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Show Page 3 The Garfield County Insider January 22, 2009 IN OUR TOWN... Explore Escalante Many of our readers enjoyed 100 Reasons To Be A Guy... Several gals offered their feelings about how they would like things to be... To-Wit: In this life I’m a woman. In my next life, I’d like to come back as a bear. When you’re a bear, you get to hibernate. You do nothing but sleep for six months. I could deal with that. Before you hibernate, you’re supposed to eat yourself stupid. I could deal with that too. When you’re a girl bear, you birth your children (who are the size of walnuts) while you’re sleeping and wake to partially grown, cute, cuddly cubs. I could definately deal with that. If you’re a mama bear, everyone knows you mean business. You swat anyone who bothers your cubs. If your cubs get out of line, you swat them too. I could deal with that. If you’re a bear, your mate EXPECTS you to wake up growling. He EXPECTS that you will have hairy legs and excesss body fat. Yup, gonna be a bear! Prior Crop Disaster Program Sign-Up Ends February 27 Bruce Richeson, State Executive Director for USDA’s Farm Service Agency in Utah announced that the sign-up period for the 2005-2007 Crop Disaster Program (CDP) will end Feb. 27, 2009. “Congress authorized CDP as a special disaster recovery program for agriculture in 2007 and it is now coming to a close,” said Richeson. “The new Farm bill provides an array of new and continued disaster assistance programs for crop and livestock producers for 2008 through 2011.” The ending date of Feb. 27 applies to the receipt of a signed and completed FSA-840 application along with all supporting documentation and required forms at the applicable county FSA office. CDP quality claims as well as quantity claims are still being accepted for review until this deadline. Sign-up information and required forms are available at each county FSA office. Late filed applications will not be approved after the Feb. 27 deadline. All application determinations will be made by March 27, 2009. For further questions about CDP and the sign-up deadline, producers may contact their county FSA office or visit FSA’s website at www.fsa.usda.gov. jana@exploreescalante.com The Senate passed and Wife Champions. In S.22. Now it goes on to the addition, other OT horses House. As of this writing won. The Yost Family of the bill has been received Pocatello, Idaho continued in the House and held at the their participation and took desk. Inauguration Tues- home several honors inday will preclude any work cluding the coveted Family for most of the week. The Award. This award goes to parties, dances, formal balls the family who ride togethand other side events take er as a team for the most miles in the nation. Gentry up most of the week. In the meantime, I Yost, riding OT Billy Bendfound the list of winners er led his family, Laura, in the Diana Steed Fund- Chandler 10, Kennedy 8, raiser. (That doesn’t mean and Burkleigh 6 over 2,285 I finished all the computer miles. Now that is endurinput, it means I dug down ance! Our Congratulations far enough in the pile to to all the OT horses and ridfind it – Sigh!) Major items ers. We’re proud of you! The Escalante Chapter - The Gun, Paul Cole; Cabelas $100 Gift Certificate, of the Native Plant Society Bruce Fields; Binoculars, met and the new Chapter Paul Cole; Crock Pot BBQ President is Harriet PrisPit, Omar Wood; Sherree ka. Treasurer volunteer is Roundy Quilt won by Judy Nancy Emory. There are Brooks; Rechtsteiner/Jones a number of projects in the Quilt won by Harriet Pris- works, including garden ka; Lillian Coleman Quilt tours, plant sales, and plant won by Raeanne Copeland identification posters. If (nice wedding present); you’d like to know more and the Handmade Doily, about Native Plants and Joette Rex. All the items participate in this growing have been picked up and group contact Harriet. The Main Street Comwe greatly appreciate all the mittee, previously a subtime and effort by Vickie S. and Harriet P. making it committee of the Native Plant Society, has chosen to happen. The Dumas’ had a very go forward with their projsuccessful endurance ride ects independently. If you year and will be awarded are interested in helping Regional and National maintain Main Street and Awards at the American be involved in their projEndurance Riders Confer- ects you can contact Kathy ence. Crocketts mileage for Munthe, Melanie Boonethe season was 1,685 miles, Reznick, or Alysia Angus. Gallery Escalante will putting him 4th in the world of endurance with a career be closed from January 25th total of 32,165 miles. Sha- through the 30th. Cowboy ron and her mare were 3rd Blues will reopen January overall in mileage and point 25th, Circle D and Moin the Region. Together qui Motel have reopened they won Reserve Husband for the year. Georgie’s is open, her days and hours are posted on the sandwich board out front. The Loop has been open for Breakfast ment of Defense. and Lunch. More winter Prepared under the pro- ahead? Time will tell. visions of the National EnUntil next week - - vironmental Policy Act, the PEIS develops and evaluates a number of interagency operating procedures that will help ensure that energy transport projects within Section 368 energy corridors are planned, implemented, and operated in a manner that protects and enhances environmental resources. The ROD adopts these procedures and related mitigation measures, and serves as a formal record of the Department of the Interior’s decision to amend relevant BLM land use plans and to incorporate Section 368 corridors therein. Individual projects proposed for these corridors will undergo further, project-specific environmental analysis before being granted permits or rights-of-way. The ROD documents extensive public involvement in the preparation of the PEIS. Efforts to reach stakeholders and constituents began in 2005, and included formal notices, scoping and public meetings, preliminary maps, a 90-day comment period on the draft PEIS, and a comprehensive project website. To review the ROD and related documents, including detailed maps, visit the project website at http:// corridoreis.anl.gov. Review copies are also available at libraries and agency regional and field offices. Energy Corridors Designated in Eleven Western States The Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) today signed a Record of Decision (ROD) amending 92 land use plans in support of the designation of more than 6,000 miles of energy transport corridors on Federal lands in 11 Western States. The decision is based on analyses presented in the Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) released on November 28, 2008, by the BLM and the U.S. Departments of Energy, Agriculture, and Defense as part of their work to implement Section 368 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005. The PEIS identifies energy corridors to facilitate future siting of oil, gas, and hydrogen pipelines, as well as renewable energy development projects and electricity transmission and distribution facilities on Federal lands in the West to meet the region’s increasing energy demands while mitigating potential harmful effects to the environment. “The designation of these corridors represents a significant step in addressing some of the critical energy infrastructure issues in the West,” said BLM Director James Caswell. “The cooperative efforts of the involved agencies to establish pathways for future pipelines and long-distance electrical transmission lines will help relieve congestion, improve reliability, and enhance the national electric grid.” Energy transport corridors are agency-preferred locations where pipelines and transmission lines may be sited and built in the future. Future use of the corridors should reduce the proliferation of rights-of-way across the landscape and minimize the environmental footprint from development. The corridors were sited through the PEIS using a four-step process that identified a number of important lands and resources to be avoided to the fullest extent possible. The agencies examined factors that constrain where a network of energy transport corridors could be located – including topographical, environmental, and regulatory constraints – as well as the overall suitability of particular lands to support development and operation of energy transport infrastructure. In some cases, corridors intersect or approach sensitive lands or resources. Most often these intersections follow existing infrastructure such as highways, transmission lines, or pipelines to avoid placing corridors in new locations. Eighty-two percent of the corridors, approximately 5,000 miles, are located on BLM-managed lands, while 16 percent are on USDA Forest Service lands. The remaining corridor segments are on lands managed by Interior’s Bureau of Reclamation and National Park Service, or by the Depart- Bryce Valley Area News by Vicki D. Syrett 679-8687 or vickidiane36@hotmail.com Wade Moore of Henrieville and Kasey Shakespear of Tropic, were the speakers in Sacrament meeting today along with Jeff Johnson of Henrieville. Wade just returned from his mission to Mexico and Kasey is just going out on his mission to Lima Peru. These are some very great young men. They were followed up with Jeff Johnson who did a wonderful job. Family and friends were in the congregation to support both missionaries as they talked. Wade is the son of Frankie and Gayle Moore of Henrieville and Kasey is the son of Kevin and Kay Shakespear of Tropic. Rod and Kathern Syrett called to say that their son-inlaw, T. J. Johnson of Flagstaff Arizona was just put in as the Second Counselor in his ward Bishopric. T. J. is married to the former Sheila Syrett and they have 6 children. Congratulations go out to T. J. on this calling. It looks like all of our snow is going away. January Thaw it has been called. Can’t believe we had so much a couple of weeks ago and now you can see the bare ground. It is muddy too and that is horrible. Hope there is some more snow coming out there somewhere. We want the Bryce Valley Ball teams, boys and girls, to know we are all proud of them for the fine games they are playing and for their sportsmanship. Keep it up everyone. We are rooting for you. Very short article this week. I guess everyone is busy so maybe we will have big news next week. Please call with your articles or email me and I will write them up. Thanks VS We’re Still the Land of (Investment) Opportunity Article Provided by Brandon Henrie, Financial Advisor for Edward Jones Investments. Over the past several months, you may have become somewhat discouraged at the prospects of investing for your future. Every day, it seems, brings another piece of bad news: stock market volatility, a decline in manufacturing, housing prices in freefall, auto companies teetering on bankruptcy — the list goes on and on. However, despite these distressing headlines, you are still living in a country that is home to the most powerful economic engines in recorded history — and while these engines may currently be stalling a bit, they still offer the power and the potential to successfully drive your investment vehicles. To get a sense of this size and strength, consider the following: If the world population of 6.7 billion people were represented by just 100 persons, only five of them would live in the United States — but these five would have some pretty big economic clout. In fact, they would own 34 percent of the world’s equity market capitalization and 25 percent of the gross world product, according to Bloomberg News. Furthermore, these five people would be responsible for technological breakthroughs that resulted in electric lights, telephones, airplanes, television, computers, the Internet and much more. And they would produce the world’s largest supply of electrical energy and sit on land that contained nearly half the free world’s known coal reserves, according to the Energy Information Administration. For good measure, they would account for 37 percent of all Nobel Prize winners, according to the Nobel Prize Foundation. Taken together, these and other factors reveal a robust supply of natural resources, intellectual capacity and entrepreneurial spirit — and these assets don’t melt away in any bear market. Instead, they point to the long-term expansion of our economy. And who owns the bulk of these corporations? More than 90 million American shareholders — and more often than not, their patience, discipline and confidence has been rewarded in the long term. What new investment opportunities lie just around the corner? Some await our focus on “green energy.” Others anticipate the reinvestment in our infrastructure, a key element of the Obama administration’s economic stimulus plans. These areas may be promising, but they won’t tell the whole story of the future of investing — because those chapters have yet to be written. In the meantime, what should you do? Stick with these tried-and-true strategies: Look for quality. Seek out quality companies — those with long track records of profitability, strong management teams and competitive products. Think long term. We’re likely to continue seeing volatility in the markets, though perhaps not to the extremes of the past year. You’ll need to look past these short-term price movements and commit yourself to investing for the long term. Over time, quality investments usually pay off. Maintain adequate liquidity. If you have a shortterm goal — such as paying for college in two or three years — set aside an appropriate amount of money in liquid investments that are likely to preserve your principal. Stay invested. Don’t take a “time out” from investing. The biggest rallies usually occur early in a bull market, and if you’re on the sidelines, you’ll miss out on these growth opportunities. America’s future is still bright, and yours can be, too — by investing wisely and patiently and by focusing today on your goals for tomorrow. |