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Show Page 4 A North Edition Lakeside Review Wednesday, April 4, 1984 i Street Talk: Are Last Week, residents of the Provo School District voted to d schools, makbegin district in first the them ing Utah to adopt the controversial program. Educational psychologist are still debating the benefits ; year-roun- I Schools Year-Roun-d school while econd of omists decide if it would be cheaper for the tax payer. The Lakeside Review went out in the street to see how area residents year-roun- felt. ' W. Russell Olson, Muir Elementary, Bountiful It could be a promising concept, however, what it does for learning is the big question. Can you do as much for a youngster in a year round pattern as in the established nine month calendar? It would be nice to do something because it was good for kids and not because it was cost effective. And whether or not it is cost effective remains to be seen. The big costs are in maintenance and operation and not in building costs. If faced with tremendous costs in building buildings the larger savings will be gained there but not in the maintenance and operation, things like utilities, supplies and teachers I wont mind it but I prefer summer off. If all the schools district did it together it would be better. But there would be less review for students at the beginning of each year. Cookie Sale Police Warn Important to Of Dangers The spring of taught us Girl Scouts many To prepare the Community Help contaminated cookies are delivered in this area. Those who have puryoung girls is recognized as chased cookies must be' a worthwhile organization cautious about consuming that helps teach group co- them. Perhaps they should operation and healthy stan- be cut into small pieces before being eaten. The cookdards of living. ies have been to Recent reports of tamdetermine the presence of pering with Girl Scout metal contaminants, but if cookies scheduled for deany reluctance remains, livery to homes across the perhaps the cookies should nation this month is a furnot be consumed at all. ther evidence of the sickare not The ness among a small the faultproblems of the girls nor segment of society. The the Scout leaders. In order cookie sales help finance to help keep the organizaactivities of Girl Scouts activities going, reand are essential for the tions funds of the donations continued operation of the in the form of purgiven program. chase price of the cookies No problems have been should not be requested. encountered in Utah and Those with concerns :Girl Scout official, Doris about safety might dispose Johnson of the Wasatch of the cookies and consider said extenit an outright donation. Af; Neighborhood, sive precautions have been ter all, consider the calories ..taken to ensure that no saved. Scouting! program Review Editor: for 1983 lessons. izona. t Review Editor: My mother has alzheimers disease and has had it for almost 10 years. Alzheimers is a disease thht gradually destroys the normal brain function of an individual making him as helpless as a child. During this low deterioration- of the brain simple tasks and language become confusing and eventually impossible. At the last stages the victim forgets how to chew and swallow and cap die of starvation. Alzheimers is very tragic for the victim but it is equally tragic for family members who have to seb a loved one die before their eyes over a period of many years. My father cared for my mother for ten years but died last year from the heartbreak and strain. Alzheimers is the leading cause of senility and death among the elderly. Alzheimers patients constitute 50 percent to 60 percent of the people in nursing homes today costing many billions of dollars annually. The relentlessness of the disease places a burden on the family members who are frustrated by the veil of confusion and isolation the disease creates. It is like dealing with living death. It is a fuperal that never ends. Alzheimers does not strike just the elderly. In fact many young people today are also getting the disease; some as young as 17. It is a hopelessly incurable disease. ' Much research has been done into the causes of Alzheimers. It appears that one suspicious . s, The tremendous amount of aluminum in our diets and in our lives today is almost beyond comprehension.! We find aluminum in deodorants, baking non-dair- creamers, buffered aspirin, y bleached flour, processed cheese, foods and pop in aluminum cans. However, the biggest source of aluminum is fluoride since it is made from the aluminum tailings and of the aluminum companies. Most everything we use in the kitchen comes wrapped in aluminum or cooked in aluminum cookware. In fact our aluminum industry is one of the biggest g in the and Many European countries outlaw the use of aluminum fastest-growin- cookware. na-tio- n. ; . be out before Memorial Day. Theyve been talking about it for the district and if they do, I quit. of our creeks are now cement lined and retention basins designed to hold water and debris, and are already in place or in the construction stage. , With the coming of spring we anticipate a heavy runoff period in the three creeks that pass through our city. During this period the danger associated with high runoff to children as well as adults is very great. If someone were to fall into the water the results could be tragic. Since the caring for and cleaning up after five dogs is a difficult matter, tight and expensive policing efforts will be necessary. The same scofflaws who kept four dogs under the two dog law can reasonably, be expected to keep ten dogs under a five dog ordinance. Finally, there is overwhelming public sentiment against the proposed ordinance. I have talked to many people and they are without exception strenuously opposed to the proposed change. v Edward E. Harris and radio talk shows. Show that you mean business. Flooding and the unstable conditions of the bottom of the Great Salt Lake can breach the cause-wa- y without cost to the but you are liable for these costs under house bill No. 30 to pay Southern Pacific Railroad for such damages. Can you tax-paye- believe it? Thats the law the Utah Legislature passed, but didnt appropriate money for, but you can still stop this waste and nonsense Roy if you act now. Stop the appropriation to cause-wa- y by making telephone : calls and , writing breach the letters now. ' , . Dale R, Hawkins : Kavsville . Religion Is Already in Government Review Editor: is What all this nonsense of a few isolated inciabout in schools? prayer public dents of tampering with girl Prayer has always been in public scout cookies in eastern states, schools and always will be. No The Bountiful Police Departmany questions have been asked is prevented from praying child EnBountiful and ment the City of us during the last few days. wherever and whenever they The Utah Girl Scout Council gineers office are soliciting please, regardless of what Ronhas been in close contact with support and assistance from parald Reagan and Orrin Hatch of. ents all children of Review Editor: age the cookie company and Girl Reference your article about would have us believe. Scouts of the U.S.A.,; our .Na- groups. We urge you to counsel the move in Roy to change the tional Organization, to separate your children about the hazards Mr, Hatch claims the form of of them playing near the creek animal control laws, the gist of fact from fiction. is not really as important prayer beds. In what Penny McDonald is saying many areas the ground In seven Girls Scout Councils as the issue of governments hoswill be and unstable is slippery that, since a portioh of the there has been evidence of tamtowards school prayer". will increase these hazpopulation refuses to obey the tility pering with fewer than 20 boxes which of cookies. Girl Scouts of the ards. Adults going near the law, the law should be changed ; The government already allows U.S.A. believes these are isolated creekbeds should keep these haz- - , to suit their convenience. Art ex- in god we trust on our currentension of .this type of thinking cy, one nation under incidences, The FDA has given a ards in mind and use caution. god in would have traffic and even feloclean bill of health to our cookie our of and allegiance, pledge runoff if the period During ny laws revised or eliminated. . to open sessions of supplier. clergy paid children observes No confirmed injuries to date anyone on the creek bank we the senate and congress, (even When a law is violated, enfrom any foreign objects placed playing Dethough few legislators are pres-- 1 call Police the to them urge forcement efforts should be in- ent). in cookies. It is all hearsay. This is already a dangerous creased. If the law is bad for mixture of church Our cookie order1 was not partment. and state. If other reasons it should be corplaced with the bakery until last mandated prayer is it is hoped that with the efgovernment rected, but it should never be allowed in public schools, what week. forts of both parental counseling ' changed because someone does will come next? has Our main concern always and preventative efforts by the 'been the safety of our Girl Police Department that serious not choose to obey it. Most peoOrrin Hatch is simply wasting ple in Roy would rather have Scouts, our programs, and our injury or death will not occur to and and sanitary his quiet time and our money. peace ; product. someone falling in a swollen several than dogs. surroundings ignoring the far right At this time, the Utah Girl stream. for three years, Ronald Reagan, Police Bountiful City Scout Council still plans to meet There are far too many dogs (who rarely attends church) has its scheduled time of cookie deroaming the streets now, occa- suddenly taken up the school livery throughout Utah, April 6 sionally biting someone as re- prayer cause with a fervor. This through the 16th. Our staff of is an obvious election year ploy ported by you on March 14. volunteers, throughout the state to appease conservatives and will be monitoring the cases of is no question that if create a smokescreen for his diThere cookies at each point of delivery. enough dogs are allowed to roam sastrous foreign policy, monthe streets to form packs, there strous deficits; suicidal military We urge Girl Scout parents is a very real danger of someone budget, and dismal record conand customers to inspect cookie being killed. Packs of dogs kill cerning civil rights, the environpackages for evidence of tamer-inhument, and equality for women, If theres any suspicion of , deer, sheep and occasionally this is their nature because E. Bush Jr. mans a with package, Review Editor: it; tampering should be taken directly to the Bountiful, Believe it or not your voice when they for A packs. Girl Scout Council office in Salt can be heard and you can save Lake City, to the Girt Scout Seryour hard earned tax money if vice Centers in Orem or Ogden you act now! or to the local law enforcement Call your State Senator, your authorities immediately, u Representative, and Governor From the facts that we have Scott Matheson and tell them: received to date we feel relativeDont appropriate money to fily sure that our cookies are safe. nance the breach of the causeThe Lakeside Review deemed to be libelous or in We feel confident that the public way. letters to the edibad taste. encourages , will support us by accepting tor as a way of allowing citicould in It us millions cost their orders when the Girl All letters must be signed zens to speak out on issues the next 10 years. Special inter. Scouts start delivery April 6th. local commuinvolve the author and accompathat tie by will ests benefit at the expense of nied by an address and phone , nity. We thank the media and the your tax money, and that is lenumber. Address all letters to many customers who have given galized plunder. reis (he Review Review Editor, Lakeside ReHowever, us their support throughout this for what is printed view, 2146 N. Main, Layton, Tell friends sponsible and neighyour time. . in will the and Utah 84041, or 145 N. Main, not bors also write newspaper and to telephone Geneva Swartz which letters are letters officials to Bountiful, Utah 84010. publish government Ex. Director of Utah Girl Scout Council and the editors of newspapers, tv Animal Laws Important To Roy City -- nerve fibers of their brains. Scientists have injected aluminum into the brains of lab mice and almost immediately they have developed symptoms of Alzhei-mer- der, antacids, ' profits. Because agent in the cause may be aluminum poisoning. In fact when autopsies are performed on brains of the victims aluminum is found enmeshed in the tangled Threat Silent? ' Portions - The profits of the cookie sale provide: Staff and maintenance of our summer camps, scholarships for girls to attend camp, ' special program opportunities for girls, transportation assistance, training opportunities for 2500 adult volunteers. Girls help support their many troop activities through cookie Letters to Editor for future, major steps have been taken to improve the water carrying capacity of our creeks and culverts in an effort to prevent or minimize a reoccurrence of the events that took place in May and June of 1983. Review Editor Girl Scout cookies have been sold in Utah for 50 years. This annual cookie sale is our main source of income. It affects the fives of thousands of girls throughout the state: White Pine, Nevada: and Fredonia, Ar- -, ed Aluminum Use I dont think Letters to Editor Scouts Need Girl Scout cookies are an American tradition. The Elementary Employee I dont like the idea simply for the fact that the school will lose kids in the summer. Now, were working into June and I want to Tom Butte, Another thing, it will cost lots of money for the air conditioning in the summer. Editorial Girl Bountiful so. I was in New Zealand and it was a big hassle. It was a mob. The kids need to get out in the summertime and enjoy themselves. Theyd have to get air conditioning and that, would cost a lot. I think there are, better ways to cut the costs. Martha Morrow, Orchard Janice Metcalf, Roy Scott Ward, Davis High No, too expensive. It would be too hot in the summer and kids would just sluff more. Students also need time to make money for school. Something needs to be done about schools but not year round school. . Aluminum poisoning is also a suspect in other metabolic diseases such as Parkinsons, AIDS and epilepsy. In searching for information on aluminum poisoning in the libraries and book stores I find that most articles have been carefully removed. It appears that there is something that the public is not to be allowed to know. Are the aluminum companies so powerful and so ambitious that their growth is more important than the health of a nation? Carma Jenkins . Centerville . - After-virtually- Voice Your g. Man Says Letter . - . . WtaAM. . dM!-.- . ! |