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Panguitch • Panguitch Lake • Hatch • Bryce • Tropic • Antimony • Henrieville • Cannonville • Escalante • Boulder • Fremont • Loa • Lyman
Thursday, August 14, 2014 • Issue # 1061
Bicknell • Teasdale • Torrey • Grover • Fruita • Caineville • Hanksville
Author Seeks Information on Garfield County World War II Veterans for New Book
Swiss cyclist Michael Schär crosses the finish line to win the Tour of Utah Stage 2 in Torrey.
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Stage 2 Tour of Utah Ends with Spectular Chase and Finish
TORREY - BMC Racing Team’s Michael Schär of Switzerland survived in the original breakaway of Stage 2 to win the second stage of the Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah. Covering the 130.7-mile course from Panguitch to Torrey in five hours and three minutes, Schär held off both leg cramps and a furious chase group of 34 riders to win the stage. Jure Kocjan (Slovenia) of Team Smartstop finished second, just two seconds behind Schär. With a time bonus, this vaulted the Slovenian into the overall leader’s yellow jersey. JellyBelly rider Serghei Tvetcov (Russia) finished third
on the stage. “It was a really tough day for me today. I knew I had come out good (from) the Tour de France. I had a good climb and I had good legs, and normally I do better the higher we go,” said Schär, who finished 7th on General Classification (G.C.) at the 2013 Tour of Utah, calling today’s Stage 2 the hardest of his career. “All of a sudden I had (leg) cramps…I had the worst cramps in my life and in the end I could hardly pedal. Moments like that, it's more about the mind and not about the body, you really have to suffer through that.”
Utah Classical Guitar Society Begins Summer Series in Wayne County
John Paul Yerby will be giving a classical guitar performance at the DUP Building in Torrey on Friday, August 22. TEASDALE - The Utah Classical Guitar Society is starting a series of summer classical guitar concerts in Wayne County. The free inaugural concert, featuring guitarist Jon Paul Yerby, who heads both the organization and the Utah Valley University classical guitar department, will take place 7:00PM Friday, August 22 in the DUP Schoolhouse, Main Street, Torrey. Yerby, who performs throughout North America, was trained by several lead-
ing names in classical guitar, including the great American classical guitar virtuoso Eliot Fisk. He calls Yerby "A fine guitarist of taste and refinement who possesses one of the world's most beautiful natural guitar sounds." The Utah Classical Guitar Society schedules an annual program of US and international artists performing classical, flamenco and modClassical Guitar Cont'd on page 2
REGIONAL WEATHER FORECAST FOR SOME BUT NOT ALL REGIONS REPRESENTED IN OUR NEWSPAPER COVERAGE AREA
THURS. AUG. 14 - WED. AUG. 20 FORTUNATELY we got a little more rain than was forecast for last week, and if we're lucky we'll also get the showers that are predicted for this Thursday and Friday. Otherwise, sunny to partly cloudy (and maybe some isolated T-storms on Monday) for the week with nice daytime temps in the low 80s. Nighttime temps in the 50s.
For a second day in a row, Kocjan finished on the second step of the podium, but secured the G.C. lead and pulled on the Utah Sports Commission Sprint jersey. “I was very motivated for today's stage. I knew that last year on the same stage 60 riders came to the sprint, so I knew that if I could make the climb with the first group probably I would be the fastest man,” Kocjan said. The 121-rider peloton faced blue skies and crosswinds as it rolled out of Panguitch and passed Bryce Canyon National Park, Grand Staircase-Escalante National
Monument and Capitol Reef National Park. The unrelenting course challenged riders with 10,162 feet of elevation gain punctuated by a rugged climb to the Hogsback Summit east of Escalante. Utah’s red rock canyons gave way to thick growth of aspen, pine and pinion & juniper trees as the field ventured into the Dixie National Forest before the finish in Torrey. The Tour of Utah was completed on Sunday in Park City. The overall crown for the Stage 2 TOU Cont'd on page 3
PANGUITCH - Author Robert Proctor, who published The History of Panguitch earlier this year, is embarking on a new Garfield County history project about World War II veterans from the county who served in the war. As an effort to further his research he is seeking information from relatives of Garfield County WWII vets, and is inviting anyone who had a relative serving in WWII to stop by his booth on Saturday during the Garfield County Fair to share information that will help him piece together this story. “When I was writing The History of Panguitch and I got to researching the years of 1940 through 1946, I came across a series of Garfield County News articles about what people in the county were doing in the war,” says Proctor. The pieces of information that Proctor found piqued his curiosity and he decided he’d like to learn more. Initially working with lists and information from the Golden Nuggets of Pioneer Days, The Escalante Story, and newspaper articles, Proctor ended up with a list of about 800 men and women from Garfield County who served in WWII. Since then he’s been taking that list and working to expand the information about who served to what they actually did during the war. “For about 25% of these individuals I have nothing on other than a name. Most of the ones that I just have a name for came from the eastern
part of the county—Tropic, Henrieville, Cannonville, and Escalante. So I am hoping to find some contacts of people that can assist me in tracking down these men and women so their story can be preserved for posterity,” he said. He added, “For me this is all the more important because around 1971 there was a fire at the Military Records Branch of the National Archives in St. Louis, Missouri. This fire destroyed about 80% of the records of people who served in the Army and the Army Air Force. So this is not a source of information any more.” Proctor says that where he has information from contemporary resources such as the newspaper or from family members, or in instances where he can get discharge paper work, he is able to use this to compile further information about where men and women served and what they did. He says he hopes to put together a new book that is based on what he finds. “But my real ‘pipe dream,’ says Proctor, “depending on what information I get, is to develop a World War II museum representing the point of view of the men and women who served, told from the perspective of the service men and women who came from Garfield County.” Proctor invites those attending the county fair to come around to his booth— WWII Vets
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Local Youths Show their Stuff at Southern Utah Junior Livestock Show
RICHFIELD - The 76th annual Southern Utah Junior Livestock Show took place last week at the Sevier County Fairgrounds, and gave regional youths an opportunity to show their skill at raising and showing prize lambs, hogs and steers. The Utah 4-H Livestock Program is designed for those youth with interest in livestock and livestock events. The focus is to provide experiences that help these youth develop leadership, citizenship, self-esteem, social skills and to become contributing members of society, as well as becoming better livestock men and women. The 4-H Livestock show is an educational, activity-oriented and fun program for those who become involved. The 4-H Livestock Program is for youth in grades 3-12, but not younger than 8 years old. This program is one of only a few 4-H Programs that does not include mini-4-H enrollment (younger than third grade) in order to provide for the safety and best interests of the participants. Enthusiastic 4-H Volunteers with expertise and interests in livestock and working with youth help to deliver and manage the program and its objectives. The 4-H Livestock Program includes programs for those youth who own/have access to livestock and those who do not, but still want to learn about the science of livestock selection, care, and management. Activities can include everything from educational and fun club meetings, livestock shows and County Fairs, service projects, judging contests, and
Above: Intensity — what it takes to be a showman. At right: What a Livestock category winner looks like: Riley Cook of Fremont. leadership opportunities. Club members hold club offices, give public speeches and demonstrations, do service projects, and spend time with their favorite friends, animal or human. More 4-H Livestock Program information can be found @ http:// extension.usu.edu/cyberlivestock/ For full Livestock show results and a chance to meet the Wayne County Junior Livestock award winners come to the Wayne County Fair Rodeo, Friday night, August 15th 7 PM or visit the Wayne FFA Facebook site, Jessica Grundy Instructor, 4H / Wayne High School. —Adus Dorsey
Images: Adus Dorsey
I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood. —Tom Hanks (1956 - ) ALL content for THE WAYNE &GARFIELD COUNTY INSIDER must be submitted on FRIDAY BEFORE 5:00 PM to be included in the following Thursday edition of the paper.
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