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Show Christianson is deployed to Iraq Vernal Express Wednesday, October 17. 2007 B3 Cl tk 0 o I 12 Sergeant Joshua Allen Christianson, 22, began his second deployment to Iraq in September. Sergeant Christianson is deploying with an Army Combat Aviation Brigade stationed out of Fort Riley, Ks. The deployment is expected to last 15 months. Christianson was previously deployed to Iraq in 2005. Sergeant Christianson is the son of Don and Mary Christianson, and the son-in-law of Steven and Cindy Severson, all of Vernal. He is married to Andrea Severson, formerly of Vernal. Brayden Cody Siersma, son of Eric and McKenzie Siersma, was born on Sept. 23. JayceeLynnSlaugh, daughter of Dustin and Brandi Slaugh, was born on Oct. 3. Deven Van Alexander, son of Josh and Lindsey Alexander, was born on Oct. 4. Chelsey McKenna Shaw, daughter of Curtis and Christina Shaw, was born on Oct. 5. Robert Brigham Leach, son of Tavis and Erica Leach, was born on Oct. 5. Riley Ann Bright, daughter of Dustin and Christy Bright, was born on Oct. 10. Joseph Thomas Kennedy, son of Ronald and Mary Kennedy, was born on Oct. 11 Dominic Dale Dean Adams, son of Billy Lee and Brittnie Ann Adams, was born Oct. 11. FBLA chapter plans activities Denis and Barbara Bilbey : I1 golden (imuw&vAamf Wedding day Oct 12. 1957 Denis and Barbara Bilbey of Vernal celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on Oct. 12. In these short 50 years they have had many accomplishments, one them being three children, Curt and wife, Cathy; Rick (1959-1995) and wife, Julie; and Alece and husband, Mark Partridge. The have eight grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. They are enjoying their retirement yean with friends and family, camping, hunting and watching watch-ing their grandchildren hunt, fish and playing all kinds of sports. By Ba Wiium Uintah Basin News Service The Uintah Basin Applied Technology College chapter of the Future Business Leaders of America will hold its opening social Saturday at Lagoon. The group - which costs $15 dollars to join - is a nonprofit education association with a quarter million high school students stu-dents preparing for careers in business and business-related fields. It has no special requirements require-ments for membership. The UBATC chapter is currently cur-rently conducting a fundraiser selling Little Caesar's Pizza and cookie dough kits. Wal-Mart has agreed to match whatever the group raises. FBLA students at UBATC are also gearing up for the Fall Leadership Conference, Nov. 15-16, at the Marriott in Provo, andareplanningaservice project to clean the school's parking lot later in the academic quarter. Any high school student interested in joining the FBLA chapter at UBATC can make their $15 payment in the school's front office. Our Ads are worth the time in the... 54 North Vamal Annua Vernal, Utah - 435-78351 1 www.vernal.com Dry Fork Flume trail The following is an excerpt of materials preparedfortheMaeser Elementary School fourth graders' grad-ers' field trip before their excursion excur-sion into Dry Fork Canyon. The Dry Fork Flume trail can be accessed from many trailheads along its 12-mile length. The closest, Headgate Trailhead, is about a 25-minute drive from Vernal, up Dry Fork Road and about one-fifth of a mile past the . "Welcome Bureau xtf Land ,. ing the settlers of much, needed Management" signu. ipuner irrigatioqraJPlx At Headgate Trailhead, cross Fork of Ashley Creek, a classic ers, the Mormon settlers of Dry Fork soon diverted water out of the creek to irrigate their crops. This is the first, highest diversion diver-sion on Dry Fork. However, they quickly found that the creek went bone dry every summer. Investigating miles upstream, they found a large sink hole, the opening to a cave system that the creek disappeared into. The Dry Fork Sinks, as they came to be called, were (apparently) cheat- Dry Fork on the footbridge. If your visit is in spring or early summer, there may be water flowing flow-ing underneath. In early spring it may be quite an impressive roaring amount of water. In other times of the year, the creek bed is usually completely dry. Caves channel the snowmelt from Marsh Peak down to Ashley Springs, but in spring they are filled to capacity with gushing water. With nowhere else to go, the extra water is forced to the surface, where it flows for a few months until the snowmelt dwindles. The seasonal roar of the water in spring and summer alternates with the seasonal silence of a bone-dry streambed in fall and winter. This seasonal flow is what makes Dry Fork unusual, and sets it apart from the Basin's permanent streams. Just past the bridge, you will come to an intersection where a more heavily used trail goes right, going another 12 miles to end at the Old Flume Mill site. The "road less traveled", leading totheright,endsinone-tenthofa mile at the Castle Cove Trailhead (accessed from the Deep Creek Road). We describe this short detour below, since it contains the uppermost historic headgate and diversion. At milepost one, looking up and down the trail, you can see the outline of the old Flume wagon track. In the late 1890's, horse-drawn wagons loaded with lumber would come rattling rat-tling down from Ashley National Forest to Dry Fork Community. When the newer Red Cloud Loop road was built, the wagon track was abandoned, and the forest returned and erased it. Around 1997, teacher Louise Murch proposed a recreational trail for non-motorized use be built along the old wagon trail. In the fall of 2000, with cooperation of BLM, Ashley National Forest, Vernal Escape Club at Vernal Junior High, Uintah Riverwatch at Uintah High School and the Uintah Mountain Club, the trail was completed. The Sawtooth Cove Trailhead is the lowest trailhead, and is reached from the Deep Creek Road, which is not as convenient for most users. The milepost markers start here, and are placed every 10th of amileforthe first 2.1 miles of the trail. These posts were placed by students from Uintah High School Riverwatch, Riv-erwatch, under the supervision of BLM recreation planner Kim Bartel. About 100 feet up the trail from here is the uppermost headgate on Dry Fork. As farm- "sinking stream" with associated karst features. In the late 1890s, farmers from Dry Fork cut lumber at the top of the trail (Government Park), and brought the lumber down to the flume which they were building. This flume was a large wooden sluiceway designed to divert water around the Dry Fork Sinks. She project failed, because theflume leaked anffthe" " water sank into the cave system anyway, farther downstream. In time, the Dry Fork settlers learned that the "lost" water entering en-tering Dry ForkSinks reappeared downstream in Ashley Springs, at the mouth of Ashley Gorge, about 12 miles away. These springs would later become the main source of clean drinking i waterfor the town of Vernal. The i flume slowly deteriorated, yet - the uprights still stand sentinel in the forests above Dry Fork, a monument to two year's hard and totally futile effort. But the wagon track lapsed into obscurity obscu-rity for a century. (The historic flume remnants can be accessed by driving six miles up canyon to the Massey Cave Trailhead, and walking 1.5 miles up the trail. NFL Network on DIRECTV. NFL Network on Cablevision. l (Yd) If you want football 247, and the most sports in HD then you want DIRECTV. So call and order now. Packages starting at $009? UB m month FREE Professional Installation of up to a A-Room System iw lee K o -mm rt nrt mm Ufc! FREE HD Receiver or DVR upgrade 1 customer satisfaction 7 year? running' Local chamte includes No equipment to buy Ho start-up costs CAREFREE WIRELESS 510 E MAIN ST 435-781-0600 Your Local Auttwrtztd DIRECTV Doator DIRECTV. I UffcUff TliSWIMM MTHORIZCD MALM m mt,ehmm;im mnwmmmimim 1 1 i , mmUBt" c urn' mUKKUBMkommmittHmmmmmmt Mate trtafc(KTfto m m mm. m am to V WNI a hi c m m a BHUJfaV'wewaf b(WakliiatMMMalkMllWliW moat(Miwi MffSKnMWimNUOlMIHn I, rental l n ,pmimwttom.vwmntm&sityikmvHmwy MMCTT UMTS "In the Wintertime, the 'true fishermen come out." As director of engineering for the hospital, Randy Gfay doesn't have a lot of free time. But when he does, you most likely will see him heading for naming Gorge. "We've been known to go into Colorado and Wyoming a little bit, but we go up to the Gorge in the winter and fish for the big ones. We really like the wintertime because those fisherman who are 'playing' leave and then we get to do some serious fishing." His fishing trips aren't as often, or as long as he'd like, because of his job. Randy is responsible for keeping the hospital facility maintained. He, along with his engineering staff and housekeeping staff, keeps the facility clean and the equipment and systems up and running. His responsibilities keep growing as the hospital expands to meet the healthcare needs of an increasing number of patients from northeastern Utah and the western slope of Colorado. And soon his responsibility will also include a brand new physician's office building that is now in the final planning stages. With all the new growth and expansion, comes a new name. We're now Ashley Regional Medical Center. Ashley Regional MEDICAL CENTER 151 West 200 North Vernal, Utah 84078 U35) 789-3342 f |