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Show ( ESCALAWTE NEWS"! By Harriet Priska 826-4810 An Escalante landmark is gone! The "teepee burner" at the former Escalante Sawmill location is now being dismantled for scrap. Stephen Steed said that the first teepee was erected in 1960 and replaced re-placed by the present one in 1982. Like a "Phoenix" out of the ashes, Utah Forest Products is on its way to becoming a reality and it is Steed's dream to have a modem sawmill which will provide much needed jobs for the community and well administered use of natural resources. A real indicator of "cabin fever" is someone who watches the weather every chance she gets and keeps tracks of all the snowfall figures. Guilty as charged! For the year since Oct. 1, we have had 9.1 1 inches of precipitation (normal for the whole year is 10.55 inches) and we have had 67 inches of snow in that same period. In February alone, we received 21 inches of snow and 3.06 inches of precipitation. We are all thrilled to see the sun rapidly melting back the snow and drying up the muddy roads. Tulips and irises are making their appearances. A community basketball program pro-gram has been formed and anyone 17 years and older is welcome to participate. Hours are 7-10 p.m. on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at the old high school gym. A lot of fun for all. Bill and Bev Kuhns have returned re-turned from their month-long tour of the south. They enjoyed visiting New Orleans and fishing on Padre Island. Bill and Dawn Griffin took a quick trip out to Temecula, Calif, to visit summer Escalante residents, resi-dents, Omar and Trudy Wood. Then they went on to Yuma, Ariz, where they paid their annual visit to friends living there. Linda Carter's mother, Beryl Page, has been here visiting since Dec. 15 from Slingerlands, N.Y. She has enjoyed her visit with the family and will return home later this month. Keith and Linda Carter's four older children gave them tickets for "Les Miserables" as a Christmas gift The Carters went down to Las Vegas, Nev. to see the performance and were joined by daughter and son-in-law, Shirley and Tawnya Pulsipher from St. Johns, Ariz. They related that it was a superb performance. The Utah Department Of Transportation Trans-portation reported to the city council that construction on the road widening will begin mid-March. mid-March. Some of the survey stakes had to be replaced due to the heavy snows and being pulled out by pranksters. They also said that they plan to install a street light over the crosswalk by the high school and that speed limits in the area will be adjusted. Escalante High School Principal Princi-pal Myron Cottam is pleased to announce an-nounce that college courses will be offered here in the community March 22-25. They will be taught by instructors from Southern Utah University and Sevier Valley Tech. The courses will be given during regular school hours and will be free to all high school students and $8 for 8 hours of class to anyone in the community. Classes such as diesel mechanics, computer, nursing, nurs-ing, cosmetology, and cabinet making mak-ing will be offered. Please call the high school for a complete listing and registration at 826-4205. Principal Prin-cipal Cottam hopes that there will be a lot of interest in this program for which the school has received a $10,000 grant and he would like to continue to offer this kind of opportunity each spring and fall. |