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Show PANGUITCH • PANGUITCH LAKE • HATCH • BRYCE • TROPIC • ANTIMONY • HENRIEVILLE • CANNONVILLE • ESCALANTE • BOULDER Thursday, April 1, 2010 • Issue # 262 SOUTHERN UTAH CITIES SCHOOLS TO ACQUIREBLM LANDS UNDER OMNIBUS ACT On March 26, 2010 Utah State Director Selma Sierra along with BLM officials from the Color Country District and St. George Field Office will present administrators from the City of St. George, Hurricane City and the Washington County School District (WCSD) with four patents totaling 277 acres of public lands. The conveyance of these parcels to Washington County governments and communities comes just one year after the passage of the Omnibus Public Lands Management Act of March 30, 2009 which, along with the transfers, also designated two National Conservation Areas, Beaver Dam Wash and Red Cliffs, 11 Wild and Scenic River Segments totalingnearly 19 miles and 14 Wilderness Designations. The St. George Field Office has processed four of the five conveyance actions, and the patents are ready for issuance. The final conveyance for the Washington County Jail totaling 80 acres is pending completion of a cadastral survey. The four conveyance actions to take place this Friday include: 1. 122.45 acres for the Temple Quarry Site to be conveyed to the City of St. George 2. 40 acres to be conveyed the City of Hurricane slated for use as a Sports Park 3. 40 acres to be conveyed to the City of Hurricane slated for use as an Equestrian Park 4. 75 acres to be conveyed to the Washington County School District slated for public school and related facilities "We're excited to partner with Washington County, its governmental agencies and citizens community wide to provide through this conveyance, lands necessary for community growth and development," said St. George BLM Field Manager Jimmy Tyree. "This is just part of the complete package that was given to us through the Omnibus Act which included not only NCA, Wilderness and Wild and Scenic River components, but also provides valuable resources for much needed local expansion and infrastructure." The land transfer action to take place on March 26, 2010 is just one of many actions in which BLM Utah and the St. George BLM Field Office have transferred public lands to civic entities. Aside from the lands transferred at the anniversary of the Omnibus Public Lands Management Act, the BLM has previously conveyed a total of 3,621 acres and has leased a total of 1,804 acres to local governments and communities throughout Washington County through the Recreation and Public Purposes Act (R&PP). To date, the City of St. George has received patents for 1,216 acres of public lands that now house the Red Hills Golf Course, Pioneer Park and its' Iconic Sugarloaf, the Canyons Softball Complex, Cottonwood Cove Park, Sand Hollow Aquatic Center and the Quail Water Treatment Plant. The BLM has leased 330 acres to the City of Hurricane which use those par- SNOW / WIND THURSDAY HIGH: 44 LOW: 26 SATURDAY PARTLY CLOUDY HIGH: 52 LOW: 31 SUNDAY PARTLY CLOUDY HIGH: 57 LOW: 34 MONDAY FEW SNOW SHOWERS HIGH: 44 LOW: 28 u TUESDAY SUNNY HIGH: 49 LOW: 26 0 WEDNESDAY SUNNY HIGH: 52 LOW: 29 Member of: fir Utah Press, *** * * I FPA. RECORDS AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT MONTH PROGRAMS PLANNED The Utah State Archives and Records Service will mark the annual observance of Records and Information Management Month with two free public events in April. The division will host an open house for state and local government records officers and the public at the State Records Center in West Valley City on Thurs- bag lecture by members of the Archives staff entitled "Transparency in Government: Accessing Utah State and Local Government Records" is scheduled Thursday, April 29, at 12 noon. The event will be held at the Courtyard Meeting Room in the Utah State Archives building at 346 South Rio Grande Street (455 West). day, April 22, from 3-6 p.m. The facility, which normally is closed to the public, is used to store temporary records for government entities statewide. More than 115,000 cubic feet of records are stored at the site located at 2341 South 2300 West. Behind the scenes tours of the center will be provided. An hour-long brown PANGUITCH OPEN SWIM Monday, Wednesday, Thursday: 6-8 pm Saturdays: 2-4pm LAP SWIM Monday, Wednesday, Friday: 6-7 am Tuesday: 6:30 - 7:30 pm Thursday: 5-6 pm Saturday: 8 - 9 am For more information, contact Kim at 690-9206 Character is forged in the smallest of struggles. Then, when the big challenges come, we're ready. Waiter Rant Afc Vp iAll 11J•" INS INDEPENDENT FREE PAPERS OF AMERICA Can you identify these kids right out of Our Gang or Little Rascals? Hatch, Utah, 1935, grades 4-7 In celebration of National Agriculture Day (March 20, 2010), the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food is kicking off its Real Talk From Real Farmers video contest. Real Talk invites Utah farmers and ranchers to document, through videotape, how they produce our food and fabric, and care for the land and animals. The contest asks farmers or rancher to video-tape a short "day-in-the-life" segment showing how they care for their land and animals and then submit the video to the agency. The top 10 entries will receive an invitation by Commissioner of Agriculture and Food, Leonard Blackham to a Thanksgiving celebration in November. "Our goal is to help Utahns understand where their food comes from by seeing and hearing directly from Utah farmers and ranchers," said Commissioner Leonard Blackham. 'Our Real Talk"' project, says Blackham, encourages Utah farmers and ranchers to record how they provide the food and fabric that the rest of us rely on every day. From March 18 through October 15, 2010 the Department is inviting farmers and ranchers to video-tape how they care for the land and animals. Blackham added that he often hears how farmers and ranchers wished city dwellers knew what it takes to get food from the farm to the store. Here's their chance to show Wasatch Front residents how much effort goes into producing our food. Submit entries or ask question at e-mail address: larrylewis@utah.gov Real Talk, UDAF , P.O. Box 146500, Salt Lake City, UT 84114 Larry Lewis 801-538-7104 — larrylewis@utah.gov HIGH: 35 LOW: 17 FRIDAY PARTLY CLOUDY Each year on the 24th of July Panguitch celebrates Pioneer Day with an outstanding parade, rodeo events, dutch oven cook-off, barbecues, Lion's Club Breakfasts, a 5K-10K race, kids races , fireworks display, historical program and multiple class and family reunions. And every ten years the community hosts a vast array of all these events but on a much grander scale with a cooperative effort involving numerous committees, staff and volunteers attracting thousands people to the city of Panguitch. If you attended school in Panguitch, ever lived in Panguitch, driven through Panguitch or heard the name Panguitch, you are invited to attend the festivities. To insure the success of this 5-day event will require the aid of many volunteers to serve on the various committees. You can get involved by calling Steve Marshall (1963), event chairman, Joe Worthen (1957), co-chairman or Barry Huntington (1991), Parade Chairman. Please send information with address, phone number, maiden name, e-mail address and year graduated from high school to Panguitch City Office attn Donna Osborn 435-676-8585. All interested personnel are invited to attend the next meeting which will be held at noon Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010 in the conference room at the City Offices. For more information contact: Donna Osborn, Panguitch City Offices 435-676-8585 Joe Alan Worthen Co-Chairman, 801-465-2855, 435-676-8251 Steve Marshall , Chairman, 435-616-2212 pangdrug@color-country.net NATIONAL AGRICULTURE DAY IN UTAH KICKS OFF NEW VIDEO CONTEST "REAL TALK FROM REAL FARMERS" WEATHERimm "` cels for the Sky Mountain Golf Course and Sand Hollow Resort Golf Course. The BLM has also conveyed a total of 269 acres of public lands to the Washington County School District, locations where facilities now rest such as Bloomington Hills Elementary and District Complex, Snow Canyon Middle and High Schools and Washington, Horizon and Coral Cliffs Elementary schools. In regions like Washington County Utah, steady growth and economic constraints often limit municipalities from acquiring land to build facilities for schools and administrative buildings that serve communities. "From our perspective this is a win-win situation," said Marshall Topham, Assistant Superintendent for Secondary Education, Washington County School District. For the WCSD, public lands conveyances have enabled the district to keep up with the continual needs the region's growth brings with it. Past agreements have paved the way for municipalities to obtain land, otherwise unavailable or unaffordable, which have been used for a number of community oriented purposes including schools and libraries, museums, hospitals, parks and recreation facilities. "This is a good opportunity for us. We appreciate the opportunity to work with the Federal Government and that public land can be set aside to build schools," Topham said. "It wouldn't have been possible thus far, to house the number of facilities needed without the help of the BLM," said Topham. PANGUITCH HOMECOMING REUNION 2010 ''' Ma 11Ama NM •tig hr. THE GARFIELD COUNTY INSIDER is owned and operated by Snapshot Multimedia and is distributed weekly to all of Garfield County. Its purpose is to inform residents about local issues and events. Articles submitted from independent writers are not necessarily the opinion of Snapshot Multimedia. 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