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Show SEPTEMBER 7,2006 by Earl Roe wearlroe@yahoo.com • 676-2376 I am starting this weeks Knothole with something that has been bothering me for a long time. I find it hard to believe that every person who graduated from High School or at least attended for two years did not take a class in Geology or Earth Science and learn a little about this great old planet which we call home. If they did they would surely have learned (unless all the textbooks were wrong) that we have known for over 100 years that the climate is growing warmer, that the glaciers are receeding; we are moving out of the last great Ice Age of the Pliestocene Epoch and that during the long history of our earth, it has gone through several Ice Ages. To go through more than one requires both a global warming followed by a global cooling (or visa versa). We can expect this warming trend to continue until it reaches it's zenith then we will start to slide into another cooling trend until our earth experiences another ice age during the Holocene (recent) Epoch and the environmentalists will begin to scream for us to rev our engines, build fires, bring out your aerosols, fire your furnaces, etc. Whether the activities of mankind has accelerated this warming trend or if he can slow it down is a debatable question, but he is not going to stop this cycle of nature so why all thejlap that is going on today. My opinion is that the radical environmentalists realize that they have milked the "endangered species" theme for all its worth and have latched onto global warming which gives them blanket coverage for disrupting or destroying and part of our economic or social system. If you still worry about this, go to a library or a school and get a book that tells the history of the earth. Now back to what is going happening on our side of the fence. Tonya Thomas asked me to let our readers know that Shauna Anderson who is a patient in our long term care center has lost her dog; a white poodle wearing a red collar bearing the name 'Buzzy' and would dearly love to have it back. It was last seen a few days ago with some young children. Hopefully it will have been located by the time you read this, but if not and you know where it is, please call Shauna at 676-1231. Lorraine Henry has returned to her home in San Diego after spending a Page 4 T H E GARFIELD COUNTY INSIDER week here with her parents, Harold and Winona Sevy. Lorraine loves to come to Panguitch to help her mother and to visit relatives and friends and its. a welcome respite from the hectic life of Southern California. Miles and Ester Barney are back home after spending most of a week in Salt Lake while Miles spent four days in the LDS Hospital being treated for a heart problem. He had four stents placed in blocked arteries and has to go back on the 20th of this month to receive two more. He is feeling much better and said he will really enjoy the the trout fillets (courtesy of Ned Owens)which I delivered to him. For some time I have wondered who had purhased the Loris & Hilda Chidester home and the Tom & Allie Partridge home. Yesterday, because of a stray cat that has been giving our Mayor problems, I met and enjoyed visiting with the owners.Chris and Tricia Hal! and their son, Colton, (Chidester home); Blake and Debbie Jones (Partridge home);Mike and Wendy Costeilo and their two children, Cross and Tommy, were all enjoying a sight seeing walk around town and when they passed Art's home, the little cat came running out to them. The youngster in the stroller wanted to play with it so they picked it up. I was visiting with Art at the time and told him to tell them they could have it. While Art was visiting with them, I drove on up to where they were and offered them more cats if they wanted them and in the ensuing conversation learned that they were all from Las Vegas and were here staying in their homes for the weekend. They had invited Mike & Wendy and their sons to accompany them so as to acquaint them with Panguitch and let them enjoy our environment. All of them really like our community and the friendliness of the people. (1 really enjoyed visiting with them!) Saturday evening as I was going to my pasture and saw all of the fire engines and fireman at the intersection of Main and Center, I thought we must SIGNS, PRINTING & GRAPHIC DESIGN snapshotmedia.com Call 876-2621 have a big fire in one of the buildings until I was stopped by one of the firemen and asked if I would like to donate to the 'Fill the Boot' project. I did, then found Fire Chief, Dave Dodds, to find out what was going on. Dave informed me that this was the 3rd year our fire department had participated in the Muscular Dystrophy campaign in this fashion. He said they got the 'Fill the Boot' idea from the Las Vegas Fire Dept. and that now it was the National Slogan for all fire deparments for their MD campaign. He also said that I might get more information on Internet so 1 came home and tried it and found more information than I wanted to pass on at this time. I did learn that it was started by a fireman in Boston in 1953.1 promised Dave I would try to give some advance notice for their drive next year if someone would remind me. The chick he wed - Let out a whoop Felt his chin- Then flew the coop" —Burma Shave, 1946 UTAH'S Wild Spanish Descendants The Sulphur Herd Wild Horse Adoption September 22-23,2006 Washington County Fairground Hurricane, Utah 80 head Sulphur horses Weanlings to 5 years old Free Admission Sept. 22, All day viewing 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sept. 23, Adoption Registration 7-9:30 a.m. A new application is required. Adoption begins at 10 a.m. Minimum bid $125.00 NOTICE OF PROPOSED TAX INCREASE Panguitch Lake Special Service District for Fire Protection is proposing to increase its property tax revenue. As a result of the proposed increase, the tax on an $150,000.00 primary residence will be $66.00, and the tax on a business or secondary residence having the same value in the taxing entity will be $120.00. Without the proposed increase the tax on a $150,000.00 residence would be $29.37, and the tax on a business or secondary residence having the same value in the taxing entity would be $53.40. The 2006 proposed tax rate is .000800. Without the proposed increase, the rate would be .000356. This would be an increase of 124.72%, which is $36.63 per year ($3.05 per month) on a $ 150,000.00 primary residence or $66.60 per year on a business or secondary residence having the same value in the taxing entity. With NEW GROWTH, this property tax increase, and other factors, the Panguitch Lake Special Service District for Fire Protection will increase its property tax revenue from $22,529.00 collected last year to $51,681.00 collected this year which is a revenue increase of 129.40%. All concerned citizens are invited to a public hearing on the tax increase to be held on Wednesday, September 13lh at 6:00 p.m. at the Rustic Lodge, Panguitch Lake. |