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Show new schools, better roads. Fewer babies mean; better housing for each following generation, better jobs for each generation, better prices for each generation, better products for each generation. More money for each generation and lower taxes for each generation. Fewer babies mean more individual freedoms and rights for each generation. It means fewer, or maybe even, no wars for each generation. It means not building in flood plains, on hillsides and mountain slopes, in already overcrowded cities, suburbs and wilderness. It also means being welcomed into the great galactic stock exchange. Those aliens, always depicted as evil and aggressive in the movies, are just waiting for us to get our loins under control Until then, this planet is quarantined. They can only do research, and then under only very specific conditions. (Roswell is Real!) Aliens are a patient lot, they know time and space. They could squash us anytime they want, but they won't, they are not evil nor aggressive. They don't need to be because we are. Will we change? Yes, in several hundred yean. After several great calamities, when most of the remainder will be able to keep the evilness, the meanness, and our loins contained. And then we will be welcomed into the infinite universe, and see the wonder of it all If s sad that we must wait for 50 of the population to kill themselves and us in the process. Narrow one dimensional minds. Think Universal act Local ARCHES REALTY 1120 S. HIGHWAY P.O.BOX537 MOAB. UT 84532 Frolicking at 6 12 beach. As soon as they're baked, Kelly, where How do you write about a mean little town with out becoming mean yourself ? If s 10:40 at night and Nate Knight decides to call and complain about the "potshots of my last Zephyr article regarding the bad outside lighting and low budget signs at the new Aarchway Inn North of town. (Publisher's note: 1 am delighted to learn that Nate Knight has joined the vast world-wid- e Zephyr readership. Welcome, Nate.) Nate reminds me of our meeting several months ago where we discussed outdoor lighting fixtures and how he "gave me what I wanted" in the directional lights that he had installed on the motel I reminded him that we never talked about directional lighting, I had shown him several slides of good shielded lighting. We discussed why it was less costly to use a lower wattage bulb, by putting all of the light where you want it, on the ground where the customers are. Head beams on the side of the building not only waste money off into space, but it is also trespass. Pollution is trespass; whether it is through lights, glare, chemicals, or unwanted persons walking on your property and stealing something. Sooner or later, Moabites will agree that nobody has the right to light pollute and steal the night sky from the rest of us. A fact that many communities are becoming aware of and correcting sooner than later. In Nate's defense (of his choice in lighting), he could have done a worse job. The biggest light polluters in Moab are none other than our own governments. Moab City, Grand County, the school district, the fire district, the State of Utah , the NPS, UDOT... all use horrible lighting. The one saving grace is the new high school next time you drive by at night, take a look. You can see the school very well, without any glare of wasted light. If all the above governments got together and each changed 5 bad lights a year, you would notice the change every year and in 10 years we would have our night skies back. 191 COIlDUieU' BANKeRIB they'll be back. are all the buyers? Ai iadcpcadcatly owed 6 operated meatier of Coldveli Bilker Rcndcatiil Affiliate, lac. Are you ready for the County wide sales tax? As you read this, Grand County has just concluded the public hearing process necessary to adopt the 14 sales tax options for County governments. The questions is not if, but when will the implementation of the tax occur? Will it happen in a planned manner, incorporated in the 1998 County budget and addressed through the annual county budget process? Or will they impose it tomorrow? Several business owners have asked to have it start January 1, 1998. It's a pain to recalibrate the cash registers. A follow up on last edition's topics. The Water and Sewer District isn't out of the hole yet, but if s still too soon to know what is going on. They are now planning on building a $5 million water storage project because there is no water pressure on the west side of the valley. Growth is good. Growth lowers taxes. Ha. Chris Cannon, our Congressional representative, is trying to secure more Federal help to relocate the Atlas Tailings File. The Fish and Wildlife just came out with the obvious finding that the Pile does pose a significant threat to the environment. As we, the taxpayers, are paying for 56 of the current reclamation it only makes sense to do it right the first time. Thank you Congressman Cannon. 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