Archive for September, 2009

>PORT TOWNSEND — Citing a more than $100,000 deficit, Jefferson County Parks Director Matt Tyler outlined a proposal to close four park facilities, cut almost three part-time staff positions and become heavily dependent on volunteers to maintain most other county parks.

The move leaves just one paid staffer for parks maintenance countywide.

“We coping and surviving now,” Tyler told the county commissioners Monday, announcing a plan to greatly expand the system’s volunteer program to maintain most of the county’s 19 parks.

The county park system that serves 2,200 families with 700 children budgeted $539,546 in 2009 expenditures but has only slightly more than $438,000 for 2010.
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>It can get a little cramped in a 300-square-foot home, but Stacy Roberts and her husband, Ken, are used to it.

They don’t mind sacrificing personal space if it means they can be on the road 12 months out of the year.

Stacy can recall the day in 2003 that their lives changed for good. She had been a teacher for 33 years in Tucson, and Ken was general manager in the Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise.

“I came home one day and thought, we’re both healthy and young enough to keep traveling. I asked Ken, ‘Do you want to sell our house and buy an RV?’ He said OK without hesitation, and we sold our house in three days.”

“Sure there are things that I miss about my old lifestyle,” Stacy said. “Most of all I miss my woman friends and my sisters. There is something about being in person that e-mail can’t touch.”

But now the Robertses have friends all over the place, especially in Columbia, MO where they settle for longer periods of time.
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Heading the RV toward warmer climes this winter? During nine years of shunpiking, (driving the back roads) Marianne Edwards and her husband have found hundreds of free campsites. In response to questions from friends and relatives, who wonder how they can afford to travel as often, as far, and for as long as they do, The Edwards’ have written a series of RV travel guidebooks they call The Frugal Shunpiker’s Guides
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>Maryville Daily Times
Authorities said Sunday that the Elkmont campground in Great Smoky Mountains National Park has reopened after about 170 campers had to evacuate the area Saturday because rainy weather caused a mud slide.

Two roads in the park — Sparks Lane and Parson Branch Road — were closed Sunday because of weather and water issues, according to the National Park Service’s weather information line.

According to the National Weather Service in Morristown, Blount, Knox and Sevier counties received about three inches of rain Saturday, which is a record in Blount County.

For more information about closures in Great Smoky Mountains National Park call 865- 436-1200.
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