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	Just Let TV Die
	Looking for a Few Good Helpers
	Missoula Theatre Production, Great Success
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	Just Let TV Die

	*To the Editor:* I can’t believe this TV tax is still rearing it’s ugly head. Why should anyone be forced to pay for public TV? Isn’t that paid for by the advertisers? Please TV, just die. You are an obsolete medium. There are far better uses of the bandwidth. Our household gave up TV in 1982. We have a video/DVD player and monitor; but no TV. Television offends morally, physically and mentally. TV programming was becoming increasingly pro-gay, amoral and violent. The advertisements were promoting products that would make us sick. That was 1982. Has it improved in 2008? I read that the average TV show is geared to an 8th grade education. I’m sure you can come up with educational television shows from time to time, but the majority of the time the “popular” sitcome, soapbox or variety show is what’s playing. A few moments with a newspaper or the internet will tell you the news and weather. And you don’t have to wait! There are other ways to get information and entertainment. If we have to pay we should have a choice. If we want to turn it off we should have the choice and not be forced to pay. I propose that if there is an additional tax imposed, we as property owners should have a choice. Public library or TV. We need more quality books and intelligent media if we want our community to prosper. TV will dumb us down, down, down. More money spent on real usable information, quality entertainment and equipment at the local library will elevate this community. What if there was a tax for the Moapa Valley Progress? If you didn’t pay your “Progress” tax there would be a lien on your property. What about a USA Today tax? That has to be shipped in. Or, how about a Redbox tax? Those Redbox machines cost money! Let’s have a Redbox tax too. The fact is, if TV can’t make it here on its own merits, then it deserves to die. Let’s attend the community center meeting at 7:00 p.m. on April 1 and purge this unfair tax from our community. Leighton Koehler Submitted Mar. 19, 2008 Back



	Looking for a Few Good Helpers

	*To the Editor:* I would like to thank the person who noticed that the trash along Highway 169 coming into the Valley had been picked up last November and let everyone know that the Moapa Valley Rotary Club sponsors the five miles from the I-15 exit to Wells Ave. as you enter Logandale. NDOT asks that we pick up the right of way twice a year but we have been short on help the last couple of times and have not done as thorough a job as we like. When we have enough help, we pick up all that is easily visible from the road. Rotary has limited person power and some members have physical limitations that prevent them from helping maintain the Rotary tradition of cleaning up each year before the fair. I would welcome anyone in the community who would like to help with the next cleanup on Saturday, March 29 at 9:00 a.m. to call me at 397-2604 and volunteer. Ideally if we have 32 volunteers, each team of two would only have to pick up ½ mile and we would be done in an hour or so. We meet at the gravel area across from Wells on Moapa Valley Blvd. We split up into teams, get our assignments and go to work. Rotary provides the vest, bags and water. Volunteers bring their own gloves. We have some fun along with the work and it is always interesting to see what everyone finds as their most unusual or most valuable item. Last time it was a $10 bill and in the past has been everything from a curry comb to stolen mail. Come on out and give it a try. It will make you appreciate the desert more (there will be wild flower and cactus blooms) and also make you want to yell at everyone you see that throws anything out their vehicle window. Alice Crites MV Rotarian Submitted Mar. 19, 2008 Back



	Missoula Theatre Production, Great Success

	*To the Editor:* I may be a bit biased but I think the children of the valley who performed in the Missoula Children’s Theatre production, The Little Mermaid, did a fantastic job. When you think that these youth auditioned on Monday night and performed on Saturday, it is an incredible accomplishment. These occasions are why the Arts Council works to bring these types of things to the valley. A special recognition should go to Ellen Potter who handles the Arts in Education for the Arts Council. She put in well over a hundred hours organizing and supervising. I appreciate the support we get from the Middle School in the use of their facilities for this event. It is great to see everyone working to provide positive experiences for our youth. Thanks to the Progress for their advertising this performance and all our events throughout the year. We’ll keep working to provide quality events for the valley and appreciate everyone’s support. Ned Solomon President, MV Arts Council Submitted Mar. 19, 2008 Back



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