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KNEU 1250Unfortunately, many people in the Basin understand the struggles that come when cancer becomes a part of your life. Recently one of our residents discovered that she would start her battle with breast cancer. Corinne Wilkins Ketterer lives in Duchesne and is a newly single mom of two young kids still living at home. On top of that, she is a nurse.
The man behind a public safety issue which closed down Interstate 70 and Highway 6 near Rifle, Colorado has now been charged. According to the Garfield County Sheriff’s Department, law enforcement responded to a call of a possible stabbing incident in the vicinity of the West Rifle Exit along I-70 at around 11am on Tuesday.
Winter has arrived and with it, the roads are beginning to close in Ashley National Forest. The Forest Service has announced that “White Cloud Loop Road 020 is closed for the winter season, with a possibility of grooming later in the year. The road to Colton Guard Station 019 is closed as well, but will still be accessible for winter reservations by ski trail.
Invite the Christmas spirit into your life and into the lives of local elderly by planning to go to the Uintah County Heritage Museum in the coming days. The museum has a goal to make 180 holiday cards from now to December 20th. These cards will be delivered by The Golden Age Center as they go around the community giving meals to homebound elderly clients.
A member of the Ute Indian Tribe has been recognized for her past dedication and support of Tribal Rights. On October 22nd, the National Congress of American Indians honored Irene Cuch during the organization’s 75th anniversary annual conference in Denver. Following the recognition, Irene was presented with a Pendleton blanket from the Ute Indian Tribe’s General Counsel.
Highway 6 and Interstate 70 was closed during a public safety issue for several hours Tuesday afternoon near Rifle, Colorado. According to the Garfield County Sheriff’s Department, law enforcement responded to a call of a possible stabbing incident in the vicinity of the West Rifle Exit along I-70 at around 11am.
As a part of Red Ribbon Week, the National Family Partnership has a photo contest to help spread the Red Ribbon Week message in neighborhoods, communities and on social media. The contest has winners for five regions, individual entries and special awards by the judges. For the third year in a row, Naples Elementary has received the most votes and won for Region 5.
After several months of restoration work, the “Moqui” statue is in place at its new home on Highway 40 at the Ute Crossing Intersection in Fort Duchesne. Built out of cement in 1976, Moqui sat on Roosevelt’s Main Street for years, easily recognizable with his headdress, red wrap, and peace pipe.
Dinosaur National Monument has added a new view that also serves a practical purpose. Researchers have set up some new equipment around the Quarry Exhibit Hall and Visitor Center. Dinosaur National Monument shares that there is now a solar powered webcam that points southwest into the Uintah Basin so that researchers can look at the air. They especially want to watch cold air inversions during winter that have trapped pollution in lower areas. They also installed new instruments on the ozone station with four new filters that will measure different kinds of particulates in the air. By identifying the how and why of the view changes at different times of year, researchers hope to mark ways to make improvements to the Monument’s air quality to keep it as clean and clear as possible. Webcam: https://www.nps.gov/subjects/air/webcams.htm?site=dino
Uintah Basin company Tri-County Concrete has been acquired by the company Sunroc. Tri-County Concrete has been the supplier of construction aggregates and ready-mixed concrete for people and businesses in Duchesne, Uintah and Daggett Counties. Sunroc has been expanding its business into Utah having already a solid base in Wyoming, Idaho and Nevada.
One family’s Christmas tradition continues to warm hearts and hands every holiday season. This is the 12th year for ‘Carol’s Glove Tree’ on Brush Creek Road in the Jensen area. When the idea was first discussed, Carol and Asa Evans thought of maybe putting a wire out by the road to hang gloves on but ultimately decided to hang the gloves on a Christmas tree instead.
The students of Ashley Elementary were the recipients of a very special and grand gesture yesterday thanks to the kindness of another local school. Lapoint Elementary had a Veteran’s Day Assembly last month where they learned about Utah native Colonel Gail Halvorsen, a WWII pilot who was dubbed the “The Candy Bomber” during the Berlin Airlift. “[The student council] taught their peers about how that related to our acts of kindness and explained that we were going to candy bomb another school in our district, Ashley Elementary, in the same way that Gail candy bombed the children in Germany during the events surrounding World War II,” explains Lapoint Principal Dennis Atkin. After their assembly, students of Lapoint Elementary started to write kindness notes to their peers at Ashley Elementary and on Monday, these acts of kindness culminated in the exciting event where local pilots Clark Hall and Chris Laris and Principal Atkin flew over the playground field at Ashley and dropped parachutes like “The Candy Bomber” to the excited students of Ashley Elementary. Each student received a candy and a paper ornament with a kind note from a student at Lapoint Elementary. The students at Lapoint Elementary were able to experience the excitement from their own school while watching a Facebook Live feed filmed from the sky. Well done to the students involved for setting such a genuine example of kindness and goodness!