UARC News and Events >> 2 July 06

Sun Jul 2 10:19:59 MDT 2006

Hi Everyone,

Here is some news of the goings on in the Utah Animal Rights Coalition. In This E-Mail:

  * Gallivan Center Events
  * Steering Meetings
  * Calendar of Events
  * Taylorsville Leafletting
  * In The News

Thanks to Claire, Rich, Alyssa, Nichole, and Eric for helping pass out leaflets at Wednesday nights Gallivan Center event!

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### GALLIVAN CENTER EVENTS ### 

For the next few weeks, UARC activists will be leafletting to the crowds attending the X96 4play Concert Series and the Twilight Concert Series at the downtown Gallivan Center.  We need your help!  Please come out and help us reach out to this great audience!

  When: Wednesday and Thursday nights at 9:45 PM until no later than 11:00 PM
 Where: Northern exit to the Gallivan Center, approx 50 E. 200 S.
  What: Pass out leaflets, or wear the body screen (a TV worn on the chest that shows video footage)

Wednesday events will continue until the 2nd of August.
Thursday events will continue until the 24th of August.

Contact Eric (ewaters at uarc.com, 560-8238) if you have questions or concerns.

### STEERING MEETINGS ###

UARC decided at our last steering meeting to cancel our weekly meetings for the moment.  Instead, we are going to try a new schedule of meeting once a month.  We feel this will make meetings more productive and worthwhile for attendees.  The next meeting is tomorrow, so please, if you are interested in UARC's activities for the next month, please attend this monthly meeting tomorrow night at the Bridge at 7 pm.

### CALENDAR OF EVENTS ###
  ( UARC lists other groups' events in our calendar as a service to the community, for solidarity with others fighting for animal liberation.  PETA, VFS, ARM and Ching Farm are not affiliated with UARC. )

Sunday, 2nd
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- 6:00 PM - Potluck at 529 N. Center St.; will be held in the back yard of the Waters residence.  Contact Eric (ewaters at uarc.com, 560-8238) for more details.

Monday, 3rd
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- 7:00 PM - Monthly steering meeting at The Bridge (512 W. 200 S.).

Wednesday, 5th
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- 9:45 PM - Gallivan Center leafletting (see above)

Thursday, 6th
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- 9:45 PM - Gallivan Center leafletting (see above)

Saturday, 8th
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- 12:00 Noon - Ching Sanctuary cooking class at Ft. Union Wild Oats ("Southern Cooking & Vegan Fried Chikken")

### TAYLORSVILLE LEAFLETTING ###

UARC was in the news yesterday for getting a Temporary Restraining Order against Taylorsville City from enforcing a "Free Speech Area" ordinance at their annual city festival.  They attempted to curtail freedom of speech by asking us to be relegated to a designated pen, far from foot traffic.  We were there to pass out Vegan Outreach literature to the crowd attending the festival.  Thanks to Sean, Aaron, Krista, Leici, Jason, and of course, Brian, for this news opportunity.

  http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_4001805
  http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,640191472,00.html

### IN THE NEWS ###

Tuesday
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* Hatch bill befriends state meat producers
  http://www.sltrib.com/business/ci_3984189
U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch has proposed legislation that would lift the ban against state-inspected meat from being shipped across the nation and to foreign countries.
  A Payson meat packer, however, doesn't see how all U.S. packing plants could comply with the legislation and still meet high federal safety standards. ...

* Shelter director in Utah County fired over euthanasia errors
  http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,640190359,00.html
The director of the South Utah Valley Animal Shelter has been fired over recent employee errors that have resulted in mistaken euthanasia of six dogs.
  The decision to fire Shirley Bybee was made Monday evening in a closed-doors meeting of the board that oversees the South Utah Valley Animal Services Special Service District, which operates the shelter. ...

* Dead dog's owner has no animosity over shelter's gaffe
  http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,640190200,00.html
PROVO ? Despite cries for the resignation of the director of the South Utah Valley Animal Shelter, Ty McComas said he harbors no hard feelings for the woman who was in charge at the shelter when his dog was mistakenly euthanized while he was on vacation.
  "I know a lot of people want (Shirley Bybee) to resign," McComas told the Deseret Morning News Monday, "but I hope that doesn't happen ? there's no reason for that." ...

Wednesday
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* Animal Control office is now under Davis sheriff
  Previous director says he was asked by county to resign
  http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,640190580,00.html
FARMINGTON ? Davis County's Animal Control operations are under new management.
  County commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday to have the Davis County Sheriff's Office take over Animal Control. "It has good personnel and good employees," Sheriff Bud Cox said. "I don't see the need to make any big changes." ...

Thursday
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* Zoo gains grrrrand new digs
  Asian Highlands exhibit brings big cats, visitors face-to-whisker
  http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,640190838,00.html
Standing outside the new digs for snow leopard Dawa, you can hear the big cat breathing, smell her wet fur and see her tail wrapped neatly between her paws.
  It's a once-in-a-lifetime experience to stand mere feet from an 83-pound carnivorous feline, and an endangered species. But the new $6 million Asian Highlands exhibit at Hogle Zoo, which opens today, puts the public and big cats practically nose-to-whiskers. ...

Friday
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* Bird migration an issue with avian influenza
  http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_3997450
The wild card in preventing an outbreak of the deadly avian influenza in Utah's poultry flocks is bird migration.
  On Wednesday, the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food met with 25 state agencies, commercial producers and private entities to coordinate a plan for a worst-case scenario. ...

Saturday
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* 'Free-speech zone' is halted by court ruling
  Activists for animal rights were told they couldn't hand out fliers outside of area
  http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_4001805
Animal-rights activists won the right to spread their message during the final two days of Taylorsville's annual city celebration.
  During an emergency hearing Friday, the same day the Utah Animal Rights Coalition filed a complaint against the city, Judge Bruce Jenkins ruled in favor of UARC, allowing a temporary restraining order halting the city's use of a "free-speech zone" at the Taylorsville Dayzz festival in Valley Regional Park. ...

* Fireworks over leaflets in Taylorsville case
  http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,640191472,00.html
On a weekend where Utah communities will gather to celebrate freedom and independence, one city is experiencing some legal fireworks from an animal-rights group.
  On Friday a federal judge issued a temporary restraining order against Taylorsville, ordering city officials to allow members of the Utah Animal Rights Coalition to talk with residents and hand out leaflets freely outside the confines of a city-created "free speech zone" during the city's "Taylorsville Dayzz" celebration this weekend. ...

* Predator-control proposal protested
  http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_4001823
DENVER - A plan for handling troublesome predators in wilderness areas on national forest land could open the door to use of motorized vehicles and poisoned traps in the pristine spots, environmentalists said.
  What concerns wildlife advocates is a provision that would eliminate the requirement that regional foresters approve predator control in wilderness areas on a case-by-case basis. Instead, predator control would be carried out under an agreement between the U.S. Forest Service and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Wildlife Services Division. ...

* Warning on dogs in cars
  http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,640191469,00.html
Animal Service units from South Salt Lake have been called to seven incidents of dogs left inside hot vehicles over the past two weeks. ...

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That's it for this week.  Thanks for reading!