Plan on being there to learn the latest on FHA, USDA, VA and also meet with the Navajo Partnership for Housing.
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Annual Big Water Town Clean up
SATURDAY, MAY 5
9am-2pm AZ time
Take your trash and metal to the
transfer station and take wood to
the pile near the baseball diamond.
If you do not have a way to get your
trash to the transfer station, please put
it by the street in front of your house
and it will be picked up. Please
separate trash, wood and metal.
The transfer station will be
accepting larger items like
fridges and old junk cars.
Today was a big day for the Big Water Fire Department as it saw 4 of their volunteer fire fighters receive Utah State Fireman Certification!
Congratulations to:
Mike Daniel
Dave Dobbins
Jerod S. Mock
Brian Sherlock
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McBride, Mock, Dobbins, Sherlock, Horning
All of the above passed Firefighter 1, Firefighter 2, Hazardous Materials Awareness, Hazardous Materials Operations.
As well as the above classes Mike Daniel also now qualifies as a Firefighter Instructor.
Mayor McBride, Chief Horning, and Councilor Rankin were all on hand to honor these folks and watch as the Mayor presented them with all their certifications and badges. More members of our department are working their way toward certification so it is exciting to see what the next year will bring.
We are all grateful the time, effort, energy, and dedication these folks have shown!
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Big Water Firemen Honored
This post is also on the Big Water Town Website at www.bigwatertown.org under Fire Department.
This 2002 home is in pristine condition and features a open floor-plan and closet space galore. Located on 1.44 acres of prime Lake Powell area land, this home has a wonderful floor plan, lots of extras and a 1800 square foot garage with workshop.
Listing Offered at $225,000
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Friday night I was fortunate to be invited to the Kanab, Utah, premier of John Carter, the newest Disney offering. WOW. That is one word that kept running through my mind while watching what I hope is only the first of a series of John Carter movies.
It is a true testament to Disney that while I live where it was mostly filmed, and other than one or two scenes on Lake Powell, the story and the characters were not eclipsed in my mind by trying to figure out which rock that was…. or isn’t that the butte right behind my house?? or oh.. wait… i know that canyon!
The scenery was spectacular, and oh so well filmed, but did not take away from the story of John Carter.
Local Scenery by Big Water, UT which we call “The Moon”
Taylor Kitsch does an excellent job portraying John Cater, a displaced civil war vet, who mysteriously ends up on Mars also known as Barsoom. Lynn Collins is a believable Dejah Thoris, and had me rooting for her victory right from the start.
Special effects were the order of the day and as with the scenery did not distract from the story line but rather added to it. John Carters jumping and flying scenes were fun to watch and had me holding on to the arm rest to make sure he was gong to land where he was supposed to. The Ape Arena was one heck of a put together project. Filmed just a few hundred yards behind my house it is simply amazing to see what they did with it in the movie.
The night scenes I did watch rather intently as they were also filmed right behind my house. I took a few shots from my porch one night with the lights going up the canyon. It was an odd experience, in our usually quiet desert, to have this kind of activity going on!
Night Scene Filmed in Big Water, UT
So all in all, a Civil War vet ends up on Mars with 12 foot creatures and a beautiful princess makes for a great movie!
Taylor Kitsch as John Carter
John Carter of Mars – Night Vision
This Saturday, March 3, 2012, is the annual Lake Powell Area Job Fair present in part by Coconino Community College.
Lake Powell Job Fair
There will be plenty of local employers present so bring your resume’ and be prepared to fill out applications!
I am getting sworn in to serve on the Big Water, UT, Town Council this coming Monday evening. Kane County has a history rich in pioneer ancestry, cowboys and the West. It also has a history rich in women’s rights. Kanab, UT, was the first town to elect an all women form of governance with the Mayor and all councilors being women.
First All Women Council in U.S.
This would even be news today, 100 years later, but in 1912 it was stunning. No where had this happened in the country and it was not until 1920 with the passage of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution stating “The right of citizens of the U.S. to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the U.S. or by any state on account of sex.” that Women’s Suffrage had truly come to pass.
Utah has a long standing place in the Woman’s Suffrage movement having granted women the right to vote in 1870 thus enfranchising over 17,000 women, the largest voting female population in the world and only second behind the state of Wyoming.
Emmeline B. Wells became the most powerful voice in the suffrage movement nationwide and stated woman should be “recognized as a responsible being,” with a right to choose her own destiny. In 1887 the federal government passed the Edmunds-Tucker Bill, disfranchising all Utah women. In 1896 women again were granted the ‘right’ to vote after Utah officially became the 45th state.
The Kanab City Council accomplished many things during their term including laying out the cemetery, getting dikes and bridges built to protect Kanab from flood waters, and adopting animal control ordinances. It is an interesting testament that the current Mayor of Kanab, UT, is also a woman ~ Nina Laycook.
