Personal Announcements

Personal Announcements

The Coutants have some outstanding websites that are must see for all of us! Here are the links. The saga website is my favorite. Great Job!!!!      Jim Harvey  

http://www.coutant.com/saga/index.html    http://www.coutant.com/thatha/flood/index.html    http://www.coutant.org/green/index.html

                   http://www.coutant.org/snow/2004snow/index.html    http://www.coutant.com/thatha/index.html

7/5/08
• Don't forget this evening at the Community Center a dmission is free to JVIA members (while supplies last), and cheap to everyone else. Get hamburger or hot dogs hot off the grill plus all the good fixin's. Doors open at 5:30, dinner is at 6:00.
• Stay after dinner for a special presentation by the Partnership for Johnson Valley. We are all concerned about the planned expansion of the 29 Palms Marine Base, which among other areas, would cut the heart out of the Open Riding Area. OHV people, campers, rockhounds, desert lovers: you could never go there again. Businesses who serve the visitors and tourists: they would not be coming any more. Johnson Valley residents and property owners: look forward to three battalions of our fighting men, in a minimum of 48 hours of live fire air-ground combat, right in your front yard.
The program will start at about 6:45, and there will be time for some questions afterward.

• The BLM meeting at Lucerne Valley last Monday was well attended. This one was for citizens concerned about the installation of wind turbines in the Fry Mtns. in the Johnson Valley Open Riding Area. The application is from a Florida company, which, by the way, has no wind farms in Florida. The reports are that everyone who had a comment was against it. No surprise there. As representatives from the Alliance for Responsible Energy Policy pointed out:

What we are being asked to accept is far beyond what can be accepted by anyone who wants to keep our public lands PUBLIC, intact, and usable for future generations.

We are asked to give up our public lands for next to nothing, and accept ruined views and property values.

We are asked to subsidize their high profit business with our tax dollars – which could better be used for distributed energy generation.

We are asked to accept more power lines through our rural communities, which will undoubtedly require the use of eminent domain and people being forced out of their homes.

We are asked to pay for the high costs of wind energy generation through higher electricity bills.
 Hope the BLM is listening. The answer is NO.
• On the light side now. After the pinochle game last Tuesday the Card Club headed over to the Western Coffee Pot in Flamingo Heights for their special Tuesday Taco Dinner. Delicious. Great homemade hot salsa!

• Then the Wednesday morning Hobby Club had a special session under the trees on the patio. Cheryl Lee gave us an intro to decorating gourds, bringing a supply of materials to start us off. No two gourds look the same and the variety in the decoration was amazing. Lots of fun!

• July Milestones: Happy Birthday to Jim Hanley, Sharon Helfand, Bobbie Jones, Marilyn Kuder, Linda Ramey, Pat Stokes, Bill Wright and Mike Wright.
Happy Anniversary to Helene & Vic DiAco, 55th; Sherrill & John Edmundson; jamie & Ron Scharns, 8th.

• Got news? Call Betty at 364-2646.

Marion and Harvey Helfand have posted this document with information about strokes. It is in Adobe pdf format.
 Stroke Identification

There is a new organization fighting LADWP's Green Path North and the many applications for solar fields, wind farms, and Marine Base expansion into Johnson Valley.

www.protectourlands.com

Get the latest on the Green Path North proposal by visiting the most frequently updated GPN website!

 www.stopgreenpath.com

A petition opposing the Marine base expansion into Johnson Valley is now available. It's easy to sign.
 Go to http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/SaveJohnsonValley/?e 

Hey  dis is ole Clem  it has been awhile since last talkin to yaall  i hear tell on the radio Z107 today that the district attorney served search warrants las tuesday at bighorn water agency an president phil johnson house an car  de took computers from johnsons house an files and records from the water agency  i wonder if their was any cereal meetins goin on between johnson an other board members  i reckon the search of his computers will take care of that  ther must be some other stuff on their that is a serious matter i think  i jus dont understandwhy de cant do the right thing according to the rules  rules are very important to makin sure that nothin criminal can take place  i also hear the water agency is in real bad money trouble  when dis new board took over de had plenty of money to work with an now in a short time de are in trouble  i hears da campaign promises that the new board members are goin to make the bighorn water agency the shing star of the state  instead de make the agency look like the black hole of space  i hear tell the agency wants to put wells up off a bighorn road to sell our water to other towns  that does not sound like a good deal for johnson valley  in case yall got a well it sounds like to me de want to drain johnson valley water  where is johnson valley water board member berkhard on dis matter  doesnt she care for johnson valley or what happens to johnson valley water  it doesnt look like she gives a twit about johnson valley atall  sorry for bein so long winded but da folks up in johnson valley maybe ought to keep a good eye on those waterboard yokels who look like de might be up to some no good
 
                    see  yaal       clem  kididdlehopper