More than 300 people signed endorsement cards supporting the efforts of the Ivins Night Sky Initiative to protect the night sky over Ivins at the group’s two kick-off events over the past five days.
It started with a presentation at Red Mountain Resort last Wednesday by Marc Deshowitz on the impacts of light pollution and a discussion of solutions. More than 100 people attended, including Chris Hart, the Mayor of Ivins, who gave some introductory comments supporting the group’s mission.
That was followed by the Initiative setting up an information table at the Kayenta Street Painting Festival this past weekend and sponsoring a professional artist, Anat Ronen, to paint her interpretation of the night sky over Ivins.
Most of the 300+ endorsements came from residents of Ivins, which makes sense because the Initiative is focused on that city. But the group was excited to see so many others around region showing support for the Initiative. And they want to protect their night sky too.
Nearly 100 people from St. George, Santa Clara, Hurricane, Leeds, Washington and other communities in Utah signed endorsements at these two events.
In addition to endorsements, these events resulted in some Home Owner Associations asking the group for information for their homeowners and inviting the group to give their members’ a similar presentation. And two businesses approached the Initiative offering to promote the group’s goals with brochures and other information at their businesses.
Let us know if this Initiative is important to you, if you are willing to get involved, and what else you think we should be doing to improve, preserve, and protect dark skies in Ivins. We will get back to you as soon as possible.