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Show 5-8 PM every day. 2) Send two-person teams with lengths of rope up onto the slickrock to lie in wait for mountain bikers and clothesline them as they pass. 3) Have local ranchers drive their herds back and forth along Main Street, blocking traffic and fertilizing the blacktop. 4) Disguise all residences as trailers and have a civic uglification day where people come to the dump and haul old stoves, washing machines, etc. away to their front yards. 5) Decorate the valley walls with huge, multi-colored, badly copied Robert Crumb "Oh Dave...Where art thou?” DAVE'S drawings, featuring Zippy the Pinhead. The possibilities are endless! Get ugly, Moab! Cloudrock will vanish like virga, and the developers will be seen hightailing it south for Big Water, which already has a leg up on ugliness. One by one, SITLA’s teeth will fall out, and it will end its days whimpering in a back office in Salt Lake. CORNER MARKET is back! Sincerely, Patrick Diehl] Escalante, Utah "Were BONA FIDE!" PS.: For readers who would rather capitalize on the tourist trade than drive it away, but who would like to see some concrete results from the last couple of Zephyr issues, I propose the following: each Eastertide, let’s have a procession of environmentalist penitentes stagger through town, flagellating themselves and chanting "mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa" in unison. Prizes could be awarded to the best whip-wielders, and tickets could be sold to the tourists, with the proceeds going to the Big Piggy Bank for - Stopping the SITLA Monster (BPBSSM, for short). If you get me a comp, Jim, I promise to watch. * It’s always an...experience...to read Mr. Diehl's sincere, compassionate and heartfelt analyses of the problems we face in southern Utah. Diehl and his wife Tori Woodard are two of southern Utah’s - most vocal environmentalists and Patrick is a member of the Executive Committee of the Glen Canyon Group of the Utah Chapter of the Sierra Club...JS PUT ‘THE MIRROR ISSUE’ ON THE WEB SITE Jim, Please put your April-May 2001 article on the web page for all to read ....."Its Time to Look in the Mirror".....so those folks now reading the Feedback Issue can see the origination of this incredible, unfolding forum. You are really creating possibilities for change........set up a feedback web page......let’s see where this can lead.......thanks for your courage....it has 400 East & Mill Creek Dr. 259.6999 and coming soon... been coming..... this necessary self examination, for quite some time......but you are the obvious person to get the stone rolling..... Thanks www.davescornermarket.com Susan Smith Kayenta Az Aas GP Many of the articles from the April/May 2001 issue are already on the web site. In the near future we hope to post all of them...JS O.A.RS. North American River: TAKING ISSUE WITH MR. SLIFER‘S ‘ODE TO ‘MOAB’ Dear Jim, Isuppose this letter might qualify for the Feedback column. I just feel the need to reflect some of my thoughts regarding a recent trip out that way, and I figured the Zephyr is the perfect place to voice those thoughts. Because I work in a tourist town and travel a lot, I get to taste both sides of the tourist trade. Both sides experience the same emotions. Tourists visit new places in order to see and experience things they don’t normally see and experience at home. Unfortunately, frustration often accompanies a trip in the way of getting lost, getting bad service, or getting tired of trying to find amenities similar to those back home. As residents of tourist towns, we experience the same emotions by having to _ serve bad tippers, put up with strangers on our streets and listen to visitors whine about the lack of services ("You don’t even have a Wendy’s here!"). Dennis Slifer’s recent letter to Feedback is just another case in point. I feel more well rounded by being on both sides of the coin. But that doesn’t meanI am 543 N. Main St. Moab, UT 84532 Wilderness Whitewater Rafting 6 4 WD Tours a in Canyonlands & Arches National Parks. 435.259.5865 email: moab@oars.com www.oarsutah.com Continued on next page... BUFFALO JAVA _ Gourmet CONGRESSMAN Coffee House 47 N. Main St. P anguitch, Utah : CANNON ON SOCIALISM & ICE CREAM Chris Cannon recently suggested that the Ben & Jerry People were ‘socialistic.; But B & J was just bought by a huge corporation for $328 million. Since we sell Ben & Jerry's ice cream, we don't know whether to laugh or cry. Or both. And for many reasons. Le Ve, \. — aN |