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Show Park Record Thursday, October 13, 1988 Page All Amidl Sod Hit (Bases ooo as BY TOM CLYDE Wasatch secession proclamation Like so many revoluntionary movements, this one has humble beginnings. It is based more on petty annoyance than on lofty ideals. A group of neighbors were gathered at Winnie and Nancy's house last summer for a barbecue and a chance to get acquainted with a couple of new families in that neighborhood in Woodland. When the ladies adjourned to the kitchen for punch and brownies, and the men stepped out to the veranda for cigars and brandy, well OK, in this case we had punch and brownies, too, the conversation turned to Change, with a capital "C." One of the new neighbors innocently started it by asking "What do you do with the garbage?" That's a fair question in a new neighborhood. I explained ex-plained to him that I put my garbage out on the shoulder of the road on Tuesday mornings, and Summit County drives by and picks it up. Actually, Actual-ly, it is not the county but their contractor G & F Disposal. They do an excellent job and don't get the credit they deserve. You have to like any garbage gar-bage collection company that has a green plastic monster on the front of one of its trucks as a hood ornament, and stacks the cans in a kind of roadside road-side sculpture when they are empty. The new neighbor said that he, too, had been putting his garbage out his garbage out on Tuesday Tues-day monrings, but that it sat there until Wednesday Wednes-day morning, unless a bear carted it off in the meantime. "Do I have to call somebody to get it started? I never even see the truck drive past." "Where exactly do you live?" I asked. He explained ex-plained that he lived on Bench Creek Road, Woodland's second street. Well, that makes all the difference, he lives on the wrong side of the tracks, or in this case, the wrong side of the river. Even though he lives in the same town as the rest of us, and his kids go to school in Kamas with all the neighbor kids, the sad truth is that he lives in Wasatch County, not Summit. The Summit County garbage truck is not about to drive into Wasatch County to pick up his trash. That's his problem. We're not about to bury any Wasatch County garbage gar-bage in Summit County. Not on your life. "So what do I do with it? I have a couple of weeks' worth stacked in the garage, and it's getting get-ting kind of ripe." Well, that's just the way it is, when you live on the wrong side of the county line. He was upset. It was more than the trash. It dawned on him that he could not vote for the school board in the district where his kids go to school. The snow is plowed by Summit County on-a contract with Wasatch, and there is really nobody who wants to hear about problems. If he calls Wasatch Countyf he is told that Summit plows the snow. If he calls Summit County, he is told that they are doing it for Wasatch, what he sees is what he gets. Getting a fire truck up heres harder than getting a hostage released in Lebanon. That's stupid, observed one neighbor. Let's get the county line changed. Let's secede from Wasatch County. The seeds of rebellion and revolution were sown. The barbecue began to take on the trappings of the picnic scene in "Gone With the Wind." I got all excited and was thinking in terms of the People's Republic of Bench Creek, but my neighbors are mostly pretty conservative. They would settle for being a part of Summit County instead of the ideal Utopian state. Oh well, a little revolution is better than none at all, I suppose. sup-pose. Another neighbor, who looks a little bit like Clark Gable joined the conversation. "You'll never be successful in changing the county boundary. boun-dary. That was set up a 100 years ago. For all you know, Brigham Young himself drew that line, and there is no way to change It. There's a simplier solution." We all looked at the guy who was throwing cold water on our revolution. "The solution is to do what I do," he went on. "When it gets dark on Monday night, I smuggle my garbage across the county line and put it next to somebody else's garbage gar-bage in Summit County. Sure I have to carry a couple of 100 yards, but I get rid of it." I had always wondered why this one elderly couple, cou-ple, just the two of them, produced more trash in a week than any other five families. They live on the boundary, and all trash that gets smuggled across the frontier from the Wasatch County side of the line lands in front of their house. It's an amazing sight, in the dusk of Monday evening, or just before daylight on a Tuesday, all those otherwise responsible citizens smuggling their garbage across the county line under cover of darkness. They look like a bunch of refugees. The smuggling has continued since then, but the revolution was not cancelled. Scarlot O'Moon, one of the neighbors on the Wasatch County side of the divide, insisted that we push on. She held up a moldy carrot in the dwindling daylight and said "Tomorrow is another day," and before long, we were circulating petitions to change the county boundary. It was pi'etty easy to circulate, since there are only 15 houses in the affected area. They are the places with their garbage cans on wheels, so it was easy to spot them. With the petitions filed, the next step is an election. elec-tion. When you step into the voting booth in November and look at your ballot, there will be the choices for president, senator, congress, governor, and so on, and those tax propositions. Then at the bottom of the ballot is the stuff about moving the county line between Wasatch and Summit counties. It needs a "yes" vote in both counties to pass. There hate been some comments that the election elec-tion choices this year really stink, that there are no candidates running who inspire any great confidence con-fidence or enthusiasm. It is likely when you step into the voting booth that there will be a kind of foul aroma to the whole election. Not all of that is ( the presidential race. Some of the stink is the garbage gar-bage that didn't get smuggled across the county" line. It's not a big deal, but there are 15 families who are part of Summit County in everything but jurisdiction who would appreciate a "yes" vote on the county boundary change this November. fit Smmmmitt ttn SuniMinmitt Lake to be normal again Jackson Lake Dam almost finished Construction on the $76 million Jackson Lake Dam project is almost complete, and officials are anticipating filling the reservoir which was lowered four years ago to allow for construction projects. When the dam is finished, the lake level will be brought up from its present elevation of 6,733 feet to 6,790 feet It is predicted it will take only one season for the lake to reach that level, however, if drought conditions pn-sis: it could take two. Over the past four years, over 200 individuals have l;en employed on the project from National Projects and Bureau of Reclamation. . The decrease in lake level has helped provide some interesting in-teresting projects for others as well. On the northern shores of the reservoir, archeologists have had the chance to dig in areas which have been intermittently uui eii by water for seven decades. Their findings have shown that Indian cultures have occupied the region over 12.000 years ago. The dam has been constructed to withstand an earthquake earth-quake of up to 7.6 on the Richter Scale. To help insure that stability, construction workers treated the dam's new foundation with dynamic compaction to a depth of 30 to 40 feet. To accomplish this, a 30-ton weight was dropped repeated from 100 feet. The dam will reach a maximum height of 50 feet above the ground with a total length of 4,500 feet. Wildlife officials are expecting to do what's necessary to restore the cutthroat trout population, lake bed vegetation and improve habitat for waterfowl. Grizzly hopefully free and clear Officials concerned over a troublesome grizzly are finally starting to breath a sigh of relief, as hide nor hair of the creature has been spotted for over a month. The bear No. 139, raised havoc last month when it descended upon the small town of Island Park-located approximately 30 miles outside of Yellowstone Park and West Yellowstone. Concerned over the heavy influx of Labor Day visitors, authorities were anxious to "remove" the beast. Unfortunately, No. 139 did not have a popular reputa tion and was not desired by Yellowstone officials because the bear was believed to be a "garbage bear." Wyoming Game & Fish Department district supervisor super-visor Tom Toman finally came to the bear's rescue, finding fin-ding it a home outside of Jackson in the Thorofare Region of the Teton Wilderness. Toman denounced No. 139's garbage image, saying "Actually, he has always been very shy of people. I didn't know how you would categorize this guy. He wasn't a livestock killer or a campground bear." Toman said said a radio collar attached to the bear was "the only reason" the bear got into trouble, saying the system of tracking the animal "had produced more problems than it did benefits for behavior biologists." Although No. 139 had not caused any trouble, he was watched closely because he was tracked by radio as being be-ing in the vicinity. "Interesting enough, grizzly bears just like peoplehave peo-plehave quirks and things they like and things they dislike," said Toman. "Hopefully, turning him loose without a collar will buy him some more time. 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