| Show zvr wur mi " ci it p ii&tjo DAGKIJ04 www millardccp USPS com The Wild Child Days of the Old West PRCA Rodeo Gets “Wild” by Dean Draper He’ not quiet he’ not mild — he’ “The Wild Child!" Named PRCA Comedy Act of the Year five times the “Wild Child" Troy Lenvill will star at this year’s Days of the Old West PRCA Rodeo nightly on June 12 13 and 14 at 8 pm He will perform a motorcycle jump over a truck and trailer in the arena at the Days of the Old West Rodeo during each performance Lerwill native of Payson UT was bom and raised in a rodeo family His father Lynn was a team roper and his mother Penny was a rodeo queen They bought him his first horse when he was four years old At ten he started riding Within a few years he was motorcycles the number one professional motorcross rider in the State of Utah He was named Motorcross Champion of the State of Utah from Lerwill started his bullfighting career in 1994 He joined the PRCA in 1997 working mostly as a barrelman "I found myself more often as ‘the man in the can making people laugh as a barrel man” he said “During this time tried to use my experiences as a professional motor cross racer to build up funny motorcycle acts for the rodeo world Somehow it had to be possible to jump a pickup truck and a trailer with my dirt bike” "The Wild Child" was bom in 1998 and has since been performing one of the most spectacular motorcycle acts in professional rodeo Lerw ill's act became so famous that the biggest rodeos in America and Canada’s Calgary Stampede couldn’t wait to hire him In a mere five years The Wild Child rocketed to the top of the PRCA rodeo world In 2002 and 2003 The Wild Child act was selected as the PRCA Comedy Act of the Year A feat he has replicated another three times including last year 2007 Motocross was not his only talent as he successfully raced mountain bikes as well This year Hag Day falls on Sat June Hag Day was first celebrated in 1877 on the flag’s 100th birthday The “Stars and Stripes" w as adopted by the Continental Congress as the official American flag on June 14 1777 in the midst of the Revolutionary War The Proclamation of President Woodrow Wilson established lag Day officially on May 30th 1916 While Hag Day was celebrated in various communities for years it w as follow ing Wilson’s proclamation not until August 3 1949 the 14 th of June was designated by President Harry Truman as National Hag Day to be celebrated each year across the nation Colonial troops fought under many different flags with various symbols and slogans — rattlesnakes pine trees eagles with slogans reading "Don’t Tread on Me" "Liberty or Death" and "Conquer or Die" to name a few The official first flag of the United States had 13 stars on a blue field and 13 The West Millard Mosquito Abatement agency has a $200 000 budget shortfall for both 2008 and 2009 A paperwork error negated the approved tax increase WMMA had procured in 2007 A copy of the old budget instead of the new budget was submitted resulting in funding at the old level “They went through the process to increase taxes but the paperwork error meant no increased income The Utah State Tax Commission denied the appeal" Daron Smith at the said Commissioner Commission meeting on Tucs June 3 21937: “Parley Tanner who used to live at McComick swore to me on a stack of Bibles that Butch Cassidy walked into his house long after he died in South America j Wild Child" Troy Lerwill In 1992 Lerwill and his wife Rebecca own also an accomplished horsewoman Downhill Cyclery a mountain bike retail business in Payson where they also make their home This daredevil rodeo clown is only part of the two hours of rodeo action at the Days of the old West Rodeo Don't miss the bronc riders steer and beautiful barrel racers wrestlers exceptional bull riders Be a part of the rodeo Bring your horse and ride along in the horse parade at 6:30 p m on Thursday to receive a complimentary rodeo ticket take place at 8 Rodeo performances pm each evening at the Millard County 187 South Manzanita Ave Fairgrounds Della Ticket Prices are: $ 200 for Adults ( 3 years old and up) and $600 for children Children under 3 are free Tickets can be purchased in advance at Sahara Motors 597 North Highway 6 in Delta or nightly at the gate alternating red and w hite stripes for the 3 original colonics The lag has undergone 27 changes since the first National Flag w as born The 795 version of the Stars and Stripes saw two more stars and two more stripes added to relied the admission to the union of Vermont (1791) and Kentucky ( 1792) It had a total of 5 stripes und fifteen stars It was this flag designed by Mary Pickersgill that inspired Francis Scott Key to write the "Star Spangled Banner" In 181 8 with five more states being admitted the Congress enacted legislation This stated that henceforth the stripes should remain 13 whereas the number of stars should always mutch the number of states It was also decided that any new star should be added on the July 4 following a state's admission The current official flag of the United States became effective on July 4 1960 with 50 stars one for each state in the Union Was to run the program each year according to Mosquito Abatement manager Eldon The program needs another Rowley $200000 for this year and will need another $200000 for 2009 The Truth in Taxation process will not allow more taxes to be collected until January 2010 “We've done what we can to minimize We're not replacing one employee who retired We've come to ask the County Commission for $200000 as a loan or whatever can help us" said Rowley WMMA is responsible for the control of mosquito populations in west Millard County This includes spraying along the thf 2008 ' “N 'f and said he was a shoe salesman now on the road and on the square" This squares w ith the 1969 report given by then Lula Parker If thj flooded Topaz river the reservoirs und 450 miles of open drains and in residential neighborhoods They operute their fogging equipment in the evening from 13 minutes before sundown until midnight Mosquitoes are most active at thul time Rowley suid und the object is to kill them in the wuter "The main objective is to kill mosquitoes that bite The disease carriers peuk at hours after sundown" one and Rowley said "Our mam mosquito Culex pipiens doesn't carry West Nile virus The secondary mosquito Culex tarsalis docs carry it fMpicns is an avid biter They larsalis come out in numbers near July is a pest" Rowley described efforts to reduce le also costs for equipment und methods mentioned the need for WMMA services Slough a great breeding area for to protect the health of (he local resident! Wude Tolbert the County health official echoed these concern 1 he Commission took these factor into consideration and aaieed to loan WMMA the needed $400000 "'I he County is legally permitted to m'ke such a loun to a entity since WMMA is a political subdivision of aid Richuid Waddmgham the County" County Attorney of the loun Detail of the will be finalized at the end of the year with advice from the County Treasurer as how best to proceed The reason for wuitmg is to see what other contingencies may require opening the county budget for funding All cun then be handled at one tune Aboard for Harding McComick Holden and Fillmore by Dean Draper Departing from Delta at 700 a m the Star Line Stage took passengers to the r old tow n of booming on the way to other points in cast Millard County Established in 1917 McCornick took its name from banker and silver nunc coon William S McCornick He founded what became the largest private bank in Utah By 1900 deposits in McCornick and Company exceeded $5 million McComick built Utah's "first skyscraper" at the comer of 100 South Temple McComick teamed with James A Melville and others of the Sevier River Land & Water Co to establish a community between Holden and Delta just as Delta had been started a few years before A similar community named Clarion neai (iunnison had been attempted in 1910 In May 1917 farmers met at the Mil- - in illmoie to lard County Courthouse discuss the sale or tiade of wuter for land in the McCornick uicu A canal was dug from the Sevier River seven miles above Leamington along the foothills of the Canyon Range to supply litigation water for the protect in 1918 Soon 40 houses were built in the uiea 23 miles northwest of illmoie Sevetal businesses weie established and a biancli of the railroad passed thiough the cenlci of the town by 1919 McComick had its own school complete with (cachets und students A rosy report limit the Millud County Progress dated Apt il 14 1922 tend "McComick is a town three yeais old m the heart of the lower district Mere aie to be found all the evidences of a steady normal growth" A follow up the next week "New giowmg towns m this reported section aie McCornuk Hauling Pahvant (ireenwood and Crystal ” About a month later the Progress stated "Praitically all of the new comers aie Haw Bush locating in the McComick (ireenwood and Pahvant sections A number of new families have also been themselves hi the (lowing establishing well district in Ciyslal and the Robison Ranch sections Die Sevier River land and Water Company has been conducting an intensive selling campaign in the districts to the north which has resulted in the selling of a good many m the lludmg McCornick sections" thousand ucrcx and law Bush About this tune the Star l ine Stage advertised Us new xeivices for east Mil lard County Millud County Ptogress' July 28 1922 line ( aid ol the Star me Stage from Delta to illmoie Della to McComick $125 Delta to Holden $2 50 Delta to illmoie $3 00 One Suit Case allowed with each lure X RA Baggage one cent per pound Cats leave Delta at 7 OO a in Amve at 9 30 a in Cars leave illmoie u! OO p in Arrive ul Della 3 25 p m Veile Manager ARI McComick grew to a imputation of about 5()0 souls In June 1919 the Oiuhud (perDS haps liuliab) Branch of the Holden Ward was nigatucd aler it became the McCornick 55 aid with redo (ilcdhill he ward continued until as the bishop 9 to when it was disconSeptember tinued by the DS Church due to lack of membership A precursor of bad things to come soil ice wells dned up in 1922 he Piogiess reported "A Mi Hubert a resident ol tliit tow n struc k artesian w aler of the veiy best quality at a depth of 2(8) he walei seems to be exactly the leet same as that in the artesian belt directly See McCornic on page 7 Snd invites all of the recenpy returned service men and women to be Grand ‘ttlon to be recognized during the Main Street Parade and also be honored at CW Park "Together We Rise" is this year's telebratlon theme ' AT Cit£ JfficQ f of All Butch's youngest sister She Bctcnson told reporters that Cassidy had not died in South America in 1909 as was widely but had come hack to visit believed some 16 years later in 1925 Reputable researchers have made a case for Cassidy Bolivia traveling to faking his death Europe and finally settling in Washington state Lula said Butch died in Spokane WA in 1937 by Parley an old friend admitted himself DclttfOty's Mayof qcf Counci 4th 20 during tf Jet the 11 t Butch Cassidy visited McCornick after his death recogmcd LcRoy Parker more notoriously known as Butch Cassidy visited a McComick after his published demise in South America in 909 Frank A Beckwith reported in the Millard County Chronicle issue of Dec June Mosquito Abatement seeks additional funding Aerial spraying mosquitoes Flag Day 14 Vol 97 No 48 ' atB64-275j- r of someth i fid have recently been deployed and returned from a military assignment has Thank you in advance for your assistance t i |
