Freedom Fest II Sept. 9 --Tickets and Raffle Items

This year's Freedom Fest will feature not only a great concert by Due West's Lead singer, Tim Gates, but a wide variety of local talent, vendors, concessions and drawings for great prizes.  Thank you for continuing to help protect both public and private lands, and for donating to the Bears Ears Cause.  Concert Tickets can be purchased for $10 on line or at Redds Ace Hardware and The San Juan Record.  

Donation tickets available at 112 S. 300 W. 
Starting Aug. 30 donations to support Freedom Fest can also be made at our booth at Clark's Market on Wednesdays and Fridays, and at the Freedom Fest 4:00-7 PM Sept. 9.  $3 donation for a ticket, or 5 for $10. Everyone has a chance to win one of 15 great prizes. 

Great Prizes for Fund Raiser Drawings at Freedom Fest
1. Console ~~ Donated by Furniture2U

215 E. Center Blanding, Utah

4 ft by 18" ~~ Value $300 ~~ Manager: Tifani Black

2. Gift basket with a variety of Nu Skin Products, valued at $200

Nu Skin Headquarters, Provo, Utah

3.  Aerial Photo of Bears Ears on Metal plate 12 x 18  by Kay Shumway    

Value $135, donated by Nature/ Bears Ears Photography.Gallery of photographs can be seen by appointment (678-2182) or Visit www.kayshumway.com

4.   Massage  -- By Lindsay Palmer Smith Value  $50

5.  Two Volumes:  Local histories by Dr. Robert S. McPherson

Each set valued at $35  (Two drawings awarded)

or

6. Cowboy Country Photograph:  by Colleen Tibbetts, Moab

Value $45

To Order Cowboy Calendars call: 435-260-0036 

The cowboy in the picture is Ricky Wilcox from La Sal UT, shown with Colleen's dog.


7.    Phone Skope great technology for hunters. Phone Skope adapters and $50 Gift Card for Samsung Galaxy and iPhone
Value $150

                                                 Visit Phoneskope for more information

8. Original Bears Ears Fabric Landscape Art 
by Devin Bayles Hancock ~~ Value $150  (20" X 30")

 9.  Seven issues of Blue Mountain Shadows  $77 Value 

     "Preserving history and culture of the Four Corners since 1986."
               Contact LaVerne Tate 435-678-2325 for more information

10. Overnight Stay - Canyonlands Lodging    

$130 Value

White Pine Cabin

Jerry Murdock manager

Visit site at Canyonlands Lodging

11. Antique Patriotic Quilt 

$300 Value

12. Browning A-Bolt 300 mag Winchester Rifle 

$700 Value

13. RC Willey~~2 Children's Cars; two drawings

Value $220 each

"United We Stand” Theme for San Juan County Freedom Fest September 9

Listen to Tim Gates Video 

“United We Stand:  Local Voices for Public Lands“ is the theme of this year’s San Juan County Freedom Fest being held Sept. 9 at the San Juan High School (Blanding, Utah) football practice field.  Chairwoman, Kim Henderson, emphasized, “No matter what side of land issues you are on, or what side of the mountain you are from, we want everyone to come and unitedly enjoy an evening of great entertainment and sociability.  We hope to have people from other counties, and even states, come and join us.  Invite your friends and family from other places.”  

 The event begins 4 PM and offers a full slate of entertainment, food and craft booths, concessions, and 10 great raffle prizes. Local performers include Native American dancers, The Magpies (Beverly Felstead, Terri Card, Kaleigh Gilson, Cheryl Bowers, Emma Holliday, and Gayle Shumway), and Magnetic Pull, "the best in Native Rock" from Blanding, Utah.  The group includes Dennis Kaniatobe Sr. on keyboard, lead guitar and vocals; Travis Moses -percussion and Native Flute, and Dennis Kaniatobe II, Lead and Bass guitar. Darren Parry of the NW Shoshone tribe, will be a guest speaker.

The main performance begins about 8 PM featuring Tim Gates, lead singer in a Nashville trio called Due West.  Gates is also a member of the Nashville Tribute Band, which has performed in San Juan County several times.  Attendees need to bring their own chairs or blankets.

Vendors Needed

Anyone interested in setting up artisan, food, or product booths should call Nicole Perkins before August 21. 435-485-0214. There is a $25 charge; however, two concert tickets will be provided to each booth. 

Freedom Fest Writing Contest

In preparation for Freedom Fest students in grades 3-8 are encouraged to enter the Unity writing contest.  There are two different brackets: grades 3-5, and grades 6-8.  The essays will be judged on development of the theme, “United We Stand.”  Winners will be announced the night of Freedom Fest, and first place winners will be invited to read their essays. Students do NOT have to live in San Juan County to participate.

~~ Bear Essentials ~ August 3, 2017

Have you voted yet? Pick someone who will represent rural concerns

 A Vote for Chris Herrod is a vote for Rural Utah

He will help protect our Freedoms

Freedom Fest Sept 9:  Early bird discount tickets on Sale Now

ONLINE SPECIAL! Order your tickets online between now and August 15th and get a 20% discount when you type in "EarlyBird" as the Discount Code. ORDER NOW!

Our goal to bring more attention to the opposition of the Bears Ears Monument and government overreach of western public lands. We also seek to honor our unique lifestyles, our cultural and cherished traditional uses, and the recreational opportunities that the land has to offer.

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San Juan County Issues and Information:

*Fox 5 Interview with Ryan Zinke  Listen and Learn

July 30 Comments by Commissioner Lyman: “This video provides some valuable insight into Secretary Zinke's monument ideology: The key points to emphasize are that Bears Ears Monument does more harm than good to archeology; that the size is not appropriate to the "object" being supposedly protected; that the items mentioned in the proclamation were not unique, i.e. dark skies, mule deer, chipmunks, etc.
I am concerned that our Washington politicians, and the governor, say one thing when they are here in San Juan, and another behind closed doors with the secretary.  I'm pleased that Bears Ears has been the symbolic question to determine where leaders stand on matters of public land and multiple use. It would be a good time for us to reiterate our love for this land and our insistence that the monument be rescinded. Controversy has been the only thing keeping us from being swallowed whole. 
[I think it is a good time also to commend Governor Herbert for not cowing down to the Outdoor Retailers Association.       Phone: 801-538-1000;

                        Contact: https://gocentral.utah.gov/Request/Contact?response=false ]

Since they choose to make their exit about Bears Ears, we have an opportunity to keep the monument in play. Ours is not a message of contention but we can't allow false narratives to dominate the discussion. We can win in this final push but now is the time to get our message heard.”

~~ Trail guides needed for San Juan Safari.  Call Lynne Shumway for information 435-459-4187

~~What Congressional Candidates say about Bears Ears, & who skirts the issue:

~~NY Times Visits Gold Butte in Nevada “This week, we visit three national monuments (more than two dozen are under review by the Trump administration and could be made smaller and opened to logging and mining): Gold Butte in Nevada (below), Bears Ears in Utah and Berryessa Snow Mountain in California.

~~Aneth Extension/ Kaa’elii Descendants Unhappy with Tribe’s use of Oil Money

~~National Geographic Visits Bears Ears: Trump’s National Monument Rethink

~~Road Trip to Four Corners  Nat’l Geographic

~~SJHS Grad: Jennifer VanReenan Ing speaks:  Facts about Bears Ears NM

~~Money Spent on Campaign against SJC Locals in the Bears Ears Controversy

Good News Bears

n  Monuments DO NOT mean Local Benefits  (Healthy Forests

n  Video of Sec. Zinke’s Trip to San Juan County

n  RS2477 » Utah Supreme Court finds state road claims have not run out of time

n  Attorney General S. Reyes agrees with rural road decision

n  Governor’s Goal: 25,000 jobs in 25 Counties    Aug. 10 in San Juan

n  At Your Leisure: Chad & Rita Booth Explore Monument Valley

n  Time to Visit Hanksville

n  Utah Faces Down the Rock-Climbing Industrial Lobby

Companies selling outdoor gear lobby endlessly for more federal wilderness—subsidized by the taxpayer:  Wall Street Journal

n  Chris Herrod Upholds Utah Constitution; hopes to represent District 3

n  Gold Butte NM is Controversial for Locals PBS coverage

n  Nevada FB Group: It Matters How You Stand Coverage on Zinke visit

n  What Locals Think of Bears Ears

n  Time to Repeal the Antiquities Act

  Bad News Bears

n  Beware of “Push Polls” and “Slanted Surveys”

n  Center for Western Priorities Targets Zinke

n  The Russian connection that should worry us: Russia ‘Colludes’ With US Green Groups to Block Fracking

n  More than you probably wanted to know about Patagonia's founder

n  Animal Rights extremists now targeting 4-H clubs in Canada

n  Insight into Extreme “Earth First Movement” 

n  Kids Used to Fight for Monument

n  What Happens when there’s a Monument  Stop the Siskiyou NM Expansion https://www.facebook.com/NoMonumentPacNW/

n  So long, Good-Bye, Your loss is our gain.  Video from Outdoor Industry Ass.

n  Old news still current:  Liberal Billionaires and NGO Enviro Connections

(George Soros and Wyss foundations)

n  OP-Ed in the Spectrum: Let’s talk about Bears Ears

n  The Biggest Lie in Utah’s Public Land Debate

n  Are fair trials possible? Constitutional Rights ignored in Bundy case

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                    http://beyondthebears.blogspot.com/

                                     Documenting Bears Ears “No Monument” efforts since July 2016

Secretary Ryan Zinke's Whirlwind Visit to Utah

Video of Secretary Zinke's Visit to San Juan County

Watch and learn:

While San Juan County is still waiting for the final decision regarding Bears Ears, perhaps it would be good to ponder the journey of the past year, and especially the effort Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke made to talk to those who will be most directly impacted by any decisions regarding Bears Ears. 

Secretary Zinke traveled to Utah in early May for a four-day listening tour.  He met with community members, stakeholders, and representatives of federal, state, local and tribal governments, regarding an executive order to review some large national monuments designated under the Antiquities Act.

His efforts were significantly different from the environmentally manipulated visit from Secretary Sally Jewell a year ago.  

Jewell Bashes Trump for Monument Review

Written in response to Deseret News

 7/26 news article quoting former secretary Jewell:

A very telling statement by Sally Jewell, "If you are not at the table, you are on the menu." 

Yes, Utah has been on the environmental menu for years, with millions of acres of "public" land being locked up by divisive means and purposes, and it's not to make America Great Again. Quite the contrary, public lands in dozens of states have been on the menu, for decades, until the working man, especially rural Americans have been pushed out of the picture, discredited, and told that endangered species are more important than their lives and their livelihood. 

If state's rights mean anything in this country anymore, we must give credence, and legality to elected officials, not to the clamoring, minions following extremist environmental foundations funded by Soros, Wyss, Bonderman, and board members of the Conservation Land Foundation. They are the creators of a menu which includes global manipulation, personal gain, and weakening of Constitutional rights. There's much more at stake than Monuments. 

Like Patrick Henry, "I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery" (in the form of socialism.)  "The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave." Hooray, for Utah, Arizona, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Colorado, Minnesota, W. Virginia, Montana, and other states who are fighting such encroachments legally, and legislatively. Monuments are not about protection, they are about power and weakening America.

  Janet Wilcox