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Show Tuesday SOM OBIW in Alio A3TIVA 1S3M 10 813H3 ZSC5 DNIWIld OdOIW 1S3M0IN df KKZ-lOt- llDIG'SaMtasal(vvvaf( !rT,n,l,,ir,i,iiTinT,ii,inii V t October 29, 2002 jf jt, i - V"; mi'1 w" lllthYear-No.8i so vyvwfi 41 vru " i Price, Utah 7 wfcr-- , Dims battle Spartans, IB fV Wy WjKWf'1 y.V CHS 500 V1 Price council members vote to replace swimming pool boiler By KEN LARSON Sun Advocate publisher In one of the most controversial decisions made by the current Price Qly Council, the group TOted four to one Monday morning in a special meeting to accept an original bid to replace the boiler at the swimming complex. Council member Stephen Denison was the only member to vote against the proposal. An earlier vote at a regularly scheduled public council meet- Depicting countless faces of domestic violence victims Artist Valarie Martinez portrays the countless faces of domestic violence. The mural created by the artist and as a symbol of the disturbing problem approximately six million Americans annually, victim of violence, Martinez shares her experience lecturer stands a As ing last Wednesday was rescinded following more than an hour of discussion as ter which way die council should proceed with die pod boiler deasfon. On Oct. 9, Price dty received two bids for the swimming pool boiler replacement. A committee was appointed at the time to evaluate die bids. The group, comprised of. council members and city employees, met and recommended to the council that Price award the bid to U.S. Mechanical of Pleasant Grave for a low proposal of $189,995. The committee reviewing the bids came up with five options and, at tire regular meeting last Wednesday, die members were looking at the second option which was to approach the low bidder (U.S. Mechanical) and . with thousands of women across the country to encour- age and give hope to people suffering from domestic abuse. Last week, Martinez discussed her story and work with a group of Carbon County residents as part of a local domestic violence conference. request alternations in design to include the deletion of the redundant systems like one boiler instead of the original two which was proposed, as well as other concerns which related to water heating and piping. Despite the concern to change items on the bid, a motion was made by Coundlwoman Elizabeth Kourianos during the Monday morning meeting for the city to purchase the boiler as per design on thp current low bid with no alterations. At the council meeting this past Wednesday night council member Kourianos reported to the council that the committee met and that the low bid far exceeded the committees expectations. Kourianos reminded the council that the purchase is not a budgeted item, but an emergency situation, because of the present failing boiler. The problem developed last Wednesday when Denison, who was not on the bid committee, asked if the option of was considered or if the purchase ng of a reconditioned boiler that could be bought on the market with warranties that are equal to the new equipment had been explored. Denison indicated that he had contacted Intermountain Boiler out of Salt Lake Gty. Although the company had not inspected the system, the representatives from Salt Lake firm anticipated that Intermountain could put in a new boiler and pipe it for $50,000. Discussion and debate ensued due to the significant difference between the bid of $189,000 and the $50,000 figure mentioned by Denison. Council member Richard Ihtton wondered whether approving the option would be feas, sible. Triton asked if other including the two original bidders on the pool boiler, should be given the opportunity to rebid the project Ihtton also asked whether the city should bring Intermountain Boiler to Price to inspect and rebid. The Salt Lake company was not one of the original bidders on the project City Attorney Nick Sampinos cautioned the officials that the council would be running the risk of offending andpossibly getting into a legal battle with the two bidders, should Price invite a third partner into the picture. com-panie- Sampinos felt the bids should be declined by the council and the city should restart the process in order to keep everything above board. . Councilman Don Reaveley moved to table the agenda item (Continued on page 12A) Quarry sites along Price River .yielding numerous fossils Price is probably one of the premier places in the world for a paleontologist to live. There are not only a significant number of fossils to dig up around the local area, but the items are relatively easy to get to as well. Yeah we have a lot of people in the field jealous of us, commented John Bird, a paleontologist at College of Eastern Utah Prehistoric Museum. I am at conventions or on the phone with people in my profession and I tell them I can just drive 45 minutes to the dig we are presently working on and they go crazy. Thats because most fieldwork on prehistoric fossils is done by professionals far away from home. Tire palenotologists must five out in remote areas for weeks, then return to the home base hop- The problem is that had some volunteers here from fire Chicago Field Museum, some- times untrained people rip these out of the ground, noted Bird. When they do that they not only loose pieces of the bones they also take them out of their environ- ing they have everything they ireed to complete the projects and studies. Were pretty lucky, pointed out Bird. We can come out here and work and go home every night Most people doing this ment which tells a trained cant do that The cither advantage is that in many areas where the museum ; has set up other quarries, the crews can drive directly to where the fossils are located. In a few sites, the crews have to hike into the digs. But in most cal volunteers as well as others from outside the area who come to eastern Utah to get experience. A couple of weeks ago, we locations, the heavy materials do not have to be carried very far to load the items into a vehicle to transport the finds back to the lab. That not only makes firework easier, it also makes for better preservation offirefossils. Many fossils break up when the materials are removed from the ground. Therefore, the fossils must be encased in a protective jacket which isa mixture ofwet toilet paper that is wrapped around the items first and then burlap mixed with plaster of pans that can dry in as fide as a couple of hours or as much as 24. It just depends on how warm fire day is," explained Clark TAfcr-re- n, longtime volunteer at the museum, as he worked with another volunteer Marvin Evans at the Price River II quarry last Fri-da- y morning. By RICHARD SHAW Staff reporter . palaeontologist a lot about the animal that produced them. Itwasnt warm last Friday, but the crew members were confident the fossils they were encasing that morning would be ready to be loaded that afternoon for the trip back to the museum. Price River II sits along side another quarry discovered years works with an air powered chisel around some Camarasaurus bones as other tsam members inspect and evaluate some fossils behind him in e lower section of the dig Bill Ifensen in ttw Price River Quany II The present dig has been un- der development for about 10 ago. years and is subject to continual work by CEU personnel and lo ex- plained Bird as he was gluing a piece of fossil with a product known as Paleobond, a kind of super glue for dinosaur bones. They liked the fact this was so dose to a town, too. Fossils seldom come out of the ground without breaking up in some way. Bird said he likes to glue all the pieces in the field that he can, especially the small ones. Otherwise, it is more confusing when the fossils get back to the lab. In many ways, it is amazing that the fossils the crews extract from the earth look as good. All the ones the team was working on Friday morning are around 100 million years old and have mostly turned to stone that is alligatored with cracks. I had someone out here once that said to me, Gee, those bones arent in very good shape, explained Bird. I just looked at them and asked them what they thought their bones might look like in 100 million years. These are actually in very good shape. For the untrained eye many deposits of fossils are hard to see as anything but rock. That is why some areas that have been explored and used by people for years suddenly yield dinosaur remains never noticed before. It often takes a trained eye to spot the fossils in the rock. Heres the vertebrae and that looks like a rib, pointed out as he went over one of the formations in the lower part of the quarry. To an untrained observer, the lumps sitting on the bottom of the quarry would look like a bunch of rock. But higher up in another level of the quany, the team uncovered fossils that look like something the Flintstones family pet, Dino, would chew on. There fcr-r-en were two large femur bones, well defined yet largely turned to rock. Bill Yensen, a volunteer from St George, was working with a power chisel brought to life by a portable compressor to remove the surrounding material. Power equipment makes the extraction ofthe fossils easier. This stuff that encases the rubber like, said Bird as he leaned down to study a piece of the fossil that had broken off. If you try and rip it up with a regular pick, the tool just bounces back at you. This power equipment really makes the difference in getting the fossils out of the dirt and to the lab. The two bones are apparently from a camarasaurus that lived in the middle to the end of the (Continued on page BA) fossils is almost on recruitment, cash Pyramid operations continue to surface across the state and the Utah Division of Consumer Protections cautions Carbon County residents to avoid falling victim fo the schemes. Pyramid schemes are unlaw ful money-makin- ventures, g pointed out the consumer protection division. The schemes focus on the exchange of money and recruit. ment of participants. Usually, there is no legitimate product beingsdd. Pyramid schemes may be dis- buying clubs, motivational companies, mail order Operations of investment organizations. ; Basically, a pyramid scheme is formed when a single pro . moter or small group collects money from acertain number of friends and instructs the partid- pants to collect additional cash from their aociatcs. ' ' ' The cycle continues and, as the operation grows, the number of people involved becomes too large to sustain the pyramid. Some people will fail to send in money or recruit the required number of friends and the pyramid crumbles. The majority of the partici- pants end up on the bottom of the pyramid and inevitably lose initial investthe so-call-ed ments. , In ordef for all levels in pyramid scheme to profit, there would have to be an unending supply of participants. But the supplies are limited, with newer participants having less of a chance of recruiting people and facing a greater risk of losing mondy. Because pyramid sales plans are deceptive by nature, the schemes are illegal . Participants face the risk that a pyramid operation will be dosed down by police, with the involved parties subject to fines and possible criminal prosecution. Few people would pay to join -- a pyramid scheme if the odds were fully and accurately explained. . Pyramid schemes are actually based on simple mathematics. Many losers pay a few winners. w ft Pyramid promoters are mas- ters of group psychology. At recruiting meetings, the promoters create a frenzied, en- thusiastic atmosphere where group pressure and promises of eatymoneyplayupon greed and the fear ormissing a good deaL The sale oflegitimate products distinguishes multi-level marketing operations from pyramids, pointed out the consumer protection division. If foe emphasis in a multito . level marketing company buikl a sales force rather than sell the business products, it may be . ypontinuedon page 6A) Student volunteers support Habitat for Humanity project CEU Sun Center volunteer RaqudRarran inventories ei trical parts during Make a Difference Day last Saturday, Family members donated afi the material at the Kessler Electric warehouse to Habitat for Humanity. About two dozenstudents joined the organization'! board to clean the warehouse and prepare for construction of a Habitat home. Sun Center studenb volunteered to heed three local Make a i Difference Day projects. i |