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Show DELICATE TIMES - FEBRUARY 15, 1996 - 3 Fire Dept. continued There are some excellent training opportunities open to our department if we could get enough active members. For example, in May there will be two courses offered (evenings or weekends) One of the reasons given most often by our citizens when they decline to join the fire department is that they are out of the valley so much of the time. That reason really doesn't bear up AS THE WORLD TURNS New Moon...Feb 18th Rises....7:23 am Sets 6:48pm Winter Constallations:...After in wildfire suppression. On June 10, 11, & 12, an interagency school will be held in Moab. Completion of these under scrutiny when you consider that there are roughly 800,000 volunteer dusk, the Big Dipper is ascending in the firemen in the United States and the NE, Orion descending in the SW in the three sessions will allow the student to vast majority have jobs which take be "red-carded" which means that he/she is qualified to assist on wildland fires on State or Federal lands and be paid for it. Another course is a structural fire fighting course. This is a 40 hour session which starts with the bare basics and carries you through interior them away from home a large portion of the time. The object of a fully volunteer department is to have enough men and women knowledgable in fire fighting that seven or eight of them are evenings. Planet Sightings: At month’s end attack. This course is very much a hands on training experience. Unfortunately, it is very difficult to get authorization to burn a building even if the owner wants it destroyed, so you probably wouldn't get to practice on a burning building. There is however, a mobile burn facility which provides the experience of being in a burning room available at any given time. Over the past several years we have made some long strides in getting ourselves properly equipped. In the near future we plan to prepare a mailing to all of the residents of our fire district explaining where we are and what we visualize for the future. Everyone in the District is entitled to that information and we hope that enough people will step forward to help carry it out. under controlled conditions. All of these courses are offered by the Utah —Floyd Stoughton, Fire Chief Venus sits near the pinnacle of this, the highest reaching evening display in its 8yr cycle of appearances. Venus will set several hours after the sun. Jupiter is well up in the east by morning twlight. Full Moon...March 5th Rises...7:38pm--«-Sets..7:29am Vernal Equinox...March 20th...Sun passes from Southern to Northern hemisphere. Over the land freckled with snow half thawed The speculating rooks at their nests cawed, And saw from elm-tops, delicate as flowers of grass, What we below could not see. Winter pass. —Edward Thomas Fire Academy and are conducted by Excerpted from Old Farmer’s Almanac -—Jennifer Redding their instructors, in the Moab area. SAVE TIME SAVE MONEY SAVE WATER WITH A DRIP SYSTEM FROM INSTALLATION AVAILABLE FREE DESIGN 275 WILLIAMSWAY 259—8274 CANYON NURSERY |