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Show Page A8 (Efre '5Itmeg-(3lttbgpmbc- Thursday, August 26, 2004 nt Castle Valley Comments More Letters from the People by Ron Drake sugar, a crew of a dozen people or more scoured the vineyard with clippers and buckets to harvest this years crop in preparation for a new batch of juice. A tradition was started this year when the crew of pickers donated their time and transferred their pay to the Town of Castle Valley to go to- ward the annual scholarship fund. As a result, $300 was added to the $2,000 provided annually by an anonymous donor and the money went to Nathan Whitney and Sarah Stock toward their education. Those who donated their time Friends and neighbors converge on Round Mountain Vineyard to help pick the 2004 crop of Chardonnay grapes. were Katy and Bill Stevens and Maggie Wyatt of Moab, Bob and Kathy Bailey of Wind Whistle Catherine Campground, Howells, Mary OBrien, Marylyn and Jerry Bidinger and Ray Radley of Castle Valley and Janette Mikity of Breckenridge, Colorado. Jeff Anderson scoops a bucket full crusher. With the official opening of the tasting room next Friday, August 27 at 11 a.m., Castle Valleys own Round Mountain Vineyards becomes the third operating winery in the county. The wine from the 2003 crop of chardonnay grapes was bottled recently and is now ready for sale according to proprietor Jeff Anderson He said they went through the permit and licensing process with the State of Utah and Town of Castle Val of grapes to go into the stemmer ley last year and are now ready for business. Round Mountain Vineyards currently have two acres of mature chardonnay grape vines that produces a white wine and have young cabernet and shiraz plants planted that will soon produce red wines. Eventually, five acres of grapes will be producing three varieties of fine wines. Last Saturday, August 14, when the 2004 grapes contained just the right amount of Grand County School District To: Parents of School Students within the Grand County School District. The Board of Education of the Grand County School District is committed to providing transportation by bus for students who are enrolled within those schools subject to the oversight of that Board. To accomplish this goal, the School District incurs the considerable expense of procuring, running and maintaining school buses. However the resources of the School District are limited. The School District only receives sufficient funds for the education of students who attend schools administered under the oversight of the Board of Education. If the Board were to extend school bus service to anyone who wanted to attend any school, private or charter, anywhere in the county, its resources would be quickly depleted and its ability to provide education and transportation severely impaired. For these reasons, the Grand County School District provides bus service only to students who attend schools within the Grand County School District itself. We appreciate your willingness to understand the limited nature of resources available to the Grand County School District and to cooperate with the District to accomplish the educational goals that we seek for Grand County School District students. Sincerely, Eric York, President Grand County School District The following day, the 3,000 pounds of grapes was run through a stemmer crusher machine that lightly crushes the grapes and separates the stems. That mixture is then dumped into a press where the free-ru- n juice is pumped into a large tub as pure grape juice. The grapes are also pressed lightly to get some of the remaining juice without crushing the seeds. Anderson explained that some could get too greedy by too much pressing, which will spoil the wine. Some major wineries will take the grapes after pressing and add water, sugar and a little acid and repress to come up with a cheap wine. A test of the PH, temperature and volume will next be determined by Anderson to know exactly how much sodium sulfite to add to the mixture. Sodium Sulfite is a preservative that doesnt let bacteria or wild yeast grow. That mixture then goes into the vats where it remains for a year for the fermentation process to take place. Care of the plants is a d job that requires constant care with pruning, weeding, watering and a lot of tender, loving care and pampering but the work in the vineyard really intensifies between February and August. Netting is placed over the vines around the first of August to keep the birds out of the plants and a high exclusionary fence was installed several years ago to deal with the deer that would totally destroy the crop. As Anderson year-roun- explains it, healthy vines make healthy grapes, which equals a good wine. After the opening of the tasting room Friday, regular hours will be maintained Tuesday through Saturday to purchase a bottle of fine chardonnay grown and bottled right here in Castle Valley. For more information, call ahead at 259-192- Thanks for entertaining discussion Letter: Im laughing out loud at County councilman A1 McLeods attempt to label the Sorrel River Ranch as a sexually-oriente- d business! Lets look at a few of the HARDCORE FACTS. Robbie Levin didnt make a dime off of any sex acts, he made some money renting facilities, something EVERY innkeeper does. If you want to hold him accountable for what the filmmakers did with the facilities, lets hold ALL the motels and resorts in Grand County to the same standard as to what their guests do. And, guess what, I doubt if there is a single facility that provides the service of lodging that hasnt rented rooms that ended up being used for the SPECIFIC PURPOSE of PEOPLE HAVING acSEX! Not some tors faking it for some sleazy cable titillation programming, but the actual ACT of SEX! Horrors! And, if you are foolish enough to argue that that the difference is the production of commercially distributed soft core pornography, lets also label Precis Cable as a sexually oriented business for bringing HBOs garbage programming so-call- into Grand County! Im no fan of the oversellof ing tourism and the rape of the land thats going on here, but Councilman McLeod trying to represent the Sorrel River Thanks to those who helped Letter: A special Thank You to all of you who assisted with my husbands motorcycle accident on Monday August 9, 2004. The passerbys and first responders, EMTs and ambulance personnel, Utah Highway Patrol, Sheriff Deputies, Hospital personnel, Spanish Valley Mortuary, Nations Towing, and most of all to Phil and Susie Stubblefield, and Charlene Dunn, your kindness in our time of sorrow was overwhelming and will never be minimized in our hearts and minds. We were treated so kindly and everyone went out of their way to make sure that no detail was forgotten. Bruce was a special man, and under other circumstances I am sure you would have come to know that of him. It was comforting to me and to our families to know that you took such good care of both of us. It is truly an honor to have met you all, however briefly, and I will be forever in your debt. Your community should feel proud that the outpour . . . . . . ing of sympathy and care was at such a high level. Thank you again and God bless all of you! -- Mrs. Sherrie Johnson Maybell, Colorado Ranch as a sexually oriented business reeks of political grandstanding at the very least. Ya wanna slay some dragons? According to a broadcast of the PBS television series FRONTLINE a few years ago, the biggest distributors of pornography in the United States were GENERAL MOTORS and A.T.&T., through their cable and satellite broadcasting subsidiaries. Why dont you go after them, and quit using their products, if it means so much to you? Or, do you only boycott products when it doesnt personally cause you any inconvenience, eh? Anyway, thanks for a throughly entertaining and laughable discussion for the citizens of Moab! Youve succeeded in giving free press to the Sorrel River Ranch and HBOs series Hotel Erotica, opened a Pandoras Box of sexually oriented business zoning questions, and gen- erally, put more SEX into everybodys minds! WHOOPIE! WAY TO GO! -- Michael J. Weber Moab ihuidsfmsoki; DMWJSfidBRSS Winner-Cann- Fun es Hal I Star 8p.m. Festival? August 26 im SEPTEMBER 2 (THURSDAY) Hanksville Town Building hL A, 45 W. Main Street, Hanksville pReglstratlon (435) NO MORE HOMI PETS ,IN UTAH 542-213- 1 Public Vaccination Clinic 8--9 am Big Fix Pol Idea mds must oe wlween 8 weeks and 6 years of age Cash & checxs accepted ealy' Lim ted space. Intake begins at 8 am Cats must be n labeled earner Discharge time determined at mtahe. 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