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by Mack Oetting ~ mackoetting @gmail.com April is sure doing it’s thing with the showers and it should bring May flowers. Things are opening up out at the park and I noticed some of our motels are filling up; it’s a good sign this early in the year. The Tulip festival is still going on up at the point of the mountain gardens. The Payson Temple is having an open house, so there are a lot of things to do out there before it’s summer time and lawns to mow. I learned that there is a real good chance around the first of May that prices at the National Parks will be going up. The Feds have cut back on their moneys so these rates will offset some of the costs. Motorcyles will go from $12 to $24, car rates will raise from $25 to $35. Season tickets will remain at $80. One thing that I didn’t know is that there is a one park pass, for a year at $30 and that will go up to $35. Also the camp sites will be going up, for RVs it will be $35 per night and tent camp-
ESSENTIALLY ESCALANTE by Jean Bramble ART in the CITY. The Boulder Arts Council, Escalante Canyons Art Festival, Utah Division of Arts and Museums, The National Endowment for the Arts and the Garfield School District provided support to the Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company who were active in Boulder and Escalante this past weekend. RirieWoodbury is an internationally known modern dance ensemble that emerged during the ‘60s from the collaboration of Joan Woodbury and Shirley Ririe in Salt Lake City. Members of the company spent two days in Escalante providing dance and music education and experience to students as well as a public performance in Escalante High School on Friday. School assemblies that began with students observing and ended with students and teachers participating were held on Thursday and Friday. Except for members of the audience who could not sit still in their seats, the public performance on Friday night did not invite the public to dance. However few could fail to be impressed by the sheer physicality of the artists. The performance was exquisite. Many thanks to the dancers, the company and the many who helped provide an exciting and inspirational evening. April City Council. This paragraph covers city council highlights from the meetings on the 7th and 21st of April. On the 7th, a public hearing was held prior to the regular meeting. City council voted to revise the minimum required width of potentially subdivided lots in the Planning and Zoning Ordinances. They also raised city water rates. Specific information regarding these new actions may be obtained from the city offices and will eventually be available on the city website ( 826- 4644 or http://escalantecity-utah. com). New real estate actions approved by the city include a new house, an established trailer-toholiday-home transition, and an addition to a home. In his yearly meeting with the council, Alberto Vasquez reviewed the recent accolades awarded to Garfield Memorial Hospital. Garfield
Memorial is doing extremely well. Marty Henrie queried the council about insurance for the Holiday Festival (which will be explored) and obtained permission to pursue an estimate for a handicapped lift at the Community Center. An individual from Salt Lake will be invited to present a bid. Marty also asked about wall space in the Senior Citizens Center for Escalante Art Festival Hangings. Councilwoman Torgerson took charge of investigating this possibility. A representative from the Escalante Chamber of Commerce clarified the invitation it had extended to have a representative attend the bi-annual chamber general meetings. Council appeared to be positive about this invitation. The mayor asked that citizens be required to fill out a written request forming order to have items listed on city council agendas. “Other cities do this,” he said. His request was approved. On April 21st, Deon Alvey, who has “for the past 30 years …kept the idea alive of …having our own medical center in Escalante” (M. Haws 4/23/2015), thanked the council and mayor for their support at the opening of the new clinic and went on to remind them of Clinic Planning Committee members who went unmentioned during the opening. She added that Del Lefevre was also responsible for bringing about the availability of significant funding and should be recognized. Armstrong Consultants sent Ryan Pritchett to remind us that it’s time for an updated master plan for the airport. Sue Fearon, representing the Escalante River Watershed Partnership, asked if the city would approve the ERWP in removing Russian olive and tamarisk, from identified city property while they remove trees from approved adjacent private property. The mayor said that the city attorney must be consulted. That attorney was sitting with the council, looked at the agreement presented for signature and stated that it looked adequate. ERWP will be removing the pesky trees in late summer. Terry Tontlewicz (Desert Doctor) approached the city
Escalante Senior Citizens Menu Tues. May 5th Navajo tacos Salad bar Chuckwagon corn Snickerdoodle
Wed. May 6th Hogi sandwich w/tomatoes & lettuce Macaroni salad, chips Cottage cheese fruit salad Cheese cake
Thurs. May 7th Swiss steak Baked potato Salad bar Bread Peaches Lemon cake
All meals are served with milk or juice. If you would like a meal, please call us by 10:00 am. 826-4317. Suggested donation for seniors over 60 $3.00, and under 60 is $7.00
April 30, 2015
with a request to improve the appearance of the old city sign, a.k.a. the ‘moqui sign.’ Doc stated that he would straighten the sign and redo the panels and the lights as well as paint the sign. After much discussion and some audience input, one councilman suggested that the city should have the sign evaluated by someone in antique restoration and consider bidding out the project. This statement seemed to end the discussion. Moving on, city council voted to discontinue Escalante City Court due to the expense to the city. Winding up, council discussed wastewater reports, problems with large equipment repair, and replacement of the treacherous patches of sidewalk along Main Street. Did You Know? In a recent publication, Kiplinger, a long-time financial magazine, designated Utah as the 9th worst state for retirement, 2015. Our state has the lowest percent of adults over 65 in the US other than Alaska. (Presumably, elderly people may be more isolated and have less political clout. Meantime, the magazine fails to understand our birth rate or well connected families.) The median home value for our 65+ resident is 23.7% above the US median. It is also one of the few states that taxes Social Security benefits. On the plus side, they liked St. George due to low living costs, scenery and outdoor lifestyle. They must have missed Escalante.
ing will be at $20. When you considered it cost you $20 to park your car at Disney Land, this is a real bargain. All of the trails are open at the park with the exception of Wall Street, due to rock slides. There will be a blood drive at the Stake Center on May 12th and the time will be running from 1:30 to 7:00. There will be a list for you to sign up on at church. You may call Jennifer Bremner at 676 8211 for a reservation. Panguitch has always been a great place for the Red Cross to get donations. Don’t forget to pull off your flowers and pot hangers from out at the cemetery before May 1. The military crosses will remain. The American Legion is moving the crosses to sit on the concrete foundation that are under the monuments. This is a slow process; the crosses have to be modified, so bear with us please. This change will help the maintenance crew to mow the lawn without the interference of the crosses. I came across a couple articles from the SLC Tribune and the American Legion Magazine. First from the Tribune an old coal power plant has been closed, that is near Helper. It closed a day before the new stricter federal mercury pollution rules went into effect. 45 employees will remain and the other 74 will be hired by other power plants in the area. The power plant was a real work horse, with a high reliability in excess of 90 percent. Since 2010, 188 coal fired
power plants have been closed. The gas-fired 545 mega watt Lake Side Power Station in Vineyard is both replacing and handling growth in demand, from the Carbon plant. The Carbon Plant burned 650,000 tons a year of locally mined coal. The industry is switching over to natural gas to replace these coal fired plants. Coal emits twice as much carbon dioxide as natural gas. Utah is drowning in natural gas, that if piped to these plants it will be a huge boom to the economy. With oil back up to $57 a barrel it won’t be long before they are back up in full force in North Dakota. Oil is still down over $50 a barrel from last year, but that doesn’t stop the oil companies from raising gas prices. With Memorial Day coming at the end of the month, I found an interesting article in this month American Legion Magazine. We have had so many more wars than I ever thought. There were the Seven Year war, the Hundred years War and a hundred hour war and the six-day war, cold wars and phony wars, great wars and splendid little wars. These wars include US Military deaths and cost. Revolutionary War, 1775 to 1783, deaths 4,435 and cost $101, million. Barbary Wars, 1801 to 1805 against pirates, 35 deaths. War of 1812 1812-1815, deaths 2,260, cost $90 million. Indian wars 1813 to 1838, 1000 deaths. Mexican war, 18461848. Deaths 13,283 cost $71 million. Civil War, 1861-1865, Union deaths 364,511 and Con-
federate deaths 133,821. cost $3.8 billion. Over 3 million military took part in this battle. Spanish-American War 1898, deaths 2,446 and cost $283 million. Philippines, 1899-1901, deaths 2,446. Mexico 19141919 Deaths 21. World War 1 1917-1918, deaths 116, 516, cost $20 billion. World War II 1941-1945, deaths 405,399, cost $296 billion. Total serving 16.11 million. Cold War 1947-1991 total serving 35 million cost $ 4.65 trillion. Berlin Airlift 1948-1949, deaths 31, cost $224 million. Korean War, 1950-1953 Deaths 36,574, cost $30 billion. Vietnam War 19651975, deaths 58, 220, wounded 153,303, cost $111,000 billion. Lebanon 1982, deaths 265. Grenada 1983, deaths 19. Persian Gulf 1987-1988. Panama 1989-1990, deaths 23. Gulf War 1990-1991, deaths 382, costs $61 billion. Iraqi Kurdistan 1991 deaths 5. Somalia, 191994 Deaths 43 and cost $2.22 billion. Haiti, 1991-1996 4 nonhostile deaths, cost $2billion. Bosnia 1995-2004 cost $14 billion. Kosovo 1999 present. Cost $9.5 billion. Afghanistan, 2001 present, deaths 2,215 and cost $1 trillion. Iraq, deaths 4,491 and 32,244 wounded, cost $1 trillion. I count 29 wars since 1775. Some of the comments on wars from some of generals over the centuries:. William Tecumseh Sherman called in “hell”. Robert E. Lee said it was “terrible”, D.D. Eisenhower deplored it for “its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. Here’s for May flowers! Mack O.
BRYCE VALLEY AREA NEWS by Vicki D. Syrett 679-8687 or vickidiane36@hotmail.com
Congratulations to John Cloud on receiving his "Eagle Scout" award on Sunday, April 26th. His Court of Honor was held in Tropic where he was given his award. For his Eagle Project he went up on the "T" Hill and restored the original "T" that was up there. He whitewashed and diverted the water that was running of the "T" so that is faded the paint. John is the son of Daniel and LaNae Cloud of Tropic and is also our BVHS Reporter. Max Stewart was released from the High Council in the Escalante Stake and Klay Chynoweth was called to fill that position. It was Stake Conference in Escalante and many attended to hear the speakers and our Visiting Speakers were President and Sister Arnold from the St. George Temple Presidency. We again send out our condolences to Kimber Word and her sons Oscar, John and Mabry on the passing of their Husband and Father, Mabry Word. A Grave Side service was held in his honor and we want the family to know we
have them in our thoughts and prayers. Catherine Little field attended the service and also went to Escalante to attend the service for an Aunt Beth Smith. It was held in Escalante. We send Get Well Wishes out to Leah Davis who is recovering from back surgery. She is the daughter of Norm and Ellen Davis of Henrieville. Parker Larson was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints by his Father, Allen Larson. Congratulations to you Parker. Parker is the son of Allen and Teresa Larson of Cannonville and the grandson of Mike and Dixie Burbidge of Tropic and Dale and Linda Larson of Cannonville. The Fourth Graders took the annual trip toe Fremont State Indian Park and to Cove Fort. It was a beautiful day for a field trip and everyone had a great time. When they went to Cove Fort some changes had been made inside the Fort itself. The large trees had been cut down and in their place seedling from the original
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trees had been planted along with some beautiful benches made from the wood of the cut down trees. It was a nice tribute to the trees that had so long been the center of the Fort. Going along with Mrs. Moore the teacher were parent volunteers Shawn Williams, Kayce Brinkerhoff, Nick Pollock, and Brittney King. On May 14th, a Thursday, the yearly 4th thru 8th grade Track Meet will be held at Bryce Valley High School Track in Tropic. The fourth graders have been excited to receive some extra help from PTA President Tanya Brothwell. Tanya has also been helping out with track skills throughout the elementary. David and Kathryn Pollock enjoyed a wonderful time at the new Payson Temple. They said is was so very, very beautiful. Right down the street from their old house (where the boys built a fire in the field) Saturday was a very busy day for wedding receptions. Shawn Syrett and Kara Stewart held their reception at Ruby's Inn on Saturday evening at 6-8 PM. It was very nice and then next week on the May 1st they will get married in the St. George Temple. Also on Saturday Carrie Platt and Daniel Medina held their reception in Henrieville at 7 8:30 PM. They were married on April 10th and had a reception in Hurricane then. This reception made it possible for sister Marilee Platt to attend after returning from her mission to California. Marilee looks so cute in her new Pixie haircut. Congratulations to everyone on these thrilling events in their lives. Shawn is the son of Eric and Tracy Syrett of Tropic. Carrie is the daughter of Ken and Artoise Platt of Henrieville. Another short week on the news front. Hope you all have a great week and stay safe. Please email or call in your news to me. Thanks for those who take the time to do just that. VS