Salina Firemen participated in a structure fire simulation last week at the Faith Baptist Church. A fog machine inside the building made it realistically difficult for the rescuers to locate and extract the two victims in the mock fire. Fire Chief Matt Murphree said the exercise was to keep the veteran fire fighters fresh and to provide extra practice for the new volunteers.

When Jill Brown, an ultrasound and mammography tech at Intermountain Sevier Valley Hospital, saw the results of her own mammogram last year, she was shocked. "I thought, 'Oh great. Here we go.' I knew," she said. The mammogram showed a small growth, and a biopsy later returned a positive result for breast cancer. "At 43 years old, I didn't think I was going to be faced with something like that," Jill said. Because Jill had ...

Burke Nielsen, General Manager of SUFCO Mine, spoke to the Salina Area Chamber of Commerce at its October meeting to bring awareness to the community of not only the mine’s positive economic impact, but also that it is a great employer.               Nielsen and his management group, including John Byars, VP of Operations and Corey Heaps, General Manager of Safety, focus first on the well-being of their miners and “take safety very seriously,” he said. ...