Show Serving Utah’s Great Pahvant Valley Coov soc USPS Vol 81 No 8 September 13 1990 choose Moon by Ken Rand note: with the exception (Editor’ of the headline and the first paragraph this article was written several days before the election This edition was prep ared for the presses T uesday Sept 11 the day of the election) Millard County voters cast their ballots in the Tuesday Sept 11 primary election where they endorsed a $14 million school bond issue and selected Lana Moon over incumbent Mike Styler to run for County Commissioner A on the Republican ticket elecThe bond issue and the tion for the Republican Commissioner A candidacy in the genera election were both subjected to intensive campaigning during the last few weeks and days before the primary Millard School District officials used a slide and presentation plus a question and answer session in 13 town meetings in the county to present the case for the bond issue Slide presentations were also made at nights Officials said the bond issue is needed for several building project throughout the district “We don’t feel that we want to go for more without having a purpose in which to spend it school board member Scott Nickle said “and we haven’t had anyone say that we should go for less" Kenneth Topham Superintendent has been present at most meetings along with District Business Administrator Keith Griffiths and school board members "I felt really good about it" Topham said “All our meetings have been quite positive There have been questions of course but every one of them after they have been completed have been very positive" Parents sought “clarification on what the facilities might look like" he said “They wanted to know amounts of money that is going to be spent They had questions as to making certain that the facilities are quality whatever we build" The slide presentation has helped Griffiths said "Even our employees once they’ve seen the film they seem to Final results are in With 6 of 17 county voting precinct reporting u this isue goe to pres late Tuesday Sept here is the unofficial vote count: ' Lana Moon: 1 577 Mike Styler 1196 Bond issue for 1793 Bond issue against: 955 followBy law the County Clerk’ office canvasses votes the first Monday ing an election The official vote canvass will be held in the county commission chambers in Fillmore Monday Sept 17 The Millard School District will canvass the bond vole at 7 pun Tuesday Sept 18 at the school district office in Delta A prccinct-bprecinct breakdown of the vole will appear in our next issue better understand what the needs are" A flyer was mailed to county residents last week and officials answered questions in an interview program on KNAK The issue was also featured in articles advertisements and letters in the Chronicle Progress Topham said he did not encounter any “opposition as such" He said concerned voters asked good questions These Oak City residents watched a slide presentation on the school bond issue at the Oak City Town Hall last week School District Business Administrator Keith Griffiths standing answered questions Mayors to meet on gas option by Ken Rand Millard County mayors have been invited to attend a meeting to hear the Mountain Fuel Supply Co bid to deliver natural gas to the communities The meeting is scheduled for 6:30 pm Thursday Sept 27 at the Paradise Inn in Fillmore Mountain Fuel is the latest of three natural gas delivery options under study by centra Utah officials Central Utah Gas Co has already made overtures to city councils and a system is also being studied CUG failed to get a delivery franchise from Fillmore June 19 but got one from Delta July 9 Millard County entered into a franchise with CUG in 1982 In addition to CUG Fillmore is also studying a municipal system similar to the one Ncphi it considering Nephi officials met August 21 with commissioners and mayors in Millard County to relate what they had learned in their study Nephi is leaning toward a r system that would tap the pipeline at Payson Canyon A week later on Tuesday August 28 Wayne Saltzgivcr Mountain Fuel southern region retail operation manager from Richfield pitched a franchise to Millard County commissioners and announced similar pitches would be made to councils in at least nine towns in Millard and Beaver counties Those meetings are already underway Saltzgivcr met with the Fillmore city council T uesday Sept 4 “It was just an overview of natural gas as a fuel" Correction Our Sept 6 issue reported a Mountain Fuel representative met with local officials concerning a gas delivery system on Tuesday August 21 The meeting wu held Tuesday August 28 Mayor Keith Gillins said “and Mountain Fuel Supply as a company that can supply that fuel I thought it was a very very well professional presentation prepared The thing that they said to me that was most meaningful was that they can deliver gas to the city of Fillmore at a very competitive price" No action was taken "Right now all three of our options are being looked into”Gillins said “Central Utah Gas is very active and now Mountain Fuel has become very active And we’re going to see what we can find out on our own for the municipal side of this We're not locked in on anything We're still looking very aggressively” Gillins called “this gas situation our number one concern right now" At the August 28 briefing Millard Mike Styler County Commissioner called for a joint meeting with mayors Styler said he believed the county was too small to handle more than one system "I don't see how we could split it up" he said “It’s just not economically feasible" Styler had planned on a joint meeting during the next county commission meeting Tuesday Sept 25 in Fillmore But on Wednesday Sept 5 Saltzgivcr called him and offered to host an evening meeting Thursday Sept 27 “I think we'll probably accept their invitation to host an even ing meal on the 27th and invite all the mayors" he said “because there are so many mayors who can't come during the day because of work" Only six of the counties mayors attended the August 21 county commission meeting when Nephi officials discussed their study of a municipal delivery system Some mayor who did not attend the daytime meeting were at said they'd work “They’ve alway rather have evening meetings" Styler said Saltzgiver will bring a Mountain Fuel vice president to the meeting "They'll talk about their proposal and have some more in depth fact and numbers for us" Styler said IPSC employees earn bonus for superior performance (Editor’s note: the following article appeared under the above headline in the August 1990 Issue of Power Network” IPSC ha 615 employees) Intermountain Power Service Corporation (IPSC) employees earned a bonus for superior performance for the second year in a row Out of a maximum bonus of 5 percent employees earned 42 percent up from last year's 3 percent bonus "Significant improvements in the safety record and production were the primary reason for the larger bonus" explained Bruce Blowey engineer of Los Angeles Del of Water and Power partment (LADWP) LADWP operating agent for the Litermountain Pow er Project annually reviews the performance of IPSC employees based on 18 indices in the broad categories of safety environment production efficiencymaintenancc budget and housekeeping The bonus is distributed to all permanent IPSC employees on the basis of their regular pay earned over the fiscal year excluding overtime IPSC achieved a lost time injury rate of 097 and an injury severity index of 1497 over the last fiscal year which are well below industry standards “Attainment of a generation availability of 95 percent is a further indication of the employee’ ability to exceed industry standards This year’ record performance translates into lower cost and more reliable power for IPP purchasers" said Blowey mainly seeking clarification “I’ve felt good about our meetings and the response to them" Attendance at town meetings was mixed with some attracting more people than others “You don’t always get a large attendance on some of these issues” Topham said “You probably should but you don't always It hasn't been any different this year as far as number attending than it has been in previous bond issues" Griffiths said 35 to 40 people attended the Sutherland meeting A similar number attended in Holden Other town meetings were more sparsely attended (Town meetings in Fillmore and Flowell were scheduled for Monday after this article was written) Sept nights were all well attended Separate presentations were made to Delta parents attending nights there Griffiths said a single night was made for “a couple hundred" r Fillmore area parents on Wednesday Sept 5 at the Middle School rather than three separate ones at the three schools Both Moon and Styler campaigned heavily in their bid to face Democrat Jim DeWyze for the Commissioner A seat Both advertised in the Chronicle Progress used lawn signs made personal contact with voters rode in parades and appeared at summer events throughout the county Moon from Della is new to political campaigning A mother of five she has been employed at the Delta Valley Farms Cheese plant for 14 years "I wanted to do something more challenging" she said in describing her reason for running for office More: “I felt like there was county I a need for a change thought I could offer in the some- thing" Moon met with several civic groups and tried to visit as many people as possible in their homes she said “I met of the people easily I expected I'd meet good people and i met good people “I love to work and I love to meet people so for me this was just a natu- ral" Moon said if she had to do it all over again she wouldn’t do anything different “I feel from the very beginning I’ve made all the right choices I’ve been happy with what I've done" Thi3 was Stylcr’s third political campaign Styler is a farmer from Oasis “I’m in my eighth year in the commission” he said He was unopposed in his last campaign In his first one Styler defeated Democrat Russell Greathouse "There is a real big difference between the time I Tint ran and now" he said "because now I know the issues I understand where the county is and where we ought to be going And the first time I had no idea I had no idea of the complexity of county government" Styler said he didn't fctWie that everything he did would rhakc somebody mad "Even though most people agree with probably nine out of ten things you do I find that they may vote against you because they disagree with you on one of ten items" Styler said he felt “tied down in the time I’ve been able to give to the campaign ironically because of the time I've had to devote to commission work I would have liked to have been out knocking on doors and talking to people more" In the Commissioner B race incumbent Republican Frank Baker is challenged by Democrat Warren Peterson No other political candidate on the November ballot faces challenge Old show barn is now grain shipping terminal by Ken Rand About 25 railcar loads of grain have been shipped from the new Farmers Grain Cooperative shipping terminal in Delta since it was opened in according to manager Ron Escobedo Escobedo said the figure doesn't clude cargo shipped out to market by truck in the same time period Each railcar holds about 190000 pounds of grain "Around the area" Escobedo said"in the barley and the wheat market you can figure close to 200 different farms" ship from the Delta terminal The most recent slate figures show there were 630 farms in Millard County in 1987 Average farm size was 762 acres The terminal is located where the old Junior Livestock show bam used to be a block north of Delta High School When the indoor arena wu completed at the county fairgrounds eut of Delta the county leased the old bam to the Purchase price wu $58000 The deal wu made in March Only m inor modi fica tion of the bam and adjacent grounds wu needed to make it usable u a grain storage loading and shipping point It is already properly zoned A rail spur is on the site Renovation began June Grain started leaving for mills in Los Angeles two weeks later Before the opened in Delta farmers had to pay to ship grain to Ogden The grain wu then shipped by train back put Delta to mills in southern California Farmer can now truck grain directly to the local saving about $35 per acre in shipping costs by one fanners estimate “We buically give them the same price Ogden doe" secretary Sheila Curtis said Prices are checked “three or four time a day" she said “I third: we're going to tty to be a little bit more competitive in our area" Market dynamic can force price u Shiela Curtis Farmers Grain secretary in front of a mound of grain in what used to be the old Junior Livestock show bam north of Delta High School Stock shows now take place at the county fairgrounds changes several times a day Curtis said uses its marketing expenisc to The help farmer find the most profitable markets available Grain now being shipped from Delta includes locally grown soft white wheat barley and com “Hopefully next year we'll be skipping a lot more u people get acquainted with us" Cunis said show State agriculture figures 566000 bushels of wheat were produced in Millard County in 1989 Last year j 78000 J produced county farmer GRAJN page 3 |