| Show 75 GUNNISON At F'Y I ESSENGER edition VOL 83 MANTI UTAH NUMBER 42 5139 i Thursday - 4833 Showers and colder Friday - 5233 Partly sunny Saturday - 5534 Partly sunny By GUNNISON— After four years of tense negotiations between Gunnison City and the Central Utah Correctional Facility a new Last Week’s Weather J Anderson laasssi glitch may stalemate a sewer project designed to upsie the city’s sewer system so it is able to handle loads from the prison The controversy between the city and the state Division of and Construction Management (DFCM) which oversees all Darrin and Becky Cummings stand proudly in front of the new building for the Eye Center of Ephraim The building also houses Kim Bateman’s new medical clinic and Colette Hansen’s massage therapist practice Eye Center first business to open in development — f Marker for Elisha and who Nancy Voorhees died in the 1800s By Karen Buchanan Staff writer EPHRAIM— In July just years after he had estab- FI New monument marks pioneer graves MANTI — A new gravestone in the Manti City Cemetery marks the final resting place of Elisha Voorhees who died in 1856 and his wife who Nancy Ann Voorhees died in 1891 The Vorhees settled in Manti 's Little Fort in 1852 and now have hundreds of descendants in the county But until Sunday their gravesite had never been marked About 70 descendants at- dedicating four lished the Ephraim Eye Center Dr Darin Cummings moved his growing practice into a new building with 10 times more office space than his first location in the Worthington-Levit- t building on the corner of First South and Main Street in Ephraim Ground March was broken last and by the first of July the candidate night set in Fairview FAIRVIEW— night will be held tomorrow at the Fairview Museum 85 N 100 East at 7 pm All state and local candidates appearing on the Sanpete ballot have been invited For information call the museum at You said It! “The DFCM has always been a thorn in my side” — District 70 Representative Brad Johnson on the Gunnison struggle with slate agencies on their sewer project John Hales Staff writer MANTI — County attorney Ross Blackham is prosecuting a case that he says is the first of its kind in Sanpete On Oct 12 Blackham filed charges in Sanpete Justice Court against Lavon and Janiece Broderick for violating the county’s subdivision ordinance The couple faces six Class B misdemeanor counts of “unlawful sale or exchange of subdivision lots” for selling parcels of land without going through the proper legal channels the Brodericks Particularly A4 IT A5 A8 A10 A14 First Piece Group General Excellence Sanpett Mwr9 m Utah Press Association General Excellence 1999 - 2001 winner COPY- - property The cheering rodeo crowds and the smell of the animals are just memories — a wide paved road now divides the property and with the addition of the Movie Gallery video store just west of the eye center two new large buildings give promise of several other businesses to follow Ephraim City has developed the space into a commercial subdivision “We don’t want to be in the real estate business and so our goal-ito sell rather than lease the lots for commercial use” said Ephraim City Recorder Richard Anderson Besides the road utilities have been put in place and the lots are ready to be built on Anderson added that the city w ill use discretion in selling the lots violated the part of the ordinance which states “No person shall sell or exchange or offer to sell or exchange any parcel of land which is any part of a subdivision of a larger tract of land nor offer for recording in the office of the county recorder any deed conveying such parcel of land or any interest therein unless such subdivision has been created pursuant to and in accordance w ith the provisions of this title” Reed Hatch Sanpete County recorder brought the violation to Blackham’s attention after he noticed that warranty deeds of sale were being filed in his for properties that had not project cost for both phases Gunnison officials say that if it weien’t for the burden of the prison the city wouldn’t need a sewer system upgrade for another 10 years However Mayor Scott Hermanscn said that the prison is looking at future growth of its mate population and that the city wants to accommodate that grow th now That could be accomplished he said solely with the project’s construction was the major topic of discussion at a Gunnison City Council meeting phase The second phase even it is built now wouldn't be used for al least 10 years and maybe not for another 10 years "Why should the taxpayers Monday The city planned to build the but the project in two phases DFCM is demanding that the sewer be done all at once — and is tin evening to withhold $900000 in spend so much money on something that will just sit tlieie for who knows how many years" he asked To that add the fact that on several occasions the prison has dumped more than the agreed funding already appropriated by the Legislature until its terms are met The $900000 is almost half of the estimated $18 million total maximum flow of 250 gallons per minute (gpm) into the piesent fii st if (See “Gunnison” on A2) Former Manti grad dies from injuries in climbing accident By Sean Hales Staff writer “Subdivision” (See on A2) been submitted to the county zonfor approval ing administration The ordinance requires that prior to subdividing and selling land a person must file an application with the zoning administration and submit plats showing the details of the subdivision latch says when he saw the deed agreements coming into his office he did not recall seeing the necessary plats He contacted county zoning administrator Lee lol instead w ho indicated that he had seen nothing in his office regarding the properties lowever I lolmstead says he (See “Violators” on A2) SALT LAKE CITY— Ambcrly Rodgers 20 the daughter of Warren and Diane Rodgers of Manti and a 2002 graduate of Manti High School died Sunday night at the University of Utah Medical Center from injuries sustained in a hiking accident in Big 'V- - Cottonwood Canyon Amberly her father Warren and her younger sister Patricia were rock climbing on Storm Mountain in the Salt Lake County canyon on Oct 10 when the accident happened to Diane was helping Patricia up a face when Amberly went to find a route to the peak so she could rappel down On her way back to her father and sister Amberly slipped on some shale and was carried over a ledge where she fell 20 feet to the rocks below She sustained a broken pelvis broken arm internal injuries and brain According Rodgers Warren Amberly Rogers stem injuries Paramedics responded to the scene and transported Amberly from the mountainside to a campground Li c Flight transpoitcd her to the University ol Utah where she was in a Hospital coma and on life support until her death According to Penny a family friend Mickleson the medical staff told the lumily that (See “Fatality” on A2l Commission seeks transportation planner By C R Truitt Staff writer Commissioner Claudia Jarrett recommended the county hire someone to develop and manage a transportation plan which would give the county leverage with the Forest Service and the BLM in wilderness issues at the Sanpete County Commission Opinions Lifestyle School Sports Classifieds Ephraim Eye Center had moved into a 6000 square foot building at 450 North Main St on the former Ephraim rodeo grounds County going after violators of subdivision ordinance By Meet the Geoffrey Pace Staff writer Reported by Lee tended a ceremony the gravestone 20 2004 Conflict with state could stalemate Gunnison project Wednesday Showers cold OCTOBER WEDNESDAY meeting held OcL 5 Jarrett brought the recommendation before the county commission from an ad hoc committee appointed to research creating a transportation plan She said she and the other committee members didn’t have the experience or time to put into such an undertaking and needed someone full time with the experience to do it who would terlace with other government agencies Jarrett suggested a retired person when Commissioner Greg Deuinger remarked that the county couldn’t pay for a professional planner Dettinger was in favor of hiring a person to take on the task as well as the person becoming a and land county administrator planner He said he thought it was important for the county to have an administrator He added that if the county didn’t they would be behind other counties He also thought the county would never get far on the fairgrounds project or new jail without the position Jarrett said the county has money for such a position in the budget and they could easily build it in for next year Commissioner Bruce Blackham said the Association of Governments and the state were concerned about developing a transportation plan also and he recommended finding someone Jarrett proposed accepting applications and resumes The Pretty Shields Foundation came before the commission with two issues One issue is the county acting as the pipeline for Pretty Shields Foundation to obtain revenue bonds up to $35 million The commissioners haven’t signed yet to allow the bonds but they lowed the process to go to a notification period Dm ing that time the issuance of the bonds can be challenged At the end of the 30 days the commission will likely allow the bonds The county by law can sign to al low the bonds to be issued but are not held liable should the foundation default On the other issue the commission held finn to lolkwine the The county’s zoning protocol foundation has three hurdles to get over to establish Spring Mountain (See “Planner" on 2) Christensen fills Mayfield vacancy By 3 meeting on Wednesday Oct The council swore in John John Hales Staff writer I E L D — T h e M A Y Town Council filled Mayfield an open council seat duiing a Christensen to fill the seat vacated by former councilman Reed Knudsen Knudsen left the seat to avoid conflict of interest concerns alter taking a position employed by the town Mayor Doug Bjerregaard says that alter not receiving any applications the council unanimously decided Christensen to ask to sit on the gov- erning body “He’s a real asset to our and very publicly community minded” says Bjerregaard w ho is the son Christensen of Mt Pleasant mayor Chesley Christensen is a parole agent for the Division of Adult Probation and Parole of the Utah of Corrections Department Before that he was captain special operations unit at the Central Utah Correctional Facility in Gunnison of the Catherine Bartholomew city recorder swears in John Christensen to fill a vacancy in the Mayfield Town Council L |
