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Show Primary Election Set For Tuesday, Sept. 8 Registered voters in Garfield County will trek to the polls Tuesday Tues-day for the Sept 8 primary election with important decisions facing voters in all parties. One critical close-to-home battle in the Republican primary is peppering the ballot for voters in Garfield County where former Garfield County Commissioner Dell LeFevre, Boulder, is challenging 10-year State Representative Jim Yardley for the District 73 house seat LeFevre has been campaigning locally and in surrounding counties in his attempt to unseat Yardley. Republicans will also choose between Robert F. Bennett and Joe Cannon for their U.S. Senatorial candidate, between Richard Eyre with Steve Densley as his running mate and Mike Leavitt with Olene Walker for governor and lieutenant governor, and between Scott Burns and Michael Deamer for governor and lieutenant governor. Independent American Party hopefuls include Frank Richins and Lawrence Rey Topham, each seeking their party's slot for governor on November's ballot. Democrats will decide between Doug Anderson and Wayne Owens for their candidate for the Senate seat and between Stewart Hanson with Paula Julander and Pat Shea with Bobbie Coray for governor and lieutenant-governor Incumbent Yardley, also a former for-mer county commissioner, is a longtime businessman in Panguitch where, with his son John Yardley, he owns and operates Yardley Insurance In-surance and a farm north of town. . As state representative for District 73, he serves on the interim committee com-mittee for Energy and Natural Resources Re-sources and is a member of the Telecommunications Task Force. He also serves as co-chairman with State Senator Dix McMullin of the Higher Education Budget Committee. Commit-tee. His standing committee assignments as-signments include Health and Transportation and Public Safety. i Yardley says that his efforts resulted re-sulted in much of the money for the Burr Trail and that he sponsored important resolutions in the legislature legisla-ture on limiting wilderness. He served on the Wilderness Task Force. He also successfully pushed through a bill on critical nursing legislation. Locally, he serves as chairman of the board of directors for Garfield Memorial Hospital and as secretary to the Long Canal Irrigation Irriga-tion Company. He is past-state commander of the American Legion Le-gion ad currently serves as state judge-advocate for that organization. organiza-tion. Challenger Dell LeFevre is a fourth generation rancher from Boulder whose local concerns have kept him in the forefront of agricultural agricul-tural and grazing issues that have challenged the county over the past several years. A strong advocate of strictly limited wilderness, he was a pioneer in the battle against the Integral In-tegral Vistas issue that resulted in much of the clean air legislation that currently exists. Currently LeFevre holds elected positions on the Canyonlands Agriculture Agri-culture Stabilization and Conservation Conserva-tion Service, as vice president of the Garfield County Farm Bureau, Soil Conservation Service, Bureau of Land Management Grazing Advisory Ad-visory Board, and Garfield County School Board. The polls will open at 7 a.m. and close at 8 p.m.. Polling places are listed below. Antimony voters will vote at Antimony Merc on Main Street; Boulder voters will vote at the elementary ele-mentary school, one-half block off Highway 12; Cannonville voters will vote at the Cannonville Community Com-munity Center; Escalante voters will vote at the CommunitySenior Citizen Center, 55 No. 100 West; and Henrieville voters will vote at the Henrieville Senior Citizen Center, Cen-ter, 5 Main Street. See Primary Page 5A Primary Voting From Page 1 In Hatch, voters will vote at the Hatch Town Hall, 14 Center Street; in Panguitch voters in both Voting Districts 1 and 2 will vote at the Garfield County Courthouse, 55 South Main Street; Ticaboo voters will vote at the Ticaboo SchoolCommunity building; and Tropic voters will vote at the Tropic Scout House at 200 West Center. |