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Show SPRINGVILLE HERALD Thursday, October 20, 2005 2 Comments People stealing farm produce from local grower Editor: Throughout my life I have gained an overly idealistic view of the goodness of this community. Unfortunately, the last few months I have come to realize that not everyone in our community is honest. I wanted to express ex-press my disappointment in the dishonest people in our community. We have had an increasing problem with people stealing the tomatoes, watermelons, pumpkins and hay out of our fields. After catching several different people and hearing of many more that have been helping themselves, I have started" to lose respect for the people around me. Thank you to everyone who helped with Red Ribbon Night! Editor: Youthnet and the SpringvilleMapleton PTA Council sends an enthusiastic thank you to all who helped make bur Annual Red Ribbon Rib-bon Night such a great evening! Around 400 parents, children chil-dren and other citizens came to learn about youth substance sub-stance abuse. Your willingness willing-ness to come will help your family, neighborhood " and the community as a whole. We are grateful for your support! Thank you to all the organizations orga-nizations "and businesses who donated services, products, etc. for the evening: Bona Signs. Roberts Crafts, Reams. Aliens. Springville Herald. Deseret News. Provo Daily Herald. Utah County Division of Substance Abuse. Tliaiiks to the Averetts and all who help with youth football program Editor: Another season of Youth Football is over for this year. It was approximately 40 years ago when the Youth Footbalf program began in the community. This is a wonderful program pro-gram for the young boys and girls in Springville and Mapleton. It is an opportunity opportuni-ty tor the boys to learn the b"asics of football and for the girls to learn and perform cheers for the teams. 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Would you go into your neighbor's" garden and steal tomatoes because they had more than you? Selling corn, tomatoes, watermelons, wa-termelons, pumpkins and many other items is our livelihood. How is taking the produce out of our fields different dif-ferent from taking produce out of Ream's or Allen's without paying? You are thieves! I am disappointed and extremely ex-tremely discouraged. How are we supposed to support our family and ourselves if we can't "stop people from Springville and Mapleton Cities. Nebo School District, Springville High School and all the volunteers from the PTA and Youthnet who donated do-nated many hours of their time. Thank you to Julie Mata of Court Supportive Services and Sergeant Dave Foster of the Springville Police Department Depart-ment for speaking to us on important issues relating to youth substance abuse. Thanks to our panel of family members who discussed dis-cussed abuse with addiction and the many associated problems. We appreciate all those who spoke for staying after to talk with interested audience members. We learned so much from all of you! We are grateful for Springville Mayor Fritz Boy- the players and cheerleaders involved, there are coaches, assistant coaches, referees, cheerleader advisors, an announcer, an-nouncer, program directors, lines men and parents working work-ing the Snack Shack. These men and women spend Wednesday evenings and Saturday evenings making mak-ing sure the kids have a program pro-gram in which they are able to participate. These great volunteers are citizens of Springville and Mapleton and are critical to the success of this program. Over the years there have been hundreds of great men who have volunteered their time and energy and contributed con-tributed a greatdeal to the Youth Football program, but none have given more than Kenny Averett and Steven Averett. They are two men who have worked tirelesslv Let's nmke music! Editor: Music is much more healthy than war yet we spend many, many, etc. times more" on the" latter. What nonsense! Bob Faux Orem camera www.allenscamera.net Oeffi 626 . State St. 224-0006 P'ovo 373 N. University Ae 373-4440 American Fck 76 V 100 E. 756-3313 stealing from us? We nave had many loyal customers the past 20 years that we have been in business, busi-ness, and we thank you for your support. But we are disgusted dis-gusted with those people who think it is a free for all. Let me make one thing clear- it is NOT! Stay out of our fields or you will be prosecuted! So. to those of you that are loyal to us, keep your eyes peeled for the thieves that are making it difficult to trust anyone anymore. They could be young or old, male or female. If they are in our fields without us, they are stealing. Sara Harward Springville er's attendance as well as Springville Police Chief Scott Finlayson. They continuously continuous-ly show their support for our efforts. We consider this night worth having every year-knowing that if even one family is able to prevent youth drug abuse, then Red Ribbon Night is a success. Thanks again to all who attended. at-tended. Youthnet'PTA Red Ribbon Committee Marianne Stephens Colleen Miner Diane Child Sandi Daoust Kevin and Brooke Scholz Kelly Mortenson Tammy Jenkins Carol Barker Vicki Wheeler Dan and Amy Shelly Jared and Stephanie Leavitt Christine Poulson to keep Youth Football alive for the kids in Springville and Mapleton, Kenny and Steve have self lessly "given of their time and" effort, week after week, year after year, for the last 30 plus years in behalf of kids in our communities. They have kept the program pro-gram "going with very little recognition of the fine job they nave done. Their dedication dedica-tion to boys and girls is evident evi-dent in the number of hours and years they have given to this program." Unfortunately, at the beginning be-ginning of this season, Kenny Ken-ny decided it was time to hang up his helmet and give someone else the responsibility responsibil-ity for the Youth Football program. Steven has continued contin-ued to help with the program. pro-gram. Youth Football has been good for the youth and good for Springville and Mapleton. Maple-ton. The program has stood the test of time and will continue con-tinue thanks to the efforts of men like Kenny and Steven. Thank you, "Kenny and Steven, for your outstanding service to" the youth of Springville and Mapleton. If you are interested in volunteering vol-unteering to help with this program, please call Dan Duncan at 362-6261. Dan Duncan Springville Custom, Quality Memorials Large Selection of Colors &. Stvles V 374-0580 Order your Christmas Cards by Oct 31st and M'lfpvj 12 your postage What win candidates do for River Bottom citizens? Editor: By way of an open letter to the municipal candidates, let me ask you if you will fix the damage the city wreaked on River Bottom Road? We have a quiet street that will not see much increased use in the future. The un-painted un-painted pavement added to the feeling of being on a relaxed re-laxed street. Then the city painted a hodgepodge of yellow and white stripes, laying down more paint than most of the busy streets in town have. Moreover, they said they may raise our speed limit. Our street is now ugly. Worse, it is substantially more dangerous, and the city is threatening to make it more dangerous still. The excuse for this is that the street needed bike paths on River Bottom Road. It did not. River Bottom Road is a wide street, which already had plenty of safe bike traffic, traf-fic, on a route we managed to navigate by bike and car without needing narrow, painted channels. There is a parallel bike lane a block away along Canyon Road, which is a safe lane since it is protected by a curb. There is another parallel bike path going in by the creek three blocks the other way, which is also safe because be-cause it too is completely off a street. The River Bottom bike lanes, unlike most of the bike routes on Springville streets, is based on a design used for urban streets. In cities it would make bicyclists bicy-clists safer, but here it simply sim-ply moved kids out away from the curb and into the street inches from the traffic flow, and channels people away from safer nearby bikepaths. It is an insane design for this area. It was done in support sup-port of a plan Springville could not produce a copy of, to pacify UDOT requirements require-ments that UDOT says it did not impose. Immediately after the bike lanes and yellow stripes went in. ki"ds from elsewhere else-where racing down the street hit a stroller. The city's response was that speeders were our own fault, and we should enforce speed limits. We were obnoxious for suggesting the city was unresponsive: un-responsive: we did not even know what traffic levels were in front of our homes, and so forth. Of course, it isn't is-n't enough for Mr. Knight and Springville's other current cur-rent leaders to simply ignore or insult their constituents; they want to make things worse. Worse means threatening to raise the speed limit above even what you'll find on most of Springville's busiest streets. We deserve better from elected leaders. Will you. the candidates, do better? Will you remove the stripes? (Yes, it can be done, and was done on part of 900 South.) Will you commit to leave the speed limit where it is? This is the election make or break issue for plenty of families who live up" the flood plain. Paul Wake Springville Mountainland Applied Technology College Looking for a hair salon? Look no further, contact MOUNTAIN COSMETOLOGY for your next salon appointment matc 763-0324 -matc Editorial Do you know your candidates? Next Wednesday, Oct. 26, the Springville Youth City Council is sponsoring a Meet-the-Candidate Night in the Sprngville Jr. High School auditorium. It will start at 7 p m and will be an opportunity for all citizens to hear from the three candidates for city council and two candidates candi-dates for mayor. If you are concerned about anything in the city, this is your time to ask questions and find out where these candidates candi-dates stand, what they believe and what they want to see happen in the city. In order to ask questions, you have to submit them beforehand be-forehand to the Youth Council, or at you can go down to the city building and give your questions to them. You can also e-mail to kgordonconnect2.com. It is very important that everyone get involved in city government. Many people just sit around and complain about how our leaders lead instead of getting in there and helping or making their ideas and voices heard. The people who sit on the city council in any city are the ones who make decisions about roads, electricity, water, safety, recreation and other issues. You pay for those benefits ben-efits with your taxes. You need to know a little about those who will be making the decisions. We will elect a new mayor on November 8. Do you know which candidate you will vote for and why? There are three running for two positions on the city council. Again, how well do you know each of them? One is an incumbent. The other two are new to politics. Who will you vote for and why? One vote, your vote, does count. Your vote could be the deciding vote. Your vote will have a lot to do with the quality of life we have in Springville in the next few years. How will your life be affected by those who are elected? You must listen and read and get informed, and you must take the opportunity to vote on November 8. Concern over water rate increase in city Editor: Several articles in the Springville Herald concerning concern-ing water rates and related problems should have gotten the resident's attention to the cost of both water and power. pow-er. The justification for the increase in-crease of water rates given in the city newsletter of August Au-gust 200o. that accompanies each resident's utility bill states: "A new structure that would encourage water conservation, con-servation, as mandated by the State of Utah and would more equitably distribute the cost of water among the users." The new rate is based on the amount of water used (six levels of use) with a rate increase as the level of use or need increases. This tired rate is not a fair, equitably or impartial method of increasing water rate, nor complies with the law, as required in the State Constitution. "In General: a tax law which fails to secure equality and impartiality of the tax"authorized and which fails to provide for adjust- Abolishing the USA Editor: The United States of America Amer-ica is being abolished. Piecemeal. Piece-meal. Before our verv eves. By our own elected officials-under officials-under the guidance and direction di-rection of unelected elites. Incredible? In-credible? Certainly. But. unfortunately, un-fortunately, true" nonetheless. nonethe-less. For decades, federal officials offi-cials have ignored the please of American citizens to secure se-cure our borders against an immense, ongoing migration invasion that includes not only millions of "common variety" va-riety" illegal aliens, but also drug traffickers, terrorist and other violent criminals. Now, under the pretense of providing security, the Bush administration is adopting an outrageous policy that, in effect, ef-fect, does away with our borders bor-ders with Mexico and Canada Cana-da altogether. The New American has been warning that this direct assault on our nationhood was coming, that it is part and parcel of the NA FT A -C A FT A -FT A A process. However, almost a million Americans received their T ment and equalization of assessments, as-sessments, faithful and impartial im-partial administration of the law is void." Every resident has the right to ask for a review of the charges assessed on his utility statement and request a rebate, if he thinks he has been discriminated against or that the assessment has not been applied equally or fairly. The City Ordinance 4-2-106: '"Board of Equalization. The City Council is hereby constituted a Board of Equalization Equal-ization of water and sewer rates, to hear complaints and make corrections of any assessment as-sessment deemed to be illegal, ille-gal, unequal or unjust. The City Council may, if it sees fit, rebate all or any part of the water and sewer bill of any indigent person." Every resident is urged to file a complaint concerning their individual water bill, if they feel they have been unfairly un-fairly charged or over charged, or discriminated against. Kent B. Palfreyman Springville first notice of this fast-looming threat from a startling special report on CNN. On June 9, CNN anchorman Lou Dobbs began his evening broadcast with this provocative provoca-tive announcement: "Good evening, everybody. Tonight, an astonishing proposal pro-posal to expand our b orders to incorporate Mexico and Canada and simultaneously See ABOLISHING THE USA on page 3 The Springville Herald Customer Service 375-31 03 489-5631 Fax 489-7021 239 E. 400 S. Springville, Utah 84663 Pubisher Kirk Parkinson kparkiisoniieraldextra.coni Manager Craig Conover ccormrtefnlckctacom Etftor Pat Conover artdtyapracDrn Page designod layout Mcrda Harris Typesetter SheniHams Office Manager Janeal Duffin Send Newsltems to us a! artdryavpracani |