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Show L'lNT.M1 B student and senior passes are 40. Consequently a family of four would MOON LAKE Continued from page 1 keeping. "It will clean up few adminiatn-tiv- e problem," Earl diicloeed adding that he bit that the proposal was made because people often do not know the candidates within their own districts. During the "stewardship report given by Board President Vincent the members learned that over 93 million would be returned to members in , Capital Qreditreftinds, however Moon i Lakes margins remain sufficient for' operating expenditures. Grant Earl presented the manag-- 1 ers report, diacusaingthe "lows that I Moon Lake faced the previous year, I naming the death of Lynn Mitton, oft Deseret Generation and Transmis-- I sion (electric supplier to Moon Lake Electric) who Earl said who was in restructuring Deserets debt." Earl died the criminal lawsuitfiled by federal fish and wildlife organisation for the death of 17 birds, eagles, hoot owls and hawks and the and mandated retrofit of 413 Moon Lake poles asanegativehappeningfor the company, which he feels the government could have handled differently as no other utility company that he knows ofhas been changed with the death of birds. "Birds should be protected," Earl said, noting that the retrofitting of the transmission poles is going smoothly and there will not be a rate increase to members, however.he said oil companies in the effected area will have to pay more for service. Earl went on to say that the improving oil market will benefit the . Basin as will potential new industries, such as oil shale production. As far as the iasue of deregulating utility companies, "it can still hap-- , pen," Earl said, adding that Mom Lake bo prepared for the general session of the Legislature in 2001. Looking to the ftiture Earl reported that Moon Lake is also creating a "working relationship with Scottish Power, which will be in the best interest of the company. Earl said that according to inflationary rates since 1985 consumers could be paying as much as 1A6 per killowatlhour instead of .56 cents. He concluded by expressing hisappreda-tio- n to the management staff, adding, "with all that we still need and want public input, letters, phone calls, e mails, noting; that what members have to say about Moon Lake is important to himself and his staff. POOL PETITION. I Continued from page cost between $180 $200, depending on the ages of participants. The Roosevelt residents who created and are circulating the petition do not want to divulge their names, sayingthat no one person was responsible for the petition and they do not want to be singled out and ridiculed for the act. "There are quite a few of us around town who feel its an unfair price. especially those with large families. Its way too big of an increase and ' discriminates against us," one of the group said. Brad Hancock, Roosevelt City administrator, said that he was notaware of the petitions, however, he feels it would be in the best interest of the residents to"do their homework to be able to justify why rates are too high, then schedule an appointment with the city council to discuss the matter." , . Hancock said that petitions are a way to get attention, but not an effective means of communicating. "The council has madeadecision of it this year, but thats not to say it cant be changed. There is a right way to go about it, he concluded. gn&jgf A TT ssui ,2mi Slogans for Women's T-shi- rts So many men, so few who can afford me. God made us sisters; Prozac made us friends. If they dont have chocolate in heaven, I aint going. At my age. Ive seen it all, done it all, heard it all 1 just cant re member it all My Mother is a travel agent for guilt trips. Coffee, chocolate, men.. Some . . things arejust better rich. Dont treat me any differently than you would the Queen. If you want breakfast in bed, sleep in the kitchen. Dinner is ready when the smoke alarm goes off. Its hard to be nostalgic yon when cant remember anything. Guys have feelings too. But like... who care? " Next mood swing: 6 minutes. I used to be schizophrenic, but were OK now. Warning: I have an attitude and I know how to use it. " Do NOT start with me. You will NOT win. M? husband is the head of the household, but Im the neck (and tha neck can turn the head anyway it want it to move.) Sony if I looked interested. Im not. J run things at iqyhousel (Eg. the vacuum cleaner, washing ma- WV" chine, iron, etc.) purpoae of reducing thedtyssubaidy for operating the pool, which amounts to about 113,700 per year and to bring prices in line with what other communities arecharging. What are other communities charging? Heres what we found out. From May 15 - September 15 the American Fork swimming pool offers a summer family swim pass for 1109. The pass covers all family members living in the same house hold. Included inthatfeeisftiUuseoftheracquetball courts, track, weight training knd aerobic classes. A summer fhmily swim pass is $139. Tha Logan Municipal swimming pool offers an indoor IOlympic- sise swimming pool fair the family family pass price of 105 for one-fo- ur members, each member after that is an additional 10. The pass is good for six months. Admission to the indoor Olympic-siz-e .. pool in RangJey,Coloradocoots a family of four $165 to utilise a six-month Closest to home, the Uintah Pool in Vernal is an indoor, (Hympic-siz-e swimming pool that offers a three-montpass to adults, students and seniors. An adult pass is 960, while non-reside- nt h USWEST BUYOUT Continued from page 1 Communications is purchasing ap-proximately 10,307 access lines in Vernal; 4,288 access lines in Roosevelt; and 954 access lines in Duchesne. UBTA is a member-ownetelecommunications cooperative, founded in 1948. The cooperative currently serves 3, 100 customers. Their goal 2s to use technology toenhance telecommunications for customers in the Uintah Basin. UBTACommunications has offices in Vernal and on South Myton Bench in Duchesne County. They are in the process of building a new office in Rooeerelt. Valley ilders has been hired aa the contractor. The piqject is scheduled for completion in first quarter 2001. Specific building plans for the facility will be announced by UBTA at the annual meeting on Thursday, d WHERE GOOD GARDENS BEGIN 293 NaRh Fan WcM Pj pc 3 PATRONAGE REFUNDS-Membe- rs of Moon Lake Electric Association stand in line to receive their patronage refund checks prior to the annual meeting, which was held last Thursday at Union High. This year Moon Lake's financial position allowed the cooperative to refund 93 million in patronage capital credits, the largest refund in its history. RECREATION Continued from page 1 .) In second place for city subsidies is ate for youth and adults. In the cur- rent recreation budget, it is estimated the golf course. Actual budget figures that the city will pay over $15,100 for 1998-9- 9 fiscal year show that the above what they bring in for athletic city subsidized the golf course $69,697, above what golfers paid for using the course and its facilities. The projected subsidy for the golf course for the 1999 - 2000 fiscal year, which ends this June, is $98,350. When you L,k at the subsidy for the golf courae,other factors should be considered as well, said Hancock. For one thing; the subsidies are roughly the same at the golf course as they were when the course had nine holes. And there is a ripple effect, as well. "There have been 80 home built in that area as a direct reeult of having the golf course there, and we get a large amount of property ta from those homes. share to look at the whole picture. The dty offers a variety of athletic programs for which they chaiwa fee. with the exception of the Jr. Jass basketball program, which is gener the city pays to ally make sporting opportunities avail- 18-ho- le g, programs such as men's and women softball and outdoor soccer. In the 1998-9- 9 fiscal year, the city's subsidy for recreational sporting teams was $3,482. The subsidy for the city's swimming pool is estimated at $13,700 in the current 1999 2000 budget year. But in the 1998 - 99 budget, the city's swimming pool subsidy was $9,330. Fees fur season pool passes just took a bigjump, prompting some public outcry, but Hancock said it's all part of trying to balance out the bills minimum wage is up and so is the cost of chlorine, he said. "We try to make it as affordable as possible to golf or swim or for any of the activi- - ties." City leaders welcome public input when it comes to balancing their annua) budget. Public hearings are held each May when they are in the process of forming the city's budget for the : upcoming fiscal vesr which runs July i . junc 30 V- - E2: -- rs If by James Hiffir Normally Im not one to criticize science for trying to make the world a better place. However, I draw the line at earning its too "60s science fiction" for my tastes. Swedish scientists have cloned a sheep. I have only one question, wly a sheep? Is there some sheep short- age I dont know about? Or maybe figured that with so many shep, one more would easily go unnoticed, But aoon cloning animals wont be enough. "Imagine the grants well get if we clone a man, Stevens!" Followed by lightning, thunder, Daughter, and Igor hobbling around the lab. Wait, wrong sce nario. or is it? Cloning could very well turn into the Frankenstein's monster of huWhat if some crackman foul-up- s. pot decides to clone Hitler or Stalin just for the heck of it? Science has always been a Pandoras box. If we open it more than it already is. the world wiU become a very confuting and scary Think of identical twins and tha problems they face daily. No imagine getting confused for your done, having a woman named Bambi talking you just because your done has a thing for blondes. Another thing to consider is the impact this will have on the clones, being real people only a replies of another person not sure if they have a souL And believe me. the but thing this world needs is a bunch of depressive, psychopathic, - - igoingto volunteer for this sort of tiling I find it a bit disturbing to think that someone might actually want another ono of them walking the streets. I know that one James Willis is more than enough to make the world a strange and increasingly interesting place for the people who know me. I couldnt imagine having two of me roaming the earth. Granted, I know as much about the actual process of cloning as 1 do about Chinese mathematics, which isnt enough to fill a Post-I- t note. It has always seemed to me that tri ence, while brilliantand mostly help-the- y fuL will ultimately be mankind's undoing. Let's face it, there are some things we are not meant to know, questions we are not to know the answers to, and some lines never to cross But science keeps barreling down the road, with speed, ignoring all the warning sign?., In my humble opinion, eventually its going to crash, hard and messy, and take most of civilization with iL It's like giving a a hand grenade a bad idea, and in the end very hard to dean up. I may be falling into redundancy, but it's something that I cannot stress enough. Lose the notes and work on curing cancer, or build a better mousetrap. I dont care how you cupy yourselves. Juet leave cloning alone. I doubt it will happen though. Rather than this scenario: "Great, weve cloned something. Now let's get to work on somethir tant It will go more along the lines of kids in a candy store, cloning erything imaginable until the world is so full of sheep and who knows what else that the delicate balance of nature buckles and we find selves in another ice age. 'I get quite 1 stroke of good fortune, they will put down the cloning gun and turn their attention to something of more value to humanity, like a pill for immortality. That way, 1 could be sure to be alive to say 1 told you so w hen the world as we know it ends at the hands of science. ever-increasi- - PUBLIC WATCH NEEDED Vandals taking bigger bite out of budget To help curb the problem, the city is offering a $500 reward to anyone who supplies information leading to the arrest and Last winter a vehicle drove over a young evergreen tree, which ooet $100 to replace. Eagle Scout candidates routinely make picnic tables for the parks, but due to the damage the tables receive, the city is "just barely keeping up," Dye said. Skatebuarders place the picnic tables and use them as a conviction of those ramp. The wear and tear is too much and the wooden planks end upbroken. responsible for vandalizputting the tables out of commission. ing public property. My budget for vandalism is between $1,500 and $2,000 a year. Next By Lezlee E. Whiting year we're locking at doubling that. It's your tax dollars at work. Those are tax dollars that most Acts of vandalism are costing Roosevelt city taxpayers more money taxpayer would like to see used spruceach year, and this year city officials ing up the porks, rather than being say the budget for covering costs of spent repairing damage done by vanthose who ruin public property could dals But that won't happen,said Dye. double. Vandals have been striking "It just about takes one guy anywith some regularity at city parks and more to keep up with the vandalism the golf course. It's a problem that that takes placedunngthevear. There occurs all year, said Parks and Recreare a lot of other things we could do to ation Director Linden Dye, but it is make the parks nice .. I had a lore manifest even more in the spring and swing in the trees by the pavilion at summer. Constitution Park. It lasted 30 days To helpcurb the problem, the city and tliey npped it all to pieces. I is offering a $500 reward to anyone didn't bother to replace it." who supplies information leading to Every so often the culprits ore the arrest and conviction of those re- caught, usually just because someone happen to drive by at the right time sponsible for vandalizing public propand notifies police. And oddly enough, erty. The Vandalism ranges from carv- said Dye. most of them are teenage ing names and profanity on metal girls. But more often than not the doors at the Constitution Park am- vandal get away . The standingoider phitheater and on the tops of wooden for restitution, when the suspects are picnic tab les. to bending iroti screens cJugfcC&'StjOC?. said Dye. aUhcgoncession stand, shooting out , LLx fVuYviin? the problems are lights, smashing restroom sinks, de- caused by kids who trek through the stroying drinking fountains, driving course, taking the green flogs and on grass, ruining sprinkler heads and throwing them in tlie pond, wrecking slashing up swings. At the restrooms the wooden benches along the course and damaging the restrooms. by the ball diamonds at Constitution "I don't see it gelling sure better, Park recently, feces were found smeared on the doors. its just getting wane. I don't know Each time a sprinkler head is run why kids wont to do it. but they do." over its anautomstic $ 100 repair job. said Lbe. end-to-en- d e. ROOSEVKL ev-n- ot our-man- ic Aiwyofcopftc IoWkX tewrot. beflw knon as Lou CeftngX One Show Sundxx 7:30 o piogwAf dual, rwrvom Rttom dtoort Of to N rasas am lei xafon VtaeJm Dnweby www.mdeusa.Ofg faM rMM "wn Sm OSE 28 Days UBTA Communications Sandra Bullock Annual Meeting 2000 7:30 p.m. & 9;30 pm PG-1- 3 Roosevrh. Utah April 20 CABBAGE at Union High School F0TAT0ES .SIX VARIETIES Including the tasty Tellow-flcsh- ed Gods Army re 7.25 p.m. JL 9:30 p.m. YUKON GOLD And die novel ALL BLUE i Knriff't High Valley Notes used to say that someone with money had pockets that pngted. And I was true. I you had the good fortune of owning a torvdofiar bit and used ft to pay lor a purchase of lees than one dollar, the dark may have handed back nine sliver dollars and aoma emitter change. Though totnewhat ol a nuisance. R ortaWy jmg'ed you pul It o ox yom pochet Even dimes, quarters and tained plenty of sihrer. That's how I was whan we started Mty years ago. rm not sure of the meld mixture in modem ooma but they don't pngie much. Now pockets only clatter ftey contain much change. And charge cards dont even do 9ml. CWWMlUvWy Folk half-dollar- s t mm. L? p.m. UBTA is also in the process of interviewing prospective UBET.Telecom board membera, said Glenda Stewart, Member Relations manager. Five people from the Roosevelt area have expressed an interest in aervingonthe new board: three names have been submitted from tha Duchesne area and twofrom Vernal. The UBTABoard of Directors will select one person from each of the three exchanges to serve on the UBET Telecom Board. Their names will be announced at the April 20 annual meeting, which will be held at Union High. Elections for the NeolS exchange board of directors tor UBTA will be held as well at the annual meeting. Running for that position are incumbent Max Warren and Kim Bastian. BROCCOLI CAULIFLOWER EVERGREENS AND LOTS OF NICE FLOWERING SHRUBS COME GET 'EM! 1 April 20, at Union High. Registration begins at 6:30 p.m. The business portion of the meeting begins at 7:30 Registration Begins At 6:30 p.m. General Business Session Begins At 7:30 p.m. Election of Directors in the Altamont and Necla exchanges Patronage checks will be available for pickup prior to the General Business Session. Door Prizes and Refreshments 1 '- C O M xVI U N I CAT IONS 435-646-50- 07 Rules of Engagement Tommv Lee Jones R (bicAAita Only ?.30p.m. MOVIE Information Call 7220095 |