Show o Sunday April 132003' A10 The Herald Journal People in business Award-winnin- New golf pro The Preston Golf & Country Club is pleased to announce ' Swiss cheese doesn’t just ' happen Even the diameter of the holes or“eyes” must be tightly for an that Craig Labrum has accepted the head golf professional position at the club Craig is a Class A Professional in the ' PGA of America Craig is coining from the Ogden Golf & Country Club in Ogden Utah where he has been the Assistant Golf Professional for the last four years Craig has a wife Kim of eight old boy years They have a old litnamed Chase and a tle girl named Abbie Kate: controlled Left: The eyes In a quality Swiss cheese 'should be bigger than a dime but smaller than a quarter Selected Sara Wentworth is employee of the month for the City of Logan Paris and Recreation Department Sara grew up in Salt Lake City She has been attending Utah State University since 1999 and will grad- uate in May 2003 with a BS in family and human development (with an emphasis in family and community services) and a minor in psychology Sara is currently the assistant community youth coordinator Her responsibilities include: maintaining program budgets interviewing hiring and training new staff writing and compiling repents for federal state and local grants: supervising the After School Club staff: program quality control: and ing the Logan Youth City Council She loves working with youth adults and families g Below: Blocks of Swiss cheese go into a salt brine before the aging process Photos by Brent Stevens Herald Journal ' co-adv- Joins staff f Freedom Motors 625 North Main Logan welcomes Dean Ricks to its staff Dean is a lifetime resident of Cache Valley and has been employed in various positions in the automobile business in Cache Val- ley for the past eight years Dean and his wife Linda make their home in Benson I Gets scholarship for The Women's Center Lifelong Learning at Utah State University has received a SI 000 scholarship grant from the USU Community-CrediUnion The Women's Center financial assistance program was founded m 1 974 to help students returning to school after a five-yeor more gap in their education The program is supported by private actividonations and fund-raisities The Women ' s C enter Scholarship Committee selected Judith Patterson USU Community as the 2002-200- 3 Credit Union Scholarship Recipient Judith has a 1 y ear gap in her education and is a senior majoring in business information systems t Cache Valley Cheese tester Judy Capparelli slices- into a block of Swiss Capparellj chose the block of cheese that was sent to a national contest and won second place ar By Pat Bohm Trostle features writer Dairy Farmers of America around the valley for its name Cache Valley cheese has w on another prize for its Swiss I I cheese It's the second one this I LJ year And they won one last year too Actually folks at the Smithfield cheese facto: rv are excited enough about their aw ard to post a large sigh at the turnoff to the plant: “Dairy Farmers of America Smithfield Utah Second Place Swiss 2003 Untied States Championship Cheese Contest” Other recent prizes are firsts from the National Milk Producers Federation and the Idaho Milk Producers Association m Oo-hu- 2-- Vendor of Year — ICON Health & Fitness Logan Utah has been named Sears hardline Vendor of the Year lor 2002 This aw ard pan of Sears Partners in Progress program is presented annually to die outstanding vendor of hardliner that has supplied Sears Roebuck and Co w ith the finest quality products and strong brand names The fitrdlines category includes products such as fitness equipment washers dryers and tools Iri addition to w inning hardline Vendor of the Year ICON won die Partners in Progress aw ard for law n garden and fitness Partners in Progress is an aw ard giv en to exceptional endors diat produce quality products and serv ices from apparel appliances and tools to marketing transportation- serv ices and lechnol- - By Clark E these pests As USU Agricultural Extension Agent for Cache County I am required to subinit a weekly report to Utah Agricultural Statistics Ser- vice The report consists of a weekly assessment of the condition of crops and livestock in the county My reports this spring have been rather positive Most of us have our early crops in and we have had exception- -' ' ally good calving and lambing weather It is enjoyable to see the valley turn green and anticipate another Season with ari abundant ' - name Changes To reflect our of pursingularity pose Spectrum lingineers f formerly SpcctrumBcnmonj is pleasled to announce our consolidated name and continued commitment to excel-lenin engineering The name Spectrum I Engineers reflects the j ull integration of die firm’s professional services and indicates the unified goaJ of the firm: client satisfaction Spectrum Bennion was formed when Spectrum Professional Services joined with Bennion Associates IJjgiii£efS Itraclaen ce Plant manager Carl Runyan and operations manager Rex Gleason concurred that the cheese produced is a credit to the DFA milk producers 'who form the membership of the cooperative “World-clas- s cheese can only come from world-clas- s milk" said Runyan ' Winning prizes for Swiss cheese is the most public part of what goes on at the cheese plant Walking through the facility gives an idea of what lies beneath The first impression is via the nose It smells good like fresh milk in places like mild floracheese in others The large cheese-makin- g smells as if you have opened a dishwasher that has just finished runningThe scents are a simple confirmation of cleanliness a challenge to piain-tai- n in any food processing facility Gleason attributed the state of the plant to the harvest As the season progresses we can anticipate unusually serious insect problems A mild winter makes us increasingly susceptible to troubleWe will deal some populations ' with theni as tliey present tliein-selves said Human resources manager Kevin Haslem said they only hire 10 out of every 100 applicants for work at the plant Many of their employees have long tenures there as well Gleason himself has been there 30 years While cheese is billed as a "natural" food creating it requires the cheese maker’s attention all along the way As it ages even the storage temperature must be controlled DFA’s 36000 square-fostorage room is filled with rows of d metal shelves Rectangular wooden blocks of cheese boxes containing 640-pouot five-tiere- number of lateral burrows extending from the main Burrows are about inches in diameter two to the size of the gopher on depending Pocket gophers feed on roots encountered while digging on vege- tation pulled into the tunnel and on vegetation near the tunnel Alfalfa is preferred by gophers - Trees and shrubs are often clipped just above ground especial- Iy under snow cover Pocket gophers usually breed in the spring and produce one litter of ' three to six young after a gestation about 20 days period of Pocket gophers reduce the produc- tivity of those portions of alfalfa fields and native grasslands on which they are found by 20 to 50 percent If gophers are present on 10 percent of a field they may reduce overall forage productivity of field by 2 to 5 percent Gopher mounds also dull and plug sickle when harvesting hay or alfalfa Gophers may attimes destroy underground utility cables and irri- 3-- description of these ver- lebrales may be useful to agricultural producers and even Pocket gophers are medium-size- d burrowing rodents that Spend most of their lives below ground Gophers have powerfully built forequarters with large claws on their front feet a short neck external ears small eyes and lips that close belund their large incisors Tliey build burrow systems by loosening (lie soil with their daws and incisors Gophers then use their forefeet and chest to push the soil out of the burrow The soil is mounds 1 2 deposited in to 141 inches wide and four to six inches high! Burrow systems consist of a main tunnel generally four to 1 8 inches below die soil surface and a variable fan-shap- ed The most pressing current issue seems to be an exploding population of Pocket Gopfiers and Meadow Voles In some parts of the county the ground is almost moving with employees’ commitment to quality “They take pride in their workmanship” he gation pipes Gophers aren’t protected by stale nd See CHEESE on All or federal laws when on agricultural lands or private property They can be excluded from valuable plots of ornamental trees and shrubs with a mesh one half-inc- h hardware cloth fence buried at least 18 inches This method is of ed practicality because of expense and labor Rotating alfalfa with grain crops effectively controls pocket gophers because annual grains don’t produce large enough roots to support Buffer strips gophers year-roun- d of grain around a hayfield provide unsuitable habitat and can reduce immigration of pocket gophers Flood irrigation can also effectively control them especially in fields that have been leveled to remove high spots that might serve as to nd reniges Trapping is one of the best meth-thods fra reducing pocket gophers e numbers Body-grippitraps avail-barable from hardware and trapping supply stores work exceptionally well Traps can be set in the main s See ISRAELSEN on All - |