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Show Motor sports park does not get support of Monticello City by Logan Dowell Supporters of the park told It appears that the City of the council that the park was in Monticello will not be involved the best interest of the in a motor sports park after the community, saying that the city May 9 meeting of the Monticello would generate money from City CoundL After extensive discussion and public comment, no member of the council would move to commit $350,000 to $500,000 for paved track. an Afterwards, exploratory a full-blow- n motion to move ahead with a dirt track was removed. '( i i ticket sales and the community would benefit from increased visitation. On the other side of the issue, several city residents who live along Clay Hill Drive south of town expressed concern about potential noise from the park. The residents said they chose to live out of town to escape the noise and rush, and that they could support the park ifit were in & different location. The wheels of government were spinning too slowly for supporters of the project, who felt that the City moved too slowly to take advantage of the Project supporter Carol They also Barton opened the window to opportunity. she when expressed frustration that the compromise wheels and Council the that its City "spun acknowledged didn't fully support a detailed may be hesitant to commit the examination of the project. full amount but asked just how work of hours by much the City would contribute. Despite the and Councilman Evan Lowry support of organizers many members of the local stated that he could not support business community, the project the full $500,000, but made a simply couldnt overcome the motion that the city complete a hesitancy of council members to full blown examination of the Hwnmit half a million dollars. concept. He also moved that the Time running out to see s I 0 : I one-of-a-ki- nd If you havent seen the Bayles, Benjamin Perkins, Landscape Remembers exhibit Hyrum Perkins, Franklin Jacob at Edge of the Cedars museum, Adams, Jens Peter Nielson, Bob you are running out of time. Allan and Kumen Jones. This exhibit, the largest and Lyman, Bayles, Nielson, Jones most complex ever presented at and the Perkins brothers have Edge of the Cedars, can be of numerous descendants still particular interest to local living in San Juan County, most of whom know little about their residents. ancestors involvement in the the The exhibit presents stories of several mqjor artifact artifact trade. Lang was a collections that were taken out handsome young man of Quaker of southeastern Utah over a descent from Pennsylvania, a century ago, and the dogged photographer and musician who efforts of a small team of lived in Bluff throughout the volunteer researchers to find the 1890s. His son, Charles Jr., collections and link them back became a world famous, academy-award to their discovery sites. winning Hollywood Included in the exhibit are cinematographer. Allan left the unique and magnificent area as a young man, and Adams artifacts that will probably became a well- - known Blanding never be exhibited in the West stockman who drowned in a again, a wonderful array of White Canyon flash flood in the historic photographs, mural-siz- e early 1940s. Artifact collections made by photos of landscapes and ruins, and a variety of land- these local men were exhibited, scape and artifact photographs along with some of the Wetherill by noted photographer Bruce and McLoyd collections, at the Hucko. spectacular Chicago Worlds Fair n of 1893. They ultimately fell into In addition to the and their the hands of various museums Wetherills contemporary rival Charles from Berkeley, California to New McLoyd of Colorado, the exhibit York City, where they were features a number of San Juan located and studied a century County Anglo pioneers whose later by the volunteer researchearly artifact-- collecting activi- ers who called themselves the well-know- ties have been largely forgotten. Charles B. These men D. Lang, Platte Lyman, Hanson . , Wetherill-Gran- d Gulch Research That effort to find artifacts in museums and link Prqjectf team. City proceed with construction of a dirt track on the site south of town. Project organizer Kim Hoggard stated that unless the City was willing to make a financial commitment to deal with dust control, security issues, noise control, and crowd control, the liability would be too high for the City. As a result, Lowry withdrew his motion. In other business, the Council approved a donation of up to $500 for a city beautification project Marilyn Low requested the $250 sponsorship of the Monticello High graduating Senior party. The Council explained that in the the past they have event with Utah Power and Light They will contact Power and Light to seek their extensive repairs to the system. Since it is 50 years old, a historical evaluation is required. The City is still working out the fine details with the trash pickup. The garbage truck received a smaller mechanical arm than originally planned. Instead of the arm lifting each individual can over the top of the truck to be emptied, the new arm will allow the contents of about 15 cans to be emptied into a bin, which will then be emptied into the truck. This will cut the time of each can from eight to two seconds. I ffltenafiEfl I Commission brief -- See page 2 Treatment facility proposed in Dry Valley - See page 3 San Juan Mother of the Year - See page 7 m State track, golf - See 11 page Harry Potter at the . Father - Son outing - See Caveman, pg 12 all-nig- ht participation. The council also approved a proposal from Lee Bennett to perform a historical evaluation of tto water collection system. The City is planning to make Cemetery cleanup in Eastland May 19 There will be an Eastland I Cemetery Cleanup on Saturday, May 19 at the Eastland Cemetery. The. cleanup starts at 3 p.m., with a potluck to follow at 6 p.m. at the Eastland Pavilion. boy Brandan Ray Dawn & Michael Davis May3 - t them is remembered, and empty and incomplete when the connections between them are lost This message takes us beyond the importance of "provenance and context in the science of archaeology, to a realm of the soul and the imagination, where connections between object and place take on a deeper spiritual and psychological dimension. Earlier versions of this popular exhibit have been shown at the Utah Museum of Natural History in Salt Lake City and the Anasazi Heritage Center in Dolores. The Edge of the Cedars indefinite storage. The exhibit will be replaced by an exhibition of contemporary pottery from Mata Ortiz in Chihuahua, located near the Mormon colonies that produced many of - . boy Cameron Dean Kay Lynn & Cal Black May 4 MMeb exhibit at Edge of Cedars the artifacts back to the land exhibit includes a number of became known as reverse features and items that were not archaeology." part of the earlier efforts, The story of the reverse including a lifesize diorama of archaeologists mixed success an 1890s collectors field camp. and frustration conveys an Those who saw the exhibit in embedded message about one of its earlier incarnations connections - connections be- are encouraged to visit the tween artifacts and their discov- museum for another look, and ery sites, preserved on scraps of local residents are urged to see paper, in hints from old letters, it before it goes away. No exhibit in deeply archived museum like this is likely to come along records, and in signature again in the foreseeable future, inscriptions written in bullet and some of the displayed lead on the canyon walls. artifacts are unlikely to be The importance of these displayed again west of Chicago. connections is the real underThe Landscape Remembers theme exhibit. of the It exhibit is scheduled to be taken girding reminds us that both artifacts down May 31. Artifacts will be and the places of their discovery returned to Museums as far are empowered and enlivened away as Chicago, and the rest when the connection between of the exhibit will go into I Monticello I Blanding Sriho News Roundup Letters.: Society Sports I 2 6 8 10 News 12 ... Community 16 Legals Real Estate 17 Classified 18 San Juan Record takes Blendings early families. Edge of the Cedars State Park is open every day from 9 to 5. An admission fee of $3 per individual or $5 per car is charged to help defray some of the Parks operating costs. For more information on the Landscape Remembers exhibit or other park activities, please call 435-678-22- the Year See page 7 1 COPY J |