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Spectrum 3m Tuesday, April 23, 1991 Local Region Local Briefs St. George adds television station Lions Club seeks contributions CEDAR CITY Lions Club members will hold their "White Cane Day" Saturday, seeking contributions from the public at several local business locations. Half the funds raised will support the Utah Lions Eye Foundation, which assists individuals who need cornea transplants. The other half will remain in the 4. Yo-yo Wednesday of every month from a.m.

Those whose last name begins with the initials to are asked to attend the clinic on the third Friday of each month, from a.m. Parents group offers family help ST. GEORGE Are you enjoying the kind of relationships in your family that you desire? If not, perhaps you are a POTP (part of the problem). Free help is available at Parents Anonymous. Come find out how you can become a POTS (part of the solution).

For meeting information, call 628-9495, or 628-9338. Fire volunteers set rummage sale ST. GEORGE The Brookside-Central volunteer fire department is holding its fourth annual rummage sale Saturday. The sale will take place in the Smith's Food King parking lot at the corner of St. George Boulevard and Bluff Street, from 8 a.m.

to 5 p.m. Funds raised from this event will go toward fire suppression equipment for the department. For more information, or to have donated items picked up, contact Annette at 574-2473 or Barbara at 574-3132. Zion hiking trail closed for repairs SPRINGDALE The Gateway to the Narrows, Zion National Park's most popular hiking trail, will be closed temporarily to complete needed repairs, according to the National Park Service. viewers with improved reception of the station by shifting the carrier from VHF to UHF.

UHF signals are not affected by power line interference as dramatically as VHF signals. Carpenter said there will be several other channel changes coming up as the area shifts to an all-UHF broadcasting signal. In other business, the commission awarded contracts to Ekistics of St. George and SWCA Inc. of Flagstaff, Ariz, to act as consulting firms in the development of the southern Utah Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP).

Ekistics will be paid approxi-matly $10,000 for 400 miles of aerial photos to be used in mapping HCP parameters. SWCA Inc. was awarded a $165,000 contract to gather and compile information in document form for the HCP. This is the second contract the Flagstaff firm has been granted by the county. The first was for grid studies of the area to determine where endangered, habitat exists.

The company was awarded $25,000 for the transect contract in March. Commissioner Scott Hirschi, who represents the commission on the HCP steering committee, said there still needs to be a contract for handling publicity notices and other public notification processes stipulated under the National Environmental Protection Act. The final contract is projected to run between $75,000 and $97,000. In a final move, the commission denied granting conditional permission to developer Mike Longley for Phase III of the Sky Ranch Grassy Meadows subdivision near Hurricane. Longley argued the county has dragged its feet in providing inspections, and is continually stacking more requirements and obstacles before the developer.

Commissioners said the neses-sary inspections on the seven unit development should be complete by next week's meeting. The board will then consider the request for final approval. by Scott Summer-Ill Staff writer ST. GEORGE St George's second television station should be on the air by November. Though many of the specific details have yet to be worked out, station owners of KUTV in Salt Lake City have obtained the necessary permits to start broadcasting in St.

George. In addition, Ray Carpenter, Tri-Star Media director, told the Washington County Commission Monday that channel 12 on the local translator has already been dedicated to the new station. Under Federal Communication Commission regulations, the station must begin broadcasting by November 1 to keep the permits valid. Carpenter maintains and coordinates the equipment at various translator sites in southern Utah. Whether the NBC affiliate will merely duplicate the programing carried on the Salt Lake channel has not been announced, but local news will probably be a primary concern of the new station.

Wally Brazzeal, general manager of KDL channel 55 in St. George, said the addition of another local station should help the overall coverage of the market. "Depending on their programing," he said, "there's plenty of room for another station in this area." Brazzeal said the gain could give southern Utah its own demographic television identification, separating it from Salt Lake City and the Wasatch Front. KUTV officials were not available for comment at press time. Of more immediate concern to local viewers is a channel change for KSL channel 5.

Carpenter said the KSL signal being broadcast from the West Mountain translator is being switched from channel 6 to channel 18. The change, which will be complete by May 1, will provide CEDAR CITY Know what you call a yo-yo that doesn't come back? A yo. Melissa Regalado puts one through its paces on a warm spring afternoon. (Spectrum Kathleen Christensen) Artist to CEDAR CITY The Southern Utah University Convocation on Thursday will feature the unique stage artistry of Brenda Wong Aoki in the Auditorium at 11 a.m. Aoki combines her training in acting and modern dance with two traditional Japanese theatre forms, Noh and Kyogen, both of which predate the more familiar Kabuki.

Noh and Kyogen both use stylized speech and movement; stark, simple stage settings and few stage properties. The blend of ancient and modern craft is used by Aoki as a tool for a dramatic form of storytelling. Aoki grew up in California, and learned ballet from a former Russian ballerina, hula from a woman who had been a showgirl in Wai-kiki and piano from an elderly woman. She later studied modern dance, voice and music composition at the University of California at Santa Cruz. She did not enter the per- Provo bombing yields few clues girl perform forming arts right away, but became a teacher, working with children in San Francisco's Chinatown and Hunter's Point neighborhoods, and later in Watts.

However, her first love was the performing arts and she finally decided to commit herself to that field. Aoki said she was fortunate in her pursuit to encounter Shiro Nomura, Japan's "Cultural Intangible Property." Thursday's scheduled performance is titled "Obake!" It is a program of Japanese ghost stories, performed in a bare stage with minimal lighting. The stories range from a dead wife's revenge to the tale about the last dance of a ballerina who dies in an internment camp for Japanese-Americans during World War II. Aoki Will also conduct an artist-m-residency with SUU theatre and dance students on Wednesday afternoon. changed to a funding project included in the $85,300,000 state bond.

In other business, legislators gathered to override a governor's veto regarding a planning appropriation and discuss legislation re garding abortion. Johnson said he met with Community Impact Board officials to discuss Sevier County's funding status. "We put a lot of money into that Erogram," he said. "That was a igh priority for me." Sevier Valley ATC wins allocation community to help people needing glasses, guide dogs or other sight-related items. Ducks Unlimited holds fundraiser MINERS VTLLE Ducks Unlimited will hold its annual fund raising banquet Saturday at the Beaver County Fairgrounds in Minersville, celebrating the organization's 10th anniversary.

The doors will open at 6 p.m. for a social hour, with activities before dinner. There will also be door prizes and a specialty auction. Ducks Unlimited is a nonprofit organization that protects more than 5 million acres of wetlands nationwide to benefit hundreds of species of wildlife and to offer haven for endangered species such as the bald eagle, whooping crane, and peregrine falcon. To date, six MARSH (Matching Aid to Restore State's Habitat) projects have been completed in Utah.

For information in Milford, contact Dennis Cox at 387-2434, Belinda Andersen at 387-2840, or Trudy Smith at 387-5085. For information in Cedar City, contact Troy or Terri Adams at 586-5259, and in Beaver contact Ron Forrest at 436-2218. Council to discuss downtown parking CEDAR CITY A public hearing on the proposed R-3-36 ordinance and discussion on main street parking are among the agenda items at Wednesday's Cedar City Council meeting. The meeting will begin at 5:30 p.m. at the council chambers, 110 N.

Main. Richfield clinics are rescheduled RICHFIELD Starting in Richfield's immunization clinics will be divided into two clinics per month, due to limited space in the pew clinic offices, 160 N. Main. Clinic patrons with a last name beginning with A to are to attend the clinic on the first Regional Bill Orton named to task force WASHINGTON (AP) Utah Congressman Bill Orton has been named to a special task force to review the performance of the Resolution Trust the government agency that oversees savings and loan institutions. The3rdDis-rV- tnct Democrat LI Sw was one of a Orton handful of House Banking Committee members who voted earlier this year to continue funding of the RTC.

Orton said the agency was needed to continue cleaning up the national savings and loan crisis. Rep. Frank Annunzio, chairman of the House Banking Subcommittee on Financial Institutions Supervision, wrote to Orton, "I was deeply impressed with the contributions that you made to the RTC funding legislation, and it was for that reason that I appointed you to the task force." Dugway testing plague bacteria DUGWAY PROVING GROUND, Utah (AP) A weakened version of bacteria that cause plague is among six biological agents the Army tentatively has decided to use in tests at Dugway. The agents are to be used in tests of detection devices. The three microorganisms and three toxins were listed in a response dated April 16 and made public Monday to a Freedom of Information Act request from Steve Erickson of the watchdog group Downwinders.

The agents include Yersina pes lis attenuated strain EV76. This is plague bacteria and attenuated strains are those with reduced virulence. The other microorganisms are those that cause antrax and fever. The toxins include Staphylococcal enterotoxin (SEB), which produces an effect like RICHFIELD District 71 Rep. Brad Johnson returned from a special two-day legislative session with good news for the Sevier Valley Applied Technological Center.

The ATC received an allocation of $200,000 as part of the state's capitol facilities bond. "It was really kind of a win for this area," said Johnson. The funding will go for land purchase. "During the session this land became available," said Johnson, who noted that the allocation's original HB314 status was 1 PROVO (AP) Detectives say they have few clues and no motive in three bombings that rattled mis central Utah community, but caused no serious damage or injuries. There is no evidence the person responsible for setting off an explosive device at a Mormon Church chapel early Sunday is trying to hurt anyone or targeting the religion as an institution, Detective Capt.

Duane Fraser said Monday "He just likes to blow things up," he said. Police believe the bomber is responsible for at least two other minor explosions in Utah County in the past five months. Investigators from the Salt Lake office of the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms were at the Grandview chapel Monday gathering evidence the captain said shows the bomber is "getting more sophisticated." "This one worked best of all," he said. The 4 a.m. explosion blew out two large windows and melting some drapes.

Glass was scattered through the length of the chapel and shards were embedded in pews. Alan G. Taylor, the bishop for the church's 1st Ward, estimated damage at $2,000 to $3,000. Investigators believe the incident is connected to the "very minor explosion" at the Orem City Library on Jan. 28 and the bomb placed in the window of the Wa satch Mental Health building in Provo on Feb.

17. The library bomb caused no damage; the mental health building was slightly damaged as the device was being defused by the bomb squad. The device, Fraser said, was made of a low-yield explosive, such as black gunpowder, detonated by an electronic device. He said official have recovered batteries and wire from the scene. "The bombings appear to be random," Fraser said.

"There's no grievance. There is no common denominator we can see." Officials have said there is no link between the bombs and a serial bomber who has targeted universities, airlines and computer stores in a dozen attacks in Utah and six other states since 1978. The FBI blames that bomber for 21 injuries and one death. "There's no correlation," police bomb squad Sgt. Brad Leatham said.

"Those involve a definite attempt to injure and kill people. This one does not give that impression." Fraser said there are no witnesses or additional evidence that might pinpoint a suspect. "Right now, we're depending entirely on forensic analysis," he said. "We don't have anything else to go on. "We'd definitely encourage citizen participation," Fraser said.

"Maybe somebody's got an old neighbor or boyfriend who was fond of these sorts of things." Beginning today through Friday and again from April 29 through May 3, the trail will be closed to all visitor access, said Park Supt. Harold L. Grafe. Grafe said park crews and contractors will be pouring cement and working with heavy equipment on the narrow trail. Approximately one-third of the mile-long trail is being repaired at this time to make it more accessible to people using wheelchairs and strollers.

Natural soil erosion, broken pavement, and heavy hiking traffic make these repairs necessary. The park staff estimates over 400,000 visitors use the trail each year. The temporary closures are expected to occur several times during portions of this year and the next several years, said Grafe. Briefs food poisoning; Botulinum toxin which causes botulism; and T-2 toxin, which is produced by fungi. Two people killed in auto accidents A Clinton woman was killed in a hit-and-run auto-pedestrian accident and a Salt Lake City man died when he was thrown from a car in an accident in Big Cottonwood Canyon.

Beverly Shaee McElroy, 33, of Clinton was killed when she was struck by a car early Sunday in Riverdale. The driver feld the scene, police said. Chris R. Bidwell, 19, Salt Lake City, was thrown from a car driven by Patrick Erney, 20. License plates need more work SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -After 18 months of design, Utah's centennial license plate appears too symmetrical and is headed back to the drawing board.

Members of a special license-plate committee also said the arch in the middle of the plate looks too much like the McDonald's golden arches. "There's not a yellow arch in Utah," the centennial commission's Dee Guess said of the plate's yellow span, which she termed "McArch." The plate will be sold to Utah motorists to raise money for centennial activities. Sale of the $25 commemorative plates will begin Jan. 2. County Fair may cut food service SALT LAKE CITY AP) No food will be sold at the Salt Lake County Fair unless improvements are made, the city-county health department said.

The department said there were dangers of food poisoning, hepatitis and other diseases. Problems at the fairgrounds have reached critical proportions, said Jim Currie, supervisor for health inspections. Salt Lake County officially took control of the fairgrounds Monday, relieving an independent fair board of much of its responsibility. APRIL 25th Presenting the NEW PERSONAL CHOICE PROGRAM I mot MnijiJju J. ii il.

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