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I The Daily Sentinel Saturday, May 6, 2006 3A Around the Region The Daily Sentinel (ISSN 1545-8962) Published every morning at 734 Seventh Street, Grand Junction, CO, 81501 Periodical Postage paid at Grand Junction, CO Tices 1 3 weeks $35 75 ,26 week? $67 60, 52 weeks 'Si 1 7 r. tapes Wednesday thru Sunday $1 lay $54 08, Sunday only $52 00 Weel dates (in 2006) Jan Jan 16, Feb 20. Mar 17, Apr 17, May 29, July 4' Sept 4 Oct 9, Nov Nov 23. Nov 24, Dec 25. Wednesday thru Sunday $109 20 Friday thru Sunday $85 80 8, Sunday only $52 00 Weekend dehvery includes the following Mew gas company roads expected to cut drive time Nov 23.

Nov 24, Dec 25. Single Copy i $0 daily and $1 .00 Sunday Mait (USPSy. $5 00 per week, $260 00 per Daily Sentinel. PO Box 668 Grand Junctn per year POSTMASTER Send address changes to The Junction CO 81502" Brandon Siegfried, gri 250-5162 GJ Real Source, Inc. MLS Commissions as low as 4.5 By MIKE McXIBBIN The Daily Sentinel PARACHUTE Three natural-gas companies are building new roads north of Parachute to get drilling crews to well sites on private property on the Roan Plateau and surrounding areas.

One of those roads features a tunnel, while another has led to dust complaints, a Garfield County official said at the monthly energy advisory board meeting Thursday night. Williams Production spokeswoman Susan Alvillar said the companys Wheeler Gulch Allen Point Road will leave County Road 215 about four and a half miles north of Parachute, Co. of Englewood will build the tunnel. The single-lane tunnel will have traffic control devices at both ends, so drivers will know if a vehicle is headed toward them, Alvillar said. When its all done, well have cut a 70-mile trip down to five miles, she said.

Occidental Oil and Gas plans to build the six-mile long Cascade Canyon Road on private property, west of the Roan Plateau, for similar reasons, Regulatory Coordinator Doug Dennison said. Weve got several wells about three-quarters of a mile apart physically, but because of the geography of the area, we have to and features four switchbacks that climb up to 8,200 feet on top of the Roan Plateau. Williams has had some gas wells on private property up there since the 1980s, and we drilled three more last year, she said. This road will save seven hours travel time for our crews. They have to go north of Rifle, turn onto the Piceance Creek Road and then Cow Creek and Rim Roads on the plateau.

The new road, on private property Williams has leased from ExxonMobil, will include a tunnel, with work on that to start this summer, she said. It could be finished by early next year. Peter Kiewit Construction drive down two roads for about 26 miles, and it takes about two to two-and-a-half hours, Dennison said. "When were done, this will cut that trip down to seven miles. The new road is to be finished by late this summer, he said.

Petroleum Development Corp.s road is about seven miles north of Parachute off County Road 215. Acting Oil and Gas Liaison Jess Smith said he had received several calls about dust from that project The callers wanted to know if they were seeing smoke from a forest fire, but its dust from that road project, he said. 3M buys Montrose plant; says it will Be the first to know when new listings are added to the MLS. much to do. Colo, lawmakers nix special session, on immigration By THE SCRIPPS-MCCIATCHY WESTERN SERVICE hire more By BEVERLY CORBEU.

The Daily Sentinel Graduation THE Q-TO-GO HOT TACO BAR Do-it-yourself catering anniversary of a celebrated victory of the outnumbered Mexican forces over the French army in 1862. Rep. Kevin Lundberg, R-Berthoud, joined Schultheis in urging lawmakers to allow a special Session. This legislature has proven incapable of dealing with the issue, he said. Schultheis resolution, which was co-sponsored by Sen.

Greg Brophy, R-Wray, called for a special session in June to discuss the following proposed requirements: English be the official language of public entities in the state. Employers participate in the extended federal basic employment verification pilot program for the purpose of determining the work eligibility status of employees. Law enforcement officers enforce immigration laws. Proof of U.S. citizenship be required to be able to vote.

DENVER Mariachi music played in the background Friday as a House committee nixed a request from a Republican lawmaker to call a special session to deal with illegal immigration. Rep. Dave Schultheis of Colorado Springs called for a session because, he said, bills passed by the legislature, which adjourns next week, only scratch the surface of true immigration reform. While I will agree that his body has done more this session on this issue when compared; to past sessions, it has done so kicking and screaming and avoided several key-issues, Schultheis said. To no surprise, the State, Veterans Military Affairs Committee voted 6-5 on a party-line vote to kill the proposal.

Rep. Rafael Gallegos, D-Antonito, whose ancestors immigrated to America centuries ago, reminded his colleagues it was May 5, the i without MONTROSE General Industrial Diamond, a company that employees 33 people in Montrose, has been sold to 3M, a diversified technology company with more than 69,000 employ--ees worldwide. General Industrial Diamond also has a plant in Whippany, N.J., where it was founded, said plant manager Roger Eicheld-inger, who moved west to open the Montrose plant in 1992. He said the sale of both plants will be good for his employees and for3M. They had super abrasive grinding wheels as a gap, so the acquisition fills that gap and gives them a full abrasive product line," h6 said.

Workers will benefit from being part of the huge technology company, Eicheldinger said. They have absolutely better benefits and just more resources as well, he said. They have incredible amount of employee support networks through education and their workforce. While 3M wont make any major changes initially at the Montrose plant, Eicheldinger said, it plans to hire more people by the end of the year. Right now they have agreed not to make any Changes coming out of the gate, he said.

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Super abrasives are created hanejs-on, not through automation, Eicheldinger said, and have many applications in the oil industry, medical fields and the defense industry We basically make synthetic diamond grinding wheels that are used most heavily in tool and die and ceramics, he said. The petroleum industry would use our wheels to grind their drilling bits. The acquisition of General Industrial represents 3Ms first presence in the state, Eicheldinger said. According to its Web site, 3M has worldwide sales of $21.2 billion with products sold in nearly 200 countries. That will help ensure the future of the plant here, Eicheldinger said.

They have a worldwide sales force intact and already have the connections and avenues, he said. And our product line finishes off a complete product line for them. The sale was completed in March, Eicheldinger said, and 3Ms acquisition integration manager, Rich Heichert, will arrive in Montrose next week. in Delta County jail, with bond set at $550,000. He goes to trial May 31 for possession of Schedule narcotics with intent to distribute, possession of controlled substance by a special pffender and several counts of violations of bail bond and protection orders.

His second trial will begin July 31 when fee answers charges of felony ihenacing, possession of Schedule narcotics and possession of drug paraphernalia, according to Delta County Clerk Mandy Allen. Beverly Cor bell can be reached via email at bcorbellgjds.com. THE lJ EMILY Sentinel HOWS BUSINESS? Catch up on local Business news by reading the Sunday Business section each weekend in The Daily Sentinel Delta deportee gets probation but stays in jail By BEVERIY CORBEU The Daly Sentinel Push, Pull or Drag your old Spa in for a TRADE-IN! (Just kidding! Well pick it up foryou.) Buy a NEW Spa jet up to 1500 OFF selected models! The Blotter compiled by Sentinel staff Woman escapes her attackers An unidentified Woman in her 20s was reportedly assaulted by two unknown males at approximately 1:30 a.m. Thursday in the 800 block of Kennedy Avenue. The assailants allegedly dragged the woman into a nearby alleyway and attempted to sexually assault her, according to the'Grand Junction Police Department The woman told authorities she escaped by choking one man and kicking the second in the groin.

The woman described one of her attackers as an approximately 5-foot-6-inch stocky white man in his 50s with a graying, scruffy beard and hah- and wearing a flannel shirt Man arrested after police find pills Mesa County authorities arrested a 22-year-old man Wednesday on suspicion of possessing materials to manufacture methamphetamine. Several thousand pseudoephedrine pills, considered precurser drugs to make meth, were allegedly found hidden inside a silver Honda driven by Alberto Arias-Bracamontes, according to his arrest affidavit The arrest affidavit indicated Arias-Bracamontes was headed west on Interstate 70 near mile marker 3 when police pulled him over for allegedly speeding. Arias-Bracamontes told authorities he was headed home to San Jose, Calif, after visiting family for two weeks in Denver, according to the affidavit Police decided to search the car after noticing its interior rear quarter panel was cracked on the drivers side, the affidavit said. Arias-Bracamontes and his 32-year-old passenger Guillermo Prado denied carrying anything illegal and consented to a search, according to the affidavit Authorities reportedly found two newly wrapped packages containing several thousand pseudoephedrine pills behind the cracked panel, an amount far more than one would possess for legitimate reasons, the affidavit said. Arias-Bracamontes was booked into the Mesa County JaiL According to the Grand Junction Police Department A saxophone valued at more than $500.00 was reported taken from Bookcliff Middle School at 2935 Orchard Ave.

A car at 595 Road 25 was reportedly set on fire. Damage was estimated at more than $500. Someone reportedly broke into a vehicle parked in the 900 block of Pitkin Avenue and caused $500.00 in damage More than $500 in miscellaneous personal property was stolen. According to the Mesa County Sheriffs Department More than $600 worth of stereo equipment and CDs were reported stolen from a vehicle at 3222 4 Road, No. 602, DELTA Federico a Mexican national who was deported last fall but showed up again in Delta County a few days later, was sentenced to one year of supervised probation on two misdemeanor charges Friday in Delta District Court Ortega, 30, originally faced charges of sexual assault of a 15-year-old girl and assault with a deadly weapon after two separate incidents in Paonia last May His sentencing Friday followed guilty pleas in April to the lesser charges of unlawful sexual contact and prohibited use of weapons.

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