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Heather Rankin is a Realtor specializing in the Lake Powell areas of Page, AZ, 86040 and Greenehaven, AZ as well as Big Water, UT, 84741 including new home sales at Indigo Ridge and Toroweap Townhomes in Page.

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.

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.

Listing Offered at $225,000

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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

More Information

John Carter of Mars – Night Vision

John Carter of Mars – Filming at Lake Powell

Movies and The Lake Powell Connection

Lake Powell Job Fair

There will be plenty of local employers present so bring your resume’ and be prepared to fill out applications!

Heather Rankin is a Realtor specializing in the Lake Powell areas of Page, AZ, 86040 and Greenehaven, AZ as well as Big Water, UT, 84741 including new home sales at Indigo Ridge and Toroweap Townhomes in Page.

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.

More Reading on Women’s Suffrage in Utah

Utah History To Go

Women of the West Museum

Wikipedia

“A Tale of Two Killers: New Evidence for Dinosaur Biogeography and Evolution from Grand Staircase-Escalante NM”

Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Carl Hayden Visitor Center @ Glen Canyon Dam
Glen Canyon National Recreation Area
Hwy 89, Page, Arizona
7:00 pm MST – Doors open at 6:40

Two new predatory dinosaur species were named from Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in 2011, the giant Teratophoneus curriei and the diminuitive Talso sampsoni. These two new animals have no direct ties to any species known from north of Utah, and are instead related to forms found in New Mexico. Come find out how this single fact reshapes our view of North America as it was 75 million years ago!

Dr. Alan Titus is the paleontologist at Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. He studied at University of Nevada, Las Vegas (BS), University of Arkansas (MSc), and Washington State University (PhD), and has held several teaching positions at colleges and universities in the West. Born in Toledo, Ohio, and raised in Las Vegas, Alan has been interested in paleontology since childhood. As a young boy, he spent countless hours outside the city of Las Vegas exploring fossils in the ancient rocks. It is said that Dr. Titus can’t walk more than 20 feet in his beloved Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument without making a fossil find – probably exaggerated, but only slightly.

Admission is free. The Glen Canyon Lecture Series is sponsored by Glen Canyon Natural History Association, Powell Museum, and Page Public Library and is provided as a service to the community and the visitors to Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Rainbow Bridge National Monument, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, and Glen Canyon Dam/Lake Powell.

More Dinosaur / Paleo Links

Lake Powell Paleontology – Dinosaurs, Plesiosaurs, and much more in Glen Canyon and The Grand Staircase Monument – Part 1

Glen Canyon Lecture Series: Therizinosaur: Mystery of the Sickle-Claw Dinosaur