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Show The Garfield County Insider EXPLORE ESCACANTE jana@exploreescalante.com Spring is always a time for us to look forward. We look forward to planting, we look forward to watching the trees and flowers bloom and bear fruit. And we look forward to the warm days of summer, especially after this very cold winter. Whether we admit it or not, we look forward to change. For some folks change is a four letter word. For others it's the sign of new things to come and an opportunity to go a different direction. For Ryan Crosier, his wife Katie and Son Jaxon, it's a change from Monroe, Utah to Escalante. Who is Ryan Crosier? Our new postmaster. A native Utahn, Ryan has been the acting Postmaster since the first of the year. He's been living at the Prospector and seeing his family on weekends. The seeing the family on weekends routine won't change until they are able to sell their home in Monroe. But he'll be in their travel trailer while it's warm. His official swearing-in ceremony is April 10th. Ryan was a carrier in Salina prior to moving to Escalante. His 9 yr old son, Jaxon, loves baseball and basketball. His least favorite sport (according to dad) is football — good thing since we don't have a team. They plan on staying a long time. Living so far away from family will be the biggest change for them and Katie. I'm sure the ladies of the Relief Society will take her under their wing and keep her from getting too homesick. Ryan loves to hunt and fish. I'm sure there are folks here that can direct him to the best spots. He told me he applied for the job because of the people. "The people of Escalante are wonderful", he said. I couldn't agree more. Anyone who hasn't introduced themselves to him he'd love it if you'd take a moment and do so. I was amazed to hear how he's put a lot of the families together already, but I know how long it takes to figure out all the family trees. Welcome Ryan. We talked about the change to the mail service being proposed by the Postmaster General. It will NOT affect our service in Escalante. The proposal to stop Saturday delivery is for street delivery only. Since we don't have street delivery we'll still get our mail on Saturday. Your loved ones and friends in the cities will not. I'm looking forward to the season and the many visits by folks from around the world. The store, with your support and guidance, has done very well as we start our 4th season. It's about all I can do to keep up with the demands of the store, the house, keeping our website current with product, making jewelry, support Tracy's work with his photography (if you haven't been to the Red Canyon Visitor Center to see his current show please do stop) and volunteering for the Potato Valley Lions Club. That's why the change for me is to make this my last regular article. I can't thank Ryan at the paper enough for allowing me to write and putting up with the political flack that any reporter and their publisher gets from those that don't agree. Thankfully, we still live in a country with freedom of speech and freedom of the press. Don't every dispell how important that is to your personal freedom. To the folks of Garfield County that have sent their support and comments over the last two years, thank you. Remember, the people's business is public — not meant for closed door meetings, secret agreements or back room deals. It's your right to know what your elected officials do with your tax money. And don't be surprised if you see an article every once in a while. You never know what may change that you'll once again get to Explore Escalante. Until then - all my best. Jana April 8, 2010 SRJAMAIIIIRIVIRMNEWA by Vicki D. Syrett 679-8687 or vickidiane36@hotmail.com Well the Easter weekend brought lots of people out because our weather here was fairly good. Cool but not stormy. Since I was locked in the house with a rotten cold I didn't go anywhere so I have no idea who came to visit us down here. Shawn and Crystal Mortensen and their boys, Cache, Carter, Kwincey, and Clay along with Lyle and Nancy Mortensen went to visit the Hole-in-theRock. Lyle and Nancy are Shawn's parents and they brought two of their nephews with them. They drove into the Hole-in-the-Rock and the drive took three hours because the road is so wild. When they got there they took time to eat lunch and then hiked down to Lake Powell and back up again. They had so much fun and it was a good family outing. The family is anxiously awaiting the letter to tell them where son, Cache, will be going on his mission. The excitement level is high. He will be a great missionary. The Bryce Valley Lion's Club outdid themselves once again. They had an excellent Easter Egg Hunt for the kids. It was very nice with lots of treats and fun activities for the kids. It was a little cold Friday but the children went hunting for the eggs anyway and had a ball. Thanks to the Lion's for this great event to celebrate Easter in the Bryce Valley area. Congratulations to Nathan and Lori Platt on the birth of their beautiful little daughter, Jenna Lori Platt. She was born on Tuesday and the siblings are very excited to have new little baby in the house. Ken and Artoise Platt are the grandparents, and Delpha Rose is the Great-grandmother to this darling little girl. Calvin and Dianne Ferrin and all their daughters NEW ELK PLAN APPROVED A summary of the survey •5-6 years old (18 units) Elk with large antlers and more chances to hunt spike results is available at wild- •6-7 years old (6 units) bulls are what you can ex- life.utah.gov/public_meet- Categories starting in 2010 •4.5-5 years old (8 units) pect if you hunt elk in Utah ings/next.php. Older bulls in the next five years. •5.5-6 years old (13 units) When they draw a Utah •6.5-7 years old (4 units) At their March 31 meeting, members of the Utah limited-entry elk permit, •7.5-8 years old (6 units) Wildlife Board revised hunters want to take a Even though the age objecUtah's elk management bull that has large antlers. tives are higher now, Aoude plan. "That's one of the things says the number of limited The plan guides elk man- that jumped out from the entry bull elk permits will agement in Utah. It's updat- survey," says Anis Aoude, continue to climb for the ed every five years. big game coordinator for next few years. Two highlights from the the DWR. "Taking a bull "It's hard to believe, but revised plan include: with large antlers is impor- many of the bulls on Utah's 'Changes that will keep tant to limited-entry hunt- elk units are older than the plenty of bulls with large ers." objectives that were just Utah already produces approved," he says. "To antlers on selected units in plenty of big bull elk, in- reduce the number of older Utah. 'More spike bull elk hunt- cluding the world-record bulls, we'll have to increase bull taken in 2008. To en- the number of hunting pering permits. sure big bulls are available mits for the next few years." Survey and committee Utah's 15-member in the future, the committee Once the average age Elk Advisory Commit- recommended that the age of the bulls falls to the tee helped the Division of objectives change on vari- new objective, Aoude says Wildlife Resources draft ous elk units in Utah. the number of permits will the revised plan. The group Utah's limited-entry have to be reduced to resuggested the updates after units are managed so the duce the number of bulls reviewing a recent survey average age of the bulls hunters take. Taking fewer hunters take fall into one of bulls should keep the averof Utah elk hunters. DWR biologists sur- four age categories. The age age age within the new obveyed more than 16,600 elk objectives the units have jective. hunters. The hunters were been managed under the More spike permits randomly chosen from the past two years, and the obWhile the number of limmore than 76,800 hunters jectives they'll be managed ited-entry bull elk permits who either applied for or under starting in 2010, are will likely go down in the obtained a Utah elk hunting as follows: future, the number of genpermit in 2009. The hunters Categories since 2008 eral spike bull elk permits included both limited-entry •3-4 years old (3 units) will go up starting this fall. and general-season hunters. •4-5 years old (4 units) The board raised the and their families came to visit with Frankie and Gayle Moore and their family. Calvin and Dianne are Gayle';s parents from Farmington Utah. All of Gayle's brothers could not make it down for the Easter holday but those that came had a great time as usual and loved visiting and having great food and fun together. Doyle and Kathryn Neilson and grandson Tanner went north for the Easter Weekend to visit with family living in Davis County. I bet they passed the Ferrin's on the freeway. Chance and Jessica Stewart had a lot of family down this weekend to celebrate Easter together. Jessica's parents have built a vacation house down here so it makes it nice when everyone comes to visit at once. Panguitch Drug has asked that the following information regarding local prescription drug orders. If there is need,they will have the Critical Need orders delivered to your home on a pre-arranged appointment time either on a Tuesday or a Thursday. In Addition, arrangements can now be made to have all other "nonEmergency refills" delivered to the clinic via the visiting medical staff on the days the clinic is open for business. This is designed to save locals time and money in having to drive to Panguitch to pick up the prescriptions. Thanks to Steve Marshall and the staff at the Panguitch Drug who are always looking out for the needs of its patrons. Not a lot of news today but it was a quiet week. Lots of colds and such running around the valley. I know I caught one of them and would like to give it away. Hope you all have a nice week and please be sure to call or email your news to me. Thanks VS. BRYCE SCHOOL NEWS •••• by Vicki D. Syrett We want to remind the students of the Elementary in grades 1-6 to be sure to turn in their drawing of the mustang for the cover of the new yearbook. It is due ASAP to Sandy Johnson in the Library. Please use dark ink or pencil and do a neat job without tracing. There will be prizes given to selected drawings. Also be ready to purchase your yearbook for the school year. It is $10.00 each copy and you can give the information and money to your teacher and they can in turn give it to Kathy in the office. As was stated last week the Mural by Mr. Morris is finished and looks wonderful. The PTA had a celebration with Root Beer floats this week and had pictures taken to show the mural with the students of Bryce Valley Elementary. School starts back in on Wednesday after a long spring break. For fun!! All the students have been sporting their beautiful green tee shirts with the State logo for the BV Mustangs who took state. Shawnee Syrett got them out to the student so they could all wear them to school and they looked great. I think you can still order one if you talk with Shawnee about it. The BV Track team had their first meet in Kanab last week. Some of the results are as follows: Abbagail Harmon took 2nd in Shot Put and 3rd in Discus. Whitni Syrett came in 6th in both the Shot Put and the Discus. Tannia Winegar took 4th in the High Jump and 8th in the 100 meter. She was also State qualified. Ashley Nelson took 3rd in Javelin and Alexis Tebbs took 6th in 800 meter. The girls 4x1 Relay took 4th place with Tannia Winegar, Ashley Nelson, Abbagail, and Alexis Tebbs as the Relay Team. Hayden Johnson took 6th in the 300 Hurdles. Jacob Pollock too 6th in High Jump, Cajus Syrett took 6th in the 1600 Meter and Scout Holm tool 6th in the 400 Meter. Their Relay Team also took 4th with Hayden Johnson, Braxton Syrett, Scout Holm and Jacob Pollock as the Relay Team. Next week on April 10th they go to Milford for another meet. We send you with good luck Track Team. Due to hard work and having polished their presentation skills, on Tuesday, Feb. 16, twenty two BVHS students were selected to represent the Southern area FCCLA at the State FCCLA competition which was held the 23-25 of March in Layton Utah. Competing in numerous categories with competitors coming from 5A through 1A schools across the State. Twelve BV students won the right to represent the State of Utah at the National FCCLA competition. Jacob Syrett, Hayden Johnson, Kara Page, Cajun Syrett, Alexis Tebbs, Joshua Alvey, Dawson Johnson, Tanner Barton, Ashlynn Syrett, Shelby Cornforth, Janette Pollock, and Taylor Talbot will be traveling to Chicago Illinois on July 3rd where they well be spending the week competing against student from all states and U.S. territories. Under the direction of Mrs. Teresa Thompson, this marks the 12th straight year that Bryce Valley has had student qulify for nationals. Due to the fact that local entities are required to raise the necessary funds to cover the total participation cost which equals $661.00 per student this year, fund raising activities will be starting immediately. (compiled by E. Slack) As reported last week we had students who excelled as they demonstrated their group and individual talents and were recognized as being among the best. These twelve students will be representing our Region at the UHSAA's State Solo and Ensemble Festival which will be held on Saturday, April 24th, at Lone Peak High School in Alpine Utah. Representing BVHS and Region 20 are Anthony Rose, Carrie Platt, Marilee Platt, Malory Clarke, Tysheena Curley, Martie Dunham, Deborah Gray, Abbagail Harman, number of general spike Sandy Leslie, Emily Pierson, Shelby Stock and Chelsea bull permits to 13,750 for Thompson. Way to go kids. Good luck at the State Festiboth the 2010 and the 2011 val. You are the best!! seasons. (In 2009, a total MacKenly Nez, son of Randy and Zelia Nez, and Joshua of 12,500 permits were ofAlvey, Son of Kerry and JoNeil Alvey, were selected to fered.) represent the Bryce Valley HS studentbody as the Mustang If fewer than 20 percent Pride winners for the month of March with Mr. Eric Jesof the spike hunters take a sen representing the staff. The Mustang Pride program is bull during the 2010 and sponsored by the local PTA. 2011 seasons, the permit The Elementary Book Fair begins on Wed. the 7th of cap will jump to 15,000 April and ends on Friday the 9th. permits for the 2012, 2013 The Golf Team travels to Beaver on Wed. the 7th. and and 2014 seasons. Sterling Scholar takes place on 8 April at Dixie State. "Spending time with On Tuesday the 13th the 7th and 8th grades with go on family and friends is the a CTE Field Trip to Salt Lake. most important part of the The Primary Elections for the Studentbody of BVHS hunt for general-season will be held on the 13th. elk hunters," Aoude says. State FFA will be held in Logan Utah on 20 and 21 "That's another thing that April. Golf will be held in Fillmore. on the 21st jumps out from the survey." Track for the W Team will be held in Kanab Aoude says raising the No Senior Citizen Menu yet. Sorry!! number of spike bull permits accomplishes two SPRING IS HERE! things. "It gives more elk Get a free estimate on all your repairs! hunters a chance to hunt, - Shingles and it benefits the elk by - Cement reducing the number of - Doors and Windows bulls in the herds," he says. --Siding"Right now, the number of - Cement bulls per 100 cows is higher - Deck / Patio than it should be on most of - Additions the state's units. We need to New Construction reduce the number of bulls to make more room in the herds for cows and calves." For more information, call the nearest Division of Wildlife Resources office or the DWR's Salt Lake City 438-836-2402 435-491-0082 office at 801-538-4700. Contact Nall, Clint or Dale Taylor Built Construction or |
