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Show Chamber Protests Management I Problem in Book Cliffs Area IiE The Board of Directors of (Irccn River Chamber of Commerce met in re-j;ular re-j;ular session on Wednesday Wed-nesday with Vict? President Presi-dent Bob Seely in the chair. The first order of business was the distribution dis-tribution of Constitution and By-Laws for the consideration con-sideration of Ihe members mem-bers of the Board. Action was tabled until the next meetinj:, when each member mem-ber will return with suj;-j;eslions. suj;-j;eslions. Trooper Wendell Weber met wilh the Chamber, poinlin).; oul thai we do not have adequate j;ame manaj;emenl in this area, particularly that portion of the Book Cliffs lyinc on the cast side of the (Irccn River included in the elk hunt. This area should be patrolled by Steve Stronj;, but he was unable to find satisfactory housinj; in (Irccn River and settled in Draj:erton where rent is cheaper. Trooper Weber pointed point-ed oul that predator control con-trol is nej;leclcd, and with poachinj.;, the pheasant population has larj;ely disappeared. Durinj; the discussion, Ihe fact that Delbert Atkinson was to have returned here after his stiul in the ser vice, bul was assigned lo Monticello, Mon-ticello, was brought oul. Since most of the nicin -bers of the Hoard had been thinkinji alone these same lines, there was enthusiastic enthus-iastic support of Weber's proposal. The fact of helicopter hel-icopter and airplane spot-line spot-line was also discussed. The decision of Ihe Board was for a letter lo be written lo the Wildlife Resources Division ask-inj; ask-inj; that a meetinj: be arranged ar-ranged where this matter could be discussed and some solution arrived at. This has been done. 'Ihe matter of truckers truck-ers coming hi since the Peacock store's closing, pcddliiu; case coooN and other food products door lo door was discussed. Mayor Keloyd llatt said thai the city is looking into Ihe matter, and somcthine will shortly be done to slraijihleii this matter out. "Shop at Home" was discussed, as well as the terrible loss to the community com-munity of a fine store like Peacock's, ll was decided lo j;et in touch with the Carbon Kmery Bank and see if the C of C or any of its members could expedite the re-opeiiinj: of Peacock's. Tim Anderson An-derson reported that he had had two inquiries about ab-out the store, and Ihe consensus con-sensus was that another jiroccry would probably be established soon. Mrs. Pearl Baker reported re-ported that the Western Canvonlands brochure is aj;ain held up by the Castle Cas-tle Country Travel Council. Coun-cil. She stated that opposition op-position is not from the Canyonlands people, bul from the Castle Country people of Price , who insist in-sist on callinj; the brochure bro-chure the "(Irccn River Brochure," instead of the Western Canyonlands brochure, which had always al-ways been the local name and intent for it. Mrs. Baker reported that the brochure had been finished, taken to the Ctah Trav el Council to be printed prin-ted as she had been authorized au-thorized to do. Then Chairman Tom Anderson had picked up the brochure, bro-chure, with the intention of takini: it to Moab to show to the Canyonlands Travel Council, wilh the proposition that they pay $51111 of Ihe t ransient room tax collected in (Irccn River, but in ( I rami Conn -I.v, on publication of the brochure. Mrs. Baker staled that she could j:o no further with this, ami asked to resign. This idea was received re-ceived wilh ureal disfavor by the croup, and a slroneer proj;rani of support sup-port was succesled to see Ihe brochure was printed. print-ed. Consensus was that if it is not, then (Irccn River has ceneraletl considerable con-siderable transient room lax with iiolhinj; to show lor it. II,. ih the C of C and the president of Ihe Motel Association, Lee Howl, ind, voted to look into Ibis mailer ami find out why Canvonlands needs lo be cousidci cd in V i M ! .2 i- 7 ! v Left to rijiht, Neal Kkkcr, (Irccn River llij;h School 1'rcsidenl; Dr. Dan Jones, il; whether or not they contributed to its print-inc, print-inc, the Kmery County Travel Council is entitled entit-led to its fair share of the transient room tax, and this money should be used to advertise Green River in some small part since the Castle Country brochure mentions Green River only Iw ice in pass-ini; pass-ini; w hich docs not cov er our needs. andNiiiH-anNlilpT |