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Show HOLIDAY TIMES - DECEMBER 1994 - 5 COMMUNITY FORUM Readers' opinions in 25 words or less: 1. What are your thoughts on hunting In the valley? What would you Ilke to see next year? ——This is a unique valley and hunting should definitely be prohibited. There are too many families am animals — No hunting! There are too many people and a stray bullet could be tragic. --Maria posts! Maybe go with the standard green street signs we can read at night. — Same as old ones. Just add new — ’g like it banned, We are a residen- signs where needed. I like the current tial community and bullets can carry signs. —Kathy Gasaway, Lot 57 over 1 mile, presenting a danger to residents. *1 am unsure whether the BLM or State Lands board would honor a Town ordinance, but we can — Plastic, vinyl, some thing that will last forever! How ‘bout glow-in-the— dark neon. Tassels? Motion sensor put it out there. Enforcement is an issue. We’d have to get agreement from lights? Day-glo? —Curmudgeon endangered here with hunting. the sheriff and county for sheriff’ 5 services on this. — Small & rustic—wood. —— Hunting is OK, would like to see a buffer zone around town limits to protect residents on perimeter. ——-Alice — I think with the increasing population we must keep hunting prohibited. —— No hunting in town limits. No trapping in Grand County. —Sally R. — We’re too thickly populated with humans for guns, but getting too thickly populated with deer for some people’s orchards/gardens. We can afford to wait a few more years before “hunting”. —-—Rebecca & Jake outside of the town, hunting is okay, the Town boundaries. It’s far too dangerous. only in upper valley beyond Round — All hunting should be prohibited in and around the valley. An IQ test — I do not want hunting in The Valley. Next year—no hunting signs. I assume “the Valley” means the town limits. (accompanied by a breath analyzer -— Since the deer were here first, I’d suggest an open season on cows, and free-running dogs. —Curmudgeon — I’d like to see it banned completely. test) should be administered to hunters to obtain licenses. Those below 100 would be ineligible and then the hunting pop’n would plummet Hunting problems would no longer be an issue. luminous paint might help at night. —-Maria —— Rustic, simple, plain. Slightly larger than at present, mounted low enough so headlights will shine on them at night. Very important that fire trucks or ambulances can find their way. Put lot numbers under street names (like #299 to 316) for strangers, emergency vehicles, or package delivery. —Cris 2. What should our new street signs look like? — There is a law that you can’t shoot too close to a residence. However there are too many deer in the valley. You can’t grow a bush or tree. Hunting should be allowed in upper valley & along creek, etc. . signs upside down as 3 Castle Valley quirk! — Small, unobtrusive. Wood. Mtn. —Bill Gasaway, Lot 131 And as a finishing touch, install the — I liked the old ones—possibly — There should be no hunting within —— No hunting in the town limits; — Rural, wooden, something not too intrusive. the letters shOuld be phosphorescent so they can be seen at night. — Just like the old ones. I like the old ones (current ones). Simply replace the missing or broken ones. Why waste time and money when we have a good thing going? ——Bill Gasaway, Lot 131 -— Do we really need street signs? If and when this happens, and we know it will eventually, the signs should blend —— Small with name and lot numbers in iridescent lettering. with the environment. — How about some that will hold up better than the wooden signs. Metal — The same as they are now—~just fixed and painted. Leave street names the same! — How about standing slabs of rock with painted names? (I’d volunteer for _th_at crew.) If they were at headlight level, there’d be no need for reflective paint. —-Alice — Natural wood routed letters, same size as old ones. —Rebecca & Jake |