Show 4 ' ''l i UV ' 4 t r ' rJ : v--— iwnn &M Friday July 26 iOQ2 r'r 'j : j j'j : svv: : " The Herald Journal - ' '?& $w vA r : !’ ?' t r- X yv A4 f' : v-- I n - - Our view V Seeing orange (and red) What's a parade without politicians? Well for one thing it’s a lot faster Spectators near the end of the route for this year’s Pioneer Day parade in Logan were miffed when the procession suddenly trailed off after only a handful of floats had gone by “Is that it?” several people were heard to ask as they craned their necks to see if anything else was coming up Main Street Finally after an almost delay in which some spectators actually got up to leave a waving smiling handshaking candidate for office arrived on foot with the rest of the parade backed up behind W ith the hunting season ' approaching here’s a plan to protect the deer who has been befriending people up Black-smith Folk Canyon this summer If someone was to wrap a blaze-man- ge handkerchief around his neck maybe that would signal hunters that the animal is tame Of course the kerchief cduld complicate things for the young buck we have nicknamed Casper the Friendly Deer It could get caught while he his running through thick brush or make Casper an outcast among other deer not unlike his cartoon namesake Or heck instead of giving hunters pause the orange might act as an attracter and actually assure his death come autumn Anybody out there have a bet- ter idea? 10-minu- te her One wonders if she won any votes out there Wednesday or actually lost a few along die way My belated summer reading list N Arabs started cycle of death None of these deaths would have been necessary except that the Israelis must defend themselves If the Arabs stop attacking Jews there would be no deaths If the Israelis stop defending themselves thine would be no Israelis The feudal Arab states fear a democracy in their region because their oppressedpeo-pl- e may learn about freedom: That’s why some Islamic states have a death penalty for teaching religions other than Islam and Why Islamic states ' have some of the lowest educational levels in the world The Jewish peo-pie have built from a wasteland a productive modem democracy They would like nothing better than to teach and help their neighbors Please pray for peace : To the editor ' Before World War II small groups of Russian Jews purchased land in Palestine While trying to settle their small plots of swampland they wore constantly attacked by bands of Arabs who tried to kill them all The Jewish settlers had to develop defense forces to protect their lives " and their purchased land After the founding of Israel they were attacked by seven Arab nations and again the lives of Jewish men women and children were threatened and indeed many died Without interruption since then Arabs have been attacking Jewish men women and children and many have been killed Unfortunately many Arabs have also died William Goldfarb Logan ' Lawmakers Cory Yeates— representing Logan district No 1—281 S 100 East Logan 84321752-902-7 Kathy Robison— representing N 400 Logan district No 2--335 West Logan 84321 7536109 Craig Petersen —representing Logan district No 3— 1440 E 1220 North Logan 84341 R Doug Thompson 1567 Lynnwood 9 Ava Logan 753-689- ' COUNCIL Thomas Kerr 35 N 1400 East Logan 84321 752-31Alan Allred 1535 E 1500 North LOGAN-MUNICIP- : 52 Logan While the software is not yet available to allow us ot long ago a friend of our intimate acquaintance stood before a doorstopper of a book read the flap jacket flipped through the preface lifted this tome as if lit were g trainher personal assigned by er and and wondered out loud “Do I have to actually read it? Or could I just download While the software is not yet avail- able to allow us to download books directly into our brains there’s nothing new about the impulse to take a to download books 1 directly into our brains there’s nothing new about the impulse to take a short cut through a long arduous read some-thin- Your view LOGAN-MAYO- u By EltenGoodman The Boston Globe And then there’s the member of a local barbershop quartet who says one of the common questions he gets from people is: “So how many singers are in your group?’’ 84341753-822- 4 752-667- Stave Thompson 37 S 200 West 9 V Logan 84321 Karen Borg 1670 N 1600 East ' Logan 84341 753-696-3 Tami Pyfer South PL 753-601- CACHE COUNTY EXECUTIVE BRANCH' ' Executive: Lynn Lemon 120 N 100 West Logan 84321 717171 Assessor Kathleen Howell 179 N 0 Main Logan 84321 11 Scott W 100 Attorney: Wyatt North Logarv 64321 716-836- 1 Auditor Tamara Stones 179 ‘ Logan 84321 7167123 Cleric: Jill Zollinger 170 N Main Logan 84321 j 716-715-0 Recorder Michael L GIeed 179 N 0 Mala Logan 84321 Sheriff Lynn Nelson 50 W 200" North Logan 84321 715-746-0 Treasurer Karen A Jeppessen 179 NMain Lpgan 84321 7166394 'v 52-13- 84321753-752- 716-710- 'CACHE COUNTY COUNCIL Darrel Lee Gibbons —representing thenorth district 840 S 1600 West Lewiston 84320 258-52Layne Beck representing the northeast district— 628 E 380 South 563-322-9 : Smtthfiekj84335 ' -John A Hansen representing the south restrict— 252 EMain Hyrum 4 84319 Larry Anhder —representing the southeast district— 3475 S 250 West Logan B432t 753-510-4 - 38 : 716-718- 245-658- through a long arduous read Why just this year literary consumers are being offered an expanding line of um literary products We now have new CliffsNotes SparkNotes and readers’ guides to “deconstruct Harry Potter” and prep for book clubs Now however we are deep into hammock season when people shut down the computer and pick up the hard cover We actually read So herewith I offer my belated (mid) summer reading list of books that have little in common except that they were enjoyed in their unabridged fashion by one pair of eyes Let me begin by going backward id least In time This year when fundamentalism abroad struck home L sat down with “I Roger Williams” This is a fictional memoir of the radical who brought freedom of religion and conscience ' to these shores much to die dismay of the Puritans Novelist Mary Lee Settle constructs Williams as an unrepentant octogenarian still fight' ing off “those zealots who would have destroyed me oh not by tearing at my throat like the wild animals but by law arid dignity and die awfpl certainty of righteousness” By the end I adopted Williams as my C founding grandfather Moving back three more centuries I came across “The Good Men” in OiarmaineQai’s novel Crai was inspired by reading die deposition a ‘young woman gave during die Inqui- sitiou about her sexual lia3km with a priest The description of the priest who attempted to abandon the “mis ial - - ry itimiiua i-stit- f - ' ' v ' DARRELL EHRUCKUtyadNor CINDY YUftrarteatureoedSor BRUCE 8fymputMwr CHAf£SMoCOLLUWInMnegifigedMr : J II 1 to beja&miotttof & Multitude tuttf Ifend ofttttfwit&titft tttcctknLrt r- of -- - - r- ' I'-- : dsVaiaquiraiMnlioMha nmwpBpwt -- L j aa k- f - : — 1' i ' r i Signed by ttie author IndMdueli ere Imled to one pubWied tet- 7 ter Within any 3(Wty period AddreeeE-ma- l tetters to hMtarOhinewsxom Gueat com- - V 7 mertarteaareaieoyntoomaandareninat v - JuLetniedfitAmerkijiaia(WZ1961) - f s U AddrasaadandlncludadaytlmiphpnS'’' - iethalui5i Nomonln460atonlslnlangdL Bia M trfuvit The Harald Journal wstoonws latlan to the dNorPoMaSyKiaioworolisnsIveMtm wM not to ptMWwd however andtftaadtor mams right to adt M tansn to eonfoan - readers ratlsottwopMqns of thsirwillBn and f-EdHorMiundarHwIwaiing'qur oi mnomi journal Members of the edMoriel boerd: ’ THe Y jfoilofagoodbooL" —— v- - ' pretty good Now off to plant my head solidly and safely in the fertile' IMOBrSUnal IVMWjfOi VMUpOVnOfl VMiBiU — — — 0101 DUDRC biwnb IIn pfuVKJill WliMit i cffnc&uitu i-- - - ry And this summer tiiat’s looking H?rald Journal ! i' ' - jeo tuftitT ' ' ’ KSlaVr7 i1-- anti-fai- : moWNWR V ' ! r - y - Mallard Fillmoro t - pne-wom- an ety of his body for the mercies of his soul” builds into a lush textured story about sex and abstinence humanity and sainthood men and women celibacy and heresy that res-onates as much in the 21st century as "the 14thOne morehistory lesson? Laurel Thatcher Ulrich has her ear tuned to “the subdued hum of unseen labor” She weaves a social history of Amer- ica in “The Age of Homespun” out artifacts as a of such pocketbook a tablecloth a spinning wheel and a basket As she writes: “Objects like these bob up from the depths of the American past like bottles on a wave reminding us of how many lives remain undocumented” Carol Gilligan has produced a dif-ferent sot of artifact a rich and personal tapestry “The Birth of Pleasure” uses myth and memoir psychology and sexual politics to explore a question: Why do our love stories link passion with tragedy7 Her reading of Psyche and Cupid and a wholly new take on the original Anne Frank diaries weave a book brave and boundary-breakin- g With the raging hormonal debate in the news it's no surprise that the most interesting medical bode of the year is called “Complications! A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science-” Atul Gawande surgeon and storyteller explores one basic unset- tling' reality “Medicine’sground state” he writes “is uncertainty And wisdom — for both patients and doctors-— is defined by how onecopes with it” Margaret Atwood knows about wisdom and uncertainty in her Own day job: writing Or as she dnes writing: “Negotiating with the Dead” This is a witty thoughtful look at a writer’s two selves Me evwyday person and the one at die : keyboard What hooked me? Ativood’s comment that wanting to meet s writer because you like her shortcut 17th-centu- 8 : : itr work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pate This is where I confess that I read Edna O’Brien’s work only after we shared a panel that the JFK Library held on her friend Jackie 0 1 liked the dyck and loved the pate I began with the 1997 novel “Down by the River” a riveting and dark story based on an infamous Irish abortion ' case and am working my way buffet to the through tins most recent novel “In the Forest” Tasty stuff-Mtaste for Carol Shields novels has only grown with time Now die latest and Tm afraid her last In “Unless” the main character is both a novelist and a mother whose daughter has retreated to a street pot-- ' ner in Toronto bearing a cardboard sign that reads: “Goodness” Shields ailing from cancer herself describes die misery that has mitered the daughter “like a soft tumor but exceptionally aggressive” The mysteries of daughters and mothers of families both fragile and sturdy are explored with all of Shields’ V trademark humanity “Interesting Women” is too mild a description for Andrea Lee’s cast of characters In her atmospheric short story collection we find expatriate Americans of mostly African- Caribbean descent living in Italy ' These outsiders are familiar and exotic jaded and naive elite and ' middle class and welcome immigrants to literary globalization Is there Chick Lit tomatch Chick Flicks? Alex Witchel’s “Me Times V Three” is the1 perfect novel for women too embarrassed to be found reading Bridget Jones in This frothy tale of a Manhatand vivid tan woman whose Prince Charming had two other fiancees is a movie in the nuking and summer reading without slumming Finally getting in touch with your inner and outer nature? Want to take your eye off the stock market? Put your head in Michael Pollan’s “The' Botany of Desire” In this evolution- ary trot he writes about how people and plants survive together Hu subjects include the hippie behind the apple seed the control freak behind the potato and his own escapade v growing marijuana He offers in short “a plant’s eye view of the ' ‘ ' ' :T " V1 y — - ' i i: |