Show UTAH 467 E SALT VOLUME 80 NUMBER 51 UTAH THURSDAY GUNNISON I" DECEMBER 17 841 11 25c Property’s Eyesore State Concerns Man Next Door Robins said he for one and a half what he assumes on three different hunting season and which were shoplifted from Richfield Kmart store Woman has been charged with theft in the incident UT PRICE Rooms hes on South First East in Gunnison next door to a vacant home with broken windows a lot with overgrown weeds trash trailers sheds and a hole in the ground which he ur lerstands was once the first well in Gunnison Good Day’s Haul N I T C 1981 Doug Robins is concerned about the condition of the lot next door to his borne Richfield Police Dept shows Dt Lt John Bettfreund items which were recovered from home in Gunnison PRESS ASS 300 S LAP E Broken glass also is on the ground and many children use the comer lot to from one street as a shortcut Hie well hole is partially another filled in and covered with a piece of old carpet and two filled trash cans Robins said he is tired of looking at the mess and chasing kids out He said other people he has talked to who live want such near similar situations eyesores cleaned up too Dont Burn m Outside has lived next door years and has seen are the owners only weekends during the City Says The Gunnison City Council is encouraging all citizens of Gunnison to outside obey the city law about inside the city limits burning He believes the owners should take care of the property before someone gets hurt Children have been seen playing there particularly during the summer months A board had been placed from the shed’s roof to a section of the house roof which made a ramp for the children to cross and climb into the second story of the home through broken window panes The Gunnison City ordinance slates Sections 10 320 through 10 322 that the duty of the owners to maintain premises in a manner that would not the diminution in cause substantial value of the other property in the neighborhood in which such premises are located It says that the weeds and debris constitute a nuisance when they a source of create a fire hazard of the or pollution contamination a danger to water air or property health a breeding place or habitation for insects or rodents or other forms of life “deleterious to humans or are unsightly or deleterious to their it is The city ordinance says "It shall be unlawful for any preson market waste to burn garbage manure or other refuse in the open air or in any furnace or stove within the ” municipality surroundings ’’ also says that the fire on his home is higher insurance of the of the condition because Robins neighboring property oman Girls Charged In Shoplifting Capers A Gunnison woman and two Gunnison girls were chained with shoplifting more than $1400 from worth of merchandise stores in Orem and Richfield On Sunday Dec 6 Jane A Jones and the girls were stopped by employees as they were leaving the store with $27653 worth of merchandise Brent Zobell of the Orem Police Department said the only receipt they had was from the Richfield did not store and the merchandise match the receipt A search warrant later found $651 worth of merchandise Christmas Programs Set The Gunnison Valley Elementary’s annual Christmas program will be held Dec 22 beginning at 6:30 Tuesday class will continue this for the entire program pm Principal Anderson hopes this will better accommodate arrangement the public and also invites everyone to visit the Christmas art displays in each The building will be open classroom at 6 pm and will remain open after the program to view the art Because of the increased enrollment at the school and anticipating a large turnout the program will be performed twice Seating will be available for 800 in the lunch room approximately and an additional 200 - 300 seats in the pod area The pod area is the open fifth and sixth grade class area north of the lunch room Students beginning with the band and string portion will perform in the lunch room and then give a second Each in the pod area performance arrangement Preparations also are being made for a musical Christmas program Sunday Dec 20 at 7 pm at the Gunnison The Valley High School auditorium a Stake Festival of Carols program will include numbers by the choirs from the various wards as well as Also many other musical groups will be the Gunnison performing EveryValley Community Orchestra one in the valley is invited to attend in the yellow Dodge Colt they were driving Last Thursday Jane Jones was out on bail in Gunnison where she allegedly stole a blank "check from Police have Doug Peterson’s garage charged her with forging the check and attempting to cash it at Safeway’ s in Richfield for $400 Safeway’ s authori-- ' ties became suspicious and contacted the Richfield Police who arrested her Jior check forgery Offiqnv said that she' and during ttirthef questioning the girls admitted to stealing merchandise from the store in Richfield A search of her home by Gunnison Police Chief Jerry and Jorgensen Richfield Police recovered approxiin mately $500 worth of merchandise the basement The girls also admitted to shoplifting in Gunnison Drug police said Also Jones’ father Tim Quinn discovered two of his wrapped Christmas gifts from his daughter were electric blankets reported stolen from have children Jones’ been put in the care of Social Services in Manti who have placed them with a who is female fnend of her husband convictions of in jail on manslaughter two bicyclists last summer Concerned Neighbor Doug Robins of Gunnison lifts the cover off a deep well hole located on property next door to his home He is con- - cerned about the safety lot and health hazards of the neighboring Help Needed in GVHS Lunchroom The cooks at Gunnison Valley High School would like parents to know that students could work in the lunch room The work is easy and takes about 20 minutes Pay is a free lunch worth 85 cents and 10 cents a day School officials report not enough students have been interested in working Teachers have had to assign students to work one day at a time which averages out to two or three days a year From the cooks’ point of view it would be a lot easier if the same students were working throughinstead of constantly out the year training new ones Reasons for not wanting to work at the lunch room vary with each student Some simply don’t want to others feel that by cutting their fourth period class by five to 10 minutes affects their grade in that subject (lunch workers are excused early from last class before lunch) and others don’t think the pay is Maysie worth it Willardson school lunch said she doesn’t think the occurs in the Manti High problem School and that they have a waiting list of students wiling to work She said she doesn’t understand why more students won’t work here especially since the work is so much easier int he new manager kitchen All they are required to do is put the Principal and Coach Worried About 4Co-e- d’ The principal and basketball coach at Gunnison Valley High School are having second thoughts about a region plan to bus girl and boy athletes to basketball games this year The first busing will be 18 for the school’s first Dec conference game with Beaver conceived by several administrators from Washington County at a school district meeting last spring It was thought to be a way to ex save money on transportation penses But Principal Peter Titze and Coach Danny Hill are having second thoughts about the plan because they say gate receipts from home games will go down as spectators see three The We Need Help! Stephen llvatt and Dennis Paterson lunch room workers for the day instruction from school lurnh manager Mimic Willardson on preparing lum h trays More manenl student help Is needed idea was Sports Busing games for the price of two the girls got gate In the past But receipts from their own games now the junior varsity plays at 4 30 and the p m the girls at 6 5 pm varsity at 8 p m all on the same day at is charged Transportation cents a mile and the budget for each high school in the South Sanpete School District is $1500 per year So with all the basketball games played on the same day only one tnp is Coach Hill remarked that necessary 25 what is saved expenses will in transportation be made up in headaches of having the boys and girls travel together This also cuts down the additional pay a bus driver food on the trays as the students go through the lines In fact to help cut down on food waste a particular food should not be put on a student’s tray if he does not want it Also helping to eliminate the waste problem is the fast food line About 72 hamburger hamburgers are cooked every day and are served on a first come first serve basis receives by driving the teams to the A driver out of town games is paid extra from the time he leaves his home until he returns to it Possible solutions to the problem ted include having more fund raisers cutting back the sports program putting into effect the “Pay to Play’ plan or raising the price of the student activity fee is presently The school district studying the problem and according to Principal Titze are leaning towards the plan This would Pay to Play At the beginning of the school year those students wanting hamburgers had to sign up for them Lnfortuna tely often when the student saw what was on the menu that day he changed his mind resulting in many uneaten hamburgers Cooking only 72 has solved the problem considerably with the regular school lurx h being 125 students cooked for approximately and teachers Police Acres I Man for Scr vinj Drinks to Kids An 18 year old man was arrested last Friday for supplying minors with alcoholic beverages Greg Elliott Gunnison was arrested Friday afternoon in the parking lot at Gunnison Valley High School e also was charged with illegal com imption of alcohol He wax taken to S npete County Jail by Gunnison Police Chief Jerry Jorgensen |