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Thursday, November 21, 2013 • Issue # 1023
Bicknell • Teasdale • Torrey • Grover • Fruita • Caineville • Hanksville
Wayne Community Health Center Receives DHHS Funding Award for New Health Care Delivery Site in Escalante SALT LAKE CITY Nearly $2.4 million is awarded to expand access to health care at new community health centers Last week the United States Department of Health and Human Services announced awards of nearly $2.4 million to establish three new health centers in Utah. These new sites will provide access to quality preventive and primary health care for over 11,000 Utah residents, many of whom are uninsured or under-insured. “I am thrilled that we will
have increased the capacity to serve more people who need primary medical care in our community” said Bob Bunnell, President of Community Health Center Inc.’s (CHC, Inc.) Board of Governors. CHC, Inc. will be opening a new clinic in the Glendale area of Salt Lake in addition to their five established clinics, four throughout the Salt Lake valley and one in Brigham City. The new Glendale clinic site will serve nearly 3,400 patients. Wayne Community Health Center, which cur-
rently has two service sites in Bicknell and Hanksville, was awarded funding to open a new clinic in Escalante in Garfield County. The new clinic site will serve over 2,000 residents of a remote area of Utah that has few health care providers. Lastly, Utah Partners for Health (UPFH) will open a new clinic site in Midvale while it continues to operate its mobile clinic that visits dozens of neighborhood locaWCHC-Escalante Site Cont’d on page 2
Wayne County Trail Feasibility Study Completed and Grant Funding Award WAYNE COUNTY Wayne County has completed the first phase of a new public trails feasibility study along 10 miles of Scenic Byway 24 in southeastern Utah. The study includes five miles of Highway 24 from the Thousand Lake RV Park to the Junction of Byways 24 & 12, Torrey Utah. For those interested in viewing the Wayne County Connector Pathway Study it can be viewed online at: http:// www.waynecountyutah.org , or a hard copy is available at the clerk’s office in the courthouse. The National Park Service’s Rivers, Trails, and Conservation Assistance (RTCA) Program, which provides planning assistance to cities and counties throughout Utah, worked with Wayne County and its partners to set up the framework for the feasibility study. This allowed the County to hire a consulting firm to
complete the study. Marcy DeMillion, RTCA Community Planner said, “Wayne County and Torrey worked very hard in overseeing the study and securing additional funding so quickly to convert study ideas into action.” Leah McGinnis the Superintendent of Capitol Reef National Park said, “The National Park Service enjoyed working with the County and their partners to plan for a much needed trail in Torrey.” Wayne County has assigned staff members Michelle Coleman to address the grant aspects of the project, and Brandon Jensen to address the technical aspects of the project. Jones & DeMille Engineering, Wayne County’s Engineer on record, will be the Project Manager in working with the County staff. After the feasibly study was completed, Wayne County applied and was awarded a Utah
State Parks grant for $50,000 to fund environmental compliance and a small section of trail. “This funding will greatly help the County and Torrey show some progress following the completion of the feasibility study,” said Michelle Coleman, Wayne County Economic Development Director. Wayne County’s project partners include: Six County Association of Governments, the Town of Torrey, Wayne County Business Association, Central Utah Public Health Department, Utah Department of Transportation, Scenic Byway 12 Foundation, National Park Service – Capitol Reef National Park and the Rivers, Trails & Conservation Assistance Program, Bureau of Land Management, and United States Forest Service – Fremont River Ranger District. —Wayne County Economic Development
Torrey House Press Announces Latest Book Release, Monument Road by Charlie Quimby TORREY - Monument Road by Charlie Quimby, out this month from Utah publisher Torrey House Press, has received high praise from the book trade , selected for the November Indie Next List and recognized as a Publishers Weekly Big Indie Book for Fall. In a starred review, Booklist wrote of Monument Road: “Part modern western, part mystery, this first novel will appeal to fans of Louise Erdrich and Kent Haruf. Quimby’s prose reads so true, it breaks the heart.” The novel follows Leonard Self, who has spent the last year paying down debts, unwinding from his marginal ranch and fending off the darkening, a dangerous depression which wrought tragedy on his family in the past. Just one obligation left: taking his wife Inetta’s ashes to her favorite overlook, where he plans to step off the cliff with her. On this final drive, his path intersects with the stories of those who once found solace, inspiration or escape on Monument Road—as well as very alive individuals who just aren’t through with him. A puzzle-piecing neighbor. A former foster kid accused of child molestation. A high school girl in search of her inner Joan of Arc. A journalist who can still hit the notes of his former acapella group when the occasion calls. And Inetta herself, who, even from inside a jar by the passenger seat, seems to have a better grasp on the situation than Leonard. Their stories come together in Leonard’s journey through the beautiful high desert of Western Colo-
WW II Comes to Wayne County
Seventy Years Ago This Month, the Wreckage of a Military Aircraft is Recovered Near Factory Butte Part III: Recovery Convoy Continues Their Journey to the Crash Site by Debra Allen Young In our previous installment, in November 1943, a recovery convoy of soldiers and cowboys, led by Major LeRoy Heston and Loa natives LaVor and Grant Brown, head out of Loa toward Facory Butte and the crash site of a military aircraft, a Lockheed AT18A, in which 6 crew members were killed tje previous July. In this installment, Major Heston continues his really long letter to his folks, desribing their journey to the downed aircraft, and what they found.
Jefferys was a real rancher, yet a gentleman, and a highly educated one. He was a rancher because he preferred it to any thing else. He was a wealthy man and I was told had a big home out of the range country on which he kept a fine family. He seemed glad to see us and made us all feel welcome at once. He walked around with me and told me about the country we were heading into and then said he wanted to go with us. I was glad to hear that, it would be pleasant to have such a man around. I was really surprised to find such a
Camp in Salt Wash, near the crash site. superior type of man in this part of the country. He told me his father founded the ranch and he was raised on it. As we walked I saw how much work had been done. There were long lines of fine fence, wonderful natural irrigation and piped and ditched water, lots of feed and perfect beef-cattle
REGIONAL Weather forecast Thurs. Nov. 21 - Wed Nov. 27 Forecast is for a cloudy week, especially Thursday through Sunday, with rain/snow showers possible over the weekend. Clearing a little Monday through Wednesday, partly cloudy to sunny. High temps ranging through week in low to high 40s, lows in low to mid 20s, with coldest nights Friday, Saturday & Sunday dipping into the teens.
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by the hundreds. He grazed over many thousands of acres in the area. He too warned me to not let the men get separated tomorrow or at any time. He doubted if a man could get back alone from where we were going, even if he knew the right direction. An hour before daylight
Bob and I were up, getting the gang going. This time the cook was already up and I also found LaVar and Grant walking around in the dark, looking our stuff over. Les came up under the cotton woods in the dark, “Wheres the coffee, Military Aircraft
The latest release by Torrey House Press, Monument Road has been selected for the November Indie Next list by Publisher’s Weekly. rado. As night descends and complications mount, Leonard must decide whether his life is over after all. A fourth-generation Coloradoan and debut author, Charlie Quimby spent most of his career in Minnesota after studying at Carleton College. Following an early stint as a bookseller and historical playwright, he wrote for the Minneapolis Star, Honeywell, and then his own company, where he was an awardwinning writer, annual report creative, and marketing strategist. Since 2004, he’s blogged about culture and politics at Across the Great Divide and splits time between Grand Junction and Minneapolis, where he writes fiction and volunteers with the homeless. When asked what he hopes readers will take away from his debut title, Quimby said, “If there’s one thing for everyone, it’s that the West and its communities are the laboratories for how humanity is going to sur-
vive. It was settled last because it was the hardest place, and it will be where we first encounter the limits of our domination of the earth—water, weather, air, fire, conflict over uses, madness. Western communities aren’t just about guns, rugged individualism, and extracting resources. They are places where people of different means, political blocs, religious sects, and relationships to the land are figuring out how to share a place they all love.” Torrey House Press is an independent book publisher of fiction and nonfiction about the environment, people, cultures, and resource management issues relating to America’s wild places. Torrey House Press endeavors to increase appreciation for the importance of natural landscape through the power of pen and story. Monument Road is available now from your favorite independent bookseller and wherever books are sold. —Torrey House Press
Entrada Institute Announces 2014 Artist-In-Residence Award
TORREY - The Entrada Institute will award $2000 to a writer or artist to support work that encourages dialogue and discovery about the natural treasures and peoples of the Colorado Plateau. Applications for the Entrada 2013 Artist-inResidence stipend are due by January 3, 2014. The Entrada Institute, a nonprofit organization from Torrey, Utah, has a two-fold mission: to support artists, writers, humanities scholars, and earth and social scientists in their development of new works, and to promote understanding and appreciation of the natural, historical, and cultural heritage of the Colorado Plateau. In addition to the artist-in-residence program, Entrada funds scholarships to Wayne High School students and presents a series of Saturday evening events during the summer and fall in Torrey, Utah. Entrada has awarded the annual artist-in-residence grant to artists and writers working on a variety of projects for over a decade. In 2012, Dr. Marden Pond, a composer, arranger,
conductor, producer, author, and educator, used the grant to create a musical multimedia tribute to the Colorado Plateau titled “Visages in Stone – Voices in the Wind.” The 2011 stipend went to noted art historian Dr. Will South to write an essay for publication about the life and art of the late artist V. Douglas Snow. To apply for the Entrada 2014 Artist-in-Residence award, please send a non-returnable portfolio of your work with a letter that describes your proposed project, demonstrates how it supports Entrada’s mission, and outlines how you would present your funded project at an Entrada Saturday evening event in October 2014. Electronic applications are preferred. The winner will be notified by email and announced on the Entrada web site on March 1, 2014, and the stipend awarded by April 1. Submit applications by January 3, 2014, to: Kirsten Allen Kirsten.j.allen@gmail.com, 2806 Melony Drive, Salt Lake City, Utah 84124. —The Entrada Institute
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