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Show Looking Bach At 1994 - The Year In Review As we begin a new year, it's always interesting to take a look back at the one that's just past. We do that on a monlh-by-month basis over the next week or two as we review highlights of 1994's 52 issues of the Garfield County News. January Santa Claus didn't forget Garfield Memorial Hospital's laboratory labo-ratory and technicians there spent the first few days of 1994 watching their newest piece of high-tech equipment being installed and enjoying en-joying the excitement of learning to use the KODAK EKTACHEM 250 Analyzer for blood testing which would revolutionize the hospital's blood lab procedures by allowing technicians to run tests at a much greater speed and greatly reduced cost. The Panguitch boys basketball team knocked off 3-rated Duchesne 70-66 to run their season record to 7-1. The Bobcats made the state ranking for the first time in the season sea-son as they were voted 4 by the poll. Escalante, meanwhile, knocked off 2-A Hurricane 73-63 in the Kanab Cowboy Classic before falling in the fianls 73-53 to Kanab. Bryce Valley played well but lost 80-69 to Kanab in the same tournament, then felt the revenge re-venge of Hurricane, losing to the Tigers 77-54. Some 150 people, probably more than the town's population, attended an Antimony Eagle Court of Honor for seven young men, an unprecedented event in the tiny community. Receving Eagle badges bad-ges were K.C. Poll, 16; Michael Hansen, 14, Preston Gleave, 17; Garrett Hansen, 18; Clintion Kreit-zer, Kreit-zer, 14; Riley Roberts, 16; and Jeremy Jer-emy Poll, 13. The Escalante Moquis blew out to a 46-32 half-time lead at home against the Bryce Valley Mustangs on their way to a 75-55 victory in a big cross country rivalry. Panguitch Pangui-tch suffered its first loss of the league play season at home to Wayne 71-63 while earlier at Mil-ford Mil-ford Panguitch nudged Milford 59-56. 59-56. Escalante lost to Valley in Orderville, 65-54 and Bryce Valley got beat in the second half to lose to Enterprise 73-54. The PHS girls lost a pair of games to tough Wayne and 2A Kanab. Bryce Canyon reported 1.6 million mil-lion visitors for 1993, the eighth year in a row for record-setting visitation visi-tation Panguitch High School used a 24-7 first quarter burst to outlast Bryce Valley 81-57 in Tropic and were the only county team to win over the weekend as Wayne slopped Escalante 79-72. Panguitch earlier lost to Orderville 67-55, Bryce Valley Val-ley fell to Piute 68-60 and the Moquis Mo-quis were nudged 52-50 as Milford hit a shot near the end to win. The Panguitch girls lost to Valley in a league game and won against Gunnison Gun-nison in a forfeited game. Kodachrome Slate Park reported a record 70,000 visitors for 1993, up by 8,000 from 1992 as numbers continued to increase for the popular popu-lar state park near Cannonville. The Garfield County Travel Council honored three retiring members and appointed several new members. Outgoing members were Rod Syrctt, Bryce; Rick Swanger, Panguitch; and John Houston, Panguitch. Pan-guitch. New members appointed were John Trout, Panguitch; Allen Hcnrie, Panguitch; Kecla Mangum, Tropic; Bob Syrctt, Bryce; and Bob Munson, Escalante. The Bryce Valley Mustangs shocked the Wayne Badgers 76-74 in Bicknell; Panguitch held off Escalante 66-57 and, in other games, BV lost to Valley 82-74 amd the PHS girls lost to Fredonia. February Connie Sawyer's winning slogan slo-gan "Garfield County Aged to Perfection" captured the judges' imagination to take first place in the county's contest to find a slogan that defined the county's multiple assets . Sawyer, Panguitch, is employed em-ployed at Garfield Memorial Hospital. Hospi-tal. The Bryce Valley Mustangs took their show on the road for the second week in a row and knocked off a tough Milford team at Milford 61-49. In other league games, Panguitch let one get away at Piute 69-64 and Escalante got beaten badly in the second half at Enterprise Enter-prise 93-70. In other league games, Wayne shocked Valley 75-57 at Orderville and Enterprise stopped the Buffaloes 52-50. Milford and Escalante still hoped to figure into the scenario. Of the top six teams, Enterprise, Wayne, Piute, Panguitch, Pangui-tch, Valley and Bryce Valley, only five would be able to qualify for state tournament play. The Lady Bobcats defeated Piute 50-44 at Junction, assuring PHS of at least a playoff spot prior to the state girls tournament. Like all national and state parks in Garfield County, Escalante Petrified Petri-fied Forest State Park set new records for visitation for 1993. Visitation hit 78,000 people, up 34 percent from 1992. One hundred women, all quilting enthusiasts, took part in Bryce Valley's Val-ley's Second Annual Quilt Retreat, (See Looking Back At 1994 Page 6A) Reviewing 1994 From Page 1 more than twice as many as the previous year. The event is expected ex-pected to become one of the area's most unique and popular events. Members of the Panguitch High School wrestling team who placed 1st through 4th in region competition competi-tion headed for State, enmnptitinn Traveling with coaches Frank Houston and David Weekes were team members Steven Fisher, Casey Hulet, Brandon Hathcock, Travis Sanders, Chip Sanders, Kip Davis, Scott Grud, David Barn-hurst, Barn-hurst, Brandon Henrie, Lewis Roundy, Mark Barney, Isaac Burrows, Bur-rows, Chris Smith, Jimmy Stewart, Stew-art, Brady Houston, Stoncy Burn-ingham Burn-ingham and Erin Houston. More than 200 signed the guest book during the afternoon open house and more than 100 of those stayed for the evening dedication of Panguitch's new library The ceremony cere-mony marked the culmination of several years of dedicated effort and commitment to the project by library li-brary professionals, city officials and many volunteers throughout the community. Bryce Valley High School's Homecoming royalty included Brandi Rich, queen; Mandi Seiler, first attendant; and Heidi Jackson, second attendant. A four-year-old Escalante area resident spotted a cougar outside his home at Escalante Petrified Forest State Park, residents were keeping a wary eye out for the critter. Two PHS wrestlers, both of whom ended the season at 34-0, captured top honors at the 1 A State Tournament at Milford. Bobcat seniors se-niors Travis Sanders and Kip Davis claimed the honors. Sanders also took home the title of Most Valuable Valu-able Player at Region 1A competition. |