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Show Reviewing The News Of 1995 April Two separate Wilderness proposals for Garfield county were under consideration just in time to meet Governor Mike Leavitt's March 31 deadline. One had been prepared by the Garfield County commission and will be submitted as the county's official proposal. The second was submitted by a citizens group that has garnered wide support throughout the county for its "Zero Wilderness" plan. Students in the Panguitch High School chapter of the Future Homemakers of America came away with the most first place wins and other top awards when they participated against schools from across the state in Utah Stale FHA competition Road construction project begun in 1994 at Bryce Canyon National Park on the southern end of the main park road resumed in early April with the southernmost eight miles, from Farview to Rainbow Point, remaining closed until completion of the project. Work also began on the Bryce Point parking park-ing area. Panguitch High School participated partici-pated in a Track and Field Meet in Mesquite, Nev. on Mar. 24 where they won the team competition. Most of the teams involved were from the Las Vegas area. With the preliminary hearing for North Star set for May 22 in Sixth District Court in Panguitch, the county was under pressure after a status hearing to provide council by May 1. Garfield County Attorney Wallace Lee announced the names of five public defenders, four to represent seven former employees of North Star Expeditions. The fifth attorney will serve as an alternate. The seven had been found indigent by Judge K. L. Mclff and he had given Lee just 10 days to come up with a list of potential additional ad-ditional public defenders. Kaibab Forest Products Company Com-pany announced a curtailment of operations set for May 5, due to the high cost of logs and a depressed lumber market. The cutback was expected to affect about 30 workers for about a two-month period of layoff. A precedent-setting meeting, meet-ing, the first of regular quarterly conferences to be held, kept Garfield County commissioners and representatives repres-entatives from several federal agen- (See Reviewing The News Of 1995 On Page 5A) Reviewing 1995 From Page 1 cies with jurisdiction over public lands in the county intensely busy for nearly five hours on April 17, and proved to be informative and helpful for all. Four members of the federal Incident Command System, all working at Bryce Canyon National Park, were back in Bryce after a fast trip to Zion National Park to respond with their specialized assistance. A 500-foot long slide at Zion National Park on April 12 caused water in the North Fork of the Virgin River to back up, washing out the only road to the lodge and trapping 338 visitors and 152 staff members along with three of Pete and Keela Mangum's trail ride concession wranglers and their animals. The Mangums, of Tropic, operate trail rides in Bryce, Zion and Grand Canyon North Rim National Parks. Visitation at Bryce Canyon National Park was up a full 25 percent over the Easter weekend holiday, the increase definitely connected to the slide at Zion National Park that had kept many people away from Zion and brought them to Bryce Canyon instead. After marathon executive sessions ses-sions at a meeting of the Garfield County Commission, Sheriff Than Cooper and Com-missioners Louise Liston, Maloy Dodds and Clare Ramsay agreed upon a selection for Esca-lanteBoulder's new deputy sheriff, Monte Luker, 55, a 31 year veteran of the Salt Lake City Police Department. A tough choice according accor-ding to Sheriff Cooper. There were 11 applicants, with four making it to the final round. Luker replaced Deputy Celeste Bernards who had resigned to take a more active part in a family business. The Panguitch High School girls and boys track teams traveled to Milford for the Milford 1-A Track Invitational and dominated the meet from the outset. Participating in the first meet of the season were teams from Bryce Valley .-Escalante and a dozen other southern Utah teams. The Panguitch boys took first place with a total of 238 points to Duchesne's second place 150 points with PHS team member Luke Yardley named as outstanding boys athlete. The Panguitch girls did equally well, also taking home a first place with McKenzie Marshall named as the outstanding girl athlete. |