Show 9 The SunNews Wednesday Oct 30 1991 Hunters urged to careful with fire Wildland fire agencies arc asking deer hunters to be very careful with fire in Utah’s back country The fire danger is moderate to high over most of the state “Recent warm weather with no has created dangerprecipitation ous lire conditions” warns State Forester Dick Klason “In addition because we’ve lost most of our seasonal firefighters a small lire could become a large dcstruc- - Four grants for Snow be live fire before we could control it" Hunters arc asked to be especially careful with campfires and cigarettes Sparks and heat from vehicles and equipment can also start fires "Please don’t leave campfires unattended” says Klason “and be sure your campfire’s out before breaking camp Let’s have a safe and deer hunt" Hike in grazing fee won't be coming after all An agreement to strike down bill language in the appropriations which would hike fees for public land grazers has been praised by the Utah Farm Bureau Federation UFB Executive Vice President C Booth Wallcntinc says House and Senate conferences on the committee vote have by a agreed to adopt the Senate’s position to not change the formula charged livestock producers utilizThe ing federal lands for grazing formula has governed the costs stockmen pay for grazing these lands based on livestock prices and forage quality The agreement was reached when the Senate offered to drop a provision concerning funding for the National Endowment for the Ai ls sough to Senator Jesse Helms Carolina “This is a tremendous victory for Utah’s public lands users” said Wallcntinc and a victory for the rural communities of Utah and the west which would have been devastated by passage of the tremendous fee hikes which had been planned” ness of the current fee structure when all the facts and costs were considered” Wallcntinc concluded College Students in Central Utah will benefit directly from four separate grants awarded to various programs It and projects at Snow College may take several months to realize some of the benefits but all of the money is directed to helping students receive a better education The college is going to receive close to a quarter of a million dollars this year to continue it’s Upward The program is Bound program designed to help high school students in dangcrof abandoning their education Another $198000 has been granted to the school to conduct a This proTalent Search program from 7th gram helps find students to 12th grade and dropouts up to age 27 Once the young people arc found they can be helped in a similar fashion to the Upward Bound program has The US West foundation given the college $4000 to impleInstruction ment a Supplemental program to help students succeed in classes which have as traditionally high failure rate S And the Marrincr Ecdcs foundation has given Snow College S5(X)0 to purchase photo communications lab equipment The lab will be located in the new Humanities and Fine Arcs Building This is the third year for the Upward Bound program at Snow and the program is showing remarkable success “We’ve had 16 students for 2 full years and 15 of them graduated this year” said Director Ken Jackson “Five of those kids arc still making a decision about college and the other ten have already began college this all it’s really exciting to advancement over time” Students are selected program because of low levels lack of a completed sec their for the income college education by cither of their parents or poor performance on their part in school Norma Shore Executive Secretary of Upward Bound said “so many people think these kids arc dumb but they aren’t A lot of them just need some motivation and some social experiences to help them grow” Students come to the Snow College campus for six weeks during the summer and then receive four to five hours a week of counseling or some type of contact during the school year They go on trips to tour die state capilol attend the Nutcracker Ballet sec Utah Jazz games and more “We try to give these kids experiences they wouldn't otherwise have” Jackson said The Talent Search program is an attempt to reach out to kids headed for trouble or dropping out If they arc found they can be offered tutoring counseling and any help that may inspire them to continue with their education Principals of schools throughout the area are coqxTaiing by offering the space for the program at each individual school and federal funding will provide for the leaching resources The talent search program will also try to reach young people up to age 27 who dropped out of school they can be found and arc willing to be brought back into the education process they will be assisted in any way possible The photo journalism program at Snow will benefit from the $5000 gill from the Ecclcs Foundation The new darkroom in the Fine Arts building is partially funded by the utilizing the new gill Students the will be bcncfitling darkroom college newspaper and yearbook and even more importantly they for interesting will be preparing careers in communications "Utah farmers and ranchers owe debt of gratitude to our state’s which congressional delegation suxxl up for the rights of rural people over the dictates of the environmental and preservationist lobbies” Wallcntine added “They attempted to make their case by unfairly of dicting farmers and ranchers misusing public lands while we simply made our case on the fair- a “ You earn l(J tt Aj ijiit l Fax It At the Salina Sun Office Our Fax Number: 7 Payments are crucial to rural West Congressman Jim Hansen urged the adoption of legislation designed to adjust and update the Taxes (PILT) program at a recent hearing by the National Parks and Public Lands Subcommittee of the House Interior Committee PILT payments were enacted to recognize that counties and other with entities local government Federal land acreage substantial couldn’t collect taxes sufficient to provide needed services or alternately would have to tax residents at higher rates to provide those services Payments are made for lands for naBLM administered tional forests parks and wildlife refuges for land used for Federal water projects 2nd some military installations was PILT legislation When no passed in 1976 it contained language to deal with erosion of those payments due to the effect of The new bill would inflation counteract that erosion and tie fuPILT ture payments to changes in Price Index Additionally legislation has been introduced which would correct a loophole in PILT ACT by repealfor ing the prohibition of payments lands that have been swapped from the Consumer states to the federal government Hansen noted that ‘The economy of the rural west is under The traditional creasing pressure bases of the western economy face Mining continual challenges are logging and farming grazing all on the decline - which necessithe in yearly fair tates a adjustment These payments PILT payment are crucial in helping local governments provide 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