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Show Serving East Juab County A Nice Place -- Volume 101 No 26 To Live! Single Copy Price Wednesday, July 2, 2003 www.nephitimesnews.com Come celebrate Independence Day at Nephi City Park The Fourth of July Carnival will be held Friday, July 4 at the Nephi City Park. The following are the events and times that will be going on during the day: Breakfast $3.50 per plate: Ham, Eggs, Hot Cakes, Milk and Juice 8:30 a.m Flag Raising Ceremony 9:00 a.m Country Store Opens 9:30 a.m Ticket Stand Opens 3 on 3 Basketball tournament 10:00 a.m 4 on 4 Volleyball tournament begins Rides and Games 10:00 a.m.- - 4:00 p.m 1 1:00 a.m Quilt Auction 7:00 a.m Entertainment 1:00 p.m Musical and Variety program 2:00 p.m Auction 3:30 p.m.- - 5:30 p.m Dinner 5:30 p.m.- - 6:30 p.m $4.00 per plate: Pork roast, mashed potatogravy, vegetable, tossed salad, dinner roll, beverage and dessert 10:00 p.m Fireworks at Juab High School Come and enjoy rides, games, prizes, country store, hamburgers and hot dogs, pizza, cotton candy, baked goods and the auction. All proceeds go to the Boy Scouts of America. Sno-Cone- FIREWORKS Fireworks will be on tap Friday evening at the Juab High School football field. These fireworks are from last years show. The show starts at 10 p.m. s, Well prepared Boy Scouts run into rough terrain in West Desert but return safely with some help from Juab County Sheriff Department and Search and Rescue By Myrna Trauntvein Correspondent Times-New- s Juab County Sheriff Alden Orme said the four Boy Scouts and two leaders from Salt Lake City who were rescued after hiking in Juab Countys West Desert followed the Boy Scout moto: Be Prepared. They were prepared, said Orme. They had good contingency plans. Orme said the search for the troop was led by volunteers from Juab County Search and Rescue, Juab County deputies, residents of Callao and was aided by volunteers from Salt Lake City and the Utah Highway Patrol. He said the volunteers searched the Deep Creek Mountain area about 100 miles west of Nephi. We had approximately 35 people looking for the missing scouts and their leaders, said Orme. Those searchers used vehicles, and motorcycles. In addition, two helicopters assisted with air searches. The boys didnt panic, said Orme. They boys stuck togeth- er. j Orme said the countryside is in the remote Deep Creek Mountain area is rugged and steep. He said that by the time a Department of Public Safety helicopter made contact with the troop on Saturday afternoon, at least 28 hours had passed since they were supposed to reconnect with a main group of Scouts. all-terrai- n Crickets, crickets, crickets... where are all the Seagulls? The Mormon Crickets are at it again! Where are the seagulls? The ongoing battle against hordes of Mormon crickets is continuing in Juab County this year. Actually, it is continuing throughout the west this year and Juab County is just one of the victims. The crickets, which are actually katydids, are insects with voracious appetites that are eating their way through crops, flowers, and anything green. They have Clark. In Eureka, Juab County, the crickets swarm by the hundreds on roads, farms, and local homes. After tires run over the creatures, a brown, gooey juice makes roads slick. Mature Mormon Crickets are s big with some more than long The Eureka area has tons of the crawly, aggressive crickets again this year. All down through Richfield reached plague-liklevels around and Fillmore, in that geographic the West due to this years warm area, reports are that is what is winter, an early spring and years being hit the most. of drought. Experts are fearing this years anything-sage-bruwill could be the worst in infestation eat They decades. alfalfa, wheat, barley, An estimated 5 million acres clover, seeds, grasses, vegetables and each other. are infested in Nevada. Officials At a density of one cricket per in southwestern Idaho say the insquare yard, they can consume festation there is the worst since 38 pounds of forage per acre as World War II. Near Eureka in Utah County, they pass through an area," said Loyal Clark, a spokeswoman for Elberta and Goshen, residents the Uinta National Forest. are having similar problems. The widespread infestation is Crickets are, currently, moving particularly epidemic in Utah, at a mile a day, and the expectaNevada and Idaho. tions are that at least $25 million In fact, Utah agriculture offin total crop loss will occur as a icials estimate 6 million acres will result. The Mormon cricket doesnt be infested this year before the critters die. That figure is more fly but can hop and crawl a mile than double last years cricket in a day and up to 50 miles in a population. Its pretty much everything See Cricket on page 2 from central Utah on down," said The boys were from Troop 173, sponsored by the Imperial LDS 1st Ward of Salt Lake City. Orme said he was told that the hike became extremely difficult and one youth became fatigued so the troop decided to make camp and rest. We figured out where the boys had to be because other places had been searched, he said. The hikers had planned a three-dabackpacking trip, intending to rejoin the main group of Scouts on Friday. About 2 p.m. Wednesday, they left the y trail head near Indian Farms. At Indian Farms, some younger Scouts stayed to work on merit badge courses. Plans were, that on the second day, the group would scale Haystack Peak. However, one boy was hiking slowly, so the group decided not to hike to the peak. On Friday, the scouts had planned to hike down Big Canyon before reconnecting with the main group. The leaders thought the trail, looking down from base camp, went all the way through the canyon and so that it would be an easy way out. What they didnt realize w as that canyon was actu ally a treacherous place to hike. The group reached its mouth in about an hour and a half but was crossing boulder fields and going through brush and realized the route was not going to get any better. The scout master sent out a scouting group without backpacks. They went ahead about 300 yards and returned to report that the canyon looked risky for the hikers. It was decided to stop and set up camp. Orme said the scouts were stream and had water filters that would allow them to safely drink the stream to the side of a w'ater. They were a good group and did not fight or bicker but worked together and supported the decisions made by their scout master, said Orme. The troop was unable to communicate with the outside world because cell phones would not reach from the canyon. On Saturday, they continued to stay in camp, taking long naps. The plan was if they wrere not rescued, they would hike back out. About 6 p.m. Saturday, they heard the Department of Public Safety helicopter. Meanwhile, one of the neighbors had chartered another helicopter, based in Park City, to assist in the search. That neighbor and the fire chief of Mona, Juab County, put on day packs and hiked to the camp. They camped there Saturday night, too. The area w'here they were found is very steep and rugged. Scouts had plenty of food, had shelter and good weather so scout leaders were not too concerned and found that, Sunday morning, the Scout who had been fatigued was in good shape. At that point, the group walked out to rescuers. After a four-hou- r hike they reached the base camp and were given rides home. The expedition had been planned for two years. The plan had been to hike out Basin Creek. Orme wanted to thank all those who helped with the rescue. We owe a special thanks to the search and rescue posse, to our fire marshal, deputies, to the Utah Highway Patrol, all the volunteers, and to all those who helped located the boys, said Orme. two-inche- e sh, Ute Stampede next week Pro Rodeos Specialty Act of the Year will perform nightly at the Ute Stampede Ute Stampede fans will see the hottest and most awesome act in professional rodeo, when the Wild Child. Troy Lerwill, dazzles you with a daredevil motorcycle ride, which culminates in an jump. for act of the year in Troy was runner-u2001 and in 2002 his act was voted best in the awe-inspirin- g p PRCA. Troy was born and raised in Pavson, Utah, to a rodeo family. They bought him his first horse when he was four years old. About the time he reached ten. he was thinking that ole horse was a little too slow and didn't make near enough noise, so he started riding motorcycles. Within a few years he entered his first motorcycle race. Six years later he was numler one in the State of Utah in professional motor cross. In 1991 he started his bullfighting career and in 1997 he joined the PRCA. During this time he was wondering how he could use his motor cross experience for a specialty act in rodeo. He thought that it might he neat to jump a Dodge pick up truck and a Sundowner trailer with his dirt bike. Late in 1999 Troy was lucky enough to meet Cotton Rosser at a rodeo in Spanish Fork, Utah, which the past PRCA President Bob Fain was producing. Cotton and Bob are longtime friends and Cotton and his wife Karen were there helping get the rodeo started, Cotton had invited Lewis Fields, former champion and all around c ow boy of the world and Ute Stampede Committeeman, Bob Garrett to be the pickup men. Cotton and Bob hired Troy that night to perform at the 2000 Ute Stampede. From that meeting it has been a great success story for the Wild Child, he has performed at most of the Flying U Rodeos, the Calgary Stampede, Houston Rodeo. Denver Stock Show and many more of North America's major rodeos. See Stampede on page 3 ' I ';av Vw |