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Show i tBhaWB& Frustrated Federal Judge steps away from health care case representing a host of individuals suing the San Juan Health Care District, a frustrated Federal Judge has stepped away from the case. District Judge Bruce Jenkins now has the task 'of making sense of the enormous case, which involves dozens of defendants and plaintiffs and an' army of attorneys. Judge Jenkins has met with attorneys on all sides and instituted a rigorous schedule designed to move the case along as quickly & ht Seeming to dwarf ML Peale, a mountain of sawdust at the Timber Products Mill in La Sal was made into a molehill by fire fighters. The fire at the milt, which was expected to smoulder for months or years, was extinguished by the "divide and conquer strategy. Staff photo - . - ' certain-claims- Raymond Begaye instituted a restraining order against the district and restored Singer to her managerial position. Aa time went on, a aeries of rulings - Blazing news week in La Sal -- See page 16 ! the-Distri- . and fined $10,000 a day for1 - Local iaw enforcement officials, on high alert becontempt of court of threatened terror' The trial was eventually cause ist actions, dealt with a .moved to Judge Kimball. in the bomb threat at the federal court and combined with Monticello Temple of the . . Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints on Octo- ber 13. San Juan County Sheriff Mike Lacy reports that officials received word of the threat and placed the temple under close surveillance. The threat proved to be false and no charges were, filed. , . ' Shelbie Lynn Mard&Benny Musselman ' girl . Their secret? They made molehills out of the mountain. A Level Two Incident Re- -' sponse Team, is credited with coming up with the idea of simply moving the sawdust fuel away from the fire and spread- ing it in a field adjacent to the. sawmill. After several days, of work, the large.and monolithic mountain of smoldering sawdust quickly became a five inch Octobers mndkn Monticello Handing Sep Hi Lo Pr Hi Lo Pr 71 45 .02 8 65 33 9 62 40 .30 69 44 .14 61 33 10 48 30 11 53 24 59 33 . 12 51 26 .07 54 34 13 57 28 68 36 14 66 35 73 41 , . - base of compost in Jim Blankenagels field. It is a simple idea, but implementing the plan required a lot. of work. ' Excavators and back- - ' hoes started knocking down the . I enormous piles of sawdust,' The Monticello Buckaroos and Joe Adams were 1, at least for another night, after a 67-2- 0 vio-- . toiy over ths Whitehorse Raiders. See the story ion page 10. V; - Gary Torres photo ' . many of which were still on fire. The smaller piles were doused with fire retardant foam and loaded into belly dump trucks, which transported the smolder- , ing sawdust to the adjacent field. HiSer News Roundup Ashley Moore, the daughter of Lori and Tom Moore of Monticello,. raised $100 in the past week by selling d red, white, and blue pins. She is sending the proceeds to the White House to benefit the children of Afghanistan. Many San Juan County children are raising money for the effort' Let the San Juan Record know what other area children are doing by calling or mailing to P.O. Box 879, Monticello, Utah 84535, faxing ; or email to sjmewsOaol.com. Staff photo Eight-year-o- ld hand-colore- d heart-shape- , ' 435-587-22- (please turn to page 4) Seepage 10 Time to change the furnace filter ' See Caveman, page 13 . categorized as charges against the district by medical providers (including Steven Macarthur, Nathaniel Penn, and Michele ; the Health Care District Lyman), health district patients "genuinely believe - albeit who claim they were mistreated incorrectly - that they cannot by the district, and several receive impartial treatment in' pounty residents apparently this court" (please turn to page 2) neccesarily be biased." Despite stating that he was not biased, Kimball agreed to step down because those suing . - 67-2- 0 -- a number ofadditional suite into a single, colosal lawsuit The other lawsuits cover a have not succeeded on 'wide range of charges and the court must issues, but can be roughly ' watershed. However, instead of faring a fire that could rage for months or years, the fire was largely ex-tinguished by Monday, October - Judge and sanctions against the perceptions of the attorneys suing the district "Setting aside all the baseless accusations and miacharacterir zations, Kimball writes, the argument of those suing the Health Care District ia "essentially that, because they pensive effort which would leave picturesque Old La Sal in . a smoky haze and threaten the 15. ers, i . . burn the sawmill buildings. Bucks defeat Raid- were issued by Judge stating that the attorneys requesting the act "failed to Begaye. Eventually, the rhetoric point out any justifiable reason" for him to do so. Kimball ia became so heated that the San accused of being biased in favor Juan Health Care District was of the health care district, but accused of attempting racial countered that the problem is in , genocide against Utah Navqjos However, no matter how much water was put on the sawdust fire, it foiled to reach the mul-- . tiple inner cores of the confla-grati- on, which lie deep in the heart of sawdust mountains. Fire filters justifiably feared that the fire in the mountains of sawdust would burn and , smolder for months and months, if not for years. The. prospect was of a time consuming and ex- ; . I - See page 5 million dollars. District M Sentence in sex abuse case . Navajo See page 2 Monticello City Council - See page 3 employees of the clinic subsequently sued the health care district in Navqjo Court, alleging a host of charges, including a pattern of discrimination, and seeking $18 16-pa- ge . v- - card fraud. Singer and two other as possible. In a scathing ruling. Judge Dale A Kimball agreed to step away from the case, despite Fire fighters make molehills out of mountain, stop sawdust fire - Not to make a tiunintam out : of a mole hill, but it is easy to understate the siie of the saw--L dust fire at the Timber Products sawmill in La SaL The mountains of sawdust which were on fire at the mill were enormous, covering approximately four acres and towering nearly 50 feet in several places. They represent the evidence of nearly 13 years of work at the busy saw--, mill. ; When the sawdust pile spontaneously caught fire on October 6, fire fighters faced a blaze that appeared to be impossible to put out Because of the efforts of the firefighting teams, the fire scorched, but did not Commission brief The genesis of the lawsuits appears to be the November, 1998 firing of Donna Singer, manager of the Montezuma Creek Clinic, for alleged time At the request of attorneys 1 Letters .....:. 1 ... 2 6 8 Society. 10 Sports Community News ... 12 Obituaries 16 16 Legals ...... Real Estate 17 Classified. 18 . T |