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Show T I UINTAH BASIN STANDARD. AucuM 15.2000- - Page 17 333 i if More trout to catch in Utah thanks to cooperative agreement As reciprocity to Utah Department of Wildlife Resources (DWR) for its help last year feeding and hauling young fish, the Jones Hole National Fish Hatchery is providing mope fish for Utah waters, which means more trout dinners for recreational anglers. Ths DWR is currently busy hauling shout 260,000 rainbow trout roughly 8600 pounds of fish from Jones Hole to lakes throughout the state, including Steinuer Reservoir near Vernal and Mantua and Eaat Canyon Reservoirs near Qgden. About halfofthe fish are going into Scofield Reservoir in Carbon County.adding to 270,000Jones Hole trout that were stocked there in early May. The growing fish should begin reaching catchsble size of, around 10 inches by next spring. The rainbow trout a species first described in 1806 by Lewis and Clark during their expedition across ths West were produced from eggs provided by the State ofUtahs brood stock in BicknelL , During 1999, Utah DWR also provided 813,000 worth of fish food to the US Fish and Wildlife Service, to keep Utah's fish at Jones Hole growing to size. In addition, they provided two trucks with drivers to haul 16 loads 57,000 pounds offish to Flaming Gorge Reservoir and3 loads to Jordanelle 6,700 pounds Reservoir, northeast of Provo. "Cooperative efforts such as this benefit the State of Utah, the US Fish and Wildlife Service, and especially the angling public," said Johns Seals, acting Hatchery Manager at i f r'si7 A 'vA ( sfe$rsWfi5STr tfng.ytjapyviwi A ; i yv yri jrr- - v- , JTVjZ.'jr i t - gs 1 HARD WORK-So- me youthful football players do their pushups to get in super shape for the upcoming season. The players worked out at the Old Roosevelt City Park. RUN FOR youth football league program players do their running to get their legs in proper condition. Some didn't think the running drill as too fun. FUN-Roose- vclt Jones Hole. Annual stocking efforts contrib- ute to the 868 million generated Applegate Was BYU Star Crash claimed life of sports star, but didn't dim memories Player-of-th- and Applegate responded for the Bsdgen hoop program. He chalked up a glossy 25.2 points per game and 1 1 rebounds per game clip during his freshman campaign in and strengthened his gameduring the offseason. During his second and final year for the Badgers, Applegate recorded formidable numbers with an astounding 29Jppgaverage and 14 rebounds per contest. He was named theJunior College Flayer oftheYear and conference MVP. Applegate was also selected to the JUCO All team and two-tim-e and performer. Region He also competed on the USA Select Men's Team in the Jones Cup at Taipei, Taiwan and in the Seoul Invitational in Korea. After moving to Provo for his junior season. Applegate made an immediate impact on the Brigham Young men's hoop program. He started nearly every game during the 1982 83 season and became the Cougars second leading scorer during the cam79-B- by Nick Drake, Sports Editor There have been many tremendously talented, gifted and Ail athletes to come out of Tooele County sports programs But probably the most charis- -' matic and colorful collegiate or professional athlete from the local area had to be George Brett" Applegate. He was affectionately known by many as the Big Apple. Brett Applegate passed sway Sunday in a tragic car accident on High-wa-y 94 while heading east to his current home in Roosewlt. He propped at Tooele High in the late 70s and went on to star at Snow College and then Brigham Young University in the early 80s. Applegate also started and played for the Wyoming Wildcatters for two seasons in the Continents! BuEiT " ball Association (CHA). . The Big Apple was listed at --8 and played both basketball and football for Tooele High. He garhone and nered ors in his final two prop seasons on the grid iron at THS and coincidentally, was more heavily recruited in football than in basketball. But he loved hoops and Applegate proved it on the hardwoods. He logged a glossy 27.1 paints per gs me scoring dipduring the 1976 campaign and also yanked down astounding 15 rebound per game his senior rear. For hi basket ball prowess, he was t wo conselected fust-teasecutive seasons and was a BCI junior nations and stats champion. He was also arlectedTourlc County and Region MVP. However, Applegate didn't just shine in athletics He was the senior dess president forthe Cbm dub presiof 79 and ws letter-men'- s dent as well. He sported an impressive S.6 GPA ana graduated from Tooele High in the spring of 1979. The following season. Snow Col- ot All-Stat- m paign. Week. m lege came beckoning for the prep George Brett" Applegate e Applegate was named to the Basketball Time first-teacollege transfers team for the 1982-8- 3 season. He averaged 12.3 points per game and 7.4 rebounds tor hie opening season in Cougar blue. But the best was yet to come. Applegate helped ignite BYU to a glossy 20-1- 1 campaign in 1983-8and a berth into the second round of the NCAA tournament. The Cougar senior was the teama second leading scorer behind Devin Durrant with an impressive 14.5 pointa per game clip and tallied an 352 outstanding and record-settin- g rebounds, 1 1.2 average. He currently holds the second highest rebounding mark during s season ever at the storied school . He connected on 46 percent ofhis and shots during the year ( 17 canned 70 percent of his free throws ). ( Applegate also handed out 45 assists, registered a teamhigh51 steals and Mocked 15 shots for BYU on the year as weH Applegate joined forces with Durrant and Mike Smith to become one of the most feared and talented forward combinations in the NCAA ranks that season. He captured a gold medal in a tournament game against 4 by recreational fishing in Utah. In 1999, Jones Holes National Fish Hatchery stocked over a million and a half rainbow, cutthroat, brook, and brown trout in Utah and Colorado waters The rainbow trout provided this month to Utah am in addition to regular production at Jones Hole. Jones Hole National Fish Hatchery has been in operation since 1968 He chalked up a mammoth weekend against New Mexico and UTEP where he combined for 39 points and 20 rebounds and was named WAC ' former Georgetown star and current New York Knicks center Patrick Ewing for hia defensive and offensive performance on the collegiate star. The Portland Trail Blazers drafted the Cougar senior the ensuing season and two years in a row.Applegate just missed making the veteran squad by one player. He went on to play two Wildcatters for the Sirs hangingWyoming up hia professional sneakers after the 198686 season. 107-153- . to met statutory mitigation requirements of federal water development projects under the Colorado River Storage Project Act. Hatchery proe duction at the facility, w hich g includes 50 raceways also meets federal stewardship responsibilities for stocking tribal waters. The hatchery at Jones Hole, located 41 miles northeast afYema on the Utah Colorado border, receives an estimated 7,000 visitors per year. In addition to touring the hatchery building and grounds, visitors are welcome to enjoy the excellent fly fishing below the hatchery in Jones Hole Creek. The US Fish and Wildlife Service . is the principal federal agency sponsible for conserving, protecting, and enhancing fish, wildlife and plants and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American 390-acr- people. The Service manages the National Wildlife Refuge System comprised of more than 500 national wildlife refugee, thousands of small wetlands, and other special management areas. It also operates 66 national fish hatcheries, 64 fish and wildlife management assistance offices and 78 ecological services field stations. The agency enforces federal wildlife laws, administers the Endangered Species Act, manages migratory bird populations, restores nationally significant fisheries, conserves and restores wildlife habitat such as wetlands, and helps state, tribal, and foreign governments with their conservation efforts. It also oversees the Federal Aid program that distributes hundreds ofmill ions of dollars in excise taxes on fishing and hunting equipment to state wildlife agencies. 4L r? 1 bvAldoti Rackelt gantic bag below the rug that with a push of a button would suck out all the dirt? I better forget the whole thirg or the Dirt 1Devil will put a hex on me. I have eijoyed watching the Utah Jazz over the years with John Stock-toKarl Malone, Jeff Hornacek, Adrian Dantley. Pace Mann ion. etc, hut sometimes I wonder about the old Utah Stars, Willie Wise. Zelmo Beaty. Red Robbins, Ron Boone, Glen Coombs and try to image the outcome of a battle between the two. I think the Sure would win because the Red, White A Blue ball would hypnotize and doom the Jazz to defeat. Next up what happened to "Pink I'm now better educated-waihingwi- ae. I have learned to sepa- Popcorn? My mom would pick up rate my whites from bath towels or ome of the pink stuff from Marion's dirty old pants. I had always won- Variety for a snack before bod time dered why 1 had blue" shorts. I just after seeing a movie at the Roosevelt thought they were still blue over Theatre. The last show my dad and the Utah Jazi comingup short to the mom saw was: GoodBye Columbus. Chicago Bulls for the NBA title on My dad was disappointed when it Michael Jordan's last shot of his ca- - wasn't about the explorer, who discovered America. I also miss "Red Seal Potato Also, I was informed not to mix brand new blue, WNBA Natalie Wil- Chips". They were the best tasting like and greasiest chips in the world. liams and Superman shirts-ju- st the one Clark Kent wears under his However, they weren't available in ' shirt and Indianas Reggie Miller Roosevelt. The only place I could find wore outside his uniform -- with white them was in Price, Utah at my Unde shirts featuring the World Champi- Guido's Checkerboard Grocery. One day 1 was informed that a onship New York Yankees Shaq must have had some of that green major chip company had purchased kiypfonite stuff that bugs Superman Red Seal Chips", and 1 thought, I arid makes him powerless as the Lak- will be in ths chips in Roosevelt!" ers whipped Miller and the Pacers for company the NBA title. just bought them out and they I have also been told that there is crumbled into the old chip pile in the such a thing called, bleach". 1 used nky Those chips weren't good for me it. and exclaimed, "This is the greatest stuff since the invention of sliced and would probably be pain in the bread and the remote control!" to remove a greasy Every eo often 1 have to vacuum the stain from my pride and joy-L- ais carpet. Why couldn't there be a gv-- S it Wh David Letterman" Sometimes 1 just sit and wonder, "Why"! WTiy cant some smart guy come up with a carpet that doe the cleaning all by itself? My mother, Ann, suffers from Alzheimer's Disease, snd thus I have become a sports writer housekeeper. In reality lm a better writer than a cleaner, but I do my best. I know the difference between zone and or in the case of lady hooneters, n defenses. 1 m lost when someone says, Do you know what to use to get rid of spaghetti sauce on a white shirt that says, Greatest Italian In Utah" or Utah 34. BYU 31? man-toma- n, n, woman-to-woma- . . Union High School Lady Cats Volleyball for Aug. 2000 will be as follows: new gym; Open .Monday Wednesday, Aug Gym. 7 p.m, Monday Wednesday, Aug. 14 - 16, new gym; Tryouts, new Freshman. JV,andVaraity.4p.nL, Thursday and Friday. Aug. 17-1- 8, gym; with First Games, Aug. 25 26, at Emery Carbon Tournament (vanity only) and at Moffat County, Thursday. Aug. 3 1. 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