Picking
Up Garbage Has Never Been So Much Fun!
The First Annual Gordon's Well/ I-8 Hill Clean-up held Sunday,
A0pril 9, was a great success. Participants arrived at the Pair-A-Dice
Restaurant and Store at 8 a.m. to check in. Volunteers from Team
Bohica, the group that organized the clean-up, set up tables
to give away raffle tickets, sign players up for the poker game,
give away donated gifts and pass out important dune users information.
Three checkpoints were manned by the Team Bohica Group, the Dumpsters,
the Camp area and I-8 hill. Garbage bags were donated by the
BLM and could be acquired at the checkpoints, or by the four
BLM trucks driving around the camping area, or the Team Bohica
truck at I-8 hill. A special beach dragger was running back and
forth at the bottom of I-8 Hill to dig up hidden garbage.
Over 600 bags of garbage, rusty barrels and car parts were hauled
to the extra dumpster the BLM brought in for the cleanup. At
noon, the 200 plus participants arrived back at the Pair-A-Dice
to enjoy a free lunch of hot dogs and hamburgers donated by Southwest
Powersports, the Pair-A-Dice and Chicken Bob. Organizers gave
out more raffle tickets for garbage brought in and dealt hundreds
of poker hands. During lunch, over $2500 worth of donated prizes
were raffled off to the happy garbage collectors.
Prizes were donated by: Southwest Four Wheel Drive (Phoenix),
Southwest Powersports (Phoenix), Pair-A-Dice Restaurant &
Store (Gordon's Well), Team Bohica (AZ/So Cal), KD Cycle (Yuma),
Banshee Shack (Gilbert AZ), Musselman Honda (Tucson AZ), Star
Cycle (Tucson AZ), Skat Track, Douglas Wheel, Chicken Bob (Phoenix),
Motoworld, Torco Oil, Advertising Edge (Santee), Parts Unlimited,
San Diego Off Road Magazine, Sand Tires Unlimited, Kisner Plumbing
(Truxton AZ), Antigua Sportswear (Scottsdale AZ) and Karl's Kustom
VWs (Phoenix-Mesa AZ).
Next year's clean-up will be on Saturday, March 3. Watch for
flyers, posters and information at the Pair-A-Dice and your local
Powersports stores.
For more information call Beth Eggen at (602) 468-0022 in Phoenix,
or 1-800-653-5918 nationwide or log on to www.glamisonline.org
for all Imperial Dune ifnormation.
A special thanks to the crew at Southwest Powersports, Lynn and
Connie at the Pair-A-Dice, all the Team Bohica members, the generous
sponsors and the BLM employees of Larry and Barbara Caffey, Roxie
and Mike Trost, Hoya Szalwinski and Dallas Meeks, Neil Hamada,
Bob, Ryan and Christina Haggerty with their garbage haulin' trucks. |
Safe or Sorry?
Acerbis has the answer for why women should wear the Lady Fusion
chest deflector over any other.
Of course there are many chest deflectors to choose from but
it's not a matter of style, it's a matter of safety. Other than
the Lady Proton and and the New Lady Fusion all chest deflectors
are designed to fit men. Becuase of the way the female body is
shaped, men's chest deflectors do not fit properly on women.It
may not be apparent while trying ton the deflector in the store
or even while riding, but it will be very apparent after a crash.
During a crash a men's chest deflector usually moves up on the
female body and puts pressure on the neck area. The result could
be a bruised windpipe or maybe even a serious neck injury. Movement
of the deflector could cause other areas to become exposed. A
woman's deflector will most likely keep these areas protected.
Most women are sized in between children and men's size and that
makes getting a good fit from a deflector difficult.
The Lady Fusion was designed specifically to fiill this gap in
sizees. New features like the suspended shoulder allow for more
freedom of movement while riding without affecting the opsition
of the deflector on the body. The kidney and upper arm guards
help to maximize the amount of upper body protection.
Acerbis has developed a chest deflector anatomically shaped specifically
for the female rider's needs. Style is also important and Acerbis
has taken that into account in the design of the Lady Fusion.
With the silver and black color pattern it will compliment any
riding gear.
Year 2000 Annual Desert Clean
Up Report
A big thank you for everyone that participated in the annual
FudRace desert cleanup. Each year a group of volunteers meet
to combat our worst enemy, trash! We make it a point to keep
the areas where we have our Start/Finish and main pit locations
as clean as possible after each event, however Trash happens.
Sometimes the wind defeats our best efforts to keep everything
spic and span and there is also the small percentage of users
that feel it's the Dez so who cares about litter. We do!
Therefore, an annual Desert Cleanup is necessary. As usual the
Bureau of Land Management (BLM) furnished us with trash bags
and then they hauled off the garbage. This year was especially
gratifying because there was not much trash to pick up. Our past
efforts seemed to have discouraged those that use the Dez as
a dump. There were no more sofas, refrigerators, washers and
dryers to remove. Even the number of used tires was way down.
We had volunteers from all aspects of desert lovers: Bike, ATV
and Car racers, spectators, pit crew members, girlfriends, wives,
dids and contributors that donated funds to help pay for the
supplies even though they couldn't attend.
The following deserve a round of applause for Cleaning the Dez:
Billy Middleton, Bill McNeer, John Ross, Allen White, Allen White
II, Lolitta White, Keith Naylor, Jordan Saasta, Bryan Saasta,
James Saasta, Danny Naylor, Matt Clark, Fud, Toad Saasta, Jason
Fields, Robby Bell, Bob Bell, Scott Higgins, Chava Macias, Brea
Swierk, Mike Naylor, Todd Mason and his many friends and a big
thanks to Bob Thompson for his generous donation to the refreshment
fund.
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