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Show 4 - GREENING TIMES - APRIL 1994 by many of you in the past years Fire Department Notes obsolete to a large degree. As a matter Join your Fire Depart- of fact, we will all start over with the new truck. ment. The house you We invite any or all of you to join save may be your own. us. The hours are good, routinely about A fire department such as ours has two essential components. One is equipment capable of applying an overwhelming amount of an extinguishing agent to a fire in an initial attack. The second is a group of citizens who can effectively use that equipment. We are actively addressing the question of adequate equipment. Our existing equipment is several times more effective in structural fire situations than it was a couple of years ago, and in a very short time we will have enough pumping capacity to meet our needs for years. We will still have a need for a means of getting a large quantity of water to a fire scene. A good tank truck and cisterns can meet that need in the not too distant future. Forming a group of citizens who can effectively use our equipment is a problem that must be addressed by each of you. In the past we always could count on the Academy to provide a solid core of support. Unfortunately for us, extensive personnel changes there have left only one young man working with us from that source. Changes in four hours a month. We will need to schedule some longer practice sessions during the summer, but these can be fun, too. The pay is terrible. It will cost you gas to get to the training site. The didn’t advertise a pastel portrait to the winner, and yet Mara gets one. If I’d've rewards are great. Elation is the only known that, I'd’ve written entries into word that describes the feeling you get next month! The contest was only when a person’s property or life is worth it if there was a great prize, and a photo with a mule hardly classifies as that! Anon. successfully defended, especially if it’s your own. The training sessions are a lot more meaningful when you know the equipment you will be using is powerful enough to handle any fire emergency we will have, if we get there quickly, and effectively make the attack. ——Floyd Stoughton, Fire Chief Hats Off. . . - Congratulations to Mara Ginnane and Hillary Rees for their winning performances in the recent Dance America Contest. Mara's team, the Shining Stars, won first place in their our existing equipment and the immi- division. Hillary’s team, the Mini Stars, nent addition of our Class A pumper make the “hands on” training received won second place in theirs. Both teams will be going to Las Vegas for a repeat performance. Break a leg! - Thanks to Sally Rains, Cris Coffey, and Wilma Welch for organizing the Easter festivities on the town lot, and to the many others who baked Canyonlands Llamas ANN BENGE cakes, brought horseshoes, set up events, and donated time and money. You generated over $52 in donations for our fire fighters! A big hats off to Ed Dederian, who transported the Porta Potty—both ways. - Thanks to Barbara Zinn for getting our easement back and saving us lots of money (See Page 1 details). - Congratulations to Merrill Brady for submitting a plan (which was accepted by the POA) to solve driveway concerns. Innovative and reason- able problem—solving works! We want to acknowledge the many CVSR 1911 Moab, Utah 84532 (801) 259-5739 Festus Dear Festus: A pox on your mule contest! You fine contributions made to life in this valley. If you know someone who deserves a “hats off,” please contact Cris at 2245. Our deadline is the 10th of the month. Dear Anon, You’re right, it wasn’t advertised. The pastel, an afterthought, is being given to Mara for being willing to put her soul into projects that she is not likely to get a lot out of in retum. That is a quality I admire very much. One of the things that saddens me is that we’ve become a culture of prizes. bribes, gold stars, rewards, and incentive plans, which have the result of getting people to work for the pay—off and not for the intrinsic value in the work itself. The work then tends to become shoddy, and certain things never get done at all, because there’s no reward at the end of them. I once knew a woman who used to be somewhat of a big mucky-muck. She earned a lot of bucks, gave presentations for large groups of people, and became well-known in her profession. then one day she decided she had earned enough money and reputation. She left that work and began to do everything on a volunteer basis. People offered to pay her, and she refused. everyone thought she was nuts, and she probably was, but she was happy. It was the doing alone that mattered. Once I was in New England, tromping about in an old cemetery where the fence had fallen, and I saw this, the best epitaph I’ve ever read: He was ,sgcrggly charitable. And that was a couple hundred years ago, before tax deductions! You know, only three people contributed to the Mule Contest. Maybe the prize wasn’t enough. But then, maybe the next time you crack your hoof trying to open up one of those slimy oysters, you’ll unexpectedly find a pearl. With fondest hopes, Festus |