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Show I C005 0 307 0 The most basic P ASSOCIATION 200 S. SUITE 4004 (4) PRESS UTAH Ul. SALT LAKE UT CITY, 84101-12- 12 rule of survival in any situation is "never look like food. " --Park Ranger uintah Basin 500 Out with the old ... Tuesday WhilamostLegisJaturesare remembered for partisan Januaiy 23, 2001 politics and new laws passed, Utah's 2001 session will be recalled asthe year lawmakers Roosevelt, Utah 88, Number 4 www.ubstandard.com Vol. joined together to reduce government bureaucracy. See page 2 TRANSITION TO BE TRANSPARENT passion for A footwear You've got to see them to believe it, laughs Lois LaRose QWEST transfer to UBET expected in March about her shoes. She isn't onetabie and several shelves in a china hutch. Seepage 13 ft BIT lesson behind the "glowing light" The Uintah Basin is still an alien "hot spot, or so you might think if you drive past Thom psen school in the dead of night. However, the luminescent dome that brightens the school yard is not an alien laboratory. Seepage Fr v v r5! y Mr I !. 14 K v,- nal and Duchesne exchanges." cess will be seamless. When it comes to how long-diNo one's service is going to be interruDted. We will just take over tance toll charges will be handled It will be transparent to f when all land-lin- e telephone aubecrib- the customers in the Roosevelt, Ver- - era in the Uintah Basin are served by . kidding either, her collection of miniature shoes takes up - Issue theirformai perhaps go-ahea- d, Duchesne Eagles defeat Aitamont Longhorns 57 - 50. The Eagles are off to a great start with a 14-4ea-d. Seepage 16 for calls throughout the system. free call- Regarding Basin-wid-e be done because of a can t it mg, 3 SEE OWEST the same company, Stewart explained that, by law, no rate changes can occur for a specified time period after the sale, but plans are in the works to monthly charge implement a one-ra- 3 te sometime this week. By Leslee E. Whiting Some 16,000 QWEST (formerly US WEST) subscriber! in the Roosevelt, Duchesne and Vernal areas will have to wait for about two more months before they become customUBTA ers of the locally-base- d Communications subsidiary, UBET Telecom. Transfer of ownership, originally anticipated for late January, has now been moved back to atentative March 16 date at the request ofQWEST, said Glenda Stewart, Public Relations spokeswoman for UBTA UBET. The sale of QWEST territory in Uintah and Duchesne counties to UBTA, the Roosevelt-baae- d rural telephone cooperative that telephone service provides land-lin-e to approximately 3,100 customers in six different exchanges, was announced in November 1999. Communities included in QWEST's sale of service territory are: Vernal, Roosevelt, Duchesne, Ballard, Myton, Jensen, Naples, Gusher and Fort Duchesne. Last year UBTA created UBET Telecom toact as the service provider for their new acquisition. The proposed sale received approval from the Public Service Commission last fall, but still awaits the blessing of the Federal Communications Commission. The FCC is expected to issue their formal perhdps sometime this week, said Stewart. About two weeks prior to the finalization ofthe purchase andtransfer of service, QWEST will notify their customers by mail. Th&t letter will be foUowedbysletter from UBTA UBET Telecom. When the transfer of ownership does take place, Stewart said the pro-- When the new UBTAUBET office complex in THREE STORIES TALL Roosevelt is completed this summer, employees from the company's North Myton Bench facility will be eager to move into more spacious offices. UBTA UBET is expected to take over land-lin- e telephone service to QWEST ... - I MISSING ' - ' - .i, , , It wil I mark customers living in Duchesne and Uintah counties in the first time that Uintah Basin residents will be served by the same telephone company mid-Marc- h. ....... - v . m GATES PROMPTED ACTION 4 .. Determination drives woman to law books fl was given some law iaooks and i started to do an awful lot of reading, she said. It was just my gut feeling that this was not right." By Leslee E. Whiting LOOKING FORWARD DaymanODriscoll loves toplaywithhis brother Mark and is happy being with his family. Dayman is recovering from an accident that temporarily stole his ability to walk and speak, but didn't steal his smile or determination. T. SHKM0JlitWW ad Duchesne Battle s- . Its been just over a year since Beverly Park, of west Duchesne County, awoke to find the gate that had been on her property for 30 years, was missing. When she called the sheriff's office to report the theft she never dreamed the road would take her to from Duchesne Countys westside Justice Court to the Utah Surname Court. The whole incident appeared to Park to be an open and shut case of theft. The gate was gone, without her consent. The tracks in the snow leading away from where the missinggate once stood, led directly toa neighbor's home about a mile down the road. She called the Duchesne County Sheriff's Department and a report was filed. The woman who bad the gates said she didnt take them, but did admit "to knowing where they are. It wasnt that Park wanted the gates to keep people out. Just the opposite, she said. She wanted them left open to allow folks access, but some of her neighbors didnt much like the idea of keeping the gates which were posted at the end of a county road leading into private property in section 25 open. According to Park, at least one neighbor preferred not only to have f t u , s r ' v the gate closed at will, but would park her vehicle and patrol the gates every now and then, taking down license plate numbers and questioning those who wanted to pass through. Park said while she recognizes that some ofher neighbors desire the security of living on a private road, the intimidating manner in which the gates were patrolled was unnecessary. As she saw it, the gates were taken mainly as an act of retribution because she came to the aid of a new s j - i -- v. f 4 ' .? L nd. " ,V, neighbor would needed a right-of-wa- y after other residents in the subdivision succeeded in having their property landlocked. Park purchased the section of property with the gate on in 1999, to give her landlocked neighbors an access to their property. I was always brought up to think that if somebody steals from you and you can t get them to return it to you , you go to court and they would protect SEE MISSING GATE '. ' v ,,A onpagei .' ' , , - - YOUNGSTER WAS VICTIM OF NEAR DROWNING Miraculous recovery: Daymon makes unexpected progress By Katie Nelson I Two-ye- Some people in this world dont believe in modern-da- y miracles, but they havent met Dayman ODriscoll and his family. Eight months ago, the Ballard boy spent nearly 20 minutes under water after falling into an irrigation ditch. After his near drowning, Dayman spent six weeks in the Primary Children s Medical Center. During the first two days of his hospital stay, doctors told Daymans parents that it was likely he would die. Today Dayman who turns three on Feb. 23 is at home with his family and continues on the road to recovery. The progress he has made in the last five months since coming home is the beginningofa predicted two-yerecovery time doctors give neardrowning patients. Dayman prefers not to wear the oxygen sent home with him and does fine without it His appetite is better now, than it was before his accident, his mom says not to mention Dayman is eating without a feeding tube. ar COPT ar hasnt developed the motor skills it road to recovery already marked with progress. When Mark, Dayman's brother, began to eat meals, his parents noticed that Dayman started eating better as well. They also noticed that when Mark began to crawl and move, Dayman who Uiust relearn his small and large motorekills also started moving more. He has the foil use of his arms and can roll himself over, as well as scoot around. He hasn't yet regained his ability to walk an accomplishment his parents hope Dayman will be able to make. He wears braces on his feet to keep them from getting what doctors call "drop foot." Every day Dayman stands in a to support-bracstrengthen his muscles. He can move his legs, and loves to "run" while his parents manipulate his legs in bicycle e exercise fashion. As far as verbal communication, Dayman can say "mom and makes other noises. He is trying to talk but requires, although his mind is alive as he communicates with his family. It will be interesting, Lina says, to see how Dayman reacts when Mark begins to talk. Dayman is watchinghim, she added. Playing with his brothers, Mark d and Cory, is an activity that Dayman thoroughly eqjoys. If Mark happens to crawl by Dayman, he loses the "binky" out of his mouth. Dayman loves to be around other children, as well as watching Tigger on seven-year-ol- TV. Before his accident Dayman was like "a magnet to water, his mom says, and he still likes to be bathed and is not afraid of the water. When Dayman turns three, he will start It will be hard, Lisa says, adding that she wouldnt send him except it is necessary for his recovery. Physical therapists come to visit Dayman at his house and he also attends speech therapy and a play group at Little Blossom Care Center in Fort Duchesne. His mom will tell you that Dayman SEE DAYMON on page 3 pre-schoo- T Tv'wr' NEW GATES Beverly Park is a woman ofconviction. When the had been removed in the middle of the night without her permission filed she made up her mind to pursue the case in court anyway. discovered the gates on her property and was told that no theft charges would be , DRUG RELATED SUICIDE Trial ordered in manslaughter By Lezlee E. Whiting A report from the State Medical Examiners office showed that when Lamb died he had a "substantial amount of methamphetamine in his system. man will stand trial for manslaughter in connection with the suicide of a friend he had known since childhood. Eighth District Court Judge Lynn Payne found probable supplied Lamb with methamphetcause to bind Val R. Rich man, 43, over amine, folly aware of the dangers of to stand trial on a second-degre- e the highly addictive, controlled subfelony manslaughter in the death of Steven stance, and knowing that Lamb was Lamb, 42, of Ballard. having difficulty handling the drug. Richman was also bound over for Lamb shot himself in the head on trial on two second-degre- e felony 'May 18, 2000 in the garage portion of charges of distribution of metham- - Medallion Exploration on Industrial Road in Roosevelt. He left behind two phetamine, class A misdemeanor possession of control led substance with lengthy letters in which, amongother a prior conviction and class B misde- things, he told of buying methammeanor possession of drug parapher- phetamine from Richman. According nalia. to an expert witness for the prosecuProsecutors allege that Richman tion, Lambs ramblingthoughts were A Roosevelt case typical ofthe disjointed, pro ific writings ofsomeone abusingmelhamphet-amine- . During Richmans preliminary hearing last Friday, Jan. 19, Roosevelt Police Chief Cecil Gurr said that in interviews after Lamb's death, Richman admitted giving Lamb methamphetamine on two occasions, one ofthem just about ten days before he committed suicide. Richman told police that during each time, he and SEETKIAL ORnKKEDon page 3 |