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KNEU 1250Duchesne County’s Lincoln Day Dinner is providing an opportunity for Basin residents to hear from and visit with more than just Duchesne County candidates. According to event coordinator Tom Winterton, US Senate candidates Mitt Romney and Stoney Fonua will both be in attendance with a booth and both will speak.
Uintah Basin Healthcare maintains a high standard for patient care and a recent award provides evidence of that. The Villa has been awarded the Pinnacle Customer Experience Award for 2018. This is for achieving customer satisfaction standards in Nursing Care, Dining Service, Activities, Safety and Security, Laundry Service, Cleanliness and Admissions. “The data was taken from the 12 months in 2017,” shares Villa Administrator Jeff Chamberlain.
The Uintah County Attorney’s Office has issued a statement concerning the topic of County Commissioners sitting on Special Service District boards. “The Uintah County Attorney’s Office legal opinion about whether a Uintah County Commissioner can sit on the Administrative Control Board of a Special Service District without jeopardizing PILT money is consistent with other legal opinions previously rendered by other legal counsel,” shares Chief Deputy Uintah County Attorney Jonathan Stearmer.
Three of Altamont High School’s clubs attended their respective state conferences and competitions this month. The FBLA chapter attended State Leadership Conference and had four students place: Wesley Thacker placed 3rd in Word Processing and qualified for the National Competition; Braxton Hyde and Ethan Abegglen placed 10th in Graphic Design, and Bryson Pugh placed 9th in Accounting II.
A County Health Rankings and Roadmaps program aimed at promoting a national culture of health shows that health in Uintah Basin counties ranks low in the state of Utah. The program comes from the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute and uses health department data measuring factors like premature death, high school graduation rates, obesity, smoking, unemployment, and teen births annually by county.
Vernal City and the Uintah Basin Association of Governments are excited for an opportunity they are offering the public this weekend. “Vernal City has partnered with the organizers of the upcoming Home and Garden Show to encourage investment and renovations of homes in the Vernal area,” shares Vernal City Manager Quinn Bennion.
There may be less snow this year but the Division of Wildlife Resources says mountain goats will still make their appearance at an upcoming viewing event. “With only a fraction of the snowpack that we experienced just a year ago, the rocky layer on the South Slope of the Uinta Mountains has been exposed through most of the winter,” shares DWR conservation outreach manager Tonya Kieffer.
The Vernal Rotary Club has long been a supporter of the Uintah School District so it makes sense that they are being recognized this week by Team Uintah.
Downtown Vernal has plenty of advocates including the Downtown Revitalization Committee. According to Committee Chairman Pete Morphy, brackets are currently being designed to add blade signs to downtown.
It is caucus night in Utah and the state has made it easier than ever to learn where your party and precinct will be meeting locally. Every community member can visit vote.utah.gov to find locations or to find out if you are registered with a party or not. Not all parties will hold caucus meetings in the Uintah Basin but information on your closest contact and meeting will be provided.
The quality and variety of the arts available the area. The Uintah Basin Orchestra and Chorus performs just twice a year and their spring concert is this Saturday with extraordinary talent traveling to be a part of it. Dr. James Franklin is the guest conductor traveling from East Carolina University where he conducts the internationally renowned ECU Chamber Singers and directs the graduate program in choral conducting. His wife Nicole Franklin will also perform in the concert as a guest soprano soloist. “Nicole is an amazing soprano,” shares UBOC alto Debbie Spafford. “She will join the choir for a couple of pieces and will also provide some beautiful solo work. We do not often see this type of talent in the Basin and we invite everyone to come and enjoy our concert.” This concert is the conclusion of season 5, a great milestone for the organization. Members of the Uintah High School Choir will be joining for several pieces, including the “Battle Hymn of the Republic.” The concerts will be held at 2:00pm and 7:30pm on Saturday, March 24th. Tickets can be purchased at Davis Food & Drug or on www.uboc.org.
The Flaming Gorge Vernal Ranger District is planning prescribed burns as weather permits in April. The prescribed fires will primarily be used within Ponderosa Pine stands on the north slope of the Uinta Mountains.