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Show UINTAH BASIN STANDARD. November 6. 200 - Page 1 IS East Elementary 2nd graders experience PAWS-O- n adventure East Elementanr 2nd graders spent an enjoyable PAWSOn day in Pleasant Valley. PAWS stands for Elanta, Animals, JKater, and Soil and is a conservation education program sponsored by the Soil Conservation District in partnership with Dinosaur land Resource Conservation and Development. Jen Knight and Roxanne Slaugh's classes spent the day learning about soil, archeology, pelro glyphs and agriculture. Darrell Gillman, DCSCD, discussed the importance of pro tec t-ingour soil.After the students leamed that it takes Mother Nature 100 years to make an inch of soil they were given the opportunity to try to help her ou t by rubbing two rocks together creating their own soil. The students learned that it was harder work than they thought. Always a favorite is the atlatl. Julie Madsen and Shantell Philips, Ashley National Forest, explained the importance of hunting and gathering to prehistoric people and how the atiati helped them. Each student had the opportunity of testing his or her skill at throwing the spear without the atiati and then with it. When the FREE STUFF ON LITERACY DAY Eric Hansen helps Genna Gale check out books at the Duchesne County Library. As part of Roosevelt Family Literacy Day several businesses donated FREE STUFF for those who used their library card to check out books. The project was sponsored by the Uintah Basin Medical Center Literacy Committee. Unemployment rate stays the same in Utah Utah' unemployment rate for October at 4.2 percent, was unchanged from the September rate. Ken Jensen, Senior Economist of the Utah Department of Workforce unforeseenjustsixweeksago.Wedo believe, however, that the downturn will be and that we Bhould see a rebound in the second half of 2002. The Federal Reserve has ag- fascinating was having Union High FFA stu- dents present a session on beef by products. Tara Duncan, Barbara Baker, and Ronald White had a variety of products available from a guitar string to shampoo to crochet hooks to wallpaper paste for students to determine if it was made using any beef byproducts. Jell0 may never be eaten again by these 2nd graders when they learned it is made from hooves. FFA also presented "Lunchtime Favorites and "Seasons. An enjoyable and educational day washad by students and adults alike, as no one wanted the activities to end. To schedule your PAWS event, contact Ilene Johnson, Dinosaurland RCD, 722.0884 ext. 102. 400 positions mining has lost - - year-over.1- Mi t Michael Fatali, a "portrait photographer of Gods creations, was charged Friday, Oct. 1 9 in UB. District Court in Salt Lake City with starting unauthorized fires in two national parks in southeastern Utah. In court documents, prosecutors allege that duringa nighttime photography workshop in Arches National park, Fatali set fires near Delicate Arch to create a dramatic lighting technique that scorched and discolored sections of sandstone beneath and next to the arch. The MOAB d has asked for the support SANPETE COUNTY Rep. Chris Cannon, ofstate leaders in preventing the UB. Forest Service from tearing down the Russell Nielson cabin in the north fork of Manti Canyon in the Manti-LaSForest Alongwith Cannons support the Manti City council passed a formal resolution objecting to a directive to demolish the cabin, maintaining the site as a historic Bite, as well as offering shelter for recreation lovers who might become Btranded in the area. al TheMessenger-Enterpria- e RICHFIELD Richfield City Police responded to two suspicious incidents as a result of heightened security due to terrorist attacks on the United States. The first incident happened when a group ofthree adults and one juvenile was arrested at the Richfield culinary water tank, said Richfield Police Chief John .Evans. The second incident happened Monday afternoon when a post office employee found a powdery substance in a mailbox. The Richfield Reaper . The number of students in the San Juan School District SAN JUAN continues to plummet, according to enrollment reports recently released by the school district. Overall enrollment has dropped precipitously from 3,480 students in October 1996, to 3,038 students in October, 2001. This represents a 13 percent decrease in enrollment over a five year period. San Juan Record old Tooele boy was killed Friday when his TOOELE A old brother accidentally fired their father's hunting rifle inside the family home. The victim, Emery Jed Bolton, died within an hour of arriving at the Tooele Valley Regional Medical Center. The two boys were apparently playing together in their parents bedroom. Tooele Transcript Bulletin six-ye- ar tion employment in October at 72,100 is down 900 jobs from the year-ag- n mark, a loss of 1.2 percent. Total employment in mining is at the same level as in October 2000. "Other mining and quarrying (largely oil and gas extraction) added 400 jobs. However, due primarily to cutbacks at Kennecott Copper, metal er FIVE GENERATIONS This family walked the Gold Medal Mile together Saturday, Oct. 27, in Roosevelt. The one mile walk is part of the TriCounty Health Department's "A Healthier You in 2002" program, in conjunction with the Salt Lake Organizing Committee for the Winter Games. Timea-Independe- nt gressively managed monetary policy by lowering interest rates, and Congress and the Administration are likely to produce an economic stimulus package in the next few weeks that will be balanced and will adlonger-terdress both short-an- d fiscal needs. Employment in Utahs construction industry stopped growing last summer after 1 1 years of often-rapi- d employment expansion. Construc- m UB. lost jobs year-ovwas in 1992. Interestingly, only 17 months ago, the US. job growth was 2.7 percent. Seasonally adjusted unemployment rates are: Duchesne County, October 2001, 6.4; September 2001, 6.1; August 2001, 5.3; October 2000, 5.7; Uintah County, October 2001, 4.4; September 2001, 4.6; August 2001, 4.1;October 2000, 4.7;Dsggett County, October 2001, 4.8; September 2001, 4.3; August 2001, 3.2; Oc- - several petro glyphs. Brown compared the petroglyphs to a modern day newspa- as both tell stories. Then East lementary was challenged to tell their own stories by drawingpictures. One of the highlights of the day short-live- d respondingly, there are actually jobs this October than there were in October 2000, a loss of 0.3 percent. The last time the non-far- . students tuber 2000, 3.1. Carbon dropped from 5.2 in September to 5.1 in October. Wasatch County jumped from 4B to 4.6. Bob Gross, Executive Director of the Utah Department of Workforce Services, provided this observation: We are now seeing a deceleration in the Utah economy that largely mirrors trends in the national economy. But, as usual, Utah economic indicators are shining more brightly than those of the US. The events of and since Sept. 11 have obviously im- pacted the national econony in ways Services (DWS) commented, Although some Utah employers initiated layoffs in the weeks following the terrorist attacks, autumn is the time of year when a few layoffs normally occur. Thus, the Beehive States unemployment rate did not change. Even so, the rate remains at its highest level since March 1993." In October, about 48,300 Utahns were unemployed, a leap from the 35,800 of a year earlier, when the rate was 3.2 percent Between October 2000 and October 2001, Utah's 66,000 employers created nearly 9,000 net new nonfarm jobs. To put this slow growth into context, Utah's historical average growth rate of 3.5 percent would have produced 38,000 new jobs. For the United States, the unemployment rate jumped from 4.9 in September to 5.4 percent in October, its highest level since 1996. Cor- fewer students found liow much farther it can be thrown with the atlatl they then wanted to see who could throw it the farthest. Jim Brown, NRCS, showed the These three East Elementary students put on WALKING PARTNERS their walking shoes and joined in the Gold Medal Mile walk in Roosevelt. Following the walk. East Elementary students entertained participants by singing. Prizes were also awarded during a drawing. 1' TOOELE The countys blue bag recycling program is on the fritz. Lack of interest and budget problems have conspired to prompt the countys solid waste management facility to cut way back on the amount of time and attention they devote to the blue bag recycling program. 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