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Thursday, October 8, 2015
Issue # 1119
Juvenile Charged with Manslaughter in Fremont
Escalante Canyons Art Festival Celebrates Another Great Year of Community and Artistry ESCALANTE - The 12th Escalante Canyons Art Festival-Everett Ruess Days held in Escalante, Utah, on September 18-27 continued once again to expand and adjust the programming. The festival added a junior plein air competition category, partnered with the Escalante River Watershed Project to host a “Paint the River Pack Trip”, included more demonstrations, expanded the speaker series, and adjusted the entertainment lineup with acts from far and near. Lodging in the area was sold out and some restaurants are rumored to have run out of food before closing time during the weekend. Almost 100 artists from 16 states and two outof-US countries participated in the Plein Air Competition and of these almost 50% were
participating for the first time. Art sales to buyers from as far away as Canada, Florida, and New York totaled almost $22K, which is an increase of more than 15% from 2014. The Speaker’s Series featured Hal Cannon and Teresa Jordan sharing an evening of stories and songs as the keynote program on Friday night. Vendors selling hand-made items in a full spectrum of creative forms were busy with customers both Friday and Saturday – some even sold out of their wares and got to go hiking. And the entertainment ranged from local talents – Kenny Hall from Cannonville and Jessica Frogley and Richard Woodbury from Boulder; to those from further afar like Crook and Bluff, Big Wild Wings, and Coolabibus from Salt Lake City; David and Ta-
mara Hauze from Crawford, Colorado; and No Strings from Grand Junction, Colorado. Plein Air artists could begin painting for this year’s competition on September 18 and were also able to enjoy a one-day “Paint the Town” Paint-Out event on September 23 where they were limited to painting within a two-mile radius of the center of Escalante. For the Plein Air Competition, prizes totaling more than $9000 were awarded in two categories, Oil/Acrylic and Watercolor/Mixed Media. (A comprehensive list of winners is included at the end of this article.) This year’s Best of Show winners, who each received a $1500 Purchase Award included Carol Bold from St. George for her oil painting and Manny Mellor from Lehi for his
reduction-process block print piece. The first place winner of the Paint-Out Competition was Brad Holt of Cedar City. Junior Awards were presented for the first time in two categories. The K-6th Grade Junior 1st Place Award for $50 went to Adelheide Johansen of Mt. Pleasant, and the 7th12th Grade Junior 1st Place Award for $50 went to Aspen McKnight of Escalante. During the festival, attendees were encouraged to vote for their favorite work to determine the winner of the People’s Choice Award – Mauriel Morejon of Phoenix, Arizona was the proud recipient of this $250 award. Participating artists vote for their favorite piece and Joshua Baird of Kanab
FREMONT - At approximately 10:26am, Sunday October 4, Wayne County Sheriff's Officers received a call from Richfield Dispatch concerning a possible homicide. Upon arrival, Wayne County Sheriff's Deputies discovered one deceased male within the home, Jerimiah Randall James, 32 yrs old. Through the investigation, it was determined that a verbal and physical altercation had ensued the previous night, with alcohol involved; resulting in the death of Mr. James. One male juvenile was taken into custody and transported to Central Utah Youth Center, in Richfield Utah. He was charged with Manslaughter, possession/consumption of alcohol by a minor, possession of Marijuana. As of further investigation, Wayne County Sheriff's Office has determined that this incident involved all family members; a grandfather, son, and a nephew. All members were involved in the verbal and physical altercation that had taken place, resulting in the death of Jerimiah James. This family was originally from the Salt Lake Valley area, and has resided in Fremont for less than a month. Per the preliminary report of the State Medical Examiner, cause of death was determined to be strangulation. More information to be released as it becomes available. —Wayne County Sheriff's Office
One Era Ends... and Another Begins
Richfield Reaper to Move Press Operations to Ogden
Art Festival
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Fun Stuff, Customer Service and Great Value Define Brook's Country Boutique
Kandee DeGraw
Above: Brook of Brook's Country Boutique, and craft wooden pumpkins. Right: Glam heels. You never know what you'll find at Brook's Country Boutique. So it's good to check often. BICKNELL - If you are a guy, and you are about to read this article, here is our disclaimer: Enter at your own risk, because we’re going to be talking about girly stuff. As in, cute skirts and earrings. Adorable baby leggings. Cool handbags. Glam heels. Fun stuff to hang on your walls. And since winter is marching steadily toward us, boots of all kinds, including those that were ‘made for walking’.
Why are we talking about these things? Because all of this and more is available at a chic little store in Bicknell called Brook’s Country Boutique. But the part that you (as a guy) might like is that if the woman or girl in your life— say your wife, girlfriend or daughter--does amble into Brook’s Country Boutique, and she walks out with an entire bag of stuff, it won’t cost
REGIONAL WEATHER FORECAST FOR SOME BUT NOT ALL REGIONS REPRESENTED IN OUR NEWSPAPER COVERAGE AREA
THURS. OCT. 8 - WED. OCT. 14 WE'LL GET OUR SUN BACK this coming week. Partly cloudy Thursday with a high in low 70s, then sunny Friday through Monday with highs in the mid-upper 70s. Cloudy again early in the week but still warm-ish. Lows...still in the 40s. Get that garden harvested.
very much. A trip to Brook’s Country Boutique is a win-win for everybody. Brook Jeffs has been perfecting her craft of retailing clothing and décor in Wayne County for about five years, starting first with a little store in Lyman before moving to her current ‘uptown’ location on Bicknell’s Main Street,
in July of last year. Though the central focus of her store is clothing for women and juniors (girls), children and babies, there are also locallymade crafts and creative other items. Brook says she will focus on anything her customers express an interest in. Recently, she had a number of requests from local moms for boys t-shirts, so she ordered in a bunch of those. “What people don’t realize is I can get anything they want. I can even order a wedding dress, if someone wants to do that,” she said. To be fair, not every guy is put off by all of this fun-girl stuff. On a recent visit to the store, a certain Wayne County resident, who is generally known as Adus D., was found deeply immersed in contributing to the charm that is Brook’s Country Boutique. Hammering and sawing away in the workshop behind the retail clothing store, working like one of Santa’s elves, Adus D. was creating some crafty item out of wood that would eventually find a purposeful place in Brook’s scheme. Brook's Boutique Cont'd on page 8
Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one. —Hans Selye
Kandee DeGraw
Richfield Reaper publisher Chuck Hawley and Insider publisher Erica Walz in the press room at the Richfield Reaper. This week, the Reaper is retiring their 1970s-era press and moving press operations for both newspapers to Ogden.
RICHFIELD - Beginning this week, The Richfield Reaper, which provides press services for The Insider, is retiring their Rockwell web press and moving press operations for The Reaper and other regional community papers to The Ogden StandardExaminer. Reaper publisher Chuck Hawley orchestrated the move to transfer press operations to the Ogden newspaper as a means of improving services for each of the newspapers' customers. "It's the end of an era, for sure," said Hawley, who has been with the Reaper since 1976, and says he has a great affection for the press, which has been in service since 1974. "This is a finely made, precision instrument, " he said. "They just don't make machines like this any more. " Hawley said that almost every week he would spend some time in the press room, watching with a combination of awe and interest as the machine converted rolls of newsprint and ink into the final product. The Reaper will continue every other aspect of their newspaper operations, in fact, building their capacity to generate new kinds of print products. Insider staff look forward to continue working with the Reaper to coordinate our press operations. We also look forward to working with the Ogden Standard-Examiner to conduct our printing. This is the first issue to roll off of their press. —The Insider
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This week we are providing a summary of local town council elections in Wayne & Garfield counties, including statements from mayoral and town council candidates in those towns where elections are taking place. See pages 9 for candidate statements; sample election ballots are available on page 10. 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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