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Show WEDDINGS obituaries Iola G. Woolsey Alyssa & Benjamin Moyle and Tracy Johnson are pleased to announce the marriage of their daughter Alyssa to Benjamin Earl Boore, son of Danny and Nancy Boore o the 7th day of August, 2009. They will be sealed for time and all eternity in the Manti LDS temple A reception will be held in their honor that evening from 6:30 – 8:30 pm at the Axtell LDS Church. An open house will be held in Tropic August 8, 2009 from 6-8 pm at the Stefan and Amy Syrett residence Everyone is invited INTERNSHIP COOPERATIVE HELPS STUDENTS, PUBLIC-LANDS AGENCIES Utah’s public lands and natural resource management agencies benefit from highly qualified interns, and Southern Utah University students reap the benefits of applying their skills in the state’s national parks, monuments, forest, rangelands, state parks and recreation areas, thanks to an internship cooperative funded in part by SUU Regional Services. The Intergovernmental Internship Cooperative (IIC) is coordinated on the agency side by Steve McCarthy in a relatively new position funded jointly by the National Park Service and SUU Regional Services. McCarthy works with IIC Campus Coordinator Seth Ohms to provide qualified interns for the National Park Service, the Bureau of Land Management, the U.S. Forest Service, and Utah State Parks and Recreation. As the IIC coordinators, McCarthy and Ohms work to ensure that SUU students are prepared when they begin service as government interns. “We provide training and leadership skills before the fact, which leads to better quality interns, less onthe-job training, and more productive work where they are actually making a contribution, and not just hanging around,” McCarthy said. To date, instruction to prepare interns includes first aid and CPR, “Leave No Trace” training (teaching interns to leave the environment as they found it), and GIS/GPS training. Some students also require training in finger-printing and certification on all-terrain vehicles. Additional specialized trainings are under development in cooperation with the public lands agencies. All extra training provided by IIC and agency partners supplements the academic preparation students already receive in their SUU courses. “The idea is to get them ready to hit the ground running and go right to work,” McCarthy said. “We want to create an environment where, when the agencies hear an SUU intern is available, they know they’re Page 3 The Garfield County Insider August 6, 2009 getting a quality intern who can make a contribution right away.” As Agency Coordinator, McCarthy represents the agencies at SUU, while his counterpart Ohms represents the university’s academic programs. Together, they cooperate to train and place individuals who are right for a particular internship and support the students during their internships. Interns serve a variety of Utah public lands constituencies, including Cedar Breaks National Monument, Zion National Park, Bryce Canyon National Park, Pipe Spring National Monument, Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Dixie National Forest, Cedar City Field Office of the Bureau of Land Management and various Utah state parks, such as Iron Mission and Sand Hollow. SUU’s IIC interns do not only represent typical “outdoorsy” majors, such as outdoor recreation, said Paul Roelandt, superintendant of Cedar Breaks National Monument and a member of the IIC Steering Committee. “That’s something people don’t often think of,” Roelandt said. “They hear outdoors and public lands, and they think of park rangers. But in the National Park Service, we also have a need fbudgeting and accounting, education, public relations, marketing, graphic design, landscape design and maintenance, and construction.” McCarthy said SUU assigned three interns last spring who worked in diverse fields: criminal justice, range management and graphic design. “Our internships are not just for your ‘typical’ fields or majors,” he said. “We can place interns in everything from accounting to zoology.” In addition to traditional outdoors programs, Roelandt said public lands agencies are “equally interested in supporting youth programs that provide outdoor education and handson experiences that may spark an interest and appreciation for our public lands in younger students, from fourth grade through college. We want to be a partner with existing programs and help them expand their outreach, with programs such as SUU’s Cedar Mountain Science Camps.” Students benefit from the internship through workstudy credit and experience with public-lands agencies, McCarthy said. “They also get to have some fun,” he added. The payoff for the agencies, said Roelandt, comes when the agency receives a strong, motivated student who is well-prepared and who costs the agency less than a full-time employee. For some students, Roelandt pointed out, the internship is just a reasonably well-paying “job” — but in other cases, agencies are finding interns who, once exposed to the variety of jobs and responsibilities, develop a genuine interest in making public lands a career. For example, Trevor Lopez interned at Cedar Breaks National Monument in 2008, working with Chief Ranger Matt Walls. Lopez enjoyed the internship so much that he returned this summer as a seasonal employee. Roelandt said Lopez plans to enroll in the federal lawenforcement academy in Santa Rosa, Calif., to certify as a seasonal law-enforcement ranger, a requirement of all National Park Service rangers. “I hope we can find a fulltime position for him at Cedar Breaks,” Roelandt said. “I’d love to have Trevor come to work with us.” The partnership between the public lands agencies and SUU is a “win-win situation for both parties,” said Brian Cottam, SUU Associate Director of Regional Services. “It’s a unique experience for the students, and it helps to service the university’s outreach and service mission,” he said. “Best of all, we’re helping Utah kids gain the experience they need to return to their own rural communities prepared to potentially access great careers in land management.” In addition, Roelandt said, it allows public-lands agencies to develop a pool of diverse candidates for future jobs. “The federal government is looking down the road and seeing more people retiring than we’ll have applicants to fill in behind them,” he said. “This gives us a chance to expose qualified young people to working in public lands as a career.” Added McCarthy, “We’re developing the public-lands leaders of tomorrow.” Escalante, Utah – Iola Elizabeth Griffin Woolsey, 84, passed away July 31, 2009 in Panguitch, Utah. She was born June 17, 1925 in Escalante to Lorin William and Bessie Naomi Baxter Griffin. She married Merlo Haynes Woolsey on June 5, 1946 in Beaver, Utah. She was a member of the LDS Church and taught Sunday School in her early married life. Her family was the main focus of her life. Each family member has a special memory of how they were her “favorite one”. She loved sports and was quite competitive, in school she could out run all the boys. Her survivors include her husband, Haynes, of Escalante; children, Merlo Kay (Kathy) Woolsey of Fruita, CO, Christine (Richard) Tatman of Myton, UT and Eric Griffin (Sheri) Woolsey of Escalante; 11 grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; sister, Kathryn (Frank) Coleman of Escalante. She is preceded in death by her parents; brothers, Bernard Aldridge, Wilford Baxter and Alvin Lorin Griffin. Funeral services will be held on Wednesday, August 5, 2009 at 1:00 p.m. in the Escalante 2nd LDS Ward Chapel. Friends may call at the ward chapel in Escalante on Wednesday from 11:30 to 12:30. Burial will be in the Escalante Cemetery. Funeral Directors: Magleby Mortuary, Richfield, Salina and Manti. Shawn Gerald MacIntosh Shawn Gerald MacIntosh, 14, passed away July 28, 2009 at Primary Children’s Medical Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. He was born on December 20, 1994 to Ronald Thomas MacIntosh and Lesa Bulloch Nelson in Cedar City, Utah. Shawn was an excellent student and had just recently graduated from Canyon View Middle School and was looking forward to attending Canyon View High School this Fall. Although his time here on Earth was short, Shawn had a genuine and enduring testimony of his faith and of the Savior He was an active member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and was always proud to have held the Aaronic Priesthood. He was loved deeply by many and will be greatly missed. And as much as we miss him, we are certain a joyous reunion is taking place as Shawn is united in heaven and preceded in death by his grandfathers Kern N. Bulloch, Gerald Brown, and Ted MacIntosh. Also his Aunt Mary Bulloch. Shawn loved football, hanging out in the mountains, his many cousins, camping, four wheeling and loved being the big brother. He had a true and giving heart and was always helping others. Shawn is survived by his parents Ron and Kyla MacIntosh of Enoch, Utah and Matt and Lesa Nelson of Cedar City, Utah. Grandparents Vera Bulloch of Cedar City, Utah, Vicki Nelson of Preston, Idaho, Kim and Jerilee Adams of Parowan, Utah, Dale and Joyce MacIntosh of Las Vegas, Nevada and Stephen and VerJean Clark of Cannonville, Utah. Greatgrandparents Bill and Marlene Richardson of St. George, Utah, Elanor MacIntosh of Carlsbad, California, Glenda Nelson of Preston, Idaho and Dyle and Laura Adams of Parowan, Utah. Shawn is also survived by his brothers Stetson and Tanner MacIntosh of Enoch, Utah and Spencer Nelson of Cedar City, Utah, sisters Kaylie, Lainee and Preslie MacIntosh of Enoch, Utah and many aunts, uncles and cousins. Funeral services will be held at 11a.m. on Monday, August 3, 2009 at the Canyon View LDS Stake Center, 1985 North Main, Cedar City, Utah. Viewings will be held on Saturday, August 1, 2009 from 6-8 p.m at .Southern Utah Mortuary, 190 North 300 West, Cedar City, Utah and again prior to services on Monday, August 3, 2009 from 9:30-10:30 a.m. at the Canyon View Stake Center. Internment will be in the Cedar City Cemetery under the direction of Southern Utah Mortuary. The Shawn Gerald MacIntosh Memorial Fund has been set up at State Bank of Southern Utah to help the family to cover medical and burial costs. Donations in lieu of flowers would be greatly appreciated. Online condolences can be sent to www.southernutahmortuary.com. http://www.southernutahmortuary.com. |