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Show Revisiting Special Events Remembered From 1992 July The popular Bryce Canyon rodeo at Rubys Inn, a favorite haunt of local rodeo fans, drew hundreds each performing night, with local and statewide talent competing for nightly and season's end prizes. Foreign folk, U.S. and others, also found it an exciting and fun-filled representation of the west New transcription equipment utilizing the latest technology added remarkable new dimensions to Garfield Gar-field Memorial Hospital's Health Information Services department (formerly Medical Records). Panguitch Lake, treated in September 1991, was restocked in November 1991 with 140,000 trout of catchable size. By late June reports re-ports were coming in that the fishing fish-ing at the lake was great with fish already ranging from 10 to 14 inches. The July 4 parade in Panguitch featured Rodeo royalty: Queen Camille Tebbs, First Attendant Marcie Decker and Second Attendant Atten-dant Amanda Talbot. Folks from all around joined local lo-cal residents for Cannonville's 12th annual Old Time Fiddlers Contest and Bear Festival. The Bear Festival Festi-val celebrated the visit several years ago to the community by a large black bear that "terrorized" the community for several days Half the employees at Kaibab Industries Panguitch sawmill started a one-week shutdown On July 20. The shutdown affected 35 of 73 employees, a critical number in Garfield County where the recent re-cent closure of the Escalante Sawmill Saw-mill had already had a substantial impact on the county's economy. In only three years, Panguitch moved to the forefront in high school rodeo circuits as it hosted the Third Annual High School Invitational Invi-tational Rodeo featuring three nights of championship rodeo. Four members of a visiting Israeli Is-raeli family were killed July 19 in a grinding head-on collision about four miles north of Hatch on U.S. 89. The four, a mother, who was driving, and her three children, were killed instantly as their rented car struck a northbound tour bus head-on. The husband and father, who suffered multiple injuries, was taken by ambulance to Garfield Memorial Hospital and then Life Flighted to LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City where he later died of his injuries. Twenty-six passengers on the bus were lucky, with only a few minor injuries to report. August Henrieville poet Ted Piatt was named a "Golden Poet" by the World of Poetry. Garfield County Commissioner Louise Liston was named to the National Na-tional Association of Counties (NACo) Public Lands Steering Committee by NACo president John Stroger, county commissioner from Cook County, 111. Bart Reynolds, a science teacher at Panguitch High School, participated partici-pated in the teacher Research Associates Asso-ciates Program (TRAC) through the Department, of Energy (DOE). . A mid-July decision by the Panguitch Pan-guitch City Council to strictly enforce en-force its curfew law was helping to curb late-night disorder in the community according to Police Chief Martin Nay. Several Garfield County business busi-ness owners bucked heads with representatives rep-resentatives of government agencies agen-cies seeking funds from the Garfield Travel Council to complete com-plete their project at the new interagency intera-gency building in Escalante. The archery deer hunt season opened Aug. 22 with reduced deer numbers and the highest fire danger in many years. ' Andrea Guillette was named Miss Garfield County 1992 at Bryce Valley High's new auditorium audito-rium in Tropic. Camille Tebbs was voted first attendant and Shantell Rich, second attendant. The pageant pag-eant was held in conjunction with the annual Garfield County Fair which featured the Saliva Sisters as entertainers. Panguitch City and the Panguitch Pan-guitch Chamber of Commerce undertook un-dertook a joint project of Main Street redevelopment, their goal being to restore Main Street with a pioneer or western theme. The Garfield County Commission Commis-sion overrode the decision by the Garfield Travel Council not to fund $13,000 for the new interagency building in Escalante. The commission com-mission decided to order a contribution contribu-tion of $13,000 from the travel council's surplus funds toward completion of the facility, to be used for signing and paving of the parking lot Ceremonies were held Aug. 21 to dedicate the facility which houses the Bureau of Land Management, Forest Service and National Park Service offices for the Escalante area. It also contains an information center for the area. South Central Utah Telephone Association's final agreement on Aug. 28 with US WEST Communications Communi-cations to transfer six telephone exchange ex-change to South Central's ownership owner-ship promised some significant improvements im-provements in the quality of services ser-vices for those exchanges. Included in the transfer: Loa, Bicknell, Hanksville, Panguitch, Hatch and Bryce Canyon exchanges. The transfer also promised to provide a few new jobs. September Kaibab Forest Products announced an-nounced Sept. 1 that it had acquired Escalante Sawmill in Escalante. Donald Olsen, president of Kaibab Forest Products, said that the mill would not reopen for the winter. The purchase of the mill, Olsen said, was a resource decision in order or-der to make use of the timber under contract and bid on timber sales in the area. In the Sept. 8 primary election, 10-year House veteran Jim Yardley bested Dell LeFevre for the Republicans Repub-licans to face Democrat Neola Brown in November. Bryce Valley High School's new principal Scott Jackson set as goals to challenge the minds and intellects intel-lects of the sudents and to get the parents and community involved in education. In special award ceremonies at the Salt Lake Hilton on Sept. 10, Lt. Gov. Val Oveson presented a plaque to Panguitch City Manager Karen Breinholt as the city captured first place for 1991-92 in Utah's annual an-nual Community Progress contest. Goals had been set by the city council and progress on those goals was detailed in a workbook prepared pre-pared by Breinholt. A dedicated public servant who was well respected re-spected and much honored Breinholt, Brein-holt, although suffering from terminal termi-nal disease, was determined to complete the city's Community Progress workbook and see the contest through. Less than three months after accepting the award in behalf of the city, Breinholt died, leaving a legacy of commitment and caring behind her. Panguitch residents and people all over Garfield County lost a cherished friend. |