| Show w Umwwm 2C Sunday Top of Utah May 7 2000 ©OUNTV Birds Ojmes From 1C dogs and other treats from keeper Barbara Schneiter Schneiter one of the founders of NuArc e routinely takes Nightmare Fal-in- BOX ELDER COUNTY: Council delays OK of stop sign The Brigham City Council not decide whether to install a four-wa- y stop sign at 100 W and Forest Street until its next meeting A study conducted in January by JUB Engineers Inc found that the intersection did not meet the requirements for traffic lights but met the warrant for a four-wa- y stop sign During the public hearing Shirley Griffin spoke in favor of the stop signs on behalf of the Brigham City Senior Center “That's a very dangerous intersection People don’t seem to look at what’s to the side of the road only what’s directly in front of them” will DAVIS COUNTY Volunteers set to be honored the hawk Snowball the albino skunk and Scruffy the badger to elementary schools There kids are mesmerized when she brings the animals she has taken under her wing to rehabilitate back to health “When I go to the schools I always tell the teachers they don’t need to be worried about the kids being quiet because I have their full attention for 45 minutes” Schneiter said “The sounds the smells of the animals really gets them They are literally awestruck” That was the way most people particularly youngsters felt as they walked around taking in everything they could about their feathered friends Workshops were set up to give kids hands-o- n experience in appreciating the environment The youth could also make origami birds construct garden markers and bird houses and create bird feeders “We just like to start early to expose the kids to the environ red-tail- CLEARFIELD -- The United Way of Davis County Volunteer Center Advisory Committee will honor volunteers at the Davis County Volunteer Award Ceremony at 7 pm Thursday in the Clearfield Job Corps Gymnasium Special guest Lt Gov Olene Walker will present Davis County volunteer awards to Dr Mark Tate and the Victims of Cnme Assistance Program Members of the Volunteer Incentive Program who have completed 100 hours of service will also be recognized Honorable Recognition Awards will be presented to Marac Persson Clearfield Job Corp Pam Boydston United Way of Davis County Neil Simmons Clearfield Job Corp Karen Wilcox Utah Foster Care Foundation and Tom Busselberg Clipper Today Adult Adviser Awards will be presented to Sharee Paxton Northridge High School Lesa Love Clearfield High School and Christine Whitlock Viewmont High School The public is invited to attend Please RSVP to United 5 Way of Davis County 497-955- WEBER COUNTY Red Cross kicks off campaign The American Red Cross of Northern Utah Monday will recognize World Red Cross Day by kicking off a yearlong community effort to fill 500 school chests which contain basic school arid recreational supplies for children in need around the world Each school chest holds approximately $250 to $375 worth of supplies including notebooks pencils rulers erasers crayons tape measures jump ropes and soccer balls When completed the chests will be sent to schools in Armenia Azerbaijan Bosnia Bulgaria Kosovo Nagorno Karabagh Guatemala Honduras Nicaragua and El Salvador “One of the reasons I love this program is because it makes others aware of the needs of children around the world" said Liz Chicado of the Amencan Red Cross of Northern Utah and organizer of the effort “The children we send these chests to are in circumstances worse than we understand or have ever seen"' For information 627-000- call 0 REGIONAL Sibbett presides over conference The chairman of the Utah Board of Pardons and Parole Mike Sibbett is presiding over an international conference on prison and parole issues underway this weekend in Ottawa Canada Speakers at the conference will address assessment and control of high-ris- k offenders decision-makin- g ethics victim rights and other topics supporting the conference theme of contributing to global public safety “With the world coming to Utah in 2002 for the Olympics we need to have as many partners as possible in the international criminal justice family" Sibbett said - Standard-Examine- r ed Standard-Examin- er 'ft ment the birds and the resources that are available here” said Karen Lindsey of the US Fish and Wildlife Service As part of Saturday’s scheduled festival activities participants had the option of visiting several wildlife and bird sanctuaries around Great Salt Lake The festival continues today only for those who p for the guided tours which are usually overflowing with interested bird watchers ! u X - ' Today’s tours will take participants behind locked gates to Audubon’s Gillmor Sanctuary and Kennecott’s Inland Sea Shore-bir- d Reserve both of which were created within the past four years on the south shore of the lake - a h '' t in 1 Activities continue throughout the week with expert lecturers and other events scheduled for the hours during the week until the festival concludes May 13 For more information on this week’s activities log on to the festival’s Web site early-morni- at wwwgreatsaltlakebird-festco- BEAUTIFUL BIRD: A m closeupshotof the beautiful Swainson’s hawk that was shown to festival-goer- s at the Great Salt “This has been a great experience” LeFevre said “I’ve actually learned a few things myself” You can reach reporter Joey 1 Haws at or by at jhaws(Sstandardnet 625-423- Lake Bird Festival at the Davis County Fairgrounds on Saturday Workshops were set up to give kids hands-o- n experience in appreciating the Vh environment £ ! f V Si J “Wejust like to start early to expose the kids to the environment the birds and the j resources that are available here ” -- Karen Lindsey US Fish and Wildlife Service vf i iy-- i a' s’" 'X X '' j x '5XW- v " BRIAN NICHOLSON Standard Examiner IT : svX I 1 i £ Refuge comes bacl to life after devastating flood the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge the earth finally healed white-face- d mountains the refuge is an oasis ibis use the marsh to for thousands of waterfowl mate and lay eggs making up the world’s largest breeding “That’s why all of these of the rare bird population wetlands so are surrounding Yet despite the thick flocks of important because the birds By HANNAH WOLFSON need somewhere to rest” said birds human visitors are rare The Associated Press Kristen Gilbert outdoor “There’s definitely those folks -- The programs manager for the refuge that know about the refuge and at the In 1843 explorer John C love it and use it all the time” Migratory said Audrey McElrone of the Fremont wrote that the concentrations of waterfowl Northern Utah Wetlands the marsh Silently they probe noise a like the lake “made along Partnership an educational like bobbing oil wells wading the refuge is thunder” based at Utah State Today group the shallow while water through 1 million home “But there are also to University temporary avocets and ducks chatter around northern pintail - a quarter of the people who have lived in Utah them Overhead pelicans patrol continent’s population - 500000 their whole lives and have never the edges of the Great Salt Lake of the small shorebirds called been out there” like a troop of prehistoric Wilson’s and 400000 phalaropes On a drizzly spring afternoon sentries and flashy ' eared grebes blackbirds wheel in circles only a few tourists shared the About 30000 white pelicans auto route with a dozen great Less than 20 years ago the one of the country’s biggest blue herons several ibis and an birds were gone driven from colonies stop to breed on rocky uncountable number of ducks these wind-swewetlands when and sandpipers Canada geese the overflowing lake drowned the islands in the Great Salt Lake each the to visiting refuge grazed in the grasslands along the America’s spring one oldest of refuge pull carp and other fish from its edge of the marsh as tall as the “It was completely fresh calves they share space water And 7500 young said John destroyed” Bunderson president of the If you go Friends of Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge “It’s interesting WHAT: Bear River Bird Festival: how the earth can heal” WHEN: Saturday May 13 In this case the earth got TIMES: 7 am-- 1 0 am - Bird Feeder Breakfast $3 per person at some help The salt water Pioneer Park 720 West Forest Street Brigham City receded in 1989 and 1990 and 8:30 am & 1 1 am - Walking Bird Tours sign up at registration table at National Fish and Wildlife Service has spent the decade refuge headquarters or call refuge in advance 1 0 am-- 2 since clearing debris and pm - Hourly tours starting at refuge headquarters 1 0 am-- 1 pm - Concessions displays kids activity comer at refuge repairing the 43 miles of dikes the Bear headquarters River delta surrounding GETTING THERE: The Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge is 1 5 miles The auto tour route of Brigham City which is 50 miles north of Salt Lake City on west that loops through the ponds and Interstate 1 5 Take the Forest Street exit at Brigham City and drive west marshes has reopened and a new toward the Great Salt Lake A gravel route starts and ends at the visitor center is under old headquarters site and is open to cars and bicycles construction to replace the one Admission is free The tour route is open daily from sunrise to sunset ruined by the flood with plans to before-Utaexcept January through hosts the open Information and bird checklists are available at refuge headquarters Winter Olympics in 2002 in Brigham City open 8 am to 4:30 pm Monday through Friday For Most important the birds are more information call (801)723-588- 7 back by the thousands WHEN TO GO: Spring is the best time to see the most birds There is The 74000-acr- e is a refuge flow of different species in and out of the refuge many of continuous a crucial stopping place for in colorful breeding plumage or engaged in courtship rituals them hundreds of species along the In June and July visitors can see ducklings young shorebirds and Pacific flyway which migrating grebes riding atop their parents’ backs baby for birds follow thousands of In the fall half a million ducks and geese concentrate on the refuge miles on their route north from Tundra swans appear in South America to Canada and From December through March hawks falcons and eagles frequent Alaska Amid hundreds of miles the refuge of arid desert and craggy At city Brigham with “I’m learning a lot and I think it’s rather thrilling” said Cheryl Clark an avid birdwatcher from Long Beach Calif as she paused to eat a picnic lunch in the refuge "I like how close up you ' “can See the birds I like the ' of it” accessibility In an effort to increase awareness the refuge is hosting a festival May 13 complete with guided tours of the refuge and special events for artists and photographers Refuge managers and Brigham City officials say the site could red-wing- ed 12-mi- le mid-Mar- h DEGREES Mother’s Day! 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