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Show CASTLE VALLEY TIMES M O N S O O N T I M E S “ Castle Valley, Utah - Volume 6, Number 9 ANNUAL POA MEETING, OCT 11th The POA Board set Saturday, Oct 11th as the date for the Annual Meet— ing of the Members. The meeting will begin at 9 am and will be held in the Castle Valley LDS Church as usual. Five candidates are running for the four open seats on the POA Board They are Ken Drogin, Bill Gasaway, Trish Hawkins, Ray Taylor and Richard Williams. (As the candidate receiving the most votes last year, Jack Campbell will continue on the Board this coming year.) - September 15, 1997 GOAT HEAD SOUP Stepped on one recently? You know, the two—homed fruit of Tribulus terrestris, also known as goatheads, puncturevine and, literally, terror of the earth. Their stout, double-pronged design can perforate flip—flops, tennis shoes, even bicycle tires. They hitchhike to your land on the bottoms of your boots and in your tire treads; could even surf in on a flash flood. This year, Castle Valley has a bumper crop of goatheads and they are a force to recon with. In fact, as successful strategists, goatheads could teach us contact Jack (-5115) if you can help. volumes, but that’s another story. I can’t think of anyone who actually wan ts puncturevine to grow NEW PHONE NUMBERS dangerous to make assumptions) so the Help is needed with parts of the meeting and to count ballots. Please on their land (although in CV, it is And while you’re sending out those change of address wards, you might just as well let your friends know that your telephone number area code is also changing this year. As most CV residents already know, their area code is being changed to (435). There is supposed to be a six month transition period during which both the old (801) and the new (435) area codes work. March 21st, 1998 will be the date when the old (801) area code no longer works. next question is...how do we get rid of T. terrestris? According to informalion I’ve gathered so far, there are several proaches: 1) HAND PICKING or shoveling, and disposing of the plants with as many of the seeds intact as possible. This is time-consuming and exhausting (I sense abundant employment opportlmities here) But may be the most effective means of eradication. - ‘Least pretty darn wet SIGNED CONTRACT ALLOWS EXPANSION OF CV INN B&B All three Town Council members at the last Town Council meeting were suprised that an agreement with the CV Inn B&B had been signed without their knowledge, by Mayor Valli Smouse. Valli’s agreement allows the B&B to expand the size of the existing building facilities, construct a swimming pool, build a tennis court, and allow other possible business activites due to the sloppy language of the agreement. Loopholes allow for other expansions of the business and practically ensure that the controversy and animosity will continue. Clauses in the agreement that would have helped limit future expansions of the business were deleted in the final agreement signed by Valli. Since the agreement was not approved in an open public session of the Town Council, and since terms of the agreement differed substantially from earlier drafts that had been “quasi” approved by the Town Council either You can, and should, remove goatheads any time of year; don’t leave the picked in workshops or in closed seessions of plants lying around. The plant can go to swd as early as June and continues producing fruits throughout its agreement is seriously in doubt. —More GOATHEADS, p. 7 the Council, the legitimacy of the Neither the public nor the Town Council had been given notice of this —More B&B Contract, p. 7 POST OFFICE ERROR If you feel that you’ ve been missing some of your mail or magazines recently, there’s a reason for it. Last December the Post Office notified Castle Valley residents (and other CVSR postal patrons) that the designation was being changed to HC 64. We were CVSR told that this could speed up mail delivery as the old CVSR designation was no longer readable by the new automated mail sorting equipment. We were also told that the old addres s format was perfectly O.K., otherwise. The letter sent out by the P. 0. last year was very clear. It stated “Apparently there is some concern that mail addressed to CVSR xxxx will be returned. That is not the case. Mail addressed to you at CVSR xxxx will continue to be delivered.” Since most people do not notice such messages on envelopes or magazines, it’s hard to know exactl y what mail the Post Office is returning to sender (particularly now that you’re not getting it). Seems that the Post Office doesn’t know how to say, “Oops, sorry, we made a mistake." Instead, the P. O. is just sending your mail back. It is clear, however, that the Post Office does not consider the old CVSR designation completely valid, and we need to get thos e change of address card packets (now mostl y advertising) and send them out, just as if we’d moved to a new address. |