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This is all new to me and I am trying to figure out how to “Blog”
Bill Thanks for setting this up, appreciated your comments at the meeting on the 20th, you are right on. Hope this will help get the word out especially from the folks that don’t attend the meetings. Thank Again
In regards to the bylaws, 2001 was the only legally adopted bylaws since 1997. It should be said that they are not perfect by any means but it needs to be said that the 2001 bylaws do allow the people of Walker to have final say, Under the 2005 bylaws which Walker has operated on since Nov 2005, even though they were never approved by the membership as required by the 2001, they were held not to be legal, the same for the 2009 bylaws as they were based upon the ’05 bylaws. Thank You Dan
Thanks Bill for getting this set up. Are you passing the link on to Walkerites, so everyone can utilize your blog?
I have notified everyone I have addresses for. (Which is a pretty small number) Any and all are invited to participate amd I hope they do. All I ask is for civility. Differing opinions are what I need to see since I need to catch up on the issues.
A blog is a wonderful idea. Thank you for taking the time to set this up. We have been cleaning up pine needles around our cabin and seem to remember seeing an ad in a Walker paper or possibly Potato Patch paper with the name and address of a person that needed pine needles for his business and would pick up bagged pine needles from your home. Does anyone have information on this, perhaps a name and phone number? Or does anyone have any suggestions on how to dispose of them? Thanks!
Susan, There is a contact on the Walker Fire Website, bulletin board, for: The Reilleys, 5120 E. Mohawk, 928-771-8249, reillyshine@msn.com. These are the residents who are offering to pick up bagged pine needles to use in an organic mulch pit they have. Hope this helps!!
Susan, the family that wanted pine needles is the Reilly’s in Chino Valley, last # 771-8249, or email reillyshine@msn.com, be a while since I heard from them, hopefully still a good number.
I burn my pine needles, rotten wood, etc. in this:
http://terrymorgan.net/images/incinerator.jpg
It’s 2x larger now. You don’t need a burn permit since it’s an
enclosed building. I cleared about 200 feet of burnables around it,
and only burn when it’s raining or snowing, and have a hose going on
the blocks because they’ll crack when they get hot. I also have
5000 gal. of water stored.
Yavapai Block has ‘reject’ blocks for 67 cents last I checked.
The roof is old steel corrugated. I also monitor it, the needles can stay hot for
a couple of days. This solution works for me, Billy Reilly can only
take so many needles, and going to the dump is too expensive.
Oh, you can take your slash to a free county dump site, I think the nearest one is 50 miles away.
You also have to phone The Forest Service, they open at 8 a.m. 777-5700 and give them your
GPS location, on North Star Mine it’s
34/27/374
-112/23/525
I think Google Maps has it. They’ll tell the fire towers not to send a plane over.
Also phone 77-2424 walker fire and tell them.
Terry Morgan has a web site with some pretty interesting maps.
Try
http://terrymorgan.net/walker.htm
My email to the board this morning. Bill L asked me to post it here.
Roger, I am sorry to hear of your decision, however I understand. The turmoil that WFPA has gone thru in the last couple of years is mind boggling.
Mark Herrin has sent the following email about a Mountain Lion attack.
Attention neighbors off Big Bug Mesa Road:
Last night, while attending to his water supply, a neighbor off of Big Bug Mesa Road, between Randys Lane and Snow Drift, was attacked by a mountain lion. He is alright, but did sustain some rather extensive injuries. Most of the injuries are related to the escape he had to perform in order to distance himself from the lion. I checked the tracks in his driveway, and I would say it is a mature lion that may have taken up residence nearby. He has agreed to notify AZ Game and Fish Department. As the season for hunting lions is not open at present, the only way to try to capture it would be to get their permission, and quite possibly, their assist.
This email is not meant to alarm anybody, but rather, to make as many neighbors as possible aware of the current situation. Please use caution when walking the roads, especially with pets, as the chances are probably somewhat elevated as to this lions return. The odds of an encounter during the daylight hours should be extremely slim, but you should be aware anyway.
If approached by a mountain lion, the majority of reports I’ve read, state to raise your arms and make as much movement and sounds as possible. (Yelling directly at the lion) In most cases, the lion will turn and run. Under no circumstances should you turn your back to the lion and run away. In this instance, you put yourself in the position of becoming the “prey”.
If there are any updates, we will try to let everybody know.
Please be aware. Small children and pets are really vulnerable.
Bill Loughrige
Regarding pine needles/slash, if you can find an old
mine shaft or some other hole (not easy to find), dump them in there, but
shovel some dirt (not easy to find, either) on top so they won’t be flammable.
I also have some water tanks and a gas-powered pump (not running at the moment) so all fires would have to
be downhill of the water tanks to make them useful.
Congratulations to the new/returning board members, it’s a step in the right direction, but I think the firefighters should be paid, even $8 an hour, and have ‘firefighter’s union’ level of legal rights. At the moment there’s no upside to getting involved.