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Dear Governor Ducey
Sedona AZ (June 26, 2015) – The following is a letter to the SedonaEye.com editor:
Arizona Governor Doug Ducey
May 11, 2015
Executive Tower
1700 West Washington Street
Phoenix, AZ 85007
Re: “BagReadyJobs & America the Beautiful” empowering our nation’s youth
Arizona Governor Doug Ducey
Dear Governor Doug Ducey,
I’m hoping that you will consider recognizing the anti—litter efforts...
Folksville USA Offers Youth Opportunity to Earn Money
Folksville USA Cash for Trash program photo by Brent Geer Maupin c2012
Sedona AZ (October 5, 2012) – In a Letter to the SedonaEye.com Editor, Gary Chamberlain, Folksville USA, writes of the continuing success of the recently launched Folksville USA Litter-Aid Stand 101 and Trash-4 Cash programs:
Dear Folksvillers,
Folksville USA Litter-Aid Stand 101 and Cash-4-Trash has been developing opportunities for...
Beaver Creek Washes Becoming Trash Pits
Beaver Creek Trash
Beaver Creek trash (mattresses used by homeless)
I was recently invited by Pam Welch of the Verde Valley Roverett’s to survey illegally dumped litter on Beaver Creek, off of Cornville Road.
The photographs attached clearly show another example of why someone may decide or regret moving to our area, or visiting tourists will take their dollars elsewhere.
Residents...
Good Citizens Meet ADOT Poor Management
“Is this another sign of good Folks and poor ADOT fiscal management?”
On Saturday, April 30, 2011, more than highway “waste/trash/crap” was found on our Scenic Highway 89A between Cottonwood and Sedona during an ADOT Adopt-A-Highway (ADOT AAH) litter recovery event. We, as a community, we should thank HALUA HULA NA-PAU-O-KA-LEI-‘lLMA, Sedona Boy Scout Troop #48, Sedona Pines Resort/Cottonwood...
Dear Editor: Response to Tao Fellowship Issue
Les Mickle vs Tao Fellowship? This is in response to Mr. Les Mickle’s editorial in the Cottonwood Verde Independent on April 14, 2011. Mr. Mickle states some concern that the Tao Fellowship and their “Settlement” may damage the National Forest and Wilderness. He may be correct but look around at the other developments, in the same area, that have been built and ask yourself what’s the difference...
Folksville USA Point Man Talks Trash
Sedona AZ (March 31 2011)–Based on Folksville USA efforts for the past two years, plus recent and more frequent articles, I believe Arizona may be waking up to the “Trashing of America” and how the “Broken Window Theory” applies to our highways and communities.
As a veteran and American who has and continues to fight to defend this country, I salute those who take the...
Dear Editor: Hand Grenade Found
As of this weekend, our group recovered 149 bags of someone else’s Trash on our 15 mile section of Scenic Highway 89A between Cottonwood and Sedona. We cleaned the garbage from that area in mid-November 2010. Four months of trash divided into 149 bags — do the trash math!
I had ADOT Supervisor reporting the recovery of a hand grenade on the highway (not on our highway as far...
American Trash Warriors Rally
Cornville AZ (March 9 2011)–Gary Chamberlain is the Vietnam era Point-man for “The American Trash Warriors”. The American Trash Warriors mission is to rally veterans and citizens in the Verde Valley and aggressively go after the trash lining the highways of our country and communities. They plan on honoring our military, veterans and communities through this effort.
Chamberlain has...
ADOT Pain and Pleasure Commentary
The following e-mail was sent to Greg Gentch, the ADOT Highway Engineer and Highway Maintenance Supervisor for the Prescott area and others on Saturday, March 5, 2011.
Dear Mr. Gentch,
Thanks to you and your Prescott ADOT team for your support and openness to our efforts to restore the beauty to America the Beautiful and Arizona. You, Mike Gutzwiller, the Highway Maintenance Supervisor for the Flagstaff...
Dear Editor: Annexation and Taxes
Dear Editor,
There are no guarantees but once you are annexed, there is no turning back.
In response to the Verde Independent 2/27/11 Opinion & Commentary regarding “When it’s time to pay your tax bill, life is good in Cottonwood,” I phoned the County Assessor’s Office (928-771-3220) and would like to share some facts.
First, if you take a specific house in Verde Santa Fe (Cornville)...