Show Delta City Council Candidates Sought Not only doc Uncle Sam wan! you Delta City wants your service For any individual who lives within the legal boundaries of Delta City and is interested in declaring candidacy for one of the three elected term City Council member positions expiring at the end of this sear please be aware that the filing is deadline at 5 p m on Monday July 16 2007 in the Delta City Recorder's too1 Office 76 N 200 W Delta Please be adv ised that there are criteria you must meet per Utah State Code regulating eligibility for candidates Delta City also has a mandatory $25 filing fee due at time of candidacy declaration If you have any questions about candidacy qualifications please call Oreg Schafer Delta City Recorder at between 7am and 6pm Thank you AARP Driver Safety Program Scheduled An AARP Driver Safety Program the nation's first and largest classroom refresher course designed especially for drivers aged 50 and older has been scheduled for Delta according to Karl Jenkins Area Program Instructor Jenkins explained that the program is divided into two sessions where participants w ill leam a number of things including driving techniques new traffic laws rules of the road and how to safely adjust their driving to changes in vision hearing and reaction time The course consists of audio- - isual portions discussions and workbook activities He explained further that all materials are prov ided and that there are no tests Fvervone completing the course will receive a Certificate of Completion For those age 55 and over this may entitle them to a reduction in their auto insurance premiums The Della driver safety course will be held on Wednesday and 8 Thursday July 25 & 26 from 30 am to 12 30 p m each day at the located at 100 Bird Senior Center S 240 W in Delta Class size is limis necesited and sary Those interested should call Jan to pre- - regSmith at (415) ister for the class There is a $10 00 fee for each participant which covers the cost of materials and other administrative expenses Jenkins added that he is a volunteer instructor and as such ceives no salary in connection with courspresenting these driver safety es Millard County municipal elections Several towns and cities in Millard County will hold elections this November Potential candidates have until Monday July 16 to file for office Delta Hinckley Fillmore and Holden have run legal notices regarding the elections A school referendum w ill be on the ballot Unincorporated areas such as Abraham Deseret Oasis Sutherland Garrison and Flow ell will be polled by mail This action was requested by the County Clerk and the County Commission upheld it at their regularly scheduled meeting on Tues July Business Training The Utah Small Business Development Center is pleased to announce that we have certification to offer a training program designed to help business owners assess their businesses improvement opportunities and provide a “dashboard" by which you can guide your business to new heights As with an automobile dashboard this business dashboard is a quick and easy reference tool to gauge how you are doing in your efforts to improve business The course is called Dashboard" (We'll look "inside" and help you your business create a tool to guide improvement MiPard County Millard County 3 - July 12 information More (Dashboard) about the upcoming class which will format be offered in a (online and via telephone) is available at http www snow edu business DashboardOnhne html The training will occur on July 12 at 10 00 A M so don't delay registering for this event (you may register online using a link on the page reference above) The cost is only $95 and those that qualify' may receive half of that fee back through the Custom Fit Training program at Snow College and talk Please call (4)5) to Keith Church prior to the class to discuss this option Jury selection A recent article advised readers of a possible scam related to potential jurors The scam involves the potential juror being aked for personal and inancial information over the phone “Jury selection in Millard County does involve a telephone call from the Millard County Clerk's Office" said Norma Brunson Millard County Clerk "The Clerk mails a jury qualification form to the prospective jurors After the form has been returned to the Clerk's office the prospective juror will receive a call from the Clerk Persons selected for jury duty are notified by telephone of the date they are to report to Court No information of any personal nature w ill be quested in this legitimate telephone “ exchange Questionnaires are mailed to prospective jurors twice each year at the beginning of two separate six month segments Chronicle Prcxress July 11 2007 Page As new concerns for community safety top the news again this week Utah is moving forward to prepare its communities to respond in the most effective way possible for emerPart of that preparation gencies has been the growth of oimminity mcrgeniy Response learns (( RI tn communities aiross Utah under the direction of the Utah Commission on Volunteers an office of the Lieutenant Governor volunteer representatives Twenty from across the stale have been chosen because of their particular expertise with emergency response issues to form the newly established ( RT Adv isory Board Their task w ill he to prov ide standards and guidance to sist all of the local Cl RT Programs to support the quality of 1 RT training by providing an on going Program and to support and encourage multi program and disaster simulation training exercises At a June 27 meeting four respected leaders were elected to serve as officers of this ad viviry group Chairperson of the Utah (I RT Advisory Board (U( AB) will be Janet Lindquist ( RT Program Coordinator for the Millard County Assistant Sheriff's Office Chairpersons will be Captain Jay Fearnlcv Public fducation ('filter and ( RT Coordinator for the Unified lire Authority serving Salt ake County and I ana Carter 1 RT Coordinator for the ( ity of Kaysville Serv mg as UCAB m Dav is County R Set rctary w ill be I iz eav itt a organizer and trainer in the Orem ( ity area of Utah County RT “The( program is very popular in Utah and has been called ulc I he iatew ay to Volunteering' believe this is true especially among those most in tune with disaster preparedness" said Kathy Hyde Smith I xecutive Dtrector of the Utah Commission on Volunteers The Community I mergency Response Team Program (C TRT) is nationwide effort to tram citizens in what to do to save lives and prevent further injury in the immediate of a major disaster C'F RT is sponsored at the federal level by the Department of Homeland Security the Federal Fmergency Management Agency Citizen Corps and the USA Freedom Corps Cl RT was initiated in Utah m 994 by the Division of I mergency Management (now Homeland Security) In March of 2006 the program wa moved to the Utah Commission on Volunteers as part of the Ctah Citizen Corps Council stimates of the number of Utahns that have been trained in CT RT are conservatively over 20000 Currently over one hundred local Cl RT organizations are functioning in communities throughout Utah a Delta 4th Grand Marshall Bertha Owens Bertha Alice Brush was bom the 29th of July in a little house six miles south of Delta Her parents were Edward A and Jennie Lillian Brush who had just moved from Chelsea Iowa to Delta with their five older children the previous December to take up a homestead on the South Tract Her mother (w ho had just bottled 50 quarts of apricots that day w as alone at the time of her birth which occurred around 9 pm in the evening Her father had taken the older children to stay with some neighbors and was on his way to Delta to get the midwife A young neighbor couple showed up a few minutes after Bertha was bom and stayed until Mr Brush returned with the midw ife Florence Pace (Mrs Pace stayed ten days to care for Jennie Brush and her baby and to do the cooking and help with the family For her pay she only requested $10 but Mr Brush paid her double ) A memorable event that occurred that same day Archduke Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated in Sarajevo Yugoslavia (now Bosnia) the incident that triggered World War I One of Bertha’s earliest memories is of when she was three years old and a dinner party was held tn a big tent in the yard of their home for a large group of enlisted men who were leaving to fight in France during World War I Her father who one of the two automobiles in Delta had driven many of these young men over to Fillmore to enlist in the arms Tw o younger brothers joined the Brush family after Bertha making eight childien in all Mema Clyde Ted Leona Irma Bertha Glen and Dee The girls all had household w oik and gardening to do while the hoys helped their dad with the farm animals and crops For fun they played marbles jump rope jacks dare base checkers and Chinese checkers etc Whenever the children got into a disagreement their parents would send them outside Bertha claimed that the reason they were all so healthy was because they got ‘so much of fresh air and their food was simple and wholesome The Brush children attended the school house on South Tract for a few sears When it was discontinued Idwud Brush built a school bus to carry the childien from Harding McComick and South Irut into Delta to school lhe bus had a wooden body built on a Ford truck chassis Bertha's older brothers ami sisters drove the bus Bertha's oh) est sister and brother were niembcts of the first class to graduate from the new high school in IVIta The 'Class of 923" consisted of 2 girls and one boy Clyde Brush who had been double promoted to the same class with his oldet sister Mema Bertha attended elementarv school and most ol her high school in Della with the exception of her sophomore year and half ol her iimor year when she lived with her older sister Bertha met her future tnBetkley ( husband on the 4'h of July m 932 at a dance at the big pavilion that was then in Oak City Cam on It was the summer vacation betote her ittnior year of high school and he was the reason she dec ided to come hu to DUS to finish high school gradual tng with the “I lass of 1933“ Just be ore Detiha was maned she and her fiancee moved hot pat ents and mo younger brother's from house (which their little had no electTRitv in mdevor plumb ing and the only addition over the 20 a a small vears she lived there had 'bcdioom' building for the children) house on into a much nicer one Iree Road Bertha Brush was married to R 34 in laar Owens on July the Salt lake lemple The newlyweds went down to Cellar City that fall to attend the Utah State Branch AgMciiltmil College After completing two years at the B AC tltcv transferred up to Utah State Uiuvctsity in I ogan where Bertha worked at the logan Credit Bureau and then at the I ogan Garment Company where she used !ut natural sewing ability to make beuitilully tailored cus tom made dresses suits and coats a Mended classes and worked la part time as an assistant manager at After graduthe college Kvokvtoie ating Lakar got a ob as a teller at the First National Bank in t ogan and Knight a ptettv little brick home on The Boulevard where they settled dow n to raise a fuiulv hen first tw o daughters Varla and Jancal were bom in logan and everything was going according to plan when World War II broke out Because lakar's tom vounger brothers had alreadv enlisted m the military and his lathet needed In Ip on lus farm a ar purchased a farm in Sutherland and brought lus lmulv to IVIta lor the next 46 years Bertha woikcd beside her husband to make their farm one of the best in the val Icy Two more daughters Gloria and Janet were bom m Delta I hey raised a variety of crops and all kinds of farm animals over the years ( orrals full of horses and cattle pens ol sheep and pigs and after the war a barracks building from fopa- was put to use as a chn ken coop and Bertha sold fresh eggs to the Utah Poultry (now II A) for several yearv Over the years Bertha has filled many callings in the various orgim zations of the I DS church her favor lies being those of Primary Teacher and Relief Society Visiting Teacher She also served in community ami civic positions including PT president (the year that Hinckley High was consolidated with Delta Might and 4 Club cader Bertha went to wotk at the tele phone company in Delta in 966 where she worked as a “number please" telephone operator for the next seventeen years and continued to help her husband on the farm as well After her retirement Bertha joyed farming and taking with her husband to the scenic parts of Utah They celebrated their Golden Wedding anniversary on the July 3 1984 I a Var passed aw ay in July of 989 Bertha continued to live on their farm in Sutherland for the next seven years In 99o she sold that home and had a new home built for herself m Delia where she has liven! htrWK past eleven years Bertha Still exi)oys sewing and is known for the pioneer K'nncts aprons and skills that she has sewn for participants in the treks to Martin's Cove She keeps in touch with her many friends and relatives and entoys writing her ‘memoirs' on her computer Bertha will be 9) years old on the 29th of July She is cheerful and pleasant and in good health despite the aches and pains ihat are a natural result of her advanced years She tries to make the best of every day and says she "never dreamed she'd ever be the oldest living resident of Delta' The Days of The old west Rodeo Coiwnuttee would to Thawte" the sponsors for the qjdoj- - rodeo Corporate Perceive sound 5 Has concerns 10 Picasso's mistress 14 Gray sea eagle 5 1 akc over w ithout right 16 Texas 7M10 7 hminatcs 8 Poc my stery 20 Con erred 2 2 Com c cn iq ucs 2) fh pictures co 24 Saudi oil co 25 Repugnance 28 Mockery sword simlar to a to l )2 )) Relating to the sea 35 kwon do martial art 36 rarsfcrs property 38 Cony A plant lacking a perma rent woody 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