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STERLING SCHOLAR WINNERS AND RUNNERS-UP • Juab High School had two winners and four runners-up at the Central Utah Sterling Scholar competition. Regan Warner, front middle, was a winner in Social Science, and Katie Wickel, front right, was a winner in Family and Consumer Sciences. Sabrina Sage, front left, was a runner-up in Agricultural Science; Jared Rowley, back left, was a runner-up in Music; Riki Squire was a runner-up in Speech and Drama; and Tanner Drake was a runner-up in Computer and Information Technology. Photo by Austin Dopp

JHS has strong showing at Sterling Scholar competition

By Rebecca Dopp

Times-News Correspondent

Six representatives from Juab High School either won or placed at the Central Utah Ster-ling Scholar competition held March 31 at the Sevier Valley Center in Richfield. North Sanpete led the way with three winners and six runners-up followed by Del-ta with two winners and five runners-up. Juab was not far behind with two winners and four runners-up. Manti had two and two, as did Richfield. Gun-nison Valley had two winners. Millard had one winner and four runners-up. South Sevier had one winner and three runners-up while North Sevier had three runners-up. Tintic rounded out the competition with one runner-up. Regan Warner won the Social Science category. Amy Emmett of Millard and Brock Bastian of South Sevier were runners-up. Katie Wickel won the Fam-ily and Consumer Sciences category. Allison Peterson of North Sevier and Alesha Hurst

of North Sanpete were runners-up. Tanner Drake was a runner-up in Computer and Information Technology. The winner in this category was Jayden Carling of Millard. Tod Olsen from North Sanpete was a runner-up. Sabrina Sage was a runner-up in Agricultural Science. The winner was Danielle Rae Boore from Gunnison Valley. Alexan-dria Robinson from South Sevier was a runner-up. Riki Squire was a runner-up in Speech and Drama. The win-ner was Alexis Raye Epling from South Sevier. Mitchell Asper from North Sevier was a runner-up. Jared Rowley was a runner-up in Music. The winner was Dani Finlinson of Delta. Ca-leb Barton of Richfield was a runner-up. Other winners in the remain-ing categories are as follows: Visual Arts: Keena Kleven, winner, North Sanpete; Akay-leigha Young, Delta; Alexis Anna

See Scholars on page 2

Sessions nabs title of Miss Nephi 2015

By Rebecca Dopp

Times-News Correspondent

Five contestants vied for the title of Miss Nephi 2015 and Kynlee Sessions, daughter of Matt and Annalee Sessions, walked away with the crown. Her attendants are Kylee Ste-phenson, 1st attendant, daugh-ter of Jeff and Kim Stephenson, and Annee Izatt, 2nd attendant, daughter of Ed and Stacey Izatt. As the new Miss Nephi, Ses-sions will receive an $800 schol-arship. Her 1st attendant will receive $600 and 2nd attendant will receive $500.

MISS NEPHI ROYALTY 2015 • Crowned as Miss Nephi 2015 was Kynlee Sessions, center, daughter of Matt and Annalee Sessions. Her attendants are Kylee Stephenson, right, 1st attendant, daughter of Jeff and Kim Stephenson, and Annee Izatt, 2nd attendant, daughter of Ed and Stacey Izatt. Photo by Rebecca DoppSee Miss Nephi on page 2

Fresh Houweling’s tomatoes now available at various locations

By Myrna Trauntvein

Times-News Correspondent

Houweling’s Tomatoes in Mona is currently harvesting fresh, lo-cal tomatoes. “Brent Boswell (county plan-ning director) and I were chatting the other day and he indicated there may be an opportunity to update your readers on what has been going on at Houweling’s Mona farm since planting in De-cember and starting to harvest this year,” said David Bell, Chief Marketing Officer for Houwel-ing’s Tomatoes. He said that Houweling’s has been growing tomatoes in green-house farms since 1985 and is a family owned business. “Houweling’s seedling plants

were all started in Delta, BC and planted in Mona the first week of December, 2014,” said Bell. He said that the first harvest began in early March and is continuing as ripe tomatoes are harvested and others are grow-ing. Houweling’s Mona farm is cur-rently employing over 100 people and is continuing to hire. Posi-tions in the greenhouse include those in labor, in the packing-house and in the warehouse. “Houweling’s Utah Grown tomatoes are currently available at Sam’s Club, Smith’s and at various Associated Food Stores banners,” said Bell. “Additionally,

Zero fatalities at Little Sahara Sand Dunes over Easter weekend

By Myrna Trauntvein

Times-News Correpsondent

There were two and a half times the number of visitors at Little Sahara Sand Dunes over the Easter weekend than there are residents of Juab County. Bureau of Land Management recreation planner Jay Cram expected over 20,000 people to make the annual Easter week-end trek to the Dunes, but the good weather and early spring brought sand fans out in better numbers than had been antici-pated. “We had an approximate 25,000 citizen population at the Sand Dunes,” said Doug Ander-son, Juab County Sheriff. In 2013, the population in Juab was numbered at 10,348 people. The combination of low gas prices and warmer-than-normal weather this spring combined to make this remote sand play-ground a popular Easter recre-

ation area. Thanks to law enforcement agencies cooperating together, it also turned out to be a safe weekend for the families who trekked to the site turning the area into a city about the size of American Fork. “I would like to express my gratitude to all agencies who helped at Little Sahara,” said Anderson. He said that, in addition to the Juab County Sheriff ’s Office, there were many law enforce-ment and support agencies involved. Those were: Utah Division of Natural Resources, Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, Utah State Parks and Recre-ation, Utah Highway Patrol, Bureau of Land Management Rangers, U.S. Forest Service Rangers, Utah Department of Public Safety Communications, Nephi City Police Department, Joint Criminal Apprehension Team (J.C.A.T.), Adult Proba-tion and Parole (A.P. & P.);

Utah County Sheriff ’s Office, Utah Motor Vehicle Enforce-ment Division, Utah Division of Emergency Management, Utah State Bureau of Investigations (Alcohol Division), Bureau of Land Management Fire Depart-ment, Eureka Fire Department, Eureka Ambulance, Nephi (East Juab County) Ambulance, Juab County Search and Rescue and Air Med. “I wanted to have 50 law en-forcement officers there,” said Anderson. That goal was achieved and exceeded and all agencies worked together to make the holiday a safe one for the fami-lies who were at the site to enjoy the sand and warm weather. Cram said the weekend at-tracted a large family-oriented crowd who were there to take advantage of the many attrac-tions. One of those is Sand Mountain which, at 700-feet, is a key component of the 62,000-acre Little Sahara Recreation Area.

Sand Mountain, a massive dune with a steep face, is the big draw for all-terrain vehicle, utility-task vehicle, and dune-buggy riders. While he did not have all the statistics from the law enforce-ment agencies which assisted at the Dunes, said Anderson, he did know that many traffic stops occurred. Agencies have 15 days to get all of their paperwork submitted and, therefore, Anderson said he would like to publish those statistics after he has been able to accumulate them. As for the medical responses, there were four ground trans-ports and 20 people treated on scene. “We had zero fatalities this year,” he said. Just the work done by Juab County Deputies resulted in seven physical custody arrests.

See Tomatoes on page 3See Dunes on page 3