INSIDE... WEDNESDAY, A YOUR GUIDE UGUST 12, 2020 TO THE & 2020 IRON PRCA Pro Rodeo Labor Day Weekend COUNTY FAIR www.ironcountyfair.net 435.477.8380 #ironcountyfair Postal Customer Postal VOL. 12 NO. 37 SHOWCASE IRONCOUNTYTODAY.COM WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 2020 Minimalist 4 Opinion work 10 Showcase makes 12 Life nest 19 Sports outside 22 Classifieds 25 Comics of SUMA SUU CELEBRATES CLASS OF 2020 STORY ON PAGE 6 COREY BAUMGARTNER 2 WEDNE SDAY, AUGUST 12, 2020 NEWS IRON COUNTY TODAY MULTIPLE AGENCIES, RESCUERS INVOLVED IN INJURED HIKER RESCUE from Lt. Del SCHLOSSER Due to the location, hike up above Mendenhall IRON COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE reported injuries, and inability allowing one member to to access Mendenhall, the rappel approximately 450 feet At around 8pm on Utah Department of Public down to Mendenhall’s loca- August 7, 2020, Cedar Safety Helicopter was tion. Mendenhall was secured Communications received called to assist in hoisting until the DPS Helicopter a 911 call from an adult Mendenhall from his location. was able to hoist him from male, Russell Mendenhall. the side of the cliff face. Mendenhall, 64 years of age Mendenhall was transported was hiking alone at the 64 YEAR OLD directly to Cedar City Hospital top of a mountain by the DPS Helicopter. THANKS TO ridge; Canyon's MAN SURVIVES Mendenhall sustained minor TECHNOLOGY AND Mouth Trail injuries to his head and other THE QUICK-RESPONSE 100 FOOT FALL AND EXPERTISE OF near Cedar City. parts of his body. HIS RESCUERS, Russell Mendenhall was FROM TOP OF The DPS helicopter then Mendenhall was safely not on or near a returned and retrieved the hoisted and hurried to designated trail RIDGE Ropes Rescue Team member the nearby Cedar City Hospital. when he slipped from where Mendenhall had and fell from a ridge been hoisted. The remaining top, approximately 100 The DPS Helicopter responded two members stayed until feet, landing on a ledge near a from the Salt Lake area to the daylight so they could safely cliff face. scene. They were unable to hike down the mountain. The Iron County Sheriff’s hoist Mendenhall due to the Southern Utah University Deputies, Search & Rescue dangerous conditions in the Aviation returned the next along with High Angle Ropes area. day to assist in retrieving the Rescue Team responded to Members of the Ropes gear and other items left by C OURSTY ICSD the area. Rescue Team were able to the Ropes Team. IRON COUNTY TODAY NEWS WEDNE SDAY, AUGUST 12, 2020 3 THE CRASH OF A SINGLE-ENGINE NORTH AMERICAN NAVION AIRCRAFT (WWII) and the unfortunate death of its pilot and passenger are still being investigated by the FFA and NTSB. PHOTOS COURTESY ICSD Call the COVID-19 Hotline before arriving: Victims named in fatal 844-442-5224 plane crash in Cedar City from Lt. Del SCHLOSSER and pronounced dead at the IRON COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE TWO MEN, scene. The FAA has concluded BOTH FROM LAS there on-scene investigation Early last Sunday morning, and the NTSB has the aircraft. Cedar Communication was VEGAS, PERISHED The investigation into the crash advised of an aircraft in IN THE CRASH will continue with the FAA and distress 5 miles south of the NTSB. Cedar City Regional Airport. The aircraft was a single-en- A few moments later, Cedar Cedar City Fire Department, gine North American Navion Communications was advised Gold Cross Ambulance, which is a World War II-era of an airplane which had Utah Highway Patrol, and aircraft. All further information crashed. It appears the aircraft Iron County Sheriff’s Office about this crash will be released struck a communications responded to the scene. Two by the FAA or NTSB. tower which is approximately adult males; Darwin Mao (52) Our thoughts and prayer 300 feet tall near 6500 W 4000 and Richard Essex (63) both continue to be with the families S, Cedar City. from Las Vegas were located of the victims at this time. THE COMMUNICATION TOWER which the airplane struck was completely destroyed. 4 WEDNE SDAY, AUGUST 12, 2020 NEWS IRON COUNTY TODAY OPINION A DMINISTRATION From the Editor R . Gail Stahle P UBLISHER [email protected] Unidentified D eborah Martineau O FFICE MANAGER officemanager@ Forfeited Objects ironcountytoday.com ust when you A DVERTISING thought the current COVID S cott Stahle chaosJ couldn’t get any S ALES REPRESENTATIVE worse, authorities from [email protected] N.A.S.A. (Never Another 801.755.5999 Social Association) Patti Bostick have reported that S ALES REPRESENTATIVE this year’s UFO Fest in [email protected] Cedar City has been 435.592.1030 postponed! 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Many sensing that something unhealthy this way LAYOUT/DESIGN building blocks for the western world. of the Utah Citizens Alarm showed comes, still reminds us that, “Not all that Undoubtedly, election years are always up armed, dawning tactical gear and cough have Covid.” And while there was no D evin Christ full of twists and turns and 2020 has American flags. C REATIVE DIRECTOR sweetness in the sorrow of the parting of not disappointed. Inch by inch we are moving closer the Utah Shakespeare Festival, it was to be [email protected] In many of our lives we have not to leaving a peaceful America behind. as Shakespeare dutifully bowed out to the seen this country so divided; both There was a time in American history C IRCULATION baneful bandit. Yes, he was wearing a mask political parties are polarized in their where you could have a political and also heard to mutter, “The Government beliefs and agenda as well as their fol- discussion whether right or left and S tephanie Millett doth protest too much me thinks.” lowers. Opposing protests have sprung violence and firearms were left out S . CEDAR CITY No matter how many other events must up all over the country, some more of it. In a time of uncertainty like in [email protected] be forfeited, please remember that life goes peaceful than others, both claiming today’s climate our community is all 435.272.3050 on and we will recover. Don’t let this trial that they are right and have the correct that we have. Today, both sides talk of (trivial or not) eclipse our joy and journey S tormee Anderson answers. civil war and ousting the other political N . CEDAR CITY/ENOCH through this temporal terrestrial lunacy. With each passing day both sides party are driving us further from what [email protected] Fear not, there will be other alien inva- become further dug-in making we once were. 435.592.5724 sions, athletic competitions and the show it harder to find common ground Regardless if Donald Trump wins will go on! While we must endure some dark between the two, either side unwilling re-election or if Joe Biden takes the Wendy Hanson nights, we’re still in this together. Remember, P AROWAN/PARAGONAH to talk out problems to preserve what office, we still have to live with each “This above all: to thine own self be true. May [email protected] normalcy we have left during this other in this country, state, county, and we be true to each other, also. 435.477.9100 COVID problem. city. A civil war or any secession from Left wing activists show up in force the U.S.A. is not what we want or need. Iron County Today is around the country (including Utah) Communities must be able to come distributed free of charge, to push their agenda. In Salt Lake together and accept their neighbor for thanks to our advertisers. It is hand-delivered to over Thought City cop cars have been flipped over, their political beliefs because we do 14,000 households in Cedar graffiti strewn all over the place, calls City, Enoch and Parowan of the not want to lose the America we have. and is available in several Week to defund the police, and attacks on When the dust settles and the rack locations in Iron and from the desk of R. Gail Stahle, publisher Beaver Counties. the District Attorney’s office have been smoke clears after this election cycle, quelled, but not without a high price. “In actual life, every great what will we have left? 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