Preston Stages Annual Christmas Opening Friday
Preston prepares for Christmas with lights turned on at 5 pm Santa Claus visits and children receive treats. The event Be organized by the Preston Chamber of Commerce merchants committee with UP and L providing free electricity from Nov 18 to Jan 1.
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County Land Fill Opens and City Dump Closes
Franklin county opens a sanitary landfill on the Dayton highway west of Preston ending city trash dumping at the old Bear River site. The county plans five day operation with a paid fee structure including 25 cents for cars 50 cents for pickups and higher rates for larger trucks Dead animals will incur a $2 charge and larger waste is covered to prevent odor or contamination.
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Preston
Sanitation Department
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Department of Environmental Health
Bear River
Joe Stone
Supreme Court
Franklin County
Woodrow Porter
Health Department
Stone
Scout Man Transferred To Fremont District Council
Thomas Powell district scout executive for the Boy Scouts of America will become the Fremont district executive in the San Francisco Bay Area council starting January. Powell has led the Franklin and North Cache Districts for three years and will leave Preston around December 22 with his family. The Fremont district serves about 24 000 boys. Powell has been active in the Preston Lions Club and serves as first counselor in the Preston Seventh Ward bishopric.
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Thomas Powell
Boy Scouts of America
Fremont
San Francisco Bay
County Gets Board For Library
H Glenn Bingham of Dayton named acting chairman of Franklin county library board. Other members include Alan Hampton Franklin Mrs Glenn Keller Mink Creek Mrs Don Barger Treasureton and Mrs Boyd Stewart Weston. Board to meet with county commissioners to review duties and options including contracting with the Preston library or organizing county services. Preston library currently offers free service countywide as a prelude to cooperation.
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H Glenn Bingham
Dayton
Franklin County Library Board
Franklin County Commissioners
Alan Hampton
Franklin
Glenn Keller Mink Creek
Don Barger
Treasureton
Boyd Stewart
Weston
Michael Kunz
Preston Library
Scout District Leaders Re-elected in Franklin District
Rodney Jensen was reelected chairman of the Franklin district of the Boy Scouts of America at the annual district scout dinner held at the Oneida stake center with about 300 scouters and church leaders attending. Allen Dunn was reelected vice chairman and Dean Bingham named district scout commissioner. Jay Bingham praised scouting as an arm of the LDS Priesthood and announced a new program increasing the role of Aaronic Priesthood quorum officers in ward scouting.
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Rodney Jensen
Franklin
Boy Scouts of America
Oneida
Allen Dunn
Dean Bingham
Jay Bingham
YMMIA
Utah Water Resources Board
Bingham
LDS Church
ASC Election Deadline Near
Jean J Smith ASC County Committee chairman reminds farmers that December 1 is the final date for returning ballots to the county office for community committee elections. Ballots must be returned or postmarked by December 1 to be counted. the outside envelope must be signed by the voter. Ballots will be tabulated on December 5 starting at 9 a.m.
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Jean J Smith
Franklin Asc
Band Drive Underway To Fund Preston High Uniforms
The Preston school district seeks about $6000 for 39 new high school band uniforms after approving 61. Community pennies are being raised via LITTLE CONTAINERS in local businesses aiming for roughly $2000, with a concert next week to boost funds. Stevenson, poised to direct all district bands next year, notes students will run projects and bands will compete for donations.
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Peck Stevenson
Citizen
Preston High School
Preston
Carl Hoffman
Hoffman
Stevenson
Ogden
Utah State University
Clifton man killed in first Franklin county traffic crash
A 67 year old Clifton resident, Joseph A Pasley, died when his pickup rolled end over end for about 600 feet in the Clifton basin. Coroner Douglas Webb cites possible chest pains earlier that day and notes death from the accident, with Pasley found about 200 feet below the roadway. Funeral services were held in Pocatello.
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Clifton
Clifton Basin
Franklin County
Joseph A Pasley
Douglas Webb
City council trims Franklin County Sheriff budget
Preston City council on Tuesday endorsed trimming the Franklin County Sheriff's budget by about a tenth. The sheriff proposed 95700 last week, with the city noting half of the consolidated law enforcement cost. Cuts include one of two cars and requests for riot gear and radar gun, plus minor reductions. The council gave tentative approval to a mobile home ordinance draft and discussed fire truck bay remodeling, sewer pipe bids for Eighth West and Oneida Street, and a Farmers Home Administration funded project. They also debated water rights tied to Amalgamated Sugar in Lewiston and potential trading of water for Cub River to secure Bergquist Springs as the city’s source.
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Franklin County
Bud
Sne Sethe
Eighth West
Oneida Street
Farmers Home Administration
Murray Nichols
Amalgamated Sugar Company
Lewiston
Cub River
Bergquist Springs
Franklin county families rise into higher income brackets
A special report from Sales Management shows 61.4 percent of Franklin county households have disposable incomes of $5,000 or more, up from 53.5 percent three years earlier. The study details income brackets, noting 30.6 percent earn between $5,000 and $8,000 and 13.2 percent between $8,000 and $10,000, with those over $10,000 forming a growing minority amid rising living costs.
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