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Show cjunty PANGUITCH • PANGUITCH LAKE • HATCH • BRYCE • TROPIC • ANTIMONY • HENRIEVILLE • CANNONVILLE • ESCALANTE • BOULDER Thursday, April 22, 2010 • Issue # 265 BEHEFIT -DIMMER OETTING RECOGNIZED FOR SERVICE Tracy Garrett, Cedar City Volunteer Center for Ralph & Colleen Goff Mark your calendar 1" and join us for an evening of Cowboy Husk and Poetry Joining us all the way from northern Utah will be Doug Keller, Jerry Brooks "Brooksie and focal artist Kenny- Hall Friday, Ipril Z3, 2010 County Fair Building, Panguitch, Utah Don't miss the Cowboy Dinner Meat, beans, salad, rolls, cake and drink $5.00 a plate minimum donation Dinner 5:30pm to 7:00pm Entertainment 6:30pm to 8:00pm r '41r111 4.1, . Come support this local family! CATCH BIG PIKE AT YUBA RESERVOIR Want to know what it feels like to catch a fish that's more than three feet long and weighs almost 20 pounds? You might find out if you grab your fishing gear— including a foot or two of metal leader—and head to Yuba Reservoir in the next few months. On April 14, Division of Wildlife Resources biologists were conducting gillnet surveys at this reservoir in central Utah. What they found when they pulled one of the nets out of the water took their breath away. Inside was a huge northern pike. The fish was more than 43 inches long and weighed over 17 pounds. RAIN / SNOW SHOWERS SHOWERS MOSTLY SUNNY SHOWERS • ::: •6: SHOWERS PARTLY CLOUDY That puts this pike close pike! to the current Utah state The huge pike biologists record. The current record caught and placed back was caught at Yuba in 2002 in the reservoir on April by Henry Fenning. That 14 isn't the only big pike pike weighed 25 pounds biologists have caught at and was 43 inches long. Yuba during gillnet surThe official Utah "catch- veys this spring. Other big and-release" northern pike and healthy pike—and big record is a 49 3/4-inch fish and healthy walleye—have caught by Logan Hacking been caught at the reservoir at Lake Powell in 1998. too. Biologists conduct gillHacking's fish was not weighed. Not the only big net surveys by setting nets in the reservoir for an hour or two and then pulling the nets back to the surface. After measuring and weighing the fish, the fish are released THURSDAY back into the water. HIGH: 40 Tips LOW: 26 May and June are usually the best months to catch FRIDAY northern pike and walleye HIGH: 44 at Yuba. LOW: 28 To catch pike, DWR biologists suggest the followSATURDAY ing: • Fish in water that's five HIGH: 55 LOW: 28 feet or less deep. Fishing from the shore works great! • Use lures that imitate minSUNDAY nows. These lures include HIGH: 56 LOW: 33 plugs (crank baits), jigs and spoons. • Tie a foot or two of metal MONDAY leader between your fishing HIGH: 60 line and your lure. Northern LOW: 33 pike have sharp teeth. Using metal leader is a good TUESDAY way to keep the pike from HIGH: 60 biting through your line! LOW: 35 Member of: or Utah Press HIGH: 57 LOW: 34 ** * ** IFPA• NDEPENDENT FREE PAPERS OF AMERICA Afic Vp iAll 11J•" INS ''' Ma 11Ama NM •tig hr. Committee, member of the Panguitch Lions Club for 17 years, helping with breakfasts, Thanksgiving dinner, Highway 89 road side maintenance, volunteered at the Care and Share for 2 years, member of Daughters of the Utah Pioneers for 16 years, helps take tickets at the barbeque dinner on the 24th of July for the fireman's dinner, in charge of the 2nd Settlement Birthday Party in March for 2 years, president of Cemetery Board for 10 years, Memorial Day cemetery decorations, President of the Ladies Auxiliary for the Veterans, board member for the Panguitch Connection Reunion2010, in charge of the Panguitch Easter Egg Hunt, works at the Family History Center and has served in many different church callings. She also helps with many of her daughter Shawn's projects Color Country Fire Managers Announce 2010 Schedule of Prescribed Burns Color Country interagency fire managers have announced plans to ignite several prescribed burns in southwestern Utah this year. These burns will be managed by various federal and state agencies including the Bureau of Land Management, the US Forest Service (Dixie National Forest), the National Park Service (Zion and Bryce Canyon National Parks) and the Utah Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands. The following prescribed burns are planned for this year but will only occur if forecasted weather conditions are favorable and adequate resources are available. Portions of some of these burns may have already been completed. Burn Unit Location Acres Agency Dave's Hollow Bryce Canyon NP 700 NPS/USFS Sunset Campground Bryce Canyon NP 200 NPS Powell R.D., Dixie NF 600 USFS Dave's Hollow Powell R.D., Dixie NF 200 USFS Sunset North Alstrom Hollow Powell R.D., Dixie NF 700 USFS Powell R.D., Dixie NF 500 USFS Adams Head Pretty Tree Bench Escalante R.D., Dixie N.F. 750 USFS Escalante R.D., Dixie N.F. 600 USFS Stump Springs Escalante R.D., Dixie N.F. 20 USFS Recap Piles Prescribed burns are management—ignited fires used, where appropriate, to decrease the risks from wildfire to life, property and resources, on both public and private lands and to meet agency-specific resource management goals. Prescribed fire projects are conducted in a manner consistent with land and resource management plans, public health considerations (smoke issues) and approved prescribed fire plans. Color Country Interagency Fire Management is an organization of fire management officials in southwestern Utah and northwestern Arizona (the Arizona Strip) who promote safe and effective fire management through interagency cooperation. Since many wildland and prescribed fires are of a multi-jurisdictional nature, interagency cooperation provides an ideal background for cohesive ecological, social, political and economical considerations for land management. For more information concerning fire management in Color Country visit our website at www.utahfireinfo.gov, call our fire information line at 435-865-4696 or contact any of the following agencies: Bureau of Land Management (Cedar City) 435 586-2401 Dixie National Forest 435 865-3700 Utah Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands (Cedar City) 435 586-4408 It is also time to begin spring cleaning projects to reduce wildfire risks to your property. For information on how you can reduce wildfire risk to your property and increase the safety of firefighters, please visit www.utahfireinfo.gov/prevention/defensiblespace.htm Just because something is legal, doesn't make it right. Before you do it, look into yourself instead of at yourself – Grandpa WEDNESDAY SHOWERS Pat Oetting, of Panguitch, was recognized by U. S. Senator Orrin Hatch, Utah's Lt. Governor Greg Bell and the Utah Commission on Volunteers with the Silver Bowl Award during festivities last week in Salt Lake City. Oetting , an active member of the Five County Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) since 2003, received this most prestigious award for her volunteer service at several agencies which include the Panguitch Quilt Walk Board for 12 years, the Historic Home tours, events o Main Street, Sub for Santa Chairman and organizer for 12 years, Christmas I the Country, Santa's visit and Christmas Home Tour, and helping decorate Main Street for Christmas. One of the founding members of Panguitch Main Street at school. To say the least, Pat is one busy person. She is a dedicated volunteer, who does an outstanding job in everything she does. Panguitch has indeed benefited from her service. The Silver Bowl Award has been presented annually during National Volunteer Week since 1981, to one outstanding volunteer or group of volunteers from each of Utah's 29 counties. During the 29th annual event at the Salt Lake Hilton Inn, Senator Hatch reminded the capacity crowd of Utah's ranking as the nation's #1 state for volunteerism. "On average, Utah's 880,000 volunteers dedicate 161.9 million hours of service each year which is the equivalent of 77,000 fulltime volunteers," stated the Republican senator. Shar Lewis, Executive Director of the Utah Commission on Volunteers, added, "The estimated economic payback of volunteer service in Utah is $3.3 billion annually." 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