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Fish for free in Utah on Saturday
SALT LAKE CITY — If you’d like to catch a fish in Utah’s beautiful outdoors but you don’t have a fishing license, Free Fishing Day is the perfect opportunity to give it a try. Free Fishing Day will be held on Saturday, June 11, and allows anyone to fish at any public waterbody in Utah without a license. It makes for a great family activity and is the perfect time to get outdoors and introduce your kids to fishing (or your neighbors and friends)! It’s an ideal day not only for beginning anglers to give fishing a try, but is also a fun time for experienced anglers too. “Because you don’t need a license to fish that day, it’s the perfect time to take someone with you and introduce them to this fun sport,” Utah Division of Wildlife Resources Sportfish Coordinator Randy Oplinger said. “Early June is one of the best times to fish in Utah. All of the fish in the state, both warmwa-
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DWR certificate. You can print out the certificate at home and fill in the details to document the occasion. Anglers should note that while Free Fishing Day waives the requirement for having a fishing license, entrance fees to state parks and other areas will still apply.
Where to go fishing
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If you’d like to catch a fish in Utah’s beautiful outdoors but you don’t have a fishing license, Free Fishing Day is the perfect opportunity to give it a try. ter and coldwater species, are active and willing to bite this time of the year. And with the ongoing drought, it will be better to go fishing earlier in the summer when water tempera-
tures aren’t quite as high and water levels in some areas aren’t too low.” If you are taking someone fishing for their first time, you can commemorate their first catch with a fun
Local community ponds are a great option for a quick, close-tohome fishing spot. These ponds are a particularly good place to take kids and other less experienced anglers. There are 57 located around Utah, and more information about each one can be found on the DWR website. Many of the community ponds have been stocked recently with rainbow trout, and some will be stocked with channel catfish a few days before Free Fishing Day, Please see FISHING, Page A2
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Heritage Baptist to hold Bible School Heritage Baptist Church (located at 1045 S. Medical Dr., Mt. Pleasant) is hosting a Vacation Bible School June 13-16 for ages K5 through sixth grade. Registration begins at 9:30 and the program will conclude at 12:30. We will be serving lunch each day. There will be Bible lessons, puppets, crafts, games and prizes. Parents are welcome to sit in with their children if desired and we will be having a closing program on the 16th at 7 p.m. followed by refreshments. For additional information please call 462-9319.
Gabb Wireless creates music platform geared for children BY ASHTYN ASAY
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A sprinkler sprays a lawn with water on University Avenue in Provo on Friday.
BYU professor: Half of Utahns are still watering lawns too much BY ASHTYN ASAY
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Although many Utahns are watering their lawns less frequently, in response to the current drought, one Brigham Young University professor says that half of Utah residents are still overwatering. Rob Sowby, a civil and construction engineering professor at BYU, has contributed to over 200 civil engineering projects in North America, but now he’s turned his efforts toward the ongoing drought crisis in the Mountain West. Recently, Sowby has studied how often people in Utah irrigate, how big their
yards are and how healthy their grass is by using aerial photography of land parcels. He also mined the secondary water bills of thousands of anonymous customers in two Utah County cities with different water rates. “With that information, we have this very accurate picture of the water use, the landscape, area, and the landscape health over thousands of customer parcels in these two cities,” Sowby said. “So it tells us what customers are actually doing with their landscapes as far as water use, and the landscape health.” Ultimately, Sowby found that half of
those involved in the study were overwatering their lawns and that those who watered too much ultimately had less healthy lawns. “We now know that this is how real people irrigate, they don’t really know what they’re doing,” Sowby said. “What we found is that as you apply more water, the landscapes do get greener and healthier, but it kind of peaks out after a certain point, and then it starts to decline after that. Putting more water on doesn’t help after a certain amount.”
Lehi-based Gabb Wireless launched a new streaming service for kids Wednesday. The service, called Gabb Music, is believed by creators to be the largest clean music library curated for kids. Gabb Music uses an AI software filtration system to curate songs for kids from almost every era and genre — all without swearing, drug references or innuendos. The streaming service is radio-style, so kids pick from different music mixes. “Music is the number one requested item from our Gabb kids and parents. Instead of settling for another music service, we built our own filtration system and experience. This will allow kids and teens to listen to many of the hits without the explicits,” Nate Randle, CEO of Gabb Wireless, said in a press release. “We built safe tech from the ground up, and now we’re doing it with music.” Gabb Music uses tools like Tuned Global’s music catalog delivery service, LyricFind’s data analysis solution LyricIQ and even human review to scan through millions of songs. So far, the streaming service features over 100 mixes, with new music added each week. Anne Marie McDonald, VP of public relations and communications for Gabb Wireless, sees the need for a kid-friendly streaming service as a mother of four. “We love music at our house, and I understand that even the Top 100 Billboard hits, seven out of 10 have explicit lyrics,” she said. “That is just not a standard that is okay, so we developed this clean streaming service so that it would be that perfect solution for families.” As the parent of a teen, McDonald said that Gabb Music isn’t meant just for young kids, but for the whole family.
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