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Panguitch • Panguitch Lake • Hatch • Bryce • Tropic • Antimony • Henrieville • Cannonville • Escalante • Boulder • Fremont • Loa • Lyman Bicknell • Teasdale • Torrey • Grover • Fruita • Caineville • Hanksville
Thursday, October 2, 2014 • Issue # 1068
Wayne County Celebrates Fall with Scarecrow Festival WAYNE CO. - Scarecrows are sprouting up all over Wayne County! The Harvest Time Scarecrow Festival runs throughout the month of October. We encourage everyone to come and enjoy the fun activities planned from Loa to Hanksville. Individuals, businesses, and organizations are all encouraged to create scarecrows to display. To be eligible for awards, be sure to register your scarecrow at http://goo. gl/NnHTmf. Printed registration forms are also available at Royals in Loa and Robber’s Roost Bookstore in Torrey. Scarecrows must be registered by OCTOBER 6 to be eligible for awards. Jen Howe will be around to ensure that each scarecrow has a number. She’ll also be photographing each scarecrow. These photos will be posted at Royals, Robber’s Roost. and online. During the first couple weeks of October, be sure to check out the scarecrows in all the beautiful small towns
of Wayne County. A scarecrow map will be available on Facebook. When you’re ready to vote for your favorite, go to http://goo.gl/uQVeHS. You’ll need the scarecrow’s number. You can also vote on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/ HarvestTimeScarecrowFest. Finally, you can vote at boxes located at Royal’s in Loa or Robber’s Roost in Torrey. The final day of voting is OCTOBER 15. Throughout the month, there will be Harvest Time events throughout the county. The month kicks off with the Harvest Homecoming event at Capitol Reef National Park on October 4. Sponsored by the Capitol Reef Natural History Association, activities throughout the day will focus on celebrating your heritage through pioneer craft demonstrations along with poetry making, and local musicians. The day will include a welcome by Superintendent Leah McGinnis; Fruita HisScarecrow Festival Cont'd on page 2
Harvest Harvey. The Harvest Harvey Award will be given to the Wayne County scarecrow with the most votes. This award will be passed from winner to winner each year.
What Will You Eat When the Lights Go Out?
Utah Governor Gary Herbert (fourth from left) with officials from Garfield County, Bryce Canyon City and the National Park Service stand before Garfield County's first full service stop light.
Bryce Canyon City Installs First Stoplight in Garfield County BRYCE CANYON CITYUtah’s Garfield County now has its very first traffic signal thanks to a $1 million renovation of Bryce Canyon City’s Main Street. Utah Governor Gary Herbert recently toured the completed project and posed for a photograph in front of the new traffic signal alongside officials from Bryce Canyon City, Garfield County and the National Park Service. “It’s incredible to think that Garfield County has five thousand square miles and only one stop light,” said Bryce Canyon City Mayor David Tebbs. “We are proud of how our new Main Street adds modern conveniences while keeping the feel of the historic destination.” For comparison, Garfield
Escalante Canyons Art Festival Celebrates 11th Year in Grand Style
Allysia Angus
All of the award winners of the Escalante Canyons Art Festival plein air competition pose for a final photo following the awards ceremony on Saturday night. ESCALANTE - The 11th Escalante Canyons Art Festival-Everett Ruess Days held in Escalante, Utah, on September 26-27 saw increases in participation across the board. Approximately 90 artists from near and as far away as Hawaii participated in the Plein Air Competition and of these, approximately a third were participating for the first time. The Speaker’s Series featured David Leland Hyde, son of renowned American wilderness photographer, Philip Hyde (1921-2006), as the keynote on Friday night. His talk, Nature
Photographer Philip Hyde and His Family Ramble the Southwest, included a few of Philip Hyde’s early photos of Escalante and Canyonlands. Vendors selling art, photography, fabric goods, ceramics, wood crafts, and food were busy with customers both Friday and Saturday. And the entertainment ranged from local talents – Brent Griffin & Ted Engberg; Bob Phillips, Eric Scott Bresselsmith, Unknown Quantity and Out on Bail with Raymond Shurtz from Boulder, UT; to those from further afar like Shiloh Rising from Salt Lake
REGIONAL Weather forecast for some but not all regions represented in our newspaper coverage area
Thurs. ocT. 2 - wed. OCT. 8 THIS WEEK'S FORECAST IS FOR ALL SUN...we will see whether this is true. SUNNY Thursday through Wednesday, highs in upper 60s to low-mid 70s. Lows in upper 30s to low 40s.
City, Voluntary String Band from Flagstaff, AZ, and Awardwinning western entertainer, Mary Kay Knaphus and her two talented daughters from Manti, UT. Plein Air artists could begin painting for this year’s competition on September 18 and were also able to enjoy a one-day Paint-Out event on September 24 that included Hell’s Backbone Road into the Dixie National Forest and scenes into the Box-Death Hollow Wilderness, in honor the 50th Anniversary of the Wilderness Act. For the Plein Air Competitions, prizes totaling more than $8000 were awarded Art Festival
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County’s total land area of 5,208 square miles is roughly the same size as the entire state of Connecticut (5,543 square miles). “We’re still as rural as you can get,” said Mayor Tebbs, “but now pedestrians headed to Bryce Canyon can safely cross the highway at the intersection’s crosswalk.” Bryce Canyon National Park receives approximately 1.3 million visitors every year. The only way to enter the park is through Bryce Canyon City—which is why the improvements to Main Street were vital to pedestrian safety. In addition to the traffic light, the enhancements to Main Street include new sidewalks, curbs, gutters, and street lighting. The street’s new configuration will better
accommodate tour busses and shuttles and will also provide connections for regional bike and walking trail systems. “Visitors from all over the world visit Bryce Canyon,” said Garfield County Commissioner Leland Pollock. “The new Main Street affords visitors a better, safer experience as they enter one of the nation’s most beautiful national parks.” Limiting light pollution was a high priority for the project. The new light poles and fixtures along Main Street were engineered to comply with recommendations from the National Park Service. “Bryce Canyon has been classified as having one of Stoplight
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G A R F I E L D / WAY N E COUNTIES - The electricity is out indefinitely and your family is hungry. What to do? What to fix? It is overcast so the solar sun isn’t an option. It has begun to rain cats and dogs – everything but food – so the fire pit is out. Too hot for a fire in the wood burning stove. Grill on the BBQ? Perfect! As long as you remembered to put propane in the bottles after all the summer family reunions. Ah, you even bought one of those nifty ovens that Camp Chef has to go on top of the burner so you can bake some rolls or pizza. Nice work. Most of us use electricity every day in meal preparation, many times without a second thought: microwave, toaster, stove top, oven, and a myriad of other appliances. What about when they aren’t an option? Years ago I read an article about an attorney whose wife and two young daughters ate wheat grass for an entire year. The fact that he is an attorney seemed significant to me since a degreed person might possess some critical thinking skills and forethought before taking on such a task. After the year they were physically fit and healthy. They decided to ease into a more traditional diet after the year for variety in food groups and flavor and texture. Critics could say they are crazy but that is a much healthier option than straight fast food that makes you sick after a few weeks as Morgan Spurlock found out in super Size Me. Besides we can’t eat at McDonald’s when the power is out anyway. So think of options. Last week a friend fixed her family of 7 a delicious roast with all the trimmings in her What to Eat Cont'd on page 3
Meet the Dixie National Forest’s New District Ranger for the Powell Ranger District
PANGUITCH - There is a new Ranger in town and his name is Paul Hancock. Paul and his wife Tabatha have recently moved with their three kids to Panguitch, UT where Paul is now the new District Ranger for the Powell Ranger District of the Dixie National Forest. Having both been raised in military families they are used to assimilating quickly to new places but are looking forward to being in southern Utah for a while. Paul and Tabatha have been married since 2008 after having met while in college. They are the proud parents of two girls and a boy, and are expecting their fourth child in January. Having lived in various places throughout the western United States, Paul grew up recreating on public lands and gained an appreciation for having access to the opportunities they afford. He has an appreciation for all outdoor activities, but is especially fond of winter sports like skiing and snowboarding and is looking forward to teaching his kids someday soon. Tabatha is fulfilling her dream to be a stay-at-home mom. The couple’s oldest daughter started kindergarten this year and has led the Hancock family to think about looking for a little bit of stabil-
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it. ―C. P. Snow (1905 - 1980)
ity for the next few years. Paul started his career permanently with the Forest Service in 2007 after having earned a Bachelor’s Degree and Master’s Degree in Forestry from Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. His first permanent job with the Forest Service was as a Forester on the Rio Grande National Forest in Colorado. There he got a taste for designing landscape scale projects as the Rio Grande was dealing with the after- Paul Hancock is the new District math of a major bark beetle Ranger for the Powell Ranger District. infestation. After two and a half lot about range management years on the Rio Grande National Forest, he applied and was a great experience for for and accepted the job to him, but he is happy to be back be the NEPA Coordinator for in the mountains and trees and the South Zone of the Kaibab near some world class skiing. Paul is a strong believer National Forest and moved to Williams Arizona in 2009. in sustainable forest manageWhile he was there, he was ment, and is excited by the involved in a wide variety of challenge of working under a projects and learned a lot about multiple use philosophy. Paul is very much looking the importance of ecosystem forward to getting involved in restoration and fire managethe community of Panguitch ment. and spending some time in the In 2012, Paul accepted the position as the District area. If you happen to be in Ranger for the Grand River Panguitch please feel free to Ranger District of the Dakota stop by the District office and Prairie Grasslands in Lemmon, welcome him to town. ―Joe Harris, South Dakota. Dixie National Forest Paul’s experience in South Dakota taught him a ALL content for THE WAYNE &GARFIELD COUNTY INSIDER must be submitted on FRIDAY before 5:00 pm to be included in the following Thursday edition of the paper.
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