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Thursday, September 13, 2018
Issue # 1272
Wild & Scenic Film Festival
Come Watch 12 Films Inspired by Wilderness, September 21 in Escalante ESCALANTE - Kick off this year’s Escalante Canyons Art Festival and Everett Reuss Days with a free film
festival at Escalante High School, Friday, September 21st from 6:00pm – 9:00pm. Find your inspiration touring the country through twelve incredible films about discovering beauty in the wild. From the frigid coast of Alaska to the familiar shoreline along the Escalante River, there’s so
much to learn about! Come for a great night out, and support your local high school by purchasing refreshments. You could also leave with some great prizes by entering the Wild & Scenic raffle or learn more about one of your great local nonprofits like: Boulder Arts Council, Grand Staircase Escalante Partners, Glen Canyon Natural History Association and the Escalante Canyons Art Festival. The Wild & Scenic Film Festival was started in 2003 by the South Yuba River Citizens League (SYRCL), a nonprofit river conservation organization located in Nevada City, CA in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains. The organization was formed in 1983 when a small group of concerned citizens banded together to fight against several proposed dams. The festival’s Wild and Scenic Cont'd on page 3
Op-Ed
Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument Turns 22 on September 18, 2018! Here are 22 Reasons to Celebrate the Grand Staircase-Escalante by Grand Staircase Escalante Partners
Community Juicing Day Set for Saturday, September 22 Community Apple Juicing, Food Drive, and Apple Vendors
Wayne County Commission Meeting Sept. 4, 2018 by Veronica Egan
Scott T. Smith photography
As Robert Marc and Tracy Potter assist in loading apples into the mobile juicer, Ryal Schallenberger of Northwest Mobile Juicing seals pasteurized juice at the 2016 Community Juicing Day in Torrey, Utah. TORREY – Got apples? Got lots of apples? Got too many apples? Community Juicing Day may be your solution. On Saturday, September 22, in the parking lot of The Saddlery, a complete mobile apple juicing unit will be set up to take in and juice your apples, for free. People from throughout Wayne & Garfield counties are invited to show up with bins, boxes, bags, trash cans or even truckloads of apples between 9am and 3pm. “Whatever way you can
get it to us, bring us your fruit,” said Ann Torrence, of Torrey’s Stray Arrow Ranch, who is sponsoring Community Juicing Day. Torrence and her husband Robert Marc have hired Ryal Schallenberger of Northwest Mobile Juicing of Montana for the event. It is a full service processing unit that washes, juices, and pasteurizes fruit. “This is the deal,” said Torrence. “People get to bring their apples, get them juiced, and what they leave with is pasteurized, ‘bag in a box’
Episode 9—Water!
juice that is shelf stable for six months. For free.” Any surplus apples that are not juiced, Torrence will purchase, either as a direct payment to the apple-bringer, or as a donation to the Wayne County Food Bank. “If people have extra good condition fruit I will be happy to buy it, or make a donation in the same amount to the food bank, whichever they prefer,” said Torrence. This is a great opportunity to get free juice and make a little money from your apples. It could also serve as a way to raise funds for a civic or youth group, for groups that want to harvest apples and bring them in to support a charity. Torrence’s goal is to acquire 4,000 gallons of juice for her upcoming business, Etta Place Cider, and her hope is that people will bring in as much fruit as possible.
WAYNE COUNTY - The Wayne County Commission met on Tuesday, Sept. 4 due to the Labor Day holiday. First on the agenda was Dave Love, representing the Red Ridge subdivision south of Torrey. The property was originally subdivided by Commissioner Harward, but he no longer retains any interest it. It was originally created as a Special Service District, as relates to its septic system, but some of the 11 lots are “in” the District (on the community septic system) and some aren’t. Now that all of the lots are sold, the WCC
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Boulder Town Council Meeting September 4 by Tessa Barkan
BOULDER - The September Boulder Town Council meeting began by recognizing members of the Boulder Arts Council for their volunteer service. Present to accept their certificates were Cheryl Cox, Tina Karlsson, Dianne Oberhansly, Elizabeth Julian, and Jill Trombley. The Boulder Arts Council reported on a number of recent and upcoming events. Their summer music in the park
by Bonnie Mangold WAYNE COUNTY - In throughout the mid-west and Episode Seven, I alluded to the west are decreasing; conseimproved survival potential of quently aquifers are being groups and communities that drawn down, river flows are choose to cooperate. It seems diminishing and at the same the situation regarding our time water usage is increaswater supplies will make this Episode 9 Community Juicing BTC increasingly necessary. WishCont'd on page 4 Cont'd on page 6 Cont'd on page 8 ful thinking (false hope) dictates that we will have a great snow winter and all will be well, but that idea is not based on any known trends. So, how will we handle increasing water shortages? As a community we need to start addressing this and figure out how best to deal with these real world issues. How will we allocate water resources as they get scarcer? Next to having air to breathe, water is the most important natural resource in the world. Just ask the countries that are running out of Courtesy Stephanie Minnaert it! Singapore, for example, Youth from all over the Southwest join in Escalante to remove Russian Olive from along is a country with excellent the Escalante watershed. The four participating programs are Utah Conservation Corps, water management, but yet it Arizona Conservation Corps, Canyon Country Youth Corps, and Southwest conservation must import water. Areas like the southwest of the US have Corps—Ancestral Lands. This will be the final year for the project, and we wish them a safe been desert for thousands of and productive season! years, and not until irrigation ESCALANTE - Fall sea- City, UT), Arizona Conser- crews will be working mainly became common were such son in southern Utah means vation Corps (Flagstaff, AZ), in Harris Wash and in varilands more than sparsely inconservation corps crews in- Canyon Country Youth Corps ous locations along the main habited. Unfortunately population growth doesn’t come filtrating the local communi- (Monticello, UT), and South- stem of the Escalante River, with an increasing supply ties of the Grand Staircase-Es- west Conservation Corps including just downstream of water, and so here in the calante. The four participating – Ancestral Lands (Gallup, of the Highway 12 bridge west, and through much of conservation corps programs NM), and they’ve been hired from September through Nothe world, we are facing seri- are from different areas of to work on the Russian olive Watershed ous water issues. Snow packs the four corners region: Utah project on public lands within Cont'd on page 3 Conservation Corps (Cedar the Escalante Watershed. The
Conservation Corps Back for the Fall Season Working for the Escalante River Watershed
Courtesy James and Jenny Tarpley
The Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument turns 22 this September the 18th! GRAND STAIRCASEESCALANTE - 1. Eightyeight percent of Utahns support leaving our national monuments as designated, which is very important. However, these public lands belong to all Americans, and 99% agree that National Monuments should remain as designated. 2. The Monument is the richest bee landscape reported to date, with 650 bee species now described. For comparison, there are only about 200 bee species reported for all of New England (http://www.na-
tivebeesofnewengland.com/). 3. Per capita income in the Grand Staircase-Escalante region experienced a 17% increase from 2001 to 2015. National Monuments are good for their gateway communities! (Headwaters Economics, 2017) 4. Actions by the State of Utah to attack the designations of National Monuments have already had serious economic impacts to the $8.12 billion tourist industry (Alberty, 2017). Op-ed
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THURS. SEPTEMBER 13 - WED. SEPTEMBER 19
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