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Show CHANGING TIMES - FEBRUARY 1994 - 9 CV Joins Special taxes. Yes, they do have that power, but proposed tax levies must go before the Service District At its meeting on February 2, the CV Town Council voted to become part of the Grand County Multipurpose Special Service District #1. Participation in this District makes our town eligible to receive Federal Mineral Leasing funds. Petrochemical companies pay the federal government for exploration/extraction rights relating to minerals, oil, and natural gas in Grand County. The MSSD can receive a percentage share of these revenues. The advantage of participating in this program is that Castle Valley may not have to use its limited capital resources or levy taxes to finance certain projects. Mineral Lease funds can be used for studies, developmcm and maintenance in areas such as flood control, drainage, snow removal, and transportation, including constructing, maintaining, repairing, and upgrading roads. This would include our privately owned sideroads as well as countyowned Castle Valley Drive. Mineral Lease revenues available to the District are limited. We would compete with other members in the District for funding of specific and well-documented proposals of our choice. In addition to at-large members chosen from the county, each partici— pating community in the District is entitled to a place on the District’s Administrative Control Board. Our Town Council will make this appoint— ment. A question was raised about special service districts’ power to levy public, and voters must approve levies before they are set in place. It is hoped the availability of mineral lease money will offset the need for additional taxes. ——Donovan Roberts Dear Blue, Remember the old fairy tale about the Red Shoes? A young girl would give anything for a pair of red shoes, but when she got them on, she couldn’t get them off and couldn’t stop dancing until she threw herself in front of a train. (Well that last bit is Anna Karenina, but you get the idea.) The point is, if you go changing yourself to get some guy to notice you, and he does, then you have to keep on dancing to somebody else’s tune, because that’s ASK FESTUS Gotta problem? Does Dear Abby take too long to answer? Well, we’re starting a new column called ASK FESTUS! Send your queries to Box 2802 or to the CV Times (or call 4056) for some good old mule sense in the next issue of the CV Times. (P.S. Festus also specializes in dreams.) Dear Festus, I am a young girl. I have a crush on a boy in the valley, but he rarely notices me. I sigh loudly as I walk by him on the bus every morning. I laugh uproariously at other people's jokes (though I’m really very shy) and have forced myself to tell funny stories about other people so he'll know I exist. I even went to Grand Junction and bought some new baggy boys' jeans and a bigflannel boys’ shirt (though they make me look like a pregnant caribou) because he complimented some other girl on hers. Help! I'm running out of ideas on how to get him to like me. Do you have any? Blue in baggy boys’ bell-bottoms. who he thinks you are. And you live your life away without living your life. Here’s what you do: un—Blue and Be Yourself. Look at the sun: it just sits there and all these crusty things go spinning around it. It doesn’t do a thing but shine. Just be you, and find something to delight in, and you will shine as well. Then trust in time, and see what starts to spin around you. If it ain’t him, he’s asleep! Good Luck, Festus REMINDER: The BEST MULE JOKE OR SONG CONTEST is in swing. Entries will be accepted until Feb. 20th, and published in the March Castle Valley Times. Winners will receive a lovely photo portrait of themselves with the mule (real or puppet) of their choice. Send entries to CVSR 2802. .~ _ v CASTLE CANYON NURSERY STARK fruit trees are coming in March. Call to reserve yours. 259-8274 |
