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Show Bryce Canyon News Kathy Lee Despite the Saturday morning snow shower, Spring is arriving at Bryce Canyon National Park. The weather is getting warmer each day, the sky is blue and bright, several herds of deer have been sighted within the. park boundaries, and visitation to the park is rapidly in- . creasing as the days go by. In the 1 upcoming weeks, seasonal park personnel will be starting their jobs at Bryce Canyon. Chief Ranger George Buckingham Bucking-ham has achieved another step in his National Park Service career with a new job at Crater Lake Na , tional Park in Oregon, George will be the Chief of Resource Manager ment and Visitor Protection at this 180,000-acre park. He is scheduled to leave Bryce Canyon at the end of April to start his new position but will return in May to help move his family and attend his farewell party. Judy Buckingham who is the first grade teacher at Bryce Valley1 Elementary will finish the school term in late May. Alan Bucking-I ham, a senior at Bryce Valley High! School, will graduate on May 19. Leslie Buckingham, a senior at Utah State College who visited here at Spring break will also graduate in early June as a parks and recreation recre-ation major. Lanora Walker will work at the entrance station as a park rangerfee collector beginning in late April. Park Rangers Fuzz Keene and Laurie Taylor return to the seasonal staff this summer as law enforcement enforce-ment rangers. A number of people who have spent the last several weeks traveling travel-ing around the country are back home. The Buckinghams have returned re-turned home to Bryce safely after a family vacation in Hawaii. Kathy Lee is back from her two-week trip to her hometown of Baltimore, Md., where she visited with family and friends. Sheree Garrett has returned re-turned home safely from her vacation vaca-tion to Salt Lake City and Monti-cello. Monti-cello. It is nice to have Roger Parsons Par-sons back here to Bryce Canyon after af-ter his training course at Rocky Mountain National Park. Bill Miles, concessions specialist special-ist at Bryce Canyon has been appointed ap-pointed the new safety officer for the park. Financial Clerk Debbie Quilter attended a three-day National Park ,,Scrvice training course at Zion National Na-tional Park last week entitled "Automated Finance Systems." Shana Lick, niece of Chief of Maintenance Jed Davis and wife Nancy is visiting with the Davis' for the next several weeks. Shana lives with her parents in Honolulu, Hawaii. Visiting home from college was Kristi Reynolds, daughter of Superintendent and Mrs. Bob Reynolds. Kristi is a sophomore at the University of California at San Diego. Barbara Reynolds will be visiting her parents in San Francisco Fran-cisco for the next several weeks. Park Ranger Chuck Passek, Chief Ranger George Buckingham, Superintendent Bob Reynolds, Chief of Maintenance Jed Davis, and Chief of Interpretation Susan Colclazer attended a National Park Service training course at Zion National Na-tional Park this past week entitled "Position Management Training for Supervisors." Fantasy Baseball has come to Bryce Canyon! This past week Roger Parsons, veteran fantasy baseball league player, organized the Bryce Canyon Fantasy Baseball League. As commissioner of the league, Roger conducted a training session on the fine points and rules of the league on Tuesday evening March 28. On Saturday evening, April 1 the draft for players for each team was held at the park. The Gene Quiltcrs are the managers of the team called "The Hcnricvillc Shuffle". Nancy Bales and Adam Bales manage the "Bales' Brawlers". Roger Parson's team is called ."Parsons' Prayers" and Michael Lee has the team called "Mickie's Marauders". Ma-rauders". Kathy Lee will manage the "J.K. Kalidescopes". Thcrese Johnson and Ben Davis and Jed Davis also are managing teams in the league and they will name their teams this coming week. The regular regu-lar baseball season begins this week. Commissioner Parsons will advise the Bryce Canyon teams of their statistics and changes during the season. It should be an exciting and fun-filled baseball season. The Emergency Medical Technician Techni-cian class held its final class of extrication ex-trication exercise and simulated field exercise this past Saturday at the topic itate Maintenance Shed The class practiced the use of tools'such as the power chisel, pry axe, slide ITS' b?'e nook- comcalong and hydrauhc spreading tools on several old cars. The8 hands-on experience was given a high mark by the students in learning Ss needed as future EMTs Class members expressed thanks to their mstructors Fuzz Keene and Kim |