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Show CASTLE VALLEY TIMES OVERDUE TIMES Castle Valley, Utah - Volume 6, Number 10 ELECTION RESULTS FOR POA BOARD OF D I R E CTO R S Bill Gasaway Trish Hawkins Ken Drogin Richard Williams Ray Taylor Hertha Wakefield 225 210 143 108 78 26 - October 15, 1997 ANNUAL POA , MEETING A peaceful , considerate commtmity meeting? Not what you’ve been told always happens in Castle Valley? Well, it may be time to begin changing some of the old beliefs. On Saturday, Oct. 11th, POA members filled the meeting room at the CV LDS Church for what was probably the most friendly, courteous Annual POA meeting ever held. During the morning the members Bill Gasaway received the most votes and gets the two year term. This year’s POA Board will be Ken Drogin, Bill Gasaway, Trish Hawkins, Richard Williams, and Jack Campbell, who received the two year term last year. discussed recent road erosion problems, increasing fire protection capabilities, setting the 1998 dues, what members valued and wanted to protect about Castle Valley (for the beginning of the Covenants revision process), and Much appreciation to the following TOWN COUNCIL ELECTION RESULTS. Mayor. Bruce Keelen Jack Campbell A Castle Valley property owner spent afew days in and near Moab last month on the last leg ofher 3,000—mile trek on bicycle from New York to California. The day after Castle Valley Times publisher Jack Campbell asked me to submit a story about Colleen McGuirefor the monthly news sheet, I received a post card from the California coast, where McGuire had made her safe landing to visit a brother in Oakland. She planned tofly back to New York, andpromises to get in touch with us again when she does. We’ll keep youposted. Here ’5' part ofher story: c.s. The idea to trek across the United States on a bicycle came to Colleen McGuire was in Moab and Castle . Valley for a few days visiting a friend who with delinquent dues is approximately half what it was at this time last year. lives in the area and taking a breather on (Around 30 delinquent accounts.) The suntanned, McGuire had been on the road since July 19, and was hoping to be in amount owed has dropped fromjust below $9,000 to just below $5,000. Richard reported that the POA has been repairing the damage at the end of Shafer Lane caused by the diversion of Castle Creek. The gabian baskets CASTLE VALLEY BOOK EXC HA NG E Two Town Council Seats: best place to be’ Lot becomes an option. The number of property owners condition. $20,000 is set aside in purchased to contain the creek in its —More Annual Meeting, p. 7 94 31 ‘Wherever I’m at is the money market funds for future use when a building on the Community The POA is in very good financial people for helping with the Annual POA Meeting: Cliff Eggling, Elaine Pinkowski, Rebecca Martin, Dave Erlcy. Joan Sangree, Ken Schwartz, Barbara Treadwell, Cris Coffey, Ken Johnson, Ron Drake, and Ron & Jennifer Mengel. B&B Discussion Silenced McGuire in a dream. But the Rocky Mountains to the east and the hail storms of August had the New York attorney looking for an easier path over the Sierras to her California destination. elected the new 1998 POA Board. THANKS FOR HELPING - Winter is coming. Picture your- her long journey. Muscular and San Francisco Sept. 19. She actually arrived there on Oct. 1. “It has taken me a year to organize this trip,” McGuire said. “The internet was a wonderful help in locating campgrounds and places where I could stop. I posted requests for the best routes.” Two-thirds of the way through the trip, McGuire was struggling with “being patient.” “I will get there,” was McGuire’s mantra, she said. “The other realization I Robert Ryan 77 self cosied up to the fire, mug of tea have had is that wherever I’m at is the Darr Hatch 59 in hand and.....a great book. If you’d like to get together and trade books or just ease the load of bookshelves best place to be.” bursting at the seams, call me at 259— 8009. We can pick a day to gather at three to five years. In the meantime, she will maintain her New York law practice the Town lot and have a real tailgate as a tenant lawyer. In New York, McGuire party. I’d like to do this fairly soon said she commutes by bicycle every day. (There were no other amdidates running for the two TC seats) CV FIRE DISTRICT TWO TRUSTEES: (mid to late Nov.?) as I know many Floyd Stoughton Jim Smouse 108 99 (There were no other candidates running for the two seats) . McGuire owns property in Castle Valley and plans to build a home there in “It’s free transportation, earth friendly folks will be departing soon on their and keeps me in shape,” she said. winter migration. I’ve got lots of murder mysteries, what have you And what was the toughest part of her trip? “Man, those Appalachians,” she said. ——Carrie Switzer got? —Alice Drogin |