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Show Local July 24 weekend (IUxaIjuJja, celebrations planned CLeVeLaN(I CEUbRATioN The highlight of this years celebration in Cleveland is the famous Fi Fi the clown. She will entertain families and children of all ages beginning at 5 p.m. July 22 at the park with face painting and balloon animals. The a magic show with guinea pigs, rabbit and doves will start at 7; followed by Games Unlimited, featuring a parachute and a giant 6 foot ball. Everyone is invited to enjoy the bike races at 5 p.m., pot luck dinner and craft auction at the lamb fry at 6 p.m. and Fi Fis fun filled evening which is free of charge. Saturday morning, July 23, enjoy the flag ceremony at 8 a.m. followed by a chuckwagon breakfast. A parade is scheduled for 1 1 a.m. and a program at the town hall follows at noon. You are invited to have lunch at the park and enjoy games, races, a water slide, sidewalk art contest and of course the airplane drop, where ping pong balls fall from the sky and are gathered to exchange for prizes dutch oven dish or pie to be judged can buy their meal for $1 per plate. Please call Marty 6 for more informaat tion. A dance featuring the Oak Creek Band will begin at 8 p.m. at the tennis court where winners of the raffle will be announced. Admission is $2.50 per person or $5 per family. The fireworks display will be and food. held during intermission at New this year is a dutch dark. oven and pie contest to be The committee guarantees judged at 5:30 p.m. Dinner will fun for all ages and invites be served up at 6 for a $3 per everyone to come join them on plate or $10 a family charge. July 22 and 23 in Cleveland. Those families who enter a 653-296- ORANqEvillE CEUbRATioN Along with the parades on July 23 the day will hold many chances for the citizens of Orangeville to renew old friendships and to make new ones. The day will begin with a flag ceremony, which will be presented by the Orangeville Post 39 American Legion at 7 a.m. in the city park. A pancake breakfast will follow at 7:15 at a cost of $1 per plate. The breakfast will also be held at the park. There will be a childrens parade at 10 a.m. with the main parade at 10:30. Games and lunch will be offered at the city park from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m. mW-- At 1 p.m. everyone should move to the Orangeville Baseball Complex, northwest comer of town, where there will be a remote control airplane show. The day will conclude with the traditional lamb fry held in the city park at 5 p.m. with a cost of $3 per plate. Members of the San Rafell Junior High cheerleaders squad took on the Ferron elementary school playground equipment with paint and brushes and before the day was over the cheerleaders were winners. Pictured are Lacey Brinkerhoff and Aubry ' t Larson on the slippery slide The group has several service projects during the year Advisor, Cathy Lampo, said that the group wants to help the community more - to do their part in making a little more community spirit through involvement Rangeland reform testimonies gathered By BILL MCCLURE Reaper staff writer More than 70 people including Gov. Mike Leavitt gave testimony July 11 at a public hearing on Rangeland Reform 94 in the Richfield High School auditorium. The meeting was chaired by United States Sen. Bob Bennett under the auspices of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. U.S. Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt was present throughout the hearing, withholding his remarks until the end. The overwhelming majority of speakers had the same mes sage for Babbitt, If it isnt broken, dont fix it. Our range is in better shape than its ever been. We dont need reform. Only four speakers were in favor of major reforms. Leavitt said Babbitts latest reform proposal is a lot better than the one which fell victim to a Senate filibuster last fall but it still needs fine tuning. The current proposal will cost the state of Utah the loss of $11 million in income and 700 jobs, the governor said. The proposed regulations will decrease assets from $220 million to $110 million. Thats analogous to a stock market crash. Several other testified Bab- bitts proposed hikes in graz- ing fees would put half of Utah ranchers out of business. Leavitt also said the proposal doesnt take into account differences in range quality. Theres a big difference between the Utah west desert and the lush Montana meadows, Leavitt said. I would like to see $3.96 used as a midpoint. I would envision fees on the Utah west desert in the low $2 range, with higher fees for the lush Montana meadows. Leavitt also expressed con- cerns about the proposed advisory councils. I would like to have the secretary choose members of the advisory councils from a list of candidates provided by the governors, he said. On the subject of water rights, Leavitt said adjudication of water rights must be at the state level. I agree there has been an improvement in western rangeland since the passage of the Taylor Grazing Act in 1934, Babbitt said at the end of the hearing. I am convinced the right level of grazing improves rangeland done health. Some areas are being managed as well as possible. By the secretary added. Theres still a great deal to do. Babbitt explained that the Federal Land Management Act of 1976 requires him to determine the fair market value of forage and adjust grazing fees accordingly. We have used the most conservative figures available to determine proposed grazing fees, he said. Babbitt also acknowledged the livestock market is depressed. With the termination of the Wool Act, the sheep ment of Healths Bureau of Epidemiology; and Claron Bjork, environmental health director for the southeastern district. I dont believe it (hantavirus) is a new illness, commented Angott. And I dont believe its an epidemic. Rural areas such as farms in Carbon and Emery counties would be more susceptible to SCOTT NIENDORF Sun Advocate writer Local residents have become more informed about the presence and possible dangers of catching the hantavirus disease, an illness which claimed the life of a Carbon County resident recently. More than 100 people turned out July 7 for a hantavirus forum presented by the deer mice encroachment because there is more food to Southeastern Utah Health District (SEUHD) at the Car- be found in fields, pointed out Nichols. bon High School auditorium in Price. withhisl973Dodge4x4powerwagon between, is in dire circumhe said stances, In response to several com- industry plaints that his proposal did not include criteria for good stewardship, Babbitt said public discussion will begin soon on the rules for good stewardship discounts. The secretary said he liked Leavitts suggestion to pull advisory council members from lists provided by governors. Its important that we get this right, Babbitt said. I want people who can work together and reach a concen- - Continued on page 2 Hantavirus information meeting attracts many Qm, 'i&cav The San Rafael Swells Auto Association will be sponsoring their first annual car show at Huntington Lake on July 30. The new club now has 25 members that own all kinds of older car and truck models of show cars, Recently Herb Thomas (pictured) took first Others are not being managed at all and most of the areas fall somewhere in well Mopar Magin Weekend show and Kurt Killian (Pictured) took 2nd place in the Butch Cassidy Days show with his 954 ChevBelair. Dennis Ward, another club member took st place and best of show at the Mopar Magic show with his 1 954 Plymouth Belvedere Con-plac- e vertible. His is one of 16 registered in the U.S. in the 1 1 SEUHD director Gary Farmers and other agricultural workers should take extra precaution when cleaning areas infested with mice, tions during the forum Nichols added. There have been 79 cases of Hantavirus confirmed in the entire United States since May of 1993. The recent illness and subsequent death of a Carbon County woman was only the first hantavirus con Angott moderated the presentation as well as the question and answer portion of the public information meeting. Officials giving presentaincluded Dr. Joseph Sannella, chief of pathology at Castle-vieHospital; Craig Nichols, director of the Utah Depart w firmation in Utah Nichols explained that not all people exposed to hantavirus will become ill, while some people who have very limited exposure can become ill Nichols reiterated the low risk of getting hantavirus by explaining field biologists working with rodents had never worn gloves or masks as protection from possible contamination until last year. There have been no reported cases of hantavirus in any of these workers, Nichols said. There could be genetic differences in people ... but we just dont know what the risk factor is, Nichols said Some of the risks that have been associated with getting the hantavirus disease appear to be breathing dust particles contaminated with urine or feces from infected deer mice while working in enclosed Continued on page 3 |
