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Thursday, October 10, 2013 • Issue # 1017

Local Theaters Face Challenge of Bridging Movie Industry’s ‘Digital Divide’

Tory Davis

John Crandell

Federal Shutdown Closes National Parks, Leaves Visitors Stunned

by Bob Phillips, Contributing Writer

WAYNE AND GARFIELD COUNTIES - Business as usual hit a major snag last week as a federal government shutdown created chaos in the area’s tourism industry and left national parks closed, federal workers indefinitely furloughed and many visitors very disappointed and unhappy.

Effects of the shutdown appear far more widespread than merely hurting tourism, with uncertainty over future operations of programs designed to help the poor and hungry, such as food stamps, Women with Infant Children and other public assistance.

But the closure of the national parks at a peak time of the season threatens a wide variety of businesses – from outfitters to seasonal restaurants to large park concessionaires like Aramark Corp.

The federal government shut down much of its operations last Tuesday when members of Congress could come to no agreement on a bill to continue funding the government. The length of the shutdown remains unknown, with a major Congressional vote also due later this month on increasing the government’s debt ceiling to allow government operations to continue.

The uncertainty created

by Congress has many business owners in the area seriously concerned, although there has been a short-term boost in some business due to the large numbers of tourists suddenly locked out of the national parks. Many travelers have reportedly run into major problems with closed hotels and campgrounds, inability

to get refunds, cancelled trips and other snafus.

News releases from national parks in the area pointedly detail the economic losses to the parks alone in terms of thousands of visitors and millions of dollars.

One possible upside in an otherwise frustrating situation is that many visitors are discovering other areas outside the parks which often offer great scenic beauty of their own, said Dana Waggoner at Escalante Outfitters.

“One of the positive impacts is that people are discovering the Grand Staircase (Escalante National Monument) because they are venturing down Highway 12, and folks in Escalante are directing them out onto the monument and also onto the Dixie (National Forest), much to their delight.”

She added however that her business like many others has received cancellations from visitors intent on including the area’s national parks on their itinerary.

With all of the country’s 401 national parks closed, unusual scenarios have developed such as out on Hole in the Rock Road, where National Park Service law enforcement personnel have been patrolling Bureau of Land Management lands and telling visitors that Coyote Gulch and some other popular canyons are off limits since they could provide access to the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area – which is administered by the National Park Service Federal Shutdown Cont’d on page 2

REGIONAL Weather forecast Thurs. Oct 10 - Wed Oct. 16 Partly cloudy most of the week with highs in the mid- to upper50s and lows in the high 20s to low 30s. Chance of rain both on Thursday and the following Wednesday. Supposedly sunniest on Friday and Monday. Winds are projected as light during the whole week at about 7 to 9 mph.

Panguitch’s Gem Theater (left), built in 1909, and Bicknell’s Wayne Theatre (above), built in 1947, share a dilemma faced by thousands of small, rural movie theaters: go digital or go dark. Converting projectors for the industry’s move from celluoid to digital movies will cost each theater upwards of $50,000.

BICKNELL/PANGUITCHAhhh…a movie.

An evening out at the movie theater is one of those rare opportunities to get away from it all. Grab a drink, some popcorn, maybe some ice cream or a box of candy and wander into a big dark room with a handful or a crowd of other movie-going compatriots and…escape.

Yes, of course you can see a movie at home. There are plenty of opportunities to do that, and that is nice. But chances are you will have to have fiddle with the download, answer a phone call, let the dog out—and back in again, or settle a dispute between the kids. It’s just not the same as going out.

Here in our remote ar-

eas, we may not be aware of just how phenomenally special seeing a movie out actually is.

With the demise of thousands of small town theaters across the nation—even prior to the technology challenges that theaters are presently up against-—the fact that we have two movie theaters in Wayne and Garfield counties—one in Bicknell and one in Panguitch—is truly remarkable given our region’s tiny market of theater-goers.

John Crandell, the owner of The Gem Theater in Panguitch, describes the economic realities this way: “According to the movie industry, the minimum required market to break even in the theater business is a population of 15,000. We’re not even close to that.”

Boulder Harvest Festival to Highlight Local Resiliency BOULDER - When you eat a homegrown tomato, enjoy a locally written and produced play, or heat your home with wood gathered from the nearby forest, you experience resiliency. What is resiliency? It is the ability to meet local economic needs with resources and skills produced by your own community.

On Friday, October 18, the 3rd annual Boulder Harvest Festival will once more celebrate the resiliency of our local communities. The Festival will be held at the Red House Farm, in Boulder, just off Highway 12 on the banks of Boulder Creek.

Call 435-335-7654 or log on, www.facebook.com/BoulderHarvestFestival , for more information.

So, it’s been a tough go in the small-town movie theater business for quite a while. But now the stakes are getting a lot higher, as movie studios are moving from delivering films to theaters in 35mm print format (celluloid reels) to digital formats on a hard drive, which require a completely new projection and sound system totaling $50-60,000 per screen. For a small theater, that outlay is pretty steep. But currently the number of celluloid reel films is diminishing, making them ever harder to come by, and it’s projected that relatively soon movies on film—which has been the standard medium of movies for

Beginning at 10:30 AM, workshops, lectures, and demonstrations will highlight some of the skills we can use to meet our needs, using local resources. This year’s talks and lectures range from baking with natural yeasts, to growing mushrooms, to discussions on the art of beekeeping, and much, much more.

Digital Divide

Boulder Harvest

Boulder’s Harvest Festival on October 18 will have a wide range of workshops and activities for kids of all ages.

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Crow Advisory: Wayne County Scarecrow Festival Gets Underway This Weekend

by Ann Torrence, Contributing Writer WAYNE CO. - Murders of crows fleeing Wayne County?

Look for flocks in the sky this weekend as participants of the area’s newest event, The Harvest Time Scarecrow Festival, erect dozens of scarecrows in front of homes and businesses across the county.

Organizers have asked local businesses to display lifesize or larger scarecrows from October 12-19. Participants can compete for cash prizes in categories such as “scariest” and “best venue representation.”

And while the main focus is scarecrows, Robber’s Roost Bookstore in Torrey has already added a free family event on October 12th at 11:00 am. Children will enjoy craft time, hot cider, candy, and muffins. Participants can enter a carved pumpkin into a contest that will be judged at the bookstore at high noon.

Spearheaded by the Entrada Institute with support from the Wayne County Business Association, the Wayne County Travel Council, the

festival is intended to stimulate tourism business and interest in our region during October.

“This is a very good way that the whole county can work together to promote visitors,” said Entrada Institute President Carol Gnade. “I’m confident that it will grow into a big event.”

Similar events around the country have become major tourism draws. The Cambria Scarecrow Festival, in the coastal town of Cambria, California, was launched in 2009 with 30 scarecrows and has evolved into a month long program of activities, special promotions, and in 2013, to over 350 scarecrows. A few Cambrians have even created a niche business by renting scarecrows.

To help launch the event, the Entrada Institute enlisted Duane Pratt to build over thirty frames, provided free of charge to participating businesses.

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Are we scared, yet? If not now, chances are you will be.

Duane Pratt is poised with some of the over 30 scarecrow frames he is making for Wayne County businesses to use to create their entries for the upcoming Scarecrow Festival.

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and is closed.

The long-term economic impacts of a prolonged closure are extremely serious, according to a variety of businesses throughout the area. Waggoner echoed the opinions of many who were interviewed, expressing frustration at the behavior of Congress and how it is affecting millions of people nationwide, who find their economic and business health and even survival threatened by what many perceive as indifferent politicians in Washington.

“I think in general that businesses as well as travelers are frustrated with the government’s inability to govern,” she said. “It is embarrassing and selfish because it is all about positioning themselves for re-election. Lots of folks are being hurt financially by this senseless decision.”

In Bullfrog, the shutdown created a chaotic situation due to the fact that many people are still out on the lake, and some houseboat operators may be for some time, according to the representative for the concessionaire there, Aramark Corp.

“It’s a huge blow to Aramark and Lake Powell Resorts and Marinas, huge,” said Michael Steinhart, general manager of Aramark’s operations at Bullfrog’s Northlake Marina.

With nearly 100 employees currently not being scheduled for work, the hotel empty and locked up, the 170-seat restaurant locked up, seven of nine retail outlets closed, and significant numbers of people still out on Lake Powell in houseboats for an undetermined amount of time, the normally thriving October operations at Bullfrog have come to a near but not complete halt, Steinhart said. Gas pumps remain open for two hours a day, and the boat shop remains fully operational until all rental and private boats return, he said.

The only visitors being let into Glen Canyon NRA are those who can demonstrate they have a boat on the lake, he said. Those people can come into the park to winterize their boats, which will be placed in storage by Aramark

at no charge, Steinhart said, however, no new visitors will be allowed to take boats out onto the lake and fuel is being sold on an emergency basis only.

The hotel had been 100 percent booked through the end of the season, he said, and a major annual bass fishing tournament was set to begin which would have seen another 70-plus boats on the water.

At a time when thousands of people typically visit Bullfrog each week, it like other national park locations has become a virtual ghost town, Steinhart said.

“Our hotel is locked up, there is not a soul in our hotel.

Is it affecting us? Oh my goodness, it’s incredible.”

At Bryce Canyon National Park, private businesses were struggling with the uncertainty even before it became apparent that it would last for more than a day or two, said Ruby’s Inn general manager Shawn Williams last week. While a brief shutdown is survivable, anything that drags on could be potentially “devastating,” he said.

Williams added that the uncertainty is what makes the problem worse as many businesses don’t know when or if the season will resume. The ripple effect on food and merchandise suppliers is also considerable, he added.

In addition to the economic stresses, Williams and others emphasized that many tourists who have waited in many cases a lifetime to come see the region’s national parks are sometimes bitterly disappointed - many don’t understand how politics can shut down businesses and many travelers’ lifelong dreams.

“They waited their whole life to come see the national parks. And to come here and see that the federal government has shut everything down is very frustrating to them,” Williams said.

“The frustration I see, the government can’t decide on issues that are affecting the American people, but they don’t understand that not coming to a conclusion and working together is affecting hundreds of thousands if not millions of jobs,” he said.

At the Best Western Capitol Reef Inn in Torrey, major impacts were expected due to the closure of the park, said the

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cians voluntarily took temporary pay cuts or declined their pay to show solidarity with citizens, Mr. Barr said.

“In the UK they’ve learned to work together, people who don’t really like each other have worked together.

They know they have to …

They have to be very careful of public perception.”

Some business people also questioned just how in touch members of the U.S. Congress are with the people who are currently being hurt by the shutdown.

Moosman at the Best Western Capitol Reef Inn said that it seems particularly hard to accept that so many people are being affected by the actions of Congress while congressmen and senators continue to collect paychecks courtesy of those very same people.

“I think all of them ought to have to surrender their pay for the time of the shutdown and put it back into the economy,” Moosman said. “They don’t care how they’re hurting the rest of us, otherwise it would have been settled by now.”

Waggoner at Escalante Outfitters, who also serves on the local travel advisory council, emphasized that a lot of people’s hard work is being compromised by the actions of Congress, and said those responsible for the damage should be held accountable.

“As a travel council member I see all our hard work to promote this amazing country suffering in our final push of the season,” she said. “September and October is the time of year that businesses and guides bank that little extra to see them through the winter.

I only hope we as citizens remember this when we vote.”

In spite of the trouble caused by the shutdown – and the extreme disappointment of visitors like the Barrs, who have still never seen the Grand Canyon – many visitors have been impressed by the other landscapes outside the national parks as well as the friendliness and helpfulness of area residents.

“Just the land driving around is absolutely beautiful,” said John Barr. “It took us 3 hours to drive 12 miles.

We’re still having a great time.”

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Sincerest Thanks from Sidwell Family

Words cannot express the gratitude that we feel for all the support and the love that we have received from family, friends and even complete strangers.

After Oaklee’s accident we were numb and couldn’t comprehend what had happened and couldn’t begin to think of the sadness we were about to face. We were flooded with cards, prayers, meals and tears shared by many. We were not alone in our sadness. Oaklee had touched many more lives than we could have ever imagined!

We were humbled each day as we learned of different fundraisers, silent auctions and donation funds that were being set up for our family.

Tears filled our eyes as we tried to come up with words to express our thankfulness for all that each one of you had offered and said.

As time goes on Oaklee will never be forgotten but will forever be in our hearts and always be our beautiful angel watching over us.

Our hearts are broken but with our faith, family and friends we can start to move forward each day and know we will be with her again.

From the bottom of our hearts We Thank You!!

Tracy, Desiree, Tyler and Jorden Sidwell, Panguitch

Lake Homeowners Support Scouts

Once again, the homeowners of Lake Front Estates along with the management of Panguitch Lake R.V. Resort and the Panguitch Lake General Store have been true friends to the Boy Scouts of America. This year the Panguitch Lake residents and businesses raised over $1,700 for the annual Friends of Scouting campaign.

For more years than anyone can remember, the residents and businesses of Lake Front Estates have been a leading contributor to local Boy Scout activities. Most of the residents live outside the area and are only summer visitors. However, they have been recognized many times by the Utah National Parks Council for their generous support of scouting in the Panguitch area. Veronica Paladori, owner of Panguitch Lake R.V. Resort and Jerry Owens from Panguitch Lake General Store / Big 4 Travel Center were especially generous, but the effort involves everyone in the subdivision and couldn’t be done without widespread participation. Others have also been valuable supporters but have asked that their contributions remain anonymous.

The Boy Scouts in the Panguitch area, their friends and families express their sincere and heartfelt thanks to the subdivision’s home and business owners and consider them true Friends of Scouting.

Brian Bremner, Panguitch Over 25 years of professional real estate service to Wayne County.

Bonnie Kaufman bonnie_kaufman@hotmail.com 801-557-8188 435-491-0999

The following is a list of businesses and individuals participating in the 1st Annual Harvest Time Scarecrow Festival and Contest Wayne County, Utah, October 12-19

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Residents at Serenity Springs Senior Care opted to use locally-available materials. “During our morning house meeting the residents came up with the idea of creating a scarecrow husband caring for his scarecrow wife.

There was all sorts of laughter at the table as they decided to place the wife in a wheel chair.

Peggy Anderson, one of serenity residents cut and sewed the heads and the rest of the residents rummaged through their belongings to dress their Ma and Pa! We have really enjoyed this project!” said business owner and WCBA President RayLynne Cooper.

“On Saturday the twelfth the residents plan to load up the bus and create a new tradition called the ‘Harvest time scare crow Tour’ all the while enjoying donuts and cider,” Cooper added. Festival organizers hope that residents and visitors will seek out their favorite scarecrows across the county starting Saturday.

inn’s Amy Moosman. While SR 24 through Capital Reef remains open for traffic, visitors are being told not to stop, and trails and other park facilities have been visibly marked as closed, she said.

“We’ve been getting quite a few cancellations. We’re losing revenue,” she said. One tour group from Europe that had just arrived when the federal shutdown hit, cancelled their tour of the area entirely and returned to Las Vegas, Moosman said. Other tour group cancellations are expected, she added.

In other instances, visitors have taken advantage of state parks and the GSENM, finding that not all of the area’s prime attractions are well publicized.

The Anasazi State Park and museum in Boulder reported very brisk visitation; the Koffeehouse Kiva between Boulder and Escalante reported a typically busy volume but with many disappointed tourists.

Throughout last week, numerous cars were parked in front of the closed Calf Creek campground, and visitors were walking to Lower Calf Creek Falls in spite of the closure.

One couple from Scotland, John and Rebecca Barr, said while stopping at the Burr Trail Outpost in Boulder that they were still having a good time exploring some of the other parts of the landscape that haven’t been closed down by the federal shutdown. They also praised the demeanor of employees at Zion National Park, who were very helpful in spite of having to deal with pending furloughs.

At the same time, they related that no one they had talked to was happy about the situation, and said that they as well as other travelers they had met were stunned by the closures. They had intended to visit the Grand Canyon for the first time in their lives.

Members of the U.S. Congress seem “completely out of touch” with those they represent and many are acting in a “pompous” fashion, said Rebecca Barr. “No one we’ve talked to has said, ‘hey this shutdown is going to sort things out.’ Everyone we’ve spoken to is angry.”

Most European governments have faced severe financial strains the past several years, but in many cases, public servants and other politi-

October 10, 2013

BUSINESSES Back Country Outfitters, Bicknell Senior Center, Blackburn Propane, Brian Auto Parts, Brian Farm Service Center, Broken Spur Inn & Steakhouse, Brown Brother Construction, Cache Valley Bank, Cafe Diablo, Capitol Reef National Park and Natural History Association, Castle Rock Coffee and Candy, Chuckwagon, Country Cafe, Ellett’s Service Station, Flute Shop, Gallery 24, Harward and Rees Construction, Loa Builders Supply, Pace Tax and Accounting, Red Cliff Restau-rant, Red Sands Hotel, Redrock Adventure Guides, Rim Rock Restaurant, Robber’s Roost Bookstore, Royal’s Fabric Store, Royal’s Grocery, Sand Creek RV Park, Second Chance Thrift Store, Serenity Springs Assisted Living and Care Center, Sheri’s Hair Design, Slackers Burger Joint, Splitz Dance Studio, St. Antony’s Catholic Church, Stan’s Burger Shak, State Liquor Store, Stevens Locker, Subway, Sunglow Restaurant, Teasdale Post Office, The Gifford House, The Saddlery Cowboy Bar & Steakhouse, Thousand Lakes Service, Torrey Fire Department, Torrey Post Office, Torrey Town, Torrey Trading Post, Wayne Community Health Center, Wayne County Courthouse, Wayne County Dental, Wayne County Economic Development, Wayne County Emergency Ser-vices, Wayne County Office of Tourism, Wayne County Pharmacy, Wayne High School

INDIVIDUALS Corinne Jensen, Jan Daughters, Judi Teasdale, Adus Dorsey, Lora Bowen, and Shauna Sudbury If you happen to be on this list and are not participating this year, please let us know by calling 435-425-3099 or emailing carolgnade@mac.com.

If you would like to be added to the list and want to be included in the contest please also contact the email and/or phone number above.

Winners of the scarecrow contest will be notified in advance of the public announcement on October 18th. During the week of October 12 - 19, photos will be taken of all participating scarecrows.

Friday, October 11

October 12-19

Friday, October 25

n Garfield Memorial Annual Fall Fundraising Dinner, Ebenezer’s Barn & Grill, Bryce Canyon City, 6pm

n Harvest Time & Scarecrow Festival, Wayne County

n Wayne Athletics Pumpkin Run

Saturday, October 12

n Boulder Harvest Festival

n Escalante Canyons Marathon

Friday, October 18 Saturday, October 19 n Entrada Institute Friendraiser 2-5pm, Cougar Ridge Ranch, Torrey

P l ay i n g October 11 - 16

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Government Shutdown Forces Closure of Glen Canyon National Recreation Area and Rainbow Bridge National Monument

The Wayne Theatre No Movies this Week Check back next week for movie times

General Admission: $6.00 Seniors 59 and over & Children 11 and younger: $5.00 www.facebook.com/TheWayneTheatre

Saturday October 19, 2013

11 East Main, Bicknell UT 84715

ENTRADA INSTITUTE FRIENDRAISER Please come celebrate another season of the Entrada InstituteÕs contributions to our community and the spirit of the Colorado Plateau.

The Entrada Institute serves the public through promoting the natural, historical, cultural, and scientiÞc heritage of the Colorado Plateau.

Saturday October 19th 2:00-5:00PM Cougar Ridge Ranch Torrey, UT

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PAGE, AZ – Because of the shutdown of the federal government caused by the lapse in appropriations, the National Park Service (NPS) has closed all 401 national parks, including Glen Canyon National Recreation Area and Rainbow Bridge National Monument. All visitor facilities including Carl Hayden Visitor Center, park lodges, campgrounds and roads – except for Highways 89 and 95, thru ways – are closed. The parks will remain closed until the government reopens.

Superintendent Todd Brindle said that park visitors in all overnight campgrounds and lodges will be given until 6 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time on Thursday, October 3 to make travel arrangements and leave the park. In addition, all park programs and special events have been canceled.

Glen Canyon National

Recreation Area and Rainbow Bridge National Monument host 2100 visitors on average each day in October; nationally, more than 715,000 visitors a day frequent the National Park System. The park will lose an estimated $2000 of entrance fees each day of the shutdown.

Nationwide the NPS stands to lose approximately $450,000 per day in lost revenue from fees collected at entry stations and fees paid for in-park activities such as cave tours, boat rides and camping. Gateway communities across the country see about $76 million per day in total sales from visitor spending that is lost during a government shutdown. Visitors spend about $238 million a year in the communities around Glen Canyon National Recreation Area and Rainbow Bridge National Monument.

In Glen Canyon National Recreation Area and Rainbow Bridge National Monument,

125 employees are on furlough because of the shutdown and over 500 concessions employees are similarly affected. Fifty-one employees remain on duty, providing security and emergency services.

Nationwide the shutdown has also furloughed more than 20,000 National Park Service employees; approximately 3,000 employees remain on duty to ensure essential health, safety, and security functions at parks and facilities. About 12,000 park concessions employees are also affected.

Because it will not be maintained, the National Park Service website will be down for the duration of the shutdown. NPS.gov has more than 750,000 pages and 91 million unique visitors each year.

For updates on the shutdown, please visit www.doi. gov/shutdown.

—National Park Service

Government Shutdown Forces Closure of Bryce Canyon Nat’l Park Cougar Ridge Ranch is located south of Torrey, Utah. From Highway 24, take 300 East (heading south). Follow the dirt road until you see Cougar Ridge Lane (320 South).

Turn left and follow the curvy road. It takes 3-5 minutes from Highway 24.

Program Highlights

2:00-2:45PM Tour of the Beautiful Cougar Ridge Ranch

RobberÕs Roost Bookstore, Scholl Family

Beverages and Hors dÕoeurves Chef Aaron Torrey of Broken Spur Restaurant

Steve Taylor

Meet & Greet: Leah McGinnis, Capitol Reef National Park Superintendent Erica Walz, Publisher of the Insider 3:10-3:45PM 2013 Entrada Institute Retrospective Slideshow Steve Taylor, Ward Roylance Award Scholl Family, Friend of Entrada 4:00-5:00PM Kate MacLeod, Artist-in-Residence Original music and masterful Þddle playing

RSVP: For planning purposes, weÕd like to know youÕre coming. Please RSVP to info@entradainstitute.org

A $20 donation is suggested (but not required).

You can also donate online at http://www.entradainstitute.org/donate/

BRYCE – Because of the shutdown of the federal government caused by the lapse in appropriations, the National Park Service (NPS) has closed all 401 national parks, including Bryce Canyon National Park. All visitor facilities including the Visitor Center, park lodging, campgrounds, trails and roads – except for Highway 12, a State Highway – are closed. The park will remain closed until the government reopens. In addition, all park programs and special events have been canceled, including all youth education programs.

Bryce Canyon N.P. hosts 3,900 visitors on average each day in October; nationally, more than 715,000 visitors a day frequent the National Park System. The park will lose an

estimated $13,000 in other fees and the Bryce Canyon Natural History Association will lose an estimated $9-10,000 per day. Nationwide the NPS stands to lose approximately $450,000 per day in lost revenue from fees collected at entry stations and fees paid for in-park activities such as cave tours, boat rides and camping.

Gateway communities across the country see about $76 million per day in total sales from visitor spending that is lost during a government shutdown.

Visitors spend about $88.7 million a year in the communities around Bryce Canyon National Park.

In Bryce Canyon N.P., 58 employees are on furlough because of the shutdown and another 150 concessions & asso-

ciation employees are similarly affected. Seventeen employees remain on duty, providing security and emergency services. Nationwide the shutdown has also furloughed more than 20,000 National Park Service employees; approximately 3,000 employees remain on duty to ensure essential health, safety, and security functions at parks and facilities. About 12,000 park concessions employees are also affected.

Because it will not be maintained, the National Park Service website will be down for the duration of the shutdown. NPS.gov as more than 750,000 pages and 91 million unique visitors each year.

—National Park Service

Utah Legislators Visit Garfield Memorial Hospital

Bringing Warmth To New Lives

You are cordially invited to Garfield Memorial Hospital Foundation’s

Annual Fall Fundraiser Friday, October 11, 2013 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Ebenezer’s Barn and Grill 1731 S. Convention Center Dr. Bryce, UT Dutch Oven Dinner, Silent and Live Auctions (Special guest auctioneer will be Brad Silcox)

RSVP to Lynne Neilson at (435) 676-1262

Forest Service Advisory Lapse in Funding Due to the lapse in federal government funding, the U.S. Forest Service is operating with minimal staff to ensure certain essential services. All facilities, including Forest Service offices and developed recreational areas such as campgrounds and picnic areas are closed. General areas of the National Forest where you may drive, hike, hunt and fish remain accessible.

For further information on how the government shutdown is affecting the Forest Service, please refer to information provided here: http://www.usda.gov/documents/usda-fs-shutdownplan.pdf —US Forest Service

Pictured above during the legislators’ visit to GMH are front row: DeAnn Brown, John Houston, Alberto Vasquez, and Ron Hatch,. Back row: Ralph Okerlund, Mike Noel, Terri Kane, and Leland Pollock PANGUITCH - Senator Ralph Okerlund of Monroe and Representative Mike Noel of Kanab took a tour of Garfield Memorial Hospital and got to meet leadership and staff. Due to legislative redistricting in 2012, Senator Okerlund now represents Garfield County, so this was his first opportunity to get to tour Garfield Memorial. The group in attendance with the legislators included Garfield Memorial Hospital Administrator Alberto Vasquez, Southwest Regional Vice President for Intermountain Terri Kane, Southwest Communication Director Terri Draper, Garfield Memorial Hospital Public Relations representative Becki Bronson, Garfield County Commissioner Leland Pollock, Garfield Memorial Board Members John Houston and Ron Hatch, and Garfield Memorial Nurse Administrator DeAnn Brown.

Senator Okerlund says

“I’ve enjoyed this opportunity to see the excellent care and critical services Garfield Memorial provides to our rural regions of the state. This hospital is vital not just from a health care aspect, but economically as well. I think the partnership with the countyowned hospital and Intermountain Healthcare has been beneficial and successful, and it’s great to see.”

Representative Noel, whose wife has worked in

nursing for 40 years, echoes Senator Okerlund. “Senator Okerlund and I are always going to look out for rural Utah in the legislature; that’s our number one priority. And we recognize how almost all rural issues can be tied to having access to quality health care in rural Utah. It’s so impressive to see how Garfield Memorial is providing that high-quality health care and cornerstone to Garfield County and southern Utah.”

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School Notes

Loa Elementary Snippets

by Lisa Stevens

Kindergarten Students Set a Visitor Free

Garfield School District UCAS Scores The following information is taken from the Utah State Office of Education webpage. Utah now has two methods for accessing the performance of students and public schools. A few weeks ago I wrote about the first system called “Utah School Grades” that was created by the 2013 Legislature and assigning each school a specific letter grade (A-F). The “Utah School Grade” system was released on September 3rd. The second accountability system was released September 30th called the “Utah Comprehensive Accountability System (UCAS). The UCAS system was created in response to 2011 Legislative mandates. UCAS is also the federally approved accountability system for No Child Left Behind and the letter grades each school received based on that particular system. Both of these systems use the same CRT testing data taken by students from 3rd through 12th grade and High School graduation rates. The UCAS also factors in the Direct Writing Assessment (DWA) for specific grades. The two systems differ in how much weight is given to various measures. School Grades put a large amount of the weight on outcomes, test scores, and graduation rates. UCAS puts more weight on students’ progress toward proficiency.

School Name Escalante Elementary Bryce Valley Elementary Panguitch Elementary Panguitch Middle Escalante High Bryce Valley High Panguitch High

UCAS Score 531 317 424 449 NA 483 449

State Average 434 434 434 434 419 419 419

If you would like additional information on school grades or the two accounting systems you can visit the state office of education webpage at http://www.schools.utah.gov/main/ I would just like to remind everyone to watch for their ballot from Garfield County. The ballots should be arriving in the mail the third week of October. If you have not received the information on the Voted Local Levy that will be on the ballots, please visit the School District web page at http://www.garfield.k12.ut.us/ or please call me, or visit with your local board member.

—Superintendent Ben Dalton

PHS Notebook

by Donnie Corwin

Sadie Hawkins...Watch Out PHS Boys!

It’s that time of year again! (No, Mrs. Bennet, it is not yet Christmas. But please keep us informed on the countdown! ;) ) Whispering girls, anxious boys, and reluctant fathers can only mean one thing in the Fall of Panguitch High School. Thats right, we kick off October with the buzz of preparing for the Sadie Hawkins! Eagerness and pre-emptive thinking for the annual girls choice dance was shown throughout the week, beginning early Monday morning. Many boys were surprised with various and well thought out invitations to the event, all planned by the young women of PHS. Looking high, low, (and sometimes without even looking at all) the bachelors of Panguitch were suddenly made very aware of the possibility of being asked. With all of this excitement, a month left to go before the dance, and an awesome sports-jersey theme selected for the dance, we can only expect more Sadies surprises from all the girls in bobcat blue.

The hallways were also buzzing with anxious chatter

over the spectacle of the deer hunt. At the end of every day this week, as the final bell gave its lovely chime, lockers were shut in a hurry and gear loaded up to that one “special spot” by many a Panguitchite with high hopes for a new set of horns. As we all know, though, progress in school does not halt because of the hunt, as homework was still handed out by the teachers of PHS (however reluctantly.)

Even still, with all the straight shooters of Panguitch High, I can only help but feel a little bad for the deer, who have had many eyes-and scopes- on them this week.

In other news, the hardworking PHS Drama club continues to fill the halls with music in their morning practices of “Into the Woods.” Not to let their endeavours go unnoticed, the instructors took members of the club town to Tuacahn in St. George on Thursday night to see a great performance of “Thoroughly Modern Millie” The show was said to be a great spectacle as well as a fun learning experience to everyone who went..

As is customary, the PHS sports schedule gave our athletes a chance to prove why they are some of the best in the state. On Wednesday, the boys took their bats and gloves to Escalante to face the Moquis.

At the same time, the volleyball team took a trip to South Sevier to battle the Rams. The fine runners of the PHS cross country team left on Thursday to Cross Creek, in what was their last meet before the region competition in Valley on the 10th. We close out the week in sports wishing luck to the volleyball girls, who look to defend their home court against the Piute Thunderbirds in what should be a great game. With the fall sports season drawing closer to its end, we wish all the sports teams good luck as they prepare for their region and state competitions.

P.S.- Good job to the Junior class, who were the winners of both the classchant contest and the overall glow-in-the-dark class activity last Friday! In doing so, they earned quite a few “Pride Points” for their class.

Escalante High School News Vacations

This month of October is full of vacations! It is going to be a good time to have breaks after this long first term of school. We have been in school for almost a whole term already; isn’t that crazy? The end of the term is on October 25, so you better make sure that you have all your loose ends tied up and make sure you are in good shape to pass all your classes. The athletes that are participating in winter sports should make sure they can get over that 2.0 GPA so that they will be eligible.

On the 17th and 18th there will be another break for the UEA teachers workshop. The UEA is for the teachers day to go to school while the students get to go and have a fun day of not going to school. There is also another break in the month of October, and that is probably the most looked forward to break all school year. That is the Deer Hunt! It really wasn’t a break until every year on the opening morning of the deer hunt so many kids would miss school so they just decided to make it a holiday. There is nothing more fun than waking up on the opening morning to go chase around some big bucks with guns. Hunting is really a good way to get kids out of their video games and computers and out into the outdoors. It is also most people’s way of getting food to last them through the winter without having to buy it from the stores. People say they buy their meat at the store, but we go out and chase it while it is still running in the wild.

—Kyler Nelson

Cliff Notes Writers Visit Escalante High

On October 3-6th Boulder hosted a creative writing conference. It went well, with many people showing up to learn and hear from David Lee, Dianna Oberhansely and Eleanor Wilner.

All are amazing writers. October 3, at 6 o’ clock David Lee did a reading at the Kiva Koffeehouse.

Many people from Escalante and Boulder gathered around to hear David Lee talk.

Friday, October 4th at the Boulder Community Center, the program started off with a continental breakfast that also included a writer’s discussion with David Lee and a poetry workshop with Eleanor Wilner.

Saturday, October 5-6th also at the Boulder Community Center, the day started off with breakfast and poetry with Eleanor Wilner. In the afternoon, local writer Dianna Oberhansely did a workshop on food writing and how foods open up memories and tie a story together.

October 7th, David Lee, Dianna Oberhansely and Eleanor Wilner came to Escalante High School to talk with the students about writing not only poems, but stories as well. It was such an amazing experience to hear from such talented writers about how they get started on a piece of writing.

—MaKayla Churilla, Sarah Gardner, Shelby Steed, McKinzi Stowe

October 10, 2013

Students in Mrs. Ashlee Jackson’s Kindergarten class were lucky enough to have a caterpillar visit their classroom. The children had the opportunity to watch the caterpillar spin its cocoon and emerge later as a butterfly.

On Monday, September 30, the insect was set free by its new friends. Along with science, students have been busy learning all about the alphabet including letter names, and letter sounds, as well as math concepts such as numbers and shapes. Students have also learned all about friendship.

In the coming weeks Mrs. Jackson will start a health unit which will include healthy eating habits. “This is a fun class,” said Mrs. Jackson, “I am looking forward to a great year with them!”

In Mrs. William’s third grade class students have been working really hard on reading and writing, math—especially times tables—science, and they have started learning cursive writing. “We have been doing a lot of fun “Na-

ture Art” as my class would - Oaklee Brian, Mrs. Jackson call it.’’ said Mrs. Williams. - Lacey Brown. First Grade: Students learned the difference Mrs. Brinkerhoff - Shayla between abstract art and real- Barlow, Mrs. Potter- Braydon ism; then created an abstract Lee. Second Grade: Mrs. Liz flower with warm or cool colors. They Loa Elementary School also talked about Dates to Remember: perspective; then created pictures of • October 17th & 18th – Fall Vafall aspen trees with cation. No School. water color; students made a red• October 28th – 30th - Red Ribbird painting using bon Week. their hand print.

• October 31st – Halloween Ac“The students have tivities will be throughout the been having a lot of day. Students may come to fun creating these school in their costumes. More works,” stated Mrs. information about Halloween Williams. “They are will be sent home soon. becoming quite the little artists!”

With the passing of September a new stu- Torgerson - Kamryn Knutson; dent government has been Third Grade, Mrs. Libby Torgnamed. Students who will be erson - Kassie Christensen, serving on the student gov- Mrs. Williams - Beau Clingo. ernment during October are: Fourth Grade: Mrs. Barlow Kali Maw, T.J. Peterson, Jace Colton Jeffs, Mrs. Ekker- SydEdwards, and Abbi New. The ney Knutson. Fifth Grade: following are the“Catch of the Mrs. Brown- CJ Torgerson, Month” students for October: Mr. Ellett- Destiny Durfey.

Kindergarten: Mrs. Blackburn Congratulations to all!

Bryce Valley Elementary News

by Maren Stewart

Halloween, Science...and Field Trips!

Third grade is doing really well onl everything they are reading a book called James and the giant peach with their teacher. And aren’t they have been doing Halloween and drawing leaves and coloring them fall 4th. . .The Utah Water Van from the Living Planet Aquarium came to visit with fourth graders. They talked about the shark tank they are installing at the museum. Talked about wetlands and water which is part of the Utah Core Curriculum.

Fourth graders also went to Frontier Homestead State Park and the Parowan Gap. Did lots of learning activities and included experiences in washing clothes and using the wringer washer.

They attended school in the old deseret one room school house. Had a pony express relay. They have two teams of stick horses and mail pouches they wear on their shoulders. Have to run a course of four stations and then trade off rides and it is so fun and they learn all about the Pony Express. Played a game called “Graces”, panned for gold, saw sheep sheds, learned history of sheep shearing in Iron County, used math and loaded a wagon, and ground sand to make a mold for the iron. They did a variation of grinding grain. Parents help run the stations and they have a self guided tour. The people at Iron Mission oversee everything and we had a lot of adult support.

Dawnetta Dunham, Lesa Ahlstrom, Stephanie Brinkerhoff, Alayse Roundy, Chalise Eddy Owens, Kami Stevens, and Hayley Pollock all took time to come and help out with this trip. Principal Layne Le Fevre was the bus driver.

6th: This week we had a mid chapter test in math we are getting pretty good. We have been learning about orbits of the moon and the earth in science. We also have been reading a book called Thunder cave we and have started book buddies with the 2nd grade.

Fifth graders have decorated lots of fall learning activities on the front hall bulletin board. It has student interaction for all the kids. Crosswords, poems, elk and deer, etc for student interaction.

Sixth grade has been learning an easy way to multiply and divide decimals in science we are learning about the moon’s rotation and the earth rotation on the sun we are getting better at reading. I have also been doing buddies with the second graders and helping them read and write!

A big thanks to Alfred For keeping the school clean and being so nice to the teachers, and to us (the kids) Also to the teachers and principle for being so fun nice and helpful

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Sports

Wayne Sports This Week Photos and Captions by Lisa Stevens

EHS Sports The End of Fall Sports This Wednesday is the final day in the regular season of baseball. Baseball will pick back up at the state quarter finals at Spanish Fork on the 8th of October. Then from there the quarter finals starts the state tournament at UVU. State baseball goes from October 11th through the 12th.

Other sports that are coming to an end. Volleyball and cross country. On the same week as state baseball, is the last season game of volleyball. This last game is a home game for the Escalante Moquis against Milford. On the 25th of October in Piute is the region volleyball tournament. Six days after region, starts the state volleyball tournament at UVU. At this point of year also marks the end of the year of Cross Country. The few students that have been in cross country have had a pretty successful year winning a few medals each. This coming cross country meet, on Thursday October 3, is the last one before region. This week is held at YFA. Region starts on the 10th of October in Valley. Hopefully, the kids from here will place and go to state, which is held at Salt Lake City on Wednesday, October 23. Good luck to all of Region 20 who are participating in any of the region and state tournaments.

On Friday September 27, Wayne High baseball coaches recognized senior players Brain Batty(upper left), and Marc Simmons(upper right). The Badgers soundly defeated Valley that night in their last home game of the season.

by Vicki D. Syrett

PHS Sports Sidelines

VOLLEYBALL ...On Wednesday the 9th we play at Valley and the 11th we play Wayne at Wayne. Our last game is 16 October in Panguitch. Them comes Region.

We are excited about the Girl’s Glee club who sang the National Anthem at our Volleyball game on Friday the 4th of October at BVHS. BVHS BASEBALL...

Friday we played Valley and won 7 - 1. We played at Valley HS. Wednesday played Escalante at Escalante HS and we won 15 - 1. This ends the season for baseball.

by Mack Oetting

Undefeated Cats to Meet Undefeated Tabionia in Semi-finals

What happened to the time? The fall season is coming to an end way too quick.

Can you believe that it is State Baseball Championships this week? The Cat’s baseball team continued on their undefeated season with a game at Spanish Fork last Tuesday. The Cats, with some great pitching and many shut outs this year, and with an undefeated record going back for three years is approaching 50 games. On Friday October 11 the Cats meet the only other undefeated team in the State, Tabionia, at UVU in the semi-finals If they keep on going with their winning ways they will be playing for the Championship for the fifth time in six years, go Cats.

The Cross Country team is continuing on their winning way. The boys have won all but the first race at Bryce Valley and fairly easily. At Cross Creek, the Norris twins took 1st and 2nd, followed closely by the Anderson twins. The girls were led by Whittni Orton, Catania Holman, McKayla Heaton and Mazzie Miller.

AMazzing Miller who just

started running cross country a couple months ago, has already won 5 medals this year. Cross Country season is also coming to an end, today, Thursday 10th will be region down at Mt. Carmel golf course at 4:00. This is a fun place to watch a race of this kind, because you can see the whole race. No job? come on down! State again will be held at Sugar House Park, but there will be a week off and it will be held on October 23.

Last night the Lady Cats volleyball team avenged their only 1A loss this season against Piute. The Ladies took the Birds out in three games, fairly easily, playing maybe their best games of the season.

Escalante came here last night the crowd was down a little on Saturday, hope you made it to the game. The Cats will finish off their season at the Sevier Valley Tournament and one last game at Bryce Valley.

Region will be at Piute on Oct. 25 and State has been moved from Richfield to UVU on Oct.30-31.

BVHS Sports Notes,

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“We have digital magazines that you can download to your devices,” she said.

“We have digital movies, we have digital books, digital music that you can download all from library websites. So we are heavily invested in digital content. It’s actually our virtual library.”

Hull explained that libraries have become an important connection portal.

“We’re also finding, with the digital divide, it’s growing where there are many many people who come to the library for their Internet access, because they can’t afford it at home as the economy struggles.”

Hull said Utah libraries also provide extensive resources and information for small businesses, which could otherwise cost hundreds of

COMING EVENTS FOR BVHS. . .

• Region Cross Country @ Valley, Thursday, Oct 10 • Baseball Semi Finals @ UVU Friday, Oct 11 • Volleyball @ Wayne Friday, Oct 11 • Community Council Meeting BVE Mon, October 14, 6pm -7pm • Volleyball Panguitch @ BVHS Wednesday, Oct 16, • UEA 1/2 day Thursday, Oct 17 UEA Friday, Oct 18 Sun, October 20, 12am – Mon, October 21, 12am • State Cross Country @ Sugarhouse Park Wednesday, Oct 23 • End Quarter 1 Friday, Oct 25 • Region Volleyball @ Piute Friday, Oct 25

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obituaries Joe Hughes CANNONVILLE - Joseph Hughes, 83, passed away October 7, 2013 in St. George. He was born March 20, 1930 in Panguitch to William Henry and Thora Dean Davenport Hughes.

He married Violet Rae Smith, October 4, 1955 in Fredonia, AZ. The marriage was solemnized March 12, 1966 in the St. George Temple.

Joe served in the Army during the Korean War. He was a cattleman, which was an expensive hobby! He drove truck doing maintenance for the park service at Bryce Canyon for 35 years and was the caretaker of the Cannonville Cemetery. He enjoyed camping, fishing and hunting. He mostly loved spending time with his family, especially his grandchildren.

Joe is survived by his wife, Violet Rae, of Cannonville; daughters: Catherine (Marion) Littlefield, Tropic; Charlotte (John) Matthews, Cannonville; Maxine (Daryl) Veater, Panguitch; 15 grandchildren and 33 great-grandchildren.

He is preceded in death by his parents and his five brothers and six sisters.

Funeral services will be held Friday, October 11, 2013 at 1:00 p.m. in the Cannonville LDS Chapel where friends may call Thursday from 6-8 p.m. and Friday from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Burial will be Cannonville Cemetery with military rites by the Bryce Valley American Legion Post #18. Funeral Directors: Magleby Mortuary, Richfield, Salina and Manti. Online guestbook at www.maglebymortuary.com

Robert J. Cox FERRON - Robert J. “Bob” Cox, 60 passed away suddenly Oct. 2, 2013 in Provo, Utah. He was born Dec. 3, 1952 in Price, Utah to Richard Ward & Kenna Ruby Cox. He was a 1971 graduate of Emery High School and has called the Castle Valley his home most all his life. Bob married Julie Ann Cameron at Joe’s Valley on July 21, 1984. He was an active member of the Wayne County Search & Rescue for over 12 years, the last 4 of which he served as commander. Bob has worked for over 30 years for the Parks and National Forest Service working in many areas including Capitol Reef, Bryce Canyon, and the Manti Lasal Forest. He had a vast knowledge of many things including geological forms, Indian & Spanish writings, mountains and nature, heavy equipment operating and many other areas. He loved 4 wheeling on the desert and was always panning for his pot of gold. Above all, Bob was a loving Husband, Father and Grandfather. He loved being involved in the lives of his children and supporting their activities.

Bob is survived by his wife Julie Cox of Ferron; children Katie Marie Tolbert of Richfield, UT, Kevin Bruce (Trisha Mae) Cox of Washington, UT, Jessica Peterson of Tremonton, UT, Courtney (Anthony) Allred of Afton, WY, Tiffany J. Peterson of Elizabeth, CO; 12 grandchildren, 1 great grandchild, and a brother Dan (Lynette) Cox of Orangeville, and a sister Vicki (Marvin) Dove of Bloomington, UT. He was preceded in death by his parents, and brothers Wilford and Earl Cox. Friends may attend the visitation at the Heritage Funeral Home at 620 N. Main in Huntington, Utah, Friday, Oct. 4, 2013 from 6-8 pm and Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013 at the Ferron Stake Center at 555 S. 400 W. from 10 to 11 am. Funeral Services will be held in the Ferron Chapel at 11:00 am. Interment will follow in the Orangeville City Cemetery under the trusted care of the Heritage Funeral Home. Friends may sign the online guest book at www. heritagefuneralhomeutah.com

Dwain Luke KINGSTON - Rufus Dwain Luke, 92, passed away October 8, 2013 at his home in Kingston. He was born January 29, 1921 in Kingston to William J and Lavinia Allen Luke. He married Shirley Jessen December 17, 1946 in the Manti LDS Temple.

He is survived by his wife, Shirley, of Kingston; children: Steven Dwain Luke, Kingston; Shirlene Luke, St. George; LeAnn (Marlon) Sox, St. George; Kathy Fox, South Jordan; 12 grandchildren and 23 great-grandchildren; sister-in-law, Beth Luke, Kingston.

Preceded in death by parents; daughter-in-law, Lydia Luke; son-in-law, Owen Fox; grandson, Billy Luke; siblings: Clella (Ed) Winkel, Wanda (Bill) Wilson, Darrel Luke, Utahna (Dallace) Butler, Vard Luke, Rhea (Eldon) Porter.

Funeral services will be held Friday, October 11, 2013 at 12:00 Noon in the Circleville 2nd Ward Chapel,195 West 200 South where friends may call Thursday evening from 6-8 p.m. and Friday from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Burial will be in the Kingston Cemetery with military rites by V.F.W. Piute Post #7561. Funeral Directors: Magleby Mortuary, Richfield, Salina and Manti.

Online guestbook at www.maglebymortuary.com

October 10, 2013

FYI Panguitch

by Mack Oetting ~ mackoetting @gmail.com We got back from our vacation to China, finally. Did you miss me...probably not?

China was everything that people who had been there had told me. What a great tour this was, a lot of walking, but so much to see. The days were really long, starting at 7am and many of them ending at 10 in the evening. When I am short of filler, I will put in some of the highlights of the trip.

When we left it was raining but it was summer and when we came home we almost missed fall. With all of the trees turning and with the wind blowing there were leaves everywhere, oh what a short season! I hope there is still color on the mountain, it is my favorite time of the year.

As we traveled we kept hearing about the government shut down and I was afraid that they would shut down the airports, but that didn’t happen. I am without a job, along with many, many people in Garfield Co. What a shame, this is a busy time of the year in Southern Utah, in the tourist business, with five National Parks and so many of the people in our area working out at the parks and depending on this money to carry them through the winter. Everyone that is the recreation business suffers—motels and restaurants here and big time out at Ruby’s, millions of tourist monies will be lost forever. Many of the 10,000 Federal workers that were laid off, work in So. Utah and the only complaint I have heard was about the employees at Hill Air Base, out of jobs.

There have been some really badly needed repairs done at the High School. At the Middle School, the parking lot has been paved, after all these years of wading through the mud, the teachers are probably thrilled. The running track is

being resurfaced, can you believe it, the track is 15 years old, can you remember the old dirt track and baseball field?

Zions Bank and South Central Comm. have replaced the score boards at the gym and do they look great! No more burned out bulbs, the gym was the first building built at the school and is about 40 years old, as were the score boards.

About a month ago Pat received a call from someone who said they were from the Social Security Department and he wanted to check her information to see if it was correct. He had her Social Security number, address and phone number, but when he asked to have her checking number, and she asked who this was and what was his number, he hung up. This week we got a letter from Medicare about this scam and that seniors were being targeted. Don’t give your numbers out to anyone. Some other advice is don’t keep your Social Security Card in your wallet or purse and use a copy of your Medicare Card with the number cut off. Make copies of your credit cards, all of these tips may help you head off these scammers. If you report your card missing, you are only responsible for fifty dollars of the charges.

I don’t know about you, but I get between 15 and 20 requests for money a month, one time I had 20 bits of mail, 18 of them were from charities.

They send me dimes, nickels, calendars and address stickers.

I no longer give any of them money because they will sell your name to other charities.

I caught this article from an American Legion magazine.

UNCHARITABLE Charities, an investigation by CNN, the Tampa Bay Times and the Center for Investigative Reporting recently exposed

“America’s worst charities”: Kids Wish Network total raised $128 million, paid to solicitors $109 million; Cancer Fund of America total raised $98 million paid to solicitors $80M; Children’s Wish Foundation International $98 million raised, $63M to solicitors American Breast Cancer Foundation raised $80 million, solicitors got $60 million and my favorite, the Professional Firefighters Charitable Foundation raised $63 million $54 million went to the solicitors, get the idea? So if you got some bucks you want to get rid of just bring them by my house.

Many thanks to the American Legion members and Veterans that have and do take part in the Honor Guard Ceremonies, helping to honor these Veterans who served so proudly for their Country.

I was really impressed with PHS Historian Donnie Corwin’s article, it was really well done. Much of what goes on in Panguitch this time of the year goes on at the schools.

Something special is happening in the year 2014; Panguitch will be having it’s150th Birthday. A birthday committee is needed to make things happen. If you live in, work in

or love Panguitch and want to be part of that committee Pat Oetting at 676-2418 is the one to contact. Your ideas, effort and help would be most appreciated. Meet at the Library on Wednesday Oct 16th at 7:00 pm ready to make plans.

Thank you!

It will also be the Panguitch Lions Club 85th birthday. The Club was formed on Dec. 29, 1929. Join the Pride and become a Lion and get involved in volunteerism.

Back to our trip, we flew out of Portland Oregon to Tokyo on Sat. at 2 pm. It was a 10 hour flight that saw us go through 8 time zones and we landed at 4 pm., however we had crossed the International Date Line and it was Sunday. I had lost a day of my life, however we made it up coming back. We left Hong Kong on Oct.2 at 8:30 am and landed in Seattle on Oct. 2 at 8 am. On the way when we would hit turbulence, there would be a 2 minute warning in Chinese, followed by this in English: “We are hitting some turbulence, do not fear, all will be well.”

Do not fear, all will be well.

Mack O.

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Meatloaf Potatoes & gravy Gr. beans Pears Pudding

Meals include milk & bread.

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obituaries

Kaden John Lindsay

BEAVER - Kaden John Lindsay passed away in the arms of his loving mother and father on October 1, 2013 in Primary Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah. He was born July 11, 2013 to John and Jaycee Lindsay in Cedar City, Utah.

Kaden loved music, being cuddled, and being held all day and all night. He enjoyed sticking his tongue out and playing with Mom and Dad. He was a fighter.

He is survived by his parents and many grandparents.

Graveside services will be held Saturday, October 5, 2013 at 11:00 am at the Mt. View Cemetery in Beaver, Utah.

Viewing will be held prior from 9-10:30 am at the Beaver 1st and 2nd Ward Chapel.

Interment will be in the Mountain View Cemetery under the direction of Southern Utah Mortuary. Online condolences can be made at www. sumortuary.com.

Escalante Senior Citizens Menu Tues.

Oct.15th Pizza Salad bar Fruit cocktail Chocolate chip cookie

Wed. Oct.16th Clam chowder Wheat bread Salad bar Pears Snickerdoodle cupcakes

Thurs.

Oct.17th Roast with mashed potatoes & gravy Carrots Roll Applesauce Caramel pudding cake

All meals are served with milk or juice.

If you would like a meal, please call us by 10:00 am. 826-4317.

Suggested donation for seniors over 60 $3.00, and under 60 is $7.00

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Emmorn Dodds

GRACE, IDAHO / ESCALANTE - Emmorn “Slim” Que Dodds, 60, passed away Friday October 4, 2013 in Soda Springs, Idaho, surrounded by his loving family. He was born August 16, 1953 in Panguitch, to James M. Dodds and Mae Vonn Alvey. A short time later, Mae Vonn married Arden Taylor, who loved and raised Emmorn as his own.

Emmorn attended school in Escalante then enlisted in the U.S. Army from 1971 – 1973.

After receiving an honorable discharge, Emmorn began working for Phillips Petroleum in Belen, New Mexico where he met and married Janet Lawson. From this union, three children were born. Rick, Laurie and Randie. They later divorced.

In 1985, Emmorn married Rita Perkins and was blessed with four more children: Jason, Craig, Casey and Aileen.

In 1988, Emmorn and Rita made their home in Grace, ID where he resided until his death. While in Grace, Emmorn worked for Treasure Canyon Calcium until his retirement in 2010.

Emmorn’s passions in life were his horses, his grandchildren and his beloved dog, Max. Emmorn was well known for breaking and training race horses, buying, selling and trading them. He was also very proud of each of his 17 grandchildren and spoke of them often.

Emmorn is survived by his wife Rita; mother Mae Von Taylor, Escalante; children: Rick (Kim) Dodds, Meeker, CO; Laurie Dodds, Craig, CO; Randie (John) Roetker, Evanston, WY; Jason (Deborah) Perkins, Taylorsville; Craig (Lynette) Perkins, Egale Mountain; Casey Perkins, Draper; and Aileen Perkins Stokes, Clinton; 17 grandchildren; siblings: Jerry (Monica) Taylor, Escalante; Janalee (Louie) Bernardo, Escalante; Jimmy (Ethel) Taylor, South Jordan; David (Cindy) Dodds, Panguitch; and Bud Dodds, Panguitch.

He was preceded in death by his father, Arden Taylor.

Funeral services will be held Wednesday, October 9, 2013 at 12:00 Noon in the Grace LDS Stake Center, where friends may call Tuesday from 6-8 pm at Sims Funeral Home in Soda Springs, ID and on Wednesday at the stake center from 10:30-11:30.

Emmorn will return to his home Escalante, Utah for funeral services to be held on Saturday, October 12, 2013 at 11:00 a.m. in the Escalante Stake Center where friends may call from 9:3010:30 a.m. Burial will be in the Escalante Cemetery. Funeral Directors: Magleby Mortuary, Richfield, Salina and Manti. Online guestbook at www.maglebymortuary.com The family would like to give their thanks to Access Hospice, and a special thank you to Colleen Benson.

The Wayne & Garfield County INSIDER

October 10, 2013

Bryce Valley Area News

by Vicki D. Syrett 679-8687 or vickidiane36@hotmail.com

On Saturday they had a Graveside Service for tiny Kaden Lindsay. He was born in July and put up a valiant struggle to survive. He was such a cute little baby boy and his parents, Johnny and Jaycee Cox Lindsay will miss this special little boy Kaden was the first child for Jaycee and Johnny and our hearts go out to them.. Grandparents in Tropic are Lucky and Sandra Cox and we want the family to know we have them in our prayers and thoughts at this time.

We also want Belinda Gray and her family to know we are thinking about you at this time of your loss. It seems like you have had a hard time losing first a grandfather and now a grandmother from Belinda’s side of the family. We wish you well and send our prayers and thoughts out to you at this time.

Plans are in effect for the

Halloween Carnival for the Bryce Valley Schools. It is to be held on October 31 at the Elementary School. The PTA puts a lot of work into this carnival and they appreciate your support.

The Cannonville Relief Society held an afternoon Social and had thirteen ladies present. It was called “Golden Girl’s Luncheon”.

They played games, listened to some good music from the 40’s and 50’s, and had a very nice luncheon. It was a wonderful event and everyone enjoyed themselves.

Coming up on the 12th of October is the Annual Deer Hunter’s Ball sponsored by the Lion’s Club. It will start at 6:00 P.M. and end at 8:00 P.M. Tickets are $5.00 per person or $25.00 for a family.

You can purchase raffle tickets for some wonderful prizes. Be sure to come out and try your

BRYCE VALLEY AREA Senior Lunches at the HENRIEVILLE Senior Center THURS Oct. 10th

Roast beef, potatoes & gravy, green beans, apples, brownie Biscuits & gravy, sausage, country fried potatoes, stewed tomatoes, mandarin oranges, blueberry muffin BBQ ribs, baked potatoes, carrot salad, peaches, cookie Chicken chunks, ranch potato wedge, green salad, tropical fruit, cupcake

TUES Oct. 15th WED Oct. 16th THURS Oct. 17th

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luck and dancing and maybe winning a prize.

The Lion’s Club Birthday calendar is finished and gone to the printer. Anita called many people to give them a chance to get their names on the calendar, to make changes, or add new family members. It is too late now but watch for the calendar’s to be sold so you can get yours.

Wynona and Ernie Henderson has son-in-law, Dan Davis and his boys Austin from Mesa Arizona and Jeremy from Santa Clara, Utah come for a visit. Shane and Candice Davis and baby Zoe Jane who has the most beautiful eyes, also dropped by for a visit along with Mitch Henderson. While they were visiting the Henderson’s they put a new metal roof on the sheds and poured a cement pad to set up the flag pole so the Henderson’s could display their flag easier. Those darn things you put on the house don’t stay put with the wind we get down here. Ernie has wanted a flag pole for years and now he has one thanks to his children and grandchildren. On Friday, Wynona’s cousin Zoe and her husband Ernie Maes of St. George came to visit. They are retiring and going on a mission to Guatemala. This will be the fourth mission they have served. Zoe brought her sister, Arlene Hasbrouck, who has a daughter buried i the Henrieville Cemetary. Arlene is from Sacramento and decided to join in the visit which was a good one for all concerned.

In Tropic Heather Gray was called as Library Assistant, the Frosts are moving back to Orderville. They will no longer be the Cub Scout leader and the boys will miss them they were great leaders.

The 10-11 yr olds had an activity day last week and made candy graham’s for the Bishop.

On the OCT 13 there is a Stake

Fireside in Escalante YM and YW at 6:00 pm!

Sandy Johnson went to Tooele and met with her family. She saw daughter Rachelle Sheedy while there.

Shawn Chynoweth took the Boy Scouts and their Dad’s up to the LDS Church History Museum to see the display on the 100 year Boy Scout celebration. They attended a session of Conference while up there. They also worked on earning a special merit badge for scouts.

Scouts will be going on a backpacking trip on the 1719th of October. They also have a 50 mile bike trip scheduled for the 26th of October.

The PTA is putting the haunted train ride together!

We would love to get as many people involved as possible.

Anyone that would like to be involved, whether you in the PTA or not. It is going to be on October 30, the night before Halloween. We are having a meeting tomorrow(Monday) at 5 o’clock pm at the elementary school before the movie night.

If you can come, we’d love to see you!

If you think you are hearing too much church news then pick up the phone and call your news in. I report on what I receive and that could be your news also. I can’t write about it if I don’t have the information. Also you are more than welcome to come and do the article if you would like. I have no problem with that.

Thanks to those who take the time to report to me so I can have a column. Church or not news is news.

Please be aware of the Senior Citizen trips on the bus. If you are interested you can call 679-8666 to see what is in the works and join in the fun.

Thanks VS

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WEDDINGS

Pace - Bagley

Luke Bagley and

Sarah Mae Pace Bagley

were married September 21, 2013 at The Red River Lodge in Teasdale, Utah.

Luke is the son of LaRell and Carolyn Bagley, Monroe.

Sarah is the daughter of Richard and Rebecca Pace, Teasdale, Utah.

Luke and Sarah will make their new home in Annabelle, Utah.

Stewart - Peterson

Karin Rachelle Stewart and

Lance J. Peterson

were married on Friday, October 4, 2013 in the St. George LDS temple.

You are invited to attend a reception held in their honor on Saturday, October 12 at the Lodge 14095 HWY 24 in Lyman Utah from 7:00 to 9:00 P.M. Parents of the bride, Stan and Kathryn Stewart.

Parents of the groom, Jeffrey and JaNell Peterson.

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Elder Rhett Devin Taylor BICKNELL - Elder Rhett Devin Taylor has returned from serving in the Paraguay Asuncion Mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. He will be speaking in the Thurber Ward on Sunday, October 13th at 10:00 am located at 190 N. 200 E. in Bicknell, Utah. Elder Taylor is the son of Riley and Joni Taylor of Bicknell, Utah.

Grandson of Dunk and Roma Taylor of Bicknell, Utah and of Grant and Nancy Mecham of Vernal, Utah.

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Every1Counts

No Matter What...

By Cynthia Kimball No matter what…

Love (regardless).

No matter what…

Practice ultimate forgiveness (to self and others).

No matter what…

Put God first (and all other worldly cares second).

No matter what…

Get back up.

No matter what…

Find virtues (and pass them on).

No matter what…

Family first.

No matter what…

Count your blessings.

No matter what…

Repent.

No matter what…

Care.

No matter what…

Do good.

No matter what…

Be faithful.

No matter what…

“Sell all that thou hast, and distribute unto the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.” (Luke 18:22).

No matter what…

Be grateful.

No matter what…

Do the right thing.

No matter what…

Be loyal.

No matter what…

Assume the best.

No matter what…

Traffic Stop

Let your thoughts, actions and words be good, right and clean.

No matter what…

Let mistakes make not break you.

No matter what…

Appreciate others (and tell them so).

No matter what…

Be honest.

No matter what…

Pay it forward.

No matter what…

Pray (in all things).

No matter what…

Give your best.

No matter what…

Stop gossip (unless positive).

No matter what…

Serve (anonymously if you can).

No matter what…

“Change the way you look at things so that the things you look at change.” (Dyer, BrainyQuote, 2013).

No matter what…

“Come what may and love it.”

(Wirthlin, 2008) No matter what…

Be selfless.

No matter what…

Have faith (not fear).

No matter what…

Be humble (and give credit to others).

No matter what…

Do not give up.

No matter what…

Only find good (not bad) in people and circumstances.

No matter what…

Communicate (especially listen and think before you speak).

No matter what…

Realize it is not about you (but others).

No matter what…

No matter what…

Lose your life for His sake and you will find it (Matthew 10:39).

Focus on what is working.

No matter what…

Believe you can.

No matter what…

Celebrate trials asking, “What do I need to learn from and how can I help others with this?”

No matter what…

Find your purpose (then help others find theirs).

No matter what…

Keep going and doing great things!

No matter what…

Endure to the end.

Cynthia Kimball is a speaker and trainer through her company Every1Counts, LLC, and a doctoral student in Curriculum and Instruction. She sometimes writes for Deseret Connect. E-mail: kimball@every1counts.net

While vacationing, we were stopped on the road by a police officer for exceeding the posted speed limit. Trying to think of some way out of the predicament, I said to the officer, “Do you realize how much money we’ve spent in this area today?”

“Well,” replied the officer, “you’re about to spend a little more.”

Generation Gap

My granddaughter came to spend a few weeks with me, and I decided to teach her to sew. After I had gone through a lengthy explanation of how to thread the machine, she stepped back, put her hands on her hips, and said in disbelief, “You mean you can do all that, but you can’t operate my Game Boy?”

Reality Check

At 3:00 a.m. the young wife shook her husband awake, telling him to check the baby. He sat up for a full minute listening, then protested, “But I don’t hear her crying.”

“I know” she replied, “And it’s your turn to go see why not!”

October 10, 2013

tHe lAuGhiNg pOiNt!!

Knowledge is Power

A father and son went fishing one day. After a couple hours out in the boat, the boy suddenly became curious about the world around him. He asked his father, “How does this boat float?”

The father thought for a moment, then replied, “I don’t rightly know, son.”

The boy returned to his contemplation, then turned back to his father, “How do fish breath underwater?”

Once again the father replied, “Don’t rightly know, son.”

A little later the boy asked his father, “Why is the sky blue?”

Again, the father replied.

“Don’t rightly know, son.”

Worried he was going to annoy his father, he says, “Dad, do you mind my asking you all of these questions?”

“Of course not, son. If you don’t ask questions ... you’ll never learn anything!”

Near Death Experience

A middle-aged woman had a heart attack and was taken to the hospital.

While on the operating table she had a near death experience.

Seeing God she asked “Is my time up?” God said, “No, you have another 40 years, 2 months and 8 days to live,” Upon recovery, the woman decided to stay in the hospital and have a facelift, liposuction, and a tummy tuck. She even had someone come in and change her hair color. Since she had so much more time to live, she figured she might as well make the most of it.

After her last operation, she was released from the hospital. While crossing the street on her way home, she was killed by an ambulance.

Arriving in front of God (again), she demanded, “I thought you said I had another 40 years. Why didn’t you pull me from out of the path of the ambulance?”

God replied, “Sorry about that, I just didn’t recognize you!”

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Wills, Trusts, and More Simply Perfect Ways to Give to Charity

by Jeffery J. McKenna

When doing your estate planning, you have the chance to benefit those individuals and institutions that benefited you in your lifetime. Many charitable donors have shown their appreciation to different charities by making provisions for the organization in their wills or trusts.

Whether you have a large or small estate, it is very easy to make a simple charitable donation in your will or trust.

First, when doing your estate planning, you can inform your estate planning attorney that you want a certain percentage, or a specific amount, of your estate to be distributed to the particular charity (this can be a church, school, or other charitable organization). Your gift does not have to be large. Small amounts add up.

Your example of generosity and civic-mindedness, evidenced by a provision in your will or trust to provide for a specific charity, may be of more lasting value to your loved ones than the assets you actually leave them.

The simple process of leaving a certain percentage of your estate to the charity can be accomplished through a will or trust. The procedure should not increase the cost of your estate plan nor the estate administration.

Another very simple method to provide for a charitable bequest upon your death is to add the charity as a ben-

eficiary of your IRA. The process would require you to visit with your IRA provider and request that a new IRA account be established with whatever amount you want from your existing IRA account. This new account (or existing account if you want to use the entire amount of your existing account) would name the desired charity as the beneficiary.

Giving the charitable organization a portion of your IRA has many tax advantages.

Upon your death, the proceeds in the IRA would be paid directly to the charity. Significantly, no income taxes would have to be paid. If the IRA proceeds were distributed to your children or grandchildren, they would have to pay income tax on the distribution. Using an IRA to make a simple bequest to a charity greatly benefits the organization, and saves income taxes for your heirs.

Additionally, it can save estate taxes as well.

This article gives a few simple techniques to help those that want to benefit a

charitable organization. I hope these techniques can be of assistance to you.

Jeffery J. McKenna is a local attorney serving clients in Utah, Arizona and Nevada.

He is a shareholder at the law firm of Barney, McKenna, and Olmstead with offices in St. George and Mesquite. He is a past President of the Southern Utah Estate Planning Council. If you have questions you would like addressed in these articles, you can contact him at 435 628-1711 or jmckenna@barney-mckenna.com.

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October 10, 2013

AnniversarIES Vergean and Carolyn Porter

ESCALANTE - Vergean and Carolyn Porter celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary on September 21, 2013. They were married in Salt Lake City on September 21, 1948. Their marriage was later solemnized for time and all eternity in the St. George LDS Temple in 1964. They born were both born and raised in Escalante, Utah. They raised their four children there and are still active members of their LDS Ward as well as their community. Their children are: Vergeania (late Darryl) Davenport, Kevin (Shelley) Porter, Slone (Vera Lynn) Porter and Clint (Shana) Porter. They are the grandparents of 20 and great-grandparents of 23 with four new arrivals expected in October. Their posterity would like to thank them for their example of what true love is all about. We appreciate their dedication to each other and they are truly an inspiration to those of us who have the pleasure of calling them Mom and Dad and Grandpa and Grandma.

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Digital Divide

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100 or so years--won’t be available at all. For movie theaters this means go digital or get out of the business. While the absolute end-date to the availability of film is not firm and keeps shifting outward, chances are that by the end of 2014 all theaters will be required to make the switch.

Tory Davis, owner of Bicknell’s Wayne Theatre, says his theater is definitely affected by the decrease in the number of 35mm print films. “Some studios are striking only 15 prints for the entire western United States. So there is a big waiting list,” he says. Getting a desired movie can take some time. Davis thinks that by mid-2014 he’s going to need to make the digital conversion, as print film becomes increasingly difficult to obtain. “I figure by spring of next year it will be virtually impossible to get the prints that I want to show.”

The movie industry’s switch to digital began in about 2003, so the technology crossover has been looming for some time, but the initial conversion rate was slow, accelerating markedly just over the past few years. Movie studios began the move to digital in part for their own cost savings—one reel of a film costs about $1,500 to produce, whereas putting a film on a digital hard drive costs about one tenth as much, about $125.

They are not only less expensive to produce but also to ship.

But too, the quality of digital is arguably better in certain ways, at least in eliminating the dirt, dust and scratches that arise on print film when it is used time and again.

According to the National Association of Theater Owners, as of this past July 89% of the country’s 40,000 or so screens have been converted to digital.

(Note: the number of screens in the U.S. is far more than the number of theaters, due to the advent of the multiplex theater.)

But information on the number of theaters that have gone out business rather than make the switch is hard to come by, and the theaters with the smallest

markets have been the longest hold outs, representing that last 10% of the un-converted. Word on the street is that 1,000 movie houses, or 20% of all independent theatres across the country, could stand to close if they can’t afford or raise the funds for the new projection systems.

And while the movie studios did initially offer some support to theatre owners in the way of a conversion subsidy called a virtual print fee (VPF), which represented a reimbursement of some of the savings that came from shipping hard drives instead of celluloid reels, those programs tended to benefit the multiplex early-adopters, who already had initial cash on hand to support their conversion.

With major urban markets already converted, the studios are now phasing out the VPF subsidy to theater owners. At this point, the Mom-and-Pop theater owners are pretty much on their own.

And this means so are rural movie theater goers. The studios seems pretty prepared to write off huge a huge section of the ticket buying public. As Indiewire reporter Mike Hurley noted in a column last year, “You can bet that the same people who spent $150 million to make ‘Mars Needs Moms’ have crunched the numbers and believe they can live with a lot fewer theaters in this world.”

“It’s a tough business right now and the studios aren’t cutting a lot of deals at the moment,” says Crandell.

So far, both the Gem and Wayne theaters have been survivors. Originally built in 1909, the Gem has seen its share of rough times and risen from the ashes—literally. Crandell says that over the years the Gem has actually burned down three times. “The last time was in the 1980s—it was showing Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, and it just about burned to the ground,” he says.

The Gem was originally a silent movie house, and underwent its first technology conversion, to “talkies” in the 1930s. “There’s a little museum upstairs at The Gem that shows the timeline and the ownership, and the original

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The Harvest Festival is sponsored by the Boulder Heritage Skills Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping local communities rediscover and utilize traditional skills. The 2008 financial crisis, and a growing awareness of climate change and the limits of fossil fuel production brought several Boulder residents together to search for local solutions to the economic needs of the community. The first Harvest Festival was held in 2010, and was such a success that the event has become an annual tradition.

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Monthly Senior Dinner - The monthly dinner is held the second Monday of each month. The next dinner will be on October 14th at 1:00 pm at the Senior Center (Community Center) in Bicknell.

The menu will be; Chili, Cornbread, Jell-0, and Ice-cream sandwiches. We will play Bingo and other games for an afternoon of fun. A donation is suggested for each monthly dinner ($5 for seniors under 60, $3 for seniors 60 and up). Call the Bakers for a ride at 425-3178.

Flu Shots - A nurse will be available at the October luncheon to provide flu shots starting at 12:30 PM. Bring your Medicare or Insurance card. Otherwise, the cost will be $25.

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Mark Friday, October 18 on your calendar, and come celebrate our local know-how and this season’s harvest. Admission is free, as are most workshops, although some may charge a small fee for materials. Bring a tasty dish, a musical instrument or special song if you like, and meet your neighbors!

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We can enjoy the benefits of the larger economy without a dependence on fragile global systems of finance and industrial production. The recent government shutdown highlights our need to discover ways to meet local needs with local resources. The Harvest Festival is the place to meet, learn a skill, share a skill, and just have fun!

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projector is still there,” says Crandell. “The way those projectors worked was they would use welding rods and put them close together so they would arc and there was a piece of glass behind that so it would reflect the light onto the screen, and it burned at about 2000 degrees, which is why so many theaters burned down. Film was also more flammable then.”

After burning in the 1980s, the Gem sat idle for almost 30 years. “The roof had caved in and just nobody thought it would ever be rebuilt because it was totally demolished. There were more bats living in it than people in town,” says Crandell.

The Gem was finally renovated in 2011 by Mark Childs, who has since sold it to Crandell, who’s owned the theater since January of this year.

The Wayne Theatre has fared better over the years (having the good fortune to have never had a fire due to a projector malfunction), and has operated continuously since 1947, though throughout most of its lifespan it has been a seasonal theater, closing for at least some part of the winter months. Since obtaining the theater five years ago, owner Tory Davis has kept it open year-round, which has been as much a public service as a business plan. “It is one of the only sources of entertainment around here except for sports and school events. We have regular patrons and those who come only once a year. But everybody seems to appreciate that it’s here.”

What both Crandell and Davis are ruminating about— and what many theater owners have lost a lot of sleep over-is how to finance their digital conversion. Dozens of theaters throughout the country have launched online Kickstarter fundraising campaigns with varying degrees success. While many have achieved their fundraising goal, probably many more have fallen short, and with Kickstarter, if you don’t make your entire donation goal, you don’t keep anything from the campaign. It’s a gamble. (As an example, the Salt Lake Film Society had a Kickstarter campaign going earlier this week

to convert seven screens at two venues. In the early part of the effort the outlook was looking grim, but on Monday night with two hours to go in the campaign they’d just met their initial $50,000 goal. Many others have not been so fortunate.)

Davis had tried a “Save the Wayne” campaign through Kickstarter several months ago, but that initial effort fell short. “I think I would like to try it again and market it better.

But I’m also hoping to locate a few large benefactors, in addition to small donations and events. Basically, I currently don’t have the funds to convert it, and I’m not getting a loan.

Nobody will lend on it.”

John Crandell says that in The Gem’s case, they won’t be using the fundraising approach.

Their business model includes their ice cream parlor, which he says helps their enterprise overall. In addition, he plans to offer an expanded winter menu including “comfort” food during the months that other restaurants are closed to engage more customers. Not having run the theater through a complete winter yet, he feels their success will depend on whether the public supports it and wants to see movies. “Even if everybody comes this market is still is not what the industry thinks you should have a theater in.

But we do get a lot of support from tourism in the summer and also we get a lot of customers from Tropic and Cannonville and Hatch.”

It’s clear that for those theaters that have weathered the digital conversion, community support has been crucial— whether by going to the movies or by donating to fundraising efforts, or both. If they’re going to survive, The Gem and The Wayne theaters will need their communities behind them.

“The community loves the theater. I love the theater. One advantage of going digital is we’ll be able to get better, newer movies, which will be better for everybody. I don’t think any one in our community-whether they are moviegoers or not--want to see it go away,” says Davis.

—Insider Report

Garfield County Petitions Governor for Local State of Emergency Due to National Government Shutdown PANGUITCH - Late Monday afternoon, Garfield County, along with several other counties in Southern Utah petitioned Governor Herbert to declare a Local State of Emergency due to the economic disturbance created by the government shutdown of national parks, monuments, and recreation areas during the height of the fall tourism season.

Tourism is responsible for 70% of the economy in Garfield County and 90% of the land is federally owned. With three National Park boundaries within Garfield County, Bryce Canyon, Capitol Reef and Canyonlands, as well as Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument and Glen Canyon National Recreation Area the economic impact has been devastating to our local businesses in an already struggling economy.

—Garfield County Sheriff’s Office

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will be located at

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Wednesday Oct. 23, 2013 Please call for your appointment today!

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Utah Farmer’s Union: Farm Bill Delay “Ridiculous” SALT LAKE CITY - The Utah Farmers Union is growing concerned that Congress, in letting the already-extended Farm Bill expire at the end of September, could hurt farmers in Utah and around the country.

Utah Farmers Union vice president Ron Stratford called the Farm Bill lapse “ridiculous,” and said says farmers are critically dependent upon crop insurance and other programs linked to the Farm Bill.

According to Stratford, banks will likely tighten up operating credit, which farmers rely on to plant crops, if there is any uncertainty about crop insurance.

It’s “very frustrating when you have bills to pay, you have ongoing operations.

You know, things that happen every year,” the Farmers Union official said. “If you’re not able to get the credit that you need, then obviously that’s very frustrating, very stressful.”

Crop insurance protects growers against crop losses caused by weather, disease

and many other threats.

The Farm Bill is generally written for five years, more or less, and is broad “omnibus” legislation with many elements. The last Farm Bill was passed in 2008.

Meanwhile, Stratford said the anxiety level among Utah farmers over the Farm Bill delay is growing, like so many crops.

“It’s absolutely ridiculous, they’re playing games basically, and we’re the guys paying the bill,” he charged.

“If you could put the farmers back there and let them be in charge for a little while, then I think we could get things done, but that doesn’t seem to happen.”

Stratford said Utah’s biggest crops in terms of yield are alfalfa, wheat and corn, and noted that the state also has a good number of cattle and dairy operations.

The Utah Farmers Union website is UtahFarmersUnion. com.

—Troy Wilde, Utah News Connection

Dr. Scott Andersen, DDS The Tooth Ranch 374 S. 300 E., Bicknell

NEW days/hours

M&F 8:00 a.m to 6:00 p.m. call for appointment 435-425-3391

WAYNE COUNTY Car Seat Checkpoint

Wednesday, October 16 at Loa Elementary from 2 – 4 p.m.

Sponsored by the Central Utah Safe Kids and Wayne County Sheriff’s Office Questions? Call or text Becca Chappell 435-691-5162 becca5162@hotmail.com

WAYNE COUNTY Bookmobile Summer/Fall Schedule

Monday Every 2 weeks August 12 & 26 and September 9 & 23 Torrey East Main St. 12:30pm - 1:15pm Teasdale Old Church 1:30pm - 2:00pm Fremont LDS Church 2:30pm 3:15pm Loa Courthouse 3:30pm - 4:30pm Lyman LDS Church 5:00pm - 5:45pm Bicknell Library 6:00pm - 6:30pm Tuesday Every 2 weeks August 13 & 27, Sept. 10 & 24 Hanksville Elementary 1:30 - 3:00pm (Tuesdays @ Loa Elementary starting in September)

Garfield County Bookmobile

Fall - Winter Schedule Tuesday Every 2 Weeks Oct. 1, 15, 29 / Nov. 12, 26 Tropic - Bryce Valley Elem. 10:30am - 2:45pm Tropic - Bryce Valley H.S. 2:45pm - 3:45pm Cannonville City Park 4:00pm - 4:45pm Henrieville Main Street 5:00pm - 6:00pm Bryce Canyon Residential Area 6:30pm - 7:00 pm Wednesday Every 2 weeks Oct. 2, 16, 30 / Nov. 13, 27 Panguitch Elem. 8:30am - 11:20am Panguitch Head Start 166 N. Main 11:30am - 12:00pm Thursday Every 2 Weeks Oct. 3, 17, 31 / Nov. 14 Escalante Elem. 9:00am - 10:30am Escalante H.S. 10:30am - 11:30am Boulder Elementary 12:30pm - 2:15pm Escalante Elem. 3:00pm - 3:45pm Escalante Phone Office 4:00 - 5:45

Domestic Violence Is Everybody’s Business

New Horizons Campaign Taking Place in Wayne County Supports Crisis Intervention October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and with domestic violence on the rise, it is an important time to face this difficult issue.

Domestic violence should not happen to anybody. Ever.

Period. But it does—and when it does, there is help.

Domestic violence can be defined as a pattern of behavior in any relationship that is used to gain or maintain power and control over an intimate partner.

Abuse can be physical, sexual, emotional, economic or psychological actions or threats of actions that influence another person. This includes any behaviors that frighten, intimidate, terrorize, manipulate, hurt, humiliate, blame, injure or wound someone. Domestic violence can happen to anyone of any race, age, sexual orientation, religion or gender. It can happen to couples who are married, living together or who are dating. Domestic violence affects people of all socioeconomic backgrounds and education levels.

Domestic violence not only affects those who are abusive, but also has a substantial affect on family members,

friends, co-workers, other witnesses, and the community at large. Children, who grow up witnessing domestic violence are among those seriously affected numerous social and physical problems, but also teaches them that violence is a normal way of life – therefore, increasing their risk of becoming society’s next generation of victims and abusers.

Domestic Violence; It’s EVERYBODY’S Business.

This year New Horizons Crisis Center has sheltered 114 women; 86 children and 6 men totaling 6,047 shelter nights.

Among these numbers, 1.059 people received crisis interventions.

During the month of October, New Horizons is sponsoring a Purple Ribbon Campaign through local merchants in the five county area of Sevier, Piute, Wayne, Sanpete and Millard. Patrons can make donations to New Horizons Crisis Center in any amount and receive a purple ribbon card with their name on it to be displayed at the store. In Wayne County you can donate at Royals Market in Loa. —New Horizons Crisis Center

October 10, 2013

Parents Key To Lower Teen Birth Rate SALT LAKE CITY - Teen birth rates in Utah and around the nation have dropped to historic lows, according to new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) figures. In Utah, the teen birth rate is down nearly 40 percent since 2001.

Annabel Sheinberg, education director, Planned Parenthood Association of Utah, said parents discussing sexual issues with their children is key in keeping teen birth rates down.

She pointed to research that shows that teens who have “the talk” make different choices.

“There have been studies that show teens who report having good conversations with their parents about sex wait longer to begin having sex. And they are more likely to use condoms and other birth control

methods when they do become sexually active,” Sheinberg said.

The CDC reports that in 2012, there were 305,000 births in the U.S. to mothers between 15 and 19. The agency says that is the lowest rate of teen births since the end of World War II. Sheinberg said parents should reach out to their children on an ongoing basis.

“It’s not just about having one big talk, it’s about becoming more comfortable asking the questions and initiating the conversation,” she explained.

According to the CDC, the teen birth rate is half what it was in 1991.

The full CDC report is available at www.cdc.gov.

—Troy Wilde, Utah News Connection

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I (HARSHAD P. DESAI) am confused. Please help me understand all these.

(1) Cato Institute (non-partisan / non-profit organization) research – 1950 thru 2009 Students increased by 96% (100 in 1950 is 196 in 2012), Teachers increased by 252% (what 100 teachers were doing is required to have 252 teachers), non-teaching staff increased by 702% (cesspool with bacteria got company of viruses). This means we Americans are producing dumber kids or weeds grew into cotton tree which is difficult to trim now (forget rooting it out).

(2) http://www.schools.utah.gov/default/directory.pdf GARFIELD COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT Antimony Elementary School Boulder Elementary School Bryce Valley Elementary School Escalante Elementary School Panguitch Elementary School Panguitch Middle School Bryce Valley High School Escalante High School Panguitch High School

Students 24

Teachers 1

Student to Teacher Ratio 24

12 140 72 249 63 124 99 128 911

1 8 5 15 5 9 8 9 61

12 17.5 14.4 16.6 12.6 13.78 12.37 14.22 14.935

Record of 2010. Records for 2011, 2012, 2013 are not available.

Pupil to Teacher ratio – National – 15.7 Utah – 22.1 Garfield School District – 14.935 Teacher Salary – National Average $50,379.00 Utah average $ 41,359.00 Garfield County School District - > $ 67,434.00 (not $58,124.00) (3) Garfield School District increased property taxes by 11% – because it is in ditch (where is the ditch ?)

Garfield School District is hiring more teachers but pupil to teacher ratio is <15.

Do public has clear knowledge or is lead to believe totally wrong things ?

(4) The information the Garfield County School District Superintendent published in THE WAYNE & GARFIELD COUNTY INSIDER were incorrect (average salary is not $58,124.00) Correct Information is as under - Based on 2010 records (http://www.utahsright.com/salaries.php?city=emery_schools Records of 2011, 2012, 2013 are not available), following is the data - Garfield School District Teachers.

19 Teachers with $95,000.00 to 80,000.00 / 10 month pay.

17 Teachers with $79,000.00 to 70,000.00 / 10 month pay.

14 Teachers with $69,000.00 to $60,000.00 / 10 month pay.

11 Teachers with $59,000.00 to $50,000.00 / 10 month pay.

4 Teachers with $49,000.00 to $40,000.00 / 10 month pay.

4 Teachers with $29,000.00 to $22,000.00 / 10 month pay.

If averaged (Garfield School District) - $67,434.00 / 10 month pay. >12 retired teachers - double dipping (retirement + Pay) ?

There are 6 principals in Garfield School District. Their pay scale is $ 133,192.00, $113,833,00, $ 112,898.00, $ 112,426.00, 4 105,815.00, $99,451.00. The average is $112.935 / 10 month. On top of it they have 20.3% guaranteed pension pay ($ 22,925.00 in bonus / year until they die when they retire). Note: In the past, Principal was one of the teachers and was close to teacher’s pay.

In 60’s when I went to school (Total student body of 1200 students), the principal was English Teacher in 10th and 11th grade for 4 classes (each of 65 students).

(5) http://www.reform.co.uk/resources/0000/0765/Must_do_better_Spending_on_schools.pdf Like USA, in UK Labor party’s base is unions / education – more money needed for education. Vote for us and we get money for education. Independent commission was ordered to study.

Extensive thorough study (16,727 primary schools and 2,653 secondary schools) found that there is total disconnect (myth) between more money and better education (more spending does not give better education).

(6) http://www.centerforpubliceducation.org/Main-Menu/Organizing-a-school/Class-size-and-student-achievement-At-aglance/Class-size-and-student-achievement-Research-review.html In USA, extensive study done by Center for Public Education (non-profit / non-partisan organization). It found that class size has no connection with better education (except 3rd grade). For 3rd grade, pupil to teacher ration of more than 18 to 1 has negative effect on education + pupils do not do good in later years. For higher grades (higher than grade 3), class size has no effect.

(7) Per US budget, In 2012 year, US Federal Government dole out $90,823.00 millions in Education funds.

(8) 2000 thru 2009 - Garfield County School District’s audit report http://utah.ptfs.com/awweb/ awarchive?type=file&item=23881 by GILBERT & STEWART vs.

CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS - A+ 2005 thru 2009 - Utah state / Special Audit report (Report # 09-SCH-J by Auston G. Johnson, Utah State Auditor, http:// www.docstoc.com/docs/40646696/GARFIELD-COUNTY-SCHOOL-DISTRICT “FINDINGS AND RECOMMANDATIONS FOR THE PERIOD OF 2005 thru JULY 2009) - F (cesspool) – published all over the world. Why is this ? Simple – Bacteria and viruses in authority to clean the cesspool. If you think you would have piece of pie in the future, I wish you good luck.

(9) http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/Garfield_School_District,_Utah – Garfield County School District 0 “D” (10) SALT LAKE TRIBUNE RESEARCH (2010, UTAH’s retiring superintendents) Janice Hatch – Superintendent for one year (2009-2010) – walked away with $147,640.00 (Cost to the district), $85,619.00 (retirement Incentive), $ 45,180.00 (Health Insurance), $3,380 (52 sick leaves), $13,461.00 (35 vacation days). Do you know how much Mr. Maloy Dodds (GCSD Superintendent – 2010-2011) walked away with ? If not, why not ?

(11) International study (of developed countries) – USA is #1 in spending for education but is #29 in score. This means other developed countries are spending $0.50 to learn 1+1=2 whereas USA is spending $10 to learn 1+1=3.

(12) Connect the dots if you can. Earth was flat like dish (for centuries) because establishments (church, etc.) said so.

When Galileo proved that earth was round like a ball, he was stoned, put in house arrest until his death. Secretary of Education (Dr. Rod Paige – conservative republican) in President George W. Bush administration said – “EDUCATION MAFIA”. Mr. Bernie Madoff (Biggest crook in US history) was biggest philanthropist (donated various charities about $22 million) to gobble up $65,000 million of investors in his Ponzi scheme.

RESEARCHED, PAID & SUBMITTED BY HARSHAD P. DESAI

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LEGAL NOTICES

PUBLIC NOTICE ANTIMONY TOWN LOCAL ELECTION CANCELLED On September 8th, 2013 Antimony Town Board Members adopted a resolution to cancel the November 2013 local election in accordance with State Law 20A-1-206 which states that “A municipal legislative body may cancel a local election if the number of municipal officer candidates, including any eligible write-in candidates for the at-large municipal offices, if any, does not exceed the number of open at large municipal offices for which the candidates have filed,” The one person who declared candidacy for Town Mayor was Shannon Allen. The two persons who declared candidacy for Town Council are incumbent Board Member Tom King and Marcus Roger Gleave. Their four year terms will begin on January 1, 2014.

Published in the Wayne & Garfield County Insider on OCTOBER 3, 10 & 17, 2013

NOTICE TO WATER USERS The applications below were filed with the Division of Water Rights in Wayne County.

These are informal proceedings per Rule R655-6-2.

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, PO Box146300, Salt Lake City, UT 84114-6300, or by hand delivery to a Division office during normal business hours ON OR BEFORE NOVEMBER 6, 2013.

Please visit http://waterrights.utah.gov or call (801)-5387240 for additional information.

CHANGE APPLICATION(S) 61-3004(a39334): Kenneth Sawyer, State of Utah Board of Water Resources, West Panguitch Irrigation and Reservoir Company propose(s) using 0.25 ac-ft. from groundwater (2.5 miles Southwest of Hatch) for DOMESTIC. Kent L. Jones, P.E. STATE ENGINEER Published in The Wayne and Garfield County Insider on OCTOBER 10 & 17, 2013

PUBLIC NOTICE TORREY TOWN 2013 CANDIDATE FILING The following Torrey Town residents have filed for the November 2013 Election: Adus F. Dorsey ll---Mayor (4 year term), Shelia Pat Kearney—Town Council Member (4 year term) Dustin Oyler---- Town Council Member (4 year term).

Published in the Wayne & Garfield County Insider on SEPTEMBER 26, and OCTOBER 3 & 10, 2013

PUBLIC NOTICE HANKSVILLE TOWN 2013 CANDIDACY FILING Anyone wishing to file as a write in for a town office in Hanksville must do so by October 10, 2013, at the town office.

Mayor 4 year term and (2) Town Council Members, 4-year term each. Declaration of candidacy forms must be filed in person with the town clerk at 30 S Hwy 95 Hanksville Utah Lisa Wells, Town Clerk.

Published in the Wayne & Garfield County Insider on SEPTEMBER 26, and OCTOBER 3 & 10, 2013 PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE TORREY TOWN PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION and TORREY TOWN COUNCIL GENERAL PLAN DRAFT Thursday, October 17, 2013 4:30 – 6:00 p.m.

DUP Building, Main Street Torrey, Utah The Torrey Town Planning and Zoning Commission and the Torrey Town Council will be taking citizen comments on the proposed Torrey Town General Plan, a document required by Utah State Law for every municipality. The meeting is scheduled for October 17th 2013 from 4:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. in the Torrey DUP Building. It will end right before the 6:00 p.m.

Torrey Town Council regular monthly meeting. A copy of the General Plan Draft is available at the Torrey Town Hall or it can be downloaded from the Torrey Town website at www.torreyutah.gov. Those unable to attend may send a written comment to the Town Clerk, Paula Pace at contact@torreyutah.gov.

Published in the Wayne & Garfield County Insider on OCTOBER 3 & 10, 2013

ATTENTION GARFIELD COUNTY RESIDENTS DMV OFFICE CLOSURE NOTIFICATION THE DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLE OFFICE WILL BE CLOSED OCTOBER 14TH. ALL OTHER GARFIELD COUNTY OFFICES WILL BE OPEN FOR BUSINESS THAT DAY. ALL DMV OFFICES IN THE STATE WILL BE CLOSED THAT DAY FOR INSTALLATION OF A NEW VEHICLE REGISTRATION SYSTEM. BEGINNING OCTOBER 15, 2013 YOU WILL NEED YOUR DRIVER’S LICENSE OR STATE ID WHEN REGISTERING A VEHICLE.

PUBLIC NOTICE The regularly scheduled meeting for Torrey Town Council of Oct 10th has been changed to October 17, 2013. It will begin immediately following the public hearing of the Planning and Zoning committee for the proposal of the town’s new general plan. The meeting will be held in the DUP building located on Main Street.

Published in the Wayne & Garfield County Insider on OCTOBER 3 & 10, 2013 Garfield County School District Request for Proposal Lighting Upgrades Garfield County School District is accepting proposals to install new lighting fixtures, keyed switches and surface mounted conduit at Bryce Valley High Gym/Auditorium, Bryce Valley Elementary Gym, Escalante High Gym and Escalante High Old Gym. Lighting fixtures will be provided by the District. An on-site walkthrough will be held Monday, October 14, 2013 at 9:00AM starting at Bryce Valley High School. Contractors who are interested are required to contact Damon Brinkerhoff at damon@garfk12.org or by phone at 435-690-0028 for scope of work and the on-site walkthrough. Proposals will be accepted until Monday, October 21, 2013 at 3:00PM at the Garfield School District office located at 145 East Center P.O. Box 398, Panguitch, Utah 84759.

Published in the Wayne & Garfield County Insider on OCTOBER 10, 2013 PUBLIC NOTICE Escalante City Council has cancelled the Election for November 5, 2013 because the number of municipal officer candidates, including any eligible write-in candidates does not exceed the number of open at-large municipal offices for which the candidates have filed. Escalante City has no other municipal ballot propositions. Mayor Jerry A. Taylor, Council members’ Marian Louise Barnes and Melani Torgersen are considered elected.

Vickie L. Schulkoski, City Recorder, MMC Published in the Wayne & Garfield County Insider on OCTOBER 10 & 17, 2013

NOTICE

The Wayne County Assessor’s / Motor Vehicle office will be closed on Fridays at 11:30 am beginning October 4th thru December 27, 2013.

We are beginning our 2014 re-appraisal of the Teasdale, Torrey and Grover areas.

We will be out in the field doing the Inspections of each property during this time period.

Classified Ads

Classified ads start at $7.50 for 25 words or less. Call 435-826-4400 or email your ad information to snapshot@live.com SERVICES

HELP WANTED Part-Time ELL Adult Education Teacher Wayne School District Preference will be given to candidates who have: • Fluency in Spanish • Experience in teaching English Language Learners Time Requirement: • 6 hours a week 4 hours devoted to ELL classes 2 hours devoted to Adult Education Tutoring/prepping for ELL class Duration: • First of October to the end of March Duties: • Prepare for and teach English to English Language Learners following Adult Education Curriculum • Work closely with Adult Education Director and Adult Education Coordinator to ensure proper procedures and protocols • Tutor adult students who are pursuing a high school diploma or preparing for the GED when the need arises.

Interested candidates may send a resume to the Wayne School District office, PO Box 127, Bicknell, UT 84715. Applications will be accepted until October 11, 2013.

Wayne School District is an equal employment opportunity employer and reserves the right to accept or reject any or all applications.

10/10 FOODSERVICE WORKER FOR BRYCE VALLEY HIGH Garfield School District Garfield School District is now accepting applications for a food service worker at Bryce Valley High School. This position will be up to 19.75 hours per week with no benefits.

SALARY: Beginning food service hourly rate according to the 2013-2014 Garfield County School District Classified Salary Schedule. ($10.07) QUALIFICATIONS: Applicants must have a High School Diploma. Must satisfactorily pass an employment background check and work well with children.

APPLICATION: Interested individuals should submit a Garfield County School District classified application. Please direct questions to Principal Jeff Brinkerhoff 435-679-8835 and applications packets to: Bryce Valley High, PO Box 70, Tropic, UT 84776. Online application available at: www.garfield.k12. ut.us Applications will be screened and the most qualified candidates will be granted interviews.

DEADLINE: October 11, 2013 Garfield School District is an equal opportunity employer.

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

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435-826-4400 What people are saying about the Insider: “People hang out and read it right outside the post office.”

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NOTICE Garfield County is accepting applications for a Corrections Officer. Applications are available at the Garfield County Clerk’s Office and will be accepted until 5:00 p.m. Monday, October 14, 2013.

Anyone interested in applying for this position must pass the Standardized P.O.S.T. 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 435-586-5419 for additional information.

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

Herd Technician Circle Four Farms - Milford If you are looking for a career in a fun, rewarding team environment, Circle Four Farms is the opportunity you’ve been searching for.

We’re offering quality full time entry-level animal production positions with training. Challenge yourself with a stable company that offers: • Starting wage $10 to $11.00 per hour plus benefits – total value $30,420 • Medical, Prescription, Dental, and Vision Insurance • Life Insurance plan • Short and Long Term Disability • Company paid Pension Plan • 401(k) Savings Plan with company match • Bonus/Incentive Programs • Paid holidays and vacation • Educational reimbursement C4 Job Application required. For more information please call our office: Circle Four Farms PO Box 100, 341 South Main Milford UT 84751 (435) 387-2107, Fax (435) 387-2170 EOE / PWDNET

If you require accommodation or assistance to complete the application process, please call Lacy Davis at (435) 387-6047. When you contact Lacy, please identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. We will assist you promptly.

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FOR SALE RV for sale: 24 ft. 1977 Ford Diamond. Runs on propane; 106,000 miles; 460 Engine; mechanically fine. Retro, spacious and clean. Asking $2500 O.B.O. Call 435-4569146 10/10

RENTALS Susan Kendall, LMT Teasdale stonehouse.massagetherapy.com

Shane’s Carpet Cleaning Carpet, Tile and Upholstery Reasonable prices Call Shane at

435-691-3504

AA Open Meetings Every Wednesday and Sunday at 6:00 pm Bicknell Town Hall

Apartment for rent in Lyman. $325.00 per month, plus utilities.

No smoking. No pets. Cleaning deposit required. Call 8362344 evenings. Available August 1, 2013. rtn

REAL ESTATE ESCALANTE PROPERTY - 575 S. Center St., 3 acres for sale, price negotiable. Out of greenbelt, all 7 years back taxes paid, making perfect building lots. Water neg. Flat ground w/mature trees on west boundary.

Seller motivated. 435-8264982 or 435-690-9456 rtn 3 ACRES FOR SALE - In Loa. Beautiful views, power and water accessible. $23,999.

Call 435-691-0689 10/31 TORREY - SANDCREEK RV PARK AND CAMPGROUND is for sale. Serious inquiries, only. Call 435-4253577 10/31

(VITA) Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program is looking for volunteers to assist the community with free tax preparation.

VITA has several tax sites in the Garfield County area. If you’re looking for an opportunity to volunteer, VITA is a great avenue to serve your community. We will offer free tax law training necessary to become IRS certified in tax preparation. Certified volunteers will prepare tax returns for low-income households.

Serving at a Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) site is a very rewarding opportunity and offers a unique way to strengthen your community.

To learn more about VITA please contact: Tom Everett Regional Coordinator VITA /Five County Association of Governments (435) 673-3548 Ext. 104 or teverett@fivecounty.utah.gov

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October 10, 2013

Practical Money Matters

Reevaluate Your Benefits Needs During Open Enrollment

by Jason Alderman

If you’re among the 170 million Americans who receive health insurance through an employer-provided plan, you’ll probably receive your 2014 open enrollment materials shortly. Although it’s a pain to wade through all that information, simply opting for your current coverage could be a costly mistake. Here’s why: Health insurance has undergone major changes since the 2010 Affordable Care Act was passed, including the elimination of annual and lifetime coverage limits and preexisting conditions exclusions, expanded free preventive care and allowing children up to age 26 to remain on parents’ plans.

In response, many employers have altered their benefit plans. Plus, if your family or income situations have changed since last year, your current plans may no longer be the best match. And, if your employer offers flexible spending accounts and you’re not participating, you’re leaving a valuable tax break on the table.

Here’s what to look for when reviewing your benefit options: Carefully compare all costs and features of the different plans offered and note how your existing coverage may be changing next year. Common changes include: • Dropped or replaced medical plans.

• Increased monthly premiums, deductibles and copayment amounts.

• Revised drug formularies.

• Favored doctors or hospi-

tals withdrawing from a plan’s preferred provider network.

• Changes to the number of allowed visits for specialty care (acupuncture, chiropractic, physical therapy, etc.)

If offered, healthcare and dependent care flexible spending accounts (FSAs) can significantly offset the financial impact of medical and dependent care by letting you pay for eligible out-of-pocket expenses on a pre-tax basis; that is, before federal, state and Social Security taxes are deducted from your paycheck.

This reduces your taxable income and therefore, your taxes.

You can use a healthcare FSA to pay for IRS-allowed medical expenses not covered by your medical, dental or vision plans. Check IRS Publication 502 for allowable expenses. Dependent care FSAs let you use pre-tax dollars to pay for eligible expenses related to care for your child, spouse, parent or other dependent incapable of self-care.

Here’s how FSAs work: Say you earn $42,000 a year.

If you contribute $1,000 to a health care FSA and $3,000 for dependent care, your taxable income would be reduced to $38,000. Your resulting net income, after taxes, would be roughly $1,600 more than if you had paid for those expenses on an after-tax basis.

Remember these FSA restrictions: Employee contributions are limited to $2,500 a year for health care FSAs and

$5,000 for dependent care.

• Health care and dependent care contributions are not interchangeable.

• Estimate planned expenses carefully because you must forfeit unused account balances. Some employers offer a grace period of up to 2 ½ months after the end of the plan year to incur expenses, but that’s not mandatory, so check your company’s policy.

• Outside of open enrollment, you can only make mid-year FSA changes after a major life or family status change (marriage, divorce, death of a spouse, birth or adoption, etc.) If one occurs mid-year, re-jigger your FSAs accordingly for maximum savings.

• You must re-enroll in FSAs each year – amounts don’t carry over from year to year.

Compare your employer’s plans alongside those offered by your spouse’s employer, particularly when deciding where to insure your children. Also remember that if you marry, divorce, or gain or lose dependents, it could impact the type – and cost – of your coverage options.

It’s worth spending a few minutes to review your benefit coverage options for next year, especially when you consider the potential financial consequences.

Jason Alderman directs Visa’s financial education programs. To Follow Jason Alderman on Twitter: www.twitter.com/PracticalMoney

EHS students help pile a mountain of cardboard headed for recycling during a clean-up day in Boulder on Septmbert 24. This was part of a now annual effort by students of Escalante High to help make Boulder beautifuler. Note: EHS students were not responsible for this photo caption.

EHS Kids Work on Boulder Beautification

BOULDER - Tuesday, September 24, Escalante High School went to Boulder for their second annual community clean up. This cooperative endeavor between Escalante High School and the Boulder Town Council starts in the middle of the summer with EHS principal Mr. King meeting with the council to discuss projects that will help maintain the beauty of Boulder along with giving the students an opportunity to support those who faithfully support them in their education. The students and staff hope this annual event will continue to occur.

Each student was assigned to one of the six working stations; sorting recycling, cutting willows, cleaning the post office, pulling weeds, and repairing fencing. At the recycling station, a group of nine students went through the recycling bins and sorted out the cardboard and plastic from the glass bottles so it could be taken to St. George. They also worked on a fence surrounding the recycle station. At the willow cutting site, three groups of fifteen students cut invasive willows and pulled weeds that were crowd-

ing the cottonwoods. The fire station parking lot was also weeded. Students repaired the fencing around the trees in the park to stop deer from destroying them. At the post-office, a group of seven washed windows, mopped the floor and scraped tape off the doors.

There was a lot of support from members of the Boulder Community including: Ray Nelson, Steve Cox, Tom Jerome, and Cheryl Cox who mentioned, “EHS kids are awesome in every way! They’re fun to work with and work hard,” Also present were Judith Geil, Scott Brodie, Tina Karlsson, Bill Geil and the Mayor Bill Muse who exclaimed,” Last year was the first year Escalante High School came to Boulder, and we just jumped at the idea!

I’m so grateful! Our community doesn’t have a budget for a cleanup program. Seventy kids times four man hours is a lot more work than we could have accomplished in a year!”

Several of the places we worked on were overgrown and weed ridden. As I was working I noticed all of the students in each group were not only

working hard, but having fun as well! At about two o’clock, the students and staff took a break and enjoyed cookies and lemonade provided by the Boulder Community Alliance. Student body President Kolt Smith commented, “Working hard is a lot of fun, but it’s even better when you’re giving back to the community.”

It was a successful day of giving back to our community!

Eugene King, principal of Escalante High School expressed, “I’ve enjoyed the opportunity to be involved with the community of Boulder. I feel like our staff and students have had a great opportunity to provide service and get to know new people. I hope this can be an on-going cooperative effort between Escalante High School and the Boulder Community.”

The staff and students of Escalante High School would like to thank the citizens of Boulder for letting us come over and help improve their community property. We would like to extend an invitation to all of the Boulder community to join with us next year.

—Jake Christensen

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