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Show Candidates face March Metal critters evicted 7. A year ago Paul Turner was still building metal critRICHFIELD ters to add to his Monster Museum at the Richfield City flood basin near the north lnterstate-7- 0 interchange. He had made arrangements to bring in or construct several pioneer-typ- e village Main Street in the vicinity of buildings to develop an the display last fall. But today all that remains of Turners ambitions project are a couple of riles of twisted metal, the remains of his herd of named animals which graced the rim of the basin for the past two years. I have a lease on the property until May, but the city council has asked me to clear off whats left of the critters because they say its an eyesore, Turner said. Begun in 1987, Turner worked by himself for nearly six years to construct various sizes and shapes of objects as an answer to a challenge given to the Richfield City Council when Turner served as a council member. Mayor Sue Marie Young asked every council member to do something to help promote tourism for Richfield. As far as I know Im the only one that took on a project, Turner said. But Turners dream of expanding his project to include a pioneer main street village came to an abrupt end last June when the Richfield City ic ic Manning Commission was informed by the Central Utah Health Department that the project did not meet Utah Health Department Requirements. The museum is closed permanehtly, Turner said, 1 dont know where the metal will be taken, but I will have it off the property by May, he said. While Turner was pessimistic about any future efforts to develop such a )ark, he said there is always a possibility, but it wont be in Richfield. The Richfield Reaper Those dirty rats MESA VERDE Superintendent Larry T. Wiese released visitation igures for Mesa Verde National Park. Annual visitation decreased 10 percent in 1993 compared to visitors in 1992. Each month in 1993 showed a decrease as compared to the same month in 1992 with the exception of December. The month of December showed an increase of 16 percent Wiese stated, The increase during December is most likely due to unusually mild winter weather making the park more easily accessible to visitors. The decrease in monthly visitation during 1993 might be attributed to the Hantavirus scare which plagued the entire Four Comers Area for most of the year. In addition, extremely heavy show fall during January and February 1993 made travel into the park extremely difficult. The winter months are still an exceptional time of the year to visit the park. Snow depth allowing, cross country skiing is available on Cliff Palace Road. Weather depending. Ruins Road is open offering access to spectacular canyon views, surface sites, and cliff dwelling viewpoints. The Chapin Mesa Archaeological Museum is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Spruce Tree House Ruin guided tours are also available. Times Independent Kanab to host the world KANAB Last week a tour bus quietly came into town and on board were the leading tour agents and managers for NTA tours of Tokyo, the third largest travel agency in the world. Coming as a part of a Fam Tour sponsored by the Utah Travel Council and the Kane County Travel and Promotion Bureau, this group followed an itinerary suggested by Osamu Hoshino, Utah Travel Council. Hoshinos idea was simple, allow ah independent' carrier to carry the passengers booked for tours by ten of Japans busiest agencies, thus guaranteeing that the busses would run full. Each tour will spend three days and two nights visiting the wonders of Utah. The real key for Kane County is that both of the bus nights in Utah will be in Kanab. Hoshino has sold the tour operators on a concept that has been around for a long time, use Kane County as the hub for loop trips to see the sights, leaving your suitcases unpacked in the same place instead of packing each day. Parry Lodge helped to host the group, as did members of the Kane County Travel Council. Should this tour concept become reality as it is expected, then Kanab would see four new bus nights a week this year from mid-Ma- y to The result? Nearly two thousand new Japanese visitors exploring Kane County this year. Southern Utah News mid-Octob- tall tales Telling Is RICHFIELD story telling a lost art? Not at Red Hills Middle School! According to speech and drama teacher Fran Oldroyd, there are two main advantages to story telling: learning to speak in front of a group and finding a moral or message about life which is hidden in all good stories. A few weeks prior to the retold story contest, Sevier School District invited a professional story teller, June Miller, to demonstrate her talents to a fascinated audience at Red Hills and North Sevier middle schools. She spends her summers weaving tales with the Utah Shakespearean Festival in Cedar City, In January, students summoned their courage and impressed a panel of judges with their best efforts. It was most rewarding to see those stories come alive as the individual personalities blended with the original tales, said Oldroyd. The top eight contestants shared their stories again with the best story tellers from North Sevier. Meeting new friends from another school and developing talents adds new dimension to learning within the classroom, stated Oldroyd. The top students from the combined schools then participated in the Southern Utah Performing Arts Festival in St George. The Richfield Reaper Grass is always greener DINOSAUR NATIONAL MONUMENT A squabble between a rancher on Dinosaur National Monument and the U.S. Park Service will be heard by an arbitrator March 2. The dispute over conditions of a grazing permit on monument ground came to a head last August when the Park Service notified Tim Mantle, 55, that he was being fined $462 because 33 head of his cattle had strayed off a grazing allotment three months before the notice. The Mantle family has been ranching inside the boundaries of the monument just over the Utah State Line since before the monument was created. Charley Mantle, Tims father, started the ranch in 1919. I am in a situation," said Mantle. If we pay the fine, we will be that we violated the terms of the permit and could lose future peradmitting mits. I didnt even know there was a charge against me until I read it in the Grand Junction paper. I suspect the cattle the Park Service said were on the wrong side of the fence, either jumped the cattle guards or went around the ends, Mantle said. An agreement in 1990 allows the Mantles to graze their cattle on one side of the fence until May 15 of this year. The cattle must then be mover to the other side of the fence. The permits call for moving the cattle from one side to the other for protection of the resources. The Rio Blanco County Sheriff on Oct. 15 served Mantle with notice that the government believed he might have been in violation of his permit, Mande said. We are asking that Mantle adhere to the terms of the grazing permit, said Denny Huffman, U.S. Park Sendee supervisor. We dont want him to serve jail time or pay an excessive fine, Huffman said. Conflicts are documented by both sides of the issue. Mantle is so disturbed by his case that he has solicited the help of the Dcnver-basMountain State Legal Foundation. Fighting the deep pocket of the federal government alone is tough, Mantle said. Mantle said he is worried someone may eventually get hurt, if not enc up in jail, all for a few cattle that look for greener pastures when they get the chance. Vernal Express long-standi- no-wi- n ei i FARMINGTON Rep. Marda Dillree admits the early window for filing political candidacies is inconvenient, but says the motivation for moving up the dates of political activities stems from a renewed emphasis on general elections. Candidates for state and local office must file this year between March Voting district caucus meetings, previously held in April, are scheduled for Monday, March 28, while party primary elections, normally held in September, are slated for June 28. for the Dillree, who plans to file for Utah House (District 17, covering Farmington, Fruit Heights and portions of Kaysville) are supportive of slightly extending the candidacy filing 7-1- deadline 7 enrolled in a study abroad curriculum. My family and I will visit our son, then whisk back to Davis County by March 17 to officially file for reelection, she said. Davis County Clerk-AuditMargene Isom said the moving up of the primary elections to June 28 has created a challenge in finding election judges. A lot of people are trying to gear up in late June to travel for the July 4 holiday, said Isom, and its making it more difficult for our Elections Office to get commitments from potential judges. But she echoed Dillrees view that the earlier dates are beneficial for candidates entering the Nov. 8 general election. period. The shortened filing period is certainly inconvenient to some hopefuls, and, in fact, is inconvenient to me. But there was nothing sinister about moving up the dates. The new time frames will allow candidates in all political parties to have ample time following their partys nomination to organize their campaigns and better get their message out to the public. Under the previous time schedule, candidates only had some five weeks between their partys primary election and the November general election. The inconvenience for Dillree in filing for a second House term revolves around a planned family vacation to Mexico where her son is Kaysville Peak relay station is illegal By MARK EDDINGTON Staff Writer KAYSVILLE got this cleared up. Under the current patent act, any use of the land other than for watershed purposes is grounds for the land reverting back to the federal Communication between individual school buses and administrative offices in the government. Davis County School District could be disrupted unless Congress approves a bill which would allow communication relay stations on federal watershed lands. In 1926, Kaysville was granted a National patent to Wasatch-Cach- e Forest land on Kaysville Peak to protect the citys watershed. The city approved the construction of a relay station on the peak in 1978, which is a technical violation of the 1926 patent act. City officials discovered the violation when the relay station was sold to I think John Thacker. We reviewed the site. ..and discovered that there were problems. So we told them we couldnt lease it to them until we land, approval would provide Kaysville to lease the land and bring more revenues into city The Senate bill, Touch Natures THERAPEUTIC MASSAGE Kaysville Peak, this modification to the 1926 act is justified and warranted, Hatch told a Senate subcommittee on public lands, national parks and forests. JOLENE P. KETCHUM. LMT, Member of AMTA To Enchance Your General Health Gift Certificates Available Ladies Only Thacker - Call 295-797- 0 000000000090000 Ultimate 0 tive offices. It also serves as a link for oil companies and other clients. Closing down or moving the station would be a major disruption. agreement, said City Manager Aside from hanging on to the get- S.859, introduced by Utah senators Orrin Hatch and Bob Bennett last April, would amend the 1926 act to permit relay stations, as long as they didnt interfere with watershed protection. Since there is no degradation to Kaysville Citys watershed by hav- The relay station provides a communications link between district school buses and administra- Commercial of a matter It would have have been done last year but Congress adjourned before they got to it. ing the station located along Communications Inc. They came to us for a lease its just ting it done, he said. o o 0 TicJTi, o o o doesnt think it will come to that. South Davis Ambulance Association is on the job My Mon., Thu., Frt., Sat., o o 7:30 p.m. Saturdays WARRIOR Tues. South Davis Ambulance Association workers are doing the job, and they want West Bountiful to know it. Greg Peters of the South Davis Ambulance Association met with the West Bountiful City Council recently to provide them with a brief history of the ambulance association and the good it does in the city and surrounding communities. The association began a functioning relationship with the fire department in 1951. The Firemans Association had purchased Davis Countys first ambulance the year before. Until that time, Davis County residents had to wait for an ambulance to come from Salt Lake City. The association pays its own expenses from the fees it collects from its services. The association also provides general aid in disaster situations like earthquakes and rainstorms, Peters said. People fallen on hard times are We also frequent beneficiaries of the associations help and expertise. take a lot of pride in what we do, Peters said. We have donated to causes such as Little League football and cancer patients. o Your favorite Musical o By JENNY BERNARDS Contributing Writer Fair LADY & Wad. thru March 30 e 7:30 p.m. o SLEEPING Beauty a Fractured Fairy-Tal- e o Every Saturday at NOON thru March 26 o 0 o o PAGES LANE THEATRE 298-130- RESERVATIONS 292 East Pages Lane 2 CentervilleJBountHul eooooooooeeoo o o o o West Bountiful purchases 2 vehicles, grafitti remover By JENNY BERNARDS Contributing Writer The West Bountiful The F-3- full-siz- e pick-u- is p being upgraded to include drive and the standard four-whe- City Council recently approved the purchase of two new vehicles and a grafitti removal machine. A 1994 Ford Bronco and a 1994 Ford have been purchased for use by the city, Wendell W. F-3- Wild, city administrator, said. The two-doBronco will be for the city administrator and was the least expensive utility vehicle available that can both carry passengers and be useful in the event of emergency, Wild said. or el transmission will be replaced with a heavy-dut- y automatic transmission because many different city employees will use the truck for use in subdivisions and Wild said. Additionally, the power washer the city has been considering for two months has been purchased for $6,500. While the primary reason the city wanted to buy the power washer was to remove grafitti, the washer also be used for other purposes within the city. cul-de-sa- I I I I I I I I I I I McGruff the key to safety, Wt. Btfl. City Council told How to make the city safer was a topic of concern discussed by West Bountiful City Council members last week. Police Chief Wayne Jeppson told the council of the good that McGruff homes can do and the need to have more of them in the city. Jeppson called them an extra eye in the neighborhood and stressed the fact that a background check is done on all who want to have the McGruff sign in their home. We want kids to They can offer help and comfort," Jeppson said. know McGruff like we knew Smokey the Bear. The McGruff program is endorsed by the Utah Crime Prevention Center and interested individuals can make an application through the PTA at the elementary schools. In other news, councilwoman Vicki Stock told the council they have over 50 teens serving on the youth city council. Council considers purchase The Bountiful BOUNTIFUL hold its regular will Council City meeting on Wednesday, March 9 at 7 p.m. with a light schedule of five action agenda items. The council meeting will be held in the city council chambers at city hall at 790 South 100 East in Bountiful. 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