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Show Page B3 Heard Around the West by Betsy Marston, regional news analyst UTAH Some snowmobilers have been known to skim their machines over water, striving for distance. Not surprisingly, sinking happens, not to mention at least one drowning. But how about vrooming a snowmobile over dirt? How far could you get? A man found one answer recently, when he gunned his snowmobile down an unpaved parking lot in Logan, Utah. What happened next was more like flying than riding, as the driver went airborne after his snow machine skidded and flipped over. The dirtmobiler, whod been drinking, landed on his face and head, reports the Herald Journal. NEVADA Several details stood out in a colorful story about a Las Vegas City Council hearing to shut down a motel that was an alleged house of prostitution. The manager, for example, seems unusual, a high school teacher who tripled the motels business to $500,000 a year. At least once a month, adds the Las Vegas a frantic naked man was seen running through a nearby parking lot, and in the hearings most theatrical moment, two cops wheeled in 150 pounds of condoms seized from the motel during a raid, dropping them before the council dais with a thud. One other detail: A former employee said his job was to place three condoms and four peppermints on the bed each time he cleaned the room. Perhaps a new definition of condiments? WASHINGTON It wasnt a big storm that swept through the Twisp, Wash., area, in late April, but it sure rattled some pots and pans. Vicki Heath was sitting on her porch watching the squall, says the Methow Valley News, when the wind pulled up a thick ponderosa pine by its roots and dropped it onto her husband's pickup, totaling it. At the same time, the downed tree, just 15 feet from the house, severed a power line so that Heaths residence and 109 others went dark. Then, suddenly, there was light: About 40 yards from Heath's house, a prairie fire ignited. All in Review-Journa- l, fast-movin- SUNDAY EVENING g - tElje QJimcg-(31tbepeitbg- -- Thursday, ttt all, she says, It was crazy. NEW MEXICO AND MON-TAN- A Were not sure, but school lockdowns were probably not that common a few years back. In just one week, however, two schools in the West abruptly closed in the middle of the day. In Clovis, N.M., lockdown mode was invoked after an eighth-grad- e student was spotted carrying a suspiciously large object wrapped in a shirt. Before the package was revealed as a giant burrito containing 'steak, guacamole, salsa, lettuce and jalapenos, 75 kids were evacuated and more than 30 parents descended on the school, where they gathered, visibly shaken, says the San Francisco Chronicle. It turns out the burrito was created for extra credit in a class on advertising; its creator, Michael Morrissey, says his new nickname is Burrito Boy. In Montana, a lockdown was declared after two grizzly bear cubs took up residence in a back yard less than two blocks away from an elementary school. But this was relatively reports The Associated Press, since many of the students come from ranches where they see bears all the time. A state bear specialist scared the grizzlies away with rubber bullets and cracker June 16, 2005 shells; then sheriffs deputies COLORADO Global warming melting glaciers? Not if European skiers succeed in their plan to Switzerlands protect Newly elected Sen. Ken Salazar, a Democrat, .took on a sacred cow in conservative Colorado Springs recently, calling James Dobsons Focus t. on the Family the The senator later apologized and said the groups politicking on behalf of President Bushs judicial nominees was merely and reports the Colorado Springs Independent. chased the animals through pastures for 4 or 5 miles with the siren going. THE WORLD Gurschen glacier. A ski resort just spent $83,000 to wrap part of the shrinking glacier in reflective foil, reports the New York Times. This practice, p reminiscent of the art of Christo and Jeanne-Claudwill become common, said a ski company self-servin- g, Jim Stimpson thought e, somebody would punch his lights out after a strap on his pickup broke, releasing 5,000 plaster screws onto Interstate Attend tlie church o your choice Church Page Sponsors: A-- 1 Quaker Worship Group Sundays, 10 a.m., Family Resource Center 4 81 N. 300 E., Moab Self Storage 259-866- 15 sizes - 2 locations 1 1191 S.Hwy. 191- - Community Church 259-599- Center Copy Canyonlands & Fax Service Color U.P.S., FedEx, Copies 59 South Main 3 - 259-843- 1 The Parts Store Complete line of Auto Parts 322 S. 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Call 4th Sunday y services with potluck, evening service follows potluck. 259-389- all-da- St. Pius X Church 112W400 North 7 p.m. Mass Saturday, Apr. 1 - Ocf. 1 5:30 p.m. Mass Saturday, Oct. 1 - Apr. 9 a.m. Every Sunday Green River Bible Church 6 Main & Howard St., Green River Pastor Kirk Dunham 9:45 a.m. Sunday School 11 a.m. Worship Service 6 p.m. Evening Worship Service Adventist Church 4581 Spanish Valley Dr. S.S. 9:30 a.m. Saturday Worship Service 11 a.m. Saturday For information: Moab Baptist Church 356 W. Kane Creek Blvd. Pastor Cole Howe Sunday School 10 a.m. Sunday Morning Svc. 1 1 a.m. Sunday Evening Svc. 6:30 p.m. Wednesday Evening Svc. 7 p.m. 259-583- 259-731- 0 Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses 7:30 p.m. Weds. or 259-349- - Info: Evening Worship 6:30 p.m. Wed. Prayer Meeting 6:30 p.m. Friends in Christ Free Lutheran Church Worship Service 9 a.m. 1 240 S. Hwy. 1 91 (Next to Ye Ol' Geezer Meats) . Dr. Sunday School 9:45 Morning Worship 11 a.m. Grace Lutheran Church 360 West 400 North Rev. Dave Dahl Bible Study 8:30 a.m. Sunday Worship Service 9:30 a.m. Sunday ABLE CHANNELS' 259-731- . 259-479- 59-6101 CABLE CHANNELS' m ver Post. Betsy Marston is editor of Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News in Paonia, Colo. (betsym hcn.org). Tips of Western oddities are always appreciated. COLORADO wrap-and-fla- ho-hu- JUNE 20, 2005 make amends to the 40 drivers whose tires immediately went flat that many of them praised him. The guy was just really sweet about it, said one driver, who blew out all four tires on his Camaro. Stimpson deflected road rage by handing out business cards and offering to pay the towing and repairs for cars that lost more than one tire, reports the Den- anti-Chris- Church Directory MONDAY EVENING 25 during rush hour. 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