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Show V Emery County P inXno iizi-uufr- s'jSSslaudHvx rim Tuesday, March 23, 2004 3n nvs 900t 31S S 003 M zoe iih"ttt'ii Home Grown News Since 1900 Castle Dale, Utah Volume 104 Emery Town Makes Plans for July 24 Number 12 504: INSIDE By COREY BLUEMEL Staff Writer This jear marks the 50th annher-sar- y of the Emery Town 24th of July celebration. Mayor Mike Williams noted that the town is making bigplans for the milestone. Mayor Williams announced plans to have the original Emery Town history book republished. The goal is to have the finished book available by Memorial Day and also have it for sale at the 24th celebration. Mayor Williams noted that July 24 is on a Saturday this year and hopes are that the celebration will be well attended. He encouraged all residents to inform family members and friends who are residents or who have been residents in the past, to come out and support this event. He also stated that everyone will be welcome to attend Emery Town has been working on an addition to the Veterans monument. This addition will be a brass plaque to be installed on the reverse side of the existing monument and will contain the names of all the veterans of all wars and actions, w ho served in the military and are from Emery Mayor Williams announced that it is the hope of the council that this monument addition can be unveiled at the celebration. Hazel Cox, chairman of the celebration committee, announced the theme for the event. We Love Our Emery Roots is the theme chosen for the celebration. She also announced that plans are to hae vendors again, as in the past. These vendors are welcome Continued on PAGE 3A. Cheer Spring Show 9A. BRIEFLY This red Limousin bull awaits his fate at the annual Dean King bull sale in Green River. Thats Some Bui, Annual Bull Sales Held in Castle Dale and Green River By PATSY STODDARD, Editor It must be spring if the w eather is warmer and flowers are starting to push their way above ground. Another sure sign of spring is the annual bull sale at Clyde and Darlene Magnusons stock barn. Buyers from through out the region gathered to bid on some prime bulls. Clyde said, We initially became interested in the Power Genetics company to offer a better market and a future for cattlemen in this area. Power Genet- ics works to offer buyers a source verified genetically superior market. The producers can get involved in bulls or feeder cattle or both. This program allows anyone wanting to produce better calves to have a ready market for their beef. Producers sell their calves to the feed lots and they sell the cattle to the packing plants. Excel packing is one of the three largest packers in the nation. These packers are in Search on Swell Emery County Search and Rescue was involved in a search in the Swell on March 17. A call came into the Emery County Sheriffs Office dispatch regarding two missing hikers. The caller was a brother to one of the hikers. He told dispatch that he was scheduled to meet the girls, Holly Oldroyde, 24 and Jodie Johnson, 27, at their campsite at the Swinging Bridge. When he arrrived their tent and car were there, but the girls were not. The search and rescue was called out. During an air search. Deputy Garrett Conover spotted the pair on the river between the bridge and Fullers Bottom. The pair had spent one night on the river and were tired but otherwise in fair condition. Search and Rescue member, Kimble Larsen located the hikers and hiked back out with them. MLDSME Meeting goers make their opinions known. The Project ChildSafe van stops in Emery County. Just Say No Gun Locks Presented to Emery County to Wolves By PATSY STODDARD, Editor The consensus at the wolf meeting held by the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources on March 18, seemed to be that wolves arent welcome in Utah. At least, as far as Emery and Carbon county citizens are concerned. A DWR presentation on the status of wolves was presented. Wolves are found widely across Canada and Alaska. There are three wolf recovery areas in the lower 48 states. These include the Great Lakes states of Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan; the states of Idaho, Wyoming and Montana winch now contains 760 wolves; the third recovery area is Arizona and New Mexico. This area where 69 Mexican wolves have been reintroduced hasnt seen the success that the other two recovery areas have seen with the Rocky Mountain wolves. A wolf pack can cover an area of 250 miles as their territory and will travel up to 500 miles to find a new area. Sightings of wolves in Northern Utah This bull buyer knows what hes looking for in a good bull. These bull buyers look over the animals at the Magnuson stock barn. Continued on PAGE3A. email editorecprogress.com Visit us on the World Wide Web HW.ecpro(jress.com Dean King, right, talks with bull buyer, Brent Peterson from Ephraim. ceiv award forbeinglhe thirdtop marketing specialists in the nation. Photos by Patsy Stoddard the Midwest and the source verified meat has a large customer base. We want to provide a market for beef producers. We also promote health management and good livestock care. Producers can get information back on their cattle and from that information they can make wise decisions as far as bull buying and producing a better product.1 This type of operation opens opportunities for the producer and guarantees a market for their product, said Clyde. Darlene and Clyde will be attending a training in Texas where they will become certified by the United States Department of Agriculture to source verify cattle and determine country of origin. All cattle are source verified. Clyde stressed how important having source verified cattle is, All of the cattle have a paper trail which follows them throughout their life. Their papers go with them to the packing plant. The cattle which are source verified are worth more. An electronic tag is attached to the ear of the cattle and their paperwork follows them. The cattle are shipped in semi trucks back to the packing plant. We have four truckloads leaving this week for Continued on PAGE 2A. The Emery County Sheriffs Office received 1,100 gun locks from the Project ChildSafe. These gun locks are part of an ongoing effort by the Project ChildSafe to educate and raise awareness about safe and re- sponsible firearm ownership and storage. Project ChildSafe will utilize 15 education vehicles to bring safety tours to thou- sands of communities across America to distribute the free firearm safety kits. The Emery County Sheriffs Office is making plans for the distribution of these safety locks to interested county residents. The sheriffs office is also requesting additional gun locks from Project ChildSafe to accommodate county residents pending their availability. Sgt. Martin Wilson displays the gun locks presented to the Emery County Sheriffs Office for distribution to county residents. T |