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Panguitch • Panguitch Lake • Hatch • Bryce • Tropic • Antimony • Henrieville • Cannonville • Escalante • Boulder • Fremont • Loa • Lyman Bicknell • Teasdale • Torrey • Grover • Fruita • Caineville • Hanksville
Thursday, June 21, 2012 • Issue # 949
LOCAL HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT ATTENDS ENGINEERING STATE AT UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY Dalan Bennett from Panguitch High School was among the 222 students excelling in math and science who attended Utah State University’s 21st Annual Engineering State program in Logan, UT, June 11 – 14, 2012. The intensive four day program introduces high school students throughout the region to the engineering profession and is sponsored by USU engineering alumni, school district foundations, engineering firms, and businesses. Students participate in a variety of Challenge Sessions taught during the week. Among the 18 hands-on, competitive exercises called Challenge Sessions, students write an iPad App, competitively locate software bugs, apply algorithms and cryptography to win a scavenger hunt; engineer algae to produce bioproducts and biofuels, and isolate spider silk-making genes to produce huge quantities of spider silk and learn about synthetic spider silk research. They also learned how to manipulate DNA to change the smells of fruits, put together a small steel bridge and test its structural soundness, build personal speakers, design a computer out of only a ping pong ball and a telephone, design their own aircraft out of balsa wood, and scale 90+ foot walls. Engineering professors at USU donate their time to introduce students to their profession and challenge them in exercises which use math and science to solve physical problems. The Engineering State program at USU has been instrumental in attracting top students to engineering departments at universities across the state. Since many students receive little exposure to engineering in the high school setting, attendees to Engineering State receive a hands-on introduction to engineering. Besides an outstanding orientation program for engineering, attendees experience the university environment and receive information about the financial resources available for students who seek higher education. For more information about the Engineering State program, contact Kathy Phippen, Program Coordinator, at (435) 797-2843. APRICOT HARVEST
WAYNE COUNTY ART SHOW ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS Entries may be submitted August 14 & 15 from 9am to 5pm Location: Commissioner’s Room, Loa Courthouse Judging: August 16th Open to the public: August 17th from 10am to 5pm August 18th afteer the parade until 2pm All paintings, photos, drawings, etc. must be framed and hangable (complete with hanging hardware). Any Wayne County resident may enter. Large variety of art mediums accepted. Questions: Call Diane Borgerding at 491-0135 Prizes & awards for all age categories and levels of experience.
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The Apricot harvest is beginning at Capitol Reef National Park’s historic orchards. Apricots are available for $1.00 a pound, beginning Wednesday, June 27, in the Mulford, Gifford and Johnson Orchards, all located south of the visitor center along the Scenic Drive. Fee stations with scales for weighing fruit are provided in each open orchard. There is no charge for fruit consumed in the orchards. Fenced orchards are open from 9am to 5pm; unfenced orchards remain open during daylight hours. Apricots will be available
for harvest in the Smith, Cook, Adams and Mott Orchards, beginning Tuesday, July 3. These orchards are all located within one mile of the visitor center along the Scenic Drive or Highway 24. Additional fruit harvest information is recorded on the Capitol Reef Fruit Hotline as fruit ripens and specific harvest start dates are determined. The fruit hotline may be reached by calling (435) 425-3791. Once the park number connects, press one for general information and, at the voice prompt for the orchard hot-
line, press five. Climbing fruit trees is not permitted in the Park. The National Park Service provides special fruit picking ladders. Use care when picking fruit and carefully read and follow posted instructions on fruit picking and ladder use. Capitol Reef National Park uses the receipts from fruit sales to defray the cost of maintaining the orchards. The historic Fruita orchards are among the largest in the National Park System and were established beginning in the 1880s by pioneer residents of Fruita.
HIGH FIRE DANGER PROMPTS STATEWIDE FIRE RESTRICTIONS Current and forecasted weather conditions coupled with extremely dry conditions and heavy loading of vegetation throughout the State of Utah have created hazardous fire conditions. As a result, all state and federal lands, and all unincorporated private lands, will be under fire restrictions beginning 12:01 a.m. on June 14th, 2012. The restrictions will be in place until the fire hazard subsides. Fire managers from the Utah Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands, Bureau of Land Management, Forest Service, National Park Service, Bureau of Indian Affairs and the U.S.
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Fish and Wildlife Service came to the mutual decision on Wednesday. Each agency has specific restriction orders that may contain different stipulations, but all the orders have in common a prohibition of the following acts: 1. Setting, building, maintaining, attending or using open fires of any kind, except campfires built within the facilities provided for them in improved campgrounds, picnic areas or permanently improved places of habitation. 2. Smoking, except within an enclosed vehicle or building, a developed recre-
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ation site or while stopped in an area at least three feet in diameter that is barren or cleared to mineral soil. 3. Discharging, or using any kind of fireworks, tracer ammunition or other pyrotechnic devices. These restrictions do not apply to lands within
incorporated towns and cities; however, each municipality may have similar or more restrictive ordinances. Questions about specific areas should be directed to local authorities. For more information on the restrictions, please visit www.utahfireinfo.gov
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