Show Serving Utah's Great Pahvant Valley USPS —r TT' t V ri r r w v WteJUL Br Derin Phelps Since Delta is on I S llighwavsf) 50 the National Heritage Area Partnership (NHAP) is interested in including Vita and the surrounding area in a proposed National Heritage Area Representatives from the National Heritage Area in Nev ada and other representativ es from Nevada and I'tah Tourism met with Millard Count) business and government l 25 leaders eb about their plans Ionia Harvev Chairwoman of NH P said the organization is woriing on two Nevada Tourism grants One is S 5000 from the Nev ada Commission on ourism to hire a coordinator for the 2000 NHAP Symposium The other is for tween S2OO0 and $3000 to facilitate NHAP meetings and coordinate work at the astern Nev ada lentage Area for next year Harvey said each community that wants to be a National Heritage Area will provide the Partnership with a tour of areas community leaders think are historically interesting ethnically orscenically interesting Tach community will provide an oral and written interpretation of tour items Millard County Tourism Director (ilen Swalberg said the county is anxious to become more involved in the National Heritage Area Program Millard County ourism has been meeting and discussing the program Swalberg thanked the ada )iv ision of Tourism for sharing grant it received from the Stale of money ada for the past three cars to promote the Deliaarea Swi!hcii explained that National Heritage Areas are very new and that there arc none in the far western areas of the l S He said a National Heritage Area is in the works in Butte Montana According to Swalberg the State of Utah is not helping to promote National lentage Areas He said if a tourism project or area doesn't hav e a lot of red rock w hite snow or green forest the State Legislature and Utah Division of Tourism is not interested tc Defa Ambulance takes fell to his death Monday Alfredo Gonzalez from Delta Egg Farm after he Construction worker killed at Delta Egg Farm Br Derin Phelps Alfredo (Ionale 32 of Vila was killed Monday while installing insulation in one of the buildings under construction at the Vila eg inn in Sutherland Mretl ickon ol the Millard Deputy t"oiint Shcrdl'si Hficc viid ( Ionale lell - pronounced dead n feet lie arrival at Delta onuminilv Medkill Ic fell about 2 05 p m SicKon said ter ( ionale died Irom head injur and possible spinal cord damage le was working in the rafters NieKon said no one saw him slip and Tail ed I'ope Site Superintendent lor ihe (taming contractor said feet donale's partner was about away from hun and hail his hack to luni when he lell It is no! known vet what caused the Tail Pope said Brian Hunker who is an Ml responded to the site before the ambulance arrived and performed C'I'K on lor 2l minutes Ambulance Nil continued I I'R lor at least another 2s minutes "It's an industrial accident so there will be an invest Ration" NieKon said Ihe Suite Medical xaminer's Office ill conduct an autopsy is itist a iragic thing" I'ope said I'ope said the accident should not have happened because ol the area where (ionale was working lie said no one heard hun ell lor help Safely cables and in place harnesses were reportedly " Ml salelv precautions that should be in place were in place" I'ope said I'ope shut work down iniincdiaicly the accident He said workers would siav home again uesdav out of respect for (ionale I'ope id (ionale started work last week and reponedlv left behind a wile am1 three children lionakv Y2K is not By Derin Phelps "This thing manageable and there's a lot of people out there doing something about it" said Lee A Carter ice President Retail Products of Sr ions Bank Carter spoke during a seminar with Millard County business and community leaders in Delta last Thursday on the Y2K computer bug He said many reports on the Internet predicting doom and gloom are not true Some organizations are 2000 pacemakers porting that on Jan will quit working airplanes will full from the sky elevators will crash cars won't start Russian and American nuclear missiles will launch causing World War and the US power grid will shut down causing up to a power black out Carter said none of these ev ents w ill happen Y2K is a technology based problem It's a very pervasive concern because so many parts of computers and appliances are Carter explained that Y2K is not a virjs the destruction of property the "end of the world as we know it" a world-idc financial meltdown or the extinction of mankind In saying this Caner stressed that he was not saying not to worry about Y2K because it will affect people to some extent US Senator Bob Bennett of Utah said 8 months ago there was a 40 chance of a complete power grid shutdown because of Y2K Now he is say ing the chances are down to 3 Carter said Y2K should not affect natural gas because delivery consists of running the gas from one end of a pipe to another Not much technology is involved He also docs not expect major electric power problems or phone serv ice interruptions Carter said many computers don 't care about dates so the worst that will happen is the date will be wrong on a printout His solution is to change the date on computers back to 995 He said this w ill keep any programs from freezing he Y2K problem is in the software code of many computers w ith date fields Y2K CP Motorcycle racers from all over Utah and Nevada made participate in the 1999 Cow Dung Run it out Saturday to 1999 Cow Dung Run crowd pleaser Derin Phelps Close to 500 people came out Saturday watch the I9N (ou Dung Run ivseit Motorcycle Race sponsored by the Sugarloafers Motorcycle Club oflVlta he race was held near this year and was run about six months ahead of schedule Race Coordinator kC Bogue said organizers chose March instead of September hoping to find moister soil They didn't hut Bogue said net year's By to race w ill probably be run in March as well The course was a loop with checkpoints Racers started at the pits which were set up behind Delta Valley Farms Cheese Plant he course went der a culvert at Sahara Motors then went out by State Route 136 and back into Ihe River Dip and into the pits Hrook Finlinson of Oak Citv and Ihe approximate!) 20 members of the Sugarloafers helped guide bikers through road crossings marked the course picked up the 36 March 18 1999 course after the race and manned and numbered the checkpoints "This ear we couldn't run up bv Oak City because the HI M s throwing a fit" Hoguc said "It's not going to hurt thing don't know what their deal is" The entire race this year was run on private land Rogue said motorcycle racers don't like being crammed into one certain area to race "What's the fun of riding the same course ev ery race?" Bogue said Bogue said the Sugarloafers hav e been working with the BIM on the matter He hopes next year's race will he held near Oak City as it has been for years There were 23 big bikes and 4 mini bikes in this ear's race he three categories included Fxpert Amaicur and Novice Racers came from all over Utah and Nevada he racer that came the furthest See Races on page 3 Chuck Noieka is a fu ililato' hired K Nevada Division of ourism to work communities He said the NH P business plan was developed to help dreat Basin National Park and Baker Nevada enhance and improve their tourism products and bring more people in particularly those who spend a fair amount of money and enhance the economy Noicka said the astern U S has National lenlage Areas It's a rural development program that provides resources to rural communities to help develop travel regions Kach community tells its own Noicka said this is a grass roots story program not federally mandated He said it comes with no regulations and it is cally controlled According to Noicka Congress won't designate a National Heritage Area unless people in the region want it Local residents are involved in organizing these eas Ihey must prove to Congress thai they are motivated to continue on with a National lentage Program if such an area is designated ocal residents must work w ith their local stale and federal gov eminent representatives and ultimately ith their Congressional delegation to bring a bill to Congress for the designation Local communities can get up to SI million a year for ten years to develop a region he NHAP is try ing to get Congress to designate the Highway 50 Corridor as a National Heritage Area Money lor the program can go for promotion Mam Street development and enhancing museums and Heritage sites IheNatumal Heritage Area Program is specifically geted to communities getting aw ay from a economy such as ranching and mining toward a his is evident in the astern economy US Noicka said in Pennsylvania two Heritage corridors revolv e around the steel industry and coal mining Noicka said historical sites are part of one of the fastest grow ing areas of the tourism market because people want to find See Heritage on page 3 Ihe with rural Possible Heritage sites in Leamington Delta in Millard County include O'C histonc LDS Cnurch with bell (top photo! Topaz Internment canp site near the end of the world says Zions is M right arvr said iles 'vii lot those ho need alter Vc Ihe on!v !hat ivL ndei them wouij be possible rvwc oitaces most likely caused bv ihe weal! ei 2k alarmists are warning o' rvss all work cash Kink n'is h!v c a V 'iMi morw dangerous to 'iiv e large sums n s home ions Kink bru ake I in rcccntK erorkl ar account holder who look Ssimtlie cisp o: bank because ol all 2k t aner siij account hollers chow up at the same !i"ie sue all bank their money couid wanting not oblige It there is a run uler viid the ederal Reserve would shut the ederal Kcscvc is banking mdusir reponedlv pruning cctra nonev ms m ease 2k causes banking problems ions Bank is concerned about possible bank runs hat s one reason (aner said the bank is sending him around the state to to 2k communities explain aner sjid it's ptudenl to prepare not onlv (r Y2k bul tot any possible disaster He suggested utilitv and other hilK be lore Jan a nswcrtng question about hat to do uh mutual funds aner said he is not a licensed financial adv ish so he cannot gally give advice on the subicvt He did he concerned is about potential intersay national financial troubles created bv x and that there could be a recession but mi one knows for sure aner quoted Sen Bennett w ho said Y2k ill bring a "flight is in a Rick Archibald Ztons Delta Branch Manager (l) introduces Lee A Carter Vice President Retail Products Zions bank last Carter to business and community leaders about It's also in some embedded chips and in the interfaces between sv stems Carter said Zions Bank's computer s stems are fixed although the bank will continue to work on Y2K through the end of the ear The Federal Reserv e Sv stem considers computer sv stems Y2k compliant if software hardware and firmware can demonstrate correct management and manipulation of data involving dates including and s without generating incorrect values volving such dates Carter offered a approach to the Y2K situation Aw arcness of the is the first phase Businesses government agencies and individuals then need Thursday Y2K spoke assess any potential problems in their computer stems Renov alion of the s is the next phase followed by validating any changes made and testing them Changes must then be implemented into a sy stem and maintained Because there is a close regulatory ov of the banking industry Carter said banks are ahead of the curve Banks started the project to f Y2k in ions Bank is not finished testing all its systems and it has a contingency plan to go manual in January if nveessjrv Carter said that on Jan 2(Xi ail of ions' branches w ill be open In fact he said some may even open on Sat Jan just to let customers know everything is to West Millard Cultural Council presents RCOPY Vol 88 No "r crntv op National Heritage Area Partnership focusses on Delta area hull til ( single Tears of Joy Theatre to quality Ihe number one priority ol ions Bank in IW s reportedly to prepare lor 2k Carter said the bank is replacing its core processing systems and has implemented inlivmialKvn technical and business teams For account holderv Carter said it's portant to keep tract of all bank statements Whenever a transition is made ions automatically issues receipts Carter said kkis conducts nightly backups of all account data Recwds and tapes ol receipts and balances arc stored olVsiie See Y2K on page 3 Friday March 19 DHS Auditorium 7:30 pm $4 per person |