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Show WPiiaHW mm V Page 10 - UINTAH BASIN STANDARD. April 18. 2000 Hearings held to see if grand jury is needed Utahs Grand Jury Statute requires that a panel ofjudges selected from throughout the state will hold hearings in each judicial district every three years to determine if a grand jury needs to be summoned based upon criminal activity. The Attorney General, a county attorney, or special prosecutor appointed also present under UCA 7 evidence to the panel ofjudges based upon criminal activity to summon a grand jury. The panel of judges will near in secret all persons claiming information justifying the calling of a grand jury. All persons appearing will be placed under oath and will be examined by the panel of judges. The purpose ol the hearing is for the judges to receive testimony to determine ifreasonable cause exists for calling a grand jury. Personsappearing to testify claiming information justifying the call of a grand jury should be prepared to give evidence in support of such claims. In this regard, persons considering to testify should bear in mind that it is not the purpose of the hearing to hear and consider controversies between individual parties. If a grand jury is summoned, the 84066. Individuals who would like to tes 84114-024- 1 (801) 578-380- 0. In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, individuals needing special accommodations during this hearing should notify the Clerk of Court, identified above, at least three working days prior to the hearing. Ranger district seeks input on local mining proposal accepted at the Department of Workforce Services, 140 West 425 South in Roosevelt from April 24, 2000 to May 5, 2000. Ifyou have any questions please contact the Department of Workforce Services at . hwisaHs 578-380- at large or anyjudicial district within the state. The next grand jury panel is scheduled for Tuesday, May 9, 9 a.m. 4 p.m. at the 8 District Court, Roosevelt District Court Building, 255 South State, Roosevelt, UT The Department of Workforce Services will administer a Youth Services Program. This program was formally known as the JTPA Summer Youth Program. In the past years this program liras able to serve 35 to 40 youth on a summer employment project. This summer the Workforce Investment Act Youth Services Program will only be able to serve approximately 10 youth. Youth applying for the program must be 16 to 21 years old, and meet income criteria. Applicants will be required to attend workshops totaling) hours and other employment related activities before they will be placed on a work site for the summer. The youth placed in summer employment will be placed in employment close to their career goals. Applications for the Youth Services Program for this summer will be - 789-753- jurors may be drawn from the state Ten summer jobs for eligible youth (435)722-6500- tify before the panel ofjudges on the scheduled date need to contact either the Clerk of the Court, JoAnne or D. Mark McKee, (435) Jones, District Court Administraat least one tor, at (801) week prior to the scheduled date, for an appointment. Appointments are scheduled for one half hour. Administrative Office of the Courts, 450 South State Street, PO Box 140241, Salt Lake City, Utah The Duchesne Ranger District of the Ashley National Forest has received a Plan of Operations from Uintah Mountain Copper Company (UMCC) for proposed mining activity on National Forest System lands. The proposed operation will begin in the summer of 2001. It continues and replaces a previous plan of operations for exploration. The area is located in Sections 10 and 15 T2N, R6W, USM. Access would be by existing roads and no new roads would be required. UMCC will continue to perform annual maintenance on road, hand clearing of rocks, fallen trees, and repair of minor washouts from winter snowmelt The proposal includes a test pit less than 0.1 acres in size. Excavation is to be a maximum depth of 43 feet The area would be reclaimed after the excavation is completed. An estimated 650 cy of hematite ore within the test pit area will be removed and hauled from the finest mateMl overburden and non-or- e rial resulting from the test pit (about 2000 cy) remaining from exploration operations in earlier yean, will be incorporated into the reclamation, with no tailing or waste resulting after completion of work. No permanent structures are will Elanned. Any temporary facility at a camp site area previously permitted under the exploration Plan of Operations. One or two trailers (maximum 25 feet) may be used to house personnel and for use as a field office (existing power and telephone connections). Potable water will be brought to the site in containers. Sanitation facilities will be portable units, primarily within trailers. Ore transfer at camp site will be done by use of temporary bins and Is conveyors. Power for transfer equipment will be either through use of the existing distribution lines near the camp or by engines. Sample ore will be removed from the forest so that no milling facilities or support facilities are needed within the National Forest A copy of the plan of operation is available at the Duchesne District office. The Duchesne Ranger District is soliciting comments on the above proposal. Written comments will be received through Mqy 18. Comments should be sent to: Joseph R. Bistryski, District Ranger, Duchesne Ranger District, PO Box 981, Duchesne, UT 84021. Additional information may be ' obtained at the Duchesne Ranger District Office, 85 West Main, Duchesne, UT 84021, or by telephone at (435) 738-248- 2. After a hiatus, the State Tax Commission has announced they will reinstate the sales tax on homestead land for enrolled Ute Tribe members on July 1. According to Tax Commission Spokesperson Janice Perry-Gullmerchants in homestead areas, such as Roosevelt, who deal with the collection of sales taxes from tribal members will be officially notified ofwhen the change will occur through a special tax bulletin in late May or early June. Tribal members have been tax exempt in Duchesne County and west Uintah County since 1986 following a ruling by the 10 Circuit Court of Appeals which declared the 14-ye- ar y, Clint and Helen Park Outstanding Small Business Of the Year Outstanding Volunteer of the Year Agriculture Business of the Year Public Service Organization of the Year Retail Business of the Year Industrial Small Business of the Year Outstanding Volunteer Organization L & L Motors Craig Ashby Vickie Jessen Sherry Lott Lana Jordan Al Jole Nancy West Kathy Hardinger Mary Ellen Kettle Tim Davis Bonnie Roberts Bryce Davis Alisa Thacker Duchesne County Sheriff's office with seven 1 degree felony counts of aggravated sexual abuse and rape of a child, as well as five misdemeanors for lewdness with children and adults. The new charges do not carry minimum-mandator- y sentencing, but as part of the plea agreement, the sentences on the two charges are to be served consecutively, rather than concurrently. A 2" degree felony carries a possible term of 1 -- 15 years in prison and a possible $10,000 fine. 10-ye- ar 1 Duchesne County volunteers needed to "spring into action Dont let the peaceful and good spirited feelings of the New Year disappear! Spring is quickly there a better time of year to revive those feelings? Why not open your heart and home to an Academic Year in America international student? With this kind gesthe exterior boundaries existed, ture, you and your family can help make the world a little smaller, a homestead lands within the boundaries had been removed from the little friendlier and a lot more enreservation. The ruling meant that lightened. Academic Year in America stuit was legal to charge tribal memdents aged 15 - 18 M come from bers sales tax on homestead land. However, the Tax Commission many different countries such as declined to reinstate the sales tax Brazil, Germany and Japan. They for tribal members following the bring with them a desire to share 1998 ruling, saying they wanted to their language, unique customs and resolve numerous issues regarding perspective, which is a great way for the court decision before changing Duchesne County families to experithetax exempt status for tribal mem- ence another culture. Students also bring a genuine curiosity about life bers. in the United States - the nuances of Three weeks ago, Federal District Court Judge Bruce S. Jenkins, which many of us take for granted. The experience can be imofficially signed off on an agreement among the state, tribe and Duchesne mensely rewarding for the family and Uintah counties, signaling the and the student, says Academic end of 25 years of litigation among Year in America Director Terri Wilthe parties. The last loose ends to be liams. All Duchesne County famitied --up dealt with taxation matters. lies need to do is provide the student The final court action approved a with meals, aplace to sleep and study, measure that allows tribal members and to treat him or her like a memto be exempt from the state gasoline ber of the family. Each student has tax when they purchase their fuel full medical insurance and spending from a tribsUynowned service sta- money and is the best and brightest tion on the reservation, and grants ambassador of his or her home enrolled tribal members living country. The Academic Year in America within the original reservation boundaries tax exempt status when program is sponsored by the Ameriit comes to paying state income tax if can Institute For Foreign Study Foundation, a organithey work on the reservation. While tribal members will begin sation that for 20 years has helped international students realise their to be taxed on purchases on homestead land, they will continue to be dream of experiencing life in the exempt from paying sales tax on United States. If you would like to goods and services within the cur- host an international student, or simrent reservation boundaries. This ?ly learn mote about the Academic in America program, call includes being exempt from a purchase made in Salt Lake or some- Danielle Carpino at at 5146 or where else in the state, including ext. dcarplnoig aifs.com. Its a great homestead lands in the Uintah Basin, if their purchase is delivered to way to start off the new century! the reservation. exterior boundaries of the original Uintah Valley Reservation were intact. Further court decisions including a hearing before the U.S. Supreme Court resulted in a ruling two years ago which stated that while - - . picnic area to open The Bureau ofLand Management is announcing that its popular picnic area in Dry Fork Canyon is now available for public use. This picnic site is usually available sometime after Easter when the snow is gone and the area is no longer muddy. The public can access this area long before similar sites are open at higher elevations on the national forest. This years usually mild winter mqy permit earlier access to the site than usual The BLM picnic site is located along the Dry Fork Canyon Road, immediately below the national forest boundary. There are six sites available. All d sites have parking, picnic tables and (lie rings. The picnic area is scattered along Dry Foih Canyon Creek int eh shade of tall trees, making it cool during the hot summer months. The canyon walls at this point become spectacular cliffs and sharp limestone pinnacles. A wide variety of birds can be eitjqyed in the trees and brush near the creek. The BLM is currently developing an interpretive hiking trail in partnership with the Vernal Junior High Escape Club and Ashley National Forest to explain the unique geology and colorful history of the canyon. BLM Recreation Planner, Dave Moore, said: We dont charge for use of this area, but the public is expected to keep the picnic area cleaned for the next family suse and enjoyment. The Diy Fork Picnic Site has been in continual use for over 30 years. Its popularity is increasing every year. Locally, people that came to this area as children art now bringing their children to this site. off-roa- Uintah Basin STANDARD CLASSIFIED: V -- CalfTal .722-51- 31 High Valley Nursery Uintah Basin Medical Center Swaseys Foodtown Altamont Burdick Paving Basin Arts Council Millennium Teachers Awards Terri Mitchell had initially been charged by A sentencing date is pending an April 25 status nearing in Vernal Pisco has been incarcerated in the Duchesne County jail since Oe . tober 1999 when he was arrested at his downtown Roosevelt pawnshop. Throughout the investigation he was cooperative with prosecutors, to the point of providing them with information they did not have in regards to his past history involving the sexual abuse of children. The crimes were committed against boys and girls ranging in age from 12 to under 5 years old. One of the acts he plead guilty to occurred while he was working with the Boy Scouts in a supervisory capacity during a camp out. The alleged abuse was reported to law enforcement officials lart sumold boy. The invesmer by a tigation uncovered numerous incidents of sexual abuse by Fisco. BLM Dry Fork to reinstate sales tax Ellen Rawlings the Year Saying the statute of limitations had expired on eight of the 12 sex abuse charges leveled against a Roosevelt businessman accused of molesting relatives and a Boy Scout in his charge, prosecutors opted for a plea agreement with Richard F. Fisco, Sr. Fisco appeared The in 8 District Court in Roosevelt last Thursday, April 13, and entered guilty pleas to two reduced charges of2" degree felony sexual abuse of a child. In return for his guilty pleas, the two remaining charges that had not expired were dismissed. Fisco Tax Commission sets July Awards Will Be Given At The Annual Awards Banquet Which Will Be Held May 3, 2000 Featuring Wes Curtis as the Keynote Speaker Total Citizens of but two charges tossed in child sex abuse case All Tribal Members The Duchesne County Area Chamber of Commerce is proud to announce its 19992000 Millennium Award Winners Lifetime Achievement Award Roosevelt Post Office is getting a bit of a face lift. The parking lot was redone last week. On the inside a new post master will be chosen to replace postmaster Ray McQuivey who is leaving to accept a position as postmaster in Hurricane. Utah. PA VING-T- hc Altamont Elementary Altamont High School Con Amore School Duchesne Elementary Duchesne High School East Elementary Myton Elementary Neola Elementary School Roosevelt Middle School Tabiona School Union High School Russell Todd School f 1 |