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Show A4 The Emery County Review, Tuesday, December 16, 2008 Castle Dale discusses fee schedule for equestrian center Kathy Ockey During the Dec. 11 meeting of the Castle Dale City Council, Cynthia Grant, regional supervisor of the Southeastern Utah Medical Reserve Corps, reported on the organization. The reserve corps was formed two years ago and works with the South Eastern Utah District Health department. They are looking for people with skills as volunteers to be trained and contribute their time. The district covers Carbon, Emery, Grand, and San Juan counties and they want to have volunteers that are ready to be deployed when an emergency occurs. One item mentioned was preparation to be ready in case of pandemic flu. The goal of the organization is to have a team of 12-20 citizens in each county trained and ready to respond in case of an emergency. Karen Smith, representing Citizen Corps Council, reported that Carbon and Emery counties met and wrote a homeland security program. They are bringing CERT (Community Emergency Response Team) training to the communities in January and asked the council to try to get citizens involved in this training. Smith challenged the mayor and council members to also complete this training. She said that the CERT program is a good way to track volunteers and have an organized database to draw from. The training involves being prepared in the basic emergency situations. The goal is to teach you how to take care of yourself in a disaster until help arrives. Planning and Zoning Administrator Kerry Lake, reported that Ethan Hurdsman purchased Richard Fairbanks’ Castle Country Cars auto business and will open his own automobile business there. Joel Dorsch discussed the arena fees and reviewed charges for the previous year and the proposed fees for the upcoming year. The fee schedule for the arena in 2009 will be: per member, $70 for the year; Senior Citizen, 62 years and older, $35 for the year; Family plan, $200 for a family of four for the year, adding $25 per additional child; Animals in Castle Dale’s pens, $15 per month. There will be limits on amounts allowed. Fees and regulations for trainers: If you are a trainer you must make your living from training horses and receive compensation for training horses for others. Trainers: Have to buy a membership, $70.00 (No discount for quantity, except as below). If you train less than four hours a day a surcharge of $1 a day is added. If you train more than four hours a day, a $2 a day surcharge is added. This allows trainers that only use the arena in the winter to afford the fees. Large trainer plan: this is an attempt to make it easier to track fees: $750 a year allows you three training memberships. A training membership works as a general membership as well. Names of the trainers must be provided. This covers the surcharges for all three trainers. Mayor Neal Peacock said he thought this was a very good approach and a good deal for the casual riders. It gives the individual rider a break on cost. In conclusion Mayor Peacock said, “We have to be aware of what is going on in the economy. We need to be prepared for what may happen in the future.” Emery Town considers options for construction of new fire station, town hall Kathy Ockey A large number of residents gathered at the Dec. 9 meeting of the Emery Town Council to discuss the proposed new fire station and town hall. Mayor Mistie Christiansen reported to the citizens that “Everything has fallen apart in the last week” because of funding issues with the new fire station. She suggested going back to the Community Impact Board in February and lowering the figures for the fire station from 5,200 square feet to 4,900 square feet. 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A representative of Boss Engineering, Claren Heaton, informed the council of a renewable energy that deals with solar cells and parabol- ic mirrors. He said the government is “pushing green” very hard and trying to find funds to build renewable energy sources for communities. The mayor said it is an exciting possibility and that the town would consider it. Huntington couple celebrates 70 years of marriage Continued from Page A1. Money was so tight then that the couple traveled to the Salt Lake LDS temple to be married all on their own, and they had to borrow $30 from the bank for the marriage certificate and one night’s motel. Their first child, Dorr Jr. was born less than three years later, June 10, 1942. The Hansons now have seven children, 51 grandchildren and 41 greatgrandchildren. Though many would expect having so many children to be difficult, the couple said they would have loved to have more. “I never was happier than when I had a newborn,” Elizabeth recalled. She was also a mother to her seven siblings when, during her senior year, her mother died at 44, and from then on has always enjoyed having their “little ones” around. “We have a huge posterity, and they’re good to us,” she reported. They encouraged their children to work hard in their youth and are both proud of the way they have grown. “We taught our kids to work and to help around the house, to take care of their things, and they did a good job of it all while they were growing up,” Dorr said. After graduating from BYU, the Hansons moved to Kenilworth, where they lived for 19 years. They moved to Brigham City for a time and were then transferred to Pocatello, Idaho. They were again faced with a move when Dorr was invited to take a job in Seattle, Wash., but he described having a dream while he was considering what to do, and he was led to return to “the land of his inheritance.” It was because of this dream that they moved to Huntington, and after living there for 43 years, they consider it the best move they ever made. Elizabeth related that during all that time there were some “sour notes” in their relationship, especially when she had health issues, or as she put it, “when the team has been down to one horse pulling the load,” but those times have only added to the strength of their relationship. Some of their favorite moments with their family are the camping trips they often took. Dorr explained that they didn’t have a camp trailer like a lot of people do now. They simply packed up their bedding and food onto a small trailer that they pulled behind their car to a camp site. They slept in tents. They especially loved going to Ferron Reservoir because Dorr could catch fish for them to eat. “We always had to go to a place where we could fish,” Elizabeth related. After many moves and many jobs, Dorr finally retired, when at 62 he discovered that he had arthritis in his spine and was no longer medically allowed to work. According to Elizabeth, the day he retired was “the happiest day of my life,” because “we really enjoy each other.” The Hansons have worked hard to have the wonderful relationship they make look so easy to outsiders. Elizabeth attributed their longevity to working on good communication and to being very understanding. “The female perception and the male perception of everything are different,” she commented. “Through talking and working it out, you get a compromise so you understand the other person’s point of view. You have to cherish each other and see the good points. 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