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Volume 39 lssue 25
New Meadows starts new year in a hole
BY DALE PISK
Ahhh.,,what better way
to start a new year than
climbing down into a hole
in the frozen ground and
wrestling an ice-cold pipe
covered with icy slushy
mud?
While a lot’ of people
were sleeping in 'after a
night of New Year’s Eve
celebrations, the details of
which are likely better left
to the imagination, New
Meadows public works
folks not only didn’t get
the day off, but had the
fun of engaging in the
above—mentioned frozen— neighborhood of 20 to the north side of
Virginia
25 below zero. The next Avenue/Highway 95. The
morning, a little river of people who have a say in
such things decreed that
See WATER, page >
mud wrestling.
On, and around, New
Year's Eve, temperatures in
Meadows valley plunged
to somewhere in the
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Doug Buys and Leonard Wallace doing the cold,
wet, muddy work of repairing a broken water
line in New Meadows
water was flowing down
Wednesday January 6, 2016
Biomass glitch sends students home
BY DALE Prsx
There was a chill in
the' air when students
and teachers arrived at
Council’s Elementary and
High Schools on Monday
morning. Of course that's
not unusual outside the
buildings, but it’s not
normal inside them.
The biomass system had
encountered some wood
chips that were a little
wetter than it liked and
had shut down. The wood‘
chips are burned to heat
water that runs through
pipes to both schools, at
which point heat pumps
take the heat from the
water to heat the rooms.
The plant was soon put
back in working order and
water began to heat, but
it takes time to build up
enough heated water to
heat two schools at the
same time. Consequently,
school was dismissed at
the elementary and all the
heat was focused on the
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high school water lines.
The high school is about
8 years newer than the
elementary, and it holds
heat a little better. Before
long, the high school was
warm and classes didn’t
skip a beat.
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Why jointhe Chamber of Commerce?
BY JIM MAI-[0N
Many think that
C " government
spending brought us out
of the Great Depression.
However, like giving a
man a fish, Government’s
for the future; they throw
money. out, and once
spent, nothing. The only
Way to continue the false
demand they have created
is to continue to spend,
but the end result is a
growing national debt.
Today, vwe seem to
think that government
handouts are a gift to be
treasured, but the reality
is that everything the
government gives, takes
away from our ability
to feed ourselves in the
future: Taxes to pay
for programs. directly
remove our
the bills, it cheapens
the money already in
circulation, making the
money we do have worth
less. And a complex
taxation system of
deductions to protect
wealth is only available if
you have wealth to begin
with. The end result is that
the rich get richer, and
wealth. _
do not create anything When government prints \
additional money to pay
the rest of us pay all the
bills. It is not the rich who
are taking away from the
rest of us, but a taxation
system that redistributes
the wealth unfairly.
The { health of any
economic system
See CHAMBER or COMMERCE, page >
Council water bills
adjusted
BY LEE BUY
The City of Council
has been working on
replacing all their existing
water meters with a new
digital model which can
be read year around,
through rain, snow, or
good weather. Historically
Council has not tried to
read the meters, for the
six winter months and
has just billed for the
minimum water usage
during those six months.
The installation of the new
meters occurred over the
past four months and was
finally completed in time
to read the new meters for
the December 31 billing.
The water usage on this
billing was calculated
from the last meter
readings which occurred
in August of this year.
This will be the last time
that billings will have to
be estimated rather than
using an actual usage for
the billings, and all five
hundred—plus customers
received their billings
last week. But the calls
to City Hall began to
come in Monday morning
about a huge increase in
the Decemberbillings on
some accounts.
Part of the program
to use the new digital
meters ‘ involved
See Warez: BILLS, page >
Chamber lays out ambitious plans
BY LEE BUY
The group of Council
Chamber of Commerce
members who
remembered the first
meeting of 2016 got to
review some ambitious
plans for the Chamber
for this year. Jim Mahon
takes on the presidency
of the Chamber, and.
stressed that he sees
a year 'of progress and
changes for the group.
He presented" five
goals which he will
be working with the
Chamber to‘accompli’sh
in 2016, and the
members spent time
discussing those goals.
Mahon wants the group
to reach out to the
entire community, as
well as to businesses
who have sales and
. getting
services they offer in
Council, even if they
aren't physically located
within the city.
Mahon. stressed that
the Chamber would
work on enrolling
seventy-five members
for this year, and
that would provide a
network for businesses
and individuals to make
a positive change in
the‘city. We now have
a ,‘Facebook presence,
and we have been
attention to
our postings there. The
pending Highway 95
bypass of the downtown
will make the city and
Chamber eligible for up
to $500,000 in economic
development grants
for improvements to
the town which could .
include gateway signage
located at the north and
south ends of the city
to encourage traffic to
stop by for a visit to
local businesses. Mahon
wants to emphasize
our connections to
bikers along the Great
American Bikeway
which travels along
Highway 95, as well as
to support events along
the Weiser River Trail
which runs through
town on the west side.
There are plans for a
private operator to host
a tent camping area,
which would also have a
cooperative bike repair'
station along the Weiser
River Trail. The same
business has proposed
opening a biker's hostel
for overnight stays
and to provide loaner
mountain bikes for
visitors to ride on the
trail. This year is the
fortieth anniversary of
the Great American
Bikeway, and the
organizers are
expecting more than
4,000 riders to- travel
east from Pennsylvania,
with a like number to
start from Eugene,
Oregon, from the west.
Council’s V Chamber
has an opportunity to
welcome those riders
to stop and enjoy our
Western lifestyle for a
day or two.
See PLANS. page >