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Show Dnnr Sam, The Lorraine Nicol letter should not have been addressed ad-dressed to you or the people of Moab. It should have been addressed ad-dressed to me and to the n". -n who were at Moose Park Saturday morning at 2 a.m. and Saturday Midnight. That was when and where the decision was made to leave the iee box or not and what hours food would be servid 'o the public. It sei ins that our decision was wrong. I am sorry that any one was nut fed that frit they should have been. Perhaps we were tired and not thinking hut I am sure that wo tried very hard to do the right thing. A search on the river nnl so close to town adds proh Inns in some ways. Many carried their own food and others went home for a rest and returned. No one person knows bow much food was donated. I know about cake, cookier, p'-aehes, chiekdi, potato salad, sal-ad, bread, canned pop, coffee cof-fee and cookies. I also have the bills to turn into the Jeep Posse Auxiliary Aux-iliary who payed for and served Rl sandwiches, punch, coffee and cookies. In the eleven years I hava worked on search and rescue res-cue in Grand and San Juan Counties (he people of Moab have donated their time, food and equipment. I have rover asked for anything at any hour of the day or night lhat they have not come through with much more than was asked for. Resides the food that has been donated at each search Iho people of Moab have backed every fund raising prnjrx-t. the Auxiliary has had. Birause of these wnn-dei wnn-dei fitl folks wo have never asked a store for a donation. dona-tion. Every search by land, wafer or by air is hard. Hard on both men and equipment. A smashed boat or a broken bro-ken down Jeep pinches Iho pocket book of tho owner. Their only thanks is a kind word now and then. Most times, not even a kind word. I have often wondered why people? of Moab take time and equipment to go out on a search? It's not the money even the lost gas caps come out out of (he family budget. It's not for glory or thanks we are much mre apt to be told off as in this case. II 's not because it is fun the hours are long and exhausting ex-hausting and can extend into weeks. Why then because they really are the friendliest people peo-ple on earth. Don't ask for the shirt off their back unless it's the correct size you will get it and only YOU will know where it came from. This world could stand a few more towns like Moab, it would solve a lot of the world problems. Come on Moab everyone every-one ready for the next .search! Betty Sehumaker, 19G9 President of Grand County Coun-ty Jeep Posse Auxiliary Dear Sam: We just got back from an interesting weekend trip to one of our favorite haunts. I've never considered myself my-self a tourist; mainly because be-cause I don't frequent the tourist places, but also because be-cause I talk like one of th.; folks. When in Colorado I get along by saying that I was born in.Collbran; when in Salt Lake I get along by saying that I'm from Moab; when in Texas, well, I went to school in El Paso; however, how-ever, when in Mexico in June, I was a tourist. During our trip last weekend week-end I was also a tourist. On Saturday we swam and soaked up the water from the natural hot spring that feeds the pool. I was out in the dei p end and this gal life guard kept blowing her whistle. She wanted to know if I could swim. I said, "under "un-der the water, yes; on top. no." After swimming wj boiglrt some things at a downtown store. Tho cashier didn't say a word to me. In fact, I had lo read the cas! register myself for the amount am-ount to pay. Sunday morning I went to a service station to fill up with gas. A man met me at the pump, asked what I wanted and then serviced my truck. When I got ready to pay him he said, "There's a guy around here .someplace, .some-place, I'm just waiting for him to fix my lire." I found some fellow inside a tire way out back. He didn't have a pen that would write, so I gave him mine and ended up making out my own credit cre-dit card because his hands were too dirty. We had to conclude our trip on Sunday night by taking tak-ing two relatives out to Thompson to board the train. After arriving 3 hours and 4.r minutes late, the man In the grey flannel suit climbed climb-ed down out of his aluminum cage, told the other unlnnilc to "put them in 11 and 12," and then turned to a lady who was waiting to get n-board n-board and barked, "get on lady." I was a little chapped at their rudeness, hut soon mellowed when I thought of till the money that the train in losing and of all the things that the men must go through to be Ihree hours late. Before calling It a day, we went out for supper and were told not to eat any pie Ihere, "It's really not that good." I went home, look n Com-poz, Com-poz, and hit Iho sack. Thank goodness- tourism 1:1 for the masses. liuss Donoghue Dear Mr. Taylor: Three years ago, we moved into a house in Moab an.l planned to make it our ,'honie." The yard was in terrible shape from lack of water and care. My husband and I both pitched in to clean up the yard, plant flowers and trees so that eventually our home would look as nice as the homes surrounding us here in Kerby Subdivision. Subdivis-ion. A place we could be proud of as well! On tho south section of our yard is a wide unfenced section that we planted with vegetables, fruit trees and flowers. Over the past three years, the tulips tu-lips have been picked, th'! pumpkins ground into the ground and smashed, the flowers deliberately destroyed. destroy-ed. This we have overlooked and said nothing about! This year we had a tiny dwarf plum tree with about 4 dozen doz-en plums on it waiting to ripen, be picked and shared with others. Wo went out last evening and the tree had been picked clean of fruit. This deed, we figured, had to be by an older youth or adult as the tree was not damaged nor was there any fiuit. scattered around on the ground. If whoever was responsible re-sponsible would have only waited 4 or 5 more days the fruit would have been edible. The city officials urge the citizens of Moab to beautify their home and streets make Moab a place to be proud of bid if one has ' hide the beauty behind a 5' fence, constantly be on the alert for offenders, what personal per-sonal satisfaction or joy Is gained by living like lhall Beauty Is ineanl to be .shared .shar-ed not selfishly hidden and Ibis is what wo have nl templed to do. Wo will start over again, plant, weed, cultivate nnd hold our breath hoping we can gel through another season without our yard being destroyed, but wo both wonder Is II worth II? Judith A. Wieselmann |