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Show lOWh Every valuable creative idea will always be logical in hindsight m Willis p M nnii press rtssnciA ion Ul. I Uintah Basin I l AKI r S. r.UITfr r I Y Il l u11 ( Hannan 1?) , 50$ Renewing patriotism ; W. Tuesday Since the terroristattacks S on Sept 11, membership in H; the American Legion has Y been increasing. Don Heed, Y first vice commander of the 1 3 Duchesne Post 022said they have 34 new members in their post this year. "V November 6, 2001 Roosevelt, Utah 88, Number 45 www.ubstandard.com Vol. 13 Seepage VIOLENT FAMILIES LIVE IN DENIAL Victims of domestic violence urge kids to get help By Lezlee JS. Whiting Tracy lives forever! "The day Tracy died will forever stand as a changing point in my life, a day never to be forgotten, a day never to be remembered without tears of pain. Her full name was technically Don't miss this delightful story about childhoodmemories! See page 21 tisip Property sale stands An Eighth District Court judge has ruled that a Duchesne County woman who was the successful bidder on a home and land up for auction atthe county's annual tax sate is the new rightful owner. Seepage 10 lhatedhersobadfor not leaving. I had a lot of anger bottled up. The day Maiy'a husband continued to beat her even though she was unconscious was the day the Vernal ' womans friends decided it was time to call the police for her. She admits that if they hadn't acted she would be dead today. After suffering silently through five years of routine beatings and verbal abuse, Mary ended up inthe womens shelter, and eventually gathered the courage she needed toleave her abuser. Her husband spent one night in jail. After he was convicted of misdemeanor child abuse for committing an act of domestic violence in the presence ofchildren he was ordered to attend anger management classes. But this story isn't as much about Marys ordeal as it is theistoryof.r her children. What goes on the mind of a child, who day after day, comes home from school with a stomach ache and migraine from worrying over what kind of condition she would find her mother in? I hated her so bad for not leaving. I had a lot of anger bottled up. Thats when 1 started getting into trouble, relates Megan. While her stepfather was the nicest man in the world while dating her mother, just days after they were married he began exhibiting a temper between a Jekyll and that Hyde personality. Megan was 11 when the two married . She had a younger sister and an older brother. Two more sib lings were added during the five years their mother was married to their stepfa- family traditions. Seepage 16 explained the Duchesne County victims advocate. It becomes common place, it perpetuates and becomes accepted.(The victims advocates asked that their names not be used.) Megan took cm the job of caring for her three younger siblings. In order to cope in her fragile world, she developed a way to protect herself she became emotionally detached and see-saw- indifferent Its a behavior typical of children who grow up in an abusive home, said a victim's advocate from Uintah Pharmacist complains about unfair competition By Therena Morrill of Basin FamJefTLuke, ily Pharmacy in Roosevelt, expressed frustration to Duchesne County Commissioners over what he perceives as an uneven playing field between his business and the GoodNeighbor Pharmacy located in the Uintah Basin Medical Center. Luke and his business partner, Cory Christiansen, purchased the bankrupt Basin Pharmacy last year. At the heart of the issue is the fact Atthe heart of the issue is the fact that the er that the hospital is a required to pay taxes. Businesses in the private sector are subject to local, state, and federal taxes, and must factor these expenses into the price of their products or services. The result that businesses housed under the SEE ABUSE on page 3 fighting held them hostage in a silent world of shame. It was like hush, hush. I would tell my friends lets stay out and I would just come home when it was time to go to bed, says Megan. Pleas from her mother to call DU still haunt her. She never made the call during the assaults because her stepfather would jump in front ofthe phone, daring her to pick up the phone. Although he never struck the children, he easily intimidated them. Her worst memories? Getting a NO TAX BURDEN AT UBMC PHARMACY hospital isanon-profit50- 1 (C)(3) corporation, and is not required to pay taxes. their competitors in the private sector. Luke was recently informed by his that his business will owe $50,000 to $60,000 in federal and taxes for 2001, which is 35 per- cent of his corporate earningB. Basin Family Pharmacy will also pqy $2,28 1 in property tax. These taxes create a huge discrepancy betweenLukesover-i- s head and that of the hospital phar- - jSSSSXSSStaK BEIS PHARMACISTS JtiKM' ' A er N ot only was it terrifying at times, but for an adolescent the yelling and Duchesne places in both state meet divisions with Monts Grants and continuing their winning t. puppy for her birthday, only to have her stepfather drag the dog out of the house and to the dug pound because he heard it bark. Taking a vacation to Colorado and waking the first nightto the sound of screaming. Watchingher stepfather kick her mother as she lay on toe floor holdingher baby brother, and then being kicked out by their step-fathat three in the morning and told to go back home. Her mother tried desperately to stay away from home whenever possible, but paid a heavy price when she was late. She believed she must have deserved the beatings. After all, he explained to her it was just discipline. He couldnt understand why I couldnt understand, Maiy recalls. At home she spent all of herenergy walking a tightrope; trying to be perfect, to make it through just one day without upsetting her husband. Violent families live in denial, ther. Duchesne's cross country tradition gat - Whetheror not children are physically abused, they ollcn suffer emotional PUTTING THE PAST BEHINDTHEM and mental trauma from living in a violent family. The verbal abuse takes longer to heiil than the physical. Its still in your head, while the bruises heal, notes the Duchesne County Victim's Advocate. v$48 MILLION WATER STORAGE PROJECT Design Contract is approved for enlargement of Sandwash Reservoir Duchesne County Water Conservancy District Manager Randy Crazier. This Ifeverything goes accordingtoplan, is the closest to actual construction of about two years from now actual con- a Central Utah Project on the Lake struction could begin on a $48 million Fork River drainage system to date. In 1998 tliere were high hopes that water storage project for Duchesne County. The 203 Project as it is the document s for construction of two dollar dams in Uintah called, would double the size of multi-millio- n Sandwash Reservoir and develop new and Duchesne counties would be irrigation, culinary and industrial signed under the terms of the Central Utah Project Completion Act. Howwater supplies. Late last month, the Central Utah ever, yonrsof planningfor the Upalco Water Conservancy District okayed and Uinta units were dashed when and awarded the contract for design to the Ute Tribe unexpectedly pulled boost Sandwash Dam capacity to their support. The 203 project which was in24,000 aere feet and to design pipelines. CH2M Hill was awarded the cluded in the CUP Completion Act as piece of legislation engineering design contract and will a stand-alon- e was the only water storage project prepare the bid documents for construction. that was able to be salvaged. It does not involve tribal land, or require The Final Environment Assessment was also released late laBt month. tribal rights-of-waA letter in the Final Environmenalong with the Findingof No cant Impact. Both federal documents tal Assessment from Uintah Ouray e Agency Supcrin t enden t Da vid All ison gave the prqject the green light, waY for preliminary work to stated that the prnjxised action is formulated in such a way as to he able begin in earnest, I hope we are on our way to build to protect all Indian Trust Assets or this, it looks pretty promising, said avoid adverse impacts," and would By Lezlee E. Whiting Signifi-accounta- not have an adverse affect on land, minerals, hunting, and ilshingor water rights of the Ute Indian Tribe. In September, the Ute Tribe Business Committee issued a resolution stating they could not support the planned water resou rce development sought by Duchesne County because they felt it impacts the tribe's water rights and the tribe. 's right to determine the best use of tribal water. Final papers which will authorize funding for the projuct, must be signed by the Department of Interior before the end of November, said Crazier. The money was previously authorized by the federal government. However, the current political climate due to the terrorist attacks, could make it more difliculL for Congress to find the appropriation. It will take some work to get the funding. I hope it won't become an Where to vote & what's on the ballot onwgei FILL YOUR GROCERY SACK! Help fight hunger l'' "'..vi!.. By Susan Collier Joan Tate, manager of TriCounty Food Pantries, urges you to fill the paper sackyou will And in this edition of the Standard with items. The Utah Food Bank is soring the Holiday Food Bagand I food pantries receive about 95 percent of their supplies from the Utah Food Bank. families Approximately 400-45- 0 in Duchesne County and approxifamilies in Uintah mately 200-25- 0 county will benefit from your generosity. Most of these families are on fixed incomes. Volunteers at the Food Pantiy in Roosevelt prepare boxes of food and other household items for recipients who come from as far away as Tabiona and Fruitiand. TriCounty Food Pan-trie- s also makes a monthly deli veiy to Manila. Each qualified family receives a box of food a month and is allowed two emergency boxes a year. Each box is . A &a Approximately 700 families in Duchesne and Uintah counties will benefit from your le Even though this is a municipal election year, all registered voters from Duchcsno and Uintah counties should go to the polls because ofballot measures of county-wid- e importance. In Uintah Cou nty voters have been inundated with information and divided over the pros and cons about n proposal to change their ' in our community traditional p . r Commission lo a CountyCouneil. Proponents for the measure say seven-membe- ' Jk' 2. ' V County Council and appointed C nunril manager, would he a more effective and form of government for Uintah Count v Council members are voted in by district and not h.v the county at large. cost-efficie- generosity. prepared by food pantry volunteers. A box is designed to feed's family for three days. According to Tate, in the past volunteers would try to include extra food in each box. This practice has been curtailed recently in order to keep adequate supplies on hand. In addition to the large donations from the Utah Food Bank, TriCounty Food Pantries receive donations during the Mail Handlers Food Drive in Vernal and the Boy Scout Food Drive. Local businesses also donate to the food pantries. Examples of POOR COPY food SEE FOOD PANTRY on page 3 pajx-rwor- REMEMBER TO VOTE TODAY? puv-stat- ,. issue. Even though you've got the project okayed and the done, you never know, said Crazier. Estimated costs for the project are broken down us follows: $14 million for fish and wildlife mitigation, and outlet modification ut Moon Lnkc $17 million for reservoir construction $10 million for the stabilize! ion of nine high mountain lakes $10 million Tor construct ion of a piixdinc t lint will run from Sandwash lo Roosevelt $5.5 million fora Big Sandwash feeder pipeline $1 million liir contingencies $7ii0.()( Ml for diversion struct liras Sixty-fiv- e percent of the cost is paid through federal funds, 35 jier-cewill come through a local match from the ('UWC'D. elingai Duchesne High Although it requires voter approval, t he general obligation Ih mils will have no impart on taxes Municipal elect ions: Thecit-ieand towns that will bold municipal elections include: Aliamont. Duchesne, My ton, Roosevelt. and Tabiona. no eontested races in There are Vernal and Ballard. Water Disl riet Board elections will be held tor the l'per Country Water District. Tahiomi and Hanna Water District. Fruitiand Water I list riet. Johnson Water Disl riet. Pinion Ridge Water Distnet. and K.ist Duchesne Water Distriel. All communities have two city council seats and a mayoral position up for election. Polling local ions in Duchesne County are as follows: Roosevelt all six precincts vole at t he Altainnnt and Mountain Home pm i nets will vote at Altamont City office 41)76 North 15575 West on the bond elect inn; l'pHr Count rv Water Board election hallotscaubeeast at tin water disl riet office for t he water disl riet 4132 Xoith 15675 West); Neold precincts vote at Neola Elemcn-- t rv on the bond eieition ( the Nenlu Water Board election was i ponsi! SANDWASH PROJECT ON 1 RACK. If even thing goes according to plan, dirt could be turned on a SS8 million enlargement and en'i.inicivcut projects! Sandwash Reservoir mtwovears With the p.ipcrwotk m pl.n e. the next step is to hav e the federal gov eminent release the monev that is ulrc.iJv appropriated for the water storage project. i for tin day to day management of the county rmild not In voted out of office. In Duchesne County voters will be to approve a 3.5 t.rJiion general nbl'.gat ion bond to help fund construct inn and remod- - s eon-teste- d i SEE VOI K. TtDXYoi! page 3 |