Song Of The Day #116

Here's Patsy Cline from 1956, and her recording of I Love You Honey.

True fans will want her 4 disc box set The Patsy Cline Collection.

1st Annual Hidalgo County Cowboy Dinner and Dance

Honoring Rural Families, Rural Traditions - Preserving Our Rural Heritage

Saturday, September 19, 2009

Animas Community Building, Animas, NM

The Hidalgo County Cattle Growers, Women Involved in Farm Economics (WIFE) and the Tobosa Cowbelles are hosting the First Annual Hidalgo County Cowboy Dinner and Dance to be held on Saturday, September 19, 2009 at the Animas Community Building, Animas, NM. Dinner starts at 6:00 pm and the dance at 8:00 pm.

Music provided by The Delk Band (www.thedelkband.com), Bucky Allred and Dee Ford with special performances by Kip Calahan-Young, Kyli Rose Moore, Junior Gomez and other local talent.

Many of us can remember going to Saturday night dances at the school gym in Hachita, the old Legion Hall in Cotton City or even the all-nighters at Cloverdale. Families, friends and neighbors would come from miles around to share a meal, visit with one another and enjoy an evening of dancing. We can certainly refer to those days as “the good ole days” and we want to show our younger generation what it was like and allow our older generation to remember the way it was.

This is a fundraising event. All are welcome. There will be no admission charge. However, your contribution will be appreciated and will serve as your admission to the Cowboy Dinner and Dance.

Fifteen percent (15%) of the net proceeds will go to benefit the Hidalgo County Fair Association. The balance will be shared by the Gila Livestock Growers Association and the Catron County-based Americans for Preservation of Western Environment (APWE) (www.amprowest.org) as they prepare for potential litigation and to also fund efforts to inform our urban friends and neighbors of the devastating impact the wolf reintroduction program is having on the people and communities that are forced to live with wolves on their ranches, in their yards and in their communities.

The Mexican Wolf Reintroduction Program (www.nowolves.info) has evolved into an assault on our rural way-of-life by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) with the help and support of extremist environmental groups like the Center for Biological Diversity, Wildearth Guardians and the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance.

Today, the people and communities in and around the Blue Range Wolf Recovery Area (BRWRA), which encompasses the Gila and Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests, are bearing the brunt of this unbelievable program but efforts are underway to spread the destruction beyond the boundaries of the BRWRA. The FWS already has plans in place to release wolves in Mexico just thirty miles south of the New Mexico border and less than 75 miles south of Animas, New Mexico before the end of the year.

The Mexican Wolf Reintroduction Program has been grossly mismanaged by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and our ranchers and rural communities are paying the price. The program is a bust. Ranches have been lost, local businesses are suffering, elk hunting in the Gila will never be what it once was and, most importantly, rural families are being put in danger every day.

The FWS operates under federal law that requires them to work with and coordinate with local government to insure that federal programs are not in violation of local laws or local custom and culture. Federal law requires the FWS to consult with, cooperate with and be consistent with the laws and rights of local government that represents the people. FWS is either not aware of these federal laws or they just plain don’t care because they will run over local elected officials who may feel threatened or intimidated by the actions of federal agencies.

For contributions, please make checks payable to Gila Livestock Grower’s Association for “Preserving our Rural Heritage”. Bring your check to the Cowboy Dinner and Dance or mail to Gila Livestock Grower’s Association (GLGA), HC64, Box 30, Magdalena, NM 87825. Credit Card contributions can be made at www.wolfcrossing.org.

Joe Delk (575) 644-3082___Judy Keeler (575) 549-2520

Environmental disappointments under Obama

While the President has been bogged down for the last couple months in an increasingly histrionic health-care debate—which has devolved so far into ridiculousness that one doesn't know whether to laugh or cry—environmental decisions, mostly from the President's appointees have still been coming fast and furious. However, while the administration started out pouring sunshine on the environment (after years of obfuscated drudgery under the Bush administration), they soon began to move away from truly progressive decisions on the environment and into the recognizable territory of playing it safe—and sometimes even stupid. Since taking power this January, the Obama administration has made very few decisions that are completely illogical—one might even say simply stupid—but a recent decision by the new Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack, to allow the clear-cutting of 381 acres of primary rainforest in Alaska falls under this heading. It’s as though Vilsack has not come up to date both on Obama's pledge for green jobs—which clear-cutting isn’t—and on the direct link between deforestation and climate change. Everything about this decision goes directly against Obama’s speeches and pledges to date...Mongabay

U.S. Commerce Secretary Freezes Arctic Fishing Expansion

Once ice-bound even in summer, climate change now is thawing the Arctic in summer, opening up waters that commercial fishing interests are eager to harvest. To prevent ecosystem damage due to commercial harvesting activity, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke today decided to prohibit the expansion of commercial fishing in federal Arctic waters until researchers gather enough information on fish and the Arctic marine environment to put safeguards in place. "As Arctic sea ice recedes due to climate change, there is increasing interest in commercial fishing in Arctic waters,” said Locke. "We are in a position to plan for sustainable fishing that does not damage the overall health of this fragile ecosystem." Fisheries managers have identified Arctic cod, saffron cod, and snow crab as likely initial target species for commercial fishing in the region...ENS

New Documentary Explores Human Cost of Global Warming Propaganda

Scientifically unsound claims about global warming are being used to seduce young students and to cajole lawmakers into accepting the legitimacy of regulatory schemes that restrict the use of fossils fuels, according to a new documentary. The husband-wife team of Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney co-produced and directed “Not Evil, Just Wrong” in an effort to highlight the long history of “anti-human propaganda”...The documentary will premier 8 p.m. on October 18. The film is available for purchase online where “Cinematic Tea Parties” are already being organized. A special screening was held for supporters at the Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) office in Washington D.C. Wednesday night. “Carbon is the new DDT,” McAleer said in interview. “Environmentalists are pushing the same kind of anti-human propaganda that triggered the ban on DDT. Millions of children died of malaria because of this ban. The same kind of deception is now being used to target carbon dioxide. Industries that rely on fossil could be shut down and jobs lost thanks to all of the fear mongering and the disinformation that is not justified by science.”...NewsBusters

Here is the trailer for the documentary:

Advocates fight Nevada wild horse roundup

Wild horse advocates are seeking to halt federal land managers' plans to remove all mustangs from a large swath of eastern Nevada, saying the animals deserve protection under federal law. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has started removing 350 horses southwest of Ely and plans to begin removing 270 more in October near Caliente. The roundups affect all wild horses in an area around Ely covering 1.4 million acres or more than 2,000 square miles. Horse defender Christine Jubic of Albany, N.Y., filed a petition last week for an emergency order to halt the roundup with the Interior Board of Land Appeals until it can rule on her appeal challenging the roundup. The roundup began Wednesday, five days after the BLM's Ely district released an environmental study that concluded it had no significant impact. "They're trying to do it quietly under the radar," Jubic said. "These animals are supposed to enjoy federal protections, and the BLM is out to eradicate them off of our public lands altogether." Jeffrey Weeks, manager of a BLM Ely-area field office, said all horses are being removed in some areas because studies found insufficient forage and water to maintain healthy wild horses and rangelands. The agency still plans to manage 810 to 1,695 horses on 3.7 million other acres in the Ely area, a region that encompasses some 12 million acres, or 18,750 square miles, he said...Newsday

Deep in California Forests, an Illicit Business Thrives

Officials say the rise in the number of such grows has resulted in part from a tightening of the border with Mexico. “It’s made it much more difficult for the cartels to smuggle into the country, particularly marijuana, which is large and bulky,” said the Santa Barbara County sheriff, Bill Brown. “It’s easier to grow it here.” California is also popular with marijuana growers for all the reasons that customary farmers like it. “The conditions are very conducive: the water and the soil and the sunshine,” Sheriff Brown said. According to the Campaign Against Marijuana Planting, a multiagency task force managed by the state’s Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement, this year is already one for the record books. In more than 425 raids since late June, some 3.4 million plants have been seized, up from 2.9 million all of last year. And, officials note, they still have roughly a month and a half before the campaign expires with the end of harvest season. Raids occur daily, from southern counties like Riverside, where some 27,000 plants were found on July 2, to northern ones like Lake and Shasta, in each of which more than 400,000 plants have been destroyed by the authorities this year. (Mature plants are usually incinerated, younger ones simply uprooted.) About 2.7 million plants, nearly 80 percent of the seized crop, have been found on federal, state or other public lands. Officials attribute the plants’ prevalence there to the vast area investigators are expected to cover. “It’s rugged terrain, very difficult to get to and very difficult to see,” said John Heil, a spokesman for the United States Forest Service, which in California has jurisdiction over 20.6 million acres, home to nearly 60 percent of this year’s seizures...NYTimes

In the summer, forests in U.S. are hot spots for squatters

For most of the past three years, Mark Reno lived at no cost in the piney woods just north of Payson. Now, he is beginning a six-month stint in federal prison at taxpayer expense, convicted of setting up an unlawful residence in the Tonto National Forest. Among the thousands of squatters who become semipermanent denizens on public lands nationwide, Reno appears to be unusual only because he got caught so often that he was finally put behind bars. Under federal law, national forests are reserved for recreational use by the public. It is a Class B misdemeanor to set up a residence or to remain in any forest for more than two weeks during a 30-day period. The maximum punishment is a $5,000 fine and six months of incarceration. The squatter phenomenon is a problem on public lands nationwide, especially in Western states, where the federal government owns more than half of all property...ArizonaRepublic

Obama, Frogs, Traffic & Sex

Traffic noise could be ruining the sex lives of urban frogs by drowning out the seductive croaks of amorous males, an Australian researcher said Friday...AP

Somehow, the words "seductive" and "croaks" just don't seem to go together.

Anyway, the damn fool frogs should have never left the countryside to begin with.

They should hang in there, though, cuz Obama will soon have all of us driving itty bitty and very quiet electric cars. That will create a frog seduction heaven...as long as their croaks don't violate EPA noise levels.

Historic Kofa Bighorn Sheep Herd Being Eaten By Mountain Lions

Biologists recently presented the Arizona Game and Fish Commission with compelling data indicating that recovering the critically important Kofa desert bighorn sheep herd from near record-low population levels will be challenging due to additive mountain lion predation. Game and Fish Department biologists informed the commission at its Aug. 7 meeting that the monitoring of one radio-collared mountain lion revealed it had killed 14 bighorn sheep since February, an average of one bighorn sheep about every 10 days. At this rate, this one lion is on pace to kill an estimated 37 bighorn sheep annually. By comparison, the estimated annual yearling recruitment from the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge bighorn sheep herd is only 39 animals...ammoland

New Hampshire Town Considers Bear Ordinance

Large groups of bears are creating a nuisance for residents in Bethlehem, and the problem has gotten so bad the town is considering an ordinance. Officials said bears are rummaging through trash bins, eating and attacking farm animals and in some cases coming dangerously close to family pets. "I've been here for 15 years and never saw them until this year," said resident Bob Kimmerle. Kimmerle said he had to fire a gun in the air to scare a bear away after it ate two roosters near his fence. "He put his arm through and pulled them through," Kimmerle said. The proposed ordinance lays out fines for people who feed wildlife. The ordinance is also written to make sure businesses throw trash into animal-proof trash bins...WMUR-TV

Cattle focus of high-altitude research in NM

More than 100 young Angus and Hereford bulls are on a working vacation at 8,700 feet above sea level in northern New Mexico, chomping on lush, high-meadow grass, helping researchers and ranchers get a handle on a disease that causes 75,000 cattle deaths each year across the West. In a study by New Mexico State University and the New Mexico Beef Cattle Performance Association, researchers are conducting high-altitude cattle performance testing on the bulls to determine which are susceptible to high altitude disease. The findings could help ranchers develop a genetic line of altitude-resistant cattle. An estimated 1.5 million cattle are raised annually at high elevations in Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and New Mexico. High-altitude disease — essentially a bovine equivalent to human hypertension — impacts herds that graze above 5,000 feet. The disease kills 3 percent to 5 percent of cattle each year, a loss valued at more than $60 million, said Tim Holt, veterinarian and professor at Colorado State University. Manny Encinias, beef specialist at New Mexico State, said the project is the first time cattle have been tested in a centralized high-altitude performance program on a grass-only diet...AP

Mexico Hit By Lowest Rainfall In 68 Years

Mexico is suffering from its driest year in 68 years, killing crops and cattle in the countryside and forcing the government to slow the flow of water to the crowded capital. Below-average rainfall since last year has left about 80 of Mexico's 175 largest reservoirs less than half full, said Felipe Arreguin, a senior official at the Conagua commission, which manages the country's water supply. "We have zones where the reservoirs are totally full but others that don't have even a drop of water," he said in an interview late on Tuesday. More than 1,000 cattle have been lost due to lack of rainfall, and up to 20 million tons of crops managed by 3.5 million small farmers are at risk of being lost, agriculture groups say. The arid northwest region of Mexico has been hardest hit, along with the central part of the country surrounding Mexico City where 20 million people live...Reuters

Rancher Cleared In 40-Year-Old Death

An 88-year-old sheep rancher long accused of causing the death of his wife's first husband nearly 40 years ago has finally been cleared. A Mesa County jury has found Nick Theos of Meeker not liable on all three claims in a wrongful death lawsuit. The ruling ended a lawsuit brought by the son of a Meeker salesman who died in 1969. Jim Robinson died at age 38 of intoxication from thallium, a poison used by ranchers in the 1950s and '60s to kill coyotes and rats. Robinson's son, Matt Robinson, believed that Theos purposely exposed his father to the poison. Seven years after Jim Robinson died, Theos married his widow, Lois Robinson Theos. When Jim Robinson died, the cause was ruled a sudden, unexplained illness. But questions about the death swirled for decades. Jim Robinson's body was exhumed in 2001 and the cause of death changed to thallium intoxication. But no criminal charges were filed...AP

Feedlots find they can't break downward cycle

Cattle feed yards in the Texas Panhandle and elsewhere have been operating at a loss for 18 months, and while many would like to sell their sprawling operations, there are either no buyers or no banks willing to provide financing, industry observers say. Easing grain prices have lowered feed costs, but in the recession, consumers continue to show low interest in beef, punishing the industry, said Don Close, market director of the Texas Cattle Feeders Association in Amarillo. Wholesale demand for beef has dropped 9 percent in the last nine months, compared to the same period the year before, Cattle Fax reported in July. “We had extremes through the spring of losing $150 on every head,” Close told the Star-Telegram. “With lower corn costs, the average is now a loss of $50 a head.” Remarkably or not, the number of feedlots closing is relatively few — mainly operators who were too small to efficiently compete, poorly hedged on cattle futures, or located in fringe areas like New Mexico with higher transportation costs, said Kevin Good, a market analyst with Cattle Fax, a news and research service that tracks industry trends. Good said there are too many feed yards for the number of cattle being processed by slaughterhouses. He estimated that there may be 20 to 25 percent overcapacity. “As a result of losing money, we have people in dire straits,” said Paul Hicks, a Fort Worth cattleman who works with feeders. “A lot of them are stuck with a lot of empty pens. A lot of feed yards are for sale —there's a world of feed yards available right now.” The major feedlots are under distress, but none has closed, said a regional broker, who spoke candidly in return for anonymity. He estimated that “easily 20 percent of feed yards are on the market today.”...FtWorthStarTelegram

A different kind of ranch, a different kind of cowboy artist

The sky at Chico Basin Ranch seems impossibly vast, befitting the rolling landscape it covers like a pale blue bowl: 87,000 grass-cloaked acres, studded with five spring-fed lakes and, depending on the season, up to 2,500 cattle. The ranch, situated in an empty place on the map more than 30 miles southeast of Colorado Springs, is a cowboy's paradise. That means it is also paradise for any cowboy artist worth his paint. Which is where the two Dukes come in, a pair of princes in their respective realms and visionaries to boot. Duke Phillips is the rancher. Duke Beardsley is the artist. Together, in a fusion of commerce and conservation that could only happen in the open West, the two do what is possible to summon art from the natural world. The two men are mavericks of a sort. They operate within a tradition, yet stand apart from it. Phillips, 53, was raised in the cattle business yet has jettisoned all hidebound notions of ranching: He is a land steward and educator as well as a working cowboy. Beardsley, 39, while a spiritual heir to classic Western artists Charles M. Russell and Frederic Remington, uses his time on the ranch to create eye-popping paintings influenced by modernists Andy Warhol and Franz Kline...DenverPost

Trainer gives housebound herding dogs an outlet

Jerry Stewart plucks a long Misty cigarette from his mouth while standing in the midst of several acres of flat land offering little more than flocks of sheep, some fencing and rows of eucalyptus. But for him and other herding dog trainers, the Perris property is near paradise. From under a fatigued black cowboy hat, the grizzled trainer calls out commands in a low, calm voice -- away to me, go bye, walk up -- coupled with indistinguishable sounds -- "chka, chka, chu" -- to make the young border collie move the flock of sheep where he wants. About 90 percent of people who train herding dogs in the United States do it for sport, said Peggy Richter, board member for the American Herding Breed Association. That number has remained steady over recent years, Richter said. The only change has been that more breeds of dogs are being trained. Border collies and Australian shepherds are traditional herding breeds, but less active dogs that make better companions also are being trained. Richter, a herding trials judge, said about 100 herding events a year are held throughout California...PressEnterprise

Trew: Myths, truths about tidbits

In devouring books and hearing the old stories on many subjects, I am amazed at the tidbits of information on which my mind seems to focus. Why certain items interest me while others are passed over I can't explain. Here are a few examples of this strange interest. Almost every old-time cash register I have seen in museums during my lifetime have a small narrow marble top located just below the keys and above the cash drawer. Recently I learned the reason for this attractive addition. The small marble slab is actually a coin quality tester. Friend Bill Marquis of Old Stoney and a fellow historian demonstrated the test. First he tossed some of today's pennies, nickels and quarters onto the marble slab revealing only a dull "thunk" as they struck the hard surface. Then he pulled out his lucky old-time silver dollar and tossed it onto the marble. There was a distinct bell-like ring signifying the difference in the amount of silver in the coins. It seems there were a lot of slugs and diluted coins way back when. The tester was cheap, and the sound beyond question. This is a long way from the technical pen used by today's clerks to detect counterfeit bills. The same purpose but a different technology altogether. Many times history has written how the Burnett family, owners of the famous 6666 ranches, took the brand and name from an incident where property was won with a poker hand holding four sixes. According to sources close to the earliest Burnett owners and employees who worked for them on the original ranch in Denton County, this story is not true. Jeremiah Burnett sent his first trail herd to Kansas and with his profit bought a another ranch adjoining his home ranch. He realized the 6666 brand would be hard for cattle rustlers to change so he bought the brand along with the land, and it's been used to this day...Amarillo.com

Song Of The Day #115

Let's get things kicked off this Monday morning with an up tempo tune from the Hi-Flyers.

The Hi-Flyers were formed in Fort Worth in the late twenties, before Milton Brown's Brownies and Bob Wills' Playboys, and even before the Light Crust Doughboys.

A decent selection of their later recordings is available on the 28 track Hi-Flyers 1937-1941.

Here they are playing Alamo Polka.

NM Livestock Board to probe animal cruelty at National High School Finals Rodeo

The New Mexico Livestock Board said this week it will investigate alleged animal cruelty at the National High School Finals Rodeo following the release of an Internet video depicting horses and bulls being electrically shocked with handheld cattle prods.

However, at least one official on the investigating board said he has seen nothing out of line with what is shown on the posted video.

The four-minute clip posted on YouTube and filmed by an animal rights group, Showing Animals Respect and Kindness, shows more than 10 bucking horses and nine bulls being prodded with the pronged devices as the rodeo chutes open at an arena that appears to be McGee Park.

Many of the film clips detail the use of prods beyond what the National High School Rodeo Association animal welfare rules allow. The association's rulebook states horses can be shocked below the neck if the animal stalls in the chute. Bulls are never to be prodded when inside the chute, the rulebook states.

Video clips document as many as six rodeo workers prodding horses in the upper neck as gates open, and one rodeo worker prodding bulls in the hind legs and tail within the chute. Just one animal appeared to stall in the chute prior to being prodded.

A majority of the clips show rodeo workers placing the unidentified devices within their hands or pants pockets immediately after use.

"They're trying to make an animal that isn't acting aggressive act aggressive," said Steve Hindi, president of the Illinois-based Showing Animals Respect and Kindness activist group. "There's a lot of voltage behind (the prod) and it hurts, it hurts more than an electric fence."

Hindi noted the manufacturer of the Hot-Shot, the handheld prod he believes was used during the Farmington rodeo, warns the device is not designed to be used on horses or in rodeos.

Considered legal action

New Mexico animal cruelty laws exempt "commonly accepted rodeo practices" from being enforced as animal abuse, said Heather Ferguson, coordinator of the New Mexico Attorney General's Animal Cruelty Task Force.

"It sounds like this particular rodeo made and created regulations as to what they deemed appropriate rodeo practices, and the individuals that utilized the hot prod on the neck of the horses violated those practices," she said.

Determination of whether the action constitutes accepted rodeo practices by state law is made exclusively by the state Livestock Board, she said.

Livestock Board Deputy Director Bobby Pierce said this week the agency will review all film taken during the 2009 National High School Finals Rodeo at McGee Park to determine whether the use of prods reached beyond what state law allows.

But at first look, Pierce said, use of the prods were not inappropriate or abusive during the Farmington rodeo.

"The reason they do it into the high neck is to (have the horse) look away from the shock and turn to look into the arena," Pierce said. "A little quick shot to get an animal out of the chute, that's really for the animal's safety and the rider's safety both."

If if the roughstock animals were prodded around the eyes or ears, or the shock was given repeatedly, cruelty charges could apply, he said.

"The short clips that I've seen, I didn't see anything out of line," Pierce said.

The National High School Rodeo Association hosts the rodeo finals each July, rotating the event between Farmington; Springfield, Ill.; and Gillette, Wyo.

Responding to allegations that the use of prods went beyond the organization's own regulations during the 2009 rodeo, National High School Rodeo Association Executive Director Kent Sturman said the organization is reviewing the publicly posted video clips and contacting everyone thought to be involved.

"We're looking into that. You cannot tell what any of those people have in their hand. They may have absolutely nothing," Sturman said, noting poor video quality prevented better analysis. "We'll just continue to enforce our rules and monitor the situation."

According to association policy, anyone found violating the animal welfare rules could be fined up to $500. The association has taken no formal action since the July rodeo against individuals depicted in the video clips, some of whom are identified by the Denver-based rodeo association, Sturman said.

History of prodding

Similar roughstock prodding was reported at the finals rodeo in Springfield, Ill., in 2006, which led to a court order mandating the practice not occur during the 2007 rodeo finals in that state.

But excessive use of electric prods is particularly common in high school rodeo, Hindi claimed, because the best bucking horses and bulls typically are reserved for professional rodeos, while high school events often use tamer animals.

"It's definitely not your Grade A bucking stock, so they're doing even more things than we usually find to get those animals to perform," Hindi said.

Following the witnessed prodding during the 2006 high school finals in Illinois, the chairman of Gov. Bill Richardson's New Mexico Rodeo Council told The (Springfield) State Journal-Register that such abuse wouldn't be tolerated in New Mexico.

"To Hot-Shot a roughstock animal out of a chute doesn't happen," state Rodeo Council Chairman Robert Detweiler told the Illinois newspaper as the finals rodeo prepared to return to Farmington.

In New Mexico, he said, "They're raised to buck. They're not shocked to buck."

Detweiler could not be reached for comment.

Debbie Romero, a spokeswoman for the New Mexico Rodeo Council, said the group was not involved in hosting the Farmington event and had no opportunity to take action to ensure animals weren't abused.

The animal activist group did not attend the 2008 National High School Rodeo Finals in Farmington to watch for excess prodding, and none was reported.

A local response

The Tres Rios High School Rodeo Association, a San Juan County group funded and directed by local community governments, was unaware of the alleged excess use of prods on rodeo animals until after the 2009 rodeo concluded, said Tres Rios Director Beth Utley.

The association executive committee is expected to meet in the coming weeks to discuss the economic impacts of hosting the event and determine whether the area should make a bid for the national rodeo to return in 2014, Utley said, but after seeing the video on Thursday, the matter was added to the committee's next agenda.

And a meeting may be called sooner than planned.

"We have to poll (association committee members) and see how far they want to take it," Utley said, "Or see if we want any additional stipulations put into the contract to make sure this sort of thing doesn't happen again if the rodeo is brought to San Juan County."

The association will review the online video, which Utley described as "high quality," to confirm it was filmed at McGee Park in 2009 prior to taking any formal action.

"We're just as concerned about this video as the general public is," Utley said. "We'll do our best to see what we can do about it."

James Monteleone: jmonteleone@daily-times.com

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