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Show APRIL 27,2006 THE GARFIELD COUNTY INSIDER Page 5 > ^ ESCALANTE NEWS -^-->: ...by Chris Haycock, 435-826-4832, plateofdreams@scinternef.net Twenty people from Escalante, includ- good as in the old days. Thanks again to ing 10 Scouts and their leaders recently ALL for your time, materials and equippassed the Community Emergency Re- ment!!!! Gene and Thais Griffin went down sponse Team (CERT) training. The course included eight classes of fire to St. George last weekend for the blesssafety, first aid, search and rescue and ing of daughter Stephanie Volker's new other topics related to disaster relief. The baby. Thais said all her kids were there course concluded with a mock disaster and its been along time since all of them at the Tropic firehouse on April 10,2006, had been able to get together. They had where volunteer "victims" were rescued a real special time and hope to be able and treated. One of trainees was heard to do it again. to say they hoped they'd never have to Last week I had a problem in receivuse the training but felt more secure in ing the photo of the Eagle Scouts we knowing how to take care of themselves, were recognizing. Gentlemen I apolofamily and their community if the need gize. Again Thank you for your work. should ever arise. From the Eagle Court of Honor; Jason Follow up training and courses will be Hughes, Chad Cottam, Dallen available in the future. If you have any Shakespear, Adam Mclnelly and Tyson questions please call Karen Munson at Torgerson. 435-231-2231. The New Escalante Irrigation is up and running. Link Chynoweth is the new Watermaster. Pinecreek Irrigation will be going soon. Had a problem with one of the main valves it is being fixed so they'll up real soon. The ride the Riding Club had last weekend Last weeks "made ya think" A mewas a success. 23 folks showed up ready teor streaks and vanishes. A comet hovto go. They rode for a couple of hours ers, seemingly motionless, against the and had a good cook out afterwards. background stars, when in fact it is Everyone I had talked to had a great zooming along at several miles per sectime. Thank you Bob and Souix for the ond. Every night a comet is in a slightly great planning. Hope to have more rides different spot. This weeks, which is and I'm going to get to join you on one of larger? A chain or a pole, a span or a them. foot, a barrel or a bushel, a section or a The Seniors have been down helping township, an acre or a section. on the Rodeo Grounds. Folks while out Again folks I'd like to remind you that on your daily drive go on down to the you can call me anytime about your gogrounds and look at all the work that is ings on. We'd all like to hear about what being done. The Chutes are ready to is going on in your life whether it is fampaint, the holding pens are being rebuilt, ily doings or community events. 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Come in and See what we have! HATCH BACKS CLEAN CITIES ALTERNATIVE-FUEL FUNDING With the President aiming to cut the Clean Cities Program budget in half, Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah) has fired off a letter to Senate appropriators urging th&tn not only to restore the program's funding, but to increase it significantly. "Clean Cities helps bring the clean fuels and technologies of the future to the market," Hatch said. "Its funding is already meager, and it's outrageous to think of cutting its budget almost in half." The Clean Cities Program is a national effort to reduce oil consumption through promoting alternative-fuels and vehicles. Funded in 2006 at $8 million, the President's budget proposes to cut the Department of Energy program in half, recommending $4.3 million for Fiscal Year 2007. In a letter to top appropriators on Senate Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, Hatch requested the Senate provide $20 million to meet the overwhelming need and interest represented by the number of grant applications annually submitted to the DOE. "This is the one federal program that is actually putting alternative-fuel vehicles on the road and alternative-fuel infrastructure in place," Hatch said. "We spend hundreds of millions of dollars on research and development for advanced car technologies, but what good is that research if we aren't going to put it to use?" Grants administered by the Department of Energy Clean Cities Program are the primary federal means to support alternative-fuel vehicle technology and infrastructure deployment. Currently, Utah is among 89 states and local communities active in the program, leveraging the participation and resources of more than 4,700 state, local and private industry stakeholders. Utah's state and local governments, along with school districts, have used Clean Cities grants to bring hundreds of alternative-fuel vehicles to the state. As the sponsor of the CLEAR ACT, which was included in last year's comprehensive energy bill, Hatch has been a leader in Congress in promoting the market acceptance of alternative-fuels and infrastructure and alternative-fuel and advanced technology vehicles. Hatch was joined on his letter by Senators Herb Kohl (D-Wis.), Jim Talent (R-Mo.), Richard Lugar (R-Ind.), Susan Collins (RMaine), Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), George Voinovich (R-Ohio) and Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) |