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Show vyri-rrcjTj : >; ff ^OCIATION e Beaver Press Publication No. 047-400 County Seat Newspaper Since 1904 Serving All of Beaver County "'^ L*""1 2L * VOLUME 11 NUMBER 9 BEAVER, UTAH THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 2011 Beaver County Sheriff's Report Haight / Kerksiek Wedding Jennifer Haight and Douglas Kerksiek will be married Saturday, March 5th, in the St. George LDS Temple. A reception will be held in their honor 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. that evenino in the Cedar West Stake Center, 725 So. 1100 W., Cedar City, Utah. An open house will also take place 7:00 - 9.00 p.m. on Friday, March .11th, m the Beaver First Ward Building, 15 N. 100 W., Beaver, Utbii. The parents of the bride are Robin and Brenda Haight of Cedar City. The patents of the groom are Samuel and Martam Kerksiek of Beaver. The couple plans to make their home in Cedar City while both of them complete their liege education at SUU. !f you did not receive an invitation, it was an oversight and consider yourselves invited. Slim Randies This Saturday, I'll dig February 2 1 - 2 7 , 2011 around in the closet and pull out Included in the 47 calls for an especially large, puffy, goldassistance received by Beaver colored down parka. It's stained County Dispatch were: here and there, and the zipper 1 Abandoned Vehicle hasn't worked since 1985, but 3 Agency Assistance the toggles and loops still hold it 1 Aircraft Problem together. It was made for me by 1 Burglary a special lady back in 1972, 3 Citizen Assist when a bunch of half-frozen 1 Citizen Dispute idiots got together to plan a very 1 Dead Body long, cold camping trip known 1 Controlled Substance as the Iditarod Sled Dog Race Problem across a thousand miles of 2 Fall Alaska. 1 Fire Hopefully, it'll be cold 1 Heart Attack enough here for me to wear the 1 Juvenile Problem parka once again, because my 3 Medical Emergency thoughts will be thousands of 5 Traffic Accident miles away in Anchorage with w/Damage men and women and sleds and 3 Traffic Accident dogs and pickup trucks with dog w/lnjurles boxes on the back. On the first 1 Sex Offense Saturday in March, since the 1 Stray Animal first one in 1973, the longest 3 Theft race of its kind will begin once, 1 Gas Skip, Theft again, and part of me Will be 1 Threatening there, just as it has been for 1 Traffic Violation nearly 40 years now. 5 Patient Transfer Oh, I didn't do too well in 1 Utility Problem that first race, back in 7 3 . For 3 VIN Number Inspection one thing, I was known as a 2 Served FTA/FTC "recreational musher." And I was. Our cabin was more than On Monday, February 28th, 12 miles from the nearest road, 2011 there were 380/ inmates so we used dogs 1o get back housed in Beaver County Jail. and forth to the village half the year. We couldn't afford to feed 75 dogs year round in order to field a race team of 16. So I got one dog out of the pound and borrowed someone's house pet and added them to my own five and put together a team of seven (the minimum at that time), which gave me the February 21-28, 2011 moniker "Seven Dog Slim" for This report does not infer many years. any guilt or innocence, only the I crushed an ankle 300 name and charges of those miles into that first race and the booked during that time period. dogs took me another 20 miles Shane Michael Davis of to a trapper's cabin where I was Beaver, Utah was booked on picked up by an Army helicopter. the charges of Violation of proOh, I made ft to Nome that first bation or parole. year, but it was by air, and as a Brijette L. Cox of Beaver, pool reporter. In following years Utah was booked on the I flew the trail as a minor race charges of Violation of probation official and reporter. My wife, or parole. Pam.'ran race headquarters. Gerardo Manuel Pimentel of On Saturday morning, I'll be Beaver, Utah was booked on feeling the slamming cold wind the charges of 2-Warrants. of the Susitna River Valley blowChad Curtis Dotson of ing head-on into my team as Parowan, Utah was booked on they wind sinuously up the the charges of Assault, Warrant. frozen Yentna River toward Li Keith Draper Rainy Pass. On Saturday night, Beaver County Correctional Facility I'll be looking at the dogs staked out once again in my mind as the fire thaws snow for them to Boaver Stake Young Women drink, til see the Northern Lights Invite You to Attend dance above the Alaska Range, even though I'm in a house with electricity, and 111 be so thankful I once had the chance to do Date: Wed., March 16, 2011 that. And the mushers and the Time: 7:00 p.m. . . dogs and the volunteer pilots Place: Beaver LDS Stake will all be in my prayers, Center because it's cold on that trail ... We are planning an elegant and it's a very long way to and fun night encouraging modNome. esty. Come see the junior girls1 Brought to you by modest dresses and morel All "Sweetgrass Mornings," a women and girls are invited to collection of outdoor memoattend. ries, at www.sllmrandles.com. Call Alison Webb with any questions 438-7688. Beaver County Correctional Facility Booking Report Modesty Matters! Third Annual Milford Renewable Energy Fair April 28th, 2011 at Milford High School Register now to show off your organizations Renewable Energy products. See the latest renewable energy innovations and watch as Utah's students compete in 7 renewable energy related contests inctoding the Electric Car Sprint and Drag Races! As always admission to the Milford RE Fair is FREE! To register for a free Booth Display area, sign your students up for the RE contests or to sponsor the event, contact- Jake Hardman Jhardman@swatc.jedu 801-891-9969 Snow - Precipitation Update Snow Water Equivalent Total Precipitation Elevation Current Averaae % Averaae Current Average % Average 9129 ft. 15.1 13.3 114 22.6 142 15.9 10349 ft. 22.7 15.0 151 26.9 15.4 175 8703 ft. 14.7 11.4 129 20.9 12.9 162 Area wide'percent of Average 131.3 159.6 Reference period for average conditions is 1971-2000. Snow Water Equivalent Columns represent inches of water in the snow pack. Total Precipitation Columns represent total inches of water received since October 1, 2010. Site Kimberly Mine Big Flat Merchant Valley Home Country SINGLE COPY 50 CENTS:? IRS Tax Tip 2011-38 BLM Offers Reward in Dumping Incident Near St. George ^ t The IRS receives thousands of reports each year from taxpayers who receive suspicious emails, phone calls, faxes or notices claiming to be from the Internal Revenue Service. St. George, Utah-The Many of these scams frauduBureau of Land Management; \ lently use the Internal Revenue (BLM) is offering a $1,000;? Service name or logo as a lure reward for information leading to^j to make the communication a conviction in the dumping of : more authentic and enticing. power transformer casings at • The goal of these scams - Wire Mesa near Rockville. Wire known as phishing - is to trick Mesa is located along the you into revealing personal and scenic byway between Rockville financial information. The scamand Apple Valley. ; mers can then use that informaThree large and one small { tion - like your Social Security power transformer casings were number, bank account or credit dumped during the summer card numbers - to commit idenmonths of 2010 in a remote tity theft or steal your money. area on these BLM-managed Here are five things the IRS lands. wants you to know about phishThe spilled oil from the casing scams: ings contained very high conI.The IRS doesn't ask for centrations of PCBs (polychloridetailed personal and financial nated byiphenyls), a known caninformation like PIN numbers, cer-causing agent. The passwords or similar secret Environmental Protection access information for credit Agency outlawed the manufa<£ card, bank or other financial ture of PCBs in 1979 under the accounts. authority of the Toxic 2.The IRS does not initiate Substances Control Act. Items taxpayer communications containing PCBs must be disthrough e-mail and won't send a posed of properly. message about your tax . Dumping on public lands account. If you receive an e-mail continues to be a problem in the from someone claiming to be Washington County area, the IRS or directing you to an according to Agent Dan Barnes IRS site: of the BLM. "When the urban • Do not reply to the message. environment is so close to pub• Do not open any attachments. lic lands, individuals find it easiAttachments may contain malier to dump garbage and waste cious code that will infect your on those lands rather than takcomputer. ing them to the local land fill. • Do not click on any links. If you This waste becomes a public clicked on links in a suspicious nuisance and hazard." e-mail or phishing website and Common problems on BLM entered confidential information, lands include dumping of televivisit the IRS website and enter sions, refrigerators, washers the search term 'identity theft* and dryers, and building materifor more information and als. Many of the items dumped resources to help. on public lands contain toxic 3.The address of the official materials and liquids. Many IRS website is times, people carry these items http://www.irs.gov. Do not be to public lands, use them for tarconfused or misled by sites get practice and leave them claiming to be the IRS but end- there. ing in .com, .net, .org or other Another problem is the designations instead of .gov. If burning of electrical wire for the you discover a website that copper. Individuals acquire copclaims to be the IRS but you per electrical wire through legal suspect it is bogus, do not pro- * or illegal means, take it to public vide any personal information lands to burn the insulation off, on the suspicious site and report and then sell it to scrap metal it to the IRS. dealers. The burning of the: insulation also puts toxins info4.If you receive a phone the air and ground. .; • call, fax or letter in the mail from The removal and clean up;* an individual claiming to be from of such dumping should be a the IRS but you suspect they concern to all citizens because* are not an IRS employee, contax dollars pay for the cleanup* if. tact the IRS at 1-800-829-1040 the offender is not located. Trie: to determine If the IRS has a transformer casing cleanup legitimate need to contact you. costs will exceed $50,000. lfdt-. : Report any bogus corresponizens see dumping on public dence. Ignds, they should contact trie 5.You can help shut down local BLM office or Sheriffs these schemes and prevent othoffice. Anyone with information ers from being victimized. on the transformer casings Details on how to report specific types of scams and what to do tf should contact Agent Dan Barnes, St. George BLM, 435you've been victimized are 688-3332 or Agent Jude available at http://www.irs.gov, Densley, Environmental keyword "phishing." Protection Agency, 801-5245174. * Hi he Weaver (Press DEADLINE FOR ARTICLE AND CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING SUBMISSIONS IS TUESDAY AT 11:00 a.m. to |