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Show Pam 2. AprH 1,1987 Editorial Basin Standard HJlihtah I LOVE OUR UBIC move should be SML.TXX4M GOVERNMENT supported by everyone year, the annual Uintah Basin Industrial Convention will start a new era at the Regional Park. As you know, the festivities have been at the city park for many years. However, because of present day This d event, it has population at the for the too large grown city park's fun-fille- capabilities. Officials say the move is essential for UBIC to keep growing with new ideas. They must have plenty of room for future expansion which the city park could not guarantee them. Though the move may not be a blessresidents, the ing to some long-tim- e decision has already taken place and everyone should be behind the move. If residents are interested in giving committee members some input or ideas to ensure a successful UBIC, you certainly will not be turned away. However, if criticism is all you can muster, it is better left at home. This move, which the city has wanted for some time, can either be a blessing or a curse. And area residents are the ones who will either make UBIC a con tinued great success or let wayside with apathy. . it tall by the This year's committee members are: hoping it is not a flop. They are hoping this year will be the best year yet. However, they not only have to worry about the. problems surrounding the move, but also that everything stays consistent with years past festivals. Though the problems are great in the change, they were probably viewed as great when it moved from Ft. Duchesne over to the city park. But everything in time worked itself out. And with this pew move, again,, everything will work out fine. We believe the residents will not necessarily care where the festivities are, just as long as they are around. And they will leave the headaches of the move, plus planning for the new UBIC, business helps Indian country BI up to the committee members. So, remember, when .August rolls around and you drive by the city park looking for the crowd of people and you don't see any, don't stop looking. They will all be up at the Regional Park enjoying the start of a new era. A-fund- investment that Created three buaineu opportunity centers Iaat Letters Standard welcomes and encourages opinions from readers in the form of Letters to the Editor. All letters will be published unless they contain libelous andor defamatory statements. Letters must be signed with a telephone number. Letters should be typed or clearly hand printed, double spaced. They can then be submitted to the STANDARD Office, P.O. Box 370at 268 S. 200 E.. Roosevelt, Utah S4066, before 5:00 p.m. Friday. All letters become the properly of the STANDARD and may be edited to fit space restrictions. The Uintah Benin Students need safer walk areas at Middle school Dear Editor, On Friday, March 13, my atm was truck by a ear while crossing the street between the. buses st the Middle school. He darted out between the buses without looking; he stopped just as the car waa passing, but it wu too late. He waa knocked down by the moving vehicle, and his foot was run over. I then carried him to the emergency room, where he was diagnosed as having chipped a bone in hie foot Within three days, he was able to walk on it again. We feel very fortunate that he was not injured more severely. Ever since the Middle School opened, the dangers to pedestrians have been obvious to any parent or spectator visiting the area at the time classes let out It is not my contention that the Middle School was built without adequate consideration to student safety; that is already obvious. It ia my contention that changes can be made, need to be made, and must be made to insure the future safety of our children. 1. Children make mistakes. The current bus parking plan and pedestrian control leave no room for such mistakes. In Trevors ease, the buses were parked right on the street, competing with care for road apace (as they do every day). Even cere which pick up their children in the designated pick-u- p area; and all the children involved with them. Car drivers cannot see around buses to look for careless children, and children cannot see around the buses to watch for cars. It is a well known safety feet that buses should pick up children only in an area which ia blocked off from other traffic. The buses at the Middle School must be moved. One suggestion is to put the buses mi the black-to- p playground. If the left turn from ia too 300 West into the Blade-to- p often walk directly down the middle of 800 West, endangering their own safety and the safety of driven and passengers.- The children also eroaa the street wherever they feel like it. A little paint and education seem like the sensible immediate solution to this evidently dangerous situation. Luckily, our son waa back in school on Monday (limping). It is unfortunate that it took such an accident to draw public attention to the perilous pedestrian predicament at the Middle SchooL Parents, let your voices be heard. Call or write the school, the Chief of Police, the PTA, and offer your assistance. Or just jot a note to your child's teacher voicing your concern. This - accident could have been avoided with proper safety planning. Lets do our bint to aee that it doesn't happen again. The next child may not be so lucky". Sincerely, Perer Ann Strupp to you, the crooks Dear Editor,. A Peem To Aiding Area Creaks We have a citixen who lost his car, From his place of residence it didn't get very for. To the thieves, "which car" it really didn't matter, But this one they chose, aa it wu served on a golden platter. To continue with their crime it wu done with such ease, For there in the ignition, what else, but tiie keys. Through family harassment and in- . Observer April Fool's Day ia a favorite holiday of people who have a weird sen ae of humor or who like to play practical jokes. I like jokes myself, ternal frustration. Where else would he strike, but the men from the station. So he started his poem, how they u When the entire time gueu who wu hot on their trail So back and read what he he put in the paper Little did he know, but for the theives it wu the end of their caper. There ia one thing that I would pursue. And thats an apology to our men dressed in blue. PA I think the media should be a building block for our community rather than a means of demolition. The facts should be made available to our readers so the picture is it ia rather than how it appears. As we all know that due to the economic situation within the Basin the police force wu hit quite hard and eight are left of the thirteen. Due to financial difficulties individuals have to resort to unlawful ways for making a living, thus creating a pyramid affect for crime. If we all stand up for what ia right, and apeak the truth our community will only prosper. Lets band together, watch out for each other and help lighten the load for our local law enforcement agencies. Sincerely, Blaine E. Pectol u ut u Patron thanks Commissioner Dear Editor, I would like to publically thank County Commissioner, Lany Rou for a job well done, quiekly and efficiently. On March 23, 1 called his home in Myton and discussed the terrible roiul condition out to Roosevelt Heights. On March 25, our road wu graded, I might aay very professionally, this time. Thanka to Lany and his my faith hu been restored, in the ncmesty and ability of our elected ones. Sincerely, Mrs. Eddie R. Tumlinson . ' .722-513- 1 The Uintah Basin STANDARD Is publlshsd weekly oi P.O. Box 370, By Iho Uintah Roosovoll, Utah 84066 Basin Standard. Socond-Clos- s USPS 6469-000Postage paid at Roosovoll, Utah. POSTMASTER: Send addreis changei to the Uintah Basin Standard, P.O. Box 370, Roosevelt, Utah 84066. OFFICE HOURSi Send address changss to the Uintah Basin Standard, P. O. Box 370, Roosevelt, Utah 84066. OfFICI HOURS! Office hours for the Uintah Basin Standard ate: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday and 9a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Closed Wednesday. Saturday and Sunday. MISSED TOUR PAPER? If you missed your paper, call 7224131, during working hours. NBWS TIP: Call 722-513- 1 and ask for, Tom Brennan (Roosovoll and Duchesne)) Delyse Bellon (Upper Coun- Swimmer, announced last fall that BIA has awarded 3250,000 contracts to three organizations that proposed to ereate 1,081 jobs over a three year period. In addition to Rensselaerville, those centers are the Fairbanks Native Association in Alaska and the United Indian Development Association (UIDA) in California. Their method is to link the resources of Indian Country with the needs of industry. .. . That approach has worked on both the Seneca Nations Cattaraugus Reservation and the St Regis Mohawk Reservation in upstate New York. Rensselaerville had been meeting with managers at Eastman Kodak Company and learned that a number of small contracts were available through the company for killed craftsmen. David Gordon, executive director of the business opportunity center, contacted the Seneca Nation and found that a BIA vocational training program wu nearing the completion of classes and 13 tribal members with metal working skills would be out of a job. The buaineu opportunity center (nought Kodak rad the Seneca Nation together to sign a contract in which tiie Tribe will hire the 18 members to refurbish metal storage bins, which require sand blasting, welding and painting kills. There is a potential for nearly 25 jobs. Their work is very good, uid PRODUCTIONS Craig Ashby, Publisher) Joan Z. Crosier, Business Delyse Bellon, Manager) Tom Brennan, Editor,- Reporter) Stephanie Betts, Circulation,- Tami Long, Typesetter) Cindy Betts, Ad Design. I J Utah Dairy Commission, established by the legislature to promote, protect and stabilize the state's dairy industry, will hold elections this spring for three id its 12 member seats. Districts holding elections are District 1 (North Cache, including the communities of Richmond, Lewiston, Trenton and Cornish); District 6 (Salt Lake, Tooele and Davis Counties); and District 9 (Millard, Beaver, Iron, and Washington Counties in Utah and dairymen in Eastern and Southern Nevada). Dairy fanners in Eastern and Southern Nevada, including Lu Vegas, send required promotion funds to the Utah Dairy Commiaiaon which handles their dairy promotion, reports Warby. 1 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Nome; Address: I City: ! Slate: ' ' Tom Brennan, Editor) Delyse Bellon, DEADLINES! Deadlines for the Uintah Basin Standard are: Legal Notice, Friday at 5 p.m. Classified Advertising, Friday at Noon) Display Advertising, Friday at 5 p.m, Around the town news Friday at 5 p.m. To request a photographer, please call during working hours and set up a time. ADVUTtSINOl Craig Ashby, Advertising Manager) Cindy Betts, Advertising, Ad Design. Correspondents I Ida Horrocks, A r-Gladys Ross,' Roosevelt, 722-277cadia, 6464289) Marty Rasmussen, Ballard. 7224772; Garda Seeley, Bluebell, 454-3183Tracy Roberts, Han- Arda Mansfield, lapoint, 247-237Noia na, 648-541Nelson, Montwell, 3534544,- - Marion Behunin, Myton, ' 722-585Lama Connie Lee, Tabtona, 848-547- 1; Zola Spencer, Neola, McKee, Tridell, 247-2353534528; Virginia Ferguson, Whiterocks, 353-458Orinda Gee, Duchesne, 738-263- I j Zip: 1 Year-9- 12 2 year 126 j j j i credit officials, recently recom- mended a comprehensive management plan that includes management reform, consolidation of debt and BIA loan guarantees for property renovation. Those recommendations eould uve up to 66 jobs, according to the cultural centers Chief Executive officer, George Wickett. He uid the BIA stepped forward last foil to make an interim loan that kept the center open until a complete buaineu plan eould be written. Rensselserville's buaineu opportunity center worked with Wickett to produce the plan. It took an outride professional to take a fresh look at our project It wu very instrumental to our staying open, said Wickett Any dairyman who wishes to be nominated hu two options to be placed on the ballot," explains Warby. State law allows automatic placement if the dairyman submit! a petition including 15 dairy formers from the district supporting the nomination. Should only one or no dairy farmers submit petitions, a nominating committee will select at least two candidate. Petitions must be submitted to tip Utah Department of Agriculture by April 15. Ballots will bo sent out by May 15 and must be d returned no later than May 81. Winners will serve a three-yea- r term on the Commission. Warby points out that state law requires Commission members be citizens of the United States, over age 25, an active milk producer with five consecutive years experience in milk production in Utah, and a resident of Utah and the district represented. post-mirke- Current district representatives try). EDITORIALS Kodak. The students were unemployed, going through training and had no place to go, said Gordon. This wu a caw where we found a training program that wu about to end and brought jobs to the people ..that were consistent with the skills they had learned. In New Mexico, Rensselaerville conducted an extensive study of the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque. The center wu in the proceu of foreclosure. Gordon, working with local BIA Utah Dairy board to hold elections j I d The opportunity center did much the same thing mi the St Regis Mohawk Reservation, where the tribe had trained five wood workers that needed jobs. The Mohawk tribe now ia employing five tribal members to build precision wood parts for BIA-funde- I the wasn't worth anything anyway? Wouldn't it be funny if somebody really found the lost Rhoades Gold Mine? Wouldnt ft be funny if there really wu gold in it? Wouldn't it be funny if students decided they liked echoed eo much they insisted on gong all summer and paying the teachers out of their allowances. Wouldn't it be funny if teachers decided they liked school so much they volunteered to teach all summer for free? Wouldn't it be funny if they invented can with alcohol sensors that wouldnt start if the driver had any alcohol in his bloodstream? Wouldn't it be funny if they found out Vitamin G causes colds? Wouldnt it be funny if Reagan and Gorbfehev turned out to be, long loot brothers? Wouldn't it be fenny if the ' Japanese developed a new style of gardening and offered to trade us can and TVs and stereos for all the sagebrush we could get them for their new gardens. Wouldn't it be funny if we changed April FooTa day to the last Sunday in April and made fun of everybody who forgot to get up an hour early. -- that will Country. Uintah Basin, laying the land e THE UINTAH BASIN STANDARD neurs and small businesses add up to success for Indian two-mont- did fail, people. Bob Hoag, president df the Seneca Nation, also ia pleased with the results and looks forward to future successes. This gave us an opportunity to keep the people going, and able to subsidize themselves. That's the name of the game. There is a lot more to be done. Ita strictly up to us to prove we can compete in the outside world," Hoag said. created by individual entrepre- . by Delyae BeDea tag reporter for road A poem u long they're not on me. I especially like them when I think of them. Unfortunately the only jokes I can think of are the old There's a spider on you, variety. But I did ' think of some jokes Td like to see played. Wouldnt it be funny if they cancelled television? People would just ait around and lode at each other. Who knows, they might even, a soap tart a converution--or opera! Wouldnt it be funny if the drug dealers donated all their profits to the Salvation Army? Wouldnt it be funny if the Internal Revenue Service gave every-- 1 h extension on body a their income taxes because their computers were down? It would be even funnier if they cancelled the income tax because they didnt need the money. Wouldnt ft be funny if there really wu a man in the moon, and after he ate all the green cheese, he had to come to Earth to get something more to eat? Maybe we could get him to eat Libya. . Wouldn't it be funny if they found out the beat way to lose weight wu on a diet of Twinkles and pop? It would even be better if they found out that candy bars peed up the weight foes. Wouldnt it be funny if your husband couldn't make the car go and you could? Wouldn't it be funny if he had to find the socks and the strawberry jam for you? Wouldn't it be funny if the Ute Tribe gave up its claim to the First Time p High School. Or, for an immediate solution, parking could be banned or limited directly in front of the Middle School, and the busses could line up there. Although this would to driven, . cause an inconvenience it would offer a temporary improvement. I realise that this last suggestion baa been tested and abandoned. I feel however, that tiie current situation should alio be abandoned. 2. Children rarely use sidewalks and crosswalk, unless forced to do so. The Middle School has had a' strong pedestrian education program for the children. The program will not work, however, until viable enforcement ia in existence. Croee-walk- a need to be pointed immediately on 800 West, and someone must be available to aee that the children use them. Currently, the children leaving the Middle School u helping ereate jobs for these highly-skille- d i September is paying off with real jobs for Indian people. The Rensselaerville Institute of Rensselaerville, N.Y., one of the Kodak's Dennis W. Zink, the investment recovery manager in the manufacturing resources division. It meets company needs, it helps Kodak, and Tm certainly pleased that this relationship is working with tribes and individual Indian eutrepreneun across the country. It has created and saw a total of 84 jobs. Our focus for these centers is on creating jobs, said Boas Swimmer, the Interior Department's assistant secretary for Indian affairs and director of the BIA. "We certainly encourage major industrial development but I think ita the jobs A Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) three new centers, has been harp for the buses to make, then the street should be widened, or the black-tolengthened.. Another possibility would be to create a bus path between the Middle School, the hue garage, and the Junior . ed Clip this form and mail to: The Ulnteh Benin STANDARD P.O. Bos 376, 2M 3. 200 I. 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