IN THE NEWS…
- PARENTS VOTE U YOUTH PROGRAM AS THE BEST
The Salt Lake Tribune, on Monday, Aug. 31, 2009, reported that the U’s Youth Education was recently awarded Best Day Camp in Salt Lake City in Nickelodeon’s annual Parents’ Picks Awards, besting six other nominees in a nationwide online poll. The Parents’ Picks Awards recognized winners in 30 categories from 52 major U.S. cities. Winners were determined by an open poll at parentsconnect.com that ran throughout the summer. The 2009 winners will be featured on ParentsConnect throughout the year. Youth Education offers experiential education in classes and camps to students in art, science, languages, music, technology, and recreation for kids ages 2 to 18. A complete list of classes is online or call (801) 581-6984.
- U OF U TO TAKE OVER MANAGEMENT OF RANGE CREEK CANYON
State authorities are transferring control of remote Range Creek Canyon to the University of Utah for a permanent research installation. The U will give up some of its trust lands in another part of the state to gain control from the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources. The land trade, set to occur this month, will make University archaeologists permanent stewards of the canyon, which stunned the scientific world when it was revealed in 2004. The canyon, 125 miles southeast of Salt Lake City, was kept secret by a family of ranchers for the better part of a century before it ended up in state hands in 2004.
It features the remains of ancient Fremont settlements, with the eroded remains of pit and cob houses, still-standing grain caches, and colorful trapezoidal figures painted with spiky hair styles on canyon walls. Carbon dating of artifacts has revealed that about a dozen miles of Range Creek Canyon was intensively occupied by hundreds or possibly thousands of people for two or three centuries until around 1,200 A.D. Artifacts from baskets to tobacco bundles suggest human life showed up in Range Creek hundreds of years earlier and lingered longer, but significantly, the large population seemed to virtually vanish by 1,200 A.D., for reasons not fully understood.
—From an article in IndianCountryNews.com, by Paul Foy. Read more about Range Creek in the Winter 2005-06 issue of Continuum magazine.
