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Show MARCH TIMES - MARCH 1993 - 9 News of Our Day . taking us. Where it is taking the people A neighbor called the other morning. He wanted to come over and watch the news. Actually he was At a recent Road Committee meeting, the effort to change the names saying our prayers. ——Donovan Roberts appoint a chairperson for each street to new name, if they want one. This will be an opportunity to pick a name that more suits your location or view. An excellent suggestion from Don Mabey stated: “A wealth of geology is exposed in the Moab, Arches, and over the world who were watching their TV screens, reading their papers, or listening to their radios and tuning in to New Road Names Disasters and scandals, scientific breakthroughs and crimes of passion, diplomatic cold wars and battlefield hot ones, negotiations that fail and others that succeed, the perpetual search for peace—people sit half dazed by the things that create each particular day. Maybe they even try to make some sense of it or, if they’re not up to that, at least try to come to some sort of terms with it, try to figure out how it’s apt to affect them for good or ill. There is also, of course, the news that rarely if ever gets into the media at all. That is the news of each particular day of each particular one of us. That is the news we’re so busy making that we seldom get around to sitting down and was approved. It was decided to contact their neighbors and decide on a interested in weather forecasts for the weekend. For thirty minutes we joined the hundreds of thousands of people all the news. two Holyoak Lanes in the county. It is, if nothing else, a way of we love. I have never liked the name of my street. In fact, I don’t like the names of any streets in Unit I of the River Ranchos. I guess it’s the names of people for street names that bothers me, especially people I don’t even know. All of the streets in Unit I are named after county commissioners, Carlsberg Corporation executives, and other people associated with the development of the Castle Valley River Ranchos back in July of 1972. I always figured that it was a personal problem and didn’t mention it much to other people. When I did relate my dislike about the names to others, I Castle Valley areas, and some of the names given the various geologic formations are rather colorful. The following is a list of names of formations and member units of formations in the area generally progressing from older to younger. Most are exposed in the valley and the enclosing rims: Paradox, Honaker Trail, Hermosa, Elephant Canyon, Cedar Mesa, Organ Rock, White Rim, Cutler, Hoskinnini, Tenderfoot, Ali Baba, Sewemup, Pariott, Moenkopi, Chinle, Moss Back, Black Ledge, Wingate, Kayenta, Navajo, Entrada, Geyser Creek.” Care should be given to not duplicate another name in the county. As we proceed with this effort if it is your desire to have a new street thinking it over. If it takes some extraordinary turn we might, but the realized that many shared my concerns. name, be thinking of some choices for Several months ago, the Town names and be cooperative when your unextraordinary, commonplace events of each day as they come along we tend Council was advised by Road Supervisor Don Tuft that our 20-year-old street chairperson comes around. If you would like to be a part of this historic to let slip by almost unnoticed. That is, to put it mildly, a pity. What we are letting slip by almost unnoticed are the only lives on this signs were in desperate need of repair or replacement. I thought this would be project and be a chairperson for your planet we’re presumably ever going to get. We’re all of us caught up in our own small wars, both hot and cold. We have our crimes and passions, our failures and successes. We make our occasional breakthroughs. God knows we are searching for peace. It’s all apt to happen so quickly the perfect time to initiate an effort to change the names of the eleven streets beginning at Carlsberg Lane, east to Keogh Lane. Rim Rock Lane in Unit 11 will also be considered for change because it duplicates a street in Moab and is causing confusion, according to residents on that street. There are also street, please call me at 259-8588. —Ron Drake M 0.0??? W737 and on so small a scale we hardly realize it’s happening. An unanswered letter. A phone conversation. A tone of voice. A chance meeting at the post box. An unexpected lump in the throat. Laughing till we cry. But these things are what it’s all about. These things are what we are all about. Maybe there’s nothing on earth more important for us to do than sit down every day or so and think it over, try to figure it out if we can, at least try to come to terms with it. The news of our day. Where it is PROPERTY OWNERS H E L P I The Castle Valley POA is in need of people to help repair the fence at the NW end of the valley. Persons will be paid at the rate of $5 per hour upon satisfactory work. This could be a way of paying your annual dues. Please call Hank Freeman at 259-6938 or Joan Sangree at 259-5115 if you are interested. The repair is necessary in orderto keep the cattle from entering the valley and damaging private property during the drive to and from the mountain. Thank you. —Hank Freeman |
