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Show Page 5 The Garfield County Insider October 15, 2009 IN OUR TOWN FYI PANGUITCH The only time I want to hear sirens anymore is when Panguitch High wins another State Championship. The boys baseball team won Panguitch’s 52nd Championship. Two weeks ago the boys weren’t sure they were even going to play at state, and then they went on a four game tear, where they outscored the other teams 47 to 5. They played Piute in the championship game and won 13 to 3. This was the 5th time the Bobcats had played Piute this year, with Piute winning 3 of 4 games in the regular season. Panguitch has had a great year with State Titles, in Debate and Drama and KSLs #1 small schools in academic. I can’t say enough about the Coaches that we have here. I feel coaching high school ball is the hardest coaching job there is. You don’t get to pick your players and you have to play with the hand you are dealt. Coaches who get the most out of their athletes are consistent winners. Coach Barney and his Assistances are ones who bring out the best in his players. The Lady Cats volleyball team also played Piute on Friday. Piute is the only team that can give the Cats any competition and this game went 5 sets, with Panguitch keeping there record perfect in league play. For some reasons the league playoffs were last Tuesday at Valley. There will be one last game here tomorrow night against Enterprise. The State Championship will be next week at UVU. There was a pre-league cross country meet at Mt. Carmel Jct. golf course held on last Thursday. Panguitch Girls took 1st place and the Boys 2nd, with Piute easily taking 1st place; I will be really surprised, if they don’t take State. Friday was the Gala event of the year, the Hospital Foundation Dinner. We were entertained by the Thrift Store Babes modeling some hot items from the store. A number of great Halloween costumes were shown off by really cute kids; most of the items are on sale at the store. Tom Hatch as the auctioneer drained every nickel out of the crowd, on the items that were up for bid, Tom could have a second career coming up. Many thanks to the many businesses that donated the merchandise that went up for bid. The Panguitch Lions Clubs, President Joe Decker presented Alberto Vasquez the Hospital Manager a check for $2,500 for the building fund; this is $7,500 of their $10,000 pledge. The Foundation has donated hundreds of thousand toward badly needed equipment, at the Hospital. Linda Langley a worker at the Thrift Store slipped on her porch By: Mack Oetting and broke her ankle, but she day, to keep her son on their toughed it out and came to mind). Glen swims durthe dinner anyway, before ing that hour and I mean he going to the Hospital for swims. Have you noticed H & x-rays. Linda and Tom, usually go back to Georgia R lately? Wow does it look for the winter, but decided good!!!The Heaton’s have to brave our cold instead. done wonders for their Both are Lions and are re- business with this remodel job. All the room in the ally big on volunteering. The great flu shoot out front of the store will also was a huge success, with be redone, clearing room 367 shots of the vaccine for more merchandise. If giving out. Tammy Barton H & R doesn’t have it, you (EMT Coordinator) said don’t need it. Next door at Foy’s Counthere were a lot of volunteers at the Fire Station, try Kitchen, they underwent and everything went real a face lift a couple of years smooth. A novel idea, just ago. I ask Stan Foy when drive up, stick out your arm his parents started the resand that’s it. The H1N1 taurant. He said V. Foy flu is here in Garfield Co. his dad started the business with a number of reported back in 1945, but it was cases. Washington Co. has a Ford dealership with a reported over 1000 students Chevron station out front. out with the flu. If you have He opened up as a restaua fever or headache, either rant in the 1950s. Stan’s you or your children, please Mother, Mary, has been stay at home, till you are the cook ever since. Mary has been turning out excelfeeling better. Glen Adams competed lent food for over 50 years; in the St. George Marathon, Mary will be 92 in Februon his arm powered bike ary. The Panguitch Lions and took 4th place. When he got to the finish line, he Club was out this week had to ride back to the start, picking up trash along 89. to where his bike trailer Many of our new members was. Glen is a great ex- were out lending a hand and ample of a person who has this really cuts down on the over come a handicap to be- work load. This is the 14th come a gifted athlete, with year that the Lions have tremendous arm strength he taken on this project. The rides his bike hundreds of Lions treated all the workmiles a week. In honor of ers with a meal at Henries. Ardeth Davis had a Can a friend of his, whose son is in Iraq, (she wants people to you top this incident” last do something for an hour a week. She and her daughter stopped in Lynwood on their way home from California for a potty stop. Being the careful lady that she is, she left her phone and purse in the car and locked it up tight. As she completed her duty, she heard her car key’s drop in the toilet as the toilet automatically flushed. She screamed for help as anyone in their right mind would do. The employees came to her aid. An employee used a plumbers snake and was sure he felt the keys. As he moved away from the toilet the automatic flusher took over again. Ardeth knew that the keys were gone forever! This was her house keys, car keys and incidental keys, she was a long way from home. The employees came to her aid, a plumber was called. The restroom was shut down, the toilet removed and the key’s retrieved from the p- trap. By the way, the keys did not look too appealing but with bleach, sanitizer and a good cleaning Ardeth made it home with only one lost hour! There must be a moral to this story. Ardeth it is “pray before you travel”! Bret Taylor (school district maintenance man) has run a 10’ cement sidewalk around the elementary school north side and around the school gym. I believe there will be an extension put on the roof on the north side of the class rooms. The snow has wreck havoc with the north side of the building. Ice was getting into the class rooms and the foundation on the gym was failing because of the cold. The soil by the gym was so damp that it had to be dug out and replaced with several truck load of dirt. This will probably add many years to the school structure. Is this the best time of the year for sports lovers or what? Locally we have the baseball, volleyball and cross country competition. On TV there is the Pres. Cup in golf, with 10 hours of coverage, College Football, NBA starts, Pro football and major league baseball play offs. Get all your exercise you need just changing channels. With my rambling column last week I think you probably get the idea that I have passions for certain things and continue to push them; education, sports, and helping out with those less fortunate. Four years ago Garfield School District was #1 District in the state. I believe Janice Hatch has the ability to return the district back to the top in the state once again. She has spent many years, time, and effort in researching every aspect of what goes on in the district. Keep the good stuff coming. |