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PAtty’s daY SPRINGDALE CELEBRATION HITS 31ST YEAR - See Zion~Springdale Guide Insert ALSO THIS ISSUE: NG W PI O th R M 4 L A ANNIVERSARY D C • • A E N S N U I V O E R H S E N A RY O P MAYHEM IN MESQUITE CONTINUES GET LUCKY IN KANAB AT TO OFFER A SURE BET CAMPING WORLD HOSTS OPEN HOUSE SHAMROCKS & REDROCKS - See page 9 - See page 8 - See page 7 March 2016 Volume 21, Issue 1 publisher’s EDITORIAL ............................2 MOVIE REVIEWS .................18 PERSPECTIVE OPINION .............................3 BOOK REVIEWS ..................20 by Josh Warburton EVENTS ................................7 As I sit down to write this piece for ALBUM REVIEWS ................21 the 20-year anniversary edition, I realize WELLNESS ..........................11 that while I have thought a lot recently GOLF GUIDE .......................12 CLIP-N-SAVE SECTION .........22 about the history of The Independent — how Josh, Circa 2000 it began and the journey from there to here DOWNTOWN SECTION .......15 CALENDAR OF EVENTS ........26 — I have decided that instead of using this space to rehash that once again, I thought I’d there is no need for the internal pressure ZION ST. PAtty’s daY instead bring you all up to date on where this that I have consistently put on myself to be a success and make The Independent SPRINGDALE CELEBRATION 20 years has taken me to today. If you are interested in reading the story of how The profitable. I have learned that if I do my best HITS 31ST YEAR. SEE STORY Independent began, read Mike Gardner’s to listen intently and give every customer interview of me on the opposite page. It was both my undivided attention and a whole- ON SPRINGDALE INSERT. really fun to do. hearted effort to assist them, the business I write this from my backyard here transaction part of it just basically takes in Springdale on the last day of February, care of itself. It’s a good reminder to not try leap day. Interestingly enough, it was a to force things — to be like the Virgin River I The Independent ~ SUIndependent.com leap year in 1996, the year we started The can hear from my patio and go with the flow. Color Country’s Complete Guide To Arts, Music, Entertainment, Culture & More Independent. It’s befitting, I think, that I want to take some of this space we get this extra day to make the calendar to reflect with everyone that you do create The Independent is published the first Friday of each your own reality and certainly your own STAFF right, considering my life has been on such a month. All copies are distributed free of charge at over happiness. Although obviously the world Publisher: Josh Warburton calendar for 20 years. three hundred area locations throughout St. George, and its numerous factors impact so many Editor: Darren Edwards For that whole time, we’ve been on Cedar City, UT, Mesquite, NV & surrounding areas. aspects of your daily life, you do largely have Opinion Editor: Jason Gottfried a schedule to produce The Independent on To contact us please call: (435) 656-1555 or write to: the ability to determine your own state of Graphic Designer: Josh Segovia the first Friday of the month, and actually P.O. Box 3116, St. George UT, 84771. mind. This may sound a bit “woo-woo” to a Advertising Director: Scott Dunford twice a month for a while. That schedule has Located downtown St. George at 40 N. 300 E. #103 lot of people, especially if you’re living in the Editor: [email protected] Office Manager: Flori Wentzell largely dictated my adult life: vacations (or day-to-day hustle and bustle impacted by For advertising - Publisher Josh Warburton’s email: Distribution Manager: Elliot Lockwood lack thereof), commitments, projects, even dozens of interactions with others everyday, [email protected] Photo Editor: Dallas Hyland attending family reunions and such. It still but hear me out, please. This has been the To submit a calendar event go to SUindependent.com does. Each month, I hit the reset button topic of numerous conversations that I have The opinions expressed herein are those of the writers and may not represent the when we publish and do my best to take a Please recycle. been a part of since moving to Springdale, opinion of this publication or its ownership. This publication may not be reproduced couple of days to de-stress from the hectic in part or whole by any means without the prior written permission of the publisher. and I think it’s partly because the canyon pace of production. walls seem to remind everyone just how © Copyright 2016 The Independent Publishing Company, Inc. But these days, it’s a bit different. small we are — yet, at the same time, as big My days are so much slower-paced since as anything. We are a part of nature, and moving to Springdale. I like to joke that nature is a part of us, no matter how hard working up here doesn’t feel like work at all. we work to erase or desert here. Seek your Every day, I do the same things I’ve done for inner peace through nature. Take strolls by 20 years: call on people, stop by and visit yourself and with your loved ones. Hug a Over 10 years experience customers, send emails, and work with the tree. You’ll be surprised how nice it feels. :) editorial staff to help produce content. But utilizing proper fi ne pruning When I wake in the morning, I methods I am different. I have come to realize that like to think of all the beautiful full breaths I get to take, sights I get to see, and things UT-4456A I get to experience. Sure, many things will pop up along the way that will be difficult, frustrating, or painful, and that’s to be expected. But no need to worry about them, They’ll come if they’re going to. Be the peace you wish to see in the world. Yeah, I said it. I’d also like to take a second to talk to you all about you. You are all a part of this thing called The Independent. Everyone reading this right now has made it possible Serving all of Southern Utah for this publication to exist for 20 years. You, the reader, the writer, the editor, the advertiser, you all make it possible, and you 435-703-5855 • www.ZionArborist.com • [email protected] Josh, Circa 1997 have my many thanks. Happy reading, and here’s to 20 more … bah! 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Page 2 • The Independent / SUindependent.com • March 2016 publications. And such a role is hardly to fall into the sea of ten-minute-or-less Tell us what justice would be for fulfilled with consensual journalism, sound bytes masquerading as news. To not you? If you felt like that was enough justice prevalent here locally, but rather by a allow even my own persistence, as well as or not? Or you have the option to say not willingness to incite rigorous dialogue and that of my fellow writers, in updating you enough justice until a criminal history is debate on matters ... a role perhaps an with news articles and articulate op-eds to invoked? advertiser or church-pleasing rag might become a dull white noise that your brain I read this and felt my hair stand veer away from. assimilates and no longer hears, no matter up as I realize that this cop, a Utah-certified AS THE INDY Simply put, honest and rigorous how loud it is. police officer sworn to uphold the law, civil discourse must be put forth if for Because one day, right or wrong, was engaging in what appears to be the CELEBRATES no other reason than that dishonest and this could be you. And if that day comes, it brokering of a deal, presumably in exchange sophomoric discourse must be answered. will matter to you that everyone involved, for the parents not taking action against the Suffice it to say that the work in this regard especially those elected or appointed to 20 YEARS, college. here locally is plentiful. uphold the law, follow those laws prudently, Davenport was fired that same So bid The Indy a hearty justly, and without bias or malice of THE VARLO day. congratulations for two decades of forethought. DAVENPORT consistent publication — or heave us the So now that the soapbox portion of All of the curiously suspect proverbial bird for all we care — because as this is over, I want to share something from behavior on the part of the school and the Michael Stipe wrote, “Closing on a promise a court document in the case.