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Show -- r nI ft. I I Far and away the best prize that life offers is tie chance to work head at work worth doing. C00 Theodore Roosevelt Skilled oral MiT i- -- ah Basin Ti,;:;C 50C Months of intensive work paid off for UBATC students - currently Tuesday ettending Union High who recently took top honors in two statewide -- May 14, 2002 Roosevelt. Utah applied technology contests in cabinetry Vol. craftsmanship. 88, Number 20 www.ubstandard.com 11 Seepage ORDINANCE IS.THE RESULT OF HEALTH ISSUES ends peacefully Stand-of- f A men who told police he intended to kill himself was subdued without injury thanks to the use of a "beenbeg bullet " 15 Seepage Lot size requirements a surprise By Therena Morrill When someone purchases prop- erty within Duchesne County, they often dont realise there are county The end of an era club which was organized almost 80 years ago for the purpose of encouraging women to get an education and a career is calling it quits after achieving their goal. A Seepages home owners to would-b- e ordinances requiring minimum sise lots before a building permit can be issued. They are understandably upset to have their permit application denied, and sometimes they take it out on county employees who are just doing their job. "We are trying to get people to be aware of toning ordinances which designate minimum lot sise, said Duchesne County Planning and Zoning Director Clayton Chidester. According to Chidester, the county adopted new zoning ordinances last November, after holding town meetings tor gather public input Thera are now half acre, one acre, 2.5 acre, and ten acre zones in the county. Agriculture zones are those zones which have a 2.5 acre or larger re- quirement Chidester said one purpose ofthe zoning ordinance is to protect homeowners water supplies from contamination from nearby septic tanks. In areas where homeowners can hook up to a city water and sewer system, a house can be built on half an acre. If there is no culinary water system near enough to hook into, but a sewer system is available, a building permit can be obtained for a one acre site. LEE ROY WOOD HOMICIDE TRIAL Uintah residents may be surveyed for bias By Lezlee E. Whiting Marathon girls The Lady Cougars pocketed second at 3-A State Softball Tournament held overthe weekend. The Cats won five games in two days. Seepage 12 TiV Daggett County and Duchesne County. The case would not be moved to Duchesne County, where Gurr lived and served as Roosevelt Chief of Police for 23 years. Defense attorneys are requesting that Dsn Jonea and Associates be retained by the court to conduct the survey. Jonea charges $3,600 to survey each county and charges a flat rate of $300 to testify in court Eighth District Court Judge Lynn Payne will consider the motion in a hearing on June 7. Chief Gurr was responding to a domestic violence call at the Maverik Defense attorneys for the man accused in the death of Rooeevelt Police Chief Cecil Gurr have filed a motion requesting that the residents of Uintah County be surveyed as to whether they believe their client would get a fhir trial in their county. Lee Roy Wood is charged with capital homicide in the July 6, 2001, shooting death of Gurr, and faces a possible death sentence. A motion filed in 8 District Court in Vernal last week says the defense intends to include survey results in the change of venue motion they will Country Store in west Uintah file with the court. County, when Wood allegedly bepan Walter F. Bugden, one of Woods ' firing shots at the chief and other attorneys, stated Rooeevelt Police officers who rethat Uintah County residents and sponded to the scene. In addition to the capital homiresidents of another county to which venue would be moved, would all cide charge, Wood feces three counts need to be surveyed. of first-degrfelony attempted murChange of venue allows for a case der and aggravated kidnaping. Wood to be moved to a county which ad- was allegedly attempting to force his joins the county where the crime girlfriend to drive to Salt Lake to occurred. Uintah County borders settle an earlier drug transaction. court-appoint- ed Carbon County, Grand County, Vandals destroy mailboxes, rip out signs in Hancock Cove Vandals stayed up late Saturday night and well into Sunday morning to destroy traffic control and rood signs in Hancock Cove. They also vandalized and destroyed mailboxes in the area. The damage may have occurred between 5 a.m. and 5:15 a.m. on Sunday, May 5. Most of the damage occurred between the Roosevelt city limits on the west and Ostler Corner. The removal and destruction of stop signs and speed limit signs posed a significant hazard to drivers because of lack of adequate warnings. The vandals also moved hefty signs into the road creating dangerous obstacles for driven. The culprits took the green street signs and knocked down the dangerous intersection sign at Ostler Corner. Every mailbox between Gib Hullingers and Ross Killians were moved or destroyed. It looked like it was manually done to me," surmised Duchesne County Sheriff Deputy Mark Heath. The ones that werent bashed with a bat wen moved. They just spent a lot of time on that road. Almost all the mailboxes wen smashed, moved or destroyed, detailed Heath. Damage is estimate at $900. Law enforcement officers wen first notified of the damage by a woman who noticed it aa she was returning home at about 6:15 a.m. Sunday after taking her husband to work. When caught the culprits can be charged with criminal mischief and may have to answer to federal chtuges as well for damaging the mailboxes. "Usually around those kinds of sights there is a beer can or two. We didnt find any, but believe it was alcohol related, stated Heath, adding that its believed the auspects are juveniles. They went to a lot of work. By .the following Monday after : copy! noon Duchesne County Road crews had replaced most of the signs. They could kill somebody ripping out stop signs. They went to a great deal of effort to do this much damage. They had to have rigged up something with chains. Somebody ng status. The owners would not be able to rat approval from the county to add on to the home, nor could they resell the home to a purchaser who needed to obtain could die as a result Its not cute, declared local resident Lyn Eckels. If anyone has information that could help in the investigation they are asked to contact the Duchesne County Sheriffs Office. A'!11 financing. When a land or home owner believes he should be exempted from the zoning ordinance, he may appeal to the county Board of Adjusters. Kit, accordingtoChidester, theboard " 1 " rJ A plaque at the Utah State Capitol lists the names of law MEMORIAL enforcement officers who lives were claimed in the line of duty. The name of the late Roosevelt Police Chief Cecil Gurr was added, along with the names of two other law enforcement officers, during a ceremony held last Thursday at the Capitol. Lynette Gurr is pictured assisting in placing her husbands name on the plaque. SEE ORDINANCE on page 3 j PUBLIC MEETING ON CALLING BASIN-WID- E seeks consensus UBTA-UBE-T for elimination of toll calls UBTA-UBE- T Telecom officials will hold public meetings this week in Vernal and Roosevelt to discuss the companys proposed plan to eliminate toll charges when calling within tire telephone companys service territory. Bruce H. Todd, general manager anand CEO of UBTA-UBEnounced the planned arrival of "Basin-wide railing at the UBTA anT, DESTRUCTION COULD HAVE BEEN DEADLY By Susan Collier However, this dhn be a little confusing because there are some areas, such as around the Rooeevelt city limits, where culinary water is available but a 2.5 acre lot u required. The purpoee of having a 2.5 acre zone around a town or city is to maintain abuffor zone that prevents encroachment to the city. In some cases, parents break off one acre building sites from their land that is in a five acre zone and give it to their child, said Chidester. He said they cannot legally build a house in that situation. Chidester said he knew of a case in the county where a land owner sold five acres to a relative who purchased the land fin1 a building site. After the building permit was obtained and the home was completed, the new home owner sold back four of the five acres to the original land owner in what was moat likely a prearranged deal. The county can take legal action against people who do this, causing the home tohavea nual membership meeting last month. The company is now gathering public input to provide to the Public Service Commission to show the support for the concept of elimicharges from nating x when calling in Duchesne, Uintah counties and a portion of Wasatch County. e calling is tentatively scheduled for implementation June 1, but depending on how quickly palong-distan- prefix-to-prefi- Basin-wid- perwork can be expedited, may be pushed back a month. "They want to have a consensus that the people in this area concur with the proposal. If there were a Btrong negative comment from those exchanges they wouldnt want to enact the change, said Glendfi Stewart, public relations manager for UBTAUBET. Its doubtful anyone would object to seeing their telephone bill decline, as it is bound to do when telephone calls to neighboring communities and in some cases, to neighbors can be made without a charge attached. Aliithe feedback I have received (on the Basin-wid- e calling plan) has long-distan- been very, very positive, said Stewart The public meetings will be conducted by Todd. Ray Hendershot, d with the Colorado Springs, Colo.-base- consulting firm GVNW, will calling will explain how Basin-wid- e work. The meetings will be held Tuesday, May 14 in Vernal at the Western Park, and Wednesday, May 15 in AUGUST 1- Roosevelt at UBTA-UBE- T headquarters. Both meetings begin at 6:30 p.m. The meetings are expected to last an hour to an hour and Those in attendance will show their support or rejection by a show of hands. Public response gathered at the meeting will be submitted to the PSC, said Stewart. UBET Telecom representatives are Kirk Bostick, Roosevelt; Grcg Garff, Duchesne; and Vernal Mayor Bill Kremin, Vernal. In addition to the public meetings will hold this week, UBTA-UBEtheir line of products show on Thursday, May 16. Public tours of their new Roosevelt headquarters will be given in the morning on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday (May 13,14,15). Call the UBTA- - UBET office to set up a time for your tour, T 722-500- 7. -3 ii Tribute to Heros1 theme for 2002 UBIC By Aldon Rachele BELOW FREEZING A streak of balmy days were rudely interrupted last Wednesday when nighttime temperatures dipped below freezing. The icicles and frost covering this wheel line in Duchesne County show remind us that mother nature is incredibly unpredictable. Weather forecasts for this weekend are predicting another burst of winter-lik- e weather. . Once again it is time to start thinking about the annual UBIC, which is slated in Roosevelt, August 1 - 3. The theme of this years UBIC will be "Tribute To Heros where those people, who put their lives on the line to save others such as police, firemen, emergency medical technicians, search and rescue members, servicemen, and others will be honored. There will also be a special presentation made to those who lost their lives during the Sept 11, 2001 tragedy. The UBIC actually begins earlier than Aug. 1 with the Mr. UBIC Contest, July 29 and UBIC Queen Pageant, July 31. Both events will be held at Union High in Roosevelt UBICactivitieson Thursday, Aug. 1 will be centered on the Ute tribal program. Traditional dances will be performed. Local entertainment will also be take place. Talent show winners plus Mias Utah and Miss UBIC will also perform various numbers. A band concert will be held after the Thursday night program. A group called The Cadillacs will do 1950s and 1960s style musical tunes during the Friday, Aug. 2 portion of the UBIC. Loral talent will also perform during the evening as well. Saturday, Aug. 3 will feature two musical groups, Eclipse and Jericho Road. "The Cadillacs, Eclipse" and "Jericho Road all performed musical numbers at the recent Utah Winter Olympics. Eclipse had its Three of the groups headlining the evening entertainment performed for the 2002 Winter Olympics. group members dressed in long Western trench coats while taking part in the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the Winter Olympics. Jericho Road is scheduled to appear at RiceEcdes Stadium for the traditional fireworks show in Salt Lake City. Some of their music has been featured in a number of motion pic- tures. Senior citizens afternoon activities will be held Aug. 3, and will be under the direction of Pat and Norcne Roberts. The parade will be held Saturday morning at 10 a.m. as well as traditional events such as the pet show, childrens movie, free swimming, Mayor Dennis Jenkins 5K10K run, triathlon (swim, bike ride, run), story hour, a tea for young ladies with Miss UBIC in attendance; golf, softball meets etc., will be held during the UBIC. All proceeds from the run will go to the Roosevelt Volunteer Fire Department DougOgden is in charge of the triathlon. Last year there were 96 entries in the parade, and the deadline for entering the 2002 parade is Aug. 1. Entry forms will be available at Bev and Millies in Roosevelt |