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Show It's a pity nobody has found a way to irrigate with flash flood waters. The amount of water which dropped near and in Minersville and all the surrounding sur-rounding mountains would have filled a good sized reservoir. reser-voir. Minersville got 2.2 inrfi.es Saturday evening in about 45 minutes, very little of which r'-r'- anybody any good. The west mountains evidently was f iual to and maybe even more than felj n Minersville. o All the while Milford managed man-aged to scrape up .06 hundreths of an inch, barely wet the surface. sur-face. Under .natural circumstances most all of this would have -iin rjght through Milford in the Beaver River channel, bu' due to man made obstructions it only made it to the South Milford flat, doing more damage dam-age than good. The point of all this is 'r. "bn'ction to he old river bed were removed i iiie channel was dredged so the water could run freely if a reservoir was dredged between be-tween Milford and Reed if the known creeks and springs side piped direct into the reservoir res-ervoir how many more acres of rich Milford Valley land could be put under irrigation, irri-gation, how many more families fam-ilies would they support? It could take some looking into we think! o The Milford Community Education Ed-ucation Council is making an attempt to offer subjects to the interested persons and .need some help in deciding what you want. We'll turn the rest of our column over to Gla!y3 Whittaker and let her tell you abou ; i . . . . Time for school to start again! Have you ever wished you could go back to school again yourself? With the establishment es-tablishment of a community education program you will be able to do just that. The Milford Community Education Ed-ucation Council is in the process pro-cess of securing information, to set up a year-round educational education-al program for all the citizens of the community, from the pre-schoolers to senior citizens. As a good portion of our tax dollars go to support our school system, doesn't it make good sense to utilize these facilities fa-cilities for more than eight hours a day for nine months o! th-! year? With a community education program we can more fully utilize the existing school facilities fa-cilities and fill the educational a.nd recreational needs of the community as well. With the possibilities of a-shorter a-shorter work week and earlier retirement in the near future, we are continually urged to find hobbies or other creative activities to fill our leisure time more constructively. Community education offers this opportunity to you. There are many types of handicraft hobby classes that may be offered, of-fered, such as ceramic painting, knitting, basic art course, stretch and sew. furniture upholstery, up-holstery, wood working or leather craft, etc. It is possible for the whole family to participate in this proeram. Father and sons, and mothers and daughters could take courses together, for a family togetherness or to complete com-plete a project for the home. Nursery type classes could be arranged for youngsters whose parents wished to tako a class at the same time. Courses for high school and college credit also are available. avail-able. The possibilities are unlimited un-limited if sufficient interest is shown. """e are to the point where only you the citizens of the community cp.n help. We need the following information What courses or classes would you like to have offered? What day and time would be most convenient? You may call the following to give your answers or receive more information. Enoch Swain 387-2638, Gladys Whittaker 387-2256, Beth Edwards 387-2230, Pat Lister 387-2786 or Mitch White 387-2390. One of the council will be glad to speak at a club or organization meeting |
