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Show PAGE 30 THE ZEPHYR JUNE 1991 feedback Dear Mr. Stiles: has come to our collective attention and consciousness that your edifying Is publication sorely In need of a section for your avid, but love less, reading public. We have, therefore, taken It upon ourselves to rectify this situation by submitting our own classified creations for a personal section we think should be entitled: It the readers respond Dear Jim: AS THE EDDY TURNS: been coming to Canyonlands and Moab for twenty years to hike, canoe, ski. We obviously like Moab; we have bought and cross-coun- ty raft, bike, some land near Moab and hope to build a cabin soon. Each time we travel to Moab, we look forward to leaving travelling south on half-ho- ur beautiful the of a and after valley Moab sits pleasant driving, seeing highway 191, new McDonalds sign to see our visit the ugly In loom ahead. How stunned we were on last sticking up right In the middle of that beautiful vista north of town. What a blight on the view and what an Insult to Moab. Moab Is a very small town and It Is Impossible to miss the Golden Arches on Main Street We question whether any sign Is necessary to let people know McDonalds has arrived In Moafc. If a sign Is necessary, It certainly Is not necessary to stick It In a place that maximizes Its assault on the landscape. A McDonalds sign placed somewhere on 191 from highway 128 Into town would have served notice that a McDonalds was In Moab without doing violence to the view of Moab valley. We encourage McDonalds to relocate Its sign to a more environmentally sensitive location. We also encourage the city and county to pass a reasonable and protective sign the Canyon County Connection or We have SOLO-NO-M- four-whe- el, ordinance. O As with your editorial policy.... the descriptions and desires expressed herein are not necessarily those of your vendors, advertisers, or even the publisher, but then who knows. Female tree hugger seeks male Earth Firstar with spiking experience. No Ed Abbey look allkes need apply. Box Promontory Point, UL 10-pen- ny, Wicked Witch of the West with well seasoned dutch oven desires experienced high siding Raunchy River Rat for "Big Drop. No goat heads or dally trippers. Send photo to Canyon Cuisine, Moab, Utah. beer, Isuzu Troopers, tofu Anasazl bean field. Plenteous Pintos, to authentic buck for help plow my yearns young hung Colo. Dove Ltd., Creek, SWF who likes mountain biking, crystals, day glo, home-brew- ed The oil boom Is back, and soooo am SW Prospector seeks little lade with front-en- d for drilling rites. No bikes, trikes or Volvos need apply. Send photo of equipment co the Zephyr. 1 1 Very truly yours, Jean and Guy Sapersteln, loader BoxD-- 9, Oakland, California member desires DWF. Im Into chainsaws, football, cubic Inches, monster trucks, dirt bikes and Lake Powell. Are You? Send vitals and tire preference to: Grand County Recreation and Reclamation Adventures, North Hwy 191, Moab, Utah. WALU Mr. Stiles: While reading "The Park Service Obsession With Tamarisk, I took were some things you either didn't know or failed to mention. 1. Tamarisk Is not natural to this area and was either accidentally note that there or on purpose New generation coffee achiever longs for Juan Valdez with Krupps espresso machine to help perk up my morning. No drips or decafs, please. Meet at Daves Comer Market any morning 10:00 a.m. brought to this area. can see by your photos, It chokes out all natural growth to this area. There Is or was nothing growing there but tamarisk. So If we want to Just have tamarisk as our one vegetation here, then let's let It grow. I agree right now It looks very ugly. I also agree that the water should be tested for the garion which the Park Service Is using. If you want to see what tamarisk looks like and will do. Just go down to the Colorado and take a look. Sure there are a few cottonwoods now, but Im sure If you give the tamarisk time, It will be where the cottonwood stands now. And for your final comment about "your tax dollars at work, could be reversed on your letters of feedback from Don. Your tax dollars not at work. Sorry, but my husband works for the Park Service. I wouldn't want to make his Job 2. As you uncomfortable, so I will not sign. Thank you. Name withheld by request seeks SFF with babysitting experience to complete household. genealogy to J. Cyrus Smith, Hite, Utah. PYM Gnarley Knobbler would like to endo "big time for female fat tire flyer enthusiast for lycra liaison and weekend Slick Rock Scene. Meet me at Rim between the Black Bottoms and the Pucker Pass Panties. Respectfully submitted, A Contingency of Moab Lonely Hearts PUBLISHER'S NOTE: How about: lonely but erudite editor esurient for essentially erotic escapades that are everlasting and eternal, not erratic or evanescent ? Contact the Zephyr. J.S. Dear Jim: have been listening to this thing for two years now, since the day I moved to Moab. At first I listened politely, thinking there must be some validity to It for an entire town and all Its warring factions to be In such adamant agreement about one group. The most complaint seemed to be that, "they Just come here and trash our town and don't spend any money. To address the first point that of trashing our town: In my travels throughout the area, I have discovered that the most trashing occurs In areas frequented by the locals, during the While I tried to give benefit of the to be drawn from one there seemed conclusion doubt, everyone only logical I Canyon Country Bed & Breakfast Send photo and mountaln-biker-bashl- ng oft-repea- ted off-seas- on. this. The second argument, "They dont spend any money, Is completely destroyed every time we go out to eat The tables are packed with crowds of people attired In the dreaded lycra. While I agree It Is a ridiculous form of apparel, and something In which I would personally not be caught dead, they are paying for their meals with real money. I do not own a mountain and very bike, but I have all kinds of friends who do few would fit the yuppie designation. Three are doctors (OK, yuppie possibilities), two are school teachers (too poor to be yuppies), one works at the planetarium, whole bunches of them are college students (again, too poor to be yuppies). I remember when backpacking was seen as a suspect activity, engaged In by rich who didn't need to work and thus had time to wander aimlessly through young people Be life, trying to up all the pristine places for themselves. I never fit that description, and neither did any of my backpacking friends. dont fit Into neat little categories any Might It not be possible that mountain-bike- rs better? I look forward to the "mobs" (the truly cordial term bestowed on them by certain Moabites) hitting town. At least they seem happy to be here. And they speak when you pass them on the street Could It be theres something to be learned from the Sincerely, Spacious ranch-styl- e Cherie Gilmore nouse with large patio Comfortable beds Private and shared bathrooms In town, quiet and off Main Street Delicious and filling Breakfast Buffet Bike, Hike, Raft, Jeep & Scenic Flights No smoking on premises Chuck & Judy Nichols 590 N. 500 W. Moab, Utah 84532 Dear Editor: Once again, you misunderstand. Laddering (from OE hllnlan: to lean) Is about In Jacob's Ladder, or as In F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great As ascent Gabby: "Out of the comer of his eye Gatsby saw that the blocks of the sidewalks (read sllckrocks) really formed a ladder and mounted to a secret place above he could climb to It If he climbed alone, the trees and once there he could suck on the pap of life, gulp down the Incomparable milk of wonder. |