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B4 Jackson Hole Guide, Wednesday, April 1, 1998 IFHHMK be fooled toy early spring signs Milligan vins Murfin Award on March 11-14. Bernfeld is the director of the Teton County Library, Groves is the assistant children's librarian, Centrella is the technical services supervisor and Dunkelberger is the outreach coordinator. The conference drew more than 1,500 librarians from across the country. Spring seems to be coming quickly dormancy gives us an advantage by with all of the rain lately. The warmer working with the bare-bone structure temperatures and snow melting of the plant.

iii i i i i quickly gives me more spring fever A balanced piani stem birutiure usually results in a balanced overall leaf structure. Refrain from pruning the tips of flowering shrubs until they have bloomed in early summer. Speaking of shrubs, this month is a good time to think about adding some to the landscape. Late April and May is an than ever before. The' reality (as evidenced Sunday) is that we are probably not finished with snow, and the weather is teasing us into getting out our gardening tools.

For those of us who cannot resist being outdoors, now is a good time to rake up all of that garbage that appeared from under the snow. o. opportune time to plant locally grown How does this garbage multiply so shrubs that have been in pots outside quickly? Who in their right mind all winter. If the ground is loose would throw something onto the enough to dig a two-to four-gallon size ground in our beautiful town? While hole, it is time to plant hearty shrubs, we are raking up our own artifacts of Check with Porcupine Greenhouse winter, let's do a little extra for (733-5721) and Trail Creek Nursery (800-336-2470) for opening dates and shrub availability. New shipments of Sharlene Milligan was recently honored with the James V.

Murfin Award of the National Park Service. Milligan is the executive director of the Grand Teton Natural History Association. She has been active in cooperating associations for 22 years. The award was bestowed on Milligan at the 1998 Conference of National Park Cooperating Association Convention in Gatlinburg, earlier this month. At the same event, Milligan received the first Distinguished Service Award given by the board of directors of Association of Partners for Public Lands.

The Murfin Award recognizes individuals who have made a significant, lasting contribution to the partnership between the National Park Service and cooperating associations. Lynch chairs park convention Jan Lynch, operations manager for the Grand Teton Natural History Association, was the chairman for the 1998 trade conference for the National Park Cooperating Association's Biennial Convention held in Gatlinburg, Tenn. This year's trade show hosted more than 200 vendors, mostly from the pubUshing community. Vendors included National Geographic, Random House, Scholastic, Houghton Mifflin and Bantam-Doubleday Dell publishers. Nay graduates Realtor class J.

William May of Jackson recently graduated the Realtor Institute program, according to a press release form the Wyoming Association of Realtors. The program consisted of a minimum of 90 hours of classroom instruction designed to educate practitioners about local, state and national real estate practices. Teton quartet travels for library conference Betsy Bernfeld, Carolyn Groves Winkler, Susan Centrella and Joyce Dunkelberger recently attended the Public Library Association's National Conference in Kansas City, PAL puts up four new members Teton County PAL elected four new members to their board: Joyce Corcoran, Deidre Bainbridge, Susan McElroy, and Ernie Patterson, according to a release. The president is Judy Eddy, secretary Kathy Greger and treasurer Sophie Craighead. Other board members include Jean Bailey, Juanita McGhee and Oatsy Von Gontard.

Havtin honored by AIA college Bruce Hawtin was one of 94 architects elevated to the College of Fellows for the American Institute of Architects. The honor is awarded to members of the AIA who have made contributions of national significance to the profession. Ingold added to REJH staff Judy Ingold was recently named director of education and operations for Real Estate of Jackson Hole. According to a press release, Ingold will be responsible for "making certain our agents and staff are highly educated and Boynton attends nurse ethics event Beverly Boynton, registered nurse at St. John's Hospital Intensive Care Unit, recently attended "Contemporary Challenges and Controversies for Nurses: the Interface of Ethics, Law and Policy." The conference was co-sponsored by the American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics and the American Association of Critical Care Nurses.

Boynton also attended a workshop preceding the conference called "Renegotiating Health Care: New Models and Changing Relations," which dealt with conflict negotiation and mediation in the health care field." someone else. While we have the rake out on a beautiful day, rake up any pine needles on the grass. These needles will form a mat and secrete an acid that will eventually kill whatever is under it, including lawn grass. Put the needles in a place where you would rather nothing grew. While the snow is shrubs come frequently during the spring.

It is tempting to scatter some grass or wildflower seeds during the rain. In theory, this is a good idea. In reality, the birds will feast on 'It is tempting to scatter some grass or wildflower seeds during the rain. In theory, this is a good idea. In reality, the birds will feast on your efforts for a short efforts for a short tune.

During this time. During this snow melting time, the birds seem to be melting and the water Sri0W melting time, is running, cnecs ror signs of erosion. Are roots of trees and shrubs being exposed? If so, reroute the small streams to minimize the birds seem to be is available on the hungry for Whatever iS newly exposed earth. available on the newly seed 3 sowing for when you exposed have time to work the seeds into the soil with a rake, covering damage and rake some loose soil over the plant roots. Winter snow often breaks tree and shrub branches.

Don't hesitate to get the seeds thoroughly. The seeds will lay dormant until daytime temperatures are in the 50- to 60- out your saw and clippers and do a degree range, spring clean-up. Pruning trees in With gardening activities at least a spring dormancy is a great idea for month away, it is a good time to plan home gardeners. Eliminating extra a vacation to help us wait for the branches puts more energy into the growing season. Hopefully, your remaining branches.

choice of destinations will take you to Overgrown shrubs like dogwoods where the flowers are blooming, and cotoneaster also benefit from an early spring tune-up. Eliminating Carol Holmgren writes every three wayward branches and over-grown weeks with tips on indoor and outdoor stems during this time of winter gardening. Grimes heads south for geography bee and children are the majority of poor people in the world," Menocal said. Once returning to the states, Menocal established work as a legal consultant that would offer him more freedom and began looking for a place to move that had not only easy access to climbing and skiing, but "a good community of people." He found his requirements in Jackson Hole. Menocal who is an honorary Access Fund board member has resumed some work on behalf of the fund, though no longer in a formal role.

He said Jackson's community spirit is reflected by the turnout at an Access Fund benefit he organized two weeks ago. "You can still get 300 people showing up for a slide show and 60 people joining the Access, Fund," he said. That's the kind of community we have here." valued at approximately $25,000. The Wyoming Geographic Alliance has conducted the State Geography Bee at UW since its inception in 1989 when the National Geographic Society launched local, state and national competitions to promote geographic literacy. This year's national sponsors, National Geographic Society and the Sylvan Learning Center, have provided cash awards of $100 for the state champion, $75 for second place and $50 for third place.

The WGA will provide $25 awards for places fourth through 10th. Clint J. Grimes of Jackson Hole Middle School will be one of 10 students from Lincoln, Teton and Sublette counties to participate in the 1998 Wyoming State Geography Bee scheduled for Friday, April 3, at the University of Wyoming. All the students earned the right to compete in the state bee by scoring highest in school-level competitions. A total of 100 students in grades 4-8 from across the state will vie for the honor of representing Wyoming at the National Geography Bee in Washington, D.C.

The national winner earns a college scholarship Continued from previous page personal and professional lives. He quit Public Advocates and stepped away from his work with the Access Fund changes he said were difficult but refreshing. He moved to Nepal after securing a job with the Nepal Foundation, a group that works on social issues in the developing Asian country. He spent two years living there and drafting a law program for the Foundation, covering reforms needed in the status of women and human and environmental rights, among other things. "In my opinion you can't deal with development in the Third World without dealing with women's issues because women 7T.