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Thursday, January 24, 2013 • Issue # 980
Two Escalante Residents Killed in Plane Crash
Utah Students Compete for Cash Students Explain Why They Like Their Communities SALT LAKE CITY - Students from all 4th and 7th grade classrooms from throughout the state are encouraged to participate in the 16th annual Utah League of Cities and Towns essay contest. It’s an opportunity for students to offer a personalized snapshot of what they view as valuable in their own neighborhoods. Whether it involves friends or family, scenic beauty, recreational opportunity or opportunities of other kind, students are merely asked to describe why they like their community. Students may choose to write about community activities, geography, history, economy, residents, or what makes a community unique. Utah classrooms traditionally study about state history and municipal government in the 4th and 7th grades. Guidelines for the contest have been sent to each elementary, middle school and junior high school in the state. Essays must contain logical development of ideas and a descriptive quality of the student’s community in the student’s own voice.
Fourth grade essays must be between 250-450 words. Seventh Grade essays are not to exceed 750 words. Entries are due on March 1, 2013 and one essay per class will be selected and submitted to the League’s panel of judges. Awards will be presented to six Utah students. First, second and third place prizes will go to the award winning essays in each the 4th and the 7th grades. The first prize winners each receive a check for $100 and their school receives $1000. The second prize results in a $75 dollar check for the student and $750 dollars for their school and third place brings a check for $50 dollars to the student and $500 for the school. The two 1st-place winning essays will be presented to hundreds of city leaders from the state’s 245 cities and towns at the Utah League of Cities and Towns Annual Convention in Salt Lake City, September 1113, 2013. — Utah League of Cities and Towns
Utah Arts & Museums Announces Arts Education Grants SALT LAKE CITY - Utah Arts & Museums is now accepting online applications for arts education grants for the 201314 school year. The due date for submitting applications is 5 p.m. on March 1, 2013. There are two arts education grants. The first is for teacher-initiated projects, which provide funding for teachers to gain skills in an artistic discipline of their choice. The second is for grants to schools and school districts, which offer either an artist-in-residence, which provides schools with funds to bring an artist into a school for 40 hours of instruction, or arts education projects, which provide funds for a comprehensive project using the services of artists or artistic companies. “Arts education grants are a wonderful aid for teachers and schools who seek to provide high-caliber arts learning to their students,” said Margaret Hunt, Director of Utah Arts & Museums. “We encourage schools across the state to apply for this important funding opportunity.” A notable arts education grantee is Whitehorse High School, where grant funds are
used to participate in the Native American Composers Apprenticeship Project (NACAP). NACAP is an outreach program of the Grand Canyon Music Festival and is dedicated to teaching Native American students to compose concert music by having them collaborate with a Native American composer and a string quartet. In 2011, NACAP won a President’s Committee for the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award. Representatives from the President’s Committee attended a 2012 concert at Whitehorse High School, where the string quartet ETHEL of New York City performed the work of Whitehorse High School youth composers. The grant guidelines can be accessed by visiting artsandmuseums.utah.gov and clicking on “Funding,” then “Grants.” The grant applications can be found online at https://utahdcc. secure.force.com/portal. For assistance with the application process, please contact Jean Tokuda Irwin at jirwin@ utah.gov or 801.245.7288 or Katie Woslager at kwoslager@ utah.gov or 801.236.7550. —Utah Arts & Museums
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By Jennifer Dobner and Janelle Stecklein
The Salt Lake Tribune
Don Coombs, Loa Branch Manager for American West Bank, presents Delores McGee with a donation for Central Utah Food Sharing in Bicknell.
Local Food Bank Receives $2,000 Holiday Gift
LOA - Central Utah Food Sharing received a holiday gift of $2,000 from AmericanWest Bank to help keep shelves stocked and families fed during the winter season. “We are pleased to make this contribution to Central Utah Food Sharing because they provide so much for local families in need,” said Don Coombs, Branch Manager of AmericanWest Bank’s Loa Branch. “As the need has increased, resources have been stretched thin and we want to step up and make a difference this season.” Central Utah Food Sharing serves families in six Central Utah counties, including Wayne County. The organization is dedicated to providing compassionate responses to qualified clients as well as sowing the seeds of self-sufficiency. In November 2012 alone, they assisted more than 62 local families. This $2,000 gift is part of an ongoing annual commitment by AmericanWest Bank to support local food assistance organizations. In the last six months alone, the Bank contributed more than $50,000 to various food assistance organizations and also hosted an annual, company-wide food drive. Central Utah Food Sharing was the recipient of the food and cash collected by the Bank’s Mt. Pleasant and Fairview Branches during that food drive. “It can be challenging for individuals and families to make ends meet, so we’re pleased to do our part and assist the food bank as they help so many of our neighbors,” Coombs said. “We encourage others in the community who are able to give to also do what they can to support this important cause.” Donations of food or cash can be made to: Central Utah Food Sharing, Attn: Delores McGee, 435-836-2422, at 475 South 300 West Bicknell, UT. —American West Bank
Posing above are pickleball medal winders Bob Yager, Gina Flanagan and Brenda Winawer.
Wayne County Pickleballers are Medal Winners WAYNE CO. - During the Huntsman World Senior Games held in St. George in October, four of Wayne County’s pickleball players won medals. Over 550 pickleball players participated in this event. Gina Flanagan and Ken Kehrer (not pictured) won gold in their division and Brenda Winawer and Bob Yager won bronze in their division. In November, Brenda and Gina won silver medals in the 1st Annual Utah State Picklrball tournament held in St. George Considering the relatively small number of pickleball players in Wayne County, it’s amazing that we have so many champions. Congratulations again to Gina, Brenda, Ken and Bob. —Hank Winawer
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ESCALANTE - The tiny southern Utah town of Escalante is mourning the loss of two local men killed Saturday when their single-engine plane struck a power transmission line and went down in Garfield County. The men were identified as pilot Paul Clark Bowmar, 56, and passenger Nicholas Wolfrom Reznick, 53, in a Garfield County Sheriff’s Office news release on Sunday. “This is a huge, huge loss in our community,” said Nicole Croft, who runs the local Farmer’s Market and was a friend of Reznick’s. “We’re a very, very close community. Everybody knows everybody.” The men were taking a recreational flight between the towns of Escalante and Boulder about 3:30 p.m. Saturday when the plane struck the power line, sheriff’s spokeswoman Becki Bronson said. The crash occurred near State Route 12 at milepost 78.5, which is about eight miles south of Boulder and near the Calf Creek Recreation Area. “The initial report is that [Bowmar] did not see the power lines until he hit them, and there wasn’t any other indication that anything was wrong,” Bronson said. The cause of the crash remained under investigation Sunday. Bowmar was an experienced pilot who was very familiar with the area, Bronson said. More than that, he was the heart and soul of Escalante’s local airstrip, City Councilman and longtime Bowmar friend Greg Allen said. Bowmar owned a hangar at the strip where he kept two planes and worked to improve its conditions for other pilots. He kept track of the flights that came in and out, reporting the data quarterly, Allen said. The airport has four of five private planes in residence but also is used as a base for area searchand-rescue operations. “Paul was most of what we were doing out there,” said Allen. “He was very active and concerned about it.“ Bowmar was involved with the Utah Back Country Pilots Association — which helps preserve and maintain remote landing strips across the state — and often made recreational trips across the region with friends. Bowmar had also spent many hours working to help improve the nearby Boulder airport, where he was presumably headed when he crashed on Saturday. “He had a lot, a lot of hours in the cockpit and was an intelligent man so, you know, this had to be a mistake,” Allen said. Bowmar had lived in the community for at least 20 years and operated a machine shop that did metal lathe work and
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