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Show One man's divine business 6030 N. Market Street • Kimball Junction, Park City 435.575.0221 Press #4 for movie times site, Bandy heads to the back hatch of his trusty Buick SUV By SAM WESTERN (he puts 35,000 miles on it annually) and straps on an equipHigh Country News ment belt (supported by suspenders) loaded with flagging, Vein Bandy takes a humble spray cans, hammer, and five pleasure in poking holes in sizes of nylon dowsing rods.. He hydrologists' assumptions. developed, these - ranging Those who study the ways of from one-quarter to three-quaraquifers «nd groundwater ters of an inch in size - in condeclare that you can sink a drill junction with the late Charlie bit just about anywhere in the Bowman, a professor of agriculearth and find water. "Maybe," tural engineering at Montana says Bandy, flicking one of the State University who claimed Benson and Hedges cigarettes dowsing rods helped him locate he sneaks while driving. "But perch while ice-fishing. what kind of water? Observing Bandy at work is Hard? Soft? Maybe laced a cross between watching a rain with arsenic. How much water? dancer and a no-nonsense surEnough to supply a house or veyor. Gear clacking, he takes bam? And at $32 per foot in out his smallest rod and walks a drilling costs, just how deep do you want to go to prove your straight line; when he feels the rod pull to earth, Bandy marks scientific theory?" the spot with a flag. He continBandy is a dowser who plies ues walking in the same directhe inscrutable art of finding tion until the end of the rod objects or liquids with a divining rises towards the sky. He takes rod or stick. Today, he's headed out another flag and sticks it in to dowse a well six miles west of the ground. He has just marked Rapelje, a ranching community the width of what he calls the in south-central Montana. water "vein." Then, using a Beyond his window stretch low- stouter rod (if one of his bigger lying fields white with alkali. rods pulls hard, it means more "This is tough country for water), he flags the vein until dowsing," he observes. "Lot of he's found the area of greatest bad water. concentration of water or Sulfides. Sodium and salt." "heavy water," as he calls it, a After we pull into a pasture term that would tickle any being transformed into a home- nuclear physicist. No passes or coupons accepted on * SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS 3-D: add S2.75 Premium Charge - All Price Categories Every Tuesday is Bargain Tuesday! Showtime* - Before 6:00 pm - ALL SEATS - ALL SHOWS - S5.00 Showtime* - 6:00 pm and later - Children (2-12) & Senior. 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Star in Orion Raccoon cousin Playground problem Something to play in Sch. where "Geaux Tigers" signs are seen Loss leader? Farm lady "Deck the Halls" syllables Pounder of "Avatar" 14 15 16 •• 112 •j records (which he'll show t o Bozeman, as is his wife. anyone) that he says support his H e was born i n 1931, i n claim to have dowsed over 4,000 Ekalaka, Mont. His father held. water wells with 90 percent Montana well-driller's license accuracy, and hundreds of gas number eight. Bandy worked and oil wells. H e says he's with his father during high roughly 70 percent accurate on school summers, and got a feel depth and volume. for dowsing in C a r t e r a n d Just ask Dale Price, a n Powder River counties - dry accountant, farmer and devel- places where wells made the difoper in Three Forks, Mont. In ference, between survival and the 1950s and '60s, Price's father being starved out. pin-cushioned his 3,000-acre This story originally wheat farm looking for water, appeared in the Nov. 22, 2010 without success. Eventually, he issue of High Country News dug u p a piece of damp ground (hcn.org). with a backhoe, sunk in a perforated piece of culvert, and siphoned the water half a mile Name: Vemon G. Bandy through a hose to his house. Occupation: Dowser Price's mother wouldn't drink it. Hometown: Bozeman, Montana Distinctive physical trait: Despit Price inherited the farm and being skinny and wiry. Bandy ha wanted t o build houses o n a the inner thermostat of a pola portion of the land. Water, howbear. He's been seen happily dov ever, remained a problem. I n ing in shirtsleeves in the midst of 3 1992, Price hired Bandy, w h o snowstorm. dowsed 60 wells. Thus far, Price Really unusual trait: Says he 1 has drilled and hit good water at locate - with something acceptable rates of flow in 18 approaching regularity - Jus| out of 20 wells. In essence, a about anything: water (both pura dryland wheat farm has been and contaminated),gold,drugs,ojR dead bodies, and snakes, all witlf transformed into a parcel of his nylon dowsing rods. ground with 18 possible home. Recent acquisition (at age 7 8 ) | sites. That totally changes the First passport. In November 20 economics of the land. developers flew Bandy to Cos1 Bandy takes his powers in Rica after they had drilled three dr stride. H e might be described as holes on their nascent 2500-acn resort Bandy says he found then a near-octogenarian leprechaun 71 gallons per minute at 93 feet with eyes that, honest to Pete, Most endearing attribute: Stlljj really twinkle. H e eats fried crazy about his wife, Alice, of 51, food with impunity, favors lots years. Calls her three times a da of sugar, has no fear of excess when on the road/She sure put up coffee (the sweeter the better), with a lot as I learned about the and is a deacon in t h e dowsing business." Presbyterian church of THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET'S NEST Rated: R Underwritten by Learn to Dance with Cindy Rae LISBETH IS AS COMPELLING AS ANY MOVIE] CHARACTER IN RECENT MEMORY.! - Chicago Sun-Times* i K .0? PARK CITY NOOMI RAPACE FILM SERIES a 1255 Park Avenue Call 435-615-8291 Find "Dinners a Movie" specials with local restaurants at WrVW.p3rkcitYfilmsenes.0rg www.parkcityfilmserie5.0rg WEEKLY HOROSCOPE handier than whatever your weak-j nesses are instructing you to do. 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Using his smallest rod, Bandy stands over the newly marked well, silently, for perhaps 40 seconds to a minute, his jaw trembling slightly and lips moving gently. He is talking to the stick, measuring depth and volume. The dowsing rod rises and falls like some priapic oracle. There is no scientific or statistical evidence supporting Bandy's ability to find anything by dowsing. Still, he has kept PHOTO COURTESY OF HIGH COUNTRY NEWS Vern Bandy uses divining rods to find water in dry lands. 20 80 ^^•ae 1 95 6 I (^•59 ^^H • 64 ^m 63 94 •1 •• SB • DOWN 1 Pitcher Galarraga who lost a perfect game on an umpire's bad call FedEx, e.g. 2 3 Flock leaders 4 Diplomatic H.Q. ••32 I 41 52 73 Casual affection?' 74 "Car Talk" airer 77 Salmon on a bagel 78 Palindromic Daryl 79 Popular vodkadrinking locale? 84 Until now, in a CPA's report 85 Follow a new job 87 "Don't try to be " 88 Taj Mahal spires 89 "The Big C" network 90 Actress Rogers 94 Sun Tzu's 'The War" 97 Durbeyfield daughter 98 Camera in need of screw-tightening? 101 Habitual depilatory cream user? 103 Tenacious Roman senator 104 English poet Manley Hopkins 105 "V" visitors, e.g. 106 Close to a delivery 108 Mauna 109 Chicago-toKnoxville dir. Property tax rate no 113 Breakfast for the road? 117 Frenzied 118 Corrode 119 French school 120 Clothing category 121 Steps over fences 122 Pianist Myra 23 25 • Wed/Thurs/Fri, December 8-10, 20fS The Park Record C-4 TEH IT miio9 115 M16| J 119 • r 122 I * ARIES: MARCH 21 - APRIL 20 At times you feel like theres nothing to worry about; at other points you're convinced that everything* about to go caput Too much is about to change for you to assume that certainty is even relevant at this point. LEO: JULY 21 - AUGUST 20 You're good at making do with what you have but it doesn't afways serve you. If you could allow yourself to have more it would give you a better shot at attracting a life that reflects the fullness of your purpose. TAURUS: APRIL 21 - M A Y 20 You're pretty clear that you need to hang in there and deal with this. God bless you. Whatever holding steady has meant t o you in the past these days it has more t o do with remaining fluid enough t o handle anything. , • , . . . . . . . . VIRGO: AUGUST 2 1 SEPTEMBER 2 0 • Karmic reunions are giving you a chance to reconnect with old friends and share memories of earlier times. So much has changed, it is amazing t o you that the one thing that hasn't changed is your love for each other. GEMINI: M A Y 21 - JUNE 2 0 A number of red flags have given you cause to wonder about someone's integrity. The sense that you're being lied t o and the fact that their story has too many missing parts is enough t o justify your paranoia. UBRA: SEPTEMBER 2 1 * 1 ~ OCTOBER20 As long as you get to be yourself in this situation i t * OK to stay in it. Any hint that others might be guilty of subtle, or not so subtle, forms of manipulation is a sign that it!s time to hit t h e road. CANCER: JUNE 21 - JULY 2 0 Your sentiments figure strongly in just about everything you do. Itfs a good thing you know how to play the softie, fn spite of their transgressions, at the moment others need to know that you're there for them. .:/." - ".••. v SCORPIO: OCTOBER 21 NOVEMBER 20 Rushing into things could prove t o be fatal. This is one of those times when your ability to read people and their motives will come in SAGITTARIUS: NOVEMBER 21 DECEMBER 20 How do you deal with people w h o • are too stuck to see things any way $ but their way? You can't afford to;.™ upset them but you need to m a k e ; yourself heard and trust that they \ care enough about you to handle the truth. CAPRICORN: DECEMBER 21 JANUARY20 Don't open your mouth until others lay all of their cards out on the table. Ground yourself in whatever it takes t o make you feel centered and whole before you allow them to press you for a decision,:, . ' ^ AQUARIUS: JANUARY 21 FEBRUARY 20 ;3 Wedged between two or more sets i of interests you can't do much but* remain liquid enough to slip out o f ; the situation, Think about i t with-* out your input everyone will getto•• see that this is their problem, n o t : yours. PISCES: FEBRUARY 2 1 MARCH 20 . : # Don't lie t o yoursetf about why you've decided to go along with this. Think twice before you cave in. The downstream effects of this type of cooperation inevitably lead §erothers you. continuing t o walk all |