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Show THE ZEPHYR/FEBRUARY-MARCH TWENTY YEARS continued 2009 a useful purpose (as if it ever did). That it has become a liability more than an asset. The decision to drain the lake may well be made for “economic reasons.” And they may be right. But for me, the economics has nothing to do with it. It’s what “was lost, what lies beneath the water... all that beauty. That's what motivates me. It’s time to restore a masterpiece. 1997: THE NEW GRAND STAIRCASE/ESCALANTE NATIONAL MONUMENT From the December 1996/January 1997 issue... 1994: MOAB SWINGS LIKE A PENDULUM DO... From the December 1994 issue... I used to believe in the cyclical nature of things. I’m not sure I feel that way anymore. Change almost seems like an erratic kneejerk reaction to whatever happens to be alienating citizens on any given election day. Look at Grand County... Every two years, for the last five general elections, we have ‘thrown the bastards out.’ There is no ideological curve to it. In fact, this community looks more like a bunch of schizophrenics Astate geologist predicts that coal reserves inside the new national monument “could supply our needs for the next 400 years.” Now think about that a minute. The coal would keep us supplied until the year 2396 AD. Does anyone with half a brain think that this planet is going to still be depending on a coal as a basic energy resource in 400 years? Let's look at that concept in reverse. Imagine someone in the 16th Century proclaiming that he had enough _leaches. for bloodletting until well pase the year 2000. Do. mean? than anything else... And I it really a more governing in office am not sure that matters. While ‘reform-minded’body has been these last two could alter forever the ru- ral quality of that part of sion ordinance will make development a little more the state and ganized. Anything one. governing body chooses to do can be undone by the next. We ive new meaning to the im- who supported it. 1998: THE DEATH OF JOHN DINSMORE From June/July 1998 Our entire community was up in arms over the price of garbage collection last year. Tempers boiled over at packed public WELCOME TO MOAB 1995: I CAN’T REMEMBER A THING meetings. This is the 76th issue of the Zephyr. Since I took of ended with the flash of a. 12 gauge shotgun gener- Volume 1 Number | to the printer on March 14, 1989, this newspaper has experienced a number of changes ated a mild flurry of objections and by Christmas, the matter passed into his- and evolutions...Now it is about to change dramatically. This is the last monthly edition of the Canyon Country Zephyr. Exactly seven years after its first press day, this newspaper will be published bi-monthly and distributed FREE in the Moab area, with additional distribution in Salt Lake City and several southern Utah communities. ...50 that’s it. I’m crossing my fingers that this works. But regardless of what happens in the future, thanks for your kind and generous support. The April/May 1996 issue also included the first in depth report on the global effects of runaway population and consumption, in the United States and around the world 1996: SHOULD WE DRAIN LAKE POWELL? From April/May 1996 ... There were always those who hated the dam. Ken Sleight, Phil Hyde, Eliot Porter, Katie Lee, Kent Frost, Buz Hatch, Al Quist, Ed Abbey. There were others, many others of course, who floated the river before the dam was even a project to be seriously considered (and feared). And more who joined the ranks after construction began, including David Brower, who was devastated. In the thirty four years that have passed since Lake Powell began to rise behind the dam, thousands of people, tens of thousands, who never even saw Glen Canyon have added their voices and their anger to the once lonely chorus of dam haters. ..1t may well be that someday, a decade from now, or five decades from now, that intelligent minds will come together and agree that Glen Canyon Dam no longer serves tory. ... Dinsmore was shot to death by the shotgun because the officer who fired somehow felt that five police officers with handguns against one drunk man with a kitchen knife was not an adequate response. John at least deserved some more time. The officer who fired the fatal shot was awarded for his actions and still serves on the Moab police force. 1999: BIKES CAUSE IMPOTENCE! ..dmagine my excitement when one of my Zephyr readers sent me a recent article from Newsweek magazine. In it, Dr. Irwin Goldstein, an impotency specialist from Boston University, issued a grave warning to men who regularly ride bicycles. When men ride bikes with a standard seat (you know, where you look at it and can’t decide if it’s really a seat or a banana gone bad), his weight flattens his main penile artery. This artery is essential for an erection. And from a man’s perspective what is more important in Life than that? SO LET’S ALL RIDE BICYCLES! With penile arteries being flattened like prairie dogs on Interstate 70, can population stabilization and even decline be far behind? We shouldn’t be fighting the Radical Right over free distribution of contraceptives. Planned Parenthood shouldn’t be wasting its time passing out free condoms; instead why not issue complimentary bicycles to all males over the age of 16? 1999: A WONDERFUL LIFE My friend Herb Ringer died on December 11th, 1998; he died on my birthday. It was Stiles...1 HAVE to stay with you in the online Z...How else can we keep Patiaed 24 HOURS « But the use deadly force by the police against a suicidal man ina confrontation that lasted all of five minutes and 1996: A BIG CHANGE... A BIG GAMBLE From January 1996... SELF SERVE 588 Kane Creek Blvd. “Bring Your Dirty Laundry.” Sore No —— PainRelieving Country Clean Laundromat & Car Wash Soothing & Peastrating Topical Analgesic Gel Behind McDonalds, Next to the Cinema provides effective relief from *— ° Over-Exerted & Sore Muscles “Available all over ‘Moab, ‘sme create pacts and changes never imagined by the people costly and a little more or- OPEN I economy” it might create subdivi- word ‘gridlock.’ what The Zephyr warned. that usual’ in Grand County. 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