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Show I I Page 4 - SOCIAL November 27. 2001 Uintah Basin Standard CortfrtfutfPi Neola Elementary teacher . vetfps wins statewide award Neola Elementary fourth grade teacher Mary Ellen Kettle waa named Utah Elementary Teacher of the Year by the Utah Association of Conservation Districts. Mary Ellen was recognized for her creativity, innovation and involvement in teaching natural resources. Your outstanding leadership and experience ability to bring real-lif-e into the classroom will have a lasting influence and reap many rewards for Utahs children, said Randy Greenhalgh, president of UACD. The UACD Teacher of the Year Award is presented annually to recognize the outstanding conservation November27 Veterans Outreach Program, Roosevelt, 1 .30-- 3 p.m. Wrestling, Duchesne High School at Union High School WEDNESDAY, November 28 VFW Meeting Post 9275, Moon Lake Bldg., 7:30 p.m. Girls' Hoop, Duchesne High School at Union Veteran Outreach Program, Ft. Duchesne, 1 2 noon-- 1 p.m. UBATC Celebration, Roosevelt-op- en house, 2:30 p.m. Roosevelt Junior High parentteacher conference, 8 p.m. TUESDAY, 4-- THURSDAY, November 29 Internet & Technology Expo, Western Park, Vernal Hypnotist in Roosevelt, Union High School, 7:30 p.m. Belletristics Meeting, Roosevelt, 7:30 p.m. FRIDAY, November 30 December 1 Enchanted Forest in Roosevelt-Als- o Festival of Light Parade, Roosevelt, 6 p.m. Boys' Hoop, Grantsville at Union, DHS at North Summit, at Aitamont, Bryce Valley at Tabiona SATURDAY, December 1 Escalante Annual Holiday Festival of Sights, Vision Clinic, 1 0am-4pDuchesne City Parade of Lights, 6:30 p.m. WoodSlaugh reception, Roosevelt, 6 to 8 p.m. Boys' Basketball, Bryce Valley at AHS, Escalante at THS TUESDAY, December 4 Girls' Hoop, North Sanpete at Union High School 1 m December6 Bank in Roosevelt, 6 p.m. Zion's on Lights THURSDAY, Murcic Wood and SALT I..AK man icd in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. Slaugh have chosen to be vation Districts is a nonprofit corporation representing the states 38 soil conservation districts. The conservation districts work to foeter the wise use of Utahs natural resources. education efforts of Utahs teachers. Maxy Ellen will now represent Utah in the National Association of Conservation Districts Teacher of the Year Contest. The Duchesne County Soil Conservation District nominated Mary Ellen for the award. Mary Ellen has been involved in many environmental education efforts locally both in the classroom and in the field. Her students have worked on a variety of projects, including the PAWS program (Plants, Animals, Water and Soil) which promotes hands-o- n learning about natural resources. Mary Ellen waa recognized at the Mary Ellen Kettle Basin Brass Quintet to present Woodslaugf? Marcie Dawn Wood, daughter of Kirk and Kona Wood and Eric J. Slaugh, son of John mid Charlotte Slaugh have chosen Nov. 24 to be married in the Salt take LDS Temple. Erie grarluulH from Uintah High in 1996, and later served an LDS in Jamaica. Marcie graduated from Union High and is attending Utah State University Uintah Basin Campus. The couple will be making their home in Vernal. A reception will he held in their honor Dec. 1 from 6 to K p in. at the Uintah Basin Applied Technology College in Roosevelt. In case of oversight, all family and friends are invited. mi.-.sio- I Katie Fieldsted to wed JefTDastrup UACD annual convention on Ogden earlier this month. She received a plaque and a cash reward. The Utah Association of Conser- in uWfU uh fliwi .rSl Salt take LDS Temple Christmas concert December 3 Basin Brass Quintet will perform its third annual Christmas concert on Monday, December 3, at 7 p.m. at Crossroads Senior and Community Center, 50 East 200 South in Roosevelt. The program of holiday music is sponsored by Basin Arts Council, which invites the public to attend five of charge. Basin Brass Quintet consists of five extremely experienced Uintah Basin musicians. Collectively they have been playing for over 200 years! Members include Marc Eckels on trumpet, Dallas Lowe, flugelhom, and Rex Ripplinger, French horn, all of Roosevelt; Darrell Knowles, trombone, of Independence; and Rush Loertscher, tuba, from Bluebell. Their repertoire includes an exceptionally wide variety of musical styles. Over the past seven years the ensemble has performed at many concerts and other occasions throughout the Uintah Basin. The strangest venue to date was the Utah Field House of Natural History in Vernal on the day after Thanksgiving. The quintet performed literally inside the diplodocua skeleton in the lobby, ser-- enading visitors attending the first lightingofthe annual Christmas light display in the Dinosaur Gardens. Basin Brass Quintet has been invited to perform on New Years Eve as part of the First Night celebration in Salt Lake City. The ensemble will perform at the Tabernacle from 10:20 until 10:45 p.m. and then at the Joseph Smith Memorial Building from 11:15 until 11:45 p.m. Fireworks will follow at the Gallivan Center at the stroke of midnight. The concert on Dec. 3 will also feature Saxtet, an ensemble consisting of Sam Femley and Christopher Eckels on alto saxophone, Donnie Hicken and Valorie Winn playing tenor sax, and Doug Price on baritone i Qtory Idea87 See e story? See it in Pivtfl LOCAL AUTHOR Clarin Ashby, author of Sagebrush and Rase Buds, tells the story of the hardships experienced. by hisfamily as settlers of die - !. .' r. Uintah Basin in the early 1900s. - Cell ue 722-613- Local author tells of 1 She'll be sueet 16 this FieldstedDastrup Thursday and iRitt soon be drilling dovJn a road near you. If you see her he sure to Jeffrey L. D.istxup and Katie Jo Fieldstcd have chosen to be married in the Sidt Like City LDS Temple on Friday, Nov. 30. in the daughter of Joe Fieldated of Roosevelt Utah and The bride-to-bJack and Kat hy Akenson of Lakeville, Minnesota. The prospective groom is tin son or Drum and Nancy Dastrup of Pleasant Grove. Utah. A reception will be held in their honor that eveningat The Bungalow, 235 Si nit h l()i) West in Pleasant Grove from 9 p.m. is n graduate of Union High in Roosevelt, Utah. She The hridc-lo-hgnidiiiitiMl from Provo College Dental Program and is currently employed with Dr. Trevor Smith in Pleasant Gmve. The prusiiective groom is a graduate of Pleasant Grove 1 ligh. He served .hi LI)K mission in Tai)ei, Taiwan. He is currently employed at NuSkin in Provo and is attending BYU, majoring in History. The couple will make their first home in Orem. Utah. e honk A uladel homesteading the Basin "The story needs to be told, people need to understand uihat kind of sacrifices were made to settle the Basin. By Therena Morrill Ita been 20 years in the making, but now the story of local author Clarin Ashbys family hardships as 7-- c homesteaders can be enjoyed by readers who are eager to know and feel the depths of the struggles endured by those who settled the Uintah Basin. Sagebrush and Rose Buds is a historical novel based on Clarins parents experiences in the Altonah and Bluebell area in the early 1900a. The author spent 20 years gleaning information from relatives and long-tim- e Basin residents and then put it all on paper during a two year process. Its mother and dads story about homesteading, Clarin said. Dad had two terrible winters and lost all his cattle. The book relates how John Ashby lost the homestead and was forced to live in a canvas tent strung between two sheep wagons until another cabin could be built The story needs to be told, people need to understand what kind of sacrifices were made to settle the Basin, said Clarin. 'Its been two generations now and most people dont AWARD WINNER Glenda Cloward was named a 2001 Out- standing Resource Assistant Paraeducator. The award was presented at the annual Paraeducators Conference, Nov. 9 at the Provo Marriott with over 800 people in attendance. Clowurd has worked for the Duchesne County School District as a classroom assistant and Title teaching specialist for over 20 years. Happy Birthday LAUREN Hour Friends A Family 5 RCCARS TRAIN SETS DIABETES CLASSES SLOT CARS PLASTIC MODELS Coming Soon!- - off any Traxx or team associated Sagebrush and Rose Buds is Clarin 's third book to be published. His other novels are Before I Grew Old, ftin Btories of growing up on a farm in the 1930s, and Stephen, A Prophet's Friend, the story ofStephen Markham, who was a friend of Joseph Smith Jr. and Brigham Young, who were Mormon pioneer prophets. Clarin is the author, proof-reade- r, editor, publisher, and printer ofSae-brus-h and Rose Buds. Not many authors can say that about their books, he laughed. The book will be sold at local bookstores throughout the Basin area. It is also available at the Uintah Basin Standard. RC BOATS Mins 19-D- ec. realize that so many sacrificed so much. Clarin Ashby is a retired newspaper editor and publisher of 30 years. He owned the Uintah Basin Standard, as well as newspapers in Castle Dale, Green River, and Duchesne. After leaving the newspaper business, he was employed as a manager of administrative services for corpo- rations in New Jersey and ah.He retired in 1986 and then served two 18 month missions in Australia for the Church ofJesus Christ of Latter-Da-y Saints. Now he spends his time serving in his church and pursuing his love of writing. RC AIRPLANES qUJtintate Nov. - k For People With Diabetes For Families Of People With Diabetes If You Are At Risk For Diabetes Anyone Who Is Interested RC Car Clubs RC Racing Track down Layaway Now First Tuesday Of Every Month For Christmas Uintah Basin Medical Center Classroom 10 RC Vehicles 725 - 3000. 152 N. 200 E. M-- F 10-- r) 6 ! m 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. f Y EVERyONE tvsicomfA 4th 2001 - Dr. Greg Diabetic Complications t December Staked; 7 i .j POOR ( |