CHAMPION Buyers are uncle and Salt Lake City GRAND SWINE: ANGELA Mr and Mrs NIELSON of Taylorsville Supply of 4 Li! w $ ‘ 11 ) JEyf Jfvh v JXS I f '$ di L ' fcv r mM 'n‘' of Delta Buyers Edwards-FirSecurity Bank Bob Tolbert-CitCafe and Delta Livestock AucBank Auto and Russ HEIFER: GRAND are left to right: Dean Equipment Verl tion Glen Swalberg-DeltCHAMPION BECKY CROPPER project Delta’s Senior Tenants began this week to move to the new Senior Apartments in Delta as Federal inspectors gave their apof the proval for occupancy housing project last week All units of the complex were rented in advance of completion of the project Housing officials enin futuie courage those interested availability to sign up on the waiting list because increased demand for the housing may lead to the building of eight additional units “It will take sometime to get the funfor the new units” said Housing ding Manager Dell Ashby “But if we can show the demand is great enough we can easily add the extra units" The apartment complex which was two years in planning and construction is designed to encourage community activities with a spacious dining and cultural hall and a fully equipped kitchen In addition there is an arts and The tenants plan to room otganize an association to promote group activities The building features an elaborate security system with selective admittance from any one apartment The apartments themselves are all with pantries and bathrooms designed for health and Mr Ashby said comfort The apartments were offered on a basis Several first residents who formerly lived here have taken advantage of the opfind affordable to housing in portunity the area close to relatives “We have people coming in from Arizona Colorado Minnesota and W yoming” Mr Ashby said “Most of whom want to live in the area near their relatives” An Open House for the complex is scheduled for June 2"’th at 10 00 a m in front of the building The public is invited to attend crafts Committee of Consumer Service schedules meeting r A declared a Labor Recognition Day to honor "the craft people who built this thing" Ms Garrett said Over 2000 workers were served steaks and given special commerative belt buckles at a picnic Wednesday afternoon The construction workforce which peaked at 4500 in 1985 worked moie than 13 million manhours without any labor related tntetruptions — a record in the construction industry Ms Garrett said More than 200 prime contractors and hundreds of subcontractors were involved in the construction Apartments open for grateful tenants SWW Jv line' See 5tr ' celebration of 'going on which problems are worked out and the various systems in the power plant are synchronized The testing phase checks “to see if the wires and pipes went to the right place” said Manny Perez assistant sue project manager “Each little piece of the puzzle is tested “There are always a lot of little things that have to be adjusted in the field” Mr Perez said “The quality of work was such that there was very few delays caused by failure in any of the systems” Ms Garrett said IPP on Wednesday of last week CHAMPION LAMB: SANDY PETERSON of Delta Buyers s Bank Dean Edwards-Firs- t are Dave Security Bank and Dean Bennett-MECredit Union GRAND t The Utah State Committee of Consumer Services the public advocate for will hold a public utility consumers meeting Friday June 27th in Delta The meeting will be held in the Delta City Council Chambers 76 North 200 West starting at 2:00 p m Created by the state legislature in 1977 to represent and assist utility consumers each month the Committee of Consumer Services holds public meetings in communities around the state to gain public input on utility issues The June 27th meeting marks the first time the Consumer Committee has met in Delta As the public advocate the of Consumer Services represents and residential small business agricultural consumers of telephone natural gas and electrical utility service in proceedings before the Utah Public Service Commission Possible topics for discussion at the meeting include high agricultural electrical pumping costs the proposed natural gas line in Southwestern Utah and electrical and local telephone customer service problems Everyone is welcome to participate in the meeting The Committee of Consumer Services sets aside time on its program to hear from the consuming public Comments made by consumers are recorded by the Committee and considered m determining policy on utility issues People who cannot appear in person may submit written comments to the committee Composed of six utility consumers Commitappointed by the Governor tee of Consumer Services members come from different rural suburan and city areas throughout Utah The Committee has represented consumers in every major utility rate case during the last nine years |