The Daily Sentinel from Grand Junction, Colorado • 11

if 9 I 1 1 VI-' riv- I fi vir vw ti im THE HI DAILY Sentinel OCA -C WednesSay, January 31, 1996 Television Crossword Landers Obituaries Section AWJORlCASElOFlHO.TftOOTii fights in GJ et attention around state Sz We dont have, at the present time, any other real hot annexation issues going on around the state. Sam Mamet, Colorado Municipal League jb. a isr 4 Dean HumphreyDaily Sentinel orseshoer Bill McDonald of Cedaredge bums a 1.25-inch Road. The shoeing technique McDonald uses, which is not slider shoe on TC, a stud quarter horse valued at more painful for the animal, is called hot setting. It makes the than $30,000, at Chris Carlsons horse-training area on I horseshoe fit perfectly.

Laurena Mayne Davia Daily Sentinel Peaches, wineries and weathered hills may add to the Grand Valley's character, but there is another local feature gaining notoriety across the Great Divide Grand Junction's annexation controversies. We don't have, at the present time, any other real hot annexation issues going on around the state," said Sam Mamet, associate director of the Colorado Municipal League, a training and lobbying organization. Now, of course, this whole growth issue, the whole growth debate is going on around the state how should we grow, where should we grow? Mamet said. But specifically focusing on annexation, I dont know of any others around like Grand Junction." Legislative and legal opposition have attracted attention statewide to what many considered a local issue. Grand Junction Reps.

Tim Foster and Dan Prinster are cosponsoring a bill that, according to an early draft, would limit the ability of municipalities to annex through powers of attorney and areas surrounded by city limits. The bill also would require an election before an enclave is annexed. Enclaves now can come into cities after three years, without property owners consent. In opposition to a recent annexation of commercial properties into Fruitvale and Clifton, Mesa County Commissioners said they will serve the city with a motion for reconsideration, the legal Mass mailing seeks info on missing girl precursor for a civil suit. Mamet said he was not aware of any pending annexation suits between a county and city.

The experience around the state nine times out of 10 has been, Can we sit down and talk about this? Mamet said. These lawsuits are used by the county as a way to get the city to sit down with the county and see if there is some middle ground. A group of Fruitvale and Clifton residents served a motion for reconsideration before they were allowed to do so, but their attorney, Lewis Anderson of Cedar-edge, said they might try again by Mondays filing deadline. Gov. Roy Romer even took the opportunity while he was in town last summer to lobby against flagpole annexation where a pole of highway right-of-way is used to reach a desired property.

I think we need to look at how were using a flagpole annexation, Romer said to the annual conference of the municipal league meeting in Grand Junction. And I think to use it to cherry-pick property is not a good policy, Romer said. Its bad land use just for getting taxes. Dana Nunn Daily Sentinel A mass mailing of postcards asking for information marked the one-year anniversary of the disappearance of a 4-year-old Grand Junction girl. Emilie Pearson Hardy has been missing since Jan.

29, 1995. It is believed she was abducted oy her father, Rejean Hardy, a Canadian who was last known to live in Arizona. Emilie lived in Grand Junction with her mother, Joanne Pearson. Having a missing child is so heartbreaking that you think you cant function, Pearson said. I have done everything I can to find my daughter and I know she will be recovered.

ADVO Inc. is a direct mailing company. In 1985 it established a program called Americas Looking for its Missing Children. In conjunction with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, ADVO mails postcards with pictures of missing children, soliciting information on their whereabouts. Cards with pictures of Emilie and Rejean Hardy were mailed to more than 61 million households nationwide, including about 1 million in Colorado.

According to an ADVO spokeswoman, the direct mailings have resulted in the safe recovery of 76 children since 1985. That is about one out of every seven children featured, she said. An arrest warrant has been issued for Rejean Hardy by the Grand Junction Police Department. Land swap could open 6,000 acres in national forest Ski resort would get room to grow under 3-way deal Sean Jackaon Daily Sentinel be opened to public use. The U.S.

Bureau of Land Management could be Dunn DELTA A proposed three-way land swap could open to the public up to 6,000 acres of state-owned property in the Gunnison National Forest while providing room for Crested Butte Mountain Ski Resort to expand. Representatives of the ski resort, U.S. Forest Service and the state met last week to discuss the proposal for the first time, said Forest Service realty specialist James Dunn. They are expected to meet again soon to decide whether to proceed with the land swap. Were optimistic this might happen, Dunn said.

also involved, said, by exchanging mineral rights within the forest now owned by the state school board with some mineral rights located in North Park. The monetary value of the property involved in the proposed swap wont be known until proper appraisals can be made, Dunn said. Exact acreages and locations of the parcels to be exchanged are also up in the air, he said. I can say we are dealing with high-value properties as you would find near ski areas, he said, which would explain the discrepancy in acreage involved. He said the proposal has received mild support already, although numerous private and public entities have yet to comment on it.

Some questions regarding open space adjacent to Crested Butte and potential elk habitat north of Gunnison have already surfaced, Dunn said. Should the three main participants agree to proceed, the government decision process could take up to 15 months. The initial idea calls for the Crested Butte resort to purchase up to 6,000 acres of national forest inholdings now owned and managed by the Colorado State board with revenue that could be used to invest in higher-yield properties in the Denver area. Revenue gained from those properties, such as parking lots, would help fund Colorado schools, Dunn said. From the viewpoint of the Forest Service, the trade would ensure that potentially harmful development cannot take place on the now privately-owned parcels development that might harm the surrounding Gunnison National Forest, Dunn said.

Once transferred to the Forest Service, Dunn said, the former inholdings would School Lands Board, which manages state-owned lands in order to raise money for education. Much of the property involved is currently leased for stock grazing and is closed to the public. The ski resort would then exchange the national forest land for up to 700 acres of Forest Service-managed property bordering the resort. The swap would provide space for future expansion of base activities such as ski shelters, ticket sales and condominiums, Dunn said. The trade would provide the lands Trial opens for driver in fatal interstate crash ftC tr -f -i a Collbran area from Virginia only nine days before the fatal accident on Sept.

29 and was totally confused by the highways here, Eisner said. Anderson was returning from a day trip to Central City and was looking for the Grand Mesa exit that would take him back to Pow-derhorn Ski Area, Eisner said. He got off the interstate at Fruita, asked directions, was still confused and inadvertently got back on the interstate by driving down an exit ramp. Eisner acknowledged Anderson had been drinking occasionally but said he wasnt legally drunk. Prosecutor Martha Kent of the Mesa County District Attorneys Office painted a different picture of the events.

She spoke of drivers going west on 1-70 that night who said they saw Anderson drive the wrong way down the exit ramp at Fruita and continue driving the wrong way. Drivers also testified that they were able to see clearly despite the rain. Kent also said blood tests taken more than two hours after the accident showed Andersons blood-alcohol content to be above the legal limit of 0.10 percent. Eisner said Anderson had taken a couple of swigs of alcohol just as he was driving the wrong way on the exit ramp and there hadn't been enough time for the alcohol to have been absorbed when the accident occurred just a few minutes later. But, Eisner said, by the time the blood tests were done, the alcohol had been absorbed and that accounted for the readings of 0.17 percent and 0.15 percent hours later.

Anderson sighed loudly, sniffed and wiped away tears throughout Eisners opening remarks and the testimony of the first few witnesses. This has been the worst period of his life, Eisner said. He would do anything tq bring back Heather and Megan. Anderson is being held in the Mesa County Jail in lieu of a $150,000 bond. Testimony was to resume this morning in the trial, which is expected last about tw weeks.

Dana Nunn Daily Sentinel Daniel Anderson was lost and confused not drunk and reckless the night he drove the wrong way on Interstate 70, causing a crash that killed a woman and her daughter, said Andersons lawyer. Opening statements were given in Anderson's trial Tuesday afternoon in Mesa County District Court. Anderson is charged with child abuse resulting in death, vehicular homicide, vehicular assault, reckless driving and driving under the influence of alcohol. Anderson was driving east in the westbound lanes of 1-70 near Fruita when he collided with a car driven by Rim Burandt of Aurora. Heather Burandt, 25, and Megan Burandt, 2, were killed.

Rim Burandt suffered a mild concussion and a broken arm. Anderson suffered a fractured hip. It was dark, very dark. It was raining very hard. He was very, very frustrated, Public Defender David Eisner told the jury.

Anderson had moved to the .4 I I Christopher TomllnaonDaily Sentinel Keeping an eye out for a meal A swan forages along the banks of the Colorado River at the Junior Service League Park, occasionally diving for food. The swan has been at this section of the river for about three weeks, where hundreds of ducks and geese also swim. 9 i it.