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Show IN OUR TOWN FYI PANGUITCH Shelby Taylor, Breanna Marshall and Jacie Gillett all placed. Girls and boys you make us proud. Well we have a lot of fun things or events coming up. Starting off tomorrow Friday the 30th is the annual Halloween parade at the Elementary School. I am sure it will be led by the wicked witch from the School District Office. The parade starts at 10 am and goes around the block, by Joe’s Market. Come early because it starts with the smallest grades first, and they are the cutest, on up to the more sophisticated 6 graders. The PTO will not have a carnival this year, so get ready for many, many trick or treater’s. Hey I have an idea, take them to the SYMPHONY OF THE CANYONS. It will be SPOOKY MUSIC NIGHT IN PANGUITCH. Bring your kids with their favorite Halloween outfit. There will be costume judging with prizes. The concert is on Friday at 7:30 pm and it will be in the County Fair Building. The Concert is sponsored by the Panguitch Lions and it is FREE. So load up those little ones and introduce them to some beautiful music. Karrin Harris is a great violin player and the only member of the symphony from Panguitch. She has made this possible. She drives to Kanab weekly to participate. Thanks Karrin for sharing your talent and your connections with us. The Girls State Volleyball is at Utah Valley University and it also starts on Friday. Our girls play their first game at 11 am.and the second at 3:30 pm. Saturday’s games start at 12:30, this game if all goes well, will be against Rich. Piute is in the other bracket and we will, hopefully, meet them in the finals. In the 16 team tournament in Richfield, made up of 1, 2, and 3A teams, three of the four teams in the finals were 1A. Panguitch, the eventual winner, showed Utah where the real volleyball strength is. Girls you really play as a team. Fun to watch and well trained. Coach’s Troy and AnnMarie Norris you are two in a million. Good luck to Panguitch at State. You don’t need luck. Your skills should earn you the championship. Everyone try to go to UVU and support the team. Sunday take a break and set your clocks back an hour and get an extra hour’s sleep. Daylight savings time is over, at least the kids will be out looking for treats in the daylight. Attention all Garfield Lions. The Bryce Valley Lion’s will be hosting the District 28 T Convention on November 6th and 7th. There is a whole list LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Dear Editor: We recently had the pleasure of hosting 18 classic cars and some 36 members of the Utah Valley Chapter of the Veteran Motor Car Club of America for a weekend tour of this area, and were truly gratified by the outstanding service provided by our local merchants and agencies. We are especially grateful to JaNae Winder of the Wayne County Information Center for taking the time to help us assemble informational packets for the tour participants, Mike Nelson and his staff at the Anasazi Indian Village Historical Site in Boulder for their kind attention to our large group, Randy Catmull and the employees of the Boulder Mesa Restaurant for getting us in and out and very well fed with remarkable efficiency and, especially, the owners and staff at the Sandstone Inn, who could not have been better hosts nor more attentive and accommodating. Many of the club members commented on how pleased they were by the welcome they enjoyed from the citizens and merchants of both Wayne and Garfield counties and vowed to return again soon. We hope to make the tour an annual event and continue to share this beautiful area with our friends. Yours, Rod and Eileen Frazier USU Extension Updates: Kevin Heaton, USU Extension Agent By: Mack Oetting The leaves are off the trees and I spent a day mowing them up and filling 10 big trash bags with them. I should have got some of the orange pumpkin Halloween bags like my neighbors. The U.S. Department of Transportation announced 42 new designations to the America’ Byways collection. Included on the list is State Route 143, also known as Utah’s Patchwork Parkway. This increases the number of America’s Byways to 151. The National Scenic Byways program is a collaborative effort to help recognize, preserve and enhance selected roads throughout the U.S. Route 143 runs from Parowan, through Brian Head, by Cedar Breaks overlook and on down to Panguitch. We all know what a great drive this is, now the world will also be made aware of the beauty of our area. A lot of time and work went into bringing this designation to our highway. With Highway 12, being an All American highway that runs from Panguitch to Torrey, this makes Panguitch the center of greatest sights on earth. The girls cross country team ended up a very good 5th place at State. Piute ran away with the boy’s title, as did St Joseph in the girls races, with Wayne second. Katie Rosser placed 9th,. Karie Jo Owens, Aubry Parkin, Kelsey Mathew, Page 5 The Garfield County Insider October 29, 2009 of activities on both days. Check with your Pres. or contact Lyllian LeFevre in Henrieville. A lot of work goes into these conventions so support your brothers and sisters, in Bryce Valley. 11-11 is Veteran’s Day, the Elementary School will have a program honoring veterans. Any available Veterans come on down, the children need to know where their freedom comes from and who helped make it possible.. The American Legion will host a dinner at the Flying M, for all Veterans. More information about this event next week. The blood bank will be here on Wednesday Nov. 18 at the Stake Center. It will run from 2:00 to 7:00 and Janice Henrie is in charge, 676-8012. So if you want to loose a couple of pounds come on down, they need about 80 pints, that less than 5% of Panguitch and Hatch. I have been asked to come into the 21 century and include my E- mail address so here it is! mackoetting @gmail.com. or call 676-2418 Keep the good stuff coming. Mack O. Decision Document and Application Approval Alton Coal Development, LLC Coal Hollow Project, C/ o25/005, T ask ID #3371, Outgoing File Dear Commenter: The Division of Oil, Gas and Mining has approved Alton Coal Development, LLC’s (ACD) application for the Coal Hollow Mine with conditions. The proposed Coal Hollow Mine is a surface operation located near Alton, Utah and involves private lands and coal. This approval will allow them to mine 2,000,000 tons of coal per year for approximately three years. You are being notified because you have previously provided comment on the application. Pursuant to R645-300-200, you may file a request for a hearing before the Board of Oil Gas and Mining regarding the reasons for the decision within 30 days of the date the applicant is notified of the decision. The 30 days request period will end November 18 at 6:00 pm. Please contact Julie Ann Carter (801.538.5277) for procedural information regarding Board filings. A copy of the decision documents and approved Operation and Reclamation Plan are on file in the Division’s offices in Salt Lake City and Price. All documents are also available for review online at http://ogm. utah.gov/fs/filesbypermit. php?C0250005. If you need assistance viewing or finding the information, please contact Suzanne Steab at (801) 538-5265. If you have any questions, please call Dana Dean, Associate Director, at (801) 538-5320 or Daron Haddock, Coal Program Manager, at (801) 538-5325. Sincerely, John R. Baza, Director Garfield County ranchers go high tech Solar powered stock water monitor uses satellite radio to transmit water level information and warn ranchers of livestock that are out of water What does satellite radio, solar powered batteries, a pressure transducer, the internet and ranchers have in common? All of them help monitor and ensure adequate water for livestock. Garfield County ranchers have a huge responsibility of caring and meeting the needs of their livestock in some of the most rugged and remote county in the nation. One of the most important and basic needs is water. Some grazing pastures have dependable sources of water in the form of a creek or spring. Other pastures use stock ponds, tanks, wells, pumps, catchments or guzzlers, pipelines and troughs to provide good quality water. These critical sources of water can be unreliable and thus require ranchers to physically inspect their livestock water on a regular basis, sometimes 3-7 times per week. Many ranchers drive hundreds of miles each week checking livestock water. Thru grant funding from the Natural Resource Conservation Service’s Conservation Innovation Grant Program, 5 ranchers will trial remote stock water monitors in Garfield County. These monitors are stand alone units. These solar powered units use satellite radio to transmit data to a website and measure the level of the water in a trough or tank. Water level data can be transmitted as many times each day as desired from every second to once per day. The really cool feature of this monitoring system is the alarm system. If the water level becomes low, the data collection website sends out an email alert or calls up to ten different phone numbers with a low water alert message. Remote stock water monitors will be installed in November 2009. Obviously, this is a demonstration trial to evaluate this technology. If successful, it will save thousands of dollars of fuel, time and vehicle repairs for Garfield County ranchers. AIMING HIGH I ordered a nice new telescope. Expensive, but not too much. Now I can look at the planets and stars, and galaxies and such. I’m getting older. One of these days I’ll cross the great divide. I kind of hope that heaven is the next place I’ll reside. If I have a nice new telescope, I can see heaven good. It couldn’t hurt to look around and pick a nice neighborhood. Somewhere near the Big Dipper could be a fine place to stay. There must be opportunities for a guy in the Milky Way. From what I gather I’d think I’d rather not get stuck on some comet. Whizzing around and around like that would prob’ly make me vomit. I wonder what the weather is like if I go to, say, Andromeda? I should maybe take a warm scarf and gloves and an accurate thermomeda. Moving a thousand light years away somehow seems kind of queer. I hope I wind up by a bus stop, or there’s a Walmart near. At any rate, when I emigrate, I seek a celestial goal. I wouldn’t be pleased if I went to hell, or fell in some old black hole. I’ll look in my telescope anyhow, to find a good spot in heaven. I hope I find it quickly, though. I go to bed by eleven. Poems written by Ray Conrad www.raymondconrad.com |