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Post Icon Posted: Jan. 08 2006,4:41 pm Post # 1 see this member send this member a private message  quote this post in reply
Gregg Staples, a local resident, is spearheading a protest rally scheduled for around noon today in Bridgewater Channel to send a message to Mayor Harvey Jackson that local boaters do not want the narrow portions of the Channel closed to mooring and beaching.

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Boaters to stage mooring rally


By Brian DiTullio
Saturday, January 7, 2006 8:45 PM MST



Another issue, another rally.

Gregg Staples, a local resident, is spearheading a protest rally scheduled for around noon today in Bridgewater Channel to send a message to Mayor Harvey Jackson that local boaters do not want the narrow portions of the Channel closed to mooring and beaching.

“We're getting a good response from everybody,” said Staples. “There's definitely going to be more than one boat down there.”

Staples said his original idea was to just stage a “one-man protest” similar to what Brian Springberg did last month in front of City Hall. However, due to the response he has gotten since announcing it through an e-mail on Thursday, he said he expects there could be a lot of boats in the Channel on Sunday.


“I'll be getting there around 10:30 a.m. and I'll be moored on the Agave Inn side near the restrooms,” he said. “We'll have a sign. We want to get down there and get some good visibility.”

The idea to eliminate mooring and beaching in most of the manmade waterway first was proposed at the Jan. 3 work session after the Lake Havasu City Police Department gave a presentation about the challenges they face enforcing the law during the height of the summer boating season and holiday weekends in particular.

The LHCPD officials stated they only were seeking the elimination of alcohol consumption in the area due to arrest statistics that show most of the crime is alcohol-related.

Business owners in the Channel area expressed anger and frustration upon hearing about the possibility of moorings being eliminated and vowed to fight it.

An attempt to limit mooring and beaching in the Channel in May 2004 met stiff resistance, and some of the restrictions were lifted at City Council's direction.

Jackson, who contends that eliminating the rowdy atmosphere would attract more families to the area, said there still is plenty of public debate to be had on the subject, but that he felt there already was a consensus by a majority of City Council on the issue, based on what he heard at the Jan. 3 work session.

“The question is,” said Jackson on Thursday, “should that area be for us and our community, or should we turn it over to the out-of-towners? I can't use the lake anymore and I sold my boat last fall because of the congestion.”

Staples said Jackson's efforts in the Channel would have the opposite effect by denying families the use of the beaches from their boats.

Currently, it is up to the city manager to control the amount of mooring and beaching in the Channel.

Jackson has directed City Attorney Matt Podracky to draw up several ordinances on the issue for presentation at a future meeting to give more direction on the issue.

Was Any Body else Their today?  :confused &  :angry

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This my not be PC but "out of towners" was what the whole idea was about, they didn't move a bridge across an ocean for the locals, And if the busy life of a politican keeps him from going out on other days I applaude him, I doubt thats the case. :bebe  :angry  :angry  :fight

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Make the channel No Alcohol like Rotary, and you'll fix many of the problems...
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Quote (stingray @ Jan. 08 2006,10:29 pm)
This my not be PC but "out of towners" was what the whole idea was about, they didn't move a bridge across an ocean for the locals, And if the busy life of a politican keeps him from going out on other days I applaude him, I doubt thats the case. :bebe  :angry  :angry  :fight

I don't know if you are aware of this or not, but Harvey was just elected mayor during a recall election this last fall.  He's been full of fantastic ideas ever since.  

Gotta love recall elections...  :rolleyes

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Todays headlines at Havasu:


http://www.havasunews.com/articles/2006/01/09/news/news02.txt

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Boaters crowd Channel to protest possible mooring ban

Making their views known with hand-lettered signs attached to their vessels, dozens of local boaters, residents and business owners sent a message to City Hall on Sunday - don't mess with Bridgewater Channel.

“Keep our channel, dump Harvey” and “Time for another recall” were just two of the sentiments expressed by protesters angered at Mayor Harvey Jackson's proposed elimination of mooring and beaching in the narrower portions of the Channel.
Todd Taylor, owner of Jokers Wild, an events promotion company, said without the Channel, the water events he organizes, along with thousands of dollars in revenue, would leave the city.

“We have 22 to 26 regattas here during the year, each of which are based around the Channel,” he said. “On the average, $1,500 is spent per boat, per weekend around town just on the basics when an event takes place. And that's just one of the boats in one of the dozens of regattas throughout the year.”
Lake Havasu City is known for more than just being a big party town, said Gilkey. “People going boating are coming into town and spending money, everything drives the economy. Seventy-five percent of the people that come to the Channel are families or people with older children,” he said.

“If the Channel is gone, so are hundreds of residents and businesses around the city.”

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I hope that mayor got and gets tarred and feathered for the lame brain ideas he has instilled, along with his other counsel cronies.
I gather so far he hasn't followed the will of the people like his campaign promised.........gee, who woulda thunk? :rolleyes
I say he has developers in his back pockets....mark my words :ass
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I know one of my local resident friend who was planning on attending the moor in.....

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"Moor-In" Successful; Mayor Responds
by Roger Galloway, TSN

LAKE HAVASU CITY, AZ - The “Moor-In” protest at the English Channel yesterday was a huge success for organizer Gregg Staples and many others who object to Mayor Harvey Jackson’s proposal to create a limited mooring ban in the channel. Staples says, “easily 110 to 115 boats participated” and he was both elated and surprised at the huge turnout.
Hundreds and hundreds of boaters and other locals who walked over to the south side of the channel lent their voices to the event. One boater displayed a large sign stating “We live here and we Vote." He also claimed he voted for Jackson, but “it was a big mistake.”

Staples told TSN: “The point is the locals just cannot tolerate this sort of thing and we’re not going to tolerate it. We are a very powerful voting block. It’s not a single issue thing. There are a whole lot of things going on. The whole thing is centered around Brian Springberg’s ‘enough’ (a prominent local businessman). This is just another enough.” Staples added that the mayor and certain members of the city council are “out of touch with the folks in town.”

Meanwhile, Mayor Jackson and Councilman Bruce Hinman were at the Lake Havasu swap meet in a special booth set up to talk to citizens about their problems.

The mayor defended his anti-mooring proposal saying he represents “50,000 people in this town and they have the rights to that channel.” He also told TSN that no one group is going to tell him “they have any more rights to the channel than any other citizen.”

He wants boats to be prohibited on the “narrow parts of the channel, and says it was prohibited anyway before 1998. He said there should be a sign saying no mooring or no parking in those narrow parts and there may be a, “legal distinction on mooring, but he, 'could care less about it.'” He wants everyone in the community to come to the channel and bring their entire family and be welcomed.

Jackson again wanted to clarify he only wants “narrow” parts of the channel to have “no mooring.” He added that he sees no change in the “fatter” or broader parts of the channel and would leave that as is.

Councilman Hinman says he’s listening to various proposals from the citizens, and one that intrigues him is the idea of one-way north boat traffic only during big weekends. He was at the swap meet to hear ideas from the public.

Hinman says he is bothered by an increased party atmosphere and wants to look at the impact of preventing all alcohol in the channel. He also believes the city attorney and the council will have a resolution on the matter next month or in early March. Hinman said he’ll look carefully at the changes offered.

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"Moor-In" organizer Gregg Staples talks to inquisitive supporters Mary Jo Mozingo and Sarah Stover® about Lake Havasu City Mayor Harvey Jackson's proposal against mooring in sections of the English Channel as Richard Kulp(l) and Randall Fragner listen in.


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Post Icon Posted: Jan. 10 2006,2:56 pm Post # 8 see this member send this member a private message  quote this post in reply
I love it.............large turn out of local boaters to voice their opinions.......
If mooring was not allowed before I wonder why the city built those nice walls with mooring hooks along that stretch? :stupid
Harvey's head is still stuck in the mudhole, Hinneman seems to be listening.

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Quote (Ziggy @ Jan. 10 2006,2:56 pm)
If mooring was not allowed before I wonder why the city built those nice walls with mooring hooks along that stretch? :stupid

Maybe its like a redneck thing.  :stupid  :rotflmao
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What a load of hot air :fight  :beat

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