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Crescent Bar owners do contribute
Being a current resident of the Crescent Bar Island, I have read most all of the letters and comments made by your readers/contributors.
I have also been in attendance of several of the PUD “public” meetings. I see the Crescent Bar Island situation with a slightly different twist than most! In defense of the residents of the island, we residents have done a superior and just perhaps a marvelous job of being extremely good stewards to the island property!
We provide security (at our expense), we have 24/7 Fire District No. 3 volunteer staff on duty right here on the island (most with EMT credentials) to ensure local residents and visitors are always well-protected from harm. The grounds are extremely well-manicured and well-maintained (completely at our expense). In addition, we control both ourselves and the public of those pesky mosquitoes! Our crime rate is astronomically near zero here at Crescent Bar! And, yes, we do pay our fair share of personal property taxes to Grant County as well as support the local businesses of both Quincy and Ephrata.
Some of your readers/contributors have made suggestions of “elite west siders” as the ones that have taken advantage of the island situation and would like to see us all removed following 2012. First, unless East Wenatchee is a part of the “west side,” neither I nor my wife are from the west side!
We moved to Crescent Bar in 1993 to be closer to our long-time employment in Quincy. Secondly, the residents of the island have a dramatic variation in personalities and background, however the majority all work so well together in a team effort to solve our problems and resolve our issues independently with minimal or no cost to the taxpayers of Grant County! We have nearly 10,000 visitors (and I certainly do believe that is classified as public) on the three-day holiday weekends and other than a few empty beer cans left in our yards and an occasionally borrowed golf car, we have superior safe control of all those visiting public. We have a 2-and-a-half-acre public park with tennis courts that is very beautifully maintained, but seldom ever used! Providing you’re part of the golfing public, we have a beautifully-maintained, 9-hole golf course and the last time I checked on green fees, you cannot golf anywhere in the world as inexpensively as Crescent Bar and share your golf day with beautiful wildlife (including deer that will eat right from your hand) at the same time! Not to ignore the fact it so seldom snows at Crescent Bar, so golfing is a year-round activity here. Most certainly, our public beach has only a porta potty, however, in years past, a beautiful bathhouse/restroom was built on that public beach that no one used and as a result was converted into a fire station for the volunteer firefighters of Crescent Bar. Make no mistake, not one of the Crescent Bar residents are opposed to improving recreational life for the general public and have most-assuredly shown that desire most recently and have done so at our expense.
We Crescent Bar residents are all most willing to contribute to offering additional recreation opportunities to the public and share the island with everyone. However, considering we are at a remote location, the Crescent Bar Island recreation area needs the existing RV park to be able to sustain the island as a recreation area for all to enjoy. We RV owners each feel very strongly that we can live harmoniously with the general recreation public.
Crescent Bar is not located in any metropolitan area, such as the Wenatchee Hydro Parks. On the contrary, we are remotely located miles from law enforcement and emergency medical services. The public needs to accept the facts: without the Crescent Bar residents supported by our three governing associations, the Grant County taxpayers will be required to pay the bill for 24/7 Grant County Sheriff and firefighters staffed on the island to protect the public’s safety and well-being of Crescent Bar! Taxpayers will be required to fund a full-time maintenance staff to enable the park to be properly maintained. These costs will be substantial to say the least. At present this is completely funded by the residents of Crescent Bar island.
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citizen commented, on July 16, 2009 at 9:14 p.m.:
The Cresent Bar organizers have a website: http://www.crescentbarunited.com/
June meeting notice to lot owners about a meeting at the firehouse: "Please, we urge you to attend and show them (PUD Commissioners and staff) that we are interested and concerned about our investments in the island and community of Quincy."
I would like to know why are they so worried about their investments when they are renters of public land. What investments do they have in Quincy? They don't mention anything about working with the public to redesign the island for more public access.
Speaking of which: there are also drawings of the island development.
It is evident by their website, they are organised and sophisticated, more so than the average PUD ratepayer.
Cresent Bar United organizers have information they aren't forthright, don't share unless prodded or backed into a corner.
Instead of facts and figures, revenues and expenditures, they use emotion and half-truths to sell their arguments ~the sky is falling! retirees are losing their homes!
citizen commented, on July 15, 2009 at 2:50 p.m.:
Writer says deer that will eat out of your hand, ~there has been cougars and coyotes down there too. Don't forget the pesty geese and gophers.
There used to be goats and a lot more orchards down there, too. I remember this in the early 60s.
Explain to us EXACTLY why was the public park bathhouse/restroom closed in the first place?
Being a "owner" of Cresent Bar, I feel so grateful and honored that you guys are willing to share with me.
"we can live harmoniously with the general recreation public" ~behind a gate no less.
How do you know what will be required of the taxpayers? Show me the information.
Get your facts straight it's the Grant PUD ratepayers who are the owners of Cresent Bar not the taxpayers.
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