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Show (7),unty JILL:4 PANGUITCH • PANGUITCH LAKE • HATCH • BRYCE • TROPIC • ANTIMONY • HENRIEVILLE • CANNONVILLE • ESCALANTE • BOULDER Thursday, August 4, 2011 • Issue # 334 Southern Utah University ONLY TWO and Bryce Canyon National Park WEEKS Will Renew the "Alliance for Education" AWAY!! Bryce Canyon National both entities in serving the about each other's services. The 2011 Garfield Park and Southern Utah County Fair is August University are engaged in 17th-20th! This year's Fair will be a variety of programs to held at the Triple C Arena benefit students, the park with a Carnival, Great En- and local communities. To tertainment, Talent Show formally extend their partPing Pong Ball Drop, nership, the park and SUU Fish Grab for the Kids, officials will renew the AlHorse Fun Day, Livestock liance for Education agreeand Small Animal shows ment at a signing ceremony along with Many more Fun on the rim of the scenic canFair events and activities. yon on July 29, 2011. The Alliance for EduIts only 2 weeks away, so cation, initiated in 2006, get your entries ready. advances the mission of See you at the Fair ! region by: offering excepThe Bryce Canyon Nattional educational and ex- ural History Association Featuring Po try an• Songs. of the Cowboy periential opportunities for (BCNHA) has been instruSUU students in a variety mental in facilitating this of academic programs, pro- agreement through its Exviding outdoor laboratory ecutive Director and Board and classroom facilities to of Directors, bringing toteach students while col- gether park managers and lecting valuable informa- University administrators tion for managing park in this collaborative venresources, and collaborat- ture. The BCNHA is a noning with communities to profit organization supportenhance their economic, ing educational programs Cannonville Town Park : August 5, 6, & 7, 2011 technological and cultural and research projects that interests. promote understanding and The partnership has also appreciation of Bryce Canprovided internship oppor- yon National Park. tunities in the Park for UniThe signing event for the At Garfield Memorial Hospital versity students; the chance five-year renewal of the AlGarfield Memorial Hospital has benefited greatly from for Park staff to serve on liance for Education Memthe enthusiastic, caring volunteers and generous contribuappropriate University orandum of Understanding tions from the citizens of Garfield and surrounding Councommittees; consultation will take place along the ties. The Thrift Store in Panguitch is a valuable source of services for University park's Rim Trail between income for many projects at the hospital. With this supstudents and faculty; park Sunrise and Sunset Points port, the following items have recently been purchased: office and lab space for at 11:00 AM on July 29, • Pentax Scope Work Station University research; joint 2011. The public is invited • Birthing Bed participation in lectures, to attend. • Lift System with Life Vests field trips and seminars; For more information, • Fetal Heart Monitor SUU library access for Park visit: http://suu.edu/ad/ • Ultra Sound Bed A few archery deer hunting permits are still available for employees; and the dis- regional/bryceCanyonNaConsider donating gently used clothing and home fur- hunters who are 18 years of age or younger. semination of information tionalParkAllianceforEdunishings. Items may be brought to the store on Main Street All of the other permits to hunt buck deer in Utah this cation.html during business hours or dropped off behind the store after fall are gone. But you can still get a permit to hunt bull elk hours. IRS Tax donation receipts are available upon re- during this fall's general rifle or muzzleloader hunts. More quest. than 23,000 bull elk rifle and muzzleloader permits are still The Thrift Store requires many volunteers who want available. to make a difference. Please accept our invitation to share And even more permits are available to hunt elk with a your time and talents and become a member of the Thrift bow and arrow—there's isn't a limit on the number of genStore team. Qualifications are as follows: eral archery elk permits the Division of Wildlife Resources SATURDAY AUGUST 6TH 2011 10AM • No experience needed (Training is provided.) can sell, so there's no problem getting one. • Full or part time, as little as 4 hours a week Utah's general archery elk hunt starts Aug. 20. Elk per• All ages mits are available at the DWR's website (wildlife.utah. If you already volunteered, THANK YOU. If you would gov), from more than 300 license agents across Utah and like to consider becoming a part of our Thrift Store team, at any DWR office. please call Beverly Lowe at 435-735-4405 or Roxanne Deer permits Simkins at 435-676-8158. More than 3,200 Northern Region buck deer permits— permits that weren't taken in this year's big game draw— have sold out. The permits sold out at 11:40 a.m. on July SAVE THE DATE: 27, less than five hours after going on sale. Garfield Memorial Hospital With the exception of 1,300 archery deer permits that are Foundation Dinner available to hunters who will be 18 years of age or younger 6:00 p.m. Friday, October 14, 2011 on Aug. 20, Judi Tutorow, wildlife licensing coordinator New location this year! for the DWR, says all of Utah's deer hunting permits have Ebenezer's Barn and Grill, HWY 63, DARE TO COMPETE IN OUR been taken. Bryce Canyon City, UT. EXTREME CHALLENGE "But plenty of general bull elk permits are still available," she says. "2011 should be a great year to hunt elk." $ 850 ADDED CASH Elk hunting advice In Utah, general season elk hunting happens on two 1ST PLACE BELTBUCKLE THURSDAY types of units. On spike bull units, only spike bulls may be HIGH: 82 taken. On any bull units, you can take a bull of any size. $ 15 ENTRY FEE LOW: 52 SCATTERED T STORMS If you're new to elk hunting, Anis Aoude, big game coBRING YOUR OWN HORSE ordinator for the DWR, encourages you to buy a permit to OR CHAIR OR BOTH • SIGN UP AT 9 AM FRIDAY hunt on the spike bull units. EACH HORSE CAN ONLY RACE ONCE, HIGH: 83 "There are plenty of spike bulls in Utah," he says. "And BUT EACH RIDER CAN SIGN UP PARTLY CLOUDY LOW: 49 there's a lot of public land to hunt them on." SEVERAL HORSES If you decide to chase branch antlered bulls on an any bull unit, Aoude says the two Uinta Mountains units—the SPONSORED BY THE SATURDAY GARFIELD COUNTY TRAVEL COUNCIL, North Slope unit and the South Slope unit—are your best HIGH: 82 THE CAMPBELL FAMILY FOUNDATION, PARTLY CLOUDY bets. LOW: 49 BOULDER MTN LODGE, If you look at the map on pages 46 and 47 of the 2011 CURTIS & DIANNE OBERHANSLY, BURN'S SADDLERY Utah Big Game Guidebook, you'll see Utah has quite a few SUNDAY any bull elk units. HIGH: 83 FOR MORE INFO CALL KATIE 435 616 7379 MOSTLY SUNNY "But there's a challenge to hunting these units," Aoude LOW: 49 LUNCH AND REFRESHMENTS says. "With the exception of the North Slope and South BY SLICKROCK SALLY Slope units, these units are either covered by private land MONDAY or they don't have a lot of elk on them." GO ON BURR TRAIL ROAD, HIGH: 82 Copies of the 2011 Utah Big Game Guidebook are availMOSTLY SUNNY LOW: 49 TURN NORTH AT THE LOWER able at wildlife.utah.gov/guidebooks. BOULDER JUNCTION, PASS 3 HOUSES For more information, call the nearest Division of WildON YOUR RIGHT AND TURN RIGHT TUESDAY ONTO THE BLACK LEDGE ROAD, life Resources office or the DWR's Salt Lake City office at IT'LL TAKE YOU RIGHT THERE HIGH: 81 801-538-4700. VOLUNTEERS MAKE A HUGE DIFFERENCE ELK PERMITS STILL AVAILABLE BOULDER EXTREME HORSEMAN CHALLENGE 2011 440 LOW: 49 SUNNY WEDNESDAY HIGH: 81 LOW: 49 SUNNY Member of:1 , Utah IF*VA : PressrI * * * * * II 0.—afCP. NDEPENDENT FREE PAPERS OF AMERICA ViAll101•..1• “Aavam Nrt's ••igirs I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. Thomas A. Edison 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. 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