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Show County Seat Newspaper Since 1904 Serving All of Beaver County VOLUME 10 NUMBER 47 Publication No. 047 -400 BEAVER, UTAH THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2010 Beaver County Sheriff's Report Beaver City Says "Thank You" Tuesday, November 23, 2010, the Beaver City Council awarded a special recognition and AThank You@ to fva and Bernard Walker for providing historical records and to Gordon Baker for many years of service to the citizens of Beaver City. Iva and Bernard's children, Jessie Roberts and Melvin Walker, and granddaughter, Shelley Brown, were present to accept the award in their behalf. Gordon and Estelle Baker were also present to accept the award. The Service Award is presented to citizens who have volunteered to make our community a better place to live. Each of these individuals have given many volunteer hours and personal effort in service to the citizens of Beaver. , • The Perfect Gift Comes from the Heart You can't put a price on saving a life through blood donation Salt Lake City, November 22, 2010 - Early bird shoppers save 30-percent. Half off sale starts today. Buy one, get one free ends Saturday. 'Tis the season and everyone's searching for the perfect gift that doesn't break* the bank. The more money saved, the more there is to spend. Still, many of us struggle to. find the perfect gift. What if, for just one day, you forget the sales and choose to save a life instead? Donating blood helps save up to three lives and the only cost is an hour of your time. If just 10-percent of Americans give blood this holiday season, 34.2 million lives might be saved. Now, that's a deal everyone can appreciate! So, as you flip through circulars and scan retail web sites, take a moment to log on to redcrossblood.org or cail 1-800RED CROSS and make an appointment to give blood. The American Red Cross has created .a great video encouraging people to give The Perfect Gift. You can view it at http://www.redcrossblood.org/th eperfectgift. Your blood donation this holiday season is <fre perfect gift...the gift-that saves the day. Give life. Your heart, your wallet and countless hospital patients across the country thank youl For your convenience, you may now schedule blood donation appointments online at www.redcrossblood.org. You may also call 1 -800-RED CROSS. if you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to. .—Dorothy Parker ,-. • • ' • * * for those "down under". Sun is as far south as it's going to get this year. No doubt many will throng to the U.K.'s Dec. 2 Early morning just Stonehenge. But will any brave before sunrise a very thin cres- the journey to "Utah's cent Moon will be near the very Stonehenge" (aka Sun Tunnels) bright planet Venus. http://users.wirelessbeehive.co Dec. 13-14 Geminid Meteor, m/~paw/SUNTUNNELS.HTML . shower. Some meteors may be Dec. 26 Month's best pass visible before midnight on the of the International Space 13th but the peak is predicted Station. Rises in the SW about for about 4 a.m. MST on the 6:25 p.m. High overhead at 14th. Naked eye event only. 6:28. Passes into the shadow Telescopes and binoculars of the Earth and fades from view restrict how much of the sky the half way up the NE about 6:29. observer can see. So bundle Very easy to see with just the up, enjoy some warm drinks and naked eye, even in the city, as a just lay back and look up. Those observing in the country bright "star" moving slowly away from light polluted urban across the sky. Also, if space shuttle skies may see as many as 2 Geminid meteors per minute. Discovery launches next month Considerably less if observing it's orbit will take it right over Utah so hopefully we'll be able from in the city. to see it. Discovery carried forDec. 18 Moon spends the mer Utah Senator Jake Gam night drifting next to the into space in 1085. It will be Pleiades (plea'-ah-deez) star Discovery's 39th and final flight. cluster. Also known as the I'll have more on the possibilities Seven Sisters. The Japanese of Utahans seeing Discovery call it Subaru which is why a closer to launch. stylized representation of the cluster is used as the Subaru Motor Company's logo. Dec. 20-21 Highlight of the month, a total eclipse of the Moon. Partial, eclipse begins at 11:33 p.m. MST when the darkest portion of. Earth's shadow starts to cover the Moon's face. The Moon will be high in the SE sky at that time. Total eclipse The Bureau of Land begins at 12:41 a.m. and ends Management (BLM) plans to at 1:53 a.m. all the while very begin removing excess wild high In the S to SW. Partial horses from the North Hills Wild eclipse ends at 3:01 a.m. with Horse Management Plan Area the Moon a bit over half way up (WHMPA) near Enterprise, the western sky. This will be the Utah, and the Sulphur Herd first total eclipse of the Moon Management Area (HMA) near visible from Utah since February Mllford, Utah, in December. 2008. The next total lunar "These two gathers will help eclipse to grace Utah's skies is us maintain healthy conditions set for next December (2011). for the wjld horses on the Since this is not an eclipse of range." said Acting Cedar City the Sun no special eye protec- Field Office Manager Randy tion will be needed to view the Trujillo. "By taking additional eclipse. If there's to be only one fertility control measures, these clear night all month, let this be gathers should also allow us to It. extend the time before we need Dec. 21 December solstice. to conduct another gather to remove excess wild horses." 4:38 p.m. MST. Official start of The BLM will begin gatherwinter in the northern hemiing %}proximately 210 horses in sphere; official start of summer December 2010 Sky Sights BLM Announces North Hills and Sulphur Wild Horse Gathers November 22-28, 2010. Included in the 55 calls for assistance received by Beaver County Dispatch were: 2 911 Hangup 1 Abandoned Vehicle. 3 Alarm 1 Animal Noise 3 Animal Problem 1 Assault 1 Non-Sufficient Funds Check 9 Citizen Assist 2 Citizen Dispute 1 Custodial Interference 2 Domestic Violence 1 Escort 1 Fall 1 Fire 1 Fish & Game 3 Keep the Peace 1 Medical Emergency 7 Traffic Accident w/Damage 2 Traffic Accident w/lnjuries 1 Suspicious Person/ . Circumstance 2 Theft 6 Patient Transfer 1 Vandalism 1 Weapon Offense 1 Welfare Check On Monday, November 29tht 2010 there were 355 inmates housed in Beaver County Jail. the North Hills WHMPA on December 2. The WHMPA includes the North Hills HMA, which includes about 49,900 acres of BLM-administered, state and private lands in Iron and Washington counties, as well as the United States Forest Service (USFS) North Hills Wild Horse Territory, which covers approximately 24,029 acres. The Appropriate Management Level (AML) established for the North Hills WHMPA is a population range of 40-60 wild horses. The current estimated population of wild horses within the WHMPA, based on a count completed in January, is estimated at 250 wild horses. The BLM will also gather additional wild horses from the North Hills that will be released back into the area after the mares are treated with a fertility control vaccine to slow population growth. Members of the public are welcome to view operations once they begin. The BLM is planning to provide' public observation of gather opera-, tions daily so long as the safety of the animals, staff, and observers is not jeopardized and operations are not disrupted. Those interested in participating in an escorted tour during the North Hills gather must meet at 6:00 a.m. at the Sinclair gas station at the junction of Highways 18 and 219 east of Enterprise. Current plans call for the North Hills gather to operate December 2 through 6, although weather conditions may affect the projected schedule. Participants must provide their own transportation, water and lunches. The BLM recommends that the public dress for harsh field conditions. Binoculars are strongly recommended. • •/The BLM plans to gather approximately 250 wild horses from the Sulphur HMA begin- SINGLE COPY 50 CENTS' Beaver County Correctional Facility Booking Report November 22-28, 2010. This report does not infer any guilt or innocence, only the . name and charges of those booked during that time period. Jesse A. Green of Beaver, Utah was booked on the charges of 5 Counts of possession of.a weapon by a restricted person, Assault/Domestic violence Lt Keith Draper Beaver County Correctional Facility ning December-13, 2010. The majority of these horses, approximately 220 animals, will be released back to the range following the gather. Of these, about 90 would be mares vaccinated with a fertility control vaccine to slow population growth. The Sulphur HMA covers approximately 265,676 acres of public, state and private lands, located in Beaver, Iron, and Millard counties. The AML for the HMA is 165 to 250 wild horses. The current estimated population of wild horses within the Sulphur HMA is 276. AML is determined through land-use planning efforts that involve public participation, vegetation inventories and allocation of forage in terms of animal unit months; the BLM determines the appropriate number of wild horses tha*t each HMA can support in balance with other uses of and resources on public land. Planning efforts include an inventory and the monitoring of all uses of the public rangelands. Members of the public are also welcome to view operations on the Sulphur gather. Those interested in participating in an escorted tour must meet at 6:00 a.m. MST at the Border Inn located in Baker, NV on the Utah-Nevada border on U.S. Highway 6 and 50. Current plans call for the Sulphur gather to operate December 13 through 20, although weather conditions may affect the projected schedule. "Animals removed from the North Hills and Sulphur areas will be available for adoption through the BLM Wild Horse and Burro Adoption Program," Trujillo said. Horses from the North Hills WHMPA will be shipped to the Central Utah Correctional Facility in Gunnison and horses gathered from the Sulphur HMA will be shipped to the Delta Wild Horse Corrals. Animals that are not adopted will be cared for in long-term pastures, where they retain their "wild" status and protection under the 1971 Wild FreeRoaming Horses and Burros Act. The BLM does not send any horses to slaughter. The gather and impacts are described and analyzed in the North Hills WHMPA Wild Horse Gather Plgn Final. Environmental , Assessment (EA) and the Sulphur Wild Horse HMA Capture, Treat and Release Plan Final EA. The EAs and the Decision Records are posted on the BLM website at www.blm.gov/ut. The BLM also will ^jovide updates and information at the same web address on a regular basis throughout the course of the. gather. To learn more about the program or to obtain an adoption application, visit the BLM National Wild Horse and Burro website at www.wildhorseandburro.blm.gov. Home Country Slim Randies The last of the geese went by the other day. The late ones, t h e big dark geese. Headed south noisily. I tised to envy them, somehow. They go down there to the warm coastal areas where the jacks swim and the nights are chilly but livable this time of year. If they're especially sensitive geese, they'll keep going until there are mangoes and palm trees and the language of the people is Spanish. But they cross over here in their long, languorous vees, and all we can do is look up and wonder what our lives would be like if we could go along. To fly over the farms and valleys, to coast along on the rising thermals, to sail down the long way to warmth and sand and comfort, how nice it might be. But if we did that, we'd miss the snow, and the fire in the fireplace when the work was done in the evening. We'd miss how the snowy world looks just at dusk when the snow is an alpen-glow orange and tells us secrets it has saved for us all these years. If we went to the winter-feeding grounds, we ; wouldn-'t be able to appreciate < how splendid the spring will be with the basking rays of sun on our necks and the swelling of the buds in the fruit trees. To truly appreciate warmth, we must first get cold, and that's evidently a part of our lives that the geese won't ever get to share. ..> Of course, they seem quite content to sail on down the southern winds to the warm places, leaving us to wrap ourselves tighter in thicker clothes and dream of sandy beaches and snorkels. Have a good winter, geese. Eat a crab or two for me. You see, I'll be here for you to honk at when you head north again in the spring. I'll be right here, living in the same place. Cold or hot, windy or still, my world and my responsibilities are here, and I'll be right here taking care of them. LJ It's my way of doing things, and I'm used to if. Brought to you by Slim Randtes's latest book, Sweetgrass Mornings, now available Qt wwwMnmpress.com. 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