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VsUsy, 6 Jackson Hoh Gucte, Wednesday, August 23, S39 Visit DR. CLIFFORD J. DUPEE Announces the opening of his office for the Practice of Chiropractic 1035 W.Broadway (Across from McDonalds) Monday thru Friday 9am -12 and 2 pm 6 pm 733-8085 THE TOWN OF JACKSON is pleased to sponsor a PUBLIC FORUM oh the topic of Two weeks ago, Ordway, who also is a member of the board of directors for the Jackson Hole Land Trust, offered to buy 137 acres of the Hardeman Ranch from the Land Trust to preserve it in perpetuity. Ordway, in turn, will donate 37 acres of the property including the existing buildings to the Land Trust, which plans to lease four acres of it to the Snake River Institute to use as a center for its programs and activities and for public use. Hie remaining 100 acres, Ordway will offer for sale to a conservation buyer, limiting future development of the property to one home site.

Ordway believes he's gotten "more exposure than I deserve" on the Hardeman deal, but Land Trust representatives say his donation is one of the most extraordinary gifts the organization has ever received. "It certainly was a community effort," Ordway said. There was $800,000 raised by community, which I had nothing to do with. I got into the picture because I hadn't contributed anything the Hardeman Meadows Fund, other than buying a hamburger at the carnival." Ordway said his "object is still to sell the 100 acres to another don't particularly want that (land)," he said. "It's going to be put on the conservation restrictions.

And for someone who wants a bigger piece of land, it's a pretty good buy if they'll go with these restrictions and don't have development in mind." Ordway says he plans to continue spending eight months a year in Jackson "forever." Because the winters have "become a bit much," he and his wife bought property in Southern California, including a 50-acre avocado and citrus farm in the San Diego valley, where they spend three months in the winter. In addition, they own a home and vineyards in the Napa Valley, where they spend about four weeks each fall, arid bwn the Q-cre River Bend Ranch' in Bondurant where they spend some weekends. "But this is our home," Ordway says. "I really love it here. I work with my llamas, my Sicilian burros, and then I have quite a lot of things connected with my conservation interests and investments.

I couldn't sell this place." From page 3 ranch for growing hay and boarding horses. Ordway says he was drawn to Jackson Hole for its 'fascinating sense of community besides the fact that he doesn't like the congestion and smog of the cities. Tve always sort of dreamed of having a place like this, he said. "I like the land somehow. I'm not one to put up a million-dollar house, because I'd rather put the money into the He hopes that Jackson Hole, or at least a large part of it, will look the same in 100 years as it does today, and that is part of his reason for dedicating so much time to conservation groups, Ordway said.

I've been called a tree-hugger," he said. on a local and world scale, I think we're continually threatened with becoming another intensely tourist area. Jackson is a tourist area, but it's sort of a special tourist area, and we don't want to become another-Palm Springs or Vail or Aspen. "It's a little different here, because there is so much federal land," he said. "But the three-percent of the private land is very essential to maintaining the quality of life.JThere are a lot of people who want to come to Jackson Hole for more than a condominium in a big development" Toward preserving his own land, Ordway has bought up as much property connected to his ranch as he has been able to, and in the mid-1970s gave a conservation easement on the property to the Nature Conservancy to guarantee it will never be extensively developed.

The conservation easement was a good option for him, but it's "not for everybody. It's not for people who have all their assets in their land," Ordway sajd. "But 1 reaQy don't want ioee thfc developed: "We like to think that 1 00 years from now, the place will be relatively the it gives all of us great satisfaction to know that we have done everything possible to keep Fish Creek Ranch as we have known it in our lifetimewell into the foreseeable future." uOGJ To be held at the Jackson Hole High School little Theatre August 28, 1989 7-9PJV1 Members of the Town Council and Administrative Staff will be in attendance to present an overview of annexation issues and an update of the process. Specific questions which will be addressed include: Is my neighborhood being considered for annexation? Who ultimately decides which areas are to be annexed? On what basis are those dicisions made? What voice do I have in these dicisions? Who will plow my streets? Whose police jurisdiction will I be under and when? Will my taxes go up or down? What about current zoning, subdivision plats, and covenants? Will I be required to connect to Town water and sewer? Will I be required to pay anything to bring my neighborhood to Town standards? Garri ii mi i I i mm I x4 Ken Konicek PinedaleJackson Brian Sawyer BigPiney Don Tcgeler Pinedale "We don't have a problem changing spots if there is a traffic problem or something, but there haven't been any complaints," Haight said. Tve checked with (Police) Chief DickHays and (Town Adininistrator) John Koelsch, and they say they haven't had any complaints." Hays wrote a letter, dated Aug.

16, to Koelsch, stating he did not have a problem with either of the proposed new routes. But he added, "I also have no particular problem with the present route and the pick-up location associated with that Since (Haight) moved back into the prescribed parking zone at Cache and Broadway, we have experienced no parking or traffic problems in that area." After speaking with Young on Monday, Haight went before the Town Council to explain what has happened so far, and to request its assistance in solving the dispute. Because the council has given the chamber the duty of administering the carriage franchise, council members asked Haight to try and resolve the dispute and return to them if that could not be done. Mayor Sam Clark said he wanted the council to review any agreement reached between Haight and the chamber, and Councilman Mike Gierau added, 1 thought that's what we did in the spring." Haight said he would try to work with the chamber, but added, "If this isn't resolved, I'd like to have you take me back and get me away from the chamber." a From page 5 heard that rumor too, but that it was Haight ruled out the site next to Two Grey Hills because it provides a dangerous "blind pull-out He did try operating from the pick-up site across from the motel when the order was first given two weeks ago, he said, but took in only $30 during the day because people touring the square did not tend to wander far enough south to notice the operation. Thirty dollars a day, he said, is not enough money to justL'y continuing the operation, which he said has been doing well operating from the site next to the Ranch Shops.

His franchise fee alone amounts to about $50 per day. In addition, he said, the new site is not near a water supply, which is necessary to keep the horse cool and keep the street dean. Ken and Bobbi Eva, who make their living driving the carriage, say the business won't work for them at the new spot, and they are angry about the process the chamber is using to make them move. Haight said the chamber did offer to tower his franchise fee to $3,500, but the carriage owner said that's not enough. "They're putting us in a spot where we can't make any money," Haight said.

"They're putting me out of business. They say they don't have to give a reason. I feel that is highly unfair. THE TRAVELERS ALLSTATE AMERICAN STATES BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD HARTFORD FIREMEN'S FUND end many others A mi Pam Davidson Jackson Robb Retcher Jackson Tegeler Associates Insurance Specialists Jackson 733-4735 Pinedale 567-2154 Big Piney 276-5221.