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Show The Garfield County Insider rogrmgiwrcllj EIIMADIACC ENby Vicki D. Syrett 679-8687 or vickidiane36@hotmail.com *Nag caii time won the best looking car. In the powder puff event, one of the cars in the pits couldn't get started, so two cars already in the arena had to shut down while the one in the pit got going. . Well after they were able to get the car started the two in the arena wouldn't start, so after the event, one of the cars was aloud to compete in the "last car standing run" . Well you guessed it; the 100 lb. soaking wet, Amanda Shear from the high school won the Trophy and the $100 bucks, to all the cheers of the crowd. It was a really long day for the Lions Members, but when things are a success, it is very satisfying for all. Many of the Derby driver said they would be back next year and they seemed to have fun. Many thank to the Fire Fighters and EMT who helped out, also Troy Pollock and Rob Veater for their help towing the wrecks out of the arena. Thanks to Arlin Sawyer and his crew for forming up the arena. Last but the most important is Tony Beckstead, he is the guy that heads up all these events, he is excellent at giving any help that one may need and he coordinates all of these activities. Thank you so much everyone who helped in any way. While we were at the Commissioner's Luncheon, Ardeth Davis brought us a sticker to wear; it said "Don't yell at me, I'm a volunteer". We loved it !No one yelled at us! The last of the cement walk ways have been poured at the Quilt Walk Park, and with the top soil going in, it's only a short time till the sprinkler will be in. Monday was Arbor Day and with the help of the City we will have some trees in place. Panguitch is a tree city and with planting more trees, this very prestigious award will remain with the City Mayor Janet Oldham is undergoing radiation treatment in Cedar City, the treatments go on for 8 weeks and leaves her very tired. Her Husband Rick says she is doing very well, Janet get well. This last two weeks we have celebrated the lives of four of our finest. Keith Frandsen, John Burdick, Mary Foy and Art Tebbs. These wonderful people led long and very productive lives and will leave a vacant place in Panguitch's history. Last Thursday night I went to the School Board meeting in Antimony. The new school looks great; Mrs. Allen is really taking good care of her school. It is nice to go to a school board meeting and not come home with a headache. Debbie Pollock reported that the teachers and the staff are ready to get back to work. It's been along time since the employees have been excited about the next semester. Most everyone in the academic field, credits this to one reason that's due to the new superintendent Janice Hatch, her enthusiasm is infectious. Janice treats the employees like they are the most important people in the world, when you do this the employees respond likewise. Janice reported all 11th graders will be able to take the ACT at no cost to them. Since the Legislators suspended the UBSCUT testing for at least two years, our schools will be using that 20 minutes study time to go over the ACT testing. Ms. Hatch is the best thing that has happened to our school district education in years, she puts in 7 days a week on behalf of your students. She and Lark Reynolds are getting the districts finances back in order and this has taken many hours. The board voted to replace much of the equipment in the kitchens throughout the district, much of which are antiquated or ready to break down. The Board has restored the Federal Funded Breakfast program, at Panguitch Elementary School and Bryce Valley Elementary, and Antimony. This is a saving to the lunch program, the Cook's are in the kitchen at six in the morning and this cost will be passed along to the breakfast program. They also voted to replace the heating and cooling system in PHS high school. The swimming pool will be closed till there is enough money to fix it right. In the thirty years of the pools life, it has been repaired on a band aid approach and never up dated. Every year there are well over 2 hundred children through out the county that are taught to swim, and not one child that have taken these lessons has drowned, since we have had the pool. President Obama's teacher and fire fighters 25 billion dollar aid bill has passed and Utah's part amounts to 108 million dollars. With so many districts having to cut many employees, I can't understand why any legislator in our State would be against this money. School starts today, oh where did the summer go? The ATV rally starts today, with a breakfast by the Lions Club, down at the park and rides leaving at 8 am. Richfield started their ATV rally with 75 riders, last year they had a parade of over 3,000 riders. This year Marysville had 800 riders at their rally, this can turn into a really big deal, but it will take time. There has been a lot of advertising in both Las Vegas and SLC. Anyone wanting breakfast come on down to the park, however we will quite serving at 8 am. Last week Pat and Claudia Crump were invited to a Patch Work Highway Meeting. The guest was an editor of the very prestigious quilting magazine "Quilters Newsletter" she was there to write an article about The Patchwork Highway. She was very much taken by its name; searching the "Web" she came upon it and decided to see what it was all about. Dutch Deutschlander, Mayor of Brian Head, was the host and Nancy Dalton from Parowans's Heritage Committee were there and Pat and Claudia. It was a great PR opportunity for Pat and Claudia because they were there 3 hours and talked non stop about the Quilt Walk Festival, Quilt Walk Park, and the Quilt Walk Pioneer Statue. The article is expected about March, but when it really comes out I will let you know. It has been a fun week hope you took part. Mack 0. Thelma Bybee called to talk about her trips to St. George and the Salt Lake area. She went to the wedding of her grandson, Nathan Bybee who is the son of Gary and Christine Bybee of St. George. Then a week later she went back to St. George to see granddaughter, Kara White get married. Kara is the daughter of Chris and Sharon White. With barely time for a short rest Thelma found herself on the way to the Salt Lake area to the home of daughter Kaylynn and Paul Hayward for a visit. She also spent time with Craig and Brenda Bybee and Kevin and Cassie Bybee. They all got together a few times are either KayLynn's or Craigs and had a good time visiting and enjoying the good food. Thelma said she had a great time with all of her kids and loves going to visit. Congratulations to Tracy Johnson who has been called as the Boy Scout Advancement Chairman. Mike and Dixie Burbidge are now the Ward Activity Coordinators. The Young Women told about their adventures at Girl's Camp and how much fun they had and all that they learned. DeAnne Beagley and Laura Pollock, accompanied by Gwen Brinkerhoff, sang "Have I Done Any Good In The World Today" and it sounded beautiful. The Young Women who reported on Girl's Camp were Taylor Talbot, Elisabeth Ahlstrom, Edith Garcia and leader Pennie Stewart. In Henrieville the Young Women from that ward sang the song they learned for camp, "Virtue's". Sandy Johnson and Patriarch Reed Munson spoke. Heard lots of positive reports on the Garfield County Fair. The Livestock Show was held this latter part of the week and a lot from our area entered. As I was driving down from Provo I saw a lot of Bike Racing signs all the way from above Circleville to the turnoff to Antimony by Bryce Resort. Wow that was some ride. Saw a lot of bikers sticking to it. Not sure of the entire route but as hot as it was they were just going along great. The Dance Academy will be starting lessons on September 1st. Hip Hop. Ballet, and Tumbling will be the focus this year. Call Jessica Stewart if you have any questions. Don't forget the Farmer's Market that is held on Saturday mornings at Clarke's Store. Come and buy or bring your wares and sell. We would love to have you participate. There seem to be about twenty nine new students this year at the two Bryce Valley Schools. Yippee, we love new students in the valley. All the college students went back to school this weekend. Some empty nests in the valley but they have been planning all summer to return or to start fresh. We wish them all good luck this year and hope they learn a lot. Congratulations to Tell Johnson who became a Deacon. He is the son of Clayton and Beth Johnson of Henrieville. The teacher's have all been busy getting ready for school this past week or so. Still seems strange not to be one of them. Congratulations to LaNae Cloud who will be teaching Second Grade in Panguitch full time. We will miss her here at Bryce Valley Elementary but Panguitch is getting a great person and teacher. The bow hunt has started and many are participating. One report says that all of Klin and Nancy Chynoweth's kids are home to take part in the hunt. You all be safe out there. Roger and Jeannie Shelby had company in the form of their daughter and some friends. Jeannie also went to Yellowstone. On September 3rd there will be a "Back To School" carnival planned. Keep watching for announcements of this activity. The Henrieville Relief Society had a fun end of summer activity. They shared extra garden produce and held a swap meet. It also included books, clothing, furniture, and a taster's table. It was a lot of fun and everyone participated. I say if you have any extra, extra I know where you could drop it off. Elizabeth Platt had her tonsils out and is recovering nicely. Lots of ice cream for the lady. Nathan Platt and his dad, Ken Platt took the Young Men and Young Women and taught thema bout car maintenance and care. Congratulations to Kolten and Tori Ott on their recent marriage. We wish you the best of luck and a happy life together. Kolter is the son of Kowan and Melanie Ott of Cannonville and Tori is the daughter of Kris and lisa Sope and Steve and Pam Shemenski of Panguitch. Provo was the scene last week of hundreds (thousands?) of people, men and women and young folks over 16, who gathered together to learn at BYU Education Week. I attended along with my daughterin-law Debbie Jensen and we had a great time. Margaret Shakespear was also there and we ran into Valerie Grimmer and Linda Mecham both formerly of Tropic. I am sure there must have been others but did not see them. We stayed in the dorms and it was like being back in college again, kinda! The presenters are wonderful and you come away feeling good and wiser. I reccommend this to anyone. It is worth the time involved and the little bit of money you have to pay to go. What a great week it was. We saw Annie Get Your Gun and Moonlight while we were there on campus. They were superb. Moonlight was a father and daughter combo that played the piano and the violin. They were very talented. While Margaret Shakespear was up there she had two cousins, one who roomed with her and another who was in the same building but a different room. Then she took time to go and see son John play ball. She also got to visit daughter Shelly Clements and family and son David and family. She even went to a play with her sister. What a great time she had. She even found us in our room and we did not know how to find her because they did not like to give out room numbers. We saw here while I was putting my zip along scooter together and she was in a hurry to get a parking place because they were at a premium. By the time you read this school will have started and be one day into a new school year. Please call or email your news so we can share it. Thanks VS. Become a part of iiistorg! The Town of Hatch is raising money to furnish our new Community Center/Town Hall. We are selling bricks that will be engraved with your family name and/or message. Each brick is $100 and includes three lines with 12 characters on each line. Don't miss your chance to have your family name become a part of Hatch's great history! We will accept orders until October 15th, 2010. Spaces count as a character (see example). If your name or message does not fit, more than one brick may be purchased. Please fill out one order form for each brick purchased. Your bricks will be together. Please make checks payable to: Town of Hatch. Thank you for supporting the Town of Hatch! For questions or more info please contact: Lucinda Josie @435- 231-2020 or ljosie2010@hotmail.com EXAMPLE T H E H A F A M I G~1 Last week was one for the books, so much went on! The Fair was a big success, with all that took place. Small town fairs are alive and kicking. I was really impressed with the 4H showing of all the animals. These kids start out really young and progress on up to high school age. The kids are taught how to handle and upkeep of their animals, it is surprising how clean and well groomed each one is. (That's the 4H'er as well as the animal). The auction raised over $10,000 from the sale of the animals. Lambs are the main one followed by the swine and cattle. The 4H leaders are to be commended for their efforts. There seemed to be many more items entered at the fair building, I think the extra week really helped the veggie displays which were in abundance; however I also heard we had a frost and that eliminated many garden products. There were a lot of ribbons given out, which is fun for everyone. A lot of Quilts were on display, they were just beautiful.. Again the talent show was outstanding; this is a way to show all the work that went into their talent. Saturday was the big day, starting off with the ping ball drop, with a lot of great prizes. The kids fish grab was next, it is a fun event to watch, way too many fathers jumped into help. Horse shoe pitching had drawn 9 teams, I think the first time there was only 3 team. It was won by Benj Rains and Lane Sevy for the second year in a row. Next year they need to start earlier, it was after 2 before they were finished. The Commissioners lunch was next, with a very large turnout, about 400 were served, with great food and Green River watermelon it just doesn't get any better. The Commissioners were there, if you need your corn shucked these guys are professionals. It was nice having the Commissioners helping out the Lions Club, with handing out the food, things went rather smooth and the price was right. Panguitch is really blessed with many volunteers, the Desperado Duo Bike Rally was run at the same time on Saturday morning. Lots of city groups helped with this event. This is two rides in one day, 120 miles, up through Red Canyon, out Johns Valley, to Antimony and back down 89 to Panguitch for lunch. The second run is up the Patchwork Highway to Cedar Breaks and down to 89 and back to Panguitch to the finish. This is a total of 200 miles, not a bad work out. That night was the 6th annual Lions Club Demolition Derby, with plenty of action. There was a large crowd and great food, I don't know if the Lions are getting better at putting on this event, but this is by far the smoothest derby they have sponsored.. The help in the concession stand work went, Deanna Moore does such a wonderful job with the announcing, these events depend heavily on someone with Deanna's talent. A couple of notes Adam Sawyer again for the third IS D 0 0 1 L Y T C H |