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Show SEPTEMBER 7,2006 «^ THE GARFIELD COUNTY INSIDER —-—ESCALANTE NEWS ...by Chris Haycock, 435-826-4832, ptateofdreams@scintemet.net Hope everyone had a good Memorial Day weekend. I had my column for this week in draft waiting for one more piece to put together, and something happened to my computer and I lost it all. I will get things together again for next week. Thanks to everyone who helps my pull this together. Senior Citizens menu for this week is: Sept. 12, Hot Hamburger, sandwiches, fries, veggies, fruit and dessert; Sept. 13, Pork Chops, potatoes & gravy, veggies, fruit & dessert; Sept. 14, Meatloaf, baked potatoes, veggies, jello/fruit & dessert; Sept 19, Biscuits & gravy, sausage, eggs, fruit & dessert; Sept. 20, Taco Salad, fruit & dessert. (Meals can change) For meals call, 826-, 4317. "Made ya Computer Diagnostics think" January ?-•• Both Engine 1933 the Ameri*** & Transmission can Legion came to Escalante to . Custom Built ^ organize a post. Transmisson -'M It was to be (Standard & Automatic) called Escalante Over 200 Units in Stock Post 44. T h e in Southern Utah charter listed 23 members. Who were the first of1 Day Service (Most Cases) ficers of Escalante Post WE DO IT FAST!! Brakes,- Motor Mounts 44? Answer for 'Motor Hbrnes • Tune Ups OIL CHANGES this week is: Quick Lube • Axles (Most cars Slight trucks) Onzime (Lacey) .:XS.-C.\ . . .„:_ f and .Alice •$25 Including Ta* . j Call & ask about weekly specials Laramie came to (Most Diesel Light Trucks) j Full Service Shop the new settle-$45 Including Tax 5 We carry Parts Plus Auto Parts! ment in the summer of 1876. Their son Henry, would be the first baby born in the new settlement. Farmers Market Every Saturday in September from 9am-Noon in Tropic Bushels of Fresh Produce • Homemade Goodies • Crafts Next to State Bank- TROPIC Main Street For more information call: Lori Mecham 679-8761 (or) Marsha Holland 679-8987 Sponsored by the Garfield County Volunteer Center: Have crafts or produce you would like to sell? Please call us. , - Everyone welcome! ANTIMONY NEWS ...by Betty Wiley Burns and Mona Black held their yearly party for all the St. George Temple workers on their shift. All the old workers who have retired were also invited and everyone had a good time visiting and the dinner was delicious. Many of the workers traveled from other areas so they were staying over night. The speaker for the evening was Le Roy and Ester Heaton from Kanab. He was on the same mission as Burns, several years ago. Also attending were Tom and ana Jane Bird of Magna, Utah. She is Burns sister. The Rockin' R Guest Ranch is very busy this time of year with tourists who enjoy wagon hay rides, horseback ridesr etc., and the buses are starting to come. During their busy time in the summer they do not book any buses. Julie Allen, Principal of the Antimony Elementary reports that their attendance is 23 children. The Piute High School Volleyball DIXIE AND FISHLAKE N.F. TO INCREASE Tournament was held in Blanding on FriFUELWOOD AND CHRISTMAS TREE PRICES day and Saturday. There, were many New prices to take effect in 2007 teams from other large schools and there The Dixie and Fishlake National Forests will increase fuelwood and Christmas were 35 games played. Playing on the tree prices effective January 1, 2007. team for Piute from Antimony are Fuelwood prices will be $10 per cord, with a two-cord minimum. Christmas Heather Allen, Krystyne Lamas, Coy trees will be $10 per tree, with an additional charge of $1 per foot for trees taller Willis. Piute High School took 3rd place in the tournament. Shannon and Juile than eight feet. The new prices reflect an increase of $5 per cord and $5 per Christmas tree. Allen went with our girls and they stayed The additional revenue will help cover the costs of administering the forests' overnight. fuelwood and Christmas tree'programs. McKay Allen has returned to Provo Permittees remove about 2 million board feet of fuelwood each year from the for his 3rti year at BYU. Dixie National Forest alone, said Phil Eisenhauer, Dixie National Forest forester. Justin and Holly Jensen of Venice are Woodcutters remove most of that fuel from timber project areas and along forest the proud parents of a little baby boy. roads, Eisenhauer said, aiding the forests' hazardous fuels reduction and fuelbreak He wiJl be Hal and Athalis Jensen's great maintenance efforts. grandson. Popular Christmas tree species like whitefiroften burn intensely and carry Grant and Nyle Proctor have been fife rapidly through tree stands, said Kevin Greenhalgh, Dixie National Forest fire here overnight at the house and I notice management officer. They also tend to encroach upon areas that are traditionally they have a new van. meadows or ponderosa pine forests. Fred and Juile Zoebel have all the Removing Christmas trees from traditional mixed conifer forests is also ben- repairs made on their house after the eficial, Greenhalgh said, because trees that size might help carry a groundfireup water flooded part of it when the lightinto the canopy of a mature stand of trees, creating a crown fire. ening hit their house while they were ; For more information about fuelwood and Christmas tree permits, please call gone. the Dixie National Forest in Cedar City at (435) 865-3700 or the Fishlake National Bob and Ann Martinez will have Forest in Richfield at (435) 896-9233;-" - • -• •V\\VVVA--JV.V,;.V.V.V; company this, weekend as Tony and. Diane Martinez and 2 children will be here from Grantsville. And Bob and Sue Martinez will be here from SLC. Valera King went with her son, Ron and Lori King, to Lehi with his horse sale as she helped him in the office. Susan Peterson, her daughter, and girls will pick Valera up at the airport in Richfield to take her with them to fly to Las Vegas for the Weekend. George and Bemice Jolley will have company over the weekend. Jared and Mary Stewart of northern Colorado are coming, also Kirk and Gloria Evans. . Our son, Jeremy Wiley and Norman McWorter of St. David, AZ are here to visit and do a little hunting. Leland and Margie Robinson have a change in their Temple schedule. They will be doing two sessions in Spanish for those who only speak Spanish. They will stay overnight in St. George. Roma W. Henrie has been here a few days as she and Marcia Tobiasson are helping Jane and Bill get ready to paint the inside of their house. ALL ABOARD! Our Brace Caboose is now making life easier for our patients in outlying communities: Beaver, Bicknell, Circleville, Delta, Ephraim, Fillmore, Gunnison, Manti, Mitford, Junction, Monroe and Salina. On days . we're in the mobile office, our office phone is foiwarded to us, so we can still be reached. 1-888-BRACEME 150 E 2OO N • RkhfieM, UT |