Show Serving Utah’s Great Pahvant Valley V USPS Ash Grove to burn used tires and oil The Ash Grove Cement Company plant near Leamington Utah has received permission from the Utah Division of Air Quality to replace part of its coal fuel with scrap tires and used oil according to Ken Ware spokesman for the company The Ash Grove cement kiln now burning about 90000 tons of coal a year w ill under the approval order be able to replace up to IS percent of its coal with scrap tires This could mean the burning of up to 2 million tires a year according to Mr Ware “In addition" ware continued “the approval order allows Ash Grove to replace coal with up to 100 percent with used oil Any used oil to be burned in the plant must be carefully tested to make certain it meets the specifications of ‘non hazardous waste’" This means for example that the oil must be tested for a limit of two parts per million of PCBs the limit of our ability to lest" Ware said In anticipation of receiving this approval order Ash Grove Cement has been planning the system for inserting whole used tires into the kiln With this advanced preparation the equipment for inserting tires into the kiln may be ready for operation within four to six weeks There are literally millions of scrap tires in storage piles throughout the state with no present use for them An estimated two million tires a year are added to those stockpiles Presently the Utah Legislature is considering two bills either of which will outlaw placing scrap tires in landfills under most circumstances The ability of Ash Grove to bum as much as half of the supply of newly scrapped tires will assist in resolving that problem Moon over Main Street Kate HeUenbrand Millard County Deputy County Attorney Dexter Anderson w as not having a good day on February 23rd First he was up to his legal briefs with the Janet Thompson case trying to sort out charges and testimony from an emotionally charged ‘communal living situation one man two women children Around 3:15 in the afternoon Mr Anderson slopped at Pioneer Market on Fillmore’s Main Street for some refreshments only to be plunged into another ’brief incident Upon leaving the store Mr Anderson was confronted w ilh the sight of a bare male bottom “I was offended" says Mr Anderson “School had just let out and there were all these high school kids on the didn't see any girls faint from streets it or anything but I thought it w as offen- sive” Mr Anderson was so offended that he called 911 and had Daniel Durbin a 21 year old Kanosh resident arrested for Lewdness a class B misdemeanor Arresting Deputy Bill Jackson said that Mr Durbin joked that he “did it all the time" “Well then let’s hope he learns a lesson from this" returned Attorney Anderson The matter w as handled in Justice Court where bail was set at S200 The defendant opted to spend the night in jail however upon learning that “they fed you good in jail" said Deputy Jackson Mr Durbin has since been released Update: Farrell Begay has been charged with a Aiding and Abcuing Manslaughter second degree felony following an vestigation into the death of Waylon 8 of Richfield Mr Ptkyavit Pikyavit w as shot once in the face w ith a Chinese SKS-assault rifle bullet while riding in a car operated by Mr Begay The victim's cousin Peter Pikyavit 22 of Richfield has been charged with Manslaughter in the shooting Steve Bjorkman “husband to two women" his been charged with Child Abuse a class A misdemeanor for allegedly leaving two boys alone in a home in SugarviHe for over 17 days Half Full or Half Empty Commissioners Lana Moon and Tony Dearden stand next to Sheldon Talbot manager for the Central Utah Water Project District public meetings Commissioner Frank Baker ( not pictured) was also a vocal attendant Approximately 30 people attended the Irrigation and Distribution meeting in the Delta City Chambers on February 23rd A team of presenters discussed the Sevier River Basin portion of the CUP and used hypothetical numbers to make their points Jim Riley discussed SpccificTopics Jay Franson talked about Water Rights and Supply Lu Hintz discussed Funding and Economics and Allen Crabtree briefly commented on Environmental implications Audience members asked enough questions to fill eight large pages of questions which were copied down for inclusion in a book about the public meetings Other public meetings have been held in Richfield Nephi and (The following is part of a release by the CUP Special Projects Division It is included as an overview for the Project) The Irrigation and Drainage System (IAD System) is one of several components of the CUP Completion Program The IAD System would provide supplemental water to approximately 176000 acres of irrigated agricultural land in the southern portion of Utah County the eastern prtion of Juab County and the Sevier River Basin CUP water would also be available for municipal and dustrial (Mil) use within southern Utah area of County and the Juab County The CUP water supply would be obtained from Strawberry Reservoir by means of a transbasin version into the Diamond Fork drainage Oirough tunnel facilities presently under construction by the United Stales Bureau of Reclamation The main conveyance facilities of the IAD System would be a gravity pipeline including several tunnels extending from the proposed Monks Hollow Dam on Diamond Fork to Sevier Bridge Reservoir (Yuba Lake) a distance of approximately 70 miles The alignment of the main conveyance pipeline is proposed to be located generally with Diamond Fork and Spanish Fork Canyons along Salem Bench above the communities of Spanish Fork and Payson along the base of the mountains 5 between San taquin eastof Highw ay and Nephi and west of Highway 28 between Nephi and Sevier Bridge Reservoir Irrigated lands within southern Utah and eastern Juab counties would receive direct dcliveiy of CUP w aier dicing the irrigation season MAI water delivered from the main conveyance pipeline would be available throughout the year either by direct service or through exchange with agricultural groundwater supplies In order to maximize the use of the main conveyance pipeline and optimize its sizing w aier for irrigation of the lands within Sevier River Basin wtuld be delivered only during the winter m on ins to Sevier Bridge Reservoir for storage and use during the irrigation season both directly and through exchange with upstream users Preliminary studies indicate that an average annual water supply of about will be available for 100000 delivery through the IAD System t for wincluding about 36000 ter delivery to Sevier Bridge Reservoir A portion of this CUP water supply would be released down Spanish Fork River into Utah Lake and a pxnion would be delivered to MAJ water entities The major portion of the CUP w ater No 35 March 4 1533 Plural Wife Released From Jail Millard County’s CUP -- - Kate HeUenbrand Vol 83 supply is for irrigated agriculture and would be used to meet crop water deficiencies which often occur within certain portions of the service area during mid to late season particularly during dry years The amount of CUP water would vary from year to year depending upxm the water demand and the dry year and wet year water exchange capabilities on the Sevier River system CUP water delivered to Sevier Bridge Reservoir would be commingled with Sevier River water and directly released from the Reservoir into Sevier River for use downstream by farmers in the Delta area Delivery of CUP water above Sevier Bridge Reservoir could be made through exchange of CUP water in Sevier Bridge Reservoir with upstream water supplies of Sevier River Upstream storage facilities are essential for implementing exchanges of water from Sevier Bridge Reservoir Piute Reservoir located on Sevier River about 70 miles above Sevier Bridge Reservoir would be the main upstream storage facility in effecting water exchanges Another pxxssiblc storage facility on the River is the proposed Hatch town Reservoir which would be located near the town of Hatch approximately 50 miles above Piute Reservoir The water exchange could involve transfer from Sevier Bridge Reservoir to Piute Reservoir from Piute Reservoir to Hatch town Reservoir and from Sevier Bridge Reservoir to Hatchtown Reservoir The quality of the water in Sevier River is impacted by return flows from agricultural use and by natural intrusion of minerals along the River’s route The quality degradation is most evident in the waters within and below Sevier Bridge Reservoir Delivery and commingling of high quality water from Strawberry Reservoir with water in Sevier Bridge Reservoir would improve the existing quality of water within the Reservoir Studies of Sevier River w ater quality degradation and possible measures to improve the quality are currently being performed Water efficiency that measures could be developed within the IAD System service area include but art not limited to: lining and piossibly combining existing canals irrigation and conjunctive use of improvements surface and groundwater within Utah and Juab Counties Implementation of such measures could result in beneficial on the fishery within certain impxacts pxxiions of the upper Sevier River system as w ell as improved quality of w tier within Sevier Bridge Reservoir The Centra Utah Water Project was begun in 1957 and is anticipated to cost upwards of S2 billion dollars Millard County carries a significant portion of the shared counties' costs Commissioners water company owners and citizens aU express a level of confusion when discussing the CUP and future stories will address some of the questions raised at the meeting the confusion and specific answers to the CUP s future in our land After all even the settlers of this county trusted the Mormon Bishop with " everything but the water" RJELiC NOTICES 'y f b W £ f Charges Not Lawful Alleges Spouse Kate HeUenbrand Janet Thompxon 41 pregnant with her eleventh child was released from Millard County jail on Monday evening after spending a week in custody for charges of Kidnapping Child Abuse Custodial Interference and Resisting Arrest Fourth Circuit Court Judge Robert J Sumsion ordered the release from his offices in Spanish Fork said Deputy County Attorney Dexter Anderson Tuesday "Somebody must have contacted him about the case And he must have felt there was a sufficient guarantee that she would appear She also had some health problems and those were a concern of the Sheriff and the Jail Commander and this may have been a factor in her release as well” said Mr Anderson Ms Thompson had been taken to the Fillmore Medical Center earlier on Monday after she began to cough up blood At the hospital however she allegedly refused medical treatment and was returned to her cell block Previously Ms Thompson had refused food for several days she had been placed on suicide watch after she was discovered with tom sheets wrapipied around her neck tme night and had spient one night in a holding cell because of her refusal to cooperate with jail officials Ms Thompison was charged with removing two children from state custody when she contacted them at Delta Middle School after they had been placed in the care of Social Services Authorities had determined that the two youths ages 12 and 13 had been living alone in the family’s SugarviHe home for nearly three weeks and intervened placing them in foster homes and enrolling them at the school One of the boys is the natural son of Ms Thompison The other boy is the son of Karen Bjorkman die legal wife of Ms Thom pis on's communal husband Steve Bjorkman Mr Bjorkman has also been charged with one count of Child Abuse a class A misdemeanor Both Ms Thompson and Mr Bjorkman will apipiearon March 5th in Fourth Circuit Court in Fillmore Both Ms Thompson and Mr Bjorkman will be representing themselves in court they say It is a matter of principle to Mr Bjorkman His life is full of them “What the government has done to me out here is an act of war" says Mr Bjorkman “That’s how I look at it" "These boys were not left alone They were being checked on regularly by friends they had use of the phone of ' a friend They had money they had food they had propane The pipies in the home freeze if no one is there to tend the fire Other pieople were using the home and these services needed to be available" continues Mr Bjorkman Mr Bjorkman is a and runs a booth at the Utah Fairground Swap Meet “I go to California as a matter of my work" he says Karen his legal wife says she knew the boys were in the home "splitting the comb" And she says she was unhapipy that her son was left behind when Janet decided to travel to California with Steve “I was on my way down from Salt Lake to get the boys but illness delayed my trip" she says Before she could get to the home the State Social Services had intervened Janet a woman who has been “sealed" to Steve through the same marriage ceremony used by Brigham Young in his plural marriages says she made adequate with arrangements pieople to monitor her children while she was away (A “sitter’’ in the Trout Creek area has signed a notarized statement that five of Janet’s children were in her home and that this sitter made frequent visits to the SugarviHe home) Upton learning that the two boys had been placed in a foster home Ms Thompson says she returned to the home to reunite her family She alleges that when she went to the Middle School she was looking only for the keys to her van and had no intention at that time of taking the boys She says inadvertently the boys were given permission to leave the school’s premises with her She further says that she was not intending to leave the SugarviHe home when Deputies Ropier and Lang forcibly entered through the back door looking for her She says the children’s clothes were packed because they had just turned from the sitter in Trout Creek not because they were ready to leave “Wc wasn’t running weren’t hiding and from anybody” she says Ms Thompson says that her ancst was conducted in full view of her young children and that should constitute child abuse on the arresting deputies’ part “What are these children going to think of police officers when they grow up?” asks Steve “I’ve taught them that the pxiliccman was a picrson you turn to for help and I still believe that but these children arc going to have a different view of a man in a uniform now" "Why doesn’t somebody ask these boys how they feel’" Steve queries “Certainly they ill use the testimony of hat they a child in a sex case and that’s use for conviction And yet they won’t use the testimony in a case like this?” s his Mr Bjorkman say lha family is being violated by man’s law and that the state’s actions arc not law ful "This is an administration allegation" he asserts "There should be a sworn signed and verified complaint of an injured party But this is lire corporate slate saying ‘you violated one of our rules’’’ The Bjorkman situation opiens the doors to a household of intriguing liefs and ideals Mr Bjorkman is intelligent and precise With hair and a full beard he looks like he stcppicd out of the distant past His hands bear the scars of years of hard work He carries a Bible and a copy of the Utah Constitution and quotes from them constantly He is driven by concepts of God Law and Country lie reluctantly admits to a fondness to the Patriot Movement the mushrooming ethic that boasts ex Presidential candidate ’Bo’ Gritz as a member “Freedom is not a cult" he slates adding that he subscribes to the higher law “The Bible is the word of God" he adds Continued on page 3 Closing the Catalog Stores Sears Shuts Doors in County Kate HeUenbrand Say goodbye to an era Sears has closed its two satellite stores in Millard one in Delta and one in County Fillmore driving a nail in the coffin of catalog shopping For 108 years the Sears catalog has been a suple in rural areas of America Time was that the catalog rt as the only link to department store shopping and a copy of the hefty book could be found in nearly every outhouse in the land to keep pieople compiany Throughout the years many a young woman fantasized about the items in the book She dreamed of the appliances and spxmt long hours sewing copies of the clothes in muslin and calico And many a young man approached the coming of age by fantasizing about these same drawings especially those that showed models in underwear The Sears and Roebuck catalog was the nocent forerunner of the girlie magazine And Sears after years of reorganization and downsizing recognized the strength of the shopper’s imagination and released the popular “Wish Book" annually just before Christmas But shoppiers’ weren't wishes enough to keep the catalog division alive say Scars administrators and the drive was begun to convert catalog outlets into appliance dealership Phyllis Burr as ion closed the Delta store on February 9th and Rayma and Cloyd Day will be closing the Fillmore store on March 5 th Mrs Burr as ton and Mrs Day say they want to thank their patrons those shoppers who have become friends throughout the years "I found out they were going to dose us when I saw it on the news" uyi Mrs Day “They wanted me to move to a larger building but I was buying this one I’m putting it up for sale now and just keeping my flower store because I didn’t want to be a dealer" Phyllis Burr as ton now works as a Registered Nurse at the Delia Medical Center She had been a Scars Merchant for eight years with a staff of two additional empiloyee “I hated to see it end Rayma Day in the empty Sears Catalog outlet like this” says Mrs Burraston “But I had other things wanted to do" Mrs Burraston w as not offered the option of becoming an appliance dealer In Fillmore Mrs Day will keep her Flower Shop and negotiations continue for a new renter to take over the prime location on the comer of Center and Main Streets “What a surprise" says Mrs Day “Even our Dstnct Manager in Sl George said that all he knew as w hat e would hear on the television or read in the news" “We sure did appreciate our customers and we feel badly that Scars best in Fillmore customers nationwide won’t be able to shop through the catalogs anymore" adds Mrs Day Shoppers can still order through the catalog through the end of 1993 said Mrs Burraston They can call an 800 number and pay for their purchases with credit card or by check The merchandise will be delivered directly to their home through the mail The Spmng and Summer catalogs w i’J be the last ones that Scars w iU print And after that the Scars catalogs will be relegated to the shelves of history and is The era over memory |