The Wayne & Garfield County Insider May 30, 2019

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Thursday, May 30, 2019

Escalante City Council May 21

City Approves Loan from Sewer Fund to General Fund, New Council Member Sworn In

ESCALANTE - Escalante City’s May 21, 2019 council meeting opened with a public hearing regarding Resolution 2019-02 regarding a proposed loan for $70,000 from the sewer fund to the general fund to pay legal fees incurred by a former employee. City recorder Stephanie Steed explained that the sewer fund has upwards of $922,000, and that the city’s code allows for loans from one fund to another fund. The loan is proposed for 10 years at 3% interest annually and may be paid off early without penalty. Following this hearing, as well as an opening of the city budget to allow for the changes in revenue and expense, the council approved a motion to adopt Resolution 2019-02 to make the loan as of May 21, 2019. During public comment, a city resident asked about the Escalante City boundaries and the potential for annexation to better manage the city’s “sphere of influence.” He expressed concern that a “conglomerate” has purchased the Shooting Star RV Park, and is expanding that business markedly. He expressed concern about preserving the city’s heritage and the feel of the town, and that annexation can help the city with these goals. Council Member Stowe said there was no P&Z meeting this past week, and therefore no P&Z updates. The council heard from two individuals who applied Escalante Council Cont'd on page 2

Issue # 1309

New Manager Takes Helm at USFS Powell District

District Ranger Wehrli Discusses Travel Management Plan, Fuels Reduction, Aspen Regeneration

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Chris Wehrli has joined the Dixie National Forest staff as District Ranger for the Powell Ranger District, based out of Panguitch. PANGUITCH - The Powell District of the Dixie National Forest has a new District Ranger. Transferring from the U.S. Forest Service Rocky Mountain Regional Office in Lakewood, Colorado, Powell District Ranger, Chris Wehrli, brings two decades of Forest Service experience to his new post and seems more than comfortable with the

management challenges the Powell District has to offer. Wehrli arrived at the job on President’s Day weekend in February, but as of late April, was still biding most of his time on the job from inside the office, unable to get out on the ground much due to the spring rains and mud. “But,” Wehrli assured, “this district ranger will get out on the

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range. I can’t be the responsible official for the district unless I know the district.” The Powell Ranger District is a vertical swath of the New District Manager Cont'd on page 9

by Bonnie Mangold

WAYNE COUNTY Warning! There is nothing uplifting about the realities of a Big One in a major population area, so read on at your own risk. Nevertheless, knowledge of what you can expect in various dire circumstances does help you to be prepared and withstand the shock of a disastrous event. If I didn’t believe that, I wouldn’t be writing all these episodes. In any case it is time to discuss the kind of damage a Big One causes in cities like Salt Lake City, where the major fault runs through the heart of the city. Geological evidence indicates a pattern of periodic large quakes along the Wasatch fault and other Utah faults of a magnitude between 6.5 and 7.5; that’s what is meant by a Big One; that is what is being anticipated, and that is what the State is trying to prepare us for. Most of the population of Utah is located within the Intermountain Seismic Belt where this magnitude of quake can occur. When

such quakes occur close to heavily populated areas the damage can be catastrophic. (It appears from the maps that Wayne County is situated just to the east of this seismic belt; the western edge of the Colorado Plateau apparently is the dividing line.) The presentation at the last LEPC meeting focused mainly on what is likely to happen in SLC if the next Big One occurs on that segment of the Wasatch fault. As mentioned last episode the different soil types affect how much shaking would be experienced and of what type. In a Big One, that shaking might go on for up to 30 seconds. In SLC going east from I-15, the soils become stiffer and more shallow as one gets up into the foothills, closer to bedrock. These sandy and gravelly soils over bedrock amplify the high-frequency waves—more vertical waves—the ones that cause Emergency Planning Cont'd on page 9

Intermountain Sevier Valley Hospital Named a Top 100 Rural and Community Hospital

Mental Health Support Group BOULDER / ESCALANTE - The Utah Chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) is excited to provide a peer support group in the towns of Boulder and Escalante for individuals living with mental health conditions. Volunteer community

members Jon Leatham and Laura McKerracher attended an intensive facilitator training and are looking forward to getting meetings underway. “The creation of the Boulder-Escalante NAMI AfNAMI

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Entrada Institute Invites Community to Join in 25th Birthday Celebration

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“The Entrada Center will be a legacy for all of us going forward,” reflects Frank McEntire. Pictured above is an example of the plans for the new Entrada Center. TORREY - “Twentyfive years,” reflects Marci Milligan, president of the Entrada Institute. “That’s a quarter-century of Saturday night concerts, readings, lectures, and programs ranging from rock-art hikes and writing workshops to community service and support for high school scholarships. That’s a lot of community engage-

Emergency Planning— Episode Twenty-Two: More on the Big One

ment and events to celebrate,” she deadpans. Indeed it is, but the Entrada Institute’s future wasn’t always so assured. In the winter of 1994, a group of Torrey and Salt Lake City residents gathered on a bone-chillingly cold Saturday morning at the Torrey pyramid-shaped home of Ward Roylance to discuss the launch of a “school of the

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Earth.” Between taking turns to bundle up and race outside for sticks of firewood, the assembled founders discussed what their school might look like. Ideas were introduced, debated, modified, rejected, revisited, and finally settled upon. The group soon filed articles of incorporation with the State of Utah for the new non-profit “Entrada Institute.” 25th Birthday Cont'd on page 12

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Caregivers at Intermountain Sevier Valley Hospital celebrate Top 100 Rural and Community Hospital recognition. RICHFIELD - Inter- is our purpose for pursing ex- evant indicators across eight pillars of hospital strength mountain Sevier Valley Hos- cellence.” (i.e. Inpatient Market Share, Hospitals recognized as a pital has recently been named Outpatient Market Chare, Top 100 facility scored in the one of the Top 100 Rural & Cost, Charge, Quality, Outtop 100 among all rural and Community Hospitals in the comes, Patient Perspective community hospitals nationUnited States by The Chartis ally. Now in its ninth year, the Top 100 Center for Rural Health. ReINDEX leverages 50 rural-relCont'd on page 2 garded as one of the industry’s most significant designations of performance excellence, the annual Top 100 Rural & Community Hospitals award is based upon the results of the Hospital Strength INDEX® from iVantage Health Analytby Veronica egan ics. WAYNE COUNTY - sion Project. Commissioner “This achievement is Commissioners Wood, Wood placed a call to Darrin very gratifying and validates Blackburn and Harward pres- of Jones and De Mille Conour caregivers’ daily coment. Today's was a very brief struction requesting updated mitment to providing the best agenda. The Memorandum information. An agreement healthcare possible for our of Understanding with the for funding for the Bookmopatients, while maintaining an BLM regarding a data sharing bile and the Wayne County efficient and effective hospiagreement was tabled, to be Library for $ , tal,” said SVH administrator, discussed next meeting when Phillip Winter of UnlimGary Beck. “And while namore information is available. ited Plumbing gave a long tional recognition is always The same was true of the diswelcome, the support we have from our community in trust- cussion of an extension for Wayne Commission ing us to care for their families work on the Hanksville DiverCont'd on page 2

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say. —Ralph Waldo Emerson

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