Show IMfflllKMID Sunday November 16 2003 A4 The Herald Journal Our view U$0 nenomL j£T£KWsis Public policy should be disc ussed in public w£W UNE-lU- s v-- are laying the groundwork for some very important decisions that w ill affect every single person in the ' ' county Think a county wide ambulance service doesn‘ matter' Think again While county leaders admit that there needs to satellite ambulance stations in the north and the south end of the county w here they kill placed and to what stalled is king extent they will decided khind closed doors Maybe the difference between an ambulance in Hyde Park as opposed to one in Smillifidd doesn't sound like that ' big a deal but try telling that to someone having a heart attack Try telling the current ambulance system in jeopprovider that jobs might :Y Hu luii luII the Logim Niiink'ipul I'mincila iVpivsonlatiu' advisors asscinMyY'iui could call lack County Council a dcsig- - " natcd dirvcliiSiip Cull them whaleveryou want they are Mill ikelccicd leadoiyw ho ultimate- l make decisions lor I oga'n and the ik k ad-ho- t : "I Hould want to avoid that terni" ' he said Of course he would To admitlhat the group is a committee woidd by to admit that closing the' doors to this meeting fifes In the lace of open meetings law To admii the board is a lit admit that committee would kith the city and counivarc keeping citizens in the dark about matters (if ' ' life and death' ' Call the group — which consists oj'two Taigati Municipal Council ' memkrs and three counts council memkrs a knly caij it a ciinlin- gciicy call it a commission cal) ii it ' board call it whatever you want We citll ii buir Daints said the group is not mak- - ' ing any decisions yet memkrs from this Committee tire making 'decisions' ' about whaftypeof county wide ambulance service they want who should govern it and how much jt ' should C'oSt Tniy Jhi grodp may not have the lirial say -- filial rests- in the ' hands of kith amncjjs' but they - k - ' I h' " k '' county So w hen Cache County Attorney (icorgc Daiiieyand inemkrs of kith e Councils decided to 1'orin an ambulance committee to oversee a county Hide ambulance plan he advised against using the term "coiii-mitlee- '! I a r o ' v‘ : 'v ' k W? ' k ardy t is the public should know what theirpublicly elected leadeis are doing City and county ' officials are worried that opening the meetings will lead to politicking This issue they say is' top sensitive The counci Imemkrs w ho serve oii lhisambulance ad-hcommittee are 'elected politicians If they can't stand the heat of politically sensitive lop iys then why the heck arc they in' polities? And jf this ambulance topic' is so darned sensitive then shouldn't the public given the chance to sec the important Issue through? " ' County Council Chairman Craig Petersen said ‘“All we’rcloing is ' talking’’ If that's the Case then w hai's the hami in talking to your constituents the ones whowill ultimately foot ' the bill for whatever decision this' ' making htwiy makes? W fc 'dhbUcJcJ fcrnfalxs Adopting a new view on birth The-poin- ByArrin Brunson' ' ' their own -r kcause they can't son's birth' ' Both of our deliveries were Loved ones who have strugglcd — sometimes with multiple miscar- ' uncomplicated and to our relief our hahics were healthy and strong In ' t was with soine trcpidatmn that riages and sometimes in secrecy — ' ' with I hours that we mothers :thenext announced the infertility haye recently lirially pending announced plans to' adopt children we enjoyed the kind arrival ofour family's fifth son a few recuperated ' cure of g(H)d diKtprs nurses and months ago — only alter it wasohvi-ou- s For months these couples have 'pro- aides In (ur separate rooms we ceedcd through the slow and tedious to most people In the first and ' ' which the miraele of life and ' a h Second trimester of this eaehkheld adoption process requires 'ordeal then seemed to he several gdye our )ns nourishment-Wgood sum Of money and includes watched in awe as they Breathed easbackground checks interview's g(H)d reasons to keep the information lotsof paperwork ' io myself for as long as possible For ily and slept soundly We admired " '" these decision the one I anticipated the unsolicited ' by every soft hair on their heads and Admittedly comments mostly from my closest couples to adopt did change my inspected them over and over again ' from their soft spiits to their tiny ' friends and f amily memkrs that arc approach toour relationships With this knowledge it didn't seem appro- - '' toes far more On our lust evening at the hospital priate to chat as freely with them as I annoying than V' ' when- visiting hours have in the past These days I am hurtful brought a high careful to never cbmplain about how level of excitement to the maternity “Aren’t yoii ' ' ' one of the kids constantly wakes me' t(xi old for id wing: I moved two doors down to V in how the middle “Did- the or of visitwith this kautiful youtig lady oflhatT night up v ' — she with her first ChjJd and I with muchT dislike scrubbing crayon n't you just ' wouldthe off walls It just have u baby?’! my last The1 conversation was drawings n'tbe right to complain about morn- - pleasant anti surprisingly easy ind “I low - Although she hud shed Some teat's vlitany of you arc really stiidyihg'on a ' many kids arc ingsickness or a pregnancy-relate- d Saturday afternoon? If yoii don't like yOugoirigtQ A' hackachc I realize that these are tri-- " throughout that day she was holding (Kilhail conie with your friends and have?" Sre just a few of the queries I ? as:my wanting friends would wel- up pretty well under the circum- ' socialize You may fitnl that the sport took witha in i lives 'come stances She clearly had a levpl head of salt ihetrdaily gifain To theeditor:' : ' ' on - There are also well intentioned yoq gniws T' Knowing their stfuggies I couldn't 'on her shoulders 1 decided as We To the pebpleof Cache Valley and To thpse of you who do attend I find art appropriate time to share the whose concerns about overpopfolks enjoyed the warmth in her rrnim ’ the students of Utah State tJnrversi-t- y thitiik you for supporting the uniyer- : where' pur babies napped newsof eoiildnT ulation' he family's pur pcnding vgood just suppressed ' ' You thoroughly disappoint me! ' ' v: I arrival sity them basavoided for when our ncxt learned the $o Brunson Tk seeing separate morning they ' ' The hist two weekendsUtah Stale j Finally to the univefsily and in as long as possible during the past ftimilies hclped tis load up luggage ketball leani was soon to be com-' honie' has had Siiturday University T Athletic the Department particular few rrionths and flowers and we checked out of ' plete My response was practiced football games Wherc the hell have know yxiti musfk concernedYqu ' I When we did come the hospital I Umk tny son home and and when suggestthey best figure out the football alien- y()Ukeh? ThLMila aliendimce for I that their had ed the she left hers there with a very grate- -' world is a that truly hoped ' tough place fof explained these two games wus less thart dance issues before yoiUind yourself kids and there are babies’ ful couple who will raise the infant would mine before arrive than more already 2()(KX)1 How can that he? I view the' still waiting arid I limping into die WACnow its Even their own son on Earth they’re enough people consuming ' support for the university as pathetic have avoided calling them to share ' the situafiuin is not ideal natural our resources Although I ' really' dim-- vvaiittohear akiut Seibert’ ' I Christopher the of the news airival resofind cannitl ofour I’m a “As parent healthy any tsadness m working every the quality of the product because I " Sandy ' hewbo'rn'I lution this about have to that raise children will genhopeday thought think ycju'own some iifthaj simply ' 'At thie birth of pur baby a few erous young woman now called a fully make (he world a better place to unifail vour 4oshow lire by up'Thc " ' weeks ago I was reminded again of “birth mother’ many times as I see live” I said whenever the occasion versily is the primary ev'oiidinic ones’ loved desires to it be unmet for called my my new son change with cach new ' ' ' engine in the valley" Don't you hiive-- : feel parents: Although people strongly day' something to gi ve hack other than ahioul whether to have children 'or-- ' A new neighbor of mine' who is As she l(K)ks at photos and reads To the editor: wearing blue (in Saturdays? as a friend ' notes that wif come from time-to- most how these have to inevitable dcscrikd accurately many liiii ci lining fnjhiSaJt-TakMr Wangsgaurd seems to have Jii the of ii friend wiis moved out of a- labor ' time from the adoptive parents she debates are not the reason ( tried to confused my call lor the establish-meTrm Slaic game ini November 15 and delivery room at the Logan hos- ' ' chose I hope she js always comfortkeep the pregnancy under wraps of ait editorial policy at tk w itlf five priispcetive students ' after a birth to it ed knowing how m’uchjoy she alone Instead was more a pital far sensitive ' healthy giving Utah Statesman with ii recommendaShould they decide to attend USU: one a few' issue made the was able to grant them me about mute that baby early hoy morning To the contrary tion for censorship these liveyoiing men w ill pay rentweeks ago A fcw minutes later (the I have of tummyi swvlling my ’utilities' is The in clear Statesman ' eat your restaurants pay niy message iioor Was still wet from the mop) Arrin Brunson is a Herald Journal edurecently discovered one reason some would greatly knclit fmm a policy b'dJsbuy your g(K)ds and services ' I moved in ' cation reporter Her column'appears on and husband mother of arid friends married my family my that induces it to check the sources etc during their university experithe Opinion page every other Sunday and I proceeded to labor with my memkrs have not had children of and verify the facts of its articles ence Would it trouble you that much especially guest ctiinmcntaries Like toget1rve figures into the stadium' thcame that originally spurred my at least lOCKX)- Therchave to concern Indeed to imply that my 51HKI people from Brigham Cityto Preston sind out west to Tremonton to appeal to the Statesman is instep a call for ccns(trship is equivalent to attend the game Mask they Will decide to attend elsewhere if they implying that the New York Times or the Washington Post (ti) name but a think I 'SI' lacks local support and few t is guilty of censorship when it enthusiasm chxxises to print only the news that is And lor the student body what arc i according to the Times' policy) “fit you doing If there ate over 20(XXJ be causing most of the disruptive By Jeffrey Shaffer develop learning skills in a coopera- if to print'-Mof yOu on campus in Logan why message is clear Christian Science Monitor tive caring environment Each skit feelings: the Statesman is contemplating the arenY you attending? The only in' the history pageant was written I In the Civil War skit Abraham for not attending acceptable reasons and produced entirely by oiir stuand Mary Lincoln are showed firing See YOUR VIEW on A5 would ' working Or studying How dents and their hard wexk in the muskets and lobbing hand grenades your principal: There appear to be growing condaily rehearsals has been truly iiispir- - out theirbedroom window to repel a cern among the parent community ' Confederate attack on the White "§' House While it is true that no record Unfortunately recent developregarding our ments in Hollywood involving the of suchan attack has been found nor upcoming The Herald Journal wetcqmes letters to the CBS miniseries about the Reagans ' were modem hand grenades avail- American his- ed toir Potentially Wietous or offensive tetters able to the Union Army at (hat time have resonated within households tory pageant e hot be published however and the editor the children were striving for a powand I felt it and I have received several resizes the nit to ecM al letters to conform locally Te Oowori page s ioeodJ to acquaint to theiength and style requirements of the' was the accuracy of vari- narrative image that would erful about important inquiries on of matters readers ’th a 'ty exnts ' newspaper' send ous in to underscore Mr Lincoln's courage in events our cf poOt irn(xy?ae aoc p'cvioe Tienters c being portrayed you Lieers should be ' this letter I was also saddened to learn the fv tner views the wira face of a national crisis of pageant d Typewritten and Pewva1 coiunms caioors and lettersfrom' 2 The last flight of Amelia Earhart ' clarification to that numerous pages of the script No more than 4SC words m length 'saoe's ctinKys tner wes and avoid have been with the aviatrix being abducted and circulated ends potential Addressed and include daytime phone copied crearprs Eptonais under tneneackog Our o' tne Heraid Jouma1 atmosfurther the cockpit of her plane by an from the represen tne number for purpose of venficatioa covertly eroding ertftra' board evona1 board' Membes o Signed by the author phere of trust that is one of our philo- alien spacecraft Initially I was skep- ' indduais are hmited to one published let- As you know the curriculum here tical After discussing it with the stu- DARRELL EHRLKXcitr editor sophical cornerstones penod Address e wltun any at Freehappy Elementary School Before this situation CffxDY YURTH features etVior becomes dents however I was persuaded that etersto h)tetter6h(news com- Guest comall BDJCE SMITH publisher uncomfortable more students maximize to me let address empowers mentaries are also welcome and are run at CHARLES MoCOLLUM managing editor three specific scenes that appear to See SHAFFER on A5 creativity and spontaneity as they the editor's dscrehon I - : - nine-mont- k ' tests-'-ari- d r- ' - non-decisi- - “ I : Your view - : Where’s that Y Aggie support? k : - r V ‘i- - ’ : '! - ’ ?' 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