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Show 46. B - 'V'rt.v. .V) '!' ' : Page 2 October 14. 1997 -- I lUinlncindard The Christmas Spirit Connection Community volunteers working to resurrect the defunct Christmas Coalition have rallied together widr a unified desire to give hope to the area's needy families - and restore community trust. Its pretty tough going working up from ground zero. The task is daunting, yet, there are a dozen sincere individuals, who are committed to the idea that everyone deserves to partake of the joy of the season. Their faith is practically tangible. There is the notion among them that if they give everything they can to help others, the community will help them do it Somehow it makes a difference in our individual lives when we reach out and give. To give of ourselves, whether it be through our ideas, talents, time, energy. What is given does not deplete the giver, but expands and nourishes the soul. The new Christmas Spirit Connection as the effort will be called, provides a way to rescue the hopes of children, and provides an avenue.fbr every, person in the Uintah Basin, no matter their circumstance, to step forward and extend something of themselves and give it freely to others. Volunteers desperately need a centrally located, warm and secure building to re ceive donations, refurbish items and work with applicant families to sew warm quilts and construct toys. Who will help? The Christmas Spirit Connection maintains the distinct concept that parents should work with program volunteers to create Christmas for their children. The organizers have taken a critical look at past flaws in donation accountability and inappropriate distribution and are working to ensure responsibility and honest accounting. The holidays are fast approaching. The Christmas Spirit Connection expects to receive 100 applications from families who require Christmas assistance, that adds up to over 300 children. Time is not on their side, but good people are and more are needed. Let us look into our hearts and our abundant resources. One caring individual can make a profound difference by their efforts alone, think what two can do! Take up a donation drive within the family, neighborhood, . V school, church or office. The Christmas Spirit Connection will be asking for donations of warm clothing, coats and boots. Volunteers will soon be actively soliciting fix donations of money and items, tire process can begin today in our individual homes and offices without entreaty. and numeroua downtown proper-tiwere either destroyed by fire or aerioualy damaged by the flood. e Bneovoy ia a alow and tedioua that taxes the strongest but, because ofthe kindness of ao many people, we have kept the apirit and e pro-cee- EDITOR'S NOTE; The ' Uintah welcomes and Standard Basin encourages opinions from leaders int he form of letters to the editor. Letters may be utilized to express opinions or comments, to highlight outstanding individual or service of an organization, or any other worthwhile purpose. Letters may not be used to replace Cards of Thanks, or to list sponsors, participants or contributors to a particular event or purpose. LETTERS MUST CONTAIN 400 WORDS OR LESS. BE TYPED OR WRITTEN LEGIBLY, SIGNED, AND INCLUDE NAME, ADDRESS AND THE NUMBER . ' OF PHONE AUTHOR. Letters will be unless they contain defamatory statements. We reserve the right to withould a name by request if the nature of the letter is positive, and to edit letters. Letters may be submitted to the Standard office at 268 S. 200 E, Roosevelt, Utah, 84066 by the deadline (normally published Thursdays at SKX) pm.) All letters become property of the Uintsh Basin Standard. . Grand Forks folks say thanks Door Editor; The City of Grand Forks, North Dakota suffered th largest disaster per capita in tho history of oar nation with flood and fire this past spring. Aa Mayor of Grand Forks and on behalf of our City Council and residents, I wish to thank who offered their support to our citixena through sending of supplies, monetary donations, cards, letters, prayers, personal assistance to our residents and taking cart of our people in your communities. Tha response from the country haabaen overwhelming. Grand Forks ia bring a unique challenge in tho recovery proceaa due to the sheer volume of damage to our city. Nearly 600 homea are in the voluntary acquisition program na Tkt will come back bigger, better and stronger. Thank you sincerely for caring. Patricia Owens, Mayor Grand Forks, North Dakota Soccer coordinator extends gratitude Dear Editor, As Rooaevelt City Soccer cornea to a dose, I would like to take thia opportunity to thank all those who pent many hours participating in this program. To tha players - What a GREAT job you all did! You are awesome! I hope you learned more about soccer but most of all, YOU HAD FUN! To tha parents Thanks for allowing your children to play and bringing them on time to all the games and practices. Without your support, recreational sporta would not be a reality. Toths coaches - All I can say ia WOW1 You all went beyond the call of duty. You took time and energy out of your already busy day and. gave it to these kids! Thank you to coachea, Lynn Walker, Gayla Hicken, Shauna and Doug Ogden, Mohea Sprouse, Kyle Dye, Paul Curtis, Carmen and Jaime Buxton, John and Matthew Kqek, Bart Stevens, Mika Nielsen and John Fauci, Jaaon West, Drew Eachler and George Dean, and Jim Fauci. To tha referees - These young men have played fir yeare (Lode oat, Union High! Sneer i. enmingl) Their love of eoeeer showed aa they refereed. Thanks to David Eckels, Joel Gillespie, Jeff Kariaaon, and John Fauci. To Rooaevelt city - Thanks to Mutt Dye and hie crew fir preparing the fields, cutting the grass, and providing the equipment Thanks, also, fir allowing soccer fir being a part of Rooeevelt city. Uintah Basin Standard Inc. (USPS 646-90- Minted Modal ponsge paid X Roorevek and Dschreee. 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Side-not- e to Parents fir next year - Please make sure all soccer registration forma are turned into the city and on time! It is extremely difficult and frustrating to try to organize something of this magnitude if not all the papers are togethPlease er by a certain make a mental note to look fir soccer sign-up- s aa early as mid to late summer or early fell. Thank yon all mice again! See yon next year! Gail M. Fauci Roosevelt City Soccer time-fram- e. and the other half had derkaudi-tor- a. I talked to several of the derk auditors of 4th class counties last Thursday who told me a person was hired to replace tho poaition elimi-nated, plus the staff remained the same. I am opposed to combining offices for these reasons. All the elected offices in Duchesne County now have working officials, to combine officea would require a chief deputy to do the work ofeither the derk or auditor. The elected official assuming both jobs would certainly be entitled to more salary, aa specified in the Utah State Code. Most of the counties with combined offices, such as Uintsh. Emery and Wasatch have hired a CPA to handle the auditing side of the job. This may bo good, except, that CPA ia paid equal or more than the elected official in most cases. The clerkauditor will I most assuredly be paid more than either are now presently paid. The eavinge, if any, will be minimaL There is more work in both offices these days than one person can keep abreast of. Combining offices creates an administrator over the work. A person who works themselves and who is directly responsible for that work and to tho people who elect them, ia the most proficient, in my opinion. The clerkauditor poaition will have more influence on the commission than any other elected office. Thia combination could create a very : powerful position and create an ; unfair advantage over the rest of Indian official hopes history can teach lessons By Shawn Foster Th Salt Lake Tribun non-Indi- an Forrest Cuch, the new director of tho Utah's Division of Indian Affairs, has seen tribal economic development before. It has not always been a pretty sight. In the 1960b, federal bureaucrats derided that the nations tribes needed resorts to bring in tourist dollars to the reservations. In eastern Utah, the Ute tribe built a hotel end conference center called Bottle Hollow. There wasjuat one problem: Fort Duchesne-i- s not Hawaii r- Park City. thanks their supporters Today, the complex er Combining clerk & Cesspooch takes exception to citys open letter : auditor Jobs isnt a good idea Dear Editor, Tuesday, Oct 14, the commission will hold a public hearing in the courthouse at 7 p.m. to consider the consolidation of the clerk and auditors office before the election cycle begins in 1998. Unless there is e large response opposed to the consolidation, it ia the commission's mind set to combine the offices. As your present county clerk, I would like to throw a few things out for your consideration. I will not be , running for office again because of my recent marriage, ao whether or not the offices are combined will not have any effect on me personally. Three yean ago the commission called for an independent citizen, study mi whether or not to combine office. The committee determined that there would be little or no saving by combining offices. The commission didn't even refer to that study before I handed them a copy. So much for citizen input. commission believes they . Tb will be serving the beet interests of the county by eliminating threejobs, thus saving money. Which employees will it be? Duchesne County ieafourth class county, along with, Emery, Millard, Sevier, San Juan and Wasatch. The commission will print out that of the 29 counties, 19 have clerkaudi-torBut until just recently half of tho 4th daee counties had clerks e. Dear Editor, I cant let An Open Letter From - Rooeevelt City go without making . my comments on it. The city officials stated that it ( was imperative for Rooeevelt City to clarify the right to enforce erimi- -. nal jurisdiction within its boundaries. Adding further that, With-othis authority, there would be no City of Rooeevelt as it now ex- -, ists. How has the City of Rooeevelt : managed to exist throughout the last 22 years of litigation? It cro- -' atee the impression that Rooaevelt City was a lawless town, when crime was rampant. Guess who the criminals were? The letter claims that the Feder- al Government invited the local rea- - idents forefathers to settle the Uintah Basin. Hie who . couldn't stand that tho Indians had ao much land, hounded Congress, through their unscrupulous Coa- gre semen, to allot tho reservation and open the remaining Indian reservation. Their letter states "Rooeevelt City is populated by approximately members. The 95 percent n officials make it a point to mention that the reservation is ut non-India- - non-trib- al non-India- sparsely populated and non-Indi- an i that Roosevelt ie comprised mostly of residents. These statements sound similar to the state-ments used as justification to homestead Indian lands. Now it is used to gain jurisdiction over us. Rooaevelt City Officials recognize sales and property tax aa their tr tacitly Bottle Hollow was baaed on good intentions, hut the planning was bad, Cuch said. Cuch, who began work Wednesday, swears he will not follow the Bottle Hollow model. We need better planning, an inventory of natural resources, feasibility studies and buainess plans, Cuch said. We hope to encourage culturally appropriate businesses. For the Utee, the needs may be entirely different from the Dine (Navajo). Dm Paiutes1 needs may be completely different from the Skull Valley Goehutes. Although Cuch may sound like an economist or a factory manager, development is not his first objective. Although Cuch may sound like an economist or a factory manager, development is not his first objective. What weVs got to do is educate, eaid Cuch, a member of tha Dear Editor, The Union Golf Team would like to thank the Mens and Women's Golf Cluba in Rooaevelt, as well as several businesses and individuals who have contributed financially to the support of our team. the offices. Keeping the officea sepWe also appreciate the API Golf arate maintains a balance of power. allowofficials their fir Tourney For these reasons and many ance of the Union High Golf Team more, I oppose the combining of the to participate in fund-raisactiviclerk and auditors office. ties during the summer. I hope each of you will give this Support from parents, booster matter your consideration. dub representatives, and newspaSincerely, per and radio organisations are Duchesne County Pat greatly appreciated in helping our 'Clerk Barker, team ha successful. We appreciate all you do for us! Sincerely, Coaches Mike Ross, Brian Ainsworth, and theUnion GolfTeam ; Or-eve- n main source of income. The subject of taxes is always one of their focal points. They insist that tribal members do not pay taxes and that Roosevelt Cityprovides services that the tribal members benefitfrom tha services that are fiinded from taxes paid by the Again the citizens need to be good reminded that the Indian people pay taxes. We pay federal income taxes, state and city taxes (off the reservation) which are recycled into many beneficial programs for all citizens. The letter does not mention the tribes economic and financial contribution to the city. The Ute Indian Tribes payroll kept the City of Rooeevelt alive during the oil bust of the late 70e and early 80's. To ignore these facts and deny that the Tribe doesnt contribute to Rooaevelt City are parte of the problem with this relationship. The City Officials mention the time end use of its officers to control traffic for the many 4th of July parades. One of the main reasons finholding the Tribe's 4th of July parades in Roosevelt was to educate the parade watchers aboutone of the events ofthe Indian non-India- non-Indi- ; . non-India- vacant . Union golf team Ute tribe. In rural areas, especially, the relationship between Indian and people is very poor. Theres a need to understand the history of the two peoples, the cultural values, why people believe the way they do. After there are good relationships, thats when things like economic development can happen. Cuch, 46, hopes his office will be able to mediate disputes such as the current Ute boycott of Roosevelt businesses. "Were going to take every opportunity to encourage cooperation and iMdoretondingbriween Indian and n in. the Unite Baain, he' .. said? "What'S misring'ia accurate information about each other. But both rides are going to have to give theres no other way Joseph Loftin, headmaster at Wasatch Academy in Mount Pleasant, is not surprised that education .is one of Cuchs priorities. Cuch has taught history at the private school for the past three yean. He was a thought-provokiteacher, challenging our students to look at the worid from a perspective different from the one in which they were raised," said Loftin. "Sometimes students would be uncomfortable with that But Purest is not an isolationist He sees the need for people ofdifferent cultures to work together and learn from each other." For Floyd O'Neil, former direc- - non-Indi- people. Another suggestion would be to publicly announce any intended meetings with the Ute Indian Tribe and vice versa. Tha only statement I agree within tha Open Letter from Roosevelt City is the statement ...that these who choose to entertain the falsehoods that are being expressed will realise that they are simply not truer and that there are two side to a story. I will leave future responses to the Ute Indian Tribal Council. Curtis R. Cesspooch - ng ' tor oftheUniversityofUtahsAmer-ica- n West Center, Cuch ia clearly tha man fu the job. Hes from a family of Ute lead-erONeil said. "Forrest ie a man who ia impatient for progress. A new aense of direction ia needed for American Indiana in our time, and he is about as as any- a, ONeil remembers Cuchs years as the Ute tribe's education director. ONeil, tribal leaders and Cuch developed a new curriculum fbr Ute students and published a history of tha Ute people. After hie work with the Utee in the 1970s and 80s, Cuch worked as tha administrator for the Wampanoag Tribe of Massachu- setts. Utah hay production The 1997 production of all hay ia up slightly from 1996, according to the Utah Agricultural Statistics Service. Yields I re close to the 1995 levels. Utahs October 1, 1997 forecast of all hay production, at 2.7 million tons, is up 7 percent from 1996. Yield, at 3.84 tons per acre, ie 0.27 ton per acre more than last year. Growers expect to harvest 700,000 acres, down 6,000 acres from 1996. Alfalfa hay production, at 2.3 mil, lion tons, is up 8 percent from 1996. The average yield of 4.30 tons per acre is 0.30 ton above lest year. Harvested acres, at 545,000, are identical to 1996. Nationally, 1997 all hay production is estimated at 152 milium tons, up 2 percent from 1996. Alfelfa hiy production, et 78.2 million tom, ia down 2 percent froi ' - and alfalfa hay H t PQQ TON 3E |