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Show Page 3 The Garfield County Insider April 16, 2009 IN OUR TOWN... Explore Escalante jana@exploreescalante.com Lots happening in this fun spring weather. Rain, sun, snow ------ April showers bring May flowers. Let’s hope so. We’ve got a wildflower blooming page on the blog now and hope to keep it full of information on what’s blooming in the desert and where. In the meantime, the Chamber General Membership meeting is April 27th at 7:00 PM at the Interagency Office. Date changed because of the Mountain Hardware Conference coming here the 16th through the 20th . We hope they have a great time and enjoy the new Pavillion at the Outfitters. Senior Lunches for the week of the 20th. I’ll give you the main dish and you can explore from there. Tuesday – Sausage w/biscuits and gravy; Wednesday – Spaghetti; Thursday – Chicken Cordon Blu. Thanks Donna. Five County Association of Governments held a Human Services Public Forum at the Community Center. They did a survey of topics of importance to the community. 18 people attended, besides the Mayor and myself, Skyhoopie and Envision Escalante, Care and Share, Senior Center Dir and 5 counties staff. It was good information and I came away with a Human Services Directory for 2008. I’ll work on extracting information to make up a list of resources for Escalante. In no particular order, the City Council approved: Welcome Signs by the Potato Valley Lions Club for each side of the City on Hwy 12; Little League Field Partnership with Garfield School District at the High School; Letter of support for the Science Center being proposed by Envision Escalante; Spend up to $1,000 for sprinkler system upgrades and repairs at the park; Purchase 2 commercial throw rugs for Care and Share; Keep the old dump truck for summer road work; A business license for Nicole Gracie’s Tanning Booth. Deferred Maintenance Dept Items to next meeting: Sewer Camera – get bids; Partitions for Council Chambers – get bids; Flashing Barricades – get bids; Council Chamber Carpet – get bids; Spray ordered last fall – never picked up or paid for – get $ due and get approved.; Prepare & Post Bids for: Dump Clean-up; City Building Lights w/ diagram and units; Tabled purchase of a street broom. The Council discussed, at length, the huge grease clog in the main sewer line. All the Restaurants have been sent letters of warning. The City will require proof of disposal for grease required by the State if another clean-up is required. The cost of the clean-up will be billed to the restaurant unable to provide proof of disposal. Fire Chief Porter reminded folks that burning will be illegal before too much longer. If you have things to burn, please: Do it now - keep it small - have a hose there – watch the wind – notify the Fire Chief and get okay. City Clean-up Day May 2nd. Until next week - - - Invest in Your Goals Article Provided by Brandon Henrie, Financial Advisor for Edward Jones Investments. During difficult times in the financial markets, it can be hard to stay committed to investing. After all, if many of your investments have lost value, you might be tempted to just put your money under your mattress. But that’s not really a productive use of your funds, and it almost certainly won’t help you achieve your objectives. So instead of choosing the mattress route, try changing the way you look at your financial situation — by focusing more on your long-term goals and less on the dayto-day performance of your individual investments. In other words, you’re not only investing in “Investment A” — you’re investing for a comfortable retirement. And you’re not just putting money away in “Investment B” — you’re saving for your child’s college education. Once you realize that you are actually investing in these long-term goals, you may find it easier to cope with the ups and downs of investments A, B, C and all the others you own. Of course, this doesn’t mean you never have to adjust your portfolio, but if you are investing in your goals, and not just individual vehicles, you’ll find it easier to maintain the focus you need to employ suitable investment techniques. What are some of these techniques? Consider the following: Invest appropriately for your stage of life. The long and steep stock market decline of recent months has been especially painful for investors within a few years of retirement. Not only have these people sustained losses, but they also have only a limited amount of time in their working lives for their portfolios to recoup value. Unfortunately, to help pay for living expenses in retirement, they may eventually have to sell investments whose values are down. To avoid this problem, you will need an adequate amount of cash instruments and fixed-income investments available during your retirement. Look for quality. Market downturns can hurt most types of investments, but quality stocks usually lose the least in value and recover the quickest. To find these quality stocks, look for companies with superior track records of performance, strong management teams and competitive products. Also, study the industry to which these firms belong. While past performance is not an indication of future results, some industries have better prospects for growth than others. Buy and hold. After you’ve built a portfolio of quality investments, hold them until either your needs change or the investments’ fundamentals change. By purchasing quality investments, and holding them for the long term, you can help boost your chances for success while cutting down on the costs — both financial and strategic — associated with frequent buying and selling. Maintain reasonable expectations. Back in the 1990s, many investors got used to average annual returns of 15 percent or more. But these returns were more of an aberration than a representative sample. For a variety of reasons, most investment experts foresee more modest returns in the near future. Once you accept this premise, you are far less likely to be disappointed with your own returns, and you will be less prone to make hasty decisions that may also prove to be bad ones. By following these suggestions, and by always remembering that the goals for which you are investing are more important than short-term investment returns, you can stay on track toward the future you’ve envisioned. Bryce ValleyArea News by Vicki D. Syrett 679-8687 or vickidiane36@hotmail.com Congratulations to Roman Platt on earning his Wolf rank and Austyn Brinkerhoff who earned his Bear Rank. Hazer Manning is the newest Wolf Den member. Roman is the son of Nathan and Lori Platt of Henrieville, Austyn is the son of Clint and Stephanie Brinkerhoff of Cannonville and Hazer is the son of Gil and Shantel Manning of Cannonville. The Wolf and Bear Den have been split again as a new leader has come on board for the Bear Den. Congratulations to Dolly Hix-Willoughby of Henriville for taking on the Bear Den and to Phyllis Beard who is also becoming a Cub Scout Leader. A quick update on Ryan Alvey who arrived in Chile’ on March 31st. He is alive and well and trying to adjust to the different culture and climate there. He is currently located in the northern part of Chile’, in a subburb of LaSerena. His companion is from Colorado. He says it really helps to have someone sort of similar as his first field companion. Like just about every other missionary he loves those letter. Thanks to the Young Women and Young Men who did a highway cleanup this past week. It helps to keep our area looking good. Congratulations to those students from Bryce Valley High School who participated in the Sterling Scholar Awards program. Anne Marie Barton, daughter of Scott and Marie Barton, Ron Cloud, son of Dan and LaNae Cloud, Cache Mortensen, son of Shawn and Crystal Mortensen, and Kaitlin Pollock, daughter of Gayle and Marie Pollock. Good work folks!! Chris Brown has been called as a Course 12 Instructor and we congratulate him on this new calling. He will do great. We had two beautiful baby boys blessed today in Sacrament Meeting. First was the son of Lance and Sara Syrett, Jaxson was blessed by his father and many family members and friends stood in the circle. Jaxson has wonderful black hair and is cute as can be. Next came a smiling and happy little guy in the form of Lake Sayers Carter who was blessed by his grandfather, Carl Boyd. Lake is the son of Pleas and Katherine Carter. Mate and Ruth Baugh had family home this weekend for the Easter Holiday. Coming from American Fork was Dallen and Katherine Baugh and their family. Their daughter, who has grown into a beautiful young woman, sang in the choir with her grandmother. Kelly and Birch Moore came up from St. George and brought their family and their married daughter and her husband also came, Luke and Kelsey Allen decided to join the fun for Easter. Spoke with David Shakespear as he was running down the hall to catch his two little boys. He and his wife were here visiting Franz and Margaret Shakepear. A niece of Wes and Ellen Clarke is her for the summer to work and visit family and friends. She is MacKenzie Seiler from Sandy Utah and we are excited to have such a pretty young lady in our midst for the summer. Sherrie Mecham and Rueben Daniel Pierce held their reception here on Saturday. Lots of family and friends traveled to be with them and help them start out their new life. Brothers Scott and Steve were here with their families. It was a very nice reception and everyone is very happy for Sherrie and Rueben Daniel. We wish the m the best future possible. They will be taking up life in Sacramento California. Lace Walker and Keith Herring were also married this past week. Lace looked so pretty and happy. It was nice to see her smiling and we wish her and Keith the best of luck. They will be living in Price, Utah. It was great to see Chase Pollock and his lovely wife, Ashley with sons, Mason and Cadence visiting. Chase has just started a job teaching part-time Seminary at Cedar High School. Congratulations Chase. Excitement is in the air as Dustin Leslie announced his mission call to Montana. He is the son of Bonnie Jane Leslie and we send congratulations to Dustin. You will be just awesome out there Dustin, good luck to you. Called as Assistant Scout Master in the Henrieville ward was Duztin Sorenson. What a great calling for him and all his wonderful talents. Congratulations Duztin. Ralph and Lael Chynoweth spoke in Sacrament meeting in Henrieville today. Joining them were grandsons, Dirk and Tallan who also spoke and did a marvelous job. The choir sang beautifully. Nick and Hayley Pollock and the Tropic Ward Choir put on a beautiful Tribute to our Savior in Sacrament meeting. It was a very nice meeting. Frankie and Gayle Moore had family from Farmington, Utah for the Easter Holiday. Gayle’s parents, Calvin and Dian Ferrin were here to celebrate the day. Ross and Colleen Ferrin and family and Mike and Alisa Gilbert and family of Syracuse were also here to enjoy the time together. They all took a tour of the Mammoth Fish Factory in Hatch and saw a beautifully remodeled place. It was very enjoyable. Everyone has gone home now so the house is quiet for a minute. The Moore’s all enjoyed the visits. Congratulations to Kevin Clark who has just become engaged to Emily. We wish them the brightest future together. Louise Patterson had her twin sister and her family here for the Easter Weekend. Milton and Brenda Rose also had family, a son and his family, come to visit and enjoy family over the holiday time. Bill Scofield has been called to be the New Cannonville Ward Missionary. Everyone would like to thank the Lion’s Club for all their hard work and dedication to put together the Easter Egg Hunt in Cannonville on Friday. The kids attending enjoyed it very much and the parents are so grateful to the Lion’s Club for their kindness and caring for the kids of our valley. Klin and Nancy Chynoweth and Sean Chynoweth took their sons, Tallan, Dirk, and Korde to Mesquite to a Baseball Camp this last week. Had a great time. Coming up weddings are Jaycee Cox on 8 May, Peggy Pitts and Blaine Tebbs soon, and Cam Twitchll on 9 May. Congratulations to all the couples and we sure do wish you a great marriage. BRYCE VALLEY SCHOOL NEWS by Vicki D. Syrett... Deysha Twitchell and her parents, Monte and Rita Twitchell went to Salt Lake to the Jazz game along with others from our area. Kaloni Norris from Panguitch, Tim Hughes and Kevin Griffin from Escalante, Trac Norris of Panguitch, and Matt Hoyt of Orderville(Valley) were all honored with a banquet and a trophy for being on the 1A All State Team. They had a guest speaker who was a lawyer. Tim Hughes was awarded the MVP award. They were called down to the floor at half time of the game and presented to the people in attendance at the game. What an honor for all of these young men and women. Congratulations to all of you for your achievements. The Elementary School had a Talent Show that was organized by LaNae Cloud for all grades. It was held last Tuesday at the elementary and was an excellent and enjoyable show. Congratulations BV Elementary. BVHS Track Meet at Milford. The coaches are Crystal Mortensen, Bryce Syrett, and Eric Jessen. They are proud of their team members and hope they keep up the great work. Winning 1st in the Shot Put was J. J. Dunham, with Cache Mortensen in 3rd and Dusty Ahlstrom in 4th. In Javelin, Dusty Ahlstrom took 1st, Cache Mortensen 2nd, and J. J. Dunham took 3rd. Discus was J. J. Dunham in 1st, Cache M. in 2nd. and Dusty A. in 3rd. Ashley Nelson took 1st in Javelin for the girls. She then went on to tie for 4th in the High Jump. Lesha LeFevre took 3rd in the 1600 Meter, Alexis Tebbs took 7th and Ashley N. took 7th in the Long Jump. Scout Holm took 4thin the 200 M. and 6th in the 400 M. Anthony Rose took 8th in the 3200 M. In the Hurdles, Cajun Syrett took 6th and Hayden Johnson took 8th. Hayden Johnson took 7th in the Long Jump. Congratulations to all of you. The next meet will be Wednesday in Panguitch. There will be a Junior Varsity meet at Bryce Valley on the 17th at 3 PM. Freshman and Sophmores will be participating. Hope you all had a wonderful Easter Time and came through it without eating too much candy. Have a great week and please call or email your news. Thanks VS |