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August is National Peach Month. August is National Harvest Month. August is National Catfish Month. August means the end of summer and the beginning of School. Hard to believe summer is over. Shorter and cooler days and school starts next week.
Skyhoopie Thrift Store donated their profits for 2008/09 to Escalante Elementary School for the walking track. The $1,200 goes with other donations , including the Escalante Lions Club, and hopefully they’re getting close to having enough. Sue Bassett wasn’t at the Skyhoopie Birthday Party, but I understand she thinks they’re close to completion.
Saturday Market is alive and well. According to coordinator Nicole Croft, This past week they had lettuce, radishes, carrots- all colors, peppers- all kinds, green beans, peaches, cabbage, corn, onions,
potatoes, herbs, kale, squash, beets, and tomatoes. We also have beautiful handmade candles, fresh eggs and jewelry. I would love to extend an invitation out to anyone with extra produce or crafts to
come on down. The mornings are cooling off and the company is great! 8-11 AM every Saturday morning through October.
Complaints about building debris in the dumpsters at the last council meeting – A new Utah Law requires dumpsters at job sites when building or remodeling. Evidently that didn’t happen. The City Ordinance allows use of the dumpsters near the Rodeo grounds for household garbage only. Hotels, motels, BNB’s, restaurants, (all commercial entities) are to have their own garbage service. If caught using the domestic garbage facilities the fine is $750.00. Hopefully everyone is working together to do their part.
We salute Red Rock Recycling for their tenacity in getting the cardboard at Griffins into the recycling process. They will bundle it and haul it away each week. Every reduction in volume of garbage taken to Widtsoe gives the dump hole a little longer life. We take out all our little cardboard boxes (like cereal boxes) and flatten them and throw them in our garbage can loose. When they get to Widstoe they’ll decompose outside the garbage bags.
The Council received one letter of interest to serve on the City Council. Lenza Wilson was accepted and will be sworn in 8/18/09.
Ken Ruick, owner of the Circle D, told the Council their “Eatery” should be open Labor Day Weekend.
The Fire Station Project continues to inch forward. After the bids exceeded the available funds a revamp of the project details are under way and then will be sent out to the original bid responders for a rebid. The proposed change in location for the fire station could be an option if the site is deeded to the City, has gone through an Environmental Assessment, The 9 Indian Tribes have released any interest for potential sites and the State Historic Preservation Office has cleared it of potential significant site facts. This is called a FONSI (Finding of No Significant Impact). If these were complete now a new location could be approved by the Federal Funding agencies. Otherwise the project will go forward using the site already cleared. Funds made available to the City must be used by the end of 2009 or be close enough to completion to demonstrate the project will be completed within a period acceptable to funding agencies.
Until next week -