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Juab County Extension works hard to provide activities and training for area youth

By Myrna Trauntvein

Times-News Correspondent

The Juab County Extension works to provide life-skills for the youth of the county and training in a variety of subjects for all ages. Jeffrey E. Banks, Juab County Director, Ag/4-H Youth Agent; Laurie Bates, FS Nutri-tion Assistant; Amy Stanley, 4-H Staff Assistant; Natasha Danise, Family Life Educator; Susan Allred, 4-H Staff Assis-tant; Judy Jensen, 4-H Staff Assistant; Barbara Bradford, Offi ce Manager; Roni Mor-timore, Staff Assistant; and Margie Memmott, Southern Region Extension Director, all presented information about the services performed to the Juab County Commission. “For over 35 years,” said Banks, I have served as a live-stock shows and events judge. Because of the reputation that I have developed, I have judged over 175 shows in six states including the Wyoming State Fair, Idaho State Fair and the Utah State Fair.” Through the years he has al-ways tried to remember to put the members fi rst and the ani-mal second. “The following observation about my judging was noted in an Arizona publication: ‘Having traveled the SAILA circuit for the last four years, our family has competed in market beef and showmanship classes in each city and every state that SAILA has pointed shows,” said the writer. “The judge was one of the best we have seen not because of the way he judged the animals but because of the way he took time to interact with the kids and explain what they were doing right or wrong.” “For the past 40 years, Juab County has conducted a steer carcass contest for 4-H and FFA members exhibiting steers at the county fair,” said Banks. He said that was one of the longest running programs in the state. The contest is to assist youth, leaders and parents in learning the basics of cattle grading, learning the correla-tion between live cattle qual-ity and carcass quality and producing high yielding and promoting a desirable, market-able product. During the 40-year period 1,279 head of steers have been entered in carcass contests, over 1,200 youth and 2,400 adults have received the train-ing. For the fi rst 37 years, data was collected from local inde-pendent processing plants. “For the past three years, the data has been collected by ultrasounding the steers,” he said. “The carcass results are used by members to evaluate each year’s steer project and by cattle producers to keep or cull bulls or cows.” Over the past ten years, 95 percent of the steers have been

EXTENSION UPDATE • Juab County Extension staff came before county commissioners to give an update on current and future programs.

By Myrna Trauntvein

Times-News Correspondent

A threat against a Utah State Adult Probation and Pa-role Offi cer was made by a Eu-reka resident which resulted in his arrest. On March 6, at approximate-ly 2:40 p.m., the Juab County Sheriff ’s Offi ce responded to Eureka on a citizen’s report that a local man, Bryan Terry, 24, had stated that he had ac-cess to fi rearms and had made threats to kill a Utah State Adult Probation and Parole of-fi cer. “Juab County Sheriff ’s depu-ties responded to the residence where the man was believed to be,” said Douglas Anderson, Juab County Sheriff. “Sheriff ’s deputies attempted to make contact at the residence but re-ceived no response.” The Utah County Metropoli-tan S.W.A.T. Team was activat-

ed to assist. Anderson said that because the exact location of the suspect at that time had not yet been confi rmed, the Juab County/Sheriff ’s Offi ce and Nephi City Police ordered a lock down sta-tus at Juab County schools in Nephi, Mona and Eureka. “In addition to the schools, and due to specifi c threats, the Juab County complex, includ-ing the Fourth District Court, was also placed in a lockdown status as a precautionary mea-sure,” said Anderson. “Ulti-mately, the schools and Juab County complex were evacu-ated by offi cers from Nephi Po-lice, Juab County Sheriff ’s Of-fi ce and the Division of Wildlife Resources.” A perimeter at the residence where the suspect was believed to be was established and se-cured with the assistance of Eureka Fire Department and other law enforcement offi cers. Utah County Sheriff ’s depu-

ties and members of the Utah County Metropolitan S.W.A.T. arrived at the local residence in Eureka and an entry was made. “The suspect was located in-side the home and taken safely into custody at approximately 5:15 p.m.,” said Anderson. “The suspect who is currently un-der a fi rearm restriction from past criminal involvement was found to be in possession of various fi rearms.” The suspect, said Anderson, was found to be in an unre-sponsive state and appeared to be under the infl uence of either alcohol and/or some type of controlled substance. Because of his condition, the West Juab Ambulance in Eureka was called to render medical sup-port. “The suspect was trans-ported by ambulance to the Central Valley Medical Center for treatment,” said Anderson. “He potentially faces charges

of terroristic threats, posses-sion of fi rearms by a restricted person, disorderly conduct and criminal mischief.”

Bryan Terry

Terroristic threat prompts lockdown at county courthouse and area schools

By Rebecca Dopp

Times-News Correspondent

Animals are important to those who live in rural com-munities—they are the liveli-hood for some families—but a group of Levan Town residents are concerned that those who move or have moved into the area are not so animal friendly and wanted the town council to clarify what exactly the town ordinance says about animal rights. “We are a little unclear of what the ordinances are in town and what animal rights we do have,” said Blake Aa-gard, resident. “We don’t want to get into a pickle like Bret and Deana (Ballow) got into.” Bri Aagard said that the rea-son a lot of people live in rural areas is to raise animals. Most people realize that animals are

going to smell and make nois-es. When others move into the area and have a problem with that and they expect those around them to cater to their lifestyles, those with animal rights want to make sure they are treated fairly. “We want to see what we can do about making an ordinance, or just a discussion about what we can do to prevent some-thing like that happening again,” said Bri Aagard, refer-ring to the lawsuit that was fi led against the Ballows. The Ballows were sued by a neighbor over what that neighbor deemed a nuisance, namely the Ballows’ keeping of dogs. The Plaintiff in the case alleged that he was unable to enjoy time outside due to the smell and noise coming from the Ballow’s property. The Plaintiff was not awarded any money in the case, but the Bal-

lows were told they must abate the sound and smell on their property. They felt that was unreasonable and frankly, im-possible. They had moved their dogs away from the shared property line, and had decided to move some of their dogs to another location. Corey Christensen, council member, asked what defi nes a public nuisance. A nuisance is defi ned as whatever is dangerous to hu-man life or health and what-ever renders soil, air, water or food impure or unwholesome is declared to be a nuisance and unlawful. It shall be unlaw-ful for any person either as an owner, agent, or occupant to create, or aid in creating or contributing to or maintaining a nuisance.(Levan Municipal Code, 10-311) The part about animal reg-ulations, 12-879, reads: “The

keeping of animals for family food production, education, or recreation is allowed in a resi-dential (R) district. No animals shall be kept in such a way that creates a public nuisance. The keeping of all animals is sub-ject to applicable health codes. All animals must be housed, managed, fenced and con-tained on the owner’s property. The following regulation(s) shall apply. A) All lots with animals are subject to all pub-lic nuisances and health code regulations. Because it doesn’t specifi cal-ly identify what a public nui-sance is, D. Ballow said, they were left open to a lawsuit. “Someone can come in and say somebody’s pigs stink and deem it a nuisance,” she said.

Group of Levan residents want animal rights defi ned better in town ordinance

See Animals on page 12