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Show ( SPECIAL ELECTION EDITION INSIDE 1 Roosevelt, Utah Wednesday, October 29, 1986 No. 44 73rd Year 26 Pages 50 Cents new stores are coming to Roosevelt . by Greg Duerden will not be the in town. At a of the Roosevlt held after the planning and zoning meeting on Thursday night, developer Max Brubaker said an 8,750 square foot addition to Doves will be underway as soon as possible. This new portion to the Doves store will be for the Ben - . franch- t ise Doves has obtained. Brubaker told the council a study they have done of the Roosevelt area has shown there is a need for 30,000 square feet of additional retail space in the area's market. With the Doves and Yellow Front stores this will leave about 10,000 square feet The dty was stores this year and these will make .number. three and four. The decision to lease a building instead of building was a decision made by the Real Estate Department of the chain,' Blankenship said. Marketing and economic factors are what make the determination, he said. Yellow Front carries a line of family clothing, shoes, domestic and house wares, camping, fishing and sporting goods, .tools, hardward and auto parts. Blankenship said the Roosevelt store will have an expanded auto section, with about 27,000 different auto items available. "That is about double the Vernal stores ) ' , Yellow Front only new store special meeting City Council, FranklinCoast-to-Coas- their Phoenix office, he said they are antidpating opening the new store before Thanksgiving. Blankenship was aware of the expansion of Doves and said he was not worried about the two opening so dose together. Yellow Front started in 1946 and they celebrated their 40th Anniversary in April. This division of Lucky Stores is sound and ready to accept the competition of other similar stores in the area. Yellow Front now has 109 8 tores. They will open number 110 in Benson, Arizona, in the coming weeks and the Roosevelt location will be their 111th. They are presently in a period of gradual expansion, according to the operations manager. They have already opened two other asked to donate .A - -; : offering, he said. ; Yellow Front's manager will be Continued on page 3 . County homes may have address signs the property, as they did with the bonding alley to the development. By motion the Council agreed to do this in lieu of providing the fill dirt that is required. Roosevelt City provided the fill dirt and general site preperation Duchesne County residents, units, ML Bril will service 2400. of the original Doves as part, of who live outside Duchesne or Mt Bril has the largest the deal Because the type of fill Roosevelt City limits, may have and they obviously have portion that was specified was not an address system put in place. the largest funding, Wood said. available by dty sources they Dan Spencer, representative for Presently Duchesne County decided to allow the developers to Commissioners have a letter from Bril in charge of the Mt fill rather put the $10,000 into Planner Jack Wood County program, said it addressing than the site. does not take this long details on the costs giving generally Doves Manager, Lindsay associated with putting the for the project to be completed. COUNTY ADDRESSES Duchesne County residents, living outside Roosevelt and Moore, said the product lines in place. He said most counties finish it in system Duchesne Cities, will possibly be having an address system at their home. There will no have already started arriving in The commissioners as of Mona short time. However, he said, his store. He already has some of longer be any use for signs like this one. Four different companies will have to give some when there is a long hold up, day had not done anything with the toys and hardware items from the letter. The plan for the residents generally seem to be to make the program successful. money the line. "' has been in .. . .. their to .feet ' ' - . . T therr system ..addressing dragging get line is stated for one year. the passed. making project a hardward, toy, TV, VCR and Mountain Bell was the instiDuchesne County Commiss"lots of items that are compe-tivriin trying to get the address ioner Ted Kappen said he hasnt gator priced. They are comheard com plaints about the system in place. Because of the he said. parable to from residents. He said he cost associated with sending a project Ben Franklin portion of the serviceman out to do some thinks the idea is a good plan. "I store will indude clothing hardthink it is a good dan, Kappen county work, who cannot find the ware and general housewares. home because of a lack of said. It will help ambulances, ' fire Again Moore said the items are addresses, it costs them too much equipment and the sheriffs . - Coast-to-Coa- . Coast-to-Coa- st' y reasonably priced and comparable to The community doesnt have anything like this, Moore said when talking about the type of store he will run after the expansion is opened. He said the new floor space will be roughly 10,000 square feet. Yellow Front With the closure of Stewarts last week, the crews have gone to ' work and stripped the interior walls of the old store. This is in for Yellow Front preperation crews coming in and setting up their new store. In a telephone interview with Bob Blakenship, operations manager for Yellow Front, in' office." money. The letter, which was to be given to Moon Lake Electric, The homes will have Mack and white reflective signs and the street signs will be green and Mountain Fuel and Uintah Basin Telephone, outlines the $7,100 costs each entity is asked to contribute to the addressing system. The annual upkeep on the signs will be the countys responsibility. Wood said the county is in hopes of acquiring Boy Scouts to paint the signs on the homes. They will receive $1 or $1.50 per sign fix' an incentive on doing a good job, he said. Mt Bell will pay $5 per home that is addressed in their service area. There are 5300 units that need to be addressed. Of the 5300 . Meet candidates for school board Oct. 30 It seems most everyone agrees white. that education is a number one by Ellen Rawlings. You will have a chance to meet There is a "possibility if the funding is not provided from the three other companies that the county will have to step in and provide funds for its completion. Grant Earl, general manager of Moon Lake, said he has attended a couple of meetings during the year on the plan, and he feels it is a good program. However, he would not comment on the money Moon Lake would put toward the project because he had not seen any hard figures. priority in this current election campaign. And there are five men hoping for the opportunity to make the decisions that will most affect our children. They are campaigning for Duchesne County School Board. Those candidates are Keith Nielsen running as an unopposed incumbent running against running against gilbert Hullinger, and a new race between Greg Duerden and David Labrum to fill the seat vacated and evaluate these candidates on Thursday evening, October 30 at 8 p.m. at Roosevelt Jr. High nt School. We have spoken with these candidates and will here provide a brief overview of their views and positions. Nielsen is running unopposed and has no intention of doing things any differently from the way he has done them for the past four years in the school board. The new building plans for Altamont and Union will take extra money, but he said the board was planning to use a bond that would not result in increased taxes. He is opposed to bonding unless it is absolutely necessary. I'd sooner come up with a different solution, he said. I.abrum, a local businessman, said he is very concerned about education. He has seven children in the system and that makes him even more concerned. He has always had a desire to run for school board. He has no specific Continued on page 3 Prison rumors should be squashed in , official said by Tom Brennan or Rumors have been flying around the county that a possible prison will be built in Duchesne City. But like most rumors, this one, too, is false. Haze Locke, assistant inspector general with the Depart- - ment of Corrections, said his office has received two letters (one from Duchesne County Attorney Dennis Draney and one from Duchesne City) informing them they are interested in having a minimum security prison built in the area. However, Locke said, correc- tion authorities are not presently Crucial safety tips for Halloween night Although the number of Hallare detrick clining from yes ter year, possibly some helpful hints will bring the numbers back up. Roosevelt City Police will be patrolling heavily that night to help protect the youngsters out in search of goodies. But parents can also help. ,'Some hints on making this Halloween safe includes wearing face paint or makeup, instead of a mask, so the child can see clearly. Make sure there are Mg holes tor oween Tliis 'dummy' is watching over a home on 2nd North in Roosevelt. The Halloween time is almost upon us. There are many safety tips that will make this Halloween the safest of all in the Basin. HALLOWEEN TREATS w eyes if the child does wear a mask. For children, take off your mask when crossing streets or walking on dark sidewalks and make sure you use a flashlight when walking at night Remember, candles and torches should not be used for lighting. Some more hints include staying on sidewalks, walk, dont run: cross only at corners; look in all directions before crossing and never go into the street from . Continued on page 3 looking at locations in the state to build prisons. He said the idea of regional prisons has been around for a while, but Utah legislature must first approve the plan. He said, though, with the educational funding problem along with budget shortfalls, the legislature will most likely not approve the idea. Nonetheless, if they did approve the plan, Locke said Duchesne would not automatically see a prison built in their backyard. He said an impact analysis would have to be undertaken to find what the prison would do to the community. Also if residents are not fully supportive with the project, the prison will not be built in the area, he said. We have made the decision that the city will have to be all behind the prison," he said, "or we just wont build it there. of the economical situation being poor in most counties in the state, some are encouraging the correctional department to build a prison in their counties. Presently Duchesne, Grand, Tooele, Emery, Rich (and two others Locke Because couldn't remember) have sent correspondents to the department asking them to look at their counties when they go shopping for a prison site. A few years ago, we couldn't get a county to let us build one in their area," Locke said, "now they are coming to us. Ixxrke said the concept of building regional prisons is a valid one. Because criminals who have family and friends living around them while they are serving their sentence, are more likely to be able to mesh back into society without much difficulty. Most prisoners who would be sentenced to the prison would be from the area. It makes no sense, Locke said, to banish a person to Draper, Utah." There are some states who are interested in obtaining the regional prison concept. Nevada, for instance, is fighting hard to obtain rural prisons to help the economic base in that area. If a regional prison is built -wherever it may be - will house no more than 500 inmates and no less than 100, Locke said. The employment impact will generate possibly 500 peripheral new jobs. x. i |