TOP TO BOTTOM

photo by Moyan Brenn

As the local Arizona Public Service rep, Kevin Hartigan is basically in charge of keeping the Grand Canyon open.  There are power lines, for instance, headed from rim to canyon bottom that are 7000 feet long.  "Without power, the water pumps in the park stop working.  If the pumps stop working, water no longer flows into faucets, toilets, showers and drinking fountains . . . . If there is no water, the park must close."   The buck stops with Hartigan.    Interesting read -  story     

Principle in the type: "Let us give full, honest effort to our jobs as though we owned the enterprise. In a very real sense, each of us is in business for ourselves, no matter who pays us."    J. Richard Clarke  

SERMONS

Photo by Glacier National Park - HDR

Happy 100th, National Parks!  You don't look a day over ... well, actually, some of you look quite old.  But beautiful!     story

Principle in the type:  Yet is full of charming company, full of God's thoughts, a place of peace and safety amid the most exalted grandeur and eager enthusiastic action, a new song, a lace of beginnings abounding in first lessons of life, mountain-building, eternal, invincible, unbreakable order; with sermons in stones, storms, trees, flowers, and animals brimful of humanity. . . "    John Muir

CLIMB EVERY MOUNTAIN

photo by Diana Robinson

Who says we can't all get along??  First Lady Michele Obama and former First Lady Laura Bush are cochairs in a campaign to rediscover national parks.  They are "calling on Americans to 'Find Your Park' "  news              The National Park Foundation hopes their invitation and enthusiasm will help to increase attendance and funds for America's national parks.

(Correctly name the national park above and be today's imaginary winner!)

Principle in the type:  "What are men to rocks and mountains?"      Jane Austen