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Show News SOUTHERN UTAH NEWS WEDNESDAY JANUARY 26. 1994 3 BLM schedules wild horse and burro adoption in Phoenix The Bureau of Land Manage- burros atthe Desert Hills Equesment will conduct the First Annual trian Center. The site is located Phoenix Wild Horse and Burro at 43240 North Black Canyon Adoption on March 6 atthe Desert Highway (Interstate 17, Exit Hills Equestrian Center. 229), five miles north of th e CareArizona is very fortunate to free Highway in Phoenix. A random drawing for host one of the first wild horse and burro adoptions for 1994. adopters will be held We feel the Phoenix area adop- Saturday, March 5 at 7 a.m. To tion at Desert Hills will be an be eligible for the drawing, poexcellent opportunity for adopt- tential adopters must submit an ers to provide new homes for application to BLM by March 4. these animals, BLM Arizona Persons not approved by 4 p.m. State Director Les Rosenkrance on Friday will be considered walk-up- s on Saturday, and commented. At our recent proe gram in Tucson, nearly 200 only eligible to adopt on a all to basis after vied homes serve first provide adopters to the 57 horses and burros avail- drawing participants have made 5-- horses exist in the wild. Since the program began in 1 973, more than 60,000 animalshave been adopted e through the BLM or Burro Program. All potential adopters must submit an application for preapproval. Applications and the booklet So Youd Like to Adopt a Wild Horse or Burro are available from BLM. To qualify to adopt a wild horse or burro you must: be 1 8 years of age, provide transportation from the adoption site to home for the animal, meet specific requirements for facilities and provisions to care for the animal, pay the adoption fee ($125 per horse, $75 per their selections. g horses and burro) in cash or money order. For an application, program alivinglegacy ofour American heritage, noted Rosenkrance. booklet or more information, conELMS horse management and tact the BLM at: 2015 West Deer adoption program helps ensure Valley Road, Phoenix, AZ 85027 ; healthy ecosystems where the or by phone: (602) Adopt-A-Hors- pre-ap-prov- ed first-com- Smith helps with new addition addition is being built on the existing structure currently housing the Long Valley Fire & Ambulance in Orderville. Experienced mason Lamont Also the Long Smith is volunteering his time and talent to build the add-oto is in Lions Club assist the project. $20,000 of the Valley donating labor project is funded by the county. The town of Orderville is responsible for insurance and heating costs plus whatever else it takes to finish the job. Anyone who would like to assist in donating time to complete the much needed structure is welcome to pin Lamont and the crew. Fire chief Earl Levanger and Mayor Scott Goulding are supportive of the project and have accomplished the necessary legwork to move forward with the building of the new addition. Photo by Myma Cox. A dnderblock n. able for adoption. Approximately 100 wild horses and 40 burros from public lands will be offered at the Phoenix Adoption. On Friday, March 4, from 12 noon to 4 p.m., the public is invited to see the wild horses and Free-roamin- bur-rosa- re 780-809- 0. County to crown new royalty American! Kane County will have new and on stage questions will lead royalty after this Saturday to the crowning of the new Miss night! The Miss Kane County Kane County and her attenScholarship Pageant and all its dants. The Miss Kane County Scholrelated competitions will conclude this weekend. Contestants arship Pageant has been sepawill compete in closed events rated from the Kane County Fair Saturday afternoon including for the first time thisyear and is interview and swimsuit. After a now under the direction of the short break the ladies will re- Kane County Travel & Promoturn for the evening program at tion Bureau. Working with the 7 p.m., which is open to the pubbureau, th e n e w Queen will take on new duties in 1994 as the lic with a $3.00 admission. The Pageant evening, emceed official ambassador of Kane by KONY radio personality Carl County and will make appearLamar and reigning Kane ances to represent Kane County County Queen Jodi White, will both in and outside of the county. The Kane County Travel & kick off with a production number including all contestants. Promotion Bureau and Kane Several special musical numbers County Queen Advisor Julie are also planned. Final compe- Taylor hope the community will titions, individual talentpresen-tations- , support this scholarship as well as evening gown USDA charges Utah livestock dealer Watkins said Palmer has a Val Gene Palmer, a livestock dealer in Richfield, Utah, has right to a hearing of the combeen charged by the U.S. De- plaint filed by USDA under aupartment of Agriculture (USDA) thority of the P&S Act. If the with operating without a bond charges are proven, Palmer will and failing to pay promptly the be placed under a cease and defull purchase price of livestock. sist order, similar to a permaCalvin W. Watkins, acting nent injunction. He could also administrator of USDAs Pack- be suspended and ordered to pay ers and Stockyards Administra- a civil penalty. The P&S Act is an antitrust, tion, said that under the Packtrade practice, and payment fair ers and Stockyards (P&S) Act, livethose involved in buying protection law. 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