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Thursday, August 25, 2022

Wayne County Commission

by Lisa Jeppson

Aug. 15, 2022 WAYNE COUNTY The second Wayne County Commission Meeting of August was held on August 15, 2022. Commissioners Wood, Blackburn and Brian were in attendance.

The agenda was accepted and approved. The minutes from the previous commission meeting held on August 1, 2022, were accepted and approved.

The first order of business was presented by Brian Deaver—who is the promoter for Fort Desolation Fest, which is an annual music festival held at Cougar Ridge.

The three night event brought in over 1,500 people each night from 17 states. All hotel rooms were sold out from Loa to Torrey, and business was brisk for restaurants and other vendors. The shuttle service was provided by the Wayne County senior citizens. All visitors were encouraged to “Venture by day, music by night.”

Next on the agenda was Micklane Farmer, who is a representative with Jones and DeMille Engineering. Farmer presented the new baseball field project. A bid package Wayne Commission Cont'd on page 7

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Trailer Park Girls

Childhood friends work to make dream of owning a vintage trailer resort in Panguitch a reality

by Kadi Franson

Aug. 18, 2022

Courtesy Jaynie Connor

Together, childhood friends Jaynie Connor (left) and Maiyah Grant (right) bought a lot on Center Street in Panguitch, Utah, and plan to open Nettie’s Vintage Trailer Resort—a spot for travelers to rest in refurbished vintage trailers of the 50s and 60s.

PANGUITCH - Maybe you’ve seen them.

In the commerciallyzoned district on Center Street in Panguitch, on a half-acre vacant lot next to the high school that has for years been loaded with rubble, debris and

Attend Entrada Institute's Next "Classic Conversation" with Sharlene Behunin-Wilde on Sept. 1 1-hour conversation with a limited live, in-person audience that also has an opportunity to ask her questions.

The Behunin family history runs deep in Wayne County. Sharlene’s great-grandfather Earl and his wife, Laura, lived in the stone house Courtesy Entrada Institute on Main Street in TorSharlene Behunin-Wilde will be rey, near what is now the subject of the next "Classic Slacker's. Sharlene will Conversation" with the Entrada provide highlights and Institute at Robbers Roost in insights from the earliest Torrey on September 1, 2022. days of her family’s life TORREY - Sharlene in Wayne County.

Sharlene has many Behunin-Wilde’s family roots are in Wayne County. The happy memories of chasing Behunin cabin—located in sheep, eating her grandma’s Capitol Reef National Park— peanut butter cookies on the belonged to her great-great- porch, and more...but did you grandfather, Elijah Cutler Be- know?!?!?

"Classic Conversations" hunin. The family only stayed there for a little over a year are produced and moderated because the Fremont River by Don Gomes, vice president kept washing out the crops. of the Entrada Institute, who They lived in Caineville and takes the art of interviewing later settled Fruita.This pro- to its highest level. Before setgram, hosted by the Entrada tling in Torrey, Gomes spent Institute at Robbers Roost 25 years as an award-winning in Torrey, will take place on public broadcaster in Utah, InThursday, September 1, at 6:00 p.m. Don Gomes and Behunin-Wilde Sharlene will engage in a Cont'd on page 2

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other sufferings of long-term neglect, two young women have been out clearing the land, digging holes, setting fence posts, digging trenches, and pouring concrete.

Amid the construction hubbub sits a vintage travel

UOT Awards Over $5.2 Million to Local Tourism Organizations SALT LAKE CITY - The Utah Board of Tourism Development has approved more than $5.2 million in cooperative marketing grants for 59 destination marketing organizations and travel-related nonprofits in 24 counties throughout the state. The goal of the co-op program is to leverage state and partner dollars to attract visitors and expand the tourism economy.

"The co-operative marketing program is the most direct investment our organization makes to support tourism initiatives at the local level," said Vicki Varela, Managing Director of the Utah Office of Tourism and Film. "This funding will enable communities to lead their tourism economies UOT Grants

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trailer.

These women are Jaynie Connor and Maiyah Grant, and they are hard at work building their dream. Eventually, their plan is to open Nettie’s Vintage Trailer Resort, a new spot for travelers to rest

Trailer Park Girls Cont'd on page 6

Bryce Town Council Cont'd on page 9

EPC Hosts First Ever Soap Box Derby Following Moqui Motor Madness Main Street Cruise

Emily Leach

Tessa and Dana Brooks took first place in the Escalante Prevention Coalition's first ever soap box derby on August 12, 2022, following the Moqui Motor Madness Main Street Cruise in Escalante, Utah.

ESCALANTE - The Escalante Prevention Coalition's (EPC) first soap box derby took place in Escalante, Utah, on Friday, August 12, 2022,

after the 2022 Moqui Motor Madness Main Street Cruise.

Five cars entered the derby, and first place went to Tessa and Dana Brooks; sec-

ond went to TJ and Russell Brooks; and third went to Evelyn, Abby, and Royce Orme.

Soap Box Derby Cont'd on page 2

UPCOMING EVENTS...

Park City Chamber Music Society Benefit Concert

Aug. 30, 2022

Concert to benefit Color Country Animal Welfare Torrey, Utah, at 6PM

THURS. AUGUST 25 - WED. AUGUST 31

Chances of PM thunderstorms (≈20-60%) Thurs - Sat. Mostly sunny for the rest of the week. Highs in the high 70s and low 80s; lows in the 50s. Winds steady from 9 to 11 mph.

and take a breather. Their plan is to open in May of 2023.

For Connor, this is a little bit about following in her family’s footsteps, but also about

BRYCE - Mayor Syrett facilitated and Sydney SyrettLamas took the minutes.

The meeting began with a prayer followed by the Pledge of Allegiance.

Forest Service Update: Chris Wehrli, District Ranger of the Powell Ranger District, attended the meeting and provided updates on several topics: Shared Use Path: Maintenance on the path was originally scheduled for last week.

The monsoon weather has pushed the timeline back to after the 27th. Approximately one mile of the bike path will get regraded and widened from 8’ to 10’. Spot repairs will occur along the rest of the path. Parking is currently being expanded at the base of Red Canyon, along with vegetation removal and the installation of new kiosks.

Road Closures: There is a road closure at Kanab Creek Road (Rd. 405) due to the East Fork Fire. The fire will likely not be declared “out” until snow falls. Other roadway areas were damaged or lost due to the fire and related erosion and runoff and

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

—Mark Twain

2022 Escalante Canyons Art Festival

Sept. 12-25, 2022 Escalante, Utah

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Opinion Protect Our Public Lands For Utah’s Future

by Norman McKee

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August 25, 2022

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2022 Fort Desolation Fest was BIG fun!

Courtesy Norman McKee

The view east to the Henry Mountains in Garfield County.

UTAH - The proposed land exchange between the Utah State Institutional Trust Land Administration (SITLA) and the federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is a great idea. As a career wildlife biologist with the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources and later a seasonal employee with the Utah Division of Water Quality, I am very familiar with Garfield and Kane counties and have a fairly good knowledge of the rest of the state.

The scattered school trust lands have created a real problem in managing wildlife, livestock grazing, wildfire management, and road access, as well as several other problems. SITLA lands are often sold without much consideration for the problems it will make for adjacent land uses and management. I have witnessed development on isolated parcels of previous school trust lands that has caused some serious problems, especially in critical wildlife habitat. Therefore, I am very supportive of the land trades with SITLA lands and BLM federal lands. As our state continues with the human population growth, the challenge to protect wildlife habitat only increases.

The growth is largely because of access to adjacent public lands. Let’s keep them public. If federal lands were to become state lands, no doubt, some would be sold as management costs or the need for state funding for wildfires, earthquakes, or whatever, were to increase.

Senator Mike Lee’s proposed bill to sell BLM lands around cities and towns in Utah for increased develop-

ment is not a good idea. Yes, our population growth is a concern in many ways. However, if sale of public lands is necessary, then trade the BLM lands for school trust lands.

Then SITLA could sell those lands and meet it’s mandate of making money for Utah’s schools. Let’s be sensible.

Senator Lee has always been against large acreages of public lands in Utah. He has said we need to have more farms and towns all across our state and be more like eastern states, such as Ohio or Alabama. Really? Does he know that much of Utah is dry desert-like or high mountain watersheds that are critical for our valley farms, towns and cities?

Let us please keep the lands federal, as much as possible. The livestock that graze federal lands do so at a greatly reduced cost compared to state or private land grazing. Also, most areas in Utah, especially including Garfield, Wayne, and Kane counties, are very dependent on the high visitor numbers that come from all over our nation and world to visit and explore our beautiful lands.

We have excellent managers of our federal lands in Utah, including Greg Sheehan, Utah State BLM Manager, and Harry Barber, Paria River District Manager at the Kanab office. Hopefully, leaders such as these will have the say in how to trade SITLA and BLM lands throughout our state for the betterment of all.

Norman McKee is a retired wildlife biologist with the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources. He is a resident of Panguitch.

Whoever was lucky enough to attend the recent Fort Desolation Fest music and adventure travel festival at the beautiful and scenic Cougar Ridge found themselves having a time of their life! It was BIG fun on all counts.

The festival featured three nights of music performed by extraordinary artists including Elle King, Amos Lee, Elizabeth Cook and more. Their en-

ergy, talent, and music brought love and laughter to us all.

There were camping areas, food trucks, vendors selling adventure gear, t-shirts, etc.

A very warm thanks to the hard-working organizers.

Wayne County is very lucky to have this event hosted here.

Let’s hope Fort Desolation Fest keeps coming back.

Laura Lasco, Bicknell

Goings on...

Swim, Bike, Run Team and Triathlon Events Held at 2022 Wayne County Fair

Courtesy Sherry Ellett

(From left to right) Emma Hallows, 3.1 run; Haylie Durfey, 8.6 miles bike; and Lacey Ellett, 500 meters swim, won the 2022 Swim, Bike, Run event at the 2022 Wayne County Fair.

Courtesy Sherry Ellett

Tammy Perkins (left) and Ron Perkins (right) won the Women’s Division and the Men’s Division (respectively) of the Triathlon event at the 2022 Wayne County Fair.

Soap Box Derby: The Escalante

Prevention Coalition’s purpose of the event was to create a family bonding experience by building the car together. Strengthening family bonds is a protective factor, [and] we are focusing on lowering risk factors and increasing protective factors.

—Heather Dunton, Escalante Prevention Coalition representative Cont'd from page 1

In a message to The Insider, EPC representative Heather Dunton said, "The Escalante Prevention Coalition’s purpose of the event was to create a family bonding experience by building

Behunin-Wilde: The Entrada

Institute will host a "Classic Conversation" with Sharlene Behunin-Wilde—whose family roots are in Wayne County—on Sept.

1, 2022, at Robbers Roost in Torrey at 6PM. Behunin-Wilde Cont'd from page 1

diana, and Texas.

To register for this program, go to www.entradainstitute.org, click on “Attend

an Event,” and fill out the brief form. You will find the latest Utah Department of Health guidelines for COVID there.

Events are also livestreamed at Entrada Institute on Facebook.

—Entrada Institute

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Soap Box Derby

the car together. Strengthening family bonds is a protective factor, [and] we are focusing on lowering risk factors and increasing protective factors."

Dunton says that the EPC would love to again partner with Moqui Motor Madness next year.

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Courtesy Sherry Ellett

Lowell Saign was the High School and Over All Champion of the Triathlon event at the 2022 Wayne County Fair.

WAYNE COUNTY - The 2022 Wayne County Fair Swim, Bike, Run event was held as a team event on Tuesday, August 16th, at 7:00 AM, and the Triathlon was held on Thursday, August 18, at 7:00 AM. The winning Swim, Bike, Run team consisted of Emma Hallows, 3.1 run; Haylie Durfey, 8.6 miles bike; and Lacey Ellett, 500 meters swim. These three girls did a fantastic job and came out on top as the champions. Congratulations, girls, on a great race and job well done. Way to finish strong and show that good, hard work pays off.

The winners of the Triathlon were Tammy Perkins, Women’s Division; Ron Perkins, Men’s Division; and Lowell Saign, High School and Over All Champion. Congratulations to these awesome athletes. They swam 500 meters, biked 8.6 miles, and finished it all off with a 3.1 mile run. Well done!

—Sherry Ellett

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A Utah Oil Field Spilled 400 Barrels Near Grand Staircase Last Fall—and It’s Still Cleaning Up the Crude Missteps dogged the clean up after a pipeline failure released 400 barrels into a dry wash in Dixie National Forest outside Escalante, emails show

by Brian Maffly, Salt Lake Tribune

Utah Division of Oil, Gas and Mining

A cleanup crew mops up some of the 400 barrels of crude oil that leaked from an oil field outside Escalante in Utah's Dixie National Forest last fall. Discovered Oct. 29, 2021, the leak from a corroded pipeline operated by Citation Oil and Gas Corp. left a 1.37-mile stream of crude into Pet Hollow in the headwaters of the Escalante River.

DIXIE N.F. - One morning last October, the operators of an aging oil field in the Dixie National Forest outside Escalante noticed the amount of crude coming off Citation Oil and Gas Corp’s wells was less than expected, so they dispatched a worker to see if anything was amiss.

It wasn’t hard to find the problem. The Citation worker discovered a black puddle forming on the ground above the Upper Valley oil field’s main pipeline. A mile-long stream of crude stretched from the failed pipe down a steep gully into a dry wash that feeds the Escalante River known as Pet Hollow.

More than eight months after the Oct. 29 spill, cleanup efforts continue after a string of missteps, including missed deadlines and mishandled waste, as state regulators weigh what consequences to impose on Citation, a major Houston-based petroleum producer that has owned the oil field since 1987.

Even Citation’s cleanup efforts could constitute an additional environmental violation after its contractor spread oil-contaminated gravel, recovered from Pet Hollow, on nearby dirt roads, according to emails and correspondence obtained from the Utah Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) through a record request.

The emails indicate staff with DEQ’s Division of Water Quality, including thendirector Erica Gaddis, faulted Citation’s response to the spill at various stages.

Interviewed [in July 2022], enforcement chief Samantha Heusser declined to comment on Citation’s performance because the spill remains the subject of an ongoing enforcement action.

But she was pleased with the work of various state agencies, that, she said, were taking the spill seriously.

“I’m really proud at how quickly we were able to get on top of it and how well we’ve been able to work inner agency, but also with sister agencies,” Heusser said. “Overall it’s been a really successful response on DEQ’s part. We have a ways to go. The cleanup is ongoing and we’ll assess that.”

The cleanup, which was supposed to have been wrapped up by June 1, had a deadline of July 31, 2022. No evidence has surfaced indicating the spill contaminated water resources, she said.

Citation, meanwhile, claims it is cooperating with state and federal authorities to address the spill and its impacts.

“Citation seeks to work cooperatively with all regulatory agencies and strives to operate its oil and gas facilities in compliance with appli-

cable regulatory requirements, including but not limited to the reporting of spills and releases,” said Bob Redweik, the company’s vice president for regulatory affairs, in response to written questions.

Dixie National Forest Supervisor Kevin Wright said he is satisfied with Citation’s handling of the spill.

“We’re working hand-inhand with Citation Oil to ensure the cleanup of the liquid is completed,” Wright said.

“Citation is meeting our expectations as far as the cleanup goes. They’ve been thorough and been informing us and have taken active steps to clean up what happened.”

In their email exchanges with Redweik, Division of Water Quality staffers paint a different picture. Gaddis and others were displeased the company halted the clean up with the arrival of winter weather on Dec. 8; failed to report the spill to the National Response Center; missed cleanup deadlines; and spread contaminated gravel on roads instead of taking it to a landfill. The division also declined to approve Citation’s required analysis of the spill’s potential impacts on groundwater, citing “the lack of investigation conducted.”

A history of spills This oil field inside the western boundaries of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument has a history of spills dating back decades. To this day, hundreds of barrels of crude remain caked in washes within the monument, according to Bureau of Land Management records.

The BLM and the U.S. Forest Service, which manage the land on which the oil field operates, have been on notice for at least eight years that the Upper Valley’s aging pipelines, wells and tanks pose a threat to the environment.

An investigation led by the national monument in 2014 resulted in a plan to conduct a comprehensive assessment of the oil field’s infrastructure, which doesn’t appear to have been completed.

Such an assessment may have discovered the corroded pipe whose failure resulted in the October spill, which released nearly 17,000 gallons of crude.

A report submitted by Citation blamed the 2021 failure on corrosion that weakened the pipe’s wall. According to Redweik, Citation performed an integrity test on the entire 8-inch pipeline when it acquired the oil field. The test identified corrosion in the pipe’s lower portion, which prompted the company to sleeve that part with a plastic liner. This liner did not cover the spot that failed.

“At that time, no evidence of corrosion was observed in the upper portion of the line.

Although the release point has been repaired, an inspection is currently planned in September 2022 to re-inspect this line,” Redweik said. “Supply chain issues have caused this inspection to be delayed until that time.”

Discovered in the early 1960s, the oil field straddles the boundary between the Dixie National Forest and the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, about ten miles southwest of Escalante.

Likely Utah’s highest-elevation and most isolated oil field, Upper Valley sits on a rugged plateau about 7,500 feet above sea level, perched over Alvey Wash to the east.

Eight years ago, hikers discovered oil embedded in one of the Alvey tributaries, spurring the investigation by national monument staff.

Their 2014 report concluded that much of the oil found in multiple washes came from historic spills that could have dated back to the time when the field was first drilled in the 1960s and 1970s. The report did note two recent spills associated with pipeline leaks that the Citation claimed were too minor to warrant reporting.

Agencies scramble to respond Considering the advanced age of the field’s infrastructure, the BLM ordered Citation to report “all undesirable events” within 24 hours, no matter how small, according to the 2014 report.

Although last fall’s spill was anything but minor, it took the company more than 72 hours to report the spill.

“Once I was notified of the release on November 1, 2021, it was immediately reported to the UT DEQ with the written follow-up report submitted as required,” said Redweik, without elaborating on the delay.

“Additional notifications were made to the BLM, US Forest Service, DOGM [Division of Oil, Gas and Mining], and the [Southwest Utah] Department of Health as part of the reporting process.”

The DEQ kicked into overdrive to deal with the spill, summoning help from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Likewise, the Utah Division of Oil, Gas and Mining responded and made a substantial photographic reOil Spill

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Schools & Sports

News from Wayne County

Time Marches On

PHS Sports Sidelines

by Adus Dorsey

by Mack Oetting

Lady Cats Volleyball attend Cedar Invitational, and Bobcats Baseball wins against Diamond Ranch The Lady Cats volleyball team had another great week.

They traveled over to Bryce Valley and took them out in three games. This last weekend, they went over to the Cedar Invitational and might have been the only 1A team there. They had their way with the 4A schools, beating Hurricane, Dixie and Cedar’s teams.

They got into the finals and had two really exciting games against Parowan. Both of the scores were the same, with the Rams winning both, 26 to 24.

We are going to be gone for two weeks, and I can’t find my game schedule anywhere, so please call the school for some home dates.

The Bobcats baseballers

are really on a roll, taking out Diamond Ranch rather easily on Wednesday, and their game with Bryce Valley on Friday was cancelled because of rain. The Cats have quite a few games at home this year, so come on out and cheer for them.

Get you season tickets now for the two seasons.

Back-to-School Child Care Resources Available for Families

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During Wayne County Fair week, displays put together at the Loa Community Center are a favorite event. Items on display range from home grown vegetables, to canned goods and elaborate quilts.

This article was submittted to The Insider on August 19, 2022, during the week of the Wayne County Fair.

A skinny blanket of fog has slowly crept across the Bicknell Bottoms in the morning for the last week, giving it the appearance of a marsh monster. Sandhill cranes are concealed beneath it, continuing with their cranky conversations of fall flight plans to southerly locations scheduled for some time in September, or maybe October. Time marches on.

It is Wayne County Fair week, and Wayne County has gone into suspended animation. Avid "pickleballers" have relinquished possession of the Loa tennis courts to Cheer Camp, and little girls have been practicing cheers that they will someday perform at Wayne ball games, eight years or so hence.

USU Extension staff and local volunteers have certainly put their best foot (feet) forward during Fair week, creating eye pleasing displays in the Loa Community Center. Melanie, Mary, and Lacy have accepted an abundance of 4H and craft entries to be logged, judged, and put on display for all the world to enjoy on Saturday when the Loa Community Center doors swing open. Displays at the Loa Community Center are always a favorite event on Saturday after the parade; generally, and in most cases, the line is out the door to view how crafty and creative Wayne County residents have been over the past year. These items range from home grown vegetables, canned goods, elaborate quilts to threeyear old’s handprints forever molded in clay.

Every morning before the rooster crows on Fair week, the Wayne County Fairgrounds are groomed to perfection by a crack staff of experts and remain in pristine condition for horse enthusiast to practice their skills for the Gymkhana, and other horse related events that often go un-celebrated the rest of the year. For those unfamiliar

with the four-legged species, locally referred to as the horse, and horse related activities, Gymkhana is an equestrian event consisting of speed pattern racing and timed games for riders on horses. These events often emphasize children's participation and may be organized by a recognized local horse club or a 4-H club.

Gymkhanas are a collection of timed speed events such as barrel racing, pole bending, keyhole race, keg race (also known as "down and back"), flag racing, a hybrid pattern like mountain cow horse, and stake race.

Not to go without mention and all the rage was the Fort Desolation Music Festival that rocked Torrey and Grover out at Cougar Ridge (south of Torrey) over the weekend. The festival ran as smooth as Mike Clarks' ‘66 Red Chevy pickup.

The talent was top notch, and the crowd, not quite what it was at Woodstock in '69, was huge by local standards. The traffic at the corner of the Dump Road and Highway 24 was about as busy as anyone has ever seen it, but people were courteous, and no road rage incidents were reported.

Recently, there has been an increase in carnage on Highway 24 and Wayne County back roads. This is a visible reminder of Darwin’s survival of the fittest theory, where only the smart and most cunning know how to navigate the 100-foot paved road rightof-way and safely arrive on the other side and be able to brag about it to their furry friends.

Evidence of victims that didn’t make it can be witnessed belly up from Hanksville to the Fish Lake turn off and all points in between. In the event anyone is keeping track, dead skunks on the highway between Teasdale and Bicknell out number dead raccoons two to one.

For skunks, their average lifespan in the wild is about 2–3 years, but they can live up to 15 years in captivity. Skunk species vary in size from about 15.6 to 37 in. long and weigh from about 1.1 lbs. to 18 lbs.

They have moderately elongated bodies with relatively

short, well-muscled legs and long front claws for digging.

Like most humans, they have five toes on each foot.

Skunks are not true hibernators in the winter but do den up for extended periods of time. However, they remain generally inactive and feed rarely, going through a dormant stage. Over winter, multiple females (as many as 12) can huddle together; and like the Wayne County bachelor, the males tend to rise early and often den alone. Often, the same winter den is repeatedly used.

Although they have excellent sense of smell and hearing, they have poor vision, being unable to see objects more than about 10 ft away, making them a hazard on the highway and vulnerable to death by pick-up truck or Subaru.

The raccoon, sometimes called the common raccoon to distinguish it from other species, is a mammal native to North America. It is the largest of the procyonid family, having a body length of 16 to 28 in. and a body weight of 11 to 57 lbs. The raccoon's grayish coat mostly consists of dense underfur, which insulates it against cold weather. Three of the raccoon's most distinctive features are its extremely dexterous front paws, its facial mask, and its ringed tail, which are themes in the mythologies of the indigenous peoples of the Americas relating to the animal. The raccoon is noted for its intelligence, and as studies show, the raccoon can remember the solution to some complicated tasks (like the times of day that you feed your cat) for at least three years. The raccoon is usually nocturnal and omnivorous, eating about 40% invertebrates, 33% plants, and 27% vertebrates and can consume two pounds of cat food in one sitting, if it is available.

Pesky as both skunks and raccoons can be, they are a fact of rural life and live among us, and we and our pets must learn to live among them. Some of the same basic rules apply as they do in bear country; don’t leave food out.

Office of Child Care has one-stop online resource for finding care SALT LAKE CITY With school back in session, many families are looking for new or different child care options. The state’s careaboutchildcare.utah.gov website can help families make informed choices about care and identify providers that best fit their needs.

“We want families to know they have options,” said Rebecca Banner, director of the Office of Child Care within the Department of Workforce

Services. “Using careaboutchildcare.utah.gov gives families all of the tools and filters to find exactly the kind of care they need.”

In addition to finding care based on geographic location, age of child and cost, parents can search for after-school programs, family care providers and other specialized programs to help fill in the afterschool gaps. The site also has information about financial assistance options and providers

that accept subsidies.

All of the providers on the Care About Childcare tool are licensed through the Department of Health and Human Services, and meet health and safety requirements. Search for care and learn about other child care resources at careaboutchildcare.utah.gov.

—Utah Department of Workforce Services

Jennifer Heyborne Named Executive Director of SUU Head Start Preschool

CEDAR CITY - After an extensive search, Jennifer Heyborne has been named Executive Director of Head Start Preschool at Southern Utah University (SUU). In her new position, Heyborne is responsible for leading Head Start Preschool and Early Intervention, free school readiness programs designed to offer family-centered learning, and serves as an advocate for children and parents in Iron, Washington, Beaver and Millard counties.

“We are pleased to have Jennifer fill this role and confident she will continue to inspire lifelong learning in families by promoting supportive learning environments,” said Stephen Lisonbee, assistant vice president for the SUU Office of Regional Services.

“She possesses the passion, skills and leadership needed to guide our preschool pro-

grams forward.”

Heyborne has been serving as interim executive director since Feb. 2022 and officially started in her new role as executive director on July 15.

“I look forward to building relationships with the children, families and communities we serve and providing a positive workplace culture within our program,” said Heyborne. “We are excited to guide our learners this school year and help them reach their full potential.”

Head Start Preschool is currently enrolling for the 2022-23 school year. Priority registration will remain open until September 15. After that, students may be enrolled throughout the school year based on availability, or will be placed on a wait list.

To apply, or be added to next year’s wait list, visit suu.edu/

headstart or call at (435) 586-6070.

Prior to serving as interim director, Heyborne worked for Head Start Preschool for five years both as an education coach, providing professional development opportunities for teachers, and as a preschool teacher. She earned a bachelor's degree in liberal studies and early childhood education from Oregon State University.

Head Start Preschool is a free, pre-kindergarten school readiness program dedicated to social-emotional enrichment of the lives of children and families in southwest Utah. The program falls within the SUU Office of Regional Services.

Head Start Preschool is an equal opportunity provider.

—Southern Utah University

August 25, 2022

Wills, Trusts, and More

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Planning for Death When Young Children or Grandchildren are Involved No one likes to think about death, much less plan for it. Many surveys indicate this is one of the biggest factors in not doing estate planning. However, doing estate planning is an act of love.

This is especially true when there are young children or grandchildren involved.

There are two primary concerns regarding minor children and estate planning.

First, who is going to take care of the children? The person who cares for the personal needs of the children is called the guardian. Second, who will take care of the financial needs of the children?

This may or may not be the same person (or institution) as the guardian of the children. The person responsible for the children’s financial matters may be a court appointed conservator or if estate planning was done prior to death, it could be a trustee of a trust established for the children’s benefit.

Significantly, children under age eighteen cannot legally “own” property in their individual capacity.

Therefore, in order to have life insurance proceeds or any other assets of an estate distributed to a child under age 18, a conservator must be appointed by the court. The legal proceedings required to get a conservator appointed can be at best an additional expense and inconvenience.

At its worst, a conservatorship proceeding can be a

by Jeffery J. McKenna legal fight between family members about who is to manage the assets of the children.

Although, these scenarios may be unappealing, the worst part about failing to plan for minor children may be what happens when they ultimately receive their inheritance.

A conservatorship ends when the child reaches age 18 unless special circumstance exist and the court allows the conservatorship to continue until age 21. The result is that at age 18 (or at most 21), the child now has complete control over the assets. While parents or grandparents may envision their life insurance or other assets of the estate being used for their children’s or grandchildren’s education, church service, or other purposes, children at age 18 or 21 may have other plans.

Given the concerns related to expense, court proceedings and ultimate, uncontrolled distributions at age 18 (or 21 in special circumstances), parents and grandparents should consider the use of a trust when minor children are beneficiaries. A trust has many advantages. First, assets can be distributed to the trustee of the trust for the benefit of the minor child. This can often occur without the need to burden the courts. The trustee would then manage the assets as specified in the trust document. Parents can specify that proceeds within the trust are always available for the children’s health, education,

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PANGUITCH OFFICE AT 46 NORTH MAIN STREET TO SERVE CLIENTS IN AND AROUND GARFIELD COUNTY. Jeffery J. McKenna is a local attorney whose practice has been focused on Estate Planning for over 20 years. He is licensed and serves clients in Utah, Arizona and Nevada. He is a shareholder at the law firm of Barney, McKenna and Olmstead. If you have questions you would like addressed in these articles, please feel free to contact him at 435 628-1711 or jmckenna@barney-mckenna.com or visit the firm’s website at WWW. BARNEY-MCKENNA.COM, he would enjoy hearing from you. maintenance and support. Additionally, parents can specify that the proceeds will not be distributed outright to the children until the children reach a particular age or will be distributed in incremental stages at various ages. In short, through the use of a trust, the parents have the opportunity to provide as much instruction as they want with respect to the inheritance they leave for their children or grandchildren.

In conclusion, estate planning is very important when minor children or grandchildren are involved. If you stop and think about it, you may find it ironic that many of us provide more instruction to the babysitter about how to care for our loved ones for a few hours than we provide for those we leave behind at death.

Miriam has never been on a cruise before. One day, she meets her friend Lucy and they stop for a chat. "So where are you and Sam going for your holidays this year?" asks Lucy. "I'd like to try out a cruise, Lucy," replies Miriam, "but I'm not sure whether Sam and I would enjoy ourselves.

We're almost 80 now and Sam thinks cruising is for younger people."

"No, you're wrong in thinking that, Miriam," replies Lucy.

"Most cruise ships have special design features just for senior citizens."

"So give me an example, please," says Miriam.

"Well...OK," replies Lucy, "They have bifocal portholes."

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Today's Thought

The best thing about going to bed each night is knowing that when you wake-up you're one day closer to your next vacation.

PUNishment

If chickens could choose any car at all to be given to them, they would choose a free Range Rover.

Marriage

My Dad and I were talking while I was visiting last weekend. I asked him the secret of his long and happy marriage to my Mom. He said that as soon as they were married he let her know who was the boss. At this point my Mom broke in, "He sure did. He looked me right in the eye and he said, 'You're the boss!' "

sudoku To Play: Complete the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 to 9

Life Aspirations

A gorgeous white convertible pulled up next to our parked car.

"How did that woman get such a pretty car?" my daughter asked. I recognized the driver and said, "Her husband's a pilot. He must make a good salary."

"That's what I want to be," she said.

"Really, a pilot?"

"No, I want to be married to one."

This week's answers on page 10

THEME: Science ACROSS 1. Out of harm's way 5. Street, in Paris 8. *Citric or sulfuric one 12. *Female gamete 13. Comedian Carvey 14. Excessively fat 15. Trunk extension 16. Wading bird 17. Savory jelly 18. *Distance per unit of time 20. Prep a salad 21. Omit or suppress 22. Hair goo 23. Preterm infant, colloquially 26. Free from slavery 30. Rapid escape 31. Lady slipper, e.g.

34. Ruptured 35. Goodbye, in Puerto Vallarta 37. Long, long time 38. Greek Bs 39. "Cheers" regular 40. Sheep's coat 42. Over the top, in text messages 43. Tangle up 45. a.k.a. sea hawk 47. U.N. workers' grp.

48. Xbox user, e.g.

50. Zero, on a court 52. *Vertical distance 55. Pavarotti, e.g.

56. *Radical, in math 57. Smidgen 59. *Chemically inactive 60. With competence 61. Countess' husband 62. *Ammonia or baking soda, e.g.

63. ___ canto

64. Proofreader's mark DOWN 1. Source of light, in Spanish 2. Tel ____, Israel 3. Cloud of particles 4. Bald Eagle to Americans, e.g.

5. Fanatical 6. Rallying cry to the workers of the world 7. ____-peasy 8. *____ zero, lowest possible temperature 9. Large edible mushrooms 10. Osiris' wife 11. Yuletide mo.

13. Chancier 14. Like Cheerios 19. Mixtures 22. Cowboy's shoe prod 23. *Two-dimensional shape 24. *Radioactive noble gas 25. Middle Eastern

V.I.P.s 26. Collier's office 27. *Energy-converting device 28. Very angry 29. Easily irritated 32. *Basic unit of life 33. Tiller's tool 36. *Plant- and animal-eater 38. Continually annoy 40. Back, to a pendulum 41. State of harmony 44. Heads-up 46. Prigs 48. Shakespeare's theater 49. *Model of Earth 50. Diva Horne 51. Change for a five 52. Saudi, e.g.

53. "Doggone it!"

54. Hibernia 55. *Tebibyte abbreviation 58. Deli order

Solution on page 10

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O bituaries Paul Julander

PANGUITCH - Paul Kay Julander was born on August 11, 1945, in Monroe, Utah, to Paul Garn and Golda Johnson Julander. He passed away on August 15, 2022, in Panguitch, Utah.

He grew up and attended school in Monroe, Utah, until 1960 when his family moved to Panguitch. After attending Panguitch High for 2 years, he went back to Monroe for his senior year. He took automotive classes at Sevier Valley Tech while finishing high school at South Sevier High. He graduated in 1963, after which he went to CSU (SUU).

He earned his Associates Degree in Automotive Service Technology, and in 1969, he graduated with his Bachelors Degree in Industrial Technology.

Paul went to work for his dad at the sawmill in Panguitch on his 16th birthday. He worked there part time until the summer of 1966, when he started working as a mechanic at Farnsworth Chevrolet. He worked there during the summers while he attended college and went to work there full time after he graduated. He worked there for Farnsworth’s until the business changed hands, then he continued there while it was Griffith’s Chevrolet. In 1981, he started Paul’s Auto Repair in that same location on North Main in Panguitch. He worked there, with his family, until the minute that he died.

He married Laura Goulding, his eternal sweetheart, on June 20, 1970 in Panguitch, Utah. They had three children and made their home in Panguitch. They have loved living in their little piece of heaven where Paul spent a lot of time tinkering in their house and yard over the years. They were sealed in the St. George Temple on August 1, 1992.

Paul was a faithful member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints. Throughout the years, he served willingly in a number of callings, including Cub Master and secretary of the Young Men’s Quorum. His longest, most recent, and favorite calling was in the branch presidency in the Panguitch Jail. He served there for just short of 22 years. He touched many hearts and was appreciated for his service in the church as well as in the small community of Panguitch.

Paul Kay was preceded in death by his parents, Paul and Golda Julander. He is survived by his wife of 52 years, Laura Goulding; and his children: Robert (Kim) Julander, Panguitch; David (Jenny) Julander, Enoch; Susan Julander, Enoch; 11 grandchildren and 4 8/9 great-grandchildren; siblings: Carol (George) Greenalgh, Murray; Lynn (Bernadine) Julander, Monroe; and Janice (John) Schena, Richfield.

Funeral services were held Tuesday, August 23, 2022 at 12:00 Noon in the Panguitch 3rd Ward Chapel, 550 South 100 West. Friends called at the ward chapel Monday evening from 6-7 p.m. and Tuesday morning from 10:00 - 11:30 a.m. Burial was in the Panguitch City Cemetery. Funeral Directors: Magleby Mortuary, Richfield, Salina and Manti. Online guestbook at www.maglebymortuary.com

August 25, 2022

FYI PanguItch

by Mack Oetting ~ mackoetting @gmail.com I don’t think I have ever been to a place that has so many beautiful clouds and blue skies as we do. It is just another reason why we are so blessed to live in paradise.

The ATV rally has come and gone, and I heard from a friend that it, again, was a great success. The rides were great, and the rain kept down the dust (only two rides were washed out). The dinner was very good. It was put on by the Cowboy Smokehouse, and it went really well. Lots of folks were there. Joe Orman and Chad Justice hosted the event, and all that atteneded can’t wait till next year.

Next up will be Labor Day, and for a change, we will have something to do. On Friday and Saturday, we will have our annual car show on the 2nd. It will be on the little league field. Last year, there were 75 cars of all shapes and colors. It will be the first time that I can remember that we had an event on Labor Day weekend. We will be gone on vacation, but my two daughter are going take my cars to the show. I hope it doesn’t rain that day. The Panguitch Lions Club will be having meals cooked to order, so come hungry.

The Iron County Fair is always on Labor Day, and it is a big time affair. On Monday is their parade, and it usually runs about two hours, with all of the people that will be throwing candy. They have some really beautiful horses, but not too many floats. Then

it is time to go to the fair building for all of the handicraft entries. They also have a big car show, and they have ears of corn to munch on; it’s a fun day.

We lost another icon this last week; Paul K. Julander has passed away. I met Paul K. 35 years ago on a freezing December day. It was Christmas Eve, and I had to work on Christmas, so we were getting an early start. My truck wouldn’t start, and after five or six hours of trying to start it, someone suggested that we call Paul K. It was Sunday, but he had us tow the truck down to his shop, and in a couple of hours, we were off and running, with no charge. If you knew Paul K., he was like one of your family, and it is a sad time when you lose someone like him. He was doing what he had done his whole life, working, when he had an attack. He painted my Model A pickup, and it is better now than when it was new.

The summer is two-thirds over with, and we have lost two hours of daylight. The monsoons have just about come to an end, but haven’t they been a blessing? The whole world is cooking. South Africa is in a major drought and millions are without food.

England is in the same boat; it is the first time in history that they didn’t get rain in June or July. Ukraine supplies many countries with badly needed grain, and the Russians are finally letting them export their grain throughout Europe and

Africa. Salt Lake City (SLC) has broken last year’s record of 21 days of triple digit temperatures; that record now is 25 days. They also had 18 days of high temperatures in July that broke another record.

Many car companies are switching over to electric cars. BMW, Mercedes Benzes, Audie and now the Dodge Challenger big motor cars are going electric. Dodge is not putting out the stats on the car, but it is faster than their 700hp Hellcat. But it lacks the fun of driving a hot rod.

A Utah based company that sells apparel emblazoned with pro trump, pro-gun slogans has received a $211,336 fine for replacing made in China tags with made in the USA tags. They had to also notify all of its costumers of their deception. That included one that said "Give Violence a Chance."

P.T. Barnum said there is a sucker born every minute, and that has now changed to every second. If you want to make a whole lot of money, all you have to think up is the biggest lie or conspiracy and peddle it to the suckers. You are backed up in this by the 1st Amendment. Alex Jones made a lot of money claiming that the tragic shooting, which killed 20 children, at Sandy Hook Elementary School was a fabricated "false flag" scheme to justify gun-control laws. The parents of one of the children testified of the living hell they went through due to the harassment and

death threats made to them

by Jones' followers. The malevolent huckster will finally suffer real consequence for leveraging the pain of others to make a buck. It is estimated that his wealth is between $125 million and $250 million. The court awarded the grieving parent $50 million, and it is only a start, and three other parents are filing suits. The grim truth is that Jones’ “shtick is everywhere these days,” and his legacy of brazen dishonesty will live on. (From USA Today) This hate that is killing our country has spread to Utah; St. George had seven Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints chapels vandalized last month. This last week, SLC had eight chapels also vandalized.

The number of Americans without health insurance has dropped to 8%, a record.

More than five million people have gained coverage since 2020. This is due to expanded premium subsidies and increased outreach to help people enroll in Affordable Care Act plans.

Pat and I will be tripping the next two weeks and will be back on the 4th, so take good care of yourselves while we are gone.

It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail.

—Samuel Adams Mack O.

Trailer Park Girls: The thing about these vintage trailers is a lot of people don’t know what they have. They are trashed and they are a lot of work. But we’re able to make a profit off of them. Vintage trailers are very trendy right now.—Jaynie Connor

Courtesy Jaynie Connor

Jaynie Connor (left) and Maiyah Grant (right) hope to open Nettie’s Vintage Trailer Resort in May of 2023.

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forging her own path.

Both Connor and Grant grew up in Las Vegas—where they have known one another since the first grade. But Connor has long-term ties to Panguitch, where she says her family has been coming seasonally for over thirty years.

Her grandparents, John and Peggy Ellenburg, developed the Antelope Ridge Estates.

Her parents, Jay and Tera Con-

nor, have restored a couple of Panguitch’s pioneer homes.

Throughout her life, Connor says, “I spent my weekends and summers here.”

Connor describes her idea of creating and running a vintage trailer park as a “lifelong dream.”

“I thought Panguitch was a great location—I know how good it is as a tourism location. I thought it would be so cool to make a vintage trailer resort. We would always dream about it—how it would

be such a good spot for that,” said Connor.

Grant was all-in on the idea. “I just love Panguitch,” she said. “It feels like you’re stepping back in time. Everyone knows their neighbor, the grocery store clerk. It’s a comfortable, safe place, and being able to be close to the national parks is incredible. We want people to come to Panguitch and love it the way we do.”

After high school, Connor went to Utah Valley University, studied art, design and graphics and graduated in 2018, and found work doing freelance design and photography. Grant got her degree in outdoor recreation management and got a job managing a zip line up in northern Utah.

“I loved it,” said Grant. “That was my first case of knowing what it is to run a business.”

“Then we started getting trailers—renovating, and selling them,” said Connor. “The thing about these vintage trailers is a lot of people don’t know what they have. They are trashed and they are a lot of work. But we’re able to make a profit off of them. Vintage trailers are very trendy right now.”

With their goal in mind,

they put an offer on the Center Street lot two years ago, and when it closed about a year later, they began ripping out weedy Elm trees and cleaning up and leveling. “It was used as a dumping ground,” said Grant. “And we’re trying to make it presentable to work for our vision.”

So far, one trailer is on site—the one Connor and Grant are living in. But they’ve collected several that they will be refurbishing over the coming months. They’re not particular about specific trailer models. “We like to go before 1969—to stay in the 60s and 50s. We’ve collected seven from seven different brands,” said Connor.

The rehabs involved not just cosmetic work but structural fixes and updating wiring.

Grant added there are useful supply houses—such as vintagetrailersupply. com—that make reproductions of original fixtures. “We like to keep it as original as possible.”

But re-doing the bathrooms was out. “Too small,” they said. Plus, the infrastructure of water and sewer to each trailer was prohibitive on several fronts. Rather, the site will include a bath house for campers, as well as an office. Maiyah’s father Tony Grant, an architect and an interior designer in Las Vegas, helped with the structural design and layout of the park and with building design.

Another family connection is the park’s name.

“We wanted some meaning behind it,” said Grant.

Nettie is her grandmother’s nickname. “Growing up she always taught us, ‘whatever you want to do you can do.’

She always supported us in that. It felt fitting to name if after her.”

Connor and Grant say that while they are out working on the property, “We get necks turning all day as people drive by.”

Besides, added Grant, “Our trailer is silver aluminum. It shines in the light and it’s kind of hard to miss.”

—Insider

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August 29 - September 4

by John Mosley The Sky Report is presented as a public service by the Stellar Vista Observatory, a nonprofit organization based in Kanab, Utah, which provides opportunities for people to observe, appreciate, and comprehend our starry night sky. Additional information is at www.stellarvistaobservatory.org. Send questions and comments to John@StargazingAdventures.org.

Graphic Created with SkySafariAstronomy.com

This week, Mars is between two bright naked-eye star clusters. This view is approximately 25° on a side, set for 2 a.m. on August 29. The bright yellow star in front of the Hyades is Aldebaran. Uranus is nearby, and it’s easily visible in binoculars.

Starting in the evening with the planets, you might look for Mercury low in the west immediately after sunset, but you probably won’t see it; it’s so low. I mention it for completeness. On the evening of the 29th, it’s 7° below the thin crescent moon, and you might look for it then.

Have a dust-free sky and use binoculars.

The bright orange star next to the moon on the 2nd and 3rd is the giant star Antares in Scorpius, the Scorpion. On the 3rd, by the way, the First-Quarter moon is in the astronomical constellation Ophiuchus, the Healer or MD. Saturn is low in the southeast as darkness falls, and it’s almost halfway up the southern sky at midnight, and that’s the best time to see it through a telescope—when

it’s higher than the thickest layers of our atmosphere, which distort magnified images. Saturn rises four minutes earlier each night, and the time when it’s at its highest advances by four minutes each night, so in a month, it will be at its highest at about 10 p.m. That four minutes per day is true of Jupiter and Mars too.

Jupiter rises around 9 p.m.

Saturn is brighter than any star out at the time (Mars too), but Jupiter is brighter than any star in the night sky.

Mars doesn’t rise until midnight, and the best time to see it is just before dawn. Mars is midway between the bright Pleiades and Hyades star clusters in Taurus. It’s nearly in line with them all week. The Hyades is some 625 million years old (the stars in it were all born together at that time), and it’s

150 light years away, while the Pleiades is about 100 million years old (about the same age as the Rocky Mountains) and are 430 light years distant. The Pleiades looks smaller than the Hyades because: 1) it’s three times farther away, and 2) it actually is smaller, with a diameter of eight light years vs. eighteen for the Hyades. The stars of the Hyades, being older, have had more time to disperse. Eventually both clusters will “evaporate” as the stars drift away one-by-one. Before they disperse (in a few hundred million years), note with your binoculars or telescope that the young stars of the Pleiades are substantially bluer than the yellower stars of the Hyades, and the effect is quite noticeable when you stop to notice it. Blue stars are hot young stars with short life-spans, and all the Hyades blue stars have died, leaving only the yellow ones. There is much to see in the sky if you know what to look for!

The last planet to appear is Venus, which now rises 70 minutes before the sun. That number drops to 30 minutes at the end of the month. Venus is moving around behind the sun, and soon, we’ll lose it to view, but rumor has it that it’ll return to the evening sky early next year.

John Mosley was Program Supervisor of the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles for 27 years and is the author of “Stargazing for Beginners” and “Stargazing with Binoculars and Telescopes.” He and his wife live in St. George, where he continues to stargaze from his retirement home while serving on the advisory committee for Stellar Vista Observatory.

Wayne Commission: The Fort Desolation Fest,

the new baseball field project, the Boulder Mountain Homestead subdivision, and the Hanksville Diversion Project discussed.

Wayne Commission Cont'd from page 1

will be created and sent out to prospective contractors, with an option for dugout areas that will be either fenced or surrounded by cinder block.

Base bid will be for two fields with an option for a third.

This was unanimously accepted and approved.

Colleen Allen presented an amendment for the Boulder Mountain Homestead subdivision located off of Highway 12. The proposal was for an additional acre to be added to the four acre property. This was accepted and approved.

Sheriff Dan Jensen was to present personnel/staffing issues, but he was unavailable to attend.

Last up was Garrick Wilden with Jones and DeMille Engineering, who presented the Hanksville Diversion Project. “The pumping project is going, it’s just not going great,” Wilden stated.

The pumps had to be replaced due to sediment buildup from all of the red silt in the water. The pump manufacturer was coming here to look at the pumps and find a viable solution. The pumps have been running 24/7. There has been a request to the Natural Resources Conservation Service—or the NRCS—for an increase in funding for the Diversion Project. The NRCS provided $18 million dollars originally. They are now providing an additional $30 million dollars for the project. Jones and DeMille requested an approval of reimbursement of $43,808

for Jackson Excavation and $24,030 for Jones and DeMille. Wilden also presented the Wayne County Water Conservancy District review and request for approval regarding the requirements listed in the sponsor declaration form for the Conservancy The NRCS preliminary investigation and feasibility report is seeking funding to further evaluate establishing additional water storage within Wayne County. This was accepted and approved.

Other Items of Business: • Kari Dennison, who is a representative with Wayne Youth Sports, will be looking for additional monies for the new baseball field.

• Approval of the Utah Subdivision Agreement to establish Utah Attorney Fee and Expense Fund for opioid litigation was accepted and approved.

• The settlement agreement for the release of opioid litigation was accepted and approved.

• Sign Modification 001, Cooperative Law Enforcement Annual Operating Plan between Wayne County and the USDA Forest Service, Fishlake National Forest,

was presented by Teresa Brian. The Forest Service will provide Wayne County with $10,000 to patrol the area around Fishlake. This was accepted and approved.

• Color County Animal Welfare (CCAW) Special Event Permits: The first permit will be for the CCAW Chamber Music Concert, which will be held on August 30, 2022, from 6pm to 10pm. Champagne and wine will be served.

The second event will be the Give Me Shelter Event, which will be held on October 1, 2022, from 4pm to 7pm. Beer and Wine will be served. The Commissioners accepted and approved both events.

• Approval of vouchers, with the addition of $43,808 to be paid to Jackson Excavation and $24,030 to Jones and DeMille. This was accepted and approved.

Recordings of Wayne County Commission meetings can be found at utah.gov/pmn.

The Wayne County Commission meets the first and third Monday of every month at the Wayne County Courthouse in Loa.

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LegaL Notices NOTICE TO WATER USERS The applications below were filed with the Division of Water Rights in Wayne County. These are informal proceedings per Rule 655-6-2. 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 on or before Sep. 14, 2022 either electronically using the Division`s on-line Protest of Application form, by hand delivery to a Division office, or by mail at PO Box 146300, Salt Lake City, UT 84114-6300. Please visit waterrights.utah.gov or call (801)5387240 for additional information.

GARFIELD COUNTY NEW APPLICATION(S) 97-2497 (A83433): Dylan Rose Geerlings, Elena Hughes propose(s) using 1.7 ac-ft. from groundwater (5 miles S of Boulder) for DOMESTIC; IRRIGATION. CHANGE APPLICATION(S) 61-3376 (a49299): John Price, State of Utah Board of Water Resources, West Panguitch Irrigation and Reservoir Company propose(s) using 0.9328 ac-ft. from groundwater (1/2 mile W of Panguitch Lake) for DOMESTIC; IRRIGATION. 89-1702 (a49311): Jaeger Family Trust propose(s) using 6.0256 ac-ft. from groundwater (South of Cannonville) for IRRIGATION. 61-3377 (a49328): Carl Meltiar Hatch propose(s) using 0.0032 cfs OR 0.25 ac-ft. from groundwater (5 miles northwest of Hatch) for DOMESTIC. EXTENSION(S) 61-2801 (a34154): Alan Mathena, State of Utah Board of Water Resources, West Panguitch Irrigation and Reservoir Company is/are filing an extension for 1.6512 ac-ft. from groundwater (Panguitch Lake area) for DOMESTIC; IRRIGATION. 97-2329 (A77937): Open Country Investments, LLC is/ are filing an extension for 1.73 ac-ft. (Boulder Fields Subdivision) for DOMESTIC; IRRIGATION. KANE COUNTY EXTENSION(S) 61-3091 (a21606c): Newell Brent and Susan Carter is/are filing an extension for 0.00656 cfs OR 1 ac-ft. from the wells and springs existing (South of Duck Creek Village) for DOMESTIC. WAYNE COUNTY CHANGE APPLICATION(S) 95-5255 (a49330): Torrey Town propose(s) using 0.401 cfs OR 290.31 ac-ft. from the Sulfur, West Sulfur, Hell`s Hole, East Sand Creek (Torrey Town) for MUNICIPAL: In Torrey.

Teresa Wilhelmsen, P.E. State Engineer Published in The Wayne and Garfield County Insider on AUGUST 18 & 25, 2022

UOT Grants: The awards were

well deserved. Our industry partners will execute thoughtful, creative plans to create even more unforgettable experiences for our visitors.—Kym Buttschardt, UOT Co-op Marketing Committee Chair UOT Grants

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in a way that's consistent with local priorities. This is a priority under our Red Emerald Strategic Plan."

After the successful launch of the Forever Mighty Co-op Marketing Pilot Program in 2021, the Co-op Marketing Committee made the decision to integrate the two programs into a single application process. Applicants who successfully demonstrated the incorporation of the Forever Mighty ethics in their marketing plans had the opportunity to be awarded additional points towards their overall score.

“Once again, I was left inspired by the optimism and ingenuity of our applicants,” said Kym Buttschardt, UOT Co-op Marketing Committee Chair. “The awards were well

deserved. Our industry partners will execute thoughtful, creative plans to create even more unforgettable experiences for our visitors.”

The Utah Cooperative Marketing Program was established in 2005 and has since successfully funded 936 applications totaling $53.4 million to destination marketing organizations and travel-related nonprofits, extending the state’s brand to $106.8 million in out-of-state marketing dollars. The Co-op fund creates a partnership between the Utah Office of Tourism (UOT) and Utah’s local destination marketing organizations, including convention and visitor bureaus, chambers of commerce, events, festivals, and regional tourism organizations, to increase visitor spending in the state through marketing.

—Utah Office of Tourism

INVITATION TO BID Separate sealed bids for construction of the Garfield County Airport Road Bridge, Concrete Bridge Deck Project 2022 will be received by Garfield County from bidders.

Bids will be publicly opened and read aloud at 11:00 AM on Tuesday August 30, 2022 at the Garfield County Building located at 55 South Main St. Panguitch, Utah 84759.

The work to be performed under this project shall consist of furnishing all labor, materials and equipment required to construct the facilities and features called for by the CONTRACT DOCUMENTS and as shown on the DRAWINGS The project includes the removal of approximately 40 cubic yards of Untreated Base Course from the existing bridge surface, construction of a concrete deck on the existing bridge including approximately 30 cubic yards of concrete, thin bonded polymer overlay, traffic control, and related concrete work.

A pre-bid tour will be held on Tuesday, August 16, 2022, at 11:00 AM, at the Garfield County Building. Attendance at the pre-bid tour is not required.

Plans and specifications have been prepared by Sunrise Engineering, Inc. and will be available after August 10, 2022 on their website plan room at http://www.sunrise-eng.com. Click on “Plan Room” at the top of the homepage. Bidders must register and sign-in and choose to become a plan holder to obtain access to CONTRACT DOCUMENTS and DRAWINGS. Notices regarding changes/amendments to the CONTRACT DOCUMENTS and DRAWINGS will be sent to the e-mail address associated with the bidder’s registration. Bidders are responsible to maintain current and correct contact information and check the plan room often to receive updates or additional documents/ changes/amendments. The ENGINEER for this Contract will be Sunrise Engineering, Incorporated and they will be represented

by Lief Condie, as Project Manager.

Published in The Wayne and Garfield County Insider on AUGUST 18 & 25, 2022 WAYNE SCHOOL DISTRICT INVITATION TO BID Wayne School District is accepting bids for Coal Delivery to the school district buildings in Loa and Bicknell. The coal bid will be for freight only to and from the Sufco or Skyline Mines, as requested by the school district. Coal should be 1¼ inch oiled stoker coal—no fine coal, and should not be loaded out of a stockpile.

Sealed Bids should be submitted to the District Office (PO Box 127, 79 N 100 W, Bicknell, Utah 84715). Please indicate on the outside of the envelope what you are bidding on. Also include inside the envelope your name, phone number, and bid amount. Bids must be received by September 1, 2022 at 4:00 PM, and will be opened at the District Office at that time; anyone is welcome to be present.

Escalation of prices, if any, will be negotiated between the Wayne Board of Education and the successful bidder, upon mutual agreement during the school year. Bidder must furnish proof of their price escalation.

Wayne School District is an equal opportunity employer and provider, and reserves the right to accept or reject any and all bids.

Published in The Wayne and Garfield County Insider on AUGUST 18 & 25, 2022 NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING TORREY TOWN There will be a public meeting to discuss zoning changes from Residential to Mixed Use for the Entrada Institute Addition on August 25, 2022, at 6:30 PM at the Torrey Town Pavilion, 75 E. 100 N. Karen Mayne, Torrey Town clerk Published in The Wayne and Garfield County Insider on AUGUST 25, 2022

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that 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 the sale, at entrance to the GARFIELD COUNTY COURTHOUSE located at 55 S. Main Street, Panguitch, UT 84759 on Tuesday, September 13, 2022 at 1:00 p.m., for the purpose of foreclosing on a Trust Deed with Assignment of Rents originally executed by HolmBrands, LLC, as Trustor, and Ads Group, Inc., as Beneficiary. The Trust Deed with Assignment of Rents was recorded on December 13, 2021, as Entry No. 281856, Book 556, Pages 422-426, in the official records of the Recorder of Garfield County, State of Utah, and re-recorded as Entry No. 282000, Book 557, Pages 189-194, and includes property more particularly described as follows: Parcel: 22-0077-0006 Legal: THE WEST HALF OF SECTION 2, TOWNSHIP 36 SOUTH, RANGE 4 WEST, SALT LAKE BASE AND MERIDIAN LYING NORTH OF UTAH STATE HIGHWAY 12 RIGHT OF WAY. TOGETHER WITH ALL WATER RIGHTS UNDER THE WATER RIGHT NUMBERS 61-2819, 61-2799 AND 61-2999 ON FILE IN THE OFFICE OF THE UTAH STATE WATER ENGINEER. A Substitution of Trustee was recorded on April 22, 2022 as Entry 282668, Book 560, Pages 505-506 and a Notice of Default was recorded on April 22, 2022 as Entry 282669, Book 560, Pages 507-508 in the official records of the Recorder of Garfield County, State of Utah.

The Substitute Trustee has elected to sell or cause to be sold all rights, title and interest of the Trustor in and to the real property described in the aforementioned Trust Deed in order to satisfy such obligations in favor of the Beneficiary.

Bidders must tender to the Substitute Trustee a deposit of five thousand dollars ($5,000.00), at the time of sale and the balance of the purchase price is due by 12:00 p.m. MST on the first business day following the sale. The deposit is nonrefundable and retained as damage if balance is not paid within 24 hours of sale. Both the deposit and the balance must be paid to J. David Westwood, Trustee, in the form of a wire transfer, cashier’s check or certified funds. Cash payments, personal checks or trust checks are not accepted.

The Substitute Trustee shall sell the above property at the time of the sale without warranty, express or implied subject to all encumbrances of record. Anyone having questions or desiring information regarding the property to be sold should contact the undersigned. Hours of office operation: 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, except legal holidays.

This is an attempt to collect a debt. Any information obtained will be used to collect this debt. /s/ J. David Westwood WESTWOOD LAW, P.C. – 435-267-2145 98 W. Harding Ave., Cedar City, UT 84720 Published in The Wayne and Garfield County Insider on AUGUST 11, 18 & 25, 2022 INVITATION TO BID REDEVELOPMENT OF JOHN ALLEN BOTTOM SPRING #4 ESCALANTE, UTAH The City of Escalante, Utah is seeking proposals from qualified, Utah-licensed contractors to rehabilitate a spring in the John Allen Bottom area approximately 14 miles northeast Escalante, Utah. Key features of this project include installation of spring water collection piping, installation of a cutoff wall, installation of a collection box, installation of piping between the collection box and an existing junction box, repair of the existing junction box, and reclamation of areas affected by the project. Additional information regarding this project may be obtained from Escalante City at the address given below.

A mandatory pre-bid conference and project walk-through will be held at 10:00 AM Mountain Time on September 9, 2022 at the Escalante City office as follows: Escalante City 56 North 100 West PO Box 189 Escalante, Utah 84726 The design engineer and a representative of Escalante City will be present to discuss the project at the office and will then accompany potential contractors to the project location.

Bids for this project will be received at the offices of Escalante City, noted above, until 4:00 PM Mountain Time on September 19, 2022. Bids may also be submitted via email to ssteed@escalantecity.com.

Bids received after the required time will not be accepted.

Bids will be opened privately and tabulated. Escalante City reserves the right to reject any and all bids and to waive irregularities or informalities in any bid.

Published in The Wayne and Garfield County Insider on AUGUST 25 and SEPTEMBER 1 & 8, 2022 PUBLIC NOTICE STATE OF UTAH SCHOOL AND INSTITUTIONAL TRUST LANDS ADMINISTRATION State of Utah School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration hereby gives notice that the following property is being considered for lease: Garfield County Township 34 South, Range 3 West. SLB&M Section 35: S2N2NW4, S2NW4, SW4 Containing 280 acres, more or less Any individual wishing to comment or submit a competing application to purchase, lease, and/or exchange for this property, a portion thereof, or a parcel including any of the abovedescribed acreage, should also file an application including the appropriate application fee(s).

The Trust Lands Administration will accept comments and/or competing applications during the following period: From 8:00 A.M. Thursday, August 11, 2022 Until 5:00 P.M. Friday, September 9, 2022 Please submit comments and/or competing applications to TRUST LANDS ADMINISTRATION 2031 South Industrial Park Road Richfield, UT 84701 (435) 896-2559 Reference No.: SULA 1988 The Trust Lands Administration reserves the right to reject any application or subsequent bids.

Published in The Wayne and Garfield County Insider on AUGUST 11, 18 & 25, 2022

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Courtesy Salt Lake Tribune

Oil Spill

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cord of the spill’s impacts, which was provided to The Salt Lake Tribune. State officials were concerned that a severe rain event could fill Pet Hollow with fast-moving water and push oil into the Escalante River and Lake Powell.

Gaddis issued a notice of violation on Nov. 18, concluding the company caused “pollution which constitutes a menace to public health and welfare and that is harmful to wildlife” and placed waste in locations that resulted in pollution.

Redweik said Citation disputes Gaddis’s findings and the company is negotiating with DEQ to achieve a final resolution to the notice.

According to the company’s reports to DEQ, the spill resulted from a failure in an 8-inch gravity-fed pipeline from the field’s main battery of storage tanks to a sales location on State Road 12. Citation immediately shut down the line and oil stopped flowing out within 15 minutes.

The escaped oil followed gravity into a narrow, rocky gulley, and traveled a mile to Pet Hollow, which was dry at the time, and continued for another quartermile before its progress was stopped behind hastily con-

structed dikes. Using pumps, crews sucked up nearly 400 barrels of oil that was returned to Citation’s tanks for eventual sale, while the company estimated another five barrels, or just 210 gallons, remained, soaked into the soils, staining rocks in the gully and embedded into sand and gravel in the wash.

The flow path was flushed with water to remove oil stuck to the rocks, but they remained stained months later. Contaminated soil and vegetation was bagged and hauled to Garfield County’s landfill, but Citation put a halt to this work when snow began falling on Dec. 8 and sent its contractor home for winter.

“Citation was awaiting approval of the cleanup plan prior to proceeding with the activities in areas impacted by the spill,” Redweik said of the winter delay. “In addition, weather and safety conditions for the workers were important reasons.”

Cleanup interrupted DEQ inspected the cleanup on Dec. 14 and concluded more work needed to be done and conditions were safe to continue. In a Jan. 13, letter, Gaddis instructed Redweik to resume the cleanup. The then-DEQ director set a deadline of May 1 to complete the cleanup of Pet Hollow and June 1 for the rest of the area impacted by the spill. Accord-

ing to DEQ, the cleanup didn’t resume until March 21, more than two months after Gaddis instructed the company to get back to work.

All the while, the agency was pushing back against Citation’s proposal to use the oily gravel from Pet Hollow to fix roads in the oil field. But the company went ahead with the plan anyway, claiming it had the blessing of local health officials and Dixie National Forest.

“It was determined that the impacted gravel from the Pet Hollow dry wash area could be used in a beneficial manner as roadbase material, which had the additional benefit of keeping this usable material out of the landfill,” Redweik told the Tribune.

In several emails, however, DEQ staff advised Redweik and Citation’s environmental consultant that using the gravel this way could violate state laws governing waste, which specifically prohibit applying used oil to roads. Citation’s cleanup consultant Ben Shoup even acknowledged the plan was “a no-go option.”

Yet over the course of five days in late March, 158 truck loads of gravel were removed from the Pet Hollow wash and spread around Forest Road 146, according to the emails.

Before the job began, Redweik’s told Heusser, the compliance and enforcement chief, that only 100 cubic yards of gravel would be removed from the wash. It wound up being nearly 2,000 yards.

Emails from Redweik to DEQ indicate Escalante District Ranger Terry DeLay approved the plan and Adam Solt, who oversees the Dixie Forest’s minerals program, directed where to spread the gravel. Kevin Wright, the forest supervisor, said he had no knowledge of the gravel controversy, which potentially could result in another notice of violation against Citation.

This article was originally published in The Salt Lake Tribune on July 21, 2022, and is republished here with permission.

Bryce Town Council: Forest Service updates

from District Ranger of the Powell Ranger District Chris Wehrli, the upcoming Canyon2Canyon event, Founders Day Party follow-ups, new business license approvals, removal of fire restrictions that were in place within town limits, Department reports, and financials discussed.

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will need reseeding and repair. The Forest Service is in the initial stages of planning a timber salvage sale.

Dave’s Hollow Dispersed Camping Area: The site is reopened. There are 26 sites that have been consolidated to counter some of the issues that have impacted the area. Past impacts include site expansion, human waste, social trails, and new motorized access trails. Wehrli has requested funding to install kiosks at Dave’s Hollow camping area along with regulations to help inform the public.

Thunder Mountain Trailhead: The width of the trailhead will be expanded to create more room for horses.

There are plans to put in better parking and a new toilet.

A few more campsites are being planned for the equestrian camp, and some will be designated equestrian-only until 6 pm.

E-bikes: Thunder Mountain Trail is technically nonmotorized, but there is heavy e-bike usage. This type of motorized bike raises unique safety concerns. They are heavy and can cause serious injury. If they break down in the backcountry, they could strand the rider. Patrolling the trail is an option to help reduce motorized bike use.

Road Chip Sealing: About 4.5 miles of road resealing is planned near East Creek in collaboration with

the county.

Red Canyon Visitor Center: There is still a need to hire a manager for the Red Canyon Visitor Center. The Forest Service tried to hire locally but did not find a candidate. There will also be a new seasonal employee. There was approval to hire an assistant to ease reliance on volunteers.

This will benefit the Bryce Canyon National History Association in terms of keeping things open and generating revenue. If there are any local candidates that might be a good fit for these roles, get in touch with Chris Wehrli. Hiring preferences are given to veterans.

Losee/Casto Mountain Bike Track: The county is working on putting in a new bike track on Bureau of Land Management land near Losee/ Casto.

Canyon2Canyon: Deanna Moore and Jade Roundy reported that 418 riders are currently signed up for the annual Canyon2Canyon bike event on Saturday, August 27th.

Shirts have been ordered and activities are lined up. Locals are encouraged to attend.

Founders Day Party Follow-Up: There was a good turnout this year. The bouncy houses were a big hit. There is a $2,743.40 invoice for food that the council will resolve in the coming weeks.

New Business License Approval: Chandlyr Tebbs of Red Rock Plumbing and Drain Cleaning joined the meeting and received approval for his business license.

Rescinded Fire Restrictions: The fire restrictions that were in place within town limits were removed due to recent rainfall.

Department Reports: • The current Bryce Canyon City website is getting redone. Website mockups are under review.

• There is a list of street signs that need to be replaced.

• There was a recent scare with a near-hit of a pedestrian at the Main Street crosswalk. The council discussed possibilities for mitigating risk in this location: flashing lights, signage, and improved patrolling. They decided to reach out to law enforcement to increase frequency of patrols, and to touch base with UDOT about installing flashing lights.

Financials: Payments were made to Fun Time Inflatables for $1,700.00 (bouncy houses for the Founder’s Day Party), Bryce Canyon Sinclair for $109.74 (fuel), Canon Copier for $141.89, Bryce Canyon Prevention Coalition for $420.23, Emily Clark for $57.12 (Prevention Coalition), Henry Schein for $1,978.00 (Automated External Defibrillators for the fire trucks), and YESCO Sign Company for $1,572.00 (billboards).

The next council meeting will take place on September 1st.

Bryce Canyon City Town Council meetings take place the 1st and 3rd Thursday of each month.

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August 25, 2022

To place your ad, call 435-826-4400 or email snapshot@live.com

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HELP WANTED

Full-time Teller in Loa

Cache Valley Bank is looking for a full-time Teller in Loa, Utah. This position comes with benefits. Prior experience with cash handling and customer service is preferred. Required skills include communication, math and attention to detail. Must have a high school diploma, GED or equivalent.

Must satisfactorily complete a background and credit check and be authorized to work in the United States.

Applications are available in the Loa Cache Valley Bank branch.

Registered Nurse Bicknell, UT Location

We are seeking a motivated individual to join our team as a Registered Nurse. Full-time position. Applicant must have at least one year Registered Nurse experience. Currently the position would work one Saturday a month.

Primary responsibilities would include: • Patient intake • Patient health documentation • Lab draws and Lab testing • General patient care • Emergency care • Take telephone messages and provide feedback and answers to patient/physician/pharmacy calls.

• Triage and process messages from patients and front office staff to physicians.

• Maintain all logs and required checks • Room preparation and stocking • Nurse outpatient visits • Case Management Minimum requirements: • Health care background at least one year as RN. • High school diploma • Current RN license • Basic medical terminology • Current Basic Life Support (BLS) • Pass a background check Preferred Qualifications: • Bachelor’s degree in nursing • ACLS & PALS • Emergency Experience Wage: based on experience If interested, please send your resume to Josie Moosman at josiem@waynechc.org.

Dental Assistant/ Scrub Tech Panguitch Dental

Panguitch Dental is looking for a motivated Dental Assistant/scrub tech to join their team.

This position will be part-time/ full time, working three to four days per week. Must be 18 or older.

The position responsibilities include: • Patient Interaction.

• Taking X-Rays.

• Chair-side assisting.

• Scheduling, Charting, Documenting dental visits on computer.

• Sterilization of dental Instruments.

• Set-up and cleaning operatory and office.

Experienced applicants would have the following isn't needed but preferred: • Dental Assisting Experience • Pedo, Endo, Oral Surgery and General Dentistry Experience.

• Knowledge of Computer Charting and Digital x-rays • X-Ray Certified.

• CPR Certified.

We are willing to train those with no assisting experience.

Wage is negotiable if you have dental experience.

Email your resume to: tlamb@waynechc.org Or you can drop it off in person at Panguitch Dental.

75 N 200 E, Panguitch, UT 84759

Part-time Assistant Clerk Needed Loa Town

Loa Town is looking to hire a self-motivated individual to handle secretary duties for the planning and zoning commission along with additional clerk duties, 15-20 hours per week.

If you are interested, please contact Michelle Brian at 435-616-2643 for more information.

CROSSWORD SOLUTION

Position Announcements POSITIONS AVAILABLE: Garfield County School District is hiring the following positions. For a description of each, please see the district website www.garfk12.org

Full-Time Temporary Custodian at Bryce Valley High Full- Time Classified Position in Boulder Part-Time District Wide Mental Health Coordinator Half-Time Art Teacher at Escalante High Full-Time Teacher at Boulder Elementary Food Service Worker in Panguitch Substitute/Activity Bus Drivers in Escalante Para-Professionals at All Schools Substitutes for Teachers, Custodians, and Food Service Workers SALARY: Please see 2022-2023 Garfield County School Districts Classified Salary Schedule and Certified Salary Schedule.

QUALIFICATIONS: Applicants must be fingerprinted and satisfactorily pass an employment background check. Applicant must work well with children. See the job description for additional requirements.

APPLICATION: Interested individuals should submit a Garfield County School District classified or certified application.

Please direct questions to: AES Head Teacher Robin Gibbs (435-624-3221) BES Head Teacher Elizabeth Julian (435-335-7322) BVES Principal Pete Peterson (435-679-8619) BVHS Principal Jeff Brinkerhoff (435-679-8835) EES/EHS Principal Peter Baksis (435-826-4205) PES Principal Lisa Breinholt (435-676-8847) PMS/PHS Principal Russ Torgersen (435-676-8805) Superintendent John Dodds (435-676-8821) Online application available: www.garfk12.org Applications will be screened and the most qualified candidates will be granted interviews.

DEADLINE: See the district website for closing date of each position.

Garfield County School District is an equal opportunity employer.

Garfield County School District reserves the right to accept or reject any or all applications.

SERVICES When in Need, There are Resources in Wayne & Garfield Counties For Victims of Domestic Violence, Rape, and Sexual Assault

Canyon Creek Services

Emergency Safehouse 435-865-7443 Mobile Team 435-233-5732 New Horizons Crisis Center 145 East 100 North, Richfield Office Hours 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM Shelter is open 24 hrs, 7 days a week Phone Number 435-896-9294 Counseling Services Central Utah Counseling Richfield Office 255 S Main Street, Richfield Office Hours 435-896-8236 24 Hour Emergency Service 877-469-2822 Southwest Behavioral Health Center 601 E Center Street, Panguitch 435-676-8176 24 Hour Emergency Service 800-574-6763 Wayne Community Health Center 128 South 300 West Bicknell, 84715 435-425-3744 National Suicide Prevention Lifeline 1-800-273-8255

We are looking for friendly, hardworking professionals who enjoy the hospitality industry and interaction with guests.

P O S I T I O N S AVA I L A B L E: Front Desk Agents Laundry Services Housekeepers Maintenance Bellmen Positions to start April 1st through October 31st At Capitol Reef Resort we promote from within.

Please stop by in person to complete an application.

We are located at 2600 E SR 24, Torrey, UT 84775 435-425-3761

Help Wanted

Come be part of the next big thing in Wayne County!

Help wanted to build cabins and retail buildings in Hanksville.

Any level of experience is welcome.

Basic carpentry is preferred.

Starting pay at $15-$18 per hour.

Please call (877) 711-3857 https://muddycreekminingcompany.com

Wanted Alive and Awake AW Builders Experienced, skilled building construction employees. Carpentry, concrete—all aspects of fine homebuilding.

Send resume to: AW Builders, Box 227, Escalante, UT 84726 Or email: awbuilders16@gmail.com EXCELLENT PAY

MEETINGS TROPIC AA MEETING Wednesday at 6 PM. Tropic Heritage Center. All meetings are closed discussion.

ESCALANTE AA MEETING Call for times and locations.

435-676-3653

Bring light and peace into your life Join us in the ADDICTION RECOVERY PROGRAM Meetings are held EVERY SUNDAY AT 4PM at the Escalante High School SEMINARY BUILDING 435-772-6527 Individual meetings are available upon request.

Please call to verify meetings on 6/19/22, 7/24/22, 7/31/22

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Corrections Officer

Garfield County is accepting applications for a Corrections Officer.

Applications are available at the Garfield County Clerk’s Office or online at www.garfield.utah.gov and will be accepted until September 2, 2022.

Anyone interested in applying for this position must pass the National Peace Officer Selection Exam prior to making application. The Exam is given at the Browning Learning Center on the Dixie College Campus. For additional information regarding the Exam and registration requirements, contact the Browning Learning Center at (435) 652-7696. The exam is also given at Southern Utah University. Call 435-5865419 for additional information.

Garfield County reserves the right to accept or reject any or all applications. Garfield County is an equal opportunity employer.

FOR RENT

House for Rent in Hatch, Utah

60 N. Main St. 3 bedroom, 2.5 bath, .75 ac. w/ garage. $1300/month plus utilities.

6 month contracts available. $1000.00 deposit is required.

For more info, contact Lantz @801-419-2027 or lantz.neilson@yahoo.com