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Thursday, April 25, 2013 • Issue # 993
2013 Sterling Scholar Awards CEDAR CITY - One hundred and eighty seven students representing seventeen high schools and five school districts competed in the Thirty-Fifth Annual Southwest Utah Sterling Scholar competition on the campus of Southern Utah University in Cedar City, Utah, on April 11, 2013. Each of the finalists were judged on personal achievements and awards compiled in their portfolios as well as their interviews with the judges. The finalists were judged on scholarship, leadership, and citizenship. The three judges in each category came from local communities, Dixie State College, and Southern Utah University. SUU President Michael Benson was the guest speaker. He encouraged students to continue to aspire to be the best that they could be, using his own experiences as a lifelong educator. —Southwest Educatoinal Development Center
Panguitch High School Sterling Scholars
Adus Dorsey
Torrey Town to Celebrate Arbor Day with Tree Planting Demonstration
Baylee Palmer Computer Technology
Cassidy Fehr Business & Marketing
Cianna Swartzmiller Dance
Dalan Bennet Social Science
Frecia Houston Speech and Drama
Kaden Figgens General
TORREY - Mr. Ross Chambless from “Tree Utah” will be in Torrey on Friday, May 3, to give an informational demonstration on the proper way to plant and nuture trees. Torrey Town has been given a grant from Tree Utah, and volunteers are needed to help plant 17 trees in the park, cemetary, and town rights of way. The group plans to meet at the Torrey Park Pavilion at 10:A.M. for the demonstration, to plant trees, followed by a light lunch at the pavilion after the trees are planted. We so appreciate the grant given by Tree Utah, as it helps us make our town beautiful, and helps us retain our status of being “Tree City U.S.A”. Torrey was named a Tree City USA by the Arbor Day Foundation in honor of its commitment to effective urban forest management. 2012 was the 2nd year Torrey had earned the national designation. “Everyone benefits when elected officials, volunteers and committed citizens in communities like Torrey make smart investments in urban forests,” said John Rosenow, founder and chief executive of the Arbor Day Foundation. “Trees bring shade to our homes and beauty to our neighborhoods, along with numerous economi c, social and environmental benefits.” Cleaner air, improved storm water management, energy savings and increased property values and commercial activity are among the benefits enjoyed by Tree City USA communities. Torrey achieved Tree City USA recognition by meeting the program’s four requirements: a tree board or department, a tree-care ordinance, an annual community forestry budget of at least $2 per capita and an Arbor Day observance and proclamation. Torrey Town is dedicated to protect our existing trees, and has adopted the Division of Natural Resources motto “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” Please plan to attend and celebrate Arbor Day, and help Torrey and our enviroment. Contact the Torrey Town office for information-425-3600. —Torrey Town
National Take Back Drug Day Urges Collection and Disposal of ‘World's Most Dangerous Leftovers' Garfield Memorial Health Fair this Saturday Offers Opportunity to Dispose of Old and Unused Prescription Medication at Tropic Heritage Center, 10am-2pm
Katelyn Parkin Family & Consumer Sciences
Kayla Wilson Visual Arts
McKenna Finch English
More of our regional Sterling Scholars will be posted in the newspaper next week.
Sam Vasquez Science
Britton Marshal Ag Science
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TROPIC - The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has scheduled another National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day which will take place on Saturday, April 27. Locally, health care and drug enforcement officials will participate in this event from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the Heritage Center in Tropic.
This will be a great opportunity for those who have accumulated old, unwanted, unused prescription drugs, to safely dispose of those medications by local law enforcement. Panguitch has participated in this annual nationwide event for 2 years now and residents have turned in 22 pounds of unwanted, expired prescription drugs for safe disposal. This year we want to bring this event to the Bryce Valley area. This annual event also reduces the availability of prescriptions to youth and others that might want to gain access to them for misuse and abuse. Prescription drug misuse is a growing problem. Approximately 9 million Americans use prescription drugs at least once a year for “non-medical” reasons. “Non-medical” means that a prescription was taken for reasons other than the medication was prescribed. This could include taking more than the prescribed dosage, taking prescriptions for longer than prescribed, taking a medication for a reason other than which it was prescribed, or an individual taking a medi-
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cation that was not prescribed for them. Utah is the leader in the nation in non-medical pain killer abuse and misuse. Treatment admissions for prescription painkillers increased by 340% over the last 10 years in Utah. WHY? Reasons include perception of risk, public attitude, social acceptability, and availability. First, there is a low perception of risk regarding the use and abuse of these types of drugs. Many people mistakenly assume that prescription drugs are safe since they are prescribed by doctors. It’s true that these drugs serve a very important purpose, but they should only be taken under the direction of a doctor and used as directed. Many believe, especially youth, that these types of drugs are not dangerous or addictive. However, taking prescription drugs for even two weeks may start to cause a physiological dependency. We should not treat these drugs lightly.
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Concerns About Fish Creek Cove Road Project Fellow citizens of Wayne County, I would like to encourage everyone to attend the meeting to be held on April 26th at 7 pm at the Wayne Community Center in Bicknell. The meeting is to discuss so-called improvements to the road to Fish Creek Cove, a naturally pristine area that does not see a lot of traffic. Is this really something that Wayne County has the money for, and have the following concerns/questions been addressed? 1. What is the purpose of making improvements to this road now? Is this project a priority, given the fact that there are other roads in need of repair? 2. Have environmental impact studies been done, given the archaeological significance of the area?
3. Can the County provide us with how much this project will cost? 4. Has the County done a traffic count of how many people are currently using the road to know if this is even feasible? 5. Based on what kind of repairs are being proposed (i.e. possible widening of the road), will this impact current land owners and will eminent domain be imposed? Your attendance and input would be greatly appreciated at this upcoming meeting. This might not affect you personally now, but they could be making decisions in your neighborhood tomorrow. Eric Gray, Concerned resident of Wayne County
Take Back Drug Day cont’d from page 1 The second reason these drugs are so commonly abused is because we as a society have developed an attitude around these types of drugs that makes them socially acceptable. We live in a culture where it has become acceptable to take these types of drugs. When we have a headache we take a drug, when we have a stomach ache we take a drug, when we don’t want to sleep we take a drug and when we can’t sleep we take a drug. As a result of this our children are growing up with a false sense of fixing everything with a drug. Unfortunately many people honestly don’t see the difference in taking Tylenol when they have a headache or a prescription narcotic when they are stressed or overwhelmed with life. Availability is one of the biggest contributors to the increase in prescription drug misuse and abuse. These types of drugs are right in our own homes or friends’ or families’ homes. If you were given one hour to go out into the community and bring back as many illegal drugs (heroin, cocaine, etc.) as possible most people would not have a clue where to go to obtain these types of drugs. But if we were asked to bring back as many prescription drugs as possible, we would be able to complete this task. For most they would only have to open the medicine cabinet to find these types of drugs. They are everywhere, and it isn’t hard to find them. Fifty percent of youth who abuse prescription drugs are getting these drugs from their own homes or a friend’s home for free. Thirty to forty
percent purchase them from a friend, or steal them from relatives and neighbors. Only ten percent of kids that abuse these drugs get them from a doctor. In other words, we make these drugs available to our youth. If we made these drugs unavailable, we could eliminate almost ninety percent of the supply of drugs to youth. This means getting rid of unused prescription in our homes, and locking up those prescriptions that we still use. This applies to everyone, even if you don’t have kids at home, they are still available to someone who wants to get them. Over the last few years we have seen an increase locally in the problem of prescription drug abuse and misuse. There has been an increase in youth being referred to juvenile court for these issues, homes have been broken into and prescription drugs have been stolen. As a substance abuse prevention coalition, Panguitch Prevention Coalition, we wanted to address this problem by our communities joining in the participation of the National Take Back Drug Day and reducing the availability of these drugs to our youth and others who might seek to abuse them. Please support our efforts to reduce the availability of prescription drugs and drop off your old unused medications at the location listed above. We thank everyone for participating and contributing to the battle against prescription drug abuse and misuse. —The Panguitch Prevention Coalition
April 25, 2013
Torrey Apple Days July 4th thru 6th 2013
Utah Research: Time Outdoors Can Make You a Better Thinker
SALT LAKE CITY - As folks across the state celebrate July 4th: Movie in the park, sponsored by the Wayne High Wrestlers Earth Day, research out of the University of Utah finds that July 5th: Miss Apple Days Talent Contest, April Torgerson 425‐4027 some time in the great outdoors can improve a person’s creativity Turkey Shoot, Jessica Grundy, 836‐2259 and problem-solving ability. Professor David Strayer said those July 6th: Boy scout breakfast tested after four days immersed Apple Days 5‐K Race, Kyle & Amber Bray 425‐3576 in nature with Outward Bound dramatically better than peo Parade, Jeni Scholes 425‐2217 or 690‐9954 did ple who took similar tests before heading out. Swap meet, Bob Palin 435‐979‐5050 “We found a 50-percent Quilt Show, Marsha Chappell 836‐2614 improvement in the creativity scores. Disconnecting from our Games in the park sponsored by the Wayne High FFA networked world and interact Pie eating contest, Café’ Diablo 425‐3070 ing in a natural setting seems to make measurable, significant Patriotic Program, Ted & JaNae Winder, 425‐3950 improvements in the way in Entrada local Musicians, Larry Hansen larrjoh@gmail.com which we think, and can think creatively,” he said. Apple Derby Race, Janet Hansen 425‐3721 Strayer explained that being Apple Days Dance, sponsored by the Wayne High cheerleaders outdoors improves one’s thinking because unplugging from all of today’s technologies takes the Mark your calendars for Torrey’s Big Apple Days! pressure off frontal brain regions Friends, Family and Fun times. that support functions like problem-solving and creativity. For information call Torrey Town Hall at 425‐3600 “Juggling a lot of activities like we typically do in our daily Sexual Assault urban life tends to overload those brain structures,” he said. “When Awareness Month you get out into nature, you kind Awards Encourage of let those areas restore. It’s something called ‘cognitive resUtahns to Prevent toration.’” Sexual Violence On the heels of these findings, Stayer said that he plans to SALT LAKE CITY do more research into the conRape continues to be the only nection between nature and imviolent crime in Utah EXproved creative thinking. One CEEDING the national averproject will involve trying to find age. One in three Utah women out how much time outside is will experience some form of needed to bring benefits. sexual violence in her life“If you think about nature time and nearly 90% will be as having a beneficial dose - how much do you need to be able to assaulted by someone known get a real, measurable return on to them. Women are not the investment?” he asked. “Can only victims: Utah males are an hour hiking in the forest revictimized at the rate of one sult in real improvements, or do in seven, and more than 85% you have to go out for multiple of Utah’s victims of sexual asdays?” sault were first victimized beThe average American fore the age of 18. child spends more than seven “Talk early, talk often. hours in front of a television or Prevent sexual violence.” The computer screen each day, StrayUtah Coalition Against Sexual er added, but only 15 to 25 minAssault (UCASA) encourutes playing outside. ages open communication —John Michaelson, Utah about rape and sexual assault News Connection to combat the silence and fear that allow sexual violence to continue. UCASA will highlight the theme of National Sexual Assault Awareness Month 2013 by honoring individuals and organizations who are committed to preventing sexual violence in Utah, who support victims and survivors of all forms of sexual abuse, and who are improving the justice system response to rape and sexual assault in our communities. UCASA will present Gary Scheller of Utah Office for Victims of Crime with the National Sexual Violence Resource Center’s national Visionary Voice Award that recognizes the creativity, hard work, and dedication of indiFamily Practice Family Practice Family Practice Family Practice viduals around the country Becky Roberts, FNP, GNP Colin Marshall, DO Mitch Miller, DO Tim Dennis, PA-C working to address and prevent sexual violence. The 2013 SAAM Awards Ceremony were held on April 24 at the Salt Lake City & County Building, —Utah Coalition Against Sexual Assault
Dixie N.F. Road Open Houses Offer Continuing Opportunities for Input DIXIE N.F. - The Dixie National Forest wants to hear from you about opening and closing roads for motorized use. The Powell Ranger District, on the Dixie National Forest is holding a series of public open houses to gather input from the public as we consider the future of open and closed roads on the District. We are considering changing the decision on some specific roads under the 2009 Dixie National Forest Motorized Travel Plan decision. The open houses are scheduled in late April and early May as follows: April 23, 2013 (Tuesday): Community Center – 210 S. Center Street, Circleville, UT April 25, 2013 (Thursday): Triple C Arena - Panguitch, UT April 30, (Tuesday): Heritage Center – Tropic, UT May 2, (Thursday): Search & Rescue Building – airport road, Kanab, UT All open houses will be held from 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM. Participants are encouraged to arrive at 6:30 to hear a brief presentation on the overview of the issues. District Ranger Karen Schroyer said, “This is part of implementing the Motorized Travel Plan. After three years of looking at these roads on the ground, we have a preliminary list of roads we are reconsidering the decision on, and hope the public will provide us with specific information about the specific routes on the Powell Ranger District that are important to them, and why they are important.” The information gathered will be used in analyzing the District roads program. If you have questions regarding the Powell Ranger District motorized travel plan process, please contact Joe Rechsteiner, team leader, at (435) 676-9320. If you are unable to attend any of the public open houses, written comments may be mailed to: Powell Ranger District, Attention: Joe Rechsteiner, PO Box 80, Panguitch, UT 84759. Electronic comments may be emailed to: comments-intermtn-dixie-powell@fs.fed.us. —Dixie National Forest, Powell Ranger District
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Sports Wayne Sports
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by Lauren Jackson
Change of Plans! Badgers Tavel to Emery and Prepare for the BYU Invitational So there has been a change of plans for the Wayne track and field team. Last week’s edition said that the Badgers competed in a meet on Wednesday in Panguitch, but due to the harsh weather, the meet had been canceled. So instead they had to make some other arrangements to compete in an Emery meet located in Castle Dale last Thursday the 18th. There were only two other 2A teams that participated, so a majority of the athletes there would be the 1A competition the Badger athletes would be going up against at state. Speaking of state, the time for the BYU Invitational is drawing near. Athletes all over Utah are preparing themselves for that incredible meet that will be taking place the first weekend of May. The Badgers only have this next meet in Richfield and then some fun weekday relay races before traveling up to Provo to compete in the annual meet. As a fellow teammate of the track team, I can tell you how excited my fellow teammates and I are for Invitational. This event is truly thrilling and it also gives a good idea for how the state competition will turn out. The Badger athletes have worked hard all year to be able to qualify and compete there. Here are the results from the meet at Emery High School: For the 100-meter dash,
Catrina Johnson took 3rd, Han- Pavilion on 1st East and 1st nah Ellett took 4th and Maggie North, or you can pre-register Ellett took 5th. Those same at www.active.com by going three athletes also did well in to Torrey’s Redrock Race, the 200-meter race with Han- or you can call the town ofnah taking 4th, Maggie 5th, fice and register there with and Catrina 6th. Hannah also the town clerk at 1-435-425took 5th in the 400-meter race. 3600. There are cash prizes Lauren Jackson took 1st in the involved and it sounds like a 800-meter race and also 1st in blast. If you have any questhe1600 meter as well as qual- tions, you can contact the Torified for state, and Brooke Bar- rey Town clerk-Paula Pace, or ney took 5th in the 800-meter Torrey Town Treasurer Colrace. Bethany Lamb placed leen Dudleston at the Torrey 5th in the 100-meter hurdles Town office on Wednesdays and also in the 300-meter hur- and Thursdays, 10:00 A.M. dles. As for girl’s field events, to 2:00 P.M. or contact counCatrina Johnson took 4th in cil member, Janet Hansen at the long jump, and Jocee Mo- 1-435-425-3721. Special note: they will be rell took 3rd in the javelin, 2nd having a “Carb Dinner” at the in the shot put, and 1st in the pavilion at 6:00 P.M. on Fridiscus! For boy’s field events, day night July 26th in preparaJay Mooseman took 2nd in the tion for the race the following shot put. The girl’s 4X4 relay morning for $7.00. The dinner team and 4X1 team took secincludes pasta with marinara ond and the boy’s 4X1 teams sauce, salad and a roll. If you took 2nd as well. have any questions, you can The next meet is the Nyle check out their blog about the Norris Invitational in Richrace on active.com. field this Saturday. Lauren Jackson is a seRemember to sign up for nior at Wayne High School. the Torrey Town 5K-10K taking place on July 27, 2013. All age groups are invited to attend. They hope to make this an Track and Field Schedule: annual event to • Nyle Norris Invitational in help fundraise Richfield - April 27th projects for Tor• Richfield Pepsi Relays - April 30th rey Town. Reg• BYU Invitational - May 3rd-4th istration will be • Region at Bryce Valley - May 8th from 7:00 A.M. • State Track and Field at BYU to 7:30 A.M. at - May 17th-18th the Torrey Park
LEFT: Kolt Pace hits a single against the White Sox on Friday April 19 in Monroe. Kolt plays in the 10 and under league for Wayne.
RIGHT: Pitcher Wyatt VanOrden (23) of Wayne, tags out a Nationals player attempting to steal home, catcher Hunter Batty (not pictured) aided on the 2-1 play at the plate.
LEFT: Mason Stevens, of Wayne, slides under the tag to steal second base during Friday’s game in Monroe. Mason plays in the 12 and under league.
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! ! ! ! SPOTLIGHT 2013 WAYNE HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS
Crystal Moon Platten ÒMy name is Crystal Moon Platten. I live in Loa, Utah with my grandparents Evan and Ramola Harding and my fatherÕs name is David Platten. I plan to attend Salt Lake Community College in the fall of 2013 to Þnish out my associates. Then I plan to go to University of Utah to become a pediatrics nurse. My dad has helped me a lot in Þnding ways to Þnd scholarships, Þnancial aid, and decide what school I want to go to. He is very supportive, just like everyone else around me. I am very thankful for all the help I receive from everyone around me.Ó .......CRYSTAL <------------------------------------>
This weekly student spotlight is brought to you by Wayne High School and the Entrada Institute Scholarship committee. These spotlights are not only to inform the people of Wayne County about these fine seniors, but to encourage contributions to the ÒScholarship of ExcellenceÓ program for students at WHS. For more information about tax deductible donations, please contact Candence Peterson at WHS.
Board Looks to Add Handwriting to Utah Core Standards SALT LAKE CITY - The Utah State Board of Education voted to send proposed handwriting standards out for public comment before possibly adding them to Utah’s K-5 core standards. Utah Core Standards do not currently include handwriting, but it has long been taught in all Utah public schools. The Board is looking at including specific handwriting standards in response to research in the field. Handwriting (both manuscript and cursive) is an important skill for students to learn. Teaching and practicing writing allows students to write letters correctly and unconsciously. Fluent writers are able to focus on generating ideas, producing grammatically correct text, and considering audience. Even in a technology-based world, handwriting is important to support the creation of ideas and deeper level thinking. Public hearings on the standards will be set soon and will be posted on the Utah State Office of Education website. —Utah.gov
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School Notes
April 25, 2013
The Wayne Theatre oz the great and powerful
Why Work in Garfield School District? In the Escalante School Board Meeting, I was asked the question by Jim Porter the GEA Union Rep why would anyone want to work in the Garfield School District? I would like to answer this question by taking two approaches. First, the compensation for the teachers on the Master’s Salary schedule ranks 19th out of 42 school districts with a salary of $58,124. The average starting salary for a new teacher with a Bachelor’s degree is $31,732, which is above North Summit, Wayne, Washington, Box Elder, Grand, Cache, and Nebo school Districts’. The District, at no cost to the employee, covers all medical insurance. The annual cost for a family insurance plan is approximately $14,832. All full-time employees receive a contribution of 1.5% of their salary into a 401K plan and next School year the employee will receive a contribution of 20.46 % of their salary into the Utah Retirement System. The District also pays into a group life insurance policy valued at $40,000. Employees who experienced a 4% decrease a few years ago received a 4% increase in compensation costing approximately $200,000. The District could have used this money in other areas but chose to return the money back to the employees this year.
The Garfield School District has an outstanding faculty and staff who are dedicated to improving the education of the students. Teachers know the students by name; they work diligently to provide the best educational experience possible. In technology, the District budgets for $100,000 each year to maintain and improve technology in the classroom. We have an average class size of 16.66 students to every one teacher with the state average being 22.01. Second, if you step away from the money and evaluate the communities, you will find people who donate thousands of hours each year in the classrooms, coaching, or volunteering in the schools in some way to help the students. These volunteers are great assets to the classroom and the teachers. All of the communities are a great place to live; they take pride in their schools, and support the students. Local businesses provide charitable contributions in the form of scholarships. Garfield Memorial Hospital is donating 12 scholarships to graduating seniors. This year Leland’s Chevron will donate three additional scholarships to a graduating senior in Escalante, Tropic, and Panguitch. Many of our citizens choose to live in these small communi-
ties and travel great distances for employment. They sacrifice their time commuting to live in these wonderful communities we call home. The geographical beauty of this area is second to none. People travel from all over the world to see the natural wonders of this area. Citizens of Garfield County have an opportunity to view this beauty every day. We may not have the newest facilities but inside the classrooms, learning is achieved at rich quality. We see more students recognized in Academic All State selections, Sterling Scholar nominations, and higher graduation rates than many other districts. On a personal note, when I drop my kids off at school each morning, I know they will be greeted by teachers that care about them. They are receiving excellent educations in Garfield School District. I consider myself fortunate to have the opportunity to live in Garfield County with such great people. Any new employee would feel the welcome arms of these small communities if they choose to be employed in the District. These are just a few reasons why someone would want to work in Garfield School District. —Superintendent Ben Dalton
April Board Report 2013 Due to scheduling conflicts, Wayne School District changed the monthly School Board meeting to Monday, April 15, 2013, at 7:00 p.m. Minutes and financial statements were discussed and approved. Wayne Middle School took the spotlight to demonstrate their success in the implementation of the One-toOne IPAD Initiative. Principal Mary Bray and school technology specialist and teacher Mrs. Flora Hallows talked about the tremendous success this initiative has brought to the students and teachers in their school. They then turned the time to Makara Morgan, Makayla Torgerson, Jentry Brian, Samantha Knutson, Destiny Saunders and Britton Taylor, Wayne Middle students, to demonstrate their IPAD technology skills. Their presentations were very impressive, and they were able to demonstrate their use of IPAD apps and programs with ease and efficiency. They discussed the Canvas program, allowing students and teachers to interact in real time on classroom assignments, tests, and projects. These students all praised the IPAD program and were eager to have it continue for their school years in the future. The students gave an outstanding presentation, and the Board appreciated their efforts for presenting, and their efforts in the classroom. Mrs. Bray also recognized the support of her faculty and staff, and the support of Mr. Jordan Crane, the district technology specialist. There were numerous information items discussed including: 1. A light audit to consider LED lighting replacement throughout the district. 2. An Open/Closed campus policy from the high school providing a schedule to increase lunchtime for safety reasons. 3. A request from the Six County Health Dept. to use Wayne High School as a stag-
ing area in cases of community health emergencies. 4. Discussion on the recent Special Education and Title I Audits conducted by the State. Both audits went well, and state officials praised employees and students for the friendly, comfortable atmosphere of all schools. Work is being done to correct the identified problems. 5. A basketball proposal was discussed for combining the Boys’ and Girls’ state basketball tournaments to be played the same days and same location as most other regions now play. Further discussions will be held and the Board will be updated. 6. A discussion was held on H.B. 345, which now allows the School District to charge fees to sixth grade students being served in a Middle School setting. This bill also provides for students who have not met competency requirements in any secondary school in math, science, language arts, and social studies, to spend time in remediation before being allowed to progress to the next class. The District must have remediation procedures in place. 7. Other Board Member items included discussions of safety issues in and around school properties. An idea was presented for a proposal from volunteers to help paint and try to improve some classrooms each year. More communication and information from individual schools and the district was encouraged. Business items included: 1. The Board accepted letters of resignation of Mr. Nate Woodward, Mrs. Lori Chappell, Mrs. Tina Sullivan, and Mrs. Lori Cropper, with a vote of appreciation for their service to the district. 2. Hire new custodian(s) for Hanksville Elementary. 3. Principals reported on their goals and purchases for Trustlands Plans for this school year. They also presented their plans for the 2013-2014 school year. Most of the funds
will be spent for technology and personnel, with emphasis on reading, math and fine arts instruction. Plans were approved, and will be available on school web sites. The School Board also watched the Trustlands Video. 4. Time was spent reviewing and discussing policies. The first reading of the “Emergency Response and Dangerous Weapons Policy” was approved. The “Public Education Human Resources Management Act,” was discussed as well as the old “Orderly Termination of Employees Policy.” More discussion and possible addition of parts of the old policy will be required, in order to satisfy the requirements of this new Human Resources policy. This policy was tabled. 5. Discussion was held on school lunch prices. The State is requiring an increase of a minimum of $.03 per meal, to qualify for Federal funding, or else local funds must be used to make up the $.03 difference. With the government sequestration also reducing the District’s Federal Funding lunch allocation, the decision was made to increase lunch prices by $.10. 6. The decision was made to spend $41,000 from undistributed reserve funds to provide a one-time salary adjustment for all employees. 7. Bids were opened for new lockers at the High School and Middle school. Academic Specialists was chosen as the vendor. These funds will be taken from the Undistributed Reserves. Further discussion was held to consider the final expenditures related to those funds with no final decision made. 8. Board Members were encouraged to visit schools on their own schedule as school winds down for the year. An executive session was held to discuss personnel. —Superintendent Burke Torgerson
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PHS Notebook by McKenna Finch
A Breath of Relief
Shout out to all the FCCLA participants (especially those who made it to Nashville, Tennessee to compete in a National FCCLA competition), all the drama participants, and also to Frecia Houston (who was able to take first place in Sterling Scholar Competition) and also to Katelyn Parkin (who was a runner up in her category). Now that all the clubs are done at PHS students are able to take a breath of relief and are now able to get outside a little more to enjoy this beautiful weather! Track and Field is moving right along are almost done with their season. Ednet classes are almost done, and I’m sure everybody is very excited not to have to think as hard! Nearly 20 days of school left for the seniors and only 3 more Mondays left for us! How amazing that the school year has flown by so quickly for everyone with so many changes! It’s time to start getting those graduation announcements ready and your bags packed! McKenna Finch is a Senior at Panguitch High School.
Loa Elementary Snippets by Lisa Stevens
A New Generation of Stars Take Over Broadway Parents, grandparents, siblings, and neighbors all flocked to the Wayne Middle School’s gymnasium last Thursday to enjoy the talents of the Loa Elementary student body. “A Night with the Stars” marquee surrounded in glittering lights greeted patrons as they walked down the red carpet to their seats. The proverbial curtain raised and the entire cast sang “Give My Regards to Broadway” and “There’s No Business Like Show Business”, songs made famous by the musicals Little Johnny Jones and Annie Get Your Gun respectfully. Narrator, Mr. Nate Woodward, entertained and educated the audience as he introduced each act; starting with the fourth grade classes’ performance of the Maypole folk dance to “Strangers like Me” from the musical Tarzan, next the fourth graders choir sang “Son of Man”. Act 2: Kindergarten classes preformed “Animal Crackers in My Soup” and danced to “On the Good Ship, Lollipop”, both songs made famous by Shirley Temple. Act 3 featured music from Mary Poppins, the cast sang a medley of “Spoonful of Sugar and “Supercalifragilisticexpealidocious” then strapped kites onto their backs and entertained the crowd with a dance to “Let’s Go Fly a Kite”. Act 4 stared the second grade classes, donning lion manes, as they preformed the crowd favorite parachute dance to “Hakuna Matata” from the Lion King. This act was wrapped up with the song “I Just Can’t Wait to be King”. The third grade classes sang and danced to songs from the one of the most beloved movie musicals of all time, Singing in the Rain! First
the cast preformed a dance with umbrellas to “Singing in the Rain”; then they traded in the umbrellas for neon fedoras and sang “Good Morning” and “Moses Supposes”. Act 5 luctantly need to say goodbye stared the T-birds and Pink La- to some members of the comdies from Grease. After an en- munity council. Marie Jensen, thusiastic rendition of “We Go Tacey Wood, Nichole Brown Together” the T-Birds drove to and Amber Bray have all center stage and the entire class served there 2 year term and we boogied to “Greased Light- would like to thank them for all ning”. After the fifth grade of their time and effort. They finished the crowd was enter- have all truly given freely of tained by the music stylings of their many talents to make our fifth grader Noah Kostimuk. school better, THANK YOU! The entire cast ended the eveWith the departure of ning with the song from the these 4 amazing ladies we need 2002 Winter Olympic Games to find replacements; if you are in Salt Lake City called “See from Torrey/Teasdale, Lyman Us Shine”. The Spring Festi- or Loa and are interested in val, as always, was wonderful! joining the community council It was obvious to all how hard please contact your community everyone worked; it was defi- council member and let them antly a 5 star show! know. Marie Jensen 425-2214, Mrs. Jan Brown will be Amber Bray 425-3576, Tacey conducting preschool screen- Wood 836-2675 and Nichole ings on May 3. Call for infor- Brown 836-2161. mation and to set up an appointment, 836-2028, and DATES TO REMEMBER…! bring your child’s • Apr 25- (R) Mid-term immunization re• Apr 30- (T) Bookmobile cords with you. • May 1- (W) SEP from 4pm-8pm It is the time of year when we re• May 3- (F) Preschool screening
Bryce Valley Elementary News by Maren Stewart, 5th Grade
3rd grade: We have been celebrating National Poetry month by writing many different types of Poems to complete their own Poetry books. They have also been preparing for the core tests coming up! 4th grade: 4th graders are “Definitely Devouring long Division!” We are Great at Math! We’ve also been Super Scientists Exploring rocks, Soils and Fossils! Go 4th grade! The 4th graders will be traveling to Fremont Indian Park and Cove Fort very soon and they are excited. 6th grade: We are busy, busy, busy! We have been getting ready for our science. We sure had fun presenting our country dioramas to the class and school. The year book is also gradually coming together too.
The Wayne & Garfield County INSIDER
April 25, 2013
Every1Counts Can God Depend on You?
tHe lAuGhiNg pOiNt!! Oregon Trail
By Cynthia Kimball I taught a lesson recently. It was on trials. Church leader, Lorenzo Snow, said: "The Lord has determined in His heart that He will try us until He knows what He can do with us," (Snow, 2012). Isn't that amazing, God will try us until He knows what He can do with us? Think about that. Essentially we'll be tried so that God can send us on a mission in however He sees fit (Snow, 2012). God also did that with our Savior, Jesus Christ. Lorenzo Snow told us that God watched his Son because He had to know if He could depend on Him ".and He was not disappointed," (Snow, 2012). "So in regard to [you]. [God] will try [you], and continue to try [you], in order that He may place [you] in the highest positions in life and put upon [you] the most sacred responsibilities," (Snow, 2012). Yet, can God depend on you or is He disappointed? God always loves you, but may not always love your behavior. Therefore, He can't use you like He wished He could. So how can God depend on you? And how can you find out the plan He has for you? But putting Him first before the world. By being unselfish instead of selfish. By assuming the best in people or giving them the benefit of the
Fence Lines
by Ray Conrad
doubt. By repenting and asking for forgiveness. By thinking of every situation you're in, every situation, even shopping at the grocery store, and finding a purpose for you being in that store at that time, then talking to people and finding out how you can make their life better even if you're just asking them how they are, complimenting them or just listening. Essentially speak up wherever you are and take the emphasis off you. You're an introvert you say? Time to change and become an extrovert. After all, this life, yes, is about your salvation, but it's also about the salvation of others. Also, evaluate your daily activities. And if you find that your main desire is to surf the Internet, play video games, or watch TV, for example, then to visit that sick neighbor next store, or call someone who's lonely, pray, read scripture, etc. Re-prioritize. A church leader, Joseph Smith, wrote, "If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things." (LDS.org, 2013). Use this statement as a guide so that God can depend on you. A heart that has matured in Him is when you realize that you're here to get back to Him and then teach others how to do the same. To do as much good
as you can. Lives are to make others' lives better, easier, happier. Here's a simple question to ask you in order to accomplish this: "Is it true, good or useful?" And although something may be true, is spreading that gossip, labeling, being sarcastic, ignoring, fighting, being angry, hateful, hurtful, bullying, watching pornography, being unfaithful, taking drugs or any other addictive substance, and any and all other things that Christ would never do, good or useful? The answer is no so don't think, say or do it. Also think about your motives. Ask, before you do anything; "Is this for me or thee?" Don't be a checklist guy or gal. You know, someone who just goes through the motions and says, "God's in my heart." Be congruent. Let your words match your actions. Remember, God's watching you to see if He can depend on you so that He ".may place [you] in the highest positions in life and put upon [you] the most sacred responsibilities" (Snow, 2012). It doesn't get any better than this. Cynthia Kimball is a speaker and trainer through her company Every1Counts, LLC, and a doctoral student in Workforce Education Leadership. She sometimes writes for Deseret Connect. E-mail: kimball@every1counts.net
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Black Friday Shopping
My wife got mad at me when I told her I was “NOT” going shopping with her at midnight on Black Friday. She went by herself, and she informed me in the morning that she had purchased eight new dresses. “Eight dresses!” I hollered, “What could any woman want with eight new dresses?” She calmly replied, “Eight new pairs of shoes.”
Nasty Virus
One week of suffering through a nasty stomach virus left me wiped out. But I found a silver lining the very first day I could crawl out of bed. Throwing on a pair of pants, I called out to my husband, “Look! These jeans fit, they finally fit!” “Great,” he said. “But those are mine.”
On a family vacation one summer, we crossed Wyoming and noted several historical points of interest. The children were especially interested because they enjoyed the computer game “Oregon Trail,” which gives players a taste of the hardships the pioneers endured. We stopped at the famous South Pass to look at the wagon tracks still visible in the dirt. Squinting out over the desolate, wind-swept landscape, my daughter nodded and said grimly, “This is where my oxen always die.”
What’s Wrong, Officer?
“What’s wrong, Officer?” I asked the cop those three dreaded words seconds after he’d pulled me over. “Didn’t you notice that you were driving the wrong way down a one-way street?” he asked. “No” I said. “I’d turned on from Maple, which didn’t have any signs indicating that this street was one-way.” “That’s because you were going the wrong way down Maple too.”
TECH SUPPORT
More and more we got high-tech stuff intruding on our lives, And it seems like lots of it goes no-tech not long after it arrives. So you dig out the manual, call tech support, and maybe this will amaze ya, You probably wind up talkin’ to someone deep in the heart of Asia. They speak with a foreign accent, maybe Sanskrit, maybe Hindi, They might be in Bangalore, someplace, or maybe Rawalpindi. And maybe they get the answer right, but wouldn’t it be great, If they were located this side of the sea, in some United State? Why phone halfway around the world, to Uttar Pradesh, or Goa. Haven’t we got tech-savvy kids in Panguitch, or even Loa? I mean, I’m sure that India’s swell. They’re trying hard, God love ‘em, But there’s States over here where folks need jobs. Hell, I count fifty of ‘em.
To Play: Complete the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 to 9
Tech Support (2008), from Fence Lines, by Ray Conrad, published by Avalanche Creek Productions, 2009.
Wills, Trusts, and More
Asset Protection and Estate Planning Many individuals are concerned about asset protection. By doing estate planning, you can often increase your asset protection. The key to effective asset protection is to structure your affairs in order to minimize exposure to potential lawsuits prior to a threatened claim. If steps are taken to manipulate assets after a threatened claim, there can be potential problems with fraudulent conveyance laws. Fraudulent conveyances include any conveyance done to hinder, defraud or delay a creditor. So, this means if you know a claim is on the horizon or if a claim has arisen, you should not transfer or move assets in an effort to keep them from your potential creditors. If you do, that transfer can potentially be undone. This article will set forth a few techniques that are important for preserving and planning an estate while emphasizing asset protection. Insurance. It is crucial to review insurance coverage to be certain that it is adequate. Personal liability umbrellas are relatively inexpensive and are a must. Business Entity. If you own rental property, investment real estate, or business assets you should strongly consider forming a business entity such as a corporation (either an S Corporation or C Corporation) or limited liability company. By forming a business entity, you can shield your personal assets from claims. This is especially important if you have employees.
by Jeffery J. McKenna Without a business entity to separate your business affairs and your personal assets, your personal assets would be subject to claims resulting from misdeeds of your employees. Separation of Assets. An important form of asset protection and estate planning is the separation of assets between spouses. Often, it is advisable for one spouse to own the business interests and the other spouse to own the assets which are less subject to potential creditors. If something does go wrong for the spouse involved in the business, the assets owned by the other spouse should be protected. Commu-
Attorney Jeff McKenna hiking with his son in Zion National Park
nity property laws play a role in this arena, but spouses can disclaim a community property interest as necessary to help in asset protection. Exempt Assets. An important form of asset protection is to own assets that are exempt from creditors’ claims. Significantly, personal residences, qualified retirement plans, life insurance and annuities can be exempt from creditor claims. Conclusion. Because most individuals want to protect their assets, it is important to coordinate asset protection efforts with estate planning. By coordinating these efforts, the family’s assets will be better protected from creditors, and estate taxation of the assets can be minimized. Jeffery J. McKenna is a local attorney serving clients in Utah, Arizona and Nevada. He is a shareholder at the law firm of Barney, McKenna, Olmstead and Pack with offices in St. George and Mesquite. If you have questions you would like addressed in these articles, you can contact him at 435 628-1711 or jmckenna@ barney-mckenna.com.
Answers for this week
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Garfield County Bookmobile Schedule Tuesday Every 2 Weeks Apr. 16, 30; May 14, 28 Bryce Valley Elementary 10:30am - 2:45pm Bryce Valley High School 2:45pm - 3:45pm Cannonville Park 4:00pm - 4:45pm Henrieville Chapel 5:00pm - 6:00pm Bryce Canyon Residential Area 6:30pm - 7:30 pm Wednesday Every 2 weeks Apr. 17; May 1, 15, 29 Panguitch Elementary 8:30am - 11:30am Head Start Pre-school 11:30am - 12:00pm Duck Creek 2:00pm - 4:00pm Hatch Chapel 4:30pm - 5:30pm Thursday Every 2 Weeks Apr. 18; May 2, 16, 30 Escalante Elementary 8:30am - 9:30am Escalante High School 9:30am - 10:30am Boulder Elementary 12:00pm - 2:00pm Escalante Elementary 3:00pm - 3:45pm Escalante Phone Office 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Soccer Carpool
For the second time in a row, I was forced to impose on the woman with whom I carpooled to our children’s soccer practices. I phoned and explained that my husband had the car again, so I wouldn’t be able to take my turn. A few minutes before she was due to pick up my son, my husband showed up. Since it was too late for me to call and say I could drive after all, I asked my husband to hide the car in the garage and to stay inside. I also explained to my son that he shouldn’t mention anything about his father’s whereabouts. Unfortunately, my husband forgot and was in front of our house chatting with a friend when my carpool partner arrived. When my son returned from practice, I asked him if she had noticed. “Yes,” he replied, “she asked me which of the two men in front of the house was my father. But don’t worry. I told her I didn’t know.”
AG MARKET NEWS Producers Livestock Auction, Salina, Utah Tuesday, April 16, 2013 Receipts: 773. Last Week: 683. Last Year: 978. Feeder Steers: mostly 3.00-4.00 lower on similar kind, except 600750 lbs 2.00-3.00 higher. Feeder Heifers: mostly 2.003.00 lower, except 500-650 lbs steady. Holstein Steers: to few for comparison. Slaughter Cows: 2.00-3.00 lower. Slaughter Bulls: steadyon similar kinds. Feeder Steers: Medium and Large Frame 2: 200250 lbs scarce; 250-300 lbs scarce; 300-350 lbs scarce; 350-400 lbs 135.00-148.00, pkg 165.50; 400-450 lbs 143.00-157.00; 450-500 lbs 144.00-154.25; 500-550 lbs 144.00-154.00; 550-600 lbs 143.50-153.50; 600-650 lbs 126.50-140.00; 650-700 lbs 126.00-136.00; 700-750 lbs 120.00-132.00; 750-800 lbs 111.75-122.00; 800-850 lbs 111.00-121.00; 850-900 lbs 107.50-117.00;900-950 lbs 105.50-108.00; 950-1000 lbs 100.50-103.00. Holsteins Steers: Large Frame 3: Bull Calves: scarce; 200-300 lbs scarce; 300-500 lbs 67.00-83.50; 500-700 lbs 66.50-78.00; 700-900 lbs 61.50-71.50; 900-1000 lbs pkg 71.50. Feeder Heifers: Medium and Large Frame 1-2: 200-250 lbs 121.00-123.00; 250-300 lbs scarce; 300-350 lbs scarce; 350-400 lbs 120.00-134.00; 400-450 lbs 120.00-129.00; 450-500 lbs 122.00-134.00; 500-550 lbs 120.50-134.50; 550-600 lbs 122.50-131.00; 600-650 lbs 126.50-129.00; 650-700 lbs 110.00-123.00; 700-750 lbs 108.50-120.00; 750-800 lbs 103.50-115.50; 800-850 lbs 108.00-113.00; 850-900 lbs pkg 104.50; 900950 lbs 97.50-105.00; 9501000 lbs scarce; Heiferettes: 62.50-98.50. Stock Cows: Few Older Pairs with new calves Cows: 890.00-1,250.00/pr. Slaughter Cows: Boning 80-85% Lean: 67.00-75.00; Breaking 75-80% Lean: 67.00-74.75; Commercial: scarce; Cutter 85-90% Lean: 58.50-66.75. Slaughter Bulls: Yield Grade 1000-1500 lbs scarce; 15002290 lbs 91.00-97.00; Yield Grade 2 1000-1500 lbs 72.5080.00; 1500-2080 lbs 79.0089.00; Feeder Bulls: 740-1000 lbs 70.50-95.00. Source: USDA-Utah Dept. Of Agriculture Market News , Salt Lake City, UT (435-230-0402.)
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TORREY News
obituaries
Gene William Russell TORREY Gene William Russell, age 64, died early in the morning April 13, 2013 at his home in Torrey, Utah. His Daughter Shannon Harmer, Granddaughter Mariah Ellett and Grandsons Mason and Layne Ellett were with him at the time. Gene was born August 31st, 1948 in Eau Claire, Wisconsin to Howard and Doris Imogene Anderson Russell. He was the youngest of 4 sons. Grandma Doris once told us that before Gene was born she was hoping for a girl, since she already had 3 sons. When Gene was born and the doctor told her she had another son, Doris said “oh, please put him back”. We are sure glad that he didn’t. About a year after Gene was born, the family moved from Wisconsin to Albuquerque, NM. In 1960 the family relocated again to Safford, AZ and started a Dairy. Gene graduated from Safford High School in 1966 and continued to live in the Safford area until the late 1960’s. In 1972 Gene moved to Torrey, Utah a place he called home for more than 40 years. Gene was a very talented artisan. The natural beauty of Wayne County inspired him. He excelled as a finish carpenter. Many homes and buildings in Wayne Countyand beyond showcase the fruits of his talents. He was also a master in the field of rustic furniture design and construction. Gene builtmany rocking chairs, stools, tables, and high back benches, many without the aid of a single nail, screw or any glue. In the Torrey area he became famous as a Historic Restoration Expert. One of his most notable projects was the relocation and restoration of the DUP building on Torrey Main Street. Gene restored this building in 1994 and 1995. In September 1996 the Utah Historical Foundation presented him with the Historical Preservation award for this work. Last summer, 2012, Gene and his good friend Robert (Haircut) Stromberg went through the DUP building one more time replacing shingles, re-chinking the walls, oiling the logs and repainting the trim and doors, ensuring its beauty and integrity for at least another two decades. During the last few years Gene began spending the winter months in Safford, Arizona with his mother Doris. While in Arizona, Gene spent many hours hiking with his friends in the desert, exploring new areas and collecting rocks and gem stones. He even learned to play golf with his friends Ray and Gerry. Also while in Arizona, he took up lapidary work as a hobby. Gene really enjoyed this hobby, creating many fine pieces of jewelry from fire agate, turquoise and other gem stones. This past winter Gene was in Arizona when he was diagnosed with cancer. While he was still able to travel his daughter and grandchildren brought him back to Torrey where he could spend his last days at home. Gene is survived by his mother Doris (95), Safford, Arizona; his daughter Shannon Harmer, Santaquin; sons Eric and Eli, Idaho; grandchildren Tawny May Ellett, Mason Scott Ellett, Mariah StephanyEllett and Layne Russell Ellett; and brothers Lowell, Las Lunas, New Mexico; Lanny, Torrey, Utah; Gary, Rifle, Colorado. He is preceded in death by his father Howard Russell. The family thanks Gene’s good friends in Safford, Arizona and Wayne County for all of their love and support. Thanks for the many rides to the doctor, the gifts of food for the family, the extra firewood to keep things warm and the prayers and blessings. Thanks Jessie for ringing the bells, 64 times! A memorial gathering and open house for family and friends will be held at the Torrey DUP building on Saturday April 27, 2013 from 2:00 P.M. until 6:00 P.M. Funeral Directors: Springer Turner Funeral Home of Richfield and Salina, Utah. On line guest book at: www.springerturner.com
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In 1847 the first domestic sheep arrived in Utah with the Mormon Pioneers. Sheep numbers increased until in the early 1900’s when there were more sheep in Sanpete County alone than exist in the entire State today. Those numbers peaked at around 2.4 million head just about the time of the Great Depression during which time many of Utah’s Sheep Ranchers took their sheep and skills and migrated to the surrounding Mountain States. Utah has always been THE place for sheep producers from all over America to come to select the finest purebred seed stock and today the Utah Ram Sale is still the place to find the best Rams anywhere in the United States. By 1994 Utah had only 445,000 sheep and lambs and a wool clip of only 3.8 million pounds. Sheep remain an important element in Utah states agricultural economy, but the glory days of the 1920s are gone forever. (Utah Wool Growers Association) The glory days of sheep herding for George Coombs was when he was a scrappy Wayne County kid in the fifties. During a recent balmy April spring afternoon conversation at George Coomb’s Cactus Hill Ranch, George recalled from memory the days when he was six or seven years old and stories about the old sheepherders from his childhood like Clarence Baker and Gene Bullard, and the early days when together they herded sheep and roamed the desert and hills of Wayne and Garfield County. A favorite memory that George Coombs shared was a day in his childhood when he was sitting on an old wood rail fence at the Cactus Hill ranch and he first saw what was surely his dad driving a herd of sheep. In the distance a swirling cloud of dust began to prominently rise on the eastern skyline all from the hoofs of a large herd of Coombs sheep, it was something like a slow moving dirt devil and coming toward Teasdale around Donkey Hill, and young George Coombs was overwhelmed and compelled to join his dad on the ride into town. As George classically and somewhat glassy eyed remembered and expressed it, he jumped off the rail fence and began to race as fast as his legs would carry him through the
newly planted fields, and just as suddenly “here come Gene Bullard and he took hold of my arm and swung me up behind his saddle, and still to this very day I can still smell that old man, the camp fire smoke and the sweat, in one swift move with an out stretched arm he lifted me off me ground up and onto his old gray mare and I held on for all it was worth and together we rode on his old gray mare the rest of the way to my dad’s sheep herd”. In a grateful voice George says he was very fortunate to grow up with those old sheepherders” they did it the old way and he watched and observed how they did things, and those old timers taught me a lot about herding sheep. I started to go to the sheep herd when I was in seventh grade and I spent seventy two days between the seventh and eight grade in Jacobs Valley with Alfred Ekker, Culla Ekker’s son, much of the time poaching deer and catching more than our limit of fish in the crystal clear mountain lakes on Boulder Mountain.” George stated that the most sheep he and his dad had was about the 3,000 in the late sixties and early seventies, he also said when he was younger and when he was in grade school they would shear sheep down at the Cat ranch and or set up a portable sheep shearing out fit down at little Egypt and shear two or three herds there, “but there were a lot of sheep on the desert in them days, but not anymore, they pulled out their sheep operation on the west end of Henry’s in about 1986”. In the early 1960’s George remembers loading up in an old pick up with his dad (Guy Coombs) and heading out to the desert. The road was still dirt from at the junction of highway 12 and 24. They would start out early in the morning with a few cans of gas and two spare tires and supplies for the sheepherders and head out of town, “it would take me and my dad all day long to get to Star Springs, a long hard day, and it was dark when would get there”. Tugging at the sun bleached handkerchief tied around his neck George’s mind drifted and he said back in those days there was about ten herds of sheep on the desert, old Hugh King had a herd, Reed Brian, and Sam Allen partnered
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George Coombs. up with Guy on a herd and a few fellas from Grand Junction Colorado would winter down there. George said that his Dad was a businessman and he probably knew more about sheep than anybody in southern Utah, and he had herded sheep on seventeen different allotments. George said “there was a time his dad bought a herd of sheep down on the Arizona strip and with a couple Judas goats and Kay Allen’s dad they drove them up the Paria between Kanab and Page Arizona, through Cannonville and Tropic out Widstoe way and onto the West end of Boulder and Parker Mountain, a monumental feat that has or will ever be repeated”. George said most of his younger days were spent up on Boulder Mountain with the sheep herd from the time he got out of college, he herded sheep from Donkey point to Government Point which was the Coombs allotment, as well areas on Parker and the Monroe. A lot of his time he exhausted sitting out on the upper rim of Boulder mountain, gazing down and reminiscing about his memories of herding sheep
with the likes of Gene Bullard, Hugh and Jack King, Sam Allen and his and rural way of life in the expansive fields and as George calls it “East Teasdale”. George Coombs is an outspoken and diligent proponent of the Utah Farm Bureau (http://utfb.fb.org/) and their practices, and proposes that in order for the present farm and ranch operators and the youth in Wayne County that feel the dedicated need to carry on the Wayne County agricultural and ranching tradition that they join and become involved in the Utah Farm Bureau so as to have a voice. George also expressed the constant need and public presence at the Wayne County Commissioners meetings for the public to stay informed on policies and decisions that affect the (our) rural way of life that so many of us seek and depend on as a livelihood. George Coombs is a life long and very outspoken resident of (East) Teasdale, Utah. For more George Coombs comments on sheep herding in Wayne County visit http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=qiNliE8ZNBA
Bryce Valley Area News by Vicki D. Syrett 679-8687 or vickidiane36@hotmail.com Condolences go out to Mira Loy Ott and DeRell Sudweeks on the passing of their sister, ReVon Sudweeks Smith. They held her funeral last Saturday and we want the family to know we send our love and prayers to them. Last week saw the Fletcher clan gathered together in St. George to accompany Daniel Fletcher through the St. George Temple as he was sealed to his late wife, Lynnae, and to his daughter Jennifer. Attending the event were John and Ramona Morreale, Alma and Anita Fletcher, Larry and Glenna Flethcer and a sister from Redford, Michigan, Myrna Christensen. This was all of Danny’s siblings so it turned into a mini Reunion of sorts. it was a beautiful day and all things went well. John and Ramona Morreale spent a week in St. George working at the Temple so they were already down there at the time. They are so happy to announce the birth
of a beautiful little baby girl to daughter, Cherie Hathaway and her husband Tristan. The new little girl entered the world on Friday the 19th of April and weighed 6 lbs. 8 oz. and was 19” long. They have named her Abagail Josephine Hathaway. Abagail joins her older siblings Katie and Logan who are very excited about their new little sister. The grandparents are John and Ramona Morreale and the late Chad Moss of Cannonville and Marie Carr of St. George. Great-grandmother is LaVera Moss of Cedar City. It was Ward Conference in the Escalante Stake this weekend. Some changes were made in the Presidency. Released was Allen Torgerson as 1st Counselor and Kerry Alvey as Second Counselor. Kerry Alvey was then called to be the 1st Counselor and Quinn Griffin was called to be the new 2nd Counselor. Congratulations to all of you. Also Released from the High Coun-
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sel was Dirk Durfey, Carlon Johnson, Riley Roberts, and DeLaine Griffin. Brant Barton was released as the Stake Technology Clerk. All were given a big thank you for a job well done. Gerald Talbot was called as the Stake Technology Clerk and Nathan Platt, Eugene King were called to the High Council. All meetings were very well done and there were great speakers. Special visitor speakers were President and Mrs. Cove of the St. George Temple Presidency. Also some of the other speakers were Lisa Nez, Whitni Syrett and her dad, Brady Syrett, Tiana Chynoweth Miller for Saturday evening. Sunday it was Pres. Chynoweth, Pres. Alvey, Pres. and Mrs. Cove, Pres. Torgerson, Jordan Johnson, Gus Torgerson and Kami Stevens. We also heard from the new counselor Quinn Griffin. Don’t forget the weddings coming up. Nathan Cloud is getting married the 29th of April but his reception will be on April 26th in Tropic. Jacque Talbot is getting married the 27th of April but her reception will be on the 4th of May in Tropic. We wish these newlyweds the best of luck. GIl and Shantel Manning have been traveling to support son, Rozin Manning as he participates in High School Rodeos.. Stay safe
Rozin and good luck. Arthur and I spent the weekend in St. George. We went for doctor appointments, to see our granddaughter participate in the Track Meet at Dixie High School. We were also able to visit with friends and relatives that live down there that we hadn’t seen for awhile. Saw Nathan Platt and his family there as they participated in the meet. We saw Adam Platt come in first in his heat of the mile run. It was a beautiful two days for a meet. Dance Atti2udes 8th annual dance recital was held last weekend. The dancers did a great job and the costumes were beautiful. Theme this year was Billboard Hits. The classes chose there favorite song and the finale at the end was really fun too! The dancers learned little parts of popular music video dances such as the hoe down, throw down, single ladies, Party Rock Anthem – Shufflin’ dance. They even did the Harlem shake at the beginning! They will be performing again at one of the July events. There will also be a Dance Camp this summer if anyone is interested call Jessica Stewart!. Thanks to all those who came and watched. Your support is appreciated. Hope you have had a great week. Please call or email your news. Thanks VS
April 25, 2013
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by Mack Oetting ~ mackoetting @gmail.com Most of the excitement in town was at PHS this last week. It started on the 11th at the Sterling Scholarship awards. Panguitch had 12 students that competed; in their field and for the first time we had two winners. Frecia Melissa Houston, daughter of Ryan and Tammy was awarded 1st place in the Speech and Drama division. Frecia received a scholarship, which will be good at 16 different schools. The value of the scholarship will be determined by her choice of schools, Frecia also was Academic Allstate in basketball. Katlyn Parkin, the daughter of Shawn and Vonnie Parkin, was a winner in the Family Consumers Science Division. Kateyn wore a dress that she made and served cup cakes, (she would have gotten my vote). Katlyn has her own bakery business, specializing in personal birthday cakes. Katlyn had a really busy week, she was a judge at the FCCLA completion up north and when she and Lauren Smith finished, they raced down to Cedar City for the drama competition. Katlyn also was Academic Allstate in basketball. Tammy Bennett’s FCCLA team came away with another victorious year. She took 38 students with her and they all received gold or silver medals. 11 students will be going to Nationals in July in Nashville Tenn. The following students were FCCLA State winners: Rowdy Miller, McKayla Heaton, Kambree Josie, Kennedy Barney, Morgan Barney, Taylor Bennett, Chesney Campbell, Mazie Miller, Marlee Torgersen, Anrea Heaton and Makayla Dalton.
State Drama was held in Cedar City this year, at Canyon View High. They split the competition between 1A and 2A and 2A was held in Parowan. This is a fun competition, with all kinds of complements from the judges. 18 students went from Panguitch and they brought home 9 Gold medals. At the State if you don’t get gold you get nothing. Katelyn brought home two gold medals one in Musical Theater and one in Humorous Interpretation. In addition to Katelyn’s medal in Musical Theater, Josiah Sarles and Loren Smith also brought home the gold; with Lauren being one of six finalists, in the musical competition. Dannie Borwin won gold in Dramatic Interpretation. The teams of Morgan Barney & Slater Matthew and Sam Brophey & Brandon Huntington aced the competition in the Pantomime category. Elaine Baldwin and Cheryl Church are the drama coaches that make this all work. The students had an experience of a life time, many thanks to those who stood in the background and made it all possible. As long as we are on the accomplishments of the Panguitch High students and there won’t be a sport article this week; the track meet got snowed out, I will include it here. On the Boys Allstate basket ball team, we had two players make the team Tyce Barney 1st team and Dalan Bennett 2nd team. Dalan Bennett played in the 1A, 2A allstar basketball game on April 20th, at west Jordan High School. The 1A team won the game 108 to 104. The 1A
team was coach by the Championship Bryce Valley Coach Eric Jessen and Coach Gary Syrett. We had two girls make the Allstate team this year, Dari Frandsen, 2nd team and Taylor Bennett made Honorable Mention. The Pink Polka Dott is Tera Conners new store replacing the bakery on Main Street. She will sell quilts, antiques and more…… The Little L’s Bakery is now settled in across the street in Bronco Bobbies location. Lynn Armstrong is opening a consignment shop where Hales Art Gallery was located and will feature local crafts and art work, much like the Quilted Bear stores in the SLC area. The Lee’s Indian Store has been purchased by the owners of Gem Theater. I am not sure of opening dates but Main Street is looking up. There will be Craft fair this Saturday the 27th at the Social Hall and it will start at 10am. Come early for the best deals, the Craft fair is another sign that spring is coming. Received a note from Gayle Long (former owner of the Canyon View motel) her Husband had his 50th birthday, last Saturday the 13th. She said it was wonderful so many of her children and grandchildren could be there. Gayle’s oldest son who is in the USAF and stationed in Clovis NM made the 13 hour drive to be there. Her son will be deployed to Afghanistan shortly and he has been placed in a special operations unit. He just served a year in Korea and has only been home for a few months. Gayle would appreciate if you would include him in your prayers to keep
him safe till he returns. At the Stock Market this week the, the consumer market went into the toilet. Gold dropped down almost $200 dollars; it has dropped from a high last year of $1900 an ounce to $1300. Same with silver, it dropped from a high of $40 an ounce to $23. The good news that oil futures have dropped from a high of $99 a couple of months ago to $86. I doubt that will see any drop in gas prices, Utah is one of a few states that gas hasn’t come down. However Panguitch prices are about the same as the rest of the southern part of the state. Diesel is lower here than anywhere around. With the tourist season coming I doubt that you will see any bargains at the pumps. The good news is that unemployment in Utah is at a five year low, 4.9%. The Stock Market in the last 4 years has risen from 5,600 to almost 14,000 points; this is great news if you left your money in a 401 account. Also the National unemployment has falling from 10% to 7.6%. I was fascinated with how well our government worked together to capture the Boston Marathon bombers. It was so good to see the criminals apprehended so quickly. The NBA post season has begun; I sure enjoy watching the Miami Heat play. They are the most entertaining team that I have seen in a long time. Labron James will receive his 4th MVP award in 5 years, what fun it is to watch him. The NBA sports are almost as fun as watching our hometown teams. Mack O.
ESCALANTE News
mowing, hauling and stacking hay. I was surprised recently to get a phone call from Phil Allen, Antimony. He wanted to say how much he enjoys reading our Escalante News Column. (Another good old homegrown boy! Thanks, Phil!) His childhood home was across the street from where Cecil Dawn Porter lives now. He went to school in Escalante with Delane Griffin, Eva Dean Liston, Hal Woolsey, Vivian Shurtz Collard, Burns Heaps, J. S. King, to name a few, and asked about others. Some who have come back fairly often I could tell him about, others I don’t remember. But I appreciated his call. Word was received by Ben Porter, on the morning of the 19th of April, that his sister-in-law, Aloha Porter, had passed away in Provo. She is the wife of my cousin (more like a brother) Budd Porter. She was also one of my best friends and my roommate at BYU. We will miss her. Jerry and Monica Taylor have been on a cruise, in the Caribbean, with Jerry’s business partner and his wife (Salt Lake?). This year marks the 30th year they have been in business together. Congratulations to them! Monica Taylor and Kim Reid have been on another trip with their sisters. This time they also included daughters and nieces. Monica’s daughter Whitley Potter, Tabiona, went, also Kim’s daughters, Alayse Roundy, Tropic; Tempe Jenkins and Danni Carlisle, Escalante and Brittney Frischknecht, Richfield. The other sisters were: Melonie Sivils, LaVerkin; Kaelyn Partridge, Panguitch; Jaxlyn Turner, Tabiona; Terra Turner and her niece, Bailey Turner, Roosevelt. They went to San Diego, California. Seaworld, the beach, etc. and, wouldn’t you know it, the weather was better here while they were gone than it was down there! But they had a good time any-
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I talked to Connie Jepsen on the phone last week. She and Alfred are still in Cedar City and probably won’t come to Boulder until the 24th of July. So their son, Conrad, will have to hold the fort down over there until then. Connie says they will stay in Cedar City where they can be close to their doctors. Both she and Alfred have had some health problems this winter so that sounds like a good plan. Otherwise she sounded bright and cheery as always. Geraldine Liston happened to meet one of Escalante’s native sons at the Phillips 66 Station last week. Ted Barker and his wife. They visited for close to an hour. They say they can only go so long until Ted has to come “home” for a visit. He is a son of the late Dean and Ava Barker. I still think we should have a place for “home town” visitors to register and leave a message when they come into town. We could have one on the “staircase” at both ends of town. That way we would at least know when someone had been here. Carrie Griffin is home after spending a month in Cedar City with family members. She spent the first part of the month baby sitting grandchildren. Then, before she could get home, she got sick and spent the remainder of the month with her daughter, LaNell Cottam. Darrell Griffin has been on a trip up North. He visited his daughter, Justine and family in Morgan, then went on to Idaho Falls, Id., where his sis-
ter, Rhonda McMurtrey, lives. The plan was to bring Rhonda home with him, so maybe they will be here by the time you read this. Rhonda has been having health problems for a while now. It was good to see that Louie Bernardo was feeling well enough to be to stake conference on Sunday. We hope that means he is getting along well with his treatments. I was delighted to see and hear the large mens choir in conference Sunday. That is the first in a long time and they really did well. Reggie and Shondelle Gillins and family, Enoch, and Reggie’s brother and sister-inlaw, Jared and Stacie Gillins and small son, St. George, spent the weekend at the home of Brent and Patrice Cottam. The men hunted turkey, then took their families to Devils Rock Garden. Reggie and Shondelle will be moving to Safford, Arizona, this summer where Reggie has a job in the hospital there. He is now a NP (NursePractitioner). Congratulations to him. Ray and Lois Barney had Cindy and Tom Black and their daughter, here over the weekend from Salt Lake. Cindy is their daughter. Martha Schow is home and has her friend, Glenna, here for a couple or three weeks. Martha hopes to stay here for the summer now. She is still in therapy for her injured shoulder but seems to be doing well.
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LEGAL NOTICES NOTICE OF PETITION SUPERIOR COURT OF ARIZONA, PINAL COUNTY IN THE MATTER OF THE SEVERANCE OF: CASE NUMBER: SV201300012 NOTICE OF PETITION TO TERJosiah Waters Davis MINATE PARENTAL RIGHTS Minor Child (Pursuant to A.R.S. §8-106) AND NOTICE OF HEARING HONORABLE: Craig A. Raymond NOTICE OF PETITION TO TERMINATE PARENTAL RIGHTS (Pursuant to A.R.S. §8-106) AND NOTICE OF HEARING NOTICE is given to Shawn Dee Davis (absent parent) residing at UNKNOWN that you have been identified by Amberlee Karpouskie the Petitioner YOU ARE INFORMED OF THE FOLLOWING: 1. Amberlee Karpouskie, the adoptive mother, plans to place the child for adoption. (Step-parent adoption by Joseph Karpouskie, Amberlee Karpouskie’s husband.) Mother will not be giving up rights to child. 2. Under sections 8-106 and 8-107, Arizona Revised Statutes, you have the right to consent or withhold consent to the adoption. 3. Your written consent to the adoption is irrevocable once you give it. 4. If you withhold consent to the adoption, you must initiate paternity proceedings under title 25, chapter 6, article 1, Arizona Revised Statutes, and serve the mother within thirty days after completion of service of this notice. 5. You have the obligation to proceed to judgment in the paternity action. 6. You have the right to seek custody. 7. If you are established as the child’s father, you must begin to provide financial support for the child. 8. If you do not file a paternity action under title 25, chapter 6, article 1, Arizona Revised Statutes, and do not serve the mother within thirty days after completion of the service of this notice and pursue the action to judgment, you cannot bring or maintain any action to assert any interest in the child. 9. The Indian child welfare act may supersede the Arizona Revised Statutes regarding adoption and paternity. 10. You may wish to consult with an attorney to assist you in responding to this notice. NOTICE OF HEARING A petition to terminate the parent/child relationship between: Shawn Dee Davis and Josiah Waters Davis Having been filed by Amberlee Karpouskie, the Petitioner herein states: NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Petition for Termination of Parent/Child Relationship is set for hearing on the 22nd day of April, 2013 at 8:00a.m. in the Superior Court, Pinal County Courthouse, Florence, Arizona, and all persons interested in the matter are notified then and there to appear and show cause, if any they have, why said Order Terminating the ParentChild Relationship should not be granted. You have a right to appear as a party in this proceeding. The failure of a parent to appear at the initial hearing, the pretrial conference, the status conference or the termination adjudication hearing may result in an adjudication terminating the parentchild relationship of that parent. DATED this 6th day of March, 2013 CHAD A. ROCHE, Clerk of the Superior Court By /s/ (Deputy Clerk) SUPERIOR COURT OF ARIZONA, PINAL COUNTY Amberlee Karpouskie CASE NUMBER: SV 201300012 Petitioner ORDER TO CONTINUE HONORABLE: Shawn D. Davis Judge Craig A. Raymond Respondent The Court having reviewed the “Motion to Continue,” and good cause appearing. IT IS HEREBY ORDERED granting “Motion to Continue.” OTHER ORDERS: This matter is continued from April 22, 2013 to Monday, May 20, 2013 at 8:30a.m. before the Honorable Craig A. Raymond, Commissioner, Judge Pro Tem. DONE IN OPEN COURT: March 25, 2013 /s/ Judge Craig A. Raymond Published in The Wayne and Garfield County Insider on APRIL 4, 11 & 18 & 25, 2013 Wayne School District Request for Bids on Capital Projects for Window Replacement, Summer 2013 Wayne School District is seeking qualified contractors to submit a sealed bid for remodeling the existing North Facing exterior wall of the East Wing of Wayne Middle School for energy conservation. All old windows will be eliminated and appropriate new windows installed. Two new exterior doors will be installed, including a cement pad by each door. Bid/plan specifications may be obtained at the Wayne School District Office, or by contacting Mr. Shane Bradbury at, 435-691-4126. On-site inspections may also be arranged through Mr. Bradbury. Bids will be accepted until 5:00 P.M. Wednesday, May 8, 2013. Bids can be mailed to Wayne School, PO Box 127, Bicknell, UT 84715. Please put on the outside of the envelope that this is a window bid. Wayne School District reserves the right to accept or reject any or all bids. Published in The Wayne and Garfield County Insider on APRIL 25 and MAY 2, 2013 NOTICE TO WATER USERS The applications below were filed with the Division of Water Rights in Wayne County. These are informal proceedings per Rule R655-6-2. Protests concerning an application must be legibly written or typed, contain the name and mailing address of the protesting party, STATE THE APPLICATION NUMBER PROTESTED, CITE REASONS FOR THE PROTEST, and REQUEST A HEARING, if desired. Also, A $15 FEE MUST BE INCLUDED FOR EACH APPLICATION PROTESTED. Protests must be filed with the Division of Water Rights, PO Box 146300, Salt Lake City, UT 84114-6300, or by hand delivery to a Division office during normal business hours ON OR BEFORE MAY 22, 2013. Please visit http://waterrights.utah.gov or call (801)-5387240 for additional information. CHANGE APPLICATION(S) 97-2183(a38881): Paul Cole propose(s) using 1.45 ac-ft. from groundwater (SW of Escalante) for IRRIGATION; DOMESTIC. NONUSE 97-1184 (): Debra A. Spencer is/are seeking Nonuse period for 0.001 cfs. from groundwater (Pine Lake) for STOCKWATERING; DOMESTIC. Kent L. Jones, P.E. STATE ENGINEER Published in The Wayne and Garfield County Insider on APRIL 25 & MAY 2, 2013.
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING TICABOO UTILITY IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT, GARFIELD COUNTY, UTAH NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to the provisions of Utah Code, Title 17B, Chapter 2a, Section 406(6)(a), the Governing Board (the “Board”), of the Ticaboo Utility Improvement District, Garfield County, Utah, on April 11, 2013, during a Regular Meeting reviewed a tentative rate increase for electric services. On that same date the Board also scheduled a public hearing regarding the rate increase for electric services to be held on April 29, 2013, at 6:30 p.m. at the Board’s regular meeting place at Hwy 276, Mile Marker 27, PO Box 2140, LDS Church Ticaboo Branch, Ticaboo, UT 84533. The purpose of the public hearing will be to give all interested persons in attendance an opportunity to be heard on the proposed rate increase for electric services. After the public hearing has closed, the Board may adopt the rate increase for electric services, subject to amendment or revision. A copy of the rate increase for electric services can be examined at the District’s offices located at Hwy 276, Mile Marker 27, Ticaboo, UT 84533 during normal business hours at any time prior to the public hearing. Published in The Wayne and Garfield County Insider on APRIL 18 & 25, 2013 Concrete Bid - Hanksville Elementary Wayne School District is seeking bids from licensed contractors for concrete flat work at Hanksville Elementary School. The work includes two separate playground/sidewalk slabs as follows: PAD #1. A. Remove and dispose of approximately 1495 square feet of old existing concrete. B. Replace a new section of approximately 530 square feet of concrete. PAD #2. A. Requires some light grading of approximately 324 square feet. B. Pouring approximately 120 square feet of sidewalk C. Pouring a pad of approximately 288 square feet of concrete. Specific measurements can be obtained either at the Wayne School District Office, or at Hanksville Elementary School. Mrs. Corri Robinson, Hanksville Head Teacher, can show the specifics of the project onsite. Sealed bids will be accepted until 5:00 P.M. on Tuesday, April 30. 2013. Wayne School District reserves the right to accept or reject any or all bids. Published in The Wayne and Garfield County Insider on APRIL 11, 18 &25, 2013 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE The following described property will be sold at public auction to the highest bidder, without warranty as to title, possession, liens, encumbrances or condition, payable in lawful money of the United States, at the main entrance of the Sixth Judicial District Courthouse, 18 S. Main Street, Loa, Utah, on Thursday, May 30, 2013, at 12:00 Noon, for the purpose of foreclosing a Deed of Trust dated September 21, 2010, executed as to PARCEL 1 by THE VELVET RIDGE, LLC, A UTAH LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY; as to PARCEL 2 by THE BOULDER MOUNTAIN INN, LLC, A UTAH LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY; and as to PARCEL 3 by BOULDER MOUNTAIN INN LLC, A UTAH LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY, as Trustor, in favor of ZIONS FIRST NATIONAL BANK, as Beneficiary, covering real property located in Wayne County, State of Utah, and more particularly described as follows: PARCEL #1: Beginning at a point which is North 531 feet along the 1/16 section line from the Southwest Corner of the Northwest Quarter of the Southeast Quarter of Section 10, Township 30 South, Range 5 East, Salt Lake Base and Meridian, and running thence South along said 1/16th section line 531 feet; thence East along the 1/16th section line 447.56 feet; thence North 19º43’08” East 355.66 feet along adjoining property boundary; thence North 70º55’50” West 600.52 feet to the point of beginning. Area 6.0 acres, more or less (0-969-8; 2-74-983) PARCEL #2: Beginning at a point which is North 900 feet along the 1/16th section line, and South 89º56’30” East 787.84 feet from the Southwest Corner of the Northwest Quarter of the Southeast Quarter of Section 10, Township 30 South, Range 5 East, Salt Lake Base and Meridian, and running thence South 89º56’30” East 500 feet to the Westerly right-of-way line of State Road U-12; thence South 26º31’ West along same 300 feet; thence North 53º41’41” West 454.24 feet to the point of beginning. Area 1.56 acres, more or less (0-969-7; 2-74-982) PARCEL #3: Lot 5, Eagle View Ranches Subdivision, (EVR-5; 4-48-5) TOGETHER WITH all existing or subsequently erected or affixed buildings, improvements and fixtures; all easements, rights of way, and appurtenances; all water, water rights and ditch rights (including stock in utilities with ditch or irrigation rights); and all other rights, royalties, and profits relating to the real property, including without limitation all minerals, oil, gas, geothermal and similar matters. The street address of the property is commonly known as: Parcel 1 & 2: Highway 12, Approximately .30 Miles South of Miner’s Mountain Road, Grover, Utah 84773; Parcel 3: Eagle View Ranches Drive, Grover, Utah 84773. The undersigned disclaims any liability for any error in the street address. The current Beneficiary of the Deed of Trust is ZIONS FIRST NATIONAL BANK and the record owner of the property as of the recording of the Notice of Default is reported to be THE VELVET RIDGE, LLC, a Utah Limited Liability Company, and THE BOULDER MOUNTAIN INN, LLC, a Utah Limited Liability Company. Bidders must be prepared to tender to the Successor Trustee a $10,000 deposit at the time of the sale with the balance delivered by 12:00 noon the following business day to Trustee’s office located at 15 West South Temple, Suite 1700, Salt Lake City, Utah 84101. The deposit must be in the form of a cashier’s check, bank official check, or U.S. Postal money order, payable to Prince, Yeates & Geldzahler. The balance must be in the form of a cashier’s check, bank official check, U.S. Postal money order, or by wire transfer, payable to Prince, Yeates & Geldzahler. In addition Beneficiary may, pursuant to the Utah Commercial Code, cause any personal property described in the Deed in which Beneficiary was granted a lien to be sold in connection with the real property. THIS NOTICE IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT, AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. DATED the 18th day of April, 2013. Thomas J. Erbin, Successor Trustee Prince, Yeates & Geldzahler 15 West South Temple, Suite 1700 Salt Lake City, UT 84101-1549 (801) 524-1000 PYG File No. 7486-1564 Published in The Wayne and Garfield County Insider on APRIL 25 and MAY 2 & 9, 2013
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE The following described property will be sold at public auction to the highest bidder, payable in lawful money of the United States at the time of sale, at the West Entrance of the Garfield County Courthouse, located at 55 South Main Street, Panguitch UT 84759 in Garfield County, Utah on MAY 20, 2013 at 10:00 of said day, for the purpose of foreclosing a Trust Deed originally executed by Walter Joe Jourdan as trustor, in favor of Lillie Mae Jourdan, as beneficiary whose beneficial interest has been assigned to Dave Higham and Christine Higham, husband and wife as to an undivided 50%, Eddie Joe Fox and Reatha R. Fox, husband and wife as to an undivided 25% and Comstock Financial Inc as to an undivided 25% interest, covering real property located at 227 North Main Street, Hatch, UT 84735 and more particularly described as: PARCEL I: All of Lot 3, Block 2, Plat “A”, HATCH TOWN SURVEY. PARCEL 2: All of Lot 2, Block 2, Plat “A”, HATCH TOWN SURVEY. EXCEPTING THEREFROM the South 144 feet of the West 75 feet. The Current beneficiary of the Trust Deed is Dave Higham and Christine Higham, husband and wife as to an undivided 50%, Eddie Joe Fox and Reatha R. Fox, husband and wife as to an undivided 25% and Comstock Financial Incas to an undivided 25% interest and the record owners of the property as of the recording ofthe Notice of Default are Terry Arnold Messer. The sale is subject to bankruptcy filing, payoff reinstatment or any other circumstances that would affect the validity of the sale. If any such circumstance exists, the sale shall be void, the successful bidders funds returned and the trustee and current beneficiary shall not be liable to the successful bidder for any damage. Bidders must tender to the trustee a $5,000.00 deposit at the sale and the balance of the purchase price by 12:00 noon the day following the sale. The deposit must be in a form of a cashier’s check or bank official check payable to Security Title Company. The balance must in be in the form of a wire transfer, cashier’s check, bank official check (credit union official checks are not accepted) or U.S. Postal money order payable to Security Title Company. Cash payments are not accepted. A Trustee’s deed will be delivered to the successful bidder within three business days after receipt of the amount bid. Dated: APRIL 17, 2013 Security Title Company of Garfield County, Trustee /s/ TRAVIS V. HATCH, Vice-President 15 No. Main Street/PO Box 177 Panguitch, UT 84759 (435) 676-8808 THIS NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMA TION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Published in The Wayne and Garfield County Insider on APRIL 25 and May 2 & 9, 2013 NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING: The Lyman Town Council and Planning and Zoning Committee will hold a public hearing on Thursday May 2, 2013 at the Town Hall in Lyman Utah at 7 p.m. to discuss the adoption of the Wayne County Land Use Ordinance as the Lyman Town Ordinance. The Land Use Ordinance can be viewed by going to the Wayne County Utah home page at www.waynecountyutah.org, then clicking on “Government Services” then “Planning and Zoning.” All Lyman residents are invited to attend and participate. Published in The Wayne and Garfield County Insider on APRIL 18 & 25 and May 2, 2013 Wayne School District Request for Bids on Capital Projects for Summer 2013 Wayne School District is seeking qualified contractors to submit separate, sealed bids for each project from these various Capital Summer projects at Wayne Middle School. These projects include: 1. Complete refinishing, refurbishing of the floor in the Wayne Middle School Gym. 2. Asbestos Removal in three district locations; Wayne Middle School Lunch room and kitchen, District Office, Wayne High School Basement. 3. Appropriate tile/floor covering replacement in Wayne Middle School lunchroom and kitchen. Interested contractors are invited to a pre-bid on-site inspection and meeting to provide important in-put, suggestions, and recommendations for bid specifications for which district personnel are unable to adequately supply. This meeting and inspection will help formulate consistent bidding standards for all, and allow interested contractors to physically inspect the projects. Individual on-site inspections may be provided, by contacting Mr. Shane Bradbury at 435-691-4126 or Mr. Eric Torgerson at 435-979-1279 and arranging a time appropriate for their schedule. The approximate timeline for these projects will be as follows: 1. Advertised for two weeks starting April 25, 2013 2. Pre-bid inspection/conference, May 13, 2013 3. Specific Bid Specifications available on or before May 15. 4. Sealed bids due in the District office by 5:00 P.M. May 31. 5. Bids open and accepted Wednesday, June 5. 6. Bid winner notification Thursday, June 6. 7. Project work started at earliest possible date after June 6. 8. Anticipated finish date, August 10, 2013. Bids can be mailed to Wayne School District, PO Box 127, Bicknell, UT 84715. Please put on the outside of the envelope which bid it is for. Wayne School District reserves the right to accept or reject any or all bids. Published in The Wayne and Garfield County Insider on APRIL 25 and MAY 2, 2013
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LEGAL NOTICES PARCEL 4. Randy and Brenda Catmull, PO Box 1374, Boulder, Utah 84716, B-33-2, 02-0005-0137 Beginning at a point South 0.41 feet and East 5720.66 feet from the Southwest Corner of Section 26, Township 33 South, Range 4 East, Salt Lake Base and Meridian and running Thence North 17E22'41" East 309.25 feet; Thence South 0E03'00" East 295.21 feet; Thence North 89E57'00" West 92.62 feet to the Point of Beginning. Total Fees and Taxes Due: $1,108.67 PARCEL 5. Randy Catmull, PO Box 1374, Boulder, Utah 84716, B-31-1, 02-0005-0135 Beginning at a point South 0.29 feet and East 5,580.90 feet from the Southwest Corner of Section 26, Township 33 South, Range 4 East, Salt Lake Base and Meridian and running Thence North 0E03'00" West 250.00 feet; Thence South 89E57'00" East 163.44 feet; Thence South 17E22'41" West 261.89 feet; Thence North 89E57'00" West 85.00 feet to the Point of Beginning. Total Fees and Taxes Due: $5,085.28 PARCEL 6. Randy Catmull, PO Box 1374, Boulder, Utah 84716, B-33-1-1, 02-00050136 Beginning at a point South 0.29 feet and East 5,580.90 feet East from the Southwest Corner of Section 26, Township 33 South, Range 4 East, Salt Lake Base and Meridian and running Thence North 0E03'00" West 250.00 feet to the True Points of Beginning; Thence North 0E03'00" West 101.05 feet ti a 50.00 feet Radius Curve to the left (Center bears North 10E27'04" West) Thence Northeasterly 45.66 feet along the Arc of said Curve; Thence South 62E46'18" East 162.68 feet; Thence South 17E22'41" West 55.3 feet; Thence North 89E57'00" West 163.44 feet to the Point of Beginning. Total Fees and Taxes Due: $1,108.67 PARCEL 7. Kent and Kathy Farnsworth, 5565 North 2000 West, St. George, Utah 84770, NS-5, 07-0062-0005 All of lot 5 Norton Subdivision Total Fees and Taxes Due: $1,104.00 PARCEL 8. Jewel Forsyth, 253 South Sunset Point, Cedar City, Utah 847204, CCE2-27, 23-0019-0027 All of Lot 27 Clear Creek Estates unit 2 fourth amended Total Fees and Taxes Due: $3,410.68 PARCEL 9. Roy D. And Vicki Gatherum, 588 West Billinis Road, Salt Lake City, Utah 84115, TC1-159, 16-00740159 All of Lot 159 Mammoth Creek Ranchettes, Tommy Creek unit 1. Total Fees and Taxes Due: $2,182.57 PARCEL 10. Kenneth W. And Dainis J. Hardy, P.O. Box 371163, Las Vegas, Nevada 89137-1163, MCS2-101, 160057-0040 All of Lot 101 Mammoth Creek Subdivision Number 2 amended and revised. Total Fees and Taxes Due: $2,321.36 PARCEL 11. Kenneth W. And Dainis J. Hardy, P.O. Box 371163, Las Vegas, Nevada 89137-1163, MCS2-102, 160057-0041 All of Lot 102 Mammoth Creek Subdivision number 2 amended and revised. Total Fees and Taxes Due: $4,253.26 PARCEL 12. Geraldine J. Lewis and Linda Carole Lewis, 1485 Kelly Avenue, Upland, California 91786, WR-778-A, 16-0081-1308 Beginning North E45'41" West 1992.26 feet and South 84E43'06" East 181.28 feet from the South Quarter Corner of Section 3, Township 37 South, Range 7 West, Salt Lake Base and Meridian and running Thence North 89E42'19" East 110.00 feet; Thence South 12E01'26" West 100.00 feet; Thence South 89E42'19" West 110.00 feet; Thence North 12E01'26" East 100.00 feet to the Point of Beginning. Total Fees and Taxes Due: $2,565.12
PARCEL 13. Lloyd K. and Marianne Long, P.O. Box 790032, Virgin, Utah 84779, TC1-124, 16-0074-0124 All of Lot 124, Mammoth Creek Ranchettes Tommy Creek Unit 1 Total Fees and Taxes Due: $2,058.85 PARCEL 14. Mammoth Valley Community Inc., 4450 Holly Grape Lane, St. George, Utah 84790, MVE-11, 160064-0011 All of Lot 11, Mammoth Valley Estates 2nd amended. Total Fees and Taxes Due: $494.41 PARCEL 15. Zurich Emil and T Marquardt, Church of the Returning Light, HC-65 Box 559, Fredonia, Arizona 86022, ECD-11, 11-0024-0011 H.E. Survey Number 122 Beginning at Corner Number One from which the Quarter Corner Section 5, Township 35 South, Range 1 East, Salt Lake Base and Meridian, and said Section 32 bears South 58E45'00" West 13.7 Chains; Thence North 85E47'00" West 32.15 Chains to Corner Number Two; Thence North 44' West 4.09 Chains to Corner Number Three; Thence North 87E36'00" East 24.31 Chains to Corner Number Four Thence South 46E29'00" 10.83 Chains to Corner Number One, Place of Beginning. Total Fees and Taxes Due: $1,466.40 PARCEL 16. Shannan Mers, 401 12th Street Apartment B, Huntington Beach, California 92648, WR-179-A-8, 230081-0594 Beginning at a point which is North 89E39'00" West 761.25 feet along the Quarter Section Line from the Southeast Corner of the Southwest Quarter of the Northwest Quarter of Section 31, Township 35 South, Range 7 West, Salt Lake Base and Meridian and running Thence North 89E39'00" West 100.00 feet along said Quarter Section Line; Thence North 160.61 feet to a point on a Curve to the left, (the Radius Point of said Curve being North 40.00 feet); Thence Easterly and Northerly 72.60 feet along the Arc of said Curve and Southeast line of a Cul-de-sac; Thence North 46E00'30" East 21.82 feet along the Southeast line of a 40.00 foot road; Thence South 34E33'18" East 80.19 feet; Thence South 160.00 feet to the Point of Beginning. Total Fees and Taxes Due: $837.52 PARCEL 17. John Thomas Morris, 75 South 100 East, Unit B Cedar City, Utah 84720, WR-737-5, 16-0081-1258 The East Half of the Northwest Quarter of the Northeast Quarter of Section 13, Township 37 South, Range 6 West, Salt Lake Base and Meridian. Total Fees and Taxes Due: $1,387.56 PARCEL 18. Harvey L. and Patsy R. Rose, 3720 Oneida Lane, Colorado Springs, Colorado 80918, HU-6-21, 140053-0225 All of Lot 21, Block 6, Hercules Subdivision. Total Fees and Taxes Due: $524.24 PARCEL 19. Kyle J. Roundy, 528 Leach Avenue, Grants, Minnesota 87020, B-83-1-3, 02-0005-0256 A portion of the remainder Roundy Parcel as shown on the Roundy Property Subdivision and being described as follows: Beginning at a Point South 89E59'32" West 420.96 feet south 0E01'01" West 37.37 feet from the Northeast Corner of the Northwest Quarter of the Northeast Quarter of Section 35, Township 33 South, Range 4 East, Salt Lake Base and Meridian, said Point being located on the South Right of Way Line of Utah State Highway 12 and running Thence North 89E46'08" West along said Right of Way Line 302.56 feet; Thence South 21E09'47" West 944.58 feet; Thence South 21E30'03" West 14.86 feet; Thence South 89E52'37" East 1,309.45 feet; Thence North 16E34'37" East 638.00 feet; Thence 89E33'39" West 840.07 feet; Thence North 0E28'22" West 291.26 feet to the Point of Beginning. Total Fees and Taxes Due: $8,419.69
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PARCEL 20. Kyle J. Roundy, 528 Leach Avenue, Grants, Minnesota 87020, B-83-1-4, 02-0005-0257 Beginning at a Point which is South 1097.07 feet and West 1,121.83 feet from the Northeast Corner of Section 35, Township 33 South, Range 4 East, Salt Lake Base and Meridian and running Thence South 16E33'47" West 227.34 feet; Thence South 6E48'47" West 460.00 feet; Thence North 73E31'13" West 37 feet; Thence South 2E18'42" West 879.48 feet; Thence South 9E33'55" West 196.25 feet; Thence South 6E37'49" East 1,492.00 feet; Thence South 21E57'11" West 313.00 feet; Thence South 38E05'49" East 373.00 feet; Thence South 15E35'11" West 324.00 feet; Thence South 41E12'17" West 90.61 feet more or less to the South Boundary Line of said Section 35; Thence South 89E57'11" West along said South Boundary Line 1,616.78 feet more or less to the centerline of a 50.00 foot road easement; Thence Northerly along said centerline to a Point which is South 1,530.11 feet and West 2,611.88 feet from the Northeast Corner of said Section 35; Thence leaving said centerline South 89E58'42" West 66.44 feet; Thence North 27E09'14" East 564.66 feet; Thence North 21E11'16" East 1,062.51 feet (Deed North 21E30'01" East 1,048.09 feet) more or less to the South Right of Way Line of Utah State Highway 12; Thence South 89E47'09" East (Deed North 89E32'31" East) 302.56 feet along said Right of Way Line; Thence South 0E29'14" East 291.26 feet; (Deed 279.29 feet); Thence North 89E32'31" East 840.07 feet; Thence South 16E33'47" West 806.78 feet more or less to the Point of Beginning. Total Fees and Taxes Due: $1,783.10 PARCEL 21. Kyle J. Roundy, 528 Leach Avenue, Grants, New Mexico 87020, B-83-14-1, 02-0005-0263 A Portion of the Remainder Roundy Parcel as shown on the Roundy Property Subdivision and being described as follows: Beginning at a Point South 89E59'32" West 723.52 feet and South 0E01'01" West 36.11 feet and South 21E09'47" West 944.58 feet and South 21E30'03" West 14.86 feet from the Northeast Corner of the Northwest Quarter of the Northeast Quarter of Section 35, Township 33 South, Range 4 East, Salt Lake Base and Meridian and running Thence South 21E30'03" West 175.00 feet; Thence South 89E52'37" East 1,325.11 feet; Thence North 16E34'37" East 169.92 feet; Thence North 89E52'37" West 1,309.45 feet to the Point of Beginning. Total Fees and Taxes Due: $2,346.61 PARCEL 22. Claudine T. Smilke, 1709 Southwest 101st Terrace, Miramar, Florida 33025-6534, SRE-122, 140072-0122 All of Lot 122, Sevier River Estates Amended. Total Fees and Taxes Due: $541.87 IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and official seal this 25th day of April, 2013. Camille A. Moore, Garfield County Auditor Published in the Wayne & Garfield County Insider APRIL 25th and MAY 2nd, 9th & 16th, 2013.
PRICE - This is a busy time for agriculture in Utah, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) wants to make it easier to get access to loan and grant programs and expert advice. This is the first year Utah is part of the USDA’s StrikeForce Initiative, to spur rural growth and opportunity in counties that struggle with high poverty rates. For Barry Hamilton, a conservationist with the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) office in Price, it’s a chance to work with local farmers and ranchers to help them manage their water supplies, grazing, crop planning and more. “We can always go in there and assist them in putting a practice or a project in,” he says. “But if you do not educate folks on how to maintain and keep those projects going, you may not have as much success.” The StrikeForce Initiative started as a pilot program three years ago in three states. It’s been successful enough to expand to 16 states, including Utah, as of this spring. Traci Bruckner, a spokeswoman for the Center for Rural Affairs, says Congress may have extended the Farm Bill but didn’t fund parts of it, so it’s been hard for farmers and ranchers to figure out which programs are still active. “The basic commodity programs, the basic crop insurance programs, those have not been cut,” she says. “But the programs that really focus on helping beginning farmers and
people who are doing things differently and trying to establish high-value niche markets, those programs have been impacted.” Bruckner says the Conservation Stewardship Program received some funding, but she’s concerned that farmers who might want to apply may be too busy planting to do the paperwork. Hamilton says plenty of programs still have funding, each tailored to meet a specific need, from preserving wildlife habitat to improving rangeland health. They’ve helped the Navajo Nation install catchment facilities to conserve water and solar wells to water livestock. He says working as partners is the key. “The StrikeForce itself would not be a success without the leadership of the Navajo Nation government,” Hamilton adds. “The local chapters, as well as the government office out of Window Rock, Arizona.” See the list of NCRS programs in Utah on the Utah NCRS website. —Chris Thomas, Utah News Connection
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NOTICE OF FINAL TAX SALE Notice is hereby given that on the 23rd day of May, 2013, at 10:00 o’clock a.m. in the Garfield County Courthouse, 55 South Main Street, Panguitch, Utah, I will offer for sale at public auction and sell to the highest bidder for cash, under the provisions of Section 59-2-1351.1, the following described real property located in the county and now delinquent and subject to tax sale. A bid for less than the total amount of taxes, interest, penalty, and administrative costs which are a charge upon the real estate will not be accepted. NOTICE: The Garfield County Recorder’s Office has maps available upon request for a nominal fee. IT IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE BIDDER TO DETERMINE THE PHYSICAL ASPECTS OF THE LAND, ITS GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION, ACCESSIBILITY AND AVAILABILITY OR VALIDITY OF WATER RIGHTS. PARCEL 1. BC Resorts LLC, 912 West 1600 South, Suite 200, St. George, Utah 84770, TCD-177, 15-0075-0177 Beginning at the East Quarter Corner of Section 7, Township 36 South, Range 3 West Salt Lake Base and Meridian and running Thence along the Quarter Section Line South 89E45'16" West 1,243.72 feet to a point on the Easterly Right of Way Line of Highway SR-63; Thence along the said Right of Way Line North 11E43'33" East 543.03 feet to a Brass Cap Right of Way Marker said point being a Point of Spiral to the Left; Thence along said Spiral Curve 262.91 feet to the point of Spiral to Curve Chord for said Spiral Curve is North 9E10'04" East 262.71 feet; The Circular Curve has a Central Angle of 28E50'02" and a Radius of 1,054.93 (radius point bears North 85E46'23" West); Thence along the Arc of said Curve 530.89 feet; Thence North 16E53'35" East 144.20 feet to a point on the Southerly Right of Way of Highway SR-12; Thence South 65E53'50" East 522.15 feet; Thence South 62E25'51" East 748.36 feet along said Right of Way Line to the Section Line; Thence departing said Right of Way Line South 0E09'48" East 881.13 feet along the Section Line to the Point of Beginning. Total Fees and Taxes Due: $19,588.20 PARCEL 2. BC Resorts LLC, 912 West 1600 South, Suite 200, St. George, Utah 84770, TCD-177-2, 15-0075-0249 Beginning at a point South 0E09'48" East 263.39 feet along the Section Line from the Northeast Corner of Section 7, Township 36 South, Range 3 West Salt Lake Base and Meridian and running Thence South 0E09'48" East 1,382.41 feet along the Section Line to a point on the Northerly Line of Highway SR-12 Right of Way; Thence North 62E25'51" West 1,231.22 feet along the said Northerly Line of Right of Way; Thence North 27E40'52" West 58.07 feet along the Easterly Line of Highway SR-63 to an existing Right of Way Marker; Thence along the Arc of a Non-Tangent Curve to the right having a Radius of 1,198.57 feet a distance of 853.43 feet to an existing Right of Way Marker Long Chord for said Curve bears North 47E55'16" East 835.52 feet; Thence North 27E31'22" West 25.00 feet to a point on the Southerly Line of said SR-63 Right of Way; Thence North 68E24'57" East 483.66 feet along said Right of Way Line to the Point of Beginning. Total Fees and Taxes Due: $2,075.38 PARCEL 3. Natalie Buster and Resa Berry, 4531 Havoc Way Northwest, Las Vegas, Nevada 89031, WR-737-7, 16-0081-1260 The West Half of the Northwest Quarter of the Northeast Quarter of Section 13, Township 37 South, Range 6 West, Salt Lake Base and Meridian. Total Fees and Taxes Due: $2,335.50
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GARFIELD SCHOOL DISTRICT PHS English Teacher Garfield School District is hiring a full-time secondary English Teacher for Panguitch High School. SALARY: Beginning Step and Lane according to the 20122013 Garfield County School District Certified Salary Schedule. QUALIFICATIONS: Applicants must have a valid Utah Teaching License and a current transcript of credit. All applicants must be fingerprinted and satisfactorily pass an employment background check. APPLICATION: Interested individuals should submit a Garfield County School District Certified application, resume, three current letters of recommendation, and a transcript. Please direct questions to Principal Rod Quarnberg, rod. quarnberg@garfk12.org , 435-272-6849, and application packets to: Panguitch High School, P.O. Box 393, Panguitch, Utah 84759. Online applications are available at: http://www.garfield. k12.ut.us/index.php/do/employment Applications will be screened and the most qualified candidates will be granted interviews. DEADLINE: April 26, 2013 by Noon Garfield School District is an Equal Opportunity Employer,Affirmative Action and ADA 4/25
WAYNE SCHOOL DISTRICT Music Teacher Wayne School District has an opening for a music teacher at Wayne High School and Wayne Middle School (1/2 day at each school.) Also, applicant must be willing to do extra-curricular duties with speech and drama and school musicals. Qualifications 1. Must possess a valid Utah teacher certificate in Secondary Education by August 15, 2013 with a major in music or a music endorsement. 2. Must meet the “Highly Qualified Teacher” standard for an secondary music educator under the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). 3. Must possess good communication skills and be proficient working as a member of a team. Applicants must be skilled in classroom management. 4. Ability to teach a core subject other than music is a plus. Application Procedure 1. Applicant must submit a letter of application indicating his/her interest in the position. A university placement file should be sent to Wayne School District, or, if a placement file is unavailable, a current resume, a university transcript showing all course work, a copy of applicant’s teaching certificate, and four letters of recommendation should accompany the application letter. 2. Applicants will be screened based on the documents submitted and interviews will be scheduled with those deemed most qualified. 3. Application materials should be sent to: Superintendent Burke Torgerson, Wayne School District PO Box 127, Bicknell, UT 84715 (435) 425-3813 This position will remain open until filled. Salary and benefits will be commensurate with Board policy. Specific questions about job duties may be directed to Principal Mark Elmer at Wayne High School, mark.elmer@ wayne.k12.ut.us 435-425-3411 and Mary Bray at Wayne Middle School, mary.bray@wayne.k12.ut.us 435-425-3421. Wayne School District is an equal opportunity employer; however, the District reserves the right to reject any or all applications. 5/2
AA OPEN MEETINGS Every Wednesday and Sunday at 6:00 pm Bicknell Town Hall
COOK IN LOA Part time cook with excellent provable history as a quality food cook needed in the Loa, Utah area. Please send resume to resumecookrci@gmail.com
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HENRIEVILLE FIELD PROPERTY - 18.25 acres, with water, 2 wheel line sprinkler systems. Call Kathy, 435679-8566 or 435-616-2020
HOME FOR RENT IN LOA Nice home for rent in Loa located at 244 S. 100 W. All kitchen appliances are included, 3 BR, Bathroom, Laundry Room, Lg. Family Room. For more info, please contact Stan Chappell at Garkane Energy (435) 836-2795. 4/25
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ESCALANTE PROPERTY - 575 S. Center St. 1/2 to 3 acres for sale, price negotiable. Out of greenbelt, all 7 years back taxes paid, making perfect building lots. Water neg. Flat ground w/mature trees on west boundary. Seller motivated. 435-826-4982 or 435-690rtn 9455 or 535-690-9456 HOUSE FOR SALE IN Torrey - Sleeping Rainbow Estates 40-50 Native Trees, 3 BR 2 Bath, Incredible Views, 2000 Sq ft. with 2000 sq ft. detached garage. 2 Acres. Call Lowell at 4253824 or cell (435) 896-7092
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FOR SALE MATTRESS KING - Twins from $79.95, Queens from $139.95, Kings from $349.95. In Richfield. Can deliver. (435) 201-4368. Sofas, Sectionals, Recliners available. *Call me* rtn BEARDLESS BARLEY GRAIN SEED for sale. $22 per hundred. Call 435-6911529 or 435-836-2057 5/2 BEAUTIFUL GRIFFIN COMPANY ARTISTS PRESS - Freestanding, 22 in. x 41 in. bed with new pad, roller and blanket, recently serviced and in excellent condition. $1,800. Call 435-4253075. 5/2
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Partial house for rent - Furnished log house in beautiful Torrey. 1 block from main street. Mature trees, garden, fruit orchard. Call Bernie 435-491-0909. rtn APTS FOR RENT IN LOA 1, 2 and 3BR, 1BA apartments. Call for pricing. Security deposit required. Contact Mel, (435) 491-0899 rtn MODERN FURNISHED CABIN - Teaseale/Torrey area. Fantastic views, very private 2BR, 2BA, laundry room, AC, gas fireplace, garage, 4WD recommended-country road. No pets, no smoking. 1st, last & security deposit. $680. mo.Call 208-720-2217 rtn HOUSE IN BICKNELL 4BR, 2BA, family, living, dining, laundry and fruit rooms, pellet stove, wood fireplace, oil furnace, carport, on 1/2 acre. $550/month, $12 garbage, 1st, last and $600 deposit. Call 435-425-3723. Also available - a home on Main St. and 2 mobile homes. rtn Apartment for rent in Lyman - $325.00 per month, plus utilities. No smoking. No pets. Cleaning deposit required. Call 836-2344 evenings. Available May 1, 2013 . rtn
AA Meetings Monday Evenings 6:00 Flying M Restaurant Panguitch
Hunters, Anglers, and Other Recreational Users Provide Record Support for Critical Conservation Projects More than $882.4 million in excise tax revenues generated in 2012 by sportsmen and sportswomen will be distributed to state and territorial fish and wildlife agencies to fund fish and wildlife conservation and recreation projects across the nation, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today. These funds are made available to all 50 states and territories through the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration and Dingell-Johnson Sport Fish Restoration programs. Revenues come from excise taxes generated by the sale of sporting firearms, ammunition, archery equipment, fishing equipment and tackle, and electric outboard motors. Recreational boaters also contribute to the program through fuel taxes on motorboats and small engines. “The sporting community has provided the financial and spiritual foundation for wildlife conservation in America for more than 75 years,” said U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dan Ashe. “Through these programs, hunters, anglers, recreational boaters and target shooters continue to fund vital fish and wildlife management and conservation, recreational boating access, and hunter and aquatic education programs.” “The financial support from America’s hunting, shooting sports, fishing and boating community through their purchases of excise taxable equipment and hunting and fishing licenses is the lifeblood for funding fish and wildlife conservation; supporting public safety education; and opening access for outdoor recreation that benefits everyone,” said Jeff Vonk, President of the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies and Secretary of the South Dakota Department of Game, Fish and Parks. “Fish and wildlife can be conserved, protected and restored through science-based management and it is critical that all these taxes collected be apportioned to advance conservation efforts in the field.” The Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Program
apportionment for 2013 totals $522.5 million. The DingellJohnson Sport Fish Restoration Program apportionment for 2013 totals $359.9 million. As a result of the statutorily required sequester, these apportionments have been reduced by 5.1 percent, or approximately $39.2 million. Additional Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration grant funding to the states has also been reduced, for a total sequestration-related reduction of approximately $44 million. The Service’s Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration Program reimburses up to 75 percent of the cost of each eligible project while state fish and wildlife agencies contribute a minimum of 25 percent, generally using hunting and fishing license revenues as the required non-Federal match. Funding is paid by manufacturers, producers, and importers, and distributed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration Program to each state and territory. For information on funding for each state, visit http://www. fws.gov/home/feature/2013/ pdf/Master_apport_table_Final_2013.pdf. The Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration Programs have generated a total of more than $15.3 billion since their inception – in 1937 in the case of the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Program, and 1950 for the Dingell-Johnson Sport Fish Restoration Program – to conserve fish and wildlife resources. The recipient fish and wildlife agencies have matched these program funds with more than $5.1 billion. This funding is critical to sustaining healthy fish and wildlife populations and providing opportunities for all to connect with nature. Please visit the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration Program website at http://wsfrprograms.fws.gov/ for more information on the goals and accomplishments of these programs and for individual state, commonwealth, and territorial funding allocations. —U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Colorado River Tops List of America’s “Most Endangered” SALT LAKE CITY The Colorado River has been named America’s Most Endangered River for this year by the group American Rivers. The Colorado is being threatened by outdated water management policies and climate change, said Matt Niemerski, the group’s director of western water policy. “We’re in our 12th or 13th year of prolonged drought in the basin,” he said. “We’ve had below-average precipitation most years, and that is compounded upon itself, year to year. Reservoirs like Lake Mead and Lake Powell are at about 50 percent or slightly less capacity.” The Colorado River provides drinking water for 36 million people and irrigates more than 4 million acres of land in seven states, including Utah. The river flow is expected to shrink even more in the decades to come, according to Bart Miller, Western Resource Advocates’ water program director. At the same time, he said, water demands will continue to grow. “We have people still moving to the area and a lot
of uses being placed on the river, and the river itself is suffering,” Miller said. “There are fish species and recreation uses that are hammered by drought just as cities and farms are.” The good news, says Miller, is that there are ways to deal with the building pressures on the Colorado. The latest study from the Bureau of Reclamation spells them out, including a focus on efficient use and reuse of the water. “The Basin Study actually articulates that there’s a million acre-feet of water,” he said. “That’s a big part of the gap between the supply and demand that might be made available through urban conservation. And there’s another million acre-feet that could be made available through agricultural conservation.” Also on this year’s mostendangered list are the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in Minnesota and the San Saba River in Texas. The report is online at americanrivers.org. —John Michaelson, Utah News Connection
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April 25, 2013
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Statewide Turkey Hunt Starts Soon Permits available until the hunt ends
We are now receiving deliveries on Tuesdays and Fridays. Also our ads will change and run Wed. to Wed. instead of Thurs. to Thurs. starting this week. We hope this will give us better dates and longer sell time on our produce and bread. Special orders need to be in by Saturday night for Tuesday delivery or Wednesday morning for Friday delivery. Utah's general statewide turkey hunt starts April 26 for young hunters. Adults can join the youngsters starting April 29. Photo by Scott Root, Utah Division of Wildlife Resources If you want to hunt wild turkeys in Utah this spring, but you didn’t draw a limited-entry permit, no problem. Utah’s general statewide turkey hunt is about to begin. There’s no limit on the number of permits available for the hunt, so you won’t have a problem getting one. You can buy a permit at www.wildlife.utah.gov. Permits are also available at DWR offices and from more than 300 hunting license agents across Utah. Those who were 15 years of age or younger on Jan. 24 (the day results of the 2013 limited-entry turkey drawing were posted) can hunt starting April 26. Adult hunters can join the youngsters starting April 29. Turkeys doing well Jason Robinson, upland game coordinator for the Division of Wildlife Resources, says turkeys are doing well, especially in southwestern and south-central Utah. “Southern Utah has a lot of turkey habitat, including lots of oak brush,” he says. “Turkeys do really well in that type of habitat.” Robinson says the number of turkeys across Utah should be similar to—or a little higher—than it was in 2012. He credits the optimistic outlook to a warm, wet spring in 2012 and the ability turkeys have to escape inversions. “Wet, warm weather in the spring gives hens more nesting cover,” he says. “It also provides more forbs and insects for newly hatched poults (chicks) to eat. Plenty of poults that were born last spring made it to winter.” Snowfall in higher elevations was lighter than normal this past winter. When inversions set in along the Wasatch Front, many turkey poults and their parents escaped the snow and cold by moving to open, south-facing slopes at higher elevations. Robinson says biologists also moved turkeys from areas in Utah where the turkeys were overabundant to areas that have good habitat for the birds. That’s increased the number of turkeys in those areas. “We also brought turkeys in from South
Dakota and released them in eastern Utah this past winter,” he says. It’s time to get outdoors Robinson encourages you to buy a permit and take a youngster hunting with you. He says the spring turkey hunt is the perfect time to get your family and friends together and enjoy camping in Utah’s outdoors. “It’s time to beat cabin fever and get outside,” Robinson says. “Having a big tom turkey strut into the area where you’re hiding is the icing on the cake.” Advice and reminders To be successful, Robinson says you need to locate the birds before the hunt begins. “Scout the areas you want to hunt before the hunt starts,” he says. “Look for birds and sign that turkeys have been in the area. Listen for gobbles. Look for areas where turkeys have been roosting in trees.” Obtain written permission before hunting on private land. “River bottoms are great places to hunt turkeys,” he says, “but many river bottoms are on private land. You must have written permission to hunt on private property.” Be courteous to other hunters. Make sure of your target and what’s beyond it. “Successful turkey hunters are very well camouflaged,” he says. “Many of them use calls and decoys to attract turkeys to them.” If you’re moving through the woods, and you spot something that looks like a turkey, it might actually be someone’s decoy. “Make sure it’s a turkey before you pull the trigger,” he says. Also, only turkeys with beards may be taken. All tom turkeys have beards. About 10 percent of hen turkeys have beards too. “You may only take a bearded turkey,” Robinson says, “so, before you pull the trigger, make sure the turkey you’re shooting at has a beard.” * If you’re hunting with decoys, sit with your back against a tree. “Sitting against a tree is a good way to hide from turkeys,” he says. “It breaks up your outline.” A more important reason, though, is your own safety.
“If someone approaches from behind you and thinks your decoys are turkeys,” he says, “having a tree behind you will give you some protection.” Details The following are some additional details about the statewide hunt: Permits are available now. You can buy a permit anytime between now and when the season ends on May 31. Please remember that if you buy a permit at www.wildlife.utah.gov, it will take about five to 10 days for your permit to arrive in the mail. You must receive your permit before you can hunt. If you buy a general turkey permit, you can hunt anywhere in Utah that’s open to turkey hunting. Two general hunts will be held: The first hunt is a special youth hunt. Hunters who were 15 years of age or younger on Jan. 24 can participate in the hunt. The youth hunt runs April 26 – 28. To participate in the youth hunt, young hunters must buy a general statewide hunting permit. Young hunters who drew a limited-entry permit can’t participate in the youth hunt. Youngsters who buy a permit for the youth hunt can also use the permit to hunt during Utah’s general statewide hunt. That hunt opens April 29. The second hunt—the general statewide hunt—is open to anyone who buys a general turkey permit. The general hunt runs April 29 – May 31. You can buy a general turkey permit and still keep all of your limited-entry turkey bonus points. You won’t lose any of your bonus points if you buy a general turkey permit. If you obtained a limitedentry turkey permit, you can’t obtain a general turkey permit. (You can have only one turkey permit each year.) For more information, call the nearest Division of Wildlife Resources office or the DWR’s Salt Lake City office at 801538-4700. —Utah Division of Wildlife Resources
Thanks for your support during this transition! Royal’s Food Town, 135 W. Main St., Loa
Garkane Energy’s Annual Meetings Wednesday April 24, 2013 Location: Escalante HS Auditorium 5:00 P.M. - 6:30 P.M. BARBECUE 6:00 P.M. - 7:00 P.M. DISPLAYS AND HEALTH FAIR 6:30 P.M. - 7:00 P.M. SAFETY DEMONSTRATION 7:00 P.M. - 8:00 P.M. BUSINESS MEETING
Thursday April 25, 2013 Location: Antimony LDS Church 5:00 P.M. - 6:30 P.M. BARBECUE 6:00 P.M. - 7:00 P.M. DISPLAYS AND HEALTH FAIR 6:30 P.M. - 7:00 P.M. SAFETY DEMONSTRATION 7:00 P.M. - 8:00 P.M. BUSINESS MEETING
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Meet Executive Chef Mitch Rabenstein. Mitch brings over 20 years experience as an executive chef, culinary instructor and restaurant owner along the Wasatch front and Colorado. His knowledge of beef and different cuts of beef puts the Broken Spur one step ahead of the competition. All of our steaks are aged and cut in our own kitchen. There are no secret marinades, just great seasoning and the experience to put our steaks, that are grilled, to perfection. Mitch also specializes in awesome desserts like his peach cobbler and bread pudding. They are the best! Along with great steaks he has some wonderful pasta dishes, an incredible pistachio crusted salmon w/lime dressing and some really flavorful chicken dishes. So on your next stop in Torrey, visit the Broken Spur Inn and dine at one of the best steakhouses in the West.
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Donna’s Keepsake
New Chevron Minky Fabric You will LOVE it. Start now and get your Christmas Quilts made. A GREAT gift idea. Come on in and visit Donna’s and see what’s on special! Precut 6” Minky Strips You can now come in and design your own Minky Strip quilt, $2.99 per strip Royal’s Food Town, 135 W. Main St., Loa
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April 25, 2013
Practical Money Matters
Should You ‘Freeze’ Your Credit Reports? by Jason Alderman
Although the odds of having your identity stolen remain quite low, anyone who’s ever been had their bank or credit card account compromised knows what a pain it can be to unravel the mess. Sometimes enterprising hackers just need your Social Security number, address and date of birth to start opening new accounts in your name. Many victims don’t realize anything’s wrong until they apply for a new account and find their credit has been trashed; or, they start getting calls from collection agencies regarding unfamiliar accounts. More and more people have begun blocking access to information in their credit reports, even if there hasn’t yet been any fraudulent activity, by instituting a “security freeze.” A credit security freeze is where you instruct the three major credit bureaus to disallow new creditors from viewing your credit report and score. Because most businesses won’t lend without first checking your report, a freeze can deter identity thieves. Before going to the trouble and expense of doing a credit freeze, however, learn how the process works and be aware of several possible inconveniences: First, determine if you really need a credit freeze. If your credit or debit card is lost or stolen, you won’t necessar-
ily be a victim of identity theft, which usually requires additional personal information. Similarly, fraudulent billing charges don’t necessarily indicate identity theft. Verify by reviewing your credit reports. You can order one free report annually from the three major bureaus through the AnnualCreditReport.com; otherwise you’ll pay a small fee. To freeze your credit reports, you must individually contact each credit bureaus: Equifax (www.equifax.com), Experian (www.experian. com) and TransUnion (www. transunion.com). You’ll need to supply your name, address, birth date, Social Security number and other personal information. Filing requirements and fees vary based on your state of residence (commonly $5 to $10). People over age 65 sometimes receive a discount and if you are an identity theft victim, credit freezes are free – although you’ll need to provide supporting paperwork. Once implemented, you’ll receive a unique personal identification number (PIN) from each credit bureau. Store these PINs securely because you’ll need them to temporarily lift a credit freeze and then reinstate it – usually for a fee. All these fees can really add up, so if you’re planning any action that requires a credit check, you may want to hold
off implementing a freeze. It can take up to five business days to process a request for a security freeze or temporarily lift, so plan major purchases or other credit actions carefully. A few additional facts about credit freezes: • Although freezes can help block the creation of new credit accounts, they can’t prevent an identity thief from making charges to existing accounts. • Your current creditors can still access your credit reports, as can collection agencies acting on their behalf. • Government agencies have access for collecting child support payments or taxes, to investigate Medicaid fraud, or in response to court or administrative orders, subpoenas or search warrants. • You can temporarily lift a credit freeze either for a specific period of time, or for a specific party – say, a potential landlord or employer. • If you lose your PIN, you may request a new one, although there may be a fee. Bottom line: Always monitor your credit reports to spot errors or fraudulent activity. To take security a step further, consider placing a credit freeze on your reports. Jason Alderman directs Visa’s financial education programs. To Follow Jason Alderman on Twitter: www.twitter.com/PracticalMoney
Garfield Memorial Hospital
HEALTH FAIR April 27, 2013 10 : 0 0 a m - 2 : 0 0 p m H e r i t a g e C e n t e r, 2 0 N . M a i n S t . Tr o p i c , U t a h Mammography information Physical therapy and medical equipment information Blood pressure screening Advance directive information Car seat check station Body composition testing Free bike helmets for qualifying children (K-5th grade) (Child must be present and fitted for a helmet to receive a helmet.)
Huge discounts on the following lab health screening tests:
Glucose $5.00 Lipid Panel $15.00 Prostate Screen $15.00
Patients must present to Bryce Valley, Escalante or Panguitch clinics to obtain blood draw prior to April 25. Patients need to be fasting for 12 hours and drink only water prior to blood draw. No blood draws will be done at the Fair. Bryce Valley will get samples during their regular business hours. These special blood draws are cash only and payable at time of service. No insurances will be billed. Special thanks to Southwest Utah Public Health Dept. for providing the car seat check station.
Become a 4-H Leader Are you willing or interested in helping youth? Would you be willing to teach youth life skills in one of the following projects areas? *Robotics *Sewing *Outdoor Cooking We would love to have you become a 4-H Leader and make a difference in a youths life. Contact Cassie Lyman @ 435-826-4088 or Garfield County Extension office @ 435-676-1113 for more information Garfield County 4-H www.garfield4-h.org —Garfield County 4-H
Weaving Workshop at Frontier Homestead CEDAR CITY - As part of its living history programs and added service to the community, Frontier Homestead State Park Museum is offering an introductory workshop to weaving on a rigid heddle loom. Classes begin Friday May 10 from 10:30 am – 12:00 noon. There will be six sessions in the workshop. The class will be taught by a volunteer from the Sagebrush Fiber Artisans, a local guild of weavers and spinners. There is a $10.00 materials fee for the workshop. Three rigid heddle looms are available on a loan basis, if the student does not have a rigid heddle loom of their own. Interested individuals can register at the main desk at Frontier Homestead Museum upon payment of the materials fee. The museum is located at 635 North Main, Cedar City. For questions call the museum at 435-586-9290. —Frontier Homestead State Park
Teens: Possibly the Most Important Workshop You Will Ever Take (and it’s free) Attention Wayne and Garfield Counties 9th-12th Graders: You are invited to come and learn “How to Avoid Falling for a Jerk or Jerkette.” This awesome dating workshop has been scheduled for Friday May 10th, so save the date! Registration is due on or before Monday May 6th and the workshop is free to the first 20 participants who sign up! Registration includes workshop activities, workbook, RAM magnet, t-shirt, one meal and light snacks. Everything teens should know about how to AVOID falling for a JERK(ette) workshops help lay a foundation for dating. Teens learn what a healthy relationship should look like and how to form relationships. The Relationship Attachment Model (RAM) is a visual tool to help evaluate a relationship, it is used to avoid the pit falls of falling for a Jerk or Jerkette. For more information visit www.garfield4-h.org or contact Cassie Lyman 435-826-4088. —Garfield County 4-H
The NAPA Tool Truck will be on location at Brian Auto
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