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Thursday, March 5, 2020
Issue # 1349
Celebrating Our History of Grains, Bread, and Baking
Bryce Canyon Music Camp and Art Program for Rural Youth Seeks Support Registration for June Event Begins Friday, March 6
Courtesy Stacy Okerlund
Threshing crew at the old Hyrum and Minnie Morrell farm in Fremont (probably 1920s). WAYNE COUNTY Grain farming has played an important role in local history for thousands of years. Threshing is the process of loosening the edible part of the grain from the chaff. It was a time-consuming process for the early pioneers to beat the grain using a flail. Animal-powered threshers saved time. By the early part of the 20th century, thresh-
ing crews moved from town to town with a threshing machine. People worked together to harvest the grain. According to Bill Albrecht, Leonard Albrecht worked with the threshing group in the photo. At the end of the day, they would say that anyone that could shoulder a full bag of grain with one hand could take it home. Leonard was one of the few men that
Jan Garbett to Run For Governor
SALT LAKE CITY - The Utah governor’s race now has a new Republican candidate that stands apart from the crowd. Jan Garbett, a business-
may work for him on a federal level, but falling in behind him on every issue is just not the Utah way; we’re too independent for that. I want to see Utah issues determined by Utahns who know who we are and what we stand for, not a voice from Washington, D.C.” The mother of eight, Garbett is passionate about traditional Utah values and issues that affect Utah families such as ensuring quality education and clean air for our children and grandchildren and seeing that they thrive here with access to jobs and other opportunities, especially in rural Utah. Courtesy Jan Garbett for Governor Unlike several of Jan Garbett is running for Utah the candidates, Garbett Governor on the Republican ticket. does not believe everything begins and ends woman, philanthropist, com- along the Wasatch Front. munity activist and the co“People in the rural counfounder of Garbett Homes, has ties often feel unsupported,” announced that she is filing to she said. “I want to make sure run for the position being va- their voices are heard and that cated by Gary Herbert. the state makes it a priority to Garbett said she had been bring jobs and other opportunipondering how best to use her ties to those counties.” abilities to benefit the state of In the coming weeks, as Utah until she heard about the her campaign gears up, Garbett gubernatorial debate at the Jan. voice will grow on Facebook, 31 Silicon Slopes Tech Sum- Twitter, YouTube and other somit. She was struck by how ho- cial media platforms to share mogenous the candidates were her message with ordinary in support of President Donald Utahns. She will also provide Trump and okay with Trump- op-eds to local newspapers on style politics. issues of concern to their com“I realized that Utahns munities. needed a choice,” she said. —Jan Garbett “Mr. Trump’s style of politics for Governor
REGIONAL WEATHER FORECAST FOR SOME BUT NOT ALL REGIONS REPRESENTED IN OUR NEWSPAPER COVERAGE AREA
THURS. MARCH 5 - WED. MARCH 11
Sunny until clouds and rain chances move in over the weekend and into next week. Highs in the upper 40s and lower 50s; lows in the 20s and low 30s. Rain chances are 10 - 20%. Winds variable from 9 to 17 mph.
could do it. Theron Taylor remembers the “thrasher” at his Uncle Thayne’s. He states that “I got to drive the field truck while they hauled the bundles of grain. I couldn’t have been much more than 6 or 7. Playing in the new straw was lots of fun. The meals Aunt Patra and my grandmother made for the thresher crew were to die for. I swear it was better than
Produce Farming and Preparing for the Produce Safety Rule
WAYNE COUNTY There is a relatively new law that produce farmers need to be aware of that may potentially cause them to make changes to their farming practices. The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), passed by congress in 2011, is the first major reform to food laws in over 70 years, and it is very far reaching. FSMA mandated that the FDA create a rule regarding farm food safety. The Standards for the Growing, Harvesting, Packing, and Holding of Produce for Human Consumption, or the “Produce Safety Rule”, was published by the FDA in 2015. Some parts of the rule will seem very familiar to anyone who has experience with Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) or other farm inspection programs, but for anyone else without that experience it will come across as very new. This rule sets basic food safety standards for produce growers with the intent of preventing food borne illnesses. The FDA has worked with multiple partners to create educational materials and programs that will help farmers understand and implement the rule. This includes the creation of official trainings and the On-Farm Readiness Review program. Now before anyone gets worried that the FDA will be inspecting their Produce
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BRYCE CANYON “Enough has been said to show that music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young,” says Aristotle. Although much has been said about the benefits of music and art learning, many rural areas throughout the country do not have the means nor the funding for art programs in schools. Those who have learned and experienced the benefits of the arts have a sacred obligation to bring music and art opportunities to the areas with inadequate pro-
a county fair when it was our turn to cut grain.” If you enjoyed the photos and memories, check out the Wayne County History Facebook page at https://www. facebook.com/waynecountyhistory/. On Wednesday March 11 at 6PM, a free community dinner will celebrate our cultural heritage of grains, bread, and baking. The event will be held at the WCCC in Bicknell regardless of the weather. Don’t Grains
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grams— “The world is full of discords, and he who can introduce one more element of harmony is a benefactor of the race.” C.E. Sargent Understanding this simple “WHY” behind music and the arts is key to understanding the “WHY” behind Bryce Canyon Music Camp, directed by sisters Megan Cottam and Amanda Clarke—past residents of the Bryce Canyon area. “So often success is determined by academics, and then by income and the corporate-ladder Bryce Music Camp Cont'd on page 7
Courtesy Bryce Canyon Music Camp
The arts are important for bettering the soul, bettering humanity, and teaching empathy.
Campaign Launched to Save the Gem Theater
Courtesy Kenneth Cramer
Gem Theater staff members and their families. Theater manager Kenneth Cramer has launched a GoFundme campaign to help save the theater. PANGUITCH - effort to save Panguitch’s Gem Theater is underway, spurred by theater manager Kenneth Cramer, who has launched a GoFundMe campaign to help raise funds to purchase the building. Current theater owner Brian Brill is due to close the theater within a couple of months if an investor or group of investors is not found to purchase the business, according to Cramer. “It’s been for sale for quite a while, now—at least a year,” said Cramer. Cramer and his wife Audrey moved to Panguitch from Pocatello, Idaho, in the sum-
Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyway. —Eleanor Roosevelt
mer of 2018, and he began working at the Gem shortly after that, and has been manager since January 2019. Cramer says he was compelled to make an effort to purchase the building when no other buyers stepped forward. “I have just enjoyed working there,” said Cramer, “And basically, when it came down to the wire that Brian was going to close the theater, I started thinking about trying to work out a way to do it.” Cramer says he’s investigating a variety of resources from bank loans to Small Business Administration loans to obtain funding for the $350K purchase price
for the building and business, but that he hasn’t yet secured a loan. So he and Audrey launched the GofundMe page to raise support for saving the theater. “If I can raise 20 or 30 percent I might be able to get a regular down payment and get a regular bank loan,” said Cramer. But he says he is open to a variety of scenarios. On the Save the Historic Panguitch Gem Theater GoFundMe page, the Cramers state, “Most of the past owners have done well with the business but were hampered by the fact that they did
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