Show - r UTMIMIE WEST 'the Salt 1I ake Tribune BIO STATE OF THE STATE 1JMiS Vt 'llall s 2004 t Ailkaio Vittvi Dagipti - '' - I"' rOald!crjan : Se Imeiy o""it' ViR1 Nut '7P4 ' i' tfatid ' ' - P- -' ' T--' '- ) ' ( 441' 44'1'6 : f at stutedesk a sliribcom ' k Ar0: Standard-Examine- 4 ( 7:41'' 7 ' 1 N 1 1 l'N' or ''' ' itit ''''' 74k - Cp At‘4 4t i - 41 ' A 1C 0' I - ' 'd :' : s ''''-- ' ' iSi41141:4 L ' i 11 4p ' 1 t : t CN A 1 )"14 - r Loop lei' -- taxes startS3roperty ing from 2001 The company sent tle 'r - 6 1 1 :" I headquartered international energy corporation that filed for Chapter I I bankruptcy protection in 2001 owns 15 parcels in liox Elder County and owes - - t'''':) ' i 'N' The liox Elder County Commission has settled ftir a partial paymein on back taxes owed by Enron Owl) Enron the I louston- ' I 1 BOX ELDER I i 'L '' " “' '11 missioners that in bankruptcy it's not always possible to know if you're going to get paid or not Commissioners agreed to set- A 14 Juan a letter to the county requesting acceptance of $17100 instead Commissioners had to decide if they wanted to settle for the reduced payment or risk negotiating tlir more County Attorney Amy I'Ingle expressed surprise that Enron offered to pay as much as it did reminding com- ' ' 4? t ' 16 k L11 k?444u: 7' CAttield tiaArigto 47'Z -A ''- - ' tidyne 50 it ' bQn &mot te 'I''''‘ 1A Litit 14441taid Contact m -- - o'y-"-- i Moripti Cm Iron '7 RIO ' Summit Akio Ho411' 14 ' CmititicA Hulking news ETt' mina Sunday November —- - - i1V 1 P ' 16 iit ' ' f N ' 2t144 -- : A - " '' L -- '''' ' - 4 4 L4 !:'Z!es ii - :i )t I el 1 47-- 11 t1 i 1 to ' 1 34's ‘ ' - 4 1 :::i: -- - ' i 'I 4- kN 441"47 w ifr - 1f l' — ' jh ' i 'd i0--d- i Gary McMahan a cowboy from Bellvue Colo tells stories between his music numbers Saturday on the '' -- rus fly AL at Heber City's Cow Camp Stage Poetry Gathering Cowboy NThS(JJ!IAJb1flhW I IAIL & Buck-A-Ro- t Fair o 4 t Cowboy from the hear 'MOUE The 'roue le limn of Education is working on a revision of the school district's student travel policy in part in response to an incident of sexual misconduct involving metnbers of the Tooele High School baseball team last tfring District officials said they felt a reevaluation of the policy was necessary to ensure that over- night trips have proper adult supervision in the hope that future violations by students might be avoided Board President Gary Gowans said members and district staff have gone through an extensive revision process to in- crease faculty and chaperone supervision and accountability for student trips Gowans said though students will always try to manipulate the rules and no policy is foolproof the Board of Education wanted to make sure schoolchildren are as safe as possible Transcript-Bulleti- Heber City festival reveals 'The Perfect Gift' 13Y JULIE DEIIERRERA living" Kennington's "Keeping Up" a poem to a crowd of old and young gathered Saturday to hear captivating tales of Western life at the 10th annual Cowboy Poetry Gathering & evaluating instructors creating and improving academic programs and ensuring that the schml meets the stringent requirements of its upcoming accreditation "We had a lot of qualified applicants hut John stood out with his rich background his exptTience with accreditation and his experience with people" said URATC Presitivnt Paul Hacking — Uintalt &min Standard UINTAH The Uintah County Western Heritage Nluseum in Vernal will receive a $9000 federal grant for improvements that will help the museum better tell the story of the Old West "The Ilintah Basin is fortunate to have a museum that is dedicated to preserving its local heritage" said Sen Bob Bennett who announced the grant "This funding will help strengthen the museum's efforts to expand its mission and focus and continue to provide local '' must be real hard to be lonely while others are happy and gay while we see the blue skies and sunshine their skies are cloudy and gray residents and tourists an opportunity to learn more about the history of this unique region" The grant awarded by the Institute of Museutn and Library Services will be used to complete efforts to upgrade the museum and help fund the design and creation of new interactive exhibits The new exhibits will examine the heritage of the Old West including the lives of such figures as Butch Cassidy Father Escalante Wesley Powell and Chief Ouray The federal grant will be matched by local dollars in the same amount — Vernal Express its easy with our lives so busy to not take the time to be there to help lift a burden for others and let them know somebody cares If you want to do something this Christmas to help those who might be alone take time from your parties and shopping and give them a call on the phone So this year when you go hAVI GLENWOOD SPRINGS Colo — The recreational vehicle had improbably negotiated its way around several boulders up a steep dirt hill and past a trench known as a "tank trap" meant to stop such excursions into the forest With the vehicle perched on the top of a rise overlooking a meadow choked with beaver ponds and willows the RV's inhabitants — a halfdozen unshaven e men in enjoying a hunting camp — said they didn't realize they had done anything wrong "This has obviously been closed" forest ranger Mike Kenealy calmly road-blockin- g blaze-orang- 0 ' r: - 4 q r- 444- 1- 4 4:vc: N t4 e- - ' '6 4 t 111 iai'dt i i- 11 "- olvf: t s' 7 - ''' t p Awlf ' 1 1 :! ( 1:1 - r 1141 N11 S' 41s 4 4 :111 4 44 :cak 74) da !: i 4 414 N 1 t N ! 104 : il 1 I I 7t - t '4v It IN J it rrt fr volt I : 4 4 1 1zto 1 ' dit ' 1014 411 v ' "' be sure that you add to your list a name of someone that's lonely and give them the best kind of gift fe S to spend any money that the best gifts are free Take time for the lonely this Christmas it's just how God meant it to be You won't have for we know Yvonne Hollenbeck of Clearfield SD ' from Springville says he is inspired by "the experiences that I've had and witnessed "If it's real it should be written down It's history and I guess it's called folklore" said Sweeten who read his works on "The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson" in 1991 Al Anderson who drove with his wife Barb from their home in Roosevelt to atfend liked what he explained at the camp on a recent morning "You can see people have been driving around the barriers but it doesn't make it OK for you to drive around it" Kenealy is among an overwhelmed and overextended cadre of rangers fighting the increasing problem of illegal vehicle use on national forests and other public lands which is typically at its worst during hunting season "The problem comes particularly when suddenly someone shoots an elk back up in there and they don't want to pack it out on their backs" Kenealy said of hunters who head into the high country each autumn "Many folks decide to take an ATV especially if it's open terrain then they tear up the meadows" vehiQuads are cles While a wayward recreational vehicle deep in the backcountry is an exception the growing illegal use of vehicles has been deemed by Forest Service Chief Dale Bosworth as one of the off-roa- d four-whe- off-roa- d ip : v I out shopping Forest rangers battle illegal nit MIMI" ' '' A t Better yet pay 'em a visit to let 'em know somebody cares for none of us know of tomorrow when we may have crosses to bear first-time- Bv STEVE LIPSHER i'''' b 1 And two-roo- women" On Saturday she showed her lighter side reciting "Mealtime" a humorous comparison of city and country folk and the times that they dine Another poem elicited laughs — "Christmas Shopping With Man" liollenbeck 59 says she is inspired by her grandmother's writings "We're just trying to preserve the heritage of the Old West" Colin H Sweeten an veteran poet ' ' - '' It Fair it's "Things have changed a lot here in the West that ol' cowboy life I miss" continued Kennington who lives in Ogden "A poem should tell its own story" said Kennington a man of 73 years who wears the traditional hat and boots of a cowboy His weathered face has creases around his eyes that tell something of his life story He was born in a log cabin near Bear Lake area in Idaho Herding cattle became a way of life for 20 years For the past 37 years Kennington has been a farrier or horseshoer He had been married to his wife Arlene for 53 years and has raised six children and has 30- s someth ing grandchildren and seven It wasn't until 23 years ago at age 50that he began to write down his poetry "and things began to really take off" Nowadays the veteran is a regular on the cowboy poetry circuit reciting his rhymes at 150 to 200 shows a year from Canada to Arizona "I write what is in my heart" said Kennington "My definition of poetry is painting a picture in the mind first with rhythm and then with rhyme" Kennington keeps a notebook tucked inside his vest at all times to lot down ideas and words But he recites from memory Tears were in his eyes once he concluded his verse about how "the cowboy is a dying breed" He then quickly recited the humorous "Manure Spreader" Unlike the veteran Kennington Yvonne Hollenbeck r at the Heber festival But the Clearfield was a SD resident is no novice on the cowboy poetry scene She describes herself as a "ranch wife" and her poems often reflect "the hardship of pioneer ranch Colorado: The problem is at its worst during bunting season when more terrain is torn up 4 -F 40- - Buck-A-Ro- ' - i' It might be a soldier in service i or death might have darkened their door there's reasons why some folks are lonely ti'''': and something we should not ignore great-gandkid- DUCHESNE John Wahl has been named vice president of instruction at Cintah Basin Applied Technology College Wahl IA' h o holds a doctorate in higher education administration moved to Roosevelt from Davenport Iowa where he directed a nonprofit organization !le is responsible for hiring and -:' ? i CITY — "I shoe horses for a abmv ow 9 everyone's Christmas is merry not everyone's heart's filled with cheer perhaps it's because they are missing a loved one not with them this year Not The Still bike Tribune HEBER kr ‘ by Yvonne Hollenbeck and hilarity ofAmerlean rural living the hardship e LI off-road-vehi- ' "The poetry he said About 15000 people will have visited the five-la- y event by today according to Lindsay Tanner a committee member The event concludes today with a brunch from 11 am to 1 pm and cowboy church services at 3 pm at Wasatch High School use cle greatest threats to forest health across the nation by carving new trails and contributing to erosion and the spread of noxious weeds "I've noticed quite a bit of that" said hunter John Montoya of Colorado Springs legally parked in his pickup just off a road on a recent weekend near Glenwood Springs "I haven't seen any ATVs but there's a pretty good ATV trail over there and every day it gets a little thicker It's a problem" In the grassy meadow ahead of him a displays the telltale muddy cleated tracks of knobby tires 300 yards away another group of hunters has illegally driven several pickup trucks to a camp secluded by an island of trees "I get comments from people saying: 'I've been driving up there for 40 years and now you're hassling me?' " Kenealy said after citing one of the drivers in the group as a token punishment "My response is: 'Well sir 40 years ago there two-trac- k — heard on Saturthiy were three of you Now there are himand hundreds of you' " The number of ehicles regisin Colorado has boned from 11744 in 1990-9to 88988 in 2003-0according to the state Division of Parks and Outdoor Recreation As more ATV riders take to the woods more complaints pour in to public-lanmanagers about noise vegetation damage erosion and webs of new trails and braided pathways "Six years ago a single vehicle went off there just to see what they could do" Kenealy said pointing to an illegal track running parallel to a smooth dirt Forest Service road in the Fourmile Creek drainage "You can still see it" Kenealy estimates rangers catch as many as 10 percent of the violators but he acknowledges that each ranger is assigned such a large territory that a lawbreaker's chances of getting nabbed are pretty small off-roa- d 1 4 d i e |