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Show IN OUR TOWN FYI PANGUITCH Isn’t this weather grand! I am getting a little tired of the smoke from the Horse Valley fire though. What started out as a 3 acre fire has now grown to one over 1100 acres, and is still growing from the high temperatures and wind. Speaking of fires, the Mutual kids from Panguitch 1st Ward went out to the Spry Cemetery to clean up the graves. A fire bug decided it would be faster to burn the weeds, than to hoe them. Well I lit the only place out there that would burn, and it almost took out the Cemetery Board, who was watching the kids. I thought it would only burn to the fence line and stop, but it caught a piece of sage brush on fire which almost caught my car on fire and scared a few volunteers whose vehicles were at risk as well, it looked real ugly there for a minute. The fire cleaned off more of the ground in about 2 minutes than the weeding by hand did in an hour. The work that was done really cleaned up the weeds. Thanks to the 1st Ward youth and leaders. The Cemetery Board had donuts and root beer floats for the helpers. Any other wards need a service project? There is more work to be done! It’s so nice to see young people out doing service projects like this. Pat had an idea, if anyone is looking for something to do Page 5 The Garfield County Insider July 16, 2009 By: Mack Oetting on family home evening, go to Spry Cemetery and adopt a grave site as a good deed. There isn’t any water out there so nothing grows but weeds. Come prepared to get dirty. Caryl Englestead called to say that she and Grace Benfield were walking their dogs on the dips road, when Grace’s midget terrier got loose in the sage brush. There were 4x4 wheelers and a pickup truck out looking for this little dog, well Marilyn Veater was the hero who found her. It is a scary moment when these little dogs get loose; they are so quick when they decide to take off. Joe and Lorina Decker grandkids competed in the FFA Rodeo last week. Denver Nageli won the Pig Chase contest and his sister Danika competed for the first time in Barrel Racing. Congratulations to both of you. Merle Stowell’s daughter, Bobie Flowlors is visiting for two weeks, helping her with her garden. Tonight and Friday night the Fiddlers are at the Social Hall. They are real good entertainment and the price is free, donations appreciated, so come on out and you will be hooked. The Panguitch Lions will have breakfast at the Zion Bank and hopefully there will be some old time fiddle music with your pancakes. This will be the Lions last breakfast for the year, so come on out and load up on your cholesterol. Next week will be the 24th, get ready to celebrate Pioneer Day. The Boy Scouts will have their breakfast to start off the day. The Parade will at 10:00 am. I heard the Rhythm Band has been practicing so get ready to be entertained. Following the parade is the DUP program at 11:00 am and then it’s off to the Fire Fighter’s deep pit barbecue at the fair building, the 24th is always a fun day, so get ready to enjoy. I think there is going to be a Rodeo also. The Care and Share will be open today at 2:00 till 5:00 pm, seniors this is your day. The hours for Friday will be the same as Thursday and Saturday will be from 11:00 till 2:00 pm. Kelly Anderson (the manager) has moved up the days so it won’t interfere with the 24th holidays. Please bring your plastic bags with you. Last Wednesday, the Senior Center employees and volunteers served over 90 meals, the locals are finding out what great food is being served and really are taking advantage of this service. This has been a long weekend for our family, so I am cutting this a little short. Keep the good news coming. Mack O. NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING A request has been filed with the Garfield County Clerk and Commission proposing that Garfield County provide commercial and residential electric services. The Garfield County Commission has called a public hearing on the request, and all interested persons are invited to attend and comment on the proposal for Garfield County to begin providing electrical services. The public hearing will be held on July 30, 2009, at 6:00 p.m., at the church building located at Hwy. 276, Ticaboo, Utah 84533. If the Garfield County Commission declines to provide the requested electrical service, the request proposes the establishment of a local district to provide electrical services under the provisions of Title 17B of the Utah Code. The proposed district boundaries will include unincorporated portions of Garfield County in the Ticaboo/Lake Powell area. Here is a map of the proposed district boundaries: If special accommodations are required at the public hearing, please call the Garfield County Clerk, with reasonable advance notice, at 435-676-8826. Published in The Garfield County Insider on July 16 & 25, 2009 UPAXLP tHe lAuGhiNg pOiNt!! SHOPPING LIST I was ill and my husband volunteered to go to the supermarket for me. I sent him off with a carefully numbered list of seven items. He returned shortly, very proud of himself, and proceeded to unpack the grocery bags. He had one bag of sugar, two cartons of eggs, three hams, four boxes of detergent, five boxes of crackers, six eggplants, and seven green peppers. ROAST BEEF My girlfriend and I were lunching at a sidewalk cafe in Huntington Beach, California. Our waitress appeared to be a real surfer girl: athletic with a great tan and blond hair. Mulling over the menu, my girlfriend asked her if the roast beef was rare. The waitress gave us a long blank look, and then replied, “Well, no. We have it, like, just about every day.” RACCOONS While driving my young daughter to pre-school one day, I saw that a family of dead raccoons were on the road ahead of me. I sped up hoping that she would not notice them. “Mommy,” she asked, “what was that?” Thinking quickly, I told her that some wood must have fallen from a truck. “Oh,” she said. “Is that what killed all those raccoons?” MY NAME IS DANIEL One weekend, my friend, who was a nurse, was looking after her six-year-old nephew when he fell off a playground slide and hit his head. Worried that he might have a concussion, she checked him all night. Every hour, she’d gently shake him and ask, “What’s your name?” Soon, he began moaning in protest each time she entered the room. When she went in at 5:00 A.M., she saw something white on his face. Leaning close, she saw a crayonscrawled message taped to his forehead. It read: “My name is Daniel.” It Makes Sense...By Veda Hale There are labels we use on people to quickly communicate what we think is their “mind set”. Like saying someone is a “Doom and Gloomer” or “cockeyed optimists” or a “couch potato”, a “Band stander” or ‘dreamer” or a number of other titles. Recently I met someone who was Bandstanding against genetically Modified Foods. They made quite a convincing argument that we should all insist our government make manufacturers put the full information about a food on the lable. Sounds good. However, we would likely have to carry a card of some kind telling us just what the different wording really means. I thought “Oh Dear” not another thing to have to be smart about or to be scared about. (I wonder what label I deserve. I hate to wade through information trying to choose the best ---maybe “Head in the clouds” or “lazy” or even “couch potato” fits me.) But I did make myself do a little research on genetically modified foods. It makes sense to stay informed. I decided the issue is another one of those sticklers that our children will have to solve. To feed the world with its bil- lions of people will take making the usable acres produce all they can. There are some great possibilities to increase yield with genetically modified seeds. Some even promise less use of pesticides and chemicals, because plants will be able to resist much of what the chemicals were fighting. But the possible negative side effects will need to be addressed. For instance, what about allergies? Will they be increased in many people? How do you control the rights of the developers of the modified seeds--and will they try to force more and more money out of their discoveries? Will the foods really provide good nutrition or will we just get fatter and fatter eating them? It does make sense to let the powers that be know that we want good sound thinking put to these issues. We don’t want to be “chicken Littles” and think the sky is falling with every new attempt to solve world hunger problems, but neither do we want to let the scemes of designing men harm our health or our pocket book. I choose to keep my eye on this issue, but to not get too fussed up about eating corn and soy products that come from some engeneering to make more food from the resourses we have. When they start crossing corn with chickens so they don’t have to work feeding chickens, then I’ll get excited. Send suggestions to Veda Hale, Box956 Panguitch, Utah 84759 or email vedahale@hotmail.com Genetically-modified foods have the potential to solve many of the world’s hunger and malnutrition problems, and to help protect and preserve the environment by increasing yield and reducing reliance upon chemical pesticides and herbicides. Yet there are many challenges ahead for governments, especially in the areas of safety testing, regulation, international policy and food labeling. Many people feel that genetic engineering is the inevitable wave of the future and that we cannot afford to ignore a technology that has such enormous potential benefits. However, we must proceed with caution to avoid causing unintended harm to human health and the environment as a result of our enthusiasm for this powerful technology. |