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Show CASTLE VALLEY TIMES GUSTY-TIMES Castle Valley, Utah - Volume I, Number 6 Lucky Kids Have Fun Learning - July 15, 1992 - Blow Hard Reporting Underground Power—Let’s Just Do It Our educational workshops began this past month. Ten C.V. kids from six to eleven are participating. We came up with more than twenty ideas After four months of discussion, the Town Council has passed an ordinance requiring that most new electrical utility lines be placed underground. Existing overhead lines and decided to begin with an art workshop as well as one on history. The art group has just begun. The first are not affected until the end of their service lives, at which time they will, need to be placed underground. A long session we made brightly colored flags. time coming, underground power has Our next project will be sculpture; been recommended by the POA in a 1982 master plan with UP&L, the Town Master Plan, our Planning paper mache, then wood. With harnmer, nail, and paint we will create a parade of relief sculptures, which we hope to mount on the community lot. simple procedure to install underground power along platted roads. However the developers did nothing to provide even the beginnings of a rational power supply system for their subdivision. We had only the electric lines for the old ranch. Each new lot owner requesting electrical connections from UP&L was given service as though there were no other lots in Castle Valley, and as (We’ll be at the next town meeting). For history we chose to study nearly 20 hours have been spent in meetings with Utah Power discussing famous people from history. Each child was responsible for researching an the Castle Valley electrical system, the pros and cons of underground versus overhead power, and the costs and complexities of gradually changing over. Technical improvements such as better wire insulation make underground power a reasonable alternative though there would be no other future hook-ups. Lines were run helter-skelter Over and around lots instead of using easements along the roads. Some of the lots in the valley are practically surrounded by lines; one lot has six poles around it. We have the old master plan for electric service created by our POA and UP&L in 1982 that was, unfortunately, never implemented. It called for running underground lines along the that is commonly being chosen by new side roads and putting pad-mounted Commission, and many residents. During this four-month period historical biography. We made timelines of our chosen characters as well as of our own lives (and saw how subjective history can be). The four- week workshop culminated in an historical potluck. At our party were Moses, Cleopatra, William Tell, communities. Squanto the Indian boy, Marie A large part of the problem with Antoinette, King Henry VIII, Johny Appleseed, Pancho Villa, and Geronimo. All were in full costume bearing food from their homelands. At transformers in position so that several lots could be served by one transformer Castle Valley‘s current electrical (four lots can be served by the under- situation is the lack of foresight by ground transformer that UP&L ' supplies.) Substantial efficiencies and developers when Castle Valley was first subdivided. It could have been a Power continued—Page 7 the end of the feast, each child gave a biographical presentation. So not only did we learn about one famous person in history but ten! The art workshop will continue at least through the summer. It is looking FOUND: Memories of CV School Days In 1893 local ranchers built the first Castle Valley school. It was a as if the next workshop beginning July 30th will be a theatre arts presentation. small red adobe brick building with plenty of windows and a shingle roof. If YOU are interested in participating (regardless of your age), call 7580 or At the entrance was a small hallway with a place for their coats. Arnold Aldrich was the first of several 5507. It’s FREE and it’s FUN! —Jil Kulander Larsons from Professor Valley rode over on horseback, weather permitting. In 1911, at 5 years old, Earl Martin began school earlier than usual, so as to bring the number of students up to seven, enough that a teacher would be sent to the little schoolhouse. Bert I teachers, the average stay about two years. Most of them boarded at the Pace ranch. The handful of students spent from High School Seniors : 9 am. until 3:30 pm. learning the average cost to run a rural school for a apply NOW . for Castle Valley : basics: reading, writing, and arithmetic. The remainder of their days were spent working the ranch and year was approximately $1200.00. This meant that the annual cost per student was $200.00 at its highest, compared to COLLEGE o caring for the family. Some of the first the $60.00 per student in Moab. At one SCHOLARSHIP. ' time there were 22 children crowding Call John Groo, : students were the Scharf children, Lila Fish, Rube Squier, and Dale Parriot. A 259-7950. 3 I 0 little later the Martin and Pace children, the Wilcoxes (who lived in what is now known as White’s ranch), and the Brown was his f'ust teacher, later Lily Robertson and Neil Spott among others. When enrollment dropped below six a teacher was not sent. The the one-room school. Earl shared a few stories with me about his early years at school here— Found: Memories continued—Page 4 |
