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During a recent meeting mm the Lovell Town Council, Dave
Reetz asked the council, “How big do you want Lovell to get?”.
It’s a seemingly simple question, but it gets to the heart of
a process currently under way in Lovell: planning for the future
growth of our community.
Lovell Inc. interim director Dave Reetz, long considered to be
the guru pf small town economic development in Wyoming thanks
to his success in Powell, has been asked by the Lovell Inc. board
of directors to help the organization through a transition period
between the seven—year run underthe leadership of Sue Taylor
and whatever future the community envisions for itself in terms of
an organized development effort. '
With that process now well under way, a critical component is
hearing from citizens themselves — business leaders, town lead—
ers-andfolks interested in the future of our community. Reetz has
held several oneon-one sessions, but he, along with Mayor Angel
Montanez, want to engage the public in a discussion about the
future: the future of Lovell, the future of an organized economic
development effort and the future direction growth will take in our
community.
What’s your vision for the future of Lovell? What would you like
to see accomplished? How can we work together to make it hap-
pen?
Those are the kind of questions to be asked at tonight’s public
forum at the North Big Horn Senior Citizens Center. What Reetz
is calling a “Visioning meeting” will begin at 7 p.m., and invitations
have been sent to numerous business and community leaders.
Lovell has remained about the same population for decades,
even as community leaders have planned for growth by updating
infrastructure and community facilities thanks to fonNard-Iooking
leadership. Those in the know say our community could grow to
about 5,000 with the capacity of the current infrastructure. Munic-
ipal and school leaders have planned for that kind of growth.
A cynic would say that economic development is not worth the
tax dollars spent on the effort, but others would say that a profes-
sional economic development presence in recent years has been
a boon to the community. Reetz is certainly a believer. He over-
saw the transformation of Powell from a struggling community to
an economic dynamo. He believes in Lovell and in the potential
of this community that he has watched for many years as a close
and interested neighbor. He has great faith in our community.
Reetz believes planning is the key to economic growth, say-
ing this week, “A good future doesn’tjust happen on its own, in
my experience. It takes energy, good goals, working together and
good will to make it happen."
Dave Reetz knows that economic development is a process,
not an event. He understands how it works, and he believes
Lovell can take the same kind of positive steps Powell did many
years ago. He believes a streamlined version of Lovell Inc. can
work effectively to encourage and direct growth.
But it will take buy—in by citizens, many of whom are skeptical
about the idea of economic development.
Tonight’s meeting is an opportunity for folks to say we need to
seize the future or say economic development is just not worth it
It’s up to us to determine our own future.
Like Dave Reetz, we believe in Lovell. We believe the future of
this community is bright. It’s simply one of the best places to live
in America.
How we get to that future is something we’ll all have to decide.
Here’s hoping for a productive and forward-thinking meeting to-
night at the senior center.
David Peck
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Advertising on community sign should be free for all
Dear Editor,
Signs are a very important
thing in today’s world. There are
signs for almost everything, from
kids lemonade stands to vote for
??? for President. Road signs are
also very important. Imagine driv-
ing on an LA freeway and coming
to a three-tiered overpass junction
of six converging highways and no
signs. You could drive around in
circles all day and end up at the
same exact place.
Lovell’s new electronic bill-
board sign sure looks fine. Howev-
er, I do have some concerns about
its use. As I recall, the town coun-
cil stated that no paid advertising
was allowed on the sign. So I must
assume that the ads for the farm—
er’s market and the upcoming gun
Show are free of charge.
These ads must be consid-
ered as community oriented ads
promoting the Town of Lovell.
However, at these events, prod-
ucts will be sold and money will
change hands, so they should be
considered as business oriented
also. Therefore, to my non-legal-
ly educated mind, I must consider
every business in Lovell that sells
a product in exchange for mon-
ey also to be a community orient-
ed event and should be allowed
to advertise on Lovell’s electron-
ic sign free of charge. Not only do
these community oriented busi-
nesses promote the image of the
Town of Lovell, but they also pro-
vide a very important function in
the form of collecting sales tax-
es, which are vital to the town’s
economy.
As many businesses will want
to take advantage of this free ad-
vertising, I would suggest a lottery
type of drawing with all names
put into a hat and five drawn out
for two weeks of advertising and
then not be eligible until everyone
entered has had their chance.
Not allowing free advertis-
ing for all community orient-
ed businesses may be considered
discrimination.
Jim Szlemko
Byron won’t grow with ‘speed trap’
Letter to the Editor
Dear Editor,
Congratulations and best
wishes go to the Town of Byron
for its superb holiday fireworks
display this summer. It no doubt
is one of the best ever.
A suggestion to improve next
year’s celebration at minimal to-
tal expense would be for the Hon-
orable Mayor Heidi Brightly to
convene a Byron Town Council
meeting at dusk.
Guest Column
The fireworks emitting from
her gavel would far outshine this
year’s celebration. It could be seen
all the way to Montana.
Folks in North Big Horn
County are always concerned with
economic development. That will
be a futile act until that dread-
ful Byron Speed Trap (B.S.T.) is
dismantled.
Check the facts yourself.
There has been no progress in the
entire area since the inception of
the B.S.T. If memory is correct
even Cowley’ s meager increase in
the last census was double that of
Byron.
Eliminate the Byron Speed
Trap and rename Main St. in hon-
or of that great American, Cal S.
Taggart. Only then may there be
meaningful progress.
Bertha W. Binford (Mrs.)
Indianapolis
Superman’s Lois Lane is indestructible
Having grown up (although many
have observed that with me that’s still a
work in progress) watching the original
Superman series, which ran from 1952-
58, I feel compelled to note that the last
male member of the cast died on Tuesday,
Sept. 15. Yes, my friends, Jimmy Olsen
(Jack Larson) has had his final edition.
But the two women who played Lois Lane
are still kicking.
Jimmy was depicted as a bow tie-wear-
ing young man employed as a cub report-
er and photographer for The Daily Planet
BobRodriguez
another planet, who came to Earth with
powers and abilities far beyond those of
mortal men. Superman, who can change
the course of mighty rivers, bend steel
in his bare hands, and who, disguised as
Clark Kent, mild-mannered reporter for
a great metropolitan newspaper, fights a
never—ending battle for truth, justice and
the American way.” Wow! What a guy.
And Kennedy died at 88 in ‘97.
Both actors who served as Lois are
still living. Phyllis Coates was in the first
26 episodes but took another role before
working with Lois Lane and Clark Kent, whom he
idolized as role models. Jimmy was always getting
into trouble, as was Lois, and then the Man of Steel
had to rescue them at the last minute.
However, now that Jack Larson has died after
87 years it behooves me (somehow) to point out that
all the other men in the original series have drifted
off Earth. George Reeves, who was Superman, died
in 1959 at the age of 45. There are rumblings that he
did not commit suicide with a handgun, as general-
ly reported, but that he was using what he thought
was a stage gun with blanks to show off to his wife
and a friend that he was invulnerable. Rumor has it
that the friend and Reeves’ wife were having an af-
fair and rigged the gun with a real bullet.
John Hamilton portrayed editor Perry White
and was fond of shouting, “Great Caesar’s Ghost!”
And he didn’t like Jimmy’s calling him “chief,” so
he’d yell, “Don’t call me chiefl” He often was shown
at his large desk, which was covered with paper-
work and several telephones. Turns out that he had
trouble remembering his lines, so he was placed as
often as possible at the desk where he could easi-
ly read the script. He died in 1958 at age 71. Rob—
ert Shayne, the intrepid police inspector of no small
reputation and who apparently never left his office,
died at age 92 in ‘92.
And Bill Kennedy was the series announcer
and had the thrill of recording those stirring words:
“Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than
a locomotive! Able to leap tall buildings in a sin-
gle bound! Yes, it’s Superman, strange Visitor from
being hired for the rest. She is 88. Noel Neill, who
was in the five remaining seasons, is 94. Tough peo-
ple these Lois Lanes.
As briefly as possible, here are some of the situa-
tions that have come to my awareness in my old age:
If Superman’s parents wrapped him in an indestruc-
tible baby blanket, how was his adoptive mother on
Earth able to (1) cut it into his costume, and (2) how
could there be enough indestructible material for a
large cape, boots and the rest of his uniform includ-
ing those cute red shorts? In many episodes, the he—
ro’s costume at the knees is baggy; how come when
he flies in outer space, where there is no air, his hair
blows? And how could he get his hair cut? He can’t
be damaged!
Just a few more: Why didn’t anyone notice that
there were no lens in his eyeglasses? How come
they couldn’t tell that Clark was Superman just be-
cause he put on his pajama-like attire and removed
the glasses? Why was no one ever in the newspa-
per supply room or the alley that always was avail-
able when Clark dashed in to remove his suit (dou-
ble-breasted of course), and what did he do with his
suit and shoes while he was flying around being the
Man of Steel?
As a child I never noticed discrepancies in the
series. But as an adult (see “growing up” above) with
a critical eye honed by being a newspaperman for
way too many years, the glitches come at me like
the debris from Superman’s exploded home planet,
Krypton. It’s all OK. Superman is a fantasy, right?
Maybe
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