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Show I Pace 20 - UINTAH BASIN STANDARD. March 31. 1998 MNMffHH Indian burial sites may reroute UDOTs plans for Legacy Highway likely somewhere along the route has also allowed the department to begin preemptive negotiations with eight nearby tribes, and lizotte said the sides are nearing an agreement on how the sites should be handled. The hope is that our being proactive with the tribal governments will help us avoid big problems later, he said. The Associated Press Archaeologists say there are very likely numerous Indian burial sites RED RIBBON CEREMONY Heib Snyder, Uintah County Commissioner, took scissors in hand and cut the red ribbon signifying the official opening of the new Public Health Department facility. ty Utah job corps begin new recruitment campaign U.S. Job Corps, the Department ofLabor program which provides young people with the op portunity to learn a trade and start a career, has launched a regionwide recruitment campaign for 1998. The campaign will notify young Anderson and Lori McPherson, memINVENTORY TAKING-Lin- da bers of the Christmas Spirit Connection inventory last years surplus merchandise to be moved from the Community Service Center Thrift and Gift into a donated storage facility. The inventory included children's clothing and toys will be used by the Connection in the Christmas Season. The Christmas Spirit Connection separated from the CSC Thrift and Gift March 11. and will sepcratly go on to serve the community. adults about Job Corps Centers throughout Region VIIVIII, including the centers in Utah - Clearfield Job Corps Center in Clearfield and Weber Basin Civilian Conservation Center in Ogden. The recruitment campaign will target motivated young people between the ages of 16 through 24 who wish to take advantage of the education and trade opportunities offered through Job Corps, officials said. ' Job Corps has a long history of training successful graduates in a variety of fields, said John I. Douglas, regional director. A Job Corps education gives graduates a new outlook and a new start. As part of the Labor Departments Employment and Training Administration, Job Corps provides high school diploma and GED classes, as well as vocational training and job placement in food service, warehousing, welding, business clerical, bricklaying, carpentry, heavy equipment operations and mechanics, painting, building and apartment maintenance, forestry, diesel mechanic, dental assistant, medical assistant, and landscaping. Those who want to learn more about Job Corps and what it has to 7 in Utah offer can call (800) or visit the Job Corps web site at wwwjobcorps.org. 426-562- in west Davis County and if there are, it could cause substantial delays and increased costs for the LegThe density of acy Highway. sites in that area is very high, said Steve Simms, a professor of anthropology at Utah State University. Jones said any remains would Many of the tribes preferred the be excavated and stored at probably wetlands and quality agricultural land near the Great Salt Lake, an American Indian repository at Simms said. The areas provided This is the Place State Park in Salt Lake City. Even if an agreement is plentiful water and large wildlife evis There abundant populations. idence of the past Indian populations. After the Great Salt Lake flooded in 1990, Simms and a team of archaeologists recovered the reon-a- ir mains of at least 85 humans in the area. Many of the remains were found to be more than 1,000 years KUER FM 90, Utahs largest pubold, Simms said. If any sites are lic radio station which can be heard uncovered during construction, at 104.9 FM in Duchesne and work would be forced to shut down Roosevelt, is taking a new approach immediately, said Chris Lizotte, g to this spring. The NPR preservation specialist for the Utah which turns 38 this year, station, of Department Transportation. g on already does less We dont know whats out there, the air than most other public stahe said. The sites are buried, and tions around the country, with just we dont know what impact this two on-adrives anmembership construction will have. Most agree nually. But the station is taking that the further away from the lake that even further this season with a the road is built, the slimmer the drive thats nearly 70 shorterthan chances of disturbing remains. usual! The idea is to provide listenthat worries Still, uncertainty ers with more of the programming Kevin Jones, Utah state archaeolothey erjoy with fewer interruptions gist. From an archaeological perfor fundraising. spective, Im horrified, he said. Tm KUERs development staff is afraid theyll get all geared up, and to raise about half of the working burial sites will end up in the daws g spring goal before the .ofbulldozers." We would all like to on-a- ir into full swing goes campaign leave human remains undisturbed, on April 1, using an enhanced mail but in some cases you simply cancampaign and telemarketing. Anot, he said. If a highway goes lthough the introduction of through there, the sites will get telemarketing has brought groans disturbed. from some long-tim- e station supUDOT policy has long held that porters, the technique has been enorsite historical with value any y mously successful so far, whether human remains, arrowstation members have expressed apheads or pioneer tools requires an for how simple archaeological evaluation before preciation has made it to contelemarketing construction can begin, Lizotte said. tribute to the station. Preliminary evaluations on a chunk KUER will also introduce the of North Salt Lake land that all the concept of blockbuster programs proposed highway alignments during the on-a- ir campaign this would cross have already uncovspring, when certain program are ered arrowheads and tools. densely packed with fundraising Knowing that the remains are pleas so that other programs wont reached, lawsuits could stall the project for months or years and the strained relationships between state government and certain tribes could make such a suit more likely. Forrest Cuch, state director of Indian affairs, said UDOTs discussions with the tribes makes him confident that the tribes will be able to control any excavation, although he didn't rule out the possibility of a lawsuit They (UDOT) are making effort to work with a good-fait- h tribes, Cuch said. We will have to deal with each site on a basis. case-byca- se Public radio station makes cuts in fundraising fund-raisin- fund-raisin- ir have to be interrupted at all. The aim of each blockbuster program is simply to raise as much money so the fundraising goal can be reached more quickly. Station cohesion is an important concept for this condensed fund drive, says Alice Storm, KUER's Development Director. We're trying to get beyond the idea that our programs are competing with one another in any way for listener support. If you call with a pledge during Morning Edition, you're also supporting jazz at night, local news, weekend entertainment, and everything else we do. Its all part of one great package!" Blockbuster fiind-raisin- and-man- fund-raisin- will g take place during KUERs m ost popular program beginning with Car Talk at 10 a.m. on Saturday, March 28- - then during Morning Edition from 7 to 8 a.m. on Wednesday, April 1; from 8 to 9 a.m. an April 2, and again from 7 to 8 a.m. on Friday, April 3. More traditional fundraising will only take place April 1, 2, and 3 from 9 a.m. to noon and from 4 to 9 p.m. On Saturday, April 4, the drive will wrap up with tradig from 7 a.m. to tional noon, and then from 5 to 7 p.m. The over-al- l result will be a total ofabout g 38 broadcast hours with interruptions, down from the usual 120 hours! fund-raisin- fund-raisin- Join us in Celebration of Dr. i Ians Karlsson Dr. Wayne Stewart National Doctors Day March 31, 1998! 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