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It’s 9:30 a.m. on a Monday morning and the scene unfolding at the entrance of Little Brushcreek Cave is the result of the past 18 hours playing out in movie script fashion. 24-year-old, Zachary Felton emerges from the cave with first responders. His body is battered and beaten with two broken arms, a broken pelvis, and multiple facial fractures. Some of the breaks are compound fractures, with bones protruding from the skin. He’s conscious. Lucky to be alive after surviving an estimated 100-foot fall around 8:30 p.m. the night before while caving with his three friends. There is a moment of collective relief as he is airlifted away from the scene of amassed first responders from around the state, who convened for the singular purpose of extracting Felton from the cave. For Uintah Fire Marshall, Jeremy Raymond and Uintah County Search and Rescue member, Shane Daybell, the new day signals an end to one of the longest nights of their careers. They emerge out of the darkness of the cave into the morning light after Felton is airborne. Their clothing is shredded, covered in blood sweat and tears

from traversing the interior of the cave throughout the night. All that doesn’t matter now, Felton is on his way to safety. “The only reason I went in there was because there was people,” Daybell says with a laugh, recollecting that night. “I would have never gone in there for fun.” Felton and his three friends entered the cave the day before around 4 p.m., according to Raymond. Daybell was the first rescuer to go into the cave after the trapped trio. Raymond was fast behind with gear and medical supplies. “Shane was ahead of me. I stayed back and made sure I had all the equipment I needed to go down there,” Raymond said. “I met up with the ambulance and got all the supplies I needed.” Raymond had never been in the cave prior to the rescue and was told in general where Felton was believed to be located, along with the two trapped friends. He tied off to the gate that stands at the entrance of the cave and went in to assist Daybell. Daybell and Raymond rapelled down the first drop-off, which was a two by two-foot vertical shaft. The rope Raymond had tied off with quickly ran out after coming to the first landing, as well as his radio reception. There was a bag with more rope they

had dropped down earlier waiting for the duo as they continued searching for the three trapped climbers. According to Raymond, he and Daybell could hear the stranded climbers before they began descending another drop-off, he estimated at 200 feet. When they lost audio contact with the trapped climbers at the bottom of the drop-off, they knew they had to do something different. “We dropped down all the way to the bottom of that 200 feet and there was nothing, silence,” Raymond said. “We’re screaming, we’re hollering, we’re turning lights off. No lights, no sound, nothing.” The two rescuers were informed during a briefing the trapped climbers were believed to be in this vicinity. After losing audio contact, they ultimately decided on a different approach. The two began to freehand their way back up towards where they had made audio contact with the trapped climbers, and as Daybell said, where he could actually smell the trapped woman’s perfume. “We knew we had passed them and I could smell the girl’s perfume when we were up a little higher,” Daybell said. “So we went back up there and had to traverse across...like a little canyon that’s inside that cave. There was about a 40-foot drop

below us and you just kind of had to scale across horizontally.” As Daybell and Raymond began to scale across, they could hear the trapped woman and she could see their lights. They’d found her and Daybell continued on as Raymond checked over the woman, who was uninjured, but dehydrated and in shock. “I went down maybe 10 feet on a vertical repel and then a little horizontal scale and then down about another 15 feet and he was on a ledge where the guy had fell,” Daybell said. The look on the trapped climber’s face was telling of the situation. “He was scared,” Daybell said. They had located the two non-injured climbers and made the decision to have Raymond escort the two back towards the entrance of the cave while Daybell attempted to reach Felton, who was at the bottom of a 170-foot drop. The two rescuers had to separate as Raymond escorted the two climbers back towards safety. Daybell attempted to make physical contact with Felton but was unable to as the 400 feet of rope he and Raymond brought with them wasn’t enough. DaySEE CAVE-IN on Page 7

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Wasatch County Search and Rescue teams (above) repel Little Bushcreek Cave Jan. 8 to retrieve three stranded climbers. Zachary Felton (below) was severely wounded in a fall rescuers estimated at 100 feet. Felton was believed to fall sometime around 8 p.m. Jan. 7.

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program. Help Wanted Medical LPN or experienced MA needed for busy medical clinic. Must be available Monday through Friday. Duties include taking vital signs, nurse calls, lab testing, administering vaccines and other duties. Submit resume to Basin Clinic Oil Field Eight Ball Trucking is hiring Independent Contractors to fill Sand Coordinator position for Schlumberger locations in the Uintah Basin and WY areas. Pay is competitive. Personal vehicle, insurance, and expenses to be incurred by Independent Contractor. 10 years experience in the oilfield fracking/ production industry preferred. Apply in person at 5271 S 5500 E Vernal, UT 84078 or by email @ 8balltrucking@live.com Misc Help Wanted Part- time Crisis Nursery

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Thank you so much for your outpouring of love and concern for our family during the passing of beautiful Isabella Giese. We are blessed to be in a town of amazing, caring and thoughtful people. Please know that we are deeply grateful for the flowers, the food and the tributes. Special thanks to Wendy's and Vernal Cinemas for their billboard tributes and to the friends who erected the memorial at the place of Bella's accident. Thanks to the law enforcement people who were at the scene of the accident and kindly took care of Bell. If you prayed and thought of Bell, our family thanks you. We are humbled by the many friends and relatives who generously provided so much comfort to our family.

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NOTICE OF ANNUAL STOCKHOLDERS MEETING FOR THE HIGHLINE CANAL COMPANY The annual meeting of the Highline Canal Company will be held Thursday, February 15, 2018 at 7:00 p.m. in a meeting room at the Uintah Conference Center, 313 East 200 South, Vernal, Utah. The Annual Report will be presented to the stockholders along with the Financial Statement covering the 2017 expenditures. Business will include the election of one twoyear Director and one one-year Director. The meeting will follow an agenda as set by the Board of Directors. BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS Dwayne Holmes, Secretary, Highline Canal Company. Published in the Basin Nickel Ads on Jan. 23rd, 30th and Feb. 6th, 2018.

NOTICE OF ANNUAL STOCKHOLERS MEETING FOR THE ASHLEY UPPER IRRIGATION COMPANY The Annual Meeting of the Ashley Upper Irrigation Company will be held Tuesday, February 13, 2018 at 7:00 p.m. in a meeting room at the Western Park, 302 East 200 South, Vernal, Utah. The Annual report will be presented to the stockholders along with the Financial Statement Covering the 2017 expenditures. Business will include the election of one twoyear Director and one one-year Director. The meeting will follow an agenda as set by the Board of Directors. BY ORDER OF THE DIRECTORS, Brent Jackson, Secretary, Ashley Upper Irrigation Company. Published in the Basin Nickel Ads, Jan. 23rd, 30th and Feb. 6th, 2018.

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Uintah High School senior Lucy Flake had a front row seat on Thursday night during a two-hour clinic with retired Weber State music professor Michael Palumbo at Vernal City Hall and she came away impressed with the knowledge she gained. Flake is a veteran violin player. She has been playing her instrument for eight years. “It was very interesting,” Flake said. “I was able to learn a lot from him in different ways he described the music. I loved the clinic, I was very excited about it” The clinic was put on for members of the Uintah Basin Youth Chamber Orchestra. “Everyone had a blast,” UBYCO director Brad Vanfleet said. “We had a fun musical and educational experience. He wants to come out again.

We are going to make that happen. It’s not every day that music students in the Uintah Basin get to do a workshop with a world class musician. It was inspiring.” In the clinic, Palumbo went over three songs Van Fleet had selected for the evening. “The first thing is that I was impressed with is the amount of attention,” Palumbo said. “We are looking at students at all different ages here. They were very attentive. They worked very hard to try and do what I asked them to do. That to me is a big thing. They are well prepared and they are playing very difficult music. They have had some good training.” The songs were Edvard Grieg Holberg Suite, Felix Mendelssohn Sting Symphony No. 10, Phantom of the Opera. “They are all interested in what they do,” Palumbo said. “We

don’t have a bunch of people in that are sitting back and doing it because mom said I had to.” Palumbo volunteered his time to make the trip from Ogden to Vernal. “I use to do a lot of clinic, but I retired four years ago from Weber State,” Palumbo said. “They don’t need to pay me because they can use the money for other things. I appreciated the chance to come out and do it.” Palumbo was a Professor Of Viola at Weber State University from 1982-2013. He was also co-founder and first president of the Utah Viola Society. “There are a lot of youth orchestras around the state and a lot of good ones,” Palumbo said. “This one is joining the ranks. It’s going right straight up.” Flake said this is the second year for UBYOC. “It’s wonderful

that we have it,” Flake said. “We were very happy that it came. I love it more that it’s bigger. It’s more intense. We are going more together.” The UHS senior has lofty goals in the future for her music career. “I would love to be a concert violinist some day,” Flake said. There are around 30 members currently playing with Vanfleet. There is a good mix of young people and older youth in the orchestra. The average age is 12-18. The breakdown includes one bass, seven cellos, five violas, eight first violins and nine second violins. Vanfleet is also a viola and violin coach. Christopher Davis is another UBYCO conductor. McKenzie Bigler is the bass coach and Mindy Smith is a violin coach. The UBYCO is for all youth from around the Uintah Basin area.

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21-year-old passes away in fatal car accident on Highway 40 The Vernal Police Department responded to a two-vehicle accident at approximately 6:30 p.m. Jan. 8 at 895 W. Highway 40 in Vernal that resulted in one fatality. According to the Vernal Police depart-

ment, an eastbound vehicle crossed into the westbound lane, colliding with another vehicle in the westbound lane. Both vehicles contained one driver and one passenger. 21-year-old Isabella

Giese was the driver of the eastbound vehicle, according to the Vernal Police Department and was pronounced deceased at the scene of the accident. The single passenger in Giese’s vehicle was transported to Ash-

ATTENTION SPORTSMAN 2018 Diamond Mountain Landowners Buck Deer Voucher is up for bid. Bids are due Thursday, February 8, 2018 at 5:00 p.m. Mail bids to: Diamond Mtn. Landowners Assoc. P.O. Box 303 Vernal, UT 84078 If mailed, please allow for delivery. Or hand delivered to: G & H Garbage Offices 331 North Vernal Ave. Vernal, UT 84078 Bids can be dropped off Mon – Fri 8 am to 5 pm. Bids will be opened that evening.

ley Regional Medical Center, where he was treated and transported by air to a Salt Lake area hospital. Both occupants of the westbound vehicle received minor injuries. An investigation

into the cause of the accident continues and the names of those involved are being withheld at this time. Giese’s funeral service was held at Ashley Valley Funeral Home on Jan. 13.

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And in accordance with law, so many shares of each parcel of such stock as may be necessary, will be sold at the office of the company at 44 West 100 North, Vernal, Utah on Friday February 2, 2018, at 1:30 p.m. to pay for the delinquent assessments thereon, together with the cost of advertising and the sale. Published in the Vernal Express January 9,16,23, and 30, 2018.

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Quagga Requirements Lifted at Deer Creek Reservoir Submitted by DWR Heber City – It’ll take less time to get your boat on or off Deer Creek Reservoir this year. After three years, the reservoir is no longer suspected of having quagga mussels in it. Nathan Owens, the aquatic invasive species coordinator for the Division of Wildlife Resources, says quagga mussels have not been found in the reservoir since five juvenile mussels were discovered in a water sample in Oct. 2014. Because the reservoir has gone three years without further detection, effective Jan. 11, Deer Creek is no longer classified as a quagga-suspected water. And that means you’re no longer required to drain the water from your boat and have staff at the park inspect it, before leaving the reservoir southwest of Heber City. Hard work pays off

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With the exception of Lake Powell, which has been infested with mussels since 2013, quagga mussels have not been found in any water body in Utah since the discovery at Deer Creek in 2014. “Our prevention and containment methods worked,” Owens says. “Decontaminating boats that arrived at Deer Creek from Lake Powell and infested waters outside the state prevented mussels from getting into the reservoir and adding to the problem. And requiring boaters to clean and drain their boats—before leaving Deer Creek— prevented any mussels that might have been in Deer Creek from being spread to other waters in the state.” Owens says preventing quagga mussels from establishing in Deer Creek was a team effort. “This is a shining example of what can happen when boaters and government work together on a common goal,” he says. The effort included funding from the Utah Legislature and boaters, anglers and personnel from the DWR, Utah State Parks, the Bureau of Reclamation, the Provo River Watershed Council and the Central Utah Water Conservancy District teaming together to keep additional mussels out of the reservoir. “We want to thank boaters across Utah for completing the required certification

forms before launching their boats and then cleaning and draining their boats before leaving the reservoir,” Owens says. Owens says park rangers and staff at Deer Creek State Park are especially deserving of praise. “Over the past three years,” he says, “they’ve dedicated themselves to inspecting and decontaminating boats and educating boaters about the threat.” During the past three years, staff at the park inspected more than 30,000 boats. They professionally decontaminated about 2,000 of them. “The park also started a program that helped those who boat regularly on Deer Creek understand how important it is to keep quagga mussels out of the reservoir,” Owens says. “The program helped the boaters comply with the required clean, drain and dry requirements while reducing congestion and wait times at the boat ramp. The staff at Deer Creek State Park did an unbelievable job.” Clean, drain and dry

With the exception of Lake Powell, waters in Utah are free of quagga mussels and their cousins, zebra mussels. But Owens encourages all boaters not to let their guard down. “The threat quagga and zebra mussels pose to Utah’s waters is still very real,” he says. “Even though the requirement to clean, drain and dry your boat pertains only to Lake Powell,” he says, “I strongly encourage you to put your boat through that process, no matter where you’ve been boating. You never know where mussels, or any other unwanted creature, will turn up next. Cleaning, draining and drying your boat—after every boating trip—will help ensure you’re not transporting mussels from one water body to another.” The simple process, and annual education and certification forms, are available at www.stdofthesea. utah.gov. Deer Creek State Park Manager Steve Bullock says boats traveling from Lake Powell are the biggest threat to Utah’s waters. “We inspect many boats that arrive at Deer Creek from Lake Powell,” Bullock says. “Boats that have been

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Bill Rasmussen honored for 27 years of service On Dec. 12, a luncheon was held at the USDA Farm Service Center to honor Bill Rasmussen for over 27 years of service to the agricultural community of the Uintah Basin. In 1990 the Uintah Basin Soil Conservation District was divided into the Duchesne County Soil Conservation District and the Uintah County Soil Conservation District (SCD). Bill was recruited by local rancher Marvin Jackson to run for election

to the newly formed Uintah County SCD. Little did Bill know when he started, that he would serve as a district supervisor for 18 years and then as the business manager for the conservation district for another 9 years. While he served as the district supervisor, he served concurrently as an alternate member of the Utah Soil Conservation Commission and on the board of directors for the Utah Association of Con-

servation Districts (UACD). He filled a four-year term as vice president and another four-year term as president of the UACD. During this time he says he attended a lot of meetings at the state level and traveled to Washington, DC to testify concerning the Colorado River Salinity Control Program in the Uintah Basin. This testimony provided input to those who were drafting the USDA Farm Bill Program legislation. Bill stated that not

many people outside of the agricultural sector are aware of the importance of conservation districts. They ensure the concerns of the citizens of their geographic area are heard at the state and federal level regarding the care and protection of natural resources on private land. Bill is encouraged and assisted in his work by his wife Donna. They were both born in the Vernal area. When Bill retired from his professional career in the

petroleum industry, they returned to Vernal. Bill and Donna purchased property in the Davis area. In keeping with family tradition, they raised sheep until last year. The Uintah County Conservation District wishes to express their appreciation to Bill and Donna Rasmussen for many years of devoted service to the citizens of Uintah County.

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Bill and Donna Rasmussen pose for a photo recently. Bill has served the Uintah Basin for 27 years and was recognized for the years of service.

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still there. He radioed to the assembled Continued from Page 2 crews above them and discovered that bell could, however, Wasatch Search and Rescue was on their talk to Felton. “I stayed there on way down. Raymond a ledge and just talked got more rope and was to the guy,” Daybell about to make his way said. “I just kept him back to Daybell when talking to me all night. he was informed two Jeremy made two trips High Angle Search in and out of that cave and Rescuers were on all night, he was a their way down. Salt Lake City Fire stud.” Meanwhile, as Ray- Department Captains mond lead the two Steve Crandall and climbers to rescuers at David Dixon came the mouth of the cave, flying down and were help was on the way escorted by Raymond from Wasatch County, to where Daybell and Utah County, as well Felton were. as the Utah Cavers As- From there, the sociation and National duo of Raymond and Cavers Association. Daybell helped assist Five hours had elapsed the two Salt Lake City since Daybell and Ray- captains get Felton out mond had gone inside of the cave and over the cave, most of which the series of obstacles with zero communica- on the way. tion from the outside Over the next several hours, Felton was world. “I told the two, meticulously brought ‘there’s no communi- out of the cave. A cation, but stay here process that required (at the base of the Felton to stand and first drop-off), some- maneuver at times, body will be dropping despite his injuries. down,’” R aymond In the end, Felton was flown to Universaid. He was about to sity Hospital nearly 20 take a bag of gear hours after sustaining that was waiting at the fall, where he’s the first drop-off back had multiple surgeries to Daybell and Felton since, according to his when his radio began father, James Felton. “When I came out, to crackle. “It was small mir- just that light, it was acle,” Raymond said. like, I can’t even de“I grabbed my radio scribe the feeling I had and went and stood when I saw the light on top of this big rock and felt that fresh air. and held it up. I could It was amazing to me,” Daybell said. “We take hear them talking.” Raymond was in- for granted the light, formed that the other that’s what I want to crews were about 30 say.” minutes out. He made Daybell likened his way back to Day- the ordeal to one of bell, leaving the radio his favorite quotes by with the two unin- John Wayne, “Courjured climbers. When age is being scared to R aymond reached death, but saddling up Daybell, they both anyway.” used what rope was “We’re brothers sent down and it still for life after that,” was short of reaching Daybell said of his relationship with RayFelton. R a y m o n d w e n t mond now after the back to where he had rescue. “I learned a lot left the climbers and of things that night.” discovered they were

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Despite lax law enforcement, many prostitutes still risked violence, disease, and arrest. What’s more, they often took the blame for these dangers of the workplace. Some madams invested heavily in the safety of their workforce. Belle London, for example, spent nearly $500,000 to build The Stockade, a heavily-guarded facility where she conducted business in downtown Salt Lake City. London planned a hospital there, with the aim of keeping her workers healthy.

Lenient attitudes toward prostitution did not survive the Progressive Era of the early 1900s. Many of Utah’s powerful madams were arrested or died, and their brothels shut down. Nonetheless, their legacy lives on in the stories and myths that surround the fabled red-light districts of Utah.

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- Mussels remove plankton from the water, the same plankton that supports fish in Utah. The mussels could devastate fisheries in Utah.