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Show Thursday, June 19, 2008 Proposed Hobble Creek Restoration Environmental Dociunent is released SPRINGVILLE HERALD The U.S. Department of the Interior," Central Utah Project Completion Act Office has released its Draft Environmental Assessment (DEA) On the proposed Hobble Creek restoration project for public review. The project is planned in cooperation with the June Sucker Recovery Re-covery t Implementation Program (JSRIP) and is de mm Riding colorfully decorated bicycles and scooters, hundreds of children participated in the Art on June 13. n t i i MCiistom;Qualitjmi Monuments : Large Selection of Colors & Styles '725 South 900 East Provo, ttah 374-0580 i m geejjgy Monuments EBDWEISISB hmw & DiamondBack Ind. 1 MM Custom Fit & Installed! Protect your Children Sharp looking Add value to your home CALL TODAY! 319-9413 or 465-2460 signed to improve spawning spawn-ing conditions in Hobble Creek for the endangered June sucker fish. ' The purpose of the DEA is to identify the key environmental en-vironmental .impacts which may result from the proposed project. Public Pub-lic comments on the draft document will bereceived through July 11, 2008. A copy of the document may 'U City Days Children's Parade Fairmont J Room Additions in Glass- Call now to save 20 on any Conservatory purchased by June 30th Call today for a free in home consultation! Fairmont Conservatories 864S.490W.1 Pleasant Grove, UT 84062 801.796.3521 be requested from Interior or viewed at the JSRIP website at www.junesuck-errecovery.org. www.junesuck-errecovery.org. Public comments on the document may be submitted submit-ted to Mr. Ralph Swan-son, Swan-son, Central Utah Project Completion Act Office, 302 E. 1860 South, Provo, UT 84606 (801) 379-1254. Alternatively, comments may be submitted by FAX at 801-379-1209 or by e-mail e-mail to rswansonusu. usbr.gov. A public meeting will be held Tuesday, June 26, 2008 at the Bureau of Reclamation, 302 E. 1860 South, Provo, Utah, to receive re-ceive comments on the environmental document. The meeting starts at 6 p.m. A formal presentation presenta-tion will be followed by an opportunity for public comments and discussion on the draft environmen Iceland The three-day celebration will begin on Friday, June 20, with free entertaining, informational, and hands-on hands-on workshops. The workshops work-shops begin at 7 p.m. in the LDS church at 300 E. Center Cen-ter Street in Spanish Fork. In the general-session workshop, Icelander Thel-ma Thel-ma Marinosdottir-More-land will tell how to stay on the good side of Ice landers during everyday life and while visiting in Iceland. Lin Floyd, educa tor, librarian and family history specialist from St. George, Utah, will then lead a workshop on how to write a history of your ancestors. In a parallel workshop, Rick Mathews and Lil and Terry Shepherd Shep-herd will take you on a slide-and-narrative tour of Iceland Tour 2007. Or, in a different workshop, work-shop, you can learn three Icelandic folksongs. Because Be-cause of its popularity last year, the final session is a "must-do"- cooking and savoring your own ponnukokur (Icelandic pancake), complete with jam and whipped cream. Yummy! Thelma will be on hand to make sure that you have an Icelandic experience! ex-perience! The traditional Iceland Days Family and Friends FACTORY AUTHORIZED SALES & SERVICE CENTER Get ready for spring! We service all makes of awnmowers and small engine yard tools. s "OUR SEEDS GROW" Cccn O (Arpenter eed 1030 South State, Provo 373-3740 Hours: Mon. - Sat. 8 am to 5 pm j fci 2 &2 Sal &3 JG . i i k fin n A I '7t 1 r rip nnn tal document. Public comments com-ments will be used to help prepare a final environmental environ-mental assessment. The proposed project would relocate lower Hobble Creek (west of I-15) I-15) to the south onto property prop-erty owned by the State of Utah. The new stream reach would provide access ac-cess by adult June sucker, which occur in Utah Lake, to suitable spawning habitat habi-tat in Hobble Creek and provided protected nursery nurs-ery habitat for newly hatched fish. Adjacent wetlands, wet-lands, to be constructed on the property iff cooperation coopera-tion with the Utah Transit Authority, would offset wetland impacts in Utah County resulting from the new Frontrunner commuter commut-er rail line and would also provide additional protected protect-ed habitat for young-of-year June sucker. Days 2008: June 20-22 f JJ1UIIIIIIM II II MM ' '" SP,,M' wi5M,. . " . I f - " -v k If : imrnrrrrTnni rm unlit 1 Kvml 1 - 1ll?,iiiiiifiiitf; lff iiiiiiiiiii-iiim rniirtiniiiiriinMif' nlt' iwmA ir,ii)i i -amf, If i rSnmiWi-trMatn m -&tro i'ftfflMliWith.i Icelandic sheep are a popular attraction at Iceland Days in Spanish Fork. There will be a flock of them there at the celebration this year. Fair will be held on Saturday, Satur-day, June 21, at the Spanish Span-ish Fork City Park, at Center Cen-ter and Main Streets. This event begins on Saturdays morning at 10 a.m. and is expected to formally end at 2 p.m. 4 New for this year's fair is Barnabaer (Icelandic for "Children's Town"). John K Johnson and his family haveprganized and arranged a variety of creative cre-ative and enjoyable activities activi-ties (and free popcorn!)," so that children will have an especially memorable Iceland Days. Johnson said that it's even OK for adults to participate in Barnabaer activities. Barnabaer begins be-gins at 10:15 and ends at noon. Other activities at the Family and Friends Fair on Saturday include an opening open-ing ceremony at 10 a.m., displays, Icelandic artifacts, arti-facts, memorabilia, family history, entertainment, and food. Because Icelandic sheep are always a popular attraction, Charlene Cum-mings, Cum-mings, from Helper, Utah, is bringing Icelandic sheep again this year. As expected, the fair will include ponnukokur (Icelandic pancakes). This year, two new'lcelandic food items will be available: avail-able: kleinur ' (Icelandic doughnuts) and pylsur (Icelandic hot dogs). The pylsur are imported from Iceland. They are made of i' . ' f x j ; " - ' rl ; ' ijf . 1 . ' - r i , 1 ' - . The June sucker, a native na-tive fish found only in Utah lake, was federally listed as an endangered species with Critical Habitat in 1986. Factors contributing to its federal listing include localized distribution, failure fail-ure to recruit individuals individu-als to the adult life stages and competition with introduced in-troduced predator fish in Utah Lake. .j Currently the June sucker spawns naturally only in the lower Provo River, the main Utah Lake tributary. Establishing a second, natural spawning tributary is part of the approved ap-proved species Recovery Plan and will help speed the removal of the June sucker from the Federal Endangered Species List. The JSRIP has determined that Hobble Creek is the best Utah Lake tributary for this project. lamb, are slightly smoked and are served with an Icelandic mustard and fried onions. If you want an Icelandic hot dog, come early because the Icelandic Association imported only 300 pylsur, as a special treat. . ;.- ; ' Entertainment will begin at 11:10 a.m., with the Bar-nakor Bar-nakor (Childrens' Choir) singing a song in Icelandic. A medley by western-Icelander songwriter-singer Kathryn Warner and Icelandic Ice-landic tales, poems, music and "Did You Know" tidbits tid-bits will follow. The presentation pre-sentation of honorees will be at 12:30 pm. Kathleen Reilly from Payson and Karen and Ed Anderson of Spanish Fork are this year's honorees. Saturday's activities will include a bus tour of historic histor-ic Icelandic sites in Spanish Fork. The first such tour began in 2005. The tour begins be-gins ai 11:30 a.m. and ends at Lit costs just $2. Many out-of-towners look forward to the Iceland Ice-land Days lamb lunch, which will be available again this year at a cost of $5. Drinks will be available at an additional cost. Only 100 lamb-lunch plates will be available, on a first-purchase basis. The fair's formal program, pro-gram, entertainment, and displays are expected to end at 2 p.m. However, family and friends are EXPERTS IN REHABILITATION & SENIOR CARE The JSRIP is made up of federal, state and local agencies working to complete com-plete the approved Recovery Recov-ery Plan for, the species. Participating agencies, in addition to Interior, include: in-clude: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Wild-life Seryice,tUtah Department Depart-ment of Natural Resources, Resourc-es, Central Utah Water Conservancy District, U.S. Bureau of "Reclamation, Utah Reclamation Mitigation Miti-gation and Conservation Commission, provo River Water Users Association, Provo Reservoir Water Users Company and' outdoor out-door and environmental interest groups. For more information about the proposed Hobble Creek restoration project, or the JSRIP, or to request a copy of the DEA, contact Ralph Swanson at (801) 379-1254 or visit www. junesuckerrecovery.org. invited to stay and visit. Several families plan their family reunions to coincide with Iceland Days. -? The-public is invited to attend.' Iceland Days is for family and friends. Its purpose is for people to Ccelebrate their culture and heritage, honor their ancestors, an-cestors, and build bridges between nations. : Iceland Days 2008 will conclude with the Icelandic Icelan-dic Heritage Fireside, on Sunday, June 22. The fireside fire-side begins at 7 p.m. at the IDS Church, located at 300 E. Center Street in Spanish Span-ish Fork. The fireside is for family and friends. The public is invited. The Barnakor (Children's (Chil-dren's Choir) will sing a special Icelandic song, which touched hearts dur-; dur-; ing last year's fireside. Also, Tyler Shepherd will report on missionary work in Iceland, and returned missionaries who served in Iceland will sing a spe-'. spe-'. cial number in Icelandic. ; The main speaker will be Dr. Jack R. Christianson, -who'js a popular speaker and jjauthor. Christianson wasthe Director of the Orem Institute of Religion and ivas f isiting scholar at BrighamtV oung University, Universi-ty, lie ha written' several boos. arid published nu- ' merlms tlks on tape and CD. 1 Ie currently is an administrator ad-ministrator at Utah Valley State College in Orem. . Ooted 1 in Utah County 5 Years in a Row! ; Private Rooms! .-I 'Our Goal is to get you Home!" if&stfto l$$mfi otmm m i m W 4 |