If you have been following the Folksville USA efforts over the past seven years you will see that many businesses in Yavapai County have been very supportive of the non-KSB litter groups between Sedona, Cottonwood and Camp Verde.

I have many KSB litter lifter friends and have tried to get all of the groups to work together ….. the sad truth is that the KSB’s leadership has never shown any interest in working together even though the KSB Litter Lifters I know think it’s a good idea (strength in numbers).

I also find it odd that the Mayor of Sedona hasn’t partnered with the Mayors of Camp Verde, Dewey-Humboldt, Prescott, Prescott Valley and Chino Valley in their combined efforts to recognize the ADOT Adopt-A-Highway groups in their respective communities once per year (Rob Adams and his council did once).

The mayors of Jerome, Clarkdale and Cottonwood are also missing from the list of those not involved in recognizing the individual ADOT Adopt-A-Highway groups.

The mayors that have partnered have gone beyond recognizing the groups and some are actually helping these groups clean their highways and the Camp Verde Mayor Council actually adopted a one mile section of Highway 260.

If you (or anyone else) would like to offer something to one of the individual ADOT Adopt-A-Highway groups between Sedona, Cottonwood or Camp Verde, please contact me for that contact information.

I would suggest that you search the SedonaEyE.com, Camp Verde Bugle and the Verde Independent for the many stories about our Folksville USA efforts and even go so far as to contact all of these organizations with a story about your opinion on these efforts.

Many hands make for results and less work.

Gary Chamberlain – FVUSA Anti-Litter Freelance Writer
“America the Beautiful & BagReadyJobs”
Empowering our nation’s youth
Resident Cherokee County, NC
FolksvilleUSA@gmail.com
(928) 202-1186

Thank you for mentioning the Litter Lifters.

Because of the polarizing politics on this site we tend to forget that there is a lot of “good” that goes on around this town. Keep this in mind, the one thing that we see, sometimes before the red rocks is the clean roads from either of the 3 entrances to our city. We should all recognize that those roads don’t clean them selves. They are cleaned by the many dedicated men and women who are members of KSB. I don’t know if KSB dose this or not but I would donate money to have a party to celebrate these fine folks. They are truly the “front line” in keeping our Sedona Beautiful.

Over the years I have been contacted by hard working KSB Litter Lifters that have become disenchanted with the politics of KSB and the lack of frequent anti-litter education and community messages.

Though they continue their efforts to pick up the trash left on our highways by many groups (residents, tourists, contractors, ADOT contractors and ADOT), they continue to provide the volunteer services that partially improve the image and economy of the region.

Thank you KSB Litter Lifters!

Gary Chamberlain – FVUSA Freelance Writer
“America the Beautiful & BagReadyJobs”
Empowering our nation’s youth
Resident Cherokee County, NC

KSB’s Sedona-Verde Valley Red Rock National Monument designation proposal to the Sedona City Council was voted down tonight, 6-1. The only “nay” vote was Councilor Angela LeFevre.

JRN

KSB, the Sierra Club, and the Democrats of the Red Rocks still insist, in the face of mountains of evidence to the contrary, that the SVRRNM is a good idea, because they believe that federal land and resource stewardship of our lands portends better care and stewardship than state management. Have you ever noticed how many runaway forest fires in the western U.S. occur on federally managed land as opposed to state managed land and parks?

TO GET THEIR SVVRRNM DESIGNATION PROPOSAL PASSED, KSB IS TRYING TO RIDE THE COAT TAILS OF THE GRAND CANYON WATERSHED NATIONAL MONUMENT DESIGNATION PROPOSAL BECAUSE THEY KNOW HOW BADLY THE FEDS WANT THAT LAND UNDER THEIR CONTROL! (see below…keep reading). But environmental protection is NOT the Fed’s main goal for wanting NM designation for the GCWNM watershed area. The games never end, so consider this:

The U.S. holds top place for global nuclear energy, producing about 30% of the world’s total, according to the World Nuclear Association. Last year, 100 reactors generated over 19% of the country’s electricity. The U.S. now has 99 reactors in operation and another five under construction.

Kazakhstan is now the United States’ top supplier of uranium for the country’s nuclear power plants, after overtaking Australia last year, figures published by the Energy Information Administration (EIA) reveal.

According to the EIA, 23% of the uranium acquired by the U.S. — 12 million pounds— was of Kazakh origin, while 20% came from Australia and 18% from Canada.

Not coincidentally, the proposed 1.7 million acre Grand Canyon Watershed National Monument contains the largest uranium deposit in the U.S. Yet, the Sierra Club still can’t admit that the Colorado River is already contaminated by uranium tailings washing into the river from its shores while federal land resource management let it happen. The DOE claims it won’t have the money to pay for a clean up until 2030.

So much for federal land and resource stewardship! How astute does one have to be to figure out what the real motivation of the Department of the Interior is? The want that uranium under Fed control for EMERGENCY MINING purposes, not state control. Kazakhstan borders Russia and is under the Russian sphere of influence.

JRN

Let’s not forget that our AZ Representative Ann Kirkpatrick is “not moving forward” with this boondoggle National Monument. O’Halleran better get a clue or he’s about to commit political suicide.

Stick a fork in it. This is done. Well done.

Great letter @PeggyPavlich. More people ought to be thinkers and less backslappers of budd