Welcome To The New And Improved Jamestown Quick Topic

I left a message for Trice and Craig Ansbaugh re their visitor.

For those who receive Jamestown updates via email, please send me your email addresses again at townclerk@jimtown.org due to another malfunction! I need to reconfigure my town email directory. Thanks in advance.

Another sound test of the new siren at the fire hall is scheduled for Monday, May 4 at 10:00 AM and at 7:00 PM.

Thank you Nancy for the information on the "Bicycle Act". I am outraged and flabergasted that anyone could pass something so UNsafe! This act WILL cost lives as motorists cross into the other lane into oncoming traffic to comply with this absolutely ridiculous law!! I have also e-mailed Ritter, who I already dislike, and also vow to call in all offenses to "impeding the flow of traffic" which I'm sure will be many. Perhaps all mountain towns should get together to pass their own legislation to exempt mountain roads from this law. More people will die, not less due to this law. Political correctness wins over loss of life. Where has common sense gone? Please keep us all informed on who we can write or call or any other action we can take.

P.S. Perhaps some smartass could make a "videogame" sort of thing and play it for Ritter showing what it's like to have to pass 3 bicyclists abreast on a blind corner so he can see for himself how there a re few to no safe places to pass in the canyon and the resulting "traffic backup" it creates. You know, like a camera mounted on someone's dashboard so the video "watcher" FEELS like they are the driver of the car. Any super smart computer geeks out there up to the challenge? Just thought. Clearly, none who voted "yes" GET mountain driving. (Maybe Pelle could use HIS dash mounted camera)?

Here are the Agenda items for Monday, May 4, 2009 at 7PM in the town hall:

Town Auditor
Revision to Subdivision Ordinance to Permit Historic Variance
Discussion of Subdividing 8 and 12 12th St (Martin House) (Stokes)
Vacate portion of 59 Mesa for septic improvements (Kohlhaas)
Lease portion of town property for Ward St. Microwave Internet Tower(Ashton)
Approve drainage for 133 Spruce (Jacobs)
Renew Beer & Wine License for Merc (Joey)
2009 JT Spring Clean Up Day
Discuss Changing Jamestown from Municipality to Home Rule Status (Kent)
July 4th Advance

BAND IN A HAT MUSICIANS:

Just a heads up that all of the participating musicians are responsible for the cleanup of Town Hall after this Saturday's BIAH event. Tom and I plan to stay for about a half hour after the show to accomplish this task since we have other plans on Sunday. We hope you all will join us after the show because the more help we have, the the more fun it is and the quicker the job will be done! If we don't finish (including sweeping & mopping), then a crew will have to be organized for Sunday as there is a Town Board meeting the following day.

Any help by commUNITY and/or other JAM members would also be greatly appreciated!!! THANKS!

HR 875 - Freedom to garden locally and organically - GOOD NEWS!

There was discussion recently in this forum about a bill in congress, apparently sponsored by agri-chemical industry, that could impact the People's ability to have local, organic gardens.

The attached article from "The Pen" will be of interest. --Harry Hempy

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-- The Real Issues Of Food Safety --

We are well aware that various corporate nitpickers and astroturf
groups have tried to diminish your impact on the food safety issues,
but this is yet another huge win for the people.

Witness this affirmation from Mike Michaud, in RESPONSE to our
participants speaking out against HR 875, and who had the integrity
to listen.

"it lacks specific details for implementation and safeguards to
ensure that local and organic farmers are not hurt by legislation
meant to regulate agribusiness."

Witness this from Chellie Pingree in WITHDRAWING her sponsorship of
the bill

"Although I am an advocate for food safety, these bills that affect
small and organic farmers could have unintended consequences."

We were absolutely on the button loudly protesting the vagueness of
HR 875, NONE of this would have happened if we had not spoken out,
and we STAND BY the warnings in the alerts.

Indeed, one of the things we raised the alarm about, in calling for a
REAL food safety bill, instead of the corporate friendly shams being
pushed through Congress, was that the county sized cesspools that
pass for factory farms were BREEDING GROUNDS for the pandemics of the
future.

And lo and behold, as the corporate media this week goes apoplectic
over the prospect of a worldwide swine flu epidemic, we are hearing
reports that the epicenter of the breakout is a giant, poorly
regulated Smithfield (American company) hog facility in Mexico. Could
we have been any more right on target? A couple weeks ago certain
people were dismissive of internet so-called "alarmists". Today top
biologists all over the world are sweating bullets.

Moreover, we feel more strongly than ever that Congress must
immediately enact REAL food safety legislation, with the most
critical particulars being 1) strict new regulation of factory farms
and outlawing of their practices of breeding animals in horrifically
claustrophobic conditions, and forcing them to be accountable for
their massive quantities of animal excrement overflow, 2) banning all
GMO (Genetically Mutated Organisms) in agriculture until
affirmatively PROVEN safe, and full disclose of any such content,
including the use of rBGH (bovine growth hormone) in food labeling,
and 3) outlawing terminator seed technology.

We could add a great deal to this list, and in fact we call on our
participants to email us, ESPECIALLY if you are a food safety
activist, if you have a group that is already working on this, and
let's get our specific competing proposals on the table in fully
drafted form in front of Congress, so everyone can clearly see what a
REAL food safety bill is supposed to look like.

It is critical that we STAY on these issues in a proactive way, lest
the same bad statutory language from HR 875 be inserted into some
other bill.

I saw a smallish mountain Tuesday around 9 PM climb from the Swarts/Craigo side yard to directly behind their house.

That's the house just east of firehall

Band In An Hat - it's almost here!!! Setup will be at 4:00 Saturday - helpers would be much appreciated. (See, it's not too late to be part of the fun!) Are you all working on those hats? Or at least thinking about which one to wear...

Edited by author 05-01-2009 08:46 AM
For those of you late-rising lead-footed drivers who like their money in their wallet, fair warning that Johny Law is sitting with his radar gun at the last pullout between the 4WD drive area and Olde Stage :)

Anybody know the hours for the Traveling Vet tomorrow?

For free:
California King Waterbed, headboard-bookshelve w/lights. Like losing an old friend but it's time to join the 21st century. Lookout Serta, here I come...303-444 6979

Traveling vet info: 11am to 3pm in the small park.

laura will be seving a chicke cassarole this eve prior to band in a hat . merc will be open till 10 p.m. m more to follow on cinco de merco next tue