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About 100 people attended a Duplicate Bridge dinner and game night Oct. 21 at the Knights of Columbus in Jefferson City. The event drew people from 10 area communities. Most of the duplicate bridge leaders from Columbia, Rolla and Jefferson City helped plan and pull off the event. The dinner and game was funded by Dr. George Lathrop.  

About halfway through secret four-year negotiations on how a reluctant Utah could share the Snake Valley aquifer with Nevada, a Silver State official and a Las Vegas water utility threatened they could take the matter to court or to Congress, memos and e-mails show. The correspondence, released under an open-records request from the Great Basin Water Network, illuminates Nevada's no-surrender insistence that Snake Valley water be split 50-50, even though Utah officials believed that impossible. The do

It might be an exaggeration to say we got rolled, but we surely backtracked   -Steve Erickson

 

Utah Gov. Gary Herbert hasn't decided whether he supports a proposed agreement with Nevada over the shared Snake Valley aquifer. In 2004, Congress required Utah and Nevada to agree on how to divide up the water in the aquifer, which straddles the state line. The Southern Nevada Water Authority wants to eventually start delivering rural groundwater from the aquifer to the Las Vegas area.

Obviously he doesn't want to rush   -Angie Welling

 

Gov. Gary Herbert supports reaching a deal with Nevada on how to divide Snake Valley water, but not necessarily the proposal officials from the two states have presented. Herbert believes it is in Utah's best interest to be "proactive" on a water-sharing plan rather than risk lawsuits, spokeswoman Angie Welling said Thursday. The governor is reviewing a draft agreement made public in mid-August after four years of secret negotiations.

Obviously he doesn't want to rush   -Angie Welling

 

Trying to move the UI Museum of Art into the IMU is like trying to fit the Figge Art Museum in the Englert Theatre. A difficult process, but that's exactly what the museum did. People are often unaware of the efforts behind such a transformation, which is why museum preparator Steve Erickson will kick off a lecture series to discuss how the task was accomplished.

This space is designed for students to have a more intimate, informal experience of an object that museum workers get to have   -Steve Erickson

 

Steve Erickson, preparator for the University of Iowa Museum of Art, faced with creating the museum's new, temporary on-campus art venue, the UIMA@IMU, will discuss the design process in his lecture "You Want Me to Build What???...Where???" at 5 p.m. today in the University Athletic Club, 1360 Melrose Ave. The event is free and open to the public.  

A controversial water-sharing agreement between Utah and Nevada could be on the desks of both states' governors by mid- to late October. Mike Styler, executive director of the state Department of Natural Resources, told a Utah legislative interim committee Wednesday that the Snake Valley aquifer draft agreement should be finalized by that time for gubernatorial review and possible endorsement. Natural resources departments in both states are continuing to accept comments until Sept. 30 on the agreemen

We don't see this as an agreement that merits the state's endorsement   -Steve Erickson

 

The University of Minnesota will expand student access to gates at TCF Bank Stadium in reaction to bottlenecks that marred an otherwise successful debut for the stadium, according to officials. Fans queued for hours before the gates opened, but students were exasperated by slow lines at the student gate and no guarantee of premium seating for those who arrived earliest. Throngs of fans jockeyed for position near the general admission student section, and many were in danger of missing the opening kick

People seemed pretty happy and pleasant and seemed to enjoy the big opening   -Greg Hestness

 

OSI Restaurant Partners LLC has given $1.2 million to the Muscular Dystrophy Association , the nonprofit health agency focusing on a cure for muscle diseases. Steve Erickson, senior vice president of operations for Outback Steakhouse, appeared on the 44th annual Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon in Las Vegas and delivered the check to Lewis, MDA national chairman, a release said. "I'm deeply grateful to OSI Restaurant Partners for their tremendous support," Lewis said in the release.

I’m deeply grateful to OSI Restaurant Partners for their tremendous support   -Jerry Lewis

 

Mike Styler, executive director of the Utah Department of Natural Resources, and Allen Biaggi, director of the Nevada Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, have said they expect to sign the agreement by mid-October. The deal would hold off the Nevada state engineer's ruling on the Southern Nevada Water Authority's 20-year application for water rights in Snake Valley, and would require hydrologic and environmental studies before it could take effect in 2019. Critics say the agreement would