October 3, 2013 Wayne & Garfield County Insider

Page 1

INSIDER

Panguitch • Panguitch Lake • Hatch • Bryce • Tropic • Antimony • Henrieville • Cannonville • Escalante • Boulder • Fremont • Loa • Lyman Bicknell • Teasdale • Torrey • Grover • Fruita • Caineville • Hanksville

Thursday, October 3, 2013 • Issue # 1016

Escalante Canyons Art Festival Celebrates 10th Anniversary in Style by Allysia Angus

Participants Get Ready for the 1st Annual Harvest Time Scarecrow Festival and Contest WAYNE CO. - We’d like to thank everyone in Wayne County for the great enthusiasm and community spirit that has been shown for this new county-wide event. For those of you who are entering the scarecrow contest, please make sure that you have registered your scarecrow with the Entrada Institute or the Wayne County Business Association. Call Shauna at (801)652-8684 or Raylynne Cooper at (435)836-3600 to register your scarecrow if you have not already done so. On Thursday, October 11, there will be a complete list of registered business and individual scarecrows in the Insider. If you find that you are not on the list, please call one of the numbers above to assure that you are the list for the contest. Scarecrows should be displayed from October 12-19. During that week there will be a photographer taking photos of all registered scarecrows. Winners will be announced on Saturday, October 19 and will be in the newspaper and on the web soon after. There is no limit to the size, position or the materials used in the making of your scarecrow. The idea is to have fun, be creative and draw attention to your business or home. —Wayne County Harvest Time Scarecrow Festival

Allysia Angus

The group of happy and proud winners from the 10th Anniversary Escalante Canyons Art Festival. ESCALANTE - The 10th Anniversary of the Escalante Canyons Art Festival-Everett Ruess Days held in Escalante, Utah on September 27-28 saw increases in participation across the board. More than 90 artists from near and as far away as Ireland and Belgium participated in the Plein Air Competition and of these, approximately a third were participating for the first time. The Speaker’s Series, which featured renowned western writer and NPR commentator Craig Childs as the keynote, engaged a large crowd on Friday night by discussing Deep Archaeology. Childs’ encouraged us to delve deeply into the land to see a history that goes back more than 20,000 years to the time of the North American Ice Age and the first people to arrive on this continent. Vendors selling art, photography, fabric goods, ceramics, wood crafts, and food were busy with customers both Friday and Saturday. And the entertainment ranged from locals talents – Brent Griffin & Ted Engberg, Making Moves Dance Company, and The Little Fiddlers – to those from further afar like Fast Pesos from Santa Fe, New Mexico and Juniper City from Cedar City, Utah. Plein Air artists could begin painting for this year’s competition on September 20 and were also able to enjoy

a one-day Paint-Out event – Paint the Town – painting in and around Escalante on September 25. For the Plein Air Competitions, prizes totalling more than $9000 were awarded in two categories: Oil/Acrylic and Mixed Media. (A comprehensive list of winners is included at right.) This year’s Best of Show winners included Lynn Griffin from Escalante for his oil painting titled, Daybreak Over the Escalante, and Janet Kupchick from Santa Monica, Calif., for her painting titled, Twelve Days on Highway 12. The winner of the Paint-Out Competition was Larisa Aukon of Phoenix, Ariz. During every festival, attendees are encouraged to vote for their favorite work to determine the winner of the People’s Choice Award—Jodi McGregor Peterson was the proud winner. Participating artists vote for their favorite piece and Jinseng Song of Florida was honored with the Artist’s Choice Award. To commemorate the 10th Anniversary of the festival and honor the spirit of Everett Ruess and his art, a Founders’ Award supported by the generous donation of Winnie Washburn was presented to Janet Kupchick. Additionally at the award ceremony, the organizing committee recognized Wayne Geary, the 2013

PANGUITCH weather

LOA weather

Art Festival

Garkane Energy Co-op Technician Prepares For The Future

Escalante Canyons Art Festival 2013 Award Winners: Oil/Acrylic - Best of Show ($1500 Purchase Award) Lynn Griffin (Escalante, UT) Oil/Acrylic - Award of Merit ($500) Kaia Thomas (Bowie, AZ) Mark Akins (Littleton, CO) Oil/Acrylic – Honorable Mention ($250) Valerie Orlemann (Cedar City, UT) Mary Jabens (Cedar City, UT) Betsey Nelson (Flagstaff, AZ) Rebecca Gaver (Kanab, UT) Brad Holt (Cedar City, UT) Mixed Media - Best of Show ($1500 Purchase Award) Janet Kupchick (Santa Monica, CA) Mixed Media - Award of Merit ($500) Scott Geary (Santa Fe, NM) Nancy Lewis (Palisade, CO) Mixed Media – Honorable Mention ($250) Ellie Nelson (Boulder, UT) Lewis Williams (Montrose, CO) Mike Padian (Black Cyn. City, AZ) Monika Bloedel (Sun Valley, ID) Leslie Jenson (Kanarraville, UT) Founder’s Award ($500) Janet Kupchick (Santa Monica, CA) People’s Choice ($250) Jodi McGregor Peterson (Logan, UT) Artists’ Choice (Plein Air Magazine ¼ page ad) Jinsheng Song (Beijing, China) Paint-Out ($750) Larisa Aukon (Phoenix, AZ) Nemo’s Youth Art Awards Giddeon Carter - $25 - 2-5 year olds Caleb Gardner - $25 - 6-10 year olds Chris Plancarte - $50 - 11-14 year olds Hunter Sanchez - $100 - 15-18 year olds

Cont’d on page 2

Power Outages Caused by Rocky Mountain Power LOA - Wayne County and the northern system of Garkane Energy experienced another outage that lasted from 12:47 p.m to 1:58 p.m., on Wednesday, September 25, preceded by intermittent outages throughout the morning. This outage was caused by a similar problem on a Rocky Mountain Power (RMP) transmission line at Sigurd that feeds the Garkane system. Garkane Energy was at the mercy of Rocky Mountain Power crews to fix the solution because the problem was on a delivery line to Garkane’s system from the RMP power line. Garkane Energy is sorry about the inconvenience these outages cause, but these two recent outages were beyond our control. For any questions please email nbrown@garkaneenergy. com or call 435-644-5026. —Garkane Energy

Garkane Energy

Tom Barton (center) becomes a Certified Loss Control Professional. LOA - Garkane Energy Tom Barton is one of only employee Tom Barton has com- a few electric utility profespleted an intensive program sionals in the country that will in electric utility safety and receive this certification this loss control. The Loss Control year. The program requires parInternship is a series of work- ticipants to complete a rigorous shops offered by the National series of seminars and tests, a Rural Electric Cooperative As- 30-hour OSHA course, and a sociation in conjunction with detailed final course project. the National Utility Training Loss Control participants & Safety Education Associa- go through four, 6-day sessions tion. The program is designed that are designed to challenge to instruct participants in many and educate participants in areas related to electric utility new, innovative safety techindustry safety. niques. Participants must also According to the Oc- maintain their certificate by atcupational Safety and Health tending courses every year in Administration, 4.2 million order to stay on top of changes injuries occur annually in the in the industry. workplace. One of the goals Tom Barton has been with of a Certified Loss Control Garkane Energy for 23 years. Professional is to help ensure He attended Northern Arizona a safe work environment for University in Flagstaff where utility workers and the public he graduated with a BS in in general. Avoiding workplace Speech Communication. accidents avoids down time —Garkane Energy and can ultimately lead to lower utility rates.

USU Extension Offers Open Sewing Tuesdays LOA - Bring your unfinished projects or start new ones. Each Tuesday, the USU Extension Office hosts a general sewing group at the Loa Civic Center. We begin at 9:30 am and work until 3:00 pm- children are welcome. Some sewing machines are provided but feel free to bring your own. If you don’t know how to sew, now is a good time to learn. We have volunteers here to help you. Over the next several months we will be demonstrating the following projects: self-binding blankets, children’s sleep ware, pillow cases and holiday ideas. Sew come and join us. For more information contact GaeLynn Peterson, USU Extension Faculty (435)836-1313. —GaeLynn Peterson, USU Extension-Wayne County Phone: 435-826-4400 Fax 1-888-370-8546 PO BOX 105 Escalante, Utah 84726 snapshot@live.com

I’m still an atheist, thank God. —Luis Bunuel, Spanish Filmmaker (1900 - 1983)

THE WAYNE & GARFIELD COUNTY INSIDER is owned and operated by Snapshot Multimedia, LLC and is distributed weekly to all of Wayne and Garfield Counties, Utah. Its purpose is to inform residents about local issues and events. Articles submitted from independent writers are not necessarily the opinion of Snapshot Multimedia, LLC. We sincerely hope you enjoy the paper and encourage input on ideas and/or suggestions for the paper.

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.

BOXHOLDER

PRE-SORT STANDARD PAID RICHFIELD, UTAH PERMIT No. 122


Issuu converts static files into: digital portfolios, online yearbooks, online catalogs, digital photo albums and more. Sign up and create your flipbook.