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Show Panguitch • Panguitch Lake • Hatch • Bryce • Tropic • Antimony • Henrieville • Cannonville • Escalante • Boulder • Duck Creek Thursday, February 19, 2009 • Issue # 203 Southwest Utah Sterling Scholar Competition One hundred and eightyfive students representing fifteen high schools and five school districts will compete for awards and honors in the Thirty-First Annual Southwest Utah Sterling Scholar Competition on the campus of Southern Utah University in Cedar City, Utah on April 2, 2009. The awards program will begin at 7:00 p.m. Prior to the Awards Program a banquet will be held to honor the Southwest Utah Sterling Scholar Finalists and their families. Students selected as finalists are from the following high schools: Beaver, Bryce Valley, Canyon View, Cedar, Dixie, Desert Hills, Enterprise, Hurricane, Kanab, Panguitch, Parowan, Pine View, Snow Canyon, Tuacahn, and Valley. The fifteen categories of the competition include: Agriculture Science, Business and Marketing, Computer Technology, Dance, English, Family and Consumer Sciences, Foreign Language, General Scholarship, Mathematics, Music, Science, Social Science, Speech and Drama, Trade and Technical Education, and Visual Arts. Each of the 185 finalists will be judged on personal achievements and awards compiled in their portfolios as well as interviews with the judges. The finalists will be judged on scholarship, leadership, and citizenship. The three judges in each category come from local communities, Dixie State College, and Southern Utah University. A winner and two runnersup in each of the fifteen categories will be announced at the Awards program, and each will be given a Sterling Scholar pin or charm along with a cash prize. Finalists from each high school will also receive a Sterling Scholar Certificate. Colleges and Universities in Utah offer various scholarships to both Sterling the Scholar winners and runners-up. About the Sterling Scholar Program: For more information on the Southwest Utah Sterling Scholar Competition visit: www. sterlingscholar.k12.ut.us/ or call Sarah Williams at (435) 586-2865. For more information on the KSL Sterling Scholar Competition please visit: http://deseretnews. com/scholars/. To contact the Sterling Scholar Coordinators please call (435) 586-2865 or email sterling@sedck12.org. Utah Fourth Seat Bill Clears Key Senate Committee A bill that would guarantee Utah a fourth seat in the House of Representatives cleared the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee today. Sponsored by Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and cosponsored by Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), S. 160 would provide an additional House seat to Utah and a seat to the District of Columbia. Hatch said that while he hopes Utah will gain an additional seat through the 2010 census and apportionment process, the failure of the 2000 census to provide the seat requires a legislative backup plan. New reports that the Census Bureau may be taken out of the Commerce Department and put under direct control of the White House, Hatch said, make this legislation all the more important for Utah. “We put all our eggs in the census basket in 2000 and it failed,” Hatch said. “With the administration’s plan to politicize the Census Bureau by realigning the reporting structure, it would be imprudent for us to rely solely on the Census Bureau this time around. This bill provides for Utah’s fourth seat in the legislative arena, instead of leaving it entirely in the political arena where the Beehive State could be robbed once again of the representation we deserve.” Hatch noted the move to exert White House control over the Census Bureau was prompted by liberal constituencies who object to President Obama’s nomination of Senator Judd Gregg, a New Hampshire Republican, to be Secretary Ron Cloud of Commerce. English “Congress is going to give the District of Columbia a House seat,” Hatch said, “I want to make sure that it gives Utah the seat it deserves.” Hatch made clear, however, that he opposes the House version of the legislation, which would force Utah to elect its fourth House member at-large. “The House bill mandates how our fourth seat will be aligned,” Hatch said. “It is the right of the states to decide congressional seat alignment. Congress should not be dictating alignment to Utah and our Senate bill keeps alignment authority where it belongs – in the hands of our Utah Craig Armstrong state officials.” Bus. & Marketing The Senate bill, which Hatch cosponsored, states that the District will not receive Senate representation and also provides for expedited judicial review to settle any legal arguments. “The Senate bill is a constitutional way of achieving a critical goal for Utah,” he Shon Osborn Riley Taylor said. English Social Studies BRYCE VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARS Anne Barton Social Science Cache Mortensen Trade & Tech Deysha Twitchell Family & Consumer Kaitlin Pollock Science PANGUITCH HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARS Bobbie Burningham Family & Consumer Trac Norris General Trevor Peterson Science Heather Orton Visual Arts weather thursday Sunny high: 42 low: 15 friday Sunny high: 46 low: 19 saturday Mostly Sunny high: 47 low: 23 sunday RAIN / SNOW high: 47 low: 22 monday RAIN / SNOW high: 45 low: 23 tuesday RAIN / SNOW high: 45 low: 21 wednesday Mostly Sunny high:45 low: 21 Colton Smith Mathematics Karli Owens Dance Connor Mooney Speech & Drama Megan Young Computer Tech USDA Extends Comment Period for Regulation on Payment Limitations and Payment Eligibility Tom Miyagishima, Acting Executive Director for the USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) in Utah announced today that following Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack’s announcement that the comment period for the regulation defining actively engaged participation in a farming operation has been extended for an additional 60 days, FSA is seeking a diverse range of comments from different areas of the United States and farming communities. Tom Miyagishima, Acting Executive Director for the With this extension, the public may continue to submit comments until April 6, 2009. The extension document is available at http:// www.fsa.usda.gov/FSA/fed eralNotices?are=home&su bject=lare&topic=frd-ii. The regulation, published Dec. 29, 2008, invited comments on the interim rule for implementation of key eligibility requirements for many FSA and Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) programs. The regulations were revised as mandated by the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (2008 Farm Bill) to make changes in payment eligibility, payment attribution, maximum income limits and maximum dollar benefit amounts for participants in CCC-funded programs. In addition, certain provisions were incorporated that are discretionary. The actively engaged provision requires that individuals and entities must be “actively engaged in farm- ing” with respect to a farming operation in order to be eligible for specified payments and benefits. To be “actively engaged in farming,” the individual or entity must make significant contributions to the farming operation of (1) capital, equipment, land, or a combination; and (2) personal labor or active personal management, or a combination. Under rules in effect since 1988, not every member of an entity is required to contribute active personal labor or management. The interim rule requires each partner, stockholder, or member with an ownership interest to make a contribution of There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty. John Adams THE GARFIELD COUNTY INSIDER is owned and operated by Snapshot Multimedia and is distributed weekly to all of Garfield County. Its purpose is to inform residents about local issues and events. Articles submitted from independent writers are not necessarily the opinion of Snapshot Multimedia. We sincerely hope you enjoy the paper and encourage input on ideas and/or suggestions for the paper. Thank you for your support. active personal labor or active personal management. The contribution must be regular and substantial, and documented as well as separate and distinct from any other member’s contribution. The rule limits the ability of passive stockholders to continue to realize benefits from the entity. The substantive rule changes make the requirement for adding new persons to a farming operation more restrictive. The addition of a person to an existing farming operation can be met through an increase of 20 percent of base acres to the operation; previously the requirement was an increase of 20 percent in cropland. 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