Show Pap Millard Comity 2 Tburs Apr 30 USPS a (ffmumonta 1987 s - - uK ing able to say “I told you so” How many times has the issue of tax dollars exiting the county come up? Lots of hollering but nothing changes It was a disgrace when the legislature changed the law so public entities were not requires to publish detailed financial statements Now it is just we took in this and we spent that Doesn’t tell the taxpayer a thing If it was public knowledge where supplies and products were purchased a little more thought and caution would be displayed Of course this is the time of year that I get meanest about taxes April 15th and then quarterly taxes not to mention sales tax and property tax And I haven’t even made enough money yet this year to cover it all When is tax day this year May 20th? We are talking 40 of the income! Sure like to see some of that walk back into my office in the form of business and I know many fellow merchants who feel that way And while I am being peevish I might as well mention anonymous letters We have received quite a rash of them lately and on a wide variety of subjects Many are well written and express thoughtful opinions And we are not the only paper receiving them Guy (former Chronicle reporter now with the Tribune) calls me frequently to discuss the latest batch he has received from this area And all I can think the letters accomplish is the writer gets off their chest because something nothing is ever going to change without dialogue and debate and exploring all sides of an issue Something that is not going to happen with one anonymous letter Sounds like it is time for me to go back to Delta Sports Center for a little chat with Kevin about what is biting what and head for the fishing hole Fish don’t leave all the lights on tax me send me anonymous letters or ask me to do them a favor and then go somewhere else when they need printing or advertising Going so long not writing a column makes it real hard to get back into the swing of it I read somewhere once that to be a good writer one should discipline themself to write at a certain time every day not wait until the mood struck And after awhile the mind would just be creative at the designated time every day I found that to be true I used to always write my column Monday night but that didn’t work too well as I ripthem on and had to ped up Tuesday start over So I started writing them Tuesday night and lo and behold I usually could think of something to write about Now I’m having to reprogram myself to write something and I am having a hard time finding acceptable subjects Fluff things about my lack of housekeeping and cooking skills my yard work whether or not the cat has kittens is boring me so I can imagine that it just puts readers to sleep I still have strong opinions about most subjects but sometimes when I am expounding I think to myself “this is a rerun” and I get really tired of plowing the same ground Kind of like with the 20th kid - how many times can you say “call if you are going to be late” “shut the fridge” “why do you have every light on in the house?” “the school called again today”? You get to the point of just wanting to make a tape and say to the kid “play lecture 35 I’m busy painting my nails” And that is about how I am getting with community issues I often want to say “we had that discussion in 1975 and again in 1982 Can’t we move on?” Anyway I have strong opinions on most of the events going on around us right now but many of them are issues I have had plenty to say about in the past and not a whole lot has changed Nobody paid any attention the last time around so why get my adrenaline up when I can play with the grandkids? And I am even getting bored with be Community Calendar April 30 Cinderella Connection 6 Senior Citizen Center Fillmore May May Fellowship Day 11:45 pm am Presbyterian Delta Community Church May 2 Cinco de Mayo Mexican dinner St Boscq Catholic Church Deseret District Scout Show pm Palomar May 3 7 Open Fireside pm Delta 1st Ward Brenda Newton May Senior Celebration Week May 5 Adult classes Millard Literacy MtE'ttTME Delta Area Hi Fillmore Library 5:30-- pm Tues and Wed May 7 Blood pressure clinic Delta Public Health am & pm May 8 Jodilynn Webb David Damron wedM E Bird ding reception Center pm May 15 5020 hike 7 pm quarter mile east of Pioneer Potato May 16 Fillmore Pink Day 12 noon to 2 pm Fillmore City Park May National Tourism Week May Millard County Jr Livestock Show Kml Irl Ur Fillmore Area B lu T Rogers Chronicle Progress USPS Just for Today mnr Editor Publisher Dutson Susan Editorial Dawn Carder Reporter at Large Advertising Riley Wood Sales Legal Billing Julie Ward Goertz Design Fillmore Office Manager Evelyn Mallet Deb Greathouse Accounts Receivable Circulation Ward Julie Goertz Rita Krebs Rita Robinson Sheflie Printing Dutson In Advance Subscriptions In County SIR 00 per year In County $1000 per 6 months Out of County $2000 per year Out of County $1100 per 6 months cents Single Copy POSTMASTER: PO Send Address Box 249 Delta Advertwnf Postafe 2400 Deha 6 1 With age and maturity my attitude and opinion of people and things have changed I have grown to accept people for what they are and hopefully they me With the strength and support of family friends and the grace of God miraculous changes have taken place in my world of confusion and turmoil a world which was seen through blood shot eyes and perceived by a brain under the influence of mood altering substances I thank everyone come in contact with for allowing me one more day of sobriety and serenity A grateful recovering alcoholic Call Geno CirculationComp UrculationProduction CirculationProductwn Commercial Utah changes to 84624 Utah "“" by Jillyn Smith Science Writer Utah State University It’s spring and we all should be feeling great right? Wrong I’m in a terrible mood My cat has shed enough little linty underhairs to make two new cats and I hate daylight saving time If we’re saving time why am I staying up too late and sleeping in? My body is trying to tell me something: Daylight saving time is unnatural My body was just getting happy with er having some light in the to see the stray hair in njy now it’s dark again Why do I feel I’ve fallen back rather than sprung forward? The Uniform Time Ace created this monster in 1967 says my almanac (it doesn’t use those words exactly) so we’ve been living with it for 20 years I’m sure there was a good reason for it: Summer picnics can last longer into the evenings for instance Play softball a little longer Have seconds on the potato salad To me the benefits seem flimsy We may not have to turn on the lights as early in the evening but we have to turn on the lights earlier in the morning Of course I could be wrong I’m just speaking from my own experience not for the nation But I think the sun’s schedule is the same regardless of what clocks read Isn’t it? Some places exempted themselves from this crazy Uniform Time Act: Hawaii Puerto Rico the Virgin Islands and American Samoa Also Airzona where in the summer residents can’t wait for the sun to go down in the evenings And part of Indiana says the almanac It doesn’t way which part A pocket of midwestern sanity apparently What are we saving it for anyway? The hour I lost two Sundays ago in the middle of the night when 2 am suddenly became 3 am (is that how it works?) was apparently critical: deep sleep Necessary for one’s daily Trying to recoup it is making me late for work And grouchy When it’s still light at 8 pm I feel I need to DO something rather than kick back and start thinking of the sack Last night it was the bank statement Before I knew it it was pm Whoops I’d better get to bed my mind said Not my body This morning it was a different story Just a few more minutes my body said Please I’m not quite ready Oh to be in American Samoa Or part of Indiana The pocket of get up until I leave for work He stretches A puff of hair engulfs him His aura He sneezes Serves him right But he doesn’t have to wait until October to catch up on his sleep Intervention: Missing Link in Nation’s War Against AlcoholDrugs SB Millard Courtly The A time to shed ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS Meetings: Mon & Wed 8 pm ALAN0N: Wed 8 pm Delta Mental Health Offices 51 North Center For info call: PR0BLEMS& Geno: TEENAGE Call DD by Vernon E Johnson Alcohol and other drug abuse have never in living memory been so clearly a matter of national concern Even our President and First Lady have active and prominent leadership roles in the “War on Drugs” It would seem that those of us who have labored long in the field should feel relieved even elated Yet quite to the contrary many of us are uneasy some are distressed and not a few are downright alarmed as we see that once again we have moved to legislate chemical dependence away as though we believe that through we will improved law enforcement remove a deadly disease from our midst We see that the number of media spots is being stepped up to tell the addicts that they are ruining their lives and that they should say “no” to drugs-though we believe they could We are saddened because we believe such efforts seem to ignore the lessons the of history and to misunderstand true nature of chemical dependence The old phrase comes to mind: “When when in doubt in danger run in circles scream and shout!” Whatever happened to the virtual consensus of the early 1930’s when Prohibition was seen to have caused more problems than it solved? But of far greater concern to me is the need to have the nation come to the realization that the nature of and of all chemical alcoholism dependence is such that its victims are rendered by the disease itself less and less capable of a spontaneous recognition of the severity of their symptoms! If they are to receive the insight they must have that insight must come from those around the addicts through conscious planned and caring acts of The need is to present intervention reality in a receivable way to persons who are out of touch with it The need is to direct our educational efforts therefore to those who surround the suffering addicts in ways that will mobilize these immobilized persons to becoming effective interveners with the disease that has become the number one scourge of our citizenry Already this educational effort has made significant inroads at all levels of our society and thousands are well and are leading constructive lives as a result For this we are grateful but all too apparently there is much yet to be done i JOHN WATERBURY Dear John Letters Dear John Dear John: I read your column for the first time today and was glad to hear you are writing about alcoholics and drug addicts and their families I am the on an alcoholic and drug addict and have just lost my home My child and I don’t really have a home we are just starting over We went through the AA meetings I did what I thought I was supposed to do but it didn’t work I do not feel guilty but I am very bitter anymore Sometime ago 60 Minutes had a prothey talked about gram where alcoholism and drug abuse in the families The program emphasized that when families stuck by the alcoholic or drug addict there was a greater chance of success in treatment But what about the family that sticks and sticks but get nowhere but down and bitter My inlaws blame me How can anyone who once said they cared turn on you like that? I have been blamed for losing our house I am not perfect and I’m not saying that it’s not some of my fault but for more than ten years I kept supper warm I kept things quiet when he came home and I went out of my way to make life more bearable I worry about him now but I do not want him to come home to stay I wish every bartender would caution his regular drinkers or the macho man who throws a $20 bill on the table and buys drinks for ail his friends that there are some areas that need to be considered before they get stinking drunk Where is your wife right now? Do your children have enough to eat for supper? Have the house payment utilities and food bills been paid? What are the kids wearing to school tomorrow and has their homework been completed? Do you expect to go home and be greeted with a kiss and a hug when your wife doesn’t know where you’ve been or who with? I’m tired of hearing about the women who made her man quit drinking and the wife who for 15 years or longer waited on him had no life of her own and now he is happily married and the wife who suffered who does not drink is alone with the kids trying to make it with nothing to live for but her kids From what I’ve seen I feel the wife suffers more than the drinking man Inveterate Recriminator and Seditionist Dear IRS: Your letter is all too common unAlcoholics and drug adfortunately dicts typically hurt their families' by their drinking and drug related behavior And many times it is not until a divorce occurs that the chemically dependent individual experiences the full pain that the family has been experiencing for years Many times it is this kind of pain that helps the individual to change but not always My advice has always been the same: when the potential benefits of patience and waiting for the understanding alocholic to change his ways are overshadowed by the pain confusion and abuse then it’s time to call it quits Life is too short and has too much to offer to allow yourself and the rest of the family to be destroyed by chemical dependency Where you draw the line is hard to say The fact that it must be drawn goes without saying CONFIDENTIALLY: If God wanted everyone to see the sunrise He would have scheduled it later in the day My Opinion Educators’ Catch 22 by Dawn Carder Utah spends the least per pupil for education of any state in the country Class sizes are large Teacher responsibilities are greater here than in other areas of the United States Parents want good education but they do not want to pay higher taxes The governor urges schools to tighten the belt to use volunteers in the classroom rather than to hire more professionals to come up with alternative educational plans that increase productivity without increasing costs Where does the buck stop? It apadpears to end in the lap of teachers ministrators and Boards of Education with the heaviest burden falling on the already overburdened teachers In an attempt to comply with state Delta’s elementary prindirectives cipals and teachers have researched three alternative plans and have chosen to present the split session package They are now involved in informing parents what such a program would entail Parents have justifiable questions Most want what is and concerns educationally best for their children And change for the sake of change produces little As a parent and a teacher I have compassion and empathy for both What is being proposed is nothing new It is simply a different way of handling large numbers hopefully in a more productive manner for the children Frankly I feel that teachers in Utah should protest more loudly Consider other teaching situations The school my children attended and in which I taught in Connecticut was kindergarten through grade eight The Parents generally believe that any work experience is good for teenagers--thyoung people who work will learn about the “real world” become more responsible and stay out of trouble The notion is challenged by child and family studies experts The majority of working teenagers are now employed in the retail or service sector especially as food service workers and store clerks The jobs most teens perform require little training and provide few skills for adult employment Some of the questions parents should ask when making decisions about advisability of teenager employment are: How will the earnings be spent? Typically teenagers spend all but a small percentage of their earnings in gratifying their consumer appetites Will working increase or decrease the stress for my child? Combined income with the stress of working may make teenagers more not less inclined to substance abuse than other students Will the employment be a character- - Looking Forward by Warren Ottley While thumbing through our files we came across this bit of wisdom by an unknown author entitled “Success Is A Team Effort”: Two fool mules said “Get this dope: We’re tied together with a piece of Said one to the other “You come my way While I take a nibble of this The Guinea A kick from its powerful hind legs can cripple or even kill a person building experience? About a fourth of adolescent workers regularly commit (about transgressions falsely calling in sick to stealing supplies) School related transgressions is (falsely claiming that homework done) increase too Some researchers believe that as more teenagers go to work and have less time for homework they and their parents press for less (and less demanThis may weaken ding) homework teenagers’ commitment to education force teachers to lower their expecta-tions for student performance and prommote mediocrity in schools A 1980 study found that the average US high school student spent less than one hour per week studying or doing homework Other studies found that America is the only country that expects teenagers to both work and attend school More than two thirds of Americans 16 and 17 year olds worked in Only about 29 percent in Sweden less than 2 percent in Japan did “A Part of Action” rope” world's most dangerous bird is the cassowary of Australia and New children in my year I had aid was hired to assist class a me half a day (The last class I taught had fifteen third graders in it) Children in grades one through four noon and had three afternoon They were in classrooms with one teacher teaching studies science social reading math arts They had special language trained in their respeces art physical educative subjects-f- or were tion and music Instruments were included gymnastics taught various art forms were studied Within this framework we teachers had five preparation periods a week or one per day Each prep period was minutes long which was the length of a class period And our day began at 8 am and ended at 3 pm (The children’s day was from 8:30 am until 2:30 pm) Planning time in teaching is absolutely essential! Don’t get me wrong Even with planning time in the work day I as many other teachers always was in school an hour before time and remained after hours to prepare for my classes Elementary teachers have as great or greater a load as teachers on other levels Utah needs to take a critical look at itself in education Successful and productive education results when the children are at the center of concern and when parents teachers and administrators work together in a There are no effort cooperative simplistic answers but as the saying goes you get what you pay for Utahns are getting more than they pay for from their teachers hay” “I won’t” said the other “You come with me For I too have some hay you see” So they got nowhere up the dirt I just pawed And oh by golly that rope did hurt! They faced about those two stubborn mules And said “We’re acting like human fools Let’s pull together I’ll go your way then You come with me and we’ll both eat hay” Well those two ate their hay and like it too’ And came to be comrades good and true As the sun went down they were heard to bray “Ah this is the end of a perfect day” |