Some Town Officials Want  Department of Health to Audit Water Calculations

Building Moratorium May Be Next...

Building Moratorium Petition Numbers

     by Dixie A. Walter
    October 11, 2003

     According to Rosemarie Van Cleve the controversial Building Moratorium Petition was signed by 200 citizens. About 50 of those people live outside the town limits. However, Van Cleve explained, they are predominately citizens who work, shop, have kids/grandkids attending schools in town or are involved in town activities in other ways. 
    One person  whose "eligibility" to sign the petition was questioned is artist Fred Oldfield. While there is no question Oldfield doesn't reside within the town limits, he has extremely close ties that bind him and his family to Eatonville. His daughter, Joella Oldfield, whose name was also called into question, graduated from Eatonville High School. Perhaps more importantly in the grand scheme is that Fred's wife and Joella's mother, Alice, is buried in the Eatonville cemetery.   
     There are still some petitions circulating in the community. These will be presented at the October 27 town council meeting. This "Citizen's Petition to the Town Council of Eatonville" seems to have agitated a small group of people. Here is the wording that has them agitated, you be the judge. The Citizens of this Community are facing a very real, and immediate, water crisis. There may not be enough water to supply the needs of the town’s citizens during the peak season. We, the undersigned, call for an immediate, temporary moratorium on new home building until the water crisis has been resolved." 
      Eatonville faces a very real, and continuing, water supply predicament. How this will be resolved remains to be seen.

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