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Phone: 435-826-4400 Fax 1-888-370-8546 PO BOX 105 Escalante, Utah 84726 [email protected]Thursday, December 12, 2013 • Issue # 1026 If all the world’s a stage, I want to operate the trap door. —Paul Beatty, Novelist REGIONAL WEATHER FORECAST FOR SOME BUT NOT ALL REGIONS REPRESENTED IN OUR NEWSPAPER COVERAGE AREA THURS. DEC. 12 - WED. DEC. 18 WARMER, ONE HOPES. As of today, Tuesday morning, our forecasters would have us believe that by ursday, highs will be climbing into the 30s, even the high 30s in some places, and stay there all week, and lows will be in the balmy teens and maybe 20s. Friday night’s supposed to be the coldest. Ceilings all week anywhere from partly sunny to partly cloudy to sunny to cloudy. Saturday’s outlook looks sunniest. WAYNE & GARFIELD COUNTIES - Utah’s Hwy 12, straddling Wayne and Garfield coun- ties and gateway to two national parks and countless other beautiful natural attractions, achieved “All American Road” status in 2002. New monument signs proclaiming this designation are now being placed at each end of the highway, near U.S. Highway 89 outside of Panguitch and S.R. 24 in Torrey. Here’s a photo taken last week at milepost 2 of the completed sign at the west end near Panguitch. Scenic Byway 12 Coordinator John Holland says the Torrey sign will get the same let- tering treatment once this stormy cold weather passes. —Insider One Down, One to Go... SALT LAKE CITY - Last Spring, Utah’s art magazine 15 Bytes, invited the public to nominate artists they feel have influenced and impacted the direction of art and culture in Utah. The project attracted 97 nominations from 70 individ- uals. Everyone who submitted a nomination was invited to vote for their top 15 choices. From these, the e-zine an- nounced the “15 Most Influen- tial Artists.” In February, these artists will be featured in an exhibition at the Rio Gallery in Salt Lake City and a book with in depth profiles will be published and released. It will Local Artist Celebrated as Among Utah’s Most Influential GRAND STAIRCASE - ESCALANTE N.M. - Share the gift of nature this holiday season by participating with your family and friends in the 114th Annual Audubon Christmas Bird Count. Na- tionally, birders have been participating in the event for one hundred and twelve years. More than 50,000 volunteers from all 50 states, Canadian, Central and South America, Bermuda, the West Indies, and Pacific Islands count and re- cord every individual bird and bird species seen in a specified area found during one 24-hour period in a designated circle 15 miles in diameter or about 177 square miles. Locally, the CBC is hold- ing its 21th annual event. Last year, individuals and local school children from every walk of life turned out for the event. Everyone had a great Volunteer Birders Needed for Christmas Bird Count be the e-zine’s first print pub- lication. Laura Durham is the As- sistant Editor of 15 Bytes and headed this project. “I find myself defending the arts on a regular basis” she says, “I believe being an artist and working in the arts is a viable profession that can be quite profitable if our society can recognize the value arts have.” She started this awards pro- gram and hopes it will inspire more people to recognize how art has enhanced their qual- ity of life. “Many awards pro- grams honor leadership in the arts, excellence in art, who is the most popular right now, etc.” She adds, “As arts ad- ministrators, I recognize we have the position and power to create a widespread impact, but I want to celebrate influ- ence from the creative indi- viduals who are practicing the art that we promote, support and enjoy.” The nominations includ- ed artists working in visual arts, music, dance, theatre, film and literature. The public was asked to write 150 words about their nomination. “I have to say, the most reward- ing part of this project was reading the heartfelt words from our community describ- ing how an artist has touched their lives and why they feel our world is a better place with them in it.” The 2013 honorees are: Paul Davis of Teasdale, Brian Kershisnik of Kanosh, and Trent Alvey, San- dy Brunvand, Anne Campbell Bliss, Ruby Chacon, Anne Cullimore Decker, John Er- ickson, Stephen Goldsmith, Bonnie Phillips, Brad Slaugh, Terry Tempest Williams, Sam Wilson, and Joan Woodbury – each of whom is from Salt Lake City. Shawn Rossiter, editor of 15 Bytes says, “If all goes well, we hope to do this pro- gram on a regular basis, con- tinuing to focus our attention on the artists who make an im- pact on our community. We’re sure many of the influential artists who aren’t selected this year will appear in a future edition of the program.” The exhibition will be held at the Rio Gallery in Salt Lake City February 21 – March 21 and will feature the work of these 15 artists. The book was written by 15 Bytes writers and will be released on the night of the opening, Fri- day, February 21st from 6-9 PM in conjunction with the Salt Lake Gallery Stroll. —15 Bytes Teasdale-based artist Paul Davis. John holland TEASDALE - Local artist Paul Davis is one of 15 artists selected by 15 Bytes as among Utah’s most influential. Davis says he first came to Utah in 1976 to paint the landscape. “Utah had it all...sky, mountains and red rock desert. Susan and Doug Snow introduced me to Wayne County right away.” Snow and Davis were colleagues at the University of Utah where Davis taught painting for twenty five years. Davis and his wife Silvia eventually moved to Teasdale in 1993. “The people of Wayne county have made us feel welcome right from the start,” he says. Davis continues to be inspired by the changing landscape around him. “This landscape is continually being eroded and reborn every day in a cycle of creation and destruction. A rock wall with its desert varnish, cracks and newly exposed surfaces look exactly like a giant gorgeous painting to me. I try to get some of that in my painting.” Davis is Professor Emeritus at the University of Utah and still teaches privately. —Insider Panguitch Drug: The Next Generation Marshall Family Great-Grandson Takes the Reins at Utah’s Oldest Family Pharmacy Sam Marshall (at left) and his dad, Steve Marshall, represent the third and fourth genera- tions of Marshall family pharmacists serving Garfield County. time, identifying more than 3,000 birds representing over 70 bird species in and around Bryce Canyon, Kanab, Es- calante, Utah; and Page and Pipe Springs, Arizona includ- ing many migrating birds such as Golden eagles, Ring-necked ducks, and wild turkeys. This year’s event prom- ises to be even more success- ful. The Bureau of Land Man- agement (BLM) Kanab Field Office and Grand Staircase- Escalante National Monument (GSENM), the National Park Service (NPS) Pipe Spring National Monument, Bryce Canyon National Park, and Glen Canyon National Recre- ation Area will be co-hosting Christmas Bird Counts (CBC) events in Southern Utah and Northern Arizona. Events will be held on: • December 16, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Pipe Spring National Monument Visitor Center, 406 W Pipe Spring RD, Pipe Spring, Ari- zona. Call (928) 643-7105 for more information. • December 17, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Bryce Canyon Visitor Center in Con- ference Room D, Bryce Can- yon National Park. Binoculars, bird ID books, and snowshoes will be available to borrow. Call (435) 834-4753 for more information. • December 18, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Escalante Interagency Visitor Center, 755 W Main Street, Escalante, Utah. Call (435) 826-5499 for more information. • December 19, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Anasazi State Park Visitor Center, 460 Highway 12, Boulder, Utah. . WGCI Photo Panguitch Drug Cont’d on page 3 Bird Count Cont’d on page 2 PANGUITCH - Sam Mar- shall says he didn’t always see it as a sure thing—that he’d come back to where he grew up and step into the family business of running Panguitch Drug. Nevertheless, as a young man, he did choose to take up the family profession. Fol- lowing in the footsteps of his father, grandfather and great- grandfather, he attended phar- macy school, choosing his grand-dad’s alma mater of Idaho State University to fin- ish his pharmacy studies after completing his bachelor’s de- gree at Southern Utah Univer- sity. He eventually became a pharmacist, too. He was drawn back to Cedar City with his wife Lauri, where he and a good friend of his dad’s, Evan Vickers—whom Sam had worked with at Bulloch’s Drugs during his undergrad years at SUU—opened up Township Pharmacy just out- side of Valley View Medical Center. Sam worked with and helped build that business for a dozen years. Meanwhile, Sam’s dad, Steve Marshall, has served as Garfield County’s pharmacist long enough to see babies who were born at the start of his career grow well into middle- age. Steve took over the phar- macy from his own father, Monte, around 1970, and after many years of operating at the original Panguitch Drug loca- tion on Main Street, he had the idea to move and expand the store to their current site around the corner on Center Street, a process he says he painstakingly planned and de- signed over the course of 10
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thuRs. dEc. 12 - WEd. dEc. 18WARMER, ONE HOPES. As of today, Tuesday morning, our forecasters would have us believe that by Thursday, highs will be climbing into the 30s, even the high 30s in some places, and stay there all week, and lows will be in the balmy teens and maybe 20s. Friday night’s supposed to be the coldest. Ceilings all week anywhere from partly sunny to partly cloudy to sunny to cloudy. Saturday’s outlook looks sunniest.
WAYNE & GARFIELD COUNTIES - Utah’s Hwy 12, straddling Wayne and Garfield coun-ties and gateway to two national parks and countless other beautiful natural attractions, achieved “All American Road” status in 2002. New monument signs proclaiming this designation are now being placed at each end of the highway, near U.S. Highway 89 outside of Panguitch and S.R. 24 in Torrey. Here’s a photo taken last week at milepost 2 of the completed sign at the west end near Panguitch. Scenic Byway 12 Coordinator John Holland says the Torrey sign will get the same let-tering treatment once this stormy cold weather passes. —Insider
One Down, One to Go...
SALT LAKE CITY - Last Spring, Utah’s art magazine 15 Bytes, invited the public to nominate artists they feel have influenced and impacted the direction of art and culture in Utah. The project attracted 97 nominations from 70 individ-uals. Everyone who submitted a nomination was invited to vote for their top 15 choices. From these, the e-zine an-nounced the “15 Most Influen-tial Artists.” In February, these artists will be featured in an exhibition at the Rio Gallery in Salt Lake City and a book with in depth profiles will be published and released. It will
Local Artist Celebrated as Among Utah’s Most Influential
GRAND STAIRCASE - ESCALANTE N.M. - Share the gift of nature this holiday season by participating with your family and friends in the 114th Annual Audubon Christmas Bird Count. Na-tionally, birders have been participating in the event for one hundred and twelve years. More than 50,000 volunteers from all 50 states, Canadian, Central and South America, Bermuda, the West Indies, and Pacific Islands count and re-cord every individual bird and bird species seen in a specified area found during one 24-hour period in a designated circle 15 miles in diameter or about 177 square miles.
Locally, the CBC is hold-ing its 21th annual event. Last year, individuals and local school children from every walk of life turned out for the event. Everyone had a great
Volunteer Birders Needed for Christmas Bird Count
be the e-zine’s first print pub-lication.
Laura Durham is the As-sistant Editor of 15 Bytes and headed this project. “I find myself defending the arts on a regular basis” she says, “I believe being an artist and working in the arts is a viable profession that can be quite profitable if our society can recognize the value arts have.” She started this awards pro-gram and hopes it will inspire more people to recognize how art has enhanced their qual-ity of life. “Many awards pro-grams honor leadership in the arts, excellence in art, who is
the most popular right now, etc.” She adds, “As arts ad-ministrators, I recognize we have the position and power to create a widespread impact, but I want to celebrate influ-ence from the creative indi-viduals who are practicing the art that we promote, support and enjoy.”
The nominations includ-ed artists working in visual arts, music, dance, theatre, film and literature. The public was asked to write 150 words about their nomination. “I have to say, the most reward-ing part of this project was reading the heartfelt words from our community describ-ing how an artist has touched their lives and why they feel our world is a better place with them in it.” The 2013 honorees are: Paul Davis of Teasdale, Brian Kershisnik of Kanosh, and Trent Alvey, San-dy Brunvand, Anne Campbell Bliss, Ruby Chacon, Anne Cullimore Decker, John Er-ickson, Stephen Goldsmith, Bonnie Phillips, Brad Slaugh, Terry Tempest Williams, Sam Wilson, and Joan Woodbury – each of whom is from Salt Lake City.
Shawn Rossiter, editor of 15 Bytes says, “If all goes well, we hope to do this pro-gram on a regular basis, con-tinuing to focus our attention on the artists who make an im-pact on our community. We’re sure many of the influential artists who aren’t selected this year will appear in a future edition of the program.”
The exhibition will be held at the Rio Gallery in Salt Lake City February 21 – March 21 and will feature the work of these 15 artists. The book was written by 15 Bytes writers and will be released on the night of the opening, Fri-day, February 21st from 6-9 PM in conjunction with the Salt Lake Gallery Stroll.
—15 Bytes
Teasdale-based artist Paul Davis.
John holland
TEASDALE - Local artist Paul Davis is one of 15 artists selected by 15 Bytes as among Utah’s most influential.
Davis says he first came to Utah in 1976 to paint the landscape.
“Utah had it all...sky, mountains and red rock desert. Susan and Doug Snow introduced me to Wayne County right away.”
Snow and Davis were colleagues at the University of Utah where Davis taught painting for twenty five years. Davis and his wife Silvia eventually moved to Teasdale in 1993.
“The people of Wayne county have made us feel welcome right from the start,” he says.
Davis continues to be inspired by the changing landscape around him.
“This landscape is continually being eroded and reborn every day in a cycle of creation and destruction. A rock wall with its desert varnish, cracks and newly exposed surfaces look exactly like a giant gorgeous painting to me. I try to get some of that in my painting.”
Davis is Professor Emeritus at the University of Utah and still teaches privately.
—Insider
Panguitch Drug: The Next Generation
Marshall Family Great-Grandson Takes the Reins at Utah’s Oldest Family Pharmacy
Sam Marshall (at left) and his dad, Steve Marshall, represent the third and fourth genera-tions of Marshall family pharmacists serving Garfield County.
time, identifying more than 3,000 birds representing over 70 bird species in and around Bryce Canyon, Kanab, Es-calante, Utah; and Page and Pipe Springs, Arizona includ-ing many migrating birds such as Golden eagles, Ring-necked ducks, and wild turkeys.
This year’s event prom-ises to be even more success-ful. The Bureau of Land Man-agement (BLM) Kanab Field Office and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (GSENM), the National Park Service (NPS) Pipe Spring National Monument, Bryce Canyon National Park, and Glen Canyon National Recre-ation Area will be co-hosting Christmas Bird Counts (CBC) events in Southern Utah and Northern Arizona. Events will be held on:
• December 16, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Pipe
Spring National Monument Visitor Center, 406 W Pipe Spring RD, Pipe Spring, Ari-zona. Call (928) 643-7105 for more information.
• December 17, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Bryce Canyon Visitor Center in Con-ference Room D, Bryce Can-yon National Park. Binoculars, bird ID books, and snowshoes will be available to borrow. Call (435) 834-4753 for more information.
• December 18, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Escalante Interagency Visitor Center, 755 W Main Street, Escalante, Utah. Call (435) 826-5499 for more information.
• December 19, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Anasazi State Park Visitor Center, 460 Highway 12, Boulder, Utah. .
WGCI Photo
Panguitch DrugCont’d on page 3
Bird CountCont’d on page 2
PANGUITCH - Sam Mar-shall says he didn’t always see it as a sure thing—that he’d come back to where he grew up and step into the family business of running Panguitch Drug.
Nevertheless, as a young man, he did choose to take up the family profession. Fol-lowing in the footsteps of his father, grandfather and great-grandfather, he attended phar-macy school, choosing his grand-dad’s alma mater of Idaho State University to fin-ish his pharmacy studies after completing his bachelor’s de-
gree at Southern Utah Univer-sity.
He eventually became a pharmacist, too. He was drawn back to Cedar City with his wife Lauri, where he and a good friend of his dad’s, Evan Vickers—whom Sam had worked with at Bulloch’s Drugs during his undergrad years at SUU—opened up Township Pharmacy just out-side of Valley View Medical Center. Sam worked with and helped build that business for a dozen years.
Meanwhile, Sam’s dad, Steve Marshall, has served as
Garfield County’s pharmacist long enough to see babies who were born at the start of his career grow well into middle-age. Steve took over the phar-macy from his own father, Monte, around 1970, and after many years of operating at the original Panguitch Drug loca-tion on Main Street, he had the idea to move and expand the store to their current site around the corner on Center Street, a process he says he painstakingly planned and de-signed over the course of 10
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Wayne County Sheriff’sShop With A Cop
It’s time again for our annual “Shop With A Cop.” This program has been established to help
meet the needs of children in families who find themselves in need. If you would like to donate
to “Shop With A Cop” and help the children in our community, please contact the Wayne County
Sheriff’s Office 435-836-1308. Thank You
SALT LAKE CITY - Many Utah homeowners this year are thankful for signs of a recovering housing market and new rules limiting un-controlled fees linked to the mortgage meltdown. But leg-islation in Congress would roll back some consumer protec-tions, making it more costly for Utah home buyers.
The new rules are work-ing to ensure that banks don’t issue mortgages to borrowers who aren’t capable of repay-ing, said Gary Kalman, execu-tive vice president of the Cen-ter for Responsible Lending. However, he added, the leg-islation known as the “Mort-gage Choice Act” - HR 3211 and S 1577 - would undermine what he considers a fair and balanced compromise.
“There are many lenders and even banking trade asso-ciations that said they can live with the rule as is,” he said. “There’s just certain players that are trying to squeeze out every last dollar from a bor-rower that they can.”
Current policies sched-uled to go into effect Jan. 10 would cap “points and fees” for mortgages at 3 percent of the total loan amount.
If the Mortgage Choice Act passes, the 3 percent cap on fees set to go into effect in January goes away.
Backers of the Mortgage Choice Act argue the cur-
Congress: Rolling Back Home-Buyers’ Protections?
SALT LAKE CITY - Utah’s nonfarm payroll em-ployment for October 2013 grew by an estimated 2.2 per-cent, adding 27,800 jobs to the economy as compared to Octo-ber 2012. Utah’s current count of jobs measures 1,299,000. The seasonally ad-justed unem-ployment rate for the state registered 4.6 percent; for the United States the rate is 7.3.
Due to the federal gov-ernment shutdown in October, September employment num-bers were not available for the states. Since reopening, those measures were made avail-able: in the month of Septem-ber Utah added 26,700 jobs (2.1 percent growth year-over) and experienced an unemploy-ment rate of 4.7 percent.
Autumn appears to be a time of economic leveling-off for the state, as the unemploy-
WASHINGTON, DC - Rep. Chris Stewart (R-Utah) was appointed as a new mem-ber of the powerful House Appropriations Committee on December 4.
“I’m excited for the chance to serve on the appro-priations committee and for the opportunities it offers to bet-ter oversee federal spending,” Stewart said. “As outlined in the Constitution, one of the primary functions of Congress is to manage federal funds. Specifically, the appropriations committee plays a critical and constitutionally mandated role in holding the President and his federal agencies account-able for the people’s money. It has already held more than 150 hearings this year, with a focus on making every aspect of the government justify its existence or else lose its fund-ing. I’m excited to be a part of this effort.”
Joining Stewart on the committee are Rep. Mark Amodei (NV-02) and Rep. Martha Roby (AL-02).
“I am pleased to wel-come Representatives Amo-dei, Roby, and Stewart to the Committee, and look forward to working side-by-side with them as we tackle our formi-dable work ahead,” said Rep. Hal Rogers, Chairman of the House Appropriations Com-mittee. “Members of the Ap-propriations Committee have tough jobs to do, and have a great responsibility to properly fund the federal government and support the well-being of the nation. These dedicated public servants have proven their commitment to the re-
Stewart Appointed to the House Appropriations
Committee
SALT LAKE CITY - Utah USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) State Execu-tive Director, Arthur Douglas, reminds farmers and ranch-ers that Farm Storage Facility Loans (FSFL) are available through FSA.
The Farm Service Agen-cy offers low-interest loans to grain producers to build new or upgrade existing storage fa-cilities and permanent drying and handling equipment. Loan opportunities include, but are not limited to:
· New conventional-type cribs or bins, oxygen-limiting and other upright silo-type structures, and flat-type storage structures designed for whole grain storage,
· Perforated floors, safety equipment, quality im-provement equipment, elec-trical equipment and concrete components considered essen-tial for a fully functional stor-age facility,
· Remodeling ex-isting storage facilities to in-crease storage capacity.
Farm storage facility loans must be approved prior to site preparation, equip-
USDA Farm Storage Loans Available
The Wayne Theatre
General Admission: $6.00Seniors 59 and over & Children 11 and younger: $5.00
December 10 - December 20, 2013LOA - The Wayne County Farm Service Agency (FSA) Of-
fice is announcing a sign-up period for the Emergency Conserva-tion Program (ECP). This conservation program is targeted for repairs to farm land and irrigation systems resulting from the flash flooding that occurred September 2013.
Please stop by the Wayne County FSA Office at 138 South Main, Loa Utah, to complete an application. If you have any questions, call (435) 836-2711.
“UDSA is an equal opportunity provider and employer.”—Wayne County Farm Service Agency
SALT LAKE CITY - Call-ing all innovators in academia, the Governor’s Office of Eco-nomic Development (GOED) is pleased to announce appli-cations are open for round two of FY 2014 Technology Com-mercialization and Innovation Program (TCIP) grant compe-tition.
TCIP is a state-funded grant program that was created for the purpose of commercial-izing cutting-edge technolo-gies born at Utah’s colleges and universities. The Utah Legislature enacted the TCIP program in 1986 to drive eco-nomic development and job creation for the state.
Applications for the TCIP grants are due at noon on Mon-day January 6, 2014. After a competitive review, the Gover-nor’s Office of Economic De-velopment (GOED) will award grants of up to $40,000 to fund development of cutting-edge technologies.
There are two types of eli-gible applicants for this grant: 1) a faculty-led team at a Utah college or university, public or private; or 2) a company, exist-ing or startup, that has licensed or is in the process of licensing a technology from a Utah col-lege or university.
Previously funded tech-nologies include a water conservation meter, a virtual health clinic for active military
Efforts will be made to pair inexperienced birders with ex-perienced birders. Call (435) 826-5607 for more informa-tion.
• December 20, from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the BLM GSENM/Kanab Field Office Headquarters Complex, 669 S Highway 89A, Kanab, Utah. Call (435) 644-1200 for more information.
• January 4, 2013 from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.at Glen Canyon NRA Headquarters, 691 Scenic View Road, Page
Funding with the Future in Mind
GOED hosts second round of competitive grant cycle
for fiscal year 2014
sponsible shepherding of fed-eral tax dollars, to the regular Appropriations process, and to both the people of their districts and the American people as a whole.”
“I have been extremely grateful for the opportunity to serve on the House Natural Re-sources Committee, the House Homeland Security Commit-tee and as the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Environment under the House Science, Space and Technology Committee,” Stewart continued. “These committees are all working on meaningful legislation, which I will continue to support.”
The slots on the Appropri-ations Committee opened fol-lowing the resignations of Con-gressmen Rodney Alexander and Jo Bonner, and the death of Defense Subcommittee Chair-man C.W. Bill Young.
—U.S. House of Representatives
personnel, a breathalyzer wall mount for alcohol serving venues, a topical medication that fights glaucoma, cath-eters that eliminate urinary tract infections, and a winglet technology that can increase the operational efficiency and speed of a plane by up to 12 percent without increased use of the engine.
The grants are disbursed contingent on federal or pri-vate matching funds being furnished by the commercial-izing company or university to leverage the state’s contribu-tion and are approved based on their potential for econom-ic development in Utah.
Commercialization of the most promising research and technology out of Utah’s uni-versities helps ensure contin-ual economic and job growth across Utah’s most dynamic industry sectors. The grants will help contribute to Gov-ernor Gary Herbert’s overall challenge to the private sec-tor to accelerate the creation of 100,000 new Utah jobs in 1,000 days.
For information and in-structions on how to apply, visit http://business.utah.gov/programs/coe/. The applica-tion deadline is noon on Mon-day, January 6, 2014.
—Utah Governor’s Office of Economic Development
ment purchase or construc-tion, and must be secured by a promissory note and security agreement. The new maxi-mum principal loan amount is $500,000. Participants are required to provide a down payment of 15 percent, with CCC providing a loan for the remaining 85 percent of the net cost of the eligible storage facility and permanent drying and handling equipment.
Additional security is required for poured-cement open-bunker silos, renew-able biomass facilities, cold storage facilities, hay barns and for all loans exceeding $50,000. New loan terms of seven, 10 or 12 years are available depending on the amount of the loan. Interest rates for each term rate may be different and are based on the rate which CCC borrows from the Treasury Depart-ment.
Contact your local FSA Office for more informa-tion on Farm Storage Facil-ity Loans or visit the web at www.fsa.usda.gov/ut/.
—USDA
Utah’s October Unemployment Summary
ment rate remains virtually unchanged and the job growth rate tapers off. Despite this, la-bor force participation contin-ues to increase across the state.
All of the eleven private
sector industries posted net job increases in October as com-pared to last year. The larg-est increases were in Trade, Transportation and Utilities (7,600 jobs), Leisure and Hos-pitality (5,800 jobs) and Edu-cation and Health (5,600 jobs). Government employment con-tracted by 8,000 jobs in the same period.
Arizona. Efforts will be made to pair inexperienced birders with experienced birders. Call (928) 608-6267 for more in-formation.
Several area schools are also participating by having students count birds at feeders and around their own schools. Check off sheets may be com-ing home with your kids in their homework. Just send them back to school and event sponsors will pick them up.
The 21th Annual Audu-bon Christmas Bird Count is an event for everyone, not just for the birds! According to Lisa Church, Kanab Field Of-fice wildlife biologist, “Any-one can contribute. Folks can even count birds in their own yard. If they would like more adventure, they can drive or hike along local birding routes.” So, come join us and learn more about the feathered residents of your public lands.
—Bureau of Land Management
Bird CountCont’d from page 1
rent regulations are too strin-gent and changes are needed to clarify the definitions of “points” and “fees.”
Kevin Whelan, campaign director of the Home Defend-ers League in Minneapolis, said the cap ensures lender profitability without hidden fees that drive up home-buy-ing costs. He said Minnesota families still are hurting from previous lending practices that weren’t supposed to continue.
“I’ve seen home owner-ship and community well-being stripped from families by the deliberate campaign of predatory and deceptive lending by the big banks, and by people that were working in collaboration or collusion with big banks,” he said.
Kalman said nothing in the legislation would benefit homebuyers. In fact, he added, he believes new policies are needed to ensure the housing market - which is key for the entire economy - recovers for individual home owners, not just banks or private investors.
“The housing market is a $10 trillion market,” he said. “Stability, certainty is what the lenders are going to need in order to make sure that the market continues to grow.”
Track HR 3211 and S 1577 here and here.
—Troy Wilde, Utah News Connection
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years—including the architec-tural elements borrowed from many styles native to Utah.
“The fronts came from buildings in Parowan, Cedar City, and of course Ouray, Colorado, Spring City and Park City. The arched win-dows came from the design of the LDS tabernacle that was on this site,” he said. “The old North Ward church sat right where this building was—I got baptized right about where we’re sitting.”
Steve opened up the new store in 1998.
It was just as Steve be-gan to think it might be time to pass the business on to other hands, that Sam warmed to the idea of coming home and tak-ing over the family drug store. So, this past July, Sam Mar-shall moved with his family from Cedar City back to Pan-guitch.
Sam describes his deci-sion as a desire to come home and reconnect with his rural roots.
“For me it was…I think no matter where you live it doesn’t feel like home unless you’re back where home was. If your home was in a rural area, nowhere else feels like home. We liked Cedar City but we are glad to be in Pan-guitch. We love it because the community is so tight knit, and my kids have a greater sense of freedom being in a small town,” he said.
Now that he is back and in charge of Panguitch Drug full time, it seems to fit him like a glove.
During a recent after-noon conversation
at the pharmacy with Steve, Sam, and Sam’s sister An-nie, the three Marshall family members talked about the his-tory of the family business, the current transition to the fourth generation of Marshall’s and…horse racing. Steve shared his excitement about retiring after 43 years and was clearly proud of the talents that his son Sam brings to the business.
“The reason he is popular is he has skills with people, he spends time listening to them and helping them with their needs,” said Steve. “In fact right after he moved over here we had a bunch of ladies from Cedar City that called me on the carpet and said they didn’t
approve of me bringing him over to Panguitch,” he said. “Sam’s knowledge of thera-peutics is also way beyond mine,” he said, referring to the way drugs are used in treating various disorders.
“In a rural area like this we have a great ability to af-fect people at a personal lev-el, he added. “You see these people at church, at basketball games. Things are so much more personal.”
Steve acknowledged that for Sam to take on the busi-ness he was going to have to learn to run a huge variety of things. “It overwhelms most independent pharmacists, all the different aspects of run-ning multiple parts of a store.”
Panguitch Drug in many respects is more than one store, including the Radio Shack, the Cowboy Store, and the floor includes a wide vari-ety of departments and 23 staff that keep the whole thing hum-ming.
Noting the changes too, that have taken place in phar-macy over time, Steve adds, “My grandpa said—this was back in compounding days—that in 1960 he had 13 pre-scriptions in one day and it nearly killed him. Nowadays we average 200 prescriptions a day, which is typical for in-dependents like us.”
For pharmacists these days, too, there is a lot of emphasis on medical therapy management, and certification in specialized areas like diabe-tes care.
“There’s a lot of informa-tion to follow and the state has requirements for continuing education. And pharmacists are the experts in medical products. And they’ve moved into other areas of health care, such as doing immunizations, which just a generation ago was entirely the territory of physicians and nurses. We do 500 immunizations per year— flu shots, tetanus shots, shin-gles, pneumonia shots,” said Steve.
Panguitch Drug is one of the oldest family-
run businesses in Utah, and, according to the Marshalls, the oldest family pharmacy in the state. Sam’s great-grandfather, Earl Marshall, started the busi-ness in January 1916.
Steve describes that his-tory. “There already was a Panguitch Drug when grand-pa Earl came to town. It was
owned by a Mr. Carhart, and it had been around since about 1897. My grandfather came from a group of guys that were cowboys, he was a short guy and he had a lot of Shetlands. When the Hatch Town dam washed out everybody from Hatch down the Sevier River to Circleville, there were a lot of farmers that got up and left and went to Idaho. It washed out everything, ruined all their fields, wiped out the whole lo-cal economy. My grandpa’s dad gave him a 50 dollar gold piece and put him on the train and sent him to California. He stayed there for three years and finished a pharmaceutical chemistry degree at the Uni-versity of Southern California. When my grandpa Earl came back he started his own phar-macy, called Elk Pharmacy, and it was just a few years after that he bought out Mr. Carhart.”
And that’s how the fam-ily acquired Panguitch Drug.
According to Sam, his grandfather Monte, Earl’s son, is the one who brought horse racing into the family. “He sort of ran away from home at about the age of 15 and was riding racehorses around the western U.S., said Sam.
Annie Anderson, Sam’s sister, filled in a few of the horse racing-related details, wishing right off that her grandma, Cleo Tebbs Mar-shall, could be present to get her two cents into the story. “Grandma always said that the things that defined her and grandpa Monte’s life were the drug store and horse racing. Just about everybody in the family was a jockey. Sam did a little jockeying. Horse rac-ing was an escape from the drug store,” she said.
Annie also joked, “One thing…Sam is by far the tall-est Marshall pharmacist. They got progressively taller over the years,” she said.
Steve said that he is cur-rently working on a history of paramutual horse racing in Utah. He said he did jockey-ing himself for 5 years. “Wag-es were 65 cents, 75 cents an hour and I could make a lot more on the weekends. I started out being a hot walker. Progressed to galloping horses and by about age 15 I got to ride a few races.”
Steve went to the base-ment of the store and brought up a whole box of horse racing photos and memorabilia.
“I’ve got pictures of race-
horses going back into the 1920s. Probably 1,500 pic-tures scanned so far and the whole project, it’s grown so far out,” he said.
The family interest in horses led both Steve and Sam to have an interest in vet-erinary medicine, though both stuck with pharmacy.
Nowadays, Sam is running the store
and Steve works a couple days a week during the comple-tion of the transition. Sam has a tendency to say, “My dad works for me.” Which doesn’t seem to bother Steve at all.
When asked how he feels about retirement, Steve says, “The sooner the better. My heart was really in this—this is our family, this is who we are and I really had a hard time, a really hard time, think-ing of it being something else. The sooner I retire the bet-ter—it’s better for Sam, it’s
better for me. The transition is all but done.”
“It’s been fun for me to work with my dad a bit,” said Sam. “A lot of people don’t get to do that.
“I was initially a little nervous about the Panguitch store,” he continues “because we don’t do the numbers here that we did in Cedar in terms of volume. It makes it harder for us to compete because of the rural nature of Garfield County. But I think we’ll have some growth over the next few years. We do so many prescriptions from mail order, we do mail prescriptions for free, we don’t charge people the postage. We mail a lot of prescriptions to Escalante, Cir-cleville, Tropic, and all over.”
“I think we have a good relationship with the physi-cians in town. Since we’re right here it is easier for us to work with medical staff and patients. Having a good re-
lationship with our patients and with medical staff makes a difference in an individual’s care,” said Sam.
Right now, Sam says he doesn’t have any immediate plans for big changes to the store, other than to mention that they are expanding their Carhart clothing line in the Cowboy Store. And of course, there are the seasonal product changes such as the current as-sortment of decorated Christ-mas trees and ornaments and holiday décor.
“We also love supporting the community, we try to do everything we can to support all of the schools, the differ-ent programs they have, and I want to continue those things,” said Sam. “I’m excited we will celebrate 100 years in a couple years. That’s coming up pretty quick.”
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December 12, 2013Page 4 The Wayne & Garfield County INSIDER
School NotesConcurrent Enrollment
What if Santa Got Stuck in My Chimney?
Loa Elementary Snippetsby lIsa stevens
PHS Notebookby donnIe CorWIn
BV Elementary Newsby Maren steWart
‘Tis the Season - For Winter Sports
COMING EVENTS IN BRYCE AREA:
• GBB@ParowanThursday,Dec12
• BBB@BeaverFriday,Dec13
• GBB@DiamondRanchFriday,Dec13
• Wrestling-ParowanTournamentSaturday,Dec14
• BBB@ParowanWednesday,Dec18
• ALSOonthe18ththeBloodDriveinTropic
• GBBEscalante@BVThursday,Dec19
• SchoolBaord@TropicThursday,Dec19
• Wrestling:DesertStormTournament@DixieHSDec20–21
• BBBDiamondRanch@BVFriday,Dec20
PHS Sports Sidelines
by MaCk oettInG
Great Bob Cat and Lady Cat Games;Panguitch Wresting Tournament Results
BVHS Sportsby vICkI d. syrett
‘We return from a healthy Thanksgiving break refreshed and ready for the holiday sea-son. This week was one filled with excitement for students, teachers, and athletes alike.
The food drive continued this week, and students were encouraged to keep finding more goods to donate. (Some teachers even offered extra credit for the good deed- bo-nus!) Judging from the already impressive amount of goods donated, I’d say there will be a merry season for those in need.
Wednesday saw the bas-
Mrs. Brinkerhoff’s first grade students have been con-templating what they would do if Santa got stuck in their chimney this year. Students wrote their plans and decorat-ed posters to hang in the hall. Mrs. Brinkerhoff was kind enough to share a few of the plans with us.
Shayla:If Santa got stuck in my
chimney, I would… “make
a plan and help him. This is what I will do for my plan. My dad will get on the roof and push his feet. My mom will help too, she will help my dad. And I will pull his hands.”
Waylon:If Santa got stuck in my
chimney, I would… “I will help him. All push him out and ask him if he will take me for a ride in his slay.”
Koya:If Santa
got stuck in my chimney, I would… “I would get a stick. Or I would call my sister and my brother. Or I would pull him out. Or I will just call my mom to help me.”
The first graders have also been en-joying reading with Mr. Ellett’s fifth grade stu-dents. The fifth graders help their first grade buddy down load and read an ebook from the states online program MyOn
to their ipad. The book are based on each child’s reading level. “They are reading a lot of books!” said Mrs. Brinker-hoff, “And they are having a lot of fun. We appreciate the time these fifth grade students are giving to our class. They are becoming SUPER READ-ERS!”
With a new month comes a new student government and “Catch of the Month” stu-dents. Serving in the student government for the month of December are; Macee Black-ham, Riley Taylor, Felic-ity Williams and Blake Giles. The students of the month are: Kindergarten- Chloe Stewart; Mrs. Blackburn, Bree Torg-erson; Mrs. Jackson. First grade- Raegyn Blackburn; Mrs. Brinkerhoff, Kyle Tren-ka; Mrs. Potter. Second grade- Violett Taylor; Ms. Davis. Third grade- Haylie Durfey; Mrs. Libby Torgerson, Brinlee Brian; Mrs. Williams. Fourth grade-Hali Peterson; Mrs. Barlow, Riley Edwards; Mrs. Ekker. Fifth grade- Brayden Lawton; Mrs. Brown, Lyndee Harker; Mr. Ellett.
The junior and senior students in Garfield School District continue to improve their education each year by enrolling in
concurrent enrollment classes. Concurrent Enrollment classes allow students to receive college credit and high school credit for the same class. Universities or colleges in the state teach these classes or teachers within the District who have been approved to be adjunct professors for the higher education intuitions. In the 2010-2011 school year, only 33 concurrent enrollment credits were earned by students in Garfield School District. In the 2011-2012 the number of concur-rent enrollment credits increased to 233. In 2012-2013 the number of concurrent enrollment credits continued to increase to 455. Students receive concurrent enrollment at a very affordable rate. Students typically pay a small fee approximately $15.00 and the cost of the textbook for the course. Two of the biggest factors that prohibit students from graduating from a university are time and money. Concurrent enrollment helps students to overcome the two biggest issues facing students when they walk on a college campus. The cost for an adult to receive one col-lege credit from Utah State University is $163 per credit. So, if the students in the District would have enrolled as an adults to take these same classes at USU it would have cost them $163 x 455 = $74,165. I would like thank the students who enrolled in the concurrent enrollment classes and the parents who supported them in their decision. The District is committed to support and improve the opportunity for students to achieve academic success. Concurrent enrollment is a wonderful opportunity for students in our District to have a start on their post high school degree. If you would like additional information on the concurrent enrollment classes that are available to your students, please contact your high school counselor.
—Superintendent Ben Dalton
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WAYNE HIGH SCHOOLSENIOR SPOTLIGHT 2014
CONNOR CHAPPELLÒMy name is Connor Chappell and I live in Lyman, UT. My parents are Clark and Kathy Chappell. I plan to attend SUU campus in the fall of 2014. I also plan to go into the field of Computer Tech i.e. Advanced Business Web Design and have that also be my career choice. I would like to go far with this career and get on with more of the major computer companies i.e. Microsoft and Apple. My Computer Tech teacher, Weston Taylor, has supported me and taughtme a lot about this particular subject along with the support of my parents.Ó....Connor
This weekly student spotlight is brought to you by Wayne High School and the Entrada Institute Scholarship Committee. These spotlights are not only to introduce the people of our area to these fine seniors, but to encourage contributions to the ÒScholarship of ExcellenceÓ program for students at WHC. For more information about tax-deductible donations, please contact Candence Peterson at Wayne High School.
What would you do if Santa got stuck in your chimney?
I was able to take in the Bobcats ball game last Wed. against Enterprise and it was a really exciting game to start off the year. The Wolves got the better of the first half, leading 31 to 21. Enterprise expanded their lead to thir-teen, with a 48 to 35 lead, with their number 10 Justin Prisbrey putting on a clinic, everything he put up went in. The Cats caught fire with Tyce Barney and Chance Campbell putting in 11 straight points, with 3 threes and a deuce, to draw to within 2, 46 to 48. It was all Cats in the fourth quar-ter out scoring the Wolves 22 to 10 to take a hard fought vic-tory 73 to 68. Prisbrey from Enterprise was high point for the game, Tyce Barney played outstanding and ended up with 31, and Chance Campbell came away with 17. This was a real nail biter game and it’s always nice when the Cats get the Win. The Cats had anoth-er Wednesday game last night against Parowan and I will let you know about the outcome
next week. The Cats travel to SVC on Friday and Saturday for games against Altamont and Duchesne. There were a lot of adults and elementary school kids, oh where are the PHS fans? Where is that Pan-guitch Pride? Kids you’re only young for such a short time, enjoy every minute, with the teams, your education and life in general. Your atten-dance at the ball games in the last few years has really been waning. Show your Bob Cat pride and enjoy.
I was at the Lions Christ-mas and only saw the last 3 minutes of their game against 3A Pine View. When I arrived I was told that the score was 70 to 24, I asked was Pine View that good and I was told that it was the Lady Cats that were winning. The final score was 73 to 27. In three games so far this year, with the Ladies winning each one by over 40 points, these girls are for REAL. Region 20 is where the competition is and the Lady Cats first Region 20
game will out Milford on Fri-day the 13th.and Wayne will be here on Thursday the 19th, before the Lady Cats go down to Mesquite Tournament on the 20th & 21st.
This year’s Panguitch Wrestling Tournament hosted 17 teams. North Sevier won the tournament, followed by Desert Hills. All the 1A teams including Panguitch were bunched together and it could be anyone’s chance at State. Cats that placed, Row-dy Josie took 2nd, Max Smith 4th, Kolton Owens 3rd, Kellon Mooney 6th and Hunter Ow-ens 5th. Mat Houston has a re-ally young team this year with only 2 seniors on the team. With this tournament being the first for many of the freshmen, if no ones gets hurt it will only get better. On the 11th the Cats go to Bryce Valley, this Thursday the 12th Kanab will be here. The next day the 13th and 14th they go to the Juab Duel Tournament.
The Bird Count Assem-bly will be held this week and students are getting excited to participate. They are get-ting ready by already count-ing birds they see and trying to identify them. The lessons that go along with this years bird count are centered on Owls. One day is actually used to count the birds that come in to be fed and they also watch for birds of prey during the week and keep count on them. The identifying part last longer and the students really enjoy doing that. They really get into it and get to know the birds by sight.
There will be a Christ-mas Concert held on Friday, December 20th at 9:30 A.M. The Elementary students are
Boys Basketball - They played Millard on Wednesday and won. All three teams won, the Varsity, J.V. and Freshman team all won. They travel to Beaver on Friday the 13th to play Beaver. Keep up the good work boys.
Girls Basketball - The girls traveled up north to play Layton Christian And St. Jo-seph. They won their games against Layton Christian, both the Varsity and the J.V. Play-ing St. Joseph the Varsity lost their game but the J.V. team
ketball boys host their first home game of the season against Enterprise. After com-ing off a great win over North Sevier last week, spectators from the home crowd were sure to be in for a treat.
Not to be outdone, the girls laced up their shoes and had a great home game of their own on Thursday competing against Pine View. The Pan-guitch crowd was treated to another great game.
After weeks of hard work and preparation, the wrestlers will finally get their chance
to hit the mat and take names for Panguitch. A week of hard practices and setting up gives way to one of the busiest times of the year for not only PHS wrestling, but the town in gen-eral. Yep, I’m talking about the Panguitch Invitational. WIth an impressive group of teams coming down to compete, the tournament is sure to be one to remember. We wish all of our singlet-dawning warriors a successful (and warm) week-end as we wrap up a cold re-turn to PHS.
BICKNELL - The FC-CLA at Wayne High School is busy planning and prepar-ing for the annual Christmas Tea. This event has been held here in our school for many years and is enjoyed by the students as they bring in the Holiday Season.
In September the chapter officers for the Wayne High School FCCLA (Family, Ca-reer, and Community Leaders of America) traveled to Provo where the spent two days at the State FCCLA Fall Lead-ership conference. This was a great opportunity for them to learn about their officer posi-tion. They learned what they were supposed to be doing to help their chapter. Throughout
In the picture from left to right: Carlie Chappell, Breenna Brown, Kelbi Christensen, McKenzie Syme, Tessie Kezos, Kaitlyn Failner, Joni Taft (Advisor), and Bridgette Brian (State Officer).
FCCLA Brings in the Holiday Seasonby brIdGette brIan
the conference they learned many leadership skills. Our own Bridgette Brian is a State Officer and was in charge of leading many of the activities for the entire state. Porter El-lett was the quest speaker at the conference.
In October, we planned and conducted Drug Week in our high school. We asked the student body questions everyday about drugs. VaLyn Leavitt and Sarah Bagley from the Central Utah Public Health Department came and talked to us about smokeless tobacco and how harmful it is for us. The students dressed up everyday to remind us about abstaining from drugs and alcohol.
We still sell Sweet Rolls every other Friday as a fund-raiser. We have started to switch it up and sell bread-sticks every other time. The money goes to help fund the
club and all of the activities that we do. It is a great way to help keep the students and the members in the club involved our organization.
won theirs. They next play Parowan on the 12th and Diamond Ranch on the 13th. Keep going strong girls.
Wrestling - Went to the Panguitch Invitational on Friday and Saturday last week. Josh Rose came in 4th and Adam Platt came in 6th. Great work boys. This was a 25 team tournament with a lot of wrestling going on. At Bryce Valley on Wednesday they wrestle against Pan-guitch in BV.
practicing so they can give you a good concert. Also the week before Christmas they all gather around the Christ-mas tree in the hall and sing Christmas Carols. It is a fun event for them. Thanks to Anna Jackson who is working with them on the concert and the hall singing. She is great to give of her time to help them.
The sixth graders have been doing lots of Christmas decorations and are preparing songs for out school program. They are also working hard in math and reading.
The fifth graders have been learning how to divide decimals. In science they are building toothpick bridges.
These are fantastic to see when they are done and they are strong. They are also working on the Christmas program.
Third grade is working very hard to complete their reading minutes. Each student has grown in words per minute and accuracy!
December 12, 2013 Page 5The Wayne & Garfield County INSIDER
tHe lAuGhiNg pOiNt!!
Every1Counts
Attorney Jeff McKenna hiking with his son in Zion National Park
The Perfect Time is Now
By Cynthia Kimball
Get Well Quick
A little boy sent a “get well quick” card to his grand-father in the hospital. Inside the card he wrote:
Dear Grandpa,Mama tells me that you
went to the hospital for some tests.
I hope you get an “A”!Love, Billy .”
Elder Abuseby Jeffery J. MCkenna
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The Concept is Lost
My friend, a busy mother of five boys, frequently did her own maintenance jobs on her house.
One day, after hours on a ladder painting the upper win-dows, she complained to her husband that she’d felt dizzy.
For her next birthday she received some scaffolding.
For SaleA real-estate agent was driving around with a new trainee
when she spotted a charming little farmhouse with a hand-let-tered “For Sale” sign out front.
After briskly introducing herself and her associate to the startled occupant, the agent cruised from room to room, opening closets and cupboards, testing faucets, and pointing out where a “new light fixture here and a little paint there” would help.
Pleased with her assertiveness, the woman was hopeful that the owner would offer her the listing.
“Ma’am,” the man said, “I appreciate the home-improve-ment tips and all, but I think you read my sign wrong. It says, ‘HORSE for sale.’”
Traci died sometime be-tween the Thursday she left work and the Tuesday she was found dead in her apartment. She was a no show/no call on a Friday. The same on a Monday. And found unresponsive on Tuesday.
To say I was devastated, once I heard she had passed, is an understatement.
Traci was close to 300 pounds, if not that already.
And over six feet tall.And in her 40s.She didn’t have any friends,
except those at work.We worked together for 3
years.And I loved her immedi-
ately.
Maybe it was because I knew she didn’t have anyone. Maybe because I knew she was a loner. Or most impor-tant because our spirits con-nected. Maybe it was a com-bination of the three.
Her immediate fam-ily consisted of her three cats. She even had portraits made of them.
I am sick, though, that I promised to take her to Best Friends Animal Sanctuary one weekend. The only place, since she loved animals so much, she wanted to go. Only I never got the opportunity. See, I was waiting for the per-fect weekend. She also want-
ed to go to Hawaii with me once I graduated from school. We were going to stand on the road to motivational speaker Dr. Wayne Dyer’s home, with a sign, yes, hitch-hiking the 100 yards to his home, once I’d graduated from school since we both loved Dr. Dyer so much. Also, since we heard that he picks up hitch-hikers on the way to his home.
But there will be no trip to Best Friends or to Hawaii.
At least not with Traci.Lesson learned.Forgive me, Traci.Everyone learn from me.The perfect time is now.
A topic that seems rarely to be addressed by the media, but which has serious conse-quences, is elder abuse. Car-ing for frail older people is a very difficult and stress-pro-voking task. This is particu-larly true when older people are mentally or physically impaired, when the caregiver is ill-prepared for the task, or when the needed resources are lacking. Under these circum-stances, the increased stress and frustration of a caregiver may lead to abuse or neglect. More than two-thirds of elder abuse perpetrators are family members of the victims, typi-cally serving in a caregiving role.
There are many forms of elder abuse. Passive Neglect is an unintentional failure to fulfill a caretaking obliga-tion, or infliction of distress without conscious or willful intent. Psychological Abuse is infliction of mental anguish by name-calling, insulting, ignoring, humiliating, fright-ening, threatening, isolating, etc. Material/Financial Abuse is the illegal or improper use of an elder’s funds, property, or assets. Examples include but are not limited to cash-ing an elderly person’s checks without permission; forging an older person’s signature; misusing or stealing an older person’s money or posses-sions; coercing or deceiving an older person into signing any document (e.g., contracts or will); and the improper use of conservatorship, guardian-
ship, or power of attorney. Active Neglect is intentional failure to fulfill caregiving ob-ligations; infliction of physical or emotional stress or injury; abandonment; denial of food, medication, personal hygiene, etc. Physical Abuse is inflic-tion of physical pain or injury of any type for any reason.
To help prevent physical abuse:
Stay sociable as you age; maintain a network of friends. Develop a “buddy” system with a friend outside the home. Plan for at least a weekly contact and share openly with a person. Ask friends to visit you at home; even a brief visit can allow ob-servations of your well-being. Accept new opportunities for activities. Participate in com-munity activities as you are able. Volunteer or become a member or officer of an or-ganization. Have your own telephone. Post and open your own mail. Keep your belong-ings orderly, making sure oth-ers are aware that you know where everything is kept. Take care of your personal needs. Keep regular medical, dental, barber, hairdresser, and other personal appointments.
To help prevent financial abuse:
Arrange to have your So-cial Security or pension check deposited directly to a bank account. Get legal advice about arrangements you can make now for possible future disability, including powers-of-attorney, guardianships,
etc. Keep records, accounts, and property available for examination by someone you trust, as well as the person you or the court has designated to manage your affairs. Review your will periodically. Don’t give up control of your prop-erty or assets without consult-ing with an attorney. Ask for help when you need it. Dis-cuss your plans with your at-torney, physician, or trusted family members. Don’t ac-cept personal care in return for transfer or assignments of your property or assets unless a lawyer, advocate, or another trusted person acts as a wit-ness to the transaction. Don’t allow anyone else to keep de-tails of your finances or prop-erty management from you. Don’t sign a document unless an attorney or someone you trust has reviewed it.
Jeffery J. McKenna is a local attorney serving clients in Utah, Arizona and Nevada. He is the former President of the Southern Utah Estate Planning Council and a share-holder at the law firm of Bar-ney, McKenna, and Olmstead with offices in St. George and Mesquite. If you have ques-tions you would like addressed in these articles, you can con-tact him at 435 628-1711 or [email protected].
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We went to play tennis yesterday. That might have been quite dumb,‘Cause, if you didn’t know, our ages are slightly higher than some.But seemed to us that it could give us some good exercise,And good things never come to him that never goes out and tries.So, off we went to Loa, to have some fun, we’re hopin’,But right away we hit a snag. The gate would not come open.I did the combination right, then dialed it once again, But my old arthuritic hands could not undo the chain.Well, with some help, we entered, got rackets out, and all,And then the fun began when we tried to hit the ball.The central point of tennis? Watch the ball impact the racket.Give a nice smooth swing, and you can really whack it.The theory’s fine, given the ball will come where you happen to be,‘Cause another essential of tennis is a certain mobility.If you have not turned senior yet, I’ll give you a little hint.It takes you longer to shuffle and gimp than it used to take you to sprint.And if you should get where the ball’s gonna land, without you should stumble or trip,You’ll find your opponent got thirsty, and stopped for a little sip.Anyways, we played for a spell, ‘though the pace was kind of docile,But you can’t be Andy Roddick when you’re nothing but an old fossil.We’re prob’ly gonna try it again, but there is one big if.It just ain’t gonna happen ‘til my legs ain’t quite so stiff.
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BRYCE CANYON - Alfred Lee “Al” Foster age 90 passed away at his home, December 6, 2013, surounded by his fam-ily. Al and his twin brother, Roy, were born October 21, 1923, in Longmont, Colorado, to Arthur and Jo Foster. They soon
moved to Bristow, OK. where Al spent his childhood years. He graduated from Bristow High School. He later gradu-ated from Kanasas City Art Institute, majoring in Ladies fashion design.
Al spent 4 years in the U.S Navy during WWII.
He married Leda Mae Davis, August 7, 1956, in Salt Lake City. The marriage was later solemnized March 12, 1966, in the St, George LDS Temple.
He is survived by his wife, Leda; children: Mi-chelle Perkins, Alfred Foster, Neil Foster; twin brother, Roy Foster; ten grandchildren; 15 great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents; brother,
Dwayne; sister, Joretta; parents- in-law, Billy and Minnie Davis; sister and brother- in-law, Holbert and Bonnie Smith.
As Al reqested, a small family and friends gathering will held on Wednesday, December 11, 2013 at 10:00 a.m. at Fos-ters Family Restaurant, for he did not like large funerals. Burial will be in the Widtsoe Cemetery with military rites by the Bryce Valley American Legion post #18. Funeral directors, Magleby Mortuary, Richfield, Salina and Manti. On line guest book www.maglebymortuary.com
For once the weather man was right, boy has it been cold! It’s been a long time since it has been this cold. I hope you left your water taps on, I did all but one, in the kitchen and guess what, be-cause we got back an hour late the cold water froze. I got out my torch and warmed the pipes under my house, un-fortunately I melted the sod-der in one of the joints and it sprung a leak. There are fewer plumbers in our area than doc-tors, finally got hold of Ryan Brinkerhoff and he fix the leak by by-passing a pipe, it is so nice to take a shower. Thank you Ryan! The temperature when we got home was -17 at six in the evening on its way down to a -27, hope all went well with your pipes.
Yesterday, Saturday the 7th, went really well dispite the snow. Santa came to the Social Hall, delivered by a big red sled, with its sirens wail-ing, to start it all off. Santa had stuffed 180 stockings and there was only two left, when Santa headed for the North Pole. The kids went through 10 gallons of hot chocolate and a ton of donut holes. San-ta went down to the Extended Care Center, where he handed out gifts to the patients.
At the Merchants draw-ing a lot of really fine pres-ents given out. Becky Yard won the Christmas Quilt, which was quilted by Claudia
Crump. When you purchase anything in town make sure you get your Merchant draw-ing tickets, one for every $5.00 or is it $10.00 you spend?
There was a little break before the Christmas Home tour, good time for a nap. The Home Show started at 5:00 pm and ran till 8:00 pm and the homes were just outstanding. I am amazed at the talent we have in town, this time with the decorations, really interest-ing stuff. A lot of people went through the homes, dispite the snow. Many thanks to all of those that opened up their homes, this is a lot of work you really have the Christmas sprit! As always the donations went to the Sub for Santa Fund. Even though it snow all day, it didn’t slow anyone down, it is so fun to live in a small town.
At Christmas time you really get a lot of invites to dinner. Sunday night we went to the Extended Care for din-ner and program with an in-vite from Marietta Syrett. It was their Christmas Party. We were entertained by the Coo-per brothers, Jimmy and Than, singing Christmas music. The dinner was good and many were in attendance, friends and family of the patients. Char, Terry and Brenda headed the staff that did all the work. Many thanks for their loving care of the residents at the cen-ter. We are so fortunate to have such a facility in Panguitch.
Make the residents day come on down for a visit!
On Tuesday we had the 1st Ward dinner and we were entertained by the children and Santa made another ap-pearance. Stan Foy cooked up some tasty roasts and about 300 were in attendance for an-other fun evening.
Up and coming events: this Saturday there will be an-other Merchant drawing at the Social Hall at 1:00 you must be there to win, there are a lot of really good prizes and it will be worth your while to be there. In the evening will be the Brent Leach concert. Brent will be singing Christmas songs. He has two albums. Brent sang at the Balloon Festival when we had a fund raiser for Debbie Pollock, he
also is a home town talent so come and get into the Christ-mas Spirit. At intermission dessert, will be served.. The “Sunshine Generation” dance team will start off the evening at 7:00pm, these kids are from Panguitch and Piute and really strut their stuff. Come and en-joy the entertainment, this is a Sub for Santa fund raiser and a donation is the price, how-ever if you are short of funds, don’t let that stop you, come and enjoy anyway this whole town has supported the Sub for Santa Program yearly, this is also a “Thank You” for your continued support.
Happy Holiday,Enjoy all the great Christ-
mas Programs and Remember the Reason for the Season
Mack Oetting
Special “THANKS” to Irene Schock von Brockdorff, Tonya Brothwell, April John-son Roberts, and Amy Syrett for their help with the book fair! Irene, you have been my life saver during the school hours! What would I have done without you today? Yes, I would have gone crazy!! And you wonderful PTA members were so kind to help with our “Family Hour!” Thanks! Thanks!!” (Quote from Sandy Johnson the elementary Li-brarian at BVE.) They had a very successful Book Fair and far over succeeded their goal. They sold over 350 books that will benefit the students of Bryce Valley. Thanks Sandy for a job well done.
Welcome home to Her-mana Anne Marie Barton. She returned from her mission on December 11thj and will speak in the Tropic Sacrament meeting on December 22nd at 11:50 A.M. Anne Marie has been serving in the Tampa, Florida mission. Her parents Scott and Marie Barton, broth-er Tanner, and Grandparents Berdell and Carma Barton of Tropic are very excited to wel-come her home. Anne Marie is also the granddaughter of the late Bill and Mary Men-denhall.
Please remember the blood drive on the 18th of De-cember. Blood is needed and you can make an appointment
with Annette Chynoweth or Vicki Syrett or just come to the Tropic Church house between 1:00 and 6:00 P.M. on Wednes-day, Dec. 18th.
Congratulations to the following newly engaged cou-ples. J. J. Dunham and Brooke Bybee who will be getting married in the Spring and Dane Shakespear. I was unable to get his fiance’s name. Sorry about that. Also on December 27th the wedding of Lesha Le Fevre and Caleb Swallow will take place with the reception at the Ebenezer’s up at Ruby’s. J. J. is the grandson of the late Anna Dunham and Brooke is the daughter of Rick and Re-non Bybee. Dane is the son of Kelly and Pat Shakespear. Lesha is the daughter of Layne and April LeFever and Caleb is from Millard county.
Tate Leech was advanced to the office of a Priest and Ty-ler Hansen was made an Elder.
We would like to send a shout out to the wonderful people who take care of our roads in the area. They are up and about early in the morning to make sure we have a safe commute to where ever we are going. Thank you for your hard work and the clear roads. We salute your efforts.
Condolences go out to the family of Alfred Lee Foster on his passing. He has been a fixture in the county for many years and will be missed. Leda
May we send our love and prayers to you and your fam-ily at this time of your loss. There will be a public view-ing held on Wednesday, De-cember 11th at Foster’s with a closed family ceremony fol-lowing. Alfred will be buried in the Widstoe Cemetery.
Scout Holm gave his Homecoming talk today in Tropic. He is the son of Travis and Kara Lee Holm of Tropic.
The Henrieville Relief Society Presidency were the speakers in Henrieville with Pres. Collette Mathews and counselors Sandy Johnson and Gayle Moore. Secretary Lori Platt also spoke.
We send Roxanna John-son our best wishes for a speedy recovery. She fell and broke her leg and is recover-ing at home in Cannonville.
A Bridal Shower was held for Lesha Le Fevre at the Heritage Center on Satur-day afternoon and there was a
good turnout. They had a great time and all were treated to a wonderful luncheon of Tomato Basil soup and Cheese crou-tons. It was fun and delicious. Good luck in your new life to come Lesha.
The Craft Fair/Christmas Fair held at Ebenezer’s Barn was very successful. They had many vendors there and lots of good food and gifts to purchase. The Jesse Stewart Dance Academy did a great job of entertaining during the event.
Well are you loving this snow? An announcer on TV said that if we could just get the snow without the cold it would be nice. I agree. It has been so cold. Brrr!!
Hope you have a safe week and don’t get caught in the snow while traveling. Be safe and please send in your news by email or phone. Thanks VS.
BICKNELL - Our kind and beloved father and grandfather, Don Q. Snedeger, age 83, died November 27, 2013 in Richfield, Utah. He was born October 25, 1930 in Salina, Utah, a son of Clyde Sylvia and Hope Prows Snedeger. He grew up in Sigurd, Utah.
Don married Emily Evert, April 24, 1947 in Elko, Nevada. She died May 21, 1991. He married VeeOla Duncan Taylor,
July 25, 1992 in Fremont, Utah. She died April 15, 2007.
Don worked at Dug-way Proving Grounds and for the Tooele Army Depot as a heavy duty mechanic. He lived in Vernon, Utah before mov-ing to Bicknell in 1975. He enjoyed fishing, hunt-ing, rock collecting and he loved to go prospect-ing out in the hills around Vernon and through the Wayne County area.
He was a member of the LDS Church.
Don is survived by his children: Golden and Annie Snede-ger, Gerald and Gail Snedeger, all of Torrey; Emily and Blaine Stallings of Fairview; Cynthia and Keith Peterson of Henderson, Nevada; VeeOla’s three daughters: Vivian Taylor of St. George; Jula Taylor of Elsinore; Gayle Lee and Gary Jensen of Fairview; 19 grandchildren; and many great-grandchildren and step-great-grandchildren; sister, Sunday and Morris Blackham of Orem.
He was preceded in death by his parents; both of his wives; two sons and one daughter: Clyde Snedeger, Claude Snedeger and Susan Jex; and one brother, Chad C. Snedeger.
Grave side services will be held in the spring at the Vernon, Utah Cemetery under the care of the Springer Turner Funeral Home of Richfield and Salina, Utah.
On line guest book at: www.springerturner.com
Don Q. Snedeger1930 - 2013
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TROPIC - Tan-ner W. Barton is excited about the homecoming of his sister, Hermana Anne Marie Barton. She recently returned from serving an honorable mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Florida Tampa Spanish speaking mission. She will speak in the Tropic LDS Ward December 15, 2013, at 11:50 am. Her parents are Scott and Marie Barton. Her grandparents are Berdell and Carma Barton of Tropic and the late Bill and Mary Mendenhall.
ESCALANTE - Lindsey Gay Phillips has been called to serve in the Perth, Australia Mission. Lindsey will be speak-ing in the Escalante 2nd Ward on December 15, 2013 at 9:00 a.m. Sister Lindsey Phillips will re-port to the Provo MTC on January 1, 2014. Good Luck Lindsey! We wish you the best!!
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What Can a Parent Do to Prevent Poisoning?As soon as your baby is able to move around on its own, you must take swift steps to
ensure that the child does not reach poisons. What can you do?It is essential to keep the baby away from any poisons. Keep any potential poisons out
of hild’s sight and reach. Hazardous substances should be stored far away from food and medications. High cabinets are a better choice for storage than those under the sink, for instance. Locked cabinets are even better, and all hazardous substances and medications should be secured inside.
A toxic substance’s original container may be child-resistant, and will probably also have instructions for dealing with poisoning. Therefore, never remove any potential poison from its original container to place it in another.
The risk is even greater if you place the chemicals into a bottle that used to contain food or drink. Putting bleach or household cleaner in a soft-drink bottle is asking for trouble.
If you are in the middle of working with a potential poison, such as cleaning the house with an open bottle of household chemicals, be aware of where your child is at all times. If you are interrupted by a phone call or the doorbell, close all containers and place them out of reach before answering.
It is also a wise idea to take your child with you while you attend to this new business so that he or she does not have a chance to get into a hazardous substance you had not even thought about. Remember the old saying, “Kids act fast, but so do poisons.”
After you open anything with a child-resistant cap, remove the medication or sub-stance immediately and replace the cap or closure as tightly and securely as possible.
Children imitate adult behaviors. Do not let them see you taking medications, as they may attempt to do the same when they find any medicine. When you need to give your child medication, never refer to it as “candy” in an effort to make it more appealing. This minimizes the hazardous nature of the drug.
When you have no further need of any possible poison or hazardous substance, remove it from your home. Take cleaners, paint thinners, paint, gasoline, fingernail polish, solvents, and similar dangerous chemicals to approved disposal facilities. Take medications to pharmacies with return programs so that the drugs can be disposed of through environ-mentally friendly methods that prevent others from reusing them.
Who Do I Call After a Poisoning?If your child accidentally ingests a toxic substance, immediately call 1-800-222-1222.
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Having a baby is a blessed event, but for new parents,it brings many troubling questions. “How can I keep my baby healthy?” “How can I prevent childhood illness?” “When do I take my baby to the doctor?” Parents should also be concerned about the possibility of their child accidentally ingesting poison.
The only thing that sounds better on a cold December morning, other than a coffee pot brewing, is the sound of a snow plow scraping down the street in the pre-dawn hours. Most of the time you can hear it before you see it, and when it passes by it is like a scene in an expensive European snow globe, one you received from your Nordic Uncle Norberg on your ninth birthday. It is the kind of sound that always makes you run to the frosted window no matter where you are in the house. It is the sound of Christmas.
On Friday night the 6th of December Torrey Town held its annual Hoe Down at the DUP (Daughters of the Utah Pioneers) building on Main Street. It was so well attended that seating was in short supply, and had many more folks showed up the band would have had to start sharing their seats. The DUP building was dressed out in
full Christmas regalia, the star on the bell tower twin-kling like something from a Bible story in Bethlehem. The crunch of snow beneath your feet and the sound of music coming from the 19th century log building was a reminder of gentler times long before cell phones and iPads, a time when a tangerine in December was as magical as it gets.
Inside in the front door the smell of cider, homemade goodies and music filled the air; the only thing missing was Mary Elliott and Tiny Tim. Guarding the goodie table like second grade school teachers were Vennetta Brinkerhoff and Janet Hansen. Sitting on the organ bench in the back, holding hands and giggling like a couple of lovebirds were Carolyn and Ron Moosman, near them were the Clark’s, Mike, Kolbi and Sheri. Mike Clark was belting out Christ-mas carols like he had been practicing in the shower since
September.Curtis and Lu Cook,
looking rather dapper, seemed to know all the words to the songs too. The Ito family all present and lined up in a row were also singing along, as well as everybody’s all time favorite and a prominent fixture at every community event, Berneal Hatch. From the back of the room it looked like Dick Pace was even hav-ing a good time and perked up a time or two when there was a mention of reindeer or sugar plums.
The exclusive local band “Rough Around the Edges” the size of orchestra that Law-rence Welk likes to conduct provided the music. The ever-present Becky Pace was on the electric Piano, Lynsey Shelar on the fiddle, Dee Hatch on the squeezebox, Rod Frazier fin-gering the banjo, Eileen Fra-zier on the Uke, Paul Smith on the upright bass, Linda Ward strumming the guitar, and the
rest of band Pat Menefee, Bob and Diana Poulton, smiling Tammy Bagley and Jim and Janet Adams.
Part way through the pro-gram Paula Pace invited all the kids up front while in Paula Pace fashion she acted out a traditional Christmas story, a rendition so real that in the crowded room not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
As if on cue and after the Christmas story the band be-gan singing “Here Comes San-ta Clause” and lo and behold if Santa didn’t burst through the back door, his glasses still frosted up from the trip quick trip from the North Pole and a recent pit stop in Hanskville, bells a jingling, red cheeks and all. As quickly as he made his way to the front of the room kids started coming out of the woodwork, clamoring to climb up on his lap and tell him what they wanted for Christmas. With a quick glance at his Wayne County list of who has been naughty or nice Santa weighed his options, and to-gether they came to a Christ-mas compromise.
Surely the tallest kid in line to sit on Santa’s lap was Capitol Reef National Park Superintendent Leah McGui-ness, she patiently and non-chalantly waited for her turn as if she was three and half feet tall to whisper in Santa’s one good ear what she has been wishing for all year. When her turn came it took Santa a moment or two to locate her on his iPad change of address list, but when he did his bushy white eyebrows rose higher than the brim of his hat and he blushed brighter than Ru-dolph’s famous red nose. What happened next is a Victoria Secret moment that only Santa and Leah’s husband Mike will ever know.
After Santa had handed out all his Christmas gifts to the kids and a hand written gift certificate, good for thirty days, to Park Superintendent Leah McGuiness, Santa left the building in a flash for parts unknown or Koosharem.
It was only after Santa had left that Vennetta Brinkerhoff put away her hand-slapping ruler and let everyone sample all the goodies. There were so many different kinds of sugary treats that it was hard to know where to start, so people began to stuff them in their pockets to enjoy them later or for the next day’s breakfast.
The Torrey Hoe Down is a local annual favorite, an old timey celebration of the Christmas season, a reminder of what Christmas is all about, and the continuance of the Thanksgiving spirit.
Christmas time is as di-verse and unpredictable as the seasons, an in between time of the year and an opportunity to look inward, a yearly occasion to re-examine our life’s pri-orities and set personal future goals for ourselves, if we de-sire to do so.
There will always be Scrooges among us, choose not to be one. As we all know Christmas is about new begin-nings.
In between trips to Hanksville and other parts unknown, Santa breezed into the Torrey Hoe Down on Friday night to attend to a few Christmas wishes.
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rules, skills, schedules and safety procedures to properly prepare students for high school league participation.
Applicants must have a current coaching, CPR and First Aid certificate. Must also posses the ability to work and interact well with student athletes, demonstrate professional and ethical character, and have excellent communication skills. Applicants must commit to the appropriate amount of time and effort to facilitate effective practices and scheduled games.
He/she must be able to work cooperatively with high school faculty, staff and administration. Applicants must exhibit a will-ingness to promote and encourage healthy, safe and sportsman like conduct.
This position will start this summer 2014, with planning and participating in summer camps and training.
Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Wayne School District is an equal opportunity employer provid-ing programs and services to all persons on a non-discriminatory basis. Wayne School District reserves the right to accept or reject any or all applications. Resumes must be sent or brought to Mr. Elmer at the Wayne High School office. 12/12
GARFIELD SCHOOL DISTRICTPanguitch Elementary Para Educator
POSITION AVAILABLE: Garfield School District is hiring a part-time Para Educator at Panguitch Elementary. This posi-tion will be up to 28 hours per week.
SALARY: Beginning Para Educator hourly rate ac-cording to 2013-2014 Garfield County School Dis-tricts Classified Salary Schedule ($9.16 hourly). QUALIFICATIONS: Applicants must have at least a High School Diploma, two years college education, or may complete the Para Pro Test. Must be fingerprinted and satisfactorily pass an employment background check. Applicant must work well with children.
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CHIMNEY ROCK RESTAUANT - TORREYWAITRESS/HOSTESS - Chimney Rock is currently ac-
cepting applications for a temporary full time waitress/hostess. Job site is located in Torrey, UT, near Capitol Reef National Park. Expected dates of employment are March 1, 2014 through November 1, 2014. Job duties will include greeting and seat-ing customers, handing out menus, taking orders, serving bev-erages, including alcoholic beverages, serving food, handling money. No minimum education requirements. 1 year experience is required. 1 month on the job training required. Food Handlers Permit is required. Prevailing Wage is $8.73 hr. 40 hrs week, 5 days a week, 8 hrs per day. No overtime. Days of the week may vary and will include weekends and holidays. Pay period is twice monthly. 1 job opening for this position is available. Must be 21 years old to apply. Must have own transportation. Resumes may be submitted to Lucia and Dwight Chimney Rock Inc. in person at 2600 E Hwy 24, by mail to PO BOX 750160, Torrey, UT 84775 or by fax (435)425-3300.
COOK - Chimney Rock is currently accepting applications for a temporary full time cook. Job site is located in Torrey, UT, near Capitol Reef National Park. Expected start date is March 1, 2014 through is November 1, 2014. Job duties will include pre-paring and cooking food. No minimum education requirements. 1 year experience is required. 1 month on the job training required. Food Handlers Permit is required. Prevailing Wage is $9.18 hr. 40 hrs week, 5 days a week, 8 hrs per day. No overtime. Days of the week may vary and will include weekends and holidays. Pay period is twice monthly. 1 job opening for this position is avail-able. Must have own transportation. Resumes may be submitted to Lucia and Dwight Chimney Rock Inc. in person at 2600 E HWY 24 Torrey, UT, by mail to PO BOX 750160, Torrey, UT 84775 or by fax (435)425-3300. 12/12
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LEGAL NOTICES
NOTICEThe Wayne County Assessor’s / Motor Vehicle office
will be closed on Fridays at 11:30 am beginning October 4th thru December 27, 2013.
We are beginning our 2014 re-appraisal of the Teasdale, Torrey and Grover areas.
We will be out in the field doing the Inspections of each property during this time period.
NOTICE TO WATER USERSThe applications below were filed with the Division of
Water Rights in Wayne County.These are informal proceedings per Rule R655-6-2.Protests concerning an application must be legibly
written or typed, contain the name and mailing address of the protesting party, STATE THE APPLICATION NUMBER PROTESTED, CITE REASONS FOR THE PROTEST, and REQUEST A HEARING, if desired. Also, A $15 FEE MUST BE INCLUDED FOR EACH APPLICATIONPROTESTED. Protests must be filed with the Division of Water Rights, PO Box 146300, Salt Lake City, UT 84114-6300, or by hand deliv-ery to a Division office during normal business hours ON OR BEFORE JANUARY 1, 2014.
Please visit http://waterrights.utah.gov or call (801)-538-7240 for additional information.
NEW APPLICATION(S)95-5320 (A79886): Maynard A. and Nedra Hanks Trust
propose(s) using 0.015 cfs or 1.48 ac-ft. from groundwater (Grover) for IRRIGATION; STOCKWATERING; DOMESTIC.
95-5321 (A79891): Robert Barnhill, Marigold Linton propose(s) using 0.015 cfs. from groundwater (4 miles south of Torrey) for IRRIGATION; STOCKWATERING; DOMESTIC.
95-5322 (A79892): Salem Magarian propose(s) using 0.015 cfs. from groundwater (4 miles south of Torrey) for IR-RIGATION; STOCKWATERING; DOMESTIC.
CHANGE APPLICATION(S)95-3925(a39433): Raymond Scott Berry propose(s) using
0.015 cfs. from groundwater (2.5 miles west of Grover) for IR-RIGATION; STOCKWATERING; DOMESTIC.
Kent L. Jones, P.E. STATE ENGINEER
Published in The Wayne and Garfield County Insider on DECEMBER 5 & 12, 2013
NOTICE OF BUDGET HEARINGA Public Hearing on the Garfield County Budget for the
calendar year 2014 will be held before the Garfield County Commission at 2:00 p.m. on Monday, December 16, 2013 in the Commission Chambers at the Garfield County Courthouse in Panguitch. Anyone wishing to examine the tentative budget may do so at the County Clerk’s office. The clerk’s office is open Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. daily.
Camille A. Moore, Auditor/ClerkGarfield County
Published in The Wayne and Garfield County Insider on DECEMBER 5 & 12, 2013
NOTICE OF BUDGET OPENINGGarfield County will hold a Budget Hearing, Monday, De-
cember 16, 2013 at 1:30 p.m. at the Garfield County Courthouse in Panguitch for the purpose of opening the budget for the year ending December 31, 2013. At that time, adjustments will be made to accept unanticipated revenues and adjust expenditures as needed.
Camille A. Moore, Auditor/ClerkGarfield County
Published in The Wayne and Garfield County Insider on DECEMBER 5 & 12, 2013
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGNotice is hereby given to the public of Wayne County by
the Wayne County Sanitation Service District that a public hear-ing will be held Monday, December 23, 2013 at 11:30 a.m. in the Wayne County Courthouse to adopt by resolution a general fund budget for 2014.
A copy of the tentative budget for 2014 is on file with the Wayne County Clerk-Auditor and is available for public inspec-tion during regular office hours, Monday through Friday.
Ryan TorgersonWayne County Sanitation Special Service District
Published in The Wayne and Garfield County Insider on DECEMBER 12 & 19, 2013
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGNotice is hereby given to the public of Wayne County by
the Wayne County Commissioners that a public hearing will be held Monday, December 23, 2013 at 10:00 a.m. in the Wayne County Courthouse to adopt by resolution a general fund budget for 2014.
A copy of the tentative budget for 2014 is on file with the Wayne County Clerk-Auditor and is available for public inspec-tion during regular office hours, Monday through Friday.
Ryan TorgersonWayne County Clerk-Auditor
Published in The Wayne and Garfield County Insider on DECEMBER 12 & 19, 2013
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGNotice is hereby given to the public of Wayne County by
the Wayne County Special Service District #1 that a public hear-ing will be held Monday, December 23, 2013 at 11:00 a.m. in the Wayne County Courthouse to adopt by resolution a general fund budget for 2014.
A copy of the tentative budget for 2014 is on file with the Wayne County Clerk-Auditor and is available for public inspec-tion during regular office hours, Monday through Friday.
Ryan TorgersonWayne County Special Service District #1
Published in The Wayne and Garfield County Insider on DECEMBER 12 & 19, 2013
PUBLIC HEARING NOTICEPANGUITCH CITY COUNCIL
DECEMBER 30, 201325 SOUTH 200 EAST
PANGUITCH UTAH 84759PUBLIC HEARING @5:00 p.m.
Panguitch City Council will hold a public hearing to receive public comments on
refinancing water bonds.Published in The Wayne and Garfield County Insider on
DECEMBER 12 & 19, 2013
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NOTICE OF BONDS TO BE ISSUEDNotice Is Hereby Given pursuant to the provisions of Sec-
tion 11-27-4, Utah Code Annotated 1953, as amended, that on December 6, 2013, the Mayor and City Council of Panguitch City, Garfield County, Utah (the “Issuer”), adopted a resolution (the “Bond Resolution”) in which it authorized and approved the issuance of its irrigation water revenue refunding bonds (the “Bonds”), in an aggregate principal amount of not to exceed $255,000.00, to bear interest at a rate or rates of not to exceed 3.10% per annum, to mature over a period not to exceed nine (9) years from their date or dates and to be sold at a discount from par, expressed as a percentage of principal amount, of not to exceed two (2.0%) percent.
Pursuant to the Bond Resolution, the Bonds are to be issued for the purpose of refunding the City’s outstanding Irrigation Water Revenue Bond, Series 1983 (the “Refunded Bond”). The principal amount of the Bonds may exceed the principal amount of the Refunded Bond. The Bonds may be issued in one or more series at one or more times.
The Bonds are to be issued and sold by the City pursuant to the Bond Resolution. A copy of the Bond Resolution is on file in the office of the City Recorder of Panguitch City at 25 South 200 East, Panguitch City, Utah 84759, where the Bond Resolu-tion may be examined during regular business hours of the City Recorder from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday. The Bond Resolution shall be so available for inspection for a period of at least thirty days from and after the date of the pub-lication of this notice.
Notice Is Further Given that pursuant to law for a period of thirty days from and after the date of the publication of this notice, any person in interest shall have the right to contest the legality of the above-described Bond Resolution of the City or the Bonds authorized thereby or any provisions made for the se-curity and payment of the Bonds. After such time, no one shall have any cause of action to contest the regularity, formality or legality of the Bond Resolution, the Bonds or the provisions for their security or payment for any cause.
Dated this 6th day of December, 2013.PANGUITCH CITYBy Donna Osborn, City Recorder
Published in The Wayne and Garfield County Insider on DECEMBER 12, 2013
WAYNE SCHOOL DISTRICTWayne High School
Social Studies Teaching Position OpeningWayne School District is accepting applications for a full-
time Secondary Social Studies Teacher. This position is open immediately, with an expected start date of January 2, 2014. Due to the immediacy of this position, candidates must have current Social Studies concentration requirements and State li-cense, or be able to obtain or update appropriate credentials with minimal time and effort.
Applications may be obtained at the Wayne School District Office at 79 North 100 West, Bicknell, Utah, or on line at www.wayne.k12.ut.us. This position will be open until filled.
Wayne School District is an equal opportunity employer, and reserves the right to accept or reject any or all applications. 12/12
QUALIFICATIONS: Candidates should possess basic com-puter and data processing capabilities, such as: word processing, and data spreadsheets. Applicant must possess excellent verbal and written communications skills. Candidate should be highly organized and detail oriented. Work well with others and possess a cheerful countenance. Must be flexible to accomodate daily tasks.
WAGE: Pay will be based on training and experience.This position is located in the Hatch, UT office. It is a part-
time position.Up to 20 hours per week. Duties will include time spent
between Garkane Propane and Garkane Electric.APPLICATIONS: Applications will be accepted immedi-
ately from interested parties. Application forms are available online at www.GarkaneEnergy.com and at the Hatch Garkane Office. Open until filled. Interested parties should submit a re-sume and record of training and experience. Present applications at the Hatch office or Email them to Rob Wolfley at [email protected]
For more information, contact Rob Wolfley, toll free at 1-435-735-4288.
Garkane reserves the right to accept or reject any applica-tion in accordance with applicable state and federal rules and regulations.
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Why Is It Important to Have Health Insurance?
Each Health Insurance Plan offered on the Marketplace must include the same basic benefits:
Important Dates
October 1, 2013 If you don’t have insurance coverage through your employer, the government launched a 6 month Open Enrollment period to offer affordable health insurance for eligible individuals through the Health Insurance Marketplace as part of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
January 1, 2014 If you purchase health insurance through the Health Insurance Marketplace prior to December 15, 2013, your health insurance coverage under your selected plan begins.
March 31, 2014 The Health Insurance Marketplace Open Enrollment period closes. If you fail to enroll prior to this day, you will not be able to get coverage through the Marketplace for 2014.
CARBON COUNTYCarbon Medical Service Association 305 Center Street East Carbon, UT 84520 (435) 888-4411
EMERY COUNTYGreen River Medical Center 585 W Main St Green River, UT 84525 (435) 564-3434
IRON COUNTYFamily Healthcare 66 West Harding Ave, Suite C5 Cedar City, UT 84720 (435) 867-2754
SALT LAKE COUNTYAlliance Community Services 291 West 5400 South, Suite 101 Salt Lake City, UT 84107 (801) 265-1111
United Way of Salt Lake/2-1-1 257 East 200 South, Suite 300 Salt Lake City, UT 84111 (801) 736-2585 x211
Did you know: The average cost of a three-day hospital stay is $30,000; or that fixing a broken leg can cost up to $7,500? Having health insurance can help protect you from unexpected costs like these.
What is TakecareUtah.org? It is a website that lists locations, including hours of operation, contact names and additional phone numbers for all Health Care Exchange resources in Utah. The ACA created the Navigator Program and Certified Application Counselors (CACs) to assist consumers. All assistance services are free and they are required to be unbiased when helping consumers.
Doctor Visits Emergency Rooms Laboratory Services Medicines Care before and after
birth of baby Routine screenings and
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to help recover from an injury, have a disability chronic health problem
Learn More Depending on your household income, you may qualify for discounts on your insurance premiums. Visit www.HealthCare.gov, call 1-800-318-2596 or visit a local Navigator.
UTAH COUNTYCommunity Action Services & Food Bank 815 South Freedom Boulevard, Suite #100 Provo, UT 84601 (801) 691-5242 and (801) 691-5243
WASHINGTON COUNTYFamily Healthcare 25 North 100 East, Suite 102 St. George, UT 84770 (435) 879-5114
WAYNE COUNTYWayne Community Health Centers128 South 300 West Bicknell, UT 84715 (435) 425-3744
WEBER COUNTYNorthern Utah Coalition 536 24th Street, Suite 2B Ogden, UT 84401 (801) 394-9774 x12
CACHE COUNTYBear Lake Community Health Centers 1515 North 400 East North Logan, UT 84341 (435) 755-6061
Where Can I Find Assistance?Listed below are resources to help you learn about health plan options and assist with enrollment. For a complete list of locations near you, visit takecareutah.org.
SALT LAKE CITY - The Obama administration’s claims that healthcare.gov is working much better seem to be consistent with reports from the Utah Health Policy Project. Jason Stevenson, communica-tions director with the policy project, said people are hav-ing a much better experience purchasing health insurance through the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on healthcare.gov. The website experienced mas-sive technical problems after it went live on Oct. 1.
Stevenson said Obama’s top tech team seems to have fixed many of the problems.
“What I’ve heard from our navigators today and yes-terday is that the website is working very well,” Steven-son said. “They’re enrolling people in from 45 minutes to an hour. They’re getting through it, and they’re get-ting them to the point where
UT Group Calls Healthcare.gov
“Much Improved”they’re choosing their plans and purchasing them.”
The Utah Health Policy Project is one of the feder-ally certified locations where people can enroll in the ACA.
ACA Open Enrollment does not end until March 31, 2014, but Stevenson said any-one who wants their insurance to start in January needs to sign up this month.
“If you want your insur-ance to start as soon as it can, if you’re waiting for insur-ance, if you’re uninsured, if you want to be insured, then you need to sign up by Dec. 23 in Utah to have that insur-ance start on the first day of the new year.”
Stevenson agreed with the Obama Administration that navigating healthcare.gov is 80 percent improved from where it was in October.
—Troy Wilde, Utah News Connection
SALT LAKE CITY - Those 17 years of age or younger, who don’t have their own big game hunting permit, can use an adult mentor’s per-mit to take a big game animal in Utah in 2014.
As soon as an animal is taken, the hunting season will be over for both the mentor and the young hunter.
Archery deer and prong-horn hunters will also be al-lowed to hunt on six Utah wa-terfowl management areas in 2014. And, if the need arises,
eight different areas in Utah are on a list of areas to receive transplanted mule deer.
The changes are among several big game changes the Utah Wildlife Board ap-proved on Dec. 5
All of the changes the board approved will be avail-able in the 2014 Utah Big Game Field Regulations Guidebook. The free guide-book should be available at wildlife.utah.gov/guidebooks in late December.
Hunting mentor pro-gram
A new program that should build bonds and mem-ories between young hunters and their parents, stepparents, grandparents and legal guard-ians will start in Utah in 2014.
The Hunter Mentor-ing program allows a non-licensed youth hunter to accompany their parent, step-parent, grandparent or legal guardian into the field. Once an animal is found, the youth can take the animal and then tag it with the mentor’s tag.
As soon as an animal is taken, the hunting season is over for both the mentor and the youth hunter.
One spike bull elk hunt eliminated on the Monroe
Rifle hunters will not be allowed to hunt spike bull elk on Unit 23, also known as the Monroe unit, in 2014.
Biologists with the Divi-sion of Wildlife Resources are
Board Approves Hunting Changesconcerned about the number of spike bull elk that are be-ing taken during the rifle hunt each fall. The Monroe unit is a popular and easily accessible hunting area in south-central Utah.
A rifle hunt for spike bull elk will not be held on the unit in 2014. Archery and muzzle-loader hunts for spike bulls will still be held on the unit, though.
Archery hunting on wa-terfowl management areas
Starting in 2014, six of
Utah’s waterfowl management areas (WMAs) will be open to archery deer and pronghorn hunting. The six WMAs are Bicknell Bottoms, Brown’s Park, Clear Lake, Desert Lake, Locomotive Springs and Red-mond. Both the archery deer and archery pronghorn hunts will be over before the general waterfowl hunt starts in Octo-ber.
New bighorn sheep hunt in north-central Utah
For the first time in six years, bighorn sheep hunting will be allowed in three areas in north-central Utah: Mount Timpanogos, Mount Nebo and Rock Canyon near Provo.
The overall number of bighorn sheep in the areas hasn’t increased much during that time, but the herd now includes some big, impres-sive rams. Starting in 2014, a limited number of hunters will have a chance to hunt the rams.
“Even if one or two rams are taken,” says Justin Shan-non, big game coordinator for the DWR, “plenty of rams will be left in the herd to breed with the ewes and keep the herd going.”
Splitting the rifle hunt on the Book Cliffs Unit
The number of bucks per 100 does on the northern part of the Book Cliffs limited-entry deer hunting unit should increase after the board ap-proved a DWR proposal to
split the unit into two areas for the rifle hunt.
The southern portion of the Book Cliffs is harder to hunt, so most hunters hunt the northern portion. The in-creased pressure has reduced the number of bucks on the northern part of the Book Cliffs.
“Splitting the unit into two areas for the rifle hunt will allow us to reduce the num-ber of permits for the northern area,” Shannon says. “Reduc-ing the number of permits will increase the number of bucks in that area. At the same time, we can increase the number of permits for the southern por-tion. Plenty of bucks are avail-able to hunt in the southern area.”
Magnifying scopes, draw locks and crossbows
Another change the board approved will allow the use of three items during Utah’s any-weapon big game hunts: Mag-nifying scopes on muzzleload-ers, draw lock devices on bows and the use of crossbows.
(During the any-weapon hunts [commonly called the rifle hunts], hunters may use rifles, muzzleloaders or ar-chery equipment.)
“We don’t have concerns with people using scopes, draw lock devices or crossbows dur-ing the any-weapon hunts,” Shannon says. “By choosing to use archery equipment or a muzzleloader, the chance they’ll take an animal is lower than if they used a rifle.”
Deer transplantsAnother change approved
by the board established eight areas in Utah where mule deer can be moved to. The eight deer hunting units are in rural parts of the state. Each unit has enough winter range to sup-port additional deer. And each area has also held more deer in the past than it’s currently holding.
—Utah Division of Wildlife Resources
Starting in 2014, young people can hunt with an adult men-tor and use the mentor’s permit to take a big game animal in Utah. Once an animal is taken, the hunt is over for both the youth hunter and the mentor.
photo by Scott Root, Utah Division of Wildlife Resources
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Practical Money MattersWho’s Afraid of
the Alternative Minimum Tax?by Jason alderMan
TORREY - Warmth, comfort and cheer spilled out the door of the Torrey Log Church on a frosty Friday night at the Holiday Hoe-down. About fifty revelers braved the threat of yet more snow to make and partake of music, memories, cider and sweets to kick off the holi-day season.
The local group Rough Around the Edges performed Christmas carols on a plethora of old-time instruments, with some festively at-tired members sported reindeer antlers. Becky Pace on keyboards and violinist Lynsey Shelar opened with a musical tribute to Mary Elliott, who was remembered with a candle-lighting ceremony for her special decorations in the church for prior hoedowns, along with her many other contributions to the community.
Cheerful holiday tunes lightened the mood enormously, a Christmas tree twinkled in the background, and Paula Pace entertained the children who gathered at her feet to hear her read a Christmas story about a young llama overwhelmed by preholiday anticipation.
Cameras clicked madly when, during the final number, the church door swung open to admit a latecomer in from the cold. Santa Claus ho-ho-ho’d up the aisle to the delight of all. Seven month old Camden cried through his first photo shoot on Santa’s lap. The rest of the chil-dren took the opportunity to whisper last-min-ute wishes into Santa’s ear before being bundled up into coats and out into the snow once more, clutching bags of goodies from the jolly old elf to tide them over until Christmas day.
—Ann Torrence
First encounter with Santa Claus.
Paula Pace reads a Christmas story to the kids.
Lynsey Sherar and Becky Pace
Friday Night Torrey Hoe Down Brings Warmth and Good
Cheer
Year after year, Congress keeps kicking meaningful in-come tax reform down the road. Consequently, taxpay-ers continue to be stuck with an archaic, overly complicated mess that pleases no one – ex-cept perhaps some tax accoun-tants who charge by the hour.
A prime example is the dreaded alternative minimum tax (AMT). Enacted in 1969 to close loopholes that allowed wealthy taxpayers to avoid paying income taxes, the AMT has been tinkered with so much over the years that millions of middle-income taxpayers now get snared as well.
Historically, the biggest issue has been that while regu-lar tax brackets, exemptions and standard deductions were adjusted annually for inflation, those used to calculate the AMT were not. Some years, Congress approved one-time “patches” to the AMT income exemption amount so fewer people had to pay AMT – usu-ally at the last minute. The Tax Payer Relief Act of 2012 fi-nally made the inflation patch permanent.
Many people never real-ize they’re subject to the AMT until they get a letter from the IRS saying they owe addition-al tax – plus interest and pen-alties. So it pays to know how the AMT works:
Each year, taxpayers must determine their AMT status. The IRS’ AMT Assis-tant at www.irs.gov can help
you quickly calculate whether you’re likely to owe AMT. If you’re a likely candidate, you must fill out IRS Form 6251 along with your regular tax form. In a nutshell, the dif-ference between your regular tax calculation and the AMT amount gets added to your re-turn as additional tax.
Lower-income taxpayers typically escape having to pay AMT, but middle-income peo-ple with larger-than-average deductions or certain other tax circumstances sometimes fall prey. Here’s why:
Under the regular tax cal-culation, you subtract allow-able credits and deductions from your gross income to determine the amount of tax owed. When calculating the AMT, however, many usual deductions and exemptions are adjusted downward or completely disallowed, result-ing in a higher taxable income.
Deductions that aren’t al-lowed in the AMT calculation include:• Personal exemptions for
yourself, spouse and depen-dents.
• The standard deduction (claimed by those who don’t itemize deductions).
• State and local income, sales and property taxes.
• Miscellaneous itemized de-ductions.
• Interest on second mort-gages; however, primary mortgage interest can be deducted.
• (Note: The medical/dental
expense deduction is more limited than under regular income tax.)
Other items that may trig-ger the AMT include exercis-ing large stock options (unless you sell the stock within the same year) and large, long-term capital gains. Usually no single item triggers the AMT, but the right combination of factors often will – for exam-ple, if you pay high state and local taxes, claim numerous personal exemptions for de-pendents and have unusually large itemized deductions.
Back to Form 6251: You’ll be asked to perform a series of calculations to deter-mine your AMT income. From that amount you subtract the AMT exemption. For 2013, the AMT exemption amounts are:• $51,900 for single and head
of household filers• $80,800 for married cou-
ples filing jointly• $40,400 for married filing
separatelyAfter several additional
calculations, you finally arrive at how much, if any, AMT you owe. Many of people hire a tax professional to help. Alterna-tively, most tax-preparation software will also calculate AMT. Just make sure that if you had an AMT capital loss in a previous year’s return that you carry the loss forward for this year’s calculation to off-set any capital gains subject to AMT – the software may not know to do that if it doesn’t have access to previous re-turns.
Jason Alderman directs Visa’s financial education pro-grams. To Follow Jason Alder-man on Twitter: www.twitter.com/PracticalMoney
